Chapter 17: The Grand Banquet
Everything Li Xiaoyu did, King Kang was clear, but King Kang's every move, whether it was Li Xiaoyu or Li Xiaoqing, they didn't know anything, what they knew was what King Kang wanted them to know. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
August 15 a hand over to Youzheng (six o'clock in the evening), the moon rises tomorrow, the full moon hangs high, the emperor Shen Daoquan burns incense outside the Zhengyang Hall to worship the moon, about an hour later all this is ready, Shen Daoquan moved to the imperial garden, civil and military officials escorted, those sacrifices were also distributed to these courtiers, this name is called Sanfu.
Li Xiaoyu also saw this kind of scene for the first time, in addition to King Ande and Feng Jin, the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who came with Li Xiaoyu, Feng Jin's contemptuous eyes along the way made him feel very uncomfortable. Imagine a junior who regards himself as the wife of the main house by your side, who can be in a good mood?
However, this Feng Jin in Prime Minister Feng's family is really beautiful, Feng Jin should be one or two years older than Li Xiaoyu, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and her facial features are also very exquisite, this appearance is not like a northern woman, but really a bit like a southern woman. With a peony hair combed and a double-layered long-tailed luan suit with scarlet gold, this body is incomparably extravagant, and Li Xiaoyu, as Princess Ande, couldn't help but be overshadowed in front of Feng Jin.
"Lord Wang, what's the matter with your injury?" Feng Jin leaned against Shen Zhong, and Shen Zhong hugged her small waist, and the two approached, so Feng Jin naturally discovered the wound on Shen Zhong's forehead.
"Huh? A few days ago, I didn't hesitate to knock it out. ”
"Huh? Isn't it serious? Feng Jin's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he was really crying like that, and blew lightly on King Ande's forehead.
"Are you better?" Feng Jin asked, caressing King Ande's hair, his eyes trembling slightly, and he glanced at Li Xiaoyu. Li Xiaoyu naturally wouldn't be jealous of this Feng Jin for the sake of King Ande, she couldn't wait to leave the palace as soon as possible and open a shop to live her own little life.
Although Li Xiaoyu is not as knowledgeable as Feng Jin, Qingluo and Feng Jin's maids look at each other unpleasantly, and Qingluo can't wait to step forward and slap the little slut.
After everyone was seated, Feng Jin was reluctant to look at King Ande, and then turned around and sat next to Prime Minister Feng Liangbi, everyone present could see the friendship between King Ande and Prime Minister Feng Cheng's daughter, and Shen Zhong's biological mother, Concubine Lan, said with a smile, "Your Majesty, do you see how compatible Zhong'er and Na Jin'er are?" ”
"Yes, Zhong'er is majestic and abnormal, quite like my Heavenly Empire!" Shen Daoquan said with a smile.
But Concubine Xiao said with a smile, "This is really interesting, a few days ago, King Ande got married, and my sister also said that he was a match for my Xiaoyu." "Concubine Xiao is Shen Shuo's mother and the sister of the old lady of the Hou family in Najingbian.
"Yes, Jin'er's father is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he is worthy of our family's Zhong'er!" King Kang's biological mother, Concubine Mu, held up her big belly and said in a non-yin and non-yang manner.
Hearing the word prime minister, Shen Daoquan's eyes jumped twice, and he said with some annoyance, "Okay, don't say it." ”
Shen Daoquan is a man in his fifties, he fought in the east and west, how heroic he was, and now his temples are gray, and he is no longer satisfied with the look of the past, now he prefers pleasure, and this is what King Kang is worried about.
At that time, Shen Daoquan relied on many veterans to build the country, and then went north to attack the Xiongnu, south to pacify Wuyue, and west to stabilize Bashu and Tubo, this feat was completed before he was forty years old.
More than ten years have passed, those vassal kings who bowed down to their vassals were ready to move, and the Xiongnu in the north were robbing the Celestial Empire every year, and the domestic family lords were annexed and encroached on the people's fields, coupled with natural disasters for many years, now this country is just unable to enter the family, but there are enemies and foreign troubles, and the empire is crumbling, but it can not arouse Shen Daoquan's fighting spirit, he is more concerned about today's Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Let's bring the gifts, everyone." Shen Daoquan said to the big eunuch Zhang Gonggong beside him, and the Gonggong Zhang ordered to go down. King Kang as the oldest prince shot is also a good meaning, Shen Daoquan is old, like antique calligraphy and painting, he has to stamp a few seals after appreciating it, King Kang sent eighty-one seals, a total of nine sets of seals, there are nine kinds of seal textures, and the carved shape is also nine, so it is exactly nine sets.
"This is a good thing, I only recognize seven of them, Tianhuang wick jelly, Liaoxi Warring States Red, Fuzhou Shoushan Stone, Northern Xinjiang Bahrain Stone, Qingtian Fengmen Qing, Turkic chalcedony orchid, Changhua phoenix blood, as for the texture of the other two I don't recognize, but this seal texture is warm, condensed but not greasy, it should also be a rare treasure! Ogawa, where do these other two come from? Shen Daoquan played with the seal in his hand, this was in a very good mood, his face was radiant, obviously this thing won his heart.
"Father, these other two seals, engraved with the wolf juxu are made of the battlement bricks of the Great Wall, because the war in northern Xinjiang continues, and the battlements of the Great Wall are stained with the blood of my Heavenly Dynasty soldiers all year round, so the bricks on this city wall are extremely lubricated and crystal moist."
"And the carved Dayu water control pattern is the yellow mud stone of Shangqiu in Henan Province, the Central Plains gate valve is prosperous, the people work hard, can only mix food and clothing, this yellow mud stone is the essence of the land condensed, drink enough sweat of the people, so rich in aura, extremely eye-catching!" After King Ande finished speaking, he sighed and slowly retreated, Shen Daoquan frowned, and then said, "King Kang has a heart, the matter of the Juntian system, tomorrow morning, I will definitely give an explanation to the people of the Central Plains." ”
The land equalization system is a system of distributing land according to the population, in which part of the land is owned by the farmer after a certain number of years of cultivation, and part of the land is returned to the government after the death of the farmer. At the beginning of the Celestial Empire, there were many clans, and land annexation became increasingly serious, and the peasants had to rely on the powerful clans to survive.
After King Ande went down, the emperor looked at the other seven seals, but sighed again, "Dongyi, Liaoxi, Northern Xinjiang, Shudi, Tubo and other remote and barbaric places are actually rich in such strange stones that are not available in my Heavenly Empire, when will we be able to sweep the world away and merge these five lands into the territory of my Heavenly Empire?" ”
Hearing Shen Daoquan say this, King Kang smiled slightly, his goal was achieved, and the strange stones he carefully selected were to make Emperor Guangwu realize that there were strong feudal divisions outside the Celestial Empire, and there were powerful clans inside, which mobilized Shen Daoquan's sense of distress.
Shen Chuang, the king of Pingshan, Shen Gan, the king of Leshan, and Shen Shuo, the general of Xiaocai, because one town guards the border of Dongyi, one guards the border of Bashu, and the other is still in the northern Xinjiang, so this grand gathering did not arrive, but they all sent people to send gifts, these gifts are nothing more than the specialties of the two places, after the emperor received it, he ordered it to be distributed to the civil and military officials present today.
When I arrived at King Ande, Gan Ping moved out an agarwood carved screen, one side of the screen is carved with a magpie Dengmei, and the other side is carved with a pine crane to prolong the year, and the brushwork is simple.
"Today is not only the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also the birthday of my father, and my son wishes my father and the emperor eternal happiness, and longevity and Tianqi!"
"Good! Mi'er is the most filial. "Agarwood itself is extremely rare, and such a large piece of agarwood is even more precious!