Compared with the coldness in the palace, the folk New Year is much more lively.

Due to the gathering of people from all over the world and their own customs, this Spring Festival in Beijing almost brings together the characteristics of different places in the entire Dayuan, and the festive atmosphere will dissipate a lot of the bleakness after the disaster.

The residents of the city were not disturbed, and when they heard that the imperial court had canceled the Lantern Festival on the 15th anniversary of the Lantern Festival this year due to financial reasons, several wealthy businessmen took the lead in jointly donating funds and materials to assist the Nanyang Royal Mansion in preparing for the Lantern Festival.

When the news reached the palace, Emperor Yuanhe was greatly surprised, looking at the excerpt of the King of Nanyang, thinking that he was dazzled, "I am not mistaken, this lantern festival was really initiated by the Nanyang Palace"

Lu Hou replied, "This is indeed the case, and the minister was also surprised when he heard about it, but I heard that this time it was because the lord of Nanyang County learned that the Lantern Festival was canceled, and he was depressed at home. ”

"Extenuating circumstances"

Emperor Yuanhe fell down heavily, he worked hard to be the emperor, but every day he was poor, and he had to be cheeky to reach out to the courtiers to do something, but this Xu Mang spent millions, just to let his daughter see the lanterns

Lu Hou raised his eyes, "The king of Nanyang is such a girl, and it should be painful." ”

These words meant something, Emperor Yuanhe wanted to continue the attack, but suddenly he couldn't speak, after all, the brave and righteous candidate with two sons in front of him was also his own daughter.

I had to smile awkwardly, "It's also said that as a parent, the child's business is a big thing, so naturally you have to pay more attention." ”

Lu Hou nodded yes, but he was quite disdainful in his heart, you know the reason, so why did you have bad intentions about other people's daughters before, and you want to send other people's hearts to kiss This is not a typical thing to find a thorn

I don't know how Xu Mang's temperament can endure it, if you replace him, the dragon chair will be beaten for you.

Emperor Yuan He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly said, "You said that Xu Mang shouldn't have anything else in mind?"

There must be a demon when things go wrong, before he actively resettled the victims has been suspicious, and now he is mobilizing the people and holding a lantern festival, if it is just to coax his daughter, he still doesn't believe it.

Lu Hou has long been accustomed to his suspicions, and when he heard this, he waved his hand and said, "It's just a lantern festival, the emperor is just afraid that he is too worried, anyway, we don't have to pay for it, it doesn't matter what he does."

Emperor Yuanhe could only nod his head, "I hope so, by the way, before Aiqing said that the victims would be sent to reclaim the wasteland to prepare for the construction of greenhouses, how is the progress now?"

Talking about this, Lu Hou took a breath, shook his head slowly, and said, "The old minister is trying to report to you, the old minister has indeed made such an arrangement, but I don't want to underestimate this cold weather, the ground outside is frozen hard, and the shovel is brittle in winter, so it can't be cultivated at all."

Lu Hou frowned, now the progress of the project is extremely slow, the victims have exhausted their energy, the amount of food has also increased, the Hou Mansion has already spent a lot of money on daily rations, the situation is not optimistic, and we have to think of a solution quickly.

Emperor Yuan He didn't know anything about farming, so he could only follow the hurry and asked, "Then can you think of a way to make the land softer?"

"Before, Lao Chen asked people to set fire to the wild grass and try to roast the land, but the ground was too deep, and the fire could only soften the surface, and it quickly cooled down, with little effect."

Both of them sighed at the same time.

Although he felt that his idea was a little ridiculous, Lu Hou always felt that Su Yatou might have a way, so he said to Emperor Yuanhe, "Your Majesty, the old minister wants to go to Ronghua Palace to pay a New Year's greeting to the imperial concubine, I don't know."

It stands to reason that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the hundred officials should enter the palace to worship, and the queen will receive the ministers' wives and wives, and then leave the hundred officials and ministers for luncheon, but now the queen is angry with Emperor Yuanhe, and said that he is unwell, and Emperor Yuanhe just wants to save some silver, so he can't bear to run back and forth on the first day of the New Year, so he cancels the audience so that the officials can reunite with their families.

"Go, between you and my son-in-law, why do you need to be so polite."

Seeing off the Marquis of Yongyi, Emperor Yuan He sighed, took out a blank holy decree from the bottom of the fold, rubbed his eyebrows and leaned back on the chair.

He had promised the empress that he would canonize Mo Ran as the crown prince on Chinese New Year's Eve, but after so many things happened, he hesitated in his heart, and the empress also made this scene because of his broken promise.

I can't help but be irritable in my heart, why don't he want to set up a prince early so as not to be coveted by others, but the Yongyi Marquis Mansion is now very prestigious among the people, and even the call for Mo Yun among the courtiers has gradually risen.

He was entangled with himself, and Lu Hou had already arrived at Ronghua Palace.

Su Xiaojiu was summoned by Concubine Rong, and was very surprised to see Lu Hou, thinking that something had happened to his younger brothers, and when he asked the reason for the matter, he couldn't help but secretly say that he was careless, why did he ignore the fact that the land was frozen

"In fact, if you want to break the ground, it's not impossible, it's just that the slave maid still needs some time, and you have to trouble Master Hou to wait."

"Oh, you really have a way"

Su Xiaojiu nodded, as a modern person, even the mountains have a way to penetrate them, not to mention just plowing the ground

It's just that this matter has to be troubled by seventeen.

So she said, "There is a way, but you have to do some preparation work first, and you have to have professionals to operate it, otherwise it may be dangerous." ”

"You girl, don't beat around the bush, tell me what the hell is going on"

Concubine Rong was also anxious when she heard it, so she couldn't help but urge.

"Blasting."

Concubine Rong and Lu Hou looked at it together, "What is blasting?"

"It's explosives, and it's dangerous to operate, so you have to be cautious."

The gunpowder of this era is used to make fireworks, and the world has not yet seen its true power, so Su Xiaojiu didn't want to say more, but when he was looked at by two pairs of eyes, he could only say it.

Lu Hou is worthy of leading his troops to fight for many years, and he immediately sniffed out the potential value of gunpowder, and asked with a glare, "If gunpowder can really have such great power, wouldn't it be invincible to use it militarily in the future?"

Su Xiaojiu was silent, she couldn't say too much, so as not to make people suspicious, so she said, "Those slaves don't know, slaves and maids know that gunpowder can explode stones, because when I was a child, my grandmother's hometown had a neighbor who made fireworks and firecrackers, one year he had an accident when he was making firecrackers, and the gunpowder at home exploded, destroying the house. ”

Lu Hou was a little disappointed, but it was good to be able to solve the immediate difficulties first, so he said, "That's good, you study slowly, and when you are completely sure one day, you will have someone send a message to Ben Hou, and Ben Hou will immediately do it."

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