After the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone saw the beauty of the fireworks in the imperial city and Li Siyuan's house, which made the fireworks produced by Li Siyuan's family once sold out of stock, and he himself made a lot of money, which can be regarded as a fortune!

The imperial court has also recognized the power of * and has issued a ban, so the Li family's fireworks have become the only one in the Tang Dynasty, and it is difficult to make a fortune without a monopoly business like this!

The Chinese New Year's Eve in the Tang Dynasty is no different from now, it is all about keeping the New Year, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, greeting the New Year, giving out red envelopes, plus Li Siyuan also poured out the firecrackers, and the New Year flavor of the Tang Dynasty is even stronger!

The Li family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is naturally luxurious, fried and fried, chicken, duck and fish, everything, unlike usual, today's Li family has made more than a dozen servings of each dish, and the faces of the people are also full of joy.

"Everyone has worked hard to come to our Li family! In the past year, our Li family has been able to develop so rapidly, and it is inseparable from everyone's credit! I won't say much if you're polite, you don't have to be restrained if you eat and drink well today! At the dinner table, Li Sande motioned for Li Siyuan to get up and say a few words.

Li Siyuan got his father's instructions, stood up and looked at his father after speaking, Li Fade knew that his son was finished, and picked up the chopsticks on the table: "Eat!" ”

In two simple and clear words, everyone began to eat and drink as if they had been ordered.

Looking at everyone's gobbling up, Li Siyuan and his wife looked at each other and smiled, they both understood that in such an era of scarcity of materials, it was rare for the main family to be willing to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for them!

When everyone had eaten about the same time, Steward Zhao was the first to stand up and take everyone to the main family to pay New Year's greetings.

Li's father and mother naturally sat on the main seat and accepted everyone's blessings, while Li Siyuan and Li Sisi sat on the side, one holding a wooden box in his hand, and handed it out to everyone one by one.

Their red envelopes were sewn from red cloth, some of them contained copper coins, and some of them contained some loose silver.

After working for most of the day, the meal was finished, the red envelopes were also distributed, seeing that it was still early at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Li Siyuan had already dozed off, which is not to blame him, there is no Chinese New Year's Eve of the Spring Festival Gala, for a traverser like him, it is too difficult to keep the year!

He looked at his father and found that he was also sitting there yawning, so he said to the two hostesses: "My father and I will not keep the New Year, and we will go to the court party early tomorrow morning, so we will rest first, and if you are tired, rest early!" ”

"You have official business, just go to sleep first, Sisi and I just need to stay here!" Mother Li said very openly.

Li Sande glanced at his son gratefully, he also wanted to sleep for a long time, but he used to accompany his daughter-in-law to keep the New Year, so he didn't dare to say anything, but now that he was stained with his son's light, he happily went to sleep.

"Husband, it's time to get up and eat, today is a big court meeting, don't be late!" Li Siyuan felt that he had just fallen asleep when he was woken up, and opened his eyes to see that Li Sisi was shaking himself.

"Alas, the New Year is not idle, and there is still a big court meeting!" Li Siyuan complained while starting to get dressed: "Seeing that your eyes are red, you don't have to serve me, get some sleep!" ”

A thoughtful sentence made Li Sisi suddenly feel that everything was worth it: "It's okay, I won't be too late to sleep when you and your father go to the court!" ”

Li Siyuan rubbed her hair, didn't force it anymore, got dressed, and walked to the restaurant.

Father and mother were almost finished, and when they saw Li Siyuan coming over, their father picked up two steamed buns and stuffed them into Li Siyuan's hands: "Let's go, the time is coming, we have to hurry up on the road!" ”

Li Siyuan originally wanted to say that he hadn't eaten, but his father took his hand directly and walked out: "Two steamed buns are left for eating on the road, and if you don't leave, you will be late!" ”

In desperation, he could only follow his father into the carriage and walk towards Chang'an.

The Great Dynasty Meeting, as the name suggests, is a big court meeting, held at the beginning of each year, is a kind of etiquette that began in the Western Zhou Dynasty with the highest specifications, the Qin and Han dynasties until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has been inherited from all dynasties. The Great Dynasty will be the Son of Heaven with hundreds of officials.

In front of today's Taiji Palace, it is much more lively than in the past, which makes Li Siyuan have a feeling of catching up with the New Year in later generations.

Among these officials, his father also had many acquaintances, so Li Siyuan was abandoned by his father and walked alone in the bustling crowd.

"Hey, Brother Li's here!" Li Siyuan heard someone shouting to him, and turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from.

Except for a few people from the Cheng family who dared to shout on this occasion, I am afraid that there is no one else, Li Siyuan looked over and found that it was Cheng Chuliang who was jumping high there to greet him, and the people next to him also looked at him and himself with strange eyes, Li Siyuan wanted to pretend that he didn't know him, but others were also kind, so he walked over.

Several young men from the Cheng family were there, even Qin Huaiyu and Changsun Chong and others were also there, and after everyone met, they worshiped each other for a year, and Cheng Chuliang mysteriously pulled Li Siyuan to a more secluded place.

"Brother Li." Cheng Chuliang whispered: "Now that everyone knows that you are also going to do an iron-smelting business, I heard that the eldest grandson's family is holding back the bad to make you stumble, you have to be careful!" ”

Li Siyuan smiled nonchalantly: "It's nothing, let's do business in our duty, and we're not afraid of others making ghosts!" You didn't pull me here just to say that, did you? ”

Seeing that Li Siyuan had already seen through it, Cheng Chuliang scratched his head embarrassedly: "Brother Li, you also know that I am only the second son at home, and all the benefits are my brother's." You are now a celebrity around the prince, and your family property is getting bigger and bigger, I wonder if you have some other ways to make money, and you also have a brother. Brother's money has been getting tighter and tighter lately! ”

After listening to Cheng Chuliang, Li Siyuan frowned and thought about it: "Brother Chuliang, I really don't have any good way now." ”

"It's okay, I'm thinking of something else." Li Siyuan was halfway through his words, and Cheng Chuliang said with some frustration.

"Don't worry, listen to me!" Li Siyuan said with a smile: "After a while, after my coal mine and iron factory are operating normally, I will be ready to do something else, and I will call you then!" ”

"Really?" Cheng Chuliang was overjoyed: "I know that you are righteous, what do you need me to do?" Just say it! ”

"It's nothing, if you still have spare money in your hand, just collect as much food as you can first, and then you can use it."

Cheng Chuliang nodded and agreed, and just wanted to ask what kind of business it was, but he thought that his father-in-law shouted loudly not far away: "Hundred officials are quiet, the dynasty will begin!" ”