At the end of the year, things will be busy, from top to bottom, this kind of busyness is not the busyness of eating and dressing, and staying up all night, but the busyness of the anxious forehead and the busy hands, as if the soles of everyone's feet are windy, and they are overwhelmed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Think about the time in Zhangjia Village, there are only five people in the family, and they are busy with the New Year, not to mention the palace of thousands of people, and it is late to prepare for the New Year's Day a month in advance, and it is necessary to start busy as soon as the winter solstice is over.

There are too many things to be busy in the house, such as offering fruit noodles in front of the Buddha, this fruit noodles are special tables, offerings, gods, sacrifices, temples, feasts, all have to be done by the master of the Beiping kitchen to the house, and the style or anything must be carefully selected; Jelly bean rice balls should be steamed out in a pot without extinguishing the fire for seven or eight days, and twenty-nine urns of sake are brewed at the same time, why not other famous wines, because the degree of sake is low, suitable for long night drinking, Zhengdan for a month, Yanwangfu has to treat the wine banquet, the moon is empty, and the banquet is invited to the palace officials and Beiping officials, which is also a regulation.

At the same time, there is also the formulation of the dishes on the banquet, every year to add new dishes on the basis of the previous year, meaning that this year will be better than last year, this year's princess Xu proposed a soup with one more goose oil supplement, the staple food more Jiang rice cake, yellow millet food; wine and food are added with bad wind fish, rabbit and golden silk belly soup; the fruit is more pine hazel lotus Qing and hawthorn cake Geng cake, there was originally a lion orange and phoenix orange, but this year's orange taste is slightly sour, the taste is not very good, so this fruit is withdrawn again.

This is just a scene of the pawn restaurant, which needs the most manpower, and of course other places are not far behind, such as the Gongzheng office, which is busy making peach charm boards, and there are wooden paintings of the god of good fortune, ghost judgment, Zhong Kui, etc. The three animals that are ready to worship the ancestors at the slaughtering pavilion cannot be slaughtered in advance, but must be carefully fed; the six bureaus and the needlework office must also count the length of the ruler and the length of the inch, and give new clothes to everyone in the house before the New Year's Day.

Zhang Zhaohua was so busy that he could hardly even squeeze out the time to go to the toilet, the person in charge of buying here had just gone out, and there was a person who reported the vacancy, and he almost had to see fifteen or sixteen groups of people in a day, especially this year compared with previous years, there was one more project, that is, laying a warm house, in the middle hall, the house invited craftsmen to dig a furnace pit and make a hearth, build a flue under the brick floor, open a smoke window, as long as a person in charge of the stoker squatted down to light the charcoal, the whole house was warmed up, and the ground was even hotter, this greenhouse was also just emerging in Beiping, but there were still too few people who could use it, and it was also quite labor-intensive in the stage of the new experimentOriginally, when King Yan wanted to pretend to be warm in the middle hall, the princess did not agree, but she couldn't stand Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi's request, so she still pretended.

The princess injured her leg this year, and was bedridden for a long time, although the charcoal fire was very sufficient, but the charcoal was smoky, it was unavoidable, after installing the warming, it was easy to use for a while at the beginning, but after a few days, the flue smoke window configuration was unreasonable, and it leaked a very big smoke smell. So during this time, a craftsman was hired to renovate, so a bunch of things were superimposed, and Zhang Zhaohua was so busy that he didn't return to his residence until nightfall.

Gao Chi hadn't slept yet, he was writing something on the desk, and when he heard the voice and raised his head, the couple were startled by each other's faces: "What's wrong with you!"

Zhang Zhaohua involuntarily touched his face and said, "I may not have taken a break recently, okay, everything is complicated, isn't it that the end of the year is approaching!

"I also have something to do here," Gao Chi put down his pen and pulled Zhang Zhaohua to sit side by side on the chair: "Uncle Ning Wang was ordered to compile a new book, and after writing the biography to the kings, and adding gaps, I reviewed it here, and added two more stories from Beiping." ”

"It's already paid," Zhang Zhaohua picked up the book: "It means that other people's books don't want to be changed anymore, and they are just sent here for you to read, and you really delete and change them for others." ”

She roughly flipped through it, this is a history book written by King Ning on order, it seems to be a compendium of calligraphy style to edit historical events, which roughly says that the emperor raised troops in the sky, and there are four seas, but it is the way of heaven to repay alms, and it is to inherit the virtue, and the purpose of this is very clear, so it is not too high academic value in order to learn from future generations.

"What is this," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to the paper on the case that had not yet dried: "It's rare to see you write such a beautiful little letter." ”

"This is Zhengdan's note," Gao Chi rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Naturally, you have to use ten times the mind." ”

Written in the Han Dynasty, it was a document in which a minister stated things to the emperor. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, it has been limited to Chen Xie and celebration. To the custom of the dynasty, in addition to the expression of the celebration document, and add a note, whenever the court held a celebration, such as birthday, New Year's Day, winter solstice and the canonization of the prince of the East Palace and other ceremonial festivals, internal and external ministers must enter the table to celebrate.

However, whether the words and sentences are prohibited or not, it is still necessary to carefully consider the addition and deletion, because since the sixth year of Hongwu, the emperor has promulgated several times the format of the note and the words to avoid the examples, only ordered to stop writing prose, and not to follow the old style of 46. Be sure to speak elegantly, do not commit crimes, avoid vicious words, avoid famous temples, and so on.

Zhang Zhaohua saw that there was new ink and old ink on the paper, and knew that it was not written in a day, so he couldn't help but say: "Just hand over this expression to the gentleman of Ji Shansuo to write, why do you write it yourself!"

"You don't understand," Gao Chi picked up the pen again, and said meaningfully: "My statement has been written, and I am now reading the congratulatory tables of the princes and professors and lecturers. ”

Zhang Zhaohua really didn't know what he meant: "Why are you still reading it for them! ”

"I don't look at how they are decorated," Gao Chi said, "I see if they have broken the taboo." ”

Zhang Zhaohua said: "What taboo is it?"

Gao Chi sighed slightly, and then told her about the note.

This has to start from the emperor just set the world not long ago, at that time since the world was calm, the emperor was ready to reuse the ministers, but the generals were unwilling, feeling that the emperor was biased, but the emperor also patiently explained, saying that the troubled times use force, the world uses literature, not the preference for which, but the generals said to the emperor: "The literati are all different from the outside, on the surface of submission, but the heart is not respectful, they are good at using words and sentences to ridicule and ridicule, and ordinary people can not see it." ”

At the same time, they also gave an example, when it was difficult for Zhang Jiusi's name in Wuzhong to reach the elegant hall, they asked Wen Ru to give him a new name, and the result was the word "Shicheng". The emperor said, "That's a good name. The military general said: "Because there is a sentence in "Mencius" that is 'scholars, honest villains', how does he know that these literati are actually ridiculing him!"

The origin of Zhang Shicheng's name was taken by a literati, and it does sound like a good name, but it is actually taken from a sentence in "Mencius" - Shi, Cheng villain, which means that a person named Yin Shi, he sighed that he was indeed a villain.

But if the two words Shicheng are connected and used in the name of the person, it will become - Shicheng, the villain.

The words of the generals were listened to by the emperor, so every time the emperor read the chapters of the world, he became suspicious at every turn, and carefully considered every word and word of the courtiers, wondering whether the courtiers were ridiculing and laughing at themselves. Especially on the note, if anyone has a slight taboo, he will wave the butcher's knife, and punish him with a small mistake.

This is where the scourge of Hongwu's writing began.