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After seeing off Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, Sun Lei led his men back to the palace.

"Your Majesty, the Autumn Harvest Ceremony is ready. Here is the procedure!"

Chai Jin presented a plan for the grand ceremony to Sun Lei.

"I can rest assured that you will do the work!"

Sun Lei took the plan and said with a smile, Chai Jin is very familiar with doing these things.

"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty!"

Chai Jin quickly saluted and said that it was his honor to be trusted by the emperor, but he still had to do what he should do.

“So many programs have been added this year?”

Sun Lei took a closer look before asking, compared to the previous spring ploughing and autumn harvest ceremonies, this year's program has a lot more.

"Your Majesty, this is not a time of peace and prosperity. The people are well fed and well clothed, and they want to have some fun. This year, people from all over the country have elected representatives to come to Liangshan City to celebrate the autumn harvest!"

Chai Jin smiled and said that this was a huge happy event. The people's spontaneous celebration was more representative than the royal celebration. The people of the world had truly become richer.

"So lively?"

Sun Lei smiled in surprise, representatives from all over the country have been selected to come, so this can be considered a grand event.

"That's right! According to statistics, at least tens of thousands of people will come!"

Chai Jin said quickly.

"Tens of thousands of people? That's a lot! We need to prepare for the reception. Liangshan City has everything good now, except that everything is expensive. A string of candied haws can be sold for two copper coins, while other places only sell for one copper coin!"

Sun Lei nodded and said, the prices in Liangshan City have finally started to rise. This is something that cannot be avoided. Forced suppression will only cause more troublesome consequences. It is best to let nature take its course.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. The post station is ready and will definitely arrange for those people."

Chai Jin said that since so many people came spontaneously to participate in the Autumn Harvest Ceremony, they naturally needed to be well entertained. Although the people were rich, they could not afford to spend so much.

"that's fine!"

Sun Lei said with satisfaction.

"By the way, aren't you going to take a leave? How are things going?"

Sun Lei looked at Chai Jin and asked. Chai Jin had asked him for a vacation before, saying that he wanted to gather the Chai family members to worship the ancestors of Chai Zhou.

Chai Zhou has completely become a thing of the past, and the world has long forgotten the Great Zhou Dynasty. This kind of sacrifice can only be regarded as a family sacrifice, not a royal sacrifice.

Naturally, there was no need for Sun Lei to participate in this kind of sacrifice. As an emperor, it was impossible for him to offer sacrifices to any previous dynasty.

"We have already held sacrifices for so many years. I am only now daring to gather the tribe members to openly offer sacrifices to our ancestors. This is really unfilial!"

Chai Jin said with a look of shame that it had been more than a hundred years and only now did the Chai family dare to hold a legitimate sacrifice.

"That's good! There's no need to hide this kind of thing from now on. Offering sacrifices to our ancestors is what we should do!"

Sun Lei nodded.

“Your Majesty, that man named Zhao from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a little dishonest!”

Chai Jin started talking about other things, including the remnants of the previous dynasty in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

"How can you be dishonest? What else do you want when you have food and drink?"

Sun Lei raised his eyebrows and spoke, saying that he had done his best for the people of the Zhao family. Even though he had imprisoned them, he had never been stingy with their food and drink expenses.

"Your Majesty, those people were quite honest before, but after being in prison for so long, something is wrong with their brains! Recently, they have been acting like crazy, banging on the door and asking to go out for a walk."

Chai Jin said.

People may be able to accept being locked up at first, but it’s a different story after a while.

The people in the Zhao family, headed by Zhao Ji, were all very talented, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. At the beginning, they were contented, but after a long time, they inevitably became nervous.

"Come out for a walk, who do they think they are? Come out if you want!"

Sun Lei said with a frown.

"Your Majesty, I will have someone teach them a lesson!"

Chai Jin said, he was happy to see the Zhao family suffer, these were all given to them by the Zhao family, or to put it in a fashionable way, it was to give them a taste of their own medicine. "No, it's probably useless to teach them a lesson! Go tell Zhao Ji and his people, I can let them off the hook, but they have to do something!"

Sun Lei touched his chin and said.

"Do something? Let them work?"

Chai Jin asked quickly, it is not bad to let the people of the Zhao family suffer, this can also be regarded as humiliating them.

"Are those people workers? It would be a waste of manpower and resources to let them go!"

Sun Lei shook his head and said, if the Zhao family members were asked to do the work, there would definitely be a lot of people guarding, but the amount of work they did was negligible. It was a pure waste.

"Isn't Zhao Ji good at calligraphy? Let him write some calligraphy. If I'm satisfied, I'll let him come out for a walk!"

Sun Lei said.

"Calligraphy copybook! What do you need this for?"

Chai Jin didn't understand. What could Zhao Ji, a king of a fallen country and a stray dog, do with his calligraphy?

"Of course, we sell it for money! Zhao Ji's self-created Slender Gold style is pretty good, so his calligraphy will naturally be valuable. This is also a way for him to make use of his remaining energy. Otherwise, how long would we keep this loser? Although this guy is not good at anything, he is really lucky!"

Sun Lei said that in history, Zhao Ji lived for almost ten years after being captured in the north. Now that the living environment is so good, he may be able to live for another twenty years.

"Selling for money? Zhao Ji's calligraphy?"

Chai Jin didn't expect this to be the reason.

However, Chai Jin quickly realized that people like Zhao Ji were indeed a burden. It cost money to support them, and if there was not enough output, it would be a loss to keep them.

"Let's go. I'll go with you and see what Zhao Ji and his men are going to do!"

Seeing that Chai Jin didn't know what to do, Sun Lei spoke directly.

When you get outside Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, you can already hear the shouting from inside.

"Let us out!"

"We're going for a walk!"

"I want to go shopping!"

"I want to play football!"

"I want to visit a brothel!"

"I want to hunt!"

……

Noisy shouts continued to be heard.

“Is this how they do it every day?”

Sun Lei looked at Chai Jin and asked. He now knew why Chai Jin wanted to teach these guys a lesson. If it were him, he would probably rush up and beat them up immediately.

"Yes, it has been like this every day for a while! The soldiers can hardly stand it anymore."

Chai Jin replied that these people just relied on the fact that they were royal family members of the previous dynasty and that no one dared to do anything to them.

"Let's go in and take a look!"

Sun Lei waved his hand.

The soldiers immediately stepped forward to open the gate, revealing the iron fence inside, and the people of the Zhao family lay on the iron fence, all of them were very excited.

The door opened, and the noisy shouting stopped immediately. The people led by Zhao Ji saw Sun Lei.

"Sun Lei!"

Zhao Ji saw Sun Lei and muttered to himself. The others were so scared that they quickly retreated and left the iron fence.

"What's wrong? You're not calling anymore?"

Sun Lei looked at the people from the Zhao family, laughed, and took a few steps forward.

"You...don't come over!"

Zhao Ji was so frightened that his legs went weak and he could no longer walk. He could only hold onto the fence and shout. (End of this chapter)