Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 304 Township Drinking Ceremony
In the Tang Dynasty, there was no such term as Chinese New Year, and New Year’s Eve was far less important than in later generations. What they were important to them was Yuanzheng on the first day of the first lunar month and Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the Shangyuan Festival in 937, the inside and outside of Liangzhou city was decorated with red and colorful colors. This is already the fifth Shangyuan Festival that Zhang Zhao has come to this era.

At this time, it was actually the second year of Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty, because in December 936 last year, after Shi Jingtang entered Luoyang, he continued to change Yuan Tianfu.

But the news has not reached Liangzhou, so the Hexi land is still using the Qingtai reign name of Li Congke, the late emperor of Tang Dynasty.

This year is different from the Shangyuan Festival in previous years. Zhang Zhao has stabilized the situation in Liangzhou at this time, and finally has his own territory.

Among the wives and concubines, Cao Nineniang, the main wife who has not yet married, is still keeping a filial piety for Cao Yijin in Dunhuang, Shazhou.

The Cao family, Cao Yanmian, still stayed in Khotan because Zhang Xiuxin, the eldest daughter of Zhang Zhao, was born to him at a young age.

Ayigul is basically sure that she will not return to the east. Her second son, Zhang Xianyu, will stay in Anxi, and will be the lord of the prairie west of Taros, including the coast of the Caspian Sea.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao's aunt, Princess Fengtian of Khotan, had set off to return to Khotan after Cao Yijin's funeral, and Ayiguri also had the important task of fulfilling filial piety for Zhang Zhao's aunt.

I believe that with the company of her daughter-in-law and grandson, and the need to take care of hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Ningyuan, Princess Fengtian can be busy.

The remaining Li Ruoliu did not come to Liangzhou either. She and Zhang Zhao's eldest son, Zhang Xianzhun, were arranged to stay in Dunhuang to accompany Zhang Zhao's biological mother, the Song family.

The Song family had always lived alone with the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, but Zhang Zhao still hoped that she could change this living habit a little bit.

After all, on the day when he conceived as a great treasure, his aunt, Princess Fengtian, looked like a Scythian and would not be suitable to be a queen mother. His biological mother, Mrs. Song, would definitely have to go east with him to Luoyang or somewhere else, and she had to exercise first.

So the only ones following Zhang Zhao were Sanniang Cao, the little wild cat Guo Wan'er, and Sefiye, the Saman Persian princess who could only be regarded as a loli.

Among them, Mrs. Cao San was able to treat each other with courtesy for a period of time. After all, it was still Cao Yijin's funeral, and the little loli Sai Feiye couldn't do anything at all. Only a little wild cat, Guo Wan'er, was available by her side.

However, Guo Wan'er was trained by Zhang Zhao to become a personal female secretary. Liangzhou has changed so much up and down, and Guo Wan'er has to deal with things in a day, no less than her cousin Guo Tiance who is with Zhang Zhao. Busy people have lost weight. , which makes it difficult for Zhang Zhao to tease people often.

Um!To sum up, while enjoying a drink with everyone, seeing Murong Nobunaga surrounded by beautiful concubines, Zhang Zhao suddenly discovered that he, the inspector Sikong and the Guiyi army envoy, was actually the most simple of them all. One.

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This year's Shangyuan Festival was particularly lively. In addition to being Zhang Zhao's first Shangyuan Festival in Liangzhou, Zhang Zhao also restored two major ceremonies that had never been held since Tubo captured Hexi.

The first is the rural drinking ceremony. The so-called rural drinking ceremony is a banquet custom handed down from the Zhou Dynasty.

The main purpose at the beginning was to recommend sages to the country, and the township doctor hosted a banquet, and later evolved into a banquet hosted by local officials to entertain the candidates, which is called rural drinking.

But when Zhang Zhao came here, he planned to change the village drinking ceremony from the wine ceremony for local officials to entertain the scribes, to an activity for those in charge of the ruling party to entertain the village sages and elders.

Currently in Zhang Zhao's Liangzhou, the Hexi Jiedushi Yamen has jurisdiction over Liangzhou, and of course Ganzhou, Lanzhou and other prefectures may be added soon.

Liangzhou governs six counties, namely Shenniao, Guzang, Fanhe, Jialin, Changsong, and Minqin.

Under each county, there are also grass-roots settings such as townships and villages. Ten households form a neighborhood, [-] households form a mile, and [-] households form a township. Each county has at least five townships.

However, in terms of setting up officials, except for county magistrates, county lieutenants and other official positions, it is impossible to set up official positions in townships and villages.

It has always been an important feature of the governance of ancient Chinese society that the power of governance should not go to the countryside.

Because there are only tens of thousands of people in a county at this time, the distribution of the population is extremely scattered, coupled with limited productivity, it is impossible to supply a large-scale civil servant team, so the rule of the village is basically controlled by the local elders.

But in Zhang Zhao's case, the situation is still somewhat special. The people under his rule, except for Guzang County, where most of them are Liangzhou Han people, the rest are split from the Gamo Liugu tribe.

The county magistrates of the counties were also the leaders of the original tribes. This is not to say that the power of governance does not go to the countryside, it is simply that the power of governance does not go to the county.

To break the situation where the tribal leaders are no different from the local emperors, the village sages and elders are the most important means for Zhang Zhao to communicate with the bottom.

So he quickly restored the system of village chiefs in the six counties of Liangzhou, although these village chiefs still had to listen to the tribal leaders in many cases.

But as long as Zhang Zhao gives some support, they will be able to continue to share the power to strip off the tribal leaders, which will be more conducive to Zhang Zhao's complete control of the six tribes.

And this township drinking ceremony is a good opportunity for Zhang Zhao to give these low-level little local tyrants a good opportunity to 'face the saint' and 'bath the emperor's favor'.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao directly moved the drinking venue to the Macheng River outside Liangzhou City. There were 37 small local tyrants and their children from six counties, 85 townships, and [-] miles. More than five hundred people.

Together with officials from Liangzhou Han people and Sogdians, a township drinking ceremony with nearly 700 people began.

Guo Wan'er, who turned into Zhang Zhaoda's housekeeper, almost shed tears.

How can this be a rural drinking ceremony!She looked at those strong men who opened their mouths wide, and the mutton buns with big fists disappeared, and when they shook their heads, a leg of lamb roasted in honey sauce had only bones left, and she suddenly felt.

These people are here to eat the big family, this wine ceremony, the wine and meat alone is not worth thousands, it is not fair at all.

'Boom boom boom! 'Big drums were sounded one after another, and the crowd who were eating hazel suddenly fell silent.

It turned out that it was the inspector Sikong, Hexi Jiedu Liuhou (self-proclaimed), Guiyi Army envoy, and Dharma King Bodhisattva Zhang Zhao who stood on the high platform.

"In ancient times, Zhou Tianzi held a drinking ceremony in his hometown, so that the Xia Jun and the people expanded the living territory of Han children like us.

The state of the great dynasty set up a hometown and drinking ceremony, so that the Siyi surrendered and gave us Tang'er a hundred years of glory.

Today, a certain Zhang Erlang, imitating the ancient sages and emperors, put down fat sheep and fine wine, and drank with all the sages and elders of the village. Please take a bowl of Zhongxuan wine! "

Dachao refers to Datang, and Xuanjiu refers to wine mixed with clear water.

The so-called no wine in the ancient times, saluting with water, later kings respected the ancients and respected it as Xuanjiu.

This thing has strict regulations from the utensils for bartending and drinking, as well as the applied etiquette.

It's just that it was gradually simplified later. When it came to Zhang Zhao, it had been simplified to the point where it was basically simplified except for the need to mix the black wine with water.

Every time Zhang Zhao on the high platform uttered a word, the dozens of Yierjun youths around him would recite it aloud at the same time, so even if hundreds of people gathered around for a banquet, they could all hear clearly.

"Here!" Hundreds of people shouted and raised their wine bottles at the same time.

"Therefore Xuanjiu is in the room, Lijiu is in the household, rice is in the hall, and Chengjiu is in the audience. To be honest with the emperor and his ministers, to be faithful to father and son, to be good to brothers, to be in harmony with each other, and to have a husband and wife. This is called the inheritance of heaven."

Zhang Zhao also held the wine bottle high and chanted loudly the rhetoric about Xuanjiu in "Book of Rites. Li Yun".

"This ancient virtuous wine, I first respect the ancestors of heaven and earth, thank them for the blood and culture that they have passed on to us, so that today, we can recognize each other and trust each other just by relying on this etiquette!
Respect ourselves again, Anxi, Hexi, and Longyou have been reduced to Hu Chenbai for 50 years. We have not forgotten our ancestors, and we still know the shame, so we can return to our homeland after suffering.

This is the common ambition of me, Zhang Erlang, and all of you to recover Lanshan, Ganhe, Kuomin, Taowei and Liangguashasu, a total of [-] prefectures, so that the Yellow River's nine bends and the Hehuang Valley will return to the country!Please fill up this bottle! "

"Here!" Hundreds of people responded loudly again, and drank the profound wine in the wine bottle, and then the atmosphere reached its highest point.

"I wish to follow Sikong (Bodhisattva) and return to the country again!"

After drinking, some people wept bitterly, some had mixed feelings, some even sang songs while drinking, and some were agitated.

It took Zhang Zhao four months, and with the help of the strong centripetal force of Han culture, he finally achieved the first step of leading the hundreds of thousands of moss in the two Yellow River Jiuqu and Hehuang Valley back to the right path.

"My lord! The Zhang family of the Baishui army in Shanzhou, the Ma family of the Xuanwei army, and the Zhu family of the Heyuan army feel the righteousness of your return to the country, and also understand the benevolence and power of your lord Bodhisattva. I would like to join the three cities of Baishui, Xuanwei, and Shancheng in Shanzhou. !"

As soon as Zhang Zhao came down from the high platform, Murong Xinchang was dressed up and brought three heads in black leather robes to Zhang Zhao.

As soon as the three of them saw Zhang Zhao, they immediately knelt down on one knee, "Three tribes in Shanxi, I would like to listen to the Dharma King Bodhisattva, and follow me through life and death!"

The so-called Zhang family of the Baishui Army, the Ma family of the Xuanwei Army, and the Zhu family of the Heyuan Army sounded like Han Chinese, but they were not actually Han Chinese.

They are the three tribes of Tuyuhunzhangmi, Mabo, and Zhulu that Murong Guiying told Zhang Zhao that were conquered by the Tubo people in the past.

They originally belonged to the East Dahe Tribe in the Liugu Tribe because of trade, but this affiliation was only in name, and the Dong Dahe Tribe could not control them at all.

Among the territories of these three departments, the Zhang family of the Baishui Army, the Ma family of the Xuanwei Army are in Datong County, Qinghai in later generations, and the Zhu family of the Heyuan Army is directly located in Xining City, the capital of Qinghai Province.

In the Tang Dynasty, Shanzhou was the residence of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy, so it was relatively large. The three departments were located to the west of Shanzhou, and sometimes they were also called the Shanxi Three Departments.

After Zhang Zhao basically controlled Liangzhou, he sent Murong Nobunaga with [-] cavalry from Murong's family, and Zhang Zhao's own [-] Baximi cavalry, and marched westward to Shanzhou.

Relying on the identity of the Tuyuhun royal family of Murong's family and the prestige of Zhang Zhaofawang Bodhisattva, they directly recovered the three tribes of Shanxi.

Just look at the fact that they themselves have changed Zhangmi to Zhang, Ma Bo to Ma, and Zhulu to Zhu. They don't even want to be Tuyuhun people, but directly to be Han people.

Of course Zhang Zhao would not refuse. After the three Shanxi tribes were attached, he could use the power of the three tribes to dispatch a small number of elite soldiers to cooperate and make an emergency landing in Huangshui City, where the former Longyou Jiedushi was located, and completely take down the entire Shanzhou.

"Guo Tiance, set up three more sets of seats, welcome the leaders Zhang, Ma, and Zhu to take their seats!"

(End of this chapter)