Chapter Ninety-Four: The Night Banquet
After Li Anshi, Tuoba Shen, Yu Zhong, Li Biao and others entered the main hall, the guests and hosts sat down to chat, and Princess Cangshui left and arranged a dinner.
Li Anshi wanted Tuoba Shen to sit on the seat, Tuoba Shen was resolutely unwilling as a guest, so he sat on the upper left, Li Biao's official rank was higher than Yu Zhong, so Tuoba Shen was Li Biao, Yu Zhong, Jiang Shaoyou, Zheng Daozhao, and Liu Wenyuan.
Needless to say, Li Biao belongs to a well-known courtier, Yu Zhong is the emperor's military guard, and this time he was ordered to guard Tuoba Shen, and he is also a very important figure.
Jiang Shaoyou was originally just a doctor of Chinese calligraphy, and he was responsible for creating carvings in the imperial court. The world despises craftsmen, and even if they have real skills, they must be downgraded in the eyes of the world. On this mission, the emperor added him a temporary addition to the free horseman, which was already an exception.
Because the official position of Sanqi Province (also known as Jishu Province) belonged to the noble land in the Southern Dynasty, it was generally granted to Confucian and Xuan celebrities, and it was an important way for the children of the world to climb up since the two Jin Dynasty. With Jiang Shaoyou's status in the imperial court, he really can't get this additional official.
The last Zheng Daozhao and Liu Wenyuan, they were not the emperor's intended envoys, so they were both behind, but Zheng Daozhao was a relative of the Li family, which was much stronger than Liu Wenyuan in white, and Liu Wenyuan was able to come in purely because he was the eldest son of Liu Chang, the king of Danyang.
Because he didn't know Liu Wenyuan's personality, Tuoba Shen chatted with him on the road many times. Sensing that this person may be because he is the eldest son in the family, he is treated too far worse than his younger brother, and he has some thoughts that are dissatisfied with Liu Chang, although Liu Wenyuan is not very obvious, but his intentions can still be seen. But it's no wonder that his mother is just a concubine from the Southern Dynasty, how dare he break his wrists with the princess's son, if you want to say that you are wronged, you must not suffer less.
After noticing this, Tuoba Shen decided to pay special attention to his movements after arriving in the Southern Dynasty, because the Southern Dynasty always likes to surrender to the Southern Dynasty and those who are estranged from the Dynasty, this kind of thing has never been broken, and sometimes, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty will personally go into battle to write a letter of inducement. It may not be the handwriting of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, but the deception is much greater. This kind of inducement did play a role, especially among the border states and counties, and there were many defections.
Since this Liu Wenyuan is dissatisfied with Liu Chang, this time he will not be noticed by the Southern Dynasty, if the Southern Dynasty lures him to surrender at that time, he may be allowed to take a high position, as for whether he will be liquidated because of his identity as a child of the Liu family in the future, Liu Wenyuan may not be able to soberly realize this, a person has been wronged for more than 20 years, and a few people will refuse the temptation of high-ranking officials.
Tuoba Shen also made a plan, if things really came to that point, Liu Wenyuan dared to betray Wei, he couldn't take care of Liu Chang's thoughts, and he had to stab him.
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Li Anshi first invited the children of the family to briefly introduce it, Li has many houses and many men. Two of them Tuoba Shen paid special attention, one is Li Leopard, the only surviving third son of Zheng Xi's father-in-law, Li Xiaobo, and the other is Li Yuezu's son Li Jin.
Li Xiaobo was once knighted as the Duke of Xuancheng, and the official was appointed as the assassin of Qinzhou, and he also added the official title of a free cavalry attendant. This Li Leopard is the only one of Li Xiaobo's three sons who is still alive, and it is also the only direct bloodline of Li Xiaobo.
And Li Jin, as Li Hui's eldest grandson, will definitely have his future in the future. Both of them have a smoother career than the other Li disciples. Especially Li Jin, the eldest son of the long house has more advantages than others under the gate valve system, which Li Jin has better conditions than Li Leopard.
Cui Hao, a person who attaches great importance to the family, humiliated his two brothers of the same clan with his position in the long house before his death, and his attitude towards them was far worse than that of Wang Huilong of the Taiyuan Wang clan who fled from the north. It can be seen that the people of the world, especially the Han Gaomen scholars, attach importance to the nobility and the lowliness.
After sitting for about two quarters of an hour, Li Yuezu brought in with the county officials with surnames and statuses, as well as the Pingjian County Commander and others, and after introducing them to Tuoba Shen and others, they talked to each other. Few of these family members are officials in Beijing, and most of them are local officials. After all, many of the children of the four major surnames in the future were low-level officials, not to mention these ordinary families who only operated in the county.
At the beginning of the day, Princess Cangshui sent a servant to spread the word that the dinner party was ready. Only then did Li Anshi get up and invite Tuoba Shen and Li Biao and others to go to the back hall for a banquet.
Li Anshi is the master, of course, he should be in the front, Tuoba Shen and Li Biao and others are in the back, and they go to the back hall in turn.
Because there are many guests, and there are also many people in the Li family, the back hall of the Li family, which is not small, is also a little crowded. Nowadays, the popular system in society is a separate meal system, and the more guests there are, the space it occupies is much larger, unlike the later shared meal system, which saves space.
Li Anshi and Tuoba Shen sat on the left and right, Li Biao, Yu Zhong and others and the county officials were in the front on the left and right, and the Li family and the local county surnames were in the back. After taking his seat, Li Anshi said: "Today's dinner is just to catch the wind for His Royal Highness, and you Sangzi can have a great time tonight." It's just that the Supreme Majesty is mourning, and His Royal Highness doesn't dare to have the entertainment of his eyes and ears outside, and the song and dance can only be set up today and not used. There are plenty of good wines and delicacies, and you can use them as much as you can. ”
There is no need to sing and dance at the banquet, which Tuoba Shen took the initiative to request. Although Tuoba Shen Yu is a great-grandchild of the Queen Mother, she has long been out of the mourning period, and now she is far away from Jingyi, and listening to some singing and dancing to help the meal is nothing, but considering that more is better than less, and Feng Shang is still here, he is still exempt from singing and dancing.
"Su Wenzun's family wine brews a lot, we have never had the opportunity to see it, today in the name of His Royal Highness, I can taste the appetite, how can I be greedy for more. He does not ask for anything else, but only wine. One of the people in the hall answered.
Everyone in the hall laughed when they heard this, and they knew that this person was a drunkard, and they had heard that there was a wine shop in Jizhou that had good wine, so they went to drink it in person.
If you are addicted to alcohol, you will be addicted to alcohol, and you still have to play the name of Confucius.
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For Tuoba Shen. Although there are many places where you can stop and eat along the way, those places are far inferior to the conditions of the Li family, but this dish is a world of difference. It is Tuoba Shen who also eats very fragrant, but he is worried that most people here will pay attention to themselves, so he still strictly follows the etiquette education of the master's "cut and don't eat".
As for the wine, he only started to drink a glass of wine with the hosts Li Anshi, Li Biao, Yu Zhong, Zheng Daozhao, Jiang Shaoyou and Feng Shang, the cup was small and the degree was not high, so it had no effect on him. After that, he didn't touch the wine again, only drank some vegetable soup, he didn't have an obvious preference for meat and vegetarian food, they were all the same, and he didn't want to use meat soup anymore after eating too much meat.
After eating for seven minutes, Tuoba Shen put down the knife in his hand, wiped the residual juice on his mouth with a napkin, glanced at Li Biao and the others who were still drinking, and turned sideways to Li Anshi, who had been paying attention to his actions, and whispered: "Brother-in-law, the little nephew is finished eating, and my aunt is about to leave the table." The little nephew first went to his aunt's place to offer water and wine. ”