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Chapter 138 Temple Fair
The three of them flattered each other so much that Lu Chengqi laughed and cursed: "Stop flattering, I won't take that kind of thing!"

Yang Daoqi watched silently from the side, and suddenly understood that the little emperor was a man with a delicate mind. He could see clearly those who flattered him, so he could naturally tell who was a loyal minister, who was a sycophant, and who was a sycophant. Nengchen, who is a mediocrity.He sighed in his heart: "I have seen countless people in my life, but I still can't understand this little emperor. It's not wrong to lose, it's not wrong to lose!" But he didn't know that although the appearance of this little emperor was the same, his soul was changed. .Two people with very different personalities and very different ways of doing things, how can we figure it out?Lu Chengqi was playing right and wrong, and arranged to seize power not long after he arrived, otherwise, after a long time, Yang Daoqi found out his details, and it would be hard to say who would win and who would lose.That's what the so-called beating the master to death with random punches.

After that, Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo joined hands and walked around the Royal University.There is nothing interesting in the huge Royal University, and Zhou Zhiruo got tired of walking around, and said: "Your Majesty, there is nothing interesting here. And those students of yours all looked at us with strange eyes, It’s very uncomfortable. Why don’t we go to the temple fair, today is the [-]th day, and there happens to be a temple fair!”

Lu Chengqi had long been interested in the great fame of temple fairs. 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, Dazhuangyan Temple, Zongchi Temple, Xingshan Temple, Xuandu Temple, etc. all occupy the entire area.Other well-known Ci'en Temple (Big Wild Goose Pagoda), Jianfu Temple (Small Wild Goose Pagoda), and Qinglong Temple also have large areas of land.These places happen to be able to hold grand temple fairs in these open spaces.

The most famous temple fair is the Dazhuangyan Temple.This is a royal temple specially approved to be built when Taizu Taizu of Dashun founded the country.As a royal temple, Dazhuangyan Temple is not only large in scale, but also magnificent in its palace, which was the largest in the capital at that time.The Dazhuangyan Temple described by the literati is "the hall is towering, the houses are deep, the palaces such as Zhoulu, and the gardens are like heavenly gardens. The whole country is admirable, and there is no one who is taller." Vientiane is colorful and dazzling.

Later, Wenzong prayed for his father, and set up the Zongchi Temple in the west of Dazhuangyan Temple. The scale and structure of Dazhuangyan Temple are exactly the same as that of Dazhuangyan Temple, and there are also wooden pagodas of the same height.

Dazhuangyan Temple has luxuriant trees and pleasant scenery.In the temple, there are dense bamboo and emerald pines, hanging down the shade and showing beauty, and walking is lost in the way.Pear trees are widely planted in the temple, so Dazhuangyan Temple has always been a good place for the people of the capital to visit and escape the summer heat.

In particular, the towering twin pagodas in Zongchi and Zhuangyan Temples have become the landmark buildings in the southwest corner of Chang'an City and a recreational spot for people to climb up and overlook.Dazhuangyan Temple regularly holds waterway Buddhist grand gatherings every year. The rich and nobles, monks and laymen compete to come to the temple to rejoice, wear their crowns to worship, make vows and give alms, and the drums and music make the sky even more exciting.It is opened five times on the first, fifteenth and eighth day of each month, and citizens are allowed to go to the temple to do business, 360 lines, up and down, middle and high, and those who sell tea and pulp can come in and out freely.Not only the local people gathered, but even foreign merchants were unwilling to let go of this grand event. Over time, it became a super large gathering.

On weekdays, there are already tens of thousands of heads of monks and laymen offering incense and playing, rubbing shoulders.Whenever there is a temple fair, it is even more crowded and full of voices.With such a dense population, purchasing power is also considerable.You only need to pay the commercial tax according to the law, and you can find a place to set up a stall here. Compared with the Chinese dynasties in later generations, this time is really a free paradise.

The court of Dashun also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to manage these temple fairs, and the city defense department will come to patrol at that time.In the past, these soldiers might still bully 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 Dazhuangyan Temple is a royal temple, even emperors, empresses, concubines, and ministers will visit from time to time, and foreign envoys also like to come to these places to "shop for treasures" and visit Buddha by the way.In view of this, the face-saving Han people will naturally put a lot of effort into managing temple fairs.

Near the gate, there is a concentration of trade in pets such as rare birds and animals, cats and dogs.These pets either came from the Silk Road, or wandered from the ocean.Rare birds and animals are placed at the door, which is conducive to the cleaning of feces and prevents the occurrence of epidemics.In Chang'an City, there are four canals, namely Longshou, Qingming, Yong'an and Caoqu, which lead the tributaries of the Wei River into the city from the southeast, southeast and west respectively, providing domestic and environmental water.It just so happens that there is Yong'an Canal flowing in front of Dazhuangyan Temple, which is convenient for cleaning.

Walk through the gate and enter the temple. In front of the Temple of Heavenly Kings, the Hall of Buddha, and the Temple of Zisheng, there are three large courtyards. Colorful tents are temporarily set up. Between the tents, there is a division of labor between the items sold. It is the transaction of daily necessities in department stores. district.Some sell candied ginger, seasonal fruit, preserved preserved meat, and some sell puhe, mats, screen curtains, toilet utensils, saddles and bridles, bows and arrows, etc.The candied fruit next to the Buddhist hall is quite famous, and it is often crowded with diners.In addition, Zhao Wenxiu's brushes and Pan Gu's inks are popular among students.

In the promenade on both sides, there are some stalls.The street stalls here are not the street stalls of the later celestial dynasties, but the street stalls here are much better. Just taking the embroidery of the nuns, it is a masterpiece, such as collar wipes, flowers, beaded emeralds, raw color pins and gold patterns. Nuns can embroider special bun crowns, sash threads, etc., and there are many styles and colorful colors.Not only the court loves this kind of embroidery, but the folks also love it.

In the temple fair, there is also a peculiar profession, much like the appraisers of later generations, they estimate money for buyers and sellers.These people have a very accurate grasp of the market price of the item and the fluctuation of the market, and have a certain degree of authority in terms of price.They are eloquent and also act as intermediaries, often a few words can lead to a deal.In fact, most of these people are monks, or how can we say that monks are also landlords of the wealthy side?They wear cassocks, are rich in wealth, and pay attention to practice in the world.The people in Chang'an City not only did not reject them doing this, but respected them even more.

When Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo arrived at the Dazhuangyan Temple Fair, it was already the time of Shen, and it would be 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 to cancel the curfew forever, which brought the prosperity of the temple fair to a peak. Every time the temple was closed, there were people selling stalls on Shanmen Street.

When Zhou Zhiruo came to the temple fair, it was as if a woman had let go of her nature, and she started shopping around, buying some here and some here, making Wang Yanchen look at Lu Chengqi with extremely resentful eyes, as if saying: "Your lady, you don't care. No matter, let her be such a prodigal? Look at how many things my subordinates have carried! Look at my purse, how shriveled it is..."

Not only Wang Yanchen complained, but Lu Chengqi also complained.He didn't expect a temple fair to be so large that it would take half an hour just to walk around.Fortunately, Zhou Zhiruo stopped to buy things from time to time, otherwise Lu Chengqi really couldn't bear it.

"It's scary for women to go shopping, especially rich women!" Looking at Zhou Zhiruo who was shopping all the way, Lu Chengqi couldn't help feeling a thousand times in his heart...

(End of this chapter)