"The New Year is full of Yuqing, and the festival is called Changchun."
Don't underestimate these ten short words. It is the first Spring Festival couplet in history. It is said that it was written by Meng Chang, the lord of Shu after the Five Dynasties.
Because Liu Jing knew calligraphy in his previous life, during the Chinese New Year, many people in his work unit asked him to write Spring Festival couplets, and he could easily write thirty or fifty of them. However, now that he is in the Han Dynasty, he thinks that the most suitable thing is
It must belong to this "Meng Shu Peach Talisman Poetry".
Early in the morning on New Year's Eve the next day, Liu Jing hung peach-board Spring Festival couplets on both sides of his door, which aroused the curiosity of the Liu clan people who came and went. However, few imitated it. As the leader of a country, Meng Chang failed to make the Spring Festival couplets popular.
, he is even less capable of this.
Liu Pan returned from abroad and drove past Liu Jing's house. When he caught a glimpse of the peach-board Spring Festival couplets, he couldn't help but said "Hey" and got out of the car and came closer.
Liu Jing received Song Gu's notification and hurried out to meet him.
Liu Pan took Liu Jing's hand and said with a smile: "'New Year's greetings, the festival's Changchun.' It's so well written. Peach wood is a tool that hates victory, but Zhongda uses it to write joyful words, which can be regarded as a
It’s so original.”
Having said this, Liu Pan paused for a moment and then said: "This sentence is taken from "Yi Zhuan·Kun": "A house that accumulates good deeds will always be blessed; a house that accumulates bad deeds will definitely have lingering disasters'?"
Liu Jing smiled and nodded, thinking that there was such an allusion. He only knew that this was the first Spring Festival couplet in history, but he didn't know the rest. He invited Liu Pan and said, "Brother Cong, if you have nothing important to do, just follow me."
Come in and sit down."
Liu Pan shook his head and said: "I can't do it today. The reason why I came back from abroad is that I received a report from my servant that my sister has returned with her son."
Liu Jing's mind suddenly moved and he said, "I remember that Sister Cong seemed to be married to the Kou family in Luo County."
Liu Pan nodded and said, "That's right."
Liu Jing asked: "What is the name of Sister Cong's son?"
Liu Pan didn't understand why Liu Jing asked for a boy's name, and replied: "My nephew's name is Kou Feng."
Liu Jing thought that indeed, Kou Feng would be Liu Bei's adopted son Liu Feng in the future.
Liu Feng was a rare warrior with great martial arts skills and extraordinary strength. Unfortunately, with the birth of Liu Chan, his status became extremely embarrassing. Even Zhuge Liang was concerned about his fierceness and was afraid that Liu Bei would be difficult to control after his death, so he could use him to force him to rebel.
Meng Da refused to aid Guan Yu and advised Liu Bei to get rid of him.
After seeing off Liu Pan, Liu Jing simply went to visit Liu Zong's home in Wubei without returning home.
Liu Jing was led in by the doorkeeper's slave. He didn't go far when he heard a burst of hearty laughter. Liu Zong, who was of average stature but very majestic, strode over and said, "Zhongda, I thought you were here yesterday."
He would come to the door and made me wait all night."
Liu Jing said with a smile: "I had a lot of things to do when I came back, and I couldn't get out of it for a while. Why don't I come to Brother Cong as soon as I have some free time today?"
Liu Zong laughed again, pulled Liu Jing straight into the back courtyard, and said to the slaves beside him: "I was talking to Zhongda, and except for the elders of the clan who came to visit, no one else was seen."
"No." The prison slave accepted the order and left.
After the wine was warmed up, Liu Zong sent out the two servants, stood up, poured a glass of wine for Liu Jing himself, and said: "Zhongda, I dedicate this glass of wine to you. Without you, how would I be able to do this million-dollar-a-month business?"
?" Changleju has been open for half a year, with an income of nearly 10 million yuan, with an average of more than 1 million yuan every month. It can be said that the money is made every day.
Liu Jing raised his glass and said with a smile: "We brothers, why do we have to say these foreign words." In his eyes, reputation is a hundred times more important than money. It is best to be like this, don't worry about anything, just sit back and receive 40% of the profit.
Liu Zong raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, and said: "Since I drank Zhongda's wine, I can no longer drink any other wine." He then said: "By the way, Zhongda, I heard rumors that you have ordered more than ten large ships.
, but is it true?”
"It's true." There was nothing to hide. Liu Jing nodded generously and admitted.
As the saying goes, ships in the south and horses in the north, in the south, ships are more useful than horses. He has a lot of money in his hands, so he has been quite restrained in ordering fifteen large ships. If he were not afraid of arousing Zhang Xian's vigilance and suspicion, the scale would probably be larger.
Double.
Liu Zong asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Why did Zhongda order so many large ships?"
Liu Jing replied: "After the ship is built, I plan to organize the fleet to go north to Xiangyang and south to Jiaozhou."
Liu Zong became even more confused when he heard this. One or two ships were enough to travel between the north and the south. More than ten large ships required at least two to three hundred people to drive them. Just to feed them would cost two to three hundred thousand yuan a month. No matter how you look at it, it would be a loss.
Business.
Liu Jing smiled and said nothing. If he only cared about the present, it would undoubtedly be a loss-making business. However, he was accumulating strength for the future. All his efforts now would be rewarded one day. He believed that that day would not be too far away.
In the afternoon, Liu Jing came home from Liu Zong's house. Visitors kept coming to his door. He had to drag his groggy head to deal with it. It was not until noon, when dinner was about to be eaten, that the visitors gradually dispersed.
Soon after the meal, visitors came one after another. When it got dark, Liu Jing immediately closed the door and thanked the guests on the grounds that he had to go to the county-zhongchao meeting tomorrow morning and needed to rest early.
He is not talking nonsense. At sunrise tomorrow, the county officials will indeed go to the main hall of the county government to celebrate the New Year to the prefect Zhang Xian, and Zhang Xian will host a banquet to entertain the officials.
All officials and princes will celebrate the New Year with the emperor in a more grand way. Before the seventh quarter of the night, they will arrive at the Deyang Palace and congratulate the emperor in turn. This is called the Yuanri Court Meeting.
After the congratulations, the emperor gave the ministers wine and food, "Sikong presented soup, and senior ministers presented rice." At the same time, "Nine Guests Spread Music" was made, and when all the officials were about to leave, the Shaofu gathered
On behalf of the emperor, he presented the jade as a gift.
Of course, given the emperor's current embarrassment, the ostentation will most likely not be as good as Zhang Xian's.
The next day, Liu He and Liu Rao put on brand new and gorgeous silk robes and had fun lighting firecrackers in front of the door. The bamboo joints were roasted by the fire and made a "crackling" sound. The two of them shouted around the fire. It is said that doing so can
Bishan smells evil ghosts.
When he was about to set off, Liu Jing refused Liu Pan's invitation to share the carriage and insisted on riding to Linxiang.
There were two other people traveling with him. One of them was Liu Zong's younger brother Liu Cheng and Liu Zhongsi. He went to Wuling County two years ago and became a disciple of Yingrong, a native of Chen. He returned home after completing his studies a few months ago, and now serves as a secretary to Gongcao.
He was highly valued by Huan Jie.
The other man's name is Liu Kang. Although he is past his prime, he is a generation younger than Liu Jing, Liu Pan, and Liu Cheng. He is now an official in Jue Cao.
The four of them rode horses or took cars, and in just a quarter of an hour, they arrived in Linxiang across more than ten miles.
People in official uniforms gathered at the county government from all directions, and soon more than 300 people gathered.
The size of the county is different, and the officials fluctuate greatly. For example, Henan Yin, the capital of Kyoto, has nearly a thousand officials at its peak, and as few as two to three hundred. Changsha is a large county, and Zhang Xian is quite ambitious, so there are slightly more officials.