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Chapter 481 The Sour Young Sprouts Festival
"You bastard, copper coin, I don't know where he died." The unicorn silver coin was lying lazily on the carpet, indignantly.Qingmiao sacrifice is a public sacrificial activity, without the guards of the saintess around, how decent it is.

The saint Helia tied up her black hair, carefully painted light makeup, and said casually: "A few days ago, there was news that after the copper coin competed with the Jasper Sword, it retreated to study one of the highest martial arts in the Han and Tang Empire. The skill of breaking the sky with a single finger may not be able to catch up with this year's Youth Festival."

"One finger to break the sky? He really has a leisurely heart." When the unicorn silver coin talked about the copper coin, it had a contemptuous tone: "It's fine if he doesn't come back, otherwise we will have to quarrel again, let Yiman continue to pretend Be like him."

Yiman was already ready, using his mental strength to look like a ready-made copper coin, and his whole body was tidy and tidy, the only thing missing was the fanaticism unique to copper coins.But it doesn't matter, as the bodyguard of the saint, he is not the main character in the sacrifice, so he should keep a low profile as much as possible.

According to the tradition, the young crop sacrifice is held in the wilderness, facing the green land and the thriving green shoots.Priests of various beliefs prayed to their gods and prayed for blessings for all people.

This is a good time for various sects to develop and grow, especially some priests who practice sorcery. They cast all kinds of bizarre spells on Qingmiao priests to attract those ignorant civilians to be fooled.

However, there are exceptions. At the time, a cardinal in the temple begged for a spring rain at the young crops sacrifice, which moistened the dry wheat seedlings for thousands of miles, but did not attract many believers.

The rain is formed naturally, and the Zimu people showed full caution after scholars devoted themselves to explaining it.

A drizzle that can cover thousands of miles is not easy to explain naturally.Since then, there has been a lack of items for praying for rain in young crop sacrifices in various parts of the Iberian Dynasty, even in years of severe drought.

There are some exceptions to the Youth Festival in Lido City of Talian. In order to take care of the large number of royal and noble classes in the city, so as not to cause them to be exhausted after working hard for the people, the Ziri royal family issued a decree hundreds of years ago, and specially approved The young crop sacrifice here is held in the city.

After "repeated" demonstrations, a group of worshiping cult priests came to a "unanimous" conclusion that praying in the city is several times more effective than praying in the wilderness.

After Emperor Ziri Yiman ascended the throne, the Qingmiao Festival in Talian Lido City underwent fundamental changes. First of all, during the few days of the sacrifice, the whole city was put under martial law.Because Emperor Yiman changed his precedent and delivered important speeches at the Youth Festival every year.

In this way, the "lowly" farmers who cultivated the crops could not enter the city and were excluded.The sacrificial activities have gradually changed, and the Qingmiao Festival has become more and more formal. It has become a good opportunity for the nobles to have fun and socialize with each other. The banquet has nothing to do with the sacrifice.

So when it comes to the young crop sacrifice, the saint Helia is also helpless, but as a representative of the temple, she still has to participate.Although the function is only to show his face and say a few irrelevant clichés, what he said last year can still be said this year.

On the day of the Young Sprouts Festival, the saint Helia brought Yiman to the sacrifice site on time.But I was told that the saint's speech was compressed to only three sentences.It turned out that Emperor Ziri Yiman had a whim three days ago, and wanted to hold a grand sacrifice for the appreciation of all people, which reflected his immortal feat of loving the people like a son and sharing joy with the people, which will remain in the annals of history forever.

Of course, the public is still not allowed to enter. In this world, what is said is always better than what is said.The specific great achievements of Emperor Ziri Yiman are reflected in the fact that he is going to give a speech that lasts for three hours.

This resolution was supported by the ministers, who unanimously approved of the emperor's wise decision.But it made Talian Lido City busy and a mess.

The first is the royal guards who are in charge of safety. The longer the speech, the more dangerous it is.The guards screened and screened, checked and checked the list of participants in the Qingmiao sacrifice.Those who said bad things about the emperor behind his back, or showed dissatisfaction with the emperor, were excluded one after another.Especially near the Great Emperor's podium, except for the few veterans and close officials who had to show up, almost all of them were loyal guards pretending to be.

The scholars who were responsible for writing the speeches hadn't slept well in the past few days. Their manuscripts were sent to the palace one after another, and all of them were returned and ordered to be rewritten.The pedants went crazy, racked their brains and pondered hard, and wrote a few hype and breathtaking speeches, which were vivid and touching, tortuous and bizarre, but they still could not escape the fate of being returned.

Seeing that the Cyan Crop Festival was approaching, but the draft could not be finalized yet, the pedants were very anxious. Some well-connected pedants asked someone to inquire about the emperor's mind, but when they learned the unexpected news, they were simply out of breath.

It turned out that it was not Emperor Ziri Yiman himself who killed these manuscripts, but a confidant of the emperor.This man has little talent and learning, and he can hardly read all the words, but he knows the philosophy of being an official.

If the manuscript is passed after several times, the emperor will be displeased if someone judges the manuscript in the future, and he, the reviewer, is also responsible.Therefore, he didn't even read the manuscript written by the pedants with painstaking efforts, so he returned it directly and ordered it to be rewritten.At that time, the emperor will not have a suitable speech script, so it can be completely excused because the pedants are limited.

Then the reviewer can say to the emperor: I have read all the speeches written by the academics, and I am not satisfied, but there are a few that are not bad, why don't you pick and choose.Usually at this time, the emperor will randomly choose an article to finish the work.

This is a shrewd way to be an official, especially in the face of a moody emperor.

Scholars were not stupid, and soon realized the truth. A shrewd scholar came up with a brilliant idea to gather together the speeches of the previous emperors and extract the essence.The entire manuscript is all quoting the words of the senior emperors.

The manuscript was sent to reviewers with oral notes.The reviewer was extremely courageous, and he did not dare to deny the words of the previous great emperor, that is the truth, no comments are allowed, so he had to approve it.

Therefore, there was no new idea in the whole article, and the almost inappropriate and inappropriate speech was sent to Emperor Ziri Yiman.

Saint Helia has no objection to the compressed speech, anyway, she is just going through the motions.She sat quietly in her seat, like a fairy who had no contact with the world of mortals.

The Long Live Temple where the Qingmiao Festival is located is a magnificent square.A tall altar is built in the middle, with a total of 1000 or [-] floors from top to bottom, all of which are piled up by tens of tons of blue boulders. It is said that it consumed the treasury income of the Iberian Dynasty for ten years.

In the sky, there were bursts of praise and praise, and colorful flowers bloomed in the clouds, with thousands of rays of light and thousands of auspicious colors, almost covering the entire city of Talian Lido.This is the masterpiece of the court mages. With the help of the super magic circle, the magic flower cluster that consumes thousands of magic crystals represents the beginning of the young crop sacrifice.

Looking at the beautiful scene in the sky, Yiman thought to himself that the cost was almost the same as raining gold coins from the sky.In his time, Proses VII, who was the most wealthy in the world, never had such extravagance.

First of all, as usual, the priests representing various beliefs spoke, and the saint Helia also said a few words at random.After the short cutscene, it came to the main topic of this Youth Festival, Emperor Ziri Yiman's speech.

On the top of the altar, the gorgeous magic circle emits colorful rays of light.This magic circle not only has the effect of amplifying the sound, but also emits life energy that nourishes the human body and supports the emperor's body. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the old and frail Emperor Ziri Yiman to complete the three-hour speech.

The life magic circle is not completely reliable, the most perfect is the magic of the temple, any blessing that a cardinal casts at will can make the emperor talk for three days and three nights tirelessly.

But this is absolutely impossible. First of all, the temple will not cooperate.Then there is the purple sun royal family, who are born with super resistance to blessing spells in divine arts.

Before the speech, the emperor took a tonic, which had a slightly stimulating effect.Coupled with the operation of the life magic circle, the energy and blood are strong and full of vitality for a while, and there is a feeling of euphoria, and the mind is a little too excited.

Too excited, people are not so rational.

"300 years ago. My ancestor the great emperor said that this season of crisp autumn represents harvest, maturity, and hope..."

Immediately, there was thunderous applause from the top and bottom of the altar, and the cheers shook the sky.

All the pedants were dumbfounded after hearing this, and they were at a loss. One pedant suddenly realized: "Okay, we sent the wrong manuscript. This is the remaining draft after screening."

Emperor Ziri Yiman heard the thunderous applause, his blood boiled and his confidence doubled. His old and sick body seemed to be full of vitality again.

"The most heroic emperor of the Ziri family, when welcoming the returning warriors in triumph, once said: "Your bravery will always be engraved in history, and future generations will remember the faces of every warrior. "

There was another wave of cheers.

Emperor Ziri Yiman quoted the words of his ancestors, from art to taxation, and from philosophy to court ladies' costumes, citing extensively and covering everything, but there was not a single word about the Qingmiao Festival.

However, this did not reduce the applause of the nobles, even where Emperor Ziri Yiman was snoring, they would not be stingy with such cheap flattery.

At this moment, outside the city of Talian Lido, a young man on a horse looked at the closed city gate and worried.

(End of this chapter)