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One post at thirty steps, one post at fifty steps, and the maintenance of law and order is quite orderly.
This was also thanks to Cheng Chumo, the commander of the Chang'an City Patrol Battalion who was temporarily deployed.
He has a lot of experience in maintaining law and order.
Chapter 435 New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve……
Luoyang City...
Decorated with lanterns and festoons, brightly lit.
The number of people on the main street did not decrease, but increased.
Inside the palace...
In the hall...
Li Shimin, Li Yuan, Empress Changsun, Li Chengqian and other royal family members gathered together with civil and military officials.
Because this year is the New Year's Eve in the Luoyang Palace.
Therefore, all the civil servants and generals who came to Luoyang City lived with Li Shimin in the palace.
On both sides of the main hall, civil and military officials exchanged cups and drank happily.
In the center is singing, dancing and vocal music, Yingying Yanyan, wonderful.
Li Shimin and Li Yuan and his son sat at the top of the table. The two looked very good, talking in whispers from time to time, with joy on their faces.
"Grandfather, my grandson greets you, I wish you good luck like the East Sea, and a long life like Nanshan."
Li Tai was the most troublesome among the many princes, and he was the first to go to Li Yuan's side to pay his respects.
"Hehehe..." Li Yuanxi smiled, "Okay, Qingque is really getting more and more sensible."
While Li Yuan was talking, his eyes looked in the direction where Li Chengqian was sitting from time to time.
It seems a little anxious.
"Father, do you have something to do with Chengqian?" Seeing Li Yuan's strange behavior, Li Shimin couldn't help asking.
"No...it's nothing." Li Yuan waved his hands, but his eyes never left Li Chengqian.
After all the princes and grandchildren greeted him, Li Chengqian finally stood up and walked slowly towards the direction where Li Yuan and Li Shimin were sitting.
He was holding a red sandalwood box in his hand.
Li Yuan stared straight at the wooden box without blinking.
"Grandfather, my grandson greets you." Li Chengqian came to Li Yuan and saluted.
"Chengqian, hurry up and get rid of the courtesy. For the great Tang Dynasty, you have been fighting all the year round. It is really hard."
Li Yuan looked at Li Chengqian with loving eyes.
"Grandpa Huang has won the award, these are what grandchildren should do."
Li Chengqian replied with a light smile.
Then he handed the sandalwood box in his hand to Li Yuan, "Grandpa Huang, this is a New Year's gift from my grandson."
"Grandson has a heart, grandson has a heart." Li Yuan stood up impatiently while speaking, and took the wooden box, the joy on his face was beyond words.
Li Shimin frowned, leaned forward and looked at the wooden box in Li Yuan's hand, cursing secretly in his heart: "This unfilial thing knows how to respect your grandfather, but doesn't know how to honor your father. Your father has broken his heart for you."
Li Shimin was unhappy, and his jealousy grew stronger.
"Chengqian, what did you give Grandpa Huang?" Li Shimin couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart.
Li Chengqian said indifferently: "It's just a mahjong set."
"Mahjong?" Li Shimin frowned even tighter, "What is mahjong?"
"Hey hey..." Li Yuan opened the box and handed it to Li Shimin, flaunting: "Let me show you, Cheng Qian dug it out for me with his own hands, it's really fun."
Li Yuan smiled from ear to ear.
He has no shortage of food, clothing, and beauties, but the only things that can make him happy are these gadgets made by Li Chengqian.
Li Shimin took the wooden box, took out a few mahjong tiles and looked at them, "Hand, [-], [-]..."
Looking at the mahjong tiles in his hand, Li Shimin was puzzled and couldn't see a way out.
Immediately after...
"Okay, you've finished reading it..."
Li Yuan snatched the mahjong tile from Li Shimin's hand, carefully put it into the wooden box, and slowly closed the box.
It's like holding a peerless treasure.
"Chengqian, do you have anything from me..."
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and looked at him expectantly.
"Chengqian, you child will make your father angry. On such an important day, didn't you prepare a gift for your father?"
Empress Changsun who was sitting beside her couldn't stand it any longer, and reprimanded her.
"Huh?" Li Chengqian said helplessly: "It shouldn't be the father who prepared gifts for the ministers."
The words fall...
Li Shimin's face suddenly darkened, an unfilial thing.
In the end, amidst the crusade between the husband and wife, Li Chengqian promised to buckle a mahjong set for Li Shimin afterwards.
The couple just gave up and let Li Chengqian go.
The princes and grandchildren sitting around watching shook their heads and smiled wryly.
The emperor, the emperor, and the empress came together to ask the prince for a gift, which is really rare in all ages.
When Li Chengqian returned to his seat, all civil and military officials came to toast one after another.
Now their admiration for Li Chengqian is like a river, flowing endlessly.
Today, in addition to a group of ministers of civil and military affairs, there are also Wu Jue and Wu Qing, sister and brother.
They sat in the hall silently watching the vocal performance and drinking wine.
The two came from a wealthy family, so it was very easy to deal with this kind of situation.
Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.
Cheng Yaojin couldn't wait to stand up and said to Li Chengqian: "His Royal Highness, what about the big gift you said you prepared? The last general can't wait."
Only Cheng Yaojin dared to ask Li Chengqian for it in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.
Listening to Cheng Yaojin's words, all civil and military personnel cast expectant eyes on Li Chengqian.
What Li Chengqian brought out was by no means vulgar.
They were all looking forward to it.
"Hehe..." Li Chengqian said with a smile: "This gift that I have prepared for everyone in Luoyang City has already been prepared, please come out of the palace with me to have a look."
As soon as this word comes out.
Both Li Shimin and Li Yuan couldn't bear their curiosity, and stood up one after another.
"His Royal Highness, what are we waiting for here? Let's go."
Cheng Yaojin waved his arms, beckoning everyone to go out quickly, and the presents would be snatched away later.
Outside the main hall.
Snowflakes are falling in the sky, covering Luoyang City with a layer of tulle.
Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Chengqian stood at the front, while Empress Changsun and all the civil and military officials stood behind, looking forward to it.
Li Shimin looked around and asked, "Chengqian, where is the gift you prepared?"
Everyone has been standing here for a while, but there is still no movement around.
Li Chengqian said softly: "Father, don't worry, this gift is in the sky."
Li Shimin frowned, and said doubtfully, "Heaven."
All civil and military officials raised their heads and looked into the sky.
dong... dong... dong...
Accompanied by three long bells ringing from the city of Luoyang, Datang officially entered the new year.
Li Shimin was about to speak.
In the very center of Luoyang City, a fire that looked like a shooting star rose into the sky.
It's like a swimming dragon swimming in the sky, it's really beautiful.
All the people were attracted by the flames.
Just when everyone was full of joy, the flames that wandered into the air suddenly exploded, shocking everyone's hearts.
The bursting warm yellow flames scattered around, forming a huge flower screen.
Everyone stared blankly and couldn't believe it. What exactly is this?Could it be that Li Chengqian is really a god who came down to earth and could pick up the sun, the moon and the stars?
It's just unbelievable.
At this time, although Datang had firecrackers in bamboo tubes, he had never seen fireworks.
Chapter 436 Fire Tree Silver Flower Never Night
Just when they were thinking to themselves.
The flames scattered all over the sky exploded again, one, two, three... Dozens of colorful flower screens hung in the sky.
The dazzling fireworks, like emerald tassels released on a black curtain, are radiant and colorful, rendering the night sky colorful.
Red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, fireworks of various colors are interlaced, illuminating the night sky.
Immediately after...
One, two, five, ten... Fireworks are shot into the air continuously.
The sky is full of fireworks, dotted in the bright night sky.
Flowers bloom in the night sky of Luoyang City.
Everyone in Luoyang City stopped in their tracks, put down their cups, and stared into the sky in disbelief.
Fire trees and silver flowers are never in the night, and fireworks are flying to welcome the new year.
"Auspiciousness from heaven, auspiciousness from heaven..."
"This... what is this, this is too beautiful..."
"Could it be a fairy descending to earth? Why is the sky full of flowers..."
The city of Luoyang has a radius of ten miles, and no one from the Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty to the common people is amazed by it.
Except Li Chengqian, of course.
In fact, the production of fireworks is not difficult, similar to firecrackers.
Its structure is black powder and medicine lead.
In order to achieve a brilliant show effect, fireworks are filled with a large amount of black powder for launch and explosion.
The 80-centimeter-diameter firework cannon explodes after rising to a height of more than [-] meters, and the diameter covered by these dots is about [-] meters.
In the process of making firecrackers, some luminescent and coloring agents are also added to make the fireworks burst into colorful colors.
That is the effect that everyone sees.
Li Chengqian was not short of money, and the firecrackers he made exploded twice or even three times, so the coverage was particularly large, wide and gorgeous.
"Too...too...His Royal Highness, you...are you really descended from the gods? How is this possible, how is it possible?"
Cheng Yaojin stared blankly at Li Chengqian, amazed and unbelievable.