Chapter 68: The Ritual of Sacrifice

Before dawn, before the noon gate, the civil and military officials had already begun to line up, Feng Liangbi had his hands behind his back, wearing an official uniform, and a mink coat wrapped around him, followed by Hu Zhongjie, the secretary of the ministry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Hu Zhongjie is a wall grass, he has been hovering between King Ande and King Kang for the past few years, he is a villain, but he is a cautious villain.

As a secretary of the ministry, Hu Zhongjie is a clean official, not because he is not greedy, but because he does not dare to be greedy, he would rather live a poor life than ruin his life. If you want to say which of the six Shangshu is the least courageous and the most elegant, that person must be this Hu Zhongjie, he is different from others. Feng Liangbi, Hu Zhenyuan, and Tang Lu, these three people are all from a family, and they are also family descendants, and he Hu Zhongjie was originally just a handyman in the household department. It is now equivalent to a lowest-level civil servant in BJ City, when Shen Daoquan hit the capital, he was the most speculative, and he was the first to rush out of the city and lead the way for Shen Daoquan.

Later, he compiled the household registration of the people in his entire jurisdiction and handed it to Shen Daoquan's father, Taizu was also very pleased at that time, and asked him to be responsible for checking the population in the capital, and even named him a servant of the Ministry on the spot. His start can be described as a sword, and it all came too easily. He is not very capable and does not read much, but his only virtue is that he is good at flattery, stammering, and completely following good advice. Sun Hong, the chief servant of his ministry, is a person from King Ande, but Hu Zhongjie knows that this person is extremely capable, so he still reuses it, but once he has something that he is not sure about, he still has to inform King Kang, King Kang is friendly, and when the official department comes to him, he can naturally give advice.

The relationship between Feng Liangbi and Hu Zhongjie is not good, but it is not bad, but Feng Liangbi is really annoyed by Hu Zhongjie's flattery.

"Lao Hu, I'll rest first, I didn't sleep well last night, I'll find a leeward place to squint for a while." After Feng Liangbi finished speaking, Hu Zhongjie was closer to him.

"Prime Minister Feng, give me some letters, did the Long Live Lord draw up the "Juntian Order" yesterday, right? Alas, Prime Minister Feng, don't you sleep? Tell me about it. Hu Zhongjie looked at Prime Minister Feng Cheng, who was squinting and leaning against the corner of the wall, but there was no way.

But when Hu Zhongjie was about to leave in frustration, Feng Liangbi saw Hu Zhongjie's helpless look, but he couldn't help but remind, "Alas, the policy of Juntian is not to suffer from widowhood, but to suffer from unevenness!" ”

"Shift! ~"Gonggong Li came from the palace with a long tone, and one by one the guards put the sound on the square outside the main hall, and after the civil and military officials heard the voice, they immediately found a place to stand very quickly, and then saw Shen Dao wearing a dragon robe all over his body, and walked out of the Taihe Hall very solemnly.

Feng Liangbi, King Kang, King Ande, and Shen Xiao took hundreds of civil and military officials and Hu Cong to line up on both sides, and Concubine Mei and Concubine Lan led the internal and external women, followed behind. The procession of civil and military officials stretched for several miles, accompanied by envoys and chieftains from Turkic, Khotanese, Persia, Cheonzhu, Wa, Silla, Baekje, and Goryeo.

These people gathered in the square, and the Qin Tianjian was in the square mound-shaped altar, decorated with five colors of earth, five grains, and sacrifices symbolizing the five elements. This altar, five zhang wide, nine feet high, out of the majesty on all sides, Shen Daoquan walked from the main hall to the altar, it took nearly an hour.

The Spring Festival in the palace generally starts from the 23rd day of the lunar month and ends around the 20th day of the first month. Although the emperor's family has a specific set of rituals and pomp for the New Year, the purpose is the same as that of the common people, and the New Year's picture is also reunion, festive and auspicious. However, this year, the "Juntian Order" will be announced, so this ceremony will be extremely grand.

Shen Daoquan, who was born as a military general, was still majestic even though he was wearing a yellow robe, stood on it, and read aloud: The holy king is above, and the people are not hungry, they can not plow and eat, and weave and cloth, in order to open up their wealth. Therefore, Yao and Yu have nine years of water, and Tang has seven years of drought, and those who donate barren people to the death of the country have a lot of livestock and prepare for the first thing. Now the sea is one, the people of the land do not avoid the soup and Yu, and the floods and droughts that have been destroyed for several years, and the livestock have not been reached, why not? The land has a legacy, the people have surplus strength, the land of the valley has not been fully cultivated, the benefits of the mountains have not been exhausted, the people who have eaten have not returned to the farm, the flow of annexation is as fat as a mouse, and the people are poor, hungry and weak.

If the people are poor, they will be evil. Poverty is born from insufficiency, lack is born from non-farming, non-farming is not land, and if not land, it is leaving the hometown and light-hearted, and the people are like birds and beasts. Although there are high cities and deep pools, strict laws and heavy punishments, it is still impossible to prohibit it. The husband is cold in clothes, not to be warm; Hunger is for food, not for willingness; Hungry and cold, regardless of shame. If people don't eat for a day, they will be hungry, and if they don't make clothes all year round, they will be cold. The husband is hungry and cannot eat, and his skin is cold and he cannot be clothed, although a loving mother cannot protect his son, can Jun'an have his people? I know that it is true, so the people are in agriculture and mulberry, thin endowment, extensive livestock accumulation, with real warehouses, prepare for water and drought, and inhibit mergers, so the people have land to cultivate, and hide wealth from the people.

The people, in the upper so pastoral, seek profit like water and go down, and there is no choice in all directions. Husbands, pearls, jade, gold and silver, hunger and cold, but the nobles, the above is also used. It is a slight and easy thing to hide, and it is grasped that it can be around the sea without hunger and cold. This order is that the ministers turn their backs on their masters, and the people are easy to go to their hometowns, and the thieves are persuaded, and the fugitives are lightly paid. Corn cloth is born in the ground, grows in time, gathers strength, and can not be made in a day. The weight of several stones, the middle man wins, and is not benefited by treachery; One day of devotion and hunger and cold. It is the reason why the Ming monarch is noble and the gold and jade are cheap.

Looking at Longxi today, the farmer's family of five is no less than two slaves with three surnames, and the cultivators who can cultivate it are no more than 100 acres, and the harvest of 100 acres is not more than 100 stones. Spring ploughing, summer ploughing, autumn harvesting, winter hiding, cutting salaries, magistrates' offices, and servitude; Spring shall not shelter from wind and dust, summer shall not avoid heat, autumn shall not avoid rain, winter shall not shelter from cold and freezing, between four o'clock, there is no day off.

and privately sent to usher, hanged to ask about the disease, and raised orphans and children in it. Diligence is so, and it is still plagued by floods and droughts, and the gate valve is exploited and tyrannical, and the endowment is not allowed from time to time, and the order is changed at dusk. When those who have half a Jia are sold, those who do not take the interest of double the scale; So there are those who sell their fields and houses, and their children and grandchildren to pay off their debts.

The landlords in Longxi have accumulated 10,000 acres of land, and the small ones exploit the small people. Therefore, the three surnames of Longxi are not cultivated, women are not silkworm weaving, clothes must be literary and colorful, and food must be meat; There is no suffering of poor farmers, but there are strange gains. Because of its wealth, the princes of transportation, the power of the officials, and the benefits of each other; Thousands of miles of travel, the crown and cover each other, take the strong strategy, and drag the silk.

This wealthy family annexed the peasants, and the peasants were exiles. The promulgation of the Juntian Order today to restrict mergers is for the sake of people's livelihood.

The task of the present is not to make the people farm. If you want the people to farm, you want to enrich the people; The way to enrich the people lies in making the people have land to cultivate. Today's "Juntian Order" lies in the average land rights, the so-called loss of more than enough, make up for the shortage, and let out the people and benefit the people. Obey the will of the people, and make up for the three: one is that the Lord uses enough, the second is that the people are less, and the third is to persuade farmers. In this way, Deze is added to all the people, and the people are diligent and nong. There is military service from time to time, and if there is a flood or drought, the people will not be poor, and the world will be peaceful; If the age is beautiful, the people will be rich.

After Shen Daoquan finished reading the civil and military officials, he immediately knelt down and shouted, "Emperor Shengming, may my emperor live long live, long live, long live!" Li Xiaoyu followed the group of women behind Concubine Mei, listening to the policies promulgated by Shen Daoquan, but it was somewhat similar to the previous life, the history textbook talked about the land reform of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Li Xiaoyu watched Shen Daoquan finish reading the edict, but he thought in his heart, "As soon as this Juntian order came out, it was indeed in line with the will of heaven and the people, but the imperial court offended almost all the landlord classes in the country at once, and in this country dominated by the natural economy, the land is the lifeblood of the people, are those landlords willing to hand over their land?" Not far from her, standing was Feng Jin'er, the emperor said the Juntian Order, Feng Jin'er didn't listen to it at all, she just kept staring at Li Xiaoyu who was deep in thought, and concluded that Li Xiaoyu was thinking about seducing King Ande again, and she couldn't wait to eat Li Xiaoyu in one bite.

Among the hundred officials below, three princes accompanied the emperor, but the three of them were in different states. For King Kang, this court dress is far less warm than the fur clothes worn by King Kang on weekdays, and he is cold and weak, so he can't help but shrink his neck from the cold, which is in stark contrast to Shen Xiao, who is only wearing a thin leather armor and is still energetic. However, Shen Zhong was standing on the far right, and he also fell into a state of meditation.

After listening to the emperor's edict, Hu Zhongjie couldn't help but think about it in his heart again, whether he would sell the hundreds of acres of land that his wife bought in the suburbs of Beijing after returning home, and set an example for the civil and military officials to show loyalty to the emperor. Lei Shaohui, who was in the Hanlin Academy in the distance, showed an unconcealable joy on his face.