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Although Zhao Changyu was very angry, he still asked the ghost housekeeper to follow him. Although the laws of the underworld are strict, there are always places where the laws cannot shine.

Zhao Zhongyu had just gone to the underworld. According to what he said, he was poisoned by Liu Cong together with the emperor. The people must sympathize with him and remember him. Looking at his expression, it was obvious that he died a heroic death. Even more people commemorated him.

He is now equivalent to getting rich overnight without knowing it, just like a child walking through the market with money in hand.

The ghost housekeeper quickly caught up with Zhao Zhongyu and took him to the ghost messenger to collect things, incense, money, and everything sent from the human world.

Not all sacrifices in the human world can be received in the underworld. After all, there are always some people who have strange ideas and will burn some messy things.

With the ghost housekeeper taking him along, Zhao Zhongyu realized that time flows at different speeds in the underworld and the human world.

So even though he thinks he has just died and has only entered the underworld not long ago, in fact he has been dead in the human world for some time.

The best thing is that time flows at different speeds in different places in the underworld, which involves the laws of space and time. Let alone the ghost housekeeper, Zhao Zhongyu has been obsessed with it in the past few years and has not researched much. .

"So all the things burned for the second master must have arrived."

You have to go to the Yin Si Mansion to collect these things.

Zhao Zhongyu was not a fool, he just didn't want to stay with his brother, so he wouldn't even drive away the ghosts he sent.

He accepted the service of the ghost butler with peace of mind, and he took him to collect things from the underworld mansion.

As soon as his name and date of birth were reported, the eyes of the ghost servants in the underworld changed when they looked at him.

Zhao Zhongyu frowned and was a little confused when a ghost boy took a silver key and said, "Come with me."

When the ghost butler saw the silver key, his eyes lit up. He immediately urged Zhao Zhongyu to follow him and whispered: "Second Master, you have something in your warehouse."

In the human world, the news that the emperor and Zhao Zhongyu were poisoned has spread. The Jin ministers in the Xiongnu cried loudly. Overnight, except for a few courtiers, everyone went to die one after another and was massacred by Liu Cong's men. All.

Not only the Jin officials were resentful of this move, but also the Han officials, Di and Jie tribes in the Xiongnu camp were quite dissatisfied. Zhao Zhongyu's words persuading the emperor to die calmly spread to the land of the fall. It was heard that he personally served the emperor and drank it. Poisoned wine, and then died calmly.

Because of the four words "die calmly", because the emperor was insulted by the Huns, the humiliation and inferiority complex of the poisoning were relieved, and transformed into overwhelming anger and murderous intent, as well as sympathy for the emperor and admiration for Zhao Zhongyu .

When the whole country was in mourning, gentry and landlords from all over the country spontaneously paid homage to Zhao Zhongyu. Zhao Hanzhang also issued public announcements and crusade against Liu Cong, and people all over the world joined in.

Of course, they were keeping filial piety for the emperor, crying for the emperor twice, and then weeping for Zhao Zhongyu. Occasionally, when they cried for Zhao Zhongyu, they would bring Zhao Changyu with them. They thought that the Zhao brothers were all worthy of being called the green pines of the Jin Dynasty. Unfortunately, they all They died, and they all died for the Jin Dynasty.

Ordinary people's homes naturally cannot afford to burn incense, candles, oil, let alone brocade and silk, so they burn wheat straw or one or two pieces of paper money.

Burning paper money to the souls of the dead has been a custom since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it is only common on a small scale because information circulation is slow.

After Zhao Hanzhang's paper mill was opened, the paper industry developed rapidly, various businesses were accepted, and the cost of paper money also dropped rapidly. In addition, many people died in the past few years. Zhao Hanzhang advocated thin burials in the area under his jurisdiction, and specifically wrote to the court for this purpose. , let the court issue an announcement to promote it.

At that time, it was Zhao Zhongyu who reviewed and promoted her in the court.

It is true that the gap between rich and poor in the funeral industry is too wide.

People who froze to death on the road and those who starved to death simply threw their bodies into the wilderness. From the corpses to piles of bones, no one collected them. In some wealthy families, not to mention the things they buried with them. Every time a wealthy person was buried, the bundles of silk, porcelain, etc. were burned. There are countless clothes, various gold and silver jewelry, and even... people.

Although human sacrifice has long been abolished, it has been banned repeatedly by the people.

Such luxurious funerals cost a lot of social wealth every year.

To be honest, wars were going on everywhere, social resources were drastically reduced, and they were burying and burning people in grave pits. Several times, Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but want to implement Boss Cao's old strategy. It took a lot of willpower for her to do it. Stop your desires.

Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang asked people to print paper money on a large scale. Starting from Yuzhou, paper money was promoted as the main currency for funerals to replace bundles of silk and other items.

Before that, because people mostly used cloth as currency, bundles of silk were often used as currency in the underworld when burned to the souls of the dead.

After her constant publicity and setting an example, the custom of using paper money to worship the souls of ancestors, centered in Yuzhou, finally spread.

Every year, the Zhao family's sacrifices and Qingming sacrifices are replaced with paper money, and the bundles of silk and other items are removed, except for the five animals and wine.

This was only achieved with the strong support of Zhao Zhongyu, Zhao Song and Zhao Ming. Even so, there were many people in the clan who had opinions.

Zhao Zhongyu asked: "Can the paper money burned in the world really be used in the underworld?"

"Of course it can be used," the butler ghost said with a look of gratitude and admiration: "I don't know whose great merit is it. Who in our family can afford to burn silk utensils? It's good to be able to burn a handful of wheat straw. If you have paper money, you can It’s different, even poor families can receive some money during the New Year, holidays, or death anniversaries.”

The ghost messenger walking in front turned around and said: "The underworld has long used paper money, but there are few people burning it. The emperor once asked ghosts to entrust dreams to their families, but when they entrusted them with dreams, I wonder if the explanation was not clear. Poor ghosts." The family members of the rich ghosts only cook wheat straw and occasionally serve one or two bowls of white rice or three large steamed buns, but the family members of the rich ghosts cook bundles of silk and pots and pans, but never to the point every time. .”

In fact, they also like to use paper money in the world. This thing is cheap. Even the poorest family can buy a stack for their dead family members with just one penny.

The gap between rich and poor in the underworld has eased.

It was not obvious before because the dead people can be reincarnated very quickly and their stay in the underworld is not long. No matter they are rich ghosts or poor ghosts, after they have settled the good and evil deeds in their lives and decided on the fetus to be reborn, after drinking Meng Po soup, they will be reincarnated. I left as soon as I crossed the Naihe Bridge.

Very few ghosts can use the wealth brought down, so the underworld is relatively fair.

But now there are too many ghosts staying in the underworld, which shows a difference. The poor have no wealth, and the rich are getting richer. This makes the emperor very unhappy.

The emperor believed that he had no control over people when they were alive in the human world, but they were all dead, and ghosts were considered equal in the underworld. But once they stayed, the gap between the rich and the poor stretched directly from the earth to the sky. The difference was too big.

As a result, the underworld was not easy to manage. There were always ghosts being attacked and snatching incense. This made the emperor and King Yama who could not bear to see sand very dissatisfied.

Gui Cha took Zhao Zhongyu to a warehouse. When he opened it, it was full of money and things.

It was all men on earth who pointed out what was sent to him.

Zhao Zhongyu opened his mouth in surprise.

The ghost butler's eyes turned red with envy. (End of chapter)