Chapter 173: Preparing for the Shangyuan Festival

After resting for two days, Wei Yuanyuan, who had flown for such a long distance for the first time due to physical reasons, finally recovered. And Li Anran also took the time to go to the Tang Dynasty and continued to prepare for the upcoming Shangyuan Festival.

Although it is also the New Year, the Datang time and space are obviously much more lively than in the modern time and space. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the subordinates who signed the death deed first gave New Year's greetings to Li Anran and Su Xiaomei in batches.

Then there are the villagers, and when everyone comes to pay their respects, although no one gives anything valuable, they all bring their own cooked food, woven trinkets, or home-grown eggs and so on.

Even if Li Anran is not bad at all, he did not refuse these gifts and intentions sent to the door.

And this kind of New Year's greeting has been happening since the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and it has lasted until the Shangyuan Festival, that is, the fifteenth day of the year.

At the beginning, considering that his young master was lazy, no, he should be a leisurely character, and under the arrangement of Wang Youde and the housekeeper, only 20 households visited the New Year every day. But according to the number of subordinates, dealers and hired manpower that Xiaoyao Villa now has, there is no way to receive all of them before the Shangyuan Festival, and finally it has to improve efficiency to finally get it.

These are not big deals, the real big thing is the upcoming fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.

The fifteenth year of the year is called the Lantern Festival in modern time and space, also known as the small year. In addition to eating some Lantern Festival according to the occasion, according to the customs of different places, temple fairs, lantern festivals and other similar selections will be held. Anyway, every year on the fifteenth day of the New Year. Nanjing's Confucius Temple Lantern Festival will be crowded with local and foreign tourists, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as crowded and crowded.

In the Datang Dynasty and time, a curfew system is implemented in normal times, that is, don't think about going out at night, otherwise if you are caught, you will be sent to prison if you are lucky, and if you are unlucky, you will be directly beheaded by the soldiers who perform night work.

But on the fifteenth day of the New Year, that is, the Shangyuan Festival, it is also called the Lantern Festival. In the three days before and after this festival, the curfew that would normally be imposed will be canceled by the one in Chang'an City. to facilitate the people to enjoy the lanterns. Call it "Night".

In these three rare open nights, from the princes and nobles to the peddlers and pawns, everyone went out to enjoy the lanterns. As a result, the road in Chang'an City is jammed. The crowd is surging. It's very lively. Even the one who is the emperor. It is also likely that they will not be able to resist the celebratory atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, so that they will walk out of the palace and enjoy with the people.

Although the publicity and investment promotion work of the commercial street and farmers' market was done well, after all, the location was outside the county seat. Even if it's not very far, it takes some time to make a trip back and forth. Therefore, in order to make a good start to his first real industry in Datang time and space, Li Anran has put a lot of effort into it.

Considering that the theme of the Shangyuan Festival is lights, as early as after learning from Wang Youde about the customs and traditions of the three festivals of Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and Shangyuan, Li Anran ordered a large number of various equipment and supplies needed for festival celebrations in modern time and space.

Among them, there are hundreds of main lanterns, mechanical and handmade. There are as big as a two-storey Kong Ming lantern, as small as a small lantern that can be used as lighting in the hand, and a beautiful and fun lantern, as well as a marquee with pictures and a dynamic picture when rotated.

In addition to these festival supplies, Li Anwei also deliberately asked Xiangyun to arrange people to decorate the commercial street. Not only are street lamps erected on the side of the road that can make the night as bright as day, but also the shops that were originally empty have been appropriately decorated, making the entire commercial street full of joy and New Year's flavor.

Those shops that have already rented out have received notices that they are going to hold a lantern festival during the Shangyuan Festival. Although the festival is also important, the more times like this are for business people, the more good opportunities to make a lot of money on their own. What's more, this is also a test of money in the commercial street, so no one wants to miss this good opportunity to be delivered to the door.

At the same time, Li Anran purchased in large quantities from modern time and space all kinds of bulk foods to be used during the New Year, such as candy, pastry, cheese, dried meat, nuts, candied fruits, roasted seeds, dried meat, melons and fruits, etc., no matter the quantity or type of wholesale market in modern time and space.

In addition, Li Anran, who felt that since it had already been done, he would simply make it bigger, and at the same time put a batch of snack equipment purchased in various idle shops, such as Taiwanese grilled sausages, spicy fried chicken wings, hot chicken corn, spicy hot, duck blood vermicelli, firewood wontons, stinky tofu, duck neck, baked cakes, cut cakes, ramen, fried buns, meat buns, etc.

As long as it is a well-known and delicious snack in modern time and space, Li Anran basically got it to his own commercial street. As for the technical problems, it is also easy to solve, with the group of chefs led by Zhao Qian, it is not easy to cultivate a good chef in a short period of time, but it is not difficult to teach a group of people to use these equipment to make corresponding snacks.

What's more, there are many things, such as finger cakes, fried chicken, grilled sausages, etc., which are semi-finished products that are directly wholesaled. When the time comes, you only need to throw it into the pot or put it in the oven, and you can do it with a little processing, and you don't need too much skill and ability at all. Big girls, little daughters-in-law, and even little ones who are not yet adults can do it.

In addition to eating and drinking, Li Anran also prepared a lot of clothing, accessories, and miscellaneous goods that will be used in daily life. For example, chopsticks, dishes, scissors, hoes, needles and threads, wine sets, tea sets, vases, etc., etc., in short, just to be civilized span is not large, that is, practical and will not see the abnormal daily necessities have been approved a lot.

In fact, with the surplus between Datang time and space and modern time and space, Li Anran spent so much time and energy, as well as these investments, even if he can make a profit by using the exchange rate between copper coins, silver and gold in this era, but the profit in this is not as good as getting some jade, Tianhuang, and bloodstone from Datang to sell them in modern time and space.

But for Li Anran, the channel of making money in modern times through luxury goods and collectibles is not impossible to continue. But with the previous special auction that caused a sensation for a long time before it finally subsided, the risk of continuing like this is much greater than at the beginning.

Especially after receiving a trading invitation from an auction company privately for some rich and powerful tycoons, Li Anran knew very well that his method of quickly obtaining a large amount of money had brought about some undesirable consequences. In such a situation, continuing to use the old way to make money is purely to make trouble for yourself.

What makes Li Anran glad is that he did not get dizzy after earning the biggest fortune in his life. After purchasing the Napa winery, it has established many industries such as offshore companies, leather bag companies, transit warehouses, domestic trading companies, international trade companies, etc., even if it no longer uses the resources of Datang time and space, it can generate a lot of profits every year.

Coupled with the funds obtained from the previous auctions, there is no need to worry about lack of money in a short period of time. It is precisely because of this that Li Anran did not plan to get the profits that can be generated by the Shangyuan Festival this time to modern time and space. Instead, they are ready to devote themselves to their next step.

Compared with the busyness and fulfillment in the Tang Dynasty time and space, Li Anran, who takes the time to return to modern time and space every day to show off his sense of existence, seems to be much more leisurely, and Wei Yuanyuan, who has recovered her health, is also leisurely.

After being discharged from the hospital, Wei Yuanyuan, who was arranged in an antique house, although she liked this environment and scenery very much, she was still a little uneasy when she was always idle like this. So, I found someone who was enjoying an afternoon on the beach and said, "An Ran, my body is already well, can I arrange work?" (To be continued......)