Yipin Tang

Chapter 270

Li Chengqian is still very good at fooling little friends. After listening to his words, little loli, Li Zhi, Li Zhen... Even Cheng Chuliang and Li Huiming felt that Wang Xiang should represent the prince's mansion to hold a new event. Bigger, livelier and more fun lantern festival.

As for Wang Xiang's problems of not enough venues and manpower, Li Chengqian waved his hand very grandly.

"It's up to you to arrange the layout of the Lantern Festival. The required venue, manpower and other things are all handled by the Prince's Mansion. You only have one task, which is to make this Lantern Festival the most lively in Chang'an!"

After Li Chengqian said that, how could Wang Xiang have any reason to refuse, so he had no choice but to agree. In fact, he didn't care, and it was not difficult for him to hold a lantern festival. I don't know how many times he had seen the lantern festival in books and on TV. No matter what, it will be much more interesting than the lights I saw today.

"Since we want to make it big and lively, let's just hold a lantern fair."

"Light City?"

Li Chengqian obviously heard this kind of statement for the first time, and the others also looked at Wang Xiang curiously.

"Actually, it means to hold a big lantern festival, just like a city of lanterns."

Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's hold the Lantern Fair!" As long as it can overwhelm Li Tai and Li Ke, he is satisfied. A lantern festival like the Lantern City sounds very extraordinary.

It is only a few days away from the Lantern Festival, and now that it has been decided, we must start preparations. The Lantern Festival must be attended by people to be lively. Wang Xiang does not need to worry about this. Li Chengqian sent people around to publicize the Lantern Festival, and emphasized that it is a grand occasion. The unprecedented and unique lantern market was held by Jiayuan Hou on behalf of the Prince's Mansion.

Who is Jiayuanhou?That is the most popular Hou Ye in Chang'an City. The Jinguang Lake Poetry Fair surpasses the four great talents in Luoyang. Not only is his poetry talent unparalleled, he also invented drama, shadow puppetry and other novel and fun things. The lantern festival he organized must be very interesting. News As soon as it spread, it attracted the attention of many people.And there are rumors that there will be many lantern riddles in the Lantern Festival Lantern Market, and the person who can guess the most lantern riddles will get a huge bonus.

Guessing lantern riddles is an elegant thing, and it usually only appears in small lantern fairs held by some literati, but this time the Lantern Fair held by Jiayuanhou on behalf of the Prince's Mansion welcomes all visitors, and anyone can participate.

Guessing lantern riddles is certainly not easy, and creating lantern riddles is even more difficult. I heard that there will be hundreds of thousands of lantern riddles for everyone to guess and play. Some people are amazed, some are skeptical, but no matter what kind of thinking they are, they have already got up. Take a look at your thoughts.Besides, the Marquis of Jiayuan is famous for his extravagance. Not long ago, he even built the Tangquan Palace in Lishan as a tribute to His Majesty. Spending a lot of money is not enough to show it. One can imagine that if he can guess the most lantern riddles in the Lantern Festival It is definitely a beautiful thing to gain both fame and fortune.

For a while, the upcoming Lantern Festival held by the Prince's Mansion caused a great uproar in Chang'an. It was far more popular than the Lantern Festivals to be held by the Prince Wei's Mansion and the Prince Wu Mansion. Everyone was looking forward to the Lantern Fair held by Wang Xiang.

Li Tai and Li Ke, who were carefully preparing for the lantern festival, were stunned when they heard the news. In previous years, they could beat the crown prince at the lantern festival. This year, it was unacceptable for Li Chengqian to overwhelm the prince before the lantern festival started. So They also imitated Wang Xiang and created activities for guessing lantern riddles with prizes, but the effect was not very obvious.As Li Er's most beloved two princes, the bonus for guessing lantern riddles is not a problem for them, it's just hundreds of thousands of lantern riddles, who would dare to boast such a big mouth except Wang Xiang...

After the news spread, many literati even came from other places, just to experience the hundreds of lantern riddles in the rumors.Among them are some great Confucians of the Xinglin Forest, who are especially good at lantern riddles. There are only a hundred or so lantern riddles handed down since ancient times, and there are not many classic ones. Some people boast that there are hundreds of lantern riddles.

The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival has attracted more and more attention, far exceeding Wang Xiang and Li Chengqian's expectations. When the game gets bigger, even Li Er in the palace is interested. When the entire Chang'an West Street was used as a lantern market that day, Li Er agreed without hesitation, and even said that if there were too many people participating, they could expand to the direction of East Street, which made Li Chengqian overjoyed.

Li Er likes to see this kind of scene where all the people are in harmony, and the prosperous world is peaceful, which can greatly satisfy his psychology of the prosperous Mingjun.

"Do it well, let the world see the prosperity of our Tang Dynasty."

With Li Er's encouragement, Li Chengqian felt unprecedentedly excited, and felt more and more that he made the right decision this time. At first, he just hoped that Wang Xiang could help him save some face, but unexpectedly, the result was much better than expected. .

After coming out of the palace, Li Chengqian hurried to the Linchuan Hou Mansion and told Wang Xiang about it. Wang Xiang didn't think there was any surprise. It's only been 11 years since Zhenguan. Although the world is set, there are actually internal worries Foreign aggression, wait until the internal and external troubles are resolved in the later period of Zhenguan. Li Er often organizes such large-scale celebrations, and calls it: having fun with the people.

To put it bluntly, in addition to great success, Li Er is also very greedy for pleasure, but now he dare not relax under the internal and external troubles. It is this sense of urgency and strong self-control that make him a famous emperor through the ages , As for the reputation of this eternal emperor in his later years, it is not so good.

Of course, these are not what Wang Xiang should worry about. He is busy designing various lanterns.

Because the scale of the lantern market this time was much larger than expected, the number of lanterns needed was much larger. He was responsible for designing the style of the lanterns, while Xiao Luoli, Wu Shun and others made templates according to the style designed by Wang Xiang, and then These lantern templates were handed over to workshops specializing in making lanterns for them to produce in large quantities. In order to make enough lanterns before the Lantern Festival, most of the lantern-making workshops in Chang'an were requisitioned, and Li Chengqian paid [-]% more wages to let them hurry up. .

The production of the lanterns and the layout of the lantern market were done according to Wang Xiang's requirements, and now the remaining problem is the lantern riddles.

During the publicity, it has been said that there will be hundreds of lantern riddles for everyone to guess, so even Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other bigwigs are looking forward to the Lantern Market. If there are not so many lantern riddles by then, or The so-called lantern riddles are nothing but nonsense, then Li Chengqian even wants to die, and being in the limelight also has the disadvantages of being in the limelight. Once you make a fool of yourself, there will be many people watching you make a fool of yourself...

"Zixin, there is no problem with the production of lanterns and the layout of the lantern market. What about the lantern riddles?"

Faced with Li Chengqian's question, Wang Xiang smiled slightly, and pointed to a pair of new papers that were randomly piled up next to him. Li Chengqian picked up a few sheets and looked at them suspiciously, and his eyes lit up.

"Are these lantern riddles?"

(End of this chapter)