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Chapter 390 Supporting an Army of [-]?

Since the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Cheng no longer arranges affairs, but spends time with his family wholeheartedly.

Since Chongzhen crossed over in July 11, he first recuperated from his illness for nearly three months, and then he was ordered to lead the army King Qin. He has been fighting on the front line of Gyeonggi for nearly half a year, and even spent New Year's Day in the barracks.

The Ming Dynasty used the summer calendar instead of our current Gregorian calendar, so the first day of the first month of each year is New Year's Day, commonly known as New Year, New Year, Suidan, etc.

The Spring Festival is a later title, which did not exist at that time. The festival name "Spring Festival" was created by the government of the Republic of China later.

During the period of the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was introduced to China, and the lunar calendar gradually became the standard for farming. In 1914, the government of the Republic of China mentioned in a report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that "it is proposed to designate the Lunar New Year's Day as the Spring Festival."

Therefore, the saying of the Spring Festival has gradually spread.

This time, he wanted to have a good New Year's Eve, so he accompanied his wife Ji Xuanzhu to the Town God's Temple in the southwest of the castle to offer incense early in the morning. Maid, there are four healthy women accompanying.

The front of the Town God's Temple was really lively, the carriage stopped just a few distance away from the Town God's Temple, Zhang Cheng handed over the mount to the assistant, and he stepped forward to help Ji Xuanzhu get out of the carriage, and a group of eight went to the Town God's Temple.

There are quite a few vendors on the open space in front of the temple. They sell all kinds of snacks and objects, such as sugar figurines, dough figurines, candied haws, sachets, etc., as well as some small accessories.

Yurui and Xiuyue have a sugar figurine in their left hand and a dough figurine in their right, while Zhang Cheng is holding a candied haws with two hawthorns obviously missing.

The four healthy women separated, and there were two at the front and back who were both opening the way and guarding. Perhaps because their aura was too strong, the crowd avoided them wherever they went.

After burning the incense, everyone toured the temple for a while, and then boarded a carriage and headed back to Chi Castle. Every household in the castle was decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the bright red lanterns were lined up along the street. The lively scene was no less than that of Zhang Cheng The big wedding.

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In the next few days, Zhang Cheng didn't go out anymore, and he didn't play horse hanging with the old ladies every day, which reminded him of the mahjong tiles and poker cards of later generations.

Not long after, the two artifacts of mahjong tiles and poker cards became popular on the North Road of Xuanzhen Town, Daming.

In these days, apart from being filial to the old lady, Zhang Cheng just stayed with his wife Ji Xuanzhu, enjoying the snow, drinking tea, or watching Ji Xuanzhu's embroidery.

Of course, he can have a leisurely and happy time, but the other people in the general's office are very busy. They not only have to buy all kinds of New Year's goods, but also sweep the dust, offer sacrifices to the stove prince, kill New Year's pigs, put up New Year's red and so on.

There is a folk proverb that goes "on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, kill the pig and cut the meat for the new year", which means that on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, preparations for the meat for the New Year will begin.

The so-called killing pigs, of course, means killing the pigs raised by one's own family; the so-called cutting meat refers to the poor people who do not raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year.

The reason why "cutting the meat of the new year" was included in the New Year's Ballad is because the farming society and the economy are not developed enough, and people can only eat meat during the annual festival, so it is called "the meat of the new year".

Even though the appearance of Zhang Cheng has made the North Road more stable and prosperous than before, but after all, it is lucky to be able to make ends meet in the frontier, and most of the military households are still far from reaching the level they can. The degree to which meat is eaten at will.

The Admiralty Office has its own pig garden outside the castle, and today it killed four big fat pigs. After all, there are a large number of people in the office, including 200 healthy women. In addition, Zhang Cheng's military guards and Boy camp, as well as some servant girls, women and other servants.

Today happened to be the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Ji Xuanzhu couldn't be idle either. He was directing Yurui, Xiuyue and others to put up the New Year's red, and the inside and outside of the general office had already been cleaned again.

Mrs. Jia is also instructing healthy women and women to hang up bright red lanterns, and the garden behind is also full of colorful lanterns, creating a lively scene.

"The 28th of the twelfth lunar month, decals for making cakes and steamed buns!"

The so-called decals are the collective name for posting Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessing characters, banners, window grilles, etc. Because these are red festive elements posted during the New Year, they are collectively called "posting New Year's red".

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Zhang Cheng had a rare leisure time these days, besides playing horse tags with the old ladies, he was wandering around the Red Castle with Ji Xuanzhu, he felt that this was life.

Today, when he is free, he is in the study by himself. Although it has been a year and a half since he came to this world, he is still not used to using the brush. Now he is holding a pencil and a wooden settable to write and draw at the desk.

After a while, he put down the pen and settable, looked at the patterns he had drawn, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, shook his waist, and heard a few soft "clicks", and suddenly felt comfortable all over.

"Father, brother Cheng Fang and Mr. Lin are back!"

A slightly immature voice came from outside the study, Zhang Cheng recognized it was Zhang Jintai's voice, and he also shouted loudly: "Zhang Jintai, come in."

Zhang Jintai pushed the door open, and Lin Fangping and Zhang Chengfang also followed behind him. After entering the room, they clasped their fists and saluted: "Zhang Jintai, Zhang Chengfang, see your father!"

"Lin Fangping, see the commander-in-chief."

"Get up."

Zhang Cheng called them to get up in a deep voice, and then asked: "Fang Ping, Cheng Fang, you two have worked hard all the way, have everything been settled?"

"Return to the Governor, I will go to Yanghe to meet Governor Chen in person, and the New Year ceremony has been presented to the Governor. Governor Chen will bring back a letter to the Governor. Please write it to the Governor." After Lin Fangping finished speaking, he got up. Before placing a letter on the desk in front of Zhang Cheng.

"By the way, the Governor-General has heard about the "Song of Joining the Army" made by the Commander-in-Chief. This time he asked me about the lyrics written by the Commander-in-Chief, and he also greatly appreciated the "Song of the Army" made by the Commander-in-Chief."

He paused for a moment, and then said: "This subordinate asked Wang Yuanjing and Wang Xiucai to copy a copy for him before. At that time, I was so excited that I dedicated it to the governor!"

"Haha. Ask Yuan Jing to make another copy for you!"

"The governor also said, 'A man should be in danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss his life?' This sentence is very well written, especially magnificent, and even more righteous. Every time I read it, I feel my chest agitated!"

When Lin Fangping said this, he was actually a little excited, and he continued.

"There's also the sentence, "Singing war songs and joining the army." This sentence, the governor also loves it very much. He said that if the commander-in-chief can really train an army of [-], why worry about the injustice of the bandits and the invincibility of the Eastern captives! "

"Haha, if I really have a hundred thousand soldiers, the big head on my neck might not belong to me!"

(End of this chapter)