In a busy life, the Qin Dynasty ushered in its second Mid-Autumn Festival.

Because of the lively mid-autumn grand occasion last year, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was not yet here, and Xianyang City began to become lively half a month earlier. The streets and alleys were still decorated with lights and lanterns and colorful flags. Quyuan Business House and even the yamen of the three provinces and six ministries began to buy floats. Chen Xu's Nanshan Villa two mute slaves led a group of craftsmen to make fireworks and firecrackers day and night, but the supply was still in short supply. Merchants from all over the country gathered in the fireworks store of the Academy of Sciences all day long and rushed to buy firecrackers and fireworks with coupons and tickets. As long as a car of fireworks and firecrackers were transported, they would be snatched away instantly.

In fact, it is not only the lively Xianyang. Last year, a grand float parade and lantern riddle guessing activity on the Mid-Autumn Festival of Xianyang last year was spread with the spread of business travel and newspapers from south to north. This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival has begun to be celebrated throughout the Qin Dynasty. From the business travelers traveling across the country, many counties and cities will have grand float parades and lantern riddle guessing activities this year. With the support of officials from all over the country, the development of prosperous businesses in recent years has become a huge driving force for the development of this festival.

Therefore, before the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived, the entire Qin Dynasty had already started a grand festival mode in advance. This festival where people all over the world enjoyed each other greatly condensed the hearts of the people, allowing most of the civilians who were still unclothed to finally have a happy time of enthusiastic participation and celebration.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Xianyang is becoming more and more lively. In order to promote the fine tradition of foodie foodies that must be eaten during the festival, and this year's sesame harvest and the production of small-milled sesame oil is abundant, Chen Xu specially asked Qinghe Hotel to make a large number of mooncakes in advance to sell. This food that he had only heard of before last year was launched, it immediately became the target of the wealthy class for buying. In order to reward the concubines and princes and ministers of the harem, the First Emperor personally ordered the imperial kitchen to make 5,000 mooncakes before the Mid-Autumn Festival, which directly made the officials of the Shaofu and the imperial kitchen busy. Even Chen Xu felt distressed that he had not slept well for several days because the sesame oil consumed by these mooncakes had to be provided. Fortunately, the emperor did not ask for his sesame oil in vain. He rewarded him with a few days later as compensation, and Chen Xu felt much better.

Since it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Xu will naturally not forget his father, mother and relatives. He asked Qinghe Hotel to pack dozens of boxes of mooncakes of various flavors and arranged for people to send them back to Wancheng and Qinghe Town ten days in advance. Of course, living in Mengyi's mansion in Xianyang is essential. Even Chen Ping, Zhang Cang'an, Yu Liang Yingbu and others also sent some to express their condolences.

With the support of the School of Literature, this year's lantern festival was also well prepared. Thousands of lanterns began to hang out in the square in front of the Gonggong Hall a few days in advance. Just wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival to post riddles and start a grand lantern riddle guessing activity.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming as expected in amidst the public expectations.

From dawn, with the crackling sound of firecrackers throughout the city, all kinds of floats began to shuttle back and forth between Xianyang City, drums, music, singing and dancing, and the noise of the people. The whole of Xianyang was trapped in the ocean of festival joy.

When Shen Shi passed and the sun set, the lights in Xianyang City were bright and bright, as if it was daytime. Millions of people took their families and carried lanterns to go out to play. Lion danced everywhere in the southeast, west and north. Hundreds of floats with different decorations were parading back and forth on the streets in Xianyang City, which had been transformed into cement roads. The beautiful little ladies on the car sang and danced and sprinkled coins and candy biscuits to start a grand float performance.

These are almost all spontaneous behaviors of the people, and Chen Xu did not have any arrangements or guidance at all. However, after the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, all the Quyuan Business Houses that participated in this year were already very familiar with the spontaneous carnival.

When the full moon rose, the emperor took his concubines and royal family out of the palace again to patrol, put out the sky lanterns to pray for blessings, guess riddles, and traveled by car to tour the four streets, east, west, south, and north. In the vast and vast festival event ended in the thunder and fireworks performance that exploded all over the sky.

September is already late autumn, and winter will begin in a few days.

But this year's winter seems to be coming a little late. Even when it is the end of September, the weather is still very warm.

The autumn sowing in Chen Xu's fiefdom and fief has all ended, and the various seeds planted in the Western Regions planted in the vegetable garden opened in summer are also in different situations.

Coriander, onion seedlings and carrots have been rising well, and there are also several unknown plants that are still growing well. They are green and look very pleasant, but some of them have not completely died, but they all look thin and weak canes and yellow leaves. Although they are covered with millet grass, there is basically no hope of blooming and fruiting.

After Chen Xu carefully identified these seedlings, one was eggplant and the other was cucumber, because he was very familiar with these two kinds of vegetables when he was a child. As for the other two melon seedlings with long stems and large leaves crawling on the ground, one was watermelon, because they could be identified through the seeds. Chen Xu guessed that it should be Hami melon.

These vegetables were all vegetables, fruits and vegetables that he had been thinking about for a long time. When he encouraged Yingbu, Jiang Hu and others to attack the Western Regions and conquered Ah San as soon as possible, he also wanted to bring these fruits and vegetables that were familiar to later generations back to the Central Plains for cultivation as soon as possible.

The Chinese civilization has a long history. It has had a history of agricultural civilization since Shennong, and has also cultivated a large amount of grain and vegetables one after another. However, in fact, except for boiling rice and millet rice, most of the high-yield grain crops are foreigners, especially the staple grains, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and even high-yield rice are not species in the Central Plains, especially vegetables and fruits. Peaches, apricots, plums, pears, persimmons, and oranges produced in the Central Plains are not the main fruit varieties in later generations. The fruits consumed by the masses are apples, bananas, grapes, watermelons, etc. These are almost all foreigners, and even more vegetables. The main vegetables in the Shang and Zhou dynasties were basically invisible in later generations. In addition to cabbage and radishes, cucumbers, eggplants, chili peppers, carrots, tomatoes, etc. were all introduced from the West.

Whether these imported grains or vegetables, fruits and melons, there are about two sources, one is India and the other is America.

If no one promotes the initiative to search, this process will continue for hundreds or thousands of years before it will slowly appear in the Chinese diet structure.

Now, due to Chen Xu's promotion, these vegetable and grain crops have been delivered in advance, but because the time of appearance is not very good, the summer is almost over and it is delivered back, sowing and growing is too late to mature.

But Chen Xu, who was thinking about the common fruits and vegetables of later generations, was so distorted that he was squatting in the vegetable garden. In his mind, a little man was lying on the ground like a wild wolf, howling at the sky, wishing to hold the seedlings of these vegetables, fruits and vegetables, to satisfy his desire to drool.

No, I must eat these vegetables in advance.

When Chen Xu's saliva flowed down instantly when he thought of how to eat a few fresh and tender cucumbers around the stove in the middle of winter.

"Go to find the butler, I want to build a greenhouse here!"

"Mr. Marquis, what is a greenhouse?" The manager of the vegetable garden stood beside him with mud and asked with a confused face.

"Tell me more, hurry up and find someone!" Chen Xu kicked the manager in the ass.

Seeing that the Marquis was angry, the manager hurried back to find the housekeeper. Soon the gray-bearded butler came hurriedly with a few servants.

"Arranging people to cut wood and bamboo, and building a greenhouse on this vegetable garden... Thick straw curtains are woven around it with millet and straw to cover it... The top is divided into two-foot square grids..."

"Mr. Marquis, are you going to cover this vegetable garden with a wooden shed?" The old butler was confused.

"Well, it must be completed within five days!" Chen Xu nodded and left.

The old housekeeper and the manager looked at each other for a few times and did not dare to delay. They were very excited and called the servants of the marquis' mansion and the farmers on the fief to cut wood and bamboo.

This vegetable garden has an area of ​​two or three acres. It is not a small project to build a closed wooden shed within five days. However, even if the Marquis wants to build a greenhouse to cover Xianyang, he can only find a way to do it immediately.

Time is tight and the task is heavy. Under the arrangement of the housekeeper, the entire Qinghe Villa was in a mess. The roars of managers were everywhere. Soon, groups of servants went out with knives and saws and axes. The managers and servants in the mansion almost came out in full swing. Shui Qingrou and Ying Shiman, who were helping Chen Xu sort out the manuscript in the study, couldn't help but run out to ask, but they only found out the word "greenhouse" that they had never heard of before.

While the house was in chaos, Chen Xu had already rode a horse to the warehouse of the glass factory.

"Mr. Marquis, these glasses were ordered by carriage factories in various places!" In the warehouse, Tang Ting looked at Chen Xu staring at the neatly arranged glass and said quickly.

"The carriage factory asked them to wait a moment, and I said I want to use it!" Chen Xu was too lazy to pay attention to this matter.
Chapter completed!