On the eighth day of the 12th month, on the eighth day of the 12th month, the general manager of Yangzhou, Bin Wang Yuwen Wen, presided over the La Festival in Guangling, Yangzhou Prefecture, and then held a banquet at the official office to celebrate this grand festival with civil and military officials.

"La" refers to the name of a sacrifice. At the end of the year, the gods and ancestors were called La. The ancients wanted to hunt in the last month of the year, using prey as "sacrifice" to worship gods and ancestors.

The La Festival is usually held in December, so from the Qin and Han Dynasties, December is called the twelfth lunar month, but the day of the La Festival is not fixed, depending on the situation.

During the Han Dynasty, the La Festival was set on the third Xu day after the winter solstice. After hundreds of years of evolution, the La Festival (La Festival) was set on December 8th.

Since it is a "sacrifice", of course there must be a sacrifice, that is, "sacrifice". The "sacrifice" used in this sacrificial ceremony is naturally the prey obtained by Yuwen Wen and civil and military officials.

In this era, civil and military officials did not divide their paths, and many civil officials did not look like weak scholars, and were as good as military officials to ride and shoot.

Therefore, the number of "sacrifices" used in today's La Festival is sufficient, and various preys can be said to be piled up like mountains. As "sacrifices", they are first used to worship the gods, and then cooked by the chefs, making them into food and shared by civil and military officials.

The sacrifices that worship the gods will bring good luck to people after eating them. Therefore, in the official office, the gluttons were thrusting their index fingers and made a wish to God Haotian before enjoying the food.

In this era, the main gods worshipped by the Central Plains court were not the "Jade Emperor" called later generations, but the God of Haotian.

The Chinese word "God" in later religious terms comes from "Haotian God".

The so-called God of Haotian is called Haotian, and he looks at the vastness of energy. He is called the heaven when he looks at the vastness of the sky. No one respects people are the emperor and entrusted to the heaven, so he is called God.

Haotian God is the honorary title of heaven in Chinese mythology. During the Ji Zhou period, the honorary title of God of Haotian officially appeared. Haotian God is the heaven with the highest god and is the highest god who was orthodox sacrificed by the Central Plains courts in all dynasties.

There is a saying that the major affairs of a country are in sacrifice and military affairs. These two things are very important for all dynasties.

Rong is war, and worship is to worship ancestors and gods. In exchange for later political terms, it is "the fundamental of the country lies in military strength and ideology."

Therefore, even if Yuwen Wen did not believe in "God", he had to honestly lead civil and military officials to worship the gods. When he could return home, he had to worship his ancestors with his family.

However, for the Zhou Kingdom, the La Festival was set in October for a period of time because the Zhou Kingdom of Yuwen was "retro" to perform the Zhou rituals. It is said that during the Ji Zhou Dynasty, the La Festival was set in October.

The Zhou Dynasty "retro" performed the Zhou rituals in order to ideologically compete with the Gao Qi State at that time, emphasizing that it is "orthodox among orthodox", so it has a retro six-official system.

Later, when the Zhou Kingdom destroyed Qi, there was naturally no need to emphasize its "orthodox", so the La Festival returned to December 8th.

The need for retro is no longer necessary, so the six-official system of Zhou State should also withdraw from the historical stage and re-implement the official system since the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

That is the three-season system.

The so-called three provinces, namely the Secretariat Province, and the Menxia Province Monks' Secretariat Province, are responsible for drafting edicts (decision making), reviewing edicts (review) and executing administrative orders (execution). The three provinces are divided into various official offices.

The ruling prime minister, Qi Wangyu, has begun to prepare for the reform. Yuwen Wen has raised his hands to agree that the six-official system has revealed more and more disadvantages, which has become out of place in the context of the unification of the Central Plains.

Yuwen Wen knew that after the evolution of the three-provincial system, it would be the three-provincial and six-department system, so he could speak and gain a reputation in the reform of the official system.

But he had to use others to achieve this kind of research-oriented things, so Li Delin, who is very good at text-oriented, became Yuwen Wen's white glove.

Li Delin, who is over 60 years old, has performed well in the past two years as Yuwen Wen's assistant. Under Yuwen Wen's instruction, Li Delin wrote to the court to offer advice on the ongoing reform.

Whether the Prime Minister listened or not, Yuwen Wen didn't care, but his posture must be shown.

Yuwen Wen wants everyone to know that he is not only able to make money, but also has a reliable idea of ​​how to govern the country.

The reform of the official system is only one of them. He thinks that the reform of administrative divisions is imperative, because there are too many settings at the first level of the world and it is already a bit of a mess.

Therefore, Yuwen Wen took advantage of his time to have a heated discussion with Li Delin on administrative division reform during the meal.

Today's administrative divisions are three-level system of "prefectures, counties and counties", and there is also a general administration in the prefecture. Yuwen Wen thinks that if it is to be changed, it is best to change it to the "provincial system".

To be precise, it was the provincial system in the Ming Dynasty.

Thirteen governors (province), plus the north and south... east and west capitals, Zhili, a total of fifteen provinces.

His "whimsical" idea was criticized by Li Delin for being completely unsatisfied. The two of them just took advantage of the break from drinking to talk casually, but they couldn't help but "get into the show".

By citing classics and falling out of the book bag, Yuwen Wen was not as good as Li Delin, but he had a lot of fallacies and was not afraid of debate. He turned into a "striker" and had a dispute with the "old talent" Li Delin.

His strange and strange theory made the officials on both sides stunned, while Li Delin patiently refuted, trying to refute this strange and strange theory.

"King, I wonder what is the origin of the rename "Nanzhong" to "Yunnan"?"

Facing Li Delin's question, Yuwen Wen answered happily: "It's the south of the colorful clouds."

"So what about Guangxi and Guangdong? Where does this name come from?"

"Guangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road."

"I would like to ask the king to show you what is the 'road'? I have never seen the 'road' since ancient times."

"The ancestors said, 'There is no road in the world, and if more people walk, it becomes a road'."

"I don't know who the wise men said to be? The officials of the king are stupid, please make it clear."

"Luzi..."

While listening to the recording room, Zheng Shanguo, who was also taking notes, almost choked by his saliva when he heard this. Seeing King Bin so "eloquent" he really didn't know whether the other party was drunk or not.

Oh, the Prime Minister has such a difficult brother, so he is afraid that he has a headache, so he wants to send someone to Guangling...

Zheng Shanguo thought so, looking at the lively banquet in front of him, his thoughts couldn't help but fly to the distant Chang'an. He was imagining that at this moment, the La Festival Ceremony in the palace would be even more grand.

......

In Chang'an, the palace, the banquet was underway. The young emperor sat upright on the imperial throne, and the empress dowager sat aside. Prime Minister and King Qi of Qi presided over the banquet. After the twelve tours of the people, all the civil and military officials drank red.

Today is La Day, and the La Festival is even more grand than in previous years. The reason is that the official army defeated the Turkic army and then returned to the court. The prime minister wanted to reward the contributing soldiers.

Many officials looked at Yu Wenming and thought to themselves: Actually, it’s nothing to show off your great achievements in the prince. Can you not drink so much wine...

These people complained in their hearts that they were either old or had no alcohol tolerance, and the prime minister raised his glasses frequently, but it was not enough not to drink them himself.

Although the wine is not very strong, you will always get angry if you drink too much. When you get drunk, you will become crazy and not only make a fool of yourself in the hall, but you will also be impeached and misbehaved before you. That would be really unfair.

Of course, more people are worried that the prime minister will make a mistake after drinking, and then say things like "The son cannot bear the heavy responsibility, and the imperial throne should be owned by me", so that they will regard it as hearing or not hearing it?

No one is a fool. According to the current situation, the prime minister will sooner or later replace the young emperor and be appointed as emperor. If that day comes, everyone will not mind rushing to persuade him to advance. The problem is that now, no one knows whether what the prime minister says is the truth or the drunken word.

Seeing the Prime Minister raise his glass toast again, the officials present quickly raised their glasses and then drank them all in one go.

Yu Wenming looked at the civil and military officials in the hall and felt that now that they were in the royal palace, everyone came to the palace to celebrate and celebrate his son's triumphant return together.

He watched his son accept the drinks from everyone during the meal, and congratulations, and tears were about to come out of joy.

The invading Turks withdrew their troops in shame. As the ruler, Yu Wenming was of course happy.

As the head coach of the entire army, even if his son is a head coach, he still cannot escape his great achievements. As a father, Yuwen Wen is even happier.

That day, he watched his son ride on the Chang'an Imperial Road with his own eyes. He was a divine horse with one in a thousand under his crotch. He was wearing shiny armor and was majestic. He accepted the cheers of the people along the way, and then kept waving.

That scene made Yu Wenming very excited and cheered in his heart: My son is the best! No one can compare to it!

Originally, Yuwenli should have brought Pingchen's army to enjoy the highest honor, but unexpectedly, the credit was taken away by King Bin. However, this time Yuwenli defeated the Turks and returned triumphantly, which made Yuwenming no longer regret.

He was about to raise his glass again, but he was persuaded by his personal follower: "Master, drinking alcohol will make a mistake."

"Hmm? Uh..."

Yu Wenming nodded and put down his wine glass. When he was happy, he drank a lot of wine without realizing it. He was a little bit over the top, but once he got drunk, it might be inappropriate.

It is easy for people to take advantage of the situation.

Yu Wenming didn't want the incident of the New Year to happen again, so he sat back to his seat and signaled to follow him: "You guys, hiccup..."

He burped, paused and continued, "Be careful."

"Yes, please don't worry, lord."

"Also, please don't drink so much wine and take good care of Princess Bin."
Chapter completed!