On the New Year's Day of the second year of Jiading, except for Zhao Jiaren, the governor of Quanzhou, and a few people in charge of public security, the people of the entire Quanzhou City entered the season of celebration. {with}{dream} щ{suimеng][lā}

The New Year's Day of the Great Song Dynasty was the Spring Festival after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty. Zhao Jiaren was not used to the calendar of leap x months for no reason, but later he got used to it. The impression of the New Year's Day of the Western calendar gradually disappeared in his heart, and when he mentioned New Year's Day, Zhao Zhizhou felt a great responsibility. In particular, attention should be paid to fire prevention

Houses in the Song Dynasty were not made of reinforced concrete, and firecrackers on New Year's Day were more likely to cause fires. And the Great Song Dynasty did not have the firewheel of New China. Once a fire is fired, it is difficult to extinguish.

Fortunately, the people of Quanzhou were lucky, and there was no fire on New Year's Day in the second year of Jiading. The government has a seven-day holiday, and on the eighth day of the new year, officials and officials come back to work. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Jiaren took his wife to see the lantern festival.

Zhao Jiaren did not wear official clothes, he wore civilian clothes, and walked out of the gate of the mansion hand in hand with his wife. No one paid attention to the intimate behavior of the young couple, and most of the couples on the streets of Quanzhou were very close. There are many people holding hands or hooking shoulders. Although he has never seen the appearance of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhao Jiaren's impression of the two dynasties is very conservative. The women of those two dynasties still wrapped their feet, and after binding their feet, they could not walk for a long time. It's so difficult to wander the streets like Zhao Jiaren and his wife.

Qin Yuzhen happily looked at the various vendors on the street, and after seeing the handicrafts and lanterns, she had to stop and watch for a while. Zhao Jiaren didn't like to look at these gadgets in the first place, but after returning to the Song Dynasty, he found that the Song Dynasty did have extremely exquisite objects, but they were all things that consumed a lot of manpower. Ordinary objects, according to Zhao Jiaren's standards, probably belong to the garbage goods that 'don't want to find money'. Century is able to produce not only products in large quantities, but also very fine products in large quantities.

Of course, Mrs. is willing to watch, as a man with century literacy, Zhao Jiaren patiently followed.

The two of them walked and walked, and ate seven or eight snacks. Qin Yuzhen also patronized Zhao Jiaren's business without knowing it, and she bought two strings of rock sugar gourds. This sugar gourd is a type that is pitted and marinated in sugar, and it is mainly sweet. Seeing that many people were eating and walking with sugar gourds, Zhao Jiaren felt that the boat of hawthorns he bought from Shandong was not in vain.

Hawthorn is not expensive, but it lacks capacity. Along with the lack of capacity, there is also the problem of no goods to transport. I have to talk about a theory, that is, marketization is not enough. In Da Song, the number of goods on the market is not large. To the north of the Great Song Dynasty, the number of goods for sale was even smaller. The reason for the hawthorn was that Li Pu in the north had purchased the artillery and found that the craftsmen in his territory could not produce high-quality spherical shells, and Li Pu's gunpowder could not fire the garbage shells far enough.

Li Pu wanted to buy a lot of shells and gunpowder, but he didn't have that much money. Hundreds of cattle in his territory were sold, and if he sold them again, he would probably be able to sell out the cows. There was hawthorn in the list of tradable goods given by Zhao Jiaren, and Li Pu got tens of thousands of catties.

Thinking of Li Pu, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but think of the situation in the north. According to the news obtained by Li Pu and other Han army princes, Kublai Khan had proclaimed himself Great Khan, Ali Buge also raised a rebel flag against Kublai Khan, and the main Mongol force went to the northwest to fight Ali Buge at this time. As far as Zhao Jiaren's impression is concerned, the Great Song Dynasty also launched some attacks during this period, but there was no breakthrough.

If it was before, Zhao Jiaren would probably give some advice to the Lin'an court, hoping that the court would not let go of such a great opportunity. Now Zhao Jiaren found that he did not have the position of saying such things, he was a governor of Quanzhou, and he had just used very cruel means to eradicate the local snake Pu family in Quanzhou. At this time, he proposed to the imperial court a strategy for fighting against the Mongols. The opinion of the senior officials in Lin'an on Zhao Jiaren is probably 'ill-intentioned'.

"Saburo, what are you thinking again?" Qin Yuzhen asked her husband a little puzzled.

"Think about business. I don't know what happened to the flotilla to the south. Zhao Jiaren replied.

Some people say that what you can't figure out decades before you get married, you can figure it out two weeks after getting married. Although this is an exaggeration, it is also somewhat plausible. For example, Zhao Jiaren's views on lying have changed in a short time after marriage. If he says, 'I'm not thinking about anything' or 'I'm thinking about things in the north,' he will be questioned by his wife. In the end, Zhao Jiaren, who wasted a lot of tongues, would probably be said 'boring' by his wife.

Recently, Zhao Jiaren's wife is studying geography, or related to the south. Zhao Jiaren's business in the south can not only make Mrs. understand that Zhao Jiaren is thinking about business, but also make Mrs. irrationally feel that what Zhao Jiaren thinks is related to her. Zhao Jiaren didn't understand many truths before, but after getting married, he really tried to apply these truths.

As Zhao Jiaren guessed, his wife did not ask Zhao Jiaren what he was thinking, but asked a question, "San Lang, why is it called Equator?" ”

Zhao Jiaren himself didn't know why, he saw the term equator from the book, and he used it. When asked by his wife, Zhao Jiaren wanted to say, 'That was originally called the equator', but after thinking about it, he understood why his wife asked him this question. Because these geographical knowledge were compiled by Zhao Jiaren.

"Uh......, what color is the sun?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"White?" Qin Yuzhen replied.

“…… Akahi, have you heard of this word? Zhao Jiaren asked.

"Hmm." Of course Qin Yuzhen had heard of it.

"The equator is the orbit of the equator. From the Earth, the area directly below the Sun is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and the line in the middle is called the equator. Zhao Jiaren explained casually.

Listening to this, Qin Yuzhen didn't use 'boring' to express her feelings, and it could be seen that she was still very concerned about her memory.

New Year's Day was very peaceful, his wife didn't talk much, and Zhao Jiaren's train of thought couldn't help but return to the north. The civil war in the north will make some of Zhao Jiaren's warlord customers stop trading with Zhao Jiaren, and at this time they will need to get more scalpers and foals. But what should I exchange it for? Li Pu had to trade in large quantities because Li Pu wanted to buy weapons. The other warlords were not in such great demand, and the market for cotton cloth in the north was not as good as it might have been. What exactly should be exported to them to make those guys keen to trade?

Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and Zhao Jiaren's own cranky thinking obviously has no results. And the people around him have already begun to get excited, "It's about to start!" The fireworks are about to begin! ”

Hearing the news of the people, Qin Yuzhen also said a little anxiously: "San Lang, let's hurry up to the upstairs by the East Lake." ”

The lantern festival is by the lake, and Zhao Jiaren and they have been walking around the lake for a while. I accompanied my wife to the pier, and by this time many pleasure boats had already sailed into the lake. Zhao Jiaren didn't get on the boat to see, he accompanied his wife to the small building by the lake. As soon as you sit down in your assigned position, the fireworks begin.

The artillery shoots fireworks into the air, and if you are on a ship, you can not only see the fireworks in the sky, but also the reflection in the water is also very gorgeous. After the rich people noticed this during the Midyear Festival, they all asked for fireworks to be set off by the lake. They chartered a boat to see the view.

Zhao Jiaren has seen too much of this thing, and he is not interested in it at all. Looking at the people who were immersed in the celebration, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Although the Pu family was destroyed, Mongolia still existed. After Kublai Khan eliminated Ali Buge, he would go south, and the war would still engulf the Great Song Dynasty. Eradicating the Pu family is the direction that Zhao Jiaren has been working towards, but what about after eradicating the Pu family? Zhao Jiaren didn't think about it that long-term.

Looking at his wife who was happily watching the fireworks like a child, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but think in a panic: I don't want to lose everything I have again!