At the end of the prairie offering at the temple, Ulsan-jun turned his head and called Jung Yum-ming to him, taking him by the hand to ride on a light carriage with two light carriages.
Ulsan-gun's special light carriage was driven by two tall horses, with a magnificent umbrella cover, open on all sides, and could seat two people. Ulsan-gun brought Zheng Yuming along with him, and slowly drove towards Ulsan-gun's residence from the temple, and the nobles of the city of Dacheng followed behind in their respective carriages in turn.
The caravan was walking on the main road of Dacheng, and the people standing on both sides of the car cheered at Ulsanjun's huagai car, and the flowers in their hands were thrown into the car, and in less than a few moments, flowers were falling all over Gongziguang and Zheng Yuming, who were in the car.
Gong Ziguang and Zheng Yuming, both of whom are white and creamy in complexion, and both of whom are handsome, seem to be a pair of jades in people's eyes, and the young girls not only threw flowers, but also jewelry wrapped in cloth and silk and threw them onto the car. Zheng Yuming opened a silk bag fell into his arms, he thought it was wrapped in flower petals, but it turned out that the silk cloth is wrapped in half a pair of earrings, but not a stiff face.
"Zheng Qing, the owner of these earrings has asked you for a date." Gong Ziguang found the change in Zheng Yuming's face amusing.
"Seeking an appointment?" Jung Yuming turned his face toward Gong Zi Guang in search of an explanation.
"All you have to do is to stand by the moat of Dacheng with this half pair of earrings, and the owner of the earrings will come forward to the appointment with the other half pair. Inside the thrown silken cloth are all the half pairs of jewelry, a proof of meeting on a date." Gongziguang unwrapped the other silk bag on his body to show Zheng Yuming the jewelry in it, and wrapped in that rolled bag was a bracelet.
"What about after the appointment?" Zheng Yuming sweated, this ancient maidens are so direct in their courtship.
"To go to the appointment and get along satisfactorily, it is a door-to-door marriage proposal, and if it does not seem suitable, half a pair of tokens will be returned to the original owner, and then each goes his own way."
"Eh..." Zheng Yuming sweated even more, being both efficient and spontaneous, if he had encountered such a blind date in modern times, his singleness problem would have been solved a long time ago.
"This jade pendant is well carved." Zheng Yuming unzipped another silk bag and took out a jade pendant for closer inspection, the jade pendant was of superior quality and shone with a soft luster.
"Does Zheng Qing like jade?" Gong Ziguang's face darkened, took the jade pendant from Zheng Yuming's hand and threw it into a basket at his feet, both he and Zheng Yuming will not go to the appointment tonight, the jewelry inside these silk bags will be placed in front of the Jun House door for collection by tomorrow, the person who sent out the invitation will only need to hold half a pair of them in his hand to claim back the invitation item that was thrown out. Zheng Yuming just looked at the jade pendant is not a girl throw, is a man jewelry.
"Not too fond of it." Zheng Yuming thought about it, he wasn't too fond of jade, emerald, diamonds and these things, his favorite thing was to order the red tickets of the Celestial Dynasty. When Zheng Yuming thought about this, he suddenly realized that he was really a vulgar person.
"The light has a few pairs of jade jewelry quality on the price, and so on given to Zheng Qing." Gongzi light take the eye to Zheng Yuming whole body scanned a bit, found Zheng Yuming all over the body unexpectedly no jade ornaments, jade general how can there be no jade to match!
"Your Excellency's reward is too heavy, please take it back!" As soon as Zheng Yuming heard that Gongzi Guang wanted to reward several pairs of jades as soon as he opened his mouth, he quickly opened his mouth to decline.
"Zheng Qing is not allowed to be polite with Guang!" Gongzi Guang feigned anger.
"Yuming thanks Gongzi for the reward." As soon as Zheng Yuming saw Gong Ziguang's face, he knew that the reward could not be shrugged off and had to accept it, but in his heart, he was pondering what he had to send to Wei Shen from Nambu in order for Wei Shen not to be heartbroken by Gong Ziguang's largesse to him. Although Wei Shen never stopped the Ulsan Monarch from rewarding his ministers, the corners of his eyes always involuntarily twitched a few times when the rewards were too heavy. After Chu Chao Hui observed this phenomenon twice, Zheng Yuming had the idea of sending Nambu goods to fill the coffers of the Ulsan Monarch. Since then, Gong Ziguang again rewarded valuables to Zheng Yuming, Wei Shen corner of the eye does not twitch.
On the two days of the Moon Festival and the Spring Festival, the gates of Dacheng were open from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and the common people would not be charged an entry fee to enter the city. In the morning, after the prairie festival at the Imperial Temple, the people of Dacheng had a celebration program. Near the Imperial Temple, there were performances by various kinds of folk artists, and after the prairie festival, the people from outside the city would stay near the Imperial Temple until the gates of the city were closed, while the people of the city lit bonfires near the Imperial Temple, danced and sang until midnight before they gradually dispersed. Every year, the city of Dacheng is silent until the early hours of the morning.
The nobles did not celebrate with the commoners; they were entertained by the Ulsan ruler at a banquet in his residence, which was accompanied by wonderful songs, dances, and performances of arts. Because of the large number of people attending the banquet, the banquet was not held inside the house, but in the courtyard of Ulsan Province, reed mats were spread out and low tables were set up, and the nobles sat cross-legged on the mats and enjoyed the food and wine on the low tables.
In ancient times, it was all about honoring the north, so the main seat of the banquet was located in the north, with the nobles sitting on either side, and the kinsmen who followed them sitting behind the patriarch or the master of the house.
The worship at the Imperial Temple required a strict order of rank, so the seating at the banquet in the Ulsanjun residence was not according to rank, but according to the degree of affinity of the lord of the city of Dacheng. On the left side of Gong Ziguang's head was the Wei family, seated Wei Shen and Gong Ziguang's two uncles Wei Ren and Wei Ci. At the top of the right side was Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui's row. Next to the two Zheng and Chu were the Chen Clan.
The banquet lasted from noon to night, and the entertainment was also very long. Soon after the banquet started, the songstresses kept in the Ulsan government came up to dance, and after the songstresses finished their song and dance, the artist Xin performed a piece of konghou, and his excellent performance mesmerized the crowd. Artist Xin receives the reward and goes down from the banquet table in disappointment. Usually, the reward is not as expensive as today's performance, but Gong Ziguang always gives him a seat next to him, but today, Gong Ziguang has increased the reward but did not ask him to accompany him.
Wu Da family with Huo siblings, Wei Qing, Fan Jin, Jiang Gui sat behind Zheng Chu two, their position has a good view, see the praise see very clear.
Fan Jin and Jiang Gui have both been in and out of high-class occasions, and will not shy away from big occasions, as the two close followers of the governor of Nambu, the two of them have a place in the last position behind the main house, although they can't enjoy the short tables with food and wine like Wu Da and the others, the reed mat in front of the two of them still has half of the delicious food, Huo Sihua also took a jug of green wine from the short tables and handed it to them. After the civilians became slaves, the treatment was conversely much better than before. When Fan Jin originally performed his skills, he waited outside the banquet table, and had to wait until the performance was over before he could receive his food at the side.
Wu Da today is an eye-opener, the original can only be seen from afar of the Imperial Temple rituals, today have the honor to go in to pay homage, never appreciated the song and dance musical instrument performance, today to see. Especially Zheng Chu two with the nobles to his introduction are righteous brother address, these original look do not look at Wu Da a glance of the nobles, this time not only lifted the eyelids to see him, but also nodded to him. All of today's experience, let Wu Da feel excited, Qing wine more and more drink, the program performance of the applause is also getting louder and louder, good thing that the banquet in the people are wine happy, but no one noticed Wu Da's loud voice.
Just when the crowd was in high spirits, a few pleasant bird songs rang out, slowly, the birds began to gather, all the birds chirped in unison, it seemed that a hundred birds flew over the Ulsan Monarch's mansion, the crowd raised their heads and looked around, but they didn't find any birds stopping to roost, just when the crowd was looking for bird traces, a tiger's roar came from a tiger that seemed like it was not far away, many of the nobles on the banquet table changed their faces greatly in fear, a few of them stood up, and looked around in a hurry.
Gong Ziguang sat at the top, at first he was also looking for the bird, after finding no sign of the bird, Gong Ziguang suspiciously looked at the place where the sound of the bird was emitted, and found that the place was the seat of the south port, and suddenly thought that the south port dedication program was precisely the ventriloquist performance.
When someone at the banquet was so frightened by the tiger's roar that they stood up and looked around in fear, Gong Ziguang cracked his mouth and laughed; the ventriloquism of the Nambu artists was so realistic that even Wei Shen's face showed a nervous look.
Scared away a hundred birds, the tiger's voice also gradually far away, the crowd held their breath to listen carefully, found that the tiger's voice finally curled away, one by one to relax their bodies, some people are wiping their foreheads out of a big sweat.
"Good! Not bad! Nambu artists come forward to receive their reward!" Gong Ziguang applauded.
"Thank you, Uisan-kun, for the reward!" Fanzu hurriedly walked from his seat to the center, lying down and bending down to receive the reward.
Fan Jin came out to collect the reward, and the crowd at the banquet realized that it was the slave of the governor of Nambu who had just presented the ventriloquist performance.
"Nambu's dedication performance is wonderful, it's as if you were there." The Chen Clan Chief was the first to stand up and praise the Duke Guang when his words of reward landed.
"Nice! Not bad! The sound of the tiger whistling scared the old man out of a sweat." Gongzi Guang's great uncle Wei Ren also laughed out loud, just now when he heard the sound of a tiger whistling, Wei Ren almost drew his sword and stood in front of his nephew to protect him, and only when he saw the guards standing motionless in the distance did Wei Ren realize that it was a ventriloquist show.
"Next we'll try the sweet potatoes that Nambu sent us." Gong Ziguang waved his hand and the waiters brought two plates of boiled sweet potatoes to each table.
Gong Ziguang looked at the red skinned food in front of him and waved at Zheng Yuming. "Zheng Qing! Come and teach Guang how to eat food sweet potatoes."
"Gongzi, this sweet potato can be eaten by simply peeling off the outer skin." Zheng Yuming went to kneel down next to Gong Ziguang's banquet table and handed Gong Ziguang a sweet potato with half of its skin peeled off. As soon as the sweet potato's skin was peeled off, an aroma immediately wafted out.
"Nice! Very sweet, mmm, it has the flavor of chestnuts, more so than chestnuts." Gong Zi Guang nodded as he ate.
"Does this sweet potato also grow on a tree like the big chestnut?" Chen Meng wondered what kind of tree could bear half a kilogram of fruit.
"This sweet potato does not grow on trees, but underground. This thing, when grown in places with good water and fertilizer conditions, usually yields up to 40 or 50 stone per mu." Sweet potatoes can yield up to 6,000 pounds per mu.
"Oh, it can produce four or fifty stones per mu." Chen Meng peeled the sweet potatoes and just wanted to send them to his mouth, when he suddenly reacted to the unbelievable acreage of this thing. "What, you can get forty to fifty stones of sweet potatoes per mu?" One hundred and twenty city pounds is one stone.
"Not bad, this sweet potato is the best crop to avoid disasters in our homeland. This thing is highly adaptable, resistant to drought and barrenness, and is less likely to have pests and diseases." Chu Chao Hui turned his head around to explain in detail for Chen Meng.
Chen Meng's exclamation of surprise made the people wake up to the fact that the thing in their hands was a kind of divine object, and that with such a divine object in the city of Dacheng, the plague would be far away from them.
"Two governors! I wonder if the two of you have sweet potato seeds?" Wei Shen looked excited.
"The sweet potato in your hand is the seed." Chu Chao Hui pointed at the boiled sweet potato in his hand.
Sweet potatoes are planted in stems and tubers, and when the stems and tubers sprout seedlings, the seedlings are not taken at once, and the rhizomes will continue to sprout after the seedlings are taken, so you can continue to take the seedlings after a while, and the seedlings taken out will be planted diagonally.
The villa has a greenhouse, more than a month early to send seedlings, take seedlings continue to be planted in the greenhouse, such as seedling vines grow long, again take seedlings, wait until the temperature outside the greenhouse is suitable for planting, cut the vine seedlings before planting to the valley newly reclaimed fields, transmitted over a dozen of sweet potatoes, seedling nursery surprisingly planted seven or eight acres. Relying on the greenhouse extensive seedling sweet potato and terrier rice, the same, is the first food crops can be popularized planting.
Sweet potatoes have an excellent flavor, and in no time at all, the sweet potatoes on the short table were gone. The sweet potatoes were eaten, but the topic of sweet potatoes didn't disappear, people's conversation centered around it. Before the banquet ended, the nobles reached a unanimous opinion, that is, next year, the whole Dacheng city will plant this crop, to let the sweet potato take root in the Dacheng city's land, to create a city capital without hunger.