Plop puff...

At the third watch, Wang Xu was reading a book in the room, and the sound of birds flapping their wings came from outside the window.

Put down the book and push open the window.

Before he could say hello, a golden light shot in from the outside and flew onto his desk.

Wow!!

The ingots landed on the table, and their feathers were arranged with their heads down.

Wang Xu looked at it with a smile, and while stroking its wings with his hand, he took off the reply letter on the ankle ring.

"I continued..."

Continued, it was Wang Xu's words, opening the letter, starting with Xue Mushan's greetings, followed by the content of the conversation.

Xue Mushan first encouraged Wang Xu in the letter, and then talked about the affairs of the capital.

Wang Xu glanced at ten lines and quickly read them.

After reading it, he closed his eyes slightly, and finally knew what had happened.

The teacher was disgusted by the emperor, in the final analysis, it was just a disaster, and the root cause was still in the New Deal.

Today's saint, who ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, promoted the children of the poor family as soon as he came up, and used the cold family to try to break the monopoly of the gentry class.

The Zhu Party's victory over the Han Party and the overthrow of the New Deal were ostensibly just a competition between the two parties, but in fact it was actually a manifestation of the strength of the gentry class and the overwhelming imperial power.

Since the new deal was abolished and Yan Song returned to his hometown, the emperor has been holding back the fire in his heart for all these years.

As the teacher of the third leader of the cabinet, as soon as he heard that the birthday banquet was held for the queen mother, it would cost one billion taels of silver.

The emperor agreed on the spot, but just warned the teacher that the birthday banquet should be held decently and magnificently.

Looking back, there was a rumor in the palace that the teacher prevented the saint from fulfilling his filial piety, did not respect the king's order, did not consider the sacred heart, and was not a minister.

Thinking about it, the emperor wants to use the topic to play, to kill chickens and monkeys, and vent the anger in his heart.

After all, Xue Mushan is the vanguard of the Zhu Party, and he rushed into battle when he attacked the Han Party, and this is how the position of the cabinet selection assistant came about, if the emperor wants to choose the most hated person, his teacher may be able to rank in the top three.

If this birthday banquet is done well, there will still be a few opportunities to maneuver, and if it is not done well, you can't get out of the way.

Then again, the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked for 1 billion taels of silver, which included the maintenance of Cining Palace, the repair of the imperial garden, the construction of the Jingmu Temple, and the queen mother's rewards for foreign noblewomen, and wine banquets with clan relatives, vassal kings, courtiers, and the court.

Of course, the expenditure of 1 billion taels must have a lot of water.

But if it is reduced to 100 million taels, it will be decent, beautiful, and magnificent, and you don't have to think about it to know that it is definitely not enough.

If the money is not enough, the project will be curtailed, and if the Queen Mother is unhappy, this matter will be considered a mess.

Inside and out, this is a chore, it is a duty to do it well, and it is a sin to do it badly.

can't cross it, the teacher's boat is sunk, and in the same way, both inside and outside the court are waiting to see jokes, and even the people in the Zhu Party are waiting for the teacher to move the place, which shows that this errand is not easy to do.

"No wonder the teacher is embarrassed, just Jingmu Temple, without 300 million taels of silver, it can't be done, and this project can only be cut. The emperor is waiting for the teacher to make a mistake, so as to take the opportunity to attack, as long as the queen mother is a little dissatisfied, the emperor's excuse is even there. I don't want to spend money, and I have to make the Queen Mother happy, how can there be such a good thing in the world. ”

Wang Xu burned the letter, his heart full of irritability.

At the moment, the most important problem on the teacher's side is how to use 100 million taels of silver to hold a birthday banquet that is more decent than 1 billion taels of silver.

Jingmu Temple can not be built, the imperial garden can not be repaired, 100 million taels of silver, at most to repair Cining Palace.

To repair Cining Palace, 50 million taels should be enough, and the remaining 50 million taels are the second problem for the clansmen, courtiers, and vassal kings who want to eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas.

These people have never eaten any delicious food, let them eat well, a table of a thousand taels of silver is probably the least.

Calculate it, there are at least tens of thousands of courtiers who stay in the capital, and there are even more people on the side of the clan, and 30,000 tables may not be able to block it, which is 30 million taels.

In addition, the Queen Mother has a big birthday, so she has to buy a few new clothes for the concubines below.

The noble ladies outside the palace came to greet the Queen Mother, and when they met the freewheeling, they rewarded a few pairs of jade Ruyi, jade bracelets, and silk satin, which was also the most basic etiquette.

If you don't build a garden or a temple, just if people eat horses and chew them, 100 million taels will have to break flowers.

It would be good to be able to keep the capital at that time, if you want to be decent and magnificent, Wang Xu feels mysterious.

"The tension is a little nervous, but it can barely be maintained, the biggest problem is that there is no garden and temple to support the scene, how to fight for face for the Queen Mother. You have to have this face, and you don't have to spend a lot of money to do it, which is the most difficult part. ”

Wang Xu racked his brains, what is it that can't spend a few dollars, and it still seems huge?

After thinking about it, there is, write a greeting.

A piece of red paper is not valuable, and two taels of ink are not worth much, so you can organize the scholars of Guozijian and let them contribute.

The group of lazy people in the Guozijian relied on their parents' Mengyin to enter the school one by one, and how could they come to study in the Guozijian, they were obviously gilded.

Send them all out, set up a booth in each street, and write a congratulatory message to the Queen Mother.

The written congratulatory messages are hung all over the inside and outside of the palace, one or two may not be conspicuous, 100,000, 1 million, and the sensation caused is absolutely unprecedented.

Moreover, this is the first time in history that people have been asked to write congratulatory speeches to wish the Queen Mother her birthday, and there must be many people who want to participate.

A piece of red paper is only ten cents, and a million pieces are only 10,000 taels, which is not much money, but it can also make a huge noise, so that the Queen Mother will be famous in history, this face should be there.

As for the style, this is a bit difficult, how to reflect the royal style, you can't just rely on the congratulatory speech to fill the scene.

Although the congratulatory words are good, they are dead, and the freshness will inevitably make people feel monotonous.

How to reflect the style, Wang Xu made a difficulty again.

From the third watch to the fifth watch, it was almost dawn outside, and Wang Xu was still at a loss.

"The weather is dry, fire and theft!"

Just as he was thinking, on the street outside, there was the voice of an old man.

Wang Xu pushed open the window and looked, only to see that the husband was over the age of six, with his back bent, shouting in a hoarse and low tone.

Whose father is he, whose grandfather is he, why is he over the age of six, and he still has to work outside the watch.

Wang Xu didn't know, he only knew that he had found a way to make the Queen Mother's birthday banquet look more magnificent.

In the last years of Kangxi, the old Kangxi felt more and more that his life was not easy.

Emperor Kangxi, who was sixty years old, was old and admired the empire outside the Forbidden City, happy and extremely frightened at the same time.

Everyone is afraid of death, and no one is afraid of death.

In order to prove that he was still young, Emperor Kangxi held the first Qiansu banquet in history.

Elders over the age of 60, or over the age of 60, regardless of the government and the people, or the Manchurians, can go to Changchun Garden to have a banquet with the emperor.

At that time, there were more than 1,300 elderly people attending the banquet, and they were highly respected people in various prefectures and counties.

From the perspective of Confucianism, the Qiansu banquet represents the correctness and rationality of Confucianism's rule of filial piety.

From the emperor's point of view, thousands of elders distributed in local counties and counties gathered together today to feast with the emperor, which is undoubtedly a good way to improve local cohesion.

The fact is also the same, the upward and downward effects, the people have followed the example of respecting the elderly, respecting the elderly, for a time the four seas are peaceful, it is said that even the robbers no longer attack the old and weak.

In the Qianlong period, Emperor Qianlong lived longer, living to be eighty-nine years old.

Emperor Qianlong in his later years, imitated his grandfather to hold a banquet of a thousand people, when more than 6,000 people came from all over the country, Emperor Qianlong let the prince pour wine, the clan was accompanied, this is the most glorious period of the feudal dynasty, like the sun at noon, followed by the sunset of the West Mountain.

If 100,000 long-lived old people are invited from within Kyushu to participate in the 60th birthday of the Queen Mother and celebrate with the people, it will not cost much, and the inside and face will be available again, who would dare to say that the birthday banquet is not magnificent.

This is the Confucian world, respecting the old is politically correct, if the teacher holds a banquet to celebrate the birthday of the queen mother, the emperor can't say that his teacher is not a sacred heart.

If the emperor still dares to say this, the following official imperial history should say: "No, Xue Daru held a longevity banquet for the queen mother, respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly is indescribable, how can the emperor say that Xue Daru is not a sacred heart and prevents His Majesty from fulfilling his filial piety?" ”

On the other hand, Wan Suo Banquet said that no matter the government or the people, anyone can come, but in fact, if they can come, how can they be real ordinary people if they have the money.

Definitely not, the common people still have to live, how can they have that spare money, that time, to participate in the Wansuo banquet during the autumn harvest.

Needless to say, the worst is also a local squire, similar to the three elders of Jiuquan Town.

Only these people have the time, energy, and money to go to the capital and have a banquet with the emperor.

As the initiator of the Wansuo Banquet, Xue Mushan needless to say, will also win the support of these people, not only can the emperor not be able to hold him accountable, but he can't say it, and the position of the assistant can be mentioned on the premise.

In this way, killing two birds with one stone, the crisis can be solved.