At noon, the province of Zhongshu Menxia was very quiet, and the majesty of the imperial center was displayed everywhere.

Li Xiao originally thought that lunch would be eaten in the imperial city, but he was unexpectedly taken to the forbidden middle school. The so-called forbidden is naturally the Ouchi court.

At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court continued the Sui Dynasty's three provinces and six ministries system, at that time the central core of the imperial court was still Shangshu Province, and the left and right servants were the natural heads of the prime ministers, and even the central deliberative body of the imperial court was also located in Shangshu Province, called the political affairs hall.

However, now, the center of the imperial court has been changed to the Zhongshu Gate.

Although the two provinces of Zhongshu and Menxia also have yamen in the imperial city like Shangshu Province, the yamen there is called Zhongshu and Menxia provinces, and the place where the prime ministers discuss is actually the introspection in the forbidden.

Therefore, now everyone is also accustomed to calling Zhongshu Men the head of the inner and Shangshu Province as the outer province.

Staying in the palace instead of working in the imperial city shows the importance of the center. Although the introspection of the prime ministers' deliberations was only in the former court of Miyagi, not the harem.

But after all, it was forbidden to enter and exit, and the prime ministers were discussing matters in the forbidden period, so the emperor specially provided them with lunch, so as not to go back and forth.

The prime ministers' working meals are called hall meals, also known as corridor meals, because they used to be eaten under the corridor of the government hall, so they are also called hall meals.

This meal is only qualified to be eaten by the prime minister, and the specifications are extremely high, at least eight dishes, so rich that even the prime ministers can't bear to put down the chopsticks.

Compared with the prime ministers' lounge meals, although other officials also have working lunches, it is very simple.

Li Xiao is not uncommon for this banquet, but the emperor has an edict, which is a reward, and several prime ministers also want to see him for questioning, so he, the newly appointed corn eunuch, has to come.

Even he didn't have any intention of being this corn eunuch.

But in this era, thunder and jade dew are all Jun's grace, and you can't do it if you don't do it.

People in the Tang Dynasty were also accustomed to eating two meals, one in the morning and one in the evening, and there was often no food at noon. However, the aristocracy has always been an exception, and the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period have already begun to eat three meals, and even the monarchs have four or five meals.

The more meals you eat, the higher the status you have, just like the color of your clothes, the number of rooms in the house, and the height of the gatehouse, you must have the corresponding status to enjoy, otherwise it is overstepping.

Officials are the elite of the times, and naturally they can eat three meals.

Under the porch in front of the introspective door, someone from the imperial dining room had already brought a porch meal.

Each prime minister has a table table, a futon, and seven dishes and one soup on the table. There are meat and vegetarian dishes, and the dishes are very exquisite.

The eleven prime ministers of the DPRK and the central government, usually not all of them are introspective, but when a few prime ministers are there that day, a few of them will prepare a banquet.

Occasionally, the emperor would accompany the prime ministers to eat here.

Only very rarely, when the twelve important ministers of the six ministries, nine temples, five prisons and twelve people go to the central introspection to discuss matters, they are specially given by the emperor to eat a gallery meal.

But what surprised the people in the imperial dining room today was that the eleven prime ministers were all introspective today, but the emperor did not stay to accompany the prime ministers to eat, but he gave a special person to dinner, and what is even more strange is that this person did not participate in today's deliberations.

"What's the origin of this man?"

"I heard that it is the corn eunuch who His Majesty has just sealed."

"What prison?"

"Corn supervision, from the sixth grade." An imperial chef sighed, from the sixth grade, this level is higher than the boss level of their imperial dining room.

"You can get food from the food gallery under the six products?" The other person was a little puzzled, when did the restaurant become so worthless? How many six books and twelve generals have not had a chance to eat.

"This person is not ordinary, I heard that His Majesty and all the ministers have been discussing all morning today, and they are all talking about him."

"What the hell is this man coming from?"

"I don't know, I'm quite young anyway, when I deliver the food, take a closer look and come back and tell us what it looks like."

When Li Xiao arrived, the restaurant was already on the table.

In addition to the eleven prime ministers, today there is also Shi Yan Liben, the governor of Yongzhou, who also received a special gift from the emperor to enjoy the banquet.

In addition to this, Li Xiao only knows Li Ji, after all, Li Ji has also rubbed a few meals of white food at his house, as for the other prime ministers, he doesn't know any of them, he only thinks that they are tall, short, fat and thin, but they are all dressed in purple robes and wearing goldfish bags, and they are really stupid and can't tell who is who.

Anyway, if you don't know it, you don't bother to guess.

He swept his gaze first, and saw that there was still an empty seat, so he hurried over.

The meal has been set up on the table, and when I swept it away, I found that it was indeed quite rich, seven dishes and one soup, fried and boiled, stewed and roasted, and even stir-fried vegetables and cold salad.

A plate of fried green oil field wild vegetables, put some garlic, and smell fried with vegetable oil, very fragrant. The cold dish is the root of the folded ear, this dish is a characteristic of his Lijiazhuang, and later taught to Da Biao, and it has also become one of the special cold dishes of the Lanxi Lizhuang Hotel.

Li Ji saw that Li Xiao was so unceremonious, so he came up and sat down to the side, his eyes staring at those dishes, and he couldn't help but darken his face.

This kid, I really don't know how to be polite, which one here is not an important minister of the court, not to mention the official title, or in terms of age, all of them are Li Xiao's grandfathers.

"Li Xiao, why don't you come over and meet your ministers."

Li Xiao got up with a smile, walked in front of Li Ji, bowed down, and bowed, "Hello to the British duke." ”

Then he turned his head to Yan Liben and bowed, "Meet Yan Changshi." ”

He doesn't know who to worship in the back, and he doesn't know anyone.

However, Li Ji was very helpful at this time, and said there, "It's really a rural village, I haven't seen the world, come, let me introduce you to you." ”

The eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, Yu Zhining, Han Ying, Lai Ji, Yuwenjie, Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu, Cui Dunli, Du Zhenglun·······

All of them are prime ministers, and they are extremely ministers.

Many people's names Li Xiao have heard in later generations, such as the eldest grandson Wuji, and Zhang Wuji's brother's name is also a surname, that is also a very awesome character, the emperor's own uncle, especially the elder brother of the eldest grandson empress, his father is the eldest grandson Sheng general who kills two birds with one stone, he has read some, which can be said that when the eldest grandson Wuji's brother is old, he has become a generation of old cowards.

As for Chu Suiliang, well, one of the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty, no matter what kind of official behavior or character he has, at least, this old man Chu's calligraphy can be described as a must.

There are also Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, who seem to be the prime ministers of power when Wu Zetian was in power.

There is also that Laiji, his father is a famous general in the Sui Dynasty to protect his son, and he also has a very awesome brother who is 10,000 enemies to come to Twelve Lang, and he also has a younger brother or elder brother, who seems to have become the prime minister later, and both brothers are prime ministers, which is amazing.

After all, although their father was the Rong Guogong of the Sui Dynasty, he was a native of the Chen Dynasty in his early years, and later killed the enemy when he was young and swam across the Yangtze River to join the Sui army, and went into battle to make meritorious contributions until the Duke of Guo, but he died with Emperor Suiyang, and his other sons were also killed.

The Laiji brothers were only a few years old at the time, and they escaped because they didn't follow them. Since then, the brothers have become orphans, and the family has fallen again, and later they all rely on reading to get ahead, and they can struggle to become the prime minister, which is a real skill.

Yuwen Festival, it seems that he should be a little related to Yu Wenhua and should be a little relative, Du Zhenglun, should be Du Ruhui's family in the early years of Fang Mou Du Duan?

In short, these people are really not simple, looking at a group of harmony, but Li Xiao knows in his heart that these people are obviously divided into two parties.

On one side is the Guanlong veteran faction headed by the eldest grandson Wuji, and the other is the Shandong upstart faction headed by Li Ji.

History proves that in the end, it was the upstart faction led by Li Ji who overwhelmed the patriarchal faction and succeeded in seizing power in an all-round way, but unfortunately Wu Zetian finally seized the highest power, and few of these people seemed to have a good end in the end.

Even a person like Li Ji who is very martial arts turned out to be because of his grandson's rebellion against Wu Zetian, and even he was dug up in the coffin, and even the surname Li that was given was still deprived and restored to Xu. And he has a son, because he is loyal to Wu Zetian, but in the end he was actually given the surname Wu?

I don't know if Li Ji, who had already dug up the coffin at that time, would be angry and die again after he found out.

Struggle, this is the struggle at the top.

It can be said that it is the power struggle between the emperor and the ministers, and it can also be said that it is the struggle between the Guanlong aristocratic group and the Shandong Haoqiang group, which is a line struggle.

Although Li Xiao had a lot of foresight, his small body did not want to get involved.

Whether it is the eldest grandson Wuji or Li Ji, everyone is a veteran minister, and they are all prime ministers, and pinching him to death is like pinching a bedbug to death.

"You are Li Xiao?"

When he met the eldest grandson Wuji, the old man looked at him condescendingly, and I have to say that the attitude of the eldest grandson Wuji was very unpleasant, and he looked down on people too much.

But Li Xiao is right to think about it, who is the eldest grandson Wuji, Taizong's eldest brother, the emperor's own uncle, and the hero of Xuanwumen, the important minister of Zhenguan, and the minister of the current dynasty, and the head of the current prime minister.

He is old and powerful, and he has heard that the corn he made seems to have caused the displeasure of his eldest grandson.

A little countryman, perhaps in the eyes of the eldest grandson, the so-called corn is just a deception, Li Xiao is just like those charlatans.

Throughout the ages, there are many such charlatans, and the eldest grandson doesn't know how many he has seen. It's just that he didn't expect that this time, he would not meet a liar.

"In Xia Li Xiao, meet the eldest grandson Xiangguo."

Han Ying scolded on the side, "Since you are now the corn supervisor of His Majesty's Qinfeng, then you have to look like an official of the imperial court, meet Xiangguo, and call him a subordinate official, not something." ”