Chapter 2247: Vulgar Programs and Noble Aspirations

It was said to be 4pm, but when Li Longji had his meal, the party started immediately, only 15:20.

The host was not on time, so he could not say what he had originally said, so he said something else first and arranged an extra program temporarily.

Ji Yizheng was invited to come over, and it was farther away, so it was a better position after all.

He had a small wound on his body, so he could eat anything. It was just that Li Yi came in time, otherwise the wound would have healed.

"There will be a big court meeting on the first day of the first lunar month, so we should still have it. Will brother Yi join us?"

Li Longji simmered a piece of mutton and put it on Li Dan's plate.

Li Yi helped Li Dan, Concubine Dou Lu, and the Empress Dowager to scoop the sauce: "Is it different from now?"

"Now we are not all court officials." Li Longji simmered it again, and it was cooked after a few simmerings, and gave it to Li Yi.

Li Yi held the plate with both hands: "Why should the third brother be polite to me? I will go if I can bring my Wen Tian to eat with me."

"You can bring Xiaolan with you." Li Longji meant to let Li Yi join.

"Are you going to reward me?" Li Yi understood that there would be a reward tomorrow, and he could get a pack of matches?

"You'll know when the time comes." Li Longji didn't say anything. He continued to serve meat to the ministers and asked the palace maids to serve them, one piece for each person.

The ministers stood up to receive the piece of mutton, unlike Li Yi, who just took the plate.

The four prime ministers in the group gave it to Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi knelt on one knee to receive it, stood up after eating, smacked his lips, and found that he was even more greedy, so he might as well not eat it.

Queen Wang served herself: "Next year's 30th will definitely be more lively than this year. Dudu will be one year older after tonight."

With both sons and daughters, she felt that she had hope in this life. If she had another child, she would raise him slowly, no rush.

Xiaolan next to her helped herself and Princess Yongmu to serve meat, without saying a word. She was allowed to sit down today.

One reason was that she had done a good job in taking care of Princess Yongmu, and the other was for Li Yi's sake.

Li Yi was busier this year than the previous two years. He went overseas to get seeds and was in charge of national affairs. Every place had his will.

The Tibetan king came to the Tang Dynasty, the Turks fled to Xiaohai, the Xi and Khitan returned, and brought people back from Bohai.

In addition, Sulu was in a mess, and the white-robed Arabs dared not advance.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he alone supported the Tang Dynasty. A wife is honored by her husband. If the husband is too powerful, it is not the wife who is honored.

Xiaolan is not powerless. She controls a group of people, the female guards of Princess Yongmu.

"Shoes are polished, free shoes!" A skit appeared on the screen, and the sound appeared at the same time.

"No money?" A person walked over.

"Shoe polish? If you're willing to pay, I can't refuse."

"Polish. It's the New Year, and the shoes need to be shiny."

"Okay, left foot, right foot is fine, watch me polish it for you. The key is to rub it, apply shoe polish, the more you rub it, the brighter it will be. Isn't it shiny?"

"It's shiny, not bad, good craftsmanship."

"Yeah! Okay, let's go!"

"The other one hasn't been polished yet."

"It costs one cent to polish shoes, do you want to polish them?"

The camera zooms in, the man's leather shoes on one foot are shiny, and the other foot is gray, and he has a conflicted expression.

The shoe polisher stretched out his fingers and gestured there, looking at it with a squint, one cent.

Someone has a low sense of humour and laughed.

"Are you selling shoe polish? You have a pile of shoe polish here, buy some shoe polish to polish?"

"No, I don't sell shoe polish, it's free, I sell matches." The shoe polisher took out a large bag of matches.

"What's the similarity between shoe shining and selling matches?"

"They're both rubbing. To shine a match is to rub, and to shine a pair of shoes is also to rub."

"Do I have to say striking a match? Scratch a pair of shoes for me to see... Hey! Can you really strike?"

The person wearing the shoes hid behind, and the shoe shiner took out a knife: "Are you rubbing or scratching?"

"Scratch, how do you sell the matches?"

"Free trial, no money."

"Why do I shiver when you say free?"

"It's indeed a free trial, you rub it, come on, take out a match, rub it, you call it a pestle, do you have a grudge against the matchbox? Then, you call it a point, how about embroidery? You and your wife also point back and forth? It takes only a moment... Why are you glaring?"

"I think you are looking down on me because I don't have a wife."

"Then you have to rub it even more, rubbing can produce sparks, what do you think?"

The shoe shiner said as he pulled out matches and struck them continuously, his movements were natural and smooth.

Someone followed and shouted: "Yes, you must first create sparks before you can continue to insert."

"Vulgar." Song Jing suddenly said two words. He thought it was not funny at all. How could people in the opera rehearse such a program?

"It's good as long as the people like it. Teach the people how to strike a match. If you don't strike it well, you will waste a match. You have to promote matches and make people laugh. This is the only way."

Li Yi was not angry. He gave an explanation.

This kind of program would not pass the review at his Spring Festival Gala at that time because there were many people like Song Jing.

Song Jing had many women, and he could do it, but he couldn't let a man without a woman say such words. It was vulgar and obscene.

"Hasn't it been explained in the newspaper?"

Song Jing still couldn't accept it, but his words didn't work.

"I'll write about the clutch and shifting of gears in the newspaper, and then give you a steam locomotive with gears. Can you control it?"

Li Yi was not polite. I've already told you, for the people.

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After a pause, he copied: "The ancients spared no effort in learning, and their hard work in youth was only completed in old age. What you learn from books is always shallow, and you must practice it yourself to fully understand it."

Song Jing kept silent and lowered his head to eat hot pot. Anyway, he just said one thing. You can't ask me to join the group on New Year's Day.

The people watching the show outside laughed. They liked this kind of joke.

By the way, he touched his pocket and took out the matches to have a look.

People basically have a box in their hands, and they usually put it in their pockets for emergency use.

The matches they bought were not one penny for a big bag, but by the box.

A big bag has ten boxes, and a box has fifty matches.

Normally, a box is ten cents, but they need 13 cents to 15 cents when they buy it.

To transport to distant places, one match costs one cent, and they buy two or three for one cent.

It can't be cheaper, unless they go to the match factory to buy in bulk.

With matches on their bodies, people inexplicably feel confident and are not afraid of running out of fire.

Match sellers have to pay taxes, thirty percent tax.

Selling a box can earn more than two or four cents, but the purchase volume is large, and they have to hold back the goods. Matches are not so easy to preserve, and they are afraid that they will get damp and can't be sold when the time comes.

Children are not allowed to touch matches, unless they have a stove at home to cook, and put a box next to it, so that children can use it when they don't have fire.

This year, the children in Luoyang Palace have more toys, small firecrackers, that is, small grass whips, which are very small. They are disassembled and lit with wood to burn the charcoal in front, or they have grass fragrance.

This kind of small grass whip has little power. If you hold it in your hand and it explodes, it will only make your hand swollen at most.

If you pinch it with your fingernails and don't have time to throw it out, your fingers will be numb.

They are all given such small whips, and they dare not be numb.