Dugu Xinci was very excited to get the promise of the queen mother, and personally commanded the three of Daxiong Ah Dog and Fanbang to help hang the lanterns, so that the project of Yiqiu Palace could be completed many hours ahead of schedule.

The Empress Dowager Dugu looked at the palace lanterns in the courtyard of Yiqiu Palace with satisfaction, not to mention the exquisite palace lanterns, the pictures are even more unique and exquisite, and the handwriting of the two great talents of Yan and Tang is not fooling.

Dugu Xinci took his hand from the front of the Yiqiu Palace Hall to the Yiqiu Gate and walked through the palace lamp corridor again, the first few lights of the palace lamp picture are the portraits of the four Tang monks and apprentices in Journey to the West, from Dugu Xinci's handwriting, Dugu Xinci is lazy, and there are few pens, but on these few brushes, the image of several people is depicted vividly, Tang Seng has a peaceful and dignified face, Sun Wukong's tiger skin skirt and golden hoop stick, full of wit, Zhu Bajie's fat head and big ears are stupid, and Sha Wujing's face is full of courage and honesty.

Then there is the scene of the birth of the stone monkey, and then the drunkenness of the Monkey King in the Water Curtain Cave, as well as stealing peaches, and the Monkey King making trouble in the sky, all of which are the handiwork of Dugu Xinci.

The Tang monk in the back persuaded the stubborn monkey, Zhu Bajie carried his daughter-in-law, the monk apprentice of the quicksand and river sand, the three dozen white bone essences and so on The ninety-nine eighty-one difficult scenes of the scripture learning process are all Wang Wei's own handwriting, the painting style is beautiful, the characters are plump, and the scenes are also exquisitely selected, Wang Wei is afraid that it took a lot of effort.

The Queen Mother Dugu looked at it and was also satisfied, and even said that she would continue to ask Dugu Xinci and Wang Wei to help paint next year, Dugu Xinci said a few perfunctory words, and when she saw that it was late, she left the palace.

The queen mother did not keep it, and instructed Dugu Jialuo to take out some of the things that the saint had recently given him and let him take them away, which was nothing more than some gold, silver, jewelry and pastries to eat.

The Empress Dowager Dugu was deeply bored, knowing that she disliked the food in the palace, but she was helpless, so she waved her hand to let her leave, and said that she would notify him of the news of the Nalan family's girl.

When the sky was approaching, Dugu Xinci pondered whether to go to the Sword God Mansion, the Sword God Mansion was in the peace square in the southwest of Chang'an, and it was said that the little sword god Yang Qiu invited Dugu Xinci to be a guest a few times, but Dugu Xinci said that the Ru family's family style was rigorous and square, quite boring, and there were many people in the family, it was too troublesome to worship this and that, Yang Qiu actually thought so.

If you go to the Sword God Mansion now, will you meet the Empress of the Stream? But it's getting late, will you just miss it on the way? Dugu Xinci is very troubled.

Gritting his teeth at the end, he pulled a hairpin at the gate of Yanxi out of the imperial city, and asked him if he could see the people who were begging for him to return to Daming Palace after this.

Sure enough, the hairpin who guarded the door was inexplicable, but still replied that the person who was begging had already returned to the palace with the queen's luan, and it looked like it had been about two quarters of an hour.

Dugu Xinci sighed, only to go back to the county king's mansion, this matter of finding a beautiful woman will be talked about tomorrow.

When passing through Xuanyangfang, Dugu Xinci actually remembered that he seemed to be the county order of Wannian County, this first ten out of the city, today thirteen, there has been no news of Wannian County for four days?

Dugu Xinci proudly introduced to his apprentice, Wannian County is in this Xuanyang Fang, take you to see tomorrow, your master is from the Ming Mansion of Wannian County.

Quan Yiquan immediately made a gesture of admiration, and then inserted a knife, "Aren't you just like in Temple Street, the matter is thrown to Yelu Zhaofeng Qiwu and them, and they are looking for fun every day?" ”

Dugu Xinci was speechless, "Don't use pleasure to describe it, okay?" Is it good to find the mystery between heaven and earth? ”

A group of people returned to the Liaoyang County Palace, the Liaoyang County Palace, which had been on duty, was talking to people, and the visitor was actually Du Wei, who joined the army on the expedition to the Mohe Army, and the King of Liaoyang County left the Far East Hebei Province, and most of the Andong Capital was handed over to Shan Sijing, and the Hebei Provincial Observation Envoy was given to Wang Xuan.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the county was changed to a different car, and Gaozong changed the other car to a long history, and the royal family was a different car, and it was not often abandoned later. Even if it is not permanent, Dugu Xinci's other drive is an ornament, an honorary position, Du Wei's is the deputy of Weizhou Thorn History, if you meet a chief official like Dugu Xinci, then you have to be as busy as Du Juan in Wannian County.

Dugu Xinci and Du Wei are familiar with each other, and they still remember that the two goddesses of Datang Academy interned in their subordinates.

The two compartments were chatting enthusiastically, and Du Juan, the county of Wannian County, who had just been chattering, came, and ignored him when he saw his chief official, but he gave a salute to the king of Liaoyang County and Du Wei, as Dugu Xinci expected, Du Wei was also born in Du Qu of Shaoling Yuan, but the two were Du brothers.

"Do you think it's an uncle or nephew?" Dugu Xinci muttered, hoping to attract the attention of his subordinates.

"You have been gone for three or four days, and there is no news, and you are about to report the case to the Criminal Department?" It attracted Du Juan's attention, but it was by no means perfunctory.

"What's going on in the county party now?" Dugu Xinci asked.

"Collect two taxes, canal repair fees, donations, the day after tomorrow is the Shangyuan Day Lantern Festival, why don't people need to keep an eye on the security of the exhibition?" Du Juan was very angry.

"There is a cangcao to collect the two taxes, and the repair fee of the canal is collected by the household department, isn't the lantern handed over to Wei Qing's main book and the preparatory committee?" Dugu Xin Ciqi said, "Oh, I know, do you think that you don't have the authority to do with you?" ”

"What authority? As soon as you leave, the taxpayers are all princes and ministers, although they are all the stewards of their mansions, but they also need to be received, right? Don't entertain the household department to collect taxes from the county party? The most annoying thing is the lantern exhibition, Wei Qing's main book is not at all the opponent of those monks and Taoist profiteers, everything comes to find a certain one, one will be the temple occupies more territory, one will be the Taoist temple is not allowed to be exhibited in front of its square, the profiteers are desperately occupying more places close to the imperial city, the south is now sparse, close to the Vermilion Bird Gate is impassable. "Du Juan County Cheng is very aggrieved, he is now the first official under the county order, and he will naturally go to him if the county order is not there.

"Isn't there still Wen Guyan County?" Dugu was puzzled, "You won't let him solve it?" ”

"Thou shalt be so-and-so, shall thou be you? What is the blame on the subordinates? Du Juan laughed angrily.

"Don't let your subordinates do things? What do you want your subordinates to do? "Dugu Xinci innocently spread his hands.

Everyone was speechless, and even Duguzhen, the king of Liaoyang County, was speechless for such a powerful reason.

"No matter what, someone who has made an appointment with the preparatory committee will go to the scene tomorrow to solve the problem, and you will naturally go when you come back" Du Juan is still a teenager, naturally willful.

"Okay, well, go so-and-so, a few monks and Taoist profiteers have turned against the sky? Go and vent your anger, and today you can drink well" Dugu Xinci comforted his subordinates.

So the Du brothers were soon overthrown by Dugu Xinci and the three people of Fanbang and the apprentices.

On the second day, that is, the fourteenth day of the first month, the day before the Shangyuan Festival, Dugu Xinci was still doing morning exercises, Du Juan went to his courtyard, ready to take him to Wannian County on duty, and yesterday the two Du brothers stayed in the palace of Liaoyang County to rest.

Du Wei is on family leave, Tang system, parents are 3,000 miles away, there is a month and 30 days of family leave every three years, Weizhou Don't drive Du Wei can take 30 days off, of course, half a month on the road is only 15 days.

Du Wei was the day before yesterday with all the power of them into Beijing, yesterday to the Ministry of Officials to prepare the next case, visited a few relatives, and a little thing in Weizhou to the Ministry of Household to understand, I wanted to rest in the Weizhou Concert Academy, but thinking that Liaoyang County Wang Dugu Zhen is the old boss, Liaoyang County Wang Dugu Xinci was familiar with it when he was still called Dugu Tianxing, on the way to the Mohe River from the east to the middle of the road to the final general attack on the Mohe, both of them are colleagues, and they are quite compatible, so they came to visit the Liaoyang County Palace, and the result was naturally drunk.

Fortunately, they are all strong, and they are all right when they wake up in the morning, after breakfast, Du Juan took Dugu Xinci, the county order of Wannian County, to go to duty, Du Wei must go back to Du Qu's house, and there are a lot of people waiting for him, such as his wife and children, old fathers and mothers.

However, the king of Dugu County, the right servant of Shangshu, is actually resting today, he is taking three days off first, and Shangyuan Day is also a three-day holiday according to the rules, but fifteen and sixteen seventeen, Duguzhen County King is on duty on the 17th, so he will be retired in advance.

Du Wei and the king of Dugu County made an appointment to watch the lights tomorrow night, Dugu Xinci asked him to take the whole family and not go to the concert courtyard, and went to the Liaoyang County Mansion to rest, yesterday's courtyard can be, it is no problem to live a dozen people, Du Juan also said yes, his parents will also come tomorrow, Dugu Xinci will divide the two adjacent courtyards to their Du family, it is estimated that Wen Yulangjun will also come tomorrow, saying that he does not want to delay the three days of Shangyuan Festival, but he is only a member of the Ministry of Industry and Water Affairs, there are more than a dozen subordinates, and they have to let them rest for a day and a half. Otherwise, it will not be good to treat his subordinates harshly.

Dugu Xinci didn't remember telling his father Dugu County King about Nalan Feiya last night, so he thought about it or forgot it, and when he brought it back to give a surprise, he lazily went to Xuanyang Fang on the opposite side of the north to pay for it, and Wannian County was in its southeast corner.

Wannian County Party is still busy, but it is not as good as a few days ago, when I arrived at Cangcao, the household tax and land tax have been collected nearly eighty, close to 30,000 yuan, Dugu Xinci praised Han Qu, the captain of Sicang, and encouraged the other five new and old county lieutenants, so that the people in the county party have a little less resentment against the county order that has a message for three or four days.

When the day was approaching, Wannian County had a share of the lanterns placed on Zhuque Street, and all the families who had placed lanterns on Zhuque Street sent people to the county party one after another, and Dugu Xinci was also trying to solve the matter as soon as possible and then went to seek the empress, and did not wait for anyone to arrive, and asked Du Juan to let the later go directly to Zhuque Street, so he took the lead and went straight to the lantern exhibition area of Zhuque Street, but let the three people who followed him play by themselves.

Wannian County and Chang'an County are bounded by Zhuque Street, Wannian County is still arguing over their respective exhibition sites, there has been a fanfare arrangement, near the Zhuque Gate of a square of the street is Chang'an City and even the entire Yantang Dynasty of the richest man Wang Yuanbao Wang's exhibition area, it seems that it is built into a high-rise building, the red lanterns are all over the place ready to hang, at a glance the red Tongtong is very spectacular.

In front of the Suzaku Gate is the royal exhibition area, and the people of Neiku are also building a lantern exhibition area, and a Ferris wheel taller than the imperial city has begun to take shape.

Dugu Xinci looked at the east side of Suzaku Street, that is, on the side of Wannian County, there were a few lonely lights, and the Ming Mansion of Wannian County was very congested.

Not only him, but also the great monk Kongwu of the Qinglong Temple, the Qingfeng Dao Elder of Haotian Temple, the guest hall elder of the Recommended Blessing Temple, the first seat of the Ci'en Temple, and Zuo Xuande, the richest man in Wannian County, and many others also blushed.

"Time is not waiting for me, you have any thoughts and proposals, let's talk about them one by one" Dugu sighed, this matter needs to be cut through the mess quickly, tomorrow is the Shangyuan day, everything must be prepared tonight, and someone will come to see the exhibition tomorrow morning.

"A certain one is at the mercy of the Ming government's instructions," everyone said in unison.

Dugu Xinci looked at the old and young, and more than 100 monks and laymen of all kinds gave gifts in such a neat manner, and they enjoyed it very much.

But the problem still needs to be solved, Dugu Xinci thought about it, and said:

"I don't know the reason very well, but I put forward a few principles for your reference."

"First, the principle of proximity, for example, the exhibition area of Jianfu Temple is naturally in front of Anren and Kaihua, Haotianguan is in Baoning Fang, and Daci'en Temple is closest to Mingfang, so it is naturally best to arrange the exhibition in front of Kaimingfang, do you think so?"

Everyone nodded and said that this was a great good, and Dugu Xinci continued

"The second is, the back is close to the location of the Suzaku Gate, a proposal to bid for it, the highest price gets, especially Xingdaofang, a suggestion is divided into five areas, by five bidders, one monk each, the other three are merchants, Kaihua Fang and Anren Fang are also divided into ten parts, and the Recommended Blessing Temple has five shares? How about the grievances recommend the Blessing Temple, and the remaining five shares will also be auctioned? ”

Everyone looked at each other, but there was nothing else they could do.

"How about dividing the money from the auction into two parts, one for hiring people to maintain order and security, and one for supplementing the poorly located exhibition area?"

Everyone has no objections, Zuo Xuande won two auctions in Xingdaofang and Kaihuafang, and was given two hundred by Feng Ping, Feng Pingchang and Wang Wulang of Shengdaofang jointly auctioned two, which were naturally used to arrange food stalls, both of them were confident that they would earn back the auction money of two hundred yuan, and the rest also had their own holds, Dugu Xinci instructed Wei Qing's main book to record them one by one, and let Wang Yong and Wu Huan, the county lieutenants of Wannian County, take people to divide the location and get busy.

Dugu Xinci continued:

"This third principle is the principle of peer gathering, for example, it is best to be adjacent to this boiled restaurant and pastry, and then this Qinglong Temple can be adjacent to Dacien Temple, Daxingshan Temple, Longhua Temple, etc., so as to form a momentum, right?"

Everyone nodded yes.

"In the end, the position that you don't want is left to the county party, and a certain one will fill it up, and you can't let this ten-mile long street leave a black spot" Dugu Xinci is very generous.

Although Wei Qing's main book is full of sourness, after all, he has been a eunuch for many years, and he still has the basic ability to do things, and soon marked the names of each family on the booth map, and wrote the positions of each family in duplicate into a document style, one for the exhibitors, and one for the county lieutenants to verify and supervise.

Dugu Xinci saw that everyone had no objections, and quickly understood the location and began to get busy, and suddenly felt that he could think about going to Daming Palace to have a chance encounter with Nalan Xiaoya?

But the Hui Lang Master of the Recommended Blessing Temple personally greeted him, invited him to inspect the temple, Dugu Xinci was helpless, but looked at the Haotian Temple and other Taoist audiences, hoping that they would oppose, that these Taoist people had already entered the temple to inspect the intention of competitors, suffering from the identity has not had the opportunity, this time there is Wannian County Ming Mansion in, the same is Wannian County lantern cloth exhibition strategy, the reason is bright and bright, and the judgment opponent without a trace is better.

Dugu Xinci's bitter opposition became praise, so he had to take the lead in entering the Jianfu Temple, which is a famous temple in Chang'an, Anrenfang.

It is a temple built by the royal family for 100 days after the death of Gaozong, so it was originally named "Xianfu Temple". In the first year of the Heavenly Grant, it was changed to "Recommended Blessing Temple"; In the second year of Shenlong, the temple was expanded into a scripture translation institute, and it became another Buddhist scripture translation place after the Temple of Mercy and Grace. The north is only separated from the imperial city by one square, the west is adjacent to the central axis of Chang'an City, Zhuque Street, is located in the first column in the east of the street, the east and west sides are separated by the bustling east market and the west market but two or three miles, the temple is in the prosperous area with convenient transportation and concentrated residents.

The black magpie is silent, the fish and dragon never sleep, and Jiuqu is busy killing idle cars and horses. When the moon falls, the west window hangs, and the neighboring chickens are all around.

(End of chapter)