Chapter 189 Celebrating the Emperor's birthday

Looking at Cheng Shuang's expression of wanting to speak but stopping, Zhao Xing urged: "What's the matter?"

Xiao Feng squatted on the ground, hugged his head and replied: "Master, I'm afraid I can't save it anymore-the man wanted to run away, and three big dogs surrounded him and bit him, breaking one of his legs."

Zhao Xing smiled: "I am a person in charge of criminal law in Hangzhou. Isn't this a joke? Or did he get in from the dock? How could he have the opportunity to avoid surveillance and drill into the pile of goods? Hehehe, I often claim to have a strong organizational ability for students, but a team of transporters lacked personal skills, and the team leader did not report. How did he count the head of the person when he got off work? It's ridiculous!"

Cheng Shuang said stutteringly: "Teacher... Actually, there are many ships entering the port today, and we lack staff, so we hired a hundred people from outside temporarily. The people came and went, and it was a mess for a while. That guy was the newly hired and couldn't watch..."

Zhao Xing sighed: "Since one person ran away and the team leader didn't notice it, it means that your organization is not beneficial. Pu Yi'an's people are not rigorous in management. I have been waiting for this day long - replace Pu Yi'an's personnel, send a letter to Pu Gangshou, and said: Dock, I've taken over!"

After Zhao Xing said this, he sighed and helped Chen Yiyi walk into the room. Su Dun behind him was very curious and shouted: "Big, I'll go see that person. He is so capable that he can escape the big guy..."

An Israelis suddenly interrupted: "Amputation, amputation and allograft surgery were already performed in the fourth century AD. I happened to learn a little. The flesh on that person's leg had been bitten to the bone, so he could only undergo amputation surgery. Mr. Zhao, let's do amputation surgery on him, right?"

Zhao Xing nodded while walking into the house. Seeing that Su Dun was still insisting, Cheng Shuang hurriedly picked him up and forced him into the house. When the Israelite saw Zhao Xing nodding, he quickly called out to his companions: "Come on alcohol and prepare for the operation quickly."

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The thief screamed for two days after the amputation operation, but finally failed to survive and died of excessive blood loss. His death did not cause any trouble, because the Song people would not pity the thieves who came to their home to steal, and Zhao Xing did not have this habit.

The Israelites who performed the surgery came from Africa recently. He was originally a surgeon and then studied in Arabia for several years. The 11th century happened to be the heyday of Arab medicine. It is said that Arabia was leading the world in medical technology at this time 400 years.

However, this amputation surgery was not successful, but being able to perform such surgery has proved the ability of an Israeli doctor. Zhao Xing affirmed his technical level and quickly obtained him a medical license for the Song Dynasty, allowing him to open a clinic in the castle to train students...

After this busy period, another public holiday in the Song Dynasty came again - Tianning Festival, which is the birthday of today.

During the Tianning Festival last year, Zhao Xing went to Yingzhou. At that time, heavy snow had fallen from Yingzhou. This year, heavy snow in the north blocked the mountains, causing the continuous Song and Xia war to hibernate. Although the war was very hard this year, the Song Dynasty did not suffer any major losses. After the war subsided, the little emperor decided to celebrate, and his birthday happened to be in front of him, so the celebration became even more intense.

The continuous war also led to the emptiness of the Song Dynasty's treasury. For this reason, the Song Dynasty's coin minting plan that had been entangled for a year was finally implemented. The first thing announced was the gold medal, the Jinying Plan. The gold medal was one liang of pure gold, round, just like the originally popular gold medal of blessing in the Song Dynasty. It was a round coin, but it was not called "Jinyuan", but "Golden Medal". Then the gold tin is eight liang gold, and there are seven lines drawn on it, which can evenly divide the gold tin into eight parts, one liang per part, and the entire gold tin weighs about half a jin (one Song jin is equal to sixteen liang).

In addition, the court tentatively minted a batch of silver dollars, and the formal name was not called silver dollars, but "silver medal". This kind of silver medal is not pure silver, which is mixed with 30% impurities, and the method of minting silver coins has also become a stamping method - the court used an old Greek antique presented by the Leye people: a screw coin press.

In general, this batch of silver coins has received a good response. Because it is solid and undeformed, the pattern of the coins also adheres to the exquisite and gorgeous style that was always in the Song Dynasty, making it very popular among merchants. The only regret is that the number is too small, resulting in a low popularity rate... This also means that people's recognition ability is not too high and it is easier to counterfeit.

While watching the establishment of the third-level monetary system happily, Zhao Xing expected it to have a more profound impact on the commodity economy of the Song Dynasty. On the other hand, he also instructed his private coins to start modeling new money and prepared for batch imitation.

There was no technical barrier for him to imitate this kind of imitation, because the coin press he obtained was offered by the court by him. At the same time, his private mint factory had begun to use more advanced hydraulic presses. Therefore, as soon as the mother money sent to the state prefectures came to him, he immediately dewaxed the wax and turned it into a mold for the hydraulic press. When the rumbling press sounded, Zhao Xing could confirm that the money minted by his private mint factory would be more exquisite than the money minted by the Song Dynasty's money supervisor.

Of course, Su Shi didn't know that Zhao Xing was doing these tricks behind his back. He was excited to plan the Tianning Festival program these days.

October 10th, Tianning Festival. Thursday, October 26, 1088 AD.

The two consecutive years of famine did not affect the enthusiasm of the people of Hangzhou for the festival. The Tianning Festival activities kicked off with the shocking firecrackers. Since this day was a holiday, Su Shi, Zhao Xing and others were not wearing official uniforms. They stood on the main street of Hangzhou like ordinary people, watching the parade approaching while singing and dancing.

Walking in front of the team is "Bamboo Pole" (also known as "Joinmen Color"), which is equivalent to the current broadcaster. It is named after holding a bamboo pole in his hand. Its function is to steer a dance, recite slogans and speak to the audience. In modern times, the band commander stands in front of the team, and what he holds is no longer "Bamboo Pole". That thing is called "baton".

"Bamboo Tanzi" walked in the front, and the accompaniment band followed the conductor, calling it "back walk". However, these people were indeed dressed up by Hu people. A total of more than 200 children aged 12 or 13 years old participated in the performance, divided into ten teams:

One is the Zhezhi team, wearing a five-color embroidered robe, a silver belt, and a beard hat - a beret that looks a bit like a modern beret. This team beating drums while walking and singing the "Zhezhi Song" of the Han Dynasty.

The second is a sword weapon team, wearing five-color embroidered silk robes, wearing foot-buckles, wearing red silk embroidered foreheads—that is, the head-wrapped and red brocade handkerchiefs to wrap the heads. These people danced sword weapons while walking.

The third one is a Brahmin team, wearing purple monk robes and blazing gowns. Because the monks came from India, they are called "Brahmin team". They recite scriptures while walking.

The fourth is the Hu Teng team, wearing a red brocade robe, a silver robe, and a felt hat - that is, the famous Fan Yang hat in the Song Dynasty. They made somersaults while walking.

The band of Long Live the Band of the Five Lovers, wearing a wide-skinned shirt and covered with flowers and heads - a heroic scarf that the young actors often wear in Peking Opera. This team performs the content of the Song Dynasty drama.

Six is ​​the children's sense of holy band, wearing a green and silk shirt, tied silk, and the two corners - a boy's hairstyle in the Song Dynasty, combing two braids, and calling them the corners. They danced on the pole and performed.

The seventh is the Jade Rabbit Huntuo team, wearing four-color embroidered silk robes, wearing silver belts, and wearing jade rabbit crowns. The Huntuo team is a modern dry fleet.

Eight is a foreign-land facing team, wearing brocade jackets, silver belts, and a barbarian crown - Persian Hu hat, which is the modern felt hat without a ridge. They knocked and performed Western Regions percussion music.

One is the Children's Red Team, wearing a purple-red embroidered robes, wearing silver belts, wearing flowers and phoenix crowns, and ribbons. The Red Team is a red ribbon, which is the team that waving colorful silk and dancing while walking.

One is the The Legend of the Condor Heroes, wearing a brocade robe with silver robes, and the Legend of the Condor Heroes (supporting arrow bags). This team is fully armed and shows the majesty.

More than 200 children, red, purple, silver and green, colorful, with wide jackets and shirts, dressed in a variety of clothes, wore jade crowns, wrapped heads, danced swords, held brocade sticks, held treasure platters, carried carved arrows, dressed up as foreigners to come to court, pretended to offer treasures from foreign lands, both solemn and harmonious, and sang and dance. The lively and spectacular scenes made people intoxicated and joy could not be banned.

What is this? It is called "floor parade" in modern times. It is said to be a foreign thing introduced to China after the Republic of China... Well, now, Zhao Xing is watching Chinese float parades in the Song Dynasty - yes, it is the Song Dynasty! It is China! He couldn't help but wonder: How could this float parade not spread throughout the world in the Song Dynasty? How did it become a complete foreign thing in the end? Depressed!

In the Song Dynasty, cities were used to the trend of blessings, praying, and having fun. Especially for major social activities, children should be allowed to participate in the atmosphere. For example, during the Xining period, Tokyo had been drought and raining for a long time, the emperor ordered the children in Tokyo to wear green clothes, and store water around alleys, plant willows, and float a large lizard urn, shouting: "Lizard lizards are full of clouds and mist. The rain is pouring, let you go!"

This celebration method was called "children's team dance" in the Song Dynasty.

With children dancing to express good fortune and bring disasters to bring blessings. Even if it is drought and rain for a long time, people will regard this as a pleasure. Because in the Northern Song Dynasty, where hedonism is prevalent, people do not care about the specific content, "but it is important to be beautiful and pleasing to the public." The emperor used the "children's team dance" performance on his birthday to make the atmosphere of "pleasant and pleasant things" stronger... Modern people cannot see this scene, but they can feel the intoxication of this scene from the "Hundred Sons Playing in Spring" in the Song Dynasty.

The float parade composed of "Children's Team Dance" lasted all day, and the parade team walked alleys of Hangzhou City... The next day, he entered the group practice Cuju performance.

Su Shi also had an official position as the commander of the Liangzhe West Road Army. He originally wanted to inspect the imperial guards on the Tianning Festival and organized the imperial guards performance on this day to congratulate the Tianning Festival. However, because he was really unable to separate himself, the imperial guards performance was postponed to the next day.

Most of the imperial guards in the Song Dynasty were not used for fighting, but for performances. Their annual training was to perform for the people during festivals. The imperial guards in Bianliang City were heavy tasks. They had to perform on the opening day of Jinmingchi, as well as the Lantern Festival, Cold Food, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, and on the Tianning Festival. The imperial guards who moved outside the Xu area to make food were leisurely, and the heavy show they performed every year was just the Tianning Festival.

This day, the Cuju sport with goals was performed.

This kind of Cuju sport is slightly confrontational than Cuju sport that does not use the goal. People participating in the sports need to be divided into two teams, each with 16 people, including ball head, head head, left pole net, right pole net, Sanli, etc. The two teams have a total of 32 people, and are usually called "left and left troops".

Su Shi pointed to the venue and introduced to Zhao Xing: "Li Ren, have you seen Jin Mingchi's performance. There are many people there and the venue is small. Generally, there are not such competitions. However, in other places, the most common thing the imperial guards do during the Tianning Festival is the Cuju competition."

This game was held at the Hangzhou school stadium, and the competition was open to the people. In the past, the school stadium was forbidden to enter and exit. Now, there are crowds of people outside the field, and even the walls are full of people. Zhao Xing measured the size of the venue and asked: "Is there any size requirement for this venue?"

Su Shi glanced at Zhao Xing curiously: "What are the sizes? People often say: How big is the field? How big is the field? The size of the schoolyards varies. The official stipulates the size of the schoolyard, which makes everyone unable to let go... Well, the goal has dimensions: two wooden pillars three feet tall and two feet tall stand there as the goal. The wooden pillars are two feet eight inches apart, and the net is nine feet five inches wide. There is a 'romantic eye' about three feet in size on the goal, for goal..."

"I don't believe it", Zhao Xing rolled his eyes - the ancients never believed in size.

Is the gate post three or two feet high? This height is equivalent to the height of two electric poles, but there were no cement electric poles in the Song Dynasty, so wood could only be used as the gate post. How thick should the bottom of a tree trunk that grew ten meters high? Such a gate post is erected because balls often hit the height of the ten meters high, and a net is hung at the height of the height. In order to prevent it from being blown down by the wind, the buried part needs at least two meters. In other words, the two gate posts must be made of giant trees above twelve meters high. What kind of tree is that?

"Get a ruler. Since there is a specified height of the post, we need to follow the rules and ask me to measure the posts to meet the requirements." Zhao Xing said while muttering: "If you kick the ball to a height of ten meters, whether Beckham can do it is a problem. I don't believe that this post meets the requirements!"

"Don't be fooled by the people. The book says that size has a false finger and a general point. Here it says three or two feet, which is a general point, which is extremely high, and how can you be so boring, and you have to measure that height?" Su Dongpo hurriedly persuaded him.

Zhao Xing nodded and said in a general way that this is right. Modern football has a goal height of only 2.44 meters. Zhao Xing felt that the height of the "Rich Eye" was not much higher than that of the modern goal, and it was at most three meters. How could it be said that it was three feet?

"Fair, I just think that the goal posts of the two teams must be equally high, so that's fair... Wait, the book says? In what book is the height of this goal post?" Zhao Xing asked.

Su Shi was a teacher. At this time, the teacher's temper broke out and patiently taught: "It is said that Huangdi captured Chiyou and used his stomach as a Ju. He asked people to hold it. Most of the people were rewarded. This was the beginning of Cuju. Liu Xiang said in "Bielu": 'The stairs of Ju are the military force, so he practiced warriors and knew that they had talent. They were all talking about it because of playing. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, Cuju has been a play in the army. As for the height of these gate posts, there was no fixed example. Speaking of this size... maybe it was explained in the "New Book of Cuju" in the Han Dynasty."

Su Dongpo's allusions are famous. It is said that when he was the top student in the exam, he once cited an example from ancient times to illustrate his point of view. This example made Ouyang Xiu, the erudite and talented person, liked him. He went home and read the books for several days, but could not find relevant records. He specially called Su Shi to ask. Su Shi's face was red and his heart was not beating: "That example was made up by me."

In this case, Zhao Xing dared not believe the origin of Su Shi's Cuju. Fortunately, he just wanted to verify whether there was something wrong with his eyes. Now he knew that his eyes were fine and the height of the goal post was just a false finger, so he stopped talking and asked Su Shi to announce the kickoff.

Su Shi waved his hand and the Cuju match began. According to the regulations of Taizu of Song: the left and the right are black. That is, the left army members were wearing yellow robes and the right army was wearing black robes. The two armies lined up the formation on the field. The referee Qin Guan rang the gong, the left army kicked off, and the right army turned around and left.

I saw Zuo Jun kicking the balloon around, kicking several times, and then passing the ball to two times. The balloon demonstrated the way of playing Cuju, making many dance styles on the field, passing the ball around, attracting everyone to cheer in unison. Then the balloon head passed the ball again and finally passed it to the balloon head, and the balloon head pulled the ball a few times, kicking the ball around, and then kicked the ball into the "Rongliu Eye" with a big step.

"One win!" A loud shout from the outside. Qin Guan beat the gong on the stage and made a calm decision: "One win for the Zuo Jun!"

Zuo Jun bowed and came out of the field. It was You Jun's turn to perform. After receiving the ball, the Right Jun kicked the ball several times and passed it to the ball head. The ball head raised its feet and kicked the ball towards the "Fengliu Eye". As the ball deviated from the "Fengliu Eye", a sigh sounded outside the field.

Zhao Xing yawned. At this time, the balls were exchanged in the field and the Zuo Jun started to perform again. Song people were fascinated by this performative ball game, but Zhao Xing was not interested in such a game that was not confrontational at all. He was drowsy until Qin Guan gently pushed him with a small hammer. He wiped his saliva and asked hazyly: "Who won?"

Cuju performance is something like a rhythmic gymnastics. The ball head kicks the ball to one person high, make a few shapes, and then catch the ball, turn around and kick it to a companion, or continue to perform. The ball is about three meters high to kick one person high, and it takes at least 3 seconds to do a few shapes. During these three seconds, the ball must remain slowly floating. That is to say, the Cuju ball speed is one meter per second. This fluttering speed can only be "balloon speed" to facilitate players' performance.

This slow and pure performance of the ball skills made Zhao Xing, who was used to modern singing, dancing and rhythmic gymnastics, feel boring. The result of the "match" was: the left and right army each played five goals, and the right army then came to win the game. At present, the left and right army ball head was punished by "eating whip". Su Dongpo held a whip and symbolically gently whipped the left army ball head three times, while the right army ball head won a silver wine glass and sixteen pieces of brocade. Those who won wrapped the brocade around their necks, dangled it like a modern ribbon, and looked at Su Dongpo with his belly wide open.

Su Dongpo shouted: "Diancheng!"

With this shout, the official prostitutes in Hangzhou were wearing colorful branches and walked onto the stage and bowed to Su Dongpo first. The official prostitutes wearing red coats and oversized buns sang to Su Dongpo. In the Song Dynasty, the best of the official prostitutes were allowed to wear red clothes, and the title was "Xingshou". They first came to Su Dongpo for reporting the names of the various brothels.

In ancient China, there were regulations on what color of clothes they wore. The other two teams of official prostitutes had pearls and jade on their heads, wearing gold shirts and skirts; the other was crowned flowers and shirts and crotched stylings; the former was ordinary Kabuki, while the latter did not wear pearls and jade on their clothes because their rank was higher than the former, and they were only slightly lower than the head of the industry. Modern times called them "popular singers" or "first-line singers".

The number of people who were expected to be accepted, and the number of people who were actually received was reported. Su Dongpo's Japanese servants had already led the high-headed horse. Su Dongpo took the lead and led the team to set off. He was followed by officials at all levels, and then the winners of the Cuju competition. The team was dressed in beautiful clothes and followed the officials with arrogant attitude. The official prostitutes were either holding flowers and drums, or holding dragon Ruan Qinse. They were really dressed and held musical instruments. They were graceful and charming, and they complemented each other. The mother-in-law and sister-in-law who served the official prostitutes made up into embroidered sluts in the market, pulling them with embroidered saddles and horses.

Shortly after the long team left the barracks, local wealthy gentry began to hold wine glasses and hold fruit candied fruits to the officials... In fact, at this time, the officials were not the darlings of the people, and those official prostitutes were the protagonists today. The young and young people in the market frequently persuaded them to drink with their favorite "friends". After a while, the team gradually opened up. The official prostitutes walked slowly and slowly, and the officials walked faster and faster. The two teams were missing.

This is also the intention of this parade. Today, the winner of the official prostitute and Cuju competition is the hero. After the local officials took him (they) out of the competition field, the task was completed, and the remaining time was left by the people. The officials only focused on running towards Zhaoxing's castle, without looking back.

Zhao Xing turned around several times along the way, and he watched the dress parade of the official prostitutes with unsatisfactory feelings. In front of the official prostitutes, there were Yu Housing, who had invited people from the Ministry of Commerce to open the way. Later, there were guards of idle people holding Luo Fans and clothes, which caused thousands of citizens to line up on the street to watch, forming a unique "sea of ​​thousands of people" scene in the Song Dynasty. This scene made Zhao Xing a little familiar and a little lost...

Behind the team of the official prostitutes was the functions of the army. They were wearing various cool umbrellas, dancing with small silver spears and swords, carrying various hats, playing with colorful shuttle balls, playing colorful flags, and beating single-skin drums. Then they practiced dancing with large lotus-picking boats, beating single-skin drums, holding fans, baskets, bamboo poles, and bamboo horses... For a moment, the huge noise and hustle and bustle of Hangzhou people came out of the empty city, which made people dizzy and intoxicated.

Today is the holiday for officials. Officials' holiday means that there are no tax collectors. Many people in Hangzhou have transformed into businessmen, selling clay yellow fat (children's mud dolls toys), molasses cakes, lotus roots, new fruits, like raw flower fruits...

There were a few acquaintances among the vendors selling goods at the castle entrance of Zhaoxing, who were the families of Israel. When the Hangzhou officials came here, they stopped and looked at the group of "tax evasion people" happily. They only heard those blond, blue-eyed, red-haired and white-skinned Jewish women were sandwiched in the team, selling wreaths, hairpins, box headdresses, gold skirts, satin vests, golden hats, and free scarves to passers-by in strange tone Songyu...
Chapter completed!