On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 442 Jinyang Palace

Jinyang Palace was first built in the third year of Emperor Wuding's reign of Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It was built by Bohai King Gao Huan. It was the palace of the powerful officials Gao Huan and Gao Cheng of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in Jinyang. It was also the residence of successive monarchs of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, after Yang Guang defeated Chen and returned victorious, he returned to the position of general manager of Bingzhou. He expanded Jinyang Palace and built a palace wall with a circumference of eight miles and a height of four feet.

Since then, Jinyang Palace has been renovated by King Yang Jun of Qin and King Yang Liang of Han. It cannot be called magnificent, but it does not feel old.

It's just that the place for court meetings is not in Jinyang Palace, but in Daming City.

Jinyang is composed of four cities, one is called Xicheng, one is called Xincheng, one is called Cangcheng, and the other is called Daming City.

Xicheng was built in the late Western Jin Dynasty by Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou. It has a circumference of 27 miles. Because it is located to the west of Fen River, it is called Xicheng.

Xincheng refers to Jinyang Palace. After Yang Guang expanded Jinyang Palace, he called it Palace City. Later, Yang Jian renamed it Xincheng.

Cangcheng was built by King Yang Jun of Qin in the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign. The east wall is connected to the west wall of the new city.

Daming City refers to Yangcheng in Kujin. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Dong Anyu, a retainer of the Zhao family, presided over the construction. Later, Gao Wei, the later lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty, built the Daming Palace here.

The Daming Palace was magnificent and majestic, and it was very popular with Gao Wei. For this reason, he issued an edict for amnesty, promoted all civil and military officials to the second level, and exempted the people of Taiyuan County from rent and taxes for one year.

After that, the Daming Palace was built based on the Daming Palace, and twelve courtyards were built here, which were far more magnificent than the Yecheng Palace at that time.

Daming Palace and Jinyang Palace are both located to the west of Fenshui River. They are said to be two palaces, but they are also closely connected.

After Yang Hao ascended the throne, Cui Che moved him to Daming Palace.

Cui Che placed all the concubines left behind by Yang Liang in Jinyang Palace, including the Queen Mother Doulu.

Cui Che, on the other hand, used the front hall of Jinyang Palace as the prime minister's residence. If it was too late to deal with state affairs on weekdays, he would rest in the side room of the side hall and stay overnight in Jinyang Palace.

In order to participate in today's court meeting, Cui Che rushed from Jinyang Palace to Daming Palace. The carved beams and painted buildings in the Daming Palace and the majestic main hall are even more magnificent.

This made Cui Che sigh with emotion. With such a large-scale construction project, it is no wonder that the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the same year that the Daming Palace was completed.

Outside the Daming Hall, the guards were heavily guarded. On both sides of the high and long steps were armored and armed Imperial Guards.

As early as when Cui Che took charge of Jinyang, he had already dismissed all Yang Liang's former palace guards. Now these forbidden troops are naturally Cui Che's direct troops.

Both Jinyang Palace and Daming Palace were guarded by soldiers brought by Cui Che from Hebei.

Cui Che walked towards the Daming Palace. Along the way, the Imperial Guards all knelt on one knee and bowed their heads to greet him.

It was now long past the time for the court meeting to begin, and all the ministers in the palace had been waiting for a long time, but could not wait to see Cui Che. Some ministers who could not bear their temper could not help but whisper in low voices, and there was a loud buzzing sound for a while.

But as the imperial guards outside the palace came to greet Cui Che one after another, and the shouts came into the palace, everyone also knew: Cui Xiangguo has finally arrived.

For a moment, the hall was silent.

Cui Che appeared at the door of the palace, he took off his shoes slowly,

As the imperial guards shouted one after another outside the palace, everyone knew that Cui Xiangguo was coming.

The official outside the palace shouted:

"The Prime Minister has arrived!"

All civil and military officials straightened their clothes and sat with their backs straight.

Before the Song Dynasty, monarchs and ministers sat down to discuss matters.

In the Song Dynasty, all officials had to stand.

During the Qing Dynasty, even kneeling had a threshold.

Cui Che didn't realize that he was late at all. He took off his shoes outside the palace slowly and then slowly walked into the palace.

Arriving at the forefront of the hundred officials, Cui Che was not in a hurry to sit down, but instead apologized to the little emperor:

"Your Majesty, I am busy with state affairs last night and delayed the court meeting today. Please punish me."

While Cui Che was pleading guilty, there were also many of his confidants who were paying close attention to the expressions of the civil and military officials. If there was any difference in the expressions, they would keep it in mind. After retreating from the court, they would inform Cui Che of that person, so that they could distinguish some of them.

Dissatisfied with his own officials.

The little emperor didn't know what state affairs Cui Che was busy with last night, but someone had already taught him how to respond. Yang Hao raised his hand and said:

"My lord, don't do this. I am young and ignorant, and I rely on my lord to handle state affairs for me. How can I blame my lord for this, and why should I invite my lord to sit down?"

Cui Che bowed and said loudly:

"I thank your Majesty for your forgiveness."

After Cui Che took his seat, the first official court meeting since Yang Hao ascended the throne was finally started. It was also the last court meeting of the year. Starting tomorrow, it will be the Yuan Day holiday.

The first issue was naturally proposed by Cui Che, requesting the reopening of commercial taxes.

Nowadays, it is an indisputable fact that the national treasury is empty. If he doesn't think of ways to increase revenue, he is afraid that Cui Che will learn what Yang Jian did back then and reduce the salary of officials while eliminating the number of officials.

Wei Zheng had said before that as long as the political privileges of the gentry were not touched and they only collected 2% of the over-tax and 3% of the residence tax, they would never object to this matter.

After all, with Cui Che single-handedly supporting the Eastern Sui regime, the Hebei gentry regained the political privileges of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties. They were no longer squeezed out by the nobles of Guan Longxun, and naturally they would not compete with Cui for the 5% commercial tax.

Che turned his face.

All the officials in the court responded to Cui Che's request.

Since the ministers did not object, the re-establishment of commercial tax was considered passed. Logically speaking, Yang Hao should approve and use the seal.

However, before Cui Che presented the memorial last night, he had already reviewed his memorial on behalf of Yang Hao. Cui Che wrote in ink on the memorial:

'What the father-in-law said is reasonable, and I will deal with it.'

That is to say, the establishment of commercial tax was very involved. In the past, Cui Che wrote the memorials in the Jinyang Palace and wrote the imperial inscriptions in the back. He was not tired at all and did not let Yang Hao accept it.

The second issue is Yang Liang's posthumous title and temple title. Nowadays, it is not the Han Dynasty, the temple title has become a rarity, and almost every emperor has one.

Although Yang Liang lost the battle and became a puppet, he was the first to raise the flag of justice. Cui Che must also give him a temple title. As for the posthumous title, it must be a beautiful one.

After a discussion among the ministers, Cui Che finally made the decision and named Yang Liang's temple Shizong.

Shi refers to the transfer of lineage from Yang Yong's lineage to Yang Liang's lineage.

As for why it is Shizong and not Shizu, it is because the word ancestral refers to the king who opened up the territory and established the country.

The Western Sui Dynasty and the Eastern Sui Dynasty both claimed to be the orthodox Sui Dynasty. Naturally, Yang Liang could not be regarded as the founder of the country. He did not expand the territory, so he could only be named Shizong.

In the original time and space, Yang Guang's temple name was Shizu, because he had the merit of opening up and expanding the territory, but this marginal contribution ruined the entire dynasty.

As for Yang Liang's posthumous title, he took the word Ming, which was Emperor Shizong Ming of the Eastern Sui Dynasty.

To follow the way of heaven is called Ming; to curb evil and promote good is called Ming.

What is said here is to curb evil and promote good, which refers to condemning Yang Guang for killing his father.

(End of chapter)