The third day of the junior high school in Beijing is more lively than the first and second days of the new year, because the start of the new year is the real New Year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, that is, on the day of the New Year, although the people are celebrating the New Year, the officials do not take a holiday.

Along the way, Wang Tiqian told Liangchen a lot about the New Year.

According to him, on the first day of the new year, the emperor will have a court.

This rule was set by Emperor Taizu Hong Wuye, and it was so grand that it was similar to the emperor's enthronement ceremony.

According to the Ming Dynasty, the first day is not bright, Shang Baosi and Jinyi Wei will be in the Fengtian Hall to set up a court, and then each workshop performs its own duties, as soon as the hour comes, hundreds of officials will enter the palace to worship, and the whole process will come down for an hour. After the incident, the hundred officials went back to the yamen to seal it, and waited until sunset before they could return home, and then they had five days of annual leave.

On the second day of the new year, whether it is the people, the dignitaries or the nobles, they all pay attention to keeping the New Year at home, and do not want to pay New Year's greetings to relatives and friends. Therefore, from the third day of the new year, Beijing is really lively.

Not only did the people visit relatives and friends and greet each other, but the dignitaries and dignitaries also set out in carriages and sedan chairs, and there were countless times more people on the street than usual. If there is a temple fair in some places, it is a sea of people, and you can't see it at a glance.

"Your Majesty will also have a court?"

Liangchen was a little surprised, Wanli Ye has not been in court for decades, and he is willing to move for the New Year?

"This..."

Wang Tiqian laughed, and didn't say whether the emperor would go to court or not.

Liangchen pondered that Wanli must not have gone to court, even if this Zhengdan was the annual grand annual meeting of the Ming Dynasty.

It must be known that the chairman of Wanli is the last thing in the dynasty except for His Majesty Wuzong, who is the least to see his employees. For the New Year, don't think about him showing up, it is estimated that most of the crown prince Zhu Changluo attended the meeting on behalf of his Laozi. That's all, Wanli gave his ancestor face, and according to his temperament, he could directly cancel the annual meeting. But if he really wants to cancel, I guess it will be the employees who are happy.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, who has to go to work when they are full?

Thinking of Zhu Changluo, Liangchen thought of his wife Li Cuier.

Counting the expected delivery date, the production of Xili should be in the first month, and the latest is not the beginning of February. Liangchen was not worried that Xi Li would have a difficult birth, and knew that she gave birth to a daughter, but he simply missed this woman who was known for her pungent and brainless in the history books.

But I don't know if Xi Li listened to himself and adopted Zhu Youxiao under his name, whether the second uncle became the companion of Emperor Apocalypse in advance.

One center, two basic points, has Xi Li understood it thoroughly?

Regardless of whether he got on Zheng Guifei's thief ship or not, Liangchen always pressed the stakes on Zhu Changluo, a Xi Li, a second uncle, and a Baba, which was the triple insurance he got for himself.

These three insurances are not successful without any of them, and they complement each other.

Without Xi Li, there would be no second uncle, because in history, it was Xi Li who gave the second uncle a chance, so that he could burn Zhu Youxiao's cold stove.

There is no Baba, and there is no second uncle. Before the second uncle became nine thousand years old, there were many competitors in the palace, and if it weren't for the old grandmother's words, the second uncle would not have soared into the sky.

Now, the triple insurance asked Liangchen to pinch together in advance, and among the countless crossings in his previous life, which one had a golden finger and golden thigh like him.

Really, you can't blame the government for your fate.

Originally, when he was outside the Guan, Liangchen was not so anxious, and when he entered Beijing, he missed the second uncle and those two old people more and more.

For the second uncle, the good minister is family affection.

For Baba and Si Lee, that's friendship.

Friendships last forever.

Long live friendship!

It's a pity that with his current situation, the friendship with Xi Li may not be able to continue.

Liangchen didn't want to ask Daoyou to catch and cut the root of his life.

can give Baba a surprise, after the New Year, Hou Er and the child are not around, thinking that Baba is the most helpless, empty and lonely at this time.

At this time, he fell from the sky, which is undoubtedly the best New Year's gift for Baba.

I think so, but I don't know how Concubine Zheng arranges him. If this noble concubine doesn't want him to be idle during the New Year, and sends him an errand on a horse, it will be a really good thing.

Wang Tiqian didn't know that the Wei She people were thinking about the east and west, but when he heard that firecrackers were being set off everywhere in the city, and people coming and going on the street were greeting each other for the New Year, saying good things, and the atmosphere of the New Year was full of joy, he couldn't help but happily told Liangchen two interesting stories about the New Year in the palace.

"Do you know that our palace also makes dumplings, and the dumplings will be wrapped in some small bamboo cards, and the names of the rewards are engraved on the bamboo cards, which are generally golden, Buddha, silver, phoenix, and jade Ruyi or something. If any lady or prince is lucky enough to eat the Golden Buddha, the emperor will reward a golden Buddha. ”

Wanli is bright!

Liangchen laughed, no matter how bright it is, the fertilizer water will not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Wanli, the emperor, is still a small family, and he wants to be the emperor, and he can't patronize the family for the New Year, so he has to gather all the employees together, and then invite them to go to the sauna to rub them together, and then eat dumplings.

The first prize is eight flights, the second prize is six flights, participating in the excellent single flight, the time is counted as money, one or two per second, and everyone is interested in ensuring that the employees are highly interested, and they all praise His Majesty for his wisdom.

"Actually, the palace is the same as the outside, and there are fireworks. Firecrackers are set off during the day, fireworks are set off at night, crackling during the day, and fireworks and silver flowers at night, which is extremely lively. However, except for the Qianqing Palace, other palaces cannot be set off at will, one is afraid that the sound of firecrackers will frighten those pregnant concubines, and the other is afraid of causing fires. In addition, the ladies can not watch the fireworks at will, only on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, they can freely gather in front of the Qianqing Palace to watch, no need to obey the order. As he spoke, a firecracker fell on the side of Wang Tiqian's carriage, almost startling the horse.

The family who caused the trouble saw that Liangchen and his party looked like people from the government, and their faces turned white with fright. Fortunately, Wang Tiqian was not angry, and nothing happened during the New Year, so he couldn't worry about the people.

"There are a lot of princes." Liangchen patted his ass, and then said with a smile: "But there are so many rules for watching fireworks, and there are many things in the palace." ”

Hearing this, Wang Tiqian laughed: "Don't you dare to say that, this is a rule handed down by the elders, and it must make sense." ”

Liangchen nodded, taking fire prevention as an example, the Forbidden City really can't be placed casually. In the Ming Dynasty, the three major halls were burned several times. In the Wanli Dynasty, it was burned more than once. It seems that half of it burned down last time, and Wanli has no money to repair it. Later, when the apocalypse came to power, the second uncle managed to rebuild the three major halls with the money he scraped together. Otherwise, the palace of the Ming Dynasty was very dilapidated.

This incident also proves that the second uncle, as the leader of the eunuch party, can still do things. At least, in the two years of his glory, there was no shortage of money inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, and he made achievements in internal affairs and military. When he got to Chongzhen's kid, he was in a hurry everywhere, and in the end, he farted directly.

Guerjia's carriage was left behind, and she was the first to enter the pass, and she grew so big, that is, Tieling, which she had been to with when she was a Shuerhaqi side Fujin.

In her eyes, Tieling is already a big city.

Tieling is Li Chengliang's hometown, and it is quite strong, but no matter how strong and big it is, can it catch up with the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty?

It's really the same as Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, Guerjia's eyes are straight. What she saw in front of her was something she had never thought of before.

Liangchen also loved her, and the horse was not fast, so that the Guerjia clan could see more of the prosperity and liveliness of the Jingshi. I think when he first entered Beijing, wasn't it like this?

Liangchen also very considerately asked Zheng Duo to send someone to buy some delicious snacks from the vendor and give them to the Guerjia clan, and the happy Guerjia clan smiled with his eyebrows.

Liangchen They entered the city of Beijing from the Dongbian Gate, and the south end of the Dongbian Gate was the Guangqu Gate, but in the end, they still had to go through the Chongwen Gate to enter the inner city.

Gradually, the speed of Liangchen and his party became even slower, because the streets were full of people.

After passing the Chongwen Gate, Liangchen told Wang Tiqian that he would arrange an entourage.

Wang Tiqian just took Wei Sheren back to Beijing at the behest of the noble concubine, and of course he didn't know how to arrange Wei Sheren after returning to Beijing. Therefore, it is impossible to arrange the retinue of the Wei Sheren and the concubines he accepted outside the Guan.

Liangchen wanted to find a hotel to settle people down first, he had so many people that he had to charter half of the inn. The money on his body is enough, although he decided to hand it all over, but the basic expenses of the good minister must always be kept.

Moreover, such a large sum of money, it was in the hands of his Wei Sheren, and it was really unsatisfactory if it did not leak out. Even if you put your hand on the pork, you can get some lard.

Good guys, I found a few inns one after another, either they are closed, or they are full, how can there be any vacant rooms. But the good minister was in a hurry, and finally found a home in the area of Liulichang. To put it mildly, the shopkeeper only vacated about a dozen rooms. The price is very expensive, twice as much as usual.

The shopkeeper obviously also has a background, and he didn't give Wei Liangchen a cheap price because of his official status.

Liangchen is a person who does big business, and of course he will not worry about a little money and the shopkeeper's pounds.

After arranging the retinue and the Guerjia clan, the good minister followed Wang Tiqian into the inner city.

After passing the Chongwen Gate, Liangchen took out a red envelope and stuffed it into Wang Tiqian's hand.

This red envelope was cut and folded by Liangchen when he was staying in Yongping last night, and asked Guerjia to cut and fold it with red paper. There are ten such red envelopes, and each of them contains a silver ticket of thirty taels. The silver ticket was exchanged by Liangchen with a money shop when he was in Jinzhou, and there is a head office of this money shop in Beijing, which can be accessed at any time.

For the Chinese New Year, prepare red envelopes, of course, to give gifts.

To whom?

Up for grabs.

Zheng Duo and the widows also have red envelopes, but they are not so grand, they are all rewarded in cash, five taels per person.

"It's really hard for my father-in-law to accompany me on this journey for the New Year, this is a little bit of my heart, and I hope my father-in-law will accept it with a smile."

"Hey, how can this be! … What she said, our family is not hard at all, the errand of the concubine Niangniang, others can't ask for it... Then we'll be embarrassed... In the future, I will ask someone to give our family a few more kind words in front of my mother..."

Wang Tiqian excused himself, and the good ministers would not recycle it again, and after coming and going, he said a few polite words, and Wang Tiqian accepted it, and he couldn't help but look at this small case in his heart.

got the red envelope, although Wang Tiqian didn't know the number in it, he knew that it must be a silver ticket. No matter which money shop, but if you can issue a silver ticket, you have to start with thirty taels.

He worked as an errand in Shangshan Prison, and the silver was only a dozen taels a year, and Wei Sheren was such a big red envelope as soon as he made a move, of course he was happy in his heart.

was in a good mood, and the conversation was naturally high, and he was half-pleasing and said some things in the palace to the good ministers.

Liangchen was fine anyway, he listened to it with relish, suddenly his eyes rolled, he coughed lightly, and asked, "Princess, how did you celebrate the New Year?" ”

"We?"

Wang Tiqian was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that the head of the small case was talking about the eunuchs in the palace. He didn't care, and said with a smile: "Oh, there is a New Year's greeting in our palace, and most of the young men who have no ministry can get a red envelope from their father-in-law today." ”

Let's talk about it briefly.

If the little eunuch has no errand, it means that he can only receive a little pitiful case silver without any extra money, so the chief eunuch will give him a red envelope as a subsidy during the New Year.

If the little eunuch who greets the New Year has an errand, such as being in charge of the procurement affairs of a certain kitchen, then not only does he not have a red envelope, but also has to give a New Year's gift to the eunuch, otherwise the eunuch in charge is not happy, and he is likely to lose his errand in the next year.

Generally, the red envelopes between the steward eunuch and the little eunuch are more than four or five taels, and the less one or two taels. Wang Tiqian said that he had heard that Liu Jixiang's father-in-law of the Imperial Horse Supervisor once gave a red envelope of tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets to the late ancestor Chen Gonggong during the Chinese New Year. In addition, the mine supervisors and tax envoys and town guards and eunuchs from all over the country will also send people to Beijing during the Chinese New Year to give a huge amount of red envelopes to the fathers-in-law of the celebrant eunuchs.

The number is really scary, and Liangchen has a big brain when he hears it, because he still thinks that if he sees Jin Zhong, he will give someone a red envelope.

But the level of the person is tens of thousands of taels, and he really can't take the thirty taels.

To go to the imperial city, you have to pass through the Gongzi factory, and on the way, the good ministers saw that there was a red bag at the door of those dignitaries. The good minister was puzzled and asked Wang Tiqian what those red bags were for.

Wang Tiqian said with a smile that these red bags were specially used by dignitaries and nobles to collect their names. Because of the third day of the new year, there are a lot of officials who pay New Year's greetings, and some families can come to hundreds of visitors, and the host may not be at home, so they can not receive it, so they put a red bag at the door, and the visitors only need to put the name sticker into it, and they will pay their respects to the host for the New Year.

This custom was originally formed by the interaction of officials, and gradually the entire officialdom was used. Whenever the New Year is celebrated, it can be said that not only high-ranking officials and nobles, as long as they are officials, regardless of the size of the product, the red bags at home will definitely be stuffed.

"Little Weishe doesn't have a house, otherwise, it would be full today."

Wang Tiqian smiled and joked, and the good ministers also listened to it happily. The two of them talked and laughed when they arrived outside the imperial city, Wang Tiqian stepped forward to accept the sign, and the guards stepped forward to check the official certificates of the good ministers, and after making the registration, let him in.

The noon gate is not a good minister is qualified to go, Wang Tiqian led him to go to the Xihua Gate, which is the closest to the Yikun Palace of the noble concubine.

After the guards of Xihuamen re-inspected the formalities, Wang Tiqian asked Liangchen to stay here, and he went to Yikun Palace to pass the word.

Liangchen has no opinion, there is a duty room in Xihuamen, he is the person who the concubine wants to see, the guards will not show him his face, and he also moved a stool for him and asked him to sit and wait.

"Thank you!"

Ryotomi sat down and looked at Miyagi in front of him. Last time, he wandered around the imperial city at night, and he saw this palace city from afar, but he didn't know what it looked like inside.

While he was sitting, a slightly chubby young man was passing by, and when he saw Liangchen sitting there and looking around, he couldn't help but scold: "Who are you?" How can there be such no rules? ”

"I..."

Liangchen was startled, and subconsciously got up, thinking that the other party was the steward and eunuch in the palace, so he smiled and took out a red envelope and handed it to the other party, and said with a smile: "Father-in-law, don't be surprised, I am the first time to enter the palace, and I don't understand the rules." ”

“…….”

The young man was caught off guard and looked at the red envelope that the other party had forced into his hand in a daze.