In February 1286, the Spring Festival had just passed in the Nankai area, and the weather was at its hottest.

Although the development and construction work was still very intense, Director Huang Poluo still gave everyone a holiday according to the holidays of the Federal Empire.

The city of Nankai was suddenly a festive scene.

In addition to shops, restaurants, teahouses, taverns, cafes and some places with a lot of tiles...... Especially in addition to a few green buildings that do not have holidays, almost everyone began to go shopping.

Of course, the patrol police and traffic police in the Nankaicheng Patrol Police Station still have to take turns off.

The Federal Empire stipulates that the first day of the calendar year, that is, the Spring Festival marked on the Liuqiu solar calendar, should be a seven-day holiday.

In addition, every winter solstice and cold food is also a seven-day holiday.

As for festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Qixi Festival, there are generally three-day holidays.

In other words, there are only three seven-day holidays per year in the Federal Empire, namely the Yuan Day, the Winter Solstice, and the Cold Eclipse.

If it coincides with the fixed two-day holiday every ten days, citizens of the Federal Empire can even enjoy a nine-day golden holiday!

In fact, this is basically the same as the period when the Great Song Dynasty had not yet gone south.

Tell me a little story, don't scold me for water.

Song Taizong, Song Zhenzong, Song Yingzong, Song Zhezong and Song Huizong were all seven days off during the Spring Festival.

Bao Zheng during the Song Renzong period was a Qing official recognized by the whole Song Dynasty, and he served as the third envoy of Song Renzong, a position equivalent to the Minister of Finance of the Federal Empire.

At that time, he was in charge of the country's financial revenue and expenditure and the monopoly of salt and iron, and he was so busy with his work that he always felt that there was not enough time, and he wished that 365 days a year would become 500 days a year!

Others welcome the holiday, but a busy person like him does not welcome it, so he went to the official house of the Shurenzong and shortened the seven-day long vacation to a five-day vacation.

But not everyone is as diligent as Bao Zheng.

After the seven-day holiday was changed to five days for no reason, the vast majority of officials were very dissatisfied, and when it came to the Chinese New Year, they either asked for leave in advance or delayed work for an excuse, and always tried to extend the holiday by a few days.

Therefore, after Song Zhezong ascended the throne, he restored the Spring Festival holiday from five days to seven days in order to comply with public opinion.

Of course, after the Great Song Dynasty went south, there was not even a fixed capital for the first ten years, and there was no leisure for the New Year, so it was impossible to issue a decree on the New Year's holiday.

In the second year after the Song-Jin Peace, the war was basically extinguished, the world was basically peaceful, and the Great Song Dynasty finally took a breath.

Song Gaozong announced a general amnesty for the world, and the Spring Festival holiday was five days this year.

Since then, the Spring Festival holiday in the Great Song Dynasty has basically been five days every year.

However, after the Federal Empire announced the annual holiday arrangement, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly wanted to come, and their ancestors also took seven days off, so some officials kept marching, hoping that the old Empress Dowager Xie would restore the ancestral system.

The Great Song Dynasty government has always liked to do things that conform to public opinion, and the old Empress Dowager Xie agreed to the officials' march by Zhao Xianzhi, a small official of the Great Song Dynasty, and also announced a new holiday.

Suddenly, everyone was happy.

On the island of the Great Shang Federal Empire, some guys who don't know the historical truth think that the Great Song Dynasty is learning from the Federal Empire.

In the first Spring Festival, Director Huang Poluo stipulated that no matter how difficult it was, the canteen should be slotted, and the people in Nankai area, regardless of skin color and ethnicity, should all be fed.

Liuqiu wants to set off firecrackers on the night of the Spring Festival, and there are no less than 100 varieties, there are single rings, double rings, and continuous rings.

Among them, the two-kick firecrackers that only exploded when they flew into the sky were more scary...... And, of course, there are fireworks that emit red, green, and white colors.

Director Huang Poluo asked that firecrackers and fireworks must also be set off on the Spring Festival night in Nankai area!

He did not hesitate to spend 5,000 yuan to organize the activity of setting off firecrackers and fireworks on the night of the Spring Festival...... He once said to his subordinates:

"How can we make others remember the big day of the Spring Festival as much as we do?

It's not enough to just have a holiday and food, but also to scare them so that they can't forget it! ”

Well, the Spring Festival Gala in the first year did scare everyone except the citizens of the Federal Empire and the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty.

The black, white, and that laborers, they covered their ears and watched in amazement as they had never heard or seen anything before!

Some were scared and cried, and some were scared and wanted to run...... Waiting for the Spring Festival in the second and third years, those people began to adapt, and they even looked forward to the Spring Festival.

In recent years, every year during the Chinese New Year, the shops in the Nankai area have to clean their households, change the door gods, hang the bell Kui, and nail the peach charm to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and pray for good luck next year, even the merchants of Goryeo and Japan are also the same.

Early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone celebrates each other with a good New Year as on Liuqiu Island, at this time Huang Poluo is the most generous, he wraps a number of red envelopes, as long as he gives him New Year's greetings, he does not care about skin color and race, all give a red envelope, the red envelope is not small, it is a big red envelope of fifty Wen!

On the three main shopping streets, each shop has a canopy at the entrance, which is a long strip of ornaments cut and tied with silk and colored paper.

In some shops, the crown comb, pearl and emerald, head and face, clothing, flowers, collar socks, boots and shoes, good play, cotton, linen, silk, porcelain and pottery and other commercial goods have attracted the attention of many customers...... Those customers are also regardless of skin color.

Curiosity is in human nature.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Director Huang Poluo deliberately brought his family to the streets with him, and he wanted to have fun with the citizens of the empire here.

He was an early citizen of the empire who brought everyone in his family here, and in fact, he had already put down roots here.

He thinks that the Nankai area is a good place, but it is not isolated from the main island of Liuqiu, far from the Federal Empire, as it appears on the map.

It is very convenient to travel northeast to the new business district of Marbury, a month or two by sea...... The sea conditions are absolutely safe, much less than the wind and waves in the South China Sea.

From here to the east, you can go directly to the best city in Australia, and there is a west wind all the way, and it will not take more than a month!

From here, you can go northwest to Liberty Island, which is the main island of the Governor of the Second Child, and you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the world along the coast along the way...... Deserts, grasslands, and forests, they appear in order, and the journey of more than two months is not like a few days?

The Federal Empire wants to have something on this island, and it will definitely be here in the first half of the year!

So, the Nankai area is the best place in the world!!

Of course, Director Huang Poluo could only see the newspaper five months after it was published, and at the same time, it would only take five months to know about the new changes on the island.

However, the Governor of the Second Lieutenant's Liberty Island actually took longer...... The developers on the North and South Yindi Anzhou will only know for the longest time.

Learn to be content...... The Nankai area is a godsend, but it must be well developed.

Every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year after the Spring Festival, Huang Poluo's family goes out shopping with wisps of flowers and flags on their heads...... This habit is not the habit of the Federal Empire, it was only inserted when he first lived in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty and saw those wealthy big businessmen celebrating the New Year...... Now that he has money, of course he has to let the whole family plug in!

In fact, silk cloth and colored paper are cut into the shape of flowers, and they are inserted on the head during the Chinese New Year.

Similar to wisp flowers, but instead of flowers, they are shaped like butterflies, moths, swallows, roosters, and other animals cut out of colored paper or cloth, and are also inserted on their heads during the New Year.

In fact, the materials used to process Hahata Katsu include not only silk cloth and colored paper, but also metal Hahatatatsu, such as tin Hakatsu, silver Hakatsu, gold Hakatsu, and so on.

These are much more expensive than flowers......

His behavior was quickly learned by others, regardless of skin color, regardless of race, they all had the habit of inserting this during the Chinese New Year.