Chapter 858: New Year's Day

Agricultural taxes can be exempted, commercial taxes are inevitable, and this year's Jiaozhi Road has yielded fruitful results, mainly due to the huge gains brought by the issuance of currency.

There is also the huge radiation effect of Yezhou's industry.

Zhang San took away a large amount of coconut soap and flavor oil, as well as a large number of steel products.

To put it nicely, it's a weapon.

When the New Year came, the city of Jiaozhou hung up red lanterns, colorful brocade curtains, and set up a stage.

Social dramas, fireworks, and other things can also be prepared.

There are also many activity areas in the school grounds, such as various small games - chopsticks and steel balls, bamboo trap prizes, archery, lantern riddles, and touching lucky characters......

The most attractive thing for the people of Cochin is the horse racing around the city.

There are also cockfights and bullfights selected from various townships, and a three-day competition is launched in the Niuma Market in the west of Jiaozhou City.

Sun Neng was in high spirits, and these two people felt that stealing the mounts of the little aunt and grandmother and the master would be nine out of ten in horse racing.

Then he was sued by Li Daocheng.

Su You dragged the two of them to the capital hall and stinky, do you want to be funny, one is the deputy envoy of the dignified Zuozangku, the commander of Ning Haijun, and the other is a famous international friend who has registered in Honglu Temple, and he came to show off with the people of Jiaozhi? !

If you want to run, you can walk!

It's finally honest.

The prize for guessing the lantern riddle is very simple, a pack of salt melon seeds, a bag of small dried fish, a small bottle of new soy sauce, vinegar, and oyster sauce, which can make the Jiaozhi people happy for a long time.

The lantern riddles of the Song Dynasty are not suitable for the Jiaozhi people, but it is the riddle nursery rhyme compiled by Su You for the flat jar in the past year has made a great contribution.

What "a thousand lines, ten thousand lines, fall into the water and can't be seen." ”

What" seven or eight brothers, sitting around the pillar, as soon as everyone is divided, their clothes are torn. ”

There are enough people who can be literate, and this kind of riddle is all happy, Wang Anshi has come out with "painting the time is round, writing is square, the winter is short, and the summer is long." "That's the top difficulty, if you really want to come up with a "yellow silk young woman's grandson", no one will play with you.

But what pushes the festive atmosphere to the peak is not guessing the lantern riddles, but an activity carefully designed by Su You - lottery!

There is another way to play horse racing and cockfighting, that is, to play, but the Jiaozhi people are happy, or Song will play!

Food in the festival is a must, and there are special food areas around the school field - fried rice noodles, roasted pork noodles with shiitake mushrooms, grilled fish, grilled dried tofu, tofu brain, fried liver stew, vermicelli, hair cakes, glutinous cakes, spring rolls, sugar and oil fruits, rice candy, salt-baked nuts, candied fruits, dried fruits......

In order to make it easy for the villagers in Sili and Eight Towns to carry and preserve, Suyou also prepared a variety of canned food for everyone - fish balls, luncheon meat, ham sausages, braised pork, and roasted white ......

There are also spices and liquor – thirteen spices, curry powder, soy sauce, vinegar, sake, cooking wine, tempeh sauce, konjac sauce, leek flower sauce, crab roe sauce, ......

There are all kinds of food stalls and sheds for small commodity trading on the school grounds, and the main focus is all kinds of commodities produced in Tuzhou, hoes, sickles, stamped pots and pans......

There are also silk threads, kapok, satin, and coconut oil from Jiaozhou workshops......

The clever captive craftsmen have learned from the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty to make bamboo and wood furniture and make dustpan baskets, which are also good commodities.

There are also chicks, ducklings, pigs, seeds......

Pity the vast number of sergeants and civilian workers and officials who have worked hard for the Great Song Dynasty for a year, and they have just received the year-end allowance issued to them by Su You, and now they have been half taken back.

But everyone is very happy, this is a perfect display of the culture and lifestyle of the Great Song Dynasty in Jiaozhi, from the "sunset Han Palace to pass candles, light smoke into the Wuhou family." "To" thousands of households, always replace the new peach with the old charm. "A welcome conversion.

Local governments also organized condolences to the lonely and widowed elderly, solved family difficulties, visited children in orphanages, commended large grain growers, pig raisers, cattle raisers, filial sons, filial women, and righteous deeds, paraded the streets wearing big red flowers, rewarded farm tools, and money and silk......

In short, there are many tricks, and everywhere makes the people of Jiaozhi feel that this official government is different from the previous official government.

It's only been a short year, and most of the Jiaozhi people don't miss the Li Dynasty very much, and the hatred of losing their relatives has also shifted to the Li Changjie brothers and the Houdang Eunuch Party.

The fame of Su Shaobao and Shi Wei spread in the land of Jiaozhi, among which the "South China Sea Times" played a decisive role.

The first issue of the "Nanhai Times" special issue of the new year specially printed the homepage in red letters - the Great Song Dynasty has changed the Yuan!

The first year of Yuanfeng.

Bianjing, after Zhao Ji dealt with the court-China conference and many cumbersome etiquette, when he returned to the harem to visit the queen mother of the two palaces, he was already a little tired.

Seeing that there were sweets on the table, he said to the Empress Dowager Cao worriedly: "Grandma has phlegm, and the imperial doctor said that less salt and sugar should be used. ”

Today's Zhao Ji has more self-confidence on his body, and there is more majesty in his words, and when he asks a word, the palace suddenly falls to his knees.

Empress Dowager Cao waved her hand and said: "I asked Bao'an and Xiaomei to take the children to take a look, and follow you, isn't this thing still removed?" ”

Zhao Ji sighed: "The grace of the imperial court can't be given, Su Mingrun made a bad start, saying that 'children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren', and rejected the favor several times, even Chen Zhaoming's little sister." ”

Empress Dowager Cao said with a smile: "Su Mingrun is courteous, and your reward is given to the wrong person." ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ji was a little strange: "He was born as an orphan, so I won't push his two nephews because of his merits, right?" ”

Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Dowager Gao both appreciated conservatives, and Zhao Ji first thought of Su Shi and Su Zhe.

Empress Dowager Cao said: "Su Mingrun has an elder who has raised him since he was a child, if my brother pushes his favor to his eighth prince, Su Mingrun will not push him back." ”

Zhao Ji was a little curious: "I haven't heard of this." ”

Empress Dowager Gao said with a smile: "Even if he Su Mingrun is very capable, he has to be taken care of when he is young, so he will not be able to write poems and songs when he lands, and run around to find food and clothing, right?" ”

Empress Dowager Cao said with a smile: "Shoukang and the horse will come to live for a while, and Shoukang Zhuangzi and the Shi family are adjacent to each other, so they are expected to be familiar with each other." When the time comes, ask the elder of the Su family about his virtue, if there is nothing in the way, rewarding his background is also the subject of the court's reward for meritorious heroes. ”

Empress Dowager Gao said: "The two children of the Shi family are very cute, the colander is still too small to see anything, the small flat jar is really smart, I don't think it is worse than the thirteen Lang of the Wang family." ”

The Zhao family's interest in prodigies is not ordinary: "What's the matter? Is it stronger than Su Mingrun when he was a child? ”

Empress Dowager Gao said with a smile: "When the child came, I was still checking the accounts of the inner treasury, and he was talking to the mother on the side, and I asked the internal officials on the side to count the addition and subtraction, but the adult did not answer, but the child answered." ”

"So I deliberately compared the account books with him, such a large amount, there was nothing wrong with it, and it made Feng Zongdao sweat next to him."

Empress Dowager Cao was happy: "It's the little sister who is indifferent, saying that what kind of children's mental arithmetic is one of the Su family's science and technology, not a powerful knowledge." ”

Speaking of science and technology, Zhao Ji felt a little bitter in his heart: "That child should be enlightened, right?" ”

Empress Dowager Cao said: "I also know a lot of words, but it seems that his Su family doesn't value this very much, what does the little sister say...... Interest cultivation is more important. ”

Empress Dowager Gao was so happy: "There is nothing to learn, but there are strange stories in the little belly, and I told us a paragraph of "Journey to the West", which sounds like an allusion to Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty who went to Tianzhu to seek scriptures, but the Tang monk in the story has a bunch of demons and monsters in the way, but fortunately, there are still a few monkeys and pigs as apprentices to support the ......"

Fortunately, in Su You's Journey to the West, when Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he didn't say that the emperor would take turns to do it, and he would come to my house next year. Empress Dowager Cao smiled: "I see that the Monkey King in the story is like his father, he has been naughty since he was a child, but fortunately he is kind-hearted, after the Buddha was subdued, thanks to him all the way to help the Sanzang Master, otherwise the black bear spirit would be enough to choke." ”

Empress Dowager Cao smiled: "The black bear spirit is not provoked by the monkey in the Guanyin Courtyard to show off his robe......

Princess Wei Guo and Zhang Dunli came in: "Yo, why are you talking to your brother so happy?" ”