Chapter 138: Temple Fair
The three of them slapped their horses like this, which made Lu Chengqi laugh and scolded: "Less flattery, I don't want to eat this set!" ”
Yang Daoqi watched silently from the side, and suddenly understood that this little emperor was a person with exquisite thoughts, and he could see clearly who was a sycophant, and he could naturally distinguish who was a loyal minister, who was a minister, who was a capable minister, and who was a mediocre talent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info sighed in his heart: "The old man has read countless people in his life, but he has never understood this little emperor, he has been defeated unjustly, and he has been unjustly defeated!" He didn't know that although this little emperor had the same appearance, his soul was different. Where can two people with very different personalities and very different ways of doing things be figured out? Lu Chengqi was crooked, and he arranged to seize power soon after he came, otherwise after a long time, Yang Daoqi found out his details, and it was difficult to say who would win and who would lose. The so-called indiscriminate punching to kill the master is like this.
Then, Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo joined hands and walked around Royal Roads University. The huge Royal University has nothing to do, and while strolling around, Zhou Zhiruo got tired and said, "Your Majesty, there's nothing interesting here." And those students of yours are looking at us with very strange eyes, very uncomfortable. Why don't we go to the temple fair, today is the fifteenth, and there happens to be a temple fair! ”
Lu Chengqi has long had a strong interest in the fame of temple fairs, and it can be said that the commercial development of Dashun originated from these religious temple fairs. There are also many temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an City, such as the Great Solemn Temple, the General Holding Temple, the Xingshan Temple, and the Xuandu Temple. Other famous Ci'en Temple (Big Wild Goose Pagoda), Jianfu Temple (Small Wild Goose Pagoda), Qinglong Temple, etc. also have large plots of land. These places happen to be able to hold grand temple fairs in these open spaces.
And the most famous temple fair is the Great Solemn Temple. This is a royal temple built by Dashun Taizu when he founded the country. As a royal temple, the Great Solemn Temple is not only grand in scale, but also magnificent in the palace, which is the largest in the capital at that time. The great solemn temple written by the literati is "the hall is towering, the house is heavy and deep, and the palace such as Zhou Lu and the forest garden are like a heavenly garden." The whole country is prosperous, and there is no one who is superior. The camp decoration in the temple is gorgeous, and the temple wall is painted with famous murals, and all things are various, dazzling.
Later Wenzong prayed for his father, and set up the general temple in the west of the Great Solemn Temple, the scale of the establishment is exactly the same as the Great Solemn Temple, and there is also a wooden pagoda of the same height.
The Great Solemn Temple is densely wooded and the scenery is pleasant. The dense bamboo and green pine in the temple, the weeping shade is beautiful, and the line is lost. Pear trees are widely planted in the temple, so the Great Solemn Temple has always been a good place for Jingshi Li Min Shishu to visit and escape the summer.
In particular, the twin towers that stand majestically in the two temples of the general and solemn temples have become the landmark buildings in the southwest corner of Chang'an City, and have become a place for people to climb high and overlook. The grand meeting of the waterway Buddhism is held regularly every year, and the wealthy nobles, monks and lay people compete to come to the temple to rejoice, worship and worship, vow to give alms, drum music and noisy sky, and it is to tilt the Beijing teacher. It is open five times on the first day, fifteenth and eighth day of each month, allowing the citizens to go to the temple to do business, 360 lines, upper and lower middle and nine streams, and those who lead tea and sell pulp can enter and exit freely. Not only the local people gathered, but even foreign merchants refused to let go of this grand event, and over time, it became a super-large gathering.
On weekdays, the monks and laymen enter the incense and play, and they are already crowded with thousands of heads, rubbing shoulders with each other. Every time there is a temple fair, it is even more impassable, and the voices of people are boiling. With such a dense population, the purchasing power is also quite large. As long as you pay commercial taxes in accordance with the law, you can find a place to set up a stall here, compared to the Celestial Empire in later generations, it is really a free paradise at this time.
The imperial court of Dashun also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to manage these temple fairs, and there will be patrols from the city defense department at that time. In the past, these soldiers may have deceived and dominated the market, but since Lu Chengqi established the Supervision Department, such behavior has disappeared.
Why spend so much manpower, material and financial resources on macro planning and management? Because the Great Solemn Temple is a royal temple, even the emperor, queen, concubines, and ministers will come from time to time, and foreign envoys also like to come to these places to "Taobao", and by the way, worship the Buddha for sightseeing. In view of this, the good-looking Han people will naturally put a lot of effort into managing the temple fair.
Close to the gate, the area is concentrated on trading rare birds, exotic animals, cats and dogs and other pets. These pets either came from the Silk Road or drifted from the oceans. Rare birds and animals are placed at the door, which is conducive to the cleaning of feces and prevents the occurrence of epidemics. There are four canals in Chang'an City: Longshou, Qingming, Yong'an and Caoqu, which lead the tributaries of the Wei River from the southeast and west to the city respectively to provide water for life and the environment. It just so happens that there is a Yong'an Canal flowing through in front of the Great Solemn Temple, which is convenient for cleaning.
Walk through the gate, enter the temple, the palace of the king, the Buddha hall, in front of the temple, there are three large courtyards, temporarily set up a colorful tent, between the tent and the tent, the items sold have a division of labor, it is the trading area of daily necessities. Some sell ginger candy, seasonal fruits, and preserved meat, and some sell puhe, mats, screens, toiletries, saddle bridles, bows and arrows, etc. The candied fruit next to the Buddha hall is quite famous and often fills the diners. In addition, Zhao Wenxiu's pen and Pan Gu's ink are the most sought-after goods for students.
In the promenade on both sides, there are some stalls. The stalls here are not the stalls of the Celestial Dynasty in the future, the stalls here can be much stronger, just in terms of the embroidery of the nuns, it is a must, what collar wipes, flowers, pearls and emerald heads, raw color pins and gold pattern hats, special bun crowns, silk threads, etc., people nuns can embroider it, and the style is more than a clock, the color is gorgeous. Not only the court loved this kind of embroidery, but the people also loved it.
In the temple fair, there is also a peculiar profession, much like the appraisers of later generations, who appraise money for buyers and sellers. These people have a very accurate grasp of the market price and the ups and downs of the market, and have a certain authority in terms of price. They are eloquent and act as intermediaries, often in a few words to facilitate a business. In fact, most of these people are monks, otherwise how to say that monks are also landlords on the rich side? They wore robes, wrapped around their waists, and paid attention to the practice of entering the WTO. The people in Chang'an City not only did not exclude them from doing so, but respected them more.
When Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo came to the solemn temple meeting, it was already Shen time, and it was dusk in more than an hour. But the temple fair not only did not reduce its popularity, but became more prosperous.
Not long ago, Lu Chengqi decreed that the curfew would be lifted forever, which made the prosperity of the temple fair reach a peak.
Zhou Zhiruo came to the temple fair, as if a woman had released her nature, she walked around, buying some in the east and some in the west, which made Wang Yanchen look at Lu Chengqi with extremely resentful eyes, as if to say: "You don't care about your lady, let her be such a loser?" Look at how many things my men have mentioned! Look at my purse, how shriveled it has been......"
Not only Wang Yanchen complained, but Lu Chengqi also complained. He didn't expect that the scale of a temple fair would be so large, and it would take half an hour to just walk around. Fortunately, Zhou Zhiruo stopped to buy things from time to time, otherwise Lu Chengqi would really not be able to bear it.
"It's scary for women to go shopping, especially rich women!" Looking at Zhou Zhiruo, who was buying and buying all the way, Lu Chengqi couldn't help but sigh a thousand times in his heart......
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