Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Pro-cultivation ceremony, plowing wrong ceremony is the name of the ceremony system.It is also called "farming ceremony" and "cultivation ceremony".

The etiquette system of ancient emperors plowing the fields.

The ancient emperors attached great importance to farming and used this etiquette to persuade farmers to work hard. Every year before spring plowing, they personally performed a plowing ceremony in the wrong field and personally helped the plow to plow the field.

This system has been established in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it has been passed down through the dynasties until the last dynasty.

From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the land cultivated by the Son of Heaven is a thousand acres, and it must be fertile land. This is how the so-called "thousand acres of fertile land" came about. "Don't underestimate this three-acre land, it is the emperor's private land!

When Li Jiyang was in college, he had read Emperor Kangxi's Records of Farming Rituals, and he knew that it was extremely cumbersome. Even if there were not so many details in the Warring States Period, it was still a very troublesome thing in the Warring States Period when sacrifices were valued.

The place where Yingzheng performs the plowing ceremony is Xiannongtan, which is the altar and temple where Xiannong is worshipped.

In ancient times, Xiannong was generally considered to be the Yandi Shennong family. In addition to tasting all kinds of herbs, he was also considered the ancestor of farming.

The schedule for the day was very tight, even Li Jiyang was involved!

"I want to go to the fields too?" Li Jiyang received the news and asked Ying Zheng, pointing at himself.

"It's not just you, all the princes and ministers have to go to the fields to work hard." Ying Zheng smiled and gave Li Jiyang advice: "Otherwise, I'll grow a thousand acres of fertile land by myself?"

Li Jiyang imagined that Ying Zheng was working hard on a [-]-acre fertile field by himself...

puff!

This picture was so beautiful that he couldn't even imagine it!

In this era, a single person can plant a maximum of ten acres of land, which is the result of his improved farm tools. It is said that in the past, a single person could plant a maximum of ten acres, and he was still a very good farmer.

The result of too low productivity is that everyone can barely fill their stomachs, and if there is a trouble, they have to tighten their belts to survive.

Ten acres of land for one person, these princes and ministers must not be able to do it, but two acres of land for one person is still possible, especially the clan, there are hundreds of Jingyang Lords alone!

A thousand acres of fertile land was cultivated in an instant!

"How nice the people are, how lively they are!" Li Jiyang jokingly joked with Ying Zheng: "One person has two acres of land, and one point is gone!"

"Two mu of land is too much, half an mu of land for one person." Ying Zheng calculated seriously: "There are more than 1000 people in the clan alone, which is not enough!"

There are more than 1000 adults only, and those who are underage and who are too old to work in the fields are all eliminated.

Li Jiyang thought so too, the Qin Kingdom belonged to the Ying family, they could have unlimited children, because they could afford it!

Ordinary people dare not come here. Whether they can afford to raise children is one thing. It is a fact that there are not so many wives who have children. It is said that some peasant women work in the fields with big bellies, and they can give birth to children!

In contrast, obstetrics and gynecology in later generations can consider closing down.

"What if the medicine is not enough?" Li Jiyang asked Ying Zheng, how embarrassing it will be if there is not enough land!

"Then the two of you have half an acre of land!" Ying Zheng said bluntly, "I don't even know how they plant this half an acre of land!"

They are all pampered people, going to the fields... When the former king was around, he had never seen the plowing ceremony, but I heard that it was the servants around him who plowed the fields....

And at that time, Lord Jingyang was squatting in the fiefdom, no matter how close he was to Xianyang City, he would not come back. Naturally, his children and grandchildren could not come back either. Now it is good, there are thousands of people in his family...

More than a dozen sons, hundreds of grandchildren, and thousands of great-grandchildren...

"I heard that the old ancestor didn't even recognize all his great-grandchildren, and there are quite a few great-great-grandchildren who have been born and grown up..." Ying Zheng was very curious about Mr. Jingyang, who lived a long time and could give birth.

Li Jiyang was also speechless: "This is really... a hundred sons and a thousand grandsons!"

In the past, when archeology was conducted, what the ancients said about "a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren" was considered an exaggeration by the ancients, but after careful calculation, it really is "a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren"!

Because they marry one wife and have countless concubines!

In addition, there are no effective contraceptive measures, as long as there is one, you have to give birth, and there are countless miscarriages!

As long as the first one is born, the subsequent ones are not a problem, one by one, as long as the woman is still favored, they can give birth until the woman goes through menopause!

"Hundred sons and grandsons?" Ying Zheng touched his chin: "It's true!"

Afterwards, he wrote the words "Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandchildren" and sent them to Mr. Jingyang's house. After seeing this, Mr. Jingyang laughed so hard that his teeth showed!

Turning around, I told everyone: "On the day of the plowing ceremony, all go, all go! See the lord, and give me good land!"

"promise!"

His son and grandson stood in the hall, his great-grandson and great-great-grandson were outside, and there was no room for him in the room...

The plowing ceremony began soon. The spring breeze blew gently. A small spring rain had just fallen. The air was humid and the sun was shining brightly. It was a good day for plowing.

Li Jiyang followed Ying Zheng, following the steps, step by step, first offering sacrifices to Shennong, and then offering all...farm tools!

Next, sacrifice and play music!

Before reading the sacrificial text, offer incense, drink and chew (that is, wine), offer food (that is, meat), offer soup (that is, rice), and offer silk (that is, money), then read the sacrificial text, bow three times after reading the sacrificial text, and finally burn the sacrificial text bamboo slips.

When burning the sacrificial asparagus and bamboo slips, Li Jiyang really wanted to rush to rescue them!

Those are the bamboo slips of the Qin State!

Just burn it!

What a pity!

"What's wrong?" Ying Zheng asked him in a low voice.

"That bamboo slip..." Li Jiyang really wanted a copy, but he didn't know if it would work.

"This is for burning..." Ying Zheng looked at Li Jiyang, and asked him in a low voice, "Do you want it?"

"Yeah!" Li Jiyang nodded, looking at Ying Zheng fiercely with his big eyes, and his brain wave sent: I want it!I want!I really want it!

"Then go back, I'll get someone to make it up for you again!" Although Ying Zheng didn't understand why Xiaoyang wanted a sacrificial text so much, but since he wanted it, he gave it to him.

On the road ahead, Ying Zheng is becoming more and more unprincipled towards Li Jiyang!

"En!" Li Jiyang's eyes were brighter than before!

Bamboo slips for sacrificial rites!

The sacrificial texts of this period in archaeological history are blank!

There is no way, the sacrificial rites of this period are all burned after reading, and there is no way to keep them!

When I heard that Ying Zheng asked someone to prepare a separate copy for him, I was so happy!

But there are still requirements: "You have to sign on it, remember!"

"Remember." Ying Zheng promised in a low voice.

The bamboo slips over there were burned, and the farming tools were taken down. A tall old ox, dressed in red and green, was brought out. The cattle were very honest. After hanging the iron plow, they began to plow the field.

Ying Zheng had indeed done farm work before, plowing the fields quickly and well.

Li Jiyang is responsible for helping him, in fact, it is to hand over a rake or something, but he also needs to finish an acre of land with Ying Zheng.

The lord of the country started to plow the land, and the clansmen followed suit after half a stick of incense. After the clansmen started plowing for about a stick of incense, the ministers began to help the plow.

It was almost as Li Jiyang imagined, with more people and more power, a thousand acres of fertile land could be plowed in one day, and the sun only set to the west when we looked up.

Because it was a plowing ceremony in spring, there was a spring banquet in the evening, so everyone left the iron plow and cattle, went back by car to wash up, and went to the palace to have a clean banquet.

Li Jiyang also went back to take a battle bath, changed into clean clothes, quickly tidied up and entered the palace.

When he saw Ying Zheng, Ying Zheng handed him a bamboo slip directly: "I signed today's sacrificial oration."

As soon as he came back, he asked someone for a backup of the sacrificial text. The sacrificial text was written in the same way, because it was not a single worship, but Shennong every year, a spring festival, and a plowing ceremony. , So the eunuch has already written many such sacrificial rites, and you can just take out one when you need it, so when Ying Zheng said he wanted a copy, he sent it right away.

After Ying Zheng signed it, he kept it in his hand, and when Li Jiyang came, he gave it to him.

"So fast?" Li Jiyang opened it and saw that there was indeed a sacrificial letter and Ying Zheng's signature on it.

Qin Shihuang's sacrificial text and his signature!

Li Jiyang put it away like a baby.

"The servants have plenty..." Ying Zheng was a little puzzled by how precious Li Jiyang was, and after thinking about it, Xiaoyang cherished things very much.

He didn't know that Li Jiyang regarded these things as "cultural relics", but felt that Xiaoyang must have had a bad life in the past, but he also thought that his master valued him so much, and all kinds of good things don't need money. The side delivery has not been interrupted since he came back.

"Oh..." Although it is a flood of goods, but later generations do not have them, so Li Jiyang is still very happy to collect them.

The two didn't have many chances to talk, the spring banquet was about to start, the two went out to socialize, and the clan became more affectionate towards Ying Zheng, not as cold as before.

And Lu Buwei is also very... affectionate towards Ying Zheng!

Ying Zheng is also very... enthusiastic towards Lu Buwei!

Li Jiyang doesn't quite understand this, but Gan Lei also treats Lu Buwei very... well!

Gan Lei used to turn a blind eye to Lu Buwei, but now he took the initiative to talk to Lu Buwei!

Wang Wan didn't say anything about it!

Li Jiyang couldn't understand more and more, Yingzheng was just sitting on the throne, this one was rewarded with a pot of wine, that one was rewarded with a dish, the spring banquet in the palace looked very... harmonious!

After the spring banquet, spring really came, and everyone was busy with spring plowing, and the court also took this as the theme, as if the king's crown ceremony had never been prepared!

Li Jiyang was very angry about this, but Ying Zheng liked it very much: "The best result is that they don't pay attention."

Li Jiyang shook his head: "I don't understand."

"It's convenient for us to do things if they don't pay attention. I have already asked someone to prepare secretly." Ying Zheng said: "Lu Buwei is watching Jingyang Jun and them now!"

Only then did Li Jiyang be happy: "So that's how it is!"

Ying Zheng and Lu Buwei played a trick of "clearly repairing the plank road and secretly hiding the old warehouse".

In the past few days, Lu Buwei has paid special attention to Mr. Jingyang, and he has devoted all his energy to monitoring Mr. Jingyang, because Mr. Jingyang has too many sons and grandchildren, and he is afraid that he will miss any bad things.

After the spring plowing, everyone changed into spring shirts. Li Jiyang took his little nephew and called Gan Luo on the holiday. Gan Lei didn’t have time to take his sons out to play. So I took the two young ones back to Lijiazhuang to preside over the spring plowing event, to see the spring scenery on the Zhuangzi, and to go for an outing by the way.

After the spring plowing was over, Li Jiyang also got a lot of wild vegetables. When he came back, he didn't take the two children with him, and left them in the elementary school in Lijiazhuang to go to school.

Gan Lei is very concerned about his son Gan Luo, but he also knows that the child is lonely at home, and it is good to go to school. He knows the school in Lijiazhuang, and the teachers are all taught by Master Li Jiyang.

Gan Lei still admires Li Jiyang's mysterious master...

Li Jiyang returned to Xianyang City with a cart full of small tender wild vegetables picked from the mountains. The vegetables grown at home could be eaten by several people in the palace all year round. Although he could also eat wild vegetables, he dared not take them out. It is something that grows in the mountains. You brought out fresh wild vegetables in heavy snow, what are you trying to do?

And wild vegetables are also divided into seasons, such as toothpaste eaten in spring, poor vegetables in summer, and wild fruits in autumn.

At this time, the wild vegetables are still very tender, so bring some back to the palace as a wild meal.

While thinking about it, the carriage stopped.

"Are you there?" Li Jiyang thought how long did he go?almost there?Time flies.

"No, Your Majesty, there is someone blocking the carriage ahead." Li Ping's voice sounded outside the curtain of the carriage door: "And you know this person."