Jingshi***, it is definitely the most comfortable time of the year, just after the spring when the warm flowers are blooming and the earth is verdant, and now is the time when fresh vegetables and fruits are on the market in large quantities. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The dusty weather of spring that plagued the old Beijingers has also passed, and the streets are full of hawkers selling cherries, sweet peaches, and black and white mulberries, and every family has begun to prepare Jiang rice, red dates, and reed leaves, because the May Festival is coming.

To be honest, in the past two years, the Qing Dynasty has not been mentioned elsewhere in the country, and the city of Sijiu is really a bit of a Tongzhi Zhongxing, and the food prices in Beijing are very stable and even reduced, which reduces the cost of living for the people.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the people's desire was very low, and if they could eat a full stomach, it would be heaven, and nothing else would be important. The abundant supply of food and the price of food are still cheap, which directly causes the population of Sijiu City to gradually increase.

With a large population, the shops and real estate of the old Beijingers are naturally valuable, and of course the income is also rising, and even the taxes of the Shuntianfu and other yamen have also risen, and the tariffs of Chongwenmen alone have more than doubled compared to five years ago.

This is a virtuous circle, more food is cheaper, it will cause the population to continue to grow, and the more people will increase, the consumption of goods will increase, which in turn will promote the prosperity of commerce, real estate, catering, textiles, medicine, ...... Even entertainment industries such as Tianqiao and Badahu have flourished.

And the root of all this prosperity lies in the word 'grain'.

The common people don't understand the big principles of the economy, but the big businessmen in Beijing can see clearly that Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, has been able to prosper to this point, which is really thanks to the blessing of Xiao Letian.

There are only two main reasons for the abundant food supply, one is that the war in the south of the Yangtze River has subsided, and the Grand Canal has resumed normal navigation, and materials from the south can be transported far and continuously to the north.

The second point is that Xiao Letian's Nanyang rice began to pour in in large quantities, God knows how much these rice are sold in the production area, how to transport it to Tanggu by sea and then send it to Beijing City is so cheap, it is actually cheaper than Jiangnan rice, it is really incredible.

It is precisely because of the efforts of a group of people such as the rice boss of the sea grain merchants that no one in the Qing Dynasty dared to make black money, and they all entered the era of low profits.

In the end, it is the common people who benefit, it is a blessing to be able to eat enough, and the empire with the grain boss has at least maintained a trace of prosperity in the land of Gyeonggi, as for the remote mountainous areas of other provinces, they cannot be seen or heard in the Forbidden City, so let them not exist.

It is said that in such a prosperous place, when encountering such an important festival as the May Festival, it is not necessary to celebrate it well, the big families kill chickens and slaughter cows, make dozens of kinds of stuffing zongzi, and even send people to Tianjin Wei Kuaima to buy the freshest sea crabs to eat, drink realgar wine and eat five poison cakes, and live a beautiful life.

Small doors and small households also have their own fun, the May Festival is allowed to go out of the pavilion of the girl back to the door, which in ancient times that is a great event, cut meat and wine, sell fresh fruit cakes, at least also have to wrap bean paste, dates two kinds of zongzi, the wormwood at the door must also be inserted, one by one lively and the New Year is almost the same.

But before this year's May Festival, the taste on the street is a little wrong, and the old Beijing keenly found that there are more soldiers patrolling the roadside, and even if the buddies who have a good relationship on weekdays, they can't ask what the truth is.

There is even more bizarre, the original soldiers of the Prime Minister's Yamen have all changed, and Yishui is full of recruits in the Xishan camp, wearing braids and wearing khaki yellow military uniforms, and the foreign guns and bayonets in their hands are shiny, this is the Xishan recruits trained by the devil six.

The Prime Minister's Yamen has changed its guard, and there is also an additional battalion of Xishan recruits in the Yamen of the Nine Gates, and some people even say that Devil Six also hid a team of recruits behind the Daqing Gate, God knows what Yi wants to do.

"Isn't the devil Liumo going to rebel?" muttered to a friend who knew him well in the teahouse.

"Don't fart, what kind of rebellion? The rebellion that our Great Qing Kingdom can rebel against has not yet been born! Do you think that Dolgon and Ao Bai were ruthless back then? Didn't they let the emperor die in the end? Still rebelled...... Faulty!"

"Hi...... Isn't this just nonsense, let's chatter!" The Eight Banners who were scolded were obviously not as tall as the other party, and they didn't dare to refute their faces and thick necks, so they had to drink tea in a sneering manner.

As soon as I said the word "rebellion", a figure jumped in at the gate of the teahouse, screamed when he entered the house, and even sat on the ground and cried.

"Woooooooooo......oo The sky has fallen! The earth has fallen! We are going to play in the Qing Kingdom...... Woowoo woo ......"

"Oops...... Isn't this Huang San? What are you talking about......

"Don't die, hurry up, Huang San...... How dare you say such a rebellious thing! I'm not afraid of being banned by the Zongren Mansion! Hurry up and ......."

Huang San sat on the ground like mud and cried, and the people in the entire teahouse looked at him at a loss...... It's over, the dynasty has rebelled in 200 years......"

"Ningguta General Hunchun rebelled...... He led his troops north to launch a mutiny in Heilongjiang...... Heilongjiang General Tepuxin was captured alive, and all the civil and military generals in a province let him stew ......"

"Oh my God, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces are all his territory......!

With a bang, the teahouse completely exploded, and one of them rushed over with a violent temperament, grabbed Huang San's collar and lifted him up, "What did you say......?

"Say the fuck a hundred times...... Hunchun rebelled, and Jilin and Heilongjiang are all his territory......"

How is this possible? People are as dumbfounded as walking corpses: "No, that's the territory of two provinces, there are hundreds of civil and military officials, and they are holding each other back and restraining each other, so why won't they all rebel all at once?"

"Don't ask me, please don't ask me...... I also just found out that my father didn't have a way with Prince Guo's family, Prince Guo had a few caravans outside the gate, and my father mixed a ......"

"Before the May Festival, it stands to reason that they will score a holiday bonus, this rule has not changed, and even in the year when the British and French troops came in, the caravan also sent a lot of rice, noodles, meat, eggs and other holiday goods to my family......"

"Don't ......talk nonsense," the people yelled.

"Yes, yes...... But this year, not a single copper plate was sent this year, so I didn't think something was right, so I went to Prince Guo's house to inquire......"

"Guess what? Prince Guo has been living in the palace for four days, and he hasn't come out for four days...... The sky has exploded in the court, and many old princes have entered the palace to discuss......"

"It's over, it's really over! This is the first time that the country has rebelled against the Manchurians......

Note: Book friends 'pure livestock' are busy with the first wedding anniversary celebration during this time, and ask book friends everywhere to send a postcard to write a few words of blessings, you can ask him for his address in the group, and send a postcard to help him set off the romantic atmosphere.

The handwriting I wrote is too stinky, so I won't be ugly! Here I would like to send you two a few words of blessing.

When it comes to blessings, in fact, they are just happiness, old age, and so on, and I think you are tired of hearing them. Here, as an old man who has successfully survived the seven-year itch, I will send you a few words of truth and dry goods.

Before marriage and after marriage, those are two completely different concepts, two realms. Before getting married, you pay attention to romance, it is vigorous love, you can try all the romantic plots that move you in film and television dramas, just have a good time.

But after getting married, everything has changed, romance has gradually faded, and more is the vegetables, rice, oil and salt in life, and the ordinary life that has nothing to do with romance, such as mopping the floor, washing clothes, brushing the toilet, taking out the garbage, etc.

The distance between the two is closer, and each other's shortcomings are magnified, as if everything has become different overnight.

Don't be surprised, this is marriage, and marriage is not about love and romance, marriage is actually about family affection, family affection with each other.

But as long as the couple can successfully survive the seven-year itch and work together to get white, none of them are maintained by love, but only by the word family.

Therefore, when you get married, you have to reach a consensus between the two of you, and quickly sublimate from love to family affection, and the two of you will be the closest pair of relatives in the world in the future.

From now on, you will spend more time with your parents than your parents, and more time than your children. If you want to be together for half a century, how can you rely on love? In the end, it depends on family affection.

Marriage is not one plus one equals two, but one plus one equals one!

Everyone grinds off half of their own anachronism, and eventually becomes a pair of intimate gears, turning this life together, this is marriage!

Marriage is not a party blindly giving and taking, a happy marriage should be two people pay together without asking, a lonely tree does not become a forest, a single filament does not become a line, a slap is not a slap!

Since two people have entered the palace of marriage together, they should ponder the way of marriage together, and don't think that your life will not change as before, it is unrealistic.

Communicate well and get through the run-in period at the beginning, the sweetness of marriage depends on boiling, and there is no shortcut.