The New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty was actually equivalent to the New Year and the Spring Festival in later generations. Because there was no distinction between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar in the Song Dynasty, the New Year's Day is the first day of the New Year, which is the Spring Festival.

For the Song people, there are three most important festivals in the year, namely New Year's Day (New Year's Day), Cold Food Festival, and Winter Solstice. In addition to being related to military and national affairs, all officials have seven-day holidays on these three festivals. In addition, there are holidays such as Tianqing, Shangyuan Festival, Tiansheng Day, Summer Solstice, Innate Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Shensheng Day and other holidays, which have a total of 76 days a year.

In addition, for parents who live far away (3,000 miles away), there is 30 days of family leave every three years.

However, Wu Haogu is still an official and cannot enjoy the holidays of an official. In addition, the Hanlin Academy of Painting is also a place where painters are on duty all year round. Therefore, there is only rotation and no vacation.

Fortunately, Wu Haogu had sufficient reasons not to participate in the rotation, so he had to prepare to entrust Liao to the great task! And there were also special tasks ordered by the officials. For example, the photo of Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Xixia whom he had not met before, and on the eighth day of the lunar month after the lunar month, he had to go to the palace to paint oil paintings for Empress Dowager Xiang...

With so many things in trouble, Liang Shicheng was embarrassed to call Wu Haogu to take the turn again.

Therefore, he can take a break from his busy schedule and have a good New Year.

As early as early December, Wu Haogu's father Wu Chengzhi and his mother Feng Erniang began to plan for food, drink and have fun on the New Year.

In the year that is about to pass, the Wu family is really in danger, and they start to drive low and rise, and finally undergo earth-shaking changes. Of course, they should be wasted extravagance and waste.

Moreover, Wu Haogu is so awesome now! It is no longer an inconspicuous young master in Huazhai on Panlou Street. Instead, the first person in the paintings personally sealed by Yukou, the attendant of Hanlin Painting Academy, and the current great boss of Christie's, who is now full of great fortune and wealth.

In addition, what is more worthy of celebration is that Wu Haogu also successfully cursed the news that his younger brother of the Song Dynasty official family and the most likely heir to the throne, King Duan, Zhao Ji, came forward to marry Pan Qiaolian as a matchmaker for Wu Haogu. Now it has spread throughout Kaifeng Prefecture's calligraphy and painting business.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, no senior colleague of the calligraphy and painting industry has ever had such an opportunity!

However, Wu Haogu could not recognize the old man who was a calligraphy and painting business just because he climbed up to King Duan's golden thigh. This is too inhumane and does not conform to the cultural traditions of the Song Dynasty.

Why did he have to give everyone a chance to flatter them on the New Year's Day in the second year of Yuanfu?

The shopkeepers in the calligraphy and painting business have already prepared generous gifts, and are waiting to find an opportunity to send them to Wuda Operator!

How can a person as good as Wu Haogu, how can he bear to push everyone’s wishes (worth tens of thousands) out?

This is wrong!

Moreover, Wu Haogu has not even become the capital of calligraphy and painting, and he has not designated anyone to be the one for him! How can this be done?

How can the calligraphy and painting business in Kaifeng Prefecture be without the wise leader of the ancient martial arts assistant?

Without Wu Haogu, everyone is unsure!

In addition to the friends in the calligraphy and painting business of Kaifeng Prefecture, relatives of the Baibo Wu family in Luoyang also had to invite some of the three fathers and sons of the Wu family in Luoyang and the Yimen of Baibo Wu family in Luoyang. The conflict between the two sides was caused by Wu Cheng's father's generation... It was nothing more than a financial dispute. For the current Wu family, 10,000 or 20,000 is not a big money at all.

Therefore, Wu Chengzhi asked someone to write to Baibo Wujiazhuang as early as early December, expressing his willingness to donate 5,000 mu of school land to Baipo Home School, and invited the Baibo Wujia to send someone to Kaifeng Prefecture to celebrate the New Year.

In addition, the shareholders and friends of Christie's Store in Wuhaogu also had to gather together. Although the deal had just opened, it made a good start! How could it be celebrated? Moreover, because Christie's Store's transaction became more and more popular, the number of people increased a lot, and the organizational settings were becoming more and more perfect. Including ten rooms, including the large study room (Wuhaogu's office), large shopkeeper room, large account room, personnel room, singing and selling house, business room, art studio room, album room, guard room, miscellaneous room, etc.

In addition to Su Dalang, Zhang Xizai and Mi Youren were still in charge of the shopkeeper's room, accounting room, and personnel room, Hua Manshan was in charge of the shopping mall room; Mo Niang was in charge of singing and selling houses; Wei Sihai and Xie Shangbin, who were poached by Mi Youren from the Imperial College, were responsible for the album and the second room of the art. The former's main business was to distribute the album of "The Courtesan" and print tricks, while the latter cooperated to compile the art books such as "Creation of French Style" and "Dreams of Dreams".

Lin Chong's father Lin Wancheng also worked as a house manager and took charge of the guard room established after the singing and selling in Fenglelou. Now Christie's's business has opened up. These days, many sellers have brought their babies to the door and wanted to take action in the next "Courtessy Photo Singing and Selling". Such good things are in Christie's main store, and they can't be taken care of without good people.

So Lin Wancheng was "promoted" and then went to the imperial guards to dig people himself, digging up a few older teachers, and hired more than a dozen strong men from the countryside outside Kaifeng Prefecture City, all of whom had families and innocent families, and could even take a few guns and sticks, and could drive a strong bow of seven or eight buckets.

The manager of the choreograph room was named Zhou Gao, and was recommended by Guo Jing to Wu Haogu. In addition, he was also a child of the imperial guards. He recognized Guo Jing since he was a child and was not good at martial arts like Guo Jing. However, he had studied for a few years. Later, he was a poor student in several generals and was very unsatisfied. He knew that Guo Jing had made his mark and went to surrender and recommended him to Wu Haogu again.

Wu Haogu personally tested it and found that this person knows everything and has a wide range of knowledge, but he is not even proficient. He didn't know how to use it for a while, so he arranged a choreographer and asked him to recruit more than a dozen choreographers by himself.

In addition to the escort room and chore room, the remaining eight rooms have also begun to recruit personnel.

Mi Youren continued to dig out the corners of feudalism in the Song Dynasty. Not only did he dig an older Ducai from the Imperial College Library, and several craftsmen hired to enrich the art room and the album room, he also dug out a young Ducai craftsman named Huang Zhisheng and thirteen experienced "Masters" (only proficient in one job) from the side of the General College through Li Jie's introduction. These fourteen people are now under the name of the mall, responsible for preparing two projects, Huaxian Temple and Christie's.

In addition, Mi Youren also found a "successor" for himself. His identity was clearly stated, and he must be an official. After the Chinese New Year, he had to prepare for the third-year imperial examination in Yuanfu.

Although he had a good birth and flattered him with his ability, in the Song Dynasty, he could not rely on reincarnation and flattery alone. He always had to pass the level of moral articles. So Mi Youren recommended Wu Haogu the shopkeeper of his "Yingcha" teahouse, and the scholar named Qu Huajie, who became the deputy manager of the personnel room.

Qu Xiucai was a scholar, about thirty years old, born white and fat, from Kaifeng County, and his family has been a clerk for generations. However, because he was obsessed with imperial examinations when he was young, he missed the opportunity to enter the official office and was recommended to Mi Fu's mansion to be a clerk. Later, he was sent to manage the "Yingcha" teahouse and had a good relationship with Xiaomi official.

Madam Mo's house selling is also expanding its personnel, but she did not recruit people directly, but instead took seven or eight disciples, she really became the ancestor of the singing and selling master.

The new and old people at Christie's were added together, and there were hundreds of people. The Wu family who had to attend the banquet on the New Year on a group were from Luoyang. Of course, the banquet was arranged according to the customs of Luoyang. Moreover, Christie's also needed people to stay behind, so it was impossible for them to come all of them.

Of course, Wu Haogu's own "big study room" also needs to expand his personnel. We can't always let a role like Mi Youren take action, right? And not everyone can enter the study room... Entering the study room is not about sweeping the floor and wiping the table, but about the miscellaneous room manager. He has to be proficient in calligraphy and painting, and has read books and can understand various crafts. Such people are not easy to find.

Fortunately, Mi Youren had an idea, so he asked Wu Haogu to show off his apprenticeship. The first person in the painting and the direct attendant of Hanlin Painting Academy is undoubtedly attractive to people in the painting circle. He is not afraid that no one will come. When people come, Wu Haogu will be able to choose a suitable one from it.

However, Wu Haogu didn't have much time to take the apprentice exam, so he informed the major calligraphy and painting camps in Kaifeng Prefecture of the request for admission, and asked them to recommend candidates and bring them to the Wu Prefecture on the New Year's Day.

The Wu family's staff has been expanding these days. Although the Wu family had some money before, it was a small family after all, with only a small courtyard, and it could not be squeezed out even if there were too many people.

It's amazing now. There is a big house with five in and five out of the west city of Kaifeng Prefecture. It's not counting as well as looking at houses and land outside the city (not counting Huaxian Temple and Guild Hall, which is Christie's's industry). It is preparing to build another manor, and there are villas and land in Yuntai Mountain, Haizhou. With such a family background, Wang Po cannot be served by his servant.

So after moving into the new house in the west wing of Kaifeng Prefecture City, Feng Erniang and Wang Po hired more than a dozen slaves. The so-called slaves were not "private servants" (there were official servants in the Song Dynasty, but they were only found by aristocratic families). Instead, the contract slaves hired were given one sum at a time to exchange for some of the personal freedom and labor of the slaves for up to ten years, and terminated the contract after the expiration of the contract. Unlike the working class who had complete personal freedom in later generations, they were also different from the slaves who "Lu Bi Livestock". It is considered an intermediate form.
Chapter completed!