In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Daqin ushered in the second Mid-Autumn Festival.

Because there was last year's lively and extraordinary mid-autumn grand occasion, so this year's Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, Xianyang City began to be lively half a month in advance, the streets and alleys are still lit up with lanterns and lanterns and colored flags, Quyuan Merchant House and even the yamen of the three provinces and six departments have begun to buy floats, Chen Xu's Nanshan Courtyard two dumb slaves with a group of craftsmen day and night to make fireworks and firecrackers, but still in short supply, businessmen from all over the world gather in the fireworks store of the Academy of Sciences all day long with a lot of coins and exchange tickets to buy firecrackers and fireworks, As soon as a truckload of fireworks and firecrackers arrives, they will be snatched up in an instant.

In fact, it is not only Xianyang lively, last year Xianyang Mid-Autumn Festival a grand float parade and lantern riddle guessing activities with the business travel and newspaper spread from the south to the north, this year Daqin all over the country began to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, from the business travel mouth of all over the country, many counties this year will have a grand float parade and guess the lantern riddle activities, with the support of local officials, the development of prosperous business in recent years has become a huge driving force to promote the development of this festival.

Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, but the entire Daqin has already opened a grand festival mode in advance, this kind of festival where the people of the world enjoy together, but also greatly cohesion of the people's hearts, so that although most of the ordinary people who are still unclothed finally have a happy time to participate and celebrate enthusiastically.

Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xianyang is becoming more and more lively, in order to promote the fine tradition of eating every festival in the country of foodies, coupled with this year's sesame harvest, the small grinding sesame oil is also abundant, Chen Xu deliberately let the Qinghe Hotel make a large number of moon cakes in advance to sell, and this kind of food that has only been heard of and never seen last year once launched, immediately became the target of the wealthy class, and in order to reward the harem concubines and princes, the first emperor personally ordered the imperial dining room to rush to make 5,000 moon cakes before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Directly put the officials of the Shaofu and the imperial dining room busy, and even Chen Xu was distressed for a few days and didn't sleep well, because he had to provide the sesame oil consumed by these moon cakes, but fortunately, the emperor didn't ask for his sesame oil in vain, and a few days later he was rewarded with several carts of silk as compensation, and Chen Xu felt a lot better.

Since it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Xu naturally will not forget his father, mother and relatives, so he asked Qinghe Hotel to pack dozens of boxes of moon cakes of various flavors, and arranged for people to send them back to Wancheng and Qinghe Town ten days in advance.

Under the auspices of the Faculty of Letters, this year's lantern festival is also well prepared, with thousands of lanterns starting to be hung in the square in front of the main hall of the court a few days in advance.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming as scheduled.

From dawn, with the crackling of firecrackers throughout the city, all kinds of floats began to shuttle back and forth inside and outside Xianyang City, the sound of drums, singing and dancing, and the noise of the people were noisy, and the whole Xianyang fell into the sea of joy of the festival.

Wait until the time has passed, after the sun sets, the lights in Xianyang City are even brighter, as if day, millions of people with their families carry lanterns out of the street to play, there are lion dances everywhere in the southeast and northwest, hundreds of floats with different decorations are paraded back and forth on the streets that have been transformed into cement roads in Xianyang City, and the beautiful little ladies on the cars sing and dance and throw coins and candy biscuits to start a grand float performance.

These are almost all spontaneous behaviors of the people, Chen Xu does not have any arrangements and guidance at all, but after last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, all the participating Quyuan shops have been very familiar with the spontaneous carnival.

When the full moon rises, the emperor takes his concubines and the royal family out of the palace again, puts the blessing lantern, guesses the lantern riddles, rides the car to parade the east, west, north and south four streets, a grand festival celebrated by all the people in the vast and mighty atmosphere ends in the fireworks show of the god and thunder that explodes in the sky.

In the blink of an eye, September is already late autumn, and winter will enter in a few days.

But this year's winter seems to have come a little late, and even as we enter the end of September, the weather is still very warm.

The autumn sowing in Chen Xu's fiefdom and the area of Shiyi has all ended, and the various seeds planted in the Western Regions in the vegetable gardens opened up in the summer are also in different conditions.

Coriander, green onions, and carrots are growing well, and there are a few unknown plants that are still growing well, and the green ones look very pleasant, but there are some that are not completely dead, but they all look like the vines are thin and the leaves are yellow, and although they are covered with corn, there is basically no hope of flowering and fruiting.

After Chen Xu's careful identification, one of these vegetable seedlings is an eggplant, and another is a cucumber, because he was very familiar with these two vegetables when he was a child, as for the other two melon seedlings with long stems and large leaves creeping on the ground, one is a watermelon, because it can be identified by the seeds at the beginning, and there is another kind that Chen Xu guessed should be cantaloupe.

These vegetables are the vegetables and fruits that he has been thinking about for a long time, and the purpose of instigating Yingbu and Jiang Hu and others to attack the Western Regions and conquering Ah San as soon as possible is also to get these melons, fruits and vegetables that later generations are familiar with back to the Central Plains for cultivation as soon as possible.

Chinese civilization has a long history, from the beginning of Shennong has a history of thousands of years of agricultural civilization, and has also cultivated a large number of grains and vegetables, but in fact, the native grain of the Central Plains in addition to rice and millet rice, most of the high-yield grain crops are outsiders, especially the staple food, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and even high-yield rice are not the Central Plains species, vegetables and fruits are even more so, the Central Plains native peaches, apricots, plums, pears, persimmons, oranges are not the main fruit varieties in later generations, and the fruits consumed by the public are apples, bananas, grapes, watermelons, etc., these are almost all outsiders, vegetables are even worse, the main vegetables of the Shang and Zhou dynasties are basically invisible in later generations, in addition to cabbage and radish, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, carrots, tomatoes, etc. are all imported from the West.

Whether it is these imported grains or vegetables and fruits, there are probably two sources, one is India and the other is the Americas.

If no one pushes to take the initiative to find it, this process will last for hundreds or thousands of years before it slowly appears in the Chinese diet.

At present, because of Chen Xu's promotion, these vegetable and grain crops have been delivered in advance, but because the time of appearance is not good, they are sent back after the summer is almost over, and it is too late to mature for sowing and growing.

But for eggplant, cucumber and watermelon, which are common fruits and vegetables in later generations, Chen Xu, who is worried about the distortion of his soul, is now squatting in the vegetable garden, and in his mind, a villain is like a wolf on all fours and howling in the sky, eager to hold the seedlings of these vegetables and fruits and gnaw a few bites to satisfy his drooling desire.

No, Lao Tzu must eat these vegetables in advance.

Thinking that he could nibble on a few tender cucumbers around the stove in winter, Chen Xu's saliva instantly flowed uncontrollably.

"Go find the housekeeper, I'm going to build a greenhouse here!"

"Master Hou, what is a greenhouse?" The steward of the vegetable garden stood beside him with muddy hands and asked with a confused face.

"Talk, hurry up and find someone!" Chen Xu kicked the butt of the steward.

Seeing that Hou Ye was angry, the housekeeper hurriedly went back to find the housekeeper, and soon the gray-haired housekeeper hurried over with a few servants.

"Arrange for people to chop wood and bamboo, and build a greenhouse on top of this vegetable garden...... It was covered with a thick straw curtain woven from corn...... The top is divided into a two-foot square lattice with wooden strips......"

"Master Hou, do you want to cover this vegetable garden with a wooden shed?" The old butler was confused.

"Well, it must be done in five days!" Chen Xu nodded and left.

The old housekeeper and the steward looked at each other for a few moments, and did not dare to delay, so they summoned the servants of the Hou Mansion and the farmers on the fiefdom to cut wood and bamboo.

This vegetable garden has an area of two or three acres, and it is not a small project to build a closed wooden shed in five days, but even if Hou Ye wants to build a greenhouse to cover Xianyang, he can only quickly find a way to do it.

Time is tight and the task is heavy, under the arrangement of the housekeeper, the entire Qinghe courtyard is jumping in an instant, and there are roars of stewards everywhere, and soon a group of domestic servants go out with knives, saws and axes, and the housekeepers and domestic servants almost poured out, and the water that helped Chen Xu sort out the manuscripts in the study couldn't help but run out to ask, but they only heard the word greenhouse that they had never heard before.

When the chickens and dogs jumped in the house, Chen Xu had already ridden to the warehouse of the glass factory.

"Master Hou, these glasses are ordered by carriage factories all over the country!" In the warehouse, Tang Ting looked at Chen Xu staring at the neatly arranged glass and hurriedly said.

"The carriage factory asked them to wait for a while, and said that Benhou would use it!" Chen Xu didn't bother to pay attention to this matter.

The Academy of Sciences and the glass factory are his acres and three points of land, except for the emperor, other people's words are not good, in recent years, the four-wheeled carriage has completely replaced the original two-wheeled carriage, and the installation of glass on the window has almost become the standard, the carriage without sunroof and push-pull glass can hardly be sold, and the people who buy this kind of carriage are all officials or wealthy businessmen with heads and faces, but even the princes and princes do not dare to steal the limelight with Chen Xu, Chen Xu wants to use, naturally he can only wait.