In the blink of an eye, it is the end of the year, and the Spring Festival has arrived.

Since Li Xiao was in Beiping, the Spring Festival in Beiping City has been particularly lively, it is now the seventh year of Yongle, and the fifth year of Yongle has moved the capital to Beiping, which is already the second year, and this year, the officials of the imperial court finally feel the benefits of changing the law!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the officials' holidays were once very picky.

Under the arrangement of Zhu Yuanzhang, a model worker, Hongwu himself, including the officials, only has five days off a year, but the holiday rest time in Beiping has long been changed by Li Xiao.

Approaching the end of the year, Li Xiao proposed that there should be more holidays during the Spring Festival, everyone has been busy for a year, and it is time to reunite and reunite, everyone has been busy for a year, and the money earned should be spent, which is a good opportunity to promote the economy.

So Zhu Di was generous again, adding a ten-day Lantern Festival holiday, from the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month of the previous year to the twentieth day of the first month of the new year, the Spring Festival is connected to the Yuan Festival, the real long holiday, the civil and military officials once again enjoy the benefits of changing the law, and play after the holiday.

For example, the Beijing City God Temple Fair on the first day of the first lunar month, it was really crowded, and as far as the eye could see, it was the same as the ocean, it was full of people, crowded with people, and they were all shopping.

Since the opening of the market in the morning, all kinds of goods stalls have been lined up in one go, and the entire street of the Yamen of the Criminal Department can be occupied, and the people's desire to shop on this day is high, and they will come to buy New Year's goods.

There are everything to eat, play, and dress, and there are many rare goods from all over the country, and even Western objects imported from Europe.

It is difficult to find a stall in the City God Temple, all of which have to pay expensive rent, there are many stalls, the competition is great, and the merchants will give each other some profits, similar to the Double 11 shopping festival in the future.

However, the rent is high, and there is a lot of money.

Some vendors selling oil, salt, sauce and vinegar have millions of dollars.

The Spring Festival of the seventh year of Yongle is definitely not ordinary, in order to show the royal prestige of the Spring Festival, Zhu Di almost spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to prepare various banquets and lantern festival activities, so that the people of the city can feel the prosperity and benefits at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

The folk have a folk way to celebrate the Spring Festival, and the royal family is a little different.

Now Li Xiao's identity is not a folk Spring Festival, but a royal Spring Festival.

is to follow Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and others to celebrate the festival, so his identity has long been removed from the guest of honor, and at the same time, he is not a horse, but a new title "Jinbao".

The status of the guests and horses in the Ming Dynasty was relatively low, very low, and even the noble families and even the ordinary scholarly families were unwilling to marry the royal family.

"The horse is not allowed to enter the office, and his son is not allowed to serve in the Beijing rank", if the father of the horse who was selected has already served in the imperial court, then he will be immediately promoted to a product, and then retire immediately.

The starting point of this regulation is to prevent relatives from interfering in politics, because this national policy, becoming a horse or a guest of honor, is regarded by many men as chicken ribs.

Secondly, the concubine of the Ming Dynasty has no status, and after getting married, the relationship with the princess is still superior-inferior.

When they got married, after the two worshiped heaven and earth, the princess sat facing each other, the princess sat on the main seat, the horse sat in the guest seat, the horse bowed to the princess four times, and the princess sat and bowed twice.

Get up and bow two times, and after the ceremony is completed, the horse can live in the princess's house, and the husband salutes his wife, which is completely contrary to the traditional concept of male superiority and inferiority of women.

Not only does the colt have no status, but even his parents have no status.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, ten days after marriage, the young couple must go back to the palace to return to the door, on the day of the return, the princess directly entered the palace to Fengxian Palace, and then visited the father and mother, and the horse must go to the Honglu Temple to register the day before, and the next day to thank the noon gate, and then enter the palace to salute, the emperor gave a banquet, and the banquet must go home.

Although the status is low, the threshold for concubines or honor guests in the Ming Dynasty has also been lowered, and many princesses and county lords are married to ordinary people, which is not seen in previous dynasties.

Li Xiao was able to marry the lord of the county in the Ming Dynasty, if it was another dynasty, I am afraid that it would be fun to go where to play.

However, Li Xiao has the ability to eat soft, soft rice and hard food, unlike other guests of honor and horses, the higher his status is, and Zhu Yuanzhang is called a brother, and he has his own mansion outside the palace, and the name of this guest and horse is obviously not suitable for him.

Under Zhu Di's will, the special affairs office, the Ministry of Rites and other officials discussed for a week, and gave the national teacher Li Xiao the title of 'Jinbao', the only one in the world.

The golden treasure in the golden book refers to the national seal, which is the seal of the Chinese emperors, which was engraved by the order of Qin Shi Huang.

In other words, Li Xiao's identity is already equivalent to the jade seal of the country, plus the title of Yongle Gong and Yongle, he is really the first person in the ages.

And after Yao Guangxiao learned that Li Xiao's identity was named 'Jinbao', he sighed loudly, "This is what the half of the emperor's life was calculated to mean Li Xiao became a jade seal, that is really half the emperor's life!" ”

After being named Jinbao, the relationship between Li Xiao and Zhu Di is really equivalent to the relationship between the folk father-in-law and the old son-in-law, in fact, it is also the same, but it is officially mentioned.

However, Li Xiao is a special case, and his status promotion has no effect on the identities of other guests and horses.

Of course, if other concubines can be like Li Xiao, help the old man win the throne, repeatedly save the lives of the old man and his mother-in-law, renew the life of Zhu Yuanzhang, change the law to strengthen the country and make the country dozens of times stronger, and even become a Confucian saint, then he will definitely be treated like Li Xiao, but obviously, except for Li Xiao, no one can do it

From the 24th day of the lunar month, the palace began to prepare for the New Year.

The palace dependents and eunuchs began to wear gourd jingbuzi and python clothes, and everyone was allowed to steam all kinds of delicate dim sum and store pork, "which will be the cost of one or twenty days."

From this day onwards, until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the palace firecrackers are set off in front of the Qianqing Palace every day, and only in case of windy weather, it will stop for half a day, or a day.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the palace began to be more busy, "planting peach talisman board next to the door, general charcoal, sticking the door god", "hanging the god of fortune, ghost judgment, Zhong Kui and other paintings indoors", "hanging gold and silver eight treasures, the western prayer wheel, or braiding yellow money like a dragon", "the eaves are inserted with sesame straw, and the courtyard burns cypress branches and firewood, and the name is called the year".

In the seventh year of Yongle, on the first day of the first lunar month, Li Xiao got up early in the morning, led the whole family to the palace, and followed the old Zhu family to live the royal Spring Festival.

When the sky is bright, the civil and military officials in the capital will get up and set off from their homes to rush to the Forbidden City, because the annual first day of the new year will begin.

Some of them are "pilaga ceremonies", and the objects of pilgrimage are different, and civil and military officials and foreign envoys want to congratulate the emperor on the New Year.

The wives of each family have to congratulate the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress.

The second part is the "Great Banquet", first of all, the emperor in the palace after the end of the official greetings in the palace, officials, members of the royal family and foreign envoys can participate, followed by the ladies in the harem with the queen mother and others to eat.

The scale of the entire Zhengdan Dynasty is very large, and the banquets are also diverse, divided into large banquets, medium banquets or small banquets, and different banquets also correspond to different dishes.

In short, it is to eat, drink and have fun all day long, but Li Xiao is not a small role who can eat comfortably, not only has to accept the toast of civil and military officials, but also the toast of many envoys of vassal countries.

Because of the lengthened holiday, the Spring Festival lasted all the way to the Shangyuan Festival, and then played.

Another Shangyuan Festival still remembers opening Zhu Ningyun's heart back then, that is, taking her away from the house to the Shangyuan Festival, when Li Xiao also pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and won the first place in the lantern riddle guessing activity of the Shangyuan Festival, and won the heart of the beauty.

However, after many years, Li Xiao has been classified as a national teacher, a Confucian saint of the Ming Dynasty, a Yongle Gong of the Ming Dynasty, and a medical saint of the Ming Dynasty

It's obviously out of place to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger again, and Li Xiao's Confucian sculptures are all erected in the Temple of Literature.

Unlike the last Shangyuan Festival, this time it was the royal family who shot directly.

Zhu Di decreed that the Aoshan Lantern Festival held by the imperial court was even more spectacular, and the Ming Dynasty set up a giant lantern fireworks landscape in the palace city.

The scale of the Aoshan Lantern Festival is naturally unprecedented, the cost is hundreds of thousands of taels, and there are now many fireworks factories in Beiping, and the technology has also been greatly improved under the promotion of Li Xiao, and the economy is prosperous.

The imperial court purchased from the people, and piled up all kinds of unique design "strange flowers" and "artillery" in layers, usually piled up thirteen layers and several zhang high, because the image is like a mountain, this is called "Ao Mountain".

At the same time, the subjects are allowed to enter the palace, and the subjects go to the noon gate to watch the Ao Mountain for three days, and the significance of the monarch and the ministers to enjoy together is very significant, which can be called the Ming Dynasty version of the "Spring Festival Gala".

On the day of the Lantern Festival, the colorful lights of various shapes on the huge "Ao Mountain" flickered, and the gorgeous fireworks kept being set off.

On this day, there is also the beautiful music of the bell and drum division, and the palace ladies dance, which is simply a wonderful audio-visual enjoyment.

It is worth mentioning that the 30,000 Qingsour Xiucai gathered in the capital did not go home for the New Year, because of the training, but chose to spend the New Year in the capital to feel the Spring Festival in the capital.

At this lantern festival, you can see literati and ink writers everywhere, guessing lantern riddles here, composing poems and lyrics to reward silver, I have to say, there are still some things for readers, and the silver rewards at this lantern festival are about to be wiped out by them.

"It's so lively."

Li Xiao and Zhu Ningyun also took Li Wuwu to hang around this lantern festival to feel the festive atmosphere, and there are small vendors selling food here.

"Lamb skewers, fresh lamb skewers."

Many Jurchens in Shanhaiguan came to beg for a living, and they found that they could make a lot of money by selling fresh kebabs here, and they did more business selling mutton skewers.

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to eat lamb skewers."

"Okay, let's go check it out."

For this daughter, Li Xiao is unconditionally satisfied, his son is poor, his daughter is rich, Li Wuwu pulled the corner of Li Xiao's clothes and walked towards the kebab stall.

Seeing that the national teacher was coming, the people or officials consciously vacated a vacant seat for Li Xiao, very consciously.

The stall owner of the mutton skewers was a middle-aged man, dressed very Jurchen, different from the cloth clothes of the common people, he was dressed in fur, but the needlework and craftsmanship were rough.

It feels out of place with the surroundings, but it doesn't prevent him from doing well, and this dress makes others think that his lamb skewers are fresh.

"I've seen the national teacher." The middle-aged man could tell from the surrounding voices that this was the national teacher, and hurriedly saluted in the way of a Jurchen.

"How do you sell lamb skewers?" Li Xiao asked.

"Dear National Teacher, these are all the best fresh beef and mutton, thanks to you, it is pulled by train from outside the customs and slaughtered, absolutely fresh"

The middle-aged man Rory introduced a lot of rambling things, for fear that the national teacher would not patronize his business, so he finally said the main topic: "Master Guoshi, this mutton skewer is three skewers of money and silver." ”

Li Xiao looked at this mutton skewer, it was not expensive, it was genuine, and the amount was sufficient, the mutton was a large skewer, all of which were large meat grains, sizzling on the oven, bubbling with the unique aroma of mutton, with a bit of sober smell that was mouth-watering.

"Let's go three times." Li Xiao smiled and took out a silver Daming treasure banknote, on which was his portrait.

The middle-aged man first excused himself, saying that he didn't need money, but Li Xiao said that he didn't eat the people's stitches and threads, so he took the treasure money with both hands.

These herdsmen outside the border earn treasure money in Beiping, and when they leave, they will go to Daming Bank to exchange for gold and silver, so they do not resist treasure money.

"You put it away." The middle-aged man took out three strings and handed them to Li Xiao.

"One person, one string." After Li Xiao took it, he handed it to Ning Yun and Wuwu respectively.

"I don't want it, husband, you can eat." Zhu Ningyun still pays attention to her image, and has no intention of eating skewers in public, so she pushed back with a smile.

"Then you're welcome."

Li Xiao tasted it, the taste was very good, pure mutton flavor, with a little seasoning, cumin and chili powder, which increased the appetite.

Li Wuwu on the side has a small mouth, his mouth is full of oil, spicy haha inhale, obviously he doesn't eat spicy food at home, but he can eat it outside, and the things outside are fragrant.

"How's business?" Li Xiao looked at the stall owner with a smile and asked.

"Business is very good, it's only been a month, just in time for the Spring Festival, and this month I have earned more than 100 taels of silver that I couldn't earn in previous years."

The middle-aged man said in broken Chinese, "Da Ming is good, many of us people over there want to learn Chinese and want to come here to do business and make money." ”

In fact, the reason why many Jurchens did not come over was first because of the language barrier, and secondly, because relatives and friends were unwilling to come over there.

"Oh?" Li Xiao immediately became interested, "How are you learning?" ”

"It's hard to learn." The middle-aged man said: "I also learned it for several years. ”

Li Xiao nodded slightly, next year, when the Confucian students go over there to teach Chinese, it is estimated that many people will want to come here after learning at first, but with the construction of the city over there, this situation will gradually become less.

Li Xiao asked, "By the way, what's your name?" ”

The middle-aged man was flattered, and the people here didn't treat them very well, but the national teacher felt very kind.

The middle-aged man replied: "The grass people's name is Gualja Dajib. ”

Li Xiao grinned, the name was too awkward.

Gualja Dajib saw that the national teacher was full of doubts, and replied with a smile: "Dajib means outstanding ability. ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "It seems that you are really capable, you have earned the first pot of gold in this capital, and you will have a better life in the future." ”

Gualja Dajib smiled: "Yes, yes, it's all thanks to the blessings of the national teacher, I'm really grateful." ”

As he spoke, he placed his hand diagonally on his chest and bowed.

Jurchen generally refers to the aborigines who live in the northeast of the entire Guanwai, there are countless tribes large and small, and Jurchen is a general term for all tribes.

The Jurchens are actually very similar to Annan, mainly managed by Tusi, but it is much better here than Annan, and it is not unreasonable for Annan to be called Nanban, and the people there are aggressive and often rebel.

And the Jurchens really gradually broke away from the control of the Ming Dynasty, starting from the time when the military strength of the Ming Dynasty declined greatly after the Tumubao Change, the strength of the Ming Dynasty weakened, and the Jurchens gradually stopped fearing the Ming Dynasty as before.

And now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, the Jurchens are very well-behaved and can sing and dance.

"Guagua Wazi Big Chicken Cloth is right." Li Xiaodao.

"National teacher. It's Gualja Dajib. ”

Gualja Dajib politely corrected.

Li Xiao thought for a while and said, "Your name is a bit long, if you say, the national teacher means, if you change your surname, are you willing?" ”

In fact, the Jurchen people do not attach importance to their surnames, and they all bear the name of the tribe.

For example, the people in the Wanyan department are surnamed Wanyan, and most of the people in the Yehe department are surnamed Yehe, this melon baby. Guerjia, that is, out of the Guerjia tribe, is a big surname, and if it branches out below, there will be many surnames, more than the hundred family names.

At this time, there was no surname Aixin Jueluo, and at this time, Nurhachi himself made up the surname and used it for the royal family.

"Change your surname." Gualja Dajib wondered, "What did you change your last name to?" ”

Li Xiaodao: "Change to the hundred family names of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng"

After speaking, Li Xiao added: "It's okay, if you are offended, forget to forgive me. Just ask. ”

After all, according to the customs of the Han people, letting someone change their surname is undoubtedly making the family not recognize their ancestors.

Gualja Dajib asked with some joy: "National teacher, if you change your surname, can you become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Li Xiao smiled: "What is this called, you are the people of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"No, no, no." Gualja Dajib asked, "I mean, to enjoy the same treatment as the Han people, to be able to live in Beiping for a long time. ”

"This." Li Xiao thought for a while: "This hasn't been discussed yet, but it's not impossible." ”

As long as he buys a house here, Li Xiao thinks that he can let these people settle down, but now that Beiping City is overcrowded, it is really not possible, so he can build a few towns outside the city and use them as the outer ring?

It should be possible to concentrate the population and resources, vigorously develop Beiping, and when Beiping develops more and more powerful, it will naturally spread throughout the country.

Li Xiao suddenly burst into such an idea in his heart, he always wanted to develop the whole country together, but now he finds it a little difficult.

Nowadays, everyone wants to come to Beiping, which has become a city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the future, most people have learned something, they will go to the big city to break through, even if they fail, go home to build their hometown, but also bring back the new technology and new ideas of Beiping.

For example, in the future, there will be new things such as cinemas, KFC, and KTV in big cities first, which were not available in small counties before, but ten years later, slowly these things began to appear in provincial capitals, and then slowly appeared in small counties

At this time, Gualja Daji preached: "National teacher, if you can change your surname and settle in Beiping, I will be the first to change it." ”

"Okay."

Li Xiao smiled at Dong'an: "Then you just wait for the good news." ”

"I wish you a long and 100th birthday."

Gualja Dajib saluted in a special Jurchen way.

You're cursing me, aren't you? Li Xiao smiled slightly, since people said auspicious words, then he couldn't be stingy, took out a red envelope and handed it over.

Gualja Dajib took the red envelope, opened it, and found that it was a penny of silver.

"Wow, there is a red envelope for saying auspicious words to the Confucian saint"

After a few Confucian scholars in the distance saw it, they had some ideas in their hearts.

As soon as Li Xiao left, a Confucian student came over and bowed.

"Student Wang Zhixin, I have seen the Confucian Sage of the Ming Dynasty, and the New Year is coming, I wish Mr. Confucian Sage a hundred blessings and a blessed longevity."

A literati is a literati, and to praise a person sounds lofty.

"Reward."

Li Xiao was in a good mood and gave a red envelope to the past, and Confucianism was overjoyed.

When the others saw it, I went, and there were really red envelopes to take, and they came over one after another.

"Bless the Confucian saint and the Confucian saint lady, Huatang and the elderly, and the twin stars shine together."

"Mr. Confucian is virtuous, Delong is respectful, and Mrs. Confucian is the happiest for kindness, and she is blessed with love."

"May you wish that after the New Year, Gilgilli and everything will be all the best."

"I wish the Confucian saint white head and the eyebrows, the mandarin duck and the wings, and the Qingyang Qirui peach and plum concentric."

Blessings, auspicious words, like snowflakes drifting one by one, in this Spring Festival, it seems that everyone is pleasant to hear.

Although they all want to mix red envelopes, Li Xiao doesn't care, he is rich and capricious.

Reward, reward, reward, reward, reward

There are more and more people.

That's it,

During the Spring Festival, Li Xiao frantically threw coins and became the most beautiful boy in the audience.

In the distance, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are feeling this good time to enjoy with the people.

"Daming is getting better and better." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.

"Yes, it's a prosperous and bode good year." Zhu Di said.

Subsequently, when the two saw the lively scene of Li Xiao in the distance and being wrapped in it by everyone, they couldn't help but smile at each other, and said in unison:

"Thanks to him" (end of chapter)