Go to ancient times and engage in construction

After the winter solstice, it will soon be New Year's Eve. This is the second New Year's Eve after Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui arrived in Daqin.When Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui worshiped their ancestors, apart from a little missing, he felt much more relaxed. He has now accepted the fact that he lives in another world, and misses his relatives in the 21st century, because of his busy career and Chu Chaohui's company And let go slowly.

After Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui finished worshiping their ancestors, they asked the brothers and sisters of the Huo family and Wei Qing to exchange sacrifices, so that the three teenagers also worshiped their ancestors.On New Year's Eve of the first year, Zheng Yuming didn't think about it. It was only after New Year's Eve that the children should be allowed to worship their ancestors.The people of Daqin attach great importance to offering sacrifices to their ancestors. This can be said to be a certain kind of belief. Zheng Yuming hopes that the brothers and sisters of the Huo family and Wei Qing can maintain this belief and extend this belief in the future.In the 21st century, many people think that Chinese people have no beliefs. In fact, this is not the case. The belief of Chinese people is family and ancestors.Zheng Yuming once saw a post about swearing sentences from all over the world. This post says that if you scold a person from the Celestial Dynasty, the person is usually just angry. Jumping up, it can be seen from this that the people of the Celestial Dynasty value their ancestors very much, and belief is ancestor worship.Zheng Yuming believes that there is nothing wrong with believing in ancestors. Such people will value their families, and they will maintain their homes. As long as they maintain their homes, Nanbu and the valley will have a cohesive force.

When the Huo brothers and sisters fled with their parents, they were very young and had no impression of ancestor worship. With the help of Mrs. Su, they made a complete set of worship.When it was Wei Qing's turn, Wei Qing proposed that in addition to paying homage to the ancestors of the Wei family, he also wanted to pay homage to the old beggar who raised him for several years.The old beggar didn't have a name, but before he died, the old beggar told Wei Qing that his surname was Sun, so that if Wei Qing could survive, he must be remembered in future sacrifices.

Wei Qing asked a carpenter to carve a wooden tablet with the three characters "Sun Beggar", and put it together with the tablet of Wei's ancestors, imitating the movements of Zheng and Chu, and completed his first sacrifice. After the sacrifice, Wei Qing felt a little more in his heart What, what was it, he couldn't say it, he just felt a little fuller in his heart.

Wei Qing was adopted by Chu Chaohui. Zheng Yuming didn't like this overly clever boy very much, and there was an inherent cruelty in Wei Qing's blood, which made Zheng Yuming instinctively reject him. Zheng Yuming's perception of Wei Qing has changed a lot.

After the sacrifice was over, it was already dark, and the people in the villa had a New Year's Eve dinner together, and Mrs. Su was called to the table. After spending a long time with Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, Mrs. Su had gotten used to the easy-going manner of the two masters , the sense of superiority and inferiority is unknowingly reduced, sitting at the same table with the host, without too much restraint.

The New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, in addition to the vegetables in the greenhouse behind the villa, there are also chicken, duck, pork and mutton, fish and some mountain game.A large number of poultry were raised in the valley. Before Chu Chaohui gave the soldiers a holiday, he organized sailors to drive large wooden boats, and used fishing nets to catch a lot of fish at the mouth of the long river. Each person in the valley could get about five catties. The poultry was not distributed, but the slaves bought it with their wages. The average wage of slaves in the valley was half that of Nanbu villagers, but at the end of the year, the amount of wages they received was about the same as that saved by Nanbu villagers. Clothes are free and do not need to be spent. On the whole, the treatment of slaves in the valley is actually comparable to that of Nanbu villagers.

Before the New Year's Eve dinner in the villa was finished, the sound of people outside the villa's walls began to roar, and the sound of gongs could be heard from time to time.

"You guys go." Zheng Yuming looked at the three boys whose heads were looking out of the door from time to time, knowing that they couldn't sit still, because the bonfire in the valley was about to start, Zheng Yuming wanted to let the slaves in the valley have a lively Spring Festival, Instructing Fan Jin and the valley artists to hold a New Year's Eve bonfire party Huo Sizhong and Huo Sihua listened to Zheng Yuming's instructions and stood up cheerfully, while Wei Qing looked at Chu Chaohui habitually.

"Go ahead and take the wood with you." Chu Chaohui paused for a moment and then said to Su Fu, "Go and have a look too, the table will be cleaned up later."

"Yes! Your Excellency!" Su Fu's face was also full of joy. There will be entertainers from the valley performing at the bonfire party, and they will play the famous piece of music in Wudu. Like everyone else in the valley, Su Fu likes this piece very much.

"Wood! Come!" Huo Sihua called the wolf dog lying on Zheng Yuming's heels. Now Wood has grown into a six-month-old German Shepherd, and if it grows for another half a year, it is estimated that it can restore its former prestige.

When Zheng Yuming was not in the valley, the wood was taken care of by Huo Sihua. Hearing Huo Sihua's call, the wood immediately followed Huo Sihua and ran out of the door. When he ran out of the yard, he remembered that there was a plotter beside his master. He quickly wanted to turn around and go back. Two playful grass dogs sprang out from the side, and Mu Mu's attention was diverted immediately, and he chased after the two grass dogs. Zheng Yuming was temporarily forgotten by Mu Mu, and he really forgot his master when he had the same kind.

A wooden platform was set up in an open space in the valley, and six bonfires were lit around the wooden platform, which illuminated the wooden platform. Seven or eight artists on the wooden platform were already seated, and Fan Jin, the campfire director, was walking up and down on the stage. Arrange the sequence of performances.The open space around the wooden platform was filled by slaves moving benches, and those who could not occupy the space around the wooden platform stood and watched.When the four people in the villa arrived, they could no longer squeeze to the front. Wei Qing looked around and led the three of them to a big tree next to the open space. You can clearly see everything on the wooden platform.

The valley is closed, and personnel must be approved to enter and exit, and they must have a certificate to enter and exit. In order not to make slaves and soldiers feel inconvenient living in the valley, two shops have been opened in the valley. The shops have everything that one expects to find. In order to make the lives of slaves and soldiers not feel boring, an open space was leveled as an activity field. On this open space, you can play football. The ball is made of pig bladder, and the pig bladder is wrapped with a layer of deerskin. Similar to football in the 21st century, the rules of playing are also the rules of football in the 21st century.As soon as this kind of football came out, it immediately became popular in the valley.As long as it's the break time, there are always a bunch of people playing this kind of ball in the open space.

It turned out that several artists who went to play in the capital of King Wu came back and formed a performance team to continue to study music, but the performance was not for the nobles, but for the slaves and villagers in the valley and Nanbu. The artists have played several times in Nanbu. The second time, it is often played in the valley, and the dragon drum and seal sound is the finale of the performance team.

The program at the beginning of the bonfire party is the unique fisherman's song and boat song in Dacheng area. Male and female slaves with good voices are selected to sing on stage. After singing the fisherman's song and boat song, they are antithetical songs. Folk songs.

Folk songs are often sung outdoors. The tunes are high-pitched and loud, and the lyrics are mostly folk slang, which are simple and clear.The performance team interspersed a few pieces of music in the middle, most of which were ordinary pieces of Daqin. It was not until the end of the bonfire party that the sound of dragon, drum and seal began. Soft and harmonious, inspiring, every time the dragon drum and seal sound is played, the listener is intoxicated and unable to control himself.

"I don't know if this song can be passed down forever." Zheng Yuming leaned into Chu Chaohui's arms and sighed.

After there were only two people left in the villa, Chu Chaohui began to touch Zheng Yuming. The two hugged each other for a while. It is rare for a person to get along alone, so he proposed to go upstairs, where the bonfire scene can be seen on the roof of the villa.

"Civilization continues, and inheritance will never disappear." Chu Chaohui hugged Zheng Yuming tightly, and when the beautiful seal sound seemed to send them back to the king's capital to play, the feeling of connectedness made Chu Zhaohui palpitate.

Zheng Yuming smiled slightly. In this world, only Chu Zhaohui and him have a common language, and not being alone in the heart is better than anything else.

"I want to build an intelligence bureau. We know too little about the vassal states."

In order to pay for transporting his relatives, Zhou Cheng borrowed money from army officers. After Chu Chaohui heard about it, he called Zhou Cheng to inquire about the situation, and found that the source of information in his hands was too passive. He didn't even know if it was tight, and he deeply felt that it was necessary to establish an extensive intelligence network.

"I don't understand this, you can do it yourself, and the expenses will be counted in military expenses." Zheng Yuming also understands the importance of the intelligence network, and the results of Yu Kui's activities in Wudu City have proved this point.

"The military budget will be more next year." Two-thirds of the profits of Nanbu and Shanshan have been invested in the army. Chu Zhaohui knows that this request is too much, but he can't help it. The knife hanging over their heads Still, he will not dare to stop the expansion of the army until the threat is lifted.

"Do you really think of me as a cash machine?" Zheng Yuming turned his head and gritted his teeth at Chu Chaohui.

"You always have a way." Chu Chaohui kissed Zheng Yuming. Chu Chaohui admired Zheng Yuming's financial management skills.

"Open a bank next year." Zheng Yuming snatched his mouth away from Chu Chaohui's.

"Yes, we have the material foundation and can run a bank."

Food in this time and space is a hard currency that is harder than gold. After two years of development, the valley and Nanbu can not only guarantee their own food and clothing, but also have a large amount of surplus food. These surplus food were purchased by Zheng Yuming, and purchased from the surrounding princes. If we use grain as a reserve fund, we are completely qualified to open a bank.Open a bank, you can absorb savings, you can issue bank notes, so that the gold coins in your hands will be redundant, and you can do more things, that is to say, you can do two or three yuan with one yuan in your hand.With the bank, Zheng Yuming's financial pressure will be greatly reduced.

Zheng Yuming originally didn't set up a bank in Nanbu, mainly because he was afraid of attracting Wei Shen's attention, but now he has taken a clear stand with Wei Shen, everyone has the same interests and close ties, Wei Shen trusts him and Chu Chaohui more and more, and the bank's affairs must on the agenda.In fact, it has already started in the valley. Instead of gold coins, vouchers are issued for the wages of the slaves in the valley.

This kind of voucher can only be consumed in the valley. If you want to spend it outside the valley, you can go to the store to exchange it for gold coins.There were not many people who went out for consumption, and Zhou Cheng was the one who went to the store to exchange the most, because all he borrowed were coupons, and the rewards for Hu merchants were gold coins.