The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened. The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.

The wanderers are all plums, and the songs are all plums. Jin Wu can't help the night, and the jade leak is not urging.

This is the ancestor of the Northern Song Dynasty Sansu - Wu Zetian's prime minister Su Wei's "Fifteenth Night of the First Lunar Month", which describes the Lantern Festival scenery of Chang'an City in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and is the top grade in the Lantern Festival poems.

According to the record of "New Words of the Tang Dynasty", when Wu Zetian was in the sky, every night on this night, the capital Chang'an would put on lanterns, and there was no martial law at night, and it was really crowded with people to watch the lanterns. The wealthy nobles are noisy with cars and horses, and the people of the market are singing and laughing, and they spend the whole night in a lively atmosphere.

On the night of the Lantern Festival in the tenth year of Jianwen, the grand scene is still excessive.

In the past nine years, the Ming army has been invincible and invincible. Internally, he pacified the rebellion of King Yan, occupied Korea externally, opened up the Northeast, and at the same time crossed the ocean to conquer the Wa Kingdom, which had occupied most of the Wa Kingdom and established an absolute advantage over the remnants of the Wa State; And the biggest enemies of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia and Warat, also collapsed under the light blow of Wu Anbo and Zhang Fu.

By the tenth year of Jianwen, the threat from the north no longer existed, and the territory of the north was like a ripe cherry, waiting for the Ming Dynasty to pick it.

Economically, the development of the Northeast has achieved initial results, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and the introduction of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops in the Americas continue to expand the cultivation area, according to the Ministry of Household and the General Quartermaster Department, the Northeast will soon become the granary of the empire, not only to meet the needs of the local garrison and the people, but also to feed back to Hebei, Shanxi and other places in the Guannai;

Another thing worth mentioning is the opening of the sea, through overseas trade, the coastal business has prospered unprecedentedly, which has greatly promoted the development of financial businesses such as stock exchanges and banks; The development of the financial industry, in turn, has encouraged businessmen to expand overseas.

Overseas trade is accompanied by high risks and high profits, a storm can ruin people, a full load can make people rich overnight, so businessmen began to use stock exchanges to avoid risks to the greatest extent.

This property of skyrocketing and plummeting made voyage stocks the new favorite of the stock exchange, and soon many speculative businessmen participated in it, and they spent their money like dirt, staging a tragicomedy of getting rich overnight and going bankrupt overnight......

The invention of new technologies, especially the steam engine, initially changed the economic outlook of the Ming Dynasty based on handicrafts, and large-scale workshops appeared in Beijing, Suzhou, Songjiang, Kaifeng, Beijing, Shenyang and other places, and the scale of industrial workers gradually expanded, although their work was hard, but their income was much higher than farming, which in turn also promoted the prosperity of the local economy.

......

The Lantern Festival holiday is from the 15th to the 17th of the first month.

Therefore, from the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets and alleys of Jingshi are full of lanterns, from the east and west Chang'an Avenue in the south of the palace city, to the outer Jiulong Bridge of Jubaomen, as well as the banks of the Qinhuai River, the Mochou River, the Gongfu Street, Xiangguan Street and other streets where dignitaries live, all of which have become a sea of lights, and even Jiming Mountain and Confucius Temple are no exception.

In the afternoon of the next day, the people of ten miles and eight villages near Jingshi poured into Jingshi to participate in the Lantern Festival feast of the all-night carnival, so at night, the streets and alleys of Jingshi were full of people, sweating like rain, cheering, cheering, and selling one after another, and the whole Jingshi was immersed in a lively and peaceful atmosphere......

West of the city, Gongrui Palace.

"Hasn't Samuel come back yet?"

Standing on the high platform, looking at the lights and crowds near and far, Eseku suddenly asked.

"This,"

The guard Naqin was stunned for a moment, subconsciously glanced at Shi Chen Rishan, the head of the palace, and found that the other party shook his head, and hurriedly replied: "Lord Wang, not yet!" ”

"Oh!"

Eseku nodded, looked at the bright moon above his head, shook his hands lightly, then let go, turned to Chen Rishan and hugged his fists, and said: "Lord Changshi, this king wants to send someone to the Heavenly Realm Temple outside the city to find Mrs. Samur, I don't know if your lord thinks it's okay?" ”

"The prince is serious!"

Chen Rishan hurriedly took two steps back, avoided Eseku's salute, and said, "Xiaguan will send someone to find it, but," Chen Rishan looked at the direction of Jubaomen, and said with some embarrassment: "There are a lot of people playing in the city today, and it will take at least two hours to go back and forth, and I hope that the prince will wait with peace of mind." ”

"Maybe, maybe," Chen Rishan hesitated for a moment and said, "Maybe Lady Samuel stayed in the Heavenly Realm Temple, so she hasn't returned yet." ”

"Alas,"

Eseku shook his head and said, "No, if she stays in the Heavenly Realm Temple, there's no reason why she shouldn't send someone back to deliver a message!" ”

"Oh, yes!"

Chen Rishan was a little embarrassed, saluted to the Eseku, and said, "Xiaguan will arrange it!" ”

"Well, let's go with Nachin!"

“...... Yes, sir! ”

Looking at Chen Rishan's back, Eseku sighed slightly, he didn't like this palace governor, but it was a pity that he didn't have a choice.

After arriving in Beijing, the emperor did not treat himself badly, the title was still "King Gongrui", and the hereditary replacement, the treatment was much better than that of Anke Timur, who was demoted to the Marquis of Hami, and the emperor also rewarded the palace and countless treasures.

But Eseku was also worried, the emperor did not appoint a princess, so that Otonkova, Samur, Uqige and others could only be called ladies.

What's even worse is that Eseku vaguely heard that the reason why the emperor did not appoint a princess was to listen to the advice of the Security Bureau, and Chen Tongen, the director of the Security Bureau, thought that a princess loyal to the Ming Dynasty should be chosen, and the existing people were not suitable.

This made Eseku very worried, he didn't know what the emperor meant, and he didn't know why Chen Tongen of the Security Bureau did this.

So these days, he has been wondering, who will the emperor appoint? Ortongova? Samur?

Eseku couldn't figure it out, so he had been sleeping alone lately, not daring to get close to the ladies, for fear of causing some trouble.

Today's Eseku just wants to settle down quickly and live a life of eating and waiting for death as soon as possible.

Therefore, Eseku is very opposed to Samur going to see Master Juekong, but at present, he can't control Samur, unless Changshi Chen Rishan can be loyal to him, which is almost impossible.

Chen Rishan is in his forties this year, born in the Hanlin Academy, old-fashioned, serious, and inflexible, Eseku doesn't like him, and at the same time he also knows that Chen Rishan doesn't like him either, so Eseku warns himself to be careful, careful, and careful.

......

On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, people are not only busy admiring the flowers, but also busy looking for fun, and the flower boats on the Qinhuai River and the brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River are the best places to go.

The Qinhuai River is divided into the Inner Qinhuai River and the Outer Qinhuai River by Jubaomen.

Most of the flower boats are concentrated on the Inner Qinhuai River, because most people like to be lively; However, there are also many flower boats sailing out of Jubaomen, because the guests above like the quietness of the Qinhuai River.

On an inconspicuous flower boat on the Qinhuai River, in a cabin decorated like a newlywed cave house, a man and a woman are bursting out with the most primitive desires of human beings......

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

......

At the bow of the ship stood a man and a woman, who were silent as they watched the four knights galloping by the river not far away.

When the knight walked away, the man turned his head and said, "Qingyin, is it from Eseku?" ”

"It should be!"

"Well, since you say so, that's right! It seems that Eseku is in a hurry! ”

"Hehe, yes, but he couldn't imagine that his concubine was enjoying the joy of fish and water under other men, hahahaha!"

As he spoke, a burst of laughter like silver bells came to mind.

Hearing his wife's somewhat presumptuous voice, Peng Ziyun frowned, but didn't say anything.

After a while, Peng Ziyun said with some hesitation: "Qingyin, do you think we can do this well?" ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm worried that things will get big!"

"It doesn't matter, even if it gets big, Mahamu may not lose, Samur is his wife, not to mention that I observed it just now, Samur is very happy!"

"However, Eseku's identity is not ordinary!"

"This ......"

Liu Qingyin was silent for a while, and said: "Not necessarily, Mahamu is a major general immediately, a senior general of the Ming Dynasty, and Eseku is just a surrendered Warat leader, it is of little use, the emperor will support Mahamu." ”

"This may not be, there are a lot of people in the Warat tribe, and the emperor will choose to appease the Eseku."

"That's—"

Liu Qingyin smiled lightly: "Then I can only blame Mahamu for bad luck!" ”

"But," Peng Ziyun said a little unbearably: "However, Mahamu saved us after all, if it weren't for him, we would have died in Shandong back then." ”

"That's why we will help him get Samur, and we can repay his kindness!"

"But if he is condemned for this, have we not done him harm?"

"How could we have hurt him?"

Liu Qingyin turned her head and looked at her husband a little strangely: "This is all his own decision, even if he is punished, he will bring it on himself!" ”

“......”