At the end of Luoshui in the city, in the northwest of the outer Guo City, there is the magnificent East Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace is divided into two parts: the Imperial City and the Imperial Palace. The imperial city is enclosed on the east, south and west sides of the palace city, in the shape of "concave", and the north side is separated from the palace city by a city wall.

The walls of the imperial city are all sandwich cities, with two city walls. The north side has a triple layer, which increases its defensive capabilities.

There are four horizontal streets in the east and west of the imperial city, and the three straight roads in the north and south are staggered, the central avenue is in the central axis, what provinces, governments, temples, lieutenants and other official offices are arranged on both sides of the avenue respectively, the stars are like the moon, and they do not leave the palace left and right.

Li Yin, under the leadership of several eunuchs and imperial guards, walked out of the Tang State Mansion at dusk and slowly walked into the center of power in this empire.

Li Yin can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, but looking at this majestic and huge palace all the way, his heart is still full of shock.

Taining Hall is the other party of this imperial banquet, this imperial banquet is not only Yang Guang and Li Yin, when Li Yin was brought to Taining Palace, he found that there were many people waiting in front of him.

"Boy Li, come here!" Zhou Fashang got up and beckoned to Li Yin.

Li Yin walked over quickly, "Why are you here too?" ”

Zhou Fashang pretended to be displeased and said, "Why, you kid can participate in the imperial banquet, but my old man can't come?" ”

Li Yin stretched out his hands, "I didn't mean that, I just suddenly saw you and was a little surprised!" ”

Zhou Fashang motioned for Li Yin to sit down in his lower position, and Li Yin said hesitantly: "This position seems to be a little forward, can I really sit here?" ”

Zhou Fa still impatiently pressed Li Yin in that position, "Let you sit down, this is what Your Majesty meant." ”

Li Yin had to sit down obediently.

"You kid is one of the protagonists of this banquet, so you should sit in front of it." Zhou Fashang explained casually.

At this time, people have arrived one after another, and under the introduction of Zhou Fashang, Li Yin really got to know many high-ranking officials and celebrities, such as Nayan Su Wei, Yu Shiji, the servant of the internal history, and Pei Ju, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs......

Just as the imperial banquet was about to begin, a little eunuch led a middle-aged man with a majestic body and a beautiful beard to walk in.

Civil officials are not like military attachés, they can be promoted quickly by fighting, civil officials are generally promoted through slow seniority, at the age of thirty, it is already very good to have a fourth-grade official, but this middle-aged man is already a second-grade official, so Li Yin will feel surprised.

"He is Yang Xuangan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the son of Yang Su, the first Situ and the Duke of Chu." Zhou Fashang saw Li Yin's doubts and took the initiative to whisper in his ear to explain to him.

"It's him!" Li Yin was stunned in an instant.

The name of Yang Su, the Duke of Chu, is known to everyone in the entire Sui Dynasty, and it is naturally very normal for Yang Xuangan to be a second-rank official at this age with the shadow of his father's door.

Yang Xuangan was directly taken by the little eunuch to the vacant seat next to Li Yin, Yang Xuangan glanced at Li Yin, "Forgive me for being clumsy, which minister is this?" ”

The little eunuch said: "This is Li Yin, the commander of the Navy Brigade and the concubine of the Tang State Mansion. ”

After Yang Xuan heard this, his face immediately became very ugly, he flicked his sleeves, gritted his teeth and sat down in his place, he clenched his fists with both hands, and roared angrily in his heart: "Yang Guang Xiaoer, bully me too much!" ”

There is a difference between the rank and inferiority of officialdom, and it is very strict, with the high official sitting on the top and the low official being the low. The construction of this Taining Hall is also very exquisite, the interior is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, the position of the emperor is at the end of the north, it is a unique position, sitting in the north and facing south, which is also the reason why people often call the king and the emperor "south".

In addition to the emperor's position, the most honorable seat in the room is to sit west to east, followed by south to north, and the lowest is to sit east to west.

However, there are some adaptations, such as this imperial banquet, there is no arrangement to sit south to north, so sitting west to east position is not bad.

Moreover, now sitting in the position of west to east, there are only a few people, the first seat is Nayan Suwei, followed by Yu Shiji, Pei Ju and other favored ministers of the dynasty, Yang Xuangan knows that he has a bad relationship with Emperor Yang Guang, and he does not expect to be able to sit there.

However, with his status as Yang Xuangan's hereditary Duke of Chu and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, how can he sit in the first or second position of the seat facing east from west to east?

However, the first seat of the seat from west to east was the drowsy Laihu'er, followed by Zhou Fashang, and then a small brigade marshal and concubine Li Yin, and then he Yang Xuangan.

So at this time, Yang Xuangan suddenly felt extremely humiliated, and he had a monstrous hatred for Yang Guang, and he also hated Li Yin, the "tool" that Yang Guang used to humiliate him.

"The emperor has arrived!" Ma Deru shouted sharply, and Li Yin immediately rolled down with the others, shouting: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"All the ministers are flat, don't discuss the government today, don't be polite!" Yang Guang sat down and said, and the ministers sat back in their seats.

Li Yin took the opportunity to sneak a glance at this "famous posterity" son of heaven, he was in his early forties, burly and straight, quite majestic, and handsome, and really lived up to the evaluation of the three words "beautiful posture" in the history books.

The imperial banquet began, and many palace maids with thousands of bodies placed all kinds of food on the table in front of each person, each of which was full of color, flavor, and flavor, and saw Li Yin's index finger move, if it weren't for Yang Guang to start eating, others would have been able to move, Li Yin would have already begun to gobble up.

Zhou Fashang on the side hit Li Yin with his hand, and said in a low voice: "Boy, pay attention to your image!" ”

Li Yin wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and sat up straight, but his stomach growled, and the people in the entire Taining Hall heard it clearly.

Li Yin felt extremely embarrassed, and he was not to blame, he usually had a large amount of food, and he had been coming to the banquet since dusk, and now it was already past dinner, and he was really hungry, so his stomach protested strongly.

Yang Xuangan squinted at Li Yin, with a look of disgust and disdain, and there were many people in the Taining Hall with the same expression as him. Yang Guang laughed indifferently, "You are Li Yin of the Tang Kingdom's family, right?" Eat when you're hungry, as I said, there aren't so many rules today. ”

After Li Yin heard this, he knew that it would not be okay if he didn't eat at this time, so he casually sandwiched some food and ate two bites symbolically, if anyone really thought that he could ignore the rules in front of Yang Guang, it would be too stupid.

It wasn't until Yang Guang moved his chopsticks that the banquet really began, and Li Yin could finally eat with his belly open.

The beautiful sound of the piano sounded, and a group of beautiful dancers floated in, dancing with the sound of the piano, which was very pleasing to the eye, and Li Yin felt that the trip was worthwhile.