Yanshi.

The county magistrate early and the county officials were welcomed and waited for the emperor twenty miles outside the city.

Behind them, the powerful landlords, scholars and merchants in the county were all dressed up and stood waiting, while behind them, almost all the people of Yanshi County came.

Ding Laosan from Ding Family Station also specially changed into a new robe today. This robe was made by his wife after the autumn harvest. Ding Laosan even specially asked the old blackhead in the village to repair his hair, shaved his face, took out his ears and trimmed his beard, and brushed his teeth again before coming.

Next to him was his wife and mother, and behind him were several children.

The whole family was wearing new clothes.

No one asked them to come to welcome the emperor, but the third brother living in Dingjiatai, north of Mangshan, on the south bank of the Yellow River, like the villagers in the village, washed up and dressed up early, and then the family went out of the county town for twenty miles and stood by the official road to greet and wait.

The third brother looked at the tall Fengyu Pavilion and the wide and straight road, and was very proud of it. This road also had his own strength.

In order to welcome the emperor's carriage, the Yanshi County Magistrate asked the whole county to mobilize. Every household cleaned up, cleaned up garbage, repaired roads, and cleared the ditches on the roadside. The fields were even busy again, and the newly planted land had cleared all the weeds. The fallow land this winter was even required to be plowed.

Every household not only asked for a major cleaning, but even the houses were repaired. The county even specially plucked up a sum of money to ask the villagers to work, the county paid for the materials, and then repaired the village roads and renovated the houses. The dilapidated houses were demolished, and the new houses were quickly repaired.

All dirty toilets have been rectified.

The low earth wall of the third family was stripped down, a new courtyard wall was built, and even the roof of the house was lifted up again, and a new thatched bark was replaced.

The family's thatched house was also renovated, and three new houses were built to keep cattle, sheep, pigs and firewood.

The third family spent a lot of money on renovating these things, but the county gave a subsidy. Although it was not as much as it was, the family originally planned to do these things. Now the villagers helped each other and saved labor. The county also added another subsidy and gave a lot of house construction materials, which saved a lot of money for the family.

The third brother thought these behaviors in the county were quite good. No matter what, he was so old and had never seen them before. The government collected taxes and rents. When would he help the people for free and pay them money?

After finishing the work of the village family, the third brother signed up for road construction in the county. In addition to taking care of three meals a day, he could also earn silk and cloth food. In other words, he could earn dozens of money a day.

In fact, the third brother and the others thought that they were willing to do it even if they didn’t have money. After all, this road was cultivated by the saints. This summer, the drought was severe and the locust plague was followed by the saints, but there were saints’ disaster relief and prevention strategies. Although Ding Jiatai had no harvest this summer, no one went out to escape famine, and no one starved to death.

In the past, the Sui Dynasty had been in the past 30 years, with a small disaster every three years and a major disaster every five years. Even when it was known as the prosperous Kaihuang period, Dingjiatai Village by the Yellow River often had to go out to flee to famine. If you have better luck, you would have to suffer a little. If you have poor luck, someone would definitely starve to death.

But this year, none of them went out to famine and none of them starved to death. The court not only exempted the two taxes this year, but also exchanged for a lot of food for digging locust eggs to catch locusts, not to mention that after the autumn, the county also distributed a lot of disaster relief food to each household. From summer to autumn, the third brother also participated in many county labor-for-relief projects and earned a lot of food.

Now there is still a lot of food in the cellar and granary at home, and the family has no vegetables on their faces.

His old mother, who was over 600 years old, had to recite the saint's name at home for more than a hundred times, and even had the saint's name on immortality long ago.

The old village chief in the village said that saints must come out every five hundred years. Some people used to say that Emperor Wen of Sui was a saint who came out every three hundred years, and said that he was the new saint three hundred years after the end of the Han Dynasty.

But now, Emperor Wen is not considered a saint, he is the real great saint now.

When everyone heard that the emperor was going to go to the east to go to Mount Tai, everyone was very happy and felt that the saints were indeed Fengshan Mountain. If the saints did not have Fengshan Mountain, who would have the qualifications?

I have been standing by the roadside for more than an hour.

But the third brother was not impatient at all. Tens of thousands of people standing on the side of the road were shipped for more than ten miles, but everyone was waiting quietly.

Finally, a cavalry team rushed over.

The knight was wearing golden armor and a blood-red cloak, and he stepped on a white horse.

People are like dragons and horses and tigers.

The flag bearer in the cavalry team is tall and burly, holding a red flag.

The county magistrate hurriedly greeted him.

"The saint is coming, please prepare to welcome the saint."

After a while, more cavalrymen appeared, wearing shiny armor, holding horse spears and scimitars on their waists.

Ding Laosan looked at the soldiers in awe.

His second son Heiwa looked at the imperial guards and said enviously, "Grandpa, I will also sign up to join the army in the future, and I will become the Emperor's Jinwu Guard!"

The third brother patted his son on the shoulder, "How can you be a black and thin person in Jinwu Guard? You study hard. In the future, you can also face the saint in the Golden Palace."

Teams of troops arrived.

Then the officials from the Escort Provincial Palace arrived.

The little Yanshi County Magistrate has long been sweating profusely.

The emperor's carriage finally arrived, and the road was already full of soldiers accompanying him. Ding Laosan and his family could only take dozens of steps back and look at the official road protected by the imperial guards from afar.

"Grandma, have you seen it?"

Ding Heiwa was too short and kept jumping around, but the tall guards still blocked his sight.

The third brother lifted Heiwa up and asked him to sit on his shoulder. The third brother, who was three years old, refused and wanted to see. The third brother of Dingsan smiled and lifted his younger son up, so he sat on his left shoulder and the other on his right shoulder.

"Look, let's take a good look at the saint."

Suddenly, there was a tsunami sound of landslides and tsunamis on the roadside.

"Long live the saint!"

The sound of the mountain as waves grew higher and higher, and the third brother was excited and immediately shouted loudly.

"Long live the emperor!"

The third brother followed everyone and shouted, and the wife and mother beside him were also shouting together, and the fellow villagers behind him were shouting at the top of their lungs.

"The saint is here, the saint is here, I see the saint riding a white horse!"

Ding Xiaosan also shouted, "The white horse that the saint rides is so tall, even taller than a person."

People in front began to kneel down.

The third brother also quickly knelt down.

Ding Xiaosan was dissatisfied, "Grandpa, I still have to watch the emperor ride a white horse!"

The third brother slapped his son on the butt in anger, "Don't talk, hurry up and kneel down to worship the saint!"
Chapter completed!