Song Yuanhuanzhi

Farming has been regarded as the foundation of a country by various dynasties since ancient times.

The weather gets warmer at the beginning of spring, which is a good time to start spring plowing.

At this time, an important task of the government was to "encourage teaching and farming" and develop agriculture.

In order to encourage people to start farming in a timely manner, the imperial court and the government would hold a series of ceremonies at the beginning of spring.

The emperor would personally plow the fields on this day, and local governments would also dress their cattle in red and green on the day of the Beginning of Spring. State and county officials would beat them with whips made of colorful cloth strips and pray for good weather throughout the year. This ceremony is called " "Spring" to remind farmers to start spring plowing.

On the day of the beginning of spring, the Ministry of Rites had been preparing for a long time. Zhou Jing led the civil and military ministers, concubines and clan members, dressed in blue costumes, and set out from the Forbidden City to the fields in the eastern suburbs of the capital to worship one of the Five Heavenly Emperors, the God of Spring and Flowers - —The Blue Emperor of the East welcomes spring.

This trip is called "welcoming Qi".

When worshiping the Qing Emperor, officials from the Ministry of Rites presided over it, and then the emperor came on stage to give a template speech. Anyway, the content was quite different.

It ended with Zhou Jing leading the ministers and concubines to kneel three times and bow nine times to Xiannongxing to show their respect.

After welcoming the Qi, we begin to "reside in the field".

Eunuch Li tidied Zhou Jing's robe, and then Zhou Jing would go to the fields in person, lift up the plowshares of the plowing oxen that had already been driven, and then begin to symbolically "plow the fields."

When the sincerity in plowing the fields was almost demonstrated, Zhou Jing issued a spring order to the onlookers, urging the people that the spring plowing of the year had begun.

When ministers such as Shangshu, Jiuqing and others followed Zhou Jing to plow the fields, Zhou Jing was already exhausted. Seeing this, Eunuch Li quickly helped Zhou Jing into the tent where he was resting.

Today was a special day. Taiyuan Hospital specially compressed the medicine into pills. Zhou Jing took a nap on the couch after taking it.

After Eunuch Li saw Zhou Jing resting, he went out to guard the tent.

Seeing this, Xiaoyao not far away quietly retreated into the queen's tent.

"Empress, Your Majesty has returned to the tent to rest." Xiao Yao whispered.

Qi Yuansang nodded.

Xiaoyao was a little anxious, "Mother, there are so many people, how can that person get in touch with His Majesty?"

Qi Yuansang said calmly: "If he doesn't have this ability, he doesn't need to enter the palace."

There was no need for her to bet something on such a person.

not worth it.

Xiao Yao calmed down when Qi Yuansang said this.

This is indeed true. The situation in the palace is complicated. If you don't have this ability, there is no need to cooperate.

Just when the ministers were about to finish, Eunuch Li went to wake up Zhou Jing in advance when he saw that the time was almost up.

After Zhou Jing rested for a while, he recovered a little. When he returned to the plowing area, only the last official of Jiuqing was left plowing the field. Just when the official was about to finish, he saw someone standing next to him. Among the people watching from behind, a man in civilian clothes suddenly coughed violently, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out.

The occurrence of this scene disturbed the Holy Master. Being stained with blood at the beginning of spring is very unlucky.

Just as Chen Zila was leaving with the imperial physician, a Taoist priest who appeared out of nowhere appeared next to the common man. He walked around the common man three times and was muttering something unknown. When he stopped, After coming down, everyone saw his left hand pull out a talisman from his cuff, and straighten the index and middle fingers of his right hand, holding the talisman in his left hand straight. At the same time as the two fingers left the talisman, the talisman suddenly burned, but he calmly He caught the ashes of the talisman, then looked around and asked, "Is there any water?"

Only then did everyone come back to their senses. One person took out a water bag from his waist, walked through the crowd, handed it over, and said, "Is this okay?"

The Taoist priest nodded, "Yes."

Next, everyone saw the Taoist squatting down, opening the mouth of the common man on the ground, pouring the ashes in his other hand into his mouth, and then said to the man with the water bag: "Pour the water Come in." The man holding the water bag nodded in response.

After the common man swallowed the ashes, the Taoist priest took out a medicine bottle from his arms. A chocolate-colored pill was poured out of the bottle, and the Taoist put it directly into the common man's mouth.

The man holding the water bag asked, "Would you like some water?"

The Taoist priest shook his head, "No need, the elixir melts in your mouth."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Taoist priest stood up, patted his robe and left gracefully.

One person in the crowd asked: "Is this okay?"

The Taoist priest had already walked away, and everyone ignored him. They all turned their attention to the approaching doctor.

Seeing this, the imperial doctor had no choice but to step forward to check his pulse despite everyone's attention. After a while, the imperial doctor stood up.

The man holding the water bag boldly asked the question that everyone was curious about: "Sir, how are you doing?"

Although the imperial doctor didn't want to admit it, he had to say, "The pulse is stable, I will wake up soon."

After seeing this scene, Zhou Jing looked at Eunuch Li. Eunuch Li immediately understood what he meant and stepped back immediately.

By the time Eunuch Li came back, more than half an hour had passed and the sacrifice had ended. Eunuch Li saluted and said, "Your Majesty, that master's servant has sent someone to stay."

Zhou Jing nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Call Doctor Liu."

Upon hearing the emperor's summons, Imperial Physician Liu followed Eunuch Li immediately.

Doctor Liu saw that Zhou Jing looked pretty good, so he guessed that the emperor had questions about today's incident.

Sure enough, Zhou Jing said, "Is the man who fell ill today really sick?"

Doctor Liu nodded and said: "Reporting to your majesty, the patient's pulse was weak and weak, and when pressed, it was sluggish and stopped. Then it became weak and strengthened, and then the difficulty subsided. It does not seem like he is pretending to be ill."

Zhou Jing was silent for a long time. After a long time, he spoke again, "In the opinion of Dr. Liu, are the elixirs and talismans of this Taoist priest really effective in curing diseases?"

Doctor Liu was in a dilemma.

From ancient times to the present, few emperors who took elixirs had a good ending, but why did the lessons learned from the past fail to work on the emperors?

It's because they all think that this time is not that time, and they think that they are the True Dragon Emperor and the most unique one. Of course, the main reason is because they have hope of living and they are unwilling to give up.

Doctor Liu felt bitter in his mouth.

His Majesty has seen the facts that happened today with his own eyes. His opinion is not important at all. What is important is whether his opinion is what His Majesty wants to hear.

What he said today was to pass the ladder to the emperor. Even if the emperor really embarks on this path, he will only be the one who bears the pressure.

He nnd, why did he let him come here today?

Once he opened his mouth, in a short time he won the emperor's heart and relieved the pressure of the hospital.

But if that Taoist priest really has a way to deal with it, the Taiyuan Hospital will be in vain in the future, all the efforts he has made will be reduced to ashes, and he will become the sinner of the Taiyuan Hospital!
This path, no matter which way he takes it, is wrong.

In the end, Doctor Liu made his choice and said: "I am not involved in the matter of the elixir, but judging from today's situation, it does have miraculous effects."