The New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty was actually equivalent to the New Year and Spring Festival in later generations. Because the Song Dynasty did not have a Gregorian calendar or a lunar calendar, New Year's Day was the first day of the New Year, which was the Spring Festival.

For the Song people, there are three most important festivals of the year, namely New Year's Day (New Year's Day), cold food, and winter solstice. In addition, there are holidays such as the Tianqing Festival, the Shangyuan Festival, the Tiansheng Festival, the Summer Solstice, the Xiantian Festival, the Midyear Festival, the Xia Yuan Festival, the Descending Festival, etc., with a total of 76 days in a year.

In addition, if the parents live far away (3,000 miles away), there is also 30 days of family leave every three years.

However, Wu Haogu is still a servant and cannot enjoy the official's vacation. In addition, the Hanlin Painting Institute is also a place where painters are on duty all year round. So there are only shifts, no vacations.

Fortunately, Wu Haogu has a good reason not to participate in the rotation, and he wants to prepare to make Liao Daren! And there are often special tasks ordered by the officials. For example, I took a photo of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Xixia who I had never met before, and I had to enter the palace to paint oil paintings for the Empress Dowager Xiang on the eighth day of the first lunar month after the Yuan Dynasty......

With so many things entangled, Liang Shicheng is embarrassed to call Wu Haogu on duty anymore.

Therefore, he can be busy and have a good "New Year".

As early as the beginning of December, Wu Haogu's father Wu Chengzhi and his mother Feng Erniang began to plan for the first day of eating, drinking and having fun.

In the past year, the samurai family has really been in danger, driving low and going high, and finally there have been earth-shaking changes, of course, it should be extravagant and wasteful.

Moreover, the current martial arts are awesome! is no longer an inconspicuous painting shop on Panlou Street. It is the first person in the painting of Yukou himself, the edict of the Hanlin Painting Institute, or the current bullish and wealthy Christie's big owner.

In addition, what is even more worth celebrating is that Wu Haogu also successfully married the younger brother of the Great Song Dynasty official family and the most likely heir to the throne, His Royal Highness Duan Wang - Duan Wang Zhao Ji came forward to marry Pan Qiaolian for Wu Haogu as a matchmaker, and now it can be spread all over the Kaifeng Mansion calligraphy and painting shop.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has never been such an encounter with a colleague in the calligraphy and painting industry!

However, Wu Haogu can't not recognize the old guy in the calligraphy and painting shop just because he climbed on the golden thigh of King Duan, which is too impersonal and does not conform to the cultural traditions of the Song Dynasty.

Why does he have to give the big guy a chance to take a good pat on the first day of the second year of Yuanfu, right?

The shopkeepers in the calligraphy and painting shop have already prepared generous gifts, just waiting for an opportunity to send them to the hands of Wuda Waiting for the Edict!

Wu Haogu is such a good person, how can he bear to push everyone's hearts (worth tens of thousands) outward?

This is not right!

Moreover, Wu Haogu is not even the capital of the calligraphy and painting store now, and he has not designated anyone to be in charge of him! How can this work?

How can the calligraphy and painting shop in Kaifeng Mansion not have the wise leadership of the martial arts and ancient martial arts?

Without Wu Haogu, the big guy has no bottom in his heart!

In addition to the friends of the Kaifeng Mansion Calligraphy and Painting Shop, the relatives of the Luoyang Baibo Wu family also had to invite some - there was no festival between the three fathers and sons of the Wu family and the Wujia Yimen of Luoyang Baibo, and the conflict between the two sides arose in the generation of Wu Chengzhi's father...... It's nothing more than a money dispute, and for the current martial arts, 12,000 is not a lot of money at all.

Therefore, as early as the beginning of December, Wu Chengzhi asked someone to send a letter to Baibo Wujiazhuang, expressing his willingness to donate 5,000 acres of school land to Baipo Jiajia, and invited Baibo Wujia to send people to Kaifeng Mansion to celebrate the first day.

In addition, the shareholders and associates of Christie's in Wuhaogu also have to get together. Although this business has just opened, it has made a good start! You have to celebrate, right? Moreover, because Christie's business has become prosperous, the number of associates has also increased a lot, and the organization has become more and more perfect. It includes ten rooms, including a large study room (Wu Haogu's office), a large shopkeeper room, a large account room, a personnel room, a singing and selling room, a business hall room, a trick room, a picture album room, a guard room, and a miscellaneous room.

In addition to Su Dalang, Zhang Xizai and Mi Youren still in charge of the shopkeeper's room, account room, and personnel room, Hua Manshan is in charge of the merchant house; The ink lady is in charge of singing and selling houses; Wei Sihai and Xie Shangbin, who Mi Youren dug up from Guozijian, were in charge of the album and the second room of tricks respectively. The former's main business is to distribute the "Oiran" album and printing tricks, while the latter is to cooperate with the compilation and editing of "Building the French Style" and "Dream Creek Writing Talk" and other trick books.

Lin Chong's father, Lin Wancheng, also worked as a housekeeper and was in charge of the guard room established after the sale of Fengle Building. Now Christie's calligraphy, painting and cultural toys have opened up the situation, and many sellers have come to the door with their treasures these days, wanting to make a move in the next "Oiran photo sale". So good things are stored in Christie's main store, and they can't be taken care of without good hands.

So Lin Wancheng was "promoted", and then personally went to the forbidden army to dig people, dug up a few elderly old leaders, and hired more than a dozen strong men in the countryside outside Kaifeng Mansion.

The housekeeper of the miscellaneous room is surnamed Zhou Minggao, who was recommended by Guo Jing to Wu Haogu, and is also a child of the forbidden army, and Guo Jing has known him since he was a child, and he is not good at martial arts like Guo Jing, but he has read books for a few years. Later, he worked as an errand in several generals, and he was very unhappy, and he knew that Guo Jing was getting ahead, so he went to take refuge, and recommended it to Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu personally tested it and found that this person can do everything and has a wide range of knowledge, but none of them are proficient. I didn't know how to use it for a while, so I arranged a handyman room steward, and asked him to recruit more than a dozen miscellaneous guys by himself.

In addition to the guard room and the miscellaneous room, the staff of the other eight rooms have also begun to recruit.

Mi Youren continued to dig into the corner of feudalism in the Great Song Dynasty, not only digging up an elderly capital material from the Guozijian library, as well as a few hired craftsmen to enrich the trick room and the album room, but also through Li Jie's introduction, a young master craftsman named Huang Zhisheng and thirteen experienced "craftsmen" (only proficient in one type of work) were dug up from the general supervisor. These fourteen people are now under the name of the merchant house, and are responsible for the preparation of the two projects of the Painting Immortal Temple and the Christie's Guild Hall.

In addition, Mi Youren also found a "successor" for himself - his identity is clear, he must be an official, and after the Yuan Day, he will have to prepare for the imperial examination of Yuan Fu for three years.

Although he voted for a good fetus with his ability and was a good sycophant, but if he wanted to become a real high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty, it was not enough to rely on reincarnation and sycophants, and the moral article always had to pass. So Mi Youren recommended to Wu Haogu the shopkeeper of his own "Yongcha" teahouse, and Bu Dixiucai named Qu Huajie became the deputy manager of the personnel room.

This Qu Xiucai was originally a scholar, in his thirties, born white and fat, from Kaifeng County, and his family has been officials for generations. However, he was obsessed with the imperial examination when he was young, missed the opportunity to enter the official office, and was recommended to Mi Fu Mansion as a scribe, and later was sent to manage the "Yongcha" teahouse, and the relationship with the Xiaomi officials is good.

Mo Niangzi's singing and selling house is also expanding its staff, but she is not recruiting people directly, but accepting seven or eight apprentices, and she is really a grandfather who has become a singing and selling master.

These newcomers and old people at Christie's have hundreds of people together, and they all have to attend the banquet on the first day of the Yuan Day - the martial artist is from Luoyang, of course, according to the customs of Luoyang, and Christie's line also needs people to stay, and it is impossible to come all of them.

Of course, Wu Haogu's own "big study" has to expand its staff, so you can't always let a character like Mi Youren play, right? And the big study is not accessible to everyone...... Entering the big study is not to sweep the floor and wipe the table, it is to be managed by the chores. In the big study, those who gave Wu Haogu a hand had to be proficient in calligraphy and painting, as well as those who had read books and could understand all kinds of trick books. Such a person is not easy to find.

Fortunately, Mi Youren had an idea, and he asked Wu Haogu to play the sign of accepting apprentices. The first person in the painting and the apprentice of the Hanlin Painting Academy is undoubtedly attractive to people in the painting circle, and he is not afraid that no one will come.

However, Wu Haogu didn't have much effort to test the apprentices, so he informed the major calligraphy and painting houses in Kaifeng Mansion of the requirements for accepting apprentices, and asked them to recommend candidates and bring them to Wufu on the first day.

The manpower of the martial arts family is also expanding these days, although the martial family has a little money before, but after all, it is a small family, only a small courtyard, and there are too many people to squeeze it.

Now it's amazing, Kaifeng Mansion West Chengxiang has a big mansion with five in and five out, and outside the city, I am still looking at houses and land everywhere (not counting the painting of fairy temples and guild halls, which is Christie's industry), and I am ready to get another manor, and I also have villas and land in Yuntai Mountain, Haizhou. With such a family background, there can't be only one subordinate to serve the princess.

So after moving into the new house in the west chamber of Kaifeng Fucheng, Feng Erniang and Wang Po hired more than a dozen slaves. The so-called slaves and maids are not "private maids" (official and private maids also existed in the Song Dynasty, but they are all only available in the family), but hired indentured slaves and maids, that is, they give a sum of money at a time in exchange for part of the personal freedom and labor of the slave and maid for up to ten years, and the contract will be terminated at the end of the term. Unlike the working class in later generations, who had complete personal freedom, it was also different from the slaves who were "more than livestock". It's an intermediate form.

There are many people in the family, and the prosperous holiday atmosphere has also come out. Early in the morning, the martial arts compound was bustling, building sheds, setting up tables, setting up stoves, and inviting the monk master of the roast pig courtyard, preparing all kinds of good wine and good dishes, and from time to time I could hear the festive shouts of Mrs. Wang: "The staff said that today is New Year's Day, add vegetables and meat to you, and give you a reward...... Everyone gives three people, such a master's family, where to find it! ”