Since ancient times, agriculture has been regarded as the foundation of the nation by various dynasties.

At the beginning of spring, the weather becomes warmer, which is a good time for spring ploughing to begin.

At this time, one of the important tasks of the government was to "persuade the peasants" to develop agriculture.

In order to persuade farming and encourage the people to carry out spring ploughing in a timely manner, the imperial court and the government will hold a series of ceremonies in the beginning of spring.

The emperor will also plough the fields himself on this day, and the local government will also put red and green on the ploughing oxen on the day of the beginning of spring, and the state and county officials will whip them with whips made of colorful cloth strips to pray for a good year of wind and rain, this ritual is called "beating spring" to remind the farmers of the beginning of spring ploughing.

On the day of the beginning of spring, the Ministry of Rites has been preparing for a long time, Zhou Jing led the ministers of civil and military affairs, concubines and concubines, wearing cyan costumes, and set off from the Forbidden City to the eastern suburbs of the capital to worship one of the five emperors, the god of spring and flowers - the green emperor of the East, to welcome spring.

This trip is called "Yingqi".

When sacrificing the Qingdi, it was presided over by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then the emperor came to the stage to speak, anyway, the content was very different.

Finally, Zhou Jing led the ministers and palace concubines to kneel three times and bow nine times to the Xiannong Bank to show respect.

After welcoming the qi, he began to "live in the field".

Gonggong Li tidied up Zhou Jing's robe, and then Zhou Jing would personally go to the field to pick up the ploughshare of the ploughing ox that had already been driven, and then began to symbolically "plough the field".

When the sincerity of ploughing the fields was almost expressed, Zhou Jing issued a spring decree to the onlookers, urging the people that the spring ploughing of the year had begun.

When Shangshu, Jiuqing and other ministers followed Zhou Jing to plough the fields, Zhou Jing had already begun to lose his physical strength, and Gonggong Li hurriedly helped Zhou Jing into the resting tent when he saw this.

Today is special, the Tai Hospital specially compressed the medicine into pills, and Zhou Jing took a nap on the couch after taking it.

After Gonggong Li saw Zhou Jing resting, he went out of the tent to guard.

Seeing this, Xiao Yao, who was not far away, quietly retreated into the queen's tent.

"Mother, Your Majesty has gone back to the tent to rest." Xiao Yao whispered.

Qi Yuansang nodded.

Xiao Yao was a little anxious, "Niangniang, there are so many people, how can that person reach Your Majesty." ”

Qi Yuansang said unhurriedly: "I don't have any ability at all, and he doesn't have to enter the palace." ”

There was no need for her to bet something on such a person.

It's not worth it.

Xiao Yao was said by Qi Yuansang, and his heart calmed down.

This is true, the situation in the palace is complicated, and if you don't have this ability, there is no need to cooperate.

Just when the ministers were about to end, Gonggong Li saw that the hour was almost the same, so he went to wake up Zhou Jing in advance.

Zhou Jing rested for a while and then recovered a little, when he returned to the ploughing place, there was only the last official of Jiuqing who was plowing the field, and just when the official was about to finish, among the onlookers behind him, a man in cloth suddenly coughed violently, and then a mouthful of blood gushed out.

The occurrence of this scene disturbed the holy driver, and it was very unlucky for Lichun to stain blood.

Just when the courtier pulled out with the imperial doctor, a Taoist priest who came out of nowhere appeared next to the man in cloth, only to see him show that he walked around the man in cloth three times, and he didn't know what he was reading, after he stopped, everyone saw his left hand pull out a talisman from the cuff, the index finger and middle finger of the right hand were straight, and the talisman of the left hand was clamped straight, and at the same time when the two fingers left the talisman, the talisman suddenly burned, and he calmly caught the ashes of the talisman, and then looked around and asked, "Is there water?" ”

Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and a person took out a water bladder from his waist, walked out of the crowd, handed it over, and said, "Is this okay?" ”

The Taoist priest nodded, "Yes." ”

Next, everyone saw the Taoist priest squatting down, breaking open the mouth of the cloth-clothed man on the ground, pouring the talisman ash in his other hand into his mouth, and then said to the man with a water bladder: "Pour water in." ”

The man with the water bladder nodded stunned.

After the cloth-clothed man swallowed the ashes, the Taoist priest took out a medicine bottle from his arms, and poured out a chocolate-colored pill from the bottle, and the Taoist priest directly put it into the cloth-clothed man's mouth.

The man with the water bladder asked, "Do you want to pour water?" ”

The Taoist priest shook his head, "No need, the pill melts in your mouth." ”

As soon as the words fell, the Taoist priest got up and patted his robe and left in style.

One of the people in the crowd asked, "Is this okay?" ”

The Taoist priest had already walked away, and when everyone saw that the other party did not pay attention, they all turned their eyes to the imperial doctor who came over.

Seeing this, the imperial physician had no choice but to step forward to check the pulse under everyone's gaze, and after a while, the imperial physician got up.

The man with the water bladder had the audacity to ask the curious question that everyone was curious about: "My lord, how's it going?" ”

Although the imperial doctor didn't want to admit it, he had to say, "The pulse is stable, and I guess I will wake up after a while." ”

Zhou Jing, who saw this scene, looked at Gonggong Li, who immediately understood the meaning and immediately retreated.

After Gonggong Li came back, more than half an hour had passed, and the sacrifice had ended, Gonggong Li saluted and said, "Your Majesty, that high-ranking slave has sent someone to stay." ”

Zhou Jing nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Call Imperial Doctor Liu." ”

When Imperial Physician Liu heard the emperor's summons, he followed Gonggong Li non-stop.

Seeing that Zhou Jing's complexion was not bad, Imperial Physician Liu guessed that the emperor should have questions about today's incident.

Sure enough, Zhou Jing spoke: "Is the man who fell ill today really sick?" ”

Imperial Physician Liu nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the patient's pulse is weak, his movements are weak, and he is slow and stops. Then it is strengthened by weakness, and the hardship subsides, not like feigning illness. ”

Zhou Jing was silent, and after a long time, he spoke again, "According to Imperial Doctor Liu's opinion, do this Taoist priest's elixirs and talismans really have the effect of curing diseases?" ”

Doctor Liu was in a dilemma.

From ancient times to the present, few emperors who have taken pills have had a good end, but why do they have lessons from the past but they don't work on the emperor.

It is because they will all think that this is not the time, and they think that they are the most unique one who is the true dragon emperor, of course, mainly because they have the hope of living, and they are unwilling to give up.

Imperial Physician Liu's mouth was bitter.

The facts that happened today have been seen by His Majesty with his own eyes, and his opinion does not matter at all, what matters is whether his opinion is the opinion that His Majesty wants to hear.

His words today are to hand the emperor a ladder, and even if the emperor really steps on this road, it will only be himself who will be under pressure.

He nnd, why did he come with him today.

Once he opened his mouth, in the short term, he won the emperor's heart and was free from the pressure of the hospital.

But if that Taoist priest really has a way to deal with it, the Tai Hospital will be useless in the future, and his previous efforts will be turned to ashes, and he will become a sinner in the Tai Hospital!

This path, no matter how he goes, is wrong.

In the end, Imperial Physician Liu still made a choice and said: "The matter of the pill has not been involved, but judging from today's situation, it does have its miraculous effect. ”