In the era of imperial power, sacrifices were very formal activities. The so-called major affairs of the country were sacrifices and wars. The emperor relied on it to set an example for the world, educate the people, and restrain officials. In the eyes of the emperor, sacrifices were even more important than military use.
The royal family holds various festivals every year. Whenever the festival comes, a lot of preparations must be carried out. No matter how much manpower and material resources are spent, they are willing to do so.
Chen Huang's pocket is now bulging, and he will not be stingy with silver.
One month before the festival begins, various buildings and facilities in the sacrificial place must be fully repaired, including all the streets the emperor passed from the palace to the altar, and all the appearance must be renewed.
Only five days before the royal festival, the capital has been fully under martial law
There are obviously more guards patrolling the streets during the day, and the curfew at night is also advanced by an hour. In short, this period is the quietest days in the capital that Tang Ning has experienced.
During these days, the dragon is lying on the tiger is lying on it. If anyone fails to open his eyes and commits a taboo, Emperor Chen’s imperial guards will definitely make them regret that they have come to this world.
According to the convention, five days before the sacrifice, the prince should be sent to observe the livestock prepared for the sacrifice of heaven.
King Kang wants to preside over all kinds of major events in the festival, but King Duan is always bad. King Huai has been entrusted with important tasks recently, so he went to see the tasks of whether the pigs, Ah, Sheep, Ah, and whether they were fat or not. It fell on King Huai's head.
However, Tang Ning himself did not break away from the relationship. Chen Huang has always liked to tie him and King Huai together recently. He just picked some fat pigs and sheep and asked him to go with King Huai together.
What Tang Ning didn't expect was that just one hour before departure, someone from Prince Huai's Mansion told him that Prince Huai was sick, and the matter of choosing livestock this time fell on Tang Ning alone.
Tang Ning didn't know if King Huai was a real or a fake one. After all, this didn't look like a good job. The places where the imperial court raised livestock were very bad. He walked around there and took a shower three times before he took a shower.
Tang Ning was extremely suspicious that the king was lazy and pretended to be sick, but he still did not go to the Secretariat the next day. The servants of the royal palace said that he was very sick and that he was very likely not even able to attend the ceremony.
In this way, King Huai was really sick. As a colleague, Tang Ning, with a moral heart, went to Prince Huai's mansion to see him.
In the Huai Palace, King Huai was lying on the bed with a pale face without blood. Tang Ning looked at him and said in surprise: What's wrong with Your Highness?
I felt a cold wind and the imperial doctor said that it would be better to rest for a few days. King Huai smiled and struggled to sit up, but fell down again
Tang Ning hurriedly said: Your Highness, please lie down.
As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, illness goes like a thread. King Huai is in such good health, and it is also said that he will get sick. Tang Ning sees his condition, and it is not certain whether he can attend the festival in two days.
King Huai looked at him apologetically and said: In the past few days, the affairs of the Shangshu Province have been entirely handled by Lord Tang.
Tang Ning waved his hand and said: Everyone has been busy with the festivals these two days, and the Secretariat has no memorials. Your Highness should take a good rest, don't worry about these things.
Tang Ning stood by the bed, talked with King Huai for a few words, and then bowed to say goodbye
Shortly after he left, a servant came in and said: Your Highness, Lord Tang is gone
King Huai sat up from the bed and looked much better, but he was still a little haggard, looking at a certain direction expressionlessly, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart
Princess Huai walked in slowly, sat side by side with him on the bed, without saying a word, just sat quietly
King Huai was silent for a moment and said: After this incident, I will send you away from the capital.
Princess Huai looked at him and asked: Where to go?
King Huai thought about it and asked: How is Chu State?
Princess Huai asked: Where is Your Highness?
I still have some things to do. King Huai looked at her and smiled and said: When I finish these things, I will go to find you
Princess Huai shook her head, held his hand tightly, and said: Where are you, where am I
……
After King Huai became ill, Tang Ning realized that without King Huai, he suddenly had more things to do.
He wanted to check one day in advance whether the text on the altar blessing board was neat enough, whether the mattresses set up on the changing tent of the utensils on the altar were neat enough, and whether there were three sky lanterns on the altar, and whether there was one more or one less...
There are also some considerations for the number of sacrifices. Twenty-eight cows, thirty-three sheep, thirty-four pigs, two deer, and twelve rabbits. Although Tang Ning didn't know what the meaning of these numbers was, one more was one less. If it was found out, many people would be unlucky.
In addition, the altar of the gods, sacrifices, and musical instruments are placed in their own positions, and no mistake can be made at all.
Officials who followed the emperor to attend the ceremony had to take a bath, change clothes, burn incense and fast three days in advance. Tang Ning had no meat and fish in the past two days.
So much so that he checked the slaughtered and cooked offerings, and he also had the urge to pick them up and take them into bite.
Of course, there are many people around you watching, so it is naturally impossible
This sky lantern, go to the left, go to the left... After passing, go to the right one inch
This chime is missing, change it!
This floor tiles are unstable, so let’s put them on!
……
Tang Ning stood in the altar of Xishan and heard a sound coming from somewhere. He turned his head and looked at it and saw a familiar figure giving orders to the minor officials of the Ministry of Works in the venue.
Since King Kang was stripped of the throne, he has become a different person
Specifically, he not only refused Chen Huang's re-appointment of the king, but also devoted most of his energy to his job. Even Tang Ning was a little surprised. King Kang in recent times has been a model of officials in the court, and moved the top ten labor models of Chen State. People like Tang Ning and King Huai will feel ashamed when they think of him.
This festival can be said to be planned by King Kang. Without ready-made precedents to learn from, people cannot find any problems, which shows his intentions.
Even Tang Ning was not sure whether he was pretending or sincerely repent and wanted to change his mind and become a new person...
It seemed that he felt Tang Ning's gaze. King Kang turned around, smiled at him slightly, then turned his head and continued to be busy.
I don't know if it was Tang Ning's illusion, but he always felt that Kang Wang's smile just now had a kind of evil feeling.
He temporarily threw this feeling out of his mind and turned around the altar. When he found no problems, he prepared to go down the mountain to go home.
Xishan is the highest mountain near Gyeonggi, which is the closest place to the sky near Gyeonggi. This is also the reason why the royal family set the altar here.
The road up the mountain is not steep, but it is definitely not flat. The weak officials in the dynasty tomorrow will suffer.
The altar is on the mountain. Taking advantage of the dangers of the mountain road, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Once something happens above, it is extremely difficult to support. This is why Emperor Chen carefully chose to protect himself.
If the mountain road was not suitable for the army to march, there would be no more people near the altar, and the imperial guards would have been delayed from the mountain tomorrow. He thought that he would let the Yulin Guard come with him.
Tang Ning went down the mountain and entered the city. When he reached the doorstep, a figure ran from afar.
A child stuffed a letter into his hand and ran away quickly
Come again? This familiar scene made Tang Ning slightly surprised. He opened the envelope and saw the content on the letter. When he saw the contents of the letter, he was stunned and blurted out: Damn...
The royal family holds various festivals every year. Whenever the festival comes, a lot of preparations must be carried out. No matter how much manpower and material resources are spent, they are willing to do so.
Chen Huang's pocket is now bulging, and he will not be stingy with silver.
One month before the festival begins, various buildings and facilities in the sacrificial place must be fully repaired, including all the streets the emperor passed from the palace to the altar, and all the appearance must be renewed.
Only five days before the royal festival, the capital has been fully under martial law
There are obviously more guards patrolling the streets during the day, and the curfew at night is also advanced by an hour. In short, this period is the quietest days in the capital that Tang Ning has experienced.
During these days, the dragon is lying on the tiger is lying on it. If anyone fails to open his eyes and commits a taboo, Emperor Chen’s imperial guards will definitely make them regret that they have come to this world.
According to the convention, five days before the sacrifice, the prince should be sent to observe the livestock prepared for the sacrifice of heaven.
King Kang wants to preside over all kinds of major events in the festival, but King Duan is always bad. King Huai has been entrusted with important tasks recently, so he went to see the tasks of whether the pigs, Ah, Sheep, Ah, and whether they were fat or not. It fell on King Huai's head.
However, Tang Ning himself did not break away from the relationship. Chen Huang has always liked to tie him and King Huai together recently. He just picked some fat pigs and sheep and asked him to go with King Huai together.
What Tang Ning didn't expect was that just one hour before departure, someone from Prince Huai's Mansion told him that Prince Huai was sick, and the matter of choosing livestock this time fell on Tang Ning alone.
Tang Ning didn't know if King Huai was a real or a fake one. After all, this didn't look like a good job. The places where the imperial court raised livestock were very bad. He walked around there and took a shower three times before he took a shower.
Tang Ning was extremely suspicious that the king was lazy and pretended to be sick, but he still did not go to the Secretariat the next day. The servants of the royal palace said that he was very sick and that he was very likely not even able to attend the ceremony.
In this way, King Huai was really sick. As a colleague, Tang Ning, with a moral heart, went to Prince Huai's mansion to see him.
In the Huai Palace, King Huai was lying on the bed with a pale face without blood. Tang Ning looked at him and said in surprise: What's wrong with Your Highness?
I felt a cold wind and the imperial doctor said that it would be better to rest for a few days. King Huai smiled and struggled to sit up, but fell down again
Tang Ning hurriedly said: Your Highness, please lie down.
As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, illness goes like a thread. King Huai is in such good health, and it is also said that he will get sick. Tang Ning sees his condition, and it is not certain whether he can attend the festival in two days.
King Huai looked at him apologetically and said: In the past few days, the affairs of the Shangshu Province have been entirely handled by Lord Tang.
Tang Ning waved his hand and said: Everyone has been busy with the festivals these two days, and the Secretariat has no memorials. Your Highness should take a good rest, don't worry about these things.
Tang Ning stood by the bed, talked with King Huai for a few words, and then bowed to say goodbye
Shortly after he left, a servant came in and said: Your Highness, Lord Tang is gone
King Huai sat up from the bed and looked much better, but he was still a little haggard, looking at a certain direction expressionlessly, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart
Princess Huai walked in slowly, sat side by side with him on the bed, without saying a word, just sat quietly
King Huai was silent for a moment and said: After this incident, I will send you away from the capital.
Princess Huai looked at him and asked: Where to go?
King Huai thought about it and asked: How is Chu State?
Princess Huai asked: Where is Your Highness?
I still have some things to do. King Huai looked at her and smiled and said: When I finish these things, I will go to find you
Princess Huai shook her head, held his hand tightly, and said: Where are you, where am I
……
After King Huai became ill, Tang Ning realized that without King Huai, he suddenly had more things to do.
He wanted to check one day in advance whether the text on the altar blessing board was neat enough, whether the mattresses set up on the changing tent of the utensils on the altar were neat enough, and whether there were three sky lanterns on the altar, and whether there was one more or one less...
There are also some considerations for the number of sacrifices. Twenty-eight cows, thirty-three sheep, thirty-four pigs, two deer, and twelve rabbits. Although Tang Ning didn't know what the meaning of these numbers was, one more was one less. If it was found out, many people would be unlucky.
In addition, the altar of the gods, sacrifices, and musical instruments are placed in their own positions, and no mistake can be made at all.
Officials who followed the emperor to attend the ceremony had to take a bath, change clothes, burn incense and fast three days in advance. Tang Ning had no meat and fish in the past two days.
So much so that he checked the slaughtered and cooked offerings, and he also had the urge to pick them up and take them into bite.
Of course, there are many people around you watching, so it is naturally impossible
This sky lantern, go to the left, go to the left... After passing, go to the right one inch
This chime is missing, change it!
This floor tiles are unstable, so let’s put them on!
……
Tang Ning stood in the altar of Xishan and heard a sound coming from somewhere. He turned his head and looked at it and saw a familiar figure giving orders to the minor officials of the Ministry of Works in the venue.
Since King Kang was stripped of the throne, he has become a different person
Specifically, he not only refused Chen Huang's re-appointment of the king, but also devoted most of his energy to his job. Even Tang Ning was a little surprised. King Kang in recent times has been a model of officials in the court, and moved the top ten labor models of Chen State. People like Tang Ning and King Huai will feel ashamed when they think of him.
This festival can be said to be planned by King Kang. Without ready-made precedents to learn from, people cannot find any problems, which shows his intentions.
Even Tang Ning was not sure whether he was pretending or sincerely repent and wanted to change his mind and become a new person...
It seemed that he felt Tang Ning's gaze. King Kang turned around, smiled at him slightly, then turned his head and continued to be busy.
I don't know if it was Tang Ning's illusion, but he always felt that Kang Wang's smile just now had a kind of evil feeling.
He temporarily threw this feeling out of his mind and turned around the altar. When he found no problems, he prepared to go down the mountain to go home.
Xishan is the highest mountain near Gyeonggi, which is the closest place to the sky near Gyeonggi. This is also the reason why the royal family set the altar here.
The road up the mountain is not steep, but it is definitely not flat. The weak officials in the dynasty tomorrow will suffer.
The altar is on the mountain. Taking advantage of the dangers of the mountain road, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Once something happens above, it is extremely difficult to support. This is why Emperor Chen carefully chose to protect himself.
If the mountain road was not suitable for the army to march, there would be no more people near the altar, and the imperial guards would have been delayed from the mountain tomorrow. He thought that he would let the Yulin Guard come with him.
Tang Ning went down the mountain and entered the city. When he reached the doorstep, a figure ran from afar.
A child stuffed a letter into his hand and ran away quickly
Come again? This familiar scene made Tang Ning slightly surprised. He opened the envelope and saw the content on the letter. When he saw the contents of the letter, he was stunned and blurted out: Damn...
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