Chapter 167: The Most Pressing Moment in History (2)

The emperor's birthday banquet is generally a big birthday celebration, Li San is not an ordinary emperor, since he was sixty years old, the scale of the birthday banquet every year is relatively large, and it is higher than one year after another.

At dusk on the fifth day of the first month of August, the imperial city was already crowded, and the palace gates were full of Yulin army guards, Chen Xuanli, as the commander of the Praetorian Guard, naturally did not dare to slack off when meeting the emperor's birthday banquet.

Since the foreign envoys are unified in the management of food and housing, they have also posted posts, which are equivalent to passes, and they must be checked one by one when they pass through the palace gate, and the demeanor of a great country must also do security work, and these foreign envoys have as many as one or two hundred people, and some even drag their families into the imperial city, which is nothing more than to pay tribute to the glory of the emperor of the Celestial Empire.

The birthday banquet was selected in the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace, which was originally the place of the court meeting, Li Longji also did not go to the court for many years, and the ministers were in the office of the imperial city every day to stay up all day, after Yang Guozhong was promoted to prime minister, the office hours of the officials were changed from five o'clock in the morning and seven o'clock in the evening to seven o'clock in the morning and twelve o'clock in the afternoon, yes, yes, there is no mistake, you can get off work at noon.

This is also the method by which Prime Minister Yang has just been promoted to prime minister to win the hearts of the people, and the effect must be very good, and this official is naturally very comfortable.

Hanyuan Palace, resplendent and brilliant, as the main hall of Daming Palace, the birthday banquet is selected here not only solemn and sacred, but also allows foreign friends to appreciate the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, full of tall times.

The whole hall of Hanyuan Hall is built on a solid loess pedestal, and this loess pedestal is one zhang and five feet high. Thirty rods long from east to west, and fifteen rods wide from north to south. The Hanyuan Hall above it is twenty rods long from east to west. The north and south are seven rods and five feet long, twelve rods high, the pillars, foreheads, doors and windows are painted red, and the temple wall is white as the background color. Red lines are painted, door nails and balustrades are gilded, and the roof of the temple is paved with black glazed tiles.

There is a matching pavilion on the left and right of it, there are corridors and the main hall to communicate, the left pavilion is called Xiangluan and the right pavilion is named Qifeng. The distance between the two pavilions in a straight line is ninety-six rods. This hall is the highest palace of Daming Palace, on a sunny day, standing on the second floor of Langya and looking out, you can see the scenery of Zhongnan Mountain.

From the main gate of Hanyuan Hall to the main gate of Daming Palace, Danfeng Gate is a long and wide stone road, called Longwei Road. The dragon tail road gradually descends from high to low, and bluestone railings are symmetrically arranged on both sides.

This time there are as many as 1,000 people for the birthday banquet, which is also the reason why it was chosen to be held in Hanyuan Palace, when the sun has just set, hundreds of tables have been placed on Longwei Road. Hundreds of officials were already standing on Longwei Road waiting to take their seats, and they were talking at the moment, and the whole palace seemed to be extremely noisy.

The noble person naturally sits in the palace, and the nobility mentioned here is naturally the relationship with the emperor. The closer ones naturally leaned closer to the emperor, and of course the princes and nobles naturally had to sit in the palace.

People outside the city are still going inside, and almost every corner of the Daming Palace can see the guards of the Imperial Forest Army who maintain order. Xu Chen, as a celebrity beside the current emperor, naturally entered the hall and sat down, and he was already sitting in the hall at this time.

The interior of the Hanyuan Hall is luxurious. But it is solemn and solemn, and the overall feeling is magnificent. Because it is the place of the court meeting, it is relatively empty, but now it is the time when it is overcrowded, and the eunuchs and palace maids are making the final arrangements and are busy.

The reason why Xu Chen came so early was what Li Shuang'er meant, at this moment, Li Shuang'er was directing the palace ladies to inspect the venue, there was one less wine lord in this place, and there was one less fruit plate in that place, no matter how big or small, she was a capable girl.

Boredom sat on the table in the hall, looking at the busy Li Shuang'er in a daze, there was really nothing to do, and there was no chance to visit the Daming Palace with Li Shuang'er all the way.

When he was in a daze, there was a eunuch who came to offer courtesy, and asked Xu Da Ma if he was thirsty for a while, and asked if he was tired for a while, and when he saw that this person looked like a thief, he didn't have a good feeling, so he didn't care much, but this eunuch was more persistent, although Xu Chen didn't ask his name, but the eunuch finally reported his name, nothing more than to let Xu Da Ma remember his name - Yu Chaoen.

It's okay not to mention the name, Xu Chen frowned when he heard it, and asked with a cold face: "You are Yu Chaoen?" ”

The big eunuch Yu was very distressed, but he lost a long time with a smiling face, but he ended up with this reflection, does the horse know himself? It can't be, it really doesn't have much to do with each other, so why is the colt so disgusted when he hears his name?

Seeing that Xu Chen no longer bothered with him, he left in a huff, Xu Chen was not angry, but he was disgusted when he saw some people, and he had to show it to be happy, he wouldn't think too much, this eunuch's reputation was too stinky, and it was on par with Lingcheng over there, if there was a chance to kill these two eunuchs, Xu Chen would definitely not hesitate.

History is like this, even if it has nothing to do with you, but you will always sigh at the same time, if you have the opportunity, you will definitely not hesitate to make the most correct choice.

I didn't see Gao Lishi, this old guy is estimated to be with the old emperor Li San, and the birthday banquet will not start for a while, Xu Chen has been sitting in the hall for an afternoon, he really can't hold on, and he wants to go out for a walk, so he went to say hello to Li Shuang'er.

Li Shuang'er was surprisingly busy, and when she heard Xu Chen say that she wanted to go out for a walk, she casually agreed, and then thought about it, but she was flattered, yes, the colt actually said hello to her, this, this was completely impossible before.

The last time I was in Qujiangchi, Xu Juma didn't say hello, and left the table directly, and lied that it was an uncomfortable stomach, you must know that on that occasion, if it was discovered by his father, the consequences would be unimaginable, but Xu Juma didn't care, he did his own thing, which also angered her, but, at this moment, this little thing was a hello, very unexpected.

The indescribable joy in his heart was only a short while, and he began to direct the work again. However, the motivation for work has improved a lot.

Xu Chen is dressed very brightly today, and he is tall and handsome. This one came out of Hanyuan Palace, but it attracted the attention of countless eunuchs and palace maids. Most of them still didn't know the horse, but some of them did, and they bowed their heads and whispered a few words to their companions, and one by one they were stunned: This is the horse!

So in the admiring gaze of a group of people, Xu Chen walked down the steps, this long road was full of officials, and Xu Chen didn't want to join in the fun, but at this moment, the officials were in a commotion.

Longwei Road, which was originally slightly crowded. It was full of people, but they retreated to both sides, making room for it, and there were originally a group of officials at one end of Longwei Road who walked in, it was Yang Guozhong.

Qujiang Chishang has only seen Yang Guozhong once, but he can write down this person, Yang Guozhong at this moment walked in front with a spring breeze on his face, followed by Hu Tong, the servant of the Criminal Department, Li Shan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and others. As a member of the royal family, this Li Shan, but he is bent on following Yang Guozhong, and he is very majestic, and he can be regarded as a good mix. Yang Guozhong also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but now he has more than 20 positions. Most of it is imaginary.

Yang Guozhong was born in the army, and he is very burly, in his early fifties. The majestic collar is said to be able to reach the level of the Seven Maidens of the Night Palace. It's just that he looks too sorry for the audience, that is, he is a public face. At first glance, it felt awkward, and Xu Chen always felt that Yang Guozhong's nose was crooked.

As soon as Prime Minister Yang appeared, it also indicated that the birthday banquet was about to begin, but he did not see foreign envoys. Yang Guozhong walked on the Longwei Road, everyone retreated to both sides, the prime minister looked up and saw that the palace was still cleaning up, and knew that the emperor did not come, and stopped when he walked to the middle.

Very useful, power this thing, often the coolest at this time, the more people around, the more powerful you are, before Li Longji went to the court, when the officials were outside the palace, they were all gathered together in piles to speak, often alone, indicating that there is no way to mix in the court, either offended the big officials or offended the emperor, no one dared to talk to you.

Xu Chen originally wanted to go shopping elsewhere, but he didn't want to be blocked by this Yang Da nose, there were railings on both sides, and he couldn't climb the railing and jump down, but it was not Xu Chen's character to go back to the palace, fortunately, there was no official who knew him, so he wanted to go around directly.

There is nothing to visit in the palace, but although Xu Chen has been here several times, he has not walked in person, as a traverser, he is fortunate to go to the palace for a walk, and it will not be blind if he does not visit.

So when Xu Chen approached Yang Guozhong's group, he was stopped by a person: "But Xu Yuma?" ”

It's no wonder that Xu Chen is too handsome in this Hu suit, and he is particularly eye-catching when he walks in the crowd, so he was recognized, it is the old man in the imperial history who once asked him for poetry.

"Sure enough, it's Xu Luma, I have all your poems."

This old poet saw that Xu Chen actually said such a thing, Xu Chen had to stop, this old guy looked familiar, since he knew himself, it was not good to leave in a hurry, so he said: "My lord, this is here to attend the birthday banquet?" ”

Nonsense, the old poet obviously didn't expect the famous colt to say such a sentence, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

The situation in the field changed suddenly, but the old man's sudden sentence of "Xu Concubine" was listened to, and then he looked at Xu Chen, and after being sure that this was Xu Concubine, they all ran over to say hello.

Xu Feima's fame is too great, these officials naturally know the stakes, everyone has never seen Xu Chen Xu Wenxian's true body, so they are very interested in this mysterious horse, now that they see it, they naturally want to come to say hello, and lift their shoes in the future, no, they will carry it in the future.

Seeing that such a person didn't want to stammer, the scene was instantly chaotic, and everyone wanted to see what this colt was like and whether they could stammer, so they all walked away from Yang Guozhong's side.

It was a lot colder in an instant, Yang Guozhong looked at Xu Chen, who was surrounded by the crowd, and his nose was directly suffocated with anger (to be continued......