After a while, Huang San came back and said happily: "Young master, it's the reward order of the Shangyuan Festival." ”

"Shangyuan Festival?" Zheng Peng said in surprise.

"Great" Lin Xun'er on the side said a little excitedly: "Finally arrived at the annual Shangyuan Festival, the slave family used to live alone, this year the young master is here, I heard that the words of blessings are written on the lanterns, so that the gods in the sky will see that it will work, and the slave family will make a beautiful lantern, so that the gods in the sky can see it, and then the wish will come true." ”

Huang San also said with a smile: "That is, when the entire Chang'an City is brightly lit, all the girls will come out to enjoy the lanterns, maybe they will even meet the princess." ”

"Yes, when Chang'an is not curfew, the market will not be closed, and you can play all night, not to mention the princess, even the emperor often leads hundreds of civil and military officials to participate in the parade."

"Miss Xun'er is so right, the emperor said on the list, the lanterns are well done, the emperor has a lot of rewards, and there is a chance to participate in the palace banquet, tsk, this year's Shangyuan Festival must be very lively." Huang San was so excited that his little face turned a little red.

Zheng Peng and Ah Jun glanced at each other, and then coughed dryly: "The Shangyuan Festival has not yet arrived, look at what makes you excited." ”

said plainly, Zheng Peng also began to look forward to it in his heart.

The ancients attached great importance to the Shangyuan Festival, especially in the Tang Dynasty, the Shangyuan Festival was a carnival for the whole country, that is, Chang'an's strict curfew system and the Fang market system would also give way to the grand event of this carnival, not closing the city gate and the Fang Gate, the Fang Market and the shops were not closed, and the "night opening" was allowed, called "opening the night", which was also the only opportunity for the people of Chang'an to wander around at will at night in a year.

Three days (sometimes the emperor has fun, will decree to extend the two-day, there are five days), Chang'an is the city that never sleeps, the city of carnival, Zheng Peng recalled that his time in Chang'an is not short, but not to go back to your hometown for the New Year or to go out, the only time in Chang'an for the New Year is still in Zuojiaofang, when he was arranged to be on duty, I didn't see, even now, I haven't seriously seen the lanterns of Chang'an Shangyuan Festival, and I have also felt Chang'an, the city that never sleeps.

Lin Xun'er said a little embarrassed: "Young master, let's put up a beautiful big lantern then, okay?" ”

"Okay, according to Xun'er's meaning, you must tie a big and beautiful lantern." Zheng Peng agreed.

Isn't it just a lantern, just like it.

While looking forward to the Shangyuan Festival, everyone continued to move forward.

It's cold and windy outside, however, the streets are still full of people, traffic, and not because of the cold and cold, what is surprising is that although it is snowing in the sky, there is no snow on the road, in addition to the many pedestrians on the street, there are also special people to clean, not only the streets are neat and clean, from the Tang people's clothing, demeanor and walking posture, can reflect the model of the Heavenly Empire.

The four seas are peaceful, the wind and rain are smooth, and the foreign war has been victorious, and there are more and more countries and tribes that are dependent on the Tang Dynasty and seek the protection of the Tang Dynasty.

However, there are also some people who are not confident in their image and do not have long eyes.

Huang San drove the car carefully, followed behind Zheng Peng, for some reason, a woman walking on the side of the road, just looking at the surrounding scenery, I don't know what to kick and suddenly lost her balance, suddenly rushed to Huang San's carriage, seeing that it was about to meet, fortunately, Huang San's hand was fast, and he pulled the reins violently and stopped the carriage.

When the carriage touched someone, he needed to say sorry to someone, Huang San relieved himself, looked at the reckless woman, and suddenly scolded angrily: "Where are the eyes, I want to die and go far, it's really unlucky." ”

The woman was almost hit by the carriage, and she was also frightened, and when she heard Huang San scolding, she saw that she bowed 90 degrees without saying a word, and said again and again: "Simimasse, Simimasse." ”

Looking at her face, it seemed that she was more frightened than surprised.

At this time, a short man, with an obscene face, and a katana at his waist walked up to Huang San, and without saying a word, he slapped the reckless woman with a "snap", and scolded a few words in an incomprehensible language, and then said a little stiffly while saluting Huang San: "I'm really sorry for the trouble I have caused you, please take care of me." ”

Hey, the language of the island?

When Zheng Peng heard the movement, he turned his head and frowned, "What's the matter?" ”

Huang Sanyi shocked Zheng Peng when he saw it, and he didn't care about the man who apologized, and hurriedly ran to Zheng Peng's side to explain: "Young master, these Oriental widows walked recklessly and almost crashed into the carriage, and scolded them a few words. ”

Zheng Peng looked up, only to see a somewhat arrogant and delicate woman standing with her head bowed and bent over, her eyes looking at the ground, the man with a katana saw Zheng Peng's gaze, subconsciously retracted his gaze, turned his head down to show respect, and took the initiative to bow to show goodwill.

It was as respectful as seeing his own master.

The man's dress is obviously different from that of the Tang Dynasty, with a high broom on his head, and the woman is a little short, wearing the Confucian skirt of the Tang Dynasty.

The temperament is too bad, and I can't control the Confucian skirt.

Behind the two of them, there were seven or eight women who were almost dressed in the same way and had similar temperaments, and some of them secretly looked at Zheng Peng, who was riding a tall horse.

Obviously, these are all Japanese people from the East, that is, the island people of later generations, who came to Datang and encountered problems, and they were three points weaker before they spoke, and they were just ordinary subordinates, and they didn't take them seriously.

The bustling street suddenly stopped, and soon attracted the attention of Wu Hou, and two Wu Hou began to surround the area.

Seeing that Wu Hou was coming, the broom head as the leader of the team looked even more flustered, walked up to Zheng Peng, and bowed again and again without saying a word: "Honorable son, I'm really sorry, it's all our fault, I've caused you trouble, please take care of me, take care of me." ”

At this time, the two military candidates rushed over, and when they saw that it was Zheng Peng, they hurriedly saluted: "General Zheng, are these short-sighted Japanese people rushing into you, do you want to teach them a lesson?" ”

In Chang'an City, Zheng Peng is a celebrity, and there are really not many martial artists who don't know Zheng Peng.

Wu Hou's actions, especially the general, made the Japanese man with a broom even more flustered, and apologized to Zheng Peng again and again.

"Count, a little misunderstanding, let's go." Zheng Peng waved his hand, signaling that the broom head could leave.

The sturdy warrior shouted: "General Zheng a lot, let you go, count you lucky, don't get out of here!" ”

After bowing again and again, the broom head walked away quickly with a few women.

Zheng Peng said goodbye to Wu Hou with a smile and continued to move forward.

Lin Xun'er is a first-class beauty, with the nourishment of love, and Zheng Peng's pet, more and more arrogant beauty, along the way, I don't know how many people stopped and looked sideways, and some were still pointing at the back, which made Lin Xun'er a little embarrassed, and stopped riding a horse, but took a carriage instead, so it was changed to Xiaoyin driving, and Huang San riding a horse.

"Those mouths just now, count them lucky." Huang San said a little unhappily.

Zheng Peng asked curiously, "Fankou?" What do you mean? ”

Huang San shook his head, and said with some pity: "Young master, you are still known as the first flower hand in Pingkangfang, I don't know, Fankou is the rise of the past two years, some people in the Wa Kingdom, in the name of traveling and collecting style, brought the women of the Wa Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, just like livestock, as long as someone gives money, you can play any way, the man just now is clearly the turtle of the Wa Kingdom." ”

"Won't you, that's fine?"

"What's not to do" Huang San rolled his eyes and said: "What does Datang want, the country is a wild place, so it will make some fans, weapons or something, and the output is still low, in order to make more money in Datang, all methods have been exhausted." ”

Zheng Peng shook his head in some surprise and continued to walk forward.

I once read a wild history, saying that the island people are born short, and they admire the tall and mighty Chinese people, in order to improve the bloodline, in the Song Dynasty, many lords of the island countries, collect the beauties in the territory to send them to the Great Song Dynasty, and see tall and extraordinary young people along the way, they will invite them to cross the clouds and rain of Wushan together, and the beautiful name is called "collecting wind".

It sounds a bit absurd, describing the island country as worthless, but now that I think about it, the Song Dynasty literati wrote about the Wa Kingdom Wind Picking Group should be the "meat selling group".

It's just that I didn't expect this situation to occur in Datang.

After riding a few steps, Zheng Peng said with some sighs: "These widows are still well-behaved and sensible when they come to Datang. ”

"If you don't accept it, you will fight until he serves" Huang San said with some pride: "The Japanese people are not very good, their ambitions are not small, and they still want to rob Goguryeo with the Tang Dynasty, what is the name of the Longshuo period, by the way, the prince who is called the eldest brother personally poured 30,000 elite soldiers into the country to confront the 20,000 elites of the Tang Dynasty, and threatened to annihilate all the 20,000 elites of the Tang Dynasty, and said that he would seize Chang'an within a year, as a result, hehe, the Tang army killed the corpses of the Japanese soldiers all over the field without much effort, the water at the mouth of the Baijiang River was dyed red, and less than one-fifth of the 30,000 Japanese soldiers could escape back to the Japanese country. If it weren't for the emperor's disdain for that barbaric place, he would have destroyed it a long time ago. ”

Zheng Peng remembered, the battle of Baijiangkou.

In the third year of Longshuo, in order to fight for the dominance of the Korean Peninsula, the Tang Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom fought the first battle in the history of the two countries - the Battle of the White River Estuary, the Wa State was defeated, the process of this battle, the "Old Tang Book" only has a simple 31 words: "Ren Rail met the Japanese soldiers at the mouth of the Bai River, won four battles, burned 400 boats, smoke rose to the sky, the sea was red, and the thieves were defeated." ”

At that time, the Tang Dynasty was strong in martial arts, and it conquered all foreign wars, and this kind of encounter to defeat the enemy army was really nothing in the glorious history of the Tang Army, but for the Wa Kingdom, it was two different things. You must know that this was personally commanded by the eldest brother of the regent of the Wa Kingdom, the prince (later the emperor), with 30,000 elite soldiers and 1,000 warships, but was easily defeated by the Tang army, which only had 170 warships and 20,000 people.

Whether it is the quality of the soldiers, weapons and equipment, or tactics, the Tang Dynasty has beaten the Wa State, and since then the Wa State has become honest, and then began to reach a history of sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty for two and a half centuries.

Along the way, in addition to the Japanese people encountered, there were many foreigners with different faces and different dresses, mostly in the form of traders or missions, and inquired, either to call the ministers and pay tribute or to do business in the Tang Dynasty, and some of them went to the Tang Dynasty to feel the happy atmosphere of the New Year, especially the Shangyuan Festival.

No matter which face or which costume, it looked respectful in front of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Peng saw with his own eyes, a small delegation from nowhere, saw Zheng Peng's carriage and horses, and consciously went to the roadside to be polite.

The joyful atmosphere of the Shangyuan Festival has not yet been felt, and today Zheng Peng has felt the pride of the Heavenly Empire.