Chapter 116 Spring Society Day
The Spring Festival in February is just a festival for people today, and you can go out for travel, but for the ancients, it was the most important festival.
On the Spring Festival Day, whether it is the emperor or the poor at the bottom, they all have to sacrifice to the earth god and pray for a good harvest this year. Naturally, there are some other meanings in it.
For Li Er, the Spring Festival Day this year was particularly important. Why? The drawings of the water truck he got from Yang Heng, the drawings and samples of the curved plows, etc., have been kept confidential and did not publicize them. They were only tried on a small scale. Or maybe he had arranged for the Ministry of Works or the craftsman to create a lot of physical objects. These are not what Yang Heng needs to know. He just knew that Li Er would not let these things be covered in dust. It is also necessary for him to use them to strengthen his rule. These are all related to agriculture, so naturally it is best to show them on the Spring Festival Day.
Even speaking, Li Er had another intention. There was a major locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan. Did Li Er not notice that some officials in his agricultural supervision were waste? The answer was naturally no. These people were definitely not waste. They would speculate that locust plague occurred based on the changes in the weather and the drought last year. But what if it is known? At this time, there were no pesticides and no biological chains. So I had to put these things in my stomach. But this year, Li Er wanted to fight against God and see who is better. He also knew that if it was a good weather, the possibility of a locust plague would be greatly reduced. If he had no such method before, but now with the water truck offered by Yang Heng (actually he snatched it) and the curved plow, he was naturally full of confidence. Even if there was a drought, I would not let the land fail to harvest. This is Li Er's backbone.
Zhihu, after reading the documents, he fainted the ministers. In fact, what does this mean? Li Er got the inspiration of the gods and obtained two magical tools of benefiting the people. He could not use them before. He had to pray to the land on the head of the land on the social day to do things that benefit the people. Naturally, this also made excuses for the locust plague that might occur in the near future.
That is, if there is a locust plague, don’t cause trouble for me. Maybe your minister was distracted during the social and Japanese sacrifices and provoked the land father-in-law. The land father-in-law asked the land god to punish you. That’s all, it was just to shirk responsibility. But then again, this war is related to the emperor. But if there is a locust plague or even some other natural disasters, it would also cause trouble for the emperor. That would be nonsense. However, some ministers at this time like to remove this egg. Once something happened, they would directly touch the emperor, and they would not touch it when they encountered serious matters.
Li Er was naturally disgusted with these things, so he naturally had to take this opportunity to find a scapegoat for the future. Others could not see it. Anyway, he and Empress Changsun were very pious, respecting the Land Master. He did all kinds of things like "one step and three bows" were done, but he could see it? He couldn't see it. Li Er didn't know, but the ministers saw it, and the nearby villagers and citizens also saw it. In order to promote this matter, you must know that Li Er made great efforts this time. Not only did he let the ministers come, but even ordinary people also called a lot of him. Naturally, there were some of his spies around him. If something happened, just let the spies go to the people to say something casually, that is, on the Spring Festival Day, a certain minister was dozing off, and did he make the Land Master angry? Li Er's plan.
After reading the sacrificial text, Li Er's performance time was next. The first one was naturally Quyuan Li. At this time, the Empress and Prince Li Chengqian had already changed into some ordinary clothes and stood in front of the Li, while Li Er stood in the position of supporting the Li.
At this time, both the ministers and the people were a little puzzled. "Your Majesty is going to do it by your side? There are also the Empress and the Crown Prince. Do they want to pull the plow? How can this happen?" The ministers felt a little whispered in their hearts. You, Li Er, are you addicted to acting, right? You still let the Empress and the Crown Prince pull the plow. Can they pull it?
But the people were not thinking in their hearts. It was moved by tears. His Majesty is kind, and the Empress and the Crown Prince are the same. In order to give the people a handful of plows, they all personally tested the performance of the plows. How could this exhaust His Majesty, Empress and the Crown Prince?
"Your Majesty, Empress, Your Highness, let the little people try this plow for you..." The people knelt all over the ground. As soon as the ministers saw that they had lost face this time. They had never kneeled in the court. If they did not kneel this time, they would be drowned by the saliva of the people. It would be better to kneel down.
Li Er was so happy when he saw the ministers kneeling all over the ground, the people, especially these ministers, that he was so happy. I asked you to always cause trouble for me. This time I knew that I could not violate it.
"Haha, no, no, this is the task assigned to me directly by the gods. Why don't I try it myself..." Gugululu, Gugulululu, Li Er took advantage of the problem for a while, "I said, Your Majesty, hurry up, won't you do it right in the future? Let's get up quickly. Under this knee, there are not soft cushions, but some small stones, especially in February, the ground is very cold." This is what the ministers think in their hearts. The people, they have long forgotten the knees. At this time, even if their knees are chopped off, they will not know, but they just know that the Queen's plow is fixed, so how hard it should be.
"Okay, all the families and my people are all calm. I want to test the new plow." Finally, Li Er saw that the ministers could not stand it anymore, so he asked them to stand up. You knelt down on your own initiative. How could I do it if I don't enjoy it well? I even had to write a close-up in the history books after I went back.
"Empress, Qian'er, the work has started." This was done by Li Er with Changsun early on. They first asked the palace maids and eunuchs to pull the plow until they found the most suitable method and then tried it several times with Changsun. Only then did they dare to perform in front of everyone.
Although the prince didn't know, he saw that the queen and the queen had pulled the plow himself. Even if there were a hundred people who didn't want to, he would have to pull it himself. "My mother, let me pull the plow himself." "No, how can I let the prince pull it himself? It's better for me to pull the plow with the prince. This is also the task of our Tian family." The mother and son actually gave in. Next, everyone found that the queen and the prince were very energetic. They actually pulled the plow quickly, and the land under the plow was overturned high. This was not a fake, but it was true. What was Li Chengqian's idea? "Oh, I'm really embarrassed by the queen. She actually used such a great force just to make me feel easier. I have to be faster and put more effort on the queen and the queen." This made the two of them in front walk very quickly, and Li Er felt that they couldn't keep up afterwards.
Chapter completed!