On the winter solstice, the Emperor of Qin and the lords and lords of all countries held a wax festival to comfort the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors. The scale of the wax festival was the grandest among all the festivals. This festival was both a sacrifice to the hundred gods and ancestors. Before participating in the festival, all participants were required to purify themselves and eat a vegetarian diet to symbolize purity and piety.
The day of the winter solstice had not yet dawned, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui took Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong and arrived at Dacheng early. The Wax Festival is different from the Moon Festival, which is a carnival for all the people. The Moon Festival is a carnival for all the people, but the Wax Festival only qualifies the nobles to participate, and the commoners can only watch the ceremony.
The Ulsan ruler Gong Ziguang body wearing a south port jacquard black clothes, head wearing a high crown, waist around the jade belt, waist wear long sword, jade jewelry, feet are a pair of sheepskin cotton boots, full of spring, radiant. He looked at his ancestor's tablet through the green smoke on the sacrificial case and let out a long breath. Thanks to the blessing of his ancestors, Ri Ji's plot to marry Chu was dashed.
Wu's envoy to the state of Chu to propose marriage to the king of Chu had just told him his intention, but the king of Chu refused with a smile, because the state of Chu had no unmarried female concubines. The king of Chu's youngest daughter was promised to the lord of his vassal state, Ba, only half a month before. Wu messenger returned to the state of Chu without any result, and after Ri Ji got the report from Wu messenger, she contracted wind-cold the next day and was bedridden.
When the news of the failure of Ri Ji's wish reached the palace of the king of Ulsan, Duke Ziguang and the officials of the palace were very excited. Because the king of Wu had not listened to the king's ministers and insisted on sending an envoy to Chu to seek a marriage, the shadow that had been hanging over the house of the king of Ulsan had been cleared away. Duke Ziguang worshiped his ancestors and prayed for their blessing again, so that Yi Ji could not recover from her serious illness, or better yet, die.
At the next celebration banquet, the nobles of Dacheng had a good time drinking, and even Wei Shen, who had always been restrained, got drunk. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were at the banquet, listening to the ridicule of the nobles of Dacheng towards Ripple Ji, and their refusal to talk about the wisdom of the king of Chu, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other and laugh.
After attending the wax festival, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui also had a rare vacation. With the New Year coming up in a few days, the several factories and workshops in Nambu and the valley were all on vacation one after another. The village people in Nambu were busy celebrating the New Year, and the slaves in the valley were just as busy celebrating the holiday.
The village people who planted Japonica rice, harvested rice, in addition to their own food, the excess grain are only allowed to be sold to the governor's office, Zheng Chu two people will promote high-yield crops in the Dacheng area, but will not spread these high-yield grain seeds to other vassal states. They are now only tied to a boat with the Ulsan Monarch, and if the high yielding grain crops were to spread out and raise the power of other places, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui intuitively felt that it was not good. The reasoning of big fish eating small fish told them that when Nanbu was still a tadpole, the surrounding vassal states had better not be big fish. If the neighboring countries were allowed to become powerful, Wu would be in danger, and once Wu was in danger, Nambu would be unstable. Nambu needed time to develop, and Chu Chao Hui's armed forces needed time to train. The high yield of grain in the valley, the later the word gets out the better for Nambu.
The purchase price offered by the governor's office was very high, and the villagers did not object to the rule of not selling japonica rice to outsiders. Some villagers even felt that selling all the japonica rice to the governor's office and using the money from the sale of the grain to buy corn and wheat was very cost-effective, as the price of japonica rice was half of that of corn and wheat. When the villagers sold all the Japonica rice and bought back other grains as rations, they could get a lot of gold coins in their hands, which were enough for them to have a good Spring Festival.
Before all the workers of the factories and workshops in Nambu took their New Year's vacation, they all received the New Year's goods from the factories and workshops. The New Year's goods were purchased by Wu Da's organization, including meat and fish, and ordinary cotton cloth from the textile factory was also distributed as New Year's goods, with each worker receiving enough cotton cloth to make a suit. Village people who did not work in the factory and workshops could buy ordinary cotton cloth from the textile factory for half the price, and those refugees from outside the village could also enjoy buying half-price cotton cloth.
Most of the refugees who stayed in Nambu came from the Tang Dynasty, and these people were instructed by Zheng Yuming to Wu Da to disrupt their kinship relationships and separate them to build temporary housing around the village. Zheng Yuming did not want a big clan to emerge in Nambu village, it is too easy for people with the same surname and the same place to gang up and hold together. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui hoped that the village people and refugees would only have the concept of 'I am a Nambu person' in their hearts in the future, and did not want to see the emergence of such clan concepts as 'I am a member of the Wu clan, the Peng clan, or the X clan'.
Where Nambu was burned, houses were being built, all brick houses, two-story structures, with flat brick walls; later, when the economy grows, these houses will have additional floors added to them, so the foundations and walls underneath must be strong.
As the wharf became increasingly busy, the original wharf facilities became rudimentary. After the fall harvest, Zheng Yuming repaired the wharf as well, and the repaired wharf was able to moor more ships and make it more convenient to load and unload goods.
The twenty material ship built by the wood factory has been launched, and it has been test sailed once in the Yangtze River, and after the successful test sail, the ship has been snatched and ordered by Wu Mu. Wu Mu is not going to go out at the end of the year, and will wait for the Spring Festival to go to Chu to do business, this cost him 10,000 gold coins to buy the 20 material ship, is quietly moored at the pier, attracting people passing by to stop and watch.
The first wooden ship of the wood factory was successfully built, Zheng Yuming was ready to separate a shipyard from the wood factory, specializing in the manufacture of large ships, after the Spring Festival, this new shipyard would build a large ship of fifty materials, and later on, when the large ship of fifty materials was built, then a large ship of one hundred materials would be built, and then two hundred materials, but there was not a lot of wood that had been shade-dried for three years, and the wood nearby that could be used to build a ship was pretty much purchased by Nambu, and in order to build a large ship of a couple of hundred materials, one would have to To build a large ship of several hundred tons, one would have to wait for the wood cut down in the valley to dry for three years. In this miserable era, the transportation is based on the natural out of the dirt road, there is a big boat, the South Port goods through the waterway, can be more convenient to sell to faraway places.
The number of slaves in the valley had reached more than twelve hundred. After the winter solstice, the slaves took a vacation to prepare for the Spring Festival, the slaves who worked as laborers received their wages, the slaves who worked as farmers received their dividends, and every slave received a piece of cotton cloth to make new clothes. The slaves had money in their hands, but they could not go out of the valley to buy things, in order to meet the slaves' purchasing needs, a cheap store was opened in the valley, which was full of daily necessities for slaves in need to buy.
Domesticated pigs, goats, chickens and ducks in the valley were slaughtered, fish from the valley's rivers were salvaged with nets, and the uneaten fish were processed and hung under the eaves of the house to dry. Slave soldiers who stopped training took other slaves on vacation to hunt around, and the wild game caught enriched the table.
The canteen system in the valley began to change, somewhat similar to the rationing in the Celestial Kingdom, which stipulated the number of grains per slave per month, and you could eat in the canteen, or take rice from the canteen and go back to your own place to open a small stove. Some of the slaves who had family members lived in mud huts and started to build mud stoves, and as long as there were some conditions, people still liked to live their own little lives.
Eating problem for single slaves, they still feel that the canteen is convenient, after all, when it comes to the eating hour, clip on the bowl and chopsticks can eat ready-made, the food in the valley is too much better than what they originally ate, plus the female slaves in charge of the canteen cook very seriously, not the latter days like cooking pig food, slaves have no complaints about the food, although there are some slaves who cook in their own mud huts, but the majority of them still like to dine in the canteen.
After the winter solstice, the first wedding feast was held in the valley. The honorable teacher Fan Zin, at the age of twenty-three, married the seventeen-year-old eldest daughter of the Ge carpenter's family. Van Zin's marriage ceremony was held in an unorthodox manner.
The marriage system in this time and place follows the three major principles of the Western Zhou Dynasty, namely monogamy, no marriage with the same surname, and the order of parents. Monogamy means that there is only one legal wife and concubines are allowed. The reason for not marrying a person of the same surname was both ethical in terms of bloodline, genetic in terms of reproduction, and political in terms of patriarchal law. The ruling class ruled the world by the patriarchal system in the hope of utilizing the bond of marriage to achieve the purpose of uniting the nobles of different castes to strengthen their ruling power. Under the patriarchal system, a child's marriage must be decided by his or her parents and completed through the intermediary of a matchmaker; otherwise, it would be an indecent and illegal act, known as "lewd running away", and would not be recognized by the clan or society.
The establishment of the marriage relationship is cumbersome and must go through a process of six rites. For the dissolution of a marriage, a woman has seven to go and three not to go. These restrictive conditions reflect the humane side of the ancient ritual system.
According to normal thinking, Fan Jin's wedding should have been completed in accordance with the customs and systems of the time, but this Fan Jin's thinking was a little more active, and he went to seek an audience with Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, requesting that the marriage be completed in accordance with the customs of the Bermuda Kingdom. Fan Jin's reasoning was that his master was a Bermudian, and he should also be a Bermudian subject.
Zheng Yuming was stunned when he heard Fan Jin's request. Not to mention the fact that there is no Bermuda this country, even if there is, Fan Jin such a statement behind the far-reaching meaning ah, Fan Jin is a Wu, but he does not want to be a Wu, to be a Bermuda, which shows that he only recognized Zheng Chu two people, rise to politics, is the blatant treason. This time people's national concept is not strong, but still have.
"Why do you want to be a Bermudian?" Chu Chao Hui stroked his chin with a smirk on his face.
"Your Honor, Jin feels that being a Bermudian is more like a human being!" Fan Jin this is a personal experience, the original artist career, not to say dignified, more humiliation, and life are not guaranteed. After coming to the valley, Zheng Chu two people just make rules and regulations, everything in accordance with the rules and regulations to do things, slaves violate the law, according to the rules and regulations of punishment. The two never treat them with their own likes and dislikes, Fan Jin vaguely felt that Zheng Chu's two practices may be the Baimu country's treatment of its people, living in such a system of rules and regulations, Fan Jin felt safe and at ease.
"More like a human being?" Zheng Yuming re-measured this half-toned teacher, Fanjin said this, could it be that when the two of them were granting guests at night, they had subliminally raised Fanjin's ideological awareness?
"Jin from the age of twelve years later, with the artist master around selling art to make a living, at first learning the art is not good, life is difficult, after the skill is good, often perform for the noble lord, the reward is more, but there is no life security." Fan Zin's eyes reddened as he spoke. "One of my senior brother who stepped on the heights, when he performed, he missed and fell from the high ladder, the banquet master was furious on the spot, he thought that my senior brother had lost his face, and ordered the household servants to beat my senior brother half to death, the poor junior brother was only sixteen years old, and he died after a day and a night of pain."
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui looked at each other, and they were silent.
"Tsu was exiled and innocent, that nobleman had originally died from catching a wind chill, but the nobleman's family insisted that it was Tsu's fault." At that time, Fan Tsu felt that he was just an ant, something that could be casually pinched by the nobleman.
"Fan Jin, it is impossible for us to go back to Bermuda, if you want to be a Bermudian, you can only do it in your heart." Zheng Yuming cautioned Fan Jin, if Fan Jin's words were to be known by the aristocrats of Dacheng, Wei Shen would immediately suspect them of having evil intentions.
"I know!" Fan Zin wiped his eyes, happy in his heart that he was truly accepted by his Lord's family. "I ask the two lords to organize a wedding for my villain in accordance with the customs of the Bermuda Kingdom."
"Our wedding customs there are very different from here, does your father-in-law, Carpenter Ge, have a problem with that?"
"No, the villain came to request this after discussing it with his father-in-law."
"When we write out the steps to get married in Bermuda at night, if you think it's appropriate, we'll hold it according to these steps." Zheng Yuming scratched his head, were the steps written in Western or Chinese style?
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui have never been married, that night, the two discussed half a day, the twenty-first century Western and Chinese wedding forms rubbed together, an imported wedding forms in this continent was born, this wedding way in the future to become mainstream. How many years later, archaeological experts on the end of the great Qin wedding organized in the form of a sudden huge change puzzled, a variety of insights, has been arguing, this thesis feeds a large number of scholars and experts.