After the first round of wine was finished, there were only three cups. Before everyone could finish their food, they had to change the food. All the unfinished dishes were put into the food box and asked the minister to take them back for their family to eat.

There is no way, this is the rule.

Soon, the second round of dishes was put on the table like water, and it was still eight courses. Last time it was the Bazhen Mountain, but this time I changed the Bazhen Water.

At this time, the "Qingshan Le" on the stage was more melodious, the dance posture was more graceful, and the music sounded much smaller.

Li Qian stood up and took two ceremonial officials holding thick gift lists and respectfully bowed to Li Luo: "Your Majesty's holy life, all the ministers and ministers have congratulations. Let's show your loyalty and filial piety. Please do not refuse. Please ask for an order, sing the ceremony to congratulate the king and father."

Li Luo drank a few glasses of wine, was in a good mood, and laughed and said, "I am very pleased with the hearts of all the people. Accurate!"

The emperor's holy birthday, and all the ministers must offer birthday gifts. However, not everyone is qualified to offer birthday gifts.

According to the Tang Dynasty system, only those above the fifth rank are qualified to offer birthday gifts. This threshold is much higher than that of the Tang and Song dynasties. Li Luo did this to prevent officials below the fifth rank from distracting their energy and spending money because of birthday gifts. After all, the salary and benefits of officials below the fifth rank are not high.

Li Luo also ordered that the birthday ceremony should not be too heavy, and try not to offer gold and silver as much as possible, as it is enough to be willing.

However, there are thousands of civil and military personnel in the country who have official titles and titles above the fifth rank of the Tang Dynasty, so birthday gifts are impossible to be missing.

There are two people who recite the birthday ceremony alone. One handes the gift list and the other reads it.

"Fu Qi, the governor of Xiangyang County, offered a pair of jade peaches. Dong Yuan, the governor of Changsha County, offered Liu Zongyuan's "Jiangxue". Wang Qianhua, the governor of Wuchang County, offered a set of stone carved versions of the Han Dynasty's "Tao Te Ching". Zhang Zhuo, the governor of Kunming County, offered nine pairs of rhinoceros horns. Xu Zhi, the governor of Xuancheng County, offered tens of special pieces of rice paper..."

These birthday gifts of fifth-rank officials only need to be read out and do not need to be displayed in public in front of the emperor. Only gifts from third-rank officials and above need to be displayed. This is the biggest highlight.

But it does not mean that gifts from people with high officials must be more expensive than gifts that are smaller than those of officials. For example, Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue" presented by the Changsha County Magistrate is a rare good thing, and Li Luo likes it very much when he hears it.

Most of the gifts from fourth-rank and fifth-rank officials are specialties, such as brocade, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and there is very little gold and silver, which is not expensive.

The cultural relics ministers here are drinking and eating while listening to the chanting list, secretly observing whether the emperor is happy.

It was not until Li Qiannian was tired and changed another person, and the third person received a gift from the third-rank official.

There are only more than 200 people in the country who have the title of third rank or above, and their gifts are to be displayed. Therefore, you need to slow down this link.

"Li Xu, the governor of Yingzhou, offered 300 kilograms of ambergris and a five-foot coral tree!"

When the ministers heard this, they were shocked. The provincial governors made great efforts. They actually donated 300 kilograms of ambergris! Although Yingzhou produces ambergris, 300 kilograms is too much.

There is also this five-foot-high coral tree, which even Li Luo has never seen before.

Immediately afterwards, the eunuch presented the gift from the governor of Yingzhou. Four eunuchs carefully carried a coral tree that was one person tall and placed under the danmu, and asked the emperor to watch it.

This coral tree is not only huge, but also colorful, just like a tree with clouds, which is very beautiful.

"Okay! Li Xu is intent." Li Luo praised it with a rare word. Such a large coral tree is not common in future generations. In this era, it is really a treasure.

Although Li Xu was far away in Yingzhou, he made a fortune.

"Yingzhou Cheng Qin Xin (Shao Er Xinzi), a group of twelve zodiac animals!" Zhou Cheng is from the third rank, and the gifts are also displayed.

What? The ministers became interested again. Qin Xin (Shao Er Xinzi) is really rich. He actually gave him twelve golden beasts.

The emperor did not want his ministers to give away gold and silver, of course because of the administration of officials. After all, the administration of the Tang Dynasty was clear and everyone was not an official for a long time. If there was less gold and silver, they could not take action. If there was no more, they could not be corrupt and plundered.

You have money to give it to, Your Majesty is not happy.

But Qin Xin is different. The Shaoer family was originally a rich Japanese family, very rich. Because Qin Xin was his majesty's old friend, he took the initiative to submit to the Tang Dynasty, and his gold and silver property was not confiscated, so he had the ability to give a lot of gold.

In other words, those who have the ability to give gold do not give gold, and they are afraid that Your Majesty will not be happy.

Soon, the golden case beasts of the twelve zodiac signs were presented in front of Li Luo, but each of them was the size of a fist, and they were cast vividly. The twelve case beasts were 2,000 taels of gold, and the amount of silver alone was 20,000 taels.

A big deal.

rich.

"Okay, okay, carry it down." Li Luo smiled slightly, feeling better and better.

"Jiaozhou Mu Chen Yu, presented a dragon case engraved by the "Tao Te Ching" by Rosewood, nine boxes of rhinoceros horns and ivory Go, one hundred kilograms of benzoin, and one Buddha's tooth relic!"

Rosewood. The ministers nodded. How expensive would a rosewood with a large dragon case be? It's such a good thing.

When the Red Sandalwood Dragon Case was lifted up, it was indeed purple and bright, with a ravioli like jade, worthy of the name of "wood and gold".

As for Buddha's tooth relics, although they are not something the emperor likes, they are also rare treasures.

"Myanmar's horse tribute, offering two jade mountain trees, a pair of jade screens, a group of twelve jade zodiac signs, nine pairs of jade pen washing, a pair of jade gourds, and eighteen pairs of jade cups!"

Although jade is not as valuable as later generations, it is not much worse than white jade at this time. It is a big deal to give so much jade in one go.

Li Luo looked at the lush jade and couldn't help but nod and smile. These are all glass types! The top-notch jade!

In the future, it is worth the money.

"Li Ji, the governor of Dongzhou, presented 100 longan Dongzhu, 900 old ginseng trees in Goryeo and 900 otter skins for more than ten years!"

The big longan Dongzhu!

Everyone's eyes shone. They all knew that Goryeo produced Dongzhu, but beads with longan size are really rare, and there are only one hundred pine trees.

In fact, Li Ji had just become the governor of Dongzhou, so why did he have time to prepare such a birthday gift? He was purely confiscated from his home. This time, Li Luonan returned, so he brought it back directly.

The beads are indeed the size of longans, and the folds are shining, which makes everyone's eyes wide open.

Next, the gifts of the governors of Yuezhou, Jingzhou Mu, Yangzhou Mu and other ranks of border officials were not so expensive, and they all had their own characteristics and were good at playing.

The Guangzhou Mu gave him one hundred cubic meters of Duan inkstones. The Ganzhou Mu gave him nine sets of top-quality blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen.

"Guiyi Hou Zhezha, I offer you a pair of Haidongqing."

"Mr. Jinghai Chen Yiji, presented a three-inch golden Buddha, two pairs of golden cups given by the previous Song Dynasty, two pairs of golden ingots given by the previous Song Dynasty, and one foot of jade Guanyin."

Another rich man.

"Taiwei Wen Tianxiang, dedicated the "Songfeng Pavilion Book" of Huangshangu, Ouyang Yongshu's "Shangren's Tie", and personally prepared the rubbing of Yan Lugong's "Duobao Pagoda Stele".

"The prime minister must be promoted, and I offer a pair of jade Ruyi, a pair of red sandalwood abacus, and a mirror of the four mountains in the pre-Qin and Yue Kingdom."

"The left prime minister, the prince-in-law Yang Hanming, presented nine pairs of gold cups, one pair of golden beast furnaces, nine jin of golden threads, nine pairs of jade cicadas, and one pair of jade saddles. The former Tang Dynasty gold Kaiyuan Tongbao treasures, and the former Song Dynasty Chunhua Yuanbao Buddha statues thirty-six gold coins."

He is so bold! Yang Hanming's birthday gift immediately made the ministers look at him. There were so many gold products, even the money from the former Tang and Song dynasties!

Of course, the Yang Hanming family was the leader of Bozhou for generations, and the chieftain king for hundreds of years. The Yang family was rich, but not Yang Hanming was corrupt, so he could afford it and dared to give it to him.

Except for those who are already rich like Yang Hanming and Chen Yiji, no one will give away gold among first-rank official titles.

However, although Li Qian, the Minister of the Honglu Temple who was already rich, was only a marquis, his birthday ceremony was very generous.

"The Marquis of Gaoyi Township, Li Qian, nine pairs of Jin Ping, hundreds of gold coins of Khitan Tonghe Yuan Bao, nine gold coins of Kaiyuan Tongbao in the former Tang Dynasty, nine nine pairs of silver bottles, one hundred and eight east pearls, and one of the previous Song Dynasty's "Kai Treasure"."

Li Qian escaped from Goryeo before, but took his family away. Li is rich.

Jin Chongxin's birthday gift is also quite expensive.

On the contrary, as the former King of Goryeo, the gift was very shabby because of the seizure of property and no time to prepare, the gift was very shabby, just a pair of jade Buddha beads she carried with her and a gem dagger that she suddenly lost.

"Thank you for your hard work in the marquis of Fenghuang Township, I offer you... I offer you..." The singer suddenly stuttered, holding the hard-earned gift list, and frowned.

Hum? Li Luo and Cui Xiuning looked at each other and looked at the hard work of eating lobsters together, but they saw that she looked very normal.

"Please offer a different spiritual snake." After the ceremonial chanting, he was sweating profusely. When he looked up, he saw the Minister of the Honglu Temple. The ceremonial ceremonial ceremonial singing at him fiercely.

Li Qian was also very depressed at this time. He should have carefully checked the gift list. Now, thanks to Fenghuang Township, he has given a snake to the death, which is the crime of deceiving the emperor!

Not only did he work hard to finish, but he, the ceremonial officer, would be affected. According to principles, every gift list must be checked to avoid a taboo gift. But he did not check it in detail, and now he has made a fortune!

The ministers were also stunned.

What did the Marquis of Phoenix Township offer? A snake? Your Majesty is the true dragon emperor, but you offer a snake. Is this a deception?

Even if you offer a pair of eagles, a pair of sika deer can be reasonable.

But you offer a snake!

Many ministers shot out their anger in their eyes and stared at the hard work together.

Cui Xiuning smiled slightly, turned her head and whispered a few times in Li Luo's ear. Then Li Luo nodded and smiled.

Li Xuan held up the hard-earned gift list and looked at her, "Fenghuang Township Hou, what do you mean? Hum?"

He stood up tall and gracefully, pretended to be innocent and said, "Da Honglu, I offer it to Your Majesty a strange spirit snake. This is my favorite treasure. I offer it to Your Majesty to show loyalty and filial piety. What's wrong?"

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Li Xuan was sweating all over his head. He did not argue with Xu Xun. He just knelt down to Li Luo and said, "I am negligent and did not carefully check the etiquette list, so that there is such a taboo thing. Please punish him."

Li Luo looked at Xunfu with a smile, "Fenghuang Township Marquis, what is the name of this alien spirit snake? Where is it?"

After exploring the sleeves for a few times, I took out a colorful little snake and held it high and said:

"Your Majesty, this snake is a strange species in the world. It was caught by me last year. It is gentle and non-toxic, loves cleanliness, and has a rich fragrance. What's more magical is that it can repel mosquitoes, far better than sachets and incense burning."

"Now in early summer, there are more and more mosquitoes, so I believe the palace will not be able to avoid it. Your Majesty can keep your mind at ease by putting this snake around you and not worrying about mosquitoes."

What? It's so magical?

Everyone looked at the beautiful little snake with a little disbelief, their eyes full of doubt. Although people who were close to each other smelled a faint fragrance, they didn't believe that it really had a magical effect of repelling mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes are really annoying. Although burning incense is useful, its usefulness is actually very limited. Either you hide in the mosquito net or there are people around you to repel mosquitoes. Otherwise, this summer night will be really hard to bear.

After hearing Cui Xiuning's words, Li Luo knew that thanks for his hard work, he did not lie. This snake was indeed a different species, and it was gentle and non-toxic. When he entered the palace, Cui Xiuning had played with it.

"Show me." Li Luo stretched out his hand.
To be continued...