Later, the historians wrote down today's situation in the small notebook they carried with them.

In the autumn of the second year of Yonghui, in July, the Emperor of the Ming Hall was edicted to the official bachelors of the Ming Hall system, and the emperor of the five heavens was matched with the ancestor of the emperor. Taizong is paired with a five-person emperor.

As for the emperor's invitation to dinner, I'm sorry, for the historian, this is just a trivial matter, and it is not worth recording at all.

After discussing the issue of the Mingtang system, it was already noon, and everyone also felt hungry, and everyone waited for the emperor to speak and start eating.

"I'm going to talk about it today, I hope you can handle this matter well when you go back? When the Lieutenant and the ministers and the kings inquire about this, you may also have an explanation. Li Chengqian said.

"No!" Celebrants and scholars salute.

"It's not too early, so you can stay and dine with me, and I've already prepared the meal for the Food Bureau." Li Chengqian said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone saluted and thanked them, full of joy, knowing that eating the emperor's meal was not so easy.

"Let's pass the meal!" Li Chengqian said to Wang Quan beside him.

"No!" Wang Quan received the order, turned around and shouted, "Pass the meal!" ”

Immediately, a eunuch ran out, and soon a group of palace maids and eunuchs brought up today's lunch and put it in front of everyone.

When the dish came up, everyone was dumbfounded!

Three dishes, one soup, three dishes and one soup as standard.

It's all fish, and it's all carp, how can they eat it?

However, there was a ban in the Tang Dynasty that it was forbidden to eat carp, and once it was issued, it was punished.

For a while, people didn't know what to do.

Li Chengqian picked up the spoon, scooped up the fish soup in the bowl, blew it gently, and then drank it into his mouth, and his taste buds were immediately wrapped in the deliciousness of the fish soup.

Li Chengqian picked up the chopsticks and was about to pick up the fish and meat to taste the taste, when he felt that the atmosphere in the hall was a little wrong.

Looking up, everyone sat quietly, but no one moved the chopsticks, in the past, these people had already started, but now they are so quiet.

Li Chengqian also found Wang Quan on the side, his face was not very good!

Li Chengqian had a black question mark face.

"What? Are these delicacies not to your taste? Why doesn't anyone move chopsticks? Wang Quan, what's wrong with you? Li Chengqian asked.

"Everyone! It is the negligence of the slave and the maid, and the slave and the maid deserve death, please punish the slave and the maid! Wang Quan suddenly fell to his knees and shouted loudly.

Li Chengqian became even more black after hearing this!

"What's going on?" Li Chengqian asked, listening to Wang Quan's tone, combined with everyone's expressions, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

"Everyone! The slave didn't explain it clearly, and the Shangshi Bureau actually used Chi Yu Gong to make dishes for the officials and scholars to eat. ”

"These are all the negligence of the slaves and maids, violating the ban, and please punish them." Wang Quan said that Datang forbade eating carp, but he knowingly committed it, and these must not be severely punished.

Referring to the ban and the red duck, Li Chengqian remembered that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been a clear ban on the killing of edible carp.

Even if you catch a carp, you have to release it immediately, and if anyone dares to sell it, you will hit 60 large plates.

Because the emperor's surname in the Tang Dynasty was Li, which is the same as the word carp for carp, eating carp is equivalent to saying that he wants to eat "Li".

In ancient times, in order to maintain the dignity of the hierarchy, the names of the monarchs or relatives encountered when speaking and writing articles were not directly said or written, as a sign of respect.

This is to avoid using the name for personal attacks, and to offend the monarch or the detached position of the family, and must be replaced by another word.

For example, Li Hu, the grandfather of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, in order to avoid his name, stipulated that all words related to tiger should not be said or used.

For example, the toilet was originally called the tiger, and later it was forbidden to call it so, so it was changed to a horse, and the soldier talisman of the ancient troop dispatch was called the tiger talisman, which was changed to a fish talisman, and even the tiger in the mountains and forests could not be called a tiger, but should be renamed a big worm.

Even the carp has to be renamed the Red Duck Gong, of course, the emperor can still call the carp a carp, this is a privilege that only the emperor has, and no one else should think about it.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, only the emperor and the clan within three generations of the emperor can eat carp, and others are forbidden to eat it.

Of course, everyone actually eats carp secretly behind closed doors in private, and generally no one cares, as long as you don't eat it blatantly, no one will do anything to you.

These ceremonial officials and bachelors have also secretly eaten carp in private, but they dare not eat carp in front of the public now.

What's more, it is still the face of the real emperor, and it is even more forbidden to eat carp, unless they are crazy and not afraid of death, otherwise, if they borrow the two of them, they will not dare to eat it.

If you put your future into it for the sake of a bite to eat, it's not worth it at all.

What if, after they had eaten, the emperor remembered this matter and took the opportunity to punish them?

They don't want to put themselves in jail for a meal.

"Your Majesty! I have a ban in Datang, prohibiting Chinese people from eating red catalytica, and anyone who hunts and kills will be severely punished. A ceremonial officer stood up and said.

"I naturally understand this ban, my Datang does prohibit Chinese people from eating carp, and today, I actually invited you to eat a whole fish feast, so I allowed you to eat carp with me." Li Chengqian said.

As an emperor, he still has this small right.

Even Li Chengqian had a whim, and in the future, he could also use carp as a reward and reward it to the minister.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ceremonial officer and the bachelor saluted and thanked him!

With Li Chengqian's words, today they can eat carp boldly in the Liangyi Palace.

"Get up! I don't blame you for this! Li Chengqian said to Wang Quan.

"Thank you!" Wang Quan thanked him.

He was scared half to death just now, and if the emperor blamed him, his life would be over.

"From today onwards, I will issue an edict that in the future, I will entertain hundreds of officials, and whoever has contributed to the Tang Dynasty will be rewarded with carp." Li Chengqian said.

As long as Li Chengqian's edict is issued, in the future, it will be an honor for anyone who can eat carp in a righteous and bright light.

It's like being able to enjoy the temple after death.

After Li Chengqian finished speaking, he beckoned everyone to eat together, and with Li Chengqian's golden mouth, everyone had no restraints, they all let go of their bellies, and ate and drank to their heart's content.

In this way, they can eat carp in front of the emperor openly and unscrupulously, but it is enough for them to brag about it for a lifetime.

After lunch, the ceremonial officials and scholars said goodbye and left, and they still had to complete the matter of the first emperor to enjoy the five emperors.

Li Chengqian sent Wang Quan to Zhongshu Province to draft an edict to eat carp as a reward for officials.

This edict was passed quickly, and although it was still impossible to eat carp openly, at least it had a good start.

In the future, they can get the emperor's reward, and they can also eat it openly.