Royal Road

Outside the Gaodu city, an earthen platform was erected outside the newly reclaimed hundred acres of barren fields. This place is just in the east of the city, and it is the evolution of the ancient ceremony of greeting the spring in the suburbs. Early in the morning, people from all four miles and eight townships stood in front of the stage. This is the Lichun Nuo ceremony personally presided over by the county prince, and I haven't seen it in a few years. It is no wonder that the past few years were severe droughts and insect plagues. There is no official government to eliminate the disasters and welcome the spring, how can the weather be smooth?

With a very simple mind, these people rushed over early, hoping to grab a good position in front of the stage. The cattle used to whip the spring stood on the edge of the stage, covered with cyan curtains, and their stature alone was considerable. However, no one dared to step forward before the county prince arrived.

After another half an hour, the sound of gongs and drums came from a distance. This is a clean way, and it is also a necessary ritual for exorcising ghosts. Not long after, I saw the brigade yamen walking towards this side with the two of them. The two in the middle were both wearing Tsing Yi. The older one was wearing a green head, with a plain face, with a beard under his chin, and looked very majestic. It was Guo Jiao, the magistrate of Gaodu. The young man next to him was crowned with a caged veil, his complexion resembling Chunxue that had not yet melted away, dazzling white, and so beautiful that people did not dare to look at him.

There was a commotion from the audience immediately: "Who is that person? Why is he walking with the county lord?"

"Why is Lang Jun so handsome?"

"Ah, isn't it the legendary Liang Langjun?!"

"Such a fairy character must be Liang Langjun!"

The commotion became louder and louder, and immediately afterwards, I did not know who knelt down first, bowing his head sincerely to the handsome man. In order to defend the city last year, many young men died of unfavorable lives. It is said that Liang Langjun cast a spell to lure away the insurgents, so that Gaodu was spared the disaster of breaking the city. And these newly converted refugees even ate horsemeat porridge for an unknown number of meals. I don’t know if it’s blessed by the meat porridge. In the refugee villages, the number of people who died of the disaster was so few that it was like a miracle.

Nowadays, the county respects the oxen, the **** of greeting the spring, and Liang Langjun is accompanied by him. Doesn't it mean that the weather should be smooth, disease-free and disaster-free? Excited and uncontrollable, just like Mai Lang falling down in a row, all the people in the four fields kneel down.

Guo Jiao looked at the kneeling people below, and twisted his beard with a smile: "Look at Lianghou, the people's support is available!"

"It's up to the county to respect the benevolent governance, so that the people can return." Liang Feng replied with his hands.

This is a compliment in front of outsiders, and it sounds better than a hundred times in private. Guo Jiao laughed and asked Liang Feng to host the ceremony on the same stage. Naturally, Liang Feng would not rob him of the limelight. He smiled and pushed back. In the end, only Guo Jiao boarded the soil platform.

Standing on the soil platform, Guo Jiao swept deeply towards the east, and said loudly: "The beginning of spring is here, please Mang God! May this year's grains be abundant and the weather will be smooth!"

With his voice, the gongs and drums rang again, and a dozen men with Nuo face singing and dancing began to drive Nuo away. Because it was the wood **** sentence mang who was welcoming, this time the Nuo ceremony did not bring the face and face, everyone was wearing Qingyi, holding willow twigs, wearing bird face, and shouting around the earthen platform endlessly. After chanting the long curse, and then dancing the jubilant Nuo dance, the guardian child covered with the oxen was uncovered.

This time, the sculptor of the spring cow was a master craftsman in the workshop, and saw that the earth cow was lifelike, with hoofs and horns, like a strong yellow cow, ready to leave for farming. Guo Jiao stepped down to the earth platform, took the colored staff handed by the Ya Ya, and hit the earth cow hard. With every blow, a small official sang auspicious words, and the people greeted each other with shouts and shouts. Amidst the sky-shaking cheers, Guo Jiao flogged six vigorously before the end.

However, when the ceremony was over, Guo Jiao did not put down the colored stick, but holding the wooden stick in both hands, walked in front of Liang Feng: "Thank you Liang Hou for coming, this spring, I will offer Liang Hou!"

The voice fell, and drum music rang again. This is also a kind of etiquette, so called "send spring", the county magistrate personally handed out the whip spring color stick and handed it to the county gentry, which can be said to be the highest treatment.

Naturally, Liang Feng would not refuse, and took the colored stick with both hands, bowing to thank him. Seeing the movement of the two people handing over the colored sticks, there was a joyous voice from the audience, with the Buddha's blessing, why be afraid of the epidemic!

In this way, the scene is finished, Guo Jiao whispered: "Lianghou, let's go out a bit..."

I didn't understand what Guo Jiao meant, but Liang Feng was not so stupid as to ask. He smiled and followed behind the opponent and withdrew more than a hundred steps. After standing still, Guo Jiao winked at the small official around him, and the other party quickly rang the gong beside the stage. As soon as the gong rang, the people below were in chaos, rushing towards the cattle with a bang. This battle is almost like having no food for hundreds of years, and you are hungry for the last bite. In a blink of an eye, there is a mess of porridge next to the soil platform.

When Yi Yan had seen such a scene, he immediately shouted and took the soldiers to stand firmly in front of Liang Feng. Guo Jiao laughed and said, "Don't panic, this is the people who grab the spring mud and can't hurt anyone."

After listening to Guo Jiao's explanation, Liang Feng understood. These people grab the soil from the spring cows. It is said that sprinkling in the field can bless the fertility of the land, and cover the silkworm seeds to protect the spring silkworms from disease and produce more silk. It's a kind of superbly thoughtful baby, how can people not steal their heads?

In less than a quarter of an hour, there was no dregs left in the big mud cow, and some people were unwilling to scrape the ground where the cow was originally standing, hoping to make a little mud. Seeing the delighted expressions of the people who grabbed the spring mud, Liang Feng felt relieved. In a few days, when the rollovers outside the city are also fully equipped, with intensive cultivation, the county will surely have a bumper harvest.

A visit to the persuasive farming ceremony made Liang Feng's mood very comfortable. However, not long after returning to the mansion, the bad news fell from the sky. The Ningbei General Mansion sent an envoy and wanted to enlist him as a subordinate of the General Mansion.

The visitor's surname was Chen, who was recorded in the General's Mansion. After seeing Liang Feng, he nodded with satisfaction: "Dong Yinggong heard that Liang Lang is very virtuous, handsome, and has the heart to be a general. The house is a shame."

Looking at Chen Lushi's arrogant appearance, Liang Feng said lightly: "My man has been ill on the couch for a long time, and he is too weak to be able to support him."

Unexpectedly, this kid rejected it face to face when he didn't agree. Chen Lushi's face couldn't help but froze: "Liang Lang is a person from the state, as today is chaotic, it is the occasion of employing people. Dongying public recruits talents, appointing and employing talents, in fact, is the mainstay of the state. Such rejection, Isn't it sloppy?"

To this stern word, Liang Feng smiled but did not answer.

Seeing the person in front of him who didn't get in, Chen Lushi felt very depressed. A good job, even if it is done like this, he will be punished by Dongyinggong when he goes back. However, requisitioning is a national etiquette and cannot be used to force. After holding back the weather for a long time, he can only get up and retire.

Seeing the appearance of the recorder leaving with angrily, Lu Zhu whispered worriedly: "Lang Jun, this is Dongying Gong's conquest, can you really not go?"

"Naturally." Liang Feng sneered.

Not only is it possible, but it is something that anyone who wants to recruit celebrities must accept. The inability to recruit celebrities can be said to be a tradition since the Han Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, where the imperial examination system never appeared, the requisition system was another important way of officialdom besides the chaju system and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system. The emperor's enlistment is called "zheng", and the official enlistment is called "pi". Many celebrities and Confucian scholars entered the officialdom through enlistment. However, this "shortest way to the south" is not a hundred-thinking. Many hermits are unwilling to take up official positions, and they are unable to recruit. There was Zheng Xuan, a great scholar who refused the enlistment of the Han court several times, and Wang Bao, a celebrity who had murdered his father with Sima Zhao. Even Sima Yi, the ancestor of the Sima family, escaped Cao Cao's initial requisition by pretending to be sick?

In the Western Jin Dynasty, a dynasty with complex dynasties and stubborn powers, it became more popular if it should not be conquered. With such a social atmosphere, those celebrities who are absorbed in the power of fame cannot come and go. Therefore, if the recruitment is not successful, it has become another option for some celebrities to increase their status. Without paying close attention to the thatched cottage, without being promoted again and again, they are never willing to become officials.

Therefore, the requisition has become a wrestling between those in power and celebrities. Those in power want to get a good name, while celebrities use this mentality to raise their hopes for themselves, and no one will easily break the balance. But now Liang Feng is no longer the kind of mundane person who is not well-known. He has made a name for himself again and again, and he has the right to refuse to conquer.

Just relying on Sima Teng's folly of going to Beijing to claim credit for the epidemic prevention, he would not devote himself to that fool's general's mansion. And the requisition is a good thing for him, not a bad thing. Because even if the requisition should not, the world will acquiesce that you have the ability to be the official. However, if you want to continue to enlist, you can only be promoted step by step, and you cannot enlist several times with the initial official position.

If Sima Teng took hold on the requisition, it would be beneficial to him. He wanted to see what else the idiot could think of.

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"What are you talking about? Liang Feng shouldn't be conquered?!" Hearing the words of the main book, Sima Teng raised his eyebrows, "How dare you be so domineering in a district pavilion?! Send a convoy to Liang Mansion and pick him up." Come to Jinyang!"

The opposing director Gao couldn't help but smile: "General, then Liang Zixi said that he was weak and couldn't respond to it. I'm afraid it's wrong to act so hastily."

"What's wrong?!" Sima Teng said angrily, "I'm already a courteous corporal, regardless of the predecessors, he is still so uninterested. Is it possible that I have to visit the thatched cottage in person?!"

This was a bit overstatement, and the master book hurriedly coughed: "The general said seriously. In fact, there is no way to re-entry. Didn't he say that he is ill? Then send a few doctors to see him. If so. If you are really sick, you can give me medicine and treat me, and reward some kindness. If you pretend to be sick, you will naturally have a reason to ask sin. In this way, can't it also show the general's generosity?"

Sima Teng heard the words, pondered for a moment, and finally nodded bitterly: "That's fine. Send two emperor doctors to check his pulse carefully! If you dare to make false statements, I will take him as a question!"

Master Gao breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Liang Zixi used this kind of excuse. If you put it another way, it would be really difficult to deal with. But is this person trying to increase his reputation, or is he really unwilling to come to the General's Mansion? If it's the latter, it's easy to handle, if it's the former, it's a man with deep thoughts. For such a person, it may not be a good thing to enter the General's Mansion.

But the words have been spoken, and nowadays, they are a little hard to get off the ground. Alas, it seems that we have to send a letter to Wang Wen as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be troublesome.