Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Kong Ming had no idea that he was being remembered at all.

He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the brief record in his hand, and an uncontrollable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Regardless of other things, this tofu method alone is enough to rejuvenate the country, and it is a little reluctant to implement it with all its strength.

And if you add all kinds of research, how much can be done?

It should have been exciting to have Zijing help, but now looking at what he had to do, Kong Ming felt even more stressed.

Master said, 'The deceased is like a man who does not give up day and night.' I also feel it.

Kong Ming sighed in a low voice:

My life is over... If you want to understand the truth, the only way is to recruit talented people through the imperial examination, which is the way of education.

Pang Tong Fazheng and others also whispered in agreement.

For them now, defeating Cao Cao is no longer a top priority. Only if they can restore a few percent of the prosperous age after a thousand years is their lifelong pursuit.

At the very least, the scene where the whole country celebrated for a night just now will probably be etched in our minds for the rest of our lives.

Liu Bei also consoled him:

Kong Ming, don't be anxious. Now all the talented people from Hanzhong counties in Yongliang Pass have arrived in Chang'an.

The first test will be held in ten days. The virtuous and talented people will be put to the use of the Han Dynasty.

Kong Ming also knew that he was impatient, so he cupped his hands and said nothing.

It was also decided that this imperial examination after the Three Qin Dynasty had been planned for a long time. July and August should have been a good time, but the overly dilapidated Guanzhong disrupted this plan.

There is no space, no food and clothing, and even the papermaking workshop is not on track yet. Moreover, the new farming methods that the agricultural officials have to teach in various counties also require a lot of manpower, and the people who are busy farming have no time to come. Chang'an participated in the imperial examination.

In the end, the time was pushed back again and again, and finally it was set at the beginning of November.

Although it was a bit cold, young and wise people from all over the country also expressed their interest in Xuande Gong's partial subsidy of food and accommodation.

Perhaps in order to boost the spirit of the military advisers, Liu Bei took the initiative to pour a bottle of wine, glanced solemnly at the faces of everyone in the room, and finally raised his glass to the light curtain and said:

A man in the Yan Dynasty can have a thousand-mile ambition, and he can start with a single step. Thanks to all of you comrades, you should drink from it.

These words suddenly made everyone suddenly realize that four or five years ago, Cao Cao's thieves brought hundreds of thousands of troops and came south with great ferocity, as if they were going to end their career in one battle.

As a result, things are different now, and the fear of Cao Cao has long been gone, which makes people sigh a lot.

So everyone raised their glasses together and drank together as the grand scene slowly dimmed on the light screen.

The numerous fireworks scenery gradually faded away, and the young man's voice and shadow also reappeared in the light curtain.

[Generally speaking, after the New Year, there are only two things that attract the most attention to us people.

Those who are busy with their studies are thinking about how much money they will get as a gift, and those who are starting a family are thinking about how many days of vacation they have left.

We’ve just talked about New Year’s money, so now we’re talking about holidays.

During the Han Dynasty, the holidays were quite simple, and the rule was five days off and one day off for bathing.

To put it bluntly, it means working for four days and taking one day off, so that you have time to rest and bathe.

Because officials in the Han Dynasty implemented a boarding system, that is, they had food, accommodation, and office work in the yamen. Taking a bath every five days also gave ordinary petty officials a time to go home and reunite with their relatives and friends.

In addition, there are one-day holidays on the twelfth lunar month, Chinese New Year, winter solstice, summer solstice, Sanfu, Shangyuan, etc. There are about eighty days of holidays in a year, which is a big holiday without small holidays.

However, due to the productivity and entertainment conditions of the Han Dynasty, it is actually not fun to give you a long vacation. The whole situation is a state of small holidays and big holidays.

In the Tang Dynasty, as productivity increased, officials became busier, people's entertainment needs also increased, and the vacation system also changed.

In the Han Dynasty, the practice of taking a five-day break to bathe became a ten-day break to bathe in the Tang Dynasty. It seemed to be a lot harder than the Han Dynasty, but well, the Tang Dynasty had a Golden Week.

There are seven days off on New Year's Day, Winter Solstice, and Tomb Sweeping Day, three days off on Mid-Autumn Festival and Summer Solstice, and there are also one day off on minor festivals such as Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, Dragon Boat Festival, and Double Ninth Festival.

In addition, there are family leave ranging from 15 to 35 days depending on the distance of the parents from the place of residence; children can take three days when they become adults, and nine days when children get married. There is also half a month of leave in May called field affairs. There is also a half-month holiday in September called Cold Clothes.

Even not counting children getting married, the Tang Dynasty had nearly a hundred days of regular holidays a year, which was very humane. 】

Almost unanimously, Kong Ming and others turned their heads towards Liu Bei uncontrollably.

Although he didn't say a word, the desire was written clearly on his face.

Ma Chao blurted out his thoughts directly, allowing everyone in the silent hall to hear clearly:

The tofu method is troublesome to learn, but Xiu Mu should imitate it...ah, my lord, this is just what I said.

Afterwards, he realized that no one was talking in the hall, so Ma Chao hurriedly asked for help.

Why is Meng Qi talking nonsense? This statement is very reasonable.

Liu Bei comforted and then explained:

The Han Dynasty followed the example of the pre-Qin Dynasty and set up official residences to keep officials on duty. The practices therein are... quite chaotic to this day.

Liu Bei shook his head as if remembering all the things he had done when he was an official in the past, and sighed slightly:

Combining holidays together allows us to celebrate together. This system has been regarded as correct by later generations and is quite... almost humane.

It's better to wait until this year and try to take a rest.

The word Tiaoxiu is simple and easy to understand. Pang Tong immediately smiled and praised:

My lord, you really have the spirit of a holy king.

Such disgusting praise made Liu Bei dumbfounded, and he even blushed in his heart.

After all, this is said to be an adjustment of rest, but according to the calculations of later generations, the difference between the one-year-old rest time in Han and Tang Dynasties is only about ten days. A shorter one-month rest and an increase in festival rest can make the military commander complain. This matter has nothing to do with that spy. The public's day and night are quite similar.

But...Liu Bei's thoughts were a little distant for a while.

People often ridicule him for his dishonesty by sniping at him at dawn and dusk, but what I just said about interfering with the relationship does not mean this.

So the point is almost human kindness?

[Holidays are also a point of the Song Dynasty that is talked about by modern people.

The most typical one is the Chinese New Year in the Song Dynasty:

New Year's Day and Lantern Festival each have seven days off.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year is the memorial day of Father Zhao, and the tenth day of the Lunar New Year is the birthday of Grandma Zhao, so they need to take three days off each.

In addition, according to the Song Dynasty calendar, the winter solstice falls on the 22nd or 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and there is also a seven-day holiday.

These holidays alone can be taken together for a month, and in the Zhenzong Dynasty, because of the trick of playing with the Heavenly Book, Song Zhenzong also added an additional Tianqing Festival for the advent of the Heavenly Book, which was set on the third day of the Lunar New Year and also had a seven-day holiday.

In this way, the holidays before and after the Chinese New Year have reached an unprecedented thirty-four days.

In addition, the Song Dynasty inherited almost all the holidays from the Tang Dynasty. Not only was it not deleted, but it also extended the cold food holiday to seven days, the summer solstice and the twelfth lunar month to three days. The total number of holidays in a year is about 120 days. If Counting family visits, weddings and funerals, etc., the number will only be longer.

In the Song Dynasty, it was more simple and crude. Officials could perform the sealing ceremony on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, sealing the official seal and returning home for the New Year. This was also the original meaning of the word seal.

On the contrary, you only need to rush back to the residence on the 20th of the first lunar month to perform the opening of seal ceremony and open the office.

When it comes to the holiday system, things started to go back earlier in ancient times.

The Yuan Dynasty under the rule of the Mongols divided people into four classes and did not think about human rights. The annual holiday was reduced to sixteen days, but it was extended later, reaching about seventy-six days by the end of Kublai Khan, but Still far inferior to the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. Many people think that if they are not just on par with the Tang and Song Dynasties during the holidays, they should at least not be worse than the Yuan Dynasty, right?

It's a pity that Emperor Hongwu said: I didn't have a class when I was young, but now you have a class at a young age, so you should cherish it.

So with a stroke of his pen, Lao Zhu increased the annual holiday from sixteen days in the Yuan Dynasty... by two days, to eighteen days.

An overview of the holidays in the Ming Dynasty is more complicated, because thanks to the methods of peeling last trees in the Hongwu Dynasty and the later spy politics of the East and West Factory, the relationship between the emperor and his ministers in the Ming Dynasty was almost the worst in history, and welfare was naturally unthinkable.

The worst welfare was when the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were only three days of holidays during the Spring Festival, Winter Solstice and Lao Zhu's birthday. Later, New Year's Day and Lantern Festival were gradually extended to a total of eighteen days.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, after constant fighting and additions and deletions, generally speaking, three days of monthly leave were added to each month, and about fifty days of leave were available in a year.

Of course, the above are all holidays for officials. Real ordinary people, let alone holidays, are basically in a state of stopping hands and stopping talking.

If you are in a prosperous time and there are no disaster years, you can save a little surplus food and give yourself ten and a half days of rest during the New Year, which is already very powerful.

From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the economy and culture were basically in an increasingly prosperous state. Although the Ming Dynasty was culturally developed, there is still a question mark as to whether it was advanced and prosperous.

From this point of view, the length of holidays may be regarded as an indicator of whether a dynasty's economy and culture are prosperous and relaxed.

As for us in modern times, the situation is more complicated. After all, legally speaking, we have five days off and two days off, and the total vacation days in a year are about 115 days.

Although there may be various relationships such as time off and so on that may not reach this number, it is still better than the ordinary people in ancient times. 】

Li Shimin was a little envious of the Song Dynasty again...

How come you are not unified, but you can celebrate for a month and celebrate the New Year.

My military exploits are unparalleled and I am known as a civil servant. However, in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, I needed to make great arrangements for the imperial court and worship heaven. I was so busy that I could not stop working all night long...

Could it be that he was born in sorrow and died in happiness?

No, no, no, Li Shimin shook his head in his heart. After all, not to mention the special Meng Yuan, the number of Xiu Mu in the Ming Dynasty was only half that of the Tang Dynasty. Isn't the result still a lot of problems?

But thinking about the Ming Dynasty, Li Shimin still had a logical question:

Is peeling off the mulberry grass a ritual for celebrating the New Year in the Ming Dynasty?

This question caused Zhenguan civil and military officials to look at each other in confusion, and no one could answer it.

Although Li Shimin also had a conjecture in his mind, he felt that this conjecture was too ridiculous. After all, although the emperor was captured in the Ming Dynasty, it was unheard of to be a beggar founder, and judging from the prosperity of its culture, it was not much worse than that of the Song Dynasty. , how could it be possible to do this?

No one answered and he ignored it. Li Shimin studied the prosperity of Xiu Mu in Song Dynasty again, but finally shook his head and felt that it had no reference value.

It was impossible for him to imitate the Song Dynasty. He could not summon the world to congratulate him in the name of his parents' sacrifice, nor could he fabricate a festival out of thin air just to allow civil and military officials to rest for three to five days more every year.

Wei Zheng kept up with Li Shimin's thoughts on this matter and suggested:

Later generations call me Xiu Mu of the Tang Dynasty. Zhenguan is not complete at this time, so it is better to change it accordingly.

In addition, if Your Majesty wants to increase the holiday day, it is better to celebrate the victory over the Turks or Tuyuhun, or wait for the success of the Western Regions to be announced to the world, so that all the people will have a holiday to celebrate.

A smile appeared on Li Shimin's face: This is a very good idea.

So Wei Zheng sat down again with a straight face.

He could also see that the Tang Dynasty holidays described by later generations were mostly fixed in the Kaiyuan period or when the prince became emperor.

Because at this time in Zhenguan, Yuan Zheng still had ten days of rest, which was longer than the seven days mentioned in later generations.

But correspondingly, there is no seven-day holiday during the Qingming Festival, and there is no family leave. Seeing it at this time can be said to be a pretty good reference direction.

However, after these matters were settled, Li Shimin re-read this part of the record, temporarily skipping the discussion about the relationship between the emperor and his ministers in the Ming Dynasty, and finally focused on the last part of the remarks. He pondered for a while and asked:

What does this later generation mean when it is said that the law stipulates five days off and two days off...?

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with this sentence, but if you think about it carefully, Xiu Mu of the Tang Dynasty was also written in laws and edicts. What is the difference?

Du Ruhui could only guess:

This statement may mean that the whole country enjoys this rest.

Du Ruhui's statement was not very clear, but it was an answer to Li Shimin's question, which made him slightly silent, and finally sighed:

If the Qin Mirror can be carried out without delay, this will benefit the people and become the foundation for hundreds of generations.

I don't know how to act accordingly.

Fang Xuanling breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, he was almost worried that if His Majesty waved his hand, future generations would have to learn from this.

To be honest, this method of resting with the people is indeed good, but it is completely impossible for today's Tang Dynasty.

The most basic thing is, what is the yield per mu of farmland in future generations? How much is the yield per mu of farmland in Datang today? They are totally incompatible.

Moreover, there are iron boxes running on the road that do not require mules and horses. They are probably more useful than horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and there is no comparison at all.

However, seeing a slightly disappointed look on His Majesty's face, Fang Xuanling thought for a while and found another way:

If you want to show your kindness and improve people's livelihood, Your Majesty may start with official servants.

Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully. Of course he understood what Fang Xuanling said. This was also a somewhat difficult practical issue that Yan Lide had mentioned to him above.

Looking at the light curtain of future generations to this day, what can be seen from it is that not to mention future generations, I am afraid that the craftsmen of Song, Na and Ming are very important.

The most typical one is that the death of the Southern Song Dynasty was caused by the trebuchet made by the craftsmen?

Nowadays, in the Tang Dynasty, apart from a small number of craftsmen who served as general supervisors and young masters, most of the craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty were nothing more than apprentices, slaves and maids.

Among them, the prisoners are prisoners, which is easy to say. They only need to wait for the end of the sentence or to be rehabilitated.

As for those who work as official households, miscellaneous households, slaves or maids, it is a real low-level status and low-level industry, and it will be much more troublesome to reuse them.

After all, as we have seen before, Yan Liben's deeds were as high as that of a minister, but he still regarded painting as a lowly profession.

On this point, Yan Lide and Xuan Ling's opinions are indeed correct. If the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the Western Regions, split the Langjiao Prefecture, and benefit all the Japanese countries, it would require thousands of craftsmen.

How to achieve it depends on what he does.