After the list was released, the Greater Chang'an District was extremely lively.

Hotels in Chang'an and Xi'an counties are fully booked. Some are pure feasts, some are secret secrets.

Take our Dongfang family—ah, I actually said the word "our Oriental family"—for example, Dongfang Chengping gave a lot of money to the relevant officials of the Royal Supervision Department and the Royal Officials Department who were in charge of the examination, to ensure the positions of Dongfang Qi and Dongfang Guang in the imperial court.

They didn't bribe the court for me - the reason: I did too well in the exams to go straight to the inner court. Under the emperor's nose, the inner court is no longer in charge of the Royal Supervision Department and the Royal Officials Department.

A few days later, the palace audience ceremony began.

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The same palace in the palace area, the same large number of forbidden troops, the difference is that last time it was a few thousand people who would try, this time it was a few hundred people to meet the emperor.

It was night, and the crystal lamps of the covered bridge illuminated the entire Jiulong Lake, but the most dazzling thing in the Jiulong Lake was not the covered bridge, but the one-thousand-meter-high imperial palace.

It's like heaven!

Heaven!

Heaven!

Heaven is in the middle of the universe!

No up or down!

No east, no west!

No left, no right!

There is no beginning and no end!

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Crossing Kowloon Lake, one came to the Royal Inspectorate at twelve o'clock.

The first floor became a banquet hall.

The position of the people by the door is to lift the people, and the three people of our Oriental family are divided into a table.

Then there were the ministers, and I saw the Zhao clan of Zhaojun, the Li clan of Longxi, the Guo clan of northern Shaanxi, the Kong clan of Shandong, the Lin clan of Lingnan, etc., all of which are the largest scholar clans today. Dongfang Chengping sat inconspicuously inside.

Then there was a group of imperial officials in yellow robes.

Then there were princesses, princesses, princesses, and grandsons - no less than a hundred. This bunch of princes all look similar, from their twenties to a few years old, which shows that the emperor is very capable in that regard.

At this time, a eunuch shouted: "The emperor and empress have arrived!" ”

The sound of music is the song of the Ming Emperor.

So all stood up and sang aloud:

"Thousands of miles away

Millennial grace

The Ming Imperial Family

Eternal in the world

Wise and powerful

Billions of people rejoice

God bless my emperor

Longevity without borders"

I've sung the song of the Ming Emperor countless times, the first time I sang it when I was five years old, and I got goosebumps with excitement, but then it didn't matter slowly - and now, I'm excited to get goosebumps again.

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The Emperor and Empress came.

Emperor Zhu Zhaotian was less than fifty years old, in the prime of life, with a full beard and a face, looking majestic and majestic.

Queen Zhao Yishu is less than thirty years old, and it is the time when the flowers are blooming, and she looks beautiful and not like mortals.

The two sat on a wide dragon chair.

Everyone knelt down and chanted "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!"

Emperor: "Flat." ”

Everyone got up and sat back down.

A eunuch in light purple clothes said loudly, "The imperial meal has begun." ”

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The eunuchs who rushed in carried out all kinds of desks, including the Huanghuali warping case, the mahogany chuck tenon case, the red sandalwood case, the Huangshan wine case, and so on.

The palace maid who came in the fish served the dishes, first put in front of everyone was a number of cold dishes of fruits and vegetables, and then in order of the soup snails, jade lobster, lemon juice snowflake beef, chestnut cabbage heart, Chang'an roast duck, is for "four dishes and one soup", followed by snacks, fruits, ice cream, coffee, tea.

"Four dishes and one soup" was initiated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu Emperor of the First Ming Dynasty, in order to rectify the poverty and luxury of high-ranking officials and nobles, showing the love of the people of the former Ming Emperor. Nowadays, the Ming royal family, as the descendants of the former Ming royal family, naturally has to carry forward this kind of love for the people, so they only eat "four dishes and one soup".

However, the subjects loved the royal family, so they strongly asked the emperor to cherish the Holy Body, after all, the Emperor's Holy Body is the support of the people of the whole world, so the following state banquet served many dishes.

The palace maid continued to serve: Wan Zhen Buddha jumping over the wall, mullet lion head, canned stewed three treasure duck, black pine roasted foie gras, goose paw duck letter, shark fin abalone, bird's nest eggplant, matsutake caviar, rare fish maw, blood bird's nest and so on. Luckily, I used to specialize in royal cuisine when I was bored, so I vaguely recognize a little.

Finally, the wine is aged for a variety of years, including wine, white wine, rice wine, sake, beer, red wine, rice wine, medicinal wine, and so on.

It's just the dishes and the drinks, and I know that it's not the dishes that are valuable, it's the utensils that serve them.

Thousands of years ago, the emperor's yellow enamel porcelain is graceful and luxurious, the temperament is flamboyant, and it is precious.

More than 10,000 years ago, the blue and white porcelain plate was made in style, the style is introverted, the meaning is far-reaching, and it is the only one that exists in the world.

The crystal crystal cup sparkles and illuminates the entire hall, like a fairyland.

The most is the contemporary imperial "Ming Dynasty" porcelain. The underglaze double-sided multicolored flower thin tire bowl is crystal clear, as warm and lovely as jade mud tender skin, and the four ornaments of red moon season, red hibiscus, red autumn chrysanthemum and red plum represent spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively. This is thousands of craftsmen, decades of painstaking efforts to fire tens of thousands of sets, to remove the inferior and retain the true, only to keep thousands of sets of finished products.

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Actually, I don't know, I copied the "Royal Rites......

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A eunuch clapped his hands, and the palace maid came forward to dance, dance, and juggle.

The emperor began to talk and laugh, the expressions of the princes and princesses also relaxed, the ministers of civil and military affairs also began to laugh and toast, and the people began to eat and drink.

At the end of the wine tour, the royal family and ministers staggered, some of them had already fallen asleep, and the new people below also walked around, talking and contacting.

The first time I was with the new people, it was nothing more than boasting to each other, and as for what will happen in the future, who knows!

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After the meal, the eunuchs helped the royal family and the scholars to go down, and I sorted out my clothes and prepared to go back to the Dongfang Mansion.

At this time, a eunuch in a golden python robe stood in front of the dragon chair, facing everyone, a row of eunuchs in yellow robes stood on either side of him, and more forbidden soldiers in black uniforms stood behind them.

The ballroom grew quieter and quieter, and finally fell silent.

The eunuch looked like he was in his fifties, except that he didn't have a beard, but he was the same as a martial artist.

He glanced at the quiet crowd and said, "The Wuju people can go home, the Wenju people are all staying, I have something to say." ”

Dongfang Qi glanced at me and left with Dongfang Guang.

Now, there is only a group of eunuchs left, and a group of future eunuchs.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

No one spoke.

The eunuch said, "I am Li Yongfu, the head of the inner court. ”

It turns out that this person is Li Yongfu, the head of the inner court - Zheng Yipin, whose official rank is higher than that of the prime minister, and the real person is above 10,000 people!

When I was a child, I always thought that the prime minister was the biggest official, and later I learned that the official rank of the head of the inner court was the highest. Among the people, people say that Li Yongfu is the biggest and worst traitor, but people still build a lot of shrines for him, because who is afraid of Qing officials, of course, is afraid of traitorous ministers.

Li Yongfu smiled: "I have read the test papers this time, the best batch ever, I am very satisfied, all the talents in the world are in my hands." ”

He cleared his throat and continued: "Everyone is the emperor's people, get ready, be ready to serve the emperor in a few days." Leave everything and leave it for trouble. He who loves himself more than the emperor is not worthy to live! What we need is loyalty and faith, not anything else. ”

He said solemnly: "This means that you are no longer members of the Shi clan, you are all royal people!" Although your surname is 'Zhao Qiansun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang', you all have to remember that you can only be loyal to the surname Zhu. ”

He glanced at the crowd and said, "Don't go, everyone, go to the royal office next door for a while." The royal eunuchs are already in place. ”