Reborn Daqin, I am the emperor

Chapter 753

In the southwest, nearly half a year of war has destroyed almost everything in the southwest.

When this war finally came to an end, Daqin finally ushered in the long-awaited year of peace.

On New Year's Day, no matter how remote or prosperous the Qin State is, every family gathers together to light a fire and cook.

This is the whole country's supper, countless people are busy together, and everyone has unprecedented joyful smiles on their faces.

The children were playing and singing nursery rhymes, and the adults were busy, making the already very cold winter warm up in this bustle.

What is cold in winter is the body, and the fire can resist it, but this excitement ultimately warms the heart.

This year of peace is something that more than a dozen generations of people in the Central Plains have been looking forward to for hundreds of years. For the entire Great Qin, it is truly commendable.

Although Daqin's vitality has recovered a lot now, and this year's harvest is not small, but Daqin's territory is so wide that there are still many places where people still can't eat.

These people can only rely on relief, and in this New Year's Eve, in order to allow these people to integrate into the Taiping Year, the government began to open warehouses to release food, preparing for these people to live a lively New Year's Eve.

However, when the government opened the storehouse, it was found that no common people from all over the country went to collect the food.

After inquiring, I found out that someone had distributed food from house to house three days in advance.

Calculated by the head of each family, each person got more than two hundred catties of grain.

Two hundred catties of grain doesn't seem like much, and it's nothing compared to many families who have had a good harvest this year, but two years ago, two hundred catties of grain was a huge fortune.

Many families of three can only eat less than half a catty of grain a day, and many things can only be picked in the mountains.

Even having food to eat is considered a luxury. Besides eating wild vegetables, many people just gnaw leaves, and almost forget what food tastes like.

In other words, a family of three with half a catty of grain per day would eat less than two hundred catties of grain in total for 360 five days a year.

Today, each of these people can get two hundred catties of grain. For these people, they will live a very prosperous life in the next year.

And Daqin, there are millions of poor people like this.

It's not that these people are lazy and didn't follow Daqin's policy.It's just that the changes in this year have been too great, so big that many people can't even react for a while, and they can't adapt at all.

Many places are not suitable for a lot of grain seeds. After planting them, the harvest can only be returned to the imperial court. After that, they can't even pay the land tax, let alone eat.

Therefore, Daqin is developing rapidly, and many places will still lag behind unconsciously.

But in the coming year, presumably with this year's experience, these places will also be completely reformed.

It's just that the person who put food everywhere is doomed to lose money this time.

Millions of people, not too many, even 500 million people, each with 1 catties of grain, 200 people is 5 million catties, 1000 people is 500 million catties, in conversion, it is 50 tons, multiplied by [-] In multiples, [-] million people need [-] tons of grain.

50 tons of grain, this concept is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

In this era, food counting in the army was mostly calculated with stones.

If the 50 tons of grain is converted into stones as a unit, it would be more than 3000 million stones.

This amount almost catches up with the past, when the Central Plains was relatively prosperous, and when the countries were not destroyed, more than half of the harvest of all countries.

Even in this year's Daqin, it is comparable to one-twentieth of the harvest.

You must know that in today's Great Qin, there is still a land in the south, which has a vast territory, and the harvest is more than 20 times that.

It is conceivable that the gift of food consumed a lot of the owner's family.

In this world, there are probably not many people who can make such a big deal.

Because of this gift, this year's Great Qin Taiping Year was completely complete, and almost no one was depressed or sad.

In the evening of this day, Xianyang City, as the capital of the world, was even more lively.

Every household is beating gongs and drums. There are no fireworks and firecrackers in later generations, but the sound is still loud.

From a distance, one can already clearly see that in Xianyang City, countless smog rose into the sky, almost melting the snowflakes above the entire Xianyang City.

The same is fireworks, today's fireworks are more dense than those in the war.

But the flames of war brought bloody killings, endless fear, screams and screams, and the only thing floating in the air was the disgusting smell of blood.

But in today's fireworks, the taste is completely different.

Among the countless smog, there are bursts of fragrance of grains.

The entire city of Xianyang was full of commotion, but it was not the sound of killing or screaming, but the sound of endless laughter.

The sound of beating drums and beating gold lost the seriousness of the war. Sometimes it was a mess, and sometimes it was very neat, bringing people a different kind of joy.

In the whole city, everyone is busy.

However, all the children unconsciously came out of the city, formed a long procession, sang nursery rhymes, followed behind the families of civil and military officials, and looked out of the city expectantly.

It was evening now, and the sky began to gradually sink into darkness, but in Xianyang City, countless lights were lit, gradually illuminating half of the sky.

The families of countless officials are looking forward to this day outside the city. They are looking forward to the return of the emperor's team.

For Chinese New Year, the imperial court has imperial court rules, and the royal family also has royal rules. These rules are much stricter and more complicated than the rules of ordinary people's homes.

In the first three days of the new year, the emperor had left Xianyang with all the court officials, and went to Yueyang, the hometown of the Daqin Ying family, to hold a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven.

While worshiping the care of heaven and earth, they also worship the god of grains and the god of Zhoutian, praying for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

At the same time, worship the ancestors in the Ancestral Temple of Liyang, and pray for the protection of the ancestors of the royal family for the prosperity of the country and the people in the coming year.

Ying Shou never believed in ghosts and gods, but rules are rules.

Confucius once said, keep a respectful distance from ghosts and gods.

In his words, he neither denies the existence of ghosts and gods nor admits the existence of ghosts and gods.

It is actually a truth, a rule.Whether you believe in ghosts or gods or not, you must always hold a certain amount of respect in your heart.

Therefore, it is impossible for Ying Shou to break such a rule.

After all, there are some rules, which seem to be feudal on the surface, but in fact, they are indeed a very good tradition.

The reason why it looks feudal is because of many rules, which gradually formed a concept of people.Once this idea is extreme, it is a feudal habit.

For example, respecting heaven, earth, ghosts and gods is nothing more than respecting that. After all, there is a sense of reverence, which is a virtue of the human heart.

But if someone changes this respect to deviate from the track, such as using people to sacrifice to heaven, sacrifice to gods, etc., this is feudal thinking and bad habits.

Because of this bad habit, it has deviated from the original intention of virtue.

(End of this chapter)