On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival is also known as the Shangyuan Festival.

Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the new year. Taoism once called the fifteenth day of the first month of the year the Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July as the Middle Yuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as the Lower Yuan Festival, collectively known as the "Three Yuan".

Early in the morning, the royal prince Sun He and the officials above the fourth grade in Beijing need to go to the temple with the holy car to worship, and then the emperor will feast the ministers, this banquet is also called the "lantern feast" because it has to be held until the end of the lantern festival.

At present, due to Ye Yu's birth, it completely covered up the limelight that should have belonged to Zhu Xi, so the Cheng Zhu Lixue that was circulated in later generations did not spread smoothly at the moment.

However, Zhu Xi's geography is still gradually developing, and the confinement between men and women is also slowly influencing the customs of the Han people.

Therefore, it is usually relatively strict for men and women, and it is difficult for ordinary women, especially unmarried women, to have the opportunity to play on the streets, but on the day of the Lantern Festival, it is an exception.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, not only women can go out on the streets, but they can also participate in the lantern festival like men. Today's Lin'an Yu Street is ten thousand lanterns into a mountain of lights, and the lanterns and fireworks are splendid.

Looking up, there is a scene of singing and dancing, and Kyoto girls are singing and dancing and thousands of onlookers are watching. Visitors gather under the two corridors of the royal street, thaumaturgical ability singing and dancing a hundred plays, the scales are tangential, and the music is noisy for more than ten miles.

In the streets and alleys, the lights and candles of the tea houses and wine shops are lit, the gongs and drums are sounded and the firecrackers are ringing in unison, and the lights of the entire Kyoto Lin'an are endless.

Although Emperor Xiaozong Zhao Yan has been unwell recently, he has not forgotten this lantern festival, and specially ordered people to build a huge lantern tower outside the Xihua Gate, which is more than 20 rooms wide, 150 feet high, and the golden light is extremely magnificent.

As one of the more frugal emperors in history, this extravagant lantern festival should never have been held, but this year is an exception within an exception.

Shangyuan Festival is the first full moon night, the full moon is the meaning of reunion, Zhao Yan has been missing in his heart all these years, and now this lack has been made up, how can he not feel gratified?

In addition, the missions of Goryeo and Japan stayed in the capital, and this Shangyuan Festival was also an opportunity to highlight the prosperity of the Celestial Empire.

Of course, Zhao Yan would not be so absurd as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to wrap silk and satin around trees to show the wealth of the Celestial Empire.

As the emperor's Royal Highness and the official of the dynasty, Ye Yu should accompany the holy driver in this lantern tower.

However, although this lantern tower is good, you can almost enjoy the prosperity of Lin'an Lantern City at a glance, but Ye Yu still feels that it will be more atmospheric if he can go down and be with those people who make a lantern festival, but he can't say it.

Zhao Yan looked at the scenery of the Yujie Lantern Festival with satisfaction, suddenly turned his head, and asked very abruptly: "Today is the Lantern Festival, all of you are well-educated, why don't you write a few lantern riddles per person, and all the Qing families guess each other's riddles, how about it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other, and no one took the lead in speaking.

Because today's Great Song Dynasty has imperceptibly changed a trend.

Although many people don't like or even hate Ye Yu, I have to admit that Ye Yu is already an outstanding leader in today's literary world.

Even if he, the leader, is just a bare-bones commander, this unattainable height has already made the ministers feel breathless.

I was not convinced, but I had silently recognized it in my heart, so many people wanted to try Zhao Yan's mention, but now that Ye Yu was on the scene, it couldn't help but be a little more suppressive.

Seeing that none of the ministers were willing to stand up, Zhao Yan set his eyes on Ye Yu who was not far away.

But at this moment, Ye Yu is very comfortable, sitting on the side is not only drinking slowly and enjoying himself, but also accompanied by Miko Akinomiya.

Seeing Ye Yu's absence from the state, Zhao Yan immediately smiled deeply and did not disturb it, but fell his wandering gaze on Kong Dexian: "Kong Aiqing, let's start with you!" ”

"The old minister obeys!"

Kong Dexian is a descendant of Confucius, and he is the son of the dynasty who supervises the sacrificial wine, and he is naturally expected by everyone at the beginning.

However, Zhao Yan misunderstood Ye Yu one thing, not that Ye Yu was not in a state at the moment, but that he couldn't get out now.

Ever since he participated in this lantern event, he has been targeted by this Miko Akinomiya. Although a man's initiative to a beautiful woman is not refused, such a passionate beauty really makes Ye Yu a little overwhelmed.

With Ye Yu's temperament, if he doesn't like or rejects it, he will politely refuse for various reasons, but he can't do it at this time.

Because many of the things he negotiated with Japan were going on, and if it was because of this matter, it seemed that he would have to try not to try.

"Your Royal Highness Miko, ahem, you loosen your hand a little......" Ye Yu poured the wine, and motioned to Miko Akinomiya to loosen his hand a little while being speechless, because his left arm was rubbed a little.

Whether this itchy feeling originated from his arm, or what he felt in his heart at the moment, I'm afraid even Ye Yu himself couldn't say.

Miko Akimiya unabashedly, tilted her head to look at Ye Yu, and asked in stiff Chinese: "Lord Ye, don't like it...... Happy? ”

"Her Royal Highness Miko is so charming and moving, how many people don't like it?"

Ye Yu took a sip of wine gently, and then continued: "But please forgive Ye for saying bluntly, Ye doesn't like Japanese women, even if he is delicate!" ”

"Why?"

A sentence of why, although the words are blunt, they are full of all kinds of feelings, such as incomprehension, sadness, or loss.

Ye Yu lowered his head, glanced at Miko Akinomiya, and said bluntly and unabashedly: "Your Highness Miko, don't you think that your country's policy of nurturing the next generation has gone a little beyond the ethical boundary?" ”

"This ......"

"This kind of strategy is actually understandable to Ye, and this is also a policy that you have to implement under the bad status quo of your country. But for Ye someone, incest is incest, and there is no reason to speak of it! ”

Borrowing seeds, also known as degree species, Japan began this activity in the Tang Dynasty, but the specific activities are still small-scale, most of the Tang people go to sea to trade through Japan, the local people will invite the Tang people to their homes, eat and drink to entertain, and the most beautiful women will be dedicated to the Tang people at night.

If one of the Tang men is particularly handsome, or has a particularly high IQ, or is domineering, and powerful, he will meet several beautiful women at the same time.

The Tang Dynasty was just a small fight, and in the current Song Dynasty, it became a crazy behavior, with only one purpose, that is, to solve the problem of racial inferiority.

There is a reason why Japanese people are cute and hateful. Because the early immigrants have not evolved much due to climate problems, that is, they have maintained their original form, and the most obvious is the problem of height.

The generals of the Three Kingdoms, as well as some famous generals of the dynasties, are two feet tall at every turn, and more than eight feet, these are just a form of rendering, and the dimensions and weights and measures of the past are not the same as those of modern times.

Therefore, the height of ancient people is not taller than that of modern people, and even the average will be shorter. It should be said that the height of human beings is higher and higher, which is in line with the evolutionary history of powerful creatures.

And in this evolutionary history, the ancient Japanese people were obviously inferior because of their own problems. But they have an advantage that the Han people of the Central Plains do not have, that is, they have an extremely keen sense of crisis and are very studious.

Although the Song Dynasty was inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties in expanding its territory, the development of culture and the prosperity of commerce made a wave of Japan come to the Great Song Dynasty to carry out the planning and policy of borrowing.

Ye Yu's words obviously touched Miko Akimiya's heart, and her body trembled a little and she didn't know what to say, because what Ye Yu said was indeed the truth.

We all know that most of the children born when close relatives marry will have congenital deficiencies, or idiots, or fools, or physical problems.

Since Japan is an island country, it is not a large area, and the population of the country is not large at present. Therefore, reproduction has become a big problem, because almost everyone is a relative, and this is one of the major difficulties that Japan is facing.

Just when the two were talking, the lantern riddle quiz had already begun in the pavilion, and a group of scholars led by Kong Dexian were all happy to have lantern riddles, and the rest of the people were also in line with the adjusted atmosphere.

During the banquet, the ministers all echoed and participated, but this atmosphere suddenly cooled down after the Korean bachelor Kim Fu came up with the question.

Ye Yu, who was pouring himself a drink, suddenly felt that the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and he looked up and realized that the atmosphere was a little wrong.

Seeing that everyone in the pavilion had embarrassed expressions, Ye Yu asked Shen Jinchuan, the waiter of the Criminal Department beside him, very suspiciously.

Although Shen Jinchuan and Ye Yu are now in different camps, they are still friends and fellow villagers after all, so the relationship between the two in private is still very harmonious.

Shen Jinchuan glanced at Ye Yu, and then teased slightly: "Brother Ye, your natural and romantic temperament really needs to be restrained, on the occasion of this group of ministers' gathering, you actually ignore this scene because of the company of beauties, if Your Majesty blames it......"

"Stop! Brother Shen, don't be sarcastic about me, what happened? ”

Ye Yu was dumb at this time and couldn't say that he was a dignified 'upright gentleman', but he was misunderstood many times for no reason, and this feeling was actually not very good.

"Actually......"

Just when Shen Jinchuan told Ye Yu about Fang Cai, Jin Fudang, a scholar from Goryeo, had already spoken loudly: "Since you can't guess, then Jin will tell the answer to this riddle!" ”

"Wait!"

Shen Jinchuan suddenly dismissed Ye Yu's explanation, but hurriedly said directly: "Lord Ye can guess the riddle!" ”

Burst!

Ye Yu almost squirted a mouthful of old blood on the table, and said in his heart What are you doing here, Lao Tzu doesn't even know what the puzzle is, you actually said that I guessed the puzzle, isn't it nothing to draw?