The officials of the Song Dynasty had the most holidays in all dynasties.

The normal one is one rest every ten days - the Song Dynasty called Xiu Mu. Ten days is "ten", so it is also called "ten-day holiday".

In addition, they will have seven days off each of the three festivals of Yuan Day (Spring Festival), Cold Food, and Winter Solstice; During the summer solstice, the beginning of spring, Renri, Zhonghe Festival, Qingming, Qixi Festival, Mofu and other festivals, Song Dynasty officials will also have a day off.

In addition, Song Dynasty officials sometimes encountered small surprises. The emperor is also a human being, and there are always cases of illness or laziness not going to court. At this time, officials can also avoid going to work.

Of course, this is not the end, on the birthdays of the emperor and the empress dowager, Song Dynasty officials will also take three days off.

According to statistics, in addition to regular holidays, various statutory holidays and seasonal holidays totaled nearly 100 days, and officials could take more than 120 days of vacation every year.

Therefore, the officials of the Song Dynasty were far less serious than those of other dynasties.

For example, compared with the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty really lived in heaven.

There were a lot fewer holidays in the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Yuanzhang was a workaholic, and during his reign, officials had only eighteen days off a year.

There is a saying that describes it well: idle eggs hurt.

Li Gang, the servant in the palace, can't say that he is idle, but he does have a lot of time to find trouble with the folding family.

At the previous court meeting, Li Gangyi impeached the Zhe family with righteous words, and successfully made the official family issue a holy decree to arrest Wu Jue. But when the holy decree came down, it changed its appearance, and the arrest became "Xuan", and even "Xuan" did not reach Wu Jue.

This made Li Gang extremely angry.

He was extremely angry at the way he broke the family! In particular, the Zhejia army fled without a fight on the battlefield, giving the Liao army an unexpected opportunity, which led to heavy casualties for the Song army.

In the Eastern Route Army of the Battle of Youzhou, except for the Zhejia Army, almost no one escaped alive - all died on the bank of the Baigou River.

It's simply tolerable, it's tolerable.

"The country has been raising soldiers for a hundred years, and the righteousness of the war is today!"

This is what Li Gang has always believed. It's a pity that it was not him who led the battle, but Tong Guan. If he was replaced as the commander of the three armies, Li Gang would definitely behead Wu Jue in the battle array, and then lead the army to beat the Liao soldiers and wash away the shame of the Great Song Dynasty!

Li Gang would never let go of the folded family so easily. In this family, there is no "loyal minister" of the Great Song Dynasty.

They are entrenched in Fuzhou, and they disobey the will of the imperial court not for a day or two, nor for a year or two. For more than 100 years, how could the Zhe family have taken the imperial court seriously?

Not to mention it from afar, let's just say that in this battle of Youzhou, the Zhe family actually sent a group of disabled people out. This is simply a complete contempt for the imperial court and the official family.

What's more, he didn't contribute to fighting for the country, and he worked very hard to make money.

In the past two years, the Zhe family has been in Bianliang City, constantly making new things. For example, motorcycles, let's not talk about this, anyway, it didn't become a climate, a hammer deal - so far Qin Mu has never pulled a new motorcycle.

But cigarettes made everyone extremely red. Everyone has been tested in the cold window for ten years, and there are no fools. What is a cigarette? It's paper and tobacco, why do you sell it so expensive, and the sales are so good.

In the Great Song Dynasty, apart from salt, no commodity has become a necessity like cigarettes, and they are consumed so quickly - cigarettes are consumed much more than salt. After all, no one can eat a handful of salt without nothing, but smoking a cigarette when nothing is the norm.

Salt! This is the first of the imperial court, and it is related to the country's social affairs, even if it is a scholar, it is easy not to interfere. After all, the ** of salt and iron wine is a rule with a historical heritage, and ordinary people don't have the courage to break it.

But the appearance of cigarettes made everyone's eyes widen, not only big, but also red!

This thing is even more profitable than salt, iron and wine!

They also wanted to make cigarettes, but they didn't have the technology at all. Hand rubbing cigarette rolls? Is it possible? Besides, they don't have any tobacco, and they don't have special cigarette papers.

Thinking and doing, there is an invisible gap in it, so in the end, no one in the Bianliang family can make cigarettes, and they can only watch the family make a fortune.

This is also the folding family, which has been deeply rooted for a hundred years, and others can't move even if they want to. After Qin Mu jumped out to make cigarettes, there were no bones left that had been eaten a long time ago.

It's bearable! Then bear with it. After all, cigarettes are a brand-new commodity and belong to a brand-new industry. Da Song originally had no cigarettes at all, and there were no similar goods, so there was no industry at all, so there were no rules and no conflicts of interest.

This is also a reason why the powerful can accept it.

But then, the folded family moved the meat on other people's plates.

Jia Hongxian's farms and furniture factories directly clashed with the elites.

Those who opened restaurants accepted the emerging meat distribution almost immediately. Because of this kind of classification, the cut raw materials have a great advantage over buying chickens and ducks and slaughtering them themselves, both in terms of cost and time.

It also saves costs and time, which means increased profits.

Business is all about chasing profits.

This destroyed half of the original chicken and duck market. After all, Jia Honghong's crane farm is not particularly large, so the original market can still be maintained for the most part.

But this situation cannot be saved now. Who knows if the Ori family will expand the size of the farm? In Bianliang City, there are really few people who take Jia Hongxian seriously, they all have the same opinion as Mrs. Han, Jia Hongxian and Qin Mu are the same characters as the servants of the Folding Family.

Now that the family has money and new breeding methods, why don't they continue to expand? No one is at odds with money.

If the Zhejia family continues to expand the scale of breeding, the merchants who were originally engaged in this industry will have to drink the northwest wind.

And it's not just this line of work. Even more serious is the furniture industry.

Raising chickens and ducks, after all, is still an agricultural category, and in any time and space, the technical content of free-range chickens and ducks will not be very high. It's all free-range, and good or bad is nothing more than something skillful, not technical.

But furniture is different, and this is almost the highest level of skill on this plane.

A set of furniture, from the selection of materials to the production, it can be said that every step is the painstaking efforts of the craftsman. Because of this, production is scarce and prices are high – and therefore huge profits relative to the general population.

The merchants engaged in this industry are all full of food, and they are very energetic every day. It's a proper seller's market.

But now it's completely not going to work. With the opening of the IKEA supermarket, the business of the carpentry shop plummeted, and the door was so busy that it could almost close its doors.

From top to bottom, from the powerful to the grassroots, Bianliang City is all staring at the IKEA supermarket, which is crowded with people every day, and the number is limited.

For the people, a set of entry-level furniture is only a family income of up to half a year, and it can afford to buy, and it is more comfortable than the old furniture, so it must be bought at IKEA.

For the powerful, they have already prepared the furniture that should be there, and the old ones are not new, but the new furniture, they don't have it, and it is rare, so they must buy it.

What's more, the top-of-the-line lark series, if nothing else, is the mirror on the dresser, which is worth the women's madness. Not to mention the bedding and pillows on the bed, they are all good things that are not available in this time and space. It is not enough to describe it as rushing, but it is not enough to express the mood of the noblewoman.

At least they have to sacrifice their lives and forget about death in order to barely express their mentality.

Li Gang hated this! Because his house is made of furniture. The folded family moved the meat in his bowl!

As a historical celebrity, Li Gang was a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty and a mainstay, which is true. But a loyal minister cannot drink the northwest wind and live. Li Gang is also a human being, he is old and young, and a big family also has to eat and drink.

It was a tradition for scholars and doctors in the Song Dynasty to do business, and not to do business was an alternative. For example, Li Bangyan, he started late, so he couldn't get anything. Why can't I get it? It's not because the business in the market is occupied by colleagues.

What Li Gang has always done is a carpentry shop. He is a native of Wuxi, Changzhou, and the people in that place are ingenious, so Li Gang recruited many skilled craftsmen from there, making the "Li Family Wood Shop" second only to the "Lao Lu Family Wood Shop" in the wood shop in Bianliang City.

The vast majority of his income comes from this - the imperial court's Yulu has never been the economic pillar of the Great Song Dynasty officials. Just look at the list when Cai Jing's house was raided, if he only relied on Yulu, the emperor would give Cai Jing all the taxes, and he would not be able to make up the list.

Li Gang is the same, his income does not depend on money. This is also an important reason why the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty dare to speak and do.

Because I don't rely on the court for food and drink, I have solved it all by myself. The imperial court, the official family, and the court meeting are just a place to discuss the distribution of benefits, just like a vegetable market, where everyone bargains.

If these officials really only rely on the imperial court, then wouldn't Zhao Ji say a word and dismiss them, then they will drink the northwest wind as a family?

People all have something in common. Although there are some iron-clad people who are indeed not afraid of starvation, and they must be loyal to the country and the people, such people are rare after all.

Most people still have to think about themselves and their families. Therefore, if they only live on the court, they will never dare to speak arbitrarily.

It is precisely because most of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty do not rely on Yu Lu at all, so they dare to say and do it. I don't want to be an official anymore, and I live a good life.

Doctors are not here to live a hard life, but to enjoy life. To enjoy life, you need to have money. Now it is precisely the corner of the fold family that wants to dig Li Gang.

It's not just about to dig, it's actually about to hollow out the corner of Li Gang's wall.

Not only Li Gang's family, but the entire woodcraft shop has been hit like never before, and every one of them is miserable.

This is a tragedy that has never happened since ancient times. Relying on craftsmanship, not only can you not get rich, but you will soon be unable to eat.

This made the peers of the carpentry industry, including Li Gang, simply unacceptable, and even more unbearable.

They have no idea what the essence of the matter is.

In fact, this is the crushing of industry against handicraft.

In later generations, there was such a large population and such a large demand for furniture, which was far from being comparable to the time and space of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the two were not on the same order of magnitude at all. But in such an unprecedentedly large market, how can there still be handicraft furniture?

The furniture is all from the factory, and there is no furniture workshop that can survive in the 21st century.

But the essence of this change is incomprehensible to Li Gang. He felt that the family had broken the rules.

The woodware industry can be said to have existed since the opening of the Song Dynasty. And the furniture is not from the Great Song Dynasty, didn't the Han and Tang Dynasties? This has a long history.

But all along, it has been the craftsmanship of craftsmen to make furniture, and each piece can be called a handicraft - of course, this word is not said by Li Gang.

Li Gang, as the proprietor, has shopkeepers, buddies, and craftsmen below.

The craftsman makes furniture, the guy sells furniture, and the shopkeeper manages the money, what about Li Gang? All the money is his. This has been a tradition for at least a few hundred years.

But now, all the craftsmen and men are in charge, but the furniture can't be sold. Isn't that just out of money?

And Li Gang found that the problem was not in his own home. No matter how good the furniture is, people won't buy it.

This is not to blame the guests, even Li Gang himself, as well as his family, want to buy new furniture instead of his old ones.

Family members can be so ignorant, such as his only son Li Ming, who is arguing all day long to ask Li Gang to get him a set of lark furniture, but can Li Gang be so ignorant?

I'm running out of food, so I'm going to buy you a lark? Do you want dichlorvos?

Therefore, for Li Gang, this is the combination of national enemies and family hatred, which makes the palace servants and imperial historians exert great subjective initiative and desperately find trouble.

Knock down the folded house, and the supermarket will be finished. Everything is back to the way it was. I and my peers in the carpentry industry can live a good life leisurely again.

If the folded family is beheaded by the raider, Li Gang is ready to unite everyone to divide up the furniture in the market, and then destroy the den where the furniture is made, so that the problem can be fundamentally solved.

For this goal, Li Gang sacrificed the precious Spring Festival holiday, and was busy almost all the time from the previous year to the present.

In addition to saying hello to the Sifang Pavilion, he also actively contacted his colleagues and all the help he could think of.

Chong Shen was unfortunately selected by Li Gang.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Chong Shen was invited out of his home by Li Gang and came to Pan Lou.

Li Gang set up a sumptuous banquet, good wine, good food, good singing and dancing.

"Ancestral Lang, please!" Li Gang personally poured a full bottle of wine for Chongshen. This surprised Chongshen a little. Li Gang doesn't look at the small rank, but he has great power.

Moreover, Li Gang's official is a Beijing official, and the promotion of Beijing officials is much faster than that of local officials. Not to mention anything else, he walks around in front of the emperor every day, what a big advantage! At least the emperor knows your name, this is Jane in the emperor's heart!

"There is labor, don't dare!" Chongshen raised his glass. He is a small character and doesn't dare to take a big deal with Li Gang, so he raises a glass first.

After a drinking feast, Li Gang drank and retired the idlers.

"Seed boy."

As soon as he heard Li Gang change his name, Chong Shen paid more attention.

"When Uncle Yi was in Youzhou, he had a lot of correspondence with me. He said, deceiving the upper and lower families, flying high, fighting on the battlefield, fleeing without a fight, is really a sinner of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Chong Shen understood, this was the purpose of Li Gang's invitation.

Uncle Yi is the word of the teacher's way. Seed Master Dao is the uncle of Chong Shen, Li Gang said that Seed Master Dao wants him to join the folding family, and he really can't run away from this matter.

One family is the norm in this time and space. Although Chongshen is not the son of the seed master, his nephew is also a family.

When I heard this, I was naturally indignant. The sixteen states of Yanyun are the pain in the heart of Taizu Taizong, the first emperor and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty of the past dynasties all take the recovery of the sixteen states as the top priority! Yanyun is in hand, and the world is safe. ”

Tanshen could only nod. Li Gang is right!

"Yelu Yanxi, the emperor of the Liao State, since he ascended the throne, has not done his job, hunting more than once a day, and abandoning political affairs. The so-called Wen Tian Wu Huan, the country is not a country. I, the Great Song Dynasty, seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Chen Bing millions, and hunted Youzhou with the Liao Congress. This is the perfect opportunity to destroy the old enemy in one fell swoop and recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun. ”

Chongshen could only nod.

"I didn't think that Taizu Taizong's last wish was almost destroyed in the hands of the Zhe family. The Zhejia army fled without a fight, and the East Route Army suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for Uncle Yi's genius and turning the tide, this Youzhou would almost not be able to get it back. ”

Chongshen could only blush and nod this time.

Li Gang's words are too uncomprehensible.

The seed master is the uncle of the seed Shen, and the family is in the mansion of Bianliang, which is together, a big mansion. When the seed master returned to Bianliang, he would naturally tell the story of the war that day to the seed shen in detail - this is the best education for the next generation.

Before Li Gang boasted about the Song Dynasty, he said that he would hunt, so he could barely forget it. If you change yourself, it will be the same. If you have a long family style, of course, you have to say so.

It is said that the seed master is a genius, and he can make do with it. This is his own uncle, and it is also a good intention for people to say flattering words.

However, Li Gang said that the seed master "turned the tide and fell backwards", which was too much.

Chongshen knew very well how Youzhou got it back. This has nothing to do with the breeder, or even with the Great Song Dynasty. That was when the Jin Kingdom conquered Youzhou and then sold it to the Great Song Dynasty.

Even what was sold to the Great Song Dynasty was an empty city. The wealth and population in it are all gone.

This made Chong Shen feel ashamed - the high-level of Bianliang City, who doesn't know the truth? You're too exaggerated.

So Chongshen could only take a sip of wine to cover his shame.

"The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill," Speaking of this, Li Gang's expression was awe-inspiring: "The folded family is the anthill on the embankment of my Great Song Dynasty, and it is a moth in the rivers and mountains of my Great Song Dynasty." I, Li Gang, receive the emperor's favor and think of the people, and I will definitely remove this harm for the court! ”

Hearing this, Tanshen almost couldn't hold the wine glass and almost fell to the ground.

What, Li Gang is going to play with the Fold family?

Why are you still looking for me about this!

Although Chong Shen was born in the Western Army, he was actually a literati and a scholar. He knows very well that civil servants are doing this. Fight to the death, don't fight to the death.

Since the destruction of the Yuanyou Party Monument, the court has understood the meaning of the officials.

In the past, my own people were too ruthless, and the normal days of the court were almost unbearable, so everyone was more restrained and didn't play with their lives.

Since then, there have been no deaths due to impeachment. Except for the Sanhuai royal family, they are going to rebel and are no longer among the scholars.

Looking at Li Gang's meaning now, he is to break his family to death.

Can you mix this matter yourself? Besides, why is Li Gang looking for himself? has a father and an uncle, they are the ones Li Gang should be looking for!

He is just a newcomer to officialdom, what do you want, what does he Li Gang like about himself?

This question was immediately solved by Li Gang.

"Gongzi, you and the brothers of the Zhe family are the same age, and they were both in the northwest in the past, I think you may have discovered their illegal deeds a long time ago!"

“……”

Chong Shen understood, Li Gang wanted to collect the black materials of the Fold family from himself!

His mind immediately began to spin.

Is this an opportunity or a trap for you?

Chong Shen looked at Li Gang, looked at Li Gang's expectant eyes, and his heart began to beat wildly!