On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Beijing Lantern Festival is unprecedented.

The four main streets are hung with various lanterns, and the lion dance and Yangge team gongs and drums shake the sky.

Chen Huang is coming to enjoy the lanterns this year and have fun with the people.

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The organizer informed as early as a year ago that the main venue of this year's lantern festival is the dragon boat race, and the dragon boat organizer must pay the deposit and provide the dragon boat design and performance plan to enter the main venue.

For those with outstanding results, Emperor Chen will personally summon them and reward them.

Chen Guo's royal suppliers bid every five years, and the dragon boat race must be held before the bidding, and this dragon boat race is the strength. The participation guarantee is 100,000 gold, and with such a high entry threshold, it is naturally a wealthy business group that can enter. The plans reported by the various business groups are like the bidding documents, and Chen Huang watched the bid evaluation process and was summoned, that is, he won the bid.

The royal supply was most of the daily necessities such as silk, utensils, food ingredients, and medicinal herbs, but this year new boats, carts, and horses were purchased.

The world is peaceful, and the imperial court has not purchased these three things for a long time, but this time it was purchased in the name of the royal family, and there are quite a few of them, which is enough to form a pet army. This caused a lot of shock in various business groups, and there were many discussions in private.

Emperor Chen's move stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, which not only caused a shock in the business world, but also caused panic in the court.

Lin Xiang didn't know what Emperor Chen meant, but the generals were also confused, and they were even more uneasy in their hearts.

Royal procurement is not a matter of the imperial court, and there is no need to discuss it in the imperial court, and Emperor Chen's move is really intriguing.

"Uncle, what does my father mean by this?" Chen Huang couldn't bear what Emperor Chen was thinking, so he summoned Lin Xiang into the palace to ask.

"The old minister doesn't know, wait and see!" Lin Xiang is honest,

Emperor Chen's move is abnormal, the royal family wants to form a new army, this is a national event, must be discussed by the courtiers, and this matter has not been discussed, it is treated as its own affairs, but according to Chen Law, even the royal family is not allowed to set up private armor, this example is opened, all the princes must have their own armor, and the battle for the heir is not a strategic competition, but a violent competition.

So, where did the imperial army be placed? Where did he put Wenchen?

For the country to maintain long-term peace and stability, it is impossible to set such a precedent.

"Father, this is a stone throwing to ask for directions? Want to see the reaction of the ministers? ”

"Boats, chariots, and horses are not only used by the army, and His Majesty does not purchase weapons."

The weapons of the Chen State were not controlled by the imperial court, and the best weapons did not come from the imperial court ordnance department, but from the people.

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"Your Majesty, why is this doing?" Li Taishi was also stunned, and he didn't know why Emperor Chen made this move.

"On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, and under the whole world, it is not the king's land. As the king of a country, why should he not be rewarded for farming, fishing and hunting? Chen Huang looked indifferent.

"Your Majesty, this is to reward farming, fishing and hunting! Long live our emperor. Li Taishi first claimed to recite himself.

"Whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world! The people are food-oriented, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment in order to achieve long-term peace and stability. The long-dormant image of Emperor Chen's eyes was lit up by the eyes of fire and glowed with vitality.

This is Li Taishi's long-lost look.

"My emperor's virtue is comparable to Yao Shun, and it is the blessing of the people of Chen State." Li Taishi was so excited that his beard fluttered.

"Aiqing, I want to build a royal horse team."

"Horse team?" Li Taishi obviously didn't know Emperor Chen's intentions.

"Horse racing in the military has been going on for a long time, and I want to introduce this military competition system into the people, is it feasible?"

Li Taishi is a human spirit, and Emperor Chen has put the purchase of horses on the agenda, and he is only now consulting his opinion, obviously because he doesn't want to be refuted.

"Your Majesty, even if it is a civilian competition system, there are many participants, and now there are fewer and fewer horse breeders in the world, and most of them are gathered in the army. As soon as this competition system is opened, if nine out of ten horses are formed in the world, in case the country has a war, there is no need to worry about the supply of military horses. But there must be a limit to everything, and this event is best hosted by the imperial court, and it is better for people from all over the world to participate. ”

"What Aiqing said is very much in line with my intentions." Chen Huang laughed, as if the melancholy in his heart was swept away in a smile.

"Chen is ignorant, I don't know how to set up this competition system?"

"This depends on the plan of the horse merchant."

Li Taishi did not know what the results of this horse race would be in the end. But judging that Emperor Chen is so interested, it should be that someone has already submitted a good idea, and Emperor Chen made a decision before he made this move.

The treasury of the palace and the treasury are in charge, although the royal family has money, but it also has a lot of expenditure, and it is not very rich, why is Emperor Chen so generous to reward farming, fishing and hunting? This matter is the reward of the treasury, and it is also Emperor Chen who is grateful to Dade, why does the royal family have to come out of it without feeling pain? But Emperor Chen didn't say anything, and he didn't ask much, and by the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, the matter would have an eyebrow.

"Aiqing, that enchantment disappeared for no reason?"

When Li Taishi's mind was turning, there was an inquiry from Emperor Chen.

"Yes." Li Taishi replied that he had been monitoring the situation of the enchantment, and the two people who walked out of the enchantment, although he didn't see the appearance of the people clearly, but judging from the shape of their clothes, he knew that they were a man and a young woman.

After the two left, the barrier vanished into thin air. Wei Xu was a step late, he didn't see the enchantment, and naturally he didn't know anything about the enchantment.

"When a man and a woman come out, the barrier disappears."

"Is there any news for these two?"

"The minister is sending people to investigate the foreign population in the capital, and it is being screened."

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The main venue of the 15th Lantern Exhibition, only those who are selected for the competition can enter.

Emperor Chen went to the Cailou early in the morning and watched the colorful dragon boats in the moat with great interest.

Lin Xiang also came, and the officials who held the event, the ladies of the palace and the princes also came to watch.

"Look, that dragon boat is decorated with flowers, that is, the flower boat, and the peony and phoenix are so beautiful that they can be used to make embroidery samples." The ladies are concerned about what they are interested in.

"That light boat is so fast."

Someone pointed to a small boat next to a dragon boat and said. This small boat is only occasionally released, crossing between the dragon boats, often startling the onlookers on the dragon boat. Most of the time, it's just a big boat in the water.

"Look, there's horses on the big ship."

"Wow, and the rider, the rider's clothes are weird, but they look heroic."

"The saddle and the rider color match, these are four groups of riders, I don't know what the intention is?"

It is not surprising that there are horse boats this year, because Emperor Chen wants to purchase horses.

Although Lin Xiang also glanced at Ma Zhou with interest, he didn't feel anything special, his current idea was here in the military department.

The generals who didn't like him were also confused in their eyes, obviously this formation was unexpected. Important figures from the military department all came to watch the main venue, all because they couldn't understand Emperor Chen's move.

As a result, this year's Lantern Festival has the largest number of military and political dignitaries.

When the medicinal dragon boat passed, the main venue quieted down, and there was only one man sitting on the dragon boat, generally in green clothes, he seemed to have no crowd in his eyes, just paddling, as if this was his personal solo show.

"There is such a man in the world!" Emperor Chen broke the silence.

Although the ladies praised a lot in their hearts, they only watched and did not speak, and their beautiful eyes were all on a green shirt, and no one paid attention to what was in his boat.

"I don't know whose dragon boat this is?" Lin Xiang asked the organizers.

"The owner of this year's medicinal herbs and flowers dragon boat is Miss Lin, don't you know this Lin Xiang?" The organizers were surprised.

"Yanran?" Lin Xiang was taken aback.

This girl rarely goes home now, Lin Xiang only knows that she is in charge of the business of the White Crane Tower, and she is busy, but he doesn't know when she started to deal in medicinal herbs and flowers.