Chapter 902: It's all
Last year, Zhao Yu was in Ezhou and failed to preside over the Great Dynasty Meeting, which should be the first Great Dynasty Meeting of the Great Song Dynasty to return to Jiangnan, but in his eyes, it was just a change of place on the basis of the daily court meeting, and some procedures were added. As the venue of the celebration, Daqing Hall used to be the main hall of Deshou Palace, although the scale is slightly smaller than the South Palace, but it is also much larger than the Qiongzhou Palace, otherwise it is difficult to put down such a large pomp.
Daqing Hall was previously used as a Taoist temple, in the first half of this year just completed the renovation, in fact, the internal facilities are not in place compared with the beginning, more like a bald man wearing a wig, this is still to cope with Zhao Yu Guanli, the wedding and the result of the pro-government added again, everywhere is also permeated with the smell of fresh wood, lime and paint.
Because of the many happy events, there were not only officials above the fifth rank in Beijing who participated in the grand court meeting, but also officials above the level of local roads, prefectures and forbidden armies, and every corner of the hall was full. One of the procedures added this year is that Lu Xiufu read out the decree of the Queen Mother, saying that the emperor has become an adult, and is loyal, righteous, benevolent and filial, known as virtuous and capable, and he will withdraw the curtain and return to the emperor, and will no longer intervene in the political affairs of the DPRK and China; The other is that the queen accepted the congratulations of the ministers, showing that the dynasty already has a female master.
Last year, the little emperor recuperated due to illness, and a series of events occurred in the court, although they have all ended, but the little emperor not only returned to the court, but will officially take over the authority thereafter, and there will be no fetters again, so it still makes people feel uneasy. Look at the little emperor on the throne, everyone is even more worried, his reign has not been a year or two, many people in the palace can say that they have watched him grow up, but this year they feel a little abnormal.
In previous years, the little emperor of the Great Dynasty would always smile, greet the ministers, celebrate the New Year, and drink wine and eat meat together. And this year, I don't know if it's because there is no queen mother and less confidence, or if there is an extra queen by her side, or to show the prestige of the pro-government. On the contrary, the little emperor behaved a little restrained, and his mouth was always tightly pursed, as if he was afraid that the newly inserted dentures would fall out. The queen participated in the court for the first time, and she was not smiling, and the two were like bodhisattvas in the temple.
The emperor always drooped his face, and the ministers did not dare to laugh, they all listened to the right minister Wen Tianxiang with a straight face and read a speech composed of quaint and gorgeous words, which made the courtiers who got up early in the morning drowsy, but no one dared to yawn in front of the emperor, and they could only force it down.
'Po......of' people are not props after all, it is inevitable that there will be a little mistake on such a big occasion, just as Wen Tianxiang read the climax, there was a long and restrained fart sound, obviously someone was choking enough, wanted to put it but didn't dare to put it, and stepped up the fart ditch release under the condition that it was difficult to hold back under the extreme suppression.
"Ahem...... Who is so rude and indiscriminate? Wen Tianxiang frowned when he heard this, and asked sharply with a dry cough.
"Yu Youxiang, the accent of the lower official seems to be from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, just like the silk strings of Songjiang!" Under Wen Tianxiang's questioning, all the ministers were in good spirits, looking left and right looking for the target. And at this time, someone came out to say.
"How can Deputy Envoy Zhao Shumi hear that it is a Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent, obviously from the Huguang area, there are needles hidden in the cotton, and it sounds soft and glutinous, but its meaning is sharp." As soon as Zhao Mengjin's voice fell, Zhao Qiao, the squire of the military department, came out of the queue and said unconvinced.
"Nonsense, where is the accent of Sichuan and Shu, it is clearly an authentic Hokkien accent." Deng Wenyuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, came out of the line.
"Deng Shangshu's words are wrong, it is definitely along the river, just like the murmur of the water of a small river, where is the sound of waves in the coastal waters of Fujian!" Zhang Zizhen stepped forward and waved his hand.
"No, this is the accent of Jiangxi, neither near the sea nor the river, but a brute voice in the mountains." Qi Yaqing, a university scholar, came out to point the way.
"Your Majesty......" Zhao Yu was concentrating on watching the excitement, when he suddenly heard Wu Xi beside him calling himself softly.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Hao twisted his face and said incomprehensibly.
"Your Majesty, above the main hall, they are talking nonsense, why doesn't Your Majesty stop it?" Wu Xi asked suspiciously.
"No matter how I judge, I don't hear the accent of where it is, can the queen know, and I can judge them!" Zhao Yu spread out his hands and said.
"Your Majesty, it's clearly ...... Who can hear that! Wu Xi's face was full of crimson when he heard this, obviously knowing that the emperor was joking with himself, and said strangely.
"Hehe, what does the queen think is the discussion in the hall, then it is like this, and the can tell you a big truth!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.
"This court discussion is so nonsense, won't it miss the state affairs!" Wu Xi was stunned for a moment, and then puzzled.
"That's politics, and every day all I have to do is listen to their nonsense, attack each other, and act like they're in good spirits. And the recitals that were reviewed after the next dynasty were mostly some long and tasteless nonsense, among which it would be good to mention some serious things in a few words, and it was necessary to make a reply accordingly, otherwise there would be ministers who advised them to be diligent in government affairs. Zhao Hao said with a wry smile.
"In this way, Your Majesty is also very hard." Wu Xi glanced at her husband sympathetically and said.
"It's hard work, but over time you can find some fun in it. You see, they seem to be arguing about a fart, but in fact, they have a deeper meaning, defending their own line, and at the same time trying to attack their opponents. Zhao Hao smiled.
"Oh, your majesty already knows who it is...... Who is it! Wu Xi replied in surprise.
"Eight or nine is not far from ten!" Zhao Yu chuckled.
"Your Majesty can actually hear me?" Wu Xi was even more surprised and said, there are two or three hundred civil and military ministers standing in this hall, and the position where they are sitting is also three zhang away from the nearest minister, you can hear who is farting, how good the ears must be!
"To be an emperor, you must be deaf and clear, and be able to hear the sound of every corner, otherwise you won't know if you are sold!" Zhao Yu pretended to be mysterious.
"Your Majesty, when will the feast begin after such an endless debate?" Wu Xi was a little anxious, after all, she participated in and arranged many of the follow-up work of this court meeting, and this little episode had already messed up her plans. And the more noisy it is, the more it is getting worse, and more than a dozen people are already involved.
"Ahem...... Zhao Hao coughed a few times, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Dong Dutong, where is your hometown?" ”
"Your Majesty, my subordinate is from Dong'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian." Hearing the little emperor speak, His Royal Highness immediately purified, and Dong Yicheng immediately bowed down.
"Oh, it's also Hokkien!" Zhao Yu nodded.
"Yes, Quanzhou is located in southern Fujian." Dong Yicheng saluted again.
"Deng Shangshu is really good ear, and he can actually hear that it is Hokkien. Feng Langzhong is also good, he can narrow down the scope to Quanzhou, and Zhang Shizhong and Judge Liu are not bad. Zhao Yu pointed to a few people and said.
The few people who were named as "ministers and ......" were praised and should be grateful, but they didn't know how to say it after a long time.
"Since you have understood what Dong Dutong said, then please tell me what he said, so that you can solve your doubts!" Zhao Yu ignored their embarrassment and continued to smile.
"The minister is from Shu and doesn't understand Hokkien!" Deng Wenyuan saw that the little emperor looked at him, but if he admitted it, it would be tantamount to knowing; Don't say it, just now I was tantamount to relieving myself, so I could only answer hard-headed at the moment.
"Oh, what about you?" Zhao Yu raised his chin and asked a few others.
"The ministers are also ...... It doesn't work either! The other few people could only climb along Deng Wenyuan's pole and bow their heads in salute.
"Hehe, Dong Dutong, what did you say? Don't you understand that you can't talk casually above the main hall? Zhao Yu turned to Dong Yicheng at this time and shouted.
"Your Majesty, my subordinates have been wronged, and I have been standing here listening to the right minister read out, and I have never spit out half a word." Dong Yicheng shouted wrongly.
"Then why did everyone hear you make a strange noise?" Zhao Yu still questioned.
"Your Majesty, my subordinates really didn't speak, just because I drank a few glasses of cold wine last night, my stomach was unbearably swollen, and I just let out a fart, but I didn't mean anything else!" Dong Yicheng said with some embarrassment, but he lived on the ship all the year round, and his face was black and red, but he couldn't see any embarrassment.
"It seems that our Great Song Dynasty is expected to restore the country, and it is great that one fart can cause so many!" Zhao Yu turned to sneer.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... The minister did not mean to, but to maintain the order of the court and the dignity of His Majesty! Qi Yaqing thought about it and said.
"A fart can make the court out of order, and my face is dull? Now that Meng Yuan occupies my rivers and mountains and enslaves my people of the Great Song Dynasty, isn't it no different from on my neck, what should you do? Do you want to have a theory with real gold? Zhao Yu leaned forward and asked with a smile.
"This ...... I don't know this! Qi Yaqing was asked, her face was red, and she said.
"What about you?" Zhao Hao asked the rest of the people again.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, today's dynasty will be a little dull, everyone is just joking to relieve Your Majesty's boredom!" Zhao Mengjin saluted upward.
"Really? Could it be that everyone is not happy about my pro-government today! Zhao Hao asked rhetorically.
"Your Majesty's words are wrong, my subordinates didn't sleep all night last night, I just look forward to the morning meeting at dawn and congratulate Your Majesty!" Zhao Mengjin said with a smile.
"Oh, what about the others?" Zhao Hao asked again.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" Seeing His Majesty asking, Lu Xiufu hurriedly turned around and saluted upwards, and bowed first.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" Seeing this, the ministers knelt down one after another and bowed to worship.
"All the ministers are exempt from courtesy, and they are flat!" Zhao Hao smiled and raised his hand and said, "Today is the Yuan Day Dynasty, the whole country celebrates, I congratulate with all the secretaries, and give a banquet!" ”
"Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" The ministers saluted again.
Zhao Yu stopped the dispute with a word, and skipped the proactive and lengthy procedure, and went directly to the last procedure - the banquet. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were tossed for a long time, and finally had a lively meal, singing and dancing very lively. But just as people who have eaten the state banquet know that this kind of banquet is actually just a specification, those who can eat this meal are not ordinary people, and it is also a great honor, so this meal in the Daqing Hall is not delicious, but there are still people who will try their best to squeeze in, even if they can't be in the main hall, just eat a cold meal under the corridor and feel a great grace.
What worries a group of old ministers the most is that the little emperor has always been frugal and doesn't like leftovers. One of the main dishes at the royal banquet is pork, which is the pig, beef and mutton used for sacrifice on Chinese New Year's Eve. The sacrificial meat was not salted, and the deacons cut it into small pieces with knives and distributed them to the ministers, and this tasteless white meat was bitter to eat, but it was impossible not to eat it.
Some ministers ate too much of this kind of banquet, so they made some changes in private, they put handkerchiefs in spiced meat soup at home in advance to cook the flavor, and when the time came, they took out the meat while eating the gizzard and wiped their mouths, so that the meat had a taste and would not be rude and disrespectful. But the vast majority of courtiers knew that the little emperor was shrewd, so they had neither such experience nor such courage, so they could only swallow it hard. Therefore, all of them "fade out of their mouths".
"Your Majesty, can you eat this too?" Wu Xi had obviously been instructed by the 'master' and knew how to enhance the flavor of the gizzard meat, but he found that the little emperor could eat the white meat on the plate as if nothing had happened, and he would not even frown.
"It's delicious, what's not to eat." Zhao Yu picked up a piece and ate it in a big bite, the fat oozed out as he chewed, and he seemed to be very puzzled.
"Your Majesty, eat slowly, it's indecent in front of the ministers!" Seeing the little emperor's eating appearance, and looking at the empty plates on the table, Wu Xi frowned.
"Indecent? It seems that the queen has never been hungry, otherwise she would not have said such things! Zhao Yu chuckled.
"Starving? Your Majesty still has a time when you can't get enough to eat? Wu Xi asked with some surprise.
"Does the queen really not know, or did she forget it after entering the palace gate?" Zhao Yu looked at Wu Xi and said with a smile.
"This ......" The little emperor's smile made Wu Xi's heart pierced, could it be that in order to win the first opportunity in the draft, he deliberately made people inquire about the hobbies and habits of the queen mother and the little emperor? Or is it really as the little emperor said just now, his ears and eyes are clear, and he can hear, see, and hear all the movements.
"It's really indecent for the queen to lose her temper like this!" Zhao Yu looked at the way he was knocked out, and said softly while raising his glass and drinking with the ministers.
"Your Majesty, the concubine didn't do it on purpose, please forgive your Majesty!" Wu Xi realized that what he had done was already under the attention of the little emperor, so he simply admitted it directly and gave a little salute.
"It's okay, but those sneaky things should be done less, and forgive me is even more. The queen still has to behave herself, don't be smart, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and I don't want to do anything harmful! Zhao Yu drank dry wine, smiled and put the cup in front of Wu Xi and said, in the eyes of the courtiers, the little emperor is newly married Yan'er, and he is very harmonious.
"The concubine has written it down!" Wu Xi found out that on this big hall, the one who could hold the most was the little emperor, and he took the wine jug and poured it for him to fill it with wine and said carefully......