Formalism, in fact, is a kind of Chinese cultural precipitation, and it is an effective means for scholars to distinguish between the superior and the inferior. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jiang Yin used to dislike form, the principal's lecture when he was in school, the leader's speech during the sports meeting, and even various customs, as long as it was formal, Jiang Yin felt that it was redundant.

What could have been done more simply, but I had to add all kinds of rules and regulations, all kinds of forms, and go through the scene, everyone was so busy, which was simply a waste of everyone's time.

But when Jiang Yin gradually became the only person in Cangzhou, he gradually found that he inadvertently prescribed more and more forms, and he fell more and more into the form.

Sometimes, people live to experience those forms.

You can laugh at it, you can disdain it, you can even deny it, but you can't destroy it in any way, because when you participate in that format, you are already part of that form...

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The state banquet of the New Song Kingdom was completely in accordance with the specifications and regulations of the Great Song Dynasty banquet.

The court banquet of the Great Song Dynasty is divided into several levels, the first-level banquet, also known as the state banquet, is held in the Jiying Palace, the second-level banquet is held in the Zichen Palace, and the third-level small banquet is held in the Vertical Arch Palace.

The first-class banquet, also known as the state banquet, is a big banquet held by the whole country, and the pomp is naturally very large. Before the banquet, "there is a division in the palace to set up a mountain tower pomp, for the group of immortals, six tributes, nine dragons and five phoenixes, Si Tianji singing on its side." ”

The lanterns are colorful, and the splendid curtains are laid, which is extremely luxurious.

Civil and military officials and foreign guests all sit in the main hall, side halls, and corridors on both sides according to their ranks, and the cushions under the buttocks are also strictly divided into ranks. Everyone's seat in front of the display of food can not be eaten, called "look at the plate", there is also a difference in the level of the plate, the general people in front of the display of the plate has ring cake, oil cake, jujube tower, Liao envoys in front of the pig, sheep, chicken, goose, rabbit, even bone meat and so on.

All of the above have strict formal regulations, and if you make a mistake, you will be punished at least with a board or even imprisoned.

In fact, when Wang Sizong reported these preparations for the state banquet to Jiang Yin, Jiang Yin was a big headache, these forms of things, just casual, everyone is here to gather, not to suffer, why be so strict.

But after listening to Jiang Yin's thoughts, Wang Sizong's eyes widened wider than a bull's eye.

What does it mean for everyone to eat and drink freely?

What does it mean to just mess around?

What does it mean to have fun?

Wang Sizong's head shook like a rattle, and finally looked at Jiang Yin with that kind of disbelief, and left a sentence: "This matter still doesn't bother the lord of the country, and Weichen will go to discuss it with the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu again..."

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Wang Sizong is gone, Jiang Yin is also bored with himself, and he doesn't plan to persuade him anymore.

With an ancient man a thousand years ago, there is definitely no result in the end.

Moreover, the forms that Wang Heizong said, to be honest, are actually a kind of admiration for the supremacy of royal power, and a kind of affirmation and strengthening of being ordained by heaven.

Why did the emperor's crown have to be set with nine pearls?

That means that if you inlay eight pieces, it is fake, not noble enough, and ten inlaid pieces does not mean that you are nobler, but only that you are not that cultured, nouveau riche, and you will still be ridiculed when you say it.

From the small to the big, all the steps of the whole state banquet have their own clear rules.

From the layout of the seats in the entire hall to the way to tie the straps on the guests' clothes, all these are the face of the emperor or the country.

How can a country improve its face?

Relying on these trivial rules and regulations, relying on this kind of cultural advantages passed down from ancestors, this kind of formal things, the final result is the advanced nature of civilization.

And high-level civilizations have always had an unparalleled attraction to low-level civilizations.

The Mongol warriors hung again and conquered the whole of Asia, but in the end they still had to learn the way of the Han people and call them emperors and ministers.

The Goryeo Wa Kingdom and the like dominated the peninsula, but in the end they still had to send envoys to study and pay tribute.

Han Chinese may find the etiquette of marriage cumbersome, complicated and troublesome, but in the eyes of those foreigners, the Chinese wedding ceremony can be described as the highest wedding in the world, and various ceremonies are endless, and various regulations are reasonable.

Being able to let those inferior people accept the baptism of higher civilization is exactly what Wang Sizong is doing.

Thinking about it this way, Jiang Yin completely understood Wang Sizong's approach, and then ordered Wang Shiyi, who was waiting on the sidelines, to send a message to Wang Sizong: The pomp and circumstance of the state banquet is bigger, and the last thing that the New Song Dynasty lacks is money!

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The hardest thing in this world is not to lack money, and the easiest thing in this world is to squander money.

The capital and leftovers brought by Jiang Yin from modern times are enough to enrich the lives of the people of Cangzhou, and the real big profits are actually in the hands of the New Song Dynasty regime and businessmen.

Gold and silver treasures were piled up all over the house, and carts of copper coins had nowhere to be placed, and the merchants who had made a fortune gradually became dissatisfied with doing business only near Cangzhou.

They began to look further afield.

Wa and Goryeo are good choices.

After the baptism of the Tang Dynasty, the two countries of Wa and Goryeo have long coveted the upper kingdom of the Central Plains Celestial Empire, and in these two countries, from the princes and nobles to the common people, they all yearn for China.

He is proud to speak Chinese and use Chinese porcelain, especially the nobles of the two countries, who are determined to make themselves exactly like the Chinese aristocracy.

As a result, they began to copy texts, learn culture, speak Chinese, and buy Chinese goods, so that the price of goods shipped from China to these two countries could increase several times.

However, the Tang Dynasty was not strong enough, and it overturned after more than 270 years, and the chaotic era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms once caused the Goryeo and Wa kingdoms on the peninsula to sever ties with the Central Plains.

However, with the coming to power of Zhao Kuangyin, the Great Song Dynasty opened a new chapter in the history of the Central Plains, and the policy of recuperation also allowed the people of the Central Plains to gradually recover their vitality, and trade with the Goryeo Wa Kingdom was also resumed.

When Lao Zhao was in power, he also rewarded these two small countries, and once a year he would announce a meeting with the envoys of these two countries, give them some benefits, and make them grateful to Dade.

But this small benefit is still not enough for the nobles of Goryeo and Wa to divide up, after all, they are two countries, and the number of nobles is also quite a lot.

If the reward is small and you want it, there is only one way, buy.

Therefore, the nobles of the Goryeo Kingdom were eager to buy goods from China that reflected their status.

In the past, it was enough for merchants from the Central Plains to do business locally, and those who crossed the sea by boat to do business in Goryeo were too risky and not proportional to the benefits, so there were relatively few people who did it, and most of them were merchant ships of caravans going to sea and reselling things by the way.

But now it is different, because of Jiang Yin's intervention, the market in Cangzhou is expanding sharply, and the price of grain has plummeted due to the overabundance of grain, while the value of gold and silver is rising.

As we all know, both the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo were rich in gold and silver, so there were many merchants who specialized in the reselling business between Cangzhou and these two countries, and they became rich overnight, which even alarmed the nobles of the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo.

After learning that Cangzhou had a new regime that was extremely wealthy, the elites of both countries showed great interest.

Therefore, the first state banquet of the New Song Kingdom came with envoys from Goryeo and Wa.......

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