Chapter 1276 Asking for trouble
On June 12, after six days of continuous march, he arrived at Yingtian Prefecture and lined up the ceremonial guards to enter the city. Zhao Mengjin led the civil and military officials of Yingtian Prefecture, the elderly and famous men in the city to welcome him ten miles away. When he saw the arrival of the car, drums and music were heard, and the mountains were long live. Zhao Bing thought it was too hot and still wore military uniforms, but he just changed into a new body. He got out of the car and met everyone. After a little greeting, he got on the car again. Zhao Mengjin and the commander of the First Army Chen Fenglin rode a horse to protect the car on the left and right sides of the imperial carriage, and started driving again.
"Your Majesty, the front is Xingshan. Emperor Gaozong built an altar here to persuade the heaven and earth to succeed the throne!" At this time, the city was in sight, and Zhao Mengjin pointed to a small mountain road southwest of the city gate.
"Oh, even so, I will pay homage to you!" Zhao Bing looked at him and saw a short mound of soil in the west of the gate. It could not be called a mountain. At most it could only be considered a larger mound. However, since it was the place where the ancestors ascended the throne, he could express it, so he ordered.
"Your Majesty, this mountain is small, but it is also a mountain." Wang Yinglin, who was accompanying him, saw the emperor's face showing confusion and quickly explained, "In ancient times, Shun's ten-two states were founded and 12 mountains were enthroned in each state, and he thought it was a town. Therefore, the family was highly valued in the mountains and rivers. My Song Dynasty was the territory of Yuzhou. The soil in the territory was flat and there was no mountain to be represented. Therefore, those who rose high in the hills were all called mountains."
"So it's a general who is the one who is a slut!" Zhao Bing couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin were also laughing.
"That's right...that's true!" His Majesty's answer was simple, the two generals laughed vulgarly, and Wang Yinglin looked embarrassed, but he also understood that the little emperor had always been like this, and he said vaguely.
His Majesty was about to sacrifice to the mountain, and the marching brigade stopped again. Since Zhao Mengjin mentioned this, he must have prepared for His Majesty to worship. After hearing this, he immediately started to arrange the place. Zhao Bing got out of the car and walked to show his respect. He saw that the surrounding area of Xingshan was not desolate. There were pavilions and platforms on and around the mountain, trees were planted everywhere, and river embankments were nearby, which was also a scenic spot. He thought that Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne and ascended the throne, perhaps he was attracted by this.
However, Zhao Bing felt that no one was interested in Zhao Gou's view at that time. Less than half a year after he ascended the throne in Yingtian Prefecture, he was forced to move the capital to Hangzhou under the strong military pressure of the Jin army, confronting the Jin Kingdom across the river to establish the historically known "Southern Song". Subsequently, the Jin army crossed the border, and Liu Yu, the pseudo-Qi emperor supported by the Jin Dynasty, demoted Nanjing to Guide Prefecture. A hundred years later, under the pursuit of the Mongol Yuan, Jin Aizong moved the capital here, and was only captured by the Song general's full son two years later. Lizong issued a list of documents to restore the name of Nanjing. However, he was soon captured by the Yuan army and renamed Guide Prefecture, and the capital of Song City was renamed Suiyang. In the blink of an eye, it was more than 50 years later.
"That's where Emperor Gaozong ascended the altar and received the decree?" Zhao Bing only brought Wang Yinglin, Zhao Mengjin and Ni Liang to accompany the sacrifice. Tan Fei was setting up a warning and ceremonial guards, and he took a break in the pavilion next to him and changed his clothes. After everything was finished, he looked up and looked outside the pavilion and asked.
"Your Majesty, that is not an altar, but a priest platform, which the people also call the Fire God Platform!" Zhao Mengjin shook his head and pointed to a dirt platform not far away and said.
"Oh, the altar seems to have been abandoned for many years!" Zhao Bing turned his head and looked at what he pointed out. The Song Dynasty moved north and the altar was naturally unmaintained. After more than a hundred years of wind and rain, there were only remains of the high platform, but he wondered why the high platform looked even older, but why has it been preserved to this day?
"Your Majesty, there is an allusion here..." Wang Yinglin also saw the disappointment of the little emperor and quickly explained, "Yan Bo is the son of Emperor Ku and the first ancestor of Shang. It is said that Emperor Ku took Yan Bo out to inspect his subjects and came here. Seeing that the people here still had food, he ordered Yan Bo to be Huo Zheng, and this place became Yan Bo's fiefdom and was named Shang."
"After Yan Bo was sealed here, he worked hard on fire all day long. He first led the people to attract fire from far away. In order to prevent the fire from being destroyed by rain or floods, he tried to accumulate soil and build a platform and build a tent to hide the rain. In this way, the people can not only make fires everywhere, but also make the fire last for a long time. Everyone is grateful to Yan Bo for his belief that he is God and benefits the people."
"After Yan Bo's death, people missed his merits and were buried with respect. They were buried on the earth mounds where fire was stored during his lifetime, and built temples and sacrifices. According to the customs at that time, everyone who mourned him had to add a bag of loess to his tomb. Therefore, the earth mound was piled up larger and larger, and it lasted for thousands of years. Also, because Yan Bo's title was Shang, this earth mound was called Shangqiu since then, and it was named after it over time."
"Oh, it turns out that Shangqiu is named after this. I have received the teachings!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.
He also remembered that in the year of the Olympics, one of his classmates in Shangqiu was dissatisfied with the fire making ceremony. He believed that Shangqiu City was the birthplace of my country's artificial fire making technology. The historical allusions of Suiren's drilling wood to make fire are as ancient and beautiful as the Western legend of Prometheus, Greece's birthplace of the Olympics. Many rituals for fire making were held in Shangqiu, but it would be fine if the Olympics did not hold a fire making ceremony. The torch relay did not pass through the Shuwang Tomb and the relay station for the preservation of the fire of mankind.
Zhao Bing had some understanding of this, but the recognition of the National Stanford Platform tended to be the ancient observatory, which was used to worship Mars and observe the movement of Mars. In ancient times, people divided the sky into twenty-eight communities of different sizes in order to observe the movement of stars such as sun, moon, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and divided the sky into twenty-eight communities of different sizes, called the twenty-eight constellations, as a sign during observation, and used to describe the location where the sun, moon and five stars move.
Among them, there is a star facing Shangqiu in the East Canglong Seven Constellations, which is the Xin Suo, also known as the Mars Shangxing. According to research, the trajectory of this star was stable more than 4,000 years ago, and its annual operating pattern remained unchanged. When it will emerge eastward, when it will fall westward, and the time it will reappear is very accurate every year. At that time, Yan Bo used this simplest method to observe the sky with his naked eyes to determine the seasons and tell people when to start harvesting and when to start farming, so as to guide agricultural and animal husbandry production.
Shang Zuqi was called Yanbo, and it was also because the Tai Sui star appeared at Mao time and was called "Shanfeng" and the Jia year was called "Yufeng". Over time, the fire that observed Mars and Tai Sui star was called Yanbo, and later it was respected by the people as the God of Fire. However, Zhao Bing did not want to explain too much at this time, showing off his knowledge and breaking the tradition for many years, which would actually lead to criticism from the people.
Because this matter is also about the secret of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin building the original temple here. Because Shangqiu was the blood-related saint Boyi, the saint of the Ying clan of the Ying clan, was the main activity area; Zhao Kuangyin, a descendant of Ying Zhao, "followed the heavenly beings" and became emperor here to take advantage of the fire virtues, which was the reward of the ancestor Boyi's saint. Liu Yan's "Full of the Three Holy Temples of Hongqing Palace" once revealed one or two, and there was a saying:
"The reason why God chose to build a sage and decree the heavenly throne is to enjoy virtue and repay the merits." "But only did Bo Yi's achievements not be rewarded, so he gathered the great destiny in Zhao's family... Taizu took the fire and went to the emperor to inherit the merits. Tianli was auspicious land, called Wei Shangqiu." "Bo Yi started to hold fire and achieve the bottom of his achievements, and Song used Fire Emperor to prosper in fire ruins. Moreover, he accumulated to concentrate his life and started a business, and used things to build earth, and used earth to build names, and music to reverse the beginning, and did not forget the root of etiquette. Therefore, he made it in the original temple and built a different capital." Zhao Bing naturally would not question the words involved in the orthodox words involving the ancestors' orthodox ranks, which was to cause trouble.
"Your Majesty, the Yanbotai is still closely related to our Zhaoxing!" Zhao Mengjin saw that it would take some time to set up the altar there, so in order not to annoy the little emperor, he continued the topic.
"I know that Taizu was once the governor of Songzhou and has become rich since then. Is there any other connection?" Zhao Bing was reluctant to wait here on a hot day because of his sudden intention and waiting for it. He was a little impatient and asked casually.
"Your Majesty may not know that when I was young, my elders talked about ancient times. I often mentioned that Taizu was unsuccessful at the beginning, so I went from Xinyang to the north to join Guo Wei. I passed by the Emperor's Mausoleum and went to the Emperor's Temple to draw lots to ask for divination. The lottery said that he would have a destiny for the emperor. Taizu was happy and visited Suiyang and was drunk in the Temple of Yanbo. He felt something strange in his dream. After he woke up, he burned the incense hall and took the Wood King Pi to divine his life. From the general to the commander, he did not respond. So he used Nine Five to divine it. After he circled the sky, he fell down, and the results showed were exactly in line with his previous divination intention."
"After that, Taizu became the governor of Guide Army and made his fortune in the Song Dynasty. Later, under the support of the generals, the Chai family abdicated. Therefore, he chose his own place of dragons. The place where Songzhou is located corresponds to the Xinshou among the twenty-eight constellations, and the Xinshou two in the Xinshou were also called the Great Fire. The Zhou Dynasty of the previous dynasty belonged to wood, and wood produced fire, which corresponded to the fire fortune of the new dynasty, so he determined the national fortune with fire virtue, and the king's color was red. After ascending the throne, he issued an edict to overhaul the Emperor's Mausoleum and the Emperor's Temple, and built the Yanbo Temple, and ordered the Nanjing officials to worship him in March and September every year, and it was not a pity that the Yanbo Temple was destroyed during the Renchen Incident, leaving only the earth platform, and the rural village man ignorantly built a Queen Mother Temple on it."
"Oh, there is such an allusion. Since Taizu issued an edict to worship it, I cannot take it lightly. So the inner government allocated funds and rebuilt it according to the old system, and followed the rules to worship it with officials of the Tianfu to bless our dynasty for thousands of generations." Zhao Bing said in his heart, and he cursed in his heart that he was really looking for trouble. Don't look at Zhao Kuangyin's dream and made a good hexagram. In ancient times, this could be regarded as a destiny and as a basis for superiority. Naturally, he could not take it lightly, and he could only pay for money to rebuild it, otherwise wouldn't he become unfilial.
"I obey the order!" The emperor said a word of gold and jade, and his words became a constitution. Moreover, it was related to his own foundation. Zhao Mengjin did not dare to neglect and quickly bowed to the order.
Chapter completed!