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The author of this poem is none other than Wen Tianxiang, a national hero at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Wen Tianxiang was only about ten years old at this time.

After the Song Dynasty palace test, there is a Qionglin banquet, after the Qionglin banquet is the Donghua Gate roll call, the red flower and white horse parade street for three days, it can be described as the spring breeze proud.

There are also Song people's poems: The white-haired and blue-shirted officials are late, and the wine and intestines are wide at the Qionglin banquet. Pingkang passed through no one asked, leaving Gonghua to see after waking up.

It can be seen that this Qionglin banquet is the most glorious event for scholars in the world.

This Qionglin banquet, also known as the Wenxi banquet, began in the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin established the system of the palace examination, that is, after the Ministry of Rites examination, and then presided over by the emperor himself, the highest level of examination was held in the palace, and the emperor decided the personnel and rankings to be admitted.

After the palace examination, the emperor would hold a ceremony to announce the ranking of the scholars, and then hold a banquet in Qionglin Yuan to celebrate these new scholars, so it was called the Qionglin Banquet.

Although this Qionglin banquet began in the second year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Northern Song Dynasty, but later, the place of the banquet was not in Qionglin Garden, and it was also customary to become the Qionglin banquet, which was the Liao State or the later Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, etc., and it was also used to call it the Qionglin Banquet, which was the most glorious and rare event for the new Jinshi.

To say that this Qionglin Garden, it was a royal garden in Tokyo during the Northern Song Dynasty, just on Shuntianmen Street, opposite the Jinming Pond, the main gate tooth road, all of them are ancient pines and cypresses, the treasure pond in the garden, the brocade stone winding road, and there are flowers and phoenixes, willow lock Hongqiao, these flowers, grasses, fish, insects and strange stones, but they are all collected from all over the country, and the beauty of the world is collected in a garden.

Holding a royal banquet in such a place can be imagined, that is, without eating or drinking, you can also feast your eyes when you go inside.

Of course, the Song Dynasty has always been known as the peak of the catering industry, at that time in the city of Tokyo, there were tens of thousands of pigs slaughtered every day, and there were countless live fish, chickens, ducks and sheep.

The so-called four divisions are the Accounting Division, the Kitchen Division, the Tea and Wine Division, and the Taipan Division, and there are six bureaus: the Fruit Bureau, the Honey Frying Bureau, the Vegetable Bureau, the Oil Candle Bureau, the Aroma Medicine Bureau, the Arrangement Bureau, and so on.

However, no one went to the Qionglin Banquet, just to enjoy the scenery and taste the food, if this is the case, then this person's career is also worried.

Many people participate in the Qionglin banquet for this glory, which means that these new science and technology scholars are about to step into the officialdom and enter the official career, and many people will take the Qionglin banquet as the first step to make friends.

This Qionglin banquet is naturally impossible to be in Qionglin Garden, because Qionglin Garden is the garden of Bianliang, Tokyo, after the Jingkang disaster, Tokyo fell, and now the Beijing division is in Hangzhou, in Lin'an Mansion.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was not good at fighting, it was very good to do business, and the economy was the most developed period in history, but the emperors of the Song Dynasty did not build much construction, and in so many dynasties, the palace of the Song Dynasty was the smallest and the most inconspicuous, and even the royal street was opened to make shops.

If in the Tang Dynasty, the strict fang system, if the princes and nobles above the third rank or have special contributions, the emperor was not allowed to open the door of the mansion to the street.

Perhaps it is this kind of open-minded and even open atmosphere that even the royal street was contributed as a shop, which made the economy of the Song Dynasty so developed.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, although the expansion and addition were carried out on the Wuyue Palace, the scale was smaller than the Kaifeng City of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the palace was relatively few, only the hall was thirty, the hall was thirty-three, and there were very few Zhai, Lou, Pavilion, Xuan, Tai, Guan, Pavilion, etc., in addition, it was the East Palace of the Prince and the Deshou Palace where Gaozong and Xiaozong retreated.

The civil and military officials are most familiar with the Daqing Hall and the Vertical Arch Palace, because this is used to hold a large court meeting, and in addition to that, it is the apse, which is used by the official family to stay in the winter solstice and festivals such as the New Year's Day.

This Qionglin banquet is held in the Duancheng Palace, this Duancheng Hall is a multi-functional hall, different uses, will be replaced with different plaques, such as as the Ming Hall to the suburbs, the plaque hangs "Duancheng", the banquet is used to serve the envoy with "Chongde", and the martial arts conferrer will be replaced: "Speak of martial arts", and this time the strategist roll call banquet is replaced with the plaque of "Jiying".

Of course, who cares which hall the Jinshi who are attending the Qionglin Banquet this time will be held? Who cares what they eat at the banquet?

It's all dirt at the banquet, and they don't have the heart to pay attention to it, because this Qionglin banquet, the official family will bring the princess of Ruiguo to participate!

Although there has been gossip that Zhou Zhenyan has no talent as a champion, the reason why he can be handpicked as the champion is because he has a good skin, so that Ding Daquan recommended it to the official family and became one of the candidates for the princess of Ruiguo!

But this is just a candidate, Princess Ruiguo is only thirteen years old, it is said that Her Royal Highness the princess dislikes Zhou Zhenyan too old, whether she will choose Zhou Zhenyan as a colt or not, after all, in addition to his face, a man also depends on his talent.

Although Zhou Zhenyan has the greatest chance, the others are not without a chance, but there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the master of the horse will definitely be selected from the Qionglin banquet, that is to say, everyone who participates in the Qionglin banquet has a chance!

Although the princess can't show her head, at most she just wears a veil, accompanies the official family, and even hides behind the screen, secretly observing these young talents screened by the entire empire, but at least the princess is observing, once the princess takes a fancy to it, it will be a great wealth.

Because the official family has no sons, only the only seedling of Princess Ruiguo, her mother is Jia Guifei, and her uncle is a traitor Jia Yidao, which can be said to be a collection of thousands of favors.

And her mother was originally going to be the queen, but unfortunately her surname was Jia, and everyone said that Queen Jia was a "fake" queen, so she could only be made a concubine, and Xie Daoqing was the queen.

It is said that the official Zhao Yun is reluctant to marry his daughter to a scholar, after all, at that time, the concept of hierarchy was very strict, and it was not okay if the door was not the right household, although the status of the scholar family was promoted to the extreme, and the social status of the literati doctor was also the highest, but it had not yet reached the point where she could be worthy of the only daughter of the official family.

However, in order to further enhance the status of civil officials, the prime ministers moved out the precedent of Tang Taizong marrying a princess to a scholar, and persuaded Zhao Yun to choose a horse from among the scholars.

Before the Qionglin banquet began, the whole Lin'an was already very lively, and many of the families of the new science and technology scholars had already walked through the entire Lin'an ready-to-wear shops, and within the rules allowed, they tried to dress as gorgeous and eye-catching, hoping to attract the favor of the princess of Ruiguo!

Although many princes and nobles failed to participate in the palace examination, they also relied on their family relationships and used a lot of resources to squeeze into the Qionglin banquet.

At this time, people like Ding Daquan, who controlled the three peach orchards at the head of Wazi Xing, had the weight to speak.

Because if you want to enter the Qionglin Banquet, in addition to the regular channels, you can only consider entering the performance program, and the performance program needs to choose the highest level, of course, who can enter is also Ding Daquan's final say.

It's also thanks to Chen Mi who made arrangements through the Imperial City Division early, otherwise whether the flowers can go in and perform has to be said separately.

Since the official family will personally participate in this Qionglin banquet, the security issue must also be prepared in advance, and the security of the periphery is responsible for the Imperial City Division, and the internal security is done by the front of the palace and the inner division.

Yang Jing, as a secret agent appointed by the official secret decree, only has the title of Count Zhongyong on the surface, and the identity of Ying Lingguan, if he uses the identity of Uncle Zhongyong, he can actually be invited.

But Zhao Zongchang quickly sent a letter to Yang Jing, saying that the official family asked Yang Jing to be responsible for the security of this time together with the Imperial City Division, and the flowers were to be rehearsed in advance, so Yang Jing also took the flowers and entered the palace together.

Although Ding Daquan is the person in charge of the imperial examination and the main person in charge of the palace examination, because the Qionglin banquet is too important, the main person in charge is Dong Huai, the right minister and privy envoy!

Because when he offended Ding Daquan before, Yang Jing once asked Chen Mi and heard that Ding Daquan and Dong Huai did not deal with each other, so he also had some impressions of Dong Huai.

In this traitorous court, Dong Huai is a very good assistant, diligent and upright, with outstanding political achievements, and is famous for the government and the opposition.

Dong Huai likes to read military books since he was a child, often saying that he wants to be a character like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, smart and ambitious, and also studied under the student of Zhu Xi, the master of science, and is considered Zhu Xi's apprentice.

He served as a record officer of the Guangde Army and joined the army, and also served as a magistrate in Zhenjiang, and then as a general judge, as a magistrate, and as a criminal officer in Hubei, and served in Changde, Jiangzhou, Tanzhou, Jiangxi and other places, and his governing ability is very strong.

He has relieved disasters, quelled rebellions, and suppressed the incursion of small barbarian countries such as Jiaozhi and Yuenu, in short, he has made remarkable political achievements, and has been the current right prime minister and privy envoy, and the title has been promoted from baron to marquis, and it is said that he will soon be promoted to the grandfather of the country!

This is an official who can't find anything wrong with him, and it seems that there is no stain on his career in his life, and the reason why Ding Daquan wants to deal with Dong Huai is also because he wants to make friends with Dong Huai, but Dong Huai refuses!

Dong Huai not only rejected Ding Daquan, but also ran to the official Zhao Yun to make a small report, saying that the official family, you have been holy all your life, but you can't let Ding Daquan, a traitor, have a bad reputation, so that the evening is not guaranteed.

Zhao Yun immediately got angry, saying that Ding Daquan didn't say bad things about you Dong Huai in front of me, why did you talk bad about Ding Daquan instead, are you more like a traitor than Ding Daquan?

Dong Huai's face did not change, saying that the glory of Lao Chen's life was given by the official family, so he naturally had to think about the official family, and he must not let a person like Ding Daquan damage the foundation of the official family.

It is precisely because of this that Ding Daquan hated Dong Huai, and began to make small moves openly and secretly, such as this promotion and selection of horses, Dong Huai should have been in charge of the overall situation, but Ding Daquan robbed him of this errand.

And it was Dong Huai who persuaded the official family to marry the princess of Ruiguo to the scholars, because the old prime minister felt that there were too many traitors now, and the civil officials no longer dared to fight with these traitors, so the officials must set an example and marry the princess to the scholars, so as to improve the status and morale of the civil officials, so as to be able to fight against the traitors!

However, everything did not seem to have much effect, because this grand event was to boost the morale of civil officials, because Ding Daquan took most of the work, which made the civil officials even more depressed.

Because he had an understanding in advance, when Yang Jing entered the Jiying Hall and saw Dong Huai, who was mobilizing manpower and arranging the banquet hall, Yang Jing also had a sense of awe in his heart.

"Xiaguan Yang Jing, I have seen Dong Xianggong. ”

Yang Jing was dressed ordinary, and there was no formal official uniform, because he was only dressed in a black robe on a white background, and Dong Huai thought he was acting in the tile.

"Your name is Yang Jing?" Dong Huai originally just nodded and was about to continue to work, but suddenly turned around and came back, confirming to Yang Jing in some surprise.