Royal Road - Chapter 85

[Chapter 85]

Outside the city of Gaodu, outside the newly cultivated hundred acres of barren fields, an earthen platform was erected.

This is just on the east side of the city wall, which is the evolution of the ancient ritual of welcoming spring in the suburbs.

Early in the morning, there were people from four mile and eight townships guarding the stage.

This is the Li Chun Nuo ceremony presided over by the county deity, and I haven’t seen it for a few years at least.

No wonder there were severe droughts and insect plagues in the past few years. Without the government to eliminate the disasters and welcome the spring, how could the weather be good?

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With a very simple mind, these people rushed over early, just hoping to grab a good spot in front of the stage.

The soil cattle used to whip the spring have long been standing beside the stage, covered with blue banners, and their size is quite impressive.

However, the county honoree has not yet arrived, and no one dared to take a step forward.

After another half an hour, the sound of gongs and drums came from afar. This is a purification path, and it is also a ghost exorcism. It is a necessary ritual for Nuo.

Not long after, I saw the brigade of yamen walking towards this side with the two of them.

The two in the middle were wearing green clothes, and the older one was wearing green silk on his head, with a flat face and a beard under his chin. He looked very majestic.

The young man beside him was wearing a veil as a crown, and his complexion was like that of Haruyuki that had not yet melted away. It was dazzlingly white, and it was so beautiful that people didn’t dare to stare at him.

Immediately, there was a commotion from the audience: “Who is that person? How did he walk with the county magistrate?” “Why is Lord

Lang so handsome?”

“Ah, isn’t that the legendary Liang Langjun?!”

“That kind of thing ? The

immortal figure must be Liang Langjun!” The

commotion grew louder and louder, and then, I don’t know who knelt down first, bowing down to the handsome man reverently.

Last year, in order to defend the city, many young men died unexpectedly. It is said that Liang Langjun cast a spell to lure away the rebels, so that Gaodu could avoid breaking the city.

And these newly returned refugees ate an unknown amount of horse meat porridge.

I don’t know if the meat porridge is a blessing, so few people die from the disaster in the refugee village, it’s like a miracle.

Today, the county honors the buffalo, the god of welcoming spring, and Liang Langjun is accompanied by him.

Wouldn’t it be good weather, no disease and no disaster?

Excited and uncontrollable, just like the wheat waves that fell down, all the people in the four fields knelt down.

Guo Jiao looked at the people who were kneeling below, and said with a smile: “Look, Marquis Liang, the people’s hearts can be used!”

“It’s up to the county to respect the benevolent government to win the people’s hearts.” Liang Feng cupped his hands and replied.

This is a compliment in front of outsiders, which is more pleasant than saying it a hundred times in private.

Guo Jiao laughed and asked Liang Feng to preside over the ceremony on the same stage. Naturally, Liang Feng would not steal his limelight.

Standing on the soil platform, Guo Jiao bowed deeply to the east, and said loudly: “The beginning of spring, congratulations to the God of Mang! May this year’s crops be prosperous and the weather is good!

” The man with the Nuo face sang and danced.

Because it was the wood god Jumang, what he brought to drive the Nuo this time was not a square head and a face, but a blue robe holding a wicker and a bird face on his head, shouting around the earthen platform.

After reciting the divine incantation, the Nuo dance was performed again, and the curtain covered with the cow was uncovered.

This time, it was the master craftsman in the craftsman who carved the spring ox. I saw that the local ox was lifelike, with complete hooves and horns, just like a sturdy yellow ox, ready to start ploughing the fields.

Guo Jiao stepped down from the soil platform, took the colored staff handed over by the yamen, and hit the soil cow hard.

Every time a small official sang auspicious words, the people greeted him with shouts, and the actual flogging ended with three blows.

However, after the ceremony, Guo Jiao put down the colored staff, but held the wooden staff in both hands and walked to Liang Feng: “Thank you Lianghou for coming, this staff should be presented to Lianghou!” The

voice fell, and drum music sounded again.

This is also a kind of etiquette, which is called “sending the spring”.

Liang Feng naturally wouldn’t refuse, he took the colored staff with both hands and bowed in thanks.

When the scene was finished, Guo Jiao said softly: “Lianghou, let’s go out…” He

didn’t understand Guo Jiao’s meaning, but Liang Feng was not stupid enough to ask, he followed behind with a smile, and withdrew more than a hundred times. step.

After standing still, Guo Jiao gave a wink to the clerk beside him, and the other party hurriedly rang the gong beside the stage.

As soon as the gong sounded, the people below became chaotic, and rushed towards the local cattle with a bang.

This battle is like fighting for the last bite after not eating for hundreds of years.

In a blink of an eye, it became a mess.

Having never seen such a scene, Yi Yan immediately shouted and led the soldiers to stand firmly in front of Liang Feng.

Guo Jiao next to him laughed and said: “Don’t panic, this is the common people robbing spring mud, and no one will be hurt.” After

listening to Guo Jiao’s explanation, Liang Feng understood.

What these people robbed is the soil from the spring cattle. It is said that if sprinkled in the fields, it can bless the soil with fertility, and if it is placed on the silkworm seeds, it can protect the spring silkworms from disease and produce more silk.

A kind of baby with a very good intention, how can you not let people rob your head?

In less than a quarter of an hour, the huge mud cow didn’t even have any dregs left.

Seeing the happy expressions on the faces of the people, Liang Feng felt relieved.

In a few days, when the overturned vehicles outside the city are fully equipped, under the intensive cultivation, the county will definitely be able to achieve a bumper harvest.

A trip to persuade the cultivation ceremony, so that Liang Feng’s mood is extremely comfortable.

However, not long after returning to the mansion, bad things fell from the sky.

Ningbei General’s Mansion sent an envoy to recruit him as a vassal of the General’s Mansion.

This time, the surnamed Chen is from the general’s residence. After seeing Liang Feng, he nodded with satisfaction: “Dong Yinggong heard that Liang Lang was talented and virtuous. Taking office as the general’s mansion is a blessing.”

Looking at Chen Lushi’s arrogant appearance, Liang Feng said lightly: “I have little knowledge, and my body is too weak to be used by

Duke Dongying .”

If they don’t agree, they will be rejected.

Chen Lushi’s face froze: “Liang Lang is from Bingzhou, and now the world is in turmoil, and it is the time to employ people. Duke Dongying recruits talents widely, and appoints talents to use energy, which is the mainstay of Bingzhou. How could he refuse to do so? Isn’t it sloppy?”

Liang Feng smiled but didn’t reply to these harsh words.

Seeing the person in front of him who was incapable of oil and salt, Chen Lushi only felt extremely depressed.

It’s a good job, and it’s actually done like this, don’t you want to be punished by Dongying Gong?

However, the expedition is the etiquette of the country and cannot be used forcefully. After holding back for a long time, he also got up and retire.

Seeing the appearance of the recorder leaving angrily, Luzhu whispered worriedly: “Langjun, this is Duke Dongying’s expedition, can you really not go?”

“Of course.” Liang Feng sneered.

Not only can, but it is something that anyone who wants to recruit celebrities must accept.

It can be said that it is a tradition since the Han Dynasty that celebrities and scholars cannot succeed in expedition.

In the two Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties when the imperial examination system did not appear, the expedition system was another important way to become an official apart from the inspection system and the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

The imperial conscription was called “Zheng”, and the government’s conscription was called “Pi”. Many famous scholars and scholars entered the official circles by means of conscription.

However, this “Zhongnan shortcut” is not a hundred attempts.

Many hermits were reluctant to take up official positions, and they were unable to do so.

There is far from Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian who rejected the Han court’s call for several times, and there is Wang Sa, a famous scholar who has a grudge against Sima Zhao for killing his father, and failed to succeed in all three expeditions and seven evictions.

Even Sima Yi, the ancestor of the Sima family, did not pretend to be sick to escape Cao Cao’s initial expedition?

In the Western Jin Dynasty, when the situation was complicated and the dynasties in power were stupid and stubborn, it became more popular if they should not be recruited.

With such a social atmosphere, it is impossible for celebrities who are devoted to fame and power to come and go.

As a result, if the expedition is not enough, it has become the choice of another part of celebrities to raise their prices.

They would never want to become an official if they didn’t look at the cottage again and again, and they didn’t get promoted again and again.

Therefore, the expedition has become a wrestling between those in power and celebrities.

Those in power want to have a good reputation, and celebrities use this mentality to support themselves, and no one will easily break the balance.

But now Liang Feng is no longer the kind of little-known mortal figure, and he has made a name for himself again and again, and he has the right to refuse the expropriation.

Just because Sima Teng went to Beijing to ask for credit for the epidemic prevention, he would not devote himself to that stupid general’s mansion.

And the expedition was a good thing, not a bad thing, for him.

Because even if you should not be recruited, the world will acquiesce that you have the ability to be an official.

In the future, if you want to continue to recruit and recruit, you can only be promoted to the official position step by step, and you cannot use the original official position to recruit several times.

If Sima Teng pulls up the foundation in the matter of expropriation, it will be beneficial to him.

He wanted to see what tricks that idiot could come up with.

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“What did you say? Liang Feng shouldn’t be recruited?!” Hearing the master’s words, Sima Teng raised his eyebrows, “How dare you be so domineering as a mere Tinghou?! He’s coming to Jinyang!”

Master Gao couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “General, Liang Zixi said that he is too weak to deal with it. I’m afraid it’s inappropriate to act so hastily.”

“Why is it inappropriate?!” Regardless of previous suspicions, he is still so ignorant. Could it be that I want to take care of the thatched cottage?!”

This was a bit too much, and Master Gao hurriedly coughed: “The general’s words are serious. Way. Didn’t he say that he was sick? Then send a few doctors over there to diagnose him. If he was really sick, he could give him medicine to extend the doctor and give him some kindness. Now, wouldn’t it be possible to show the general’s generosity?”

Sima Teng pondered for a moment when he heard the words, and finally nodded bitterly: “That’s fine. Send two imperial physicians to examine his pulse carefully! If you dare to make false statements , I will ask him!”

Master Gao breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Liang Zixi used this kind of excuse. If you put it another way, it would be really difficult to deal with.

But is this person trying to raise his prestige, or is he really unwilling to come to the General’s Mansion?

If it’s the latter, it’s easy to handle, if it’s the former, it’s a person with deep scheming.

It may not be a good thing for such a person to enter the general palace.

But the words have already been said, and now it is a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

Alas, it seems that I have to send a letter to Wang Wen as soon as possible. If there is no trouble, it will be troublesome.