Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 56
"His Highness Daozi wants to hold a mountain opening ceremony?" Cai Mao asked in surprise after receiving the letter from a Taoist priest in plain clothes.

Su Fu said humanely: "That's right, the head teacher hopes that Cai Fu Yin can dispatch some soldiers to maintain law and order."

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, Cai Mao nodded calmly: "I will report this to the officials."

In order to prevent the Taoist from understanding what he said, he added another sentence: "It shouldn't be a problem. The official family is a devout disciple of the Immortal Venerable, and they will not disagree with this matter."

"The government is expected to be able to mobilize about [-] soldiers, and you can truthfully report to His Royal Highness Daozi."

"Yes." After hearing the order, the Taoist planned to go back to the mountain, but was stopped by Cai Mao again.

"If there is a demand for lack of manpower at the festival, you can explain it to the government in advance, and you can also help mediate one or two."

The Taoist was overjoyed when he heard the words. Thinking of the frowning appearance of the chief financial officer, Empress Zixuan, in recent days, he suddenly felt that an opportunity to do meritorious deeds was close at hand, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Oh? "

"Tai Le Bureau, Advocacy Bureau, Dasheng Mansion, Jiaofang, and Jiaoyue Institute all have personnel involved in them, so they can be regarded as worthy of mention. If Daozi makes an order, the officials can be mobilized to assist in this matter. The opening ceremony was perfect."

"I will definitely help Caifu Yin to pass on the words to Taoist Headmaster, thank you very much!"

He went back to the mountain to report for a while, and the two hit it off immediately, and the matter was settled.

Cai Mao wrote a memorial and reported the matter to Zhao Zhen in detail, which aroused the emperor's great interest.

He fully approved the right of the Longevity Sect to mobilize official entertainment institutions and the right to mobilize some military officers and soldiers, but only made one request.

On the day of the ceremony, he will go to Xishan in person to see the newly built longevity temple hall up close and offer incense to the immortals.

It is not a bad thing for the Longevity Sect that the emperor personally attended the mountain opening ceremony, and it can even more clearly convey to the public the fact that the Longevity Sect has become the state religion of the Song Dynasty.

So Zixuan asked someone to re-plan the seat distribution at the scene, and placed the seats of Zhao Zhen and his entourage in front of the worship hall, second only to the position under the statue of the Immortal God.

Zhang Yuqing no longer asked about the specific arrangement of the ceremony in detail, but only helped her formulate the final presentation draft in terms of clothing styles, lighting effects, and stage design, and was responsible for using spells, magic circles, and talismans to complete the predetermined effects.

Institutions under the jurisdiction of Taichang Temple soon settled in Xishan. These artists from the Northern Song Dynasty were secretly laughing at a Taoist in the Changsheng Diocese for wanting to create a mountain celebration behind closed doors. They don’t know how many years they have held the court banquet song and dance music. Only then, is the real expert in it.

It's just that when they watched "Dunhuang Flying Dance" in front of the main hall square, it was difficult for everyone's jaws to close.

There is a doubt on everyone's face, that is:
Can the thing we danced before be called a dance?

But soon, it didn't even take half an hour for their mentality to go from being broken to rebuilding, and they devoted themselves to the ceremony with even more enthusiasm.

Everyone comforted themselves in this way: it is normal for immortal dancers to crush mortal dancers. This is the law of heaven, not my fault.

When Zixuan introduced the items of this festival to them one by one, their hearts were once again broken quickly.

Fireworks show, night sky lighting, god-flying dance, hundreds of miles of sound transmission, large water and sky screen...

What, what, what, what are these? ! !

Shouldn't it be the ceremony bell ringing softly, the dancing girl dancing gracefully, dictating the Chinese language of offering sacrifices to heaven?

I seem to know every word you said, but I really don't understand what you mean when they are connected together?

Why don't you still speak the official dialect of Song Dynasty?
Zixuan had already prepared for the bewilderment of these 'experts' from Taichang Temple. After all, when she first heard His Royal Highness Daozi's dictation, she was even more bewildered than they were.

"In short, you don't have to wait to fully understand the deep meaning of it, you just need to complete the assigned tasks step by step."

"Don't worry, you won't be entrusted with any work beyond your scope of competence. The only work you can be responsible for is ensemble, makeup, styling, and some professional improvements to specific dances or songs. gone."

Zixuan was wearing a blue gown, embroidered with deep dark patterns, and the corners of the clothes were decorated with jade and gold, surrounded by emerald green beads, which set off her charming face and made her more noble, and she had long washed away the cautiousness she had when she was a maid. , The gestures are so breathtaking that people dare not disobey them.

The officials of Taichang Temple did not dare to offend this great figure in the Longevity Sect, even though she was only a woman.

Maybe this is the fairy descending from the sky?

So they had no choice but to take over these 'simple' tasks half-heartedly, and stayed up all night revising and perfecting some mistakes and omissions in the dance music, making up for the music scores and musical instruments, so as to ensure that the ceremony would last all day. There will be appropriate music surround.

After completing these tasks, the officials of the Jiaofang Division saw that everything was done by the Taile Bureau. Doesn't this make my Jiaofang Division very useless?So even asking and begging, he insisted on inserting another hundred beautiful Qing people from among them, wanting to be responsible for filling the blank time between some programs and dancing for everyone.

Solanum nigrum happened to be passing by, and when she heard that the official of the Jiaofang Division had asked sister Zixuan, she made a big promise to accept these dancing girls.

"Sisters, leave it to me!" Solanum nigrum said happily, patting her chest.

"His Royal Highness Daozi asked me to rehearse the finale dance to worship the gods. I'm short of manpower. With so many sisters, His Highness will be very happy!"

"Oh, then please pass the decree to the lady." The official of the Jiaofang Division is a middle-aged man in his early 40s, but he is very respectful when facing the [-]-year-old nightshade, and bows to thank him.

Solanum nigrum was very happy and felt that he was very useful, so he dragged the official to take over his subordinates.

"Hey, please slow down, the decree lady, I won't be able to catch up with you." The middle-aged official's clothes were torn apart, and he held his official cap with one hand to prevent it from falling down, while yelling, afraid that the young lady would not be able to run in time If you fall down, then your own sin will be great.

"Hee hee, I'm not afraid! I'm a master at the Taoist level!" Solanum nigrum ignored him completely, and crossed the plaza paved with bluestone slabs in a vigorous posture, and saw a group of yingyingyanyanyan twittering Jiaofang Siqing Shepherd.

"Who is this little sister?"

"I don't know, wow, she was so delicate and beautiful."

The girls also saw Solanum nigrum and whispered to each other.

The middle-aged official finally stumbled up and ran up, he coughed lightly twice, all the girls fell silent for a moment, and saluted: "I have seen Lu Shu Cheng."

The official surnamed Lu pretended to stand with his hands behind his back, and said solemnly: "This is the lady who is the director of the mission of the Longevity Sect, why don't you salute quickly?"

"Ah—?" The girls were surprised, and quickly changed their colors and apologized: "I have seen the imperial edict, I will not see Mount Tai, please forgive my sin."

"Ahem..." Solanum nigrum coughed twice, comforting them with Zixuan's usually stern expression on her face, and then encouraged them to practice hard with her, so as not to disappoint His Royal Highness Daozi's trust.

It was only then that the girls realized that they had been allocated under the command of this decree-delivering empress, and were in charge of the god-sacrificing repertoire at the finale of the ceremony.

(End of this chapter)