New Year's customs from when it is difficult to study, generally think that the New Year is from the end of the year of the merchants of the gods and ancestors, from the merchant period to the Qing Dynasty, the New Year has a lot of titles like the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, etc. refers to the New Year, and the Ming Dynasty is called New Year's Day.

In the morning, when the officials will not take a holiday?

Let is certainly put, but this holiday is several twists and turns, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is a typical workaholic, he formulated the vacation system is very harsh, three days a year vacation, is the Spring Festival, winter solstice and the emperor's birthday.

This leave system was a little too much, and the feasibility was too poor, and later emperors added vacations on this basis.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the vacation system has been relatively perfect, general officials, a fixed three-day vacation of a month, three days of winter vacation, five days of New Year's Day vacation, and ten days of Lantern vacation.

This New Year's Day is the New Year, from the first month of the first month to the fifth of the first month of the first month of the fifth total holiday of five days, if you add the fixed day at the end of December, it is six days.

For six days, the general local officials could not go home, because the local officials in the Ming Dynasty implemented a system of off-site service, and it was clearly stipulated in the Law of the Great Ming: the flow officer was prepared and had to avoid the original.

This means that local officials are represented on the basis of seniority and cannot serve at their place of origin.

The appointment in different places is destined that most local officials are unable to go home for the New Year, because there are no cars, trains, and no planes in the Ming Dynasty, and it usually takes ten days and a half months to cross the province, and six days, the road to return home may not be half way, and this holiday has passed.

However, Zhang Bin this is a special case, because although his family in Fujian Cheng announced the Department of Publicity, from his Zhejiang Cheng announced the government of the Wenzhou Province is only more than a hundred miles away, go back to a few hours of things, so he went home for the New Year in the first two years, this year is naturally no exception.

In fact, by the end of the year, his three-year term in Pingyang will be over, but the general local officials in the year of the end of the term are the end of the year and then into Beijing, so that the ten days of the Lantern Festival is equivalent to the rush, sacrifice their own vacation time to go to Beijing to report, but also a manifestation of diligence, more people, slowly become a practice.

That is to say, after the end of the term of office of the general local officials, they left the place of their posts on the sixth day of the first month of the second year and rushed to Beijing to report their duties, so Zhang Bin did not rush to bid farewell to the officials, squires and ordinary people in Pingyang, he just took Chen Yingying's three brothers and sisters back to the big gold office.

Chen Yingying can be said to be the second daughter-in-law he brought back to his parents this year, to be a past life, and then open the parents are afraid that they will not let their son so messy, but in this life, his parents are very happy, because this time the three wives and four concubines are too normal.

Chen Yingying this is also a long-term relationship, just like the previous life of the free love, together, get along for a long time, each other have been accustomed to each other's existence, if you want to separate, it is a very painful thing, so, although he repeatedly warned himself not to indulge in women, Chen Yingying this one, he still can not afford to throw in Pingyang.

On the 30th of the lunar month, New Year's Eve, it was the day of family unity, Zhang Bin early with a group of relatives and Chen Yingying three brothers and sisters on the ship sent by Dajin, came still his second brother Zhang Guan, also or the fleet of eleven large and small warships, but this time the big blessing ship is much more lively.

On the deck, Xie Zhenggang and Xiaoyun, Zhang Guan and others like children to accompany Chen Xiuxiu to play, Wu Shiqi, Chen Zhi and others on the side of the smile pay attention, only Chen Yingying face full of nervousness standing there, like a marionette.

At this time, she can be described as fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight, after all, this is the first time he met Zhang Bin's parents, but also in the future daughter-in-law's identity, Zhang Bin's parents will be to her, will accept her daughter-in-law, what will be the future life will be like, countless thoughts swirling in her mind, hanging her heart a mess.

In fact, Zhang Bin is more nervous than Chen Yingying, two lives as a person, this is the first time he met his parents, he really do not know how to deal with.

At this moment, he can only find something and distract himself, otherwise he is afraid that he will be nervous to the point of miscarriage.

Fortunately, there are many things that attract him on the Dafu ship, such as the fraternal machine, the bowl of the mouth, the thunder cannon, the stutter and other gunpowder weapons, as well as the traditional weapons such as fire crossbow, rockets, and fire bricks, which he saw for the first time, and everything is very new to him.

Bowls, thunder cannons, poignant cliers, and his previous sight of the bird cedars in the structure is not much difference, but the style has changed a little, fire crossbow, rockets, fire bricks and so on are not easy to study, these are generally still in the category of cold weapons, there is nothing to study.

His most concerned is the Flemish gun, this kind of rear-loading gun in his view should be the most advanced in this era, because the front-loaded gun is too unreasonable, whether it is gunpowder or artillery, loading is very troublesome, seriously affect the loading speed, this rear-loading gun only need to replace the cutter, the loading speed is at least five times the front.

Why do most people in this era make front-loaded red cannons instead of paying attention to rear-loaded foscanners?

He carefully observed the bow of the ship's knead of the fraternity gun and found that the main problem should be in the processing.

Because at this time there is no lathe, milling machine, planer, boring machine, grinding machine, gun body and di-tighten casting out, completely manual processing, there is no precision at all.

Completely by hand to process hundreds or even thousands of pounds of metal, its difficulty can be imagined, coupled with no precision, whether it is the size of the child and the mother's indium between the size and sealing can not be guaranteed, this should be the reason why the flag cannon is not valued, after all, after the red cannon cast out, as long as the inner wall of the gun can be processed, and the folang cannon, whether it is the inner wall of the mother tube or the inner and outer walls of the tube.

Perhaps, you should consider, the previous life of the machine tools are made.

Just as Zhang Bin was thinking about how to make a machine tool in the Ming Dynasty, there was a sudden cheer on the deck.

Big gold, here we come.

In front of the port dock stood a large number of people, who should have his parents in it.

Zhang Bin's heart beat violently, regardless of past life or this life, see their parents, is really a big girl on the car, the first time!