The five-wheeled vehicles drove slowly through the streets of Dingxiang City, satisfying the curiosity of all the delegates attending the banquet, and they all chose the maximum number of people to attend the banquet without exception.

Moreover, not only these delegates who only entered the city today, but also the representatives of some Western countries who had arrived long ago also had invitations, including those like Yi Nan, the main figures of the internal subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, or various states and roads, and local delegations.

Based on the more than 200 teams participating in the competition, the number of people participating in the banquet was as high as nearly 3,000 people.

The main purpose of this banquet, in addition to announcing the process of the opening ceremony and the approximate time arrangement of each competition, is also a communication conference between Datang officials and other countries in terms of business and trade, so the banquet was attended not only by Sun Xiangfu and Tang Jian, who represented the Ministry of Rites, but also by Du Zhenglun, Wu Shi Tong and Ma Zhou, who represented the Ministry of Commerce.

In fact, in politics, and business, Tang Jian and Ma Zhou had preliminary communication with the representatives of various countries earlier, and this formal banquet was to announce the official opening of cooperation, so that all of them could find the corresponding department with the Datang official on various projects, discuss the details, and formulate the agreement to sign and implement.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the banquet was an introduction of the officials of the Tang Dynasty and the kings and representatives of the Western Regions, their respective positions, jurisdictions, etc., and then they agreed to discuss the details of the time, place and other issues.

Of course, since it is a banquet, eating and drinking, singing and dancing performances, it is indispensable, and the hall of Wangjianglou Dingxiang Branch, which is enough to accommodate more than 10,000 people to eat, is already very shocking in itself, however, when all kinds of fragrant dishes are brought to the table like flowing water, all the non-Datang officials who attended the banquet were attracted by the color and aroma of the food.

Most of them got up before dawn and hurried, and they didn't eat a meal in the afternoon, and they were already hungry, Sun Xiangfu didn't say much, anyway, Datang's attitude has been laid out, and it is impossible to talk about real big things in public, today's banquet, as long as the representatives of various countries have found the official counterpart in charge, even if he completes the task, after the banquet, he will naturally let everyone eat and drink for a while.

In terms of commerce and trade, Du Zhenglun, Wu Shi Tong and Ma Zhou went to talk, and Sun Xiangfu was too lazy to look at the ugly eating faces of the representatives of various countries, so he came to the mission with his own wine glass.

"How is it, Dingxiangcheng, did you feel surprised?"

"Yes, great, on the way back, we have been thinking about what kind of scene it would be like for you to build a beautiful Shanyang in one or two years, and Dingxiang in more than five years.

Now it seems that it has not disappointed us at all, this Dingxiang City looks much better than Shanyang. Finally caught an opportunity to talk to Sun Xiangfu, Yao Hongsleeve took the lead.

"Hehe, the construction of Dingxiang is mainly due to Changsun Chong, and I just played a role in promoting it."

Changsun Chong can also be regarded as an old acquaintance of Yao Hongsleeve who worked on the stage back then, and when he heard his name, Yao Hongsleeve asked again, "Why didn't he come today?" ”

"Busy! It's too busy, there is still one day, the opening ceremony is about to take place, he is the chief official of Dingxiang, the specific organizer of this sports conference, this whole year, he has been on the construction of the venue, and Xiu'er was originally going to come to celebrate your achievements, but, as you know, busy with business, tens of thousands of performances, all thanks to her to choreograph and direct, tomorrow is the last rehearsal, she estimates that she doesn't even have time to sleep. ”

"Tens of thousands?"

When they heard this data, not only Yao Hongsleeve, but all the members of the mission exclaimed.

"Hehe, there's nothing strange about it, after you went to the Western Regions, the Taile Si Art Troupe as a whole has carried out several expansions, and the number of artists and musicians alone is as many as 10,000 people, these people, after the sports conference, will be assigned to various state roads, four border areas, long-term performances, and accelerate the promotion of our Han culture, as for the rest, it is the performance presented by the sergeants, as well as various ethnic minorities and folk teams."

In an open venue that may gather millions of people, in the absence of sound and large-screen equipment, if you want to make a performance that everyone can enjoy, you can only choose to use a large number of group dance mode, like many people in the Guanzhong area, they have been choreographed into a dance team, there are Han sleeve dance, Hu Xuan dance, fish and dragon dance, as well as the lion dance presented by Lingnan Province, and the dance color boat presented by Jiangnan Province, all of which are very Han cultural characteristics.

These dances, each of them, need thousands of people to complete, costumes, formations, music, etc., etc., even if Yu Xiuer went north after the Spring Festival, up to now, it has been choreographed for more than half a year, but it is not necessarily how safe, just a space to enter and exit, it needs to be repeatedly considered and coordinated.

"In the past few years, we have continued to perform in the Western Regions, and our skill level has been greatly improved. Li Xiangdie pretended to be resentful.

"Hehe, large-scale performances can't help much, that's because of the limited venue and ornamental needs, but small performances, you can play a big role, dozens of large hotels in the city, but they all have stages, for your performances, the proprietors of each hotel, must be unwanted.

Moreover, His Majesty has explained before, all the members of the mission are meritorious heroes who have contributed to the country, and later, Your Majesty will let Yousi agree on a reward, so your future worth is very expensive, and the cost of appearance can not be too little, our magnates in Datang have money, and the representatives of various countries who come to Datang also have money, so let them spend more. ”

"Bounty? No matter how big an official is, how can he ······?"

I don't know if it's because I'm too excited, Li Xiangdie, who drank a few more glasses of wine, took such a sentence casually, but it made Sun Xiangfu stunned, and what was even more depressed was that Yao Hongsleeve on her side also looked at her with deep sympathy, which made Sun Xiangfu instantly remember Yu Xiuerquan's words to persuade him to take the two as concubines, and suddenly had an urge to escape.

"That, Erli! You have all the seeds to Deshou! This time, you have introduced so many species from the Western Regions, which will greatly enrich the output of my Tang people, and your contribution to the country is not small, I salute you for a ······"

Seeing Sun Xiangfu pretending to be an ostrich, Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve suddenly looked disappointed.

When people travel far away, they like to miss their old people the most, Yao Hongsleeve needless to say, back then, she was one of Sun Xiangfu's admirers, otherwise, she would not have gone to Sun's mansion to play and sing the song "Ruan Langgui".

One of the sentences "Green cups and red sleeves take advantage of Chongyang, and people are like hometowns." It is of great significance to her during her long journey, and whenever she reads this sentence during the Double Ninth Festival in recent years, her tears will not stop flowing.

And Li Xiangdie, because after falling into the Qinglou, she only met Sun Xiangfu, a person who did not discriminate against her, but this person still has the musical talent to turn decay into magic, after Sun Xiangfu helped her write and compose the drama "White Fox", she couldn't control herself.

At that time, her performance was to often run to Shanyang's Sun Mansion, but due to her background, she knew that she couldn't do it, so she hid this feeling very deeply, but now the situation is different, she is also a high-level female official, no matter how high Sun Xiangfu's status is, if she is a concubine for him, she should be qualified enough.

However, when facing Sun Xiangfu, she still had some inferiority complex in her heart, after all, she was a few years older than Sun Xiangfu, and only by taking the opportunity of drinking a few more glasses of wine did she dare to confide in the truth to test Sun Xiangfu's reaction.

As a result, she naturally regretted it.

After Sun Xiangfu and Sun Erli had a drink, they went to drink with a few people from the medical school, they brought back dozens of species from the Western Regions that might be able to be used in medicine, and later, after further research, they could be sure that if they could really be useful, their credit would not be less than that of Sun Erli.

Although the wine provided by Wangjianglou to the banquet is not strong, but it is easy to get drunk when it circles with many people, at the beginning, when Sun Xiangfu saw them off, he said, after coming back, he will rest when he is drunk, and now, it is almost cashed out.

Wine, as long as you don't drink fragments, it's actually just a numbness in the body, but today there are many lords of Fanbang, and it is naturally impossible for everyone to really get him drunk, and when he is seven or eight points drunk, the singing and dancing on the stage also began.

The red tape of the Han people, in the eyes of Westerners, is actually very difficult to accept, however, the singing and dancing of the Han people is because of a wonderful tour of the art troupe in the Western Regions, which was first accepted by Westerners, so when the music at the level of the Wangjianglou concert sounded, and the professional singing and dancing artists of the art troupe began to perform on stage, they quickly attracted everyone's attention, including Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve led by these older generation of art troupe members, and they also wanted to see what the level of the new generation of singing and dancing artists in the Tang Dynasty was.

It happened that Sun Xiangfu also wanted to take a break from watching the performance, but Yi Nan, who had no eyesight, found him with a cup.

"Spare me! I'm really drunk after drinking again. Seeing Yi Nan walking towards him from a distance, Sun Xiangfu waved his hand.

Yi Nan smiled and said, "Hehe, I'm naturally not such an uninteresting person, I came to you because I wanted to ask you for help." ”

"As long as it's not drinking, you can talk about other things."

"No, Dongzhu's concert, isn't it going to start tonight? I would like to invite the lords and representatives of the countries of the Western Regions to watch it, so that they can also know about our Xue Yantuo, so that they can be familiar with them in the future. ”

The IQ of the ancients has never been low, especially those who can grow into the heads of a party, Yi Nan himself may only drink and play with women now, but the group of people gathered by his subordinates are smart and know the importance of propaganda in this era of inconvenient communication.

"Well, no problem, you can ask someone to bring the tickets to the theater now, and when the seats are over, I will invite them to see it."

Most of the delegations from the Western Regions who had arrived in Dingxiang knew about the opera house in Dingxiang, but these newcomers didn't know what the opera house was, so they just took this opportunity to promote it to them, so that they could have one more place for entertainment consumption during their stay in Dingxiang.

"Thank you very much."

Yi Nan arched the wine glass towards Sun Xiangfu, drank the wine in the cup, and then went down to arrange.

I thought that this banquet would end smoothly, but after taking a breath, I saw Wang Deyong with a few chamberlains, looking for someone in the banquet hall, and after seeing Sun Xiangfu, he came to his side.

"Eunuch Wang, but what does Your Majesty command?"

"Yes······"

Wang De glanced at the surroundings, and the attendants who came with him blocked the irrelevant people, and then whispered beside Sun Xiangfu.