Fall In Love with the Technology Tree

    The Spring Festival of the Han calendar, stepping on the footsteps of severe winter, finally came to the world.

    Strictly speaking, the name "Spring Festival" is still unknown. The Kitchen God is considered to be Zhu Rong's avatar, an unpopular immortal handed down from ancient times, and not the object of sacrifice by the Cao family. When Buddhism in the Central Plains was not yet formed, Laba porridge was even more impossible to talk about.

    Only "Yuan Day" is a concept that has existed for a long time. The old year ends and the new year begins.

    On the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor held a court meeting in the palace, and then went on holiday. Until the emperor went to a place called "Mingtang" outside the city to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, officials could go home to celebrate the New Year with their parents and wives, and friends would visit each other to eat and drink.

    Most importantly, worship your ancestors.

    This is a rather embarrassing thing in the Cao family. Cao Teng's father and eldest brother died early. When the family was poor, they couldn't open the pot, so they couldn't manage the ancestor worship. When Cao Teng became prosperous in the palace, he helped the second and third brothers to become rich, and the three brothers looked at each other: no one knew the name of the great-grandfather.

    I heard the names of my grandparents from the elderly in the same village, so I don't know if they are accurate or not.

    In other words, compared with the glorious family history of other families that began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Feitinghou's mansion can only go up two generations at most: Cao Teng's father, Cao Teng's grandfather (doubtful). No further tests are possible. A complete upstart.

    No matter how shabby the ancestors are, they have to worship them.

    Incense sticks are not available. Pigs, cattle, and sheep are so-called too prisoned, only the emperor can use them, and officials who dare to use them will chill the whole family. Therefore, the Cao family used five grains, chickens, fish and dogs to worship their ancestors. Set up an offering table in the main hall, place offerings, and open the main door to let in ghosts. The male master of the house in turn saluted the void, recited the prayers, and then burned the silk on which the prayers were written in a copper basin, pretending that the ancestors' souls could hear these words.

    The Cao family has a simple population. The first was Cao Teng, then Cao Song, and finally the twins.

    At this time last year, Ah Sheng and his brother were still ignorant in their infancy. This year was the first time they participated in the ancestor worship in the first lunar month. Different from the children of other families who are held by adults and whose fathers read the congratulatory speeches, the twins of the Cao family are strong and witty, and they salute and memorize words smoothly.

      Ah Sheng was very satisfied with this situation of equality between men and women, and automatically ignored Ding Shi's appearance, and read the congratulations loudly and fluently.

    My grandfather kept smiling at her.

      It was not until the ancestor worship ended successfully that he softened his expression and said to Ah Sheng: "All the adults treat you kindly, and when you grow up, you must do your best for the Cao family."

    This ancestor worship is of extraordinary significance to Cao Sheng. It means that she is officially accepted by the ancestors as one of the heirs of the Cao family, not a daughter who only has the value of marriage.

    Asheng is not as sensitive as the ancients to the breakthrough of gender restrictions. Her whole mind was occupied by the information revealed in this sacrifice. Their family name was Cao, and the dynasty was Han. She vaguely remembered that among the heroes of Liu Bang's founding of the country, there was a surname Cao, but it was estimated that it had nothing to do with her own family.

    My family is upstart.

    But Ah Sheng searched through her memory and couldn't find a famous person named Fei Tinghou from the Han Dynasty. Forgive her poor historical knowledge reserve. After thinking about it for a long time, she was not sure about the dynasty again. Although the words "Han Emperor" appeared in the congratulatory speech, there may be special cases where the Central Plains called themselves Han Chinese and Han emperors called "Han Emperor" after the Han Dynasty. Another, it may be overhead.

    The issue of the times made Ah Sheng scratch her heart and lungs, and she couldn't wait to pull her brother to find her grandfather. "I want to hear my grandfather talk about history."

    "Yo, this is difficult. Many great Confucians spend their whole lives studying a history book. The Classics of Filial Piety and The Analects of Confucius can only be learned after becoming a child. The Spring and Autumn Annals in the Five Classics can only be regarded as studying history, while the Spring and Autumn Annals in Confucianism can be divided into Gongyang, Guliang, and Zuo clans. Pie. When I was young, I only served the emperor to study, and I was fortunate to hear only a few words, but I dare not tell people the history."

    The history of feelings at this time is still a noble thing.

    Geely was a little stunned when he was pulled over by his sister, and now I understand. The younger sister wanted to hear the history, but the grandfather thought they were too young to tell them. Geely is not happy now, children hate adults most when they are children. "When you grow up and learn the Five Classics, that's a mediocre person. Ruyi and I are smart. We learned the "Book of Songs" as soon as we spoke, so why can't we study history now?"

    Cao Teng could not laugh or cry. This is called learning the "Book of Songs", and that would be too contemptuous of the "Book of Songs".

    A Sheng quickly helped: "My grandfather is not a doctor of poetry, so can't he read poetry to us? He is not a great Confucian, and he has also spoken to us a lot of Analects? Grandfather heard it first, even a few words are better than words. Over the ignorance of my brother and I. How about telling the story of the current dynasty?"

    Cao Teng was amused by the twins' singing and reconciliation: "I don't dare to criticize the current dynasty. The "Han Shu" written by Ban Mengjian a few decades ago is only a matter of Wang Mang."

    A Sheng's eyes lit up, and he finally heard a familiar name: Wang Mang. She knew that Wang Mang's New Deal ended the Western Han Dynasty. Then now...

    "Is it also called Han now?"

    Alright, now it's the Eastern Han Dynasty. The title Shizu is too popular, and Ah Sheng doesn't know who he is. If Cao Teng is talking about "Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu", then she can be more sure. But the information given so far is enough for Ah Sheng to make a preliminary judgment.

    She accepted it as soon as she saw it, and did not ask her grandfather what the name of the current emperor was. Forgive her poor historical knowledge reserve, apart from Liu Bang, Liu Che, and Liu Xiu, the only ones she can clearly remember are Liu Bei and Liu Adou. However, it was already a character from the Three Kingdoms period.

    A-sheng, who figured this out, began to enjoy the New Year happily.

    New Year's ceremonies from all over the world are coming to Beijing one after another. Feitinghou House receives gifts from afar every day, from his hometown of Qiao County, Peiguo, friends from Beidi Border Pass, and rare goods from the north and south of the river that have been rewarded by the palace.

    A Sheng discovered cheese and rice in it. Since then, she has been full of enthusiasm for the New Year's ceremony, and every day she takes Geely to the treasury to search for treasures. Although most of them are meaningless jewelry, silk and satin, as long as you scour it, you can always gain something, which is greater than the gain of being trapped in Houfu for a year.

    Rice, glutinous rice, yam, barley, mung bean, red bean... are not popular, but as special products from various places and foreign countries, they still appear in a small amount in the treasury of the Cao family. In previous years, these things were either cooked or left to rot, but this year, all those who still had hope of reproduction were carefully put away by Ah Sheng.

    Spring is coming. O spring, the season of hope, the season of sowing.

    Rice is more realistic than wheat flour that requires flour grinding skills, and rice flour is much easier to grind than wheat flour, she can make glutinous rice cakes to eat. When she thought that she could achieve such a future after hard work, she was so happy that she wanted to hum a song: "I am a hard-working little bee, la la la la la~"

    Geely has no way to understand Ah Sheng's lofty aspirations. He likes small daggers from the North, and at the same time despises Ah Sheng's taste: "Ruyi, gluttonous, shy."

    A Sheng was in a good mood, made a face to her brother, and continued to look for her treasures in the corners. Mrs. Zhuang followed behind, tremblingly sorting out Ah Sheng's messed up items.

    "Hey, this thing looks like bamboo, but it's not bamboo." Ah Sheng dug out two long, withered stem-like plants from the back of a box of Shu brocade, she stared at them After 2 seconds, my brain exploded. "Oh my god! I actually discovered sugar cane! Are the people of the Han Dynasty so powerful?"

    What does it mean to have sugar cane but no sugar? That means a food revolution, and, untold money!

    Asheng jumped up.我要去南方圈地，甘蔗水稻红豆啊啊啊啊啊；我要去北方圈地，酸奶羊毛乳酪啊啊啊啊啊；我要去新疆圈地，日照温差种水果还有丝绸之路带来of new varieties.

    She made no less than twenty plans for her life in an instant, holding her head and laughing like a little fool. It's good to be alive!

    Geely: It's over, my sister is greedy.

    Another advantage of the new year is that the mother's mood is relatively sunny. Whenever Cao Song wanted to entertain guests or visit a friend's house, he could only bring his wife to support the scene. So Ding, who was not welcome at home on weekdays, suddenly had a high sense of presence. The so-called advantage of the first wife is here!

    And whenever married women get together, they are envious of Ding's luck. "The eldest son and the second son have only been born for two years, and there is another one in the stomach. Name, pet, and heir are all available, why not make people envious?"

    Although this is not the case at all, Ding's face is still bright, and even his complexion is much better. Although it is embarrassing when others say "second son", but in the end it is also his own child. "My family's Erlang looks like Langjun, fair and handsome, but the frailty in the womb is worrying."

    Someone immediately persuaded: "The twins have survived, and they look different, it is already a blessing for the ancestors."

    Ding pursed her lips and smiled: "I just expect Dalang to take care of him. Erlang doesn't need to take on the family business. It's not bad to be a suave little man in the future."

    Look, if you practice, Ding will talk nonsense too?