Just as Cao Yihongsleeve and the others were wandering on the street, a carriage suddenly stopped beside them, and then the curtain on the carriage was lifted, and Yang Xingwen's head was stretched out of it, and he smiled enthusiastically and said, "Brother Zhaozhengxian, do you want to take you for my brother." ”

Cao Yi also responded with a smile, and politely refused: "Thank you Brother Xingwen for your kindness, there are a total of four people on my side, it is too crowded to get into your carriage, and our carriage is following behind, I plan to play around the street outside first, and then go to Hefu when it is almost time." ”

Yang Xingwen also waved his hand and went over first, Cao Yi and the others watched his carriage leave, and asked with a smile: "Childe, is Brother Yang just in Hangzhou as an official?" ”

"Well, yes, he is a judge of the transfer department in Hangzhou, and he happens to be in charge of Hangzhou's wealth, and he may deal with our Zuixianlou over there in the future, so that we can be regarded as having our own people in Hangzhou, and Yang Gong also helped us write a letter of introduction to Hangzhou Zhizhou before, so there is no need to worry about the Zuixianlou in Hangzhou, and it should be able to open the market soon...... However, I still have to go to Hangzhou after the year, and the Zuixian Building there is basically built according to the scale and establishment of Jiangning City, and the location of the restaurant is by the West Lake, which can be said to be better than the location of the Zuixian Building in Jiangning City...... It will be an instant hit. ”

Cao Yi smiled faintly, his own university in the previous life was Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and after graduation, he also stayed in Hangzhou, and bought a house through his own efforts, it can be said that Cao Yi basically stayed in Hangzhou for most of his life in the previous life, and Hangzhou can also be said to have become his second hometown, so in this life, Cao Yi also attaches great importance to the market of Zuixianlou in Hangzhou.

Yu Youwei has been following Cao Yi and Red Sleeves closely, when she heard Cao Yi say that she was going to Hangzhou after the New Year, her eyes lit up, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and she was thinking about how to find a reason to go with her when the time came, as for why she went together, only she or Jin'er knew.

Cao Yi and the others played on the street for a while, Cao Yi bought a string of rock sugar gourds for everyone to eat while walking, and then stayed outside the circus performance circle of several Hu people, but the Great Yan Dynasty of this era basically called Hu people's performances monkey plays, because there are basically monkeys in the performance, or perform fire rings, or perform some dances, martial arts movements, full of fun. Of course, some Hu Ren performances will also be mixed with parrot singing and dog performances, anyway, they all seem to be full of naivety, smart and witty, quite interesting.

Cao Yi, as a traverser, naturally watched a lot of circus performances, even far more complicated than the Hu monkey shows in this era, but for Tan Yun, Musk Yue, Red Sleeves and others, these monkey shows are rare goods, imported products, and they usually can't be seen even if they want to see it, so this Lantern Festival, the Hu people's performance venue has been inside and outside several times, and they are all the people of Jiangning City who come to watch. Tan Yun and Tantai Yunlan were even more jumping and jumping while watching, clapping their hands in amazement and full of praise.

Cao Yi also watched with them for a while, and when the monkey showed that the round of performances was over, when the monkey took the basin and asked everyone for the performance fee along the circle, he threw hundreds of dollars into it, which was regarded as his own

Row so many people for viewing fees.

"It's almost time for us to go" Cao Yi turned his head and said to the three of Red Sleeves, Yu Youwei and Jin'er, the three nodded, and then waved goodbye to the rest of the people, before leaving, Cao Yi instructed the raider and Musk Yue to take care of the rest of the people, but Cao Yi had already arranged for the guards of the restaurant to follow closely behind these people in advance, I was afraid that they would meet gangsters or thieves at night, if they just lost their money, it would be fine, if they were bullied by others, then Cao Yi would never allow it.

When Cao Yi and others came to the Mad Gonghe Mansion, the other guests had already come, and there were only a few old people left, like Lu Lao had not yet arrived, and Yang Gong was clearly not coming, because the Lantern Festival Street was full of tourists and vendors, and all kinds of lanterns were dense, if there was a fire at this time, it would inevitably cause great harm, so Yang Gong would sit in the government tonight, and let all the members of the submarine fire team be on standby, some of the personnel were stationed in the Wanghuo Tower, and some people upstairs watched to observe whether there was a fire in the city. There are several official houses built under the Wanghuo building, more than 100 "hidden firefighters" are stationed, and there are fire-fighting equipment such as "large and small buckets, sprinklers, hemp towers, axes and saws, ladders, fire forks, large ropes, iron cats", etc., and there are also shop soldiers who are responsible for patrolling all over the city.

Of course, the latent firefighters of this era are actually the firefighters of later generations, at this time the Yan Dynasty has set up the world's first professional national fire brigade, because after the end of the chaos of the five dynasties and ten countries of the Great Yan Dynasty, recuperate, every big city is developing rapidly, population, residents and shops are extremely dense, once the fire is often a catastrophe, so the imperial court has specially set up the submersible fire soldiers. As soon as a fire is detected, the alarm is sounded by beating gongs and drums, with flags during the day and lights at night, and the number of flags and lanterns indicates the location of the fire.

If there is a major fire that cannot be extinguished by the submarine fire alone, a person will be sent to inform the Xiang army at that time, and the Xiang army and the government guard will each lead the army to help put out the fire.

Moreover, the fire extinguishing tools of this era are almost the same as those of modern times, and the ladder can be said to be almost the same. The most commonly used fire extinguishing equipment is the water bladder, because there is no plastic bag in this era, so the pig, cowhide or oilcloth is made into a water bladder, which will be filled with water, when a fire occurs, it will be thrown to the fire source by the hidden fire army, and the water bladder will burst when it encounters fire, so as to achieve the purpose of extinguishing the fire.

Of course, in addition, other tools such as removing obstacles and climbing tools are similar to modern tools, so Cao Yi was shocked that there are already fire sprinkler guns in this era, but they are made of bamboo, and the principle is also pressure water spraying, a bit similar to modern hand pumps, but after spraying water, it is necessary to re-absorb water, what if there is not enough water source or well water in the place where the fire occurred?

As the saying goes, there will be services where there is demand, every big city in the Great Yan Dynasty has an organization similar to the nature of the Chamber of Commerce, specializing in the sale of commercial water, they have professional water transportation equipment and perfect manpower organization, called "water pedestrians", generally where there is fire in the city, there are them, they will quickly transport water for the submarine fire soldiers, but the transportation and use of these waters, all need the government to pay money to buy from the "water pedestrians", and cannot be requisitioned for free.

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Whether in ancient times or in modern times, fire is a very high-risk type of troops, so the treatment of the latent fire soldiers of the Great Yan Dynasty is very good, and the Yulu is almost comparable to the forbidden army on the frontier. And in the trip to the fire, there are also privileges, such as the road to meet high-ranking officials do not have to avoid the road to give way, which is already a very big privilege for this era, after all, everyone thinks that it is a matter of course for the people to let the officials and the cheap let the nobles go first, except for the hidden firefighters who are about to put out the fire.

And after arriving at the scene of the fire, the fire fighter must obey the commander's order, do his best to extinguish the fire, if the performance is excellent, the government will be rewarded, if not to fight the fire, it is strictly dealt with in accordance with military law, if the fire soldier is injured in the process of firefighting, there will be the government responsible for treatment and reward, if unfortunately sacrificed, a large pension will be given, if there is a son alive, then when the son grows up, he can make up for this gap, that is to say, as long as the son grows up to reach the age, he wants to become a fire soldier, you can automatically become. If you don't want to be a submariner, it won't be mandatory, and your family doesn't need to pay taxes.

And Yang Gong's duty tonight is to sit in the government, if there is a major fire, he also needs to come forward to dispatch, so tonight's Lantern Festival Yaji, he asked Yang Xingwen to participate, one to attend on his behalf, after all, it is the Jiangning event held by the mad duke, this face must be given, in addition, Yang Xingwen is already an official in Hangzhou at this time, serving as a judge of the transfer department, and he is also a small official, it is already time to cultivate his own contacts and social relationships, so it is very beneficial to participate in this kind of gathering more.

Waiting for Cao Yi and them to arrive for a while, Lu Gong also arrived, as the direct speaker and supervisor of Jiangning Fuxue, Lu Gong is a noble status for the scholars and students present, if according to later generations, Lu Gong's position is like the "Director of the Provincial Department of Education" of "Jiangning Province", although this metaphor is not very appropriate, but it is almost the same meaning. So when Lu Gong entered the mansion, all the talented scholars stood up and shouted respectfully to Lu Gong, "Master Meng!" ”

Lu Gong also returned the salute to everyone with a warm face, and said with a smile: "You don't need to be polite, tonight is not the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting jointly organized by the Jiangning government and Jiangning Fuxue, it's just that Jiangning's scholars get together to meet friends with poetry......

This Lantern Festival party, everyone did not bring their families, after all, several of the eight leaders of Jiangning Qinglou were invited this time, and even the first Oiran Yu Youwei, who had redeemed herself, came. Moreover, Wang Ji, Ding Yu, Zhang Lin and others, who were studying in the capital during the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Meeting, were also all present, just from the perspective of the quantity and quality of talents, there were more and better than the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Meeting, after all, during the Chinese New Year, all these talents who were admitted from Jiangning Mansion School came back.

Among these talents, Cao Yi is the most famous, after all, he is recognized as the first talent in Jiangning, whether it is a student of Jiangning Mansion School, or a student of other colleges in Jiangning, they have been conquered by Cao Yi's talent, and those talents who have passed the examination, like Zhang Lin, Liu Chen, Wang Ji, are all commensurate with Cao Yi's brothers, even Yang Xingwen, the largest in Jiangning Mansion, is also called by the virtuous brother and the virtuous brother, so although Cao Yi did not make any poems, he seems to have become the most eye-catching talent in the whole party. The limelight is comparable to the first Oiran Yu Youwei and the rest of the Qinhuai famous prostitutes who went to the meeting.

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