Shangyuan Festival, the whole world celebrates, even in the south of the Yangtze River Hongcheng is no exception, although there was a rebellion of the Turks before the New Year, but Zhao Deyan swept away the rebellious Turks with a thunderous momentum, all the implicated Turks were also excavated one by one, and then cut off their heads and hung on the city gate to show the public, for a time the Hongcheng city wall was full of heads. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although this time failed to eliminate all the Turks who secretly resisted, it also caused their forces to suffer an extremely serious blow, after all, almost all the strength accumulated for several years was destroyed by the Tang army, and some important figures were also caught and executed, and the remaining strength is estimated to be less than one in ten, and as time goes by, the Tang Dynasty's control over the Turks will only become stricter and stricter, and it is almost impossible for them to restore their previous power, and the rest is just a matter of surviving.

When the Shangyuan Festival came, the rebellion in Hongzhou has basically been put down, although the heads of people on the head of Hongcheng City are still hanging there, and the soil on the street still has a little faded bloodstains, but Zhao Deyan in order to celebrate the rebellion, but announced that the city will be congratulated, and even the government has paid for the construction of large-scale giant lanterns on several streets, and when the night comes, the whole Hongcheng is also illuminated.

Hongcheng is not only light, there are also a lot of pedestrians on the streets, although the previous rebellion killed some people, and even some Han people died at the hands of the rebellious Turks, but the number is not much, after all, as soon as the Turkic rebellion was launched, it was quickly beaten out of the inner city, so the Han people in the inner city suffered little loss, but the Turks in the outer city suffered a lot of casualties.

Shangyuan Festival is the festival of the Han people, so when night falls, the Han people in the inner city also take their families to travel with lanterns, the number of Han people in Hongcheng is not small, it has exceeded 10,000 people, of course, there are more Turkic people in the outer city, the population of the entire Hongcheng is about forty or fifty thousand, which may be just a small city in later generations, but in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to Chang'an, Luoyang such a super city, most of the city's population is only tens of thousands.

Xue Rengui walked on the street with a carp lamp in his hand, and there was a beautiful girl beside him, I saw that this girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a green dress, and her figure was relatively tall, but standing with the burly Xue Rengui, she looked very petite.

"Brother Shi, let's go there and have a look!" At this moment, I saw the girl beside Xue Rengui pointing to a tall beast lamp in front of her and said. It's just that the girl's expression is a little shy when she speaks, but she still forces herself to make a calm appearance, which looks extremely interesting.

"It's okay, Hongcheng is really lively here, I'm much more beautiful than the lantern festival in my hometown Longmen County!" Facing this girl, Xue Rengui also smiled at this time.

"That's natural, but Hongcheng is just a newly built small city, it can't be compared with Taiyuan at all, when I was in Taiyuan, the lantern festival there was really lively, but if it is a lantern festival, the most lively in the world is probably Chang'an City, but unfortunately I have never been to Chang'an."

When the girl talked about Chang'an, her eyes also showed a look of yearning, after all, Chang'an is the center of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the most lively city in the world, with a population of more than one million alone, and a small city like Hongcheng may not even be able to compare with a corner of Chang'an.

"When we get married, we will go to Chang'an together, and Guogong said that he will recommend me to study at the military academy, and then we can live in Chang'an for a few more years!" Xue Rengui saw that the girl liked Chang'an, and he was very excited at the moment, but his words were too straightforward, and the girl lowered her head in shame when she heard this, and she didn't dare to look at him anymore.

This girl is Xue Rengui's wife-to-be Liu Xiaoniang, who has been engaged since childhood, this time Xue Rengui came to Hongcheng, and before he could find them, he encountered a rebellion of the Turks, and as a result, Xue Rengui had a meritorious role in quelling the rebellion, and was specially summoned by Zhao Deyan.

But now Zhao Deyan can only be greedy, and he also knows that a brave and resourceful person like Xue Rengui, with a backer like Li Xiu behind him, will definitely have a bright future in the future, so he also stooped down to make friends with Xue Rengui, took the initiative to help Xue Rengui find Liu Shilin's family, and personally helped Xue Rengui as a lobbyist, after all, Liu Shilin's daughter had been engaged to someone else before.

Speaking of the marriage of the little lady of the Liu family, it is really a confusing account, the little lady of the Liu family originally ordered a baby kiss with Xue Rengui, and both parties also exchanged birthday characters and tokens, but Xue Rengui's father died early, and he never contacted the Liu family after that, and the little lady of the Liu family waited for Xue Rengui for an extra year, until last year, the little lady Liu was almost seventeen, and then she was engaged to another family, and she planned to get married in the spring, but she didn't expect Xue Rengui to find it again, even if this kind of thing is reported to the court, I'm afraid no one can tell it clearly.

Facing Xue Rengui's sudden son-in-law, Liu Shilin couldn't make up his mind for a while, in fact, he was still very satisfied with Xue Rengui, although the Xue family declined, but Xue Rengui made great contributions in quelling the rebellion this time, and Zhao Deyan also told him privately that Xue Rengui still has Li Xiu behind him, and his future is limitless, not to mention that Liu Shilin and Xue Rengui's deceased father are still friends for many years, so no matter what aspect, he is more inclined to Xue Rengui in his heart.

It's just that Liu Xiaoniang was engaged to another family before, and Liu Shilin didn't dare to ruin the marriage, after all, this is related to the reputation of their Liu family, if one is not good, the reputation of the entire Liu family will stink, after all, the impact of ruining the marriage is too bad.

However, Zhao Deyan personally came forward to make peace this time, and the family engaged to the Liu family is also an official of Hongcheng, so it is natural to give Zhao Deyan a little face, it just so happened that Liu Shilin also has a niece, two years younger than Liu Xiaoniang, so the two families finally decided not to cancel the marriage contract, but to let Liu Shilin's niece marry instead of the little lady of the Liu family, speaking of which, Liu Shilin's niece's family background is not very good, this time to be able to marry an official eunuch family instead of Liu Xiaoniang, which makes Liu Shilin's niece's family very happy.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Xiaoniang resumed her marriage contract with Xue Rengui, and Liu Shilin also wanted them to go to Chang'an after the marriage, so Xue Rengui temporarily lived in Liu's house.

Xue Rengui and Liu Xiaoniang chatted while walking, and finally climbed the open section of the city wall in the inner city of Hongcheng, condescendingly admiring the lights of Hongcheng, looking at the bright lights below, Xue Rengui suddenly thought of the more prosperous Chang'an City, and thought of the lantern festival in Chang'an that was a hundred times more lively than here, and he also showed a fascinated expression for a while.

It's just that Xue Rengui never dreamed that Chang'an City during the Shangyuan Festival was not lively at all, and it was even a little chaotic!