Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 315

As the saying goes, the plan for a year lies in spring.

During the spring plowing, Qingji was not idle as a monarch.

After the spring plowing ceremony was held as usual, Qingji led his group of officials to put on short clothes and went to the fields outside Jinling City to cultivate.

Cultivate fields like ordinary farmers!
"Your Majesty actually went to work in the field himself. This is really like a sage king in ancient times!"

"Exactly. Now, although there are monarchs in all countries who help the plow to plow in the spring, it is just for show. How can there be a king who works like this all day?"

"Your Majesty is comparable to Yao and Shun!"

The onlookers, Li Shu, couldn't help being moved and amazed when they saw Qingji helping the plow and plowing by himself.

The emperor and the monarch went to the fields to plow the fields as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty.

However, this is just an example for the king to set an example for his subjects.

Since King Ping moved to the east, the rites have collapsed, and many vassal states have not followed the Zhou rites, and the Jitian rites have also been abandoned.

The monarchs have gradually become lazy, pampered and pampered, and going to the fields to cultivate themselves is just a show.

It's not that there are no monarchs who can really work in the fields like Qingji, but they are almost rare.

When the hoe was on the day of the day, Khan dripped down the soil.

Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey!
At this time, holding the plow with one hand and the rope of the big buffalo with the other, Qingji drove the big buffalo to pull the curved plow in the field, and then kept turning the land back and forth.

Until the originally dry land was stirred evenly and turned into mud!
Because Wu State is located in the south of the Yangtze River, with dense water network and heavy rainfall, the main crop is rice.

The fields where rice is grown are naturally paddy fields, which are completely different from the wheat fields in the north.

Droughts are common in the north, while floods are common in the south!

It has to be said that Qingji is also a good plower.

Driving the big buffalo in a decent manner, turning the land with the Quyuan plow, he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and he didn't slack off at all.

The nearby Gongqing doctor is a little miserable!

As the king of the country, Qingji just helped Li to plow and put on a show, so why did he pull them in?
It's really puzzling!
I saw that no matter whether it was Dazai Ji Zha, Ting Wei Bo Tong, Sun Wu, the imperial historian, Wen Zhong, Prime Minister Zuo and others, they were all working in the fields at the moment.

It doesn't matter whether it is dredging the canal or supporting the plow to cultivate, anyway, these are indispensable things!
"Ouch!"

Uncle Ting was careless, and fell into the paddy field all of a sudden, and fell like a dog eating shit.

The whole body is full of mud!

"Hahahaha!"

Seeing this, the nearby ministers couldn't help laughing.

"Laugh, what are you laughing at?"

Bo Tong said sternly, "I just didn't notice it for a while! What do I need to do with mere farming?"

"Ting Wei, don't speak big words, be careful to flash your tongue!"

Sun Wu, who was not far away, said slowly: "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and the four peoples are separated."

"Every industry is not easy to do. If you abandon agriculture to go to business, if you abandon business to go to industry, if you abandon scholars to go to agriculture like me now, the expertise is different, is it the same?"

"It's really not easy for farmers."

Fan Li then agreed.

"Your Majesty asked me to go to the fields to plow together, maybe it's just to experience the difficulty of being a farmer!"

The ministers were quite dissatisfied with Qingji's approach.

Fortunately, the farming activity led by Qing Ji lasted only three days.

It is worth mentioning that Qingji's concubines and sons also came here to farm.

For example, Queen Ji Kou, Mrs. Guo Ji Mi gave me, Zhu Ji, Sun Li, etc., and the young sons Wu Hong and Wu Xi also went to work in the fields.

They wore very simple clothes and transplanted rice seedlings like ordinary farmers, planting rice seedlings neatly and orderly on the paddy field.

You know, Wu Hong and Wu Xi are only seven years old at this time!

Even the king's wife set an example like this, how dare the officials complain?

Mrs. Zhu Ji, who was used to being pampered and pampered, was dripping with sweat, her body and face were covered with mud, and she looked dirty.

This made Mrs. Zhu Ji couldn't help complaining for a while: "Really. I don't know which minister slandered the king and asked me to wait for the concubine and the prince to work in the fields together?"

"In this scorching hot day, planting rice seedlings in the ground, where did I suffer from such a crime?"

Mrs. Zhu Ji was very dissatisfied!
Like Sun Li, Xiaohu, and Xiaoli, it's okay. One was born in the general family, and the two were originally Baiyue girls, and they all endured hardships.

But Zhu Ji, Teng Yu, and Ji Mi are different from me. They are all used to reaching out for clothes and opening their mouths for food, and they have never done any rough work!

Now, how can the pain of this kind of farm work be endured?

Queen Ji Kou, who used to be the princess of the Yue Kingdom, even though she had never done farm work and felt tired, she forcibly endured it.

She is the queen of Wu and Qingji's wife, so she must set an example!
"Zhu Ji, you'd better say a few words less."

Ji Kou shook his head and said: "No one speaks to the king. This is all the king's own idea. The purpose is to let me wait for the concubines and nobles to experience the difficulties of farmers, cherish food, and put an end to extravagance and extravagance!"

"It's only three days anyway, just bear with it and it will pass."

"promise."

Seeing Ji Kou admonishing herself like this, Mrs. Zhu Ji could only grit her teeth and work hard again.

Before getting Qingji's instruction, neither the concubines nor the princes of the state of Wu dared to go to one side to be lazy and stop plowing the ridge!

When the sun was high, at noon, Qingji let them rest with him, and sat on the ground under an old locust tree not far away.

A waiter has long brought pancakes and water bags for them to eat and drink.

Qingji took a bite of the pancake, chewed it a few times, and took another sip of water before swallowing it.

The officials and officials in the vicinity were also similar, and they all felt that the pancakes were a little hard to swallow!
As for Mrs. Zhu Ji and the concubines who were celebrated by Ji Mi and me, they were even more unbearable. They almost ate the pancakes with an ashen face the whole time.

Zhu Ji couldn't help muttering in the ear of Queen Ji Kou: "Queen, this sesame seed cake is really hard to swallow. Didn't Your Majesty prepare any other food?"

"Zhu Ji, don't talk too much. Your Majesty is letting me go to the countryside to experience life. How can I have fun and have a good appetite? It's not easy for this pancake to fill my stomach."

"This……"

Zhu Ji suddenly felt a bolt from the blue!

At this point, she could only bite the bullet and eat the biscuits to satisfy her hunger.

Qingji looked around again, looked at the nearby ministers, chuckled lightly, and said, "Second and third sons, do you know why the widow made my monarch and his ministers work in the fields for three days?"

"This……"

All the ministers couldn't help but look at each other.

Of course they could guess some of Qingji's thoughts in their hearts!
Ting Weibo got up first, bowed flatteringly to Qing Ji, and said, "Your Majesty's servants and his entourage went to work in the fields for three days, it must be to experience the difficulty of being a farmer."

"In ancient times, Yao and Shun often went down to the fields to cultivate, and the virtuous kings and sages in ancient times all went down to the fields to cultivate themselves."

"What your majesty has done today, why don't you have the legacy of the ancient sages, which can be compared with Yao and Shun!"

(End of this chapter)