After an epitaph was written, it was already late afternoon, and the audience naturally missed the dine-in time.

However, they didn't have much to think about eating at this time, and they were all vying to pass on the chapter of Shaowang Mobao.

In fact, strictly speaking, in the eyes of experts like Wang Shaozong and Li Qiao, the epitaph of Shaowang is only above average in terms of penmanship and style, which is not extremely good, but it is impossible to find any fault.

However, not being able to find fault with it is already a big surprise in itself. It must be known that several of them are the elite leaders in their respective fields in the world, and they have high eyes, how can those who can enter their eyes be ordinary. If the young king's age is taken into account, then the surprise that the young king has brought to them today is too great!

As for the eunuch Shen Junliang, he was even more joyful, and smiled at the young king again and again: "The king Shaoling is beautiful, and the equipment has been completed, which is enviable and makes people ashamed." Over time, the bigger the pen, the more you will become a domestic Wenzong! ”

Being praised like this, Li Tong was also a little embarrassed, and got up and said: "Xiao Wang Bo is strong, fortunately in the benevolence of the princes, whitewash the clumsy pen, and I am decent." In this way, I don't dare to be slow. In the coming year, but there will be a small success, and I will not forget that the princes will praise me today. ”

Those who have the ability are called humble in their posture, and those who are not capable are called Anfen. No matter when, people who are too arrogant will not have any good popularity, such as Du Fu and his grandfather Du Xianyan, who was just called into the court at the beginning of the year because of his excellent performance in the preparation of poems, but within a few months, he was demoted to the state because of a broken mouth.

The young king is handsome, rich, modest, and courteous, and the saint is proud, who doesn't like such a person?

But although Lintai is idle, it is not good for a group of people to gather in the straight hall and only shoot one person's ass. Ordinary government offices generally stop handling government affairs after noon, and everyone else can go home except for those who remain in the office.

In the past, at this time, the officials of Lintai had already run out. However, today is an exception, except for some people who left early, the rest stayed in the provincial government office for a long time.

After a little muttering, he proposed: "Xiao Wang Xindeng is provincial, there is no shortage of strangers in personnel, I want to set up a small banquet in the family residence, and invite all colleagues and officials to negotiate with each other, I don't know if you have leisure Yaxing?" ”

When he made this proposal, everyone present, including Li Qiao, nodded their heads in thanks, and only a few officials who stayed directly behind regretted that they could not be taught. The enthusiasm of everyone was so high that Li Tong couldn't help but be a little suspicious, you said these good things and didn't leave, you were afraid that you were going to my house to have a meal, right?

"The affairs are idle, since the king is Yaxing, you will follow the teaching. Old and boring, it is difficult to chase pleasure, so he is not tired of obeying. ”

Although the eunuch Shen Junliang didn't need to go straight today, after all, he was an official on Lintai, and there was a huge age difference between him and the young king, so it was not easy to get together, but he still personally sent the young king out of the official house, and watched a group of more than a dozen people hugging the young king towards the end gate, and then turned around and returned to the official office.

When he returned to the middle hall of the straight hall, Shen Junliang saw that Wang Shaozong, who was still in the straight hall, was still holding the article of the young king and reading it carefully, so he came to the hall and said with a smile: "This king is really a surprise. ”

Wang Shaozong nodded after hearing this, his eyes still did not leave the scroll, and he sighed in his mouth: "The king is strong because of the holy family, and the one who follows this is not a person, and the previous categories are half vulgar, and this is affected by the previous ......."

Speaking of this, he also felt a slight gaffe, laughed twice to cover up the past, and then looked at Shen Junliang and asked: "According to what the eunuch saw, did General Dugu use this book for his funeral?" ”

"If you are outstanding in liberal arts, why not? If there is no omission, it will be submitted to the province after copying. ”

Shen Junliang was in a good mood, waved his hand and ordered, then took some personal belongings, and went to his own private official hall in the back hall.

After returning to the official hall, Shen Junliang groaned, and then began to write a chapter, proposing that the king of Hedong enter the edict, and then let people send it to the Wenchang Shangshu Bureau.

In the afternoon, many officials from Taiwan Province left the imperial city, and more than a dozen people from Lintai were quite conspicuous. Lintai's affairs are already idle, and in addition, they are a group of literati and writers, full of commotion, and there are not many serious things, so they are keen on interpersonal relationships, so the face is not shallow.

Although the journey from the Lintai official to the Duanmen was not long, those Lintai officials called friends along the way, and when they went to Tianjin Bridge, the size of the team had reached dozens of people.

In this regard, Li Tong couldn't help but sigh, people still need to integrate into a small group after all. Previously, although their brothers also participated in the court, they spun in and out, almost like a lone ranger, others would not pay too much attention to them, and they could not blend into other people's circles.

But now with Zhang Luo, a group of subordinates of Lintai, it has almost achieved the effect of responding to every call. In addition to sighing, Li Tong did not forget to send an entourage to return home quickly and inform his family to prepare the meeting venue.

However, so many people joined the team, and not everyone was there to invite the young king. When crossing the Tianjin Bridge, Li Tong heard it clearly, and someone directly greeted the pedestrian on the left side of the road: "Liu Shisan, don't go home, take you to a good meal!" ”

There is no shortage of shouts and shouts of this kind, and Li Tong was able to confirm that so many people came together for a meal of wine and food.

This is actually normal, although the officials of the Tang Dynasty were much more favorable than those of the previous dynasties, but the pressure to support their families was also very great.

For example, when Bai Juyi was young and had just become a secretary and a provincial school secretary, he still wrote in the poem "There are four or five thatched huts, one horse and two servants." The money is 16,000, and there is more than enough for the monthly payment."

But when he got old and had the pressure of supporting his family, the 10,000 June spar was not enough to spend, so he took the initiative to apply for a job to join the army for Hucao of Jingzhao Mansion, and then wrote in the poem: The money is 40,000 or 50,000, and the moon can be used in the morning and dusk. Don't think I'm greedy, know that my family is poor. It can be seen that life is not only poetry and distance, even great poets have to worry about the firewood, rice, oil and salt in front of them.

In the 100 divisions of Jinnai, there are high and low official qualities, and there is a difference in authority, and there is naturally a difference in the amount of money. Once you get the Qingshui Yamen, which has no oil and water, if the family population is larger, it is normal for the family to drink porridge, and when you encounter something that you can pack after eating white food, you naturally don't want to miss it.

Fighting the autumn wind is not only the exclusive domain of shabby subordinates, even if it is as high as the prime minister, there is no shortage of greedy people.

For example, when Dou Rail, the prime minister of the early Tang Dynasty and the brother-in-law of Gaozu Li Yuan, went out of the town of Yizhou, he may have felt that the official chef was extravagant in eating materials, so he sent a house slave to steal food from the public kitchen to supplement the family.

Probably because of this, God Emperor Wu Zetian also regarded Da Drunk Food as an important means of team building. In addition to the Mingtang Dafu that made Li Tong make a stunning debut at the beginning of Yongchang, in the past half a year, Li Tong alone has participated in and did not participate in more than ten food giveaways of different scales, and the implication is that since he has eaten my food, he has to roll up his sleeves and work hard to help me usurp the Tang Dynasty.

Li Tong originally wanted to invite the subordinates of Lintai to engage in team building, but he didn't expect this group of eyeless guys to be generous to others and call friends along the way, and that group of Beijing officials were really shallow-eyed, and they were coaxed over with a meal.

With such a team gradually growing, Li Tong is not easy to raise his hand to drive away, and their brothers really need a human scene, so they simply bring them all, and cross the street through the street along the way, and go to their mansion.

However, this group of people come to rub the rice, and it is really not worry-free. Especially those guys in Lintai, today I saw the young king's quick thinking, and they are also enthusiastically speaking for the young king along the way.

Some people are willing to advocate for themselves, and Li Tong is happy to see this. But even if you want to brag, pay attention to the next occasion, okay? Can you not recite the epitaph of Dugu Qingyun on the street? You are still clapping your hands while reading aloud, I know that you are praising me, but if you let the Dugu family hear it, I am afraid that you will mistakenly think that you are shouting that the old guy died well?

Fortunately, when the team turned down the heavenly street, the palace assistants had already reached the halfway point, and Shi Sizhen, Li Siwen and other people with a wide range of government members joined the team to guide the topic.

At this time, the banquet and drinking in the palace have been prepared, after all, the situation of the young king is different from the past, and there are many banquets and drinks in the palace recently, accumulating a lot of experience, and receiving hundreds of people at the same time.

In addition to the main hall of the palace has been filled with seats, the porch has also been set up with curtains, lanterns are hung high, under the guidance of the palace staff, the guests have taken their seats, at the same time, all kinds of meals are also flowing up.

Today's guests are mainly some literati and ink writers, and it cannot be ruled out that there are people who ridiculed Li Tong before. However, when these people came to the door today, they didn't make any trouble, after all, even if they didn't give face to the young king, they had to give face to the friends who called them to come and the sumptuous meal on the case.

Therefore, this night's banquet was full of pleasure for the guests and hosts, and there was no lack of poetry and singing. Especially when the voice raised by the palace appeared on the stage to perform the song of the young king, the atmosphere was even higher. Feeling the lively atmosphere, Li Tong even went down in person and invited Li Qiao to play the pipa and Li Shouli, while he himself played the drum and played a song "Heavenly Fairy".

At the end of the song, the praise was like thunder, Shao Wang Feng was handsome, full of talent, exquisite elegance, and generosity, such an image was engraved in the minds of everyone present. The young king of the Tang family grew up at the beginning of his life, and no one knew him in the deep palace. Once stepping into the hundred squares, who doesn't know the first cry of the phoenix?

At the end of this banquet, it did achieve the effect that Li Tong wanted: the world ridiculed me and slandered me, just because they didn't understand me. But as long as you come close and eat a few bites of my meal, who doesn't love the handsome and talented young king?

On this night alone, there were as many as twenty or thirty poems by Ying Jiao and Shaowang, even if they were all ordinary and mediocre works, but this amount was also gratifying. Although Li Tong did not make any new poems this night, the harvest was better than his own copying.

After all, is a relative state, and how many people are willing to tout about you, how awesome you are. I've shown so much at the moment, and I haven't been fully praised by you. When you run out of rhetoric, I'll create a new hot spot for you.

But it's awesome, and when the account is reconciled the next day, Li Tong is still distressed. This group of literati and writers are also really capable of making, and they will spend tens of thousands of dollars in the palace in one night. But it's not okay if you don't spend the money, after all, it's not good to have a bowl of cold water when people come to visit.

After a few months out of the cabinet, the palace has always been in a state of no access, the number of guests is increasing, and the consumption is flourishing.

Li Tong was still thinking about when Liu Youqiu would be able to return to the capital, but he didn't expect that someone had already taken the initiative to pay for his banquet.