Sitting in the pavilion, Du Zhongxiao said to Wang Pu: "Is there any good beef today? If not, mutton is OK. Come with a pot of boiled meat, and then a few vegetarian dishes. Let's put them here together, and I will use some wine."

Wang Pu heard this and whispered: "Jie Shuai, there are naturally some in the butcher shop. Just one person, how much do you need to use?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let's have a plate first, and then a pot of wine. By the way, if the owner is fine, sit down and drink a glass of wine."

Wang Puyingnuo turned around and left. After a while, the meat and hot pot were placed on the table, and a few more cold dishes were served.

After pouring the wine and drinking for three rounds, Wang Pu said: "Looking at the handsome guy in the festival, I feel like I'm in a bad mood. Come to my place to drink a drink?"

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "You are wrong. I'm not in a bad mood, but I just don't know what to do in the yamen."

Wang Pudao: "It's better to say it to the coach. If you are young, please have more knowledge."

Du Zhongxiao always regarded Wang Pu as an ordinary person, and didn't mind. He said to him: "Since I entered Hequ Road last year, I have been a year without realizing it. A few days ago, I didn't think that the weather has become cold in the past two months and there are not many things, so I couldn't help but think of my family coming. Oh, I didn't think that when my family came, I remembered many things, but found that I couldn't ask about the situation at home, which was completely different from what I thought."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao shook his head and drank a large glass of wine.

Wang Pu laughed and said, "It turns out that it's Jieshuai's family who came to see Jieshuai. That's not a good thing? In this weather, the wind is cold and you should be drinking with someone at home and chat about some of your leisure things. Why did you come out to drink with me?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are right. It's just when you want to drink and chat with your family. But, the family that comes is a woman, how can you chat? So this is a difficult place, you can only come out to drink."

After hearing this, Wang Pu was stunned for a while. With his experience, there was not even a maid at home, and he could not imagine the relationship between Xiaoqing and Du Zhongxiao's family. After thinking for a while, he could not think of what to persuade Du Zhongxiao, so he had to drink with him.

Du Zhongxiao shook his head, stopped talking, and only cared about drinking by himself. Before Xiaoqing came, if someone told Du Zhongxiao that he would encounter such a problem, Du Zhongxiao would have to spit on him. After all, he was the head coach all the way, how could a little girl make the family disagree? After Xiaoqing arrived, Du Zhongxiao didn't know what to do and who should I ask for?

After drinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Wang Pu: "If you don't talk about these, are there any rumors in the city recently?"

Wang Pudao: "It's nothing to go back to Jishuai. I just heard that during the Chinese New Year this year, the capital city wants to hold a grand ceremony, which is very lively. Jishuai is the leader of the journey. I wonder if this is true?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "This year is the first year for Hequ Road to return to the court. Of course, we should do a good job of such a big festival as the New Year. However, it is too much to say that it is too cold. Who would be willing to go out?"

Wang Pu smiled and said, "Jingshuai, you just don't understand the thoughts of the locals. It is precisely because of the cold that there are few people going out. If you really have the opportunity to have a big celebration and lively opportunity, you will come out to see it. Look, there are more than ten days before the end of the year, and everyone knows it in the city."

Du Zhongxiao heard this and nodded: "So that's the case. If it's really lively, what's the point of having a lively New Year? Hequ Road is rich in finance this year. By the end of the year, there is still a lot of money that has not been spent. It's time to spend a good New Year."

In order to stabilize prices, Du Zhongxiao could only send as little money as possible. A large number of government staff members paid their salaries in kind. As the personnel went to other places to camp in other places, the speed of currency circulation decreased, which was even more so. By the end of the year, the General's Mansion could consider issuing more money.

Nowadays, the Duzhi Department has placed the power to issue paper money to all walks of life. Without a unified national policy, it is very inconvenient. Some of the various channels are better, most of the places are chaotic, and inflation is the most common. Speaking of which, the Duzhi Department has its own reasons. Paper money is just starting to develop and the policies are opaque. It is better for all places to be familiar with it first. When you get familiar with it, then issue it nationwide, everything will be much smoother.

Du Zhongxiao disagreed with these statements, but there was no way, so he could only try to be as stable as possible on Hequ Road.

When talking about the New Year, Wang Pu obviously talked a lot, and he didn't know about it. He talked about the legend he heard from others. In Bingzhou, there were annual meetings, and the prefect traveled with the people, and it continued from the lively New Year to the Shangyuan Festival. And what about Hezhongfu, and what happened in each year and every year, which made the whole first lunar month lively.

Du Zhongxiao smiled, listening to Wang Pu telling these stories, he thought that projects could be started during the Chinese New Year. In this era, listening to their lively talks, there is actually not much expense. The government is nothing more than holding lantern festivals, setting off some fireworks, and asking a few groups of people to come. Other projects are of course organized by merchants in the city themselves. In this way, they can make a lot of money.

After hearing Wang Pu talk about the folk expectations, Du Zhongxiao temporarily forgot the embarrassment brought to him by Xiaoqing's arrival, and his mood improved a lot. Yes, the mountains and rivers are reunited, and everything is back, and it is time to celebrate a lively New Year. A new year, a new beginning.

After eating a few plates of meat, Du Zhongxiao was in a good mood and let his followers know the money and walked out of the hotel.

It was late December, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets, but the shopping malls were crowded. Not only the people in the city, but also many families living in the countryside came here to buy New Year's goods. Everything was sold in this shopping mall, and you could prepare all the New Year's goods.

Taking advantage of the alcoholism, Du Zhongxiao said: "There is nothing to do, let's go around the mall."

After saying that, he took a big step towards the mall, and the followers behind him hurriedly followed.

After entering the mall, I suddenly felt much hotter. Du Zhongxiao said: "Is the business in this mall so good? It's so hot!"

The follower on the side said, "Jingshuai, there are many people here, so it may not be because the mall is burning hot."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "I think so. Okay, let's go back and see what's sold outside."

The follower had no choice but to follow Du Zhongxiao out of the back door of the mall and go to the open-air market behind.

Unlike inside shopping malls, most of the goods sold outside are from ordinary markets, and many are merchants who come to rent land. Once inside, they hear the crowds of people and the scene is very lively.

Du Zhongxiao walked in the crowd with his followers, listening to the crowd's hawking and the words of pedestrians around him seemed to go back to the past when he organized a camp in Suizhou. Now, it seems that life was really easy at that time. The people worked hard to produce and the yamen were mainly training troops. How could there be so many troubles?
Chapter completed!