The spring breeze in February is like scissors, and the ancestors are busy with spring ploughing in March. Spring is the season of hope, which carries the survival and destiny of the people in an agricultural country for a year.

Since March 3, Zhao Ji has had to be busy with some seemingly useless things that he has to do. Presided over the ancestor worship and spring ploughing ceremony.

In ancient times, emperors had to sacrifice heaven and earth, Taimiao, and Sheji every year, generally more than ten times. This is the big sacrifice, and there are other small sacrifices, such as sacrificing to the mountain god, the dragon king, Confucius, and Jiang Ziya, the king of Wucheng.

The Great Sacrifice was generally mandatory for the Emperor because it symbolized the Son of Heaven's right to rule over the world. Of course, if the emperor is not in the court, it is okay to send the crown prince to preside. In the second year of Xining, Zhao Ji stayed in the barracks almost all the time. These sacrificial activities were presided over by Zhao Hao, the king of Chang.

Unlike Western countries, the emperor and the common people almost did not believe in any gods, or in ancient China, it was a theocratic country, because the Son of Heaven was the representative of the gods, and sacrifice was a religious activity. There is no such thing as a self-giving religion. As soon as any religion was introduced to China, it changed its flavor and became a trade between mortals and gods.

This religion is based on ancestor worship and is a recognition of the productive experience passed down from ancestors. It is also a unique proof of ancient Chinese civilization. Without advanced productive forces and without material life guarantee, will they believe in their ancestors? Only when the ancestors have left a wealth of spiritual and material wealth to the younger generations, will the younger generations believe in the ancestors.

Ancient Chinese gods and goddesses were generally canonized by the common people or emperors after the death of great people. For example, Lao Tzu and Confucius are both great gods canonized by the emperor. Guan Yu, Jiang Ziya and the like were built by the common people to gradually worship the gods. And Emperor Yan and Yellow Emperor Nuwa, such a great god is still born, and he doesn't even need to be canonized.

Ancestor worship and the rule of filial piety have built the moral and cultural system of ancient China. Even republics that believe in Marxism have to worship ancient gods such as the Yellow Emperor and the Yandi every year. Although they are no longer considered gods, they have not slackened in their rituals. Through sacrifices, it is easy to see the inheritance of a civilization.

Many disgruntled youths who have been influenced by Western nationalism say that the Yuan and Qing dynasties were a part of China's history of national destruction, which is not true. This can be seen from the sacrificial activities of the Yuan and Qing dynasties, these two dynasties still sacrificed ancient gods such as the Yellow Emperor, Yandi, Confucius, etc., not the descendants of Yan and Huang, what are the sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor and Emperor Yandi?

Of course, in ancient times, Emperor Yan and Yellow Emperor represented the heavens, not ordinary people who could sacrifice. Those who are qualified to sacrifice to them are the Son of Heaven. Before the establishment of the orthodox dynasty, the Yuan and Qing dynasties generally sacrificed to the mountain gods, and were not qualified to sacrifice to the heavens and the Yellow Emperor Yandi.

If Japan had invaded China and won the war against China. Do the Japanese worship the Yellow Emperor? Probably not, they still have to sacrifice their Emperor Jimmu. The nature of a war between two civilizations is very different from that between regimes within civilizations.

The extension of civilization is the natural result of the development of advanced civilizations, not the result of war. Just like the Korean Peninsula, no matter how strong China is, it has never used troops against him, and the root cause is that no matter how much China is learned or how it resembles Chinese civilization, it is just an imitation, not China. Although China's territory is large, it is the natural result of development.

The premise of the unification of China by the Yuan and Qing dynasties was that all ethnic groups had a common Chinese faith, a belief in the great unification of China. For example, the Yuan Dynasty and the four khanates, before the Mongols did not destroy the Jin and seize the Central Plains, they did not establish the country as the Yuan, because of the world view of chasing the Central Plains, unifying China, and all countries coming to the dynasty.

The areas ruled by the four khanates were not the land of China at that time, so they adopted a feudal system. If it weren't for Khorezm killing Genghis Khan's peace caravan, Genghis Khan would not have used troops against the West.

March is the season of sacrificial sowing, and Zhao Ji does not dare to slack off.

The first is to go to the Temple of Heaven to worship the Yellow Emperor, the second is to go to the Houtu Temple to worship Houtu Niangniang Nuwa, and then to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and then to sacrifice Sheji. Sheji, Sheji is the land public, and millet is a kind of crop. Land and agricultural production are the key to the stability of the country, so the community has become synonymous with the regime and the state.

Zhao Ji has been taking his ministers to worship these days, and he doesn't know how many kowtows. Although Zhao Ji did not object to such a sacrifice, he did not want to be too extravagant and wasteful, and the entire sacrifice process and personnel were cut by more than half by Zhao Ji.

Song Zhenzong almost went bankrupt because he liked to do this. If Song Zhenzong doesn't mess around, I'm afraid there will be no Qingli New Deal, and there will be no Wang Anshi to change the law.

Song Zhenzong once spent a long time building a monument for the Yellow Emperor and completed the book "The Yellow Emperor's Benji". Later, the Temple of Heaven was built in the suburbs, and the earth shrine was built, which was extravagant and wasteful, and carried out sacrificial activities.

These did not make Song Zhenzong happy, Song Zhenzong decided to learn from the Qin Emperor Han Wu, ran to Mount Tai to seal Zen, and made the biggest sacrifice. Feng Zen, which means meeting with the gods in the sky, is something that the emperor can't do casually. Unless the emperor has made outstanding achievements and established great cultural and martial arts.

After Song Zhenzong was enshrined in Zen, he was criticized by the people of the world and scholars and officials. In order to prove that he was right, Song Zhenzong went around to engage in the deception of the Book of Heaven, and it was another sacrifice all over the world, and the Chinese gods were almost sacrificed. In order to plug the mouths of scholars and doctors, they also opened a large number of imperial examinations, and conferred officials in large quantities, or bestowed officials in favor of shade, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of officials in the Great Song Dynasty and the formation of redundant officials.

The treasury was empty, and Song Zhenzong did not stop, and continued to collect and collect miscellaneous taxes, in addition to the two taxes that should be paid, countless miscellaneous taxes were added. He said that there was no law of errand service, and it had already been included in the two taxes. But the officers were accommodated.

The common people could not survive, and small-scale peasant uprisings continued, the famous one was Wang Xiaobo's peasant uprising. In order to prevent the rebellion of the displaced people, the Song Dynasty recruited a large number of displaced people as soldiers and suppressed the peasant uprising. As a result, the number of soldiers has increased dramatically, and they are arrogant and lazy, forming a redundant army.

The Song dynasty was the only dynasty to adopt a strategy of appeasement against the rebels. It has created a social atmosphere of "wanting to be an official, being a thief, wanting to get rich, and selling smuggled salt". Thieves are soldiers, it's no wonder if they are not arrogant!

For the sake of fooling the people, Song Zhenzong was superstitious about Taoist priests, gave the temple a large amount of land, and also built the temple. Temples and Taoist temples were built one after another, and batches of monks were sent out to form redundant monks. These bald monks, there are no fasting and Buddha recitations, but there are a lot of wives. In addition to marrying wives, monks and Taoists also do business, annex land, and even the Great Xiangguo Temple has become a bazaar.

There is also that year's coin, which is also the confused account of this Song Zhenzong.

After Song Zhenzong's death, her drama wife Liu E almost inherited his will and engaged in land annexation.

It can be said that the Song Dynasty was damaged by this Song Zhenzong.

In the past few days of Zhao Ji's sacrifice, he has been thinking that he can take his time if he changes the law. This Song Zhenzong's ass must be wiped clean first.

But it's easy to send something, but it's hard to come back. The interest class has been formed, the wolves have been raised, and it will be too difficult to move them again.

It is a good way for Zhao to start with the redundant troops with the least opposition. Perhaps Zhao Ji was influenced by the thinking of "power comes out of the barrel of a gun". The history of the founding of the republic in later generations, Zhao Ji is very clear. Isn't it because the KMT and the Communist Party cooperated twice, was betrayed twice, and could not build the country peacefully, because there was no strong armed force behind it?

Compared with the sacrifice, which has always been kowtowing there, the spring ploughing ceremony is much more interesting.

First of all, the emperor symbolically drove the oxen to help the plough and went to plough the land, Zhao Ji got up, took off the dragon robe, rolled up his trouser legs, and plowed an acre of land neatly. The officials waited anxiously, but the people were as happy as watching a big show, and they had never seen the emperor plowing the land, which was naturally very attractive.

The second is the Prime Minister's whip cow, which is not a real cow, but a fake cow cast in mud. Wen Yanbo whipped a few times, which can be regarded as completing the ceremony. When the whipping of the oxen is over, it is the people who are crazy to grab the mud oxen. It is said that if you can grab a little mud from the mud cow and offer it at home, you will be able to have a good harvest this year.

Wen Yanbo naturally knew about this custom, and he withdrew in time, otherwise such an old man would have to step on it to death. The people who robbed the mud oxen were all strong. If you don't call a strong person, where can you grab a mud cow? You can't even squeeze in.

After snatching the mud cow and grabbing it, everyone was happy, looking at the lump of mud in their hands, and eating honey. If you didn't grab it, find some mud crumbs from the ground and put them on a handkerchief, so it's a little bit anyway.

In the end, the ox was awarded to the people by the Si Nong Temple, and the oxen and plough that the emperor had just used were awarded to the people to encourage farming. Of course, this person can only be a common person outside the clan elders, but he has already designated people.

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The Provincial Cabinet of the Middle Book, the original government hall.

After the spring ploughing ceremony, all the matters of this spring festival are over. Zhao Ji did not return to the palace, but ran to the cabinet to have a look. The government hall is located in the inner city outside the Imperial City, on the right side of the Imperial Street. There are dozens of courtyards of various sizes, but they look very dilapidated. It's far worse than the mansions of those who are officials.

"Is this the end of the Spring Festival? I'm afraid it's not polite. Wen Yanbo asked cautiously.

Wen Yanbo is now slowly touching Zhao Ji's scales, anything that costs money, or the kind of thing that can't make money after spending money, Zhao Ji will squeeze the money tightly.

Wen Yanbo is also asking Zhao Ji for money this time, and the money is in Wang Anshi's hands, Zhao Ji doesn't open his mouth, and Wang Anshi doesn't give money. According to the cabinet system, if the emperor and the prime minister disagree, then the cabinet must be discussed and agreed. But Cho had no intention of letting the cabinet discuss it.

"If the sacrifice is absent-minded, three days is enough. Now that there is no money in the treasury, the ancestors will understand. Zhao Ji snorted.

"But." Wen Yanbo is ready to explain the truth again. Officials were rewarded at the spring festival, but this time there was still none.

"Okay, Wenxiang, I also went, and it cost 100,000 yuan, and we did our best. The plan to change the law can be hurried, and the minister can't be derelict in his duties! Zhao Ji said soothingly.

"Yes." Wen Yanbo sat down again.

100,000? Wen Yanbo smiled bitterly. In the previous spring festival, it was not more than a million yuan. Of course, most of these millions of dollars are paid to officials. Zhao Ji has not paid benefits many times, and officials are complaining. Zhao Ji was unmoved, the money was sent, and it wasn't for you to raise a kabuki to use it, so I wouldn't give you money! Now that the military power is in hand, I am not afraid that you will be disloyal. If you are not faithful, the 800 people outside the city a year ago are an example.

Fu Bi's suggestion to give official titles to the descendants of famous ministers Wei Zheng, Di Renjie, Bao Zheng and others to motivate loyalty and integrity was also returned by Zhao Ji. In addition to the name of a nodding emperor, Zhao Ji added the name of an iron rooster emperor.

"Shengshang, Jiaozi has already printed six billion guan. Do you want to go and see it? Wang Anshi stood up and said.

"Sir, I am very relieved. Well, it's better to go and see, just about to see the methods of the gentleman. However, let's wait until after the spring ploughing ceremony! Zhao replied intermittently.

"Who is presiding over Wang's Money Village now?" Wang Anshi is now the secretary of the Ministry of Qian, and it is very important over there, Zhao Ji couldn't help but ask again.

Wang Anshi is the secretary of the Ministry of Money, and his office is located in the original Third Division. However, as a cabinet executive officer, most of the time is spent in the cabinet office, especially at the critical moment when the law change plan is being discussed, Wang Anshi is indispensable.

"It's Lu Huiqing presiding. The child is young, energetic, and has a flexible mind. It should be reassuring. Wang Anshi explained.

"Well, when I have time, I will tell him that I admire him very much, and he will be indispensable for the position of prime minister in the future. Let him perform his duties, I do not want to hear his voice of dereliction of duty and corruption, nor do I want to hear the voice of his family occupying the land. Zhao Ji remembered that Lu Huiqing still seemed to have a character problem, so he decided to knock it first. Smart people should know how to do it.

"Holy Lord, Lu Huiqing is going back to his hometown to worry. Wang's money village, Weichen is ready to hand it over to Lu Jia to ask. Wang Anshi knew what Zhao Ji meant.

"Well, Fuxiang, all the courtyards of this cabinet should also be repaired! As far as I know, there is a lot of money paid for the renovation of the government hall every year, and the cabinet has not repaired it, so I really don't know where the money goes? Zhao Ji looked at the courtyard where the wind was entering, and did not bother with Lu Huiqing's question anymore.

Lu Huiqing, Cai Jing and others are all shrewd and capable people who can ponder the thoughts of their bosses, as long as they knock it from time to time, it is not impossible to use it.

"Yes." Fu Bi and the others didn't feel sweating, and the money didn't arrive. Now they have to pay for the renovation of the cabinet compound at their own expense. Also, who told the money that was distributed before to be divided among the big and small officials of the political hall? This time, I'm afraid that all the cabinet officials pooled money to repair the cabinet courtyard!

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