"Grunt", Qin Lin's stomach made a strange sound.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Qin Lin's young body digested very well, and the little things he ate in the morning had long since disappeared, his stomach was empty, and his hungry stomach protested.

"Mr. Zhang, Brother Xu, this imperial banquet hasn't started yet, I can't stand it in my stomach first", Qin Lin couldn't help but smile and took out the guihuā shortbread given by Xu Xinyi from his arms, and prepared to pad his stomach first.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Wenbi smiled slightly, and invariably took out the oiled paper bag from their arms, and opened it to be snacks such as shortbread and honey thread.

It turned out that the time of the Ming Dynasty meeting was early, and the procedure was extremely procrastinating, the courtiers got up before dawn to go to the court, sometimes they went home very late, and it was cold in winter, and they often grumbled with hunger during the court meeting, and Zhang Juzheng was determined to make a new decision, and changed the daily morning court to 369 to go to the court, which reduced the burden of the courtiers, but when encountering the court meeting, the ministers still often faced the crisis of hunger.

Therefore, no matter how big the official is, when he goes to the court, the entourage will prepare hot soup and porridge in the court room outside the noon gate, and he will also carry some snacks with him.

Qin Lin didn't know that there was such an article, but Xu Xinyi knew that he had prepared it for him in advance.

Xu Wenbi brought a roast cake stuffed with duck meat, took it out and took two bites, and when he saw the guihuā shortbread that Qin Lin was holding, he shouted: "This must be brought by the virtuous sister from Nanjing, haha, the foolish brother will exchange the baked cake with you!" ”

Qin Lin took a piece of cinnamon huā crisp and exchanged it for duck baked cakes, and handed it to Zhang Juzheng very casually.

Zhang Xiangye was eating the shrimp rolls he brought, and when he saw Qin Lin handing over Guihuā crisp, he was slightly stunned, so he took it from his hand.

But seeing that Qin Lin's hand was not retracted, but still spread his palm upward, Zhang Juzheng thought about it, shook his head and smiled helplessly, and put a shrimp roll in Qin Lin's palm, "At this time, that hand retracted."

Even in the face of the emperor's first assistant in the current dynasty, our Qin chief would not eat half a loss.

The Manchu Dynasty Wenwu looked at this scene, but he didn't know what to say, whether this young man was fearless, or the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, or did he not understand anything, "Is he just a stunned young man?"

In any case, the name Qin Lin "will no longer be unknown in Beijing from today onwards......

The feast is finally about to begin.

The Zhengdan banquet is not a simple banquet, as a supplement to the grand court, the state banquet itself is part of the national ceremony.

Shang Bao Si set up the throne in the Huangji Palace, and the brocade guard set up Huang Lu outside the palace, "Jin Wu and other guards set up twenty-four guards in the palace. The teaching workshop department set up seven music songs in the hall, and set up a big music outside the hall to "set up three dance miscellaneous teams in His Royal Highness." Guanglu Temple set up a wine pavilion in the west of the throne, a dining pavilion in the east of the throne, a Zhen Xi ** pavilion in the wine and dining pavilion, and a royal feast in the throne.

The ceremonial secretary invited to ascend to the seat, the big music played, and the Wanli Emperor slowly walked up to the throne before and after, and the music stopped.

The eunuch shook the whip three times, and the civil and military upper hall did not enter the imperial hall from the main entrance, but from the east and west sides respectively, and at this time the large round table and high chairs had been set up, "But the ministers were not busy taking their seats, and they had to pay tribute to the emperor first."

Guanglu Temple into the imperial feast, the big music played again, Feng Bao led the eunuch to the royal front to offer huā, Guanglu Temple Qing Kaijue poured wine "to the first lord of the royal advance, the workshop played the "Song of the Yan Jing"......

Successively changed the "Song of the Imperial Wind", "Dance of the Pacification of the World" and other seven sets of songs and dances, "In addition to the first wine, the ministers knelt down and saluted, and then each song and dance had to be drunk and entered the soup towards the emperor, and the ministers had to stand up and stand solemnly.

This moment of kneeling, standing for a while, and sitting for a while, the cumbersome procedures were seven times, which made Qin Lin one head and two big, and finally understood why Zhang Juzheng and Xu Wenbi wanted to prepare snacks in advance.

Finally finished the whole set of procedures, Qin Lin saw that some gray-haired old ministers were in a cold sweat on their foreheads, most of these ministers who have achieved the fourth rank of civil service and the military governor or above are old fritters who have been in the officialdom for decades, and they have not participated in the state banquet once or twice, they are all listless and impatient, and there is no sense of sincerity and flattery at all.

Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor on the throne, looked at the ministers with low enthusiasm, and his heart was naturally uncomfortable, but this is also a helpless thing, who called the ancestors to pass down such a cumbersome etiquette procedure?

Seven times of music and dance, seven times of wine and soup, after finally getting it done, from the emperor to the courtiers, they were relieved. ,

Drinking wine at the state banquet is drinking, eating is eating, Guanglu Temple came to the wine lord and the wine cup of the ministers in front of the emperor according to the procedure, and then played a big music, into the soup, into the big meal, the ministers stood up for the eighth time, and waited for the food to be arranged, and then sat down and officially started eating.

It is conceivable that those old, sick and frail ministers have no appetite at all at this time, and they sit on chairs one by one to rest, where can they eat?

It is Zhu Yingzhen, a young hereditary prince, who has been pampered in the mansion all day long, and his body is not much better, since the beginning of the Great Dynasty Meeting, he has stood in this eye, blowing cold wind on the high Danqi, and has been tossed repeatedly, his cheeks are flushed, his temples are soaked with cold sweat, and he stares at the table full of food, and he doesn't want to move his chopsticks.

Zhang Ju takes tonic medicine all year round, although he does not wear a mink hat in the harsh winter, he is also mentally sleepy from the time of the Great Dynasty Meeting to the present, and he is reluctant to eat something, Xu Wenbi and others are similar.

Qin Lin was the only one who wanted to come to eat the imperial meal, and he didn't even eat breakfast at home, and he couldn't beat a few pieces of dim sum at all, and he was already hungry; He often rides horses to exercise, and his young body is healthier than others, and he doesn't care about many, he stretches out his chopsticks to catch it, and he doesn't care what kind of shark fin, dry-roasted sea cucumber, rock sugar bear's paw, red stewed ostrich hoof, and eats it like a whirlwind.

"It's a young man, and his appetite is good!" The old ministers looked at Qin Lin with envy, recalling their youth.

Liu Shouyou snorted from his nose: "I don't understand etiquette at all!" It's really vulgar. This governor of brocade clothes is very graceful and picks up a piece of sake lees fish with a color like a peach, and slowly puts it in his mouth to taste, as a son of a family, he feels that he has a very psychological advantage over Qin Lin.

Zhu Yijun is on the throne, looking at the full of treasures and rubbing Baiwei, he has no appetite, the ministers are hard, how can he be relaxed? Qunchen Mountain knelt down, he wanted to sit upright on the throne, being stared at by countless pairs of eyes, and every move could not be lost, and it was not so easy.

happened to see that behind many tables, Qin Lin was eating alone, Zhu Yijun was very happy, and said left and right: "Qin someone is really simple-hearted, and he doesn't have so many twists and turns. As the saying goes, the elders give and dare not resign" The banquet that can be given by the emperor, the ministers are dull and tasteless, but Qin is the only one who is willing to be like a fool, which shows that he must be loyal to the monarch and patriotic in his heart! ”

At this time, Feng Bao went to Empress Dowager Li's side, and only Erzhang was with Zhu Yijun.

Zhang Whale heard that the emperor had a good impression of Qin Lin, and he was unhappy, but he didn't want to provoke Qin Lin's revenge, so he didn't dare to say bad things about him, and his eyes turned to his heart: "Emperor, this Qin chief really has a wide range of friends, and the slave maid listened to the little cub under his door say that he and Zhang Xiangye shared bread and ate on the Danqi." ”

Oh? Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows, and suddenly had a bad feeling for Qin Lin, and secretly said Could it be that this surnamed Qin is also a person who tends to be inflammatory, and will only tend to serve the emperor Mr. Zhang?

Zhang Cheng smiled slightly when he heard this, and added: "Yes, Old Man Xu of Dingguo Gong was also next to him at the time, and the three of them shared the bread and ate." Mr. Zhang took a piece of cinnamon huā cake from Qin's hand, but Qin did not retract his hand until Mr. Zhang returned him a shrimp roll, and he did not give up. ”

Zhang Whale's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and he turned his face and collided with Zhang Cheng's eyes, and the two of them quickly turned their eyes away, and now is not the time for us to fight each other, and there is still a big mountain of Feng Daban on the top of his head!

I see! Zhu Yijun's heart was relieved when he heard this, and his brows also relaxed, Wenchen and Wuxun have always been less than in a pot, since Xu Wenbi is also sharing cakes next to him, it is not Qin Lin who tends to serve Zhang Juzheng.

The majestic Zhang Shoufu, who often teaches his teacher with a straight face, also has a time when he is asked for something in the palm of his hand, thinking of the scene at that time, the corners of Zhu Yijun's mouth curled, and he was very funny: "I look at this Qin someone, but it is also very interesting, first asked Wei Guogong to marry Cousin Xu, no, and Xu as his wife, and even the queen mother was very surprised, and this and Zhang Xiangye and Dingguo Gong shared the cake to eat, hehe......", Qin Lin was eating and drinking, and a voice suddenly came from beside him: "Does General Qin think the banquet in the palace tastes good?" Turning his head, he saw that it was the little fat man, wrong, it was Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun standing next to him with a smile.

Qin Lin was still stuffed with a mouth full of sea cucumbers and bear paws, and he was too late to swallow it, so he spit it out and was rude, and he was at a loss for a while.

"Bold, the emperor asked, why didn't he answer?" , Zhang Whale Fox roared for Wanli with a fake tiger.

"Don't worry, General Qin, don't choke" Zhu Yijun waved his hand very kindly, and sighed: "I heard that General Qin can see people's heads and disembowel, I don't know what kind of majestic and evil man he is, and when he sees a white-faced general today, he can't help but be disappointed, until he sees the general's magnanimity at this time, I know that he is really a strong man like Fan Hao and Cheng Yanjin." ”

Qin Lin swallowed the food at this time, nodded honestly, and said: "It tastes very good, given by the emperor, it is still the first delicious food that the minister has eaten in his life." "In this case, I will reward General Qin with a royal banquet, go back and eat slowly, anyway, others are not rare" Zhu Yijun smiled and walked elsewhere.

Uh~ This is another deception of a table of imperial banquets?

Qin Lin watched Emperor Wanli go away in a daze, letting him be full of wisdom, and he never expected that he would gain the emperor's favor for the first time by eating and drinking at the New Year's concert and banquet.

Throughout the ages, the encounters of famous ministers are strange, and Chief Qin is also very rare.

Whatever, don't eat for nothing! Qin Lin sat down again, and under the envious gaze of the civil and military officials, he once again stretched out his chopsticks to a fat thorn cucumber ............! ~！

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