System, help me become the empress

Chapter 221
God bless for 15 years, there is another big event.

One of the traditions left behind after the founding of the Dagan dynasty is that the emperor had to build a mausoleum for himself before the age of 30.Building a mausoleum is not a small project. In the past, there were many people who had been repairing for ten or twenty years, so preparations were usually made many years in advance.

Most of the previous emperors started repairing the mausoleum in advance within two years after ascending the throne. It is almost rare for Xu Youxi to delay the construction for more than ten years.

For example, Emperor Chongjiu started to build his own mausoleum at the age of 16, but later, he spent a lot of money to renovate it so that he could have a spacious space when he was buried with the Empress Dowager Xie.

In short, the matter of building the mausoleum was brought up in the morning court.Xu Youxi thought about the current situation of the treasury, and did not refute this time. After all, she had been thinking about where to be buried after death since the first day of her ascension.

Xu Youxi is a very open-minded person, and he doesn't have the traditional concept of "burying peace".If it weren't for the inappropriate status, she might have chosen to donate her body and organs.

Morning up.

Xu Youxi thought for a long time, and managed to sort out his rhetoric: "I like to be lively, but I don't want to be restrained. The imperial tomb is too quiet, which is not suitable for me."

"I plan to build the mausoleum separately, preferably not far from the people in the market. After a hundred years, I can still hear the sound of the sons and grandsons reading aloud, and watch the old alleys of teahouses discussing world affairs."

In terms of building mausoleums, court officials generally would not refute the emperor's wishes, unless the requirements were really not met.

The historian next to him was busy writing down Xu Youxi's request.

"The mausoleum is exquisitely designed, and there is no need to decorate it with rare treasures. After a hundred years, there will be no precious funeral objects in the tomb."

This is indeed in line with His Majesty's frugal style.

"By the way, there is one more thing, I will never seal the tomb."

what?
Emperors never seal their mausoleums, which has never happened in thousands of years of history.

The officials of the court were shocked by Xu Youxi's thoughts. Which other emperors wished to close the door of the tomb and never open it? The means are also available.

How could there be such a big change when I came to my majesty?
Even if they put it on themselves, they still can't make a move not to seal the mausoleum!

This is simply too absurd.

Before they could open their mouths to speak out and try to get rid of His Majesty's weird idea, they heard Xu Youxi start to break their cognition again.

"After a hundred years, there is no need to bother. Burn my body and sprinkle the ashes in the Yangtze River. If future generations wish to pay homage to me during the Qingming Festival and the Hungry Ghost Festival, they can just put a bunch of flowers by the Yangtze River. "

Xu Youxi's idea is very simple. Since there is no mausoleum that future generations cannot pry open, why should she make it more difficult for future generations? Can't it just be open?

What's more, her funeral objects will be some manuscripts of Ganbao, firearms from different periods of Shenjiying, invention designs and real objects of Shengong Bureau, and some discarded instruments of Xinyi Pavilion. These things are not worth much. , but has great research value.

It is also of far-reaching significance to future archaeology.

Xu Youxi will use "special items" to record every bit of "progress" in Daqian.As long as the mausoleum is not closed, some students can be arranged to come to learn about the history of Daqian on special days every year.

It was probably because Xu Youxi's thinking was too advanced, and there were so many things the court officials wanted to remonstrate, so that when Xu Youxi finished speaking, everyone was still in place for a while.

Meng Zhiqian, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was the first to stand up and express his attitude: "Your Majesty, if you don't want to build the mausoleum in advance, you can just say that there is no need to use such absurd remarks to let the ministers back out of difficulties!"

However, Xu Youxi, who just finished speaking from the bottom of her heart, looked confused. Couldn't this group of people see how serious she was!

"I'm definitely not joking. After a hundred years, I will proceed according to what I said today."

"Your Majesty, if you choose to be cremated, you will still have to go to the Yangtze River, alas...the mausoleum..." Yao Dacheng hesitated, frowning and sighing while talking.

"Only my tablet is placed in the mausoleum."

Xu Youxi understood Yao Dacheng's question. Her mausoleum was to be opened to students, and she couldn't scare the children.

"Okay, there are no objections, right? The site selection of the mausoleum will be handled by Minister Rong of the Ministry of Rites."

"Mo Shangshu, select some skilled craftsmen from the folk for me, and let them try to design a tomb for me. After the design is completed, show it to me first."

"The minister obeys the order."

"The minister obeys the order."

The rest of the court officials with very strong opinions looked at each other, and no one knew where to raise it!
……

Xu Youxi's remarks about the future mausoleum gradually spread to the people.

It caused a lot of heat, and most of the people showed it was hard to understand.

Xu Youxi, as the emperor of the current dynasty, and an emperor with such outstanding achievements, why should he wrong himself so much in terms of the mausoleum?

You know, even ordinary people can't accept such things as cremation. As the emperor, how could she say so easily?

Xu Youxi originally thought that repairing the tomb was a private matter, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big controversy among the people.

At this time, the most popular voice among the people is to ask her to emulate the Qin Emperor back then, and it is best to hollow out a mountain and build a magnificent underground palace.

Then a group of people below volunteered, some said they planned to design tricks for the underground palace, some said they could go there and dig tunnels, and after careful consideration, one suggested that the mausoleum should be covered with cement and reinforced concrete in all directions. The sturdier the better.

As a result, this topic was discussed until the end, and it became a question of the remuneration for building the mausoleum of the emperor. Compared with the daily salary and repairing the train tracks, which remuneration is better? ? ?

"..."

Does she look like an emperor with such financial power?
Xu Youxi hadn't written an article for many years, so she couldn't help but write a 'clarification' manuscript herself, and sent it to "Yaocheng Daily", which is famous for its thought-provoking articles.

Then, a month later, she was rejected.

Difficult to accept!

But she never gives up!

Without changing his face, Xu Youxi handed over the finished manuscript to Du Zhiyi, asking him to publish the article through his relationship.She knew that the other party was very close to the editor-in-chief of "Yaocheng Daily".

Du Zhiyi hesitated, and after reading the article, he sighed lightly again.

How dare "Yaocheng Daily" publish articles on such sensitive topics, it's only normal for them to reject the manuscript.

"Your Majesty, why don't you just publish the Ganbao?"

There are regulations for publishing articles in Ganbao. All editors must use their real names, and no pseudonyms or fake identities are allowed.

"Do you want the people of the world to know that I will clarify my own remarks?" Xu Youxi paused, seeming to remember something, and suddenly looked at Du Zhizhi with suppressed excitement, "Master Du, if you don't mind, how about signing this article with your name?"

"...The minister will contact the president of "Yaocheng Daily"."

Even when Du Zhiyi faced Xu Youxi, he learned to protect himself by 'seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages'.

"alright."

Xu Youxi felt a little regretful.

A few days later, "Yaocheng Daily" published the article.

The article is a good article, but the subject matter is too special, and it is easy for the yamen to come to settle accounts.

However, since they got Du Zhiyi's guarantee, Yaocheng Daily bit the bullet and published the article.

In this article, the significance of Xu Youxi's vision for every aspect of the mausoleum construction is analyzed.

For example, His Majesty did not build the mausoleum in the imperial tombs, just to prepare for the "never seal the mausoleum", because once the majesty passes away and enters the imperial tomb, ordinary people will definitely not be able to worship her near the imperial tomb, let alone Don't talk about allowing students and historical researchers to go in and visit.

Also, this time the mausoleum is absolutely impossible to "construct large-scale construction". For so many years, His Majesty has been advocating frugality as his duty, and only focuses on whether the "mausoleum design" is ingenious and whether it can be integrated with the "landscape".

……

'Never close the mausoleum', 'cremation', and 'throw ashes into the Yangtze River' may seem like crazy moves, but they are actually very romantic things.

People are bound enough when they are alive, do they have to continue to be locked in coffins and tombs after death?
But look at where the Yangtze River has passed——

There is a sunrise, river flowers are red than fire;

There are apes on both sides of the strait that can't stop crying;

There are stars and the fields are wide;

There are rivers flowing beyond heaven and earth,

There is the heroism of the romantic figures through the ages, and the lovesickness and tenderness of drinking the Yangtze River water.

From this point of view, what grievances are there to be buried in the Yangtze River?

This article is so touching. When countless people read this, they felt that they had a strong spiritual resonance with the editor of the article at that moment, as if the beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River was slowly unfolding before their eyes.

Just after this day, the common people unanimously forgot the idea of ​​building a magnificent underground palace mentioned earlier, and they acquiesced in His Majesty's choice.

A month later.

Rong Yingran determined the location of the mausoleum - a green hill not far from Shangjing University.There are gurgling streams at the foot of the mountain, and the road has not been repaired here yet. The wild flowers at the foot of the mountain are in full bloom all year round.

more than three months later.

The Ministry of Industry also received design drawings sent by countless craftsmen from the private sector.After a rigorous screening, they selected of them, and let these people enter the palace to face the saint, and after listening to His Majesty's thoughts, they cooperated to discuss the best plan.

Because of repeated field inspections and revisions of the design draft, all craftsmen are thinking about how to integrate the mausoleum with the landscape and minimize the cost.

It was not until the middle of the 16th year of Tianyou that the construction of the mausoleum began slowly.

At this time, young people sent to study in overseas colonial countries also arrived in Dagan after experiencing some ups and downs.

After disembarking, everyone had a routine physical examination. Before the results of the physical examination came out, these more than 100 young people worked hard to learn the language of Dagan locally.

Many of them saw a real train for the first time, and when they sat in the carriage and looked at the scenery outside the train, they kept exclaiming.

When the train conductors came out, they gave everyone a lunch box, which contained meat and vegetables, and hot white rice.

"Dagan has been too kind to us."

Some international students couldn't help wiping their tears. They seldom have enough food in their hometown.

Watching this scene, the conductor felt guilty for some reason. She remembered that the food on the train had been complained about by passengers, and she herself always brought too much food.

Moreover, today's box lunch is a simple combination of meat and vegetables, is it so touching...

"What kind of meat is this? It's super delicious."

The foreign student talked to the train conductor in awkward Chinese, with a little light in his eyes.

"It's just ordinary pork..." The conductor was a little embarrassed.

“It was so delicious!”

Looking at the amazement of these overseas students, the conductor couldn't help recalling that many years ago, it was really impossible for every household to eat meat. During the holidays, it was considered a good condition to be able to eat some minced meat... …

But how did it change?

It seems that one year, Dagan negotiated a business with overseas countries, spent a lot of tea and porcelain, and imported many pigs, cattle and sheep from overseas.After crossbreeding overseas breeds of livestock and poultry with domestic ones, the quality of the bred livestock and poultry is very good, and the livestock and poultry will soon mature and be put on the market. Then there are more and more livestock and poultry farms, and more and more feed factories.

It wasn't until today that the conductors suddenly realized that dried meat is not as scarce as before, and most places can have meat for three meals a day.

The seemingly insignificant little actions back then have changed the future after a few years of hard work.

Most of the international students' family conditions are not bad. Even if they are very restrained at this time, they still eat very fast, and everyone eats the food cleanly.

The conductor was afraid that some students would not have enough to eat, so he made more than a dozen buckets of instant noodles on the train, so that those who were not full could eat something to fill their stomachs.

Then, as a matter of course, a group of people's 'amazed' eyes were harvested.

Is this the prosperity of Daqian!
At the same time, thinking of the current state of their country, many people gradually became depressed.The careerists who colonized their country, in the name of bringing a new civilization to their motherland, ran amok in their originally peaceful homeland.

If their country has a day, it can be like Daqian, no, no, no, as long as they have one-tenth of Daqian, they are already very satisfied.

After another two or three days of tossing on the road, this group of international students finally arrived in Shangjing. They did not immediately enter the school to study. The Ministry of Rites specially arranged a group of teachers for them to teach them the language and all the basic laws and regulations that need to be obeyed. .

All young people are trying to absorb new knowledge. Everyone knows that this is an opportunity to rewrite fate.

It was not until the middle of Tianyou 16 that this group of international students could finally start to study systematically. Their learning content did not belong to any major of Shangjing University. Instead, it was a bit like the "poverty alleviation course" created by Yao Dacheng back then.

International students can hardly imagine the degree of freedom of working hard, everyone can eat enough, women and children can walk on the street, there are no fights on the street, no foreigners with "privileges", and no opium smoking junkie.

Bicycles, tricycles, cars, trains, everything seems to be in order, and no one panics.

This is really different!
　There is another exam...

　　I have already gone to work, and there are still so many exams, my mentality collapsed.

　　A lot of bad things have happened recently.

　　Alas, June is so unfriendly (_)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)