Chapter 179 Dinghu County
　　After reading the entire report, Emperor Jingkang finally knew the whole story.
　　It turns out that every year when the first lunar month is approaching, Duzhi County has the habit of worshiping the City God.
　　Speaking of worshiping the city god, in fact, not only Duzhi County, but also most foreign officials in the Jing Dynasty had this custom, especially magistrates in various places.
　　The reason is that the City God is said to guard the city and protect the environment and the people. There is a saying in "Book of Rites: Jiao Te Sheng": "The emperor is big wax eight". This sentence means that there are eight gods worshiped by the emperor of Zhou Dynasty, namely Xiansi, Sisi, Nong, Youbiaogan, Maohu , plants, water and insects. Among them, Shuiyong is the predecessor of Chenghuang, because the word "water" in Shuiyong refers to the river ditch, and the word "yong" refers to the city. Together they mean city river. The "隍" in Chenghuang means moat.
　　Therefore, people all over the world believe that the City God evolved from the Shuiyong God and is a god who protects the people of a city.
　　In the hearts of all the officials, the City God is the existence of the official god.
　　When many new officials appoint one of their parents as officials, they will go to the City God's Temple to worship the local City God the day before they take office.
　　This means that I have just arrived here, and I hope you will take good care of me. In the future, we will protect this land and water together and benefit the people here. In addition, many officials, when leaving office, would go to the City God to tell them that they were leaving and thank them for their care over the past few years. He also summarized to the City God what he had done for the people during his years as an official here, and what he gained and lost, so that he could feel at ease. ∴思∴Rabbit∴Document∴Sharing∴ and ∴Online∴Read∴Read∴
　　In addition to these two times, some officials will also set a specific day for themselves to worship the city god.
　　This is exactly the case for Duzhi County. Every year on the 28th day of the first lunar month, he would go to the City God's Temple to worship, and state in front of the City God what he had done in the previous year, what he had learned, etc.
　　In the years since he came to Dinghu County, Du Zhixian believes that although he has not made any political achievements, in this remote mountainous area, if he has done nothing wrong, it can be regarded as a good political achievement.
　　As for promotion, Du Zhixian has never thought about it. Anyway, after two more years, he will reach the age of becoming an official, and he will no longer have to stay in this poor and harsh land.
　　Du Zhixian believes that he is not exaggerating at all when he says it is a poor place. The land is remote and the mountains are barren. It is hard to find a beautiful river, but every rainy season there will be floods, and the surrounding villages will always be flooded.
　　The most troublesome thing is that every winter, Shanrong people often pass through Tuzi Gorge to grab food. And most of these people come here in the middle of the night, which makes them hard to guard against. Wherever they go, they grab clothes and food, and the people suffer.
　　Dinghu County and Honghuying are separated by more than sixty miles. Such a distance can only be described as far water cannot save nearby fire. Often the Shanrong people here have returned with their full loads, but the camp there has not yet received the letter to report there. In the end, the soldiers and guards' trip was in vain.
　　Many times Du Zhixian issued appeals to ask the commander to send soldiers to station here for a period of time, so that when the Shanrong people came over, they could be captured directly.
　　Perhaps it was because it was too cold in the twelfth lunar month of winter, so the guards only stayed for three or four days, and left after seeing that nothing happened.
　　Later, when Duzhi County went to appeal again, the reply he received was, "There is no need to garrison the people. People will just report the letter and come over." At that time,
　　Duzhi County was very angry.
　　Indeed, the Shanrong people coming from Tuzi Gorge can only be regarded as a small group, but no matter how small the number is, the other party also comes with sharp weapons.
　　As for Du Zhixian, even one such evil person will be killed.
　　It's just that he, a seventh-grade county magistrate, is not qualified to dispatch soldiers and guards in the camp. Therefore, in the face of the Shanrong people's evil deeds time and time again, Duzhi County was helpless and looked forward to leaving this place as soon as possible.
　　On this day, on his way back to the county government office after paying homage to the city god, Du Zhi County’s government officials came to report that Shanrong people had arrived in Ruishui Village again.
　　Du Zhixian was a little confused after hearing this. In all the years he had been in Dinghu County, he had never heard of Shanrong people coming to cause trouble in the spring season.
　　Therefore, Du Zhixian thought that the villagers had made some mistake and mistook the thieves for Shanrong people, so he led more than 20 government officials there without thinking too much.