In Lin'an City, the light silk soft tent, the singing and dancing are leveled, and the voice should be delicate. On this day, in order to show the new beauty, the emperor set up a banquet in Jingling Palace. Up to the princely generals, down to the eunuch doctor, with the female family to go to the elegant collection of appointments, but see the landscape painting screen, flower arrangement and bamboo repair, although indoors, there is still the elegance of outdoor climbing to the valley. After the red tape, they were seated according to their official ranks.

Tang An'an still hugged the pipa, a song of neon clothes and feathers, drunk Wu Xiang is charming, and there is nothing that is not praised. Wu Gu is indeed unable to look directly, and it is difficult to hide her sadness. He picked up a glass of wine, drank it all, choked in his throat, and finally couldn't bear it, after all, it was his dearest kindred, and they were all in the world, and they still had the debt of the old fate.

Seeing that he was sad, Zhixi snatched the wine glass from his hand and said angrily, "Why are you so troubled? Gu Cuo looked at Zhixi's absolutely beautiful and innocent face, and said slightly drunk: "Zhixi, why, the people I want to protect don't let me protect?" Watching her act like this made me feel uncomfortable. If she is like this, the debt I owe to her will only increase, so much that I can no longer afford to pay it. Zhixi, shall we leave together? I want to get away with this debt, I really can't afford it. ”

"You're drunk," Jing Zhixi didn't know that Han Nian (Tang An'an) in the secret room had asked Wu Gucuo to take her away, and she didn't know why Gucuo spoke like this. He was just blaming himself, for the sake of Zhixi, he refused to leave with Hannian, so that she committed herself to Zhao and Ju, and now she is so depressed and unhappy, and she has to force a smile. It's not so much that he is distressed, but that he is swallowed up by guilt, and the sentence that Han reads, 'If Zhixi asked you to take her away, would you take her away without hesitation?' At this time, it had been haunting his mind, tormenting him to the point of being left without a master.

However, Zhixi in front of her would never say the same thing, even if he begged her, she just rejected him so lightly with a sentence of 'you are drunk'. "I have to live more soberly than anyone else." He said. But he didn't mention anything again, just blindly bowed his head and drank to get drunk.

"According to my intentions, if I want to give a beautiful woman a concubine tomorrow, the holy decree has arrived at the Ministry of Rites, and the title has not yet been thought of. The emperor has a lustful voice and does not worry about national affairs and people's livelihood, but he is titled for beauty and thinks hard.

"Concubine Tang's ice muscles and jade bones, ice clear and jade, she is called 'Jade Concubine', I don't know what Your Majesty wants." Jia Rudao, who works in sycophancy and slapping horses, flatters the emperor. Tang An'an was recommended by Dong Songchen, and now his pet is better than when Jia Rudao's sister was alive, how could Jia Andao be willing to fall behind Dong Songchen, now in view of Tang An'an's background in Yanliu Lane, there is no court or family foundation, he helps her at this time, there is a hundred benefits and no harm.

This remark caused Dong Songchen, who was standing beside the emperor, to sneer for a while, and he smiled treacherously, and it was difficult to hide the sarcasm in his laughter: You Jia seems to be self-proclaimed and leans towards the government and the opposition, isn't it the same, you want to give me Dong Yanluo a show?

"In this room, the woman who plays gentle words in the dance room is indeed graceful," Rong Wang Zhao and Rui first echoed, and finally insinuated: "Outside, starvation is everywhere, corpses are everywhere, and it is not the same day." The implication is that the emperor does not care about the people's livelihood.

"I and King Rong are brothers of the same lineage, this banquet is like a family banquet for you and me, you don't congratulate your brother and sister-in-law, but for outsiders to knock on my side" The emperor's face showed displeasure: "I quit the early dynasty, and my brother invited you, but not to change places to deal with the government, if the Qing family can't be casual, it's better to go back to their respective yamen!" "The so-called can't be 'arbitrary' is just to disobey his wishes.

"The so-called brother and sister-in-law are the wifes of the brothers, and Queen Xie is the most dignified and virtuous, but on such occasions, I can't meet them" King Rong thought he was a dusty woman, and he arranged two sentences without much hindrance, and the emperor only laughed when he heard this: "What the emperor's brother said is, 'taking a concubine', I should indeed invite my good wife." ”

Talking and laughing, there are female officials leading a group of waitresses, bringing up the tea cup, serving tea to the guests one by one, the emperor picked up the tea cup, tasted it, and said: "Longjing before the Ming Dynasty, the tea is a good tea, but it is a little worse than the taste." It's time to change the head of the imperial dining room. After saying that, someone in the imperial dining room had already taken off the female official's hat and received the punishment. That's all there is to it. He said that she lived a life.

This tea is offered by King Rong's mansion, and the emperor picks thorns in his bones, and he also wants to give King Rong who contradicts him, a dismount. King Rong hurriedly distinguished: "Before the Qingming Festival, the three princesses took their beloved son to the tea house to pick, a bud and a leaf, it took a lot of thought, because the tea house is on the cliff, my dog almost fell off the cliff, no, the leg injury has not healed," King Rong saw that the emperor looked at Zhao Wanmo from time to time, and took advantage of the recounting of the tea picking to express his intentions, and found a good excuse for his son's long-term injury to his injured leg, blindly afraid that the emperor would continue to provoke and punish him.

"Speaking of which, the injury of the visit to Mo has also been carried for a long time, the previous injury has not healed, and a new injury has been added," the emperor said with pity: "I asked the envoy of the Tai Hospital to take care of it personally, it seems that I still don't care." Master Xie, the envoy of the Tai Hospital, heard this, trembled, got out of the seat, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The minister's medical skills are not refined, it is indeed not that he has not been attentive, and he does not dare not use his heart and soul, Your Majesty forgives you!" ”

"Your Majesty is in a hurry, and you are still thinking about the injury of the dog," King Rong looked embarrassed and calm, picked up a glass of wine, and thanked the emperor: "The palace is honorable!" ”

"Your Majesty's spleen and stomach are out of harmony, and wine cannot be touched," the imperial envoy hurriedly admonished: "The prince may wish to replace wine with tea." ”

"Xie Yuan's envoy is considerate of me, and he will not treat the prince's son slowly, on such an occasion, don't get up quickly, let's sit down." The emperor remembered that he was old, and he was also attentive, so he avoided the kneeling of the envoy of the court.

"Your Majesty forgives your subordinates for the sin of ignorance," King Rong said: "It's just the tea served in my house, and Your Majesty also said that the heat is bad, how dare I serve Your Majesty with tea again." ”

"The bone is slightly familiar with the tea theory," the bone mistake said, and relieved the siege for King Rong: "Tea is not only good tea, but also picked with heart, if it is carefully prepared, wouldn't it be beautiful!" The female officer hurriedly ordered someone to bring the tea again and serve it to the bone table.

The bone is close to the tea set, and the soup is poured into the whisk by hand, and the white milk floats on the surface, such as the stars and the moon. The maid in the palace came over and held it up and presented it to the emperor, the emperor sipped lightly, the taste was really extraordinary, and he nodded his head again and again: "The tea of the wrong bone is the best work!" ”

"It's still difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice," Gu said wrongly: "It's still the tea raised in the tea house of King Rong's mansion, absorbing the essence and aura of heaven and earth, and only then can it be skillful." I don't know if the prince is willing to cut his love, pay the tea county in the south of the Yangtze River to the royal family, and serve the tea value. ”

King Rong was still grateful to the bone for relieving him, but now that he heard the words, his face was not dusty, and he knew that the drunkard was not in wine. The Manchu Dynasty knew that the Jiangnan Tea County was the foundation of King Rong's scheme, and if it was returned to the emperor now, it would be a complete broken foundation.

He secretly cursed in his heart: "The emperor only cut my wings before, but now you are going to break even the cocoon, but I am afraid that my broken cocoon will not become a butterfly, and I will become cannon fodder." The secret guards and spy networks that I have painstakingly managed for many years have all been in vain, and they have become tea for this useless pastime. ”

"Na Nan County, a poor and remote place, wouldn't it be better for me to hand over the tea house on the outskirts of the imperial city to Your Majesty?" King Rong bargains.

"The tea house in the suburbs is good," said the emperor, "but I am afraid that the soldiers guarding may not be willing to let me take it." Moreover, there are water and soil in the suburbs of Beijing and royal gardens. ”

The prince knew that the emperor said this, pointing out that Sang scolded Huai, and was jointly accusing him of secretly hoarding military guards, so he got up and fell to the ground, apologized: "The minister is loyal and sincere to His Majesty, how dare anyone stop him?" ”

"King Rong offered this tea before the Ming Dynasty, can you know who is this festival of cold food and tea for?" The bone asked King Rong.

Although King Rong blamed him for saying that he was far away, he didn't think deeply about it, and replied immediately: "Since it was set up by Duke Wen of Jin for the loyalty of Jie Zitui. ”

"How does the prince's loyalty to His Majesty compare with that Jie Zitui?" Gu Cuo set up a chess game for him, recruited organs, and acted step by step.

"I am close to the emperor's brother, how can I be loyal to an outsider?!" The prince hated and hated, and blamed him in public.

"When Duke Wen of Jin was caught in the chaos of Li Ji and was exiled from the government and the opposition, Jie Zitui was to avoid starvation of the monarch, and he once 'cut off shares and serve the monarch'," Gu said wrongly: "The prince and His Majesty are the first feet, and they can't even cut a piece of land?" If this is the case, why should he swear loyalty in front of the Manchu civil and military forces? ”

Only then did the prince realize that the emperor had a warm spring breeze, and in the name of the concubine, he set up a banquet for the ministers, and his true intention was here. And the military advisor behind all this, looking at the current situation, must be the new champion wearing a red bone is undoubtedly wrong. Now this land, he has to cut it, and if he doesn't cut it, he has to cut it, otherwise I'm afraid that today's emperor will turn over the old case of the private small dynasty in Nanjun and destroy the entire prime minister's mansion.

However, King Rong still has to weigh. In the past, Zhao Kuangyin released the military power with a cup of wine, he Wu Gu was just a little Hanlin, and he also wanted to learn from Taizu, a cup of tea and cut the land, how could the dignified prince be so easily subordinated by him? !

Just when he hesitated, the emperor called the envoy of Xie Yuan, who had just returned to his seat, and told a story that seemed inappropriate but meaningful: "Taizu won the country, ruled the world with benevolence, gave Emperor Gong Chai Zongxun the title of 'King Ning', and gave the descendants of the Chai family the 'Danshu Iron Coupon' to protect his life, but, Taizu Rende, how can the descendants of the Chai family repay him?" King Ji Chai Xijin took Pan Mei as his adoptive father and changed his surname to Pan, and King Chai Xizhi recognized Lu Yan as his father and changed his name to Lu Xuan. In order to prevent my Song family, I don't even want the surname of my ancestor, which shows that 'there is no gentleman in the villain's heart'. Envoy Xie, don't you say? Your son-in-law, but the surname is 'Lu'! ”

Having said so many sentences, the focus is only on the last sentence. Lu Qin of Qimai Village, Lu Wanyu, if the ancestor extrapolates upwards, it is indeed after the Qi King Chai Xizhi. Incognito in the countryside, after many generations, he dared to come out with such a scholar, worshipping the official and sealing the post, but he was still found by the ubiquitous secret envoys! Lu Wanyu and Chai Yuan, who dares to sit down? Even the female dependent, Xie Dao and her mother, also knelt on the ground.

As he spoke, the emperor paced to King Rong's side, and whispered in his ear: "If the genealogy of the Lu clan takes a clear path, the most virtuous imperial sister-in-law in your heart, and the Xie family under her nepotism, will end up with King Chai, who raided the house a few days ago, and will no longer be able to accept your visit." ”

"The title deed, the right to war, and then present." King Rong was shocked, the Chai family and the Xie family, one is the royal family of the previous dynasty, and the other is the royal family of the current dynasty, which is his right-hand man, and the rest of the dark party private power knotted in all directions in the east and west, north and south, is just the blood flow around his torso, and now the blood is about to be released, and the Chai family on the left arm is afraid that it will also be abolished, if he loses the backing of the Xie family again, in the court, but there is still a place for him? Besides, Lu Wanyu is still the squire of the Criminal Department, and among the six departments, he has also received a lot of help from Lu Wanyu. He weighed it again and again, made a compromise, kowtowed to the land, and abandoned the car to protect the handsome.

The emperor got up and came over to help him up personally, and gave him a step with a smile: "I am also a country man today, and it is very rare for you to have that piece of land in the south of the Yangtze River." The emperor's brother is willing to part with love today, obviously treating each other sincerely. I also gave a return gift to the emperor's brother today, and the visit to Mo has a weak crown, and the title of King Rong will be attacked by him. The prince was so aggrieved that his teeth swallowed in his stomach, and he could only pull Zhao Wanmo to thank him together. He still has his eldest son Zhao Yu (i.e., Meng Qi), and this title is now given to Zhao Wanmo (i.e., Meng Zeng), his mentally handicapped eldest son, how can he survive in the future.

"Xie Yuan made this golden beetle son-in-law, my criminal department, have been carried by you to walk, and it has been a long time, killing my Jia Aifei, and you have to take an ant to atonement for the crime," the emperor saw that Xie Yuan's family was still kneeling there, listening to the fall, so he smiled and also helped Xie Yuan to make Xie Quzhong get up, and said: "I am convinced, it is better to give you a Danshu iron coupon, and the life of the Qing family is safe." I heard that Dao Camelina is pregnant, and from now on, you will always be teasing your grandson at home. As for Lu Qin, he should also be considerate of his beloved wife, the streets are not very peaceful these days, and there is no need to be worth it. ”

At this time, Rong Wang Zhao and Rui Cai recalled the words that Gu Mistakenly asked Yu Mo to convey to him last night: "Tomorrow's banquet, the emperor will respond to his requests, don't hesitate." He realized that the meaning of the bone mistake was to ask him to cut the land to serve the king to show his loyalty, so there was no follow-up emperor to hold him hostage, and now, the land has also been cut, and his 'willing' loyalty has not been achieved, and he is innocently implicated in the Xie family and the Lu family (descendants of the king of Zhou Chai) to be dismissed from office, so why bother? It's too late to regret.

This banquet is also a Hongmen banquet.