Chapter 13: The Banquet of the Palace
"Do you have something to do?" The eunuch repeated every day that he continued to chant weakly: "There is something to do, nothing to retreat..."
The emperor is old, there is no war on the border, and there is no disaster in the four states, these courtiers are naturally turning big things into small things, and they are incompetent and will not report if they do not report it. When the old ministers of the court, every day they came to the court was nothing more than to greet their colleagues, and today is the same, and in a blink of an eye, all the courtiers retreated from the main hall.
"Elder Cao Ge, anyway, the Jin Palace's garden has just been expanded, can you go to the banquet tonight?" The one who spoke was Zheng Gong, who had just been promoted to the head of the Ministry of Rites.
"King Jin personally invited, and the old man naturally wants to go."
"I heard that King Jin has invested a lot of money in the house over the years...... Zheng Gong said again,
"The prince is diligent and thrifty in this regard." Jia Xu, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, next to him, interjected.
"The prince is not a self-denying person, he just doesn't want to bother in that old mansion." Cao Ge saw that Jia Xu had something to say, and took it impatiently.
"What does Elder Ge mean......" Zheng Gong glanced at Jia Xu, but Jia Xu didn't make any looks. Qingguo Gong has always been shallow and profound, and the old mansion has no intention of repairing, so he is naturally eager to live in the new site - the palace!
After Qingguo Gong finished speaking, he walked straight to the palace gate without looking back, as if what he said just now was not what he said. Zheng Gong in the back quickly caught up.
"Pavilion elder stays, stays!"
"Aren't you just embarrassed by the regulations of the Jin Palace? Multi-hearted! It is said that it is the newly built garden of the King of Jin, but it is actually a back mountain outside his homestead, and it is not counted as a sub-example of his mansion. Qing Guogong didn't look back when he spoke, and entered the sedan chair in an instant.
What the Duke of Qingguo said just now is exactly what Zheng Gong is worried about, thinking that he is a new servant of the Ministry of Rites, and he is in charge of the regulation of the courtyard of these dignitaries, the Jin Palace, which has just been repaired the year before last, if the courtyard is expanded, it has been encroached upon in the regulation as a prince.
Now that the princelings of the DPRK and the Central Plains and the Jin Dynasty are clearly distinguished, they have not yet taken a clear stand in the ranks, and if something goes wrong, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect their lives in the future. This time, Qing Guogong's words made him suspicious, and he hurriedly thanked him.
"Thank you Cao Ge for the point!"
Looking at the sedan chair gradually moving away, the depression in his heart finally dissipated in a few days, and he said in his heart: His Royal Highness the King of Jin is really smart, and he has built the courtyard without being included in his own mansion, which is very high! It's very high! He is a prince, even if he throws a cabbage on the street, how many people dare to pick it up rashly? Not to mention building a yard? Even if there is no wall, I am afraid that the world has this wall in their minds.
In the blink of an eye, Zheng Gong became worried again, even if there was no encroachment in the Jin Palace, he had just taken office, wouldn't he become a member of the Jin King Party? I don't know who His Royal Highness the King of Jin invited besides him... Before I could ask, Qingguogong's sedan chair was gone...
This has just entered the spring, or the spring cold is expected to be steep, just to dinner, the side door of the Jin Palace, the officials who should enter the banquet are rich, the fish jumped in, there is no trace of the sedan chair in front of the door for a moment, the door of the Jin Palace, the door is closed, there is no firecracker rumbling, only the ethereal flute sound is heard outside the house. The guests who came to the banquet followed the guide to enter the old courtyard on the side wing of the Jin Wang's Mansion through the side door, and went to the newly built back garden through the corridor around the courtyard, and the newly built backyard in the house was a completely different scene from the main entrance lobby.
Everyone still remembers the old yard just built the year before last, the whole is to imitate the Jiangnan garden architecture, the flowers and trees are exquisitely pruned, but this year due to no one to manage, the transplanted grass and trees are horizontally and vertically out of shape, and the waterfall pool under the rockery that has been piled up by the mangshan stones, the koi fish are fat and unbearable, and the big belly is swaying, like the beautiful ladies of the Tang Dynasty.
The lawn of the old yard has experienced more than a year, except for the last year's dead and not replanted, and some wild flowers have grown in the lawn, which looks like it has not been repaired for a long time. Compared with the previous year, when I went to the banquet, I was meticulous and meticulous, but I have a lot of vitality, and I don't know if it is because I have seen the exquisite garden for a long time, and now I have a new taste, and everyone feels that this old courtyard looks so comfortable.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is very particular about garden construction, and this house has a different response." It was Shen Qiushan, the head of the first silver number, who spoke. He didn't receive an invitation the year before last, and this was the first time he saw the Jin Palace.
"Although His Royal Highness the King of Jin lives in the military and has extensive knowledge, this elegant thing should be headed by His Royal Highness the King of Jin in the imperial city." It was Qiao Shan, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, who spoke.
"I think that when His Majesty gave His Royal Highness King Jin a house, His Royal Highness was only eleven years old, and His Royal Highness, who had a very good idea at a young age, was going to go down to a house on the outskirts of Yong'an City." Tobe replied.
"Yes, in just a few years, this blessed land will be turned into a peach orchard under the hands of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, hahaha" Shen Qiushan replied, and he was silent as soon as these words came out. At this stall, it is very taboo to say such things in front of so many courtiers, Pan Taoyuan is the place of the Queen Mother, and the Jin Wangfu has been built into Pan Taoyuan, I don't know what waves will be caused when this word spreads. But Shen Qiushan doesn't care about that, his ancestors have been operating silver accounts for hundreds of years, and the four words of wealth can hardly describe his rich family background.
In the previous generations of the Shen family, the family set a rule, and in the prosperous era, they were not allowed to enter the office, let alone have anything to do with the government and the opposition, and only did silver and business. In his generation, he also abided by the family law of his ancestors, but recently it is really not a prosperous age, the people seem to be happy, the emperor is old, the harem and the internal party struggle between the government and the opposition are gradually born, if the border passes at this time and then fill in the external turmoil, I am afraid that the society will be destroyed. This family rule is also innumerable, last year he insisted on going his own way, moved his house to Yong'an City, and began to spread money and make friends with the powerful. Today's bustle of the Jin Palace, he, a nouveau riche in the capital of Shenqiu Mountain, naturally wants to come and make up.
The family took all the guests through the last wall of the old courtyard and came out of a low round wall door, and everyone said that this was out of the Jin Palace. Before everyone could solve their doubts, the front suddenly opened up, and it turned out that the King of Jin had opened up all the mountains and forests behind the courtyard of the palace.
Behind the Jin Wangfu is the end of the Qihui Mountain Range behind Yong'an City, the Phoenix Mountain is the tail tip of the mountain range, the height is about the same as the hills, when the Jin Wangfu was first built, public opinion said that the mountain and the water are the yang house, the Huang Yan Mountain is not high, and there is only one main peak alone. A small trickle below the main peak seems to be a stroke of God to stretch endlessly, until it reaches the back door of the Jin Wangfu at the foot of the Huang Mountain, this trickle of small stream is actually more and more gathered, it becomes a small canal two zhang wide, the stream in the canal is murmuring, and there are seven or eight kinds of swimming fish in the water in the careful investigation, which is a rare thing. Therefore, the public opinion deduced that this place was the vitality of Yong'an City, and guarding the life gate of the capital as a prince was of great benefit to the king of Jin, so he tried his best to persuade the king of Jin to choose this as his residence.
I saw that this Huangshan Mountain was full of vitality in the afterglow of the sunset, the green clothes that were not completely dyed in early spring were thinly covered on the body, there were still a few points of unfinished snow in the shade of the halfway mountainside, the mountain road at the foot of the mountain did not know where to rise, neatly arranged with bright light, here I looked at a few meters of light, this light followed the mountain road until the small forest in front of the canal under the mountain.
In front of the guests, the impression of a well-groomed wilderness was in front of them. It was early spring, and the flowers and trees were not yet in full bloom, and the King of Jin did not bother to spend much time here, but simply paved the thin road with stones leading to the light on the other side of the canal. Presumably, the place of the banquet is on the Fengyu Mountain, and I am looking forward to the next pleasures.