Chapter 2220: Surname change controversy
After Qu Yuan handed over the letter, Qin Hao read it back and forth ten times. The content can be summarized into three parts.
1 means that the strength of the Han Dynasty has been exhausted, and there have been many unfaithful kings and treacherous sycophants, which has caused chaos in the world and made the people miserable. It is only a matter of time before the dynasty is changed.
The second is to praise Qin Hao's achievements to the Han Dynasty and the people, and these achievements are divided into two aspects: civil and military. Wen mainly explains the reform and promotes high production, while Wu is mainly responsible for suppressing the Yellow Turbans internally and expelling the Yuan and Qing barbarians externally.
3. It is to declare that Qin Hao has a noble status, is a descendant of Queen Qin, and has destiny. Taking the Han Dynasty is not a usurpation of the throne but the will of God, and it is to seize what belongs to him.
Generally speaking, Qu Yuan's petition for proclaiming himself emperor is not much different from other petitions. They both belittle the great man and elevate Qin Hao, but the difference lies in the fact that he measured the situation just right.
In Qu Yuan's speech, he neither overly belittled the big man nor praised Qin Hao without thinking. It was completely realistic and realistic.
Logically speaking, such a completely true statement should be mediocre, at least it cannot be outstanding. However, Qu Yuan's statement is more than outstanding, it is enough to be passed down from generation to generation.
This time Qu Yuan gave up his gorgeous writing style and instead turned to realism. Every line of his words reveals his true feelings. Even an illiterate person will be immersed in it after knowing the content and realize the cruelty of this era and Qin Hao's story. The heroism and glory of making achievements on the battlefield.
Overall, Qin Hao gave a four-word evaluation: this is definitely a 'work that will be handed down from generation to generation'.
If Qin Hao were to write this, without plagiarism, he might not be able to write an essay of the same level even if he wrote for three months.
It is indeed the painstaking work of Qu Yuan, a great writer.
"Okay, Mi Yuan's message is well written. This one message is better than a hundred thousand troops."
Qin Hao praised Qu Yuan with great satisfaction and praised the essay he wrote, which also made Qu Yuan and Mi Zhu relieved.
Qin Hao gave Qu Yuan the task of writing the memorandum. It was not only Qu Yuan who felt the pressure, but also Mi Zhu and the entire Mi family. After all, if such a big thing went wrong, it would undoubtedly be a big earthquake for the Mi family.
Fortunately, Qu Yuan lived up to expectations and wrote a masterpiece that will be handed down from generation to generation, completing this important task perfectly.
"Send the order and circulate this proclamation to various places before it is printed. Within ten days, I will ask all the major prefectures, counties and counties to post this proclamation."
"promise."
The Qin State currently has seven states, 43 counties, and 451 counties. If you want to post a message to the entire territory in such a large area in a short period of time, it will take half a month at the fastest.
Even if the post is finished, due to the closed information, publicity still needs to be carried out. It will take at least more than a month for the news to ferment and spread among the people.
It is precisely because of this that Qin Hao fixed the time for the enthronement ceremony two months later, on January 1st of the second year of Xingpingyuan (AD 195).
Before the appeal was sent out, Qin Hao had one more thing to do, which was to worship his ancestors and change his surname. After all, Qin Hao in Qu Yuan's appeal had already regarded himself as a descendant of the Ying family, but now he has not recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan.
As the leader of a country, Qin Hao's way of recognizing his ancestors and returning to the clan is naturally not like that of ordinary people, who just kowtows in front of the spiritual throne. Instead, he has to choose a good time and auspicious day to summon hundreds of officials and people to worship their ancestors in public, so that everyone in the world can do so. Only by recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan can they be witnessed.
The ancestor worship was scheduled by Qin Hao on November 11th. Zhuge Liang said that this day was an auspicious day, and if he missed it, he would have to wait another month.
Just the day before the ancestor worship ceremony, Qin Jian brought Qin Wu, Qin Si, Qin Ji and other juniors to visit him. Qin Hao thought he was here to discuss changing their surname, but he didn't expect that they all decided not to change their surname.
"Fourth uncle, it is natural to change your surname after recognizing your ancestors. In the past, I, the Ying family, could not walk in the world openly, so I had to change my surname to Qin. Now that I have finally been able to change it back, why are you not willing?" Qin Hao asked with a puzzled look on his face,
"Nephew Zixu, the elders of the clan keep secrets too strictly. Our Lao Qin family didn't know who our ancestors were before, so we had no scruples about naming them. We dared to name them anything like 'political' or 'si'. If everyone changes their surname to Ying, many people’s names will be the same as those of their ancestors.”
After hearing Qin Jian's words, Qin Hao showed a clear look. In the final analysis, this was still the fault of the system's identity implantation.
Others are fine, especially Qin Zheng, Qin Ji, Qin Si and others. If they change their surname to Ying, they will directly have the same surname as the first emperor, King Qin Huiwen.
Although they were originally the First Emperor and King Huiwen, in this life, in their eyes, the First Emperor and King Huiwen were their ancestors.
If the ancestors with the same name are not well-known, then it would be a double name. However, both the First Emperor and King Huiwen were famous emperors through the ages. If they have the same name and surname as these two ancestors, everyone would feel uncomfortable.
Faced with such a situation, the best way is to change the name. The name Qin Wu was changed from Qin Hu, so as long as the name is changed, these concerns will disappear.
But just because Qin Wu is willing to change his name, it doesn't mean that others are willing too.
I have been using my name for decades, but I have long been used to it, but to have to change it because I recognize my ancestor and return to my clan, I am afraid that everyone will feel depressed.
Therefore, people who are unwilling to change their names naturally have no choice but not to change their surnames.
If only a few people such as Qin Zheng and Qin Si didn't change their surnames, Qin Hao would naturally not say anything. After all, everyone has their own ambitions, and you can't force others to change if they don't want to.
But Qin Jian's intention was that all the Qin family members except Qin Hao's family should continue to use the surname "Qin", and only Qin Hao's family should change their surname back to "Ying".
This made Qin Hao a little confused, but after listening to Qin Jian's explanation, Qin Hao finally understood his fourth uncle's painstaking efforts. It turned out that Qin Hao wanted to ensure the purity of the royal bloodline.
There are more than a thousand people in the Qin family. Except for Qin Hao's family, Qin Jian, Qin Wu and his son, and Qin Zheng, who are considered direct descendants, the other descendants of the Qin family are only collateral descendants.
If they all change their surname to Ying, it will not be conducive to the purity of the authentic Ying family, and it will also make the royal family suddenly bloated, which is not conducive to the healthy development of a new country.
At Qin Zheng's reminder, Qin Jian, Qin Wu and his son took the lead in deciding not to change their surnames. Only if they, as direct descendants, set an example can other descendants of collateral descendants voluntarily give up changing their surnames.
At first, many Qin family children were extremely dissatisfied with this. After all, changing their surname meant becoming a relative of the emperor. But Qin Jian suddenly told them that they could not change their surname. How could they accept it.
Although they are collateral descendants, they are also descendants of the First Emperor. Why are they not allowed to change their surnames?
But when it was learned that the direct descendants of Qin Jian, Qin Wu, Qin Zheng, etc., in order to maintain the purity of the Ying family's bloodline, did not even change their surnames. However, how could those ordinary disciples have the face to change? Just keep using your original last name.
Although the Qin surname will not be as good as the Ying surname in the future, it is also a relative of the Ying surname and is still the second most noble surname in the world.
Qin Hao didn't expect Qin Jian to do this for himself. He knew that Qin Jian wanted to recognize his ancestor and return to the clan, and he was deeply moved by this.
"Fourth uncle, why are you doing this? Brother Zheng is enough to set an example. There is no need for you and Brother Hu to follow suit and not change their surnames."
"No, if you don't change your surname, the future royal family will only be the descendants of eldest brother and your nephew Zixu. Only in this way can the future royal bloodline be pure."
Qin Jian hopes that in the future the Qin royal family and all emperors will be descendants of Qin Hao, for this reason he would rather not change his surname.
It's not that the author can't write an essay, but his level is definitely average, and he doesn't want to copy and paste other people's, so I'll just write it down in abbreviation.
(End of chapter)
