The Queen Mother took Meng Xunkai's prescription, and withdrew the deer primrose from Shoukang Palace, sure enough, but in just a few days, the Queen Mother felt refreshed and refreshed, and even used supper for several nights in a row, which made Shen Zhan and Song Mier happy for a while. Several imperial doctors also had to bow down at this time, although they still did not admit that Meng Xun's medical skills were good, but they dabbled in a wide range of things, and even the characteristics of such rare flowers and plants were clear. Seeing Meng Xun again, he could also say a word or two calmly, even if Meng Xun came again for the Queen Mother's pulse, he would no longer be silent.

Liu Shuxing thought about the Queen Mother three or four times, but he only entered the front hall of Shoukang Palace, and he didn't even see the queen mother, so he sulked for a while. She asked herself that there was nothing like Song Mier, why did one or two of them look towards that person? It's just that the old one is old, he always disagrees with his father, and it's common not to see him, but why does Shen Zhan also treat the little queen as a baby? I have been looking at it coldly for a while, and I always feel that Shen Zhan's treatment of Song Mi'er is a little different from that of other concubines, and I don't know if it is the friendship that grew up together since childhood, Shen Zhan always has to spoil Song Mi'er. Liu Shuxing is very unwilling, but the days are still long, and with his own particularity, it is not certain who Shen Zhan will favor in the end.

I wanted to go to the Queen Mother to ask for peace, but I didn't know that Liu Shuxing was alone, but they were worse than Liu Shuxing, and they didn't even enter the gate of Shoukang Palace, and some of the low-ranking concubines didn't even come forward with Yunxi, Luoxue and other celebrities around the Queen Mother, and directly sent a second-class small palace person, and thanked the guests solemnly, and the rejected concubines had to thank them happily, and they couldn't show the slightest grievance. The Queen Mother is just that, but the same is true of Her Majesty. Since Laba, in addition to going to the Queen Mother, he rarely stepped into the harem, and these people in the harem don't even have a place to compete for favor, which is really sad, and it is inevitable to knock on the side of Song Mier several times, but His Majesty Xià does not set foot in the harem, and Song Mier has no way, he can't take a knife to take Shen Zhan to spoil others, right? Therefore, Song Mier never mentioned this matter to Shen Zhan at all, why should he be such a naïve fool?

And Shen Zhan, who is now busy, doesn't have the heart to pay attention to the grievances and sorrows of the harem and others. Since the Laba dinner, the Queen Mother's illness was taken seriously by Shen Zhan, and she was very worried, but fortunately, Meng Xun prescribed medicine outside, and Mi'er had a prescription for the palace, so that the Queen Mother's condition could be alleviated, and she could also free up her mind to deal with the government affairs.

After Laba is the busiest time for government affairs, because the pen will be closed on Chinese New Year's Eve, many government affairs that cannot wait for the next year to be dealt with have been piled up in these days, but those old ministers are stubborn, everything must be according to the old rules, the slightest new decree will not work, Shen Zhan is very angry, and he slept directly in the imperial study for several days.

I finally waited until the pen was sealed, and I had to sacrifice to the sky on the first day of the first month. Sacrifice has always been the foundation of the country's society, the so-called "national affairs, in the worship and Rong", the annual sacrifice activities are the top priority of the country's large-scale activities. There are the great rituals of Yuanqiu, Fangze, Prayer Hub, Taimiao, Sheji, and the gods of heaven and earth, as well as the middle rituals of Tai Sui, Asahi, Sunset, the setting moon, the emperors of the past dynasties, the first teacher, and the first farmer, as well as the worship of the first doctor, virtuous and virtuous, Zhaozhong and other group rituals. The size and importance of the content of the sacrifice are different, and the method of sacrifice is also different. The big ritual requires the emperor to worship in person every year, while the middle ritual can be worshiped every year or every one or two years, and the group ritual can be worshiped in person or sent to the officials to congratulate him.

"There are court clothes, and there are sacrificial clothes, so the subjects are also up and down", along with the different levels, scales, seasons and occasions of the sacrifice, the costumes used in the sacrifice are also different, but they are basically composed of sacrifice clothes, end masks, gowns, sacrificial belts, boots, etc. Among them, the dress is also called the crown, "the crown of the son of heaven, the axe is yi", the crown is the king's auspicious dress, the sacrifice is exclusive, and the crown is matched with the single, Xuanyi, and the dress.

The crown of the great calendar is obtained on the basis of the crown system of the previous dynasties, the emperor's twelve chapters, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountain, the dragon, the Chinese insect six kinds of weaving in the clothes, the Zongyi, algae, fire, powdered rice, yellow, black embroidered in the clothes, and the other twelve crowns through the sky, showing the majesty of the emperor.

In the first year of the founding of the Great Calendar, the four-color sacrificial clothes for the sacrifice were also determined, which were not only determined according to the size of the sacrificial ceremony, but also based on the different locations of the sacrifice.

The big rituals are mostly in the east, wearing red and crimson sacrificial clothes, the west is cyan, the north is yellow, and the western suburbs are mostly group worship, often jade.

When Shen Zhan succeeded to the throne, it was spring, it was past the first month, and the sacrifice of the first year of the new emperor's accession to the throne was still presided over by the first emperor, that is, the sacrifice of the first emperor did not last long, so he drove the crane to the west, and Shen Zhan succeeded to the throne and changed his name to Xuanqi. Shen Zhan missed the sacrifice in the first year of Xuanqi, so the sacrifice in the second year of Xuanqi was the first large-scale sacrifice activity since Shen Zhan ascended the throne, and it became the focus of attention of the whole country.

Especially on the first day of the first lunar month, the great sacrifice of heaven and earth and the temple, the ancients believed in ghosts and gods, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, sun, moon and stars, mountains, rocks and trees, birds and beasts are all considered to be the master of gods, all things have spirits, so there are sacrifices. Therefore, the weather on this day of sacrifice also shows the quality of the emperor's conduct. If the emperor has a noble character, the day of the sacrifice will be clear, if the process of the sacrifice is smooth, and there is no good omen, it also indicates that in the new year, the country and the people will be safe. However, if there is a violent storm or some disaster on the day of the sacrifice, it proves that the emperor is unscrupulous or the country is about to die. Therefore, Shen Zhan's first sacrificial activity has simply become the top priority in the hearts of all the courtiers. Before Shen Zhan sealed the pen, half of the government affairs handled were the various points and details of this sacrificial activity, and those old ministers were still not at ease, so they had to go to Shen Zhan's study when they got off the court, and respectfully asked Shen Zhan to review the rules and etiquette of the sacrifice. At this time, the usually useless Taichang Temple Siqing and Qin Tian Jian Zheng were the most excited, the people in these two positions, Tai half of them are old people with leaky teeth--middle-aged and young people in the prime of life are not willing to come to these two departments-they used to be idle and panicked, and it is easy to have an opportunity to shine and show their abilities, how can they let it go? So he pulled Shen Zhan and didn't let go, from clothing to speech, he sprinkled dozens of volumes of content, and when he talked in Shen Zhan's study, he didn't breathe for two or three hours, and he was older than the two of them, and he had gone through two or three generations of emperors, Shen Zhan didn't dare to offend, so he had to sit down as a good student, hide the unhappiness in his heart, and listen respectfully. If it weren't for the queen's father, Prime Minister Song Cheng, to reconcile with it, Shen Zhan might not even be able to sleep.

Finally came to the first day of the first month of the first month of the sacrificial day, when the sky was still dark and linen, Shen Zhan got up, and began to fast three days before the sacrifice, and on the first day, he could not eat anything except tea, let alone have the joy of men and women, and he had to keep his body and mind clean and quiet. After getting up, he bathed in wormwood fumigation, calmed down, wore a red crown, and wore a large red gauze robe embroidered with the sun, moon, stars, mountains and rivers made of mink wool, and wore a crown of Tongtian with twenty-four hairpins and jade hairpins adorned with curly beams, a white Luo square heart curved collar drooped down the neck, a dragon-shaped belt inlaid with red treasure gold and jade at the waist, white socks and black stalks on the feet, and a ribbon carved with the mountains and rivers of the Great History. The collar, sleeves, placket, and skirt of the gauze robe inside are all dark blue, and the top is embroidered with gold thread with Zhai pattern, twelve chapter patterns, and coiled dragon patterns. There are a total of 9981 five-clawed golden dragons in the dragon pattern, each dragon has a different shape, in addition to the traditional dragon, cloud dragon, there are also group dragons, positive dragons, sitting dragons, ascending dragons, descending dragons, soaring in the gauze robes everywhere, lifelike. Shen Zhan wore such a sacrificial dress, describing as respectful, the young emperor has gradually begun to show his might, many ministers are in tears, grateful to God for the great love of the calendar, praying that Shen Zhan will be a diligent and loving people, benevolent and friendly people.

The sacrifice is important to the noble quality, and it also requires "no counting" and "not sparse", and advocates "respect" and "noble sincerity". That is to say, the sacrificial proposition should have a sincere and respectful attitude, the sacrificial place and the utensils used advocate simplicity, and the soup offered by the sacrifice is not materialized, and the sacrificial gui is not carved. At the same time, because the sacrifice to the heavens and the earth are carried out at the same time, the procedure of the sacrifice is more solemn and cumbersome. Shen Zhan in accordance with the requirements of the Taichang Temple and its ceremonial officials, greeted the gods, laid the jade silk, entered the ceremony, performed the gift, looked at the fire, offered sacrifices and jade silk, and went down a procedure, from the dawn to the sky slightly darkened, Shen Zhan was dizzy, and felt that he had lost a lot of weight. Fortunately, with the ministers standing with him, Shen Zhan's heart was also balanced a lot. I was also surprised, I don't know how my father's body survived last year's sacrifice, maybe for the emperor's reputation, and what kind of drugs were taken immediately, otherwise I wouldn't have weakened quickly after the sacrifice, and I was caught off guard, so that some people didn't have time to use any arrangement. Thinking of this, Shen Zhan couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips, and his mood was a little better. In the eyes of the uninformed minister, he felt that this young emperor was better than the old emperor, and he was not the slightest impatient with such a cumbersome procedure, and it seemed that he was a master who was easy to serve.

Finally, after the sacrifice was completed, Shen Zhan also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, today's weather is also very clear, the sky is blue, and the warm day is empty, but there is a good sign. I hope that this year will really be smooth and the country will be safe.

After the ceremony was over, Shen Zhan returned to Taiyuan Palace, and finally had a good meal and rested. And because he didn't have to go to court because he sealed the pen, he slept until the afternoon of the second day, and Shen Zhan felt that he had come back to his senses at this time, so he got up unhurriedly, finished washing, and staggered to Song Mier's Xuande Palace.

When Shen Zhan saw Song Mier, she was sitting in the courtyard admiring the snow. Because the sacrificial ladies did not have to participate, Song Mier did not suffer like Shen Zhan, he stayed with the queen mother for a day yesterday, and patiently suffered from the concubine's morning reflection and fainting on the first day of the new year, and there was no activity on the second day of the new year, and there was a day of his own time, and he was finally relieved. It snowed all night last night, and I got up this morning, but it was a sunny day, and the sun shone on people's hearts, so I ordered Qing and Yulan to move a few small ones, burned amber lotus branches and incense, put more than a dozen kinds of snacks and snacks, and made Zhu Lu play the piano on the side, Chukong burned silver silk carbon beside him, and the charcoal fire and spices smoked Song Mier leisurely, and the whole person was buried in the white bear skin, squinted at the snow for a while, and looked at the various plum blossoms not far away, and there were beautiful beauties of different colors around him, Song Mier felt very comfortable, A plain little face was very beautiful, and with some laziness that he had never had before, it made the four maids around him and someone in the tree look stupid.