A small landowner in the countryside who had no roots suddenly became a member of the army in Chang'an, and Li Xiao felt that this was jumping into the hot pot.

In Chang'an City, a stone can kill several officials, and maybe one of them is a prince.

Even if it is a Chang'an County Ya, it is also a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger. Not to mention the county commanders, county commanders, county captains, and Cao joining the army, even those records and officials, none of them are simple.

A person like Li Xiao, who doesn't understand anything, ran to mix with Chang'an officialdom, isn't this a sheep into the tiger pen? Being played like an idiot every minute, you have to know who are the people in the county office?

Now it is the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Sui and Tang dynasties are known as the last aristocratic era of the Chinese classical era, when the aristocracy is rampant, the nobles and nobles, the family door valve, everything talks about the origin, although it is not the Wei and Jin Dynasty Jiupin Zhongzheng talks about the family, but the concept of the door is as serious.

If he was not from an aristocratic family, Li Xiao would have to rely on Gao Yang's name if he wanted to mix in the county government, so in the eyes of others, Li Xiao would always be equivalent to Gao Yang's dog.

It's not that Li Xiao doesn't want to be an official, but he really can't be an official.

After sending off the princess and others, Li Xiao continued to live.

Pick off the old peach charm and replace it with a new peach charm, but this year's peach charm is more special, the peach charm is also written on the Spring Festival couplets, and there are many doors and pillars that are also pasted with spring couplets written on red paper.

The word "blessing" is written on the door, and red lanterns are hung in the courtyard, adding a lot of festive atmosphere everywhere.

Da Biao prepared a lot of explosive rods early, which is a must-have for the New Year.

Bursting rods are also called firecrackers, but unlike later firecrackers, the firecrackers at this time are real firecrackers, in fact, they are some bamboo poles, and during the festive time of the New Year's holiday, they burn a fire in front of the door, and then put the bamboo into it to burn.

Bamboo has knots, the inside is hollow, and when it burns, it will burst, so it is called firecracker.

The firecrackers that Da Biao bought this year are all good goods, each one is carefully selected, to ensure that there is no cracking and air leakage, each one is as thick as the arm, the thicker the bamboo bursts, the louder the burst, the better the color head, the more prosperous.

"San Lang, I have prepared a full one hundred and eight this year, let's have one hundred and eight rings."

Da Biao pointed to the car of big bamboo pulled by Zhang onion and Liu Garlic behind him and said with a proud smile, although the stir-fry restaurant opened not early last year, it was just in time for this wave of peak season a year ago, and the novelty of the stir-fry pot dishes, especially the hot sales of medicinal wine in the medical hall, many people rushed to Lanxi every day to queue up to buy medicinal wine, which made the restaurant also follow the guests and the business was booming.

Annual accounts, profitable.

Da Biao owns 20% of the shares, plus his share as the shopkeeper, he divided dozens of dollars at once. In that time, he made tens of thousands of dollars, which is like the income he earned from killing pigs for a few years before.

It's the New Year, I have to buy the best firecrackers for my family, and I bought one hundred and eight at once.

Li Xiao looked at the cart of bamboo poles and wanted to laugh in his heart.

One hundred and eight rings, well, that's about 100,000 rings in later generations, or a lot of fireworks. After all, in this era, who burns so many explosive rods at a time, it would be good to burn a few dozen or so, and they would not burn such a big root.

Compared with the firecrackers that fired 100,000 times at every turn in later generations, the bursting rods at this time were indeed a little backward.

In fact, firecrackers are really not difficult to make, even fireworks don't seem to be difficult, in the final analysis, it is black powder. And black powder is also simple, but just thinking about it, Li Xiao still shook his head.

Black powder is not only used for fireworks, as soon as this thing comes out, it will definitely be discovered by the imperial court for military use, and this thing is not even medicinal wine.

After all, medicinal wine is not really the only one, and gunpowder is different.

If the imperial court discovers the value of gunpowder, and is afraid that he will leak the secret, and then imprisons him and makes him gunpowder for the rest of his life, it will not be the end.

No, resolutely not.

It's better to burn the blast rod, it's pretty good, at least it's loud, and there's no smell of gunsmoke.

"San Lang, the peach charm and the Spring Festival couplets have been pasted."

"Is it all pasted? Don't leave the cowshed, horse shed, pigsty, and chicken coop at home. ”

"It's all pasted according to San Lang's instructions, the cowshed is pasted with six animals are prosperous, and the chicken coop is a golden rooster to report the dawn·······"

Li Xiao nodded, he put his hands behind his back, walked a few steps, and felt that he had found a bit of the feeling of a landlord. It's a very nice feeling, it's very refreshing.

Looking at everyone's expectant looks, he knew what everyone was waiting for.

It was also nearly dusk, and everyone was waiting for the owner to give out New Year's bounty, and then announced that the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner had begun.

"Now that everything is done, then Da Biao, you inform everyone and come to the front hall of the main room. After a while, Wan Niang and I will give you a New Year's reward, everyone has worked hard for a year, and we should also express our gratitude. ”

Da Biao smiled and said, "The big guy has been waiting for this moment, I'll go and inform you." ”

He turned away, howling in his unique loud voice as he walked, "Lang Jun has spoken, and the big guys have gone to the front hall of the main house to receive the reward!" ”

"Everybody has it, hurry up!"

Li Xiao smiled when he heard this, shook his head, and hummed a little song behind his back to go back to the main room first.

As soon as I entered the main room, I saw Wanniang counting money with her sister Li Zhen.

In order to distribute today's reward, Li Xiao made special preparations in advance.

Early has been prepared under a few large willow basket of copper coins, and in order to have a good color, but also specially prepared Huang Chengcheng on the good Kaiyuan Tongbao, this kind of Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the new coins minted by the Wude Emperor Li Yuan, because of the good quality of the materials, has been used from Wude to Yonghui today, deeply liked by the people, the imperial court now mints a large number of Kaiyuan Tongbao every year.

In addition to the copper coins for the New Year's reward, the Li family will also send rice noodles and fabrics for the New Year to the people below this year.

The main family has made money, and the people below have also contributed to it, Li Xiao has never been the kind of stingy person. When he eats meat, he must also let everyone drink some soup, so that everyone will be full of energy and work hard.

"One hundred dollars per person, plus a bucket of corn and a bucket of wheat, plus five feet of cloth and a set of clothes, socks and shoes." Wan Niang was busy with sweat, looking at a room full of money, food and cloth.

"What, are you distressed?" Li Xiao saw that Wanniang was a little reluctant in her heart. Taking out so many things at once to give out rewards is indeed a lot of money.

There are a lot of people in the Li family, more than a dozen slaves with contracts, and more than a dozen subordinates without contracts, which must be more than 20 people. And that's not even counting the tenants.

Li Xiao said early, whether it is a slave or a tribal, these people rely on the Li family to live, and they are considered the Li family. Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, each person has a new set of clothes and shoes, plus 100 yuan, and a bucket of millet and a bucket of wheat.

These slaves and subordinates usually receive monthly money, and they also have food and shelter, but the monthly money of the slaves is less, and the number of subordinates is less.

During the Chinese New Year, the tribe gave an extra hundred dollars to the slave's reward.

Wan Niang felt that in fact, the servants at home would make a new set of clothes and shoes, and then give dozens of rewards.

"Wan Niang, everyone is working hard this year, our family does have a good income, take out an appropriate amount of rewards, and everyone is happy."

Li Zhen is more open-minded, she thinks what her brother said is very reasonable, besides, in fact, there is not much reward.

"I didn't say no, I just think it's too much, this year has started, so will it have to be sent like this every year after that, if there is less in the future, won't everyone be angry?" Wan Niang said.

Li Xiao said with a smile, "Your worry is also somewhat reasonable, I understand the truth of Shengmien's fight against rice, but we are not unprincipled rewards, we work hard and do a good job, the benefits of the family are high, and everyone's reward will be more." If you slack off in the future, the family's income will be less, and the reward will naturally be less, which is all linked. ”

"If you really want to benefit well every year, I'm still afraid that these rewards won't be successful?"

Everyone's reward money did not fall out of thin air, but everyone worked hard to earn it, Li Xiao believes that as long as everyone understands this truth, then there is nothing to worry about Shengmien fighting Mi Hate.