On the holy birthday of the founding emperor of the Ming Empire, the streets and alleys of the capital were decorated with lights.

The shop signs were hung with big red flowers made of red silk, and the water was poured on the street, making it a festive look.

It's more lively than the New Year.

On this day, except for the key departments who left the people on duty, the rest of the yamen in the country were resting home to celebrate.

This can be regarded as a grace given by Lao Zhu.

It is really hard to say that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were really hard. Officials from previous dynasties lived better than theirs.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lao Zhu has been continuously strengthening centralization and servitude to officials. You are just a group of people who work for me. If you don't work well, then get out.

I gave it a sweet date if I was good at it. If I couldn’t do it well, I swung the big stick over.

Now that I can have a grand rest day, it is a great blessing for the emperor.

In ancient times, holidays were originally called "rest and rest", and the so-called "rest and rest" means bathing and resting.

The vacation system was established during the Western Han Dynasty.

According to the Han law, "Officials take a break every five days." It means that officials take one day off every five days of work.

In addition to regular rest, each winter and summer solstice is also available for five days off.

Officials also have bereavement leave and family leave. If they encounter special holidays, if they have three days off on the emperor's birthday, they will be able to take a total of 73 days of vacation in a year.

The tradition of vacation continued until the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Until the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, due to busy state affairs, the court changed the five-day rest to "ten-day rest", also known as the Xunxu.

Officials take one day off every ten days of work, divided into one day, one day in the upper, middle and the second half of the month, which is called "tenth day off".

Although there is no "five-day rest" like the Han Dynasty, there are three "golden weeks" every year in the Tang Dynasty. There are seven days off in spring, winter solstice, and Qingming Festival, and three days off in Mid-Autumn Festival and Summer Solstice, Lantern Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Menglan Basin Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, and Door Day, and almost every solar term is on a day off.

There were also family leave in the Tang Dynasty. If parents are three thousand miles away, there are 35 days off every year, if parents are five hundred miles away, there are 15 days off every year. The son will take three days off for the crown ceremony, and the children will have nine days off for the journey. The marriage leave for close relatives is five days, three days, and one day.

Not only that, there are 15 days of busy farming holidays in May and 15 days of winter clothes preparations in September, but the maximum sick leave cannot exceed 100 days.

When his parents were mourning, the civil servant resigned for three years, and the military officer took 100 days off. When his teacher died, he had three days off.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty holiday has exceeded 100 days.

It is worth mentioning that the Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, Confucius, and Lao Tzu will have one to three days off for birthdays!

The official leave system was even more amazing when the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the most traditional festivals in Chinese history, and followed the "Xunxiu" system of the Tang Dynasty.

Not only has a new festival like the "Tian Chess Festival", it also has to be closed every festival.

There were five "Golden Weeks" in the Song Dynasty: New Year's Day, New Year's Day, Cold Food Festival, Tianqing, and Winter Solstice each for seven days off, Holy Day, Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, Summer Solstice, and Twelfth Month each for three days off. In this way, the public holidays of the whole year will be 76 days, plus the "New Year's Day" 36 days, and there are a total of 112 days, but in fact, it is more than just these!

The part-time job of the scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty was paradise. Almost one-third of the 365 days a year were on vacation. The days were beautiful and leisurely.

The Yuan Dynasty also extended the "one day off" holiday system of the Tang Dynasty.

Perhaps due to the relationship between ethnic minorities, many traditional holidays were reduced in the Yuan Dynasty.

Kublai Khan stipulates: "If you meet the Heavenly Birthday, the Winter Solstice will be given two days of leave.

Yuanzheng, Cold Food Festival, each has three days, July 15th, October 1st, the beginning of spring, the beginning of autumn, the beginning of autumn, and the end of nine. Each tenth day of holiday is given for one day.”

Therefore, there are only 16 holidays throughout the year. If you add 36 days of ten-day holidays, the annual public holiday in the early Yuan Dynasty was only 52 days.

Later, due to the suggestion of the Secretariat, Kublai Khan changed the monthly leave of three days to five days, which was close to the frequency of the five-day break in the Han Dynasty, so that there were more than seventy days off throughout the year.

Only Lao Zhu, the emperor who was born as a cowherd, abandoned the holidays of previous dynasties. Damn, I will give you food, drink, and give you the right to be high in the mountains. How can I not work well for me?

Therefore, Lao Zhu stipulates that there is only one day off a year, five days on New Year's Day, three days on the Winter Solstice and ten days on the Lantern Festival, plus one day off on the fifth day of each month, a total of 30 days.

This holy birthday holiday still originated from Zheng Changsheng.

Since he took over the part-time job of Guanglu Temple Qing and prepared for the palace banquet, he had an idea.

Now the people are no longer in their hands than in previous years, and they have a certain amount of money left.

If you have money, you have to consume. If you have consumption, the supply and demand relationship will be reflected.

This is a good time to activate the market economy. There was no entertainment activity in ancient times, and people lacked spiritual entertainment, of course, not including the powerful class.

The powerful and powerful eat, drink and have fun all day, and their spiritual world is very satisfying.

Most ordinary people live a normal life of sunrise and resting at sunset.

Even a drop of water in the quiet life cannot splash. If there is such a grand event, they will definitely call their children to help the elderly and the young to attend.

People have to spend money when they come out. In this way, during the Holy Birthday alone, the commercial taxes for business stores are charged a lot.

So when he told Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu's eyes shone brightly.

This idea was so good. He originally thought that he could only gather his old subordinates and come and celebrate.

Who knows that there is such a business opportunity hidden here?

As long as he can make money and increase income to Lao Zhu's pocket, he will definitely not refuse anyone.

However, Lao Zhu is Lao Zhu after all, and his mind is very lively. It is better to just hold celebrations across the country in accordance with the capital.

People across the country celebrate their birthdays together, which is much higher than the commercial tax in a single capital.

In this way, the revenue of the invisible Chinese warehouse has increased a lot.

But Zhou Mingtong suffered a lot. He was in charge of the seventh department of the court. He couldn't rest at this moment.

Other officials could rest, but he grinned in pain.

Not only did he grin, but all the government offices under the Ministry of Commerce were like him and all went down to collect taxes.

However, Lao Zhu also understood one truth: the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, but the officials of the Ministry of Commerce give each gift of twenty cents.

This is how everyone is happy.

But their hardships are nothing. At least they will be fine if they collect taxes. The Jinyiwei is the most difficult one.

After finishing his work at Guanglu Temple, Zheng Changsheng immediately seized the time to mobilize people. In addition, the Governor's Office of the Five Army received an imperial edict to assist the Jinyiwei to maintain the security of the capital during the Holy Birthday Festival.

Therefore, there are official military duty sites on each street at major intersections.

For each point, Zheng Changsheng was equipped with an Jinyiwei and ten military soldiers.
Chapter completed!