On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, eat Lantern Festival and make lanterns. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Yuejing City, it seems to be much more lively than before, and there are all kinds of bright lanterns competing for beauty. Yuejing was originally a place where humanities gathered, in order to assimilate the barbarians, the Tang Dynasty encouraged talented people from all over the world to go to Yuejing to open colleges, private schools, after thousands of years, although it is now decaying, but only with those legacies, but also let the current Yuejing City benefit. The people's literacy level is not inferior to that of Chang'an City.

On this day, every household will hang a few lanterns outside the door, a lantern riddle paper dangling below, a ribbon hanging the reward, anyone can guess, if you guess, the reward under the lantern riddle belongs to whom.

There are many lantern riddles in large households, and the rewards are also rich, and the common people's homes may be just a few copper plates or a novel small object, but the important thing is not these rewards, but the sense of accomplishment after guessing the riddles painstakingly made by others. Moreover, some of the lantern riddles of ordinary people's homes are difficult to guess, and they can also attract many well-educated people who disdain ordinary lantern riddles to look for these extremely difficult lantern riddles in the streets and alleys.

In addition to these lantern riddles, large merchants will also carefully make all kinds of floats, decorated with various lanterns, and walk on the street, in addition to highlighting the peaceful and prosperous times, it can also be regarded as a living advertisement for their own homes. This kind of float costs a lot of money, and it is difficult for ordinary merchants to afford it, and basically the big tycoons in the capital will participate.

For these tycoons, the float is not only to please the court, advertising for their own so simple, but more importantly, to promote their own strength, outstanding floats can make the people talk about it for a year, and naturally let the people remember the owner of the float.

Where there are people, there are naturally rivers and lakes, where there are rivers and lakes, there are naturally battles, no one wants to lose in this competition, each family is specially hired float masters, months in advance began to secretly produce, and strive to make a blockbuster on the day of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and overwhelm the crowd.

Floats made their way through the streets and alleys, eventually converging on the square in front of the imperial city, where they were presented to the emperor. Those who win the final victory will be received and rewarded by the emperor, which will be the greatest honor for some of the gentry in Yuejing City, and it will be of great help to be able to show their faces in the imperial city, whether it is for their own status or future business.

The major yamen will also make floats, if in previous years, the merchants and gentry did not dare to compete with these yamen, and at that time, in order to please the emperor, the yamen did not hesitate to borrow, in order to make the floats renovated, beautiful and beautiful, but to the Ming Dynasty, the major yamen whether it is personnel, or funds have been cut on a large scale, although such a celebration, there is still a little funding, but compared with previous years, it is completely different from the same day.

To sum it up, in one sentence, no money!

For this activity, in fact, the chief officials of the yamen still attach great importance to it, the new year, the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, everyone was gearing up to show their skills in front of the emperor, but when they saw the funds that finally arrived, they were all discouraged, and this money did not even have a fraction of the original plan.

Shoufu Quan Yun asked the emperor with the opinions of the chief officials of the yamen, hoping to relax a little in this matter, but the emperor only said a few words when he read the chapter.

"Fun with the people, the emphasis is on participation."

"It's not luxury, it's novelty."

"The silver money of the court is the fat of the people."

In the end, there is no money, but things have to be done. The yamen had to work together, there was no money, so they worked creativity, not to mention, the final effect was an eye-opener for the people in Yuejing City, there was no luxury in previous years, but there was another small freshness that was pleasing to the eye.

Of course, there are also yamen who don't care about money. For example, Wang Yueyao's commercial department. Under the Department of Commerce, various industry associations, each of which contributed a little money, was a lot of money.

There are also businessmen who smell the opportunity from the embarrassment of the various yamen of the imperial court, Baba has to come to the door to think about a sponsorship, I don't want the Yamen of the Ming Dynasty to be completely different from the former Yue Yamen, you used to send money, only too little will not be too much, and you can't get a good face for sending money to the door, and people are willing to accept it to give you face. But now, people are polite, but the money is absolutely not collected.

There is no free lunch in the world, you have received other people's money today, and you will have to do things for others in the future, but now the bold ministries and offices are stared at by the Supervision Yuan, this money is easy to say, but to account for expenditures, it is a big problem, no one wants to be targeted by the Supervision Yuan in this kind of thing, and when the time comes, the yellow mud will fall into the pants, and it will be not but also. No one wants to get rid of their official hat for such a thing.

The yamen of the imperial court no longer participated in the competition for this leader, and the gentry in the capital of Yue were even more energetic to win this leader, so as to show their faces in the imperial city.

On the imperial city, Qin Feng with Min Ruoxi and a pair of children have long appeared in the imperial city, for this kind of liveliness, the women are always extremely enthusiastic, even Aunt Ying, is also full of interest, and now she has been living in the palace to raise a baby, Yu Xiu'e, who has a big belly, is also elated, lying on the imperial city wall, stretching her neck to look down, making the monk on the side nervous, from time to time to come up to help, but shrink back.

Qin Feng is not good at guessing lantern riddles at all, a simple lantern riddle sometimes contains great information, and if you don't understand the allusions here, no matter how you want to break your head, you can't think of a reason. However, Min Ruoxi is a great expert in this way, and the eunuch who served will report some interesting riddles below from time to time, Min Ruoxi just thought for a while, and then reported the answer, and the eunuch ran down quickly, guessed the riddles, and received the reward. Of course, when these things are presented to Min Ruoxi, they must go through strict inspection, and it doesn't take much effort, but in front of Min Ruoxi, there are already all kinds of gadgets, as well as hundreds of copper plates, and there are actually a lot of new banknotes.

"Xi'er, I don't think you can guess, if you guess again, the rewards below will be swept away by you, and others will have no fun." Qin Feng laughed.

"I don't guess how many?" Min Ruoxi looked at Qin Feng with a smile and asked.

"Don't embarrass me. He knows me, I don't know him. Qin Feng shook his head again and again: "I won't offer ugliness." Why don't you come up with a few and embarrass them? In this Yuejing City, the merry and talented people are a handful, and the well-educated people are like carp crossing the river, do you dare to give it a try? ”

Min Ruoxi was noncommittal, but Father-in-law Le on the side had already brought paper and pens and prepared a few palace lamps. Min Ruoxi smiled and lifted the pen, and after a little thought, ten lantern riddles were completed overnight.

"Back then, in the Chu Palace, I often played with these gadgets, so I used them for fun." Min Ruoxi put down the pen, "Each riddle will be rewarded with ten taels." Grandpa Le, you go hang out. ”

As soon as Min Ruoxi's riddles were hung out, they immediately caused a commotion, and there was no other, because these riddles were all hung under a palace lamp, which means that these riddles came from the palace, and Le Gonggong made it clear that this is the queen's own lantern riddles, which is even more attractive to countless people.

The reward of ten taels of silver for each lantern riddle is already extremely high, and more importantly, it is a great honor to be able to guess the queen's lantern riddle.

However, Min Ruoxi was born in the royal family, the Min family is not prosperous, and the education of children is extremely attentive, Min Ruoxi's knowledge, I am afraid that compared with most of the old masters, there are more than equal, and the lantern riddles she came out of are not thought of now, but the difficult people who painstakingly made when they were in the palace before, how can ordinary people guess.

After hanging out for a long time, the feet of the little eunuch who were waiting were sore, but no one could give an answer.

"It's really embarrassing." Seeing that more and more people were gathering under the palace lamp, at this moment, ordinary people had already retreated far away, and those who were crowded in front were all reading people, muttering to themselves, frowning and pondering, sometimes happy, sometimes distressed, and Qin Feng was very happy. It is really not a simple matter to be able to stump these readers, look at Min Ruoxi who is smiling and grinning, and suddenly feel honored.

"The float is coming!" Xiaowen Xiaowu next to him jumped to his feet and shouted, Xiaowen Xiaowu, who was about to be four years old, was the first time to experience such a lively and novel scene, he used to live in Taiping City, so there was such a pomp to see.

Walking in the front, naturally are the floats of the Yamen, most of them are fighting for creativity and novelty, and those who follow them are the brilliance of the golden wall, which makes people unremarkable.

"What a big deal in heaven and earth!" Seeing a float appear on the square, Qin Feng suddenly laughed, this float, about ten meters long, more than two meters wide, decorated beautifully, there are women dressed as fairies on the long-sleeved exhibition, dancing, immediately caused a sensation in the square.

Heaven and earth is now a first-class entertainment place in Yuejing, it is rumored that the women inside, basically from the court, which in the eyes of ordinary people, that are unattainable figures, although now fall into the mortal world, but the expensive cost of heaven and earth, still separated from the ordinary people by an unreachable moat, usually not seen, but today can feast the eyes, how can you not be happy?

"Ziluo has done a good job in heaven and earth, and half of Necuri's income this year comes from heaven and earth." Min Ruoxi on the side said with a smile: "If it weren't for the money she has, we wouldn't be able to get through this year." ”

Qin Feng basically transferred the money in the treasury into the treasury, and those imperial lands that originally belonged to the emperor in various places, Qin Feng also took them out and sold them in order to let the imperial court get through the initial difficulties, and the result was to make himself poor, and finally Su Kairong came up with the idea, and the inner treasury participated in the heavenly and earthly shares, and transferred half of the equity in the heavenly and earthly areas to the inner treasury, which made the inner treasury slow down.

Therefore, the floats in heaven and earth are basically the royal family's own floats.

"It's not just the heavens and the earth that are wonderful, you look at the back, that one is not amazing, we have a lot of rich people in the capital!" Min Ruoxi sighed.

"It's good to have a lot of rich people, I'm just too little, not too much!" Qin Feng laughed.