The fine snow is numerous, decorating the inside and outside of Chang'an City in silver. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Walking on the bluestone slab after the snow has some slippery feeling. Lu Chengqi was wearing a huge coat under Gao Hao's umbrella, and walked comfortably while admiring the strong flavor of the New Year.

The New Year of Dashun began in the month of Wax. As Gao Hao said, the market is full of New Year's goods. Such as the new calendar, peach charm, Zhong Kui, Xuanyi, tiger head, golden wisp flower, spring post banner victory, tin beating spring banner victory, Pepsi Ji Huer and so on.

This "new calendar" is the calendar of the new year, the "peach symbol" is the Spring Festival couplet, and "Zhong Kui, Foxy, and Tiger Head" are all New Year's paintings. As for the "Golden Colored Wisp Flower, Spring Post Banner Victory" and "Tin Beat Spring Banner Victory, Pepsi Ji Huer" are the mascots posted and hung during the New Year, and they are no different from later generations. It's just that now it looks like it's quite ancient.

Lu Chengqi looked at it with relish, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a pharmacy, it seemed that every guest who went in to grab the medicine, the pharmacy seemed to send a small cloth bag. Lu Chengqi smiled dumbly and said, "What, there is a buy one get one free?" ”

Gao Ho was stunned for a moment and said, "Childe, what is buy one get one free?" ”

"It's hard to understand, it's to buy a pear and give another pear. Look at that pharmacy, isn't that what it is? Lu Chengqi stretched out his hand and pointed, and there happened to be another customer, coming out of the pharmacy with a smile on his face.

Gao Hao finally understood what Lu Chengqi was referring to, and explained in a low voice: "Childe, it's not like this. It's almost the New Year, and these shops will send some New Year's goods to their customers. This is especially true in the pharmacy, those cloth bags, called 'Tu Su bags', the cloth bags contain the brewing herbs of Tu Su wine, what rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon branches, parsnip, pepper, aconite, aconite, etc., I am not very familiar with. After the Tusu bag is ready, it is then tied into a ribbon of 'four goldfish concentric knots' and 'Pepsi Ji knots' with five-color threads, and sent to the old customers or sent to the door. I heard that the Tusu bag is hung on the forehead of the door to ward off evil spirits. Don't say that the pharmacy is like this, even the grocery store will also send some door gods, peach charms, and spring greeting cards, and the paper horse shop will print some New Year's paintings such as Zhong Kui, Cai Ma, and Huitou Horse, and give them to the customers......"

Lu Chengqi suddenly realized and sighed: "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles." In the market, there is also a lot of knowledge. ”

Gao Hao thought that he had committed the taboo of the little emperor, so he shrank his head in fright. As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and Gao Ho began to feel it as he became more knowledgeable. Fortunately, Lu Chengqi did not blame him, but lamented that although he has more than a thousand years of knowledge, he still runs into a wall if he does not understand the sophistication of today's people.

A group of more than 20 people, walking on the street of Chang'an City, with the flow of people, unconsciously came to the front of the Great Solemn Temple. Seeing the crowd, Lu Chengqi couldn't help but be surprised: "Is it a temple fair today?" I remember, it's not the fifteenth day of the new year, it's every eighth day of the month? ”

Gao Ho reacted slowly, and before he could speak, the imperial guard behind him rushed to say: "Childe, tomorrow is the Laba Festival......

Lu Chengqi was stunned for a moment and said: "Laba Festival, what does it have to do with the temple?" ”

Gao Hao originally wanted to explain, but suddenly thought of the phrase "companion is like a tiger", so he stopped his mouth in recognition. I only heard the imperial guard continue: "Son, the Laba Festival is here, and I want every household to cook Laba porridge. To cook laba congee, ingredients such as walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmons and chestnuts must be used. Mo said that the Da Zhuangyan Temple will give Laba porridge tomorrow, and every household in Chang'an City will also cook it, and the ingredients are indispensable. ”

Lu Chengqi also knew that Dashun Buddhism was very prosperous and had not suppressed missionary work. Since Tianzhu preached into the Central Plains, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism have slowly blended into one. The Great Solemn Temple is the largest temple in Chang'an City, so it is natural to attract pilgrims. Not only on the day of the Laba Festival, Laba porridge will be given to the donors who come to worship the Buddha, but also Hutou Dan, Bashen, Tu Su, etc. will be put into a small cloth bag to make "wax medicine" and give it to the donor. There is no way, the temple relies on pilgrims to eat, and the amount of sesame oil added depends on the number of people who worship the Buddha. It's as ingenious as it is to solicit customers.

Lu Chengqi lamented that the people were simple at this time, not only all kinds of shops would give gifts, but also neighbors would give gifts to each other. A harmonious society. Of course, this is only the overall situation in Chang'an City, and whether the rest of the state capitals are like this or not cannot be generalized.

The first snow in Chang'an City was very large. According to the old man, Chang'an City had never seen such heavy snowfall. Xu Chongguang, the first assistant of the cabinet, also said that the imperial court should take into account the difficulties of the small people, and should issue "snow gold" to the poor people in the north of Chang'an. In fact, it is equivalent to a kind of relief money, and Lu Chengqi covered his treasure seal without saying a word and allowed it to be implemented. Of course, as for the person who will issue it, it will fall on the head of the Supervision Department.

At that time, the wealthy families of Chang'an City would inspect the lonely and difficult people along the door, and at night they would insert broken gold and silver into the cracks of the door to make them suffer. Or send a confidant to chisel one or a half taels of silver, wrap them in paper, and pick them in the window or in the crack of the door of the poor house in the middle of the night, and send them to the people. The recipients got up the next morning, and the exhibitors received it, as if they had descended from heaven, thinking that it was a sudden manifestation of God, but they did not know which kind-hearted person had actually sent mercy.

When Lu Chengqi heard this, he was a little silent. He has always thought that the landlord class is an obstacle to the development of the productive forces, and now he must carefully sort out his own thinking. Are all the landlord classes bad, should they be completely outlawed?

This is also why Lu Chengqi's "whim" suddenly wanted a private interview, but he couldn't make up his mind. Dashun's business, under his single-handed promotion, the momentum of development is very gratifying. But this degree of development has not yet touched the roots of the landlord class. After all, in the land of the Central Plains, landlords have existed for thousands of years. Even after the development of commerce, the number of landlords increased. Many businessmen make money, and their first reaction is not to expand the scale of the industry, but to buy land and enclosures.

Lu Chengqi had carefully read the investigation reports submitted by the supervision departments of various state governments, and his heart was full of powerlessness.

The Chinese are afraid of hardship, no matter how much money and silver, during the famine, a thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, how can they be worth a bucket of rice! Where does rice come from? From the land. Although the Central Plains is prosperous and rich, it can suffer from floods, droughts, and locust plagues...... There are a few times in every dynasty. A lesson from the past, a teacher for the future. The more frequent natural disasters become, the more people like to enclose land and hoard food. How else to say that during the famine, the landlord's family had no surplus grain?

Just when Lu Chengqi was bored, he suddenly heard a frolicking sound in front of him, frowned and said, "Go and see what happened!" (To be continued.) )