On Lunar New Year's Eve, the large canteen was busily preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.
Han Mingxiang, along with three teachers and children who could write, began writing couplets and the character "福" (fortune). When he returned, he brought back a box of red paper.
The whole box of writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones was for the students in the school.
When it was time to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, couplets and the character "福" (fortune) were pasted on the gates of every household's courtyard, and couplets were also pasted on the doors of the main rooms. The bright red couplets brought joy to the village.
The large red lanterns were bought by Han Minghai from Youzhou City, and each household had one hanging at the entrance of their courtyard.
A red candle was glued to the base inside the lantern. Rows of red lanterns at the entrance of the courtyard, when viewed from a distance, formed a continuous string of light.
The dining room was also bright and warm, with a lively atmosphere.
Every table today has a sumptuous meal, and there's wine on every table.
The men all drank sorghum liquor brewed by Li Lanzhen. When the sorghum liquor was brewed, Zhang Deshui suggested that a brewery could be built.
Li Lanzhen did not agree, and the sorghum wine she brewed was only for her own consumption in Peach Blossom Spring. This was because the Li Dynasty already had a brewing industry, with many breweries and workshops, and a wide variety of wines, including high-proof spirits, low-proof spirits, and even fruit wines.
So she decided not to get a share of the profits.
Those who couldn't drink baijiu (Chinese liquor) drank rice wine. Li Lanzhen drank rice wine in the southwest and, after returning, began brewing rice wine all year round.
Rice wine has been added to the daily breakfast menu at Taohuayuan Grand Canteen.
Frangipani rice wine soup, goji berry rice wine soup, red date rice wine soup, and glutinous rice dumpling rice wine soup are served in rotation.
Han Zhaoxiong's family also returned. Huangshan Peanut's son is almost two years old, a cute and playful age, chubby and pink and white.
Han Shunde didn't want to let go of his hand for even a quarter of an hour, and the smile never left his face.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Han Mingxiang and Xue Bao were going back to Beijing, and Han Zhaoxiong's family was also leaving, seeing off the children.
The people in Peach Blossom Spring continued their lives as usual.
In the third year of the Jintai era, the imperial court began to establish military examinations.
Han Yisong won the first martial arts championship in the Li Dynasty.
He also ranked first in academic subjects, and in the five martial arts assessments, he ranked first in both land archery and mounted archery, first in his most proficient skill of long spear, first in troop formation, first in three other categories, and second in the other two categories.
Similarly, he wore a red robe, but this time it was a red-robed military general riding a horse through the streets. He was a seventeen-year-old boy, 1.8 meters tall, with a robust build, broad shoulders, a narrow waist, thick eyebrows, and tiger-like eyes. His eyes showed both joy and majesty.
Han Yisong had already followed Han Mingjiang to the battlefield, killed enemies, and seen blood. His dignity and ruthlessness were completely different from those trained in aristocratic courtyards or martial arts training grounds.
That year, Han Yinan entered the Hanlin Academy as a compiler, having achieved the highest rank in the imperial examination.
The position of compiler belongs to the sixth rank of officialdom.
Li Lanzhen learned that its authority was equivalent to that of the emperor's secretary, mainly responsible for compiling the history of the current dynasty and recording the actual situation of the dynasty.
This also includes recording the emperor's words and deeds in detail, compiling them into the annals of history, and leaving them for future generations to review.
At the same time, the compilers were also responsible for lecturing the emperor, mainly on the classics, histories, philosophical works, and literary collections, as well as drafting documents related to court ceremonies. The current emperor had already been exposed to some of the modern ideas that Li Lanzhen had brought to them.
Han Yinan gradually incorporated the principles from some books he had read with Han Mingxiang into his daily lectures.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it.
To get rich, build roads first.
Education is the foundation of a nation's prosperity...
These ideas on governance also subtly influenced Emperor Jingtai.
Of course, being a compiler in the Hanlin Academy seems like a waste of talent for a scholar who has achieved the highest rank in the imperial examinations. After all, these tasks mainly involve copying documents, not anything of great importance to the court. Moreover, in terms of official rank, a sixth-rank official, even for a top scholar, doesn't seem particularly high.
After all, even a student who had passed the imperial examination at the provincial level had the opportunity to be directly selected as a county magistrate of the seventh rank, or to serve as an instructor in a local county, responsible for education.
The difference between a successful candidate in the provincial examination being directly appointed to an official position and a candidate who becomes an official after passing the imperial examination is not in their initial official rank, but in their potential for future advancement.
Those who passed the provincial examinations and became officials directly rarely entered the central government and became high-ranking officials. However, the top scholars (Zhuangyuan) were different. They entered the Hanlin Academy, which ordinary people had no chance of being selected for.
Zheng Sanwang, Han Qingfeng (Gou Dan), Su Chen, and Han Zhidao went to two relatively backward counties to serve as county magistrates.
Coincidentally, Han Qingfeng (Gou Dan) became the magistrate of Qingshan County, the county where Han Family Village was located, and took his grandmother with him to take up his post.
Having completed his official duties at the county government office, he returned to Hanjiacun with Grandma Han, a triumphant return to his hometown.
A year later, Qingshan County was lifted out of poverty and became prosperous, thanks in no small part to Li Lanzhen's help.
Sweet potato and potato seeds, vermicelli production, vegetable cultivation, especially winter greenhouse vegetable cultivation... all of these have brought vitality to Qingshan County.
Su Chen returned to Youzhou Prefecture to serve as an instructor, responsible for education.
Also in the autumn of that year, two large ships docked at the Peach Blossom Spring Eleven Trees Wharf.
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