Although he has not yet proclaimed himself king or emperor, the system has been established and various etiquette should be implemented.
This spring, father and son hosted spring clubs in Hanzhong and Xiangyang respectively.
This activity is very ancient, and has been popular since the oracle bone inscriptions era until the Song Dynasty. It was first offered as a sacrifice to the God of Grains, and later became a sacrifice to the Lord of the Earth. In addition to praying for rain, praying for harvests, and entertaining people and gods, there were also marriages and courtships in ancient times.
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It was even written into "Zhou Li" and established in the form of law and etiquette. During the Spring Club, marriageable men and women are allowed to date by themselves, and promiscuous behavior is also allowed. Those who prohibit men and women from dating without reason will be punished by the ruler.
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Zhu Guoxiang issued official documents to all prefectures and counties in advance, setting the highest standards for Spring Society sacrifices.
To put it simply, sacrifices must not be extravagant or wasteful!
The excitement focused on the participation of all the people, allowing officials, gentry, merchants, and ordinary people to participate, making it more like a collective celebration of all walks of life.
A country or a nation must have this kind of festival celebration in order to build self-identity and cohesion.
Especially in reclamation areas, in view of the scarcity of the population, unmarried and unengaged men and women are encouraged to fall in love and date freely during the Spring Society. Especially for those refugees, most of their families have been destroyed, and it is very common for those who have lost their husbands and wives. They work hard all year round to reclaim the wilderness. Taking advantage of this
It's time to remarry and reorganize the family.
The emperor has his Taishe, the prefectures and counties have their county societies, and the villages and towns have their Lishes. There are celebrations everywhere these two days.
Ju Ming strictly followed the county etiquette and took his wife and concubines out early in the morning.
As the magistrate of Xiangyang, Li Hanzhang had already led the officials to wait, and there were also some prominent Xiangyang families standing beside him.
The main ones are the Kuai family, the Xi family, the Luo family, the Zhang family, etc., especially the Kuai family, who settled in Xiangyang during the Qin and Han Dynasties. However, due to the wars in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there were not many high-ranking officials in the Song Dynasty. Although there were many clans, they had long been divided into families.
The strength of the clan is far inferior to that of the prominent clans in Shu.
"Meet the Generalissimo!"
When Ju Ming walked out of the gate, officials and noble families all bowed to him.
"Let's go." Zhu Ming smiled.
In front were heavily armored guards clearing the way, followed by musketeers in silk robes. Ju Ming rode a cornucopia slowly forward, followed by his wives and concubines in carriages, and officials and noble families followed further behind.
“It’s so lively!”
Zhao Fujin opened a corner of the car curtain and felt strange about everything he looked at.
Today, Xiangyang City is extremely lively.
In recent years, due to government exploitation and refugee issues, as well as Zhu Ming's rebellion against the imperial court, the Spring Society in Xiangyang has not been well managed. Now it has finally recovered, and there are no internal or external troubles, and all the people can celebrate to their heart's content.
Many suburban farmers carry agricultural and sideline products into the city and sell them along the streets with smiles on their faces.
The police officers didn't care much about it and only maintained traffic in key streets and alleys, stipulating that no stalls could be set up in places with the most people.
The older girls and younger daughters-in-law went out together on the street, all wearing the best clothes at home. They really couldn’t afford good clothes, so they wore the latest and cleanest clothes. Maybe they didn’t have money to buy things, but they were happy to stroll around the streets and watch the excitement.
It is still early in the solar term, and the peach and plum blossoms have not yet bloomed. Many people are holding wintersweet in their hands or wearing unknown wild flowers on their heads.
Even men wear hairpins on their heads.
"The Generalissimo is here!"
The people in the front shouted.
In fact, there was no need to shout, the movement of the guards clearing the way was quite loud, and the people quickly stood on both sides of the street to get out of the way, and then waited to pay homage to the grand marshal and his guards.
Wherever Ju Ming passed, people on both sides rushed to wave, but fortunately no one dared to throw anything at him.
Xiangyang also has Goulan House, which opens from early morning and performs various acrobatics, juggling, drama and other performances.
After leaving the city, it was still lively.
Ju Ming went straight to the suburban altar and personally presided over the Spring Society sacrifice.
The ceremony is solemn and simple. Grandness means that all kinds of etiquette are present, and simplicity means that all sacrifices are simple.
Only Zhang Jinping followed Ju Ming to worship, and the rest of the concubines belonged to the audience.
After the sacrifice was over, participants in other activities dispersed to celebrate with their relatives and friends. The rest wanted to follow the generalissimo all the way to the military camp. I heard that there was also a celebration in the military today.
Most of the followers were entering the military camp for the first time and looked around very curiously.
I saw groups of sergeants lining up in civilian clothes to enter the venue.
Although he was not wearing any armor or weapons, he still had a chilling air.
Kuai Zhang, the leader of the Kuai clan, exclaimed: "With such a strong army, the world can be conquered!"
Luo Shaozhi, the leader of the Luo clan, said: "Compared to the previous Xiangyang Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army, these sergeants in front of us are truly a force of tigers and wolves. No wonder they can defeat the officers and soldiers."
When these people from prominent families saw Ju Ming's army, they were even more convinced that the Zhu family and his son could conquer the world.
"Generalissimo, we are ready!" Zhang Juhou came to Ju Ming's side.
"Very good." Zhu Ming nodded.
Everyone sat down around the stage in a fan shape, and nearly four thousand soldiers also moved to benches and sat down.
Without a microphone, the audience sitting in the back row will definitely not know what is being performed on the stage. Fortunately, they can take turns watching the performances in the future.
At the beginning, an elderly man came on stage to sing some operas. The lyrics were easy to understand and could be understood by the people at the bottom. This was an introduction to the time and place where the story took place.
Then, the elder stepped down, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old came on, followed by a man in his thirties.
The officials and wealthy people were stunned for a moment.
In street dramas, it is normal for actors to wear coarse clothes, but I have never seen one carrying a hoe during the performance.
The father and son walked while chanting, and then used hoes to cultivate. Then they sang again. The song was a variation of "Qing Ping Le", and the lyrics were still easy to understand, showing a prosperous and peaceful pastoral life.
Immediately, more and more characters appeared on the stage, all of whom were country men, women and children.
Because it was mixed with slang and dirty jokes, not only the sergeants burst into laughter, but also the officials and wealthy people were amused.
The atmosphere in the first few scenes was cheerful and quite festive.
Until Song Huizong and Cai Jing came on the scene, the taste immediately changed. One was extravagant and lustful, and the other was flattering.
The monarch and his ministers were discussing how to make money.
Immediately after receiving the emperor's order, local officials discussed how to cater to the imperial court and achieve political achievements. When the officials received the task, they also began to plan how to enrich their own pockets and exploit the common people crazily.
The biggest landowner in the village went to discuss with the officials and formed a gang to exploit the farmers and seize the opportunity to seize their fields.
This is where the tragedy begins. The male and female protagonists, who are in love with each other, are torn apart by the ruthless reality. Both parties are tortured, and the young actors who are twelve or thirteen years old are replaced by adult actors in their twenties.
There are so many creative materials for Zhang Juhou. He condensed the tragic experiences of hundreds of refugee families into the bodies of the male and female protagonists.
One after another tragic events in the world are vividly displayed.
Seeing this, some soldiers burst into tears.
None of the pro-combatants under Ju Ming's command came from the North Road of Beijing, but many were Shaanxi refugees who fled to Hanzhong. Although the stories that happened on the stage were somewhat different from their experiences, the similarities made them resonate emotionally.
Until the heroine died on the way to escape, many soldiers at the scene began to cry because their family members also died in this way.
In the last few scenes, Ju Ming asked Zhang Juhou to make slight changes.
The hero's younger brother joined the army, but instead of fighting the war, he made up a battle with the officers and soldiers. The rebels won a complete victory, and the hero's younger brother captured the enemy, but he strictly abided by the military order and did not lynching him, but handed it over to the superior officer.
Go to trial and hang all the officials who harmed the people.
"good!"
The suppressed emotions of countless sergeants were released, applause came one after another, and some even shouted happily.
The final ending is that the hero, whose wife starved to death, married the heroine's sister, started a family and started a business in the new wilderness, and lived a happy life where men farmed and women weaved.
Moreover, the lyrics and tunes became brisk again, and country slang and dirty jokes reappeared.
After experiencing various emotions of repression, anger, and release, the sergeants looked at the happy life on the stage. Each one of them smiled and imagined their good days in the future.
"Snap, snap, snap!"
All the sergeants applauded and asked who the actors on the stage were. It was estimated that many of them would become star-struck fans.
Officials and wealthy people had mixed feelings. Although they could not sympathize with the story, they sympathized with the tragic experiences of the male and female protagonists in the play. At the same time, some people also brought in corrupt officials and evil gentry.
The real corrupt officials and filthy officials either ran away or were killed.
Nowadays, some of the officials in Xiangyang have been retained and continue to work under Zhu Ming and Li Hanzhang. They have done evil to some extent, but they are not notorious. When they saw the corrupt officials in the play being hanged, they all shrank their necks.
Scared into a cold sweat.
There is even a plot to kill the evil gentry in the play, which also makes the wealthy people feel lingering fear.
Zhao Fujin wiped away his tears and asked his sister in a low voice: "Sister, is my father really that bad?"
Zhao Fujin hesitated to speak, and it took him a long time to answer: "I don't know."
Li Shishi turned to look at the two empresses, and it was hard to say anything. She had heard a lot of bad words. Although she had been in contact with all the top dignitaries in the past, it was inevitable that some people would get drunk and curse the emperor.
Zhu Ming smiled and asked Li Hanzhang: "How is this miscellany?"
Li Hanzhang said: "It can boost people's morale."
Because the performance was so good, Ju Ming hired another troupe to rehearse. First, he performed a few more performances for the Xiangyang pro-army troops, constantly making changes to the details. Then, two troupes went north and south respectively to perform for the soldiers of various departments.
In addition to the soldiers watching, they even let the refugees watch too.
Today, the only regular soldiers are the troops of Han Shizhong and He Ji, who recruited a large number of northern refugees. When these two troops were watching the play, because the plot was so real, the soldiers who were born as refugees in Henan were so angry that they rushed to the stage collectively and beat up corrupt officials.
Officials and evil gentry.
The officers rushed to stop them, but the soldiers got angry and walked off the stage. They also grabbed the actors playing Song Huizong and Cai Jing from the side of the stage and cursed them.
The villain actors cried and complained that they did not want to continue acting. Not only would their lives be in danger during the performance, but even if they were recognized after the performance, they would be verbally attacked by soldiers and people.
The positive actors are extremely popular, especially the actress who plays the heroine.
Regardless of whether they were adults or teenagers, the two actresses received pity from countless soldiers and civilians because of their tragic ending.
There were even some landowners who didn't have much food at home, but after the performance, they brought bean cakes to the two heroines. They had to watch the actress eat the cakes before they smiled with joy, as if
The heroine in the play can also eat enough.
By the time the tour ended, the two actresses who played the heroine had each gained several pounds...
Zhang Juhou forced them to lose weight because it was too dramatic. How could they look like they were starving to death?
There is no need to guide them carefully anymore, now all the soldiers in each department know why they are fighting.
These soldiers want to overthrow the brutal rule of the Song Dynasty and let the people all over the world live a good life!