Chapter 119 Shangyuan Festival
Time flies quickly, from the third day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, during this time Zhu Wei accompanied Zhang Yanran every day, and on the third day of the first month, he took Zhang Yanran to the Xianning Palace of the palace, Zhang Yanran met the queen mother for the first time, that is, Zhu Wei's mother Li Yun, this is the first time that Zhu Wei has taken a girl home in addition to Guo Siyan. Not only Li Yun attaches great importance to it, but even the ministers of the palace province, Xiahou An, Chen Zhong and others also attach great importance to it.
Zhang Yanran has never been to her boyfriend's house, and it is also the home of the king of a country, so she doesn't know what etiquette to use and how to behave. Zhu Wei comforted her to relax, don't treat Li Yun as the queen mother, just as an aunt.
I didn't expect to meet very harmoniously, and Li Yun also liked this girl very much. kept praising and gave a colorful phoenix jade pendant engraved with the words "a smile and a smile", which was very precious, and it could be regarded as a recognition of this daughter-in-law. After that, he sent people to deliver all kinds of food to Zhang Yanran in three days.
made Zhang Yanran say to Zhu Wei: "Your mother wants to feed me fat."
Zhu Wei smiled and said, "She knows I like chubby chicks." ”
"Haha, then why don't you just find a fat girl? It's hard to find me, I can't get fat. Obviously, Zhang Yanran did not agree with Zhu Wei's statement.
"It's better to feed yourself than to be natural, so it's more fulfilling." Zhu Wei laughed
Chen Zhong and Xiahou An were very happy, they thought that the emperor's wedding was not far away, and they knew that the emperor must have an heir and a prince position to sit safely, so they told Li Yun several times that they hoped to persuade the emperor to marry and become the queen as soon as possible.
But Li Yun and Chen Zhong Xia Hou'an, two aborigines, have different ideas, she must be from a modern country in the 21st world, and she knows that everything must respect her son's wishes.
Zhu Wei didn't care about other people's thoughts, and took Zhang Yanran to visit Daming Palace and Taiji Palace every day during the Spring Festival, go to Furong Garden to admire the moon, go boating in Qujiang Pond, go diving on Xuandao, go to the zoo to see the dodo, and have a lot of fun.
And Zhang Shichao and Zhu Daliang, the two old people, were introduced by Zhu Wei to Zhu Junhong, the blessed king of the same root and the same clan, the three of them have the same clan and the same root, and they all like calligraphy and painting elegance, and have become good teachers and friends, writing calligraphy together every day, listening to the fuqin, playing in the mountains and rivers, fishing all day long, and living a very comfortable life. There is a feeling of being overjoyed. So he simply handed over all the work to Shangguan Yu.
And Zhu Daliang after many days of ideological struggle, also made up his mind to retire, he had the previous lesson, this time simply handed over all the shares of the company to Zhu Junzheng. From now on, I will no longer ask about the affairs of Huaxia, and I will retire on the island with peace of mind in the future.
In a flash, the fifteenth Shangyuan Festival of the first lunar month, that is, the Lantern Festival in China, Chinese immigrants know that after this festival, it means that the Spring Festival will pass, and it is time to return to work.
The Lantern Festival in the Ming Kingdom is different from that in China, the Lantern Festival in the Ming Kingdom is spontaneously participated by the people, almost every household participates, and there is no government organization, so the fireworks set off on that day are sponsored by enterprises.
The Ming government temporarily used the street outside the Suzaku Gate of the Imperial City of Chang'an City, that is, the north side of the east and west markets, as the main venue of the lamp market, and set up dozens of stage sheds to perform songs and dances.
Tens of thousands of lanterns are hung along the entire street from Jinguangmen in the west to Chunmingmen in the east, and the lights everywhere are as if it were daytime. Most of these lanterns are crafts that have been lost in China.
The craftsmen of the Ming Kingdom hung out lanterns of different sizes, heights, and square forms, with traditional styles of yarn, glass, claw lamps and Western lanterns. It is painted with ancient legends and stories, such as the Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Fengshen, the Red Mansion, the Water Margin, Liao Zhai, the Legend of Jingzhong, the Three Heroes and Five Righteousness, etc., or flowers (orchid, chrysanthemum, plum, bamboo), or birds and beasts (Luan, phoenix, dragon, tiger, insect, fish) and so on, all of which are delicious in color and wonderful fax.
Tourists from all over the world and the citizens of the Ming Kingdom help the old and the young, flock to Chang'an City, watch the lanterns, guess the lantern fans, watch performances, and listen to music. If you guess the riddle a lot, you can get some vouchers from merchants and so on. The huge flow of people makes the nearby wine shops and teahouses with Ming characteristics very prosperous.
The east and west markets are night markets, temporarily rented free of charge to merchants to do business, attracting countless merchants to settle in, the east market is a special commodity sales area, selling Ming specialties, jewelry, jade and handicrafts, chinchilla, pet animals, etc., the west market is a snack area, from the Ming Kingdom, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and dozens of countries around the world can eat special food snacks can be eaten here. The first time many foreign tourists eat Lantern Festival and rice balls is at the night market in the Ming Kingdom.
On this kind of day, of course, Zhu Wei wants to join in the fun, take Zhang Yanran and the two of them to wear ordinary clothes, hold hands in the crowd, wear black masks, go shopping for a night, guess lantern riddles, watch shows, and buy a lot of delicious food, the same snacks, but due to the different ingredients, the taste of Mingguo is different. The two of them ate a lot of delicious food until their stomachs could no longer hold it.
The Shangyuan Festival was held for three days, and the people of the whole Ming Kingdom were boiling, and more and more people came, including foreign tourists who participated in the Shangyuan Festival, which said that next year's Shangyuan Festival would come, which was really enjoyable.
It is precisely because of this that the business opportunities of the Spring Festival of the Ming Kingdom did not officially end until the eighteenth day of the first month, and the local tyrants and tourists from all over the world had to rush back to their own countries after draining the money in their pockets, and a hundred cruise ships were officially about to set off.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce of the Ming Dynasty, during the Spring Festival, the Ming Kingdom received a total of 600,000 tourists from all over the Pacific Rim and other countries.
The ticket revenue of Daming Palace and Taiji Palace was 120 million euros, and the local Ming wine, beverages, cosmetics, gold and silver jewelry, and gems were frantically snapped up by foreign countries, and these goods were sold for 3 billion euros. There is also a tax of 230 million euros in gambling and betting. At the same time, it has driven the island's hotel industry and catering industry.
During the Spring Festival, 15 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, rented 15 pairs of dodos for a period of 20 years and collected 300 million euros in rent.
The largest revenue was 1,500 properties in the second phase of Chang'an City and commercial buildings and properties in the east and west markets, with a total of 200 billion euros sold.
Mingguo's pets have also opened up the overseas market, the largest pet mall under the Ming royal consortium sold 500,000 various varieties of Yingzhou chinchillas, and the market is different from the chinchillas, Yingzhou chinchillas are through Zhu Wei's genetic improvement, there are zongzi, white, yellow, gray, black and other coat colors, so that guests have more choices, natural disease resistance, life expectancy is longer than the chinchillas on the market, these chinchillas export prices are also very high, sales reached 300 million gold yuan, And it has signed import and export contracts with many overseas pet companies.
The Spring Festival has passed, tourists have returned to their respective countries, there are jobs to continue new work, the Ming Kingdom from the Zhongshu Province to the door, to the courts, Taiwan, ministries, prisons of all the government organs and the army have all resumed their daily busy state.
Zhu Wei once again convened a regular pre-imperial meeting. The Imperial Council was held in the main building of the new Imperial Palace, and more than 200 officials attended the Imperial Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Servants, the Privy Envoys, the Privy Envoys, the Imperial Historians, the Imperial Historians, the Dali Temple, the Dali Temple, the Vice-Secretaries of the Dali Temple, the Secretaries of the Ministries, the Servants, and the Ministers of the Divisions.
At the meeting, Ming officials reported the work of various departments to Zhu Wei and submitted the next work plan. For more than a week, Zhu Wei was busy with the political affairs of the Ming Kingdom every day. It's really busy.