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"A year has passed by the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to the summer. Thousands of households and households always replace the old charms with new peaches."

This poem "New Year's Day" written by Wang Anshi describes the situation where thousands of households send old and welcome the new on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, the cold wind is still bitter, but Lanzhou is filled with spring, and everyone's face is filled with joy. After months of hard work, Lanzhou also has lights and decorations on this New Year's Eve. Five hundred thousand sheep from the Khitan in Shuozhou have been delivered one after another. In addition to the sheep slaughtering banquet in each solar term, the sheep that has been frozen to death are slaughtered uniformly and then distributed to each battalion. Under this system, the sheep that survives winter is the private property of each household, and those who have been frozen to death are shared. The households serve these sheep gusts like serving the old man, for fear of losing themselves and losing others. This is also the benefit. After half of the severe winter, most of the sheep fed in Lanzhou is unobstructed. Seeing the spring breeze approaching, grass grows and trees grows, and livestock are thriving. Thinking of the good days in the future, the soldiers and households in Lanzhou are all happy.

In fact, households are all relying on the government government this winter. The lack of materials under the distribution system is a common phenomenon. However, their longing for a better life in the future has made the households dig out their minds to decorate their own houses, a bunch of daylily, a piece of peach talisman, and a New Year painting, which can bring a strong New Year atmosphere to the first New Year spent in Lanzhou. Only one thing is strictly prohibited by the Lanzhou government, which is firecrackers. Frightened by the huge power of the city wall collapse when Jinling City was broken. The Lanzhou government listed gunpowder and firecrackers as military-managed materials, collected them and handed them to the craftsman camp for later use, and the craftsman camp was deployed in designated places.

After Kang Qu Dagan and other Sogdian merchant groups reached an agreement with Chen De, they began to build a warehouse in the city. First, they transported the tea and other inventory from the northern states. After spring, Chen De sent troops to escort them to Yinshan and the northern foot of Helan Mountain to Dunhuang. There is always a accumulation effect in business. Since the center of tea trade has been set here, various department stores have also arrived one after another. It was almost the twelfth lunar month, the Lanzhou government sent 200 Chinese New Year red envelopes to each household through soldiers, and most of them were earned by these merchants who took the lead. The vendors tasted the sweetness and had the plan to operate in Lanzhou for the whole year.

This winter, the most glorious figure in Lanzhou City was not the commander Chen De, nor the commander of the left army, but the commander of the right army and the captain of the baggage camp Xiao Jiu. His status in Lanzhou seemed to be with Xiao He in the Western Han Dynasty. Chen De had repeatedly sent a letter to the capital, and even asked him to take charge of the baggage and food. The food supply of the military and civilians in the city was distributed by the baggage camp. Although the Lanzhou system was strict and the baggage camp did not have any chance to be deducted, the battalions and households were extremely polite when they saw the soldiers of the baggage camp, let alone Xiao Xiao who was in charge of the baggage camp.

Xiao Jiu was indeed worthy of Chen De's trust and was extremely self-reliant and dedicated to the public. On weekdays, the supplies of the baggage were collected before he could take them himself. His own food was the same as ordinary soldiers, and he was even worse than that of the centurion. If Chen De was on an expedition, he would lead soldiers to patrol the city in the daytime and stay in the city tower at night. Although Xiao Jiu was a taciturn person, everyone who knew him praised him was like a famous general, saying that Xiao Zhengwei had the style of an ancient famous general.

Xiao Jiu's house in the city is also like him, simple and unpretentious. The vigorous spring couplets on both sides of the gate remind people that they live here without ordinary people, and other arrangements are as simple as ordinary households. The Spring Festival couplets are fashionable and called Tao Fu, which originated from the later Shu lord Meng Changling Xueshi Zhang Xun's peach wood board, "Because it is not a skill, the self-proclaimed pen title says: 'New Year welcomes Yuqing, Jia Festival is Changchun'." The New Year Peach Fu is this fashion is just a custom in Shu and is not widely popular in China. Xiao Jiu is a Shu native. He writes peach Fu Fu on the side of the door for this Spring Festival, one is for joy, and the other is for the thoughts of his hometown.

At this moment, a statue of a child-giving Bodhisattva hanging in the main hall of the house was popular in the north. Strangely, this Bodhisattva painted a man with a kind face and elegant dress. Xiao Jiuzheng put a bunch of incense in the copper furnace on the black lacquer table with a serious expression. He knelt down and kowtow respectfully, then stood up and retreated aside, and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Shun, come and worship your father."

Li Shun went up to burn incense with a solemn expression and kowtowed. When he got up, his pupils turned red. Seeing that his body was wide open, he was only half a head shorter than himself. After hardships and military training, he seemed calmer than the average young man of fifteen or sixteen years old. Compared to his father's elegant and elegant manner, he not only nodded secretly, but also sighed with relief, Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to my responsibilities and raise the young master into a human.

This young man Li Shun was originally surnamed Meng, and was the orphan of the Shu lord Meng. After Later Shu was destroyed by the Song State, Later Shu Meng Chang entrusted him to the general Quan Shixiong. Quan Shixiong had no choice but to get involved in the rebellion. Before the defeat, he hid him under the disciple of Zhang Alang, the head of the Erlang Shen Cult. After Zhang Alang died, he followed Chen De out of Shu. During this period, he followed Chen De and left Shu. During this period, Xiao Jiu, the commander of the Later Shu imperial guard, was always by his side to protect him. He was displaced and trained the originally spoiled royal prince into a brave and resourceful soldier in the Lanzhou army. If he had not been small in size and insufficient in strength, he would have been defeated repeatedly in battles and battles, he would have been the chief of the tenth husband.

After worshiping his father, Li Shun turned to Xiao Jiu and choked and said, "Uncle Xiao, please be worshipped by Xiao Shun over the years." As he said that, he raised his head and bowed. Xiao Jiu hurriedly stepped forward to support him and sighed, "You are a golden branch and a jade leaf, how can you do this?" Li Shun shook his head and said, "Uncle Xiao, how can you do this? Today, there is no prince, only a boy Li Shun. What's wrong with worshiping Uncle Xiao?" After saying that, he forced himself to bow to him. Xiao Jiu had no choice but to accept him. Thinking of the country and the family, many of his companions and relatives were separated forever. He couldn't help but feel sad and gritted his teeth and said, "I heard that Your Majesty was killed by the traitor Zhao Guangyi. God is pitiful to you, and bless us to kill this beast."

Li Shun just nodded. He joined the army after more than a year of war and murder, and the national hatred that he felt when he was in Shu had become rich and had become weak. As a soldier in the Lanzhou Army, Li Shun killed enemies on the battlefield to survive, and even managed two households under him on weekdays, which consumed a lot of mind. When Meng Chang was captured and went north, he had already told him not to have it again. He only asked Li Shun's lineage to continue the Meng family's incense, and the idea of ​​revenge was even slim. Zhao Guangyi was the lord of the nine fives, and unification of the world was just around the corner. Although Lanzhou was united, it was just an ant for the Song Dynasty, which was a huge monster. Li Shunyun was Wen Yunwu, although he was young, he knew the general situation more clearly than Xiao Jiu, who was born in the army. Sometimes he was very surprised that Chen De would lead the military and civilians of Lanzhou to persevere under such a difficult situation.

Looking at Li Shun's face as if he was young, Xiao Jiu sighed secretly, "Sir, it's no wonder Xiao Jiu didn't know Xiao Shun's life experience, because His Majesty only wished he was born in an ordinary family."

The atmosphere in Xiao Jiu's mansion was a little depressed, and the festive atmosphere elsewhere in Lanzhou City became stronger and stronger. Many households went out in a bustling manner, surrounding the place where firecrackers were set off, and the commander's mansion was blocked. However, Chen De looked at Huang Wen's pen with shame. When she finished writing the peach talisman, he immediately praised loudly with guilt: "Good words!" Huang Wen gave him a blank look and gave the peach talisman to Zhou Hou. Zhou Hou said softly: "Han leaves the winter snow, warmth brings the spring breeze." She couldn't bear to brush Huang Wen's kindness, but she was sad in her heart. She thought to herself, I don't know how he was doing this New Year in Bianliang? I heard General Chen say that Zhao Guangyi was narrow-minded and difficult to tolerate people who are above him. He was full of thoughts and had already floated to Kaifeng.

Li Yu was sitting tremblingly in Jiying Hall. He was a prisoner of the Longxi County Duke. He had been here all day long, and together with the civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty, he first participated in the court meeting, commonly known as the regular battle. He held a banquet in the palace to leave important civil and military officials to spend the New Year with the royal family. Li Yu's position was at the end of the palace. From afternoon to evening, he sat for half a day. Zhao Guangyi only had a friendly conversation with the royal relatives and nobles in the court. From beginning to end, he ignored him even a word, but Li Yu did not dare to slack off at all, and could not show too much.

Sad, he seemed to be in love with his hometown, and he could not be too happy, and he could not be too stupid, and he could not be stupid, and he seemed to be crazy and stupid. Prime Minister Zhao Pu noticed that he was a little unconscious when he looked at the dancer in the hall, and laughed in his heart, holding a wine glass and said, "Longxi County Duke, this dancer is from Jiangnan. I heard that it was trained by the county duke, but has it evoked the thoughts of his home country?" Li Yu hurriedly said, "Stay in Bianliang, don't think about Jiangnan." He picked up the wine glass and drank it with Zhao Pu, and felt that the cup of mellow wine he swallowed was so bitter.

Outside the imperial city, Kaifeng City celebrates the same festival in the New Year. Every household is dressed up, dressed up, visited relatives and friends, blessed each other, and celebrated wine. There are colorful sheds on the streets, vendors remove hats, combs, pearls, jewelry, clothes, flowers, boots, shoes, toys and other goods from the store, and put them in the colorful sheds for sale, and the brothels and Chu Pavilion are also in constant flow. Kaifeng Mansion has even opened gambling ban, so

For example, when later generations sell lottery tickets during festivals, the market opened in the New Year, allowing the people to "lock" to gambling for three days. Food, utensils, fruits, firewood, carriages, land and houses, singing girls, and dancers can all be used as gambling funds. The entire Kaifeng City is like a huge market, with citizens everywhere bustling with noise. It is said that the new emperor ascended the throne and did not launch a war. The peace in all directions allowed everyone to have a lively and lively year.

Note:

Volume 4 of "Shu Jie Wu" "The Later Lord of Later Shu" records: "When (Meng) Chang's journey, the people supported the road, and the crying sounded like a sound. Chang covered his face with his sleeves and cried. From Erjiang to Meizhou, hundreds of people along the way were mourning."

Volume 9 of Lu You's "Notes on Lao Xue'an" records rumors in Shu: "Li Shun is the orphan of King Meng." "(King) Xiao Yu died in battle, and the people recommended (Li) Shun as the main one, and ordered the renamed Meng." "The people of Shu were confused and followed him."

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