"It's Chinese New Year's Eve soon, and Junshang's thirtieth birthday is approaching, right? Is this year still following the example of previous years to avoid big troubles? As the month of Layue approached, Tian Xiuying and even Zhou Yufeng and others also asked.

Xiao Xuan pondered for a moment and said: "It stands to reason that it should be celebrated, of course, the reason is not that it has entered the year of its establishment, but that after more than ten years of internal and external troubles, the current Ming Dynasty has finally survived the great changes like rebirth." But there is a saying that Kang Long has regrets, if I do a big job of my birthday at this time, what signal will it send to the outside? The class struggle, the struggle for change, and even the social reform have won a great victory, so it is time to rest? Or: Those elders and patriarchs below can also follow the same example and take the opportunity to rearrange the score and reshape their authority? After the New Year, I will celebrate the victories of officers and soldiers, or hold a commendation ceremony for heroes and exemplary figures. But there will be no birthday celebrations in the future. It's just an ordinary New Year, and I think it can be streamlined on the basis of the old example. In the past, there were many women in the palace, and the New Year was also a time for the people in the palace to relax, but now I don't have more than 100 women around me, and there are no eunuchs, so there is no need to talk about a lot of flashy pomp and circumstance. If I had to send a message, I would like to be an example of how people can be appreciated even if they are withdrawn, eccentric, maverick, and unrestrained. Only by respecting any such individual freedom, individual freedom, can the whole society truly have the ability to innovate and progress from within... ”

Hearing Xiao Xuan's high-sounding words, Yun Xiaoxuan beside Xiao Xuan seemed to have guessed something, and said without much concern: "In this way, it is still the same as when you are usually free?" ”

Xiao Xuan recalled something and said with a smile: "Since returning from the expedition, there have been many days of uncovered conferences, heroines playing faint, female eagles catching chickens, and other old routines, and there is nothing new. Compared to that, it was all played by the faint gentlemen in the past. What happens if you open a book in the bath? There should be a lot of idle books specially collected from outside. Maybe it helps to enrich yourself invisibly? ”

Hearing such a thing, some of the women around Xiao Xuan also felt a lot of novelty, so there was a lot of laughter and even discussion in the desire pool that had been prepared for a long time.

Of course, at the beginning, it was not the books outside the palace that were discussed, but the many internal materials on marches and battles, as well as the county records and cases of various places over the years. After that, there are some books and newspapers outside the outside that are not in the system. Of course, some of the cases from more than ten years ago are still there.

At this time, some of the women around Xiao Xuan were also very clever in guessing one or two, and they greeted each other and said: "I don't know if I don't look at it, this careful look will show how the king has changed to Daming in the past ten years." In the past, in the face of the border troubles of Najianzhou, there were almost consecutive defeats, and the ministers could only discuss where to repair the border wall. Internally, the government is controlled by those officials and gentry, and in just over ten years, it has created many situations that have never been seen in the past, which is really not easy. ”

"Yes, compared to the current Holy Son of Heaven's army, if it encounters the Jiannu of the year, maybe only two or three hundred elite soldiers will be able to beat the twenty or thirty thousand armor of the full people at one time. . . ."

In the praise, Xiao Xuan, of course, did not completely lose his ability to analyze: "That's not necessarily, it should be said that the Jianzhou Army back then was still a quite strong team, not a weak Burmese brigade like the south that can be compared." Even if it is facing each other now, because the opponent's protection is strong and there are many elite soldiers in the real sense, it still needs a decent battalion to ensure victory. Those tens of thousands of people should not be inferior to the hundreds of thousands of horses of the Burmese army... ”

The reading club in the desire pool lasted for a long time, perhaps because Xiao Xuan didn't drink much before, and it lasted for about three hours. There are all kinds of things such as military literature, freshman history, campus literature, science fiction, love, and customs in the ordinary books and periodicals outside, but it still makes Xiao Xuan feel a little strange. Because Xiao Xuan didn't believe that the New Deal was just less than a generation, even if the Jiangdong area could change customs to such an extent, there was nothing low-level or even vulgar and interesting. It's just that at this time, Xiao Xuan has no plans to say anything, and he doesn't want to make a big deal around the Spring Festival because of this seemingly small matter. In the fourteenth year of the New Dynasty, from Chinese New Year's Eve to the first month, the entire Jiangdong and even many places still spent a New Year in excitement and peace. Since the shackles on many commercial channels were broken a few years ago, even in the vicinity of ordinary small counties, you can see many ordinary people selling and buying.

And another good news came at this time, even in the not very good season, there were still a large number of stationery from the Taixi area that were transported by water, and because they were properly kept, most of them did not cause any damage. Because there is no doubt that if it is something like gold and silver, it may be used as a financial reserve, but stationery is only sold in the Central Plains and other places. Three hundred decent large sea ships transported more than 60 million catties of paper, more than several million pens, and even tens of millions of catties of ink, traditional ink and other pigments at one time, with a total value of about 20 or 30 million taels.

According to the system, although many officers and even their families emigrated to the Taixi area to enrich the local population, middle-level and above officials were given tenures ranging from three to twenty years, which was also a means to avoid centrifugal tendencies in places such as Taixi, which had the potential for a strong economic scale.

"A lot of paper and ink are just local inventory in Taixi, and the quality seems to be very fine, but I think that in this year or so, the paper industry and even other stationery industries in many places such as Taixi should gradually develop, and the scale of stationery that can be sent next year may be more. . . ."

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, which is likely to continue to face a not too good year, this is to a large extent tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, which makes Xiao Xuan more confident that he will carry out some pro-business policies across the country in this year, and at the same time, he will not worry about making too big a basket in this year when the year is not too good. Therefore, Xiao Xuan finally made up his mind to solve some other problems at this time.

(End of chapter)