Shangyuan Festival, which is what we call the Lantern Festival.

And Shangyuan Festival is the most solemn festival in the Tang Dynasty, there is no one, because there is no curfew on this day, the Tang Dynasty up to the king, down to the ordinary people can play until the early hours of the morning, and return happy, without worrying about the curfew system that is not allowed on the street after the two watches.

If it is said that the Shangyuan Festival in that place is the most lively and prosperous, there is only one answer in the Tang Dynasty, and that is Chang'an City. Every year in the first month, all the countries of Chang'an City come to the court, and the foreign envoys have to stay until the fifteenth day of the first month and present a wonderful variety of performances on Suzaku Street. At the same time, the various businesses in Chang'an City are also brightly lit and brilliantly lit, making as much money as possible on this night.

On this night, Suzaku Street is full of all kinds of lantern wheels, lantern trees, etc., and the city is full of fire trees and silver flowers, which is very lively. And in order to participate in this grand festival, people outside Chang'an will even come to Chang'an to participate in this annual Shangyuan Festival, wanting to witness the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

However, such a scene was only called a grand in the middle and early Tang Dynasty, and in the middle and late periods, although there were still many foreign envoys to congratulate, there were still many gaps in the coming of all countries before they dared to come. But even so, the Shangyuan Festival in Chang'an is still the most lively and prosperous day of the year in the entire Tang Dynasty.

But now Chang'an has been occupied by the Huangchao army, and the Huangchao's army is wreaking havoc in Chang'an, and the former prosperity is no longer there.

Although the lively scene of the Shangyuan Festival in Chengdu is not as lively as that of Chang'an, as the Chengdu of 'Yang Yi Yi Two', its Shangyuan Festival is also very lively. And now that Chang'an is occupied by thieves, not to mention whether there is a celebration of the Shangyuan Festival, even if there is, it will not be much lively, so in the second year of Guangming (AD 881), Chengdu may win the first place in the Shangyuan Festival activities in various parts of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Ye didn't know much about how to prepare for the Shangyuan Festival in the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't have to worry about it, the people below would do these trivial things well. So in the afternoon, Li Ye looked at Pei Rong, a long history, who also served as a housekeeper, and beckoned the people of the palace to arrange lanterns and other decorations.

As night fell, the candles of these lanterns were lit, and the huge Shouwang Mansion was shrouded in a field of lights. However, Li Ye and the others didn't have the time to appreciate the lights, because they were going out to celebrate the Metaverse Festival, what lights to enjoy at home, how could there be any lights outside.

"Brother Seventh Emperor, hurry up, I'll send you."

Outside the palace, a luxurious carriage stopped at the door, and Li Yi poked his head out and urged Li Ye who was at the door. I don't know if Li Yi is particularly curious about Shangyuan Festival, or what, he is very active tonight, which is like the feeling of being sick before.

"It's coming, it's coming. It was just dark on this day, and I couldn't see anything when I went to see it, so it was called lively later. Seeing that Li Yi had been urging, Li Ye was suddenly a little impatient, and hurriedly explained a few words to his subordinates, and then went out.

Today's Li Ye is dressed more casually, dressed as a son, although he did not perform the gift of a weak crown, but his dress, with the folding fan in his hand, looks like a young talent. And next to him, Zhang Wei also changed his clothes, except for his jaw beard, there was no difference from others, standing in front of Li Ye was just an ordinary casual person.

As for Xiaoyue and Xiaoying, the two daughters did not wear women's clothes, but men's clothes. In addition to a few people, Pei Rong and Li Hong also accompanied them, and the palace can be said to be fully dispatched, of course, Li Hong is responsible for protecting the safety of Li Ye and others with some personal soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.

The group rode in two carriages and headed in the direction of the palace under the escort of Li Hong and others. On this day tonight, they will definitely go to visit Li Yi's brother, and then go out to pick up Princess Anhua and Princess Changning to go out together. As for Li Yi, there are a lot of things tonight, and even if he participates in the Shangyuan Festival, he will not choose to be with Li Ye and others.

When Li Ye and the others came to the palace, the two imperial sisters were already waiting in front of the palace gate, Li Ye went to meet Li Yi first, and the others were waiting for him at the door.

When he came to the front of the hall, Li Ye heard the laughter inside, and as soon as he entered, he found that Li Yi, Chen Jingxuan, Tian Lingzi and others were enjoying the song and dance performance in the hall, but what made Li Ye strange was that there were no other courtiers in the hall except Chen Jingxuan, and even Wang Duo, who arrived in Chengdu yesterday, Li Yi was not summoned.

"See Brother Huang." Li Ye bent down and saluted.

"It turned out to be King Shou, didn't you accompany Princess Anhua and King Mu to go shopping? How do you have time to come here? Seeing that the person who came was Li Ye, Li Yi didn't shy away from anything, and made love to the two women next to him, and these two women were very face-to-face, thinking that it was the woman Tian Lingzi recently found, and then dedicated it to Li Yi.

"Today is Shangyuan Day, and the younger brother should come to congratulate the royal brother on a happy holiday." Li Ye said with a smile.

"King Shou, you're wrong. If it weren't for the banquet for the Shu army and the generals of the Congjia army today, I would also like to go with you to see the Shangyuan Festival in Chengdu. But if you want to come to Chengdu, Shangyuan will not be more lively than Chang'an, don't go, you don't have to accompany me tonight, you can do whatever you arrange.

Of course, if King Shou is tired of shopping, he can come to the palace, and Father has prepared a lot of fun. Li Yi said at the end and said with a wicked smile.

What Li Yi said was funny, Li Ye could probably guess some of it. After talking to Li Yi for a while, he left the palace, and after meeting with the people outside the palace, he walked towards the 'Chengdu City' in the distance.

Although 'Chengdu' here is also a place name, it is not Chengdu in the 21st century, but refers to a commercial district, and it was also the only market in Chengdu before the Tang Dynasty. Although after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the southern city, the east city, and the north city appeared in Chengdu one after another, and the old 'Chengdu City' was also renamed the West Market, but as the earliest 'city' in Chengdu, the surrounding business has been very mature, so the Shangyuan Festival in Chengdu is the most lively here. Unlike Chang'an, which is dominated by Zhuque Street, Chengdu is an artificial river formed by a river that runs through the city of Chengdu through an opening of the Qingyuan River.

In fact, Chengdu's Nanshi was the most lively place many years ago, but in the battle of the Nanzhao invasion more than ten years ago, Nanshi was looted because it was located outside the city wall, and the damage was very serious, and even now it has not been restored to before.

As soon as he came to the vicinity of Xishi, Li Ye felt that the lively scene of the Shangyuan Festival presented on TV did not seem to be too fake. At a glance, the streets on both sides of the river are full of bustling people, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as rubbing shoulders, a bit like going to those famous attractions in the city on holidays in previous lives.

Looking at this scene, Li Ye felt prescient about his decision not to drive the carriage in, in this case, it was difficult for people to walk, and the carriage could not drive in at all.

In fact, Li Ye looked down on what this time-space Shangyuan Festival meant to the people. Although the curfew was also lifted on the evening two days ago, many people did not know that even the merchants were notified at short notice and were not well prepared, and ordinary people did not know the news of the curfew lifting until the next day. Although it was also very lively, it was still much worse than today's situation.

"Chengdu's Shangyuan Festival is like this? It's too small, isn't it? Compared with Chang'an's, the gap is too big. Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhang Wei next to him complained.

"As far as you know." Li Ye glared at the other party, making the other party so frightened that he hurriedly shut up.

Although Chengdu is also a plain, but at this time the scale of Chengdu City and Chang'an must not be compared, just say Zhuque Street, the width is 150 meters, what is this concept? Even in the 21st century, it would be a very wide street, let alone this time and space. The street in front of you is thirty or forty meters at most, although there is one on each side of the river, but compared with Suzaku Street, it is still a lot worse.

Fortunately, the interest of the two princesses and Li Yi and others next to them was not destroyed by Zhang Wei, otherwise the other party would have suffered. Looking at this crowded crowd, if they were separated, it would be really difficult to find someone, so Li Ye asked the pro-soldiers in civilian clothes to form a circle, surrounded him and the others in the middle, and slowly merged into the flow of people in front of him.