On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, eat Lantern Festival and lanterns.

Yuejing City seems much more lively than before, with all kinds of dazzling lanterns everywhere competing for beauty. Yuejing City was originally a place of cultural heritage. In order to assimilate the barbarians, the Tang Dynasty encouraged talented people from all over the world to go to Yuejing to open colleges and private schools. After thousands of years, although it is now in decline, the current Yuejing City is benefiting greatly from those of the legacy alone. The people's degree of understanding and literacy is not inferior to Chang'an City.

On this day, every household will hang a few lanterns outside the door, with a piece of riddle paper swaying under it, and a ribbon hanging on the reward grid. Anyone can guess. If you guess it, the reward grid under the riddle will belong to whom.

There are many riddles in wealthy families, and the appreciation is rich. The common people's homes are either a few copper plates or a novel small object. However, what is important is not these appreciation is the feeling of accomplishment after guessing riddles made by others with great pains. Moreover, the riddles in some common people's homes are difficult to guess, and it can also attract many well-educated people who disdain ordinary riddles to find these extremely difficult riddles in the streets and alleys.

In addition to these riddles, large merchants will also carefully make various floats, adorn various lanterns, and wander on the streets. In addition to setting off a peaceful and prosperous era, they can also be regarded as making a living advertisement for their own homes. This type of float is expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary merchants. Basically, only the heroes in the capital will participate.

For these great men, floats are not just about pleasing the court, but also about advertising for their own homes. What is more important is to promote their own strength. The outstanding floats can make the people talk about for a year, so naturally they will remember the owner of the floats.

Where there are people, there will naturally be a world of martial arts. Where there are worlds, there will naturally be a world of struggles. No one wants to lose in this competition. Each company specially hires float experts and starts secret production several months in advance, striving to make a splash on the day of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and surpass all the heroes.

Floors travel through the streets and alleys, and finally gather on the square before the imperial city to present a gift to the emperor. Those who win the final victory will receive the emperor's reception and commendation. This will be the greatest honor for some gentry in Yuejing City. Being able to show their side on the imperial city will be of great help to their own status and future business.

Major yamen also made floats. In previous years, merchants and gentry would not dare to compete with these yamen. Moreover, in order to please the emperor, the yamen in Qianyue did not hesitate to borrow from all over the world, and sought to renovate the floats made. However, in the Ming Dynasty, both personnel and funds of major yamen were reduced on a large scale. Although there was still some funding for such celebrations, it was completely incomparable to previous years.

To sum up, it’s just one sentence, no money!

In fact, the heads of the yamen still attach great importance to this activity. The new year, the new dynasty and the new atmosphere were all ready to show their skills in front of the emperor, but when they saw the funds they received in the end, they were all relieved. This amount of money was not even a fraction of the original plan.

The chief minister Quan Yun asked the emperor with the opinions of the chief officials of each yamen, hoping to relax the matter a little, but after reading the memorial, the emperor only said a few words.

"Working with the people is about participating."

"It's not about luxury, but about novelty."

"The imperial court's silver and money are all people's wealth and paste."

In the end, there is no money, but the things have to be done. All government agencies have to work together. If there is no money, then work hard on creativity. Not to mention, the final effect will open the eyes of the people in Yuejing. There is no luxury of previous years, but there is another refreshing feeling that is pleasing to the eye.

Of course, there are also yamen who don’t care about money. For example, under Wang Yueyao’s Commercial Bureau, under the Commercial Bureau, each industry association, each of which spends a little money, will be a large amount of money.

Some merchants also saw an opportunity from the dilemma of various yamen in the court. Baba had to come to the door to think about a sponsorship. I don’t think that the Ming yamen is completely different from the Qianyue yamen. In the past, you gave money, but you didn’t think it was too much. You couldn’t get a good look when you gave money to the door. People were willing to accept it to give you face. But now, they are polite, but they absolutely don’t accept money.

There is no free lunch in the world. You will be charged other people's money today and will do things for others in the future. But now the bold departments and government agencies are staring at by the Supervision Bureau. It is easy to say that the money comes in, but it is a big problem to make a record of expenses. No one wants to be targeted by the Supervision Bureau in such a thing. By then, yellow mud fell into the trouser, either shit or shit. No one is willing to get rid of the official hat for such a thing.

The court officials no longer participated in the competition for the leader, and the gentry in the capital were working hard to win this leader, fortunately, showing their faces on the imperial city.

On the imperial city, Qin Feng and Min Ruoxi and his children had already appeared on the imperial city. Women were always extremely enthusiastic about this kind of excitement, and even Yinggu was also very interested. Yu Xiu'e, who had been living in the palace to raise her baby, was also very excited. She lay on the imperial city wall and stretched her neck to look down, which made the monk on the side nervous. From time to time, she came up to help her, but she shrank her hands and feet.

Qin Feng is not good at guessing lantern riddles. A simple lantern riddle sometimes contains great information. If you don’t understand the allusions here, you can’t think of any reason. However, Min Ruoxi is a great expert in this field. The eunuchs he serves report some interesting lantern riddles from time to time. Min Ruoxi just thought for a while and then reported the answer. The eunuchs rushed down quickly, guessed the lantern riddles, and received the prize. Of course, when these things were presented to Min Ruoxi, they had to undergo strict inspection. In a short while, Min Ruoxi was already filled with various gadgets, hundreds of copper plates, and there were actually a lot of new notes.

"Xi'er, I think you don't guess. If you guess, the rewards below will be swept by you, and others will be out of fun." Qin Feng laughed.

"I don't guess how many?" Min Ruoxi looked at Qin Feng with a smile and asked.

"Don't make things difficult for me. He knows me, but I don't know him." Qin Feng shook his head repeatedly: "I won't show my shame. Why don't you give me a few to make things difficult for them? In this capital, there are many talented men who are all over the capital, and the well-educated people are like crucian carp across the river. Do you dare to give it a try?"

Min Ruoxi didn't comment, but Eunuch Le, who was on the other hand, had already brought paper and pen and prepared several palace lanterns. Min Ruoxi smiled and picked up the pen, thought for a moment, and ten riddles were accomplished overnight.

"I used to play these little things in the Chu Palace back then, so I used them as fun." Min Ruoxi put down her pen, "I rewarded ten taels of money for each riddle. Eunuch Le, go and hang it out."

As soon as Min Ruoxi's riddles were hung out, it immediately caused a stir, because these riddles were all hung under the palace lanterns, which means that these riddles came from the palace. Eunuch Le even said that this was the queen's riddles, which was even more attractive.

The reward for each riddle of ten taels of silver is already extremely high. More importantly, if you can guess the queen's riddle, it is a great honor.

However, Min Ruoxi was born in the royal family and the Min family was not strong, so she was very dedicated to her children. Min Ruoxi's knowledge was probably even better than most old masters. The riddles she produced were not what she thought of now, but were difficult people who worked hard to create in the palace before, and they were not something that ordinary people could guess.

After hanging out for a long time, the little eunuch who was waiting was sore, but no one could tell the answer.

"This is really a embarrassing." Seeing more and more people gathering under the palace lanterns, most people had already retreated far away and squeezed in front of them. They saw that there were scholars who muttered to themselves, frowned and pondered, sometimes happy and sometimes distressed, Qin Feng was very happy. It was really not a simple thing to be able to stump these scholars. Looking at Min Ruoxi, who was smiling, was immediately honored.

"The float is here!" Xiao Wen Xiaowu beside him jumped and screamed. It was the first time that Xiao Wen Xiaowu, who was almost four years old, had experienced such a lively and novel scene. He used to live in Taiping City, so there was such a pomp.

Those who walk in the front are naturally all the floats of the yamen, most of them are creative and novel, while those who follow them are the brilliant golden walls, which makes people unable to follow.

"What a great deal in heaven and earth!" Qin Feng suddenly laughed when he saw a float appearing on the square. The float was about ten meters long and more than two meters wide. It was decorated with beautiful colors. In addition, there were women dressed as fairies in the car, dancing in long sleeves, which immediately caused a sensation on the square.

Heaven and Earth are now a top entertainment venue in Yuejing. It is said that the women inside are basically from the palace. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are all unattainable people. Although they have fallen into the mortal world now, the expensive expenses in heaven and earth still separate them from ordinary people. They are not seen in normal times, but today they can feast their eyes. How can they not be happy?

"Zi Luo has managed the heaven and earth well, and half of the income this year comes from the heaven and earth." Min Ruoxi on the side smiled and said, "If it weren't for the money from her, we wouldn't have been able to live this year."

Qin Feng basically allocated all the money in the treasury into the treasury. Qin Feng also took out the land of the imperial treasury that belonged to the emperor in various places to sell it in order to help the court overcome the initial difficulties. As a result, he made himself so poor that he was so poor. In the end, Su Kairong came up with the idea. The treasury took part in the Heaven and Earth, and transferred half of the equity of the Heaven and Earth to the treasury, which made the treasury recover.

So the floats in heaven and earth are basically considered to be the floats of the royal family themselves.

"It's not just the wonders of heaven and earth. Look at the back, that one is not amazing. There are so many rich people in the capital!" Min Ruoxi sighed.

"It's better for rich people. I just think there are fewer people, not too many!" Qin Feng laughed.
Chapter completed!