Zhu Pingan in the receiving pavilion and Jingnan County officials, gentry after a brief acquaintance, then in the county minister Zhang Changru, the main thin Yao Wenyuan and other people under the guidance of the north door Wangyue door, ready to enter the county from the north door, to the city god temple worship.
County governor to office, first worship city god, this is the Ming dynasty etiquette rules, Zhu Pingan has done homework, this is very clear.
City God is one of the eight gods of Confucianism’s “Officials of the Zhou”, a deity believed in by folk and Taoism to guard the city, and in the Ming Dynasty, the status of City God was further raised. After Hongwu Emperor unified the world, he sealed and edicted the city god of the world at the beginning of the first month of the second year, at the beginning of Bingshen, the first month of the second year. The city god of the capital was made a king, and the city gods of Bian, Hao, Hao, He, Chu and other states where Hongwu the Great started in that year were also made a king of the first rank, the city gods of other prefectures were made dukes of the second rank, the city gods of the state cities were made marquises of the third rank, and the city gods of the counties were made counts of the fourth rank.
The city god of Jingnan County is the Ming court edict of the fourth grade, the official level is much higher than his own seventh-grade magistrate.
It is normal for an inferior officer to worship a superior officer.
Feudal superstitions and whatnot, Zhu Pingan ignored it, purely as a subordinate to worship a superior.
“Greetings to the Great Master of the Magistrate.”
As Zhu Pingan passed through the Wangyue Gate, the surrounding people knelt down and saluted, stealing glances at Zhu Pingan with their afterimages.
“All of you folks are excused.”Zhu Pingan did not have much of a stance, stopping his steps and smilingly nodding his head back to the surrounding people who were saluting, telling them to rise without saluting and reaching out to help an old man up.
“County honourable great master, grass people are from Dayao village, grass people surnamed Yao …… County honourable great master, have time to go to our Dayao village to sit down ah ……” The old man who was helped up by Zhu Pingan was very agitated, and his speechThe voice was a little trembling.
“So it’s Yao Lao, good, when I settle down I’ll go to Great Yao Village to bother Yao Lao.”Zhu Pingan smiled and answered.
When Zhu Pingan and his party stepped into the city gate hole and walked away, the people watching under the Wangyue Gate city wall instantly gathered towards Yao Lao and surrounded him in a circle, one by one, they couldn’t wait to ask.
“Yao Lao, what did the little magistrate say to you?”
“Yes Yao Lao, what did you and our little Zhixian say?”
“Yao Lao, we saw you and the county honourable great master talking and laughing, what did you all say?”
……
Looking at the crowd around himself, Yao Laozi straightened his back, coughed, and blew his beard and eyes at those who shouted “Little Magistrate”, and lectured, “What little magistrate, there is no decency, that’s the magistrate, is our Jingnan County people’s parent officer.”
“Yes yes yes, you old lesson is, is the governor big master. Then what did the Grand Master Zhi Xian say to you old man?”
People wanted to know what the new governor said to wanting Grand Master Yao, so this would be whatever Grand Master Yao said, and they all claimed yes from the goodness of their hearts.
“To say the governor big old master said something to me ……..”Yao Lao glanced at the crowd, satisfied with the crowd’s curiosity, stroked his beard, shook his head and said, “After Zhixian Daoliang helped me up, I invited Zhixian Daoliang to go to our Dajiao village when he had time to sit down.”
“Ah? Yao Lao, you’re really bullish, daring to invite the county governor to come down to the village, hehehe ……You really have the guts to say that, how valuable is the county governor to go to our dirty and shabby village? How many times have we had a county magistrate in Jingnan, and which one of them has ever been to the village? Yao Lao, you’re still the man of understanding in Dayao Village.”
When the people heard this, they couldn’t help but laugh, laughing at Yao Lao’s whimsicality, daring to invite the county governor to come down to the village as a guest.
“Otherwise, I wouldn’t say why the Great Master of the Magistrate County helped me and not you guys. I tell you, after I invited the governor great master, the governor great master was very happy to respond, said to settle down to go to the big yao village to harass me, the governor great master is just polite, what to harass or not, the governor great master can come, that is condescending to appreciate the face, that is to look up to the old man …….”Yao Lao swept a glance at the crowd, raised his head, shook his head with his hands behind his back and said.
“Really ah? It can’t be coaxing you?!”
The people couldn’t help but be stunned as they somewhat didn’t believe what Pill Elder said.
“Then there’s still a fake!”Yao Lao blew his moustache at the people who questioned, “Old me has seen many people, the County Master is a man of one promise at first glance.”
The people looked at Zhu Pingan’s distant back and were slightly stunned.
“This new county governor, seems to be a bit different from the previous ones, at least, quite approachable.”
Someone said so.
However, someone soon retorted.
“Approachable? Oh, knowing people is not knowing, just based on this one-sided encounter today, it’s too early to make this kind of judgement, right? You are not unaware of, some people are will pretend, today this is his first arrival, have not yet handed over to the office it, pretending to be approachable some, wait until he took over the office to stand firm, surely again is another face. Even if it really is approachable, but what is the use of it. You see, our new governor, how young, it is possible that the hair has not yet grown, as the saying goes, no hair on the mouth, work is not solid ah. If he’s a gold-plated son of a big official, he won’t care about our people’s lives; if he’s not, he’s so young, and he looks so naive and unintelligent, how can he control our complicated Jingnan? If not, he is so young and naive, how can he control the complicated situation in Jingnan? Can he defeat the five evils in Jingnan? Hey, I’d rather have an unseemly, bossy, but capable county magistrate ……”
Someone shook their head and retorted with a sigh.
“Ai, yes, our Jingnan County, this is how good ah, think of the beginning, that is the Han Dynasty or Song Dynasty to come, the great general pacified the south after the county to us this. The word ‘Jing’ means calm, peaceful and peaceful, and the name Jingnan County means ‘Jing of the South’, which is a sign of good fortune. Our Jingnan County is a land of good wishes, and the name is full of good wishes, but ……Hey, our Jingnan did not receive the good wishes, but was cursed, bleeding and tearful suffering ah, especially in the five major harm most of all. A harm to corrupt officials, collusion between officials and bandits, collusion between officials and businessmen, collusion between officials and miners, fish and meat people; the second harm to the southern barbarians Miao rebellion, the people suffered; the third harm to the mountain bandits, the fourth harm to the sea bandits, the fifth harm to the Japanese massacre, which a scourge of our common people, which one makes our common people bleed, shed tears, suffering. If we don’t get rid of these five evils, we will not have a good day in Jingnan. However, our new governor is also too young …….”
There was a street-travelling goods man who mentioned the five great evils, and it instantly struck a chord with a crowd of commoners.
And then look at that far away young, short back, people can not help but cover a layer of dark clouds in their hearts.
This governor is also too small ……His shoulders can not carry the expectations of the people of Jingnan ……
Ai
We Jingnan people really life bitter ah.
