Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 129 Funeral and Ceremony [6k second update, please subscribe]

Chen's panel quickly appeared in front of Chen Ye.

He soon discovered that there was an additional function at the bottom of the panel called "Dream". As the name suggests, this function allowed him to enter the dreams of his descendants.

In other words, it was to draw the "thoughts" of one of his descendants to the "Peach Blossom Spring" for the two of them to meet.

That's all in all.

Chen Ye looked over carefully, and after studying for a long time, he finally found the redemption mechanism for the number of dreams in a remote corner.

First of all, the number of times you can enter a dream is not unlimited.

There are three ways to increase it.

One, natural increase.

Every ten years, the number of dreams will automatically increase. Every time a "generation" of people is born in the family, the number of dreams will increase.

The number of these two dreams increases very slowly, but without paying a price.

Second, exchange.

Ten thousand luck points can be exchanged for a chance to dream.

Third, draw a lottery.

After Chen Ye dies, the system will be updated to version 1.1. After the update, new things will be added to the prize pool, and the "prize" of garbage will be removed and replaced with dream opportunity fragments.

Fifty dream fragments can be exchanged for a chance to dream.

Of course, there are also complete dreams opportunity rewards in the pool.

At present, there are only three ways to obtain the opportunity to enter the dream. Of course, Chen Ye can also use other methods to interfere with reality.

In "Peach Blossom Spring", Chen Ye can choose to sleep, or he can choose to watch all the time.

In the sleeping state, the flow rate of time will increase. It will not be until a certain situation preset by Chen Ye that the "Peach Blossom Spring" will awaken Chen Ye's soul.

"call."

After looking at the system panel and some of the updated functions, Chen Ye had a slightly relaxed look on his face.

Everything in reality was happening in front of him in the water mirror.

Chen Ye waved his hand, and a chair appeared under his butt. He lay on the chair and silently looked in the mirror at what happened after he left.

An Guojun's Mansion

Chen Shen looked at Chen Ye who was lying on the bed in front of him. The sadness on his face almost covered his entire cheek, but he knew that he could not collapse now.

He walked forward, looked at Ying Ji who was standing there in a daze, and said softly: "Father must not want to see the king like this."

Chen Shen sighed: "I hope the king will take care of himself."

This was what he had to say no matter what, but Ying Ji in front of him just stared blankly. After a moment, he came back from his thoughts. He looked at Chen Shen in front of him and restrained his thoughts. Then he let out a long sigh: "The Lord An is as grateful as a mountain to the State of Qin, and he is the pillar of the country."

"Even if An Guojun told him before his death not to be extravagant, I still don't want to let An Guojun leave just like that."

He stood up and looked at the Chen family members behind him, and said softly: "Gu Xiang uses the ceremony of national mourning to show Mr. An Guo. This is the respect Mr. An Guo deserves for his hard work for decades."

Ying Ji's words were very heavy and serious.

At this moment, he was like a true emperor, not allowing anyone to refute.

In fact, today next year, Ying Ji will be able to take charge.

Chen Shen, Chen Zhan, and Chen Zhao all stood there without refuting Ying Ji's words.

At first, they felt the seriousness in Ying Ji's words, and indeed felt the "dominance" of Ying Ji as an emperor. They didn't want to contradict the emperor, especially now that their father was dead.

One of the pillars of the Chen family collapsed. This was the most turbulent time for the Chen family.

Secondly, Chen Shen and others actually wanted their father to die with dignity.

After decades of hard work, he has been contributing to the Qin State since he was a weakling. He has supported the Qin State from a not very powerful country back then to today, almost becoming the overlord of the world.

Doesn't such a father deserve a "national mourning" ceremony?

Even Chen Shen, who had always been reserved, could not accept such a plain burial for his father.

"My ministers, please obey the king's order."

The winter of the third year of King Zhaoxiang's reign was the saddest time for Qin.

The Queen Mother and An Guojun died on the same day, which was something Qin could not accept.

Of course, unacceptable does not refer to the death of the Queen Mother, but the death of An Guojun.

Some people and compatriots even cried at home looking at the standing immortal tablet. Everyone was immersed in sadness, and the entire Qin Kingdom was covered with pieces of plain white.

If you can look down from the sky, you can see the Qin Kingdom covered in snow.

The sound of crying echoed throughout the Qin Kingdom for more than two months. During these two months, some people continued to cry with grief and even fainted.

At the same time, there were also many "righteous men" who heard about An Guojun's death and wanted to follow An Guojun.

There are many such people.

They gathered in Xianyang City and came together to the outside of An Guojun's mansion.

These are all people who once wanted to join An Guojun as disciples, but were rejected by An Guojun. At this time, they were wearing filial clothes, and they looked like "filial sons" than Chen Shen, Chen Zhan, the parents and children of An Guojun Chen Ye.

They knelt at the door of An Guojun's residence, with calm expressions on their faces.

"Please see Lord An Guo's coffin!"

Hundreds of people knelt at the door, and their shouts almost spread throughout half of Xianyang City.

Chen Shen walked out of the mansion dressed in all white, with a look of excitement on his face.

"Why are you here?"

One of them, who seemed to be the leader of the crowd, stood up, and everyone behind him also stood up and looked at Chen Ye.

"We admire Lord An Guo's grace and are willing to die for Lord An Guo!"

"Please give me your permission!"

The living are buried!

This was a system that lasted for a long time and was not abolished until the period of Qin Xiangong.

But it was just "abolition" and replacing it with "terracotta figurines".

Of course, some people have always suspected that this abolition was about large-scale "human sacrifice" rather than "human sacrifice". Sometimes, when some nobles died, they would feel happy that many people were buried for them.

Some people also think that people who are buried without followers are not considered contemporary celebrities.

After the death of the Four Gentlemen of the Warring States Period, some people died for them.

Chen Shen looked at the many people with firm faces and sonorous expressions, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

He looked around and saw that there were hundreds of people standing under the steps.

Chen Shen hesitated.

It wasn't that Chen Shen wanted to accept the "sacrificial burial" of these people, but that he didn't know how to reject them.

After all, these people have traveled thousands of miles to come here just to fulfill their wishes. Now that he refuses them, he is afraid that
  After hesitating for a long time, the cold wind kept blowing outside the mansion.

The person who came to ask for sacrifice never spoke, and just looked at Chen Shen who was standing there in silence.

In fact, they don't need Chen Shen's consent, but they want to see the coffin of Lord An Guo.

I also want to know where An Guojun will be buried.

So, the leader among them took a step forward, with some calmness in his voice: "If your Majesty is hesitating, you may as well continue to think about it, but we want to see the coffin of An Guojun, can you be tolerant? ?”

Chen Shen did not hesitate at all: "This is natural."

He turned around: "Everyone, please."

After listening to Chen Shen's words, a look of excitement appeared on the faces of everyone present, but then it dissipated and was replaced by a look of sadness and solemnity.

They walked neatly to the house and knelt on the ground looking at the coffins placed there.

In an instant, everyone's cries of pain swept through the entire courtyard.

Zhangtai Palace

Compared with Chen Ye's funeral, the Queen Mother's place was much simpler. Only Ying Ji sat in front of the Queen Mother's coffin.

Two people were tied in front of her coffin.

Gongzi Fu, Gongzi Kui.

Ying Ji sat there and picked up the wine jue in his hand. His face was already full of red. He drank one cup after another of wine into his stomach, as if this could make the sadness in his heart disappear.

"Mother, the child you least like has become the King of Qin."

"But now that you have passed away, you can no longer enjoy the glory he brought to you."

There was a ferocious look on Ying Ji's face. He seemed to be smiling or crying and said, "But my son can do another thing for you, and that is to let your two favorite sons be buried for you!"

"Don't you love them?"

"Then go down below and continue to let them serve you!"

With that said, he waved his hand and the guard took out the thing blocking the two people's mouths. As soon as Fang took it out, there were bursts of painful crying.

Young Master Kui and Young Master Fu said with tears and runny noses: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"Please let us go!"

"We don't want to die!"

However, Ying Ji seemed not to have heard their cries and pleas. He just pulled out the long sword from his waist unsteadily. He pointed the long sword in his hand at Young Master Fu and said, "Are you willing to be buried for the sake of your mother?"

Young Master Fu Zhan was trembling and shaking as if he was about to shake out his afterimage: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Please spare my life!"

"Crack-"

With a soft sound, the long sword in Ying Ji's hand neatly cut off Gongzi Fu's head. The head fell to the ground and rolled forward, rolling to the coffin of the Queen Mother.

And Ying Ji said with a solemn face: "You are not willing to die for your mother! How can you be worthy of your mother's love for you?"

"That's something Gudu doesn't have!"

"I will kill you, this unfilial son!"

Immediately afterwards, he pointed at Gongzi Kui with his long sword and said, "What about you?"

"Are you willing to die for your mother?"

Young Master Kui swallowed and said tremblingly: "I, I, I am willing, I am willing!"

He shouted hoarsely, fearing that if he said he didn't want to, the sword would chop off his head the next moment!

However, even if he said this, Ying Ji did not let him go.

The long sword still stained with blood stabbed into his body instantly, and blood continued to drip down the long sword and fell to the ground: "Since you are willing, then you can go!"

The oil lamp on the side burned the lamp oil and illuminated the main hall. The surrounding whiteness intersects with the bright red blood, making it look very strange.

The light illuminated Ying Ji's ferocious face.

At this time, Ying Ji was not the supreme king of Qin, but a child who was not loved by his mother.

An Guojun Mansion
  Chen Shen sat in the study, sitting in his father Chen Ye's favorite place, and pressed his forehead.

This is really difficult.

Let’s not talk about whether it is legal for these people to be buried. I just want to say that if his father was still alive, he would never allow these people to be buried!

This is for sure.

But how to refuse?
  These people come here because of their reputation. If he refuses without a suitable excuse, it will not only be an insult to these people, but also tarnish the reputation of his father An Guojun.

A gust of wind blew from outside the window, blowing the shaky candlelight.

Chen Shen held his chin and felt sleepy for some reason. Slowly, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and finally he closed them slowly.

A gust of cold wind hit, and Chen Shen woke up suddenly.

However, when he saw the surrounding scenery clearly, he was confused. Where is this place?
  Isn't he in the study of An Guojun's mansion?
  Why did I come to this place when I opened my eyes again?

Subconsciously, Chen Shen swallowed, then carefully observed everything around him, and his hands touched his waist.

There is always a dagger hidden there, which he always carries for self-defense.

But the next moment, Chen Shen was suddenly stunned. The place was empty! Nothing at all!

What exactly is going on?

"Shen'er?"

A familiar voice heard from Chen Shen in the distance, and he froze there, barely daring to look back.

This is his father's voice!

"Shen'er?"

When the second shout rang out, Chen Shen turned around slightly stiffly. He looked at his father sitting under the tree, as if he was back in his twenties or thirties in his memory, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

"Father?"

Chen Shen's voice was hoarse and he walked towards Chen Ye with a look of confusion on his face: "What on earth is going on?"

Chen Ye waved his hand, and another chair appeared in front of him.

He asked Chen Shen to sit there and explained the origin of all this to Chen Shen with a smile.

Of course, he didn't tell Chen Shen what a "system" or a "game" was. He just said that he came here after his death, and that people from the Chen family would come here after their death in the future.

Death is not the destination of "Chen".

As long as the "Chen family" can last for thousands of years and become a "thousand-year family", it can "become an immortal".

Of course, "becoming an immortal" is fake, but without making up this excuse, Chen Ye would have no way to explain all this to Chen Shen.

Chen Shen seemed to understand, but he grasped the most important point: "So, father needs to let the Chen family last for at least a thousand years?"

He said with some horror: "This is a very difficult thing."

The father and son almost forgot the reason why Chen Shen came. They just explained and listened to the explanation.

After a long time, Chen Shen sighed with excitement in his tone: "That's it!"

He looked at Chen Ye and said, "I will definitely live up to my father's trust!"

At this moment, he completely understood why his father often taught him not to be king or to take sides.

Thinking of this, Chen Shen seemed to have suddenly thought of something. He looked at Chen Ye and said, "Father, you probably don't know yet. Many people have come from the six countries in the past few days. They want..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ye said with a smile: "You want to be buried for me, right?"

Chen Shen nodded, and then he remembered that Chen Ye could see everything outside in this "Peach Blossom Spring".

He looked at Chen Ye and whispered: "Father, what should I do?"

Chen Ye smiled and said, "Do you think being buried as a sacrifice is a good thing?"

This time I met Chen Shen, on the one hand, to tell Chen Shen about the "system" and the "Aristocratic Family", and on the other hand, I wanted to explain to Chen Shen many things outside.

Chen Shen shook his head slightly: "No."

There was solemnity in his voice: "Sacrificial burial is never a good thing. It is an ignorant and backward thing. It tramples on life and will also hinder the development of Qin."

Chen Ye nodded, also very seriously: "Yes, you are right."

"Actually, when I enter your dream this time, in addition to telling you some things, the most important thing is to tell you about this "sacrificial burial" matter."

He sighed faintly: "Even though the Qin State's burial system was abolished as early as the reign of Qin Xiangong, some people have been secretly continuing to practice it until now!"

"This is not conducive to the development of Qin."

Chen Ye looked at Chen Shen. He knew that after the Qin State abolished the "sacrificial burial" system, both the nobles and the monarchs still implemented this policy secretly, especially some future Qin kings! Even Qin Shihuang!

The burial system is an almost "destructive" blow to "civilization", because before many emperors died, they would order some craftsmen and talents to be "buried" in order to fulfill their wish to continue to "rule" when they were below. .

"You must do your best to completely push for the end of burial!"

Chen Ye looked at Chen Shen and said in a very serious voice: "The people who have come to An Guojun's mansion in the past few days and said they wanted to be buried for me are your excuse."

He smiled: "I believe you don't need me to teach you how to do it."

"You are already a head of the family who can stand up to the Chen family."

Chen Ye looked at Chen Shen and said, "In addition, what I want to tell you is."

"Don't worry about the relationship between Qin and the Chen family, and don't worry about the blood of the Qin royal family in your body."

Chen Shen's expression changed. He heard something from Chen Ye's words, but neither of them understood what he said.

They believe that the other party understands what they mean.

After everything was explained, Chen Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "It's time for you to wake up."

He said jokingly: "If you don't wake up, I'm afraid you will be blown away by the wind in the study."

Chen Shen was slightly startled. He looked at Chen Ye sitting under the tree with a little nostalgia in his eyes, but he still said: "Okay, father."

"Goodbye today, see you tomorrow."

Chen Ye waved to Chen Shen under the tree, his voice also very sober: "I have something for you, you can see it when you wake up!"

Everything in front of him became blurry and blurred in Chen Shen's eyes, and finally disappeared.

In the study, Chen Shen woke up with a start.

He looked back and forth at his hands, wondering if what just happened was really a dream.

Chen Shen couldn't help but murmur to himself: "Is everything that happened just now a dream?"

"I miss my father too much, so this is what I dreamed about?"

Before Chen Shen could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a piece of silk lying on the table, with three lines of large characters written on it.

"You should look up to the sky and be worthy of the sky, bow to the earth and be worthy of the earth, and ask your heart to be worthy of yourself."

"The Chen family's home for thousands of years, there is no need to hide or ignore China!"

"The Chen family will protect the land of China for thousands of years!"

Chen Shen looked at these three lines of words, and tears fell involuntarily from the corners of his eyes again. He knew the handwriting on it, it was written by his father.

But this painting was obviously not here when he fell asleep.

The "Qilin Jade" around his waist gave out a little warmth, soothing his excited emotions little by little: "It turns out that everything just now is true. Isn't death the end of "Chen's"?"

Chen Shen couldn't help but smile.

In the fourth year of King Zhaoxiang's reign, the aftermath of Chen Ye's departure has not completely dissipated.

People kept coming from all over the world, and they were all people who wanted to bury Lord An. When they heard about this, some nobles in the Qin Kingdom and even the other six kingdoms began to get ready to take action.

They are not people who have not been "martyrdomed" themselves, but they want to see the system of "martyrdom" be beautified and reappear in the sun.

If someone can be buried openly and openly and has a "good reputation", why should they be buried secretly and fearfully?
  As a result, people continued to write letters, encouraging Chen Shen to accept the burial of these people.

In the Qin Kingdom alone, four or five nobles wrote letters, saying they were willing to provide "hundreds" of "voluntary" people for burial, in order to make An Guojun's "martyrdom funeral" famous.

These people persuaded Chen Shen to accept burial and publicized it, telling the world that burial was not a bad habit, but a noble behavior!

Only celebrities! Only benevolent and righteous people! Only a person with such extraordinary talent can make so many people voluntarily sacrifice themselves!

There were even some "Confucian" people hiding in the dark who came to find Chen Shen through various connections, and told Chen Shen that they wanted to join forces with him to jointly create two "sages".

One is Chen Zi, Chen Ye.

One is Confucius, Kong Qiu.

The way to shape him into a "saint" is to be buried as a martyr.

Make a name for yourself.

Chen Shen felt sick in his heart when he looked at the words in the letter. He just sat there and sighed quietly: "This is what my father often said during his lifetime, will people's hearts rot because of various interests? "

The corner of his mouth raised a disdainful sneer: "What's the situation in the world?"

"It was just a small burial system, and it became popular again."

Xianyang Academy

Meng Ke sat there with an angry look on his face. He looked at Gong Shuye in front of him: "What a kind and righteous gentleman An Guojun was during his lifetime! How could they insult him in this way?"

He has always disagreed with the burial system.

And I think this is an insult to "Chen Ye".

Meng Ke was a little puzzled: "How could that disciple of mine be so confused and just let those people continue to gather? Does he really want these people to die for Lord An Guo?"

Gongshu also looked indifferent: "Don't you understand your own disciples?"

"I think he must have a big plan."

Morning, morning meeting.

Chen Shen was wearing the splendid clothes of a minister. He stepped forward and bowed in salute: "Your Majesty, I have something important to report."

Ying Ji looked at Chen Shen like this and said, "Oh? What's important?"

Chen Shen raised his head slightly, with a firm look on his face: "I would like to ask that the system of "sacrificial burial" be incorporated into Qin's laws. If anyone is asked to be buried, regardless of whether the sacrifice is voluntary or not, they will be punished for violating Qin's laws!"

As soon as he said this, the court was shocked.

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