The Western-style palace building of the only one in the Ming Dynasty is the only one in the northwest suburbs of Beijing.

The white marble version of the Gao family villas in the Palace of Fontainebleau has been famous all over the world since the last banquet for the nobles of Beijing to discuss maritime trade affairs, and this time it has naturally become the host venue for Gao Shishi's 20th birthday.

The Western-style palace complex, coupled with the decoration of red lanterns and other decorations with Ming characteristics, is really ...... Really fun.

In fact, compared with Gao's mother Zhang's family in Xinzheng for Gao Pragmatic's construction of the Longwen Elegant Garden, which is as solid as a city, Gao Pragmatic himself still prefers to see Xinzhai, and his love for this white jade building is far greater than that of Longwen Elegant Garden.

Although he is a typical "China supremacy", after all, he lived in Western-style buildings in his previous life, and in terms of accommodation alone, he still prefers "brick houses" to "wood houses".

Therefore, in the vicinity of the White Jade Tower, he set up the honor he had won in accordance with the regulations of his own champion, what Champion Tower, Champion Archway, etc., were repaired in the vicinity without affecting the style of the White Jade Tower itself.

The world's unique words such as "Six Yuan and First", which are eye-catching and not overwhelming, show the progress of Jinghua Infrastructure in recent years - in the past, they would only build city walls, fortresses and water conservancy facilities, where would they do this kind of "artistic" work.

Architecture is only a demonstration of "hard power", and soft power depends on connections.

The bigwigs of the Gao Party or the Pragmatic School in Beijing, such as the first assistant Zhang Siwei...... That's not coming.

This era is different from later generations, in later generations, it is normal for uncles to attend nephews' birthday banquets, but in the Ming Dynasty, if the elders appear at the birthday banquet of the younger generation, especially when the officialdom status of the elder is still very high, it is inevitable that they will take the lead, so most of them will only send congratulatory gifts.

However, there are more people among the peers who participate in the birthday banquet of Gao Pragmatic, and the other is the inconvenient officials of the honors and generals to talk about the seniority, that is, all the invitations are present, regardless of whether it is the grandfather of the country or the marquis, but everyone in Beijing, no one is left behind, and even the "grandfather-level" Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi is personally present to congratulate the birthday.

It can be seen that although Gao is young, his face is indeed big enough.

What's even more interesting is that Qi Jiguang, who is far away in Daning's "enemy territory" and is still fighting, and Li Chengliang, who is farther away and is also still fighting, actually magically sent congratulatory gifts, and they both sent key people in the family.

Qi Jiguang sent his younger brother Qi Jimei, and Li Chengliang directly sent his eldest son, Li Rusong, who had just killed Dong Fox and ended the battle.

Qi Jimei's current position is the governor of Nanjing, who originally returned to Beijing to report on his work, and was temporarily assigned by Qi Jiguang to celebrate his birthday on his behalf; Needless to say, Li Rusong is currently the right deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, after this meritorious service, because the entire war has not yet completely ended, he has not been promoted for the time being, and he was directly sent by his Lao Tzu to congratulate him on his birthday.

If it was in the past, it would have been inconvenient for Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang to directly congratulate Gao Chengshi on his birthday, but since this battle of Monan, it has been different, Gao Shishi has really commanded the two of them - commanding from the air is also commanding, this is the qualification.

In the past, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang at most wrote letters to Gao Gong, Guo Pu or Zhang Siwei, calling themselves "Qi Mou, a little lackey under the door", but after the Battle of Monan, if they were willing, they could also call themselves like this when they wrote letters to Gao Shiwei.

Hey, why is this still an honor......

And the civil officials of the Gao Party, of course, the highest status here is the eldest brother of Gao Pragmatic's "peers", Wu Dui, the secretary of the military department, except for him, all of them are protégés of Gao Gong and Guo Pu.

However, Gao Gong's protégés in Beijing also had the highest status who did not come, that is, Xu Guo, a university scholar. It's not that he refuses to come to the show, but not long ago, it happened that Mu Zongzhuang's concubine Liu Shixue was buried, and Xu Ge Lao was ordered by the emperor to send him to be buried in Zhaoling, which is indeed impossible to leave, otherwise he will have to fall into a "big disrespect".

The lowest status among the visitors is probably the same year of the Jinshi in the eighth year of Gao Pragmatic Wanli, except for Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingshu, who were second only to Gao Pragmatic in the Sanding Jia, the rest of the people in Beijing in the same year either Shu Jishi had just dispersed, or mixed up at the level of the heads of various ministries, even if they were in the name of Gao Pragmatic in the same year, among a large number of high-ranking officials and noble relatives, they could only accompany the last seat, and even toast Gao Pragmatic had to be on the same table.

Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic treated the same year politely, and drank it all with a glass, but he had more face than a group of generals on the table - Gao Pragmatic was over there, and it was also a table of generals who got up to toast, but Gao was just a little drink.

In front of so many guests, the difference between civil and military, even Gao Pragmatic can only be dealt with according to the actual situation at this time.

Toasting or something, that is a traditional Chinese custom, more important than eating, and when the feast was about to officially begin, there was a burst of exclamation and noise outside.

The hundreds of Beijing officials and nobles with heads and faces in the Baiyu Mansion were a little stunned - what's the matter, at the birthday banquet of such a special person in the high-ranking servants, does anyone dare to come and make trouble? I'm afraid that Tai Sui is breaking ground on his head and living impatiently?

Gao Pragmatic himself was also a little surprised, because there were too many important people at his birthday banquet this time, but he mobilized a large number of family members to guard the surroundings of Jianxinzhai, unless it was a collective rebellion of "400,000" in Beijing, how could anyone break in and make trouble?

He glanced at Gao Mo, who nodded quietly and walked out quickly to check the situation.

But soon Gao Mo came back at a faster trot all the way, with surprise and joy on his face, and Lao Yuan said loudly: "Master, hurry up to greet you-it's the emperor here!" ”

This sentence was simply a thunderclap, and the audience in the huge banquet hall of the Baiyulou was shocked, and everyone stood up subconsciously in shock.

The emperor is coming?

I'm dropping a day, did the emperor actually come to congratulate his courtiers on his birthday? This...... This is Daming!

All kinds of shock, surprise, envy and other different eyes brushed on the birthday star Gonggao's pragmatic body.

Gao pragmatic himself was also taken aback, immediately tidied up his appearance, and walked quickly to the door of the hall. The officials and nobles in the banquet hall were a little sluggish for a while, and they couldn't figure out whether they should hurry out with Gao Shishi, or wait for the emperor to come in and then greet them - after all, everyone had never experienced this matter, and no one had any experience.

Let's follow, the emperor must have come for the sake of the servants, not for them, what reason is there to follow?

Don't go along, it seems to be on the shelf, and when you hear the emperor coming, you dare not take the initiative to greet you, what kind of etiquette have you learned after reading for so many years?

was hesitating, but saw a person walking in at the door of the banquet hall, wearing the regular clothes of the Red Emperor, carrying the sun and moon on his shoulders, and wearing a sheji, who else could he be if he was not the son of Wanli today, Zhu Yijun?