Chapter 64: Etiquette
On June 21, the birthday of King Xingwu, a banquet for civil and military officials was held in Fengtian Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info 100 people happily go and ask for June 21 as "Long Birthday Day". Xingwu Wang Yunzhi, this festival celebrates the whole country, amnesty to the world, the world's states are feasting, and the rest is three days.
On the day of the Wanshou Festival, the princes and nobles pardoned to leave the fiefdom, offered gold to help the temple, and hundreds of officials entered the palace to live their lives, entered the longevity wine, and offered gold mirror ribbons and silk weaving to the blessing bag. And like Chen Mingyu and other imperial business giants, they have to offer Ruyi, coral, bonsai, bottles, embroidery and other "fine, strange, and precious" treasures, which have the implication of longevity and longevity. As for the common people, they don't need to come, but they also have to send representatives of the three old villagers to make Wanmin books and Wanmin umbrellas to congratulate Wanshou.
The preparation of the great banquet ceremony is in charge of Shang Bao Division, first set up the throne on the palace, spread the yellow lu, Jin Wuwei set up 24 guards to serve, the teaching workshop department set up nine music songs in the hall, set up the big music outside the hall, and the dance team waited outside the hall. Guanglu Temple set up a wine pavilion in the west of the throne, set up a dining pavilion in the east of the throne, set up a Zhen Xi Pavilion, and the east and west sides of the wine and dining pavilion. The royal feast was placed on the east and west sides of the throne, and all the princes and princesses sat on the east side of the throne, and the kings set up their seats from south to east and west. The ministers above the fourth grade are in the palace, and the fifth grade or less are entertained outside the palace, and a group of people such as the master pot, Shangjiu, and Shangshi are arranged to wait. As for the representatives of the various agricultural businessmen, due to the large number of people, they even lined up outside the inner city.
Yang Zhen also sat outside the hall according to his grade, and he could see King Xingwu sitting in the hall, but he had just eaten a few bites before he was called by the princess, saying that there were too many people, and he actually asked him to stand behind her as a guard. Yang Zhen couldn't do it, so he had to stand with a group of little eunuchs, dressed in green robes mixed here, but it looked abrupt, and even King Xingwu squinted at it.
It's just that there are many rules for this big banquet, after a whip, King Xingwu hurriedly turned his head and sat upright, the banquet is about to start, he must be very energetic, compared to Yang Zhen, who can still move around at will, it is much more painful.
At the time of the banquet, the ceremonial secretary invited King Xingwu to ascend to the throne. King Xingwu walked out, and the music was immediately played, and after the emperor ascended to the throne, the ceremonial music stopped. Then firecrackers rang out, and the prince and prince went to the palace in turn. Then down the civil and military attachés above the fourth rank enter from the east and west, and stand in the hall, and the fifth rank and below can only stand in the palace. Hundreds of officials praised and bowed, after the ceremony, Guanglu Temple fish penetrated, the big music played again, when the line reached the front of the emperor, the music stopped. Then Guanglu Temple opened the wine and first toasted to King Xingwu.
On the table, there are 28 kinds of melons and fruits, candied fruits, and 29 kinds of pasta such as snacks, cakes, and cakes, totaling 109 products.
The dishes are mainly chicken, duck, goose, pig, deer, sheep, pheasant, and wild boar, supplemented by fungus, bird's nest, mushrooms, mushrooms, etc. After the emperor is seated, the banquet begins, and hot dishes and soup dishes are served.
There are also thousands of children doing dances, wearing red, purple, silver and green, colorful, brocade jackets and wide shirts, wearing jade crowns, wrapping scarves, dancing swords, holding brocade battles, treasure plates, cross-carving arrows, pretending to come to the court to offer treasures, extremely spectacular.
Yang Zhen watched it, and only felt extremely irritable, this so-called great etiquette, in the era of information explosion, was not even as good as a third-rate TV station.
He stood there, looking around. Match every guest with the information in their minds. Carefully analyze each person's data and weaknesses.
The princess turned her head, looked at Yang Zhen who was impatient, glared at him viciously, and lowered her head again. This banquet is no longer something that one person can control, but a microcosm of the operation of the entire Xing Dynasty.
Yang Zhen saw it, he had to cheer up, thinking about the so-called royal family banquet at night, he only felt unprecedentedly tired, if he was allowed to fight, he would be fearless, but if he wanted to make himself a marionette, it was absolutely impossible.
Looking at the serious princess, Yang Zhen was indeed a little admired. This kind of boring banquet, the princess has been so solemn from beginning to end.