At the same time, the mother of a country wore the most noble female queen crown dress (Zhai Yi), wearing the "Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns", the Ming Yizong spouse Empress Zhou: Zhou Yufeng, and wearing Zhai clothes, wearing the "Twelve Dragons and Nine Phoenix Fighting Crowns", the empress of the former emperor Ming Xizong Tianqizhe Emperor, the current Empress Dowager of Ming Yi'an: Zhang Yan, also came to the main hall to sit, the tributary delegation and the civil and military officials knelt down and saluted together, "Ministers, see My Majesty, see the Queen Mother, see the Queen Mother, may the prosperous and prosperous Ming Dynasty be immortal.... ”

After the ceremony, it was first presented by the Ryukyu delegation wearing green robes and square hats. 200 strings of pearls from the East China Sea and 30 jadeite-inlaid gold and jade bracelets.

In Annan, who was wearing a pink round-necked python robe and a long-winged hat, the envoy of the Mo Dynasty made an audience and offered it; Forty jars of jackfruit, 400 rhinoceros skins from Annam, and fifty white jade glass cups, followed by an audience by the delegation of the Bottom Vulat Propaganda Division, wearing a gold-inlaid colored robe and a golden black gauze hat; Sixty ivory jade cups, seventy carved wood and gold leaf treasure elephants, and finally the Luzon Governor's Mansion delegation wearing a round-necked red robe and a gauze hat and wings on their heads were presented to the audience; Luzon coconut two stones, green agate pendant 100 strings.

After seeing the tribute offered by the four tributary envoys, this made Ming Yizong very happy, and he was very happy, and immediately praised him: "The Zhongqing family sent people from thousands of miles to pay tribute, I am very pleased, and I also asked the Zhongqing family to live in Beijing for a few more days, and Wang Chengen passed on my will to arrange a residence for the tributary envoys to live." According to the custom of previous years, each tributary envoy was given an extra 200 taels of silver and 30 taels of gold. also allocated some materials from the household department to the tributary envoys, which can be regarded as paying special attention to the subject countries, and in this way, the tributary ceremony basically ended.

But the sudden arrival of the Diwura delegation made Ming Yizong feel a little bad? didn't think much about it but treated each other politely, and then Ming Yizong ordered each of the civil and military officials to give one (spring cake) and announced the start of the banquet.

At this time, the flag-bearers on both sides of the main hall began to blow the drum horn, and after a while, a team of court dancers wearing gorgeous scarves and dance clothes walked to the front of the left door, and Ming Yizong, who was sitting in the middle of the Imperial Palace, came to the missionary workshop divisions, and the Mingjiao Fang Si Zuo Shao Dance, who was wearing a crown dress and round collar, led the court dancers to dance the Three Kingdoms period of the Eastern Wu Kingdom (white dance) to cheer up the civil and military officials, next to the Mingjiao Fang Si Zuo Si Le: Luo Lirong, Ming Jiao Fang Si Right Si Le: Wen Huiying, is responsible for playing the guzheng and knocking on the strings on the side.

The ministers inside and outside the hall sat at the imperial table for dinner, and Ming Yizong was very happy and toasted and said: "You Aiqing have a rare gathering today, let's not talk about state affairs, just eat and drink, and pass on my will, all the ministers, civil and military officials, except for important official business, the rest of the personnel are allowed to take a three-day vacation." ”

After the ministers got this order, they were very happy, and hurriedly raised their glasses to toast His Majesty the Emperor with a glass of wine, and sat down to enjoy the beautiful court dance while tasting delicious food, and the tributary envoys also toasted with the ministers one after another, only the Empress of Ming Zhou, who was sitting under the dragon throne, was still worried about the entire Ming Empire, she coughed after drinking two glasses of wine, and got up and said to her husband Ming Yizong next to her, "Your Majesty, the concubine is not very drunk!" I would like to ask for your return to the palace, please forgive me! ”

When Ming Yizong, who was on the rise, heard this, he waved his hand to let Empress Ming Zhou retreat, which made Empress Ming Yi'an, who was next to Feng Jia, see this, and also got up to say goodbye to Ming Yizong and returned to Renshou Palace.

Only Ming Yizong and the ministers in the main hall were left to drink happily, and the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, who was sitting on the front table in the main hall and wearing a crown and a crown embroidered with four dragons: Zhu Cihong, and the third prince of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Dingai: Zhu Cijiong, the fourth prince of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Yongmourning: Zhu Cijiong, and the fifth prince of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Mourning: Zhu Cihuan, these four princes wearing the crown of the prince and the crown also toasted with the ministers.

About a stick of incense after the kung fu Ming Taichang Temple: Zhang Guangxuan, hurriedly sent someone to the palace to inform the Ming Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi Eunuch asked him to pass the word to Ming Yizong, he was drinking energetically and was suddenly reported by the Ming Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi Eunuch "Your Majesty, Taichang Temple is all ready, do you want to leave to fast and bathe?" As soon as he said this, Ming Yizong remembered that today was the first month of winter, so he announced to the ministers that he would retire first, and the four princes and the first assistant of the Ming cabinet: Wei Zaode, continued to greet the civil and military officials and tributary envoys.

The next day, in the Baihua Teahouse in Fushan County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province, a group of opera troupes who can sing Qin dialect are singing "The Legend of the White Snake", and the people on the stage are pulling the erhu and beating the gong dubbing, and after a while, they saw Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen with their faces, and the two walked out to listen to the content of the duet, and the audience clapped their hands and shouted, "Okay, sing well!" And the shopkeeper kept walking around to help people add tea.

At this moment, Wu Junzhen and the three of them, sitting at the corner of the second floor, were watching this play with watermelon seeds, Liu Ruilin and Ma Wei were quite fascinated, clapping their hands and praising the play well, while Wu Junzhen turned his head from time to time to look at the medical hall opposite, and looked at the Jinyi guards who were wearing Confucian clothes and ambushing all around, he thought; I've been waiting so long for it to show up yet!

It happened that the shopkeeper came up and poured tea and asked, "Do you want a bowl of dumplings from a few guest officers?" Our dumplings are famous for ten miles, do you want to try them? As soon as the greedy Ma Wei heard that there were dumplings, he immediately said, "Three bowls!" The shopkeeper ran down with a smile.

At this time, the streets are also very lively, in the empty market mouth six long strings of firecrackers are lit with bamboo propped up, crackling explosions to herald the safety of the New Year beasts, women and children with red windmills, some holding small red lanterns to walk around.

A young woman wearing a blue "bijia" with a high bun and a golden hairpin in her hair walked in the crowd and looked around at the high pavilion from time to time, when suddenly a team of people from the government ran over from the street, the young woman hurriedly hid to the side and lowered her head, and the third class of officials ran straight to the entrance of the market street and began to clean up the people on both sides?

I saw the head catcher of Mingfu Mountain wearing a phoenix tail hat in front of him: Zhang Zhushan, and said, "Let me, let me let me, come here!" Sweep away all these people, and hear that no pedestrian is allowed to hear them on this street? ”

This scene happened to be accidentally discovered by Wu Junzhen, who was eating dumplings, when he looked up, he patted Liu Ruilin on the shoulder and said, "Brother Liu, do you see the situation?" ”

At this time, Liu Ruilin, who hurriedly swallowed a dumpling, turned around and looked at the window, and saw that there were officials and officials who were driving away the people? What did this suddenly remind him of? He hurriedly pulled Wu Junzhen's sleeve and said, "Come with me!" ”

Ma Wei, who was fascinated by the play, didn't seem to know that the two of them had walked away, and Wu Junzhen, who was pulled on his sleeve, asked, "Brother Liu, where are we going?" As soon as the words fell, the two people who came downstairs saw four officials carrying a sedan chair coming this way? The thirty soldiers accompanying him on both sides walked over majestically with swords, and Wu Junzhen took a closer look at the direction they were traveling, as if it was the entrance of the street on the east side?

The people who were driven out whispered: "You said that this year, our county governor is going to Ningshanwei in Zezhou to worship?" Instead of going to Linfen County, the capital of Pingyang Prefecture, to worship? "Hear the people who came over mention the word (sacrifice)? Wu Junzhen looked at Liu Ruilin and asked, "Brother Liu, is this the purpose you brought me out?" ”

I saw Liu Ruilin pin his hands in front of his chest and said: "As far as I know, the imperial court has to sacrifice every year, from the capital to the state capitals and counties, as well as the capital guards, Brother Wu, since you are a general of the Ming Dynasty, it stands to reason that you should also participate in this sacrifice ceremony, right?" Hearing this, Wu Junzhen felt reasonable, after all, there were sacrifices in the first month of the Song Empire, and it was impossible for the seriously injured suspect to appear for a while, so he had better abide by the rules of the imperial court!

The two of them wanted to call Ma Wei to participate together, but the officials on the street were driving out the people, and they had already cleaned up to their side, and there were too many people, which caused a very crowded image, so they could only go to the two of them Anyway, Ma Wei loves to watch the play (in fact, he is curious), in order to join the team of the magistrate, Wu Junzhen went to the street and waited.

The street behind the clean-up personnel looked very spacious, and the magistrate of Mingfu Mountain, who was sitting in the sedan chair and swaying, stretched out his hand to lift the curtain and look outside, and said to the accompanying Mingfu County head: Mei Qiulin, "Have we brought all the sacrifices we have prepared?" Mingfu County, who was walking on horseback, replied, "If you return to the county lord, everything is ready, and we will arrive at Ningshanwei in Zezhou in about six days at the earliest." ”

But the magistrate of Mingfu Mountain said, "No! Six days is too long, the herald team all rode on horses, took the official road, passed the post station, immediately changed to fast horses, and must arrive within three days, delaying the hour, the court blamed you and I can't afford to bear it! After receiving the order, the head catcher of Mingfushan County hurriedly grabbed the reins, turned the horse's head, and ran down to handle the matter.

The officials who continued to march walked for a while and came to the entrance of the street, Wu Junzhen stepped forward to stop the sedan chair and said, "Lord Zhixian, I wonder if Ben will be able to go to the sacrificial ceremony together?" This request was approved on the spot, and he also asked people to lead a horse to Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin, who did not dare to be too publicistic because of their official positions, so they let the magistrate walk in front and they followed behind.

The procession marching in Shen Shi crossed the Wuling Mountain and arrived at the Wudong Ridge in the Zezhou region, and the officials walking in front met the officials who rushed from Yicheng County, and also met with the magistrate of Mingyi City: Huang Guiao, and said hello after the two sides met.

The two magistrates ordered the soldiers to rest for a while on the ridge, and when they saw the team stop, Wu Junzhen rode forward to take a look, and saw two officials wearing green robes embroidered (emu) patterns talking happily, so he asked how long it would take for the officials to reach their destination? The officials replied, "If you go back to the deputy thousand households, if there are still two days to take the official road, we will be able to live in Qinshui County tonight." ”