Winter solstice over soon to New Year's Eve, this is Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui to the Qin after the second New Year's Eve. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui in the ancestor, in addition to still a little faint thoughts, the mood is much lighter, he has now accepted the fact that life in the other world, the twenty-first century relatives miss, because of the busy career and Chu Chao Hui's companionship and slowly let go.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui finished sacrificing their ancestors, told the Huo siblings and Wei Qing to change the offerings, so that the three teenagers also worship their ancestors. The first year of New Year's Eve, Zheng Yuming did not think of this, after the New Year's Eve to think of the children should be sacrificed to their ancestors. The people of Da Qin place a high value on ancestor worship, it can be said to be a certain kind of faith, Zheng Yuming hopes that the Huo siblings and Wei Qing can maintain this faith and extend it in the future. In the twenty-first century, many people thought that the Celestials had no faith, but in fact, it was not true, the Celestials' faith was their home, their ancestors. Zheng Yuming has seen a post of the world's countries cursing statements, this post said cursing a dynasty, this person is generally just angry, but if you curse the ancestors of the dynasty, ten eight, nine, this dynasty will be cursed to jump up, from here can be seen, the dynasty is very important to the ancestors, faith is ancestor worship. Zheng Yuming thinks that there is nothing wrong with believing in ancestors, such a person will value the family, value the family, will maintain the home, as long as the maintenance of the home, Nambu and the valley will have cohesion.
When Huo's siblings fled with their parents, they were so young that they had no impression of ancestor worship, and it was only with the help of Su's wife that they were able to make a whole set of offerings. Wei Qing's turn, Wei Qing proposed that in addition to worship the ancestors of the Wei family, but also want to worship the old beggar who raised him for several years. The old beggar did not have a name, but the old beggar, before he died, told Wei Qing that his surname was Sun, so that if Wei Qing could live, he must remember him when he made sacrifices in the future.
Wei Qing asked the carpenter to carve a piece of Sun Beggar three words of the wooden plaque, and Wei's ancestor's tablets together, learning Zheng Chu two people's movements, completed his first sacrifice, the sacrifice is completed, Wei Qing felt that the heart of the heart more than what is it, what is it, he could not say, only feel the heart of the heart is filled a little bit.
Wei Qing is Chu Chao Hui do the Lord adopted, Zheng Yuming heart not too much like this excessively witty young man, and Wei Qing blood a kind of innate cruelty, so that Zheng Yuming instinctive rejection, today Wei Qing know the kindness of the action, but let Zheng Yuming Wei Qing's outlook on the change of many.
After the sacrifice, it was already dark, the people in the villa gathered together to eat a New Year's Eve dinner, Su women were also called to the table, Su women with Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui get along with a long time, has been accustomed to the two masters of the easy-going, the sense of inferiority and superiority unconsciously reduced, and masters sit at the table without too many constraints.
New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, in addition to the vegetables in the greenhouse behind the villa, there are chicken, duck, pork and mutton, fish and some mountain game. The valley raised a large number of poultry, Chu Chao Hui to the soldiers before the holiday, organized the soldiers who will drive a boat to drive a large wooden boat, with a fish net to the estuary of the Yangtze River to catch a lot of fish, the valley can be divided into five pounds or so per person, poultry is not distributed, but let the slaves with wages to buy, the average wage of the slaves in the valley than the people of the south port village is lower than half of the average salary, but at the end of the year to receive the number of wages with the people of the South Port Village to save about the same as, because the The slaves were fed, housed and clothed free of charge, and did not need to spend any money. On the whole, the treatment of the slaves in the valley was actually on par with the people of Nambu Village.
Before the New Year's Eve dinner in the villa was finished, the sound of people outside the villa's walls began to boil, and the sound of gongs came from time to time.
"You guys go." Zheng Yuming looked at the three teenagers whose heads were looking towards the door from time to time, and knew that they all couldn't sit still because the valley's bonfire would be kicking off, and Zheng Yuming pointed out that in order to allow the valley slaves to have a lively Chinese New Year's Eve, Demonstration Jin and the valley artists had organized the New Year's Eve bonfire party
Huo Sizhong and Huo Sihua stood up cheerfully at Zheng Yuming's command, while Wei Qing habitually looked at Chu Chao Hui.
"Go on, bring the wood too." Chu Chao Hui paused for a moment and then said towards Su Woman, "You also go and take a look, the table will be packed later."
"Aye! My lord!" Su Woman's face was also jubilant, the bonfire party had valley artists playing to play the famous Wudu piece, which Su Woman loved as much as the rest of the valley.
"Wood! Come!" Huo Sihua called out to the wolf dog lying at Zheng Yuming's heels, Woody had now grown into a six-month-old German Shepherd, and with another half a year of growth, it was estimated that he could regain his former prowess.
Zheng Yuming is not in the valley, the wood is taken care of by Huo Sihua, heard Huo Sihua's call, the wood immediately followed Huo Sihua to run to the door, and then ran to the yard, only to remember that there are still schemers in the master's body, and hastily wanted to turn around and go back, do not want to be next to the two frolicking grass dog, the wood's attention was immediately diverted towards the two grass dog chase, Zheng Yuming was wood temporarily forgotten, really have the same kind of forget the master. The two dogs are not the same, but they are the same kind.
An open space in the valley built a wooden stage, around the wooden stage lit six piles of bonfires, shining brightly on the wooden stage, seven or eight artists on the wooden stage have already been seated, the bonfire director Fan Jin is walking around on the stage, arranging the order of the program performance. The open space around the wooden stage was filled with slaves carrying benches, and those who couldn't occupy the seats around the wooden stage stood and watched. When the four people in the villa arrived, they were already unable to squeeze to the front, Wei Qing looked around and led the three people to a large tree next to the open space, the four people thought to climb the tree, from the tree they could clearly see everything on the wooden stage.
The valley is closed, personnel in and out have to be approved, must hold a voucher to enter and exit, in order not to make the slaves and soldiers live in the valley feel inconvenient, the valley opened two stores, stores have all kinds of goods, convenient for the slaves to buy and in order to let the slaves and soldiers life does not feel boring, leveled a piece of open space as an activity site, in this open space, you can kick the ball, the ball is made with pig bladder, pig bladder wrapped layer outside the Deer skin, such a ball is similar to the twenty-first century soccer, kicking rules are also the twenty-first century soccer rules. As soon as this kind of soccer came out, it immediately became popular in the valley. As long as it came to rest time, there were always a bunch of people playing this kind of ball in the open space.
Several of the artists who originally went to play at the capital of King Wu came back to form a recital team and continued to specialize in music, except that the recitals were not for the nobles, but for the slaves and villagers of the valley and Nambu. The artists had already played several times in Nambu, and even more often in the valley, and the Dragon Drum Seal Tone was the finale of the team's repertoire.
The beginning of the bonfire party program is unique to the Dacheng area fishing songs, boat songs, selected men and women slaves with good voices to sing on stage, after singing fishing songs, boat songs, is the pair of songs, the pair of songs is actually love songs, these songs also have a general name for the mountain songs.
Mountain songs are often sung outdoors, the tunes are mostly high-pitched and loud and clear, and the lyrics are mostly folk slang, simple and clear. Playing team in the middle of the interspersed a few pieces of music, mostly ordinary music of the Qin Dynasty, until the end of the bonfire party, the Dragon Drum Seal Sound began, although less than Zheng Yuming's pleasing performance, Chu Zhaohui's vibrant sword dance, but the rigid-flexible, hypnotic Dragon Drum Seal Sound every time it plays, the listener can not be mesmerized.
"I don't know if this tune can be passed down forever." Zheng Yuming sighed as he leaned into Chu Chao Hui's arms.
Villa in only two people, Chu Chao Hui began to Zheng Yuming hands and feet, the two embraced together lingering for a while, Zheng Yuming found two people have gone off the phenomenon, and quickly pushed away to the outside to calm down calm down, Chu Chao Hui can not afford to get along with two people rare alone, they proposed to go up to the roof, in the roof of the villa can be seen on the scene of the bonfire.
"When civilization continues, the inheritance will not disappear." Chu Chao Hui wrapped his arms tightly around Zheng Yuming, and the beautiful seal sound seemed to send them back to when they were playing in the royal capital, and that feeling of heartfelt connection made Chu Chao Hui's heart palpitate.
Zheng Yuming smiled slightly, in this world, only Chu Chaohui and him is a common language, the mind is not alone than everything.
"I want to build an intelligence bureau, we know so little about the vassal states."
Zhou Cheng was able to pay off the payment for transporting his relatives and borrowed money from the army officers, Chu Chao Hui heard about it and called Zhou Cheng to ask about the situation, and found that the source of intelligence in his hands was too passive, and he didn't even know that the Tang customs check was tightened, and he deeply felt that it was necessary to establish an extensive intelligence network.
"I don't understand this, you do it yourself, the expenses are put in the military expenses to be counted." Zheng Yuming also understood the importance of the intelligence network, and the results of Yu Kui's activities in Wudu City had already proved this.
"Next year, the military budget will be more." Two thirds of the profits of Nambu and the valley are invested in the army, Chu Chao Hui knows that he is excessive in this request, but he can't help it, the knife that hangs over their heads is still there, and he doesn't dare to stop the army expansion until the threat is lifted.
"Really treat me as a money making machine?" Zheng Yuming turned back towards Chu Chao Hui and gritted his teeth.
"You always have a way." Chu Chao Hui kissed Zheng Yuming, and Chu Chao Hui admired Zheng Yuming's ability to manage money.
"Open a money bank next year." Zheng Yuming snatched his mouth back from Chu Chao Hui.
"Good, we have the material basis for a bank."
This time and space of food is more than gold are hard hard currency, the valley and south port after two years of development, not only to ensure their own food, there are a large number of surplus food, these surplus food are Zheng Yuming acquisition, plus to the surrounding vassal states to buy back the food, to food for the reserve gold, can be enough to qualify for the opening of the bank. Opened the bank, you can absorb reserves, you can issue bank notes, so that the hands of the gold currency is redundant, you can go to do more things, that is to say, the hands of a dollar can do two dollars, or three dollars of things. With a money bank, Zheng Yuming's financial pressure will be greatly reduced.
Zheng Yuming originally did not run a money bank in Nambu, mainly because he was afraid of attracting Wei Shen's attention, but now that he has picked a clear stance with Wei Shen, we all have the same interests and are closely connected, Wei Shen has become more and more trusting of him and Chu Chao Hui, and the matter of the money bank will have to be put on the agenda. In fact, the valley has already begun to carry out, to the valley slaves wages did not send gold coins, but issued coupons.
This kind of voucher could only be spent in the valley, if one wanted to spend outside the valley, one could exchange it for gold coins at the store. There weren't many people who went out of the valley to spend money, and the one who went to the store to exchange the most was still Zhou Cheng, because all he borrowed were tokens, while the payment to the huckster was in gold coins.