It was not until the third pole of the day that I got up, although the headache was reduced a lot, but the quality of sleep after the hangover was very poor, and the whole person couldn't get up and seemed a little sluggish. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info helpless today there is a banquet in the East Palace to rush to, Wang Mai sighed bitterly, had to drink a bowl of millet porridge indiscriminately, and changed into a vermilion clothes, only to reluctantly turn over and get on the horse.

The gate of the East Palace is in the north of Chang'an City, and it is the same route as yesterday, the difference is that the Qin Palace, in the west, and the Prince's Mansion in the east.

The East Palace is located in the Imperial City, adjacent to the Taiji Palace, and it stands to reason that the nearest route is through the three provinces and six departments within the Imperial City, as well as the various yamen. However, the Imperial City was heavily guarded, and permission was required to enter and exit, so the general route was to take a detour out of the city.

Compared with Li Er's banquet yesterday, Li Jiancheng's was much more formal, and those present were all gentle and elegant ministers, which was completely a miniature version of the palace banquet.

Although Wang Mai had the intention to get acquainted with some officials of the dynasty, he never woke up in his mind, and only remembered that he looked at him with curious eyes, and he didn't remember a few people in the end. But it wasn't completely without harvest, Wang Mai found an acquaintance, an acquaintance he just met yesterday.

"Brother Wheat!" A loud voice made all the civil officials present frown, but Wang Junkuo sat beside Wang Mai regardless of it, and a thick arm carried him on his shoulder.

How could he be here? Wang Mai was stunned for a while, and it took a while to come back to his senses: "Old Wang! What a coincidence! ”

Wang Junkuo laughed and said in his iconic Hedong accent: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appreciates me, I can't help but know how to lift, right?" ”

It is also reasonable to say, he obviously wears a pair of pants with Li Er, and he has become Li Da's guest, and there seems to be nothing wrong with one more Wang Junkuo......

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!"

Hearing the shouts coming from the door, Wang Mai temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and got up with everyone to greet Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng still maintained that calm smile, and when he looked at Wang Mai, he was a little softer, and Wang Mai had no choice but to smile in return. Li Jiancheng is mature and steady, with a strong affinity, and if he is Lao Li, he can't find anything wrong, and he is definitely a hardcore successor.

"Peng Guogong, Wang Tejin ......" Li Jiancheng deliberately paused and said hello to the two.

Seeing Li Jiancheng continue to walk towards the main seat, Wang Junkuo squeezed his eyes at Wang Mai, and returned to his seat with a cat. In the eyes of these literati present, these literati felt that this person was rude and rude.

The rhythm of the banquet was neither fast nor slow, and Wang Mai had a headache when he picked up the wine glass, but after a few glasses, he felt much better. He knows that this is the cause of alcohol withdrawal syndrome after chronic alcohol intoxication, and now he is just drinking to stop drinking, but fortunately, now that his body is young, he doesn't have to pay too much attention to this.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and a few rounds of palace dance, Li Jiancheng picked up another glass of wine, drank it all with everyone, and slapped his palms twice, at this time, more than ten graceful palace maids danced in, and each of the palace maids held a dark red lacquer plate in their hands, and stopped in front of the seats.

"This is the name of the newly minted money of the imperial court: 'Kaiyuan Tongbao'." Li Jiancheng's words resounded in the hall, "What I give you today is the gold money of this Kaiyuan Tongbao, ten pieces per person, and the right to play." ”

Kaiyuan Tongbao? Wang Mai thought he had heard it wrong, wasn't the Kaiyuan Tongbao cast by Li Longji, the Tang Xuanzong who created the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty? Hurriedly picked up the gold square-hole copper coin on the plate to look carefully, and the four vigorous and powerful characters of "Kaiyuan Tongbao" appeared in front of him. Exploded and blinked, yes, these are the four words on it. Whether the money crossed over or he made a mistake, Wang Mai felt dizzy.

"My father once mentioned Ban Mengjian's words of 'Kaiyuan of the Han Dynasty, Fen Buyi to ascend the throne', so he named this money 'Kaiyuan'......"

Hearing Li Jiancheng's explanation, Wang Mai breathed a sigh of relief, this "Kaiyuan" has the intention of opening up a new era, it turns out that Lao Li wants to please a good fortune, and almost scared himself, it seems that this money is issued by Lao Li, and the small ...... behind Lee doesn't have much to do with it.

Weighing the heavy "Kaiyuan Tongbao" in his hand, Wang Mai admired in his heart, the craftsmanship of this money is not known how many times better than the five-baht money, I think Lao Li has made a lot of effort, this is to standardize the financial economy. I picked up the copper Kaiyuan Tongbao next to it, and the fineness was very sufficient, more than twice as heavy as the kind of indiscriminate copycat issued by Wang Shichong in Luoyang. Because it is new money, the surface gloss is very abundant, the outline is fine, and it looks more like a beautiful handicraft.

Everyone present was also amazed by the new money, and they couldn't put it down for a long time before putting it down.

"The four words written by Ouyang Rate are solemn and beautiful, upright and rigorous, which is really a masterpiece on the top, and the old man really can't put it down......"

"Ouyang rate, how can he give a pair of ink treasures?"

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Wang Mai looked at the direction of everyone's compliments with some curiosity, I don't know how sacred this Ouyang rate is, listen to the meaning, the words on this Kaiyuan Tongbao coin are from this person's hand.

The man looked like a middle-aged man, short in stature, but with a good complexion, and not many wrinkles on his face, he modestly shirked everyone's praise with a pair of hands.

"This old man," Wang Mai turned around and stretched out his head to ask a person next to him, "Who is this Ouyang rate?" Any current position? ”

"Wang Tejin!" The man had a smile on his face, his figure was a little fat, and he stroked the long beard under his chin, "This is the famous Ouyang Xun, Wang Tejin came to Chang'an for the first time, and he must not be very clear." ”

Ouyang Xun! Wang Mai suddenly realized that this person was very famous, and later generations had heard his name, a famous calligrapher, and he didn't expect to see a real person here. The old man likes calligraphy, and when he turns around, he is close to this Ouyang inquiry set, and he is also good at pleasing a pair of ink treasures to make the old man happy.

"This Ouyang rate is the person who is responsible for supervising the production of new money...... the person next to him continued.

Listening to the introduction of the benevolent brother next to him, he finally had a general understanding of Ouyang Xun's situation, Wang Mai picked up his wine glass and thanked the man: "It's rude to be here, haven't you asked for the name of the godbrother Taizun?" What is your current job? ”

"The old man Samurai Tong is the current secretary of the Ministry of Industry." The man smiled and raised his glass to drink.

"Ahem......" Wang Mai was almost choked to death by the wine syrup in his mouth, this person turned out to be Wu Shi Tong, the father of the empress Wu Zetian!