Three days after the Great Dynasty Meeting, the princes from all walks of life remained in Beijing, preparing to participate in the decennial weekly festival of sacrificing the Tang of the Emperor, the founder of the Shang Dynasty.

The so-called weekly sacrifice is said to be a sacrifice to a hundred gods, and each side sits on all sides. It is composed of five kinds of festivals, including the next day, the festival, the child, the county, and the township, and the monarchs of each royal world from the emperor to the emperor Yi are sacrificed over and over again, and at the same time the gods of the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers, the ancestral gods, the mythical ancestors, the ancestors, the ancestors, the ancestors, and the former ministers. The Zhou Festival Grand Ceremony is the foundation of the country based on ghosts and gods, and the Shang kings of all dynasties have taken the Zhou Festival as the top priority in their ruling careers, and they are sacrificed at the foot of the Guling Mountain next to the high priest's mansion, which is also a grand ceremony once every ten years in the high priest's family.

Relatively speaking, Zishou was not happy to be interrupted by the grand ceremony of the Zhou Sacrifice at a critical period when he was just about to start suppressing the development of the priest line, especially this ceremony was destined to further strengthen the image of the priest line in the minds of the ministers. But the Zhou sacrifice was a dead rule set from the founding of the Great Shang, and it was not something that he could change in just a year after he took the throne, so Zishou wore a luxurious dress early under the service of the palace maid, and took the Jiufeng Imperial Chariot to Guling Mountain with Jiang Yi.

The weekly festival was held as scheduled, and yesterday there were many herdsmen who arranged for many herdsmen to drive a total of 1,000 cattle and sheep into the Chaoge City, which was used to sacrifice livestock. At the beginning of the weekly sacrifice after a while, the cattle and sheep were killed at the same time, which was used to sacrifice to the ancestors of heaven and earth to show the wealth of the great merchants. After the Zhou Festival, the best meat of the cattle and sheep is selected, and the royal family and the princes eat it together, and then the second-class meat is selected to be given to the hundred officials, and the first-class flesh and blood offal are scattered to the people of Chaoge, so after the Zhou Festival is over, there are always many people waiting outside the Zhuhuang Palace, and at the same time they do not spend a shell coin to get the beef and mutton, it is also the good fortune after the Zhou Festival.

The Great Shang Dynasty in a slave society had always been strict in its rule, not to mention the many slaves accumulated after many wars. Therefore, the court has always been extremely heavy on punishment, correspondingly, the official in charge of punishment is high and powerful, and is the central minister of the court, known as "criminal justice". Now the punishment of the inner court is being served by the doctor Fei Lian, he is a direct descendant of Emperor Xuanyuan, he is upright, iron-faced and selfless, and he is even more cruel when he is in charge of punishment.

Most of the so-called "human animals" were mainly slaves, including slaves who were captured in war, and some people who had committed serious crimes and their families behind them. The most special thing about this time is that many families in the "Chaoge Snow Night Case" were imprisoned overnight a year ago, and these people and many slaves will be beheaded today after being imprisoned for a year.

These officials, who were originally calling for wind and rain in the Chaoge City, just because of one wrong step, buried all the efforts of the entire clan for many years before, and brought the entire clan into the abyss, and there was almost no day to turn over. The Great Shang has always been guilty of serious crimes, and no king would mercifully choose not to sit together.

At the foot of Guling Mountain, there is a huge, white marble paved square, covering a very large area, a plane tree is planted every three zhang around, the weekly festival ceremony will be held in this square planted with many sycamores, and at the end of this square, there is a tall bronze sacred tree!

The sacred tree is ten zhang high, the whole body is cast in bronze, it is a huge plane tree image, its crown branches are oblique, the tree body is vigorous and majestic, it looks majestic and magnificent, every leaf is lifelike, the whole tree takes the meaning of "the phoenix is not a sycamore and does not inhabit", it is really ingenious. This tree was built by the first high priest of the Shang Dynasty, and was cast with the power of a large Shang country, and depleted the ten years of bronze inventory in the treasury at that time. The bronze god tree is so thick that dozens of people can surround it, standing under the tree and looking up, making people suddenly feel that this body is small and the ghosts and gods are solemn.

There are nine big tripods on a high platform in front of the sacred tree, which is said to be the time when Emperor Yu Dingding Shenzhou, taking the copper of Shouyang Mountain in the birthplace of the human race, and integrating it into the nine tripods cast by their own great merits. Located in the center is in the later generations of the famous "Simu Wu Ding", this tripod body and four legs for the whole casting, the tripod ear is in the tripod body after the casting and then installed fan casting into the shape of huge, majestic and solemn, the tripod body is cast around the delicate dragon pattern and gluttonous pattern, increasing the sense of majesty and solemnity of the tripod body. The foot is cast with clear lines of cicada patterns, and the inner wall of the abdomen is cast with the three characters of "Houmu Wu", and the font is strong and vigorous.

The place where the weekly festival is held is different each time, and only when the highest standard is sacrificed to the founding king and emperor soup, can it be under the bronze sacred tree, and it is usually designated as a forbidden place, and the high priest personally sits and guards it. In the eyes of the people who have achieved the cultivation of the Tao, this tree is connected to the purple gas of the great merchant country, and the golden gas of the dragon vein of the song of the lower town, and the two qi are entangled and blended in the middle of the tree, showing the color of brilliant purple gold, which is indescribably expensive.

However, it stands to reason that after many years of accumulation of national fortune and dragon qi, this purple gold luck should be extremely strong, but Zishou, who stood on the imperial chariot and observed carefully, always felt that this purple gold color was not pure enough, but even as a Shang king, he only told his ancestors to come once when he first ascended the throne, and he did not carefully explore what was so wonderful or wrong with this tree. This was the second time he had come to the Divine Tree, and he habitually squinted like Master Wu Zhiqi, carefully looking at the bronze Divine Tree with distinct lines in his eyes.

Jiang Yi found that her husband was looking at the Divine Tree and fell into deep thought, knowing that her strength was not enough to relieve her husband's worries, so she quietly closed her eyes and cultivated on the side, and did not make a sound to disturb. A few days ago, her husband took her nervous and uneasy to talk to her master about accepting apprentices, and Wu Zhiqi did not allow it, so he immediately taught the exercises and gave Jiang Yi a drop of Xuanvortex divine water. Now Zishou has not accepted a concubine, the harem is quiet and quiet, Jiang Yi has put all his mind into hard cultivation these days, and if he doesn't understand something, he will ask Zishou and Wu Zhiqi for advice.

The queen was busy with cultivation and didn't care about anything, so all the big and small affairs in the Zhuhuang Palace were handled by the new chief eunuch, a young man named Gu Ji. This gloomy young man in his twenties, since he was a child, he entered the palace to serve Zishou, he was loyal in the previous bloody purge, three months ago he was just promoted to the first eunuch in the palace, and became the youngest and first person in the history of the Great Shang to hold the power of the eunuch in the palace less than thirty years old, although he is not very old, but Gu Ji is very safe, and he is also very careless when serving people, and he is very valued by Jiang Yi and his wife. may be because he has been standing in the shadow of Zi Shou's side all the year round, Gu Ji's face is pale, his jaw is beardless, and his seemingly weak body has the cultivation period of the gods, and he has a lot of potential on the way to cultivation. In this weekly festival, he was responsible for the specific docking affairs between the palace and the high priest's line.

Gu Ji looked around, and the princes and courtiers of the Quartet were all in place, so he went to Jiufeng and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, the hundred officials have arrived." ”

Zishou heard Gu Ji's voice, came back to his senses, nodded, and said softly: "Let's start." ”

The young chief eunuch wore a round-necked, narrow-sleeved, long-sleeved dark purple coat decorated with snake and moire patterns, which added a lot of mystery to the original gloomy complexion. Gu Ji stood up straight, walked to the back of the imperial chariot to face the ministers, and used a trace of mana, and the loud voice made the ministers in the square hear, and the voice was less gloomy and more majestic: "The Zhou Festival Ceremony begins!"

On the square, eighty-one big drums and drums started first, the sound was shocking, and then there were eighty-one horns whimpering, standing in front of the drum array and the horn array was Shi Yan, who was praised by Taishi Wenzhong as "the musician of the Great Shang for 500 years".

Shi Yan and the year of the crown, the face is like a crown of jade, dressed in a long-sleeved blue shirt decorated with plackets, his hair is meticulously tied up by a blue hosta, he holds Tao Xun in his hand, slightly drummed and whined, one person faces two music arrays without stage fright, showing the talent and grace. Shi Yan is obviously also a cultivator with profound skills, he only has a small Tao Xun in his hand, and his momentum can compete with one hundred and sixty-two musicians!

The sound of xun, drums, and trumpets played together into a simple and solemn sacrificial song.

I don't know when, under the sacred tree, there appeared an old man wrapped in a brown robe, with a rickety figure, a cane in his left hand, and a small mallet in his right hand, he trembled and walked to a column of chimes in front of Jiuding, the gavel only struck gently, and the crisp and pleasant sound of the chimes went straight into the hearts of everyone, and even the clouds in the sky were stopped by this bell!

The music is like washing the ears, and the sound of ten thousand sounds can shake the sky!

After the bell rang, Zi Shou, who was wearing a gorgeous costume, walked down the Jiufeng Imperial Rim with Jiang Yi, Zi Shou's body was rich and handsome, Jiang Yi's appearance was beautiful and fragrant, and the two walked hand in hand on the high platform of the sacrifice, and there was a fairy couple. There is a long neck square in the hand of the child, the high circle foot, the neck is towering, the four sides are decorated with banana leaf pattern, triangular pattern and animal face pattern, the four corners of the statue each plastic a sheep, the four corners of the shoulder are four curly horned sheep's heads, the sheep's head and the sheep's neck stretch out of the vessel, the sheep's body and the leg of the sheep are attached to the belly and the ring foot. Fang Zun's shoulders are decorated with dragon patterns, and each has a pair of dragon heads protruding from the table, winding from the right shoulder of each side of Fang Zun in the middle of the front house. It is the "Four Sheep Fangzun" that is known as the national weapon together with the "Simu Wuding".

Siyang Fangzun was filled with aged wine, he and Jiang Yi raised the wine in their hands together, the king of Shang and the queen saluted the ministers from afar, and Zishou said in a deep voice: "Raise your glass!"

The ministers all raised their glasses to pay tribute to Emperor Xin and Empress Jiang, and the wine fragrance overflowed in front of the bronze god tree.

"Dashang has been a total of 500 years since the founding of the ancestor Emperor Tang, and now he is the king of Shang, and he will work hard to govern the country, and he will be worthy of the ancestors of heaven and earth.

The ministers looked excited, their faces turned red, and they all said in unison: "Encourage with my king!"

Emperor Xin has a high crown and a broad belt, and the vermilion wide sleeves are blown by the wind from the sky, and he is even more majestic and domineering, like the emperor of heaven in person, a pair of starry eyes scanned the courtiers on the square, and laughed loudly.

Di Xin said in a deep voice: "All full of drink!"

"Whoa!"

Before the bronze god tree, the monarchs and ministers raised the wine together, and drank the five hundred years of the great business with a cup of wine.