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"Then I got up from the high pavilion to Beizhu, and I wanted to take advantage of the long day to persuade spring ploughing." Lu Xiufu chanted two sentences lightly, and looked at Ye Yingwu beside him with a smile, "Envoy, now you are really standing on the head of this big Jiang Zhu, and the spring ploughing ceremony will start in a day or two, so it's better to hurry over." ”

The spring breeze blew Ye Yingwu's sleeves, and the two of them rode their horses along the bank of the river to go around at the foot of Banbi Mountain, and the red flag on the mountain was facing the wind and the camp was continuous. And rushing to the heights, you can already see the people walking towards the outside of the city one after another, and along with them, there is also the noisy sound of gongs and drums.

Although he had also learned about this kind of Chinese national ritual of respecting the land and the season before, Ye Yingwu had not participated in it, but he never thought that now in the Southern Song Dynasty seven hundred years ago, he saw this live spring ploughing ceremony.

In feudal China, agriculture was a constant theme, even in the Southern Song Dynasty, where commerce and economy had reached their peak in ancient China. At the beginning, Song Gaozong persuaded the Bagua field to be cultivated outside Lin'an, and it was not until 700 years later that it could still be found outside Hangzhou. After all, for the feudal dynasty, it is difficult to compare with the heavy grain in the rich money. The spring ploughing ceremony is regarded as an indispensable part of the year to persuade farmers to start the new year's ploughing and pray for good weather and good weather. Whether it is in the capital of Bianliang or in Lin'an, the emperor will personally preside over the spring ploughing every year, and the state capitals are also presided over by the highest administrative officials.

Originally, Ye Yingwu should have led the Tianwu Army to set off yesterday, but considering the expectations of the people and Ye Yingwu's irreplaceable reputation in the Xingzhou area, Lu Xiufu, who was not hot when the new official took office, did not hesitate to let Ye Yingwu come to serve as the biggest guest of the spring ploughing ceremony.

After all, Ye Yingwu is the patron saint and invincible king in the hearts of the people of Xingzhou. And the new year has officially entered the orbit, Lu Xiufu naturally wants Xingzhou to develop better and faster in agriculture. After all, for most of the people in Xingzhou, they only settled in Xingzhou in the second half of last year or even the end of the year. Therefore, for them, the spring ploughing in the first year on the land of Xingzhou is naturally very important.

Including the soldiers of the Tianwu Army, they also have a strong interest and expectation for spring ploughing, after all, most of them were originally from peasant families, so they naturally hope that this land that gave birth to me and raised me can be more fertile and prosperous, and they also hope to see the land that they have cultivated and sweated to receive blessings from God under their own eyes.

No matter what the reason, Ye Yingwu postponed the trip by one day, and all the soldiers of the Tianwu Army who were about to leave Lin'an were on vacation. He was allowed to participate in the spring ploughing ceremony as a Xingzhou common man and land cultivator.

"Let's go over and have a look." Ye Yingwu waved his horsewhip, and the war horse neighed, galloping on the official road. And Ye Yingwu's personal guard cavalry did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed. After all, this is on Xingzhou's own territory, and Ye Yingwu did not send out a hundred battles to protect him, it is enough to have more than ten personal guards, after all, no one has the courage to challenge Ye Yingwu in the three counties of Xingzhou.

The noise has grown louder. The blackened crowd had already walked out of the city gates.

The war horse neighed, and Ye Yingwu grabbed the reins in front of the city gate and looked at it fixedly.

A burly man in front of him had a dark complexion. The leopard has a ringed head and eyes, an iron face and a beard, and looks quite ugly. And on his body, he is dressed in an official mansion that he doesn't know which dynasty, holding a sword in one hand. Hold the bat in one hand and open the way with a high toe in front. And the people quickly hid on both sides of the official road, as if there were any difficulties and dangers and demons in front of them, which could make this big man subdued.

The big man is not shy, and when he heard the applause, he walked with his head held high, and he had the posture of catching all the ghosts and ghosts in the world.

Behind Zhong Kui, there is a symbol of the wind and rain masters. One was dressed in a white robe, holding a white note in his hand, blowing hard, and the note kept fluttering in the wind, as if it was the spring breeze summoned by the white-clothed wind master. The other was holding a basin of water in his hand and constantly spilling it on the side of the road, and instead of flinching, the onlookers rushed forward, as if being sprinkled by the water would bring endless good luck.

"Is this water good?" Ye Yingwu looked at the clouds and couldn't help but smile and said.

"That water is rootless water." Lu Xiufu replied softly beside Ye Yingwu, "It was specially sent to collect it when it snowed last time, because it didn't fall on the ground, so it was not contaminated with mud and dust, and it was naturally regarded by the people as a symbol of auspiciousness and purity." ”

Water without roots? How can there be a feeling of "Journey to the West" being messed in? The corners of Ye Yingwu's mouth twitched, and finally he didn't say anything, Wu Chengen wrote "rootless water" to cure diseases, and it should not be without a basis in real life.

Behind the wind master and rain master, a huge flat-bottomed car, pulling a clay sculpture of a ploughing ox with a red ribbon around its neck, and several children either standing on the car or running back and forth with the car, symbolizing the vitality and vitality of the new year.

Lu Xiufu snorted at the spring cow, and then said with a smile: "The most important thing for the envoy is to smash this spring cow to symbolize the beginning of the new year farming." ”

Ye Yingwu is not ignorant of the spring ploughing ceremony, smashing the spring cow is recorded in "Tokyo Menghualu", so he naturally knows that he nodded without hesitation at the moment, after all, this spring cow looks at the entire Xingzhou, and only he is qualified to smash it.

Behind the spring cow, there is also the thunder male electric mother closely following, the thunder male beats the drum, the electric mother beats the gong, and there is really the sound of thunder and lightning. Although the electric mother is also dressed as a man, she is thin and small, and she is twisted and pinched, which has the demeanor of a woman, which attracts bursts of laughter from the surroundings.

As Lei Gongdian walked over, the people who had been hiding on both sides returned to the road one after another, following the sound of gongs and drums echoing in front. Lu Xiufu looked at Ye Yingwu: "Envoy, let's go over too." ”

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In the open field not far from Xingzhou, a tall platform has been erected. And the spring cow just now was also carefully carried to the center of the platform.

The sound of gongs and drums gradually subsided, and he stood on the side of the stage. Ye Yingwu tidied up his sleeves, and then walked slowly onto the stage. The moment he walked up. The people below burst into cheers at the same time, although they all knew that Ye Yingwu Ye Envoy would personally preside over the spring ploughing ceremony. However, today, when I saw the living Ye Yingwu coming to the stage, I still didn't hold back the excitement in my heart.

Rao is Ye Yingwu has experienced a lot of ups and downs, and at this time he couldn't help but secretly take a breath in his heart, in the face of such a scene, to say that he is not nervous in his heart is definitely bragging, and at the same time, he was originally just a clean street tiger and Ye Zhijun in the rich family, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this feeling of being respected is sometimes not so pleasant, not to mention those emperors who are civil and martial arts and reign over the world. If the psychological quality is not enough, you have to be scared half to death when you see this scene.

Coughing lightly, Ye Yingwu pressed his hand below, and the people stopped their voices one after another, after all, this was in the Southern Song Dynasty, the era of the highest national quality in ancient China, so Ye Yingwu only needed to press his hands to silence tens of thousands of people below. Faces greeted the shallow sunshine at the turn of winter and spring, looking at Ye Yuanjun on the stage, full of expectation.

This is their Ye Envoy. It is also the patron saint of Heungju!

Lu Xiufu held the wine glass in his hand, stepped forward respectfully, and handed it to Ye Yingwu. Ye Yingwu bowed slightly, and after taking the wine glass. Lang Sheng says:

"In the spring of the third year of Emperor Song Xianchun, Ye Yingwu, the ambassador of the system along the Yangtze River, respectfully led hundreds of thousands of fathers and villagers in the three counties of Xingzhou. Worship the spirit of Yanhuang and Houji ancestors in the sky, and prepare a little wine and flowers. In order to have a smooth wind and rain this year, and another bumper harvest! This heart is sincere, fortunately even ah! ”

"Shang Fang!" A row of Tianwu soldiers standing under the stage shouted loudly at the same time. The sound is loud and reverberates through the vast expanse of the mountains.

Ye Yingwu took the hammer presented by Xiao Yangzi, and under the gaze of a pair of eyes, he aimed at the weakest cow's neck on the spring cow and slammed it down! The cow's head snapped! And Lu Xiufu took the hammer and smashed it against the cow body, this spring cow is just mud, even if Lu Xiufu has no strength, he can still smash the spring cow.

"Spring ploughing, begin!" Ye Yingwu shouted loudly, and the sound of gongs and drums rose from the ground again!

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Raising his arm to wipe his sweat, Ye Yingwu and Lu Xiufu walked through the dense crowd, perhaps because the people around them had fallen into the carnival, and Ye Yingwu and Lu Xiufu were both dressed in simple clothes and did not ride horses, so no one recognized them for a while.

After all, Ye Yingwu appeared in the crowd, often with the guards behind him and riding on a tall horse, no one would have thought that this young descendant who was struggling to walk by his side was the Ye Yingwu Ye envoy in the hearts of all the people of Xingzhou.

Finally squeezed out of the crowd, Ye Yingwu breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Lu Xiufu beside him, Lu Xiufu's strength was smaller, he had been squeezed into a messy and embarrassed manner at this time, I am afraid that he, the new governor of Xingzhou, has not been in a crowd for a long time.

"Let's go, go up and have a look." Ye Yingwu smiled and pointed to the small hill in front of him, but when he looked closely, he found that there were already two figures standing on it, pointing around, and there were several people standing under the hill, coming and going, walking in a hurry, and it was clear that they were people with six doors.

With the ability of six doors, if you were to follow people, you would definitely not behave so clumsily, and these guys who didn't mind showing their identities at all were obviously protecting the two people on the hills. Lu Xiufu looked at Ye Yingwu in some surprise, obviously he had already seen that these two people came from an unusual way, but Ye Yingwu specially arranged it.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Ye Yingwu quickened his pace, but as soon as he walked not far away, he had already recognized those two people, no wonder Lu Xiufu had such good eyes but didn't recognize them, because he didn't know these two people who were protected by the six doors at all, these two guys, aren't they Chen Yuanliang and Guo Shoujing. Now that most of the people in the three counties of Xingzhou have come to this spring ploughing ceremony, it is normal for Chen Yuanliang and Guo Shoujing to also come to join in the fun.

After all, neither Chen Yuanliang from Lingnan nor Guo Shoujing, who has been running in Hebei and Ningxia, have seen this scene in front of him.

Beckoning to Lu Hideo, Ye Yingwu took the lead and walked up the hill. Ye Yingwu Ye Envoy Jun is placed in the crowd and the people don't know each other, but it doesn't mean that the people of the six doors don't know each other, seeing Ye Yingwu and Lu Xiufu, the two bosses coming together. The six door guards just silently bowed slightly to the two of them to show respect. Then he quickly stepped away.

"Brother Guo, you see if you can divert water from Fushui to the north. This vacant land can be irrigated. Chen Yuanliang stretched out his hand and pointed to the south, tiptoeing to look out, as if he wanted to take in the surrounding wilderness.

"Well, this area is ・・・・・・" Guo Shoujing nodded approvingly, his face was full of joy, but when he suddenly found Ye Yingwu standing behind him, he was still startled, and hurriedly stammered, "Make ・・・・・・ envoy!" ”

Chen Yuanliang was also taken aback. Hurriedly turned around and arched his hand: "I've seen the envoy." ”

Ye Yingwu nodded with a smile, and did not forget to tease: "You two are leisurely enough, standing here and pointing out the country!" And I originally thought that I was hard and simple enough, but when I saw the two of them, I knew that there was a sky outside the sky and there were people outside the world! ”

Guo Shoujing and Chen Yuanliang are both dressed the same, wearing an old cloth robe that can't be found in the crowd at all, the sleeves of both arms are pulled up to the elbows, and there is a straw hat on their heads. That's the living country man.

However, the two of them originally went to the countryside to inspect or preside over the water control project, and they were all dressed like this, if it wasn't for Ye Yingwu's deliberate teasing, they really didn't feel anything wrong. Guo Shoujing smiled ashamedly: "Let the envoy smile." Pointing out the country is absolutely unacceptable, Guo just saw the scene in front of him and couldn't help but think of his old business. Discuss a few sentences with Brother Chen. ”

Guo Shoujing's old profession is not to control water. Ye Yingwu glanced at him with a smile in his eyes. This is not to blame Guo Shoujing, after all, as long as he is a craftsman and a scientist, this occupational disease is inevitable, not to mention a famous person like Guo Shoujing. If it weren't for this ability to control water, Guo Shoujing would not have been valued by Kublai Khan and presided over the dredging of the Grand Canal by the capital water supervisor, leaving a strong mark in history.

"The old job is good, the old job can't be lost." Ye Yingwu smiled and stretched out his hand to point ahead, "I heard just now that the two of you are discussing this open space, but you want to open up this area?" ”

originally thought that Ye Yingwu would reprimand the two of them for not doing their jobs properly, and not thinking about how to make firecrackers, but instead talked about water control here, but I didn't expect Ye Yingwu to be very interested in what the two of them just talked about, and suddenly Guo Shoujing and Chen Yuanliang breathed a sigh of relief, Ye Yuanjun is Ye Yuanjun in the end, and this mind and bearing alone are not comparable to others.

Asked by Ye Yingwu here, Guo Shoujing naturally straightened his waist, if he wanted to say anything else, this was really the guy he relied on to eat: "Returning to the envoy, it's true, just now my subordinates and Brother Chen saw that the land under this half of the mountain was abandoned, and I felt a pity, in the final analysis, it was because the water flowed into the river from the net lake and rich water in the south, resulting in a vacant land on the higher ground of this half of the mountain that could not find a stream, so it was difficult to open up the wasteland." ”

"Oh?" Ye Yingwu was stunned, and immediately looked at Lu Xiufu behind him.

Lu Xiufu nodded: "Well, what this Mr. Guo said is right, because this area is blocked by half of the mountains facing the river, and it is from high to low to the south, and it is not convenient to divert water, so it has always been along the rich water, the net lake and from the north side to Daye County, which is a piece of wasteland closer to Xingzhou City, but it has never been considered." ”

"I don't know who this is?" Guo Shoujing was suddenly a little surprised, he didn't expect the person next to Ye Yingwu to be so familiar with the surroundings, and it seemed that he should not be a simple person.

"I patronized and talked, but I forgot to introduce it." Ye Yingwu hurriedly smiled, "This is the new Xingzhou Governor Lu Junshi, these two are what a certain person once said to Junshi, two craftsmen, the front is called Guo Shoujing, and the latter is called Chen Yuanliang, who is a knowledgeable and talented person." ”

Of course, they have heard of Lu Xiufu's name, after all, who doesn't know that in addition to Wen Tianxiang, the civil officials around Ye Yingwu will count this Lu Junshi, and Ye Yingwu's wife is also Lu Xiufu's sister, the two are real relatives, and the relationship is naturally different.

Several people "looked up" at each other for a long time, and Chen Yuanliang continued: "Brother Guo and Yu have checked it carefully just now, because this wasteland has not been cultivated before, so it is very fertile, if it can be reclaimed, at least two or three percent more harvest than the previous land." That's why I had the idea of diverting water for irrigation. ”

Ye Yingwu nodded solemnly, and Lu Xiufu showed a happy look.

As more and more people in Xingzhou grow, he naturally knows the importance of this land, after all, Jiangnan West Road can provide enough wealth for Xingzhou, but it is difficult to provide real grain and grass, and in the end he has to rely on Xingzhou to support itself in this regard. (To be continued.) )