General Cheng Boxian had already called all the Cheng family members over to pay homage to the ancestors, and a few concubines were still worshipping, and Cheng Changyin, the eldest grandson of General Cheng, began to read aloud the poems in the newspaper.

The crowd listened in fascination.

"One body has fought three thousand miles, and one sword has been a million divisions. It's a little too much, it's too much," the birthday boy muttered to himself, but he was quite complacent.

"When selling old Hou melons on the side of the road, I learned to plant Mr. Willow in front of the door. Not to mention, when did Lin De go to sell melons, or did he give you Baoyuan to let you go home early? Hu Guogong laughed.

"Don't be afraid of the old days, and you can still make meritorious deeds in a war. The Emperor, do you still want to expand your territory with you? After reading the poem, the birthday boy Weng burst into tears and couldn't help shouting.

The Emperor of Heaven is the name of Gaozong.

Several old princes and princes also remembered those eventful years, and all of them were proud, reminiscent or sad.

During the Gaozong period, during the Yonghui period, the sage Yanzhi was at the peak of his youth, and took the first generation of the founding princes and princes of the founding country to bite Jin Liu Rengui Su Dingfang, and the second generation of Cheng's heir, Qin Huaiyu, Yan Chongyi, to destroy the Western Turks, Baekje, and Goguryeo. During the Gojong period, the territory of Yan and Tang Dynasty stretched from Baekje in the east, the Aral Sea in the west, Lake Baikal in the north, and Hengshan in Annam in the south, reaching its peak.

Later, the sage Yan Zhi was ill, and the Empress Wu was in power, and these founding troops were all suppressed, and Lu Guogong, who was used to using guns, couldn't bear the loneliness, and walked the streets and alleys to sell courgettes, which made people laugh for many years, and Lu Guogong was not ashamed.

After the restoration of Zhongzong, there was also a war in the north of An'an, and the former battlefield generals had become dying old men in the Wutang Dynasty, but they still "made Sanhe recruit young, and the edict sent five generals." ”

After the war, most of the people never rode horses again.

Everyone was still immersed in the atmosphere of reminiscing about the past, and Cheng Changyin continued to read:

"Through the ages, heroes have no way to find Sun Zhong. The dance pavilion is always blown away by the rain and wind. The grass and trees in the slanting sun, the ordinary alleys, and the humane slaves once lived. I think back then, Jin Ge Iron Horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.

Yuan Jia Caocao, Feng Wolf Juxu, and won the Canghuang Beigu. Twenty-three years, I still remember it, and I still remember Guizhou Road. But look back, under the Buddha Shrine, a crow shrine drum. Who asks: "Lian is quite old, can he still eat?" ”

This poem also has momentum, especially the sentence Lian Po is still old and can he eat? On the first day, I heard the Hou of Far East read it, and today I heard it completely.

"These two lines of poetry are very good, but why do you sound a little resentful?" The sage pondered.

"Thou shalt take away their military power, and it is okay to be angry with them? This poem, you have to be a little sad to have a sense of meaning" Dugu Xinci nonsense.

"You can't be angry for yourself, right? Do you still miss the battlefields of the Far East? Complaining that someone summoned you back to Chang'an, Kyoto? ”

"Who misses the battlefield? How about a comfortable day? What resentment? If you have a grievance, you will naturally complain about the past, and you still use poetry to complain? What I believe is a fist, a little Doyle, and it's okay to write and play."

"Well, you wrote two lines of poetry to curry favor with these generals, thinking about trapping them? Snatch people from them? "The saint understood something.

"Needless to say, it's so clear, it's subtle, hazy beauty is best" Dugu Xinci is shy.

"Well, it seems that your purpose has been achieved," the sage laughed.

Isn't? This Kaiyuan miscellaneous newspaper uses a page to celebrate Lu Guogong's birthday, concise and atmospheric, a happy birthday, the theme is clear, the key is that this way is novel?

In recent years, some military men have more children and grandchildren, and naturally some have drilled into the civilian official group, and some have changed their genes through marriage with the eunuch family, but generally speaking, it is still rude-oriented, and military merit is supreme.

It is the business to let them fight and drink, and kowtowing to celebrate their birthday is also unambiguous, but I definitely can't think of a way to celebrate the birthday of the birthday star in the newspaper, and that literary style is applauded?

"One body turned to fight for three thousand miles, and one sword was once a million divisions" This is to praise the ancestors for fighting many places, martial arts are powerful, although there is an exaggeration, but the literati? If you say big things, you will naturally say big things.

"Don't be afraid of the old days, you can still make meritorious deeds in a battle." This can speak for them, although they are old, but their ambition is still there, that is, they are old, and they still dare to go to the battlefield to seize meritorious deeds.

The second song is a little difficult to understand, what Sun Zhongmou, ordinary alleys, but there is the sentence "Think about the year, Jin Ge Iron Horse, swallow thousands of miles like a tiger" is enough, this is much stronger than those who boast about how of course so-and-so, directly thinking about the time when a certain person rode an iron horse and held a golden gun, and that momentum could eat the tiger thousands of miles away? How imposing?

Feng Wolf Juxu doesn't understand anything, but it was Dugu Xinci who said in the Star Picking Building, "Who asks: Lian is quite old, can he still eat?" "Are you too old to eat?

Yes, we all know that we are too old to eat, but who asks? Who's to ask? I want to ask, can I still eat, but I can't find anyone to ask?

So they asked this Yuandong Hou, who they still had to eat and drink, and really regarded him as a little brother.

"Bring the wine," the birthday star Weng Lu Guogong Cheng called out.

"Ancestor, don't"

"Ancestor, you can't drink."

The following voice remembered a piece.

"Asked you to take the wine and didn't say let the certain drink, go, thank the Far Eastern Hou for the so-and-so"

So General Cheng Boxian brought thirty or forty brothers and nephews of the same clan over to toast the Marquis of Far East.

"Don't thank you, it's a proper gift to write two crooked poems for my brother's birthday" Dugu Xinci also drank this glass of wine generously, but he was still polite.

"Your Kaiyuan miscellaneous newspaper is good, go buy a few more copies, and give one to each distinguished guest" General Cheng Boxian also smiled.

"You are still stingy, if it is so, go find someone to print hundreds of thousands of copies, and send one to someone on the street" Dugu Xinci pouted.

"That's right, Far East Hou, this newspaper belongs to you, right? How much money is a copy? ”

"Fifty wen a copy" Cheng Peng took the opportunity to report.

100,000 copies is 5,000? General Cheng was careful, a little painful?

"What about joking with the general? A certain has already ordered people to distribute it for free, of course, it is only the version of the birthday, not much, 200,000 copies, plus the sales of 100,000 per issue of the Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper, there should be 300,000 Chang'an people who know about Lu Guogong's 100th birthday today" Dugu Xinci said with a smile.

"I don't know if Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper may print 100,000 copies today? A certain class can be all packaged, the heart of the Far Eastern Hou has arrived, and a certain junior cannot help but do the hearts of his grandchildren for his ancestors," Cheng Ruobing, Cheng Boxian's son, asked.

"You wait to go to Qingchuan to ask Yao Chong Taibao, he is the editor-in-chief of Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper, and he still needs to listen to him" Dugu Xinci pushed the matter to Yao Chong.

"Okay, you personally go to the central government to beg Yao Chongtaibao and strive for more printing," General Cheng Boxian instructed his son.

"Okay, you are also busy today, go and greet the guests, you don't need to be polite to your own family" Dugu is kind to people, can you eat well under the gaze of more than 30 people?

"That's that, at noon, the Far Eastern Hou is at will, and he will come back to have a good drink with you at the dinner party," Cheng Boxian also smiled.

"Okay, but you have made up your mind to get so-and-so drunk? Anyway, the palace of Liaoyang County is in the opposite corner, and you are drunk and throw it over? ”

"Haha, that's, anyway, don't get drunk and don't stop"

Cheng Boxian took people to get busy, so many guests definitely need to say hello.

"There are so many guests today? If not 3,000, there are more than 2,000, right? Dugu Xinci looked upstairs and downstairs and muttered to Nalan Feiya.

"There's a big yard over there?" Nalan Feiya's eyes are sharp, and she sees more than this, it is a place of hospitality.

"This military gate is really profound?" Dugu Xinci sighed.

"Naturally, the hundred-year-old military gate, the protégés and former officials are countless, and the eight major military gates are in the same spirit, and this Lu Guogong's 100th birthday banquet is also the largest gathering of the military gate in the past ten years," Nalan Feiya analyzed.

"It seems that it will be difficult to poach some people from them, but is it also the time? Hey, wait a minute, don't fight? Dugu Xincimo rubbed his chin, and suddenly saw several old men arguing about the longevity peaches he had given him.

Originally, all the little old men were a little excited today, after all, this kind of gathering is less than once, drinking sugar water and boasting about past achievements, which is very pleasant.

Chi Baolin, the Duke of Hubei, was still squinting at first, and everyone knew that he was not in good spirits recently, and they didn't care, but as he cut and chewed the two longevity peaches sent by the Far Eastern Marquis from time to time, the old man was dissatisfied.

Duan Zhan, the Duke of Baoguo, mocked, "There are a lot of delicious tofu and vegetables over there, eat that?" This longevity peach is good-looking. ”

Yu Chi Baolin nodded, and did not argue, but after a while, the shou peach was eaten by him, and a few old men felt wrong, this shou peach is not small, one has three catties, this old boy can eat a catty quietly, it must taste good?

So several old men used knives to cut some tastes, and this taste problem came, and most of the time was over in an instant, so all the old men stopped doing it and began to move on the remaining longevity peach.

In the end, the few who did not move well ate less, so they were naturally dissatisfied, so the few who were grumpy started scolding.

"That shou peach is so delicious? What are you made of? Nalan Feiya asked.

"Hehe, this is a little secret, tomorrow I will make it for you to eat" Dugu Xinci saw that the saints and the two Zhang Xianggongs around him also came to listen, so he hid and didn't say anything.

"That boy? Is there still a longevity peach? Lu Guogong, the birthday star, was a little unhappy, and asked.

"It's really rude, you have to have a good attitude when looking for people and things, you know? Do you ask for so-and-so? Dugu Xinci was dissatisfied with his rude attitude.

"Hehe, Brother Dugu, this longevity peach is ripe and soft and glutinous, and it tastes great, is there anything else?" Lu Guogong's attitude immediately became much gentler.

"Well, there are a few boxes of snacks in the gift list, you wait quickly, don't let General Cheng Peng steal it? But the gift list he received? Dugu Xinci took the opportunity to lay a loop on Cheng Peng.

"Don't hurry up and get it," Cheng ordered a son and grandson on the side.

After a while, the man brought in a few boxes.

Dugu Xinci took a box in his hand, opened it and looked, "Yes, it hasn't been eaten yet"

But he didn't return the box, but used it to share it with Nalan Feiya.

"Uh, what does it taste like? .... Is it really okay? Nalan Feiya took a bite and had questions.

"No problem," Dugu Xinci patted his chest and promised.

"That tastes really good, you can taste it too" Empress Nalan took out a piece and handed it over, but Dugu Xinci didn't take it with her hands, she bit it directly with her mouth.

"Thou art this apprentice" Empress Nalan withdrew her slender hand, and stretched out her lover to rub it.

"Thou art a disciple, give a certain taste of the spicy," the sage was also furious, and begged for it.

Empress Nalan was embarrassed, so she chose two more and handed over the rest.

"The taste? Questions? "There is also a problem with saints.

"No problem" Dugu Xinci continued to answer, looking at the circle of old men who were eyeing him, and then changed the topic, "The license of that gambling house was handed over to the government office to issue it?" ”

"You go and ask Song Shangshu, and if he agrees, the Ministry of Rites will send it," the sage replied casually, and Zhang Shuo Xianggong also nodded.

So Dugu Xinci took a wine jug and a wine glass and ran to the next table.

This table is a group of Shangshu, Song Jing Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Hui Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Qiu Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, Xiao Song Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Wei Kang Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Cui Taizhi Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and Dugu Xinci toasted one by one.

"The filial sons and grandsons of the Cheng family have not come to toast, but you came first?" Wang Hui Shangshu quipped.

"Is it the little brother of the birthday star? It's the same, come on, let's rest here for a while" Dugu Xinci squeezed Wang Hui Shangshu, Wang Hui Shangshu let go on the side, Dugu Xinci sat down, and the Cheng family's banquet still followed the ancient rites and sat on the ground.

Next to Wang Hui's Shangshu is Song Jing's Shangshu, and Dugu Xinci is sitting between the two.

"Song Jingshangshu, is there a gap from that table to this table?" Dugu Xinci has no good words, Song Jingshang was still the prime minister a few days ago, so he naturally needs to sit at the same table with the saint, and now he has resigned from the service and taken up the post of the Ministry of Rites, and the Shangshu will be reduced to the Shangshu table.

"I also work for Yan Tang, what is the gap?" Song Jing Shangshu is light and light.

"Song Shangshu is free and easy" Dugu Xinci gave a thumbs up, raised a glass to invite a drink, and then asked: "There is something I want to ask Song Shangshu for, and I think that Bocai and gambling houses involve etiquette and education, if you ban it, it is a wildfire that cannot be burned and the spring breeze blows and grows, and you think that it is better to be blocked, Song Shangshu can feel the same way?" ”

"Wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows? The metaphor of the Far Eastern Hou is very vivid, but it is so; Is it better to be blocked? Does the Far East Hou have a good plan? Song Shangshu nodded.

"That's what you think, let's let Song Shangshu correct it? This gambling house is all over Kyoto, hiding dirt and dirt, bullying and tyranny, not to mention, often some people are addicted to it and go bankrupt, but let more gamblers rush to it, if you want to simply make it public, transparent, you open a gambling house and so on do not say that you violate the Tang law, in fact, the Tang law has no relevant regulations, but if it is listed as a merchant, then it can be controlled"

"This is a solution, and a certain person is often troubled by it, but there is no law, and it is a good policy if it is listed as a merchant, but it needs to be controlled by the household department?"

"Of course, since the merchant has its own household department to collect taxes and fees, but in view of the particularity of the gambling house, involving education, the Ministry of Rites can not stand idly by, what do you think? This gambling shop needs to have some qualifications, such as capital, gambling rules, security, and the aftermath needs to have specific regulations, this bag head can not be empty gloves white wolf, your gambling method can not be just fraud, such as this double land, you need to publish the rules, how to win and how to lose, the odds also need to be controlled, and you naturally need to ensure the safety of gamblers who have won money, and you need to appease those gamblers who have lost red eyes and not let them make trouble, and those gamblers who are bankrupt You have to let them live, right? This series of rules needs to be regulated by the Ministry of Rites."

"Although your idea is good, I am afraid that it will be much more difficult to implement," Song Jingxiang shook his head.

"Can't you back down because it's difficult?" Dugu Xinci smiled.

"Okay, Rong will go back and discuss one or two," Song Jing Xianggong thought about and responded.

I am willing to get the swallow bow to shoot the general, and shame the Yue Jia Ming Army.

Don't be afraid of the old days, and you can still make meritorious deeds in a war.

(End of chapter)