Chapter 2224: Surname change controversy
Chapter 2224: Surname Change Controversy
Chapter 2220: Controversy over changing surname
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 great chaos in the world and made the people miserable. It is only a matter of time before the dynasty is changed.
Chapter 2 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. The main part of the text is to explain the reform and promote high production, while the Wu part is to suppress the Yellow Turbans internally and expel the Yuan and Qing barbarians externally.
Page 3 is to state that Qin Hao has a noble status, is a descendant of the Queen of Qin, and has the destiny of heaven. Taking the Han Dynasty is not a usurpation of the throne but the will of heaven, and it is to seize what belongs to him.
Generally speaking, Qu Yuan's declaration of proclaiming himself emperor is not much different from other declarations. They both belittle the Han Dynasty and promote Qin Hao, but the difference lies in the fact that he chose the right measure.
Qu Yuan's message neither overly belittled the Han nor mindlessly praised Qin Hao. 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 sincerity. 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-character evaluation, saying that this is definitely a "work that will be handed down from generation to generation".
If Qin Hao were to write this, and if he did not plagiarize, he would not necessarily be able to write the same level of essay 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 message is better than an army of 100,000 people."
Qin Hao praised Qu Yuan with great satisfaction and was full of praise for the message 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 letter that will be handed down from generation to generation, completing this important task perfectly.
“Pass the order to publish this proclamation and circulate it to all places. Within ten days, I will ask all the major prefectures, counties and counties to post this proclamation.”
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Qin State currently has seven states, 43 counties and 451 counties. If you want to post a proclamation 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 completed, 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 memorial was sent out, Qin Hao had one more thing to do, which was to pay homage to his ancestors and change his surname. After all, Qin Hao in Qu Yuan's memorial 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 his 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 the matter of changing his 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 upright, 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 have the same name as their ancestors." After hearing Qin Jian's words, Qin Hao showed a clear look. In the end, 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 Qin Huiwen.
Although they were originally the First Emperor and King Huiwen, in their eyes in this life, the First Emperor and King Huiwen were their ancestors.
If the ancestors with the same name are not well-known, then the double name will be the same. However, Emperor Shihuang and King Huiwen are both famous emperors through the ages. Individuals would feel uncomfortable if they have the same name and surname as these two ancestors.
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.
You must have been used to the name you have used for decades, but to change it because you recognize your ancestor and return to your clan, I am afraid everyone will feel depressed.
So those 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 Qin family members except Qin Hao’s family should continue to use the ‘Qin’ surname, except Qin Hao’s family, 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 the painstaking efforts of his fourth uncle. 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 by setting an example as direct descendants could other descendants of the collateral descendants give up changing their surnames.
At first, many of the Qin family's children were extremely dissatisfied with this. After all, changing their surname meant becoming a relative of the emperor. However, 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 it should be known that the direct descendants of Qin Jian, Qin Wu, and Qin Zheng, 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 surname Qin will not be as good as the surname Ying in the future, it is also a relative of the surname Ying 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 your 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 very average, and he doesn’t want to copy and paste other people’s, so he’ll just write it in abbreviated form.
(End of this chapter)