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Chen Fei invited Kong Yingda to serve as the honorary chief of the newly established Qiushi Academy, and Chen Fei personally took on a supervisor position. Chen Fei only thought that this position was an honorary position, but many years later Chen Fei realized that the benefits he had gained from this nominal position were huge, and even allowed Chen Fei to the peak of his life and career. Chen Fei didn't know all this yet, so he didn't care too much about the supervisor position of Qiushi Academy.

"Mr. Chen, in two days you will lead all the people from the county government to worship various mountain gods and lands, as well as gods such as the Dragon King. We will conduct sacrifices and pray that they can bless us with a bumper harvest in the coming year and have enough food and clothing." Yang Jiaxiang said.

"Sacrifice?"

Only then did Chen Fei realize that the ancient county magistrate had another responsibility, which was to represent the people of the county to worship the gods and the land of the mountain gods, in order to make a good harvest. Those gods such as the Dragon King prayed that they could bless the county to be able to have good weather and weather, and avoid droughts and floods, so that people's income will not decrease, or even increase their income.

Of course, Chen Fei was obviously not very tempted by this kind of sacrifice. Because Chen Fei was a person who grew up in later generations and was deeply educated in science, he naturally knew that this so-called sacrifice was simply nonsense. Although Chen Fei traveled through time, he believed that this was an unsolved mystery of science and did not mean that some gods were manipulating it. Therefore, Chen Fei was not very keen on this kind of thing, because his mind was full of scientific development, and this kind of sacrifice was obviously not very concerned about it.

But ancient people were different. They paid attention to sacrifices and prayed for God to bless them. This has to be said that in ancient times, they relied on the heavens to make a living, prayed for God to bless them. Everything was hoped to bless God to get a good harvest. So Chen Fei was not easy to disobey. After all, from emperors to ordinary people in this era, they thought so, so Chen Fei should not stand out too far. So although Chen Fei was not very keen on sacrifices, he would not stop such sacrifices. After all, everyone supports their own opposition, which is too hated.

"Okay, sacrifice is sacrifice. Please tell me the specific procedures and etiquette later. Avoid any problems when the time comes!" Chen Fei said.

Yang Jiaxiang also knew that Chen Fei had never been a county magistrate, so he didn't know the process of sacrifice, so this was understandable. So he, as a clerk, had the obligation to help and help to avoid being criticized by others at that time.

"Mr. Chen County Magistrate, this time we will purchase new dresses for the sacrifice, prepare three cattle and sheep for various sacrifices, hold various banquets, and even invite special monks to pay tribute. And..." Yang Jiaxiang began to talk about the process.

Chen Fei felt a little dizzy when he listened to so many processes. Can he bear it?

"Tell me how much does this sacrifice cost?" Chen Fei asked.

Yang Jiaxiang immediately said: "If nothing unexpected happens, this sacrifice will cost 1,500 stagnant of money."

"You're not mistaken, are you? One thousand five hundred coins. It's really crazy!" Chen Fei immediately said angrily.

One thousand five hundred jin, this was a huge sum of money in ancient times, at least equivalent to hundreds of thousands of thousands of years in later generations. Such a huge sum of money was enough to pay the annual salary of the clerks in the county. And there was a lot of leftovers. Chen Fei certainly couldn't accept it by taking hundreds of thousands of dollars to sacrifice some unknown gods. This 1,500 jin was almost one tenth of the county's regular fiscal revenue per year. Such a large sum of money was really a scattered person.

In later generations, Chen Fei had not heard that he would take hundreds of thousands of yuan to worship some gods who were unknown to the so-called gods. The biggest sacrifice was the public sacrifice to pay homage to the ancestor of humanities, Huangdi, or the public sacrifice to the later massacre. This kind of public sacrifice is meaningful and valuable. If he took hundreds of thousands to worship some of them, he would not be able to protect himself, and he would not have any nostalgic meaning, and would not bring any local benefits. Isn’t this a waste of money? He could not waste money if he had money!

"Mr. Chen County, we are quite short of this. Some counties directly took out thousands of guan to sacrifice to these gods to bless the local people to make good fortune. If we can pray to them to bless our Shuo County, it will be our blessing. Now many places are competing to spend more money to sacrifice these gods. After all, the magic power of the gods is limited, and it is impossible to bless all counties!" Yang Jiaxiang said.

Chen Fei snorted and said, "It's a pity that the seat in front of me in the middle of the night, and I don't ask the people about ghosts and gods! Humph!"

Chen Fei was speechless about these so-called officials and actually wanted to get a good harvest by praying for God's blessing. But how could Chen Fei, a later generation, believe in this? If you want a good harvest, it is the officials who lead the people to develop production so that they can have a good harvest. If you want a good harvest, you should invest in the development of water conservancy, rather than praying for the blessing of the Dragon King. As for what makes people live a prosperous life, it is definitely not something you can get by just taking the God of Wealth. It should be to work hard to increase production and income, and then reduce the burden on people's lives. This is the foundation for getting rich.

But it is really outrageous that these guys actually hope to get it by worshiping God. Chen Fei is also an ordinary citizen after all, and he is really heartbroken that such officials are wasting taxpayers' money so much. This method of giving the previous one to ghosts and gods is even more unreliable than the officials who have used money to build a large scale. At least, it can drive the development of some industries, but this kind of sacrifice has no economic benefits at all, which is simply a waste.

"You should hurry up and stop those who purchase various sacrificial supplies. This year's sacrificial sacrifices must be made small. This year's sacrificial sacrifices are simple. Don't invite so many monks, and don't prepare so many sacrificial sacrifices, that is, prepare some simple things. Just steamed cakes, steamed buns and other things. There is no need for so many three animals, and no banquets will be placed." Chen Fei said.

"But, these are all rules over the years!" Yang Jiaxiang said.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, there is nothing to discuss this time. Even if the officials in the other three counties object together, I will not compromise! I cannot feed all 10% of the finances to those charlatans. These charlatans have swallowed so much money, but still want to continue swallowing them? It's so outrageous!" Chen Fei said. (The novel "The Tang Dynasty Politician" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!) (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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