Chapter 40: Thanksgiving
Early the next morning, the people who entered the city found that there was a notice posted on the four gates of Huzhou Mansion, and a scholar recited the content of the notice aloud before each announcement. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In order to promote justice and educate the people of the state, a thanksgiving meeting for the deeds of King Anle will be held at the foot of Mogan Mountain three days later, and good men and women should not be late. ”
The content of the proclamation was clear and easy to understand, and the people who entered the city rushed to recite it for a while. When the people returned from the city, they brought the news to the countryside. There are so many people in Huzhou City who have been favored by King Anle, and in just two days, this matter has spread throughout the fourteen counties of Huzhou Capital.
Two days later, Yutong organized the government officials in the government to build a three-zhang high platform at the foot of Mogan Mountain, which was called the Thanksgiving Platform. A hundred zhang of open space was cleared around the high platform, and the place was suddenly turned into a large square that could accommodate 100,000 people.
Three days later, before dawn, the audience was already crowded. In this ancient period, where there was a lack of entertainment, people had a fanatical enthusiasm for temple fairs, social dramas, lanterns and other activities.
Many well-informed small traders and hawkers have taken up positions in advance and started to sell loudly, and most of these vendors sell rouge gouache, marshmallows, clay figurines, etc., after all, women and children have the best money.
Zhang Muxian stood on the top of a golden bamboo more than ten zhang high in Mogan Mountain, looked at the direction of the Thanksgiving Terrace, and said in his heart: "I don't know how Yutong will slander King Anle, can this old fritter give himself a surprise?"
The time has come, the morning sun is rising, and the Thanksgiving Terrace has been surrounded by water.
Suddenly, I don't know who shouted: "Master Fuzun is here!"
Yu Tong walked towards the Thanksgiving Platform under the escort of dozens of officials, and he took a steady official step, full of style, and the people around him were afraid and spontaneously made a way for him. Yu Tong effortlessly came to the thanksgiving platform, looking at the dense crowd under the stage, he couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in his heart, if such a powder keg was ignited, the damage caused would be catastrophic.
Just as he thought of this, Yutong felt a chill in his chest, and an angry snort came from his ears.
Yu Tong cleaned up his mood and said aloud to the audience: "All the people of Huzhou, there was a famine in Huzhou two years ago, and everyone ate all the stored grain, and they were all hungry. Who saved the guys?"
"King Anle!" came a tsunami-like shout from the audience.
"Yes, it is King Anle, King Anle has the grace of regeneration to everyone, and we can't help but be grateful, so this official specially held a thanksgiving meeting here today to commemorate King Anle with everyone. The fish roared with the tiger.
There was a thunderous cheer from the audience.
Zhang Muxian frowned, "What does Yu want to do with him?"
Yu Tong's words ignited the emotions of ten thousand people, and after two breaths, the momentum of the people was slightly weaker, he raised his hand gently, and the audience slowly quieted down.
"The official organized a gathering here to preach the good deeds of King Anle. For this reason, the official sent people to travel to the fourteen counties of Huzhou Prefecture, and selected fourteen families from them, and these people were all blessed by King Anle. They will tell each of them about the good deeds of King Anle. ”
After Yutong finished speaking, he slowly retreated to a corner of the thanksgiving table, where there was a desk. Several officials led fourteen people to the high platform, one of them had a lewd face and a short stature, he took the first step out of the people and said to the stage: "My name is Niu Er, and King Anle has great kindness to my Niu family." ”
Yu Tong frowned and said to the leader of the officials behind him: "What's the matter? Didn't you ask you to look for honest-looking people, how can you get a scoundrel?"
The leader of the officials behind him said embarrassedly: "I can't find so many people who are honest and eloquent for a while, this Niu Er can speak well, so I can only use him to make up the numbers." ”
Yutong turned his head to look at the front of the stage, Niu Er had already begun to dance with his eyebrows, telling how his family was in trouble when the famine came, telling about his old lady crying and shouting for meat soup every day, and about his daughter-in-law cutting off a piece of meat on his calf and cooking it for his mother to cook into meat soup in order to let his old lady eat meat soup.
The more Yu Tong listened, the more wrong he became, and he said to the head of the officials behind him: "Is Niu Erdang a teahouse here? full of nonsense, should he be commenting on books? Call him back quickly, so as not to be embarrassed." Today's affairs are smashed, and this official will send all of you to Lingnan!"
The leader of the government servants was in his heart, and he hurriedly stepped forward to pull Niu Er, who was still unsatisfied, back.
The second man was honest and honest, and he began to weep before he could open his mouth, and then intermittently told that when the famine came, the rice jar in his house had bottomed out in two days. He went to the city to buy rice before dawn every day, but the price of rice was high day by day, but for ten days, all the money saved in his family was earned by profiteers. Every day when he gets up, he has to face a child waiting to be fed and an old lady with a face full of vegetables.
"I was so uncomfortable that I had to go up to the mountains to dig wild vegetables to feed my family, and then more and more people were digging wild vegetables, and there were fewer and fewer wild vegetables, so I had to peel the bark, and then I couldn't peel the bark. Just when I was thinking that my family would starve to death, King Anle came and brought us white rice. King Anle saved our family!" After this person finished speaking, many people in the audience felt the same way and cried.
Yu Tong said to the leader of the officials behind him, "What is his name?
The leader of the government said in a low voice: "This person's name is Chen Zhong, he lives in Deqing County, don't look at him as loyal, my lord, he is actually a scoundrel." ”
Yu Tong praised: "The lie is full of emotion, he is a talent, and you called him to see me after this incident, which is the material of an official." ”
The leader of the officials bowed his head and said, "Yes." I was envious of Chen Zhong in my heart, and I thought in my heart: "Am I blackmailing him and getting short-term benefits, or am I befriending him and fishing for a long time?"
After Chen Zhong came down, there was another honest and honest people on stage, this people first explained their family history, and then began to state the experience of facing the famine, his words were simple, but more infectious, after a narration, many people shed tears like rain, and the golden power of faith in the sky has been condensed as substance.
Zhang Muxian crossed his knees at the top of the golden bamboo to close the closing ceremony and recuperate, quietly waiting for Yutong to end this big drama.
Next, the fourteen people came to the stage in turn to talk about their fear of facing the famine and their gratitude to King Anle, and Yutong invited several high-spirited people in the audience to come to the stage to speak, which enlivened the atmosphere to the extreme.
From the hour to the end of the day, the sun has turned westward, dozens of people took turns on the stage to speak, and the enthusiasm of the people was ignited several times, wave after wave.
Zhang Muxian, who focused on the power of faith, gradually found a difference, although the enthusiasm of the people was getting higher and higher, but the power of faith wafting out was getting less and less, and a smile couldn't help but escape from the corner of his mouth.
"One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, Yutong originally fought this idea. First raised and then suppressed, I don't know where he came from to smear King Anle?" Zhang Muxian muttered with anticipation.