Reborn Daqin, I am the emperor

Two hundred catties of grain doesn't seem like much, and it's nothing compared to many families who have had a good harvest this year, but two years ago, two hundred catties of grain was a huge fortune.

Many families of three can only eat less than half a catty of grain a day, and many things can only be picked in the mountains.

Even having food to eat is considered a luxury. Besides eating wild vegetables, many people just gnaw leaves, and almost forget what food tastes like.

In other words, a family of three with half a catty of grain per day would eat less than two hundred catties of grain in total for 360 five days a year.

Today, each of these people can get two hundred catties of grain. For these people, they will live a very prosperous life in the next year.

And Daqin, there are millions of poor people like this.

It's not that these people are lazy and didn't follow Daqin's policy.It's just that the changes in this year have been too great, so big that many people can't even react for a while, and they can't adapt at all.

Many places are not suitable for a lot of grain seeds. After planting them, the harvest can only be returned to the imperial court. After that, they can't even pay the land tax, let alone eat.

Therefore, Daqin is developing rapidly, and many places will still lag behind unconsciously.

But in the coming year, presumably with this year's experience, these places will also be completely reformed.

It's just that the person who put food everywhere is doomed to lose money this time.

Millions of people, not too many, even 500 million people, each with 1 catties of grain, 200 people is 5 million catties, 1000 people is 500 million catties, in conversion, it is 50 tons, multiplied by [-] In multiples, [-] million people need [-] tons of grain.

50 tons of grain, this concept is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

In this era, food counting in the army was mostly calculated with stones.

If the 50 tons of grain is converted into stones as a unit, it would be more than 3000 million stones.

This amount almost catches up with the past, when the Central Plains was relatively prosperous, and when the countries were not destroyed, more than half of the harvest of all countries.

Even in this year's Daqin, it is comparable to one-twentieth of the harvest.

You must know that in today's Great Qin, there is still a land in the south, which has a vast territory, and the harvest is more than 20 times that.

It is conceivable that the gift of food consumed a lot of the owner's family.

In this world, there are probably not many people who can make such a big deal.

Because of this gift, this year's Great Qin Taiping Year was completely complete, and almost no one was depressed or sad.

In the evening of this day, Xianyang City, as the capital of the world, was even more lively.

Every household is beating gongs and drums. There are no fireworks and firecrackers in later generations, but the sound is still loud.

From a distance, one can already clearly see that in Xianyang City, countless smog rose into the sky, almost melting the snowflakes above the entire Xianyang City.

The same is fireworks, today's fireworks are more dense than those in the war.

But the flames of war brought bloody killings, endless fear, screams and screams, and the only thing floating in the air was the disgusting smell of blood.

But in today's fireworks, the taste is completely different.

Among the countless smog, there are bursts of fragrance of grains.

The entire city of Xianyang was full of commotion, but it was not the sound of killing or screaming, but the sound of endless laughter.

The sound of beating drums and beating gold lost the seriousness of the war. Sometimes it was a mess, and sometimes it was very neat, bringing people a different kind of joy.

In the whole city, everyone is busy.

However, all the children unconsciously came out of the city, formed a long procession, sang nursery rhymes, followed behind the families of civil and military officials, and looked out of the city expectantly.

It was evening now, and the sky began to gradually sink into darkness, but in Xianyang City, countless lights were lit, gradually illuminating half of the sky.

The families of countless officials are looking forward to this day outside the city. They are looking forward to the return of the emperor's team.

For Chinese New Year, the imperial court has imperial court rules, and the royal family also has royal rules. These rules are much stricter and more complicated than the rules of ordinary people's homes.

In the first three days of the new year, the emperor had left Xianyang with all the court officials, and went to Yueyang, the hometown of the Daqin Ying family, to hold a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven.

While worshiping the care of heaven and earth, they also worship the god of grains and the god of Zhoutian, praying for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

At the same time, worship the ancestors in the Ancestral Temple of Liyang, and pray for the protection of the ancestors of the royal family for the prosperity of the country and the people in the coming year.

Ying Shou never believed in ghosts and gods, but rules are rules.

Confucius once said, keep a respectful distance from ghosts and gods.

In his words, he neither denies the existence of ghosts and gods nor admits the existence of ghosts and gods.

It is actually a truth, a rule.Whether you believe in ghosts or gods or not, you must always hold a certain amount of respect in your heart.

Therefore, it is impossible for Ying Shou to break such a rule.

After all, there are some rules, which seem to be feudal on the surface, but in fact, they are indeed a very good tradition.

The reason why it looks feudal is because of many rules, which gradually formed a concept of people.Once this idea is extreme, it is a feudal habit.

For example, respecting heaven, earth, ghosts and gods is nothing more than respecting that. After all, there is a sense of reverence, which is a virtue of the human heart.

But if someone changes this respect to deviate from the track, such as using people to sacrifice to heaven, sacrifice to gods, etc., this is feudal thinking and bad habits.

Because of this bad habit, it has deviated from the original intention of virtue.

Chapter 754

Confucius said that ghosts and gods should be respected and kept at a distance. The words of the old master Confucius are still being passed down. However, such a bad habit has been respected to the point of paying no attention to it. How can it be so far away?

Another example is ancestor worship. Even if a person no longer respects heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, if he loses respect for his own ancestors, what does this mean to an unfilial son?

Therefore, it is all right to disrespect heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, but only the ancestors must be respected.

Respecting ancestors is filial piety, and filial piety is also filial piety to parents. This is also the virtue of Yanhuang for thousands of years.

As an emperor, as a son of heaven, as a role model for the world, the emperor naturally had to follow the rules.

Three days ago, I went to Liyang to worship. Today is the Chinese New Year, and I can just return, so the family members of the court officials.

Almost all the time has been counted, guarding outside the city gate, hoping to see their relatives and reunite with their relatives as soon as possible after the emperor's team returns.

As for those children, of course they came to join in the fun, but welcoming the emperor on New Year's Eve is also something to be happy about for these children.

Therefore, tens of thousands of people actually gathered on the main street of Xianyang.

This Xianyang is the capital of the world. Although Xianyang is so big, it cannot be compared with those first-tier cities in later generations. There are not a million people stationed in the city, but there are nearly a million people in the city with a population of more than a hundred miles outside the city. .

Nowadays, everyone came to Xianyang City to celebrate the new year, so there are tens of thousands of children alone, making the main streets of Xianyang City almost crowded to the point of being so lively.

"Look at where I am more messy!"

In front of the crowd, the major general's wife of Taifu's mansion, and Princess Wu Ya of the Xiongnu wore a deep dress of a Daqin woman and a fox fur cloak to keep out the cold, her hair was combed meticulously, and she was dressed very noblely, completely agreeing with Daqin's aesthetics.

But at this moment, she was still arranging her clothes, asking and asking the two maids behind her.

"Young Madam, it's already neat!"

The two maids laughed and said quickly.

This deep garment is a dress in this era, just like the cheongsam of later generations, it represents an era.

At any large banquet, as long as there are women present, they will almost always wear dark clothes.

And today's New Year's Eve, the emperor is destined to host a banquet for the ministers, and the queen empress will also worry about the family members of the ministers and their wives to cultivate feelings.

Therefore, at such a big banquet, anyone who is lucky enough to be invited will wear dark clothes and enter the palace to meet.

On the side of the little princess Wu Ya, she was happily arranging her attire, trying to present her perfect side in front of her upcoming father-in-law.

On the other side, General Yuwen Chengdu's wife, Daqin and Princess An Zhao Qian were also dressed in dark clothes and a fiery red cloak, holding a child tightly in their hands.

The child looked around and said, "Smile, the New Year's Eve in the Qin Kingdom is really lively, if only our Yelang Kingdom had such a lively celebration!"

Zhao Qian lowered her head, looked at the child who was looking up at her, stretched out her hand and pinched his little nose, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, little guy, work hard when you grow up, I believe you can also bring joy to the people of Yelang." !"

This child is none other than Shanying, the crown prince of Yelang Kingdom, also known as Xiang'er.

In the past few months, Zhao Qian went to the palace less and less frequently, and she rarely complained that the emperor sent her husband to Bashu and didn't return all day.

This doesn't mean that she has become more generous, but that she has someone to accompany her, so she is not so lonely. Naturally, she doesn't bother to care about many things.

At this time, if anyone dares to come to her and take the child Shanying away, he has to fight desperately with the other party, including the emperor.

While there was a lot of noise here, suddenly, in the darkening sky, at the end of the huge plain in front of the city, a huge team slowly woke up, with nearly ten thousand people.

Among them, there are [-] imperial guards of the Great Qin Imperial City, as well as the guard of honor of the Great Qin Dynasty, the sacrificial team, and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty. They stood in two rows, woke up slowly, and turned into a very long long dragon.

In the middle of the imperial army team, hundreds of chariots were driving, the first one, very spacious, nine-horse-drawn chariot, was the emperor's Kowloon chariot.

"Here we come...the ancestor worship team is here..."

Seeing this long queue, hundreds of chariots chased it away, and everyone guarding the city cheered happily.

The team was moving forward slowly, Ying Shou listened to the commotion in front of him, opened the curtains first, and looked outside, he was startled by the lively scene.

As for Che Chuanzhong, Empress Nan Yan and Concubine Xue Xue Ning, who went to worship their ancestors together, were already lying in front of the gate of Cha Chuan, looking outside.

Looking at the bustling scene outside, Xue Ning was full of disbelief, and said: "What a lively city, what a grand festival! Empress Empress, isn't it so lively in this year of Daqin!"

Nan Yan was also dumbfounded. She had never seen such a lively New Year's Eve since she was born.

"I also want to live such a lively life every year, but such a grand new year, let alone me, even if my ancestors have a dozen generations, I am afraid I have never seen it, it is so prosperous!"

Nan Yan secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said infatuatedly.

As Ying Shou issued a rule prohibiting entering the palace, and Nan Yan became pregnant, gradually, many rules could no longer restrain her. "

"As long as there are no outsiders present, she won't gossip all day long. When Yu Xuening gets along, she doesn't even bother to call me the word "Ben Gong", and only says "I".

"So, the years in the Central Plains were not so lively in previous years?"

Xue Ning blinked and looked at Nan Yandao.

"Of course, it's good to be able to eat enough in previous years. How can there be leisure to spend the Taiping Years!"

Nan Yan nodded and couldn't help looking at Ying Shou while speaking.

At this moment, Ying Shou was also looking at the two women.

Ying Shou smiled all over his face, and said, "This year of peace is due to me. Why, I gave it to the world, to the empress and concubine for such a grand new year. Could it be that the empress and concubine didn't prepare sugar-coated cannonballs?"

Originally, it was fine if Ying Shou didn't say these words, and Nan Yan planned to use this new year as the theme to sing praises to him. As soon as he said this, Nan Yan immediately rolled her eyes, her face was speechless, and said:

"This is clearly a peaceful year achieved through the joint efforts of all people in the world. His Majesty the Emperor really knows how to put gold on his face!"

Ying Shou was taken aback, his old face froze.

It's also fortunate that the words came from the queen's mouth. If it was someone else, as long as the news spread, no one in the world would spare him.

Seeing Ying Shou's devastated face, Xue Ning couldn't help giggling coquettishly.

Ying Shou stared, too lazy to argue with these two women with long hair and short knowledge, he had already reached the city gate.

He suddenly ordered the guards who were serving beside the chariot outside: "Send the order down, stop in front of the moat, and I will walk into the city, celebrate with the whole world, and congratulate the people of Daqin on the prosperous and peaceful year!"

Chapter 755

"promise……"

The guard obeyed the order, galloped on his horse, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order to stop in front of the moat. Your Majesty will walk into the city on foot to congratulate the people and celebrate together!"

"Your Majesty has an order to stop in front of the moat, and His Majesty will walk into the city in person to congratulate the people and celebrate together!"

"Your Majesty has an order to stop in front of the moat, and His Majesty will walk into the city in person to congratulate the people and celebrate together!"

The guard galloped all the way, yelling loudly, one after another, calling dozens of times in a row, and finally, the team finally stopped when they reached the moat.

As the team stopped, Ying Shou opened the car door, got out of the car under the service of the eunuch, and carried Nan Yan and Xue Ning out of the car with his own hands.

Both women wore black black phoenix cloaks to keep out the cold.

As a few people got out of the car, the officials who were run over by the car behind also got off the car one after another, gathered together, walked in front of the team, and surrounded the emperor in front.

"My dear friends, do you see that this is the year of prosperity, the year of peace! Tell me, how long have the people of the Central Plains been looking forward to this scene? If Confucius is still alive, this is not the same as the peace and prosperity he envisioned. Is it the same!"

Ying Shou stood in front of the officials, stepped onto the moat, opened his arms, and laughed.