After the beginning of spring, the Qin State will also carry out the Spring Festival Ceremony as usual, but this time the Spring Festival Ceremony in addition to the sacrifice to the heavens and the wish for a smooth wind and rain this year, there is also an important project, that is, to celebrate the destruction of Zhao's achievements, and to reward the heroes of the destruction of Zhao this time, and to officially seal Hehua.

In fact, the reward of meritorious heroes should have been carried out a long time ago, because in the past 50 years, Zhao has been the main opponent of Qin, and the two sides are almost evenly matched in military affairs, which also makes Qin suffer a lot, and in the strategy of unifying the world formulated by Qin Wangzheng, Zhao is also regarded as the biggest opponent. Therefore, the destruction of Zhao State not only completely defeated this old opponent, but also took an important step towards unifying the world. Naturally, it is necessary to be grand, but Qin Wangzheng and his entourage arrived in Xianyang only three days before the New Year, and before the New Year, it is definitely impossible to hold a grand celebration, so it can only be placed after the New Year, and after the New Year, only the spring festival is the biggest celebration, so Qin Wangzheng also decided to combine the celebration of the victory of Zhao and the spring sacrifice.

Ancient China has always attached great importance to agricultural production, and among the nations, they all attach great importance to the spring festival, because agricultural production depends on the sky for food, and the biggest purpose of the spring festival is to falsely accuse the heavens, which can ensure that the wind and rain are smooth in this year. Therefore, not only among the people, but also in the imperial courts of various countries, a grand spring festival will be held. Moreover, the folk spring festival does not have a fixed date, which is generally set on the day when spring ploughing begins, and the national spring festival is selected on the day of the beginning of spring.

Generally speaking, the spring festival is divided into two parts, the first is to choose a location in the suburbs, pay homage to heaven, and then return to the city to pay homage to their ancestors in the temple. And the focus is on the worship of the suburbs. But this time, the content of celebrating the destruction of Zhao was added, and this part was carried out in the royal city, so the content of the second half of this time became the focus.

The location of the Qin State to choose the Spring Festival is generally on the bank of the Wei River, because from the perspective of the reincarnation of the five elements, the Zhou Dynasty is the virtue of fire, and the State of Qin is the virtue of water, and the use of water to overcome fire means that the Zhou of the Qin Dynasty is the cycle of heaven. Therefore, the ceremonies of the Qin State are often chosen by the river to highlight the water virtue of the Qin State.

So on the day of the beginning of spring, Qin Wangzheng led the clan brothers of Qin, civil and military officials under the escort of the Qin army, came to the north bank of Weishui, held a spring festival, according to the custom, the spring festival ceremony is not attended by women and children, but this time Qin Wangzheng authorized Hehua to accompany him to participate in the spring festival. And the civil and military officials of the Qin State did not object, because most of the officials had witnessed the miracles shown by Hehua in Handan, and it was strange that the Qin State had such a princess, and it was strange not to participate in the Spring Festival.

And almost all the people of Xianyang also went out, everyone put on new clothes, and rushed to Weishui to participate in this grand spring sacrifice ceremony. When the sky was still bright, on both sides of the avenue, it was already full of people, all looking forward to it, waiting for the big frame of Qin Wangzheng. Others set up incense tables on the road and prepared to bow down.

In fact, the people did not come to see Qin Wangzheng, because Qin Wangzheng would make several public appearances every year, and the people of Xianyang had seen Qin Wangzheng a few times. This time the people are mainly to see the princess of Hehua, Qin Wangzheng and his entourage have not returned to Xianyang, the miracle of Hehua has been spread in Xianyang City, there are some superstitions in this era, and the miracle of Hehua is also passed on to the gods, so the people naturally want to see what the princess looks like in this incarnation of Xuanniao, and many people hope to see the princess show another miracle at this spring festival.

Qin Wangzheng was also prepared for such a situation, so he also laid a large number of troops along the way to protect it, and on both sides of the road leading from Xianyang to Weishui, two human walls were also formed by the Qin army to separate the people from Qin Wangzheng's brigade. However, the people of the Qin State have always respected the order, although there are hundreds of thousands of people traveling, and there is an endless stream of people on the road, but it is orderly.

As Qin Wangzheng's convoy came out, the people along the way immediately cheered, and the cheers of "Long live the king" also continued to sound, and many sharp-eyed people had already seen that behind Qin Wangzheng's tall bronze carriage, there was a bronze carriage with a slightly smaller size, and there was a young girl sitting on the car, with a high bun, a gorgeous palace dress, and a beautiful face.

So many people shouted "Long live the king", and added a sentence of "long live the princess", and after Hehua heard the people's calls in the car, he also frequently turned his head and smiled at the people on both sides of the avenue, which also caused more people to respond, so the final formation of "Long live the king", "Long live the princess" shouts. At the same time, many people praised the beauty of the princess.

Qin Wangzheng's carriage was in front of Hehua's carriage, so the people's praise for Hehua was also heard by Qin Wangzheng, and the corners of his mouth were slightly smiling.

At this time, Zhao Gao, who accompanied Qin Wangzheng in the same car, said cautiously: "The king, the prince is a woman after all, and the people call it 'Long live the princess', I'm afraid it's not good, although the slave hasn't read for a few days, but he also knows that the chicken Sichen is unknown to the country." ”

"Ji Ji Si Chen" is from [Shang Shu? Pastoral Oath] in "The Chicken Has No Morning; The morning of the chicken, the only way to find the family". The hen is the hen, which means: the hen does not crow; If someone's hen crows, then the family will decline. 【Shangshu? Pastoral oath] is the oath made by King Wu of Zhou to raise troops to attack the Emperor, and the alliance of the candidates, made in Muye, "Ji Si Chen" is a metaphor for the king of Shang to favor Da Ji and not listen to the words of loyalty, so that the country was defeated. And the situation of Sichen has always been regarded as a bad omen by various countries.

Zhao Gao said that the people shouted "Long live the princess" in Hehua, and it was Si Chen, strictly speaking, it was not wrong. Because only the king of a country can be called "long live", and even the princess does not have this qualification, let alone a princess.

Qin Wangzheng just smiled faintly and said, "What do you know?" Holland is not an ordinary princess, she is an auspicious omen of my Great Qin, and she is the daughter of a widow, and the people call her 'long live', that is, 'long live', understand? ”

Zhao Gao hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, it's the ignorance of the slave, please forgive the king." ”

Qin Wangzheng smiled again, but he didn't care.

Xianyang is not far from Weishui, did not walk for a long time, Qin Wangzheng's group arrived at the Weishui River, at this time a high platform has already been erected by the river, Qin Wangzheng got off the car and took the stage, and the children of the clan, the ministers of civil and military affairs also stood in shifts, Hehua naturally stood in the ranks of the clan, and other princes of Qin Wangzheng stood in a column, and she was the eldest daughter of Qin Wangzheng, so she also stood in the head position.

After Qin Wangzheng boarded the altar, he saw that the altar was already facing the surging Weishui, and the incense table was set up, and on the altar of Nuoda, there was only one old man, with a long white beard, hanging down to his waist, but his face was ruddy, and he couldn't tell how old he was.

Seeing Qin Wangzheng, the old man just bowed, and did not bow down, and said, "I've seen the king." ”

And Qin Wangzheng actually owed a slight debt, and said, "Immortal master is exempt." ”

It turns out that the old man's name is called Chi Songzi, when Qin Wangzheng just succeeded to the throne, Qin State was in drought, Qin Wangzheng ordered, recruit warlocks, sorcerers to ask for rain, Chi Songzi recommended himself into the palace, within three days, sure enough, heavy rain fell from the sky, which also shocked Qin Wangzheng, and asked him in detail about his origin. Chi Songzi claims to be the rain master of Shennong, calling for wind and rain is just a trail, can enter the fire without burning, up and down with the wind and rain, once the Yellow Emperor's teacher, and the young daughter of the Yan Emperor became an immortal, just because the dust is not over, so it can not sit down and fly into an immortal, etc., said that it is godly, and later in front of Qin Wangzheng, he cast several spells, such as taking things from the partition, changing things out of thin air, taking chestnuts from the fire and so on. He was shocked by Qin Wangzheng as a celestial, so he left Chi Songxiao in the palace and respected him as an immortal master, mainly to manage the Taimiao Temple, and pay for divination.

Although there are not many times when Chi Songzi makes a divination, as long as he makes a move, he will hit nine times out of ten, and it is not inaccurate to miss, but the time has not come. For example, when Hehua was born, a hundred birds flew around the palace, and Chi Songxiao predicted that at this time, it was a good omen, Qin Wangzheng could sweep away the six kingdoms and unify the world, and when he was on the plateau, he made a prophecy of "although he descended to Zhao, he would eventually benefit Qin", which was also Chisong. Therefore, Qin Wangzheng was almost convinced of Chi Song's prophecy.

And for such a heavy thing as the Spring Festival, of course, it is necessary to invite red pine nuts.

The two greeted each other on the altar, and Chi Songxiao immediately said, "King, the time has come, and you can start the spring festival." ”

Qin Wangzheng nodded and said, "Let's start." ”

Chi Songxiao immediately waved his sleeves, and saw that in the incense burner around the altar, it was immediately lit, and four puffs of light smoke rose up and went straight to the clouds.

Qin Wangzheng also approving: "The magic of the immortals is one level higher. ”

Chi Songzi smiled slightly and said, "The king has spoken." At this time, the disciples of the Red Pine Sect brought up the three animal sacrifices, wine and other things, put them on the offering table, and handed out the incense case, and the Pine Son said: "Please sacrifice to the heavens, the king." ”

Qin Wangzheng came to the table, first lit the incense candle, inserted it in the incense burner, and then bowed to the sky three times, and then got up and poured the three cups of water and wine on the table on the ground one by one. He took the sacrificial text from Chi Songzi's hand, and read it aloud to Weishui, with a loud voice and full of energy, even if the people were far away from the altar, they could hear it very clearly.

After reading the sacrificial text, Qin Wangzheng lit the sacrificial text and threw it into Weishui, and then knelt on the altar and bowed to the sky three times in a row, and Chi Songxiao also commanded his younger brother and threw the three animal sacrifices into Weishui. Only then did the soldiers in the audience shout "Long live the king" in unison, and the sound shook the clouds, even if they were miles away, they could hear it very clearly. At this time, all the sacrifices that are not valid will be over.