The capital is definitely the most comfortable time of the year. Just after the spring when flowers bloom and lush land, it is time for fresh vegetables and fruits to be launched in large quantities.

The beginning of spring sandstorm that troubles old Beijingers has passed. The streets are full of vendors selling cherries, sweet peaches, black and white mulberry, and every family has begun to prepare glutinous rice, red dates, and reed leaves, because the May Day is coming.

To be honest, in the past two years, the Qing Dynasty did not place bills, and the Sijiu city was really like a Tongzhi Zhongxing. The grain prices in Beijing were very stable and even lowered, which reduced the cost of living for the people.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the people's desire was very low. If they could eat enough, they would be paradise. They were not particular about anything else. The food supply was sufficient and the price was cheap, which directly caused the population of Sijiu City to gradually increase.

With more population, the shops and real estate of old Beijingers will naturally be valuable, and their income will certainly rise. As well as the taxes of Shuntian Mansion and other yamen also increase, the tariffs of Chongwenmen alone are more than doubled than five years ago.

This is a virtuous cycle. Too much food and cheap food will cause the population to continue to grow. As the population increases, commodity consumption will increase, which will promote the prosperity of commerce. Real estate, catering, textile industry, medicine... Even entertainment industries such as Tianqiao and Bada Hutong have flourished.

And the root of all this prosperity lies in the word "grain".

The people do not understand the principles of economics, but the big businesses in the capital can clearly see that the capital of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, was able to prosper to this point, thanks to Xiao Letian's blessing.

There are only two main reasons for sufficient food supply. One is that the war in Jiangnan has calmed down the Grand Canal and resumed normal navigation, and materials from the south can be transported to the north from afar.

The second point is that Xiao Letian's Nanyang rice began to pour in in large quantities. God knows how much these rice cost to sell in the production area. How can it be transported to Tanggu by sea and then sent to Beijing City so cheap, it is actually cheaper than Jiangnan rice. It is really incredible.

It is precisely because of the efforts of the marine grain merchants such as the Mi Boss that no local grain merchants in the Qing Dynasty dared to make black money, and they all entered the era of small profits.

The people who benefit in the end are the people. Being able to eat enough is a blessing. The empire with a grain boss has at least preserved a trace of prosperity in the capital. As for the remote mountainous areas of other provinces, they cannot be seen or heard in the Forbidden City. Just think they do not exist.

In such a prosperous place, you should not celebrate it when you encounter such an important festival as May Day. The wealthy families killed chickens and cows, made dozens of stuffed rice dumplings, and even sent people to Tianjin Weikuaima to buy the freshest sea crabs, drink realgar wine and eat five poison cakes. Their life was so beautiful.

Small households also have their own fun. May Day allows girls who are out of the house to return to the door. This was a great event in ancient times. Cut meat and wine, selling fresh fruit and pastries, at least you have to make rice dumplings such as bean paste and candied dates, and the mugwort at the door must be inserted, and they are all lively like the New Year.

But before May Day this year, the street tasted a little wrong. Old Beijing keenly discovered that there were too many soldiers patrolling the roadside, and even the best friends in daily life could not tell the truth. They killed chickens and wiped their necks so scared that their faces were pale.

There is something even more bizarre. All the soldiers in the Zongli Yamen have been replaced. Yishui is full of recruits from the Xishan camp. They are wearing braids and wearing yellow military uniforms. The foreign guns and bayonets in their hands are sharp. This is the Xishan recruits trained by the Japanese Sixth.

The Zongli Yamen has changed its defenses, and there is a battalion of new recruits from Xishan in the Jiumen Admiral Yamen. Some people even say that the Japanese Six hid a team of new recruits behind the Qing Gate. God knows Yi? What do you want to do.

"Damn Liu is going to rebel?" The friend who was familiar with him in the teahouse muttered in a low voice.

"Stop farting, why do you rebel? The rebellion that can rebel in the Qing Dynasty has not yet been born! Thinking about Dorgon and Oboi were cruel back then? Didn't he let the emperor die in the end? He also rebel... a problem!"

"Hey... I'm just talking nonsense? Let's chat!" The Eight Banners man who had been scolded was obviously not as tall as the other party. He had a blushing face and thick neck, but he didn't dare to refute it and had to drink tea embarrassedly.

I really say whatever I say, and what I am afraid of is what I am afraid of! Just as I said, "I rebel", a figure jumped in at the entrance of the teahouse. When I entered the room, I screamed and even sat on the ground and cried loudly.

"Wuwuwu... the sky has collapsed! The ground has sunk! Our Qing Dynasty is about to play...Wuwuwu..."

"Hey hey...Isn't this Huang San? What are you saying..."

"I don't want to die, get up quickly. Huang San... How dare you say such a ruthless thing! You are not afraid of the ban on the sect's mansion! Get up quickly..."

Huang San sat on the ground like mud and cried loudly. Everyone in the teahouse looked at him at a loss. "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"General Ningguta Hunchun rebelled... He led his troops north to launch a mutiny in Heilongjiang... Heilongjiang General Tepxin was captured alive, and all the civil servants and generals in a province were given a spoonful of... "

"God, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces are all his territory! They all rebel..."

With a bang, the teahouse was completely inflated. Someone rushed over and grabbed Huang San's collar and lifted him up. "What did you say? If you have the will, please say it again..."

"It's okay to say it a hundred times... Hunchun rebelled, Jilin and Heilongjiang are all his territory..."

How is this possible? People were as dumbfounded as walking corpses. "No, that's the territory of the two provinces, with hundreds of civil and military officials, and they are restrained and restrained each other. How could they all rebel all at once?"

"Stop asking me, please don't ask me... I just knew, didn't my father have a connection with Prince Guo's family? Prince Guo has several caravans outside the pass, and my father mixed up with a bunch of..."

"Before May Day, it is logical that they all get a bonus for the holiday. This rule has never changed. Even the year when the British and French forces entered, the caravan sent my house a lot of rice, flour, meat and eggs and other goods for the holiday..."

"Seriously! Don't talk nonsense..." people yelled.

"Yes, yes... But this year, I didn't even have a copper plate delivered this year. I thought something was wrong, so I went to Prince Guo's house to inquire..."

"What do you think? Prince Guo has lived in the palace for four days and has not come out for four days... The court has exploded, and many old princes have entered the palace to discuss..."

"It's over, it's really over! This is the first time that the Guochao has rebelled in Manchu..."

Note: Book friends, "Pure Livestock", are busy celebrating the first anniversary of their wedding. They are asking book friends to send a postcard to write a few blessings. You can ask him the address in the group and send him a postcard to set off the romantic atmosphere.

The words I wrote are so bad that I won’t be ugly! I’ll send you a few blessings to you.

Speaking of blessings, it is actually just happiness and fulfillment, and I think you are tired of listening to it. Here I am an old man who has successfully survived the itch of seven years. I will give you a few truths and useful information.

Before marriage and after marriage, there are two completely different concepts, two realms. Before marriage, it is romance and passionate love. You can try all the romantic plots that impress you in film and television dramas, just have fun and have fun.

But after getting married, everything changed, and romance gradually faded away. It was more about the vegetables, rice, oil and salt in life, such as wiping the floor, washing clothes, washing toilets, taking out garbage, etc., which had nothing to do with romance.

As the two of them get closer, their mutual shortcomings are magnified, as if everything becomes different overnight.

Don’t be surprised, this is marriage, and marriage does not require love and romantics. What marriage requires is family affection and family affection.

Any couple who can successfully survive the seven-year itch and work together to share the same old age will not be maintained by love, but only rely on the word "family affection".

So, when you get married, you have to reach a consensus and quickly sublimate from love to family affection. You two will be the closest couple in the world in the future.

From now on, you will spend more time together than your parents and your children. If you want to be with you for half a century, how can you rely on love? In the end, it is just family affection.

Marriage is not one plus one equals two, but one plus one equals one!

Everyone wears out half of their inappropriateness and eventually turns into a pair of intimate gears, and turns their lives together. This is marriage!

Marriage is not a blind effort and demand from one party. A happy marriage should be the common effort of two people without asking for it. A lonely tree cannot form a forest, a single thread cannot form a thread, and a slap cannot be a slap!

Since the two of you have entered the palace of marriage together, you should think about the path of marriage together. Don’t imagine that your life will not change as before. That is unrealistic.

Communicate well and survive the beginning of the running-in period. The sweetness of marriage can be achieved through enduring, and there is no shortcut to take.
Chapter completed!