Although he has not yet been called a king and an emperor, the system has been created, and various rituals should also be carried out.

This spring, the father and son respectively presided over the Spring Society in Hanzhong and Xiangyang.

This activity is very ancient, from the oracle bone era, to the Song Dynasty. In addition to praying for rain, praying for harvest, and entertaining people and gods, there were also activities of marriage and love in ancient times.

It was even written into the "Rites of the Week", which was determined in the form of laws and etiquette. During the Spring Festival, marriageable men and women are allowed to date on their own, and sexual prostitution is also allowed. Those who prohibit men and women from dating without reason are punished by the ruler.

Zhu Guoxiang sent official documents to all prefectures and counties in advance, formulating the highest standards for spring shrine sacrifices.

To put it simply, sacrifices must not be extravagant!

The excitement with the participation of the whole people allowed officials, gentry, businessmen, and ordinary people to participate, and it was more like a collective celebration of all classes.

A country and a nation must have this kind of festival celebration in order to build self-identity and cohesion.

Especially in the reclamation area, in view of the scarcity of the population, unmarried and unmarried men and women are encouraged to fall in love and date freely during the Spring Festival. Especially those homeless people, most of their families are ruined, and it is very common for those who have lost their husbands and wives to work hard all year round, so they take advantage of this time to quickly remarry and reorganize their families.

The emperor has a Taisha, the county has a county community, and the township has a Li society, and it is celebrated everywhere in the past two days.

Zhu Ming strictly followed the etiquette of the county society and went out with his wife and concubine early in the morning.

Li Hanzhang, as the prefect of Xiangyang, has already led the officials to wait, and there are some Xiangyang nobles standing next to him.

There are mainly Kuai's, Xi's, Luo's, Zhang's and so on, especially Kuai's, which settled in Xiangyang during the Qin and Han dynasties. However, because of the war in the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, there were no big officials in the Song Dynasty, although there were many clansmen, they had already separated, and the strength of the Kuai clan was far inferior to that of the Shuzhong Wang clan.

"Meet the Generalissimo!"

Zhu Ming walked out of the gate, and the officials and the nobles brushed together.

"Let's go." Zhu Ming smiled.

In front of him were heavily armored guards to open the way, followed by musketeers in silk clothes, Zhu Ming rode slowly forward on a cornucopia, wives and concubines followed in carriages, and officials and nobles followed even further.

"It's so lively!"

Zhao Fujin lifted the corner of the curtain and felt strange to see everything.

Today's Xiangyang City is particularly lively.

In the past few years, because of the exploitation of the government and the problem of displaced people, as well as Zhu Ming's army to fight with the imperial court, the Spring Society in Xiangyang has not been done well. Now that it has finally recovered, there are no internal or external troubles, and all the people can celebrate to their heart's content.

Many peasants on the outskirts of the city carry agricultural and sideline products into the city, selling them along the streets with smiles on their faces.

The officials did not take much care of it, only maintaining traffic in key streets and alleys, and stipulating that no stalls could be set up in the places with the most people.

The eldest girls and little daughters-in-law went out into the streets en masse, all wearing the best clothes in the house. I can't afford to buy good clothes, and I wear the latest and cleanest clothes, and I may not have the money to buy anything, but I am happy to wander around the streets and watch the excitement.

The solar term is still early, the peach and plum blossoms have not yet bloomed, and many people have plum blossoms in their hands or unknown wildflowers on their heads.

Even men will have hairpins on their heads.

"The Generalissimo is here!"

The people in front shouted one after another.

In fact, there is no need to shout, the movement of the guards to open the road is quite big, and the common people hurriedly stand on both sides of the street to avoid, and then wait to see the demeanor of the generalissimo and the guards.

Everywhere Zhu Ming passed, the people on both sides vied with each other, but fortunately, no one dared to throw anything at him.

Xiangyang also has a Goolan Washe, which is open from the morning and stages various acrobatics, tricks, and miscellaneous shows.

After leaving the city, it is still lively.

Zhu Ming went straight to the suburban altar and personally presided over the Spring Society sacrifice.

The ceremony is solemn and simple, solemnity is all kinds of etiquette, simplicity is the simplicity of all sacrifices.

Only Zhang Jinping followed Zhu Ming to sacrifice, and the rest of the concubines belonged to the audience.

At the end of the festival, the participants of other activities dispersed to celebrate with their friends and family. The rest still want to follow the generalissimo all the way to the barracks, and I heard that there is also a celebration in the army today.

Most of the followers, who were entering the barracks for the first time, looked around very curiously.

I saw a group of sergeants, dressed in civilian clothes, lining up to enter the field.

Although he was not wearing armor or carrying weapons, he still carried a murderous aura.

Kuai Zhang, the patriarch of the Kuai clan, exclaimed: "With such a strong army, the world can be determined!" ”

Luo Shaozhi, the patriarch of the Luo clan, said: "Compared with the previous Xiangyang Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army, these soldiers in front of me can really be described as a division of tigers and wolves, no wonder they can defeat officers and soldiers." ”

When these people of the noble family saw Zhu Ming's army, they firmly believed that the Zhu family father and son could win the world.

"Generalissimo, it's ready!" Zhang Juhou came to Zhu Ming's side.

"Good." Zhu Ming nodded.

Everyone sat around the stage in a fan shape, and nearly 4,000 soldiers also moved to the bench and sat down.

Without a microphone, the audience sitting in the back row would not know what was going on on stage, but they could take turns watching the performance in the future.

The opening scene is an elderly man, who goes on stage to sing some operas, the lyrics are easy to understand, and the people at the bottom can also understand it, which is to introduce the time and place where the story takes place.

Then, the elder stepped back, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old followed a man in his thirties into the field.

Then, the elder stepped back, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old followed a man in his thirties into the field.

The officials and the big clan were stunned for a moment.

In the market miscellaneous drama, it is normal for actors to wear coarse cloth clothes, but I have never seen anyone who comes to perform with a hoe.

Father and son walked while chanting white, and then ploughed with hoes. Then it was sung again, and the tune was a transposition of "Qingping Le", and the lyrics were still simple and easy to understand, showing the rich and happy pastoral life.

Immediately, more and more characters appeared, all of whom were rural village husbands and village women and children.

Because of the mixture of slang and meat jokes, not only the sergeants burst into laughter, but even the officials and clansmen were amused.

In the first few scenes, the atmosphere was cheerful and quite festive.

Until Song Huizong and Cai Jing appeared, the taste immediately changed. One is poor and extravagant, and the other is flattering.

The two gentlemen and ministers discussed how to make money.

Immediately afterwards, the local officials, who received orders from the emperor, discussed how to cater to the imperial court and make political achievements. When the officials received the task, they also began to plan how to enrich their pockets and carry out crazy exploitation of the small people.

The largest landlord in the village went to discuss with the officials, and joined forces to exploit the peasants and seize the opportunity to rob the peasants of their land.

The tragedy begins here, and the heroes and heroines who are in love are torn apart by the ruthless reality. Both sides were tortured, and the young actors of twelve or thirteen years old were also replaced by adult actors in their twenties.

Zhang Juhou's creative materials are too much, and he condenses the tragic experiences of hundreds of homeless families into the two families of the hero and heroine.

The tragic things in the world are vividly displayed.

Seeing this, some soldiers were already in tears.

The pro-army under Zhu Ming's command did not come from the North Beijing Road for the time being, but many of them were Shaanxi refugees who fled to Hanzhong. The story that happened on the stage, although it was a little different from what happened to them, but the similarities made them resonate emotionally.

Until the heroine died on the way to escape, many sergeants at the scene began to cry because their family also died in this way.

In the last few scenes, Zhu Ming asked Zhang Juhou to make slight changes.

The hero's younger brother joined the army, and instead of going to the bell, he fictionalized a battle with officers and soldiers. The rebels won a complete victory, and the hero's younger brother caught the enemy, but strictly guarded the military order and did not lynch him, but handed it over to the Shangguan to be judged, and all the officials who killed the people were hanged.

"Good!"

The suppressed emotions of countless sergeants were released, and the applause came one after another, and some even shouted happily.

In the end, the male protagonist whose wife starved to death married the heroine's sister, started a family in the new wilderness, and lived a happy life as a male farmer and a female weaver.

Moreover, the lyrics and tunes have become brisk again, and country slang and meat jokes have reappeared.

After the sergeants went through various emotions of suppression, anger, and release, they looked at the happy life on the stage, and they all smiled, fantasizing about their good days in the future.

"Bang bang bang!"

All the sergeants applauded and asked who the actors on the stage were, and it is estimated that many people will become star chasers.

The officials and the big families have mixed feelings, although they can't empathize, but they also pity the tragic plight of the heroes and heroines in the play. At the same time, there are also people who bring in corrupt officials and bad gentry.

The real corrupt officials and corrupt officials either ran away or were killed.

Now some of the officials in Xiangyang are still retained and continue to work under Zhu Ming and Li Hanzhang. They all did evil to some extent, but they were not notorious, and when they saw the corrupt officials in the play being hanged, they all shrank their necks and broke out in a cold sweat.

There is even a plot of killing the inferior gentry in the play, which also makes those big clans have lingering palpitations.

Zhao Fujin wiped his tears and asked his sister in a low voice: "Sister, is my father really that bad?" ”

Zhao Fujin wanted to speak again and again, and replied for a long time: "I don't know." ”

Master Li turned his head to look at the two emperors, and it was hard to say anything, she had heard many evil words. Although all the top elites she had been in contact with before were there, it was inevitable that some people would get drunk and scold the emperor.

Zhu Ming asked Li Hanzhang with a smile: "How is this acrobatic play?" ”

Li Hanzhang said: "It can boost the morale of the people. ”

Due to the excellent performance effect, Zhu Ming recruited another troupe to rehearse. First gave a few more performances to the Xiangyang pro-army, constantly changing the details, and then the two troupes, going north and south respectively, gave condolences to the soldiers of various departments.

While the soldiers watched, they even let the homeless people come to see it.

Today's regular soldiers, only Han Shizhong and He Ji's troops, a large number of northern refugees are recruited. When these two troops were watching the play, because the plot was too real, the soldiers from the Henan refugees were so angry that they rushed to the stage en masse and beat corrupt officials and inferior gentry.

The officer hurriedly went to stop it, the sergeant stepped down from the stage with the fire, and then grabbed the side of the stage, and the actors who played Song Huizong and Cai Jing scolded him.

The villains cried one after another, they did not want to continue the performance, not only were their lives in danger during the performance, but even if they were recognized after the performance, they would be verbally attacked by the soldiers and the people.

The positive actors are very popular, especially the scenes that play the heroine.

Whether it was adulthood or adolescence, because its ending was too tragic, the two actresses were pitied by countless soldiers and civilians.

There are even some people who have not much to eat at home, but after the performance, they brought bean cakes to the two heroines. They had to watch the actress eat the cake that they smiled with joy, as if the heroine in the play could also eat enough.

When the tour ended, the two heroines each gained a few pounds......

Zhang Juhou forced them to lose weight, because it was too dramatic. That white and chubby look, how does it look like he was starved to death?

There is no need to deliberately guide it, now the soldiers of all departments know what they are fighting for.

These soldiers want to overthrow the brutal rule of the Great Song Dynasty and let the people of the whole world live a good life!

(End of chapter)