Chapter 257: Sacrifice to the Heavens
After dealing with these things, Wu Yuan felt physically and mentally exhausted, and lay on the bed to relieve the fatigue on his body.
Fanxing walked in with Wang Lan and Wang He at this time.
At this time, Wang He was more than two years old, and after seeing Wang Lang, he ran to the side of the bed with two little short legs comically.
"Father ... Father! ”
Wang He shouted milkily.
Wang Lang sat up from the bed and filled Wang He.
"Father, look! What's at this time? Wang He grabbed something and shook it in front of Wang Lang's eyes.
Wang Lang looked at this thing, and the thing in Wang He's hand was a piccolo made of bones.
"Where did you get this?" Wang Lang asked.
"It was given to me by those carpenters, did I do something wrong, father?" Wang He said in a milky voice.
Wang Lang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled at Wang He, maybe his expression just now was too serious and scared his child.
"Father is angry, can you show this to your father?"
Wang Lang looked at the bone flute, tilted his head and thought about it, and nodded.
"Go play by yourself!" Wang Lang turned Wang He in the direction and patted his buttocks.
Wang He jumped to the side and played by himself.
Fanxing walked to Wang Lang's side and said with a smile: "This thing can make a nice sound, my son has to argue for it when he hears it, and I can't help it." ”
"It's called a flute, do you know who made it?" Wang Lang asked.
"It's a carpenter, I don't know what it's called?" The stars touched Wang Lan in their arms and said slowly.
Wang Lang looked at this bone flute, he still studied the flute for a while, although it was only an interest class in elementary school, and many tunes were forgotten, but the score of counting the stars still remembered very clearly.
I tried to blow the syllables a few times, and found that the bone flute sounded pretty good.
Wang Lang, who was interested, began to clumsily play a song counting stars.
The melodious sound of the flute is intoxicated by the stars.
"Lang, I didn't expect this flute to make such a beautiful sound." Starry eyes looked at the bone flute with shining eyes.
Wang Lang said with a smile: "This flute can make different sounds by pressing different holes, as long as these sounds are regularly combined together, it is very good, and the person who made this bone flute must have also noticed this." ”
"Can you teach me?" The stars looked at Wang Lang expectantly.
"Hehe, it's not easy to learn this, so let's do it, I'll teach you when I have time." Wang Lang said with a smile.
Fanxing nodded, looking at Wang Lang with a look of wanting to speak and stopping.
"What's the matter, do you have anything to say?" Wang Lang asked.
"Lang, are you going to take those two women as wives?" Fanxing said with his head down.
Compared with the two young and beautiful women, Fanxing felt a deep sense of crisis, and was very afraid that Wang Lang would not want him.
Wang Lang touched Fanxing's hair and said with a smile: "How is it possible, there can only be one wife for a man, even if there are other women, it is just an accessory of a man, the status of the wife is not comparable to that of later women, as a wife, the status of the family is very noble, don't worry, even if I want those two women, they will not affect your status in my heart." ”
After hearing this, Fanxing couldn't help but feel relieved, he didn't have any opinion on Wang Lang finding another woman, in his opinion, this was a very normal thing, just like a long time ago, no one would say that it was wrong to mate between men and women at will.
Without the pressure, the stars followed Wang Lang to learn to play and count the stars.
Three days later.
As the sun slowly rose over the horizon, the rumbling drums resounded throughout Yancheng.
On this day, both the officials and the common people gathered early near the altar in clean clothes.
Groups of soldiers in armor lined up on either side of the altar, clearing a passageway.
As the sun gradually rose, around ten o'clock in the morning, the officials of the Ministry of Rites walked up to the altar under the guidance of dark clouds.
The dark clouds said in a loud voice: "The sacrifice to the heavens begins, and the subjects of the Xia Kingdom greet Your Majesty!" ”
"Knock knock!"
With the sound of three drums, Wang Lang, who was wearing a black dragon robe and a crown on his head, slowly walked towards the altar under the protection of the guards.
The day before, the officials of the Ministry of Rites found Wang Lang and told them their thoughts on the ceremony of worshipping the heavens.
When he heard these concepts of the son of heaven and the divine right of the king, Wang Lang was shocked.
For these people in Wuyun, they can think so much from the word emperor, and they have to be impressed and admired.
Under the gaze of the people, Wang Lang walked up the high steps step by step.
Wuyun stood beside Wang Lang, and after Wang Lang was ready, he said in a loud voice: "Subjects, it has been four years since Your Majesty took us out of the jungle to this grassland, and for such a long time, under the leadership of Your Majesty, we have established a salt department in the grassland full of wild beasts from a small tribe of only a dozen people, so that the humans on the grassland can live a life without food and clothing, if there is no Your Majesty, there would be no such thing as now." ”
When the dark clouds said this, the crowd under the altar suddenly let out a warm cheer, and everyone looked at Wang Lang with great admiration.
Wang Lang waved his hand to his subjects, which made the already excited people even more excited.
"Today, Your Majesty wants to announce to the gods that the Ministry of Salt has officially become the Xia Kingdom, and in the future, every weed on this grassland, every human being will belong to the Xia Kingdom, belong to Your Majesty, everyone knows, why Your Majesty can have today's achievements, it is precisely because Your Majesty's son of the gods is the son of heaven, Your Majesty as the emperor of this country is a gift from the gods, anyone who opposes Your Majesty is, against the gods, now please Your Majesty sacrifice to the sky!"
After Wuyun finished speaking passionately, Wang Lang nodded, walked to a big drum on the altar, picked up the drum hammer and struck the drum three times.
Then he knelt on the ground.
When the ministers and people who watched the ceremony saw this, they all knelt on the ground one after another.
Wang Lang knelt on the ground and raised his hands high, and said to the sky: "The gods are above, your people have walked out of barbarism under your guidance, and have achieved today's achievements, thank you for everything you have done for mankind, today the Xia Kingdom was officially established, I hope you can send blessings, bless the Xia Kingdom with smooth wind and rain, the country will last forever, and open the peace of the world, and the ministers and kings will bow down!" ”
After speaking, Wang Lang bowed three times to the sky.
Although Wang Lang knew that this so-called ritual of worshiping the heavens was very funny in the eyes of modern people, but in today's era, doing this ensures the legitimacy of his rule, and if anyone dares to oppose him, then he is against the gods, and he will be spurned by everyone, and no one will support these opponents.