Chapter 141: The Feast
On February 28, the 18th year of Jingde, the imperial court issued an edict to comfort the Northwest Army, and all those who died in the war were rewarded heavily, and their parents, wives and children were exempted from hard labor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The Northwest generals of the Prison Department were all released, and their merits and demerits were offset by their demerits, and they were not promoted, and each of them was rewarded with a reward of 100 taels for the treatment of injuries.
At this point, Xuanxuan's Northwest case, which had been in trouble for a month, was quietly closed in the context of the fall of the prince.
For the sake of the face of the whole court, Emperor Jingde did not add officials to the northwest generals, but made the king of Duanjun Feng Jingting as the prince, and therefore he became the second prince to be named a prince after Prince Alcohol.
Feng Jingting was named the prince, and his reputation was loud for a while, and there were countless court officials in Daohe, but Feng Jingting did not celebrate, and only held a banquet in Mingyue Tower, inviting the generals of the Northwest Army and a few officials who are good friends with him on weekdays. There were only three tables in total.
Guo Yiqian, the Duke of Dingguo, was also invited, and recently in order to get into a relationship with Feng Jingting, he has been doing a lot of activities, and in order to be eager to surrender, he has also exerted a lot of effort in the matter of abolishing the prince. Therefore, the crown prince Feng Jingde was pulled off the horse, on the one hand, because he had done too many evils, but on the other hand, there were also officials at all levels who wanted to find a way to cling and flatter their masters.
Prince Duan set the wine, and Guo Yiqian, the Duke of Dingguo, was naturally overjoyed after receiving the invitation, and was busy asking people to prepare congratulatory gifts, and changed his clothes for the banquet one after another, for fear of losing his courtesy.
He had just changed his clothes when he heard a report from his subordinates that the Marquis of Yongding was coming.
Guo Yiqian frowned slightly, he didn't like this cousin of Xifu very much. This cousin is pedantic, and he has no skills, but he is a woman, and his wife in Xifu is not a wife, and a concubine is not a concubine, and he is in a mess all day long, and he is full of smoke and miasma.
If you don't sweep a house, how can you calm the world? I can't handle the ideas and things in my own house, and I still think about drilling camps all day long, and I really don't think about it because there is a real shortage of oil and water.
At this time, he was disturbed, and he was unhappy, so his face showed a little, and he looked at the people who came in coldly.
Yongding Marquis Guo Yixian has a request today, knowing that his cousin is not waiting to be seen, but he can only wait for a smile on his face.
"Big brother, are you going out?"
Guo Yiqian said: "Today, Prince Duan will have a banquet, and I will go to the banquet." ”
Guo Yixian hesitated, but couldn't help but speak, "Big brother, can you take me with you?"
Guo Yi thought about it, in fact, it was okay to take him with him, but the prince did not post it, and went rashly, for fear of upsetting the prince. He said, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”
Guo Yixian has not been able to find a good way out in the past few years, he has long been anxious, if he can climb the prince today, it is stronger than any mountain he worships, and he has to be cheeky to follow him whatever he says today. Then he said: "Big brother, don't worry, if the prince is not happy, I will come out, I promise not to say much, stay quiet." ”
Guo Yiqian thought about it, his cousin said that it was like this, and it would not be good if he didn't take it with him, not to mention that after all, it was a family that always had to support each other, so he nodded and agreed.
Prince Duan held a banquet in Kyoto for the first time, and there were not many people invited to the banquet, and the invitation card had reached the point where it was difficult to find a sticker. Everyone in the capital knows that it is this fourth master who can be compared with Prince Alcohol now, Prince Alcohol has a huge power, and his own people are looking forward to it, and it is not easy to occupy a good position if he goes late. And Prince Duan is different, he is often in the army, and there are not many people in the various departments in Beijing, who can win his favor, and he can rise to the top one day by day. Therefore, the people who were able to go to the Mingyue Tower for a time to attend the banquet attracted the attention of many people.
But there are also some people who feel hot with the invitation.
Lu Junqing, the secretary of the ministry, looked at the invitation at home in a daze, he really didn't remember what friendship he had with this Prince Duan. He picked him up at Shili Pavilion outside Beijing, which was already very frightening, and what happened to the invitation this time? Didn't he say that he was not a close person, and he was not invited?
When did he get close to this prince?
I really can't figure it out in my heart, if I say that I occupy the pit of the Ministry of Officials, but none of the other five Shangshu in Beijing are invited, and I only invite myself, this is unreasonable, right?
He sat for too long, and then the eldest son Lu Mingyu couldn't see it, and walked over and said, "Dad, if you don't leave, you'll be late." ”
Lu Junqing looked at his son and couldn't help but say, "Mingyu, what do you think will happen if I don't go?"
Lu Mingyu was funny, "What kind of joke did my father make, the invitation card personally ordered by Prince Duan, if my father doesn't go, isn't this a slap in the face of the prince?"
"But my father really doesn't want to get involved in royal affairs, whether it's Prince Duan or Prince Alcohol, he doesn't want to come forward. ”
"Dad, although our Lu family has always been wise to protect themselves and not to make friends with the powerful, but this time it's just a meal, and it's not for Dad to do anything, as for being so scared?" Lu Mingyu didn't know what happened to his father today, and he usually didn't look like a timid and scared person, why was he so frightened of Prince Duan?
Lu Junqing sighed, he didn't know how to explain, anyway, he always felt that this prince was not at ease, and he couldn't help but think about what he had in his family, although he couldn't think of it if he wanted to break his head, but he still didn't feel at ease, he really didn't want to go to this lord's side.
But now the invitation card is in my hand, and I can't do it if I don't go, so I have no choice but to ask someone to prepare the car, and as for the gift, let people wrap the bracelet that I bought for a tael of silver last time. After all, people invited him to dinner, and it was not for the sake of receiving gifts.
Lu Mingyu seemed to look at his father's unwelcome appearance, and said in his heart, no wonder his father can't mix up personal popularity in the court, so he can't do things, and I don't know how long this official can be a scholar. However, it will be better soon, and their Lu family is not uncommon, prosperous and wealthy, and it is even more desirable to go back to his hometown in Henan.
When Lu Junqing was about to go out, he suddenly remembered something and said to his son: "Didn't you say that you were going to Guo's house to see your cousin?"
Lu Mingyu said: "I went, but the Guo family didn't let me see it, saying that it was inconvenient to see people because of a bad disease." ”
"Fart. Lu Junqing scolded, "Then there is no good one in the Guo family, maybe how to toss our Wenying, go back and let your mother go again, if you are not allowed to see it, our master will call the door." ”
Lu Mingyu almost laughed when he heard this, his father is really a child, and the Guo family is not a small family, how can he say that he will enter it?
However, the Guo family pushed out alive and dead and didn't let him see him, it really didn't make sense, he was so covered, he really couldn't help but torture his sister into something. Otherwise, after so many years, why didn't I see my sister write a letter to me, and I didn't even have any news, as if there was no such person.