A.D. 624 (the seventh year of Tang Gaozu Wude) on the twenty-third day of the first month (lunar calendar, the same below). Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan).

The eve of dawn.

Although it is early spring, winter seems to be unwilling to hand over power and withdraw from the stage of time and space.

Snow, extra-large! Dense, goose-feather snowflakes flying all over the sky, wrapping the earth tightly and expansively!

Wind, Trey! One after another, like thousands of angry lions, roaring and roaring! Ragingly rolling up the snow floc, stirring up chaos in the world!

In the past, the Jialing River, which passed around the city, sang and laughed, and raged waves, is now frozen and snow-locked, silent, like a girl with ice muscles and jade skin, bending her jade body, and sleeping quietly on the land of Bashu!

Lizhou, the ancient capital of the ancestors in the Neolithic Age in 8000, the Yinhou State in the Xia and Shang periods and the Tho Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, has never encountered such a strong wind so far! Such a big snow! Such a bitter cold night!

Except for the wind and snow dance, there is silence!

In the night sky, "Bang! Nation! Bang ······" There is only the sound of regular reporting and a thick northern Sichuan accent, "Fire prevention and anti-theft!" Watch out for the candles! It sounded in the night sky, and it was instantly swept away and swallowed up by the roar!

In the dead silence of Lizhou, there is no candlelight, only the governor's mansion is brightly lit!

In the lobby of the Governor's Palace, orange candlelight flickered in the wind.

On the wall at the head of the lobby, there is a crimson shrine, and in the shrine, there is a gilded statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva: solemn and kind!

In front of the shrine is a long table of incense with a shiny black oil.

In front of the incense case, there is a middle-aged woman in her early forties, with her hair in a bun, her eyes slightly closed, her face pious, her left hand alone on her chest, her right hand holding a small wooden hammer, rhythmically knocking on the wooden fish, chanting sutras and chanting Buddha.

She is Yang Shu, the hostess of the governor's mansion (this woman is nameless in the history books, so she is named "Shu" in order to distinguish her from the other Yang family in this book).

Yang Shu looks much younger than her actual age! Judging from her heart-pounding charm, it is conceivable that when she was in her cardamom years, she must have been as cool as Guanyin!

After Yang Shu finished reciting the scriptures, she got up and burned incense, only then did she see that she was pregnant with Liujia and had a big belly.

After she inserted the lit cigarette-filled sandalwood into the incense burner, the car turned around and came to the pu yin, knelt on the pu tong with difficulty, and kowtowed three times reverently! Struggle to get up again!

Because Yang Shu repeatedly emphasized that when she prayed, worshipped the Buddha, chanted scriptures, and worshipped, others should not disturb and help, so Yang's mother, who was waiting on the side, came over to help and supported the hostess Yang Shu to walk with her steps.

Yang's mother is about fifty years old, but her appearance is old, she is a maid brought by Yang Shu from her mother's family when she got married, although she is a maid, but Yang Shu has always regarded her as a sister.

"It's time to sleep, ma'am, your body is in good hands." Mother Yang said with concern.

"I'll take a look at the back later." Yang Shu came to the back room on the west side.

There are two boys sleeping on the beds in the room, these are her stepsons Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang.

Although the wind and snow outside the house were tight, the two boys seemed to be made of fire, or there was a prosperous charcoal fire in the room, and the two boys still exposed their upper bodies outside the futon.

Yang Shu and Mother Yang served one by one, and carefully covered the bedding for them.

Mother Yang praised sincerely: "Madame has such a good heart, and she has always regarded them as her own!" ”

Yang Shu smiled bitterly: "What's the way, it's always easy for the biological mother to be a good one, but it's difficult to be a stepmother." ”

The two then walked into the back room on the east side, where a young woman sat on the bed, her face showing a peculiar toning, and at this moment, in her arms was a young girl, who was greedily sucking milk.

"Why did you wake up?" Yang Shu asked.

"The baby wakes up and wants to feed." The nurse is a local, called a sister.

My sister was born in a scholarly family, she is the youngest daughter in the family, and when she gets married, she is still called so: My sister.

The younger sister is Yang Shu's husband, the samurai "get" (the original character for "get" is an ancient traditional Chinese character: the top is a combination of the word "艹", the left side is "Xun", and the right side is "隻")—brought from the place.

When a samurai was inspected a certain prefecture, it was very speculative to talk to the chief bookkeeper of the prefecture (who was in charge of clerical work and bookkeeping).

Although it is a "master book" from the nine grades, the low-level low-level officials are all required to be held by the Tang Dynasty's official system, although the official rank is low, but if there is a recommendation, you can also be promoted, and even enter the court to be a Lang official, the imperial history or something, or released to do the history of assassination, most of the high-level civil officials in the Tang Dynasty have served in this position at the grassroots level.

After obtaining the consent of his in-laws, the county master recommended his daughter Yuyu to be a wet nurse to Chief Wu.

In order to reunite the husband and wife, Chief Wu invited her husband Yang Di into the governor's mansion at his own expense and served as the head of the house.

Yang Shu approached her sister, looked at her firstborn daughter Zhao Di (this girl is unknown in the history books), and smiled with satisfaction.

Before leaving, Yang Shu admonished: "Wait for the child to finish feeding, rest early." ”

"Yes," replied the younger sister, "Madame is fine." ”

Mother Yang helped Yang Shu into the front room on the east side: this is the main room where Yang Shu and his wife live.

Mother Yang leaned over and blew up the carbon fire in the basin.

"Mother Yang, don't worry about it, you go back to your room early to rest."

"How can this work, madam, you are about to give birth!"

"It's not so early."

"Early, early, don't leave early, don't leave late, the master in charge just walks at this juncture, it's true." Mother Yang complained.

"He went to the Sword Pavilion to do business. He's only known about business trips, business trips, business trips all his life! Yang Shu said this, I don't know whether it was praise or disgust.

Mother Yang wanted to lay a futon for Yang Shu, but Yang Shu gently pushed out the door: "Let's go, you have worked hard, go to bed early!" Alas, it's so late. ”

Mother Yang turned around and said, "Madam, you must call me if you have something." ”

Yang Shu spoke lightly: "I am a big living person, and I am not the first child, I will take care of myself." ”

After Yang's mother left, Yang Shu spread the mattress and stripped into the quilt, she stroked her high bulging belly, and calculated in her heart that she might be about to give birth.

She is no longer a first-time mother, she gave birth to a daughter in her first child, and in order to give birth to a son, she named this daughter "Zhaodi", hoping that she would recruit a younger brother.

No, I'm pregnant again!

She thinks that this second child is different from the first child!

When she was pregnant with her first child, she reacted strongly to pregnancy, often vomited, and in the first month or two before giving birth, her abdomen often felt painfully pushed and scratched by the fetus in her arms!

But this fetus seems to take special care of her: she has neither vomited nor pained once!

This made her a little uneasy!

She looked at the top of the bed in a daze, and the abnormality in her belly couldn't help but remind her of the equally abnormal dragon boat race during the Dragon Boat Festival last year······

In 623 (the sixth year of Tang Gaozu Wude), the fifth day of the fifth month.

Lizhou ushered in an unprecedented dragon boat race!

In order to expand the scale, increase the excitement and festivities, and unite the people of all ethnic groups, the samurai of the governor of Lizhou was privately funded to create a pure gold trophy: the Lizhou Feizhou Cup. The base is the cross-sectional shape of the dragon boat, engraved with the words "Lizhou Flying Boat", and the drummers, oarsmen, and helmsmen on the boat are all heroic!

As early as February this year, the samurai in charge of Lizhou was informed to all counties that they should organize and train dragon boat teams, gather in Jinlongtan during the Dragon Boat Festival, compete with each other, win the championship in dragon races, and compete for the "Lizhou Flying Boat" Cup!

[The "general management" of the Tang Dynasty is divided into two categories. The first category is the "general manager" of the purely military "road" (equivalent to the current military region) or the "marching road" (equivalent to the front army), sometimes called the "general manager", which is equivalent to the current commander of the military region and the commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of the front army, respectively. The other type is the "governor" (later renamed the governor or metropolitan governor) of the local "state", who is in charge of the military and political affairs of the state and the neighboring states, mainly military; If the state has a "history of assassination", it is in charge of military affairs. In terms of administrative level, the "Assassin History" is theoretically equivalent to the current "provincial governor", but its jurisdiction area is smaller than that of the current "provincial governor". At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the region was divided into prefectures and counties, and there were 358 prefectures and 1,551 counties in the country. According to the number of people in each state and county and whether it is important or not, the "state" is divided into seven categories at most: auxiliary, male, wang, tight, upper (more than 30,000 households), middle (more than 20,000 households), and lower (less than 20,000 households); “

The "prefectures" are divided into Jing (Chi), Ki (Wang), Shang (more than 5,000 households), Zhong (more than 2,000 households), Middle and Lower (more than 1,000 households), and Xia (less than 1,000 households) levels. The prefecture near Kyoto is Fushu, the prefecture where Kyoto is located is Kyoto (Chi) Prefecture, and the prefecture next to Kyoto is Ki (Wang) Prefecture. Later, a "province" or "prefecture" was set up on the "state", and the whole country was divided into ten provinces. Since Tang Xuanzong, the state was changed to a county, the history of the assassin was renamed Taishou, and the governor was renamed the Jiedu envoy. In addition to the history of the state-level leaders, there are also other drivers, long history, and Sima (the middle and lower states do not have other drivers) in order of position. In the case of the royal prince or the absence of personnel, the latter of the throne shall act as the state affairs. In addition, there are 1 person each of the seven Cao who joined the army, including Si Gong, Si Cang, Si Hu, Si Tian, Si Bing, Justice, and Si Tu, who were in charge of the affairs of the Division. The magistrates of the county, regardless of size, are collectively referred to as "orders", and the adjutants include the county officials, the chief officer, the county lieutenant, etc., and there are also seven cao adjutants, which are set up corresponding to the seven cao of the state capital. 】

Jinlongtan is located in the west of Lizhou City, is the Jialing River around the foot of the West Mountain to form a large river bay, the river surface is wide, the water flow is gentle, the water is blue and the river is deep, it is a good place for dragon boat athletes to show their skills!

At the foot of the river, there is a vast flat hill, green grass, and green trees, which is a natural audience platform.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Lizhou is empty of thousands of people!

Dragon boat teams from all over the state have gathered on the Golden Dragon Pond!

People from all directions gather at the foot of the West Mountain!

Before the game started, the drums were already beating on the river, and there was already singing and laughing on the shore! The scene is spectacular!

This is a grand event of unity of the people of all ethnic groups in Lizhou! The people of Han, Tibetan, Qiang, Lisu, Tujia, Yao, and Shan ethnic groups gathered together and talked to each other, like water and milk!

It's a fancy show! People of all ethnic groups wear their own unique costumes, shuttling back and forth, like a flowing color, gorgeous!

This is a song and dance competition with different styles! The people of all ethnic groups sang their own folk songs to their heart's content, danced their own dances unrestrainedly, and gathered on the banks of the Jialing River!

Lizhou, people are beautiful! Yamamei! Water beauty!

The sky is more beautiful! The dazzling golden light of the Buddha, and the dazzling and colorful auspicious clouds, shrouded in the sky over Lizhou!

So, the gongs and drums are noisy! The crowd is excited! Mountains and tsunamis! Sonic Boom!

An official ship, with oars and oars, sailed into the Golden Dragon Pond: the chief warrior was taken by his family and led his subordinates Bei Jia, Changshi, Sima and Si Gong, Si Cang, Si Hu, Justice, Si Bing, Si Tian and other Cao to join the army and come to the arena.

[Officials such as Beijia, Changshi, and Sima are basically state-level bureaucrats (such officials are also set up in the Metropolitan Protectorate and Dadu Protectorate), called Shangzuoguan, and they are idle officials placed by the imperial court according to their high quality and wealth, and they have no authority. However, if the governor (later the governor, the assassin, and the metropolitan governor) is short of personnel, the adjutant can act as the governor (or the metropolitan protector or the metropolitan governor). "Joining the army" originally meant the abbreviation of military staff officers, but it was later extended to refer to the person responsible for handling a specific matter. Si Gong joins the army and is responsible for officials, examinations, sacrifices, ceremonies, schools, elections, appearances, medical examinations, examinations, funerals, etc.; Sicang is in charge of the warehouse; The household is in charge of household registration and taxation when he joins the army; Judicial participation in the military is in charge of criminal law; The division soldiers join the army and are in charge of military affairs, which is equivalent to the current minister of the people's armed forces; Sida joined the army and was responsible for the planning and distribution of garden houses and land. 】

Standing on the bow of the ship was the chief samurai, and I saw that he was a burly man, with a dark and translucent face in the shape of a national character, thick eyebrows, and a blazing gaze! A typical northern man!

At this moment, he was smiling, and his hands were waving to both sides of the strait!

"Chief Wu, you have to get it!"

"Chief Wu, you have to get it!"

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The cheers rang out one after another, resounding on both sides of the strait!

In their most simple, simplest and loudest language, the people of Lizhou expressed their heartfelt support and deep love for the samurai to win this parent official and a pro-people official!

Chief Wu hurriedly clasped his hands into fists, bowed forward, and kept thanking the people on both sides of the strait!

The official ship sailed into the water directly north of the arena and stopped, like a rostrum set up there.

Mr. Wu used a macro voice and a half-baked Bashu dialect to address the competition——

"Dear fathers, fellow villagers, brothers and sisters,

Today, we are holding the dragon boat race here, which is aimed at enhancing the friendship of the people of all ethnic groups in our state, stimulating the fighting spirit of athletes of all ethnic groups in our state, developing the economy of our state, and improving the living standards of the people! ”

Warm applause rang out from both sides of the strait!

"In this dragon boat race, the winner of the first place will receive this trophy." Mr. Wu held the trophy high and raised it towards both sides of the strait, "and engrave the name of their township or village on the trophy, keep it for one year, and hand it over to the organizing committee to compete again next year!" The purpose is to promote the fighting spirit of the people of all ethnic groups in our state, to be vigorous and vigorous! You say, this trophy flow is going to be necessary?! ”

"Gotta get it!" The crowd shouted.

"For those who won the trophy, I not only presented them with awards, but I also invited them to be guests of honor and eat spicy hot pot!" Mr. Wu said seriously.

Everyone laughed!

"Okay, now the game begins! I hope the dragon boat athletes will be strong! Rise up! Rise again! ”

As soon as Chief Wu's words fell, the master of ceremonies lit a long firecracker hanging above the bow of the ship!

Drums beat! Paddle and chop the waves! Dragon boats, like off-string arrows, stop the waves and fly in!

"XX Township, Rise Up!"

"XX Village, Rise Up!"

"XX Village, rise up!"

People watching the race on both sides of the strait are cheering for their dragon boat teams!

The dragon boat race is in full swing, and people are in high spirits······

Suddenly, a golden dragon jumped out of the river, brought up a column of water, and rushed into the air!

The drums and shouts stopped abruptly: people were scared and fainted!

The people on the official ship are no exception!

The golden dragon circled around the air three times, as if looking for some target, and when it locked onto the target, it went straight to the official ship!

Yang Mei, who was also frightened and fainted, felt a kind of rubbing itch all over her body······ It makes her lustful!

By the time people woke up, the golden dragon had already flown to the West Mountain!

At the end of the month, Yang Shu calculated that the day of menstruation did not come, and the next month did not come, she couldn't help but be happy in her heart: she had a secret knot again!

Of course, she thought it was the result of her union with the samurai.

[But Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty who wrote famous sentences such as "The sunset is infinitely good, but it is just near dusk", "It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, the east wind is powerless and a hundred flowers are left", "The spring silkworm is dead, and the candle is gray and tears begin to dry", "The body has no colorful phoenix wings, and the heart has a little understanding" and other famous sentences such as "Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, does not think so.

In 851 A.D., when he went to Zizhou with Liu Zhongying to be the shogunate, he passed by Lizhou Jinlongtan, and thought that Wu Zetian was born here, so he was moved and wrote a poem "Lizhou Jiangtan as a Pregnant Golden Wheel".

Golden Wheel: Refers to Wu Zetian. In the second year of Ruyi, the title of Emperor of the Holy Spirit of the Golden Wheel was added. "Feeling the Golden Wheel Institute", which means that "the Golden Dragon Pond is the place where (Wu Zetian) mother and the Dragon Pregnant Golden Wheel Emperor." ”

In order to commemorate Wu Zetian, the lake and pond of this dragon boat race are called Jinlong Pond, and the west mountain where the golden dragon flies is named Jinlong Mountain. 】