A year has passed in the blink of an eye.

This year's Shangyuan Festival, Jinyang City is also ten miles of colorful lanterns are very lively, Eleven Niang climbed the lantern tower of the Jin Palace, looking at the bottom of a colorful crowd surging, suddenly like being in Chang'an City, only her mood, always more pride and flying than the old times.

Because even though the festival in the national capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty is noisy, she is nothing more than a spectator of one of the many living beings, how can it be compared to today, the reason why Jinyang City is full of joy and celebration is closely related to her.

This year, in fact, it has not been peaceful and smooth.

Although Mao Wei seems to be silent, he naturally will not take it seriously without desire, and the successive defeats and retreats seem to make him pin all his hopes on the future rise of the King of Shu, and he is more and more obedient to the strategist Guo Ju'an, and he is actually cautious, no longer fighting against the King of Jin and his family, like a poisonous snake dormant in the grass, his cold eyes are still staring at the prey, waiting for the right time to strike a fatal blow.

Eleven Niang did not dare to relax her vigilance, she had to pay attention to the analysis and prevention of every action of the Mao Wei Party, but she couldn't find out this poisonous snake to cut off the root cause, at the same time, she must always pay attention to the changes in the temple, she has been away for two years, seven hundred days have passed, and Xu Xiuneng and Xie Ying must not be allowed to seize any opportunity to instigate the Empress Dowager Wei's "trust" in her.

But there are some things that she knows are very risky, and she still has to do it secretly.

More and more displaced people defected to Jinyang, so the people of Taiyuan gradually knew that under the whole world, except for Taiyuan, there seems to be no happy land for ordinary people to live in peace, those lies about the Queen Mother's benevolence and compassion gradually could not be maintained, this already rotten court, the collapse of the rule, finally began to expose the ugly roots, between the market, there are discussions.

Summed up in an assertion - if it weren't for the princess of Jin, Taiyuan would have been ruined and the people would have been miserable.

Eleven Niang knew that such a situation was not conducive to the great cause of King Jin, but she was powerless to reverse it, because she couldn't just ignore the suffering of the people just to protect herself, watching them struggle with hunger and cold, watching them come thousands of miles to vote, but they died in despair in a foreign land, and their souls could not return to their hometowns.

She had to cover up as much as possible to prevent her political enemies from seizing the handle and attacking, but she knew very well that in the long run, Wei Haichi would inevitably be jealous of the princess of Jin, who was popular with the people.

And a year ago, although the Pan-Liao coalition army attacked violently, but because of Xiao Yanda's mistake as the main general, the loss of troops was futile, but such a blow could not shake the foundation of Pan Bo and Northern Liao, when winter went to spring, everything recovered, the horn of war sounded again, Queen Xiao of Northern Liao did her best to win the opportunity to make up for the merits of the Xiao generals again, hundreds of thousands of troops did not attack Weize Pass this time, but launched a fierce attack on Yunzhou, which was easier to break through, and the battle situation was urgent.

Every time the battle report arrives, almost all the mournful cries of military families will sound in Jinyang City, because their sons died on the battlefield, and the only thing that Eleven Niang can do is to give money and silver to the compensatory.

This year, Hedong Road suffered from drought, although not to the grain no harvest, the people not only can not pay taxes, but even have to rely on the government to release grain, so as not to starve on the road, Eleven Niang is certainly prepared, to ensure that the people of Taiyuan and Yunzhou are not difficult to eat, but the drought is not affected by these two cities, but the entire Hedong Road!

The floods in Jiannan and Lingnan also led to a rise in grain prices, making it extremely difficult for Shi Niang to mobilize merchants to purchase and transport grain and millet.

Fortunately, because of her advice, the Queen Mother finally agreed to cancel the curfew system in Taiyuan, which undoubtedly stimulated the development of business in Jinyang City.

This year, the grain harvest was poor, and the people of Taiyuan not only did not suffer from hunger, because the development of commerce provided the people with more ways to support their families in addition to farming.

Under the influence of this group of officials, outside Taiyuan Mansion, many state officials and county officials have also changed their minds, although they are not really considering the people's livelihood and suffering, they still focus on political achievements and careers, regardless of the purpose, in short, there are improvements, in the face of the threat of war, as well as natural disasters, Hedong Province can be said to have survived a year.

In this extremely difficult year, the vast majority of the people did not feel miserable, so when the Shangyuan Festival in the sixth year of Chengde, Jinyang City will create such a group of singing and dancing atmosphere.

Eleven Niang looked at the bottom of the lamp tower, with a burst of drum music playing in unison, happy money was scattered to the crowd of joyful gatherings, thousands of arms were raised, and the sound of the people cheering even covered up the piano and shengxiao, and the joyful faces of those high admirers made her mood unprecedentedly clear.

There was no rush to scramble, and now the people of Jinyang City are no longer without food and clothing, they gather here - outside the Anning Gate of the inner city, where the noble lantern towers of the palace are arranged, the most prosperous place in Jinyang City tonight, not to compete for the happy money distributed by the government in order to exchange for a full meal for the old and weak families, but just to get a festive fun.

Eleven Niang remembered He Zhan's secret book to her - when she knew that the front line was critical, Taiyuan Mansion opened a curfew, in a short period of time, many wine shops and song shops in the city were newly established, and the nobles and wealthy merchants had fun all night long, even the common people, and even a lot of night tours of songs, Xie Ying was in front of the Queen Mother, and used a sentence "The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flowers in the back garden across the river" to express her worried and sad feelings.

She couldn't help but smile mockingly.

Xie Ying hasn't "chanted poetry" for a long time, and it seems that this sentence is handy, which can indeed wake up the alarm bell of the reign of the Great Zhou!

It's just that Xie Ying is not really worried about the country and the people, and although Taiyuan Mansion is facing the threat of war, it seems to be a sign of losing the country for fun, but in fact, it has allowed thousands of poor people who are not allowed to grant land to find a way to support their families.

For example, those attendants who followed the children of the nobles, they could not drink and feast with the head of the family, so outside the wine store, on both sides of the avenue, all kinds of temporary stalls did not worry about customers, and most of these small vendors, most of them were poor people whose families had no land, but invested a very small amount of capital, as long as they were not afraid of hard work, they could also ensure that they could support their families in the future.

As the only state capital that opened a curfew in the entire Great Zhou, Jinyang City attracted the attention of many businessmen, and even many traveling scholars also came to open their eyes.

Shi Niang believes that when more and more civilians can have enough food and clothing, they can also become customers of the shops, and this will be the beginning of the realization of this.

For example, because of the reduction of taxes, those farmers in the suburbs of the city, now have no worries about food and clothing, when the winter comes, they will no longer enter Jinyang City in groups to beg, because the number of vendors increases, the government will stabilize prices, and even teach the vendors refreshments, soup and other meal cooking methods, only ten yuan, often can satisfy the appetite, so those farmers who are living more and more abundant, in the leisure time, actually have fun capital to wander around the city, see the prosperity of the market, taste the "delicacies" that did not dare to think in the past.

"The old man lived to be seventy years old, and he finally received the joy of being reincarnated as a human before closing his eyes."

——This is a "private visit to the micro-service" of the eleventh mother, in a small stall in the Ming Yu Fang, I witnessed an old man who took his great-grandson into the city to play and sighed with satisfaction, although the old man said that his hair was dyed with cream, and his face and palms were covered with cracks caused by years and labor, but when he said this, he was overjoyed.

The old man's words aroused a wave of approval.

"But no, in the past, like us people, who would have thought that one day we would be able to sit in Jinyang City and talk nonsense and enjoy the service of others, just say that this bowl of cold tao, although it is only worth two or three yuan, it is not what people like us can spend on a daily basis."

"Expenses? Whoever gives me three articles in vain and asks me to call him Daddy, I am willing! ”

"At that time, I really thought, what's the fun of being a human being, it's better to be a pig and a dog, and at least you can eat enough before you die."

"My daughter, because she couldn't support her in the past, sold her servants early, saying that her master's family raised that dog, and she could still eat ginseng every day, and waited with a bunch of servants and maids, we people just want to be pigs and dogs, I'm afraid there is no such blessing!"

"This is nonsense, since your daughter has been sold as a slave, how can she still talk to you about the affairs of the master's family."

"I'm not a nonsense! It was too much tax, it really can't be tormented, ruthlessly sold his daughter to have the money to flee with his family, I heard that Taiyuan Mansion implemented a new policy, encouraging displaced people to return to their hometowns, and then dragged their families back, although the field can not be taken back, my father and son are fortunate to become potters, a year down, with savings, food and housing do not worry, then I am concerned about my daughter, and I tried my best to inquire about where my daughter was sold, and there are many Yin Mingfu mediation, redeemed for my daughter, and now it is a family reunion. ”

So the diners, who had never known each other, were full of emotion and happiness for others.

Shi Niang remembered that her eyes were suddenly sour, and she almost wanted to cry.