13. The grand banquet in Linde Hall
The Linde Hall of the Daming Palace was also called the "Three Halls" in the Tang Dynasty. It is located in the right Yintai Gate, and the west is the corridor connecting the Hanlin Bachelor's Academy. On the east side, the treasury is hidden on the left and right sides, and on the back is Longshou Mountain. The hall has only three sides, so it is simply called the "Three Halls". The Linde Hall is magnificent and the courtyard is vast, so it is an ideal place for the royal banquet.
On the sixth day of the fourth month, it was the birth of the Emperor Li Shi, the Holy Spirit, the Civil and Military Emperor Li Shi. According to the convention, a grand banquet was set up in Jingyun Pavilion in this hall, and issued an edict to the prime ministers, the governors, the six ministers, the judges of the salt and iron, and ordered the attendants to be above the fifth rank, the Censorate, the fourth rank, the fourth rank, the fourth rank, the princess, the princess, the high-ranking wife in the capital, the high-ranking female officials in the palace, and the five hundred god-powered and meritorious soldiers who chose to join together in the Linde Hall. The scale was once prosperous and was unique since the Dali period.
On that day, the entire Jingyun Pavilion was filled with people wearing red and purple clothes, rhinoceros and goldfish, while the princesses and female officials had tall and wide belts, with high clouds, and hundreds of people stood in the door according to the shift. As for Shenwei and Shence soldiers, they could only sit around the corridor and the pond outside the hall. They were all happy, wearing colorful brocade clothes given by the emperor, snagging hands and stretching their necks, hoping to see what the emperor would look like when they appeared in the pavilion.
Originally, Gao Yue, as the dual governor of Xingyuan and Fengxiang, should have stood in the ranks of governors, but the emperor specifically asked that Gao Yue had the position of serving as an official in charge of political affairs, and therefore he joined the three prime ministers, Li Mi, Jia Dan and Li Mian, and was exactly the fourth place in the shift.
Standing next to them were the elders in the court, Xiao Xin, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Yan, Cui Ning, etc., who all came. When they saw Gao Yue, they sighed with so many years. Xiao Xin's body was still strong, and Yan Zhenqing had just suffered from foot disease and was carried in with her shoulder carriage. Liu Yan's face was still clear and vigorous, but he was also old and looked very old. His father-in-law Cui Ning was even more troubled by obesity. It was spring. He was wearing a seal suit and his forehead was covered with sweat beads, and his legs seemed to be unable to support his body.
The princesses standing opposite the opposite side were the princesses. Of course, Lingxu was ranked first. Today, she did not wear feather clothes, but painted palace makeup, colorful gift clothes, nine trees on her hair bun, and was full of treasure. She looked like a goddess on a cloud head. Lingxu lowered her eyebrows, but from time to time she would stare at Gao Yue, which made Yiyang on the side laugh. Princess Deyang obviously also grew tall and had confusion in her eyes. She didn't know what fate she would face when she married into the Uighur Desert in two years. As for Princess Yun'an, she was only three years old, led by female scholars Song Ruohua and Song Ruozhao, but she also wore flower slits and dressed in her dress, which looked very cute.
Soon, with the shout of Meng Guangcheng from the palace's palm fan, the door of Jingyun Pavilion turned open, and the imperial fan was collected on the high seat on the steps. The emperor sat upright on it, the Crown Prince Li Song sat on his left seat, and the Crown Prince Li Chun sat on his right seat.
"This day is my birthday, so I have a banquet in the three halls to entertain all the ministers and foreign guests, perform singing and dancing, a hundred operas, and the three religions. Then all the officials and soldiers will receive rewards, and all the fun will last for three days!"
"Long live my emperor." Everyone in the hall turned around and shouted in unison.
After the tide of praise calmed down, the emperor raised his hand again and said on the spot: "The news first came to the palace, saying that the Qingzhou Dongshan Party and Qiangfan were in chaos. I gave the gift to Tuoba Chaohui (Pingxia Dangxiang), the governor of Tianzhu Army, was robbed upstream of Maling River, and some envoys and soldiers were killed. After hearing this, I was worried, and even tossed and turned to bed on the eve of the banquet."
"Please choose a minister after the banquet and hang a seal to comfort me." At this time, there was another neat voice in the hall.
"The Censor Xing Yuanyin and the Chief Censor of the Censors of Fengxiang were also the Chief Censors of the Procuratorate Gao Yue, who was founded by Qi County, and he went to work." At this time, the emperor directly called out in front of all officials.
Gao Yue put the tablet on his hand and transferred out of the train.
"I have set up five army troops of the Imperial Camp to serve as your support. First, I will be appointed as the chief officer of the Imperial Camp, the commander of the Right Camp, the commander of the Dingzhou Dangqiang and other foreign troops, the commander of the Imperial Camp, the commander of the Imperial Camp, the commander of the Imperial Camp, the commander of the Dingwu, Yining, Bining, and Shence decides to win the victory army. After May, I will go to Qingzhou to pacify the local Gangqiang and tribes. In addition, it is necessary to keep the tribes of the Tianzhu Army quiet."
"My dear Yue, I will immediately follow the order." Gao Yue immediately accepted the order.
All the ministers were envious. At this time, the ten-year-old crown prince Li Chun in Jingyun Pavilion looked at Gao Yue who was bowing his head and suddenly asked: "Doctor Gao, although Xiao Wang lives in the palace, he has heard of strange phenomena in the doctor's house."
Gao Yue was stunned when he asked this and replied, "I really don't know what strange phenomena are."
Li Chun said: "There is a small squid in the doctor's house, and the horns have recently grown on his head. Is this a matter?"
Who is slandering me behind my back!
It also came to Daming Palace!
Gao Yue was a little frightened. When did Qibao have horns on his head? There must be a thief spreading rumors. The dog raised in this family had horns on his head, wouldn't it imply that I had a reversal?
At this moment, Gao Yue hurriedly said: "This little squid is given to his inner person many years ago when his father-in-law guarded Western Shu. He is always gentle and cute, and most satisfying. The top of the head of the heaven is as round as a peacock and has no strange things. If there is a strange phenomenon in the family of Chen Yue, it is not this squid."
For a moment, Gao Yue cleverly changed the topic, and the Crown Prince Li Song glared at his son and asked Gao Yue with a gentle voice (after all, the Crown Prince was grateful to him): "What is the real vision?"
"Since my family and my inner family have moved to various places, but whenever I go to a place, magpies will fly in groups and build nests on the beams of my family. This is the only strange phenomenon I know."
After saying this, the emperor and the crown prince on the high throne laughed, and the ministers and concubines present laughed endlessly.
The emperor said, "I have heard that Cui Yuan (705-768)'s wife was playing with her sisters in the garden. When she saw two magpies holding a wooden length of a pen tube, flying into the nest, but the sisters couldn't see it. Then Cui Yuan worshipped the minister and people realized that the magpies were holding a 'blockwood'. The so-called magpies had wood in their nests, and the state had pillars. Is Gao Qing's wife today the wife of Cui Yuan?"
"Your Majesty Shengcong." After shouting this sentence by the ministers, they all understood in their hearts that after pacifying Dangxiang, Gao Yue must have been to become the prime minister. Li Mi and Jia Danhou were the ones who and Lu Zhi were in charge of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat.
Only Princess Lingxu looked at Gao Yue resentfully after hearing this vision, thinking that fate gave the fifth little lady of the Cui family the opportunity, otherwise I could serve you and give birth to children for you, but now I can only practice Taoism alone in the female crown.
Then the emperor waved his hand and announced the beginning of the banquet. The outer court of Linde Hall was the first to perform the Tang Dynasty's "Breaking the Formation Music"!
Chapter completed!