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The New Year of the fourteenth year of Wanli is approaching, and before the official arrival of Chinese New Year's Eve, Fan Hongdao is still relatively lively here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info, I dare not say that the door is like a market, but at least it can barely be called an endless stream.

In addition to the Shen Dagongzi, who brushed up on his presence, old acquaintances such as Yang Chaofeng and Shopkeeper Wang all came to visit, and there were also many merchants in the nearby neighborhood, who probably remembered Fan Hongdao's promise to help enter the salt industry.

In addition, as a shareholder of the Yang family's silk shop, Fan Hongdao also went to the silk shop. It can be said that Fan Hongdao's days in the past two days were quite full, but as soon as Chinese New Year's Eve arrived, he immediately calmed down.

Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, it is the day of family reunion, Fan Hongdao is an "outsider" after all, and it is impossible for others not to keep the year in their own homes and run to Fan Hongdao.

There are also father and daughter of the Li family who live in the same Rugui inn with Fan Hongdao, but they are father and daughter, unlike Fan Hongdao, who is alone. Since they were in the same courtyard, the Li family's father and daughter invited Fan Hongdao to come over to celebrate the New Year together.

Father Li scalded the pot of wine and had a drink with Fan Hongdao first. Fan Hongdao chatted casually: "Daddy Li inquired about the enemy's family, can you get anything?"

Father Li shook his head and said: "At the end of the year, they are busy with the New Year, and everything is inconvenient. After the New Year, my father and daughter will inquire carefully, and they will also find another place to stay, so as not to delay the business of the inn here. ”

Father Li is cautious, and he still refuses to tell Fan Hongdao about the clues about the enemy, and he is determined to wait until he finds out any seven, seven, eight, or eight, and then see if there is any need to tell Fan Hongdao. Fan Hongdao didn't go to the bottom of it, he can't worry about himself now, how can he have too much energy to take care of others.

Then Mrs. Li brought the dried tofu and asked Fan Hongdao, "What are Mr. Fan's plans after the New Year?"

Fan Hongdao threw the dried tofu into his mouth and chewed a few bites before replying: "After the spring starts, let's find a way to enter the country to study." In the future, I will strive to drop out of school as soon as possible, and then obtain a qualification for the examination, and wait for the Beijing Dabi in three or four years. ”

The fourteenth year of Wanli is the year of the examination, and Fan Hongdao is not qualified to participate, but if he enters the country next year to study, he will be able to catch up with the examination in the seventeenth year of Wanli.

This kind of thing is often seen in dramas and novels, and Li Xiaoniang asked a little naively: "Can Mr. Fan be admitted to the top prize?"

Fan Hongdao was speechless, it seems that Li Xiaoniang is also a girl who was poisoned by the story of a talented and beautiful woman. If a half-hung traveler like him can win the top prize after three years of studying, then hundreds of thousands of famous scholars in the Ming Dynasty can die.

Fan Daxiu arched his hand and said: "Little lady, don't kill me! Don't talk about the champion, even if you can be the last on the emperor list, I am also content!"

Li Xiaoniangzi muttered: "Mr. Fan is so ambitious, those people in the storytelling words, how can there be the last place in the exam, no matter how bad it is, it is also a good look." ”

For a scholar like Fan Hongdao, who lives in Beijing, the New Year is about the same as nothing and boredom, but for most court officials, the New Year is very busy.

The annual festival of officials is basically divided by the first day of the first lunar month, and before the first day is a rare time of the year to eat, drink and relax, but from the first day it will be busy again.

On the first day of the new year, there is a New Year's Day pilgrimage, which is the largest pilgrimage. Usually, the Chang Dynasty is held in the open air at Fengtianmen, but this kind of New Year's Day court meeting will open the Huangji Hall and be held in the hall. In fact, the officials who are qualified to go to the temple are also those core officials, commonly known as the palace officials, and those who can't stand in the palace are ranked outside the palace.

After the pilgrimage meeting is over, it is the social time to greet each other for the New Year. Those who are important and close to the relationship should come to the door in person, and those who are not important or have a relatively distant relationship will only use the form of greetings. Every time those court officials celebrate the New Year, they receive a large number of prayers, and there is no pressure to put a few sacks on them.

During the first month, there is also a big gift in the imperial court, that is, to worship the sky, also called suburban worship. This is a very troublesome and cumbersome matter, and the court officials are almost mobilized.

For the Son of Heaven himself, the suburbs are also very hard. He needs to get up in the early morning, perform tedious etiquette in the palace, and then go out of the palace, pass the Zhengyang Gate, and go all the way to the Temple of Heaven in the southern suburbs. Then there are various ceremonies, and it takes a day to get up and return to the palace.

It is said that when the ministers were preparing for the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens in the first month of the fourteenth year of Wanli, a holy decree suddenly came from the palace, "I feel the wind and cold, I am impatient, and I must recuperate in the palace." As for the affairs of the suburbs, people of high moral and respectable, virtuous and upright can be elected among the relatives to do it on their behalf. ”

After receiving the decree, the ministers of the Cabinet who were deliberating couldn't help but look at each other. There is indeed a precedent for the Ming Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven on behalf of the prince, but it is an extraordinary law in extraordinary times.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the Son of Heaven can still move, it must be the Son of Heaven himself. But this time, Wanli Tianzi couldn't get sick, and it was probably because he was too troublesome to participate.

The minister who has seen the subtlety of the knowledge can't help but be deeply worried, and he knows that the world is autumn when the leaves fall, and the current Wanli Tianzi may have slackened off after losing Zhang Juzheng's discipline.

After New Year's Day, there is also the fifteenth day of the first month, and from the folk festival customs, the Shangyuan Festival or the Lantern Festival is more lively. The first few days of the new year are mainly to visit relatives, until the beginning of the Shangyuan Festival is the national carnival, until the end of the Shangyuan Festival, to the twentieth day of the first month, the New Year's festival is basically over.

The folk celebration of the last moon festival began gradually on the 8th, and before that, Fan Hongdao also turned a few families to pay New Year's greetings, and to integrate into this era, the basic etiquette should still be there.

He didn't know many people, and the people who visited the New Year were none other than Yang Chaofeng, Shopkeeper Wang, and several other merchants he knew, as well as Miss Zhang, who lived in the Yang family.

Anyway, Fan Hongdao is in a state of idleness, and the New Year's greetings are largely to pass the boring time. Among them, the longest time spent in the house of the shopkeeper of Wang Chuancai was the longest, and even delayed the reception of his wife's relatives by the shopkeeper Wang, which made the shopkeeper of the king slightly dissatisfied.

"Have you heard? I heard the news that a county government branch office will be set up outside Chongwen Gate in the next year, which will be responsible for governing our neighborhood. The shopkeeper said.

Fan Hongdao felt that this was both unexpected and reasonable, so he asked, "Where did you hear about it?"

The shopkeeper replied: "The news from the county government is probably reliable, and I don't know whether it is good or bad for my generation. ”

Shopkeeper Wang said this to Fan Hongdao, obviously wanting to hear Fan Hongdao's opinion. But it's hard to say whether this kind of thing is good or bad, and Fan Hongdao can't say clearly for a while.

But Fan Hongdao also understands that the original county government is far away from Nancheng, and there is a partition from Chongwen Gate, so it is very loose to control the outside of Chongwen Gate, and now the imperial court wants to strengthen management, and most merchants are relatively resistant in their hearts.

After thinking about it, Fan Hongdao said: "If you can take the opportunity to make a difference and set favorable rules, it may be a good thing, if you do nothing, it is not a good thing." ”