Chapter 269: It's a big game
Li Chengqian still has a very good hand at fooling little pot friends, and after listening to his words, Xiao Lori, Li Zhi, Li Zhen...... Even Cheng Chuliang and Li Huiming both felt that Wang Xiang should hold a bigger, livelier, and more fun lantern festival on behalf of the Prince's Mansion.
As for the problems that Wang Xiang said about the lack of space and manpower, Li Chengqian waved his hand very magnificently.
"How to arrange the Lantern Festival is up to you, and the venue, manpower and other things needed are all handled by the Prince's Mansion. You only have one task, which is to make this Lantern Festival the most lively lantern festival in Chang'an! ”
Li Chengqian said this, Wang Xiang still had any reason to refuse, so he had to agree, in fact, he didn't care, it was not difficult for him to hold a lantern festival, I don't know how many times I had seen the lantern festival in books and TV before, and it was much more interesting than the lantern festival I saw today.
"Since we want to do a big and lively event, let's just run a light market."
"Lamp Market?"
Li Chengqian obviously heard this statement for the first time, and the others also looked at Wang Xiang with curiosity.
"In fact, it means to hold a big lantern festival, just like a city of lights."
Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Okay, let's run a lamp market!" "As long as he can suppress Li Tai and Li Ke, he is satisfied, and the lantern festival like the city of lights sounds very extraordinary.
It is only a few days away from the Lantern Festival, since it has been decided to start preparations, the Lantern Festival must be attended by someone to be lively, this does not need Wang Xiang to worry about, Li Chengqian sent people to publicize the matter of the Lantern Market, and especially emphasized that this is an unprecedented and unique Lantern Market, organized by the Marquis of Jiayuan on behalf of the Prince's Mansion.
Who is the Marquis of Jiayuan? That is the most limelight Hou Ye in Chang'an City, Jinguang Lake Poetry Club overwhelms the four talents of Luoyang, not only poetry. He also invented various novel and interesting things such as drama and shadow puppetry, and the lantern festival he held must have been very interesting, and the news attracted a lot of attention as soon as it spread. And there are also rumors that there will be a lot of lantern riddles in the Lantern Festival Lantern Market, and those who can guess the most lantern riddles will also get a large amount of money.
Guessing lantern riddles is an elegant thing. Usually it only appears in the small lantern festival held by some literati, but this time the lantern market organized by the Marquis of Jiayuan on behalf of the prince's mansion is not refused, and anyone can participate.
It is not easy to guess the lantern riddle, and it is not a simple thing to come out of the lantern riddle, I heard that there will be hundreds or thousands of lantern riddles for everyone to guess and play, some people are amazed, some people are suspicious, but no matter what kind of idea they have already got up to take a look. Moreover, the Marquis of Jiayuan is known for his generous efforts, and not long ago he even built Tangquan Palace in Lishan to dedicate it to His Majesty. Spending a lot of money is not enough to show one or two, but it is conceivable that if you can guess the most lantern riddles in the Lantern Festival Lantern Market, it is definitely a good thing to gain fame and fortune.
For a while, the upcoming lantern market in the prince's mansion set off an uproar in Chang'an, and the limelight was far stronger than the lantern festival to be held in the Wei Wangfu and the Wu Wangfu, and everyone was looking forward to the lantern market held by Wang Xiang.
Li Tai and Li Ke, who were carefully preparing for the Lantern Festival, were stunned when they heard the news, in previous years, they could beat the prince at the Lantern Festival, but this year's Lantern Festival was pressed hard by Li Chengqian before it started, which was naturally a little unacceptable, so they also learned from Wang Xiang to make a prize for guessing lantern riddles, but the effect was not very obvious. As the two princes who are most favored by Li Er, the prize money for guessing lantern riddles is not a problem for them. It's just hundreds of riddles, except for Wang Xiang, who dares to boast of such a Haikou ......
After the news spread, many literati and scholars even came from other places. Just to see the rumored hundreds of riddles. Among them, there are some apricot forest Confucianism, they are especially good at lantern riddles, the lantern riddles handed down since ancient times are only about a hundred or so, and the classics are not much, some people boast that hundreds of lantern riddles, they naturally want to come to see and see.
The Lantern Festival Lantern Market has attracted more and more attention. Far beyond Wang Xiang and Li Chengqian's expectations, the game is big, even Li Er in the palace has an interest, when Li Chengqian entered the palace to ask him for instructions, he wanted to use the entire Chang'an West Street as a lamp market on the day of the Lantern Festival, Li Er agreed without hesitation, and even said that if there are too many participants, it can be expanded in the direction of East Street. This made Li Chengqian overjoyed.
Li Er likes to see this kind of scene where all the people are happy and the prosperity is peaceful, which can greatly satisfy his psychology of the prosperous world.
"Do it well, let everyone in the world see the prosperity of our Datang."
With Li Er's encouragement, Li Chengqian felt unprecedented excitement, and felt more and more that he had made the right decision this time, at first he just hoped that Wang Xiang could help him win back some face, but he didn't expect the result to be much better than expected.
After coming out of the palace, Li Chengqian rushed to the mansion of the Marquis of Linchuan in a blazing fire, and told Wang Xiang about it, Wang Xiang didn't feel any surprise, now it's only 11 years of Zhenguan, although the world is fixed, in fact, internal and external troubles, and so on in the later stage of Zhenguan internal and external troubles to solve Li Er's often make such large-scale celebrations, but also in the name of the name: happy with the people.
To put it bluntly, Li Er is not only happy with his achievements, but he is actually very greedy for pleasure, but now he doesn't dare to relax under internal and external troubles, it is this sense of distress and strong self-control that makes him a famous emperor of the ages in history, as for the old age of the emperor, the reputation of the emperor is not so good.
Of course, these are not things that Wang Xiang should worry about, he is busy designing all kinds of lanterns.
Because the scale of the lantern market exceeded expectations too much, so the number of lanterns needed is also much more, he is responsible for designing the style of the lanterns, Xiao Lori and Wu Shun and others are in accordance with the style designed by Wang Xiang to make templates, and then hand over these lantern templates to the workshops specializing in making lanterns for them to make a large number of them, in order to make enough lanterns before the Lantern Festival, most of the lantern workshops in Chang'an have been requisitioned, and Li Chengqian also paid an extra thirty percent of the wages for them to rush to work.
The production of lanterns and the layout of the lantern market were done according to Wang Xiang's requirements, and now the remaining problem is the lantern riddle.
When the propaganda was announced, it was already said that there would be hundreds of riddles for everyone to guess, so even Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other bigwigs are quite looking forward to the lantern market, if you can't get so many lantern riddles at that time, or the so-called lantern riddles are nonsense at all, then Li Chengqian even has the heart to die, and there are drawbacks of being in the limelight, once you make a fool, there are many people who see you make a fool......
"Zixin, there is no problem with the production of lanterns and the layout of the lantern market, the matter of lantern riddles?"
Facing Li Chengqian's question, Wang Xiang smiled slightly, pointed to a pair of new papers stacked together randomly next to him, Li Chengqian picked up a few in confusion and looked at them, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"These are lantern riddles?" (To be continued.) )