Chapter 93 Li Shimin's birthday Time flies, and the white horse flies.
Two months have passed, and in the blink of an eye, it has come to the twenty-eighth day of the first month, which is also the day of Li Shimin's birthday, and the whole world celebrates, in order to show his generosity, on this day, the emperor will give amnesty to the world.
Amnesty means that the past sins are not to be blamed, the past problems are no longer investigated, and a new opportunity is given to start anew.
However, there are limits to the extent to which amnesty can be granted, and it is not a generalization, such as political prisoners who rebelled, bullied the monarch, and fought against the imperial power.
In short, the state's offenses and state offenders are not within the scope of pardon.
In short, after the amnesty, all prisoners in custody will be acquitted immediately if they have committed minor crimes, and prisoners who have committed serious crimes or death row can also go home to reunite with their families for a few days to show the emperor's mercy.
And historically, the Chinese emperor often granted amnesty to the world at every turn, playing with the law and the palm of his hand.
But they actually came according to the rules, with a clear realistic purpose and intention, and they didn't completely pat their heads (although occasionally they would pardon the world inexplicably, but that was all the product of brain convulsions, not a lot).
Judging from the distribution of the emperor's amnesty to the world, generally speaking, when the emperor feels that his rule is not very stable, the frequency of amnesty is the most.
For example, during the 12 years of Han Gaozu's reign, he granted amnesty to the world 9 times; Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty reigned for 15 years and did it 10 times; Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty reigned for 6 years and engaged in 4 times; And Emperor Ping of Han reigned for only 5 years, and he did it 4 times.
Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty reigned for 22 years and did it 20 times; Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty's elder brother Liu Wei reigned for only half a year and did it twice.
On the contrary, Emperor Wen reigned for 23 years and granted amnesty to the world 4 times; Emperor Jing reigned for 16 years, and only did it 6 times.
Emperor Guangwu of Han, the son of Emperor Guangwu of Han, reigned 3 times in 18 years.
From these data, it can be seen that the stability coefficient of imperial power is inversely proportional to the frequency of amnesty.
Of course, there are also times when there is a great joy or auspiciousness, and the emperor will also feel that this is God's recognition of his rule, and he will also grant amnesty to the world.
For example, this time, the previous year's Datang can be described as a mixed bag.
The good thing is naturally the foreign war, the Tang Dynasty completely conquered the South Seas, and continued to wave the army westward, has been Chen Bingjiazhou front, and the Gundam country hundreds of thousands of troops against the army, and there have been a few battles, although the winner has not yet been distinguished, but the previous battles all ended with the victory of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has occupied an absolute strategic advantage, under the command of Liu Renliang and Xue Rengui, the Gundam country has been a grasshopper after the autumn, and it will not be able to jump for a few days.
In the north, Datang has made full pre-war preparations for Goguryeo, and has already had several attempts to striker, and the result is also a complete victory, and now waiting for Li Shimin's arrival, Datang can launch a full-scale attack.
Of course, this is a good thing, and at the same time, there are bad things......
At the beginning, the king of Yue was assassinated by the Japanese in Dengzhou at the beginning of the year, and then the Tang border was full of smoke, almost bringing the whole country into a land of no return, and then Yindao was discovered, and the world was in chaos, especially in Lingnan, and the chaos became more and more serious......
Of course, on the whole, although the whole is half of the good and bad things, the whole is still a little more of the good things, as for those bad things, most of them are scabies, but the good things are good things for the country and the people.
Therefore, Li Shimin is of course qualified to amnesty the world, and not only the world, he is rare this time, and he is ready to hold a decent birthday banquet for himself, no longer like before, simply take the time to have a meal with his henchmen, and then have a meal with the children in the evening.
Because this year is a very beautiful year for Datang, there are more than a dozen countries that have been destroyed, showing their faces fiercely in the world, and all countries are frightened and have sent envoys to congratulate them.
So this time he wants to come to a big one, taking this opportunity to declare the prestige of the Tang Dynasty to the world.
Today's Chang'an City is particularly lively, everywhere is full of lights, red and purple, the people are smiling, and the whole Chang'an City is full of something called joy.
Of course, the people are happy, not because their most beloved emperor, His Majesty, is celebrating his birthday today, although they are indeed happy about the emperor's birthday, but when they are even more happy, the imperial court is sending rice.
Yes, today is his own big day, since Li Shimin will give amnesty to the world, he will naturally not forget his people, not to mention elsewhere, just in Chang'an City, early in the morning, the army began to line up, and distribute rice grain from household to household - one bucket of polished rice, one pound of meat, and one hanging of money, so that the subjects of the world will rejoice......
Although there are not many things, who doesn't like white things?
During the Zhenguan period, the population of Chang'an City was about 700,000, that is, 100,000 households, and the total was only 1.25 million catties of rice, 100,000 catties of meat, and 10,000 guan money (one hanging money of 100 wen, ten hanging for consistency).
The people benefited, the court did not lose much, and the people's hearts were united, so that both sides got benefits, which can be described as a win-win situation.
The people are happy, the court is naturally even happier, the people have money, and they, the courtiers, get more things, and almost every one of them is full of loads.
The courtiers were happy, and Li Shimin was even more happy.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
"Zhongqing is flat."
Wang Tingchu was wearing a brand new dress and pointed his voice: "The saint has a great birthday, the whole world celebrates, and the world is auspicious......
Gift from the courtiers!
Congratulations to the saint, thousands of years, longevity is higher than the sky!
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