In order to envoy Lu Guo, Han Hu missed the wax sacrifice at home and missed the summer calendar, which was also hard enough. But fortunately, he had old acquaintances in other places, and Zhao Wuxian held a banquet on the eve of the first day of the summer calendar, inviting retainers, guests, and friends, and Han Hu was naturally among them.

Zhao Wuxian's general's mansion is very large, to go to the hall and courtyard in the center, on the way to connect three gates, the buildings are mostly brick and stone and wooden structures, carved beams and painted buildings, the military soldiers stand with halberds, and the beautiful concubines hang their heads, all of which shows that Zhao Wuxian is not an upstart like Yanghu, and there is the Zhao family of the Jin State to transport blood and culture, and it has a bit of the momentum of the Qing family.

It is no wonder that some people now call the Jinyang Zhao clan the Western Zhao, and the Far East Zhao Wuxian is called the Eastern Zhao......

And this banquet is also grand enough, decent enough, the desk has been placed from the main hall to the open-air courtyard, inside are high-status guests and important ministers, and outside are some attached new ministers and scholars. The whole mansion has been lit with fire candles, reflecting the surroundings as bright as day, making this place the most dazzling light in Qufu, Lucheng, presumably until tomorrow, the scholars and doctors of Qufu will boast that they have been invited to participate in today's banquet by a cardboard invitation with a red background and silver.

The whole banquet was full of Jin flavor, and the cooks who made the dishes and the Yongren who seasoned them were all invited from the Jin Kingdom. The ingredients are also mostly Jindi cuisine, and the pasta, which has become more and more popular in recent years, has become the protagonist, and it is served on beans and plates by the beautiful maid. Then these women waved their long sleeves and danced a Jindi dance that blended with the Di people's dance posture.

The beauty of Qi Jiang, the advocate of Jin, the graceful and appropriate, the graceful and the dance, are all very famous. Its dancing dragon column dance, like a shock, turned like an echo, provoked the Jin people present to applaud again and again.

Even the wine served in the big ding. It is also the mellow wine of Jindi, not the thin and thin sour wine of Lu State.

At this point, Zhao Wuxian, as the host, came up to toast everyone.

Zhou Gong warned the Wei and Lu people in the "Wine Message": Don't drink alcohol often, and you can only drink alcohol on sacrificial festivals. Don't drink too much, but as long as you can make the country stable, the common people will not have to worry about dying in vain. It is not unlawful for thou shalt eat and drink to be drunk. The second and third sons helped Yu pacify the rebellion of the Lu country, which can be said to have made a great contribution to Lu, and tomorrow is the first day of the summer calendar, gathering tonight, very happy! Don't get drunk or go home! ”

"The general has no borders! Zhao's Shilu is resting with the country! ”

Everyone present was overjoyed, the retainers left from the Jin State with Zhao Wuxian, none of them defected, and after arriving in the Lu State, they also fought every year, and their partners fell one after another. There are fewer and fewer familiar faces. Fortunately, all this finally came to a head, and Zhao Wuxian was ranked as the Zhengqing, and after ruling the state of a thousand times, everyone was finally able to take a breath. So they were extra relaxed tonight and began to persuade each other to drink, especially the Jin people who hugged together and drank with the Lu people present.

The Jin people are far more open than the Lu country, and the Jin people are better than the Lu people, and the banquet is extremely open. Gong Xihua, Ran Qiu and others "don't sit if the seat is not right, and don't eat if they don't cut right." If you eat meat, there must be sauce, and if you don't have sauce, you won't eat it", in the face of the aggressive Jin people, the Shouli Lu people who drank wine in small sips were a little uncomfortable for a while.

But after being poured through. A few people led by Zilu were angry, he was originally to thank Zhao Wuxian for saving their master and apprentice more than a month ago, and then came to the banquet after a fair trial of the case of the chief of justice.

So he didn't care about etiquette. shouted five and six places and Tian Ben and other Jin people to fight.

Not everyone has Zilu's combat effectiveness, Kan Zhi was too young to drink alcohol, and he was defeated and retreated after a while, and he didn't want to get together with Zilu, Zigong and other Confucian disciples, so he walked towards Han Hu with a wine cup.

Kan Zhi looked at the handsome Han Hu who was kneeling on the seat with a peach blossom face, and almost thought for a while that he had seen a drunken beauty, and felt that this sissy was probably the most drunk among the Jin people present.

"Can Han Zi also drink?" He asked with a bit of a jokingness.

"Don't dare to claim to be able to ......" Han Hu glanced at Kan Zhi, knowing that this was one of the most valued Lu people by Zhao Wuxian, he behaved very modestly, but after half a moment, he drank Kan Zhi directly to the ground.

"Didn't Hanzi claim that he couldn't drink more?" Kan Zhi's face was sour, Jin wine was too mellow, he really couldn't stand it, but Han Hu had already drunk two buckets in a row, and he was still the same as no one, but the peach on his face was a little more rosy.

Han Hu said: "It's really not, in the Yuqi Palace, in front of the monarch, there is a division next to it, and the imperial history is behind, I am afraid, but I will get drunk in one bucket." If my grandfather and father call me to accompany me to drink, I carefully kneel beside me and get up from time to time to raise a glass to wish the guests a long life, then I will be drunk if I can't drink two buckets. ”

He raised the bottle and continued to take a sip, and said lightly: "But if friends suddenly meet and express their heartfelt feelings to each other, they can probably drink three or four buckets......"

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After saying that, Han Hu ignored the drunken Kan Zhi and moved his gaze back to the banquet.

In addition to Zilu, Ran Qiu and other warriors who were still fighting, the rest of the weak Lu people had been drunk and fell to the ground, but the strong Jin people were still standing in groups.

Tonight is the first day of the summer calendar, the Lu people are here to foil, the Jin people are the protagonists, Han Hu looked at those fellow villagers, he can now say the names of several important retainers of Zhao Wuxian.

Tian Ben, who has a collapsed nose and a red face, is a reckless man who doesn't choose to speak, which makes people so angry that they can't whip him a few times. When he got drunk, he began to go drunk, took off his shirt and danced a great dance in the middle of the feast, but it was a dance of horsemen, not of the aristocratic tigers, and his posture was ugly, and the laughter made people shudder. Through the candlelight, you can see the horrific scars on the sweating back, some whipped by whips, some shot by arrows, and some cut with sharp weapons......

Although Mu Xia, who was tall and standing beside Zhao Wuxian like a mountain, was wearing regular clothes and no armor, he was the only guest with a weapon at the table: he had a sharp sword in his hand, and a large wooden shield under his seat, which could rise up at any time and block the fatal blow for Zhao Wuxian. He was awake when everyone was drunk, and he didn't leave the table when everyone was running around the hall, but seriously guarded Zhao Wuxian's side.

Yu Xi, who was still as thin as a spear, made his hand on the concubines who came to persuade him to drink, and no one stopped him, no one knew that this tall and kind-faced white horse rider was once a lowly man in the Zhao family's stable.

And Wu Jing, who was the most inconspicuous, just ate in silence and refused all the acts of fighting, especially without saying a word to Tian Ben. Steadily, he was already a brigade commander, and he was ordered to garrison Yuncheng, and he had to rush back to Xilu overnight.

Zhao Wuxian became Zhengqing, got a large fiefdom, and became a fat man in one bite, and the first problem that appeared was the lack of troops. He could only divide the remaining soldiers into two, half stationed on the Qilu border, and half to Lucheng to suppress the unconvinced. The soldiers took time out, and the semi-professional soldiers took on the task of defending their hometowns and taking over the cities at the same time.

Yang Tongue Rong went to Yunyi, and Tiger Club went to Xuju, both of them are not here, and both of them are older and have been appointed as division commanders...... Coupled with the division of Guan Ting, Ran Qiu, who will be transferred to Feiyi, the division of the robbers and the exiles, and Liu Xia, who is the old man on the border of Luwei, has a total of four division commanders under Zhao Wuxian.

Coupled with the elite soldiers of the division directly under him, he unknowingly gathered the combat strength of the first army stipulated in the "Zhou Li......

The state of Lu is now a two-sided military system, and Han Hu does not know the details of the deployment of troops, but he can find out how many division commanders of the "right army" of the state of Lu established by Zhao Wuxian in the name of the general have been appointed. He could roughly guess that Zhao Wuxian's strength was more than half of the Han clan. Counting the more than 10,000 people of the "Left Army" temporarily put together by the doctors of the eastern part of the Lu State during the war, it has even faintly exceeded.

What if he is given a year and a half to complete the integration, plus the indirect use of the Song Kingdom? I'm afraid that the strength of this "Dong Zhao" is catching up with the Wei family!

He secretly thought, "If Wei's thousand-mile horse knew about it, he would definitely jump to his feet in anger......

This made Han Hu awe-inspiring.

He has not been idle this month, but has paid close attention to Zhao Wuxian's every move in politics and the army. He found that in order to smoothly take over the Lu regime, Zhao Wuxian appointed a large number of Lu retainers as civil servants, but deliberately preferred to appoint Jin retainers in military positions.

It is this intentional or unintentional distinction that makes today's banquet a clear and secret fight between the Jin people and the Lu people.

Maybe in their eyes, it's no longer the wine in the bottle that fights, but the status in the eyes of the lord!

Han Hu thought this was very interesting, the faint contention between the two sides actually pointed to one purpose: how will Zhao Wuxian reward the meritorious after this bumper harvest?

"If the thing is done, it will be sealed to show mercy to the heroes", this is the normal state of the feudal system of princes, ministers, and scholars. Han Hu is in the Jin Kingdom, so he knows this truth very well. For example, those who followed Duke Wen of Jin to go into exile for many years, Zhao Yuan, Hu Yan, Dian Jie, Xu Chen, and Wei Li, who are those who have no desires and no desires, and do not seek returns?

Of course, Jie Zitui is probably an exception, but the rest of them have all been rewarded after returning to China, but unfortunately the rewards are uneven, which leads to Wei Li and Dian Jie's strong dissatisfaction.

The reason why Han Hu has been staying in Lu Country and not going back, would rather miss the two festivals of Wax Festival and Zhengdan, which are extremely important to the entire Han clan, is to see how Zhao Wuxian will govern Lu!

If you don't do it well, not only will the retainers be disappointed and lose their enthusiasm for progress, but the doctors of Lu Guoshi, who assisted Zhao Wuxian, will also be resentful. At that time, although it seems that there is an army, although it is named Lu Zhizhengqing, Zhao Wuxian is not worried.

Because a state with internal instability, a strong foreign and middle-class Qing clan will be destroyed in an instant......

Han Hu originally thought that at today's banquet, Zhao Wuxian would definitely announce the reward, and the retainers and the doctors of Lu Guoshi, who were close to the Zhao family, were still looking forward to it! Tian Ben took off his clothes, there would be no meaning of inviting merit? Yu Xi's hand was teasing the maid who accompanied the wine, but her eyes were staring at the chief!

For Han Hu, this was a great opportunity for his grandfather to judge the future of the Zhao family, and he didn't want to miss it, so even though he drank three buckets, his eyes were still as bright as snow! (To be continued.) )

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