Chapter 8, The Banquet of Thousands of Birthdays

Liu Dingzhi said: "This longevity banquet must not go wrong. ”

"Etiquette is arranged during the banquet, this is the business of the Ministry of Etiquette." Liu Dingzhi said.

Li Shi said: "Please rest assured, the official has already sent someone to do it." On the side of the group city, people have already been arranged, and they have been arranged inside and outside the main hall, even if there are outdoor ones, they have arranged curtains. Stove. As for the order of seats, the Ministry of Rites is already drawing up a list, and there is no mistake in the calculation. ”

This time, it was Zhu Qizhen's idea to place the banquet in Tuancheng.

Many people want to put this banquet in the Forbidden City, but Zhu Qizhen feels that it can't be.

Although the Ming people are used to the division between the country and the emperor is not too clear, Zhu Qizhen feels that in a place where he deals with national affairs, he is not very accustomed to holding a birthday banquet for a person.

Even this time it was not Zhu Qizhen's original intention to hold Christmas.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen doesn't like such a big deal, who doesn't like the lively and lively, but for Zhu Qizhen, it is always a matter of state affairs.

The twenty-eight years of orthodoxy, the twenty-nine years of orthodoxy, and the thirty years of orthodoxy this year are not very good.

In the twenty-ninth year of orthodoxy, there was a great flood in Shandong, a great drought in Hami, a drought in Taiyuan, locusts in the river, heavy rain in Yangzhou in March, and so on. Especially the newly acquired land in the Western Regions.

It should be handled with particular caution.

And this year, that is, the thirty years of orthodoxy. It is also a big flood year, the Huai River and the Yangtze River flooded at the same time, although not as bad as in previous years, but also many disasters.

Moreover, the reason why the water in Hebei and the Yellow River basin is not big is not that there is no rainfall, but that the Hebei water conservancy project has a good effect with the Yellow River embankment.

Even so, Zhu Qizhen also faced a new problem, that is, it had not been repaired for several years, and many side walls in Xuanda and Hebei had collapsed under the washing of rain.

The people below are asking for advice on whether to repair or not?

If you repair, you will naturally ask for money, if you don't repair, and now it has only been a few years, and after a few decades, if the grassland changes, the enemy cavalry will be able to enter the city of Beijing.

This is also a small problem for Zhu Qizhen.

In the face of an eventful season, Zhu Qizhen could only put aside the matter of changing the law first and solve the urgent task of the moment.

In the autumn, when the flood receded, disaster relief efforts in various places were also quite effective. Under Li Xian's leadership, Zhu Qizhen decided to hold this longevity banquet.

There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important reasons is that the Tile Spur Peace Conference was successful. The border of the Ming Dynasty was completely settled, and now the Ming Dynasty is west to Anyanji, east to Sado Island, and North Korea. Crossing the North Sea in the north, in the north of the North Sea is the vast uninhabited land, speaking of which, the whole of Siberia is also the Ming Dynasty, and the south is the Old Port. To the southeast is the capital of Yizhou, which is the island of Taiwan. Now there are already two counties in Yizhou Prefecture, each

There are more than 10,000 households in the county, and the population of Fujian has been diverted.

The existence of the Xiangguo of Sichuan in the southwest, the indirect control of the imperial court has always been for the Xuanwei Division such as Burma, and then there is the newly established Tibetan Metropolitan Division.

The Ming Dynasty originally had thirteen provinces, but Zhu Qizhen divided the North Zhili into Hebei, and the South Zhili into Anhui and Jiangsu, and there were sixteen provinces.

In addition to these three provinces, there are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Huguang, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

Among them, Shaanxi included Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, while Huguang included Hunan and Hubei.

It also has Liaodong Province, Haixi Province and Haidong Province. There is also the province of Cochin, which has just arrived.

There are twenty provinces in the world.

Outside the province, there are six major capital divisions, including Nuer Gandu Division, Mobei Metropolitan Division, Monan Metropolitan Division, Northern Xinjiang Metropolitan Division, Southern Xinjiang Metropolitan Division, and Tibet Metropolitan Division, which control a large area of land from the Heilongjiang River Basin, to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in the desert north of the desert, and even Tibet. The prosperity of martial arts, compared with the Han and Tang Dynasties, is not inferior.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Qizhen may still be able to hold his mind, but the whole country has long wanted to celebrate.

So Li Xian's thing is to cater to the public's will.

So Zhu Qizhen had to agree.

Of course, Li Xian's move also has its own political implications, that is, to promote peace, with the prosperity of the imperial court's martial arts, it has reached the extreme, to the point where it is time to cultivate cultural governance.

This longevity banquet is the best way to whitewash the peace.

This is also Li Xian's way of persuasion.

If it is placed on the side of an ordinary emperor, it is estimated that he can be regarded as a minister.

After all, during the Thousand Autumn Festival of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, according to legend, Zhang Jiuling wrote "Thousand Autumn Golden Records", stating the reasons for the rise and fall of the past dynasties, hoping that Xuanzong would take it as a lesson.

Now Li Xian has a headache for him, the emperor.

Zhu Qizhen's life is extremely regular, when to get up and when to sleep every day, it is almost impossible to move, as for the official business handled every day, although it is not as much as that of Emperor Taizu.

But there was never a delay in the government.

If that's all there is to it, that's all good.

But this emperor has never had a lot of strange thoughts in his head. made Li Xian tremble every day. He actually wanted Zhu Qizhen to enjoy peace in peace.

presented Zhu Qizhen with a prosperous appearance, so that Zhu Qizhen could give up what he had and what he didn't.

But Zhu Qizhen also has his own ideas, even if there is another war in the future, it is estimated that it will be a local war, just like the battle of the Ming Dynasty to attack Tibet, select elite 10,000 people, break an enemy, or like the capital of the barbarians, the Beijing army of 30,000, and local soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress. If there is that kind of movement, hundreds of thousands of people will fight, but there will be none.

Although I dare not say it, the internal and external Yiyi dare to call the soldiers beheaded. But he also drew his sword and looked around, only at a loss.

Because

There are no more enemies.

Zhu Qizhen has the timetable for changing the law in his heart, and the content of the law that is already going to be changed, and he has also made a draft in his heart over and over again, and he is also willing to use this banquet to convey a message to the world, that is, from now on, the Ming Dynasty will come first, and the martial arts will be just scraps.

It's just that the literary things in his heart are different from what Li Xian thinks.

That's why there is this grand longevity banquet. It can even be said that this is a political event.

It's just that when the bell of history rings, most people are at a loss, intoxicated in the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, but they don't know that there is another war, which is lurking in the undercurrent, just like a crocodile, and doesn't know how to rush out of the water, and at that time it will be another world.

These inside information are not known to Li Shi, who is busy now.

He also played the package ticket, and then pushed the responsibility that was not his own to others, and said: "This banquet of 10,000 people, the wine and food ingredients, have been cooked, and so on are not the business of our Ministry of Rites." ”

Guanglu Siqing was sweating profusely and said, "Tell your lords." It's not that it's not a small effort, but this thing really can't be done, the manpower to cook, we have temporarily summoned the chefs of all the restaurants in the capital, and the manpower is enough, but this is already winter, and the ingredients are not enough. ”

"Beef and mutton, it's enough. But you can't let all of you eat meat, and the only dish is turnip and cabbage. ”

"This matter, leave it to Shaofu to handle." Shi Jing said: "You open an order and send it to you from Tianjin within a few days." The Shaofu fleet has already stockpiled a batch of seasonal vegetables in Tianjin. It's not all fresh, but it's enough. ”

Shi Jing has been in charge of Shaofu for several years, and he has already realized something.

He estimated that he would have sat in the position of Shaofu all his life. After all, when Zhu Qizhen first ascended the throne, there was no one inside and outside, so he reused the horse, but now that it is deep-rooted, there is naturally no need to put the horse in the position of suspicion.

Shaofu is very suitable, although it has a lot of power, it is in charge of money.

Shi Jing saved this thought, although Shaofu was Xiao Gui Cao Sui in his hands, but the speed of development was not slow, especially at sea, Shaofu's fleet has become a very important commercial force in the North China Sea.

Among all of you.

Li Shi is old, and he has been competing with Liu Dingzhi for the right to speak, and he is unwilling to be Liu Dingzhi's vassal, while Cheng Xin has shallow qualifications, so he is naturally submissive.

As for Guanglu Siqing, speaking of one of the nine Qings, in fact, the official position of a banquet manager and a cook can be looked down upon by these people.

But Shi Jing was also reluctant to give Liu Dingzhi face, after all, where was the identity background.

Liu Dingzhi didn't want to have a hard fight with Shi Jing, and said: "Okay, this person understands everything, this matter has been decided, whoever has a stubble, then I can only ask for a decree." ”