The sports day was a novelty for everyone, everyone came early, looked at the surrounding houses and the layout of the school grounds, and then waited slowly. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. Waiting for one is waiting for someone and the other is waiting for time, in order to avoid the ministers being impatient to wait, Tianqi has long announced that the hour will start at three o'clock, but this can still see a name. The Chinese tradition is that the high status is the last, let the low status wait for him to show that he is different, otherwise he can not fully show his superiority Officials generally come early, they are usually errand workers, it is rare to have a day of leisure, come early is a matter of habit, the big officials just pinch a little earlier than the emperor.

When the apocalypse came to the west school field, he saw that everyone had arrived, and all the civil and military officials were sitting on the seats under the wide eaves of the surrounding houses, and the front and back of the house were full of tall and tall brocade guards with swords, and it was said that there were two officers and soldiers of the five military camps patrolling around the west school field, and it was strictly ordered that unknown people should not approach the west school field. The road from the palace to the west school field is full of guards, and when they arrive at the school field, there are also shrewd and capable internal guards standing around this side, and it can be seen that the security measures are quite strict, and Yang Gongchun, who is responsible for security and security, is attentive, after all, the emperor and the civil and military officials are here, and no one can afford to take care of anything that happens.

After Tianqi sat down, he first accepted the courtesy of the ministers, and for fear of delaying the matter, he had already ordered everyone to salute in place, and there was no need to run to the front to walk back and forth to delay time. Tianqi was happy to see that the time had not yet come and asked Tan Jing for the arrangement table, Tan Jing handed the arrangement table to Tianqi with both hands, but he frowned and looked a little. Apocalypse saw that there was nothing unusual, so he asked, "Is there anything missing?" ”

Tan Jing said: "Today, there will be 12 prizes for each category, and 4 prizes will be 48 prizes, and then the civil and military and the elderly and young people will be divided according to the age of 40, and there will be nearly 200 awards. But today, there are only more than 400 people here, and there are only more than 200 people who have signed up to participate. This is the negligence of the minion, please punish the emperor! ”

Tianqi thought for a while and asked: "This time it is stipulated that as long as there are high-level officials in Beijing, they can participate, except for the supervisors sent to other places, how can there be five or six hundred, why are there more than four hundred?" ”

Seeing Tianqi asked, the king of letters next to him said: "Brother Huang, don't ask him, he doesn't know, this is because all the ministries have to be on duty, and there are a few urgent matters to deal with, so there are also people who can't come." ”

Apocalypse asked, "Even if there are people on duty, why only half of the more than 400 people who came here signed up?" ”

King Shin said: "It is estimated that the time is too short, many people do not understand what this sports meeting is about, I heard that running and long jump need to take off the long shirt official uniform, many people think that it is unorthodox and unwilling to sign up, of course, they did not say it directly just said that they were unwell." Brother Huang will see if the reward quota will be reduced by half, and everyone will not work hard in the end? ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "No need, you can't change it if you don't say anything, just let everyone see what's going on." However, it is necessary to add one more, that is, everyone can only choose one of the best rankings to receive the reward, otherwise it is not interesting for those with strong ability to take all four. ”

King Xin said: "The younger brother also thought like this, if a person gets four firsts, he will be rewarded with four years, so that many people will have opinions, and it is right for everyone to share the benefits." ”

When the time came to speak, King Shin was in charge of presiding over the gongs and drums, and after some commotion, King Shin issued an order announcing the start of the games and reciting some rules. Because the school was too big, many people couldn't hear Shinwang's words, so from the rostrum to the perimeter of the school yard, there were some loud people who passed Shinking's words to everywhere one by one, playing the role of a microphone. When everyone heard that each person could participate in more than one prize but only get one reward, they knew that the chances were bigger than they imagined, and they were all excited and ready to go and catch two.

At the beginning, it was not a direct competition, but Wu Zhiwang of the medical school brought a group of people out to perform the five bird plays, which are to let people imitate the movements of the five animals of tigers, deer, bears, apes and cranes, and pay attention to the coordination and cooperation between the body, breathing, thoughts, movements, and movements, so as to achieve the purpose of longevity. I saw Wu Zhiwang and others wearing white clothes with gold edges and black clothes with red edges, and they were dizzying in the middle of neatly turning their heads, bending, swinging fists, or flicking legs, or changing the hand shape of palms or claws.

The people sitting here are some officials, and the ordinary people who lie in the fields all the year round to find food belong to the group that lives better, they naturally want to live a few more years if they live well, the five poultry opera performance of this medical school does point out the road to longevity for them, and many people are determined to find Wu Zhiwang to learn the five bird opera when they are free.

The old men of the medical school started the official competition after the performance, which was a bit lively, and the first to come out was the people who signed up for running, because there were not many people who participated in the running and it was not good to be grouped for fear of unfairness, so they ran together, and announced that they could withdraw halfway through the running to the end. Everyone knows that today is based on endurance, as long as they persist in the end, there will be a prize, so they all want to run slowly so as not to lose their strength. Tianqi was thinking about why these people only took off their heavy official uniforms but had a long-sleeved white coat left, why it was more convenient not to wear a sleeveless shoulder, and the little eunuch next to him said that Gao Panlong and Master Gao had something to say.

Tianqi asked the little eunuch to call Gao Panlong over, and then asked, "Is there anything wrong with Lord Gao?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Your Majesty, I don't know how long it will take to run to finish the run?" ”

Apocalypse said: "There are too many people to divide the rankings before they can stop, at least ten or eight laps, right?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "The minister thinks that one to three laps is enough, and many people in the field are not in good health, and they are really afraid that something will happen if they have to go ten or eight laps." ”

Apocalypse looked at the people in the field who had just run in front of him, and saw that some of them were a little pale, as if they would faint at any moment, so he nodded in agreement—he turned around and told Tan Jing to say that the three laps should be the boundary, and as long as the top twenty were sorted out within the three laps, they would immediately write down and stop the game, lest it would become a big joke if they really had to die of exhaustion. After finishing the order, he turned his head and asked Gao Panlong: "How does Lord Gao know that these people are not in good health?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "The minister just went to the place where they changed clothes, and saw that many people's official uniforms were clean but they were all old, and the collar and cuffs were washed white, not to mention that some people's official uniforms were still patched, indicating that they were coming for the reward, and even if they couldn't run, they had to insist on it, so the minister was afraid that something would happen to them." ”

Tianqi asked incomprehensibly: "They also have a good fortune and they are not low, how can they be dressed old and not in good health?" Can't you eat it too? ”

Gao Panlong sighed and said: "This civil official is all concerned about face, if it weren't for the emperor's reward, who would want to take off his clothes and run around in front of everyone?" The emperor said well, there is no problem at all for their money to feed their wives and children, and they can often have meat to eat and drink, but they will not be satisfied with finding a wife to have two babies, and many people have several concubines. ”

Tianqi shook his head and said, "How capable are you to do such a big thing, why do you want to find a few daughters-in-law to live happily when you have just lived a small life?" One more person means one more mouth, and more clothes and jewelry, isn't this a self-inflicted trouble? No wonder when you become an official, you want to be insatiable with money. ”

Gao Panlong said with a smile: "The emperor is demanding of them, even Hai Rui, who was as honest as water back then, married a concubine, and besides, the decline in their living standards is also related to the emperor." In the past, local officials had to pay gifts to any yamen when they came to Beijing, and everyone could share some according to the size of their positions, but after the emperor divided power, many things in the local government could not be asked for in Beijing, and after the implementation of the economic inspection system, no one dared to collect such money, and they had fewer channels to collect benefits, and even if they did not dare to bring it directly to their homes, they always got it to be registered and appraised and then taken home for use, and those with thin faces had to live a poor life. ”

Tianqi thought about it, looked up at Gao Panlong and asked, "Lord Gao said these words, is there something in his words, I don't like to beat around the bush, if you have something to say, just say it." ”

Gao Panlong smiled bitterly: "Shengming is not the emperor, after the implementation of the economic inspection system, the magistrate can sell the title subsidy, it is said that many officials in the very rich places don't even want to be promoted, they just want to be a county magistrate there for a few more years." There is no subsidy for the officials in the capital and there is less gift money for the local officials, and the emperor should promise an annual subsidy for high-grade officials above the third grade, and the officials below the third grade only have to die and spend their days, so there are indeed some omissions. What the minister means is that now the lives of the people in the whole country are gradually improving, and the money saved from the sale of the title has saved a lot in addition to subsidies for senior officials. ”

Tianqi also knew that there was a lot of silver saved in the treasury or elsewhere now, otherwise he wouldn't dare to use the profits in the imperial store to develop new equipment, but as soon as this money was too much, some people would worry about it and give people a bad feeling, he asked: "It's been almost a year since the power was delegated to the local government, why did Lord Gao only talk about this now?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Hasn't the emperor been slightly ill in the past six months? We discussed other matters, but a lot of the money from the sale of the title belonged to the emperor, and no matter how bold we were, we didn't dare to take the silver belonging to the emperor in private to arrange. ”

Apocalypse nodded and said, "You go down and come up with a specific charter, you must be reasonable and don't let others feel unjust, don't have the money here before you get it, someone over there will come to demand equal treatment." ”

As he was talking, he seemed to deliberately let the apocalypse see, and sure enough, two civil officials fainted because they couldn't run and forced to run, and after a while, Wu Zhiwang came over and said that they had been given soothing treatment, and they drank honey water, which should not be dangerous. Tianqi thought about it and let people tell him that even if these two people didn't have a ranking, they would be given a persistence award, and they would be rewarded for a month according to the twelfth place The official originally insisted on running because he wanted money, thinking that he had no problem with his body, who knew that he didn't survive at the critical moment, and he was so annoyed that he heard the word from Tianqi to give them a persistence award, and he fainted with joy.

Seeing that Wu Zhiwang was beside him and didn't leave, Tianqi asked him: "Master Wu, will this person be physically damaged in addition to having more wives and less wives?" ”

Wu Zhiwang said: "Of course, there is a saying that a wife can live to ninety-nine only if she is ugly, which makes sense." ”