Chapter 393: Founding Ceremony

Time passed quietly, and the temperature on the grassland began to rise slowly. Now the daytime temperature is estimated to be above ten degrees.

This indicates that winter is about to pass and spring is about to come.

The war that they had begun preparing for before winter was getting closer and closer to them.

Recently, Wang Dong has been very energetic because he is busy preparing for the "Founding Ceremony".

He was quite enthusiastic about this matter, but he encountered Zhou Xu, a troublesome party A...

"Forget about the whole thing about being ordered by heaven or receiving orders from heaven. I don't like it. It's better to keep the whole process simpler."

Flipping through the process plan prepared by Wang Dong, Zhou Xu began to complain.

"Also, what is this?"

Zhou Xu shook the animal skin paper that was densely written on.

"As for the speech, considering the effect, you'd better memorize it, Chief."

“…”

At this moment, Zhou Xu didn't think twice and just slammed the speech on the table.

"In my life, I hate memorizing things the most. Do you Chinese teachers like to ask people to memorize?"

It is true that Zhou Xu hates memorizing things the most. When he was a student, when he took exams, he would not write a single word for those easy questions that he could get a good score by rote memorization.

Sometimes he would even hand in half a blank paper because he didn't like memorizing things, so he never memorized them at all, and he couldn't write anything even if he was asked to.

But the most infuriating thing is that he can still pass like this!

This made his teacher feel very complicated every time he saw him, and he could be said to love and hate him.

When he was a student, his teachers hadn't done anything. Now that he was the leader, Wang Dong still wanted him to endorse his books? Wasn't this just a dream?

After a lot of nagging, I rejected it directly.

Faced with this situation, Wang Dong rolled his eyes and simply changed this part to let Zhou Xu perform freely. Zhou Xu didn't care about this.

The biggest reason why he was so willful as a student but still managed to graduate successfully was because he knew how to apply the knowledge he had mastered flexibly and adapt to circumstances instead of just reading from a book.

The date had been set long ago, and a stage was specially built on the open space in Black Moon Village for this purpose.

From a modern perspective, it is certainly crude, but considering the context of the times, it is already grand enough.

The time was set at noon when the sun was shining brightly.

On this day, even Shi Lei and Wang Chuan, who were far away in the mountains, came specially to participate in the founding ceremony.

Wang Dong, who was now guest-starring as the "Minister of Rites", was very busy and happy. Standing on the stage and going through the procedures was a very novel experience for him.

Zhou Xu, on the other hand, was distracted the whole time, just like a student listening to the teacher or principal speaking at school, he was not listening at all until it was his turn to speak.

To be honest, at this moment Wang Dong felt a bit like watching the fun, wondering how their leader who didn't want to memorize the script would end up.

With this thought in mind, he watched Zhou Xu slowly walk onto the stage.

Putting aside other things, at least in terms of dressing, Zhou Xu was quite cooperative.

For this day, they used most of their latest batch of silk to weave this Han Dynasty robe for Zhou Xu, and then used plant juice to make natural dyes. After more than a dozen times of immersion, it was dyed into an incomparably deep black.

In the early days of China, black robes were a symbol of nobility, and combined with the texture provided by silk, they looked very noble.

However, taking the temperature into consideration, Zhou Xu was given a wild animal skin cloak outside his Han robe, which added a bit of majesty and domineering to him.

The next moment, Zhou Xu slowly stepped onto the stage. After coughing twice, his powerful voice began to sound...

"The mouth is like the boundaries of fields, with paths and paths crisscrossing. The meaning of 'Zhou' is the clearly defined farmland. Where there are fields, there are people. When people gather together, they form a country. We rely on farming to obtain food so that everyone no longer has to suffer from hunger and cold. This is the foundation of our country!"

At this moment, Wang Dong, who was standing below and listening, couldn't help but show a bit of surprise on his face.

He knew that their leader had not made any preparations.

In other words, he is now standing on the stage and is completely improvising, speaking whatever comes to his mind.

Although he also used the same words he had said before, Wang Dong could not deny that their leader was indeed a capable person.

If it were an ordinary person, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to do what their leader did, who could accomplish something so effortlessly without making any preparations.

Just as Wang Dong was thinking this, Zhou Xu's speech had come to an end.

When Wang Dong heard Zhou Xu's words, "I, Zhou Xu, establish a country here today!", he suddenly came to his senses and quickly pulled down the thin rope in his hand.

In an instant, the rolled-up flag suddenly unfolded in the wind!

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"The country's name is 'Zhou'!"

Hearing this, Wang Dong, who was currently serving as the "Minister of Rites", hurriedly took the lead in saluting.

"We greet the King!"

Wang Dong had already informed Ye Jinghong, Zhou Chongshan and the others in advance. As soon as he called out, the others immediately saluted and followed.

Soon, Zhou Xu, who was standing on the stage, was completely drowned out by the shouts of "We pay our respects to the king."

The entire ceremony did not last long. After all, Zhou Xu's request was to keep everything simple. However, under Wang Dong's operation, it was done in a proper manner.

After the ceremony there was a banquet, with all the villagers outside, food and drink available, and a festive atmosphere filled the village.

However, among the management team headed by Zhou Xu, who were dining indoors, the atmosphere was completely different.

Because after a brief speech, Zhou Xu went straight to talking about business with them, making the whole atmosphere serious.

"After the spring, although the main battles should be concentrated on the grassland, Shi Lei, you can't let your guard down either. You have to be careful. While we are fighting the Lizardmen, I will never allow any problems to happen on the other side of the border."

After finishing talking about this matter, Zhou Xu turned and looked at Ye Jinghong.

"Jinghong, from now on, the Lizardmen may attack at any time. When you return, start to strengthen the security patrols in the 'Edge of the World' area."

"yes!"

After the banquet, everyone went to bed early. The next morning, a group of important people including Ye Jinghong and Shi Lei took the flag of their Great Zhou and set out on their return journey.

Ye Jinghong acted the fastest and successfully returned to Caoyuan Village before noon that day.

While ordering people to hang up the flags, Zhou Xu's orders were issued.

As this order was implemented, the entire atmosphere in Caoyuan Village began to become solemn.

Obviously they all knew that the battle with the Lizardmen was getting closer and closer to them, and by then, it would inevitably be a life-and-death battle!

(End of this chapter)