Lord Moyu was forced to open

The grand fireworks show is not the end of New Year's Eve, but just the beginning of tonight's activities.

Starting from the palace, Da Nuo Yi's team went all the way to the dragon's turning point outside Nanxun Gate.

Most of the costumers in the Nuo ceremony team are dressed up by the marriage officers and various guards from the Imperial City Department in the palace.

They stepped on the rhythm of musical instruments, wore embroidered colored clothes, and kept moving forward holding golden guns and dragon flags.

Among them, the burly man of the Jiaofang was used, all dressed in gold-plated bronze armor, to act as the general.

Then use the two generals who are guarding the palace, wearing jackets and pretending to be door gods.

And choose the ugly, fat man to pretend to be the judge.

There are also those who dress up as Zhong Kui, those who dress up as little girls, those who dress up as earth, and those who dress up as Kitchen God. There are more than a thousand people in total.

From the forbidden area of ​​the palace, we walked and performed all the way to the dragon bend outside Nanxun Gate.

Many people from Bianjing City sang and danced beside them. This activity was called a "haunting of evil spirits".

The main function of Da Nuo ritual is to drive away evil spirits.

The Nuo Yi team dressed up as various gods and goddesses and drove away all the demons and ghosts along the way. This is called exorcism.

Then the team went all the way to Zhuanlong Bay outside Nanxun Gate and buried the demons and ghosts. This is called burial.

At this point, the entire Nuo Ceremony is considered to be over.

Then there are the burning of pine basins, the burning of atractylodes, and the test of age.

Then it’s time to stay up late.

At this time, the adults can go to bed comfortably. In the Song Dynasty, children usually stayed up late.

The candles cannot be extinguished overnight, so prepare some midnight snack foods for the children, also called midnight snacks, such as ten kinds of sugar, Chengsha Dumpling, honey ginger black beans, honey crisps, etc., as well as jade cups, treasures, pearls and flowers, and various utensils. Tools for gambling and playing.

The children eat and play until dawn, when the children will run to the street and sing children's songs.

"I'll sell you idiots. I'll sell you idiots with a thousand coins. I'll sell you idiots with ten thousand coins. When you see them all sold, give them away. If you want, come with me on credit."

Children were singing and dancing, and children's voices were loud along both sides of the street.

This custom is called selling children with dementia, which embodies the people's good hope that their children will be smart in the Song Dynasty.

By this time, Zhao Jun, who had already slept, took Ye Yin, Brother Hu, Qing'er, and Ayimu out of the palace in white dragon fish suits under the protection of the secret guards, and walked in Bianjing City On the streets, I watched the children in Bianjing singing songs that sold out their stupidity.

Brother Hu, who was held in Ye Yin's arms, seemed to be attracted to them as well. His two big black eyes rolled around, staring at the children on both sides of the street and smiling, and he extended his hand as if he wanted to join in.

When Zhao Jun saw him, he held him in his arms, smiled and said to his son:

"Hey, my Brother Tiger also wants to show off his dementia, right? Then he should grow up quickly and we, Brother Tiger, will also come out to play like this in the future."

After saying that, he kissed Brother Tiger's fair and tender face hard, which made Brother Tiger resist and avoid him. However, he couldn't help himself in the embrace, so he had to be forcefully kissed by the bully dad.

Brother Tiger, who is still young, doesn't know at all that his father wants him to grow up quickly, not just for him to sell his dementia for fun. This guy clearly wants Brother Tiger to admit it quickly and then run away by himself. Being lazy is Zhao Jun's true purpose.

Until the end of New Year's Eve, when the sky is about to break and the rooster crows, the people in Bianjing City take out a bamboo pole full of copper coins, bang it on the ash heap or garbage heap, and at the same time pray to the gods and express their wishes. This custom is called Dust pile.

It is said that after "beating the ash pile", bad luck will turn into good luck and wishes will come true.

Zhao Jun also participated with his family, and the family had a great time.

It wasn't until the ash pile was finished that he reluctantly returned to the palace.

Zhao Jun is about to start preparing to go to court.

After New Year's Eve is Zhengdan, which means the first day of the year.

On this day, the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting will be held in the palace. All the officials and nobles in Bianjing, foreign envoys, royal family members, etc. will all wear royal robes and go to court to celebrate the New Year.

This year is the most different, because this year's Zhengdan is also the first New Year after Zhao Jun ascended the throne, and it is also the opening of the new year.

Starting today, the reign of Emperor Tiansheng has officially come to an end. The Song Dynasty thus entered the first year of Xingwu ruled by Zhao Jun.

In the grand court meeting, after Zhao Jun accepted the congratulations from all the officials, he made a speech as usual, and then announced the official use of the new year's name.

Then the imperial court issued an order to waive the rent of public and private houses in Bianjing, and allowed the people of the capital to "closed gambling" (mainly gambling) for three days.

It means that the government will waive the rent for public and private housing for three days. This is naturally the good intention of the court and allows people living in public housing to waive rent for three days.

In addition, as usual, the court will announce that during the Zhengdan New Year period, the gambling ban will be lifted for three days.

In other words, during the three days of the first, second and third day of the first lunar month, the citizens of Bianjing can gamble as much as they want.

At night, ladies from noble families would go shopping together, go to casinos to watch people gamble, and go to nightclubs for banquets.

Gambling is usually prohibited by the government, but now during the Chinese New Year, everyone was having fun together, gambling a little, and the court followed suit and agreed.

The New Year Festival in the Song Dynasty was very long, usually starting from the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month and lasting until the 20th day of the first lunar month of the following year.

It lasted for a whole month.

During this month, the entire Bianjing capital was plunged into a sea of ​​celebration.

At the same time, Zhao Jun did not forget other places in the Song Dynasty. Not to mention Yunzhou County, which was rich in all kinds of materials. The people in the county lived a more lively life than Bianjing. Even the Tatar side was also opened for seven days. Free trade to celebrate the new year.

In other places in the north that have just regained their vitality, Zhao Jun paid for Feiyun Trading Company to purchase a large number of supplies and sell various New Year's goods to the people at no profit, extremely low, or even as low as a penny.

However, the government of each city also allocates special funds to hold large-scale activities to entertain the people.

Since Zhao Jun paid for the money himself, the monitoring was particularly strict, with not only the officials sent by Zhao Jun to supervise its use openly.

Secretly, the Imperial City Department and the secret guards also kept an eye on the use of the money. Once they found out who had reached out, they did not need to report it. They would directly kill the person first and then report it. After taking the person, they would let Nian, the officials of the Yamen, be executed, in order to express their gratitude to these people. The bold guy expressed Zhao Jun's whereabouts and importance on the use of the money.

This is all my hard-earned money, and it is given to the people. If you insects dare to make a move, I will chop you to death on the spot. Whoever doesn't care about his life, just come and try!

There are many people in this world who want money rather than their lives, but after dozens of officials were cut into pieces, all the officials who dealt with them became honest.

Everyone was terrified when handling this money. They didn't dare to take a penny, for fear that they would be the next person to be suddenly rushed out with an imperial edict and be hacked to death in public.

Under this strict supervision system, the entire northern part of the Song Dynasty spent this New Year with great joy and bustle, and everyone was happy from top to bottom.

However, in the south it is a different story.

On New Year's Eve, all parties temporarily ceased fighting as if by agreement.

But on that day, the rich celebrated the New Year with chicken, duck, fish and feasting, but the poor did not even have a mouthful of food to eat. They could only watch the rich and nobles feast and drink on New Year's Eve.

Instead of being sympathetic, the rich and powerful ridiculed him.

But wait until the next day, which is Zhengdan day.

A massive uprising broke out in several counties across the south!

The people who were suppressed to the point of being unbearable finally broke out in the first year of Xingwu after enduring the last day of Tiansheng's twenty-eighth year!

In various cities and counties, angry people shouted slogans that princes, generals and ministers should be proud of their wealth. They rushed into the homes of the wealthy gentry and powerful men who were unkind and unkind, and paid back all the sins they had suffered.

The ranks of rebel bandits expanded rapidly.

Even the Revolutionary Army seemed to have received the order and took down the entire Haidu County at lightning speed!

And other counties also have powerful forces emerging.

In the past, those wealthy, gentry and powerful people who had some foresight and raised soldiers could still manage to survive. But those who only knew how to make money but not save their lives, then all their property belonged to the rioting people.

Finally, a steady stream of letters asking for help came to the north. During the chaos, the local yamen, gentry officials, and aristocratic families, who had thought they were beyond the control of the higher authorities, now knew that they had caused a big trouble. They could no longer shout and began to ask for help.

However, due to the seal of the northern imperial court, Zhao Jun did not receive the official news from the court until the twentieth day of the first lunar month. As for when it was known privately, only he himself knew.

Facing these letters asking for help in the court, Zhao Jun sneered disdainfully.

He casually picked up a letter asking for help from Jianjiang and smiled at the officials below and said:

"What do you think of the letters asking for help from the seven southern counties?"

...(End of chapter)