Empress Liu's second trick was to not let people sleep. As mentioned last time, after the courtiers finished their work in the afternoon, they could still rest when they went back in the evening. If they go home after work and hurry up to sleep, and sleep until the early hours of the morning, it is barely enough for a day's sleep, and Liu Hou's second trick is to prevent them from sleeping during this time period.

Of course, the target of the anti-sleep is the opposition courtiers, and those who support the faction must of course let them rest and rest, after all, the picketing discipline in the afternoon has already burdened them, and if they are not given a rest at this time, they will not be able to continue to fight against the opposition at the court meeting tomorrow morning.

Now that the goals are clear, the next step is to implement concrete actions. In order to better achieve this goal, Liu Hou sent the gold medal "courtesan" Liu Yan. Liu Yan is old and has a big face, and the most important thing is that he has a wide range of contacts, likes to socialize, and likes to drink and feast with people everywhere. In modern parlance, he was a man who loved the night cattail.

He came forward to entertain the guests, and the guests generally rarely did not give face. So, in the past few nights, Liu Hou changed his method to entertain the opposition courtiers. What kind of poetry meeting will be held today, tomorrow will be what famous paintings will be appreciated, and the day after tomorrow will be a discussion on the present and the past and the international situation.

In the end, there was no way, so he moved out of the emperor's post~stage, saying that he had been instructed by the emperor, and he wanted to understand the voices of the ministers, so that everyone could speak freely, and he would definitely reflect your opinions to the emperor truthfully, so that the emperor could fully understand everyone's opinions and not be deceived by villains.

The words are good, but who believes it, who doesn't know that he Liu Yan and Guo Youzhi's gang are very close, and he will be so kind to reflect his opinions to the emperor? He doesn't reverse black and white in front of the emperor, it's not bad to tell right and wrong.

Everyone was tired like a dog after a busy day, and they wished they could sleep on the spot, and no one wanted to pay attention to him, but it was not okay to ignore him. Liu Yan began to follow the first emperor to conquer the world at a very early age, and he was very valued by the first emperor, and he was entrusted with important tasks when the first emperor was still there.

Now that the little emperor is in charge, he not only serves as one of the nine kings, but also serves as an unknown so-called "Propaganda Department ~ Minister", which shows that the little emperor attaches more importance to it than the first emperor.

He is old enough and a high authority, except for the "Three Princes" in the DPRK, even the rest of the "Jiuqing" dare not give him face.

However, there are really people who don't give face, and some people in Jiuqing refused to participate in his banquet, in fact, it's not that they don't give face, but they are so tired that they can't open their eyelids, so they can only ask their subordinates to go to Liu Yan, saying that they are in poor health and can't participate in the banquet.

As for the people below the rank of Jiuqing, no one dares to refuse him, after all, the identities between each other are too different, and the officials are crushing people to death! It is his honor to invite himself to a banquet by Shangguan, where is there a reason to refuse to participate.

For those Jiuqing who refused to participate in the banquet, where would Liu Yan let them go, he personally drove his luxuriously decorated and coquettish luxury carriage, and went to pick up people from house to house. He had done his part, and those Jiuqing were no longer embarrassed not to attend his banquet, so they had to get into his carriage with the support of the servants, or staggered or trembled.

In fact, it should be more appropriate to say that he got on his thief ship, because once they attended this banquet, it would be difficult for them to come back. Liu Yan is very sociable, talking non-stop at the banquet, and constantly changing ways to persuade wine, the banquet time is not short at all.

The poetry club is even more cheating, every time it comes to a theme, Liu Yan has to ask everyone to make a poem to meet the situation, everyone is a great talent who reads poetry books, and they are all great Confucians, if it is placed in ordinary times, it is not a problem to make a poem at all. Usually, they are also happy to participate in such poetry exchange meetings.

But now, everyone is so tired that their brains don't turn in circles, who still has the heart to make any poems. Even if you barely make a few "poems", they are all nonsense, and they are not much better than the poems made by those newly enlightened elementary school students.

The most action everyone did was nodding, and they all became nodding worms, not that they agreed with what Liu Yan said, but that they were dozing!

However, Liu Yan was startled when he spoke, and often suddenly raised the volume, so noisy that the adults couldn't sleep at all, not only couldn't sleep, but were often so frightened by him that the whole person jumped up.

"Wine", "sex", "wealth" and "qi" are the four-character mantra of Yepu life, and prostitution, gambling, drinking, swinging and blowing are the five specific activities of Yepu life.

Liu Yan, as the king of the Yepu realm, is very familiar with these things, and since he entertains guests, he naturally has to arrange these things. There is no problem with wine, Liu Yan has collected a lot of good wine over the years, this time, in order to do a good job for the emperor, he is very willing to spend a lot of money, and took some treasures out to entertain the courtiers.

The protagonist is, of course, a highly distilled liquor produced by the Ministry of Industry. In recent years, the Ministry of Industry has produced a kind of excellent liquor, named "fairy drunk", with a degree of more than 50 degrees, which is really fragrant and fragrant, and is very popular among wine lovers. This superb wine is available in small quantities, at a very high price, and is not available to the average person.

Of course, the high-ranking and powerful Liu Yan has no problem, he has a few jars in his wine cellar, but this time, he took out two jars of "fairy drunk" at once to entertain these courtiers.

In addition to this superb liquor, there are also wines from the Western Regions, which are filled with bright red liquor in a transparent glass and glow under the candlelight, which is attractive enough to look at the color. This kind of imported product is not something that ordinary people can drink, and if Liu Yan was not a Honglu Siqing, he often dealt with Hu people, and he would not have been able to get such a rare thing as wine.

In addition, there is a new variety, that is, the wheat wine newly researched by the Ministry of Industry, which is also a kind of draft beer without aeration, which Liu Hou made according to the brewing method of beer. Because the pasteurization technology is not perfect, the shelf life of this wheat wine is very short, so it is not suitable for long-distance transportation, and it is generally produced and sold locally.

This wheat wine used to be only available in Chengdu, but now many officials have moved to Xuchang, and the Ministry of Industry has also opened a winery in Xuchang in response to market needs, which also produces a small amount of this wheat wine. However, the production of this wheat wine is also very small, and it is also very expensive, and can only be seen in some high society.

Since the world is not yet peaceful, most of the people are still relatively poor, and there is not enough food to eat, where is there any surplus to use to make wine? Therefore, wine is generally something that only rich people can drink, and the three kinds of excellent wine that Liu Yan took out can only be seen by the top wealthy families.

If it were a normal time, those courtiers would probably rush to drink three kinds of wine, but at this moment, they all wanted to go to Zhou Gong to make a thought report, even if it was Qiong Jelly Jade ~ liquid in front of them, it couldn't arouse their interest, yes, even if Liu Yan tried his best and frequently persuaded him to drink, it didn't have much effect.