Chapter 1 Christmas is coming

A man on a military horse looked at the bustling crowd in front of him and was stunned for a while. sighed and said, "This is really Jingshi." ”

This person's name is Liu Chang, and he gave alms to the temple in the poor years when he was a child. But by nature, there is infinite strength. Later, he encountered a famine, and was carried to the Yunyang area by the displaced people.

Xiang Zhong single-handedly went to Yunyang to persuade the wanderers in Yunyang, went down the mountain to settle down, and divided several counties in Yunyang, organized the households, and brought these refugees under the control of the imperial court, needless to say.

And Liu Chang is one of them.

Because he was born with great strength. He was included in Xiang Zhong's army, followed Xiang Zhong to conquer the White Lotus Sect, and finally killed this fang, and then followed Xiang Zhong's governor Annan's grain and grass for the battle.

Later, because the front-line soldiers were in danger and urgent, Xiang Zhong's personal soldiers were also transferred to the front line as supplementary soldiers. Liu Chang also caught up with the tragic end of the Battle of Langshan.

In this battle, Liu Chang was appreciated by Wang Yue, stayed by his side to read and write, and later, he followed Wang Yue to crusade against Du Zhangman, and made meritorious contributions, which could have been promoted to thousands of households.

But Wang Yue pressed it for him and gave him a chance to study martial arts.

This is also Wang Yue's arrangement for Liu Chang's future.

Liu Chang has a nickname in the army, known as Monk Shi, his muscles are as if they were carved out of stone, and he is even more invincible when he rushes into battle in heavy armor.

It's just that he was born as an exile, first, he has no worldly position, and second, he has no martial arts background, if he gets a thousand-household position, not to mention whether he can stand firm, there will be fewer opportunities for promotion in the future.

After all, Qianhu can still use brute force to subdue the upper and lower, but when it comes to a commanding envoy or a general, he will only draw a knife and cut people.

So Liu Chang could only give up his wife and children, he was twenty-five or sixteen years old, naturally he had a wife and children, and left his wife and children in Sichuan. Liu Chang also shared some.

It is also enough for a wife and children to live.

Before coming to Beijing, he knew that Beijing was at the foot of the Son of Heaven and the most prosperous place in the world. It was not as good as Suzhou before, but over the years, the development has been prosperous day by day.

Many people think that Beijing is no less prosperous than Suzhou.

Now Liu Chang sees this situation.

He rode out of Tongzhou on horseback, and when he saw the Beijing city wall from afar, he began to be unable to walk.

But the villagers from all over the world have set up stalls on both sides of the official road, as if to catch a market, at the beginning are some bulky items, such as livestock, many Mongolians are full of fishy smell, wearing torn leather jackets, I don't know how many years have not been washed, far away to see the black shiny.

These animals have everything, horses, sheep, and cattle. It's a big bunch.

Although Liu Chang rode a horse, he made it

Officers like horses, just as later generations of soldiers like guns.

Now that he saw it, he dismounted and took the reins and moved forward slowly. I watched them one by one, but I was a little disappointed after watching them for a while.

Although there are dozens of horses here, most of them are good horses, not as good as Liu Chang's war horses.

This war horse was bought by Liu Chang from the army with money. Following him from birth to death, it is very intimate.

The stableman also saw it, and said in a Chinese dialect with a Tatar flavor: "Official, you look at the army, you don't know, but whenever you transport horses from outside the customs to the inside of the customs, the first step is to pick the good horses in the army first, and the army will transfer good horses every year." Therefore, my horse is not as good as your military horse. ”

"If the military master wants better horses, but he wants to go to the horse market outside the north gate, you know that the horses sold in the army are all high-class horses at a price, medium horses at a price, and low-class horses at a price, those really good horses, the army can't afford the price, they are all in the sheep and horse market outside the north gate, that is the largest horse market in the first class of my Daming, there are one or two thousand horses for sale, there is no shortage of BMW horses, but there is no cheap one."

Beijing has become the largest livestock trading center in the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, it is determined by Beijing's special status, horses have always been a strategic resource, even now there is no shortage of Ming war horses.

But the Ming Dynasty instinctively wanted to know the direction of a large number of horses. Naturally, it's going to be watched under your nose.

On the other hand, it is determined by Beijing's geographical location.

Today, the largest horse-producing land in the Ming Dynasty is not the northwest or the northeast, but the south and north of the desert.

Moreover, when many Mongolians choose to go south to sell their livestock, they are willing to walk along both sides of the gallop road. In this way, they were all gathered in Beijing, and most of the cattle were sold from Beijing to the south.

Anyone who has really seen livestock knows that the smell of these big animals is not very good, not to mention tens of millions of animals together, that smell, just thinking about it, makes people feel very ecstatic.

Not to mention the manure of livestock.

In this way, it is understandable that the places where these cattle are traded are outside the city.

Liu Chang wrote down this matter. Moving on, and then there were all kinds of heavy goods, furniture, wood, and even briquettes. Cabbage turnips. Wait a minute.

Liu Chang has been in the south all the year round, but he has seen a rarity.

Over the years, honeycomb coal has become widespread in Beijing, and even in many places in the north. This is because many families have to prepare enough wood to burn all winter in the winter.

It's not an easy thing to do either. With the rise of Zunhua Iron Works, the coal consumption of Zunhua Iron Works has increased significantly, supplying several coal mines. The main customers of these coal mines are Shaofu, but no one is afraid of more money, and the price of coal has plummeted, and the price of honeycomb coal has also plummeted.

Many wealthy families can consider using honeycomb coal.

This trend is spreading around Beijing as the center, and the best popularity is near Zunhua.

After walking through these stalls, there are houses or sheds on both sides of the official road, so there are more tricks to sell, but Liu Chang has no intention of looking at it.

He had thought that he was only a few miles away from the city, and he rode his horse for a while. I never thought that it would be almost difficult to move south. It is estimated that it will not be possible to reach the city gate until dark, but I don't know if the city gate will not be opened.

However, God sheltered, after sunset, there were few pedestrians, Liu Changcai arrived at the city gate, but saw a notice posted at the city gate, Christmas is coming, Shuntianfu ordered, extended to the time to close the city gate. 、

Liu Changcai suddenly realized. It turned out that Christmas had arrived.

This Christmas is not another Christmas.

There are three major festivals in the Ming Dynasty.

New Year's Day, Winter Solstice, Christmas.

New Year's Day is the Spring Festival, which is the name changed during the Republic of China. In ancient times, it was New Year's Day. However, the winter solstice is when the yin energy reaches the extreme, and the yang energy begins to recover, which is naturally worth celebrating. In some places, it is even called the sub-year, which is a big festival in the four seasons and eight festivals. As for Christmas, it is the emperor's birthday, also known as the Thousand Autumn Festival, or the Longevity Festival and the like.

In the Zhengtong Dynasty, these three festivals almost came one after another, piled up together, and at the end of each year, they were all extremely happy.

His Majesty was born on November 29, the second year of Xuande.

Christmas of the Orthodox Unification Dynasty is naturally November 29, after the winter solstice and before New Year's Day, but under normal circumstances, after the winter solstice, Beijing City is second to live.

After all, the winter solstice is generally in the first half of October, followed by Christmas, after Christmas, it is the month of Wax, Laba, and then the twenty-third of the year, all of which have to buy New Year's goods, and this festive atmosphere has to be maintained until the fifteenth day of the first month, and even after the nineteenth day of the first month, after the Yanjiu Festival, it will slowly disperse.

This year has been extraordinary.

Without him, this year is the 40th birthday of His Majesty, and in the past few years, he has repeatedly sent troops abroad, expanding tens of thousands of miles of land and shocking the world. There are some foreign countries in the world that do not have come to pay tribute.

Everyone thinks that now there is a prosperous age, the Xuanzhao of the Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty, and it is nothing more than that.

So Li Xian led the way to His Majesty.

The emperor refused, but Li Xian and the ministers unanimously demanded a big Christmas, but the emperor did not refuse.

After all, before, among the three major festivals, what the emperor really valued was the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, and the rest were just spontaneous from the people.

A little on the emperor's side. This time, the emperor's 40th birthday became lively, and the whole city of Beijing was like cooking oil on fire, with jubilant crowds everywhere and dense goods and stalls everywhere.