At night, the Fenglin Palace is brightly lit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoA feast has just begun, and the beautiful maids and dancing girls are like wearing flowers, wandering among the nobles, and the tables of these nobles are full of dense food, wine, meat, vegetables and fruits, and Zhong Mingding's food is indispensable.

Looking a little farther away, the gold and silver decorations in this hall are shining brightly. The delicate clothing and jewelry of the nobles all show their temperament. It was a warm and prosperous atmosphere, accompanied by steaming fireworks, wafting on the gorgeous palace walls of Fenglin Palace, over the eaves of the beautifully carved window sills, and bringing bursts of laughter to the city.

The inhabitants of the national capital Windy City then knew that once a month, the Son of Heaven invited the nobles to a dinner party, and it started on time. The nobles whose fiefdom is in Xingzhou, or the head of the family is present in person, or the important clansmen and princes of the family are present, in short, they will not be absent.

Feng Tianzi took a sip of the wine that Mei Ji sent to his mouth, and squinted at the people present. This son of heaven took off his usual strict court clothes, wore a crow-blue brocade crane, and tied a white ribbon around his waist.

Today, when the law is ruled by the arch, large and small decrees are not issued arbitrarily, as long as the local government pays the financial and tax burdens on time. But ruling the world is a technical job, and the Son of Heaven has to appear in front of the ministers of the family from time to time, so the Son of Heaven of this generation holds a banquet once a month, summoning the lords of Xingzhou and the important subjects of the Son of Heaven to hold a banquet to discuss matters. As the saying goes: eat, and then discuss political affairs after dinner.

The warm atmosphere finally reached its peak, the Son of Heaven raised the wine vessel in his hand and raised it majestically, and suddenly the nobles below also stopped laughing and talking, and they all raised the wine vessel.

"For today's feast, everyone drinks this cup to the full. Feng Tianzi said proudly, and then drank the wine in his hand. After drinking, the waiter next to him took the wine vessel in the hand of the Son of Heaven and gently held it in the palm of his hand, so the nobles also drank the wine in the cup and handed the wine vessel to the people around him.

The second half of the dinner began, the laughter gradually subsided, and the nobles changed their expressions.

Feng Tianzi glanced at the audience with satisfaction, enjoying the satisfaction of power, clapped his hands and asked the attendants to remove the table in front of them, replace them with tea to relieve hangover, and then calmly waited for the nobles to speak.

The first person to speak is generally the Feng family's Jiang family, the largest subordinate and minister of the Feng family in the capital. They want to represent the meaning of the Son of Heaven, knock on the nobles, or remind them of an upcoming event, such as sacrifices.

After that, it was the clansmen of the Feng family who were distributed to various places to show their loyalty to their patriarchs in turn. Finally, there are the representatives of the other twelve states in the world, but because of the inconvenient transportation, the nobles of the other states often do not come together, and some even do not come at all, anyway, as long as they pay tribute on time.

Today's dinner, as usual, Jiang Hongwen, the elder of the seven clans of the Jiang family who is in charge of the Son of Heaven, attended: "Tell the Son of Heaven that your subordinates have something to say about the Son of Heaven." ”

"That's right. The Son of Heaven didn't raise his eyelids, and said lightly, he had no interest in Jiang Hongwen's next words, it was nothing more than how much the tributary tax burden had reached this month, and if there were any decrees in various places that he needed to nod his head.

"The Son of Heaven is above, the recent war between the noble lords of Rudi in Anzhou, the Qi clan of Rudi and the Jiang clan of Rudi are vying for hegemony, and the Jiang clan has been broken. Jiang Hongwen said eloquently: "The noble lords of the land have attacked each other, and it has become more and more fierce for thousands of years, and I implore the Son of Heaven to issue an order to prohibit useless wars between the surnames, or to give preferential treatment to the defeated after the battle, and it is okay to put away the land, but to return the full amount of gold and silver." ”

This remark immediately made everyone present laugh, as if they had heard an incredible joke, and they had not heard of the truth that they would lose money if they won a battle, and besides, apart from a family of ministers like the Jiang family, who nobles did not go around to conquer? Wasn't the large area of land in Xingzhou also captured by the Feng family's constant attacks before?

Sure enough, Feng Tianzi said with a little disgust: "This order cannot be issued, the Son of Heaven Chrysostom does not take the order lightly, it is human nature to fight, how can such an order be issued by the Son of Heaven?"

Jiang Hongwen didn't care about everyone's ridicule, in fact, the political affairs he just said were just a reason, deliberately provoking the attention of others, and what he really wanted to say was hidden behind. "In this way, this year's annual tribute has only arrived, and the Qi family's payment is only equivalent to last year's, so last year's Rudi Jiang family's annual tribute was lost in vain, and this head can't be opened. ”

It was about the interests of the Feng family, and Feng Tianzi sat up straight solemnly, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes. "Then what does Jiang Chen suggest?"

"The subordinates thought that the Qi clan should be ordered to make up the amount of the annual tribute of the Jiang clan in Rudi, and then fine him ten times the annual tribute, so as to show the majesty of the Son of Heaven and make all localities dare not commit it again. Jiang Hongwen said righteously.

These words seized the position of Feng Tianzi, and the nobles felt dissatisfied in their hearts, but they did not dare to speak out against it.

Feng Tianzi glanced at Jiang Hongwen deeply, pondered for a while, and said: "This matter is up to you, it doesn't matter how much you are punished, just make up the tribute." ”

However, Jiang Hongwen is waiting for this sentence, as long as the Son of Heaven does not say that he will not be punished, then he has room to operate, and he must embarrass the famous son of the Qi family who came with Jiang Shangyu in this matter, and then use the handling of this matter as a threat to force Jiang Shangyu to make some concessions.

Jiang Hongwen didn't mention it, and the nobles followed up with some other government affairs, and Feng Tianzi pointed out his views one by one, but they were all cautious not to make any accurate statements, for fear that his words would cause changes in the laws of the world.

After a while, the second item of this dinner came to an end. After discussing the government affairs, Feng Tianzi left the palace with the service of the people around him, and the remaining time was left to many nobles, who would party here for a long time tonight.

Out of the palace, a cold wind blew, and Feng Tianzi suddenly sobered up a lot. He paced slowly, preparing to go to his dormitory to rest, but unexpectedly, a member of the Feng family, avoiding many nobles, came to greet him.

Since he is a member of the Feng family, it is his own family matter, and Feng Tianzi also seemed much calmer, and asked kindly, "Is there something wrong?"

The person who came was not someone else, it was the deacon outside the family of Feng Quyun, the brother of Feng Tianzi, who was responsible for handling matters such as contact with the Son of Heaven in the national capital.

"Son of Heaven. The deacon made a respectful salute. "The second son of the city lord wrote a few days ago, saying that he had entrusted the Jiang family to the Jiang family in Rudi, and begged the Son of Heaven to allow the Jiang family to meet him. ”

"Why did it get involved with the Jiang family in Rudi again?" A trace of doubt flashed in Feng Tianzi's heart, Jiang Hongwen mentioned the Rudi incident at the dinner party, and the deacon of the younger brother's family also coincidentally mentioned the family at this time.

"Then summon him tomorrow, and summon him alone?" the Son of Heaven looked at the deacon of the Feng family. "Is there some disagreement between the Jiang family in this land and the Jiang family in the national capital?"

"Son of Heaven, along with this disciple of the Jiang family, there is also a disciple of the Qi family in Rudi, and it is said that the two are classmates in a newly built school in Rudi. And the Jiang family, the national capital, is the main vein of the Jiang family in Rudi, but there has been some friction between the two in Tianrui City. "This deacon is far away in the national capital, and he doesn't know much about Tianrui City, so he can only give some general explanations.

"In that case, let's wait until tomorrow's summons, I'm tired, so stand down. After the Son of Heaven finished speaking, he left with some doubts surrounded by his attendants.