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Chapter 90

"The New Year celebrates Yuqing, and the Jiajie is called Changchun."

Don't underestimate these ten short characters. It is the first Spring Festival couplet in history. According to legend, it came from the hand of Meng Chang, the lord of Shu after the Five Dynasties.

Because Liu Jing knew calligraphy in his previous life, there were a lot of people asking him to write Spring Festival couplets in his work unit, and he could write [-] or [-] couplets casually, but now that he is in the Han Dynasty, he thinks the most suitable It belongs to this "Meng Shu Peach Talisman Poem".

On New Year's Eve the next day, early in the morning, Liu Jing hung peach board Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate of his house, which aroused the curiosity of the Liu clan people who came and went, but almost no one followed suit.As the lord of a country, Meng Chang failed to make Spring Festival couplets popular, let alone him.

When Liu Pan came back from outside, he passed by Liu Jing's house in a car. When he saw the Spring Festival couplets on peach board, he couldn't help but let out a "huh", got out of the car and came to the front.

Liu Jing was notified by Song Gu and hurried out to meet him.

Liu Pan took Liu Jing's hand and said with a smile, "'New Year Nayuqing, Jiajie is Changchun.' It's really well written. Peach wood is a tool for hating victory, but Zhongda used it to write festive words, which can be regarded as Get out of your way."

Speaking of this, Liu Pan paused for a moment, and said again: "This saying is taken from "Yi Chuan·Kun": "A family that accumulates goodness must have Yuqing; a family that accumulates badness must have disasters"? "

Liu Jing smiled and nodded, thinking that there was such an allusion. He only knew that this was the first Spring Festival couplet in history, but he didn't know about the others.He opened his mouth to invite Liu Pan and said, "Brother Cong, if you have nothing important to do, just follow me in and sit down."

Liu Pan shook his head and said, "I can't do it today. The reason why I came back from abroad is because I was told by my servant that my sister came back with her son."

Liu Jing thought about it, and said, "I remember that sister Cong seemed to be married to the Kou family in Luo County."

Liu Pan nodded and said, "That's right."

Liu Jing asked, "What's the name of Congjie's son?"

Liu Pan didn't understand why Liu Jing asked a child's name, and replied, "My nephew's name is Kou Feng."

Liu Jing thought that sure enough, Kou Feng will be Liu Bei's adopted son in the future——Liu Feng.

Liu Feng has high martial arts skills and extraordinary strength. He is a rare fierce general. Unfortunately, with Liu Chan's birth, his position has become extremely awkward. Even Zhuge Liang was concerned about his fierceness, fearing that Liu Bei would be difficult to control after his death, so he used it to force him to rebel. Meng Da, on the grounds of refusing to aid Guan Yu, persuaded Liu Bei to get rid of him.

After sending Liu Pan away, Liu Jing didn't go home at all, and went directly to visit Liu Zong's house in Wubei.

Liu Jing was ushered in by the gatekeeper's slaves, and before he had traveled far, he heard a burst of hearty laughter. Liu Zong, who was of average stature but very dignified, strode towards him and said, "Zhongda, I thought you were killed yesterday. He will come to the door, causing me to wait all night."

Liu Jing said with a smile: "I just came back with a lot of things to do, and I can't get out of my life for a while, so I came to Brother Cong as soon as I was free today."

Liu Zong laughed again, pulled Liu Jing straight into the back hall, and said to the prison slaves beside him: "I am talking to Zhong Da, except for the visits of the elders of the clan, the rest will not be seen."

"No." The prison slave took the order and left.

When the wine was hot, Liu Zong sent the two boy servants out, got up and poured a glass of wine for Liu Jing himself, and said, "Zhong Da, I respect you for this glass of wine. Without you, how could we have made a million-dollar business this month?" ?” Changleju has been in business for half a year, and its income is close to ten million yuan, with an average monthly income of more than one million yuan.

Liu Jing raised his glass and said with a smile: "Our own brothers, why bother to say such nonsense." In his eyes, reputation is a hundred times more important than money, and it's best as it is now, don't worry about anything, just sit back and reap [-]% of the benefits.

Liu Zong raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, saying: "Since I drank Zhongda's intoxicating country wine, I can't drink any other wine." Then he said: "By the way, Zhongda, I heard outside rumors that you ordered more than ten large ships. , but really?"

"It's true." There's nothing to hide, Liu Jing nodded generously.

The so-called ships from the south and horses from the north, in the south, ships are more useful than horses. He has a lot of money in his hands, and he is quite restrained in ordering fifteen large ships. If it is not afraid of arousing Zhang Xian's vigilance and suspicion, the scale may be even larger. double.

Liu Zong asked with a puzzled face, "Why did Zhongda order so many large ships?"

Liu Jing replied: "I am going to organize the fleet to go north to Xiangyang and south to Jiaozhou after the ship is built."

Liu Zong was even more puzzled when he heard the words. One or two boats are enough to travel between the north and the south, and more than ten large boats require at least 300 people to drive them. It costs 30 million yuan a month just to feed them. No matter how you look at it, it is a loss-making business.

Liu Jing smiled and said nothing. If he only cares about the present, he will undoubtedly lose money in the business. However, he is saving strength for the future, and all the efforts he has made now will eventually pay off one day.He believes that day is not too far away.

In the afternoon, Liu Jing came out of Liu Zong's house and just returned home, there were constant visitors coming to the door, he had to drag his drowsy head tiredly to deal with it, until noon, when dinner was about to be eaten, the visitors gradually dispersed.

Soon after the meal, visitors came again, and when it got dark, Liu Jing immediately thanked the guests behind closed doors on the grounds that he was going to the county court meeting tomorrow morning and needed to rest earlier.

He is not talking nonsense, at sunrise tomorrow, the county officials will indeed go to the main hall of the county mansion to celebrate the New Year with the prefect Zhang Xian, and Zhang Xian will hold a banquet to entertain the officials.

Officials and feudal lords celebrate the New Year with the Son of Heaven, and they must be more solemn. Before the seventh quarter of the night, they will arrive at the Deyang Hall and congratulate the Son of Heaven in turn, which is called the Yuanri Chaohui.

After the congratulations, the emperor gave wine and food to the officials, "Sikong will serve soup, and the chief minister will serve rice." On behalf of the emperor, he presented jade bi.

Of course, with the embarrassment of the emperor now, nine times out of ten, the pomp is not as good as Zhang Xian.

The next day, Liu He and Liu Rao put on brand-new and gorgeous gowns, and had fun lighting firecrackers in front of the door. Pishan shame evil ghost.

When he was about to set off, Liu Jing refused Liu Pan's invitation to take the carriage with him, and insisted on riding to Linxiang.

There were two other people in the same company, one of them was Liu Zong's younger brother Liu Cheng Liu Zhongsi, he went to Wuling County two years ago, worshiped Ying Rong from Chen Guo as his teacher, and returned home a few months ago, now he is serving as a secretary in Gongcao, Huan Jie valued it quite a lot.

The other person is named Liu Kang. Although he has passed the age of weak crown, he is a generation younger than Liu Jing, Liu Pan, and Liu Cheng, and now he is deciding Cao to be an official.

The four of them rode horses or took cars, and within a few quarters of an hour, they arrived in Linxiang over a dozen miles.

People wearing official uniforms gathered in the county mansion from all directions, and soon there were more than [-] people gathered.

The size of the county is different, and the officials fluctuate greatly. For example, Henan Yin, the capital of the capital, had nearly a thousand officials at its peak, and as few as two or three hundred.Changsha belongs to a large county, and Zhang Xian is quite ambitious. There are a little more officials, about [-] people.

(End of this chapter)