It is difficult to study when the New Year's customs originate, it is generally believed that the New Year is derived from the Yin Shang period at the beginning and end of the year to worship the ancestors of the activities, from the Yin Shang period to the Qing Dynasty, the New Year has many titles like Yuanchen, the New Year, the Yuan Day, the New Year's Day, etc., which refer to the New Year, and the Ming Dynasty is called New Year's Day when the New Year.

So in the Ming Dynasty, did officials have a holiday during the New Year?

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was a typical workaholic, and the vacation system he formulated was very harsh, with three days off a year, which was the Spring Festival, the winter solstice and the emperor's birthday.

This vacation system was a bit excessive, and the feasibility was too poor, and later emperors added holidays on top of it.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the vacation system had been relatively perfect, and general officials had three fixed days off a month, three days off on the winter solstice, five days off on New Year's Day, and ten days off for the Lantern Festival.

This New Year's Day is also the New Year, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, a total of five days off, if you add the fixed day of the end of December, it is six days.

For six days, ordinary local officials could not go home, because the local officials of the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of serving in different places, and there was a clear provision in the "Da Ming Law": the flow of officials should be drafted, and they must avoid the original line.

This means that local officials are classified according to their seniority and cannot serve in their place of origin.

Serving in other places is destined to make the vast majority of local officials unable to go home for the New Year, because there were no cars, trains, and planes in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and it generally took ten days and half a month to cross provinces, six days, and the holiday had passed before half of the way home.

However, Zhang Bin is a special case, because although his family is in Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, it is only more than 100 miles away from Wenzhou Mansion, Zhejiang Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, where he serves, and it is only a matter of a few hours to go back, so he has gone home for the New Year in the past two years, and this year is naturally no exception.

In fact, at the end of the year, his three-year term in Pingyang is over, but the general local officials in the end of the term of office in the year after the end of the year to go to Beijing to report on their work, in this way, the Lantern Festival ten days is equivalent to in a hurry, sacrificing their vacation time to go to the capital to report on work, but also a manifestation of diligence, more people, slowly become a practice.

That is to say, after the end of the term of office of ordinary local officials, they all leave their places on the sixth day of the first month of the second year and rush to the capital to report on their work, so Zhang Bin was not in a hurry to say goodbye to the officials, squires and ordinary people in Pingyang, he just took Chen Yingying's three brothers and sisters back to Dajin.

Chen Yingying can be said to be the second daughter-in-law he brought back to his parents this year, if it is a previous life, the parents who open it again are afraid that they will not allow their sons to mess around like this, but in this life, his parents are very happy, because it is too normal to have three wives and four concubines at this time.

Chen Yingying's love can be regarded as a long-term relationship, just like the free love in the previous life, together, after getting along for a long time, each other has become accustomed to each other's existence, if you insist on separating, it is a rather painful thing, so, although he has repeatedly warned himself not to indulge in women, Chen Yingying, he is still reluctant to throw it in Pingyang.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve, it was the day of family unity, Zhang Bin took a group of relatives and Chen Yingying's three brothers and sisters to board the war ship sent by Dajin early, and it was still his second brother Zhang Guan, and it was also a fleet composed of eleven large and small war ships, but this time the Dafu ship led by him was much more lively.

On the deck, Xie Zhenggang and his wife, Xiaoyun, Zhang Guan and others played with Chen Xiuxiu like children, Wu Shiqi, Chen Zhi and others were smiling and paying attention to the side, only Chen Yingying stood there with a nervous face, like a marionette.

At this time, she can be described as fifteen buckets of water in her heart, seven up and eight down, after all, this is the first time he has seen Zhang Bin's parents, and he is still a future daughter-in-law, what will Zhang Bin's parents do to her, will they accept her as a daughter-in-law, and what will her life be like in the future, countless thoughts swirled in her mind, making her heart a mess.

In fact, Zhang Bin is more nervous than Chen Yingying, he has been a human being for two lives, this is the first time he has met his parents, and he really doesn't know how to deal with it.

At this time, he could only find something to distract himself, otherwise, he was really afraid that he would be so nervous that he would lose his temper.

Fortunately, there are many things that attract him on the Daifuku ship, such as gunpowder weapons such as the Franc machine, the bowl mouth gun, the thunder cannon, and the Lumi gun, as well as traditional weapons such as fire crossbows, rockets, and fire bricks, all of which he has seen for the first time, and each of them is extremely new to him.

The bowl mouth gun, thunder cannon, and Lumi gun are just upside down, and there is not much difference in structure from the bird gun he saw before, but the style has changed, and there is nothing to study about fire crossbows, rockets, and fire bricks, these are still roughly in the category of cold weapons, and there is nothing to study.

He is most concerned about the Franc cannon, this kind of rear-loading artillery should be the most advanced in this era in his opinion, because the front-loading artillery is too unreasonable, whether it is gunpowder or shells, it is very troublesome to load, which seriously affects the loading speed, this rear-loading gun only needs to replace the sub-gun, and the loading speed is at least five times more than the front-loading gun.

Why is it that most people in this era are making front-loading Hongyi cannons and not paying attention to the rear-loading Franc cannons?

He carefully observed the jack of the ship's Franc cannon and found that the main problem should be in the processing.

Because at this time, there were no lathes, milling machines, planers, boring machines, and grinding machines at all.

Completely rely on manual processing of hundreds or even thousands of pounds of metal, the difficulty can be imagined, coupled with no precision, whether it is the size of the match and sealing between the mother and the child can not be guaranteed, this should be the reason why the Franc cannon is not taken seriously, after all, after the Hongyi cannon is cast, as long as the inner wall of the cannon barrel is processed, and the Franc cannon, whether it is the inner wall of the mother tube or the inner and outer walls of the sub-tube, needs to be processed, and the processing difficulty is more than twice as high as that of the Hongyi cannon.

Perhaps, we should consider making all the machine tools commonly used in the previous life.

Just as Zhang Bin was thinking about how to make machine tools in the Ming Dynasty, there was a sudden cheer on the deck.

Daikin has arrived.

There was a large group of people standing on the dock in front of him, and among these people was his parents.

Zhang Bin's heart beat violently, no matter in his previous life or in this life, seeing his parents, it was really a big girl getting on the sedan chair, the first time!