Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

According to the system of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are three days off on the winter solstice, five days off on New Year's Eve, and ten days off on the Lantern Festival.

If you don't count the one day off per month, these days of rest are almost all of the whole year.

And now, even the winter solstice is squeezed into official business by His Majesty, which makes the officials of the Ming Dynasty feel a little bit bad.

According to this trend, will the rest days of New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival be cut?

The officials who have been waiting for a year but have not been able to rest well feel a little worried.

Therefore, even if someone impeached Cao Guogong for being disrespectful at the court meeting after the winter solstice, there were few followers.

And the so-called disrespect was not a big deal in the eyes of many officials.

Among the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty today, there are only a few who can pay tribute twice, three or even four times a year like the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The vast majority of vassal states still come to pay tribute once a year, and the New Year is obviously the most appropriate time.

Therefore, the period around the Chinese New Year is also the busiest and most chaotic time for the Honglu Temple, which is usually idle.

The small Honglu Temple can gather all kinds of rare treasures, Hu Ji singing girls, and spices around the Chinese New Year. Those houses that are idle most of the year can achieve different styles in the same courtyard and different words in the same house, which is more or less a wonder of Yingtian Prefecture during the Chinese New Year.

Therefore, it is normal for Cao Guogong to be found to have gone to the Japanese under an alias and call each other brothers, so it is natural for him to be impeached.

However, the court has always been a place for the exchange of opinions. Some people think that the Duke's actions are insulting to the state, and then there are people who think that the Duke's condescending to spy on the Japanese pirates is not particular about trivial matters, and some radicals try to guess the emperor's intentions and report that the Japanese envoys should be expelled for luring the Duke - most of these people think of the old incident that Zhu Yuanzhang did not accept the tribute from Japan last year.

But to everyone's surprise - or rather, within expectations, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty responded to these things indifferently, and even the responses to the two edicts before the winter solstice were indifferent. Instead, he finally brought up the remnant Yuan in the north slowly in the court meeting.

He praised Liu Guang for his heroic deeds and Wang Lu for his bravery. Then he changed his words and announced that he had agreed with General Xu Da to build a Great Wall in the mountains and ridges north of Yongping Prefecture, relying on the mountains and sea as passes and connecting the mountains as barriers, and set up Shanhaiwei to stop the invasion of the Hu Yuan and allow Hebei to recuperate.

Shanhaiwei has a total of 32 passes at the border ridges, and the most majestic one is named Shanhaiguan. General Xu Da is in charge of the construction of Shanhaiwei City.

Obviously, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not asking for the opinions of the officials, but informing them of the Ming Dynasty's next garrison direction and countermeasures. The ministers were both happy and worried for a while.

The good news is that the direction of state affairs does not require them to work hard to think about countermeasures, but the worry is that it seems that they are not capable of making any suggestions on state affairs countermeasures.

Fortunately, the details of these plans obviously still need them to supplement, because this action will inevitably require a lot of civilians and soldiers, whether to send guards to garrison or recruit poor people to migrate, whether to replenish food and grass by canal or sea, these things need to be discussed in detail.

However, what really made the court discussion heated up was the announcement by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty that the rest day on New Year's Eve would be changed.

Take the original rest day on New Year's Eve and Shangyuan Festival, and move the two-day rest day on Tianshou Festival and Lichun Festival to it, so that all officials can rest from New Year's Eve to the end of Shangyuan Festival.

Although it is known that in this way, the total rest time in a year will remain unchanged.

Although they knew that His Majesty's move was nothing more than a monkey trick, the officials who were already exhausted by government affairs had no time to care about these things, but were truly relieved and felt genuinely happy.

That is why the officials of the Ming Dynasty expressed their unconditional support for any request of His Majesty to build Shanhaiguan - although they did not have the ability and power to oppose it.

After the winter solstice, from the emperor to the common people, it was difficult to avoid celebrating the New Year in their daily lives.

Counting the money saved in a year, thinking about the needs of the wife and children, and making up for the food and dried meat that they dared not look at twice in normal times, and those who were more capable could also go to the market to buy a few feet of cloth and let the wife think about how to buy new clothes. This was the New Year for ordinary people.

For the emperor, there were many things to do, from offering sacrifices to heaven to offering sacrifices to ancestors, to appease the officials and reward the meritorious officials, to think about how to deal with the vassal envoys, and to count the gains and losses of the world and make plans for the next year early.

Although it was busy, Zhu Yuanzhang enjoyed it. Although his son Zhu Biao was also busy, his spirit and energy were visibly better after the establishment of the East Palace Scholars. It seemed that he had saved a lot of effort, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy.

As the end of the year approached, the festive atmosphere in Yingtian Prefecture became stronger, and at this critical juncture, the two ships arrived in Yingtian Prefecture almost at the same time. Before the ship owners came ashore, they had already recognized each other.

Without waiting for the ship to stop, Qin Wang Zhu Chong took a run-up and used the bulge on the side of the ship to gain leverage. Like an eagle, he passed through the gap between the two ships and landed steadily on the adjacent ship.

The young man in the lead on the boat was almost bursting with joy:

"Second brother!"

"Third brother!"

The simple titles revealed each other's identities. The two brothers exchanged a few pleasantries along the Qinhuai River. In their conversation, they inevitably recalled the past brotherhood. As they talked, Jin Wang Zhu Yu almost shed tears.

Zhu Biao was the leader among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, so Zhu Yuanzhang devoted a lot of energy to him during the war and taught him everything by example.

His father and eldest brother were often away, so Zhu Yu, who was also born early, was inevitably closer to his second brother Zhu Chong, and even had similar personalities.

"I thought that after I went to the vassal state with my second brother to guard the Ming Dynasty two years ago, I would never see my second brother again. I didn't expect that my father would call you and me at the same time."

Zhu Yu was talking about his longing for his second brother, and Qin Wang Zhu Chong laughed without hesitation:

"I am very curious about the skills of your chef Xu Xingzu. Is he accompanying you this time?"

So Zhu Yu blushed a little. He was reprimanded by his father in a letter for whipping the chef during the year of his vassal state, and almost all of their brothers had the common problem of being afraid of their father, so the news spread quickly.

After laughing, Zhu Chong asked in a low voice:

"If the chef accompanies me, I will ask Dad to give him to me, and wait for this dog chef to follow me to Xi'an... hehe."

The laughter was low, but the meaning was self-evident. Zhu Yu was a little moved and shook his head and said:

"I didn't know that my second brother was also called back by Dad... But I also heard that Dad also scolded Xi'an..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Chong patted the side of the boat in disapproval:

"Where can I live if I don't build a place to live? Dad is also nitpicking. My Ming Dynasty is rich in the world, how can we not even build a house?"