The Jin Palace has been preparing for this birthday banquet for about half a year. With the financial and material resources of a palace, this birthday banquet is naturally very lively.
At this time, the royal banquet was placed from the palace to the street, and was placed along the street for a long time. In other words, no matter whether they came to celebrate the birthday of Prince Jin or not, even ordinary people could sit down and have a meal.
Suddenly.
Of course, it is okay to eat out, but it is a bit difficult to go in to see Prince Jin and wish him birthday.
However, Zhao Shilang is a big boss in the court, and he is ranked among the top ten people in the six departments. As soon as he walked to the main entrance of the palace, Li Mu, the eldest son of the Jin Palace, personally greeted him, raised his hand to Zhao Changping, and saluted with a smile: "Changping
Sir is here."
Although Zhao Shilang looked tired, he still returned the courtesy and shook his head: "Your Majesty, you are too polite. I don't dare to call you Sir."
Li Mu lowered his eyebrows and said, "Those who are here today are all relatives and friends of Prince Jin's Mansion, and are all old friends of my father. You don't have to be polite, sir."
These words were indeed polite. Usually when Li Mu saw these officials in the imperial court, he would usually address them by official title, but today was his old father's birthday, so it was not too polite to address them.
Zhao Changping nodded slightly, then looked back at Zhao Er and said, "Give the prince the gift list."
Zhao Jizhou quickly handed over the gift list with both hands. After Li Mu accepted it, he lowered his head and thanked her.
Shen Yi was following Zhao Jizhou at this moment. He was not so generous as to send a gift. He just brought a wooden box and handed it to Li Mu with a smile. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, I ran away yesterday.
I went through Jiankang's bookstores and found a geographical map of Jiankang. I have turned it over below. Compared with today's geographical maps, it is much more detailed. The prince of Jin is Yin of Jiankang. Maybe it can be used
Get it.”
"The gift is frivolous, please don't be offended, Your Majesty."
Li Mu took it with a smile, then handed the wooden box to the servant next to him, stepped forward and patted Shen Yi on the shoulder, smiling heartily: "Zi Heng has this kind of thought, it is already very precious, my father deserves this gift
, most of them will be happy.”
He turned sideways, made an invitation gesture, and said, "Please come in quickly, the three distinguished guests. The banquet will begin soon."
Minister Zhao nodded silently and led the two juniors into the inner chamber of Prince Jin's Mansion.
The inner residence of Prince Jin's Mansion is not the house where Prince Jin's family lives, but the backyard of Prince Jin's Mansion. It occupies a large area. In addition to the house where he lives, there is also a huge garden. Shen Yi once stayed in this back garden.
Attend a tea party.
At this moment, there were almost a dozen tables set up in an open space in the back garden.
On these dozen tables, the real guests of this birthday banquet are invited. These people here cannot be described as either rich or noble, I can only say...
They are all noble people.
They are all powerful people in Dachen.
Originally, if Shen Yi came to pay homage to King Jin on his birthday, he would most likely not be able to enter the inner courtyard. However, with Zhao Changping leading him, Shen Yi followed the Zhao family and his son and successfully entered the inner courtyard.
The servants of Prince Jin's Mansion had already arranged a seat for Zhao Changping and led the three people over. After Zhao Shilang arranged for the two nephews to sit down, he then said to the two people: "You guys sit here, I'll go see you."
Prince Jin."
He is a big boss, so he naturally wants to celebrate his birthday with King Jin in person.
After Zhao Shilang left, Shen Yi and Zhao Jizhou sat at this table together, which felt like a rabbit among wolves. Zhao Er was okay, he knew some people and could talk to some people at the same table, and Shen Yi I can only sit there and watch my nose and heart.
After a while, Zhao Changping walked out of the inner house, returned to his seat, and greeted his colleagues at the table with a smile. At this time, King Jin's birthday banquet was about to officially begin, and Li Mu, as the crown prince, did not have to be there. After receiving guests at the door, Li Mu came to the inner house and found Shen Yi who was already seated. He first greeted everyone at the table, looked at Shen Yi with a smile, and asked, "Has Zi Heng met your father?"
Shen Yi stood up, shook his head and said, "I haven't met Prince Jin yet."
"Then Zi Heng, come with me. My father has been talking about wanting to see you a few days ago. Today I came home and I wanted to see you no matter what."
Shen Yi then stood up, said hello to Zhao Changping, and then followed Li Mu towards the back house.
Li Mu led the way, then handed Shen Yi's gift back to Shen Yi, and said with a smile: "You will give it to my father in person later."
After Shen Yi took it, he nodded silently.
The Prince of Jin led the way and sighed.
"It turns out that my father was filled with emotion after reading Zi Heng's poems. After reading the Di newspaper written by Zi Heng half a month ago, he took it with him and took a look at it when he had nothing to do."
"Although my father was not born in the north, I have heard stories about Yandu from my grandparents since I was a child, and I am quite touched by the newspaper you wrote."
The Prince of Jin was of the same generation as the late Emperor, and both were sons of Emperor Xianzong.
Emperor Xianzong was the son of Emperor Sejong.
Emperor Shizong was in his thirties when he crossed south in embarrassment. Emperor Xianzong was already nearly 20 years old at that time. Therefore, Emperor Xianzong grew up in the north, that is, in Yandu, so he would naturally follow his The sons talked about some old things in Yandu.
By the third generation, Li Mu, the feelings towards the north were no longer very warm, but for second generation people like King Li Rui of Jin, they still had feelings for the north.
When Jin King Li Rui was young, he went to Yandu for a period of time to trace the traces of his ancestors.
While the two were talking, Li Mu had already taken Shen Yi to a side hall in the back house of Prince Jin's Mansion. Prince Jin was drinking tea in the side hall. Li Mu asked Shen Yi to wait at the door and walked in alone. After entering, he He lowered his head to his father and said.
"Father, the banquet is almost about to begin, and it's time for you to go out to meet the guests."
Prince Jin said "hmm" and asked, "Is there anyone from the palace?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "He's not here yet, but he should be here before noon."
King Jin nodded again and said nothing.
Li Mu took advantage of this opportunity and winked at Shen Yi. Shen Yi, who was standing at the door, walked in and bowed his head deeply to Prince Jin and raised his hands: "Jiangdu Shen Yi, congratulations on your birthday."
Hearing the name Shen Yi, Prince Jin's eyes changed slightly. He raised his head and glanced at Shen Yi, then pointed to the chair opposite him. He, who was always serious, showed a rare smile: "Master Shen is here."
Shen Yi held the wooden box containing the geographical map of Jiankang in front of Prince Jin, with a smile on his face: "This is a birthday gift from me to the prince. It is the geographical map of Jiankang. The prince is in charge of Gyeonggi, and perhaps for the prince it works."
"Um."
Prince Jin put the box aside, nodded and said, "It's rare that you are serious."
After praising Shen Yi, Prince Jin asked Shen Yi a few more questions about the imperial examination and the academic examination. When the conversation between the two came to an end, the emperor's uncle looked at Shen Yi and smiled: "Master Shen's poems and essays are of the highest quality. Yi Jue, since you are here today to congratulate my king on his birthday, why don’t you prepare two poems?”
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head, rolled his eyes, and thought of something.
"Your Majesty, poems and essays always come from a sudden inspiration, but at the end of the New Year, I came across a few lines, which can be used to congratulate your Majesty on his birthday."
Prince Jin lowered his head and took a sip of tea, with a calm expression on his face: "Master Shen, would you like to hear it?"
Shen Yi nodded silently, glanced at Li Mu, and read out loudly.
"Everyone is one year old today..."
After he finished reading the beginning of this sentence, which sounded like limerick, he paused, glanced at the expressions of the father and son again, and continued reading.
"It's not that the world prefers me to be old."
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My head hurts from being angry, the update is late...