Chapter 301, Qionglin Banquet (II)
When the atmosphere of the banquet reached its climax, a eunuch quietly walked to the imperial table where the emperor was, and quietly said a few words to a small eunuch serving around the imperial table, and then the little eunuch walked to Wu En, who served the emperor, and quietly said a few words. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After hearing this, Zhenzong swept his eyes towards the ministers who were drinking at the scene, his eyes turned back and forth twice, and he said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is the Qionglin banquet, and it is also a celebration banquet held by me for the new list of Jinshi, all of the Qing family who can be on the list are talented and outstanding people, and the queen of Shicai sent someone to pass the word, our nobles in Kyoto want to see the demeanor of our new list of Jinshi, and invite everyone to have a friendship fight, how about it?" Do you dare to fight? ”
As soon as Zhenzong's words came out, the scene was quiet at first, and then the military attachés who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic coaxed: "Your Majesty, all of our new Jinshi in the Great Song Dynasty are all elites selected from ten thousand miles, how can you have stage fright in the face of the challenges of the noble girls, your lords, are you right?" ”
"That's right! Our new list of Jinshi will never be stage frightened. As soon as the voices of the military attachés fell, many other officials immediately echoed, and as everyone spoke, their eyes fell on Zixiu and their table, no way, who let the champion, Bangyan and Tanhua all be on this table.
"The ministers are willing to accept the challenge!" Zi Xiu, Song Qi, and Yu Jing glanced at each other, smiled bitterly at each other, and could only stand up and answer, even if they were not interested in this kind of Wendou in their hearts, but in this public, there was no room for refusal, the Qionglin banquet was a bit of a blind date, and the requirements for women in the dynasty were not so strict.
Seeing this, Zhenzong smiled slightly, whispered a few words to Wu En, Wu En nodded and understood, and then left the emperor's side, about two cups of tea, Wu En came back, he came back and whispered a few words in Zhenzong's ear, Zhenzong smiled when he heard it, and spoke to the ministers again: "Okay, the queen's side has set the venue, and the competition will be held in Shiyun Garden, let's go over." ”
Poetry garden in the north of the imperial garden, that place is usually the queen princess used to entertain the nobles to hold a poetry meeting or tea party of the exclusive garden, occasionally when the emperor Yaxing is big, will also gather courtiers to drink tea here, taste poetry, the area of the poetry garden is much smaller than the imperial garden, covers an area of only about 5,000 square meters, there are many precious flowers and plants planted in the garden.
There is a clear wave pool with a width of about five meters and a length of more than 100 meters in the middle position, the clear wave pool is surrounded by rows of exquisite water pavilions, each water pavilion is equipped with two tea tables, each tea table is equipped with a long wooden chair for three people and two single wooden chairs in front of each tea table, that is to say, a table can sit five people, a water pavilion can sit ten people, there are a total of 26 water pavilions around the clear wave pool, a total of 260 people can sit.
This year's admission of a total of 121 Jinshi, the nobles can come over there to participate in the competition about 30 people, and the civil and military officials said that they are invited to the hundred officials, in fact, the ministers who can enter the Qionglin banquet are more than four grades, and there are only 56 ministers who participate in the Qionglin banquet today, plus more than 10 princes of the clan, Shiyun Garden can fully accommodate.
When the emperor arrived at Shiyun Garden with a group of ministers and new science and technology, the queen had arrived with the nobles, Zhenzong walked to the water pavilion north of Qingbo Pond, and stopped, this water pavilion sat in the north and faced south, and has always been the exclusive seat of the emperor, after he stopped, he beckoned Jiang Ge Lao and Kou Zhun over, and let the two sit with him left and right.
Normally, the emperor's left and right positions, there will be one left to the prince, but Jiang Ge Lao and Kou Zhun are the two most prestigious old ministers in the dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with them sitting there, after the emperor and the two old ministers sat down, they went to find Zi Xiu, Zi Xiu just arrived, and saw the queen in full costume coming, and she came with Princess Huayan.
Princess Huayan had just glanced at Zixiu from afar, but now that they met so closely, Huayan only felt that Xiao Zixiu under the light was more and more handsome, and the magnificence of her demeanor made people unable to take her eyes off, but fortunately, she hadn't forgotten what place this was, and her eyes only stayed on Zixiu's face for a moment, and then she looked away.
After the queen saluted Zhenzong, she walked to him and sat down, Hua Yan came to Zhenzong with a smile, and bowed with her knees in a regular manner: "Hua Yan greets his father, I wish my father and emperor a dragon body and a long life!" ”
"Okay, get up, tell me honestly, did you instigate your mother to toss this cultural fight today." Zhenzong scolded with a smile, the leading figure among the nobles in Kyoto is Princess Huayan of the current dynasty, in addition to her, there are also the former prime minister Wang Dan's youngest grandson Queen Yizhi and Li Guogong's granddaughter Li Yunci, these three are known as the new three proud daughters of Kyoto.
"How can there be, isn't there a Qionglin banquet in every session of this kind of cultural fight, is this our new champion?" Hua Yan smiled slyly, opened his mouth with an innocent face, and after finishing speaking, his eyes fell on Zi Xiu, and he asked casually.
"Yes, this is our new champion Xiao Zixiu, Lord Xiao." The Emperor laughed.
"What a new champion, Lord Xiao not only has a crown in his articles, but his appearance is also peerless!" Princess Huayan clapped her hands and laughed, her big bright eyes flashed, as if a hunter had taken a fancy to some kind of prey that suited his heart, and it was extremely hot!
Zi Xiu didn't squint, first saluted the emperor and queen, and then arched his hand to Princess Huayan: "Xiaguan Xiao Zixiu has seen Her Royal Highness the princess. When Princess Huayan's burning gaze fell on Zi Xiu as if she were looking at her prey, it made him very unhappy, but the other party didn't say anything excessive, no matter how displeasing her gaze was, he couldn't do anything.
"Okay, Hua Yan, you go back to your seat, Xiao Zhuangyuan, you can sit with the crown prince and them." After Hua Yan saw the ceremony, Zhenzong didn't nag any more, and quickly drove Princess Huayan back to his seat, and then pointed to the first water pavilion on his right hand, and opened his mouth to Zi Xiu, this position is on the west side of the Qingbo Pool, the first pavilion in the row from north to south, and the crown prince Zhao You and several princes are on this water pavilion.