Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 489
On the night of New Year's Eve, the capital of Sichuan was very lively, and many fireworks and firecrackers sounded.

The origin of firecrackers is very early, and it has a history of more than 2000 years.According to the "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" written by Emperor Liang Daizong of the Southern Dynasties: "On the first day of the first lunar month, the rooster crows. Firecrackers are fired before the court to avoid evil spirits from the mountains."

It means that when people wake up at the first month of the first month, the first thing they do is to burn bamboo in the fire. The crackling sound of bamboo in the fire can drive away monsters and evil spirits.

In the early Tang Dynasty, someone put saltpeter into a bamboo tube and set off it, which was the earliest prototype of firecrackers.By the end of the Tang Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, gunpowder had already been used in military affairs, that is, using a trebuchet to throw gunpowder packets instead of stones and grease fireballs.

In the first year of Tianyou (904) of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang Dynasty, Yang Xingmi's army besieged Yuzhang. General Zheng Wangfan led his army to attack the city and burned down the Longshamen of the city with "engine flying fire". This may be related to the use of gunpowder to attack the city. the earliest record.

Su Chen and Peng Qingqing were in the room, listening to the sound of firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve dinner and drinking Tusu wine.

Tusu wine, the ancient Han custom is to drink Tusu wine on the eve of the lunar new year and the first day of the first month to avoid the plague, so it is also called Sui wine.It is said that Tusu wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty. Its formula is made by soaking traditional Chinese medicines such as rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon sticks, windproof, pepper, aconitum, and aconite.

During the Chinese New Year in ancient times, there was no TV or mobile phone, and there was no Spring Festival Gala, so Su Chen's mouth was dry and he told martial arts stories to pass the time for Qingqing.

After Haishi, Meng Xuanyu returned to the mansion and went directly to Su Chen's small courtyard, followed by the Maid of Four Swords, who came to watch the new year with Su Chen and Peng Qingqing.

There is no snow today, and the temperature in Shudu is not bad, and it has gradually warmed up from the cold air of the twelfth lunar month.

Meng Xuanyu took off his cloak, revealing his luxurious brocade clothes, and unceremoniously sat on the chair opposite Su Chen, and asked the maid to visit many food boxes.

"There are some pastries in here, which I brought back from the imperial dining room in the palace, you guys have a try."

"A tribute from the palace! If you don't eat it, you don't want to eat it." Su Chen picked up a piece of pastry, broke it in half, gave half to Peng Qingqing, and ate the other half.

"How is it, how does it taste?" Meng Xuanyu picked up the teacup handed over from the maid, took a sip, warmed his body, and asked with a smile.

"It is indeed more delicious than the New Year's goods bought by our ordinary people's homes, class society!" Su Chen said with emotion, and ate another sweet money fruit cake, while commenting.

"Stay here, I will give you the beauties of the mansion, and all the food and drink supplies are the same as the palace, how about it?" Meng Xuanyu smiled, and did not forget to persuade him to stay.

Because he knew very well that the Shu Kingdom was able to celebrate New Year's Eve this time and the country was not subjugated because of Su Chen's help. Without him, the court would continue to use Wang Zhaoyuan to fight against the enemy at the front line, and it would be a crushing defeat. Perhaps the Song army has already reached Shu. It's all gone.

It was Su Chen who contributed a lot of strategies on the north and south lines, left a behind-the-scenes trick, saw through the Song army's surprise attack plan in time, and made effective formations to defeat the Song Dynasty's elite imperial army.

Meng Xuanyu reflected afterwards, if there was no Su Chen's advice, even if he had mastered the military power, he would be defeated in the end, but he could last ten days and a half months longer than Wang Zhaoyuan led the troops.

However, the final result will not change, and there is no ability to change luck against the sky.

This is the importance of Su Chen alone, saving a country!
Jiangzuo Sulang, well-deserved reputation!
At this time, when Peng Qingqing heard Meng Xuanyu's words, she was a little nervous, worried that Su Chen would be shaken.

"Haha, why is Second Highness talking about this topic again? Haven't we already agreed?" Su Chen laughed and asked knowingly.

"The conditions I put forward before may not be enough to impress you. How about this? If you stay in the Kingdom of Shu and do not leave, I will apply to my father to give you a king with a different surname. Which of my maids do you like? Take it back to the mansion and give it to you as a concubine, all four are fine."

Meng Xuanyu took it seriously this time, and even gave away all the Four Swordsmen he cared about most.

The Four Swords Girl froze when she heard the words, her expression was a little unnatural, but she didn't dare to speak.

Su Chen glanced at the delicate cheeks and graceful figures of the four girls, and took a deep breath, this is really an irresistible temptation!

"Oh!"

Peng Qingqing slammed her fists on the table, gave Su Chen a cold look, and then gave the Second Prince another look, expressing her dissatisfaction.

"Cough!" Su Chen withdrew his gaze, and declined politely: "Forget it, a gentleman doesn't take what others like, besides, Jiangnan is my root, there are my relatives and friends there, I miss them too, it's time to go back .”

The four girls were surprised, they didn't expect Su Chen to be such a strange person, he didn't even care about being a prince in the Kingdom of Shu, and he wasn't greedy for the beauty of the four girls.

At this time, they felt some admiration for Su Chen's character.

In fact, the four maids don't know, which of Su Chen's confidante in the south of the Yangtze River, Bai Susu, Liu Mo Nong, Zhou Jiamin, Xu Qingwan, is not the beauty of the country and the city?
How could Su Chen give up the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds because of a small loss?

Hearing that Su Chen refused, Peng Qingqing immediately smiled and expressed his appreciation.

Only Meng Xuanyu was extremely disappointed in his heart, but the relationship between each other was irreversible, and he was not willing to be forced, otherwise, he really planned to put him under house arrest and not let him leave the palace.

Meng Xuanyu sighed: "Well, since you have made up your mind to go, His Highness will stop persuading you. I hope that we will meet again in the future."

Su Chen smiled and said: "There will be. When the time comes, His Highness will go on a trip to the Tang Kingdom, or I will bring my family to visit the Shu region in a group. We can always get together!"

"Crackling!"

It's approaching zero, and more people's homes are igniting explosions to welcome the new year.

"Come on, there are some fireworks in the mansion, let's set them off too!"

Meng Xuanyu got up, dragged Su Chen to set off firecrackers, and all the girls followed to the front yard.

Many servants and servants had set up firecrackers and fireworks tubes, waiting for His Highness to come and order them to be set off.

"My lord, the time has come."

Prince Bao Meng Xuanyu nodded: "Let it go!"

With the approval of the prince, the servants lit firecrackers and fireworks one after another. Immediately, with the sound of firecrackers, the fireworks soared into the sky.

"The Chinese New Year is here!" Meng Xuanyu exclaimed.

"Yes, it's a new year!" Su Chen also felt emotional, because this was the first time he celebrated the New Year in ancient times when he returned to the early Song Dynasty.

Meng Xuanyu suddenly remembered something, and said: "Brother Chen, how about you write a new poem in this situation? It's been a long time since I heard a new poem by you, a great talent. If you come to Sichuan today, if you don't leave a good poem I can't justify it!"

Su Chen smiled when he heard the words, thought for a moment, thought of Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri", nodded and recited: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households celebrate the day, and the new Peach for old talisman."

His new poems are hard to beat!
(End of this chapter)