Shen Tang, Liu Xiangling, the iron-blooded traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty Chapter 767: A Hundred Officials Celebrate Their Shou, Zhao Shen Presents a Gift
There is no trivial matter for the royal family, and there is no selfish matter for the royal family!
Therefore, the birthday of the Supreme Emperor is naturally celebrated by all the people! Although the people may not want such a day to come! I think back then, Liang Zhongshu gave Cai Jing a birthday gift of 100,000 yuan every year. This money was not scraped out from the hands of the people. What?
There are even many local officials below who make money through this!
Regarding this situation, Shen Tang naturally sighed, but unfortunately he did not have enough power to change anything for the time being!
Shen Tang's gift is not too expensive. It is a good set of four treasures of the study, worth about a thousand taels! Most of the other courtiers' gifts are not too expensive, unless they are veterans of the Emperor's period and have close personal relationships with the Emperor. Will prepare generous gifts.
However, such gifts will basically not appear on the gift list.
The congratulatory gifts had long been handed over to the chamberlain. Shen Tang followed the flow of people and slowly entered the palace, following the chamberlain holding a lantern in front of him, and entered the Daqing Hall.
Birthday celebrations for civil and military officials and the singing of ritual lists will all be held in the Daqing Hall.
After the ceremony is completed, Zhao Gou will give a banquet to all officials, and some ministers will also be invited by Zhao Gou to the Funing Hall to speak.
All the civil and military officials lined up according to their shifts. Today, the main hall is decorated with lights and colorful decorations everywhere. The festive characters "longevity" are posted and hung one by one. The whole main hall is a fiery red color!
"The Emperor has arrived..."
With a sharp chorus, Zhao Gou, dressed in gorgeous clothes, appeared in everyone's sight!
Emperor Zhao Shen was half a step behind Zhao Gou and followed closely behind him, with a smile on his face! Zhao Gou moved forward step by step and came to the dragon throne!
Zhao Gou sat down, while Zhao Shen stood aside respectfully! In order to show his benevolence and filial piety to his father, Zhao Shen did not even ask anyone to prepare another chair!
"My lord, please see the Supreme Emperor!"
"I wish the Supreme Emperor good health and long life..."
The words of congratulations are the same every year, and there is not much difference. All the civil and military officials pay homage and pay homage respectfully. They all congratulate each other in unison, and then the Right Prime Minister Shi Hao goes out to express his gratitude to Zhao Zhao again on behalf of all the civil and military officials. Read your birthday wishes carefully!
After that, some veterans from the Zhao Gou Dynasty also read out birthday wishes!
All kinds of things, it took nearly half an hour to come to an end!
Looking at the respectful courtiers below, Zhao Gou was also very happy, as if he had returned to his appearance when he came to court.
"Okay, okay... You are all good ministers of our Song Dynasty. With you here, I can rest assured that I will completely hand over the throne to the emperor..."
"Today is my father's birthday. I have specially found a treasure to give to my father. I wish my father a long life!"
After all the birthday congratulations from the ministers were completed, Zhao Shen saluted respectfully and said to Zhao Gou!
"oh?
Since the emperor said it is a treasure, it is naturally rare, why don’t you quickly present it to me for a look?"
Zhao Gou said with great interest.
Zhao Shen nodded slightly to Wang Quan, and Wang Quan turned around and left. After a moment, he returned with a long scroll! Two servants came forward, one on the left and one on the right to help Wang Quan open the scroll. A pair of calligraphy words appeared on In front of Zhao Shen.
"Father, please look at this. This is a calligraphy written by Liu Gongquan of the Tang Dynasty. What is even more rare is that this is a copy of Yan Zhenqing's "Yuanci Mountain Stele". It is a piece of calligraphy, but it is the result of the efforts of the two masters, although it is not as good as that of my father. Those treasures are very rare, but they are also extremely rare.”
"Closer, closer!"
Zhao Gou's face was full of surprise, and he couldn't help but stand up from the dragon chair, his fingers gently landed on the scroll, and his eyes did not dare to leave!
"Okay, okay, okay! Liu Gongquan's original work, and the calligraphy copied is Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy. It's really rare! Rare!"
After a long while, Zhao Gou just asked the chamberlain to roll up the scroll with some reluctance, "Hold this calligraphy carefully, don't make any mistakes. From now on, I will hang it in the palace, watch it all the time, and copy it a few times." Yes! It is rare, rare to combine the spirit of two great masters of the Tang Dynasty..."
In this aspect, Zhao Gou can be regarded as inheriting the temperament of the old Zhao family. He is very fond of calligraphy and painting, and he collects many treasures in his daily life!
"Your Majesty, you are serious!"
Zhao Gou patted Zhao Shen on the shoulder with satisfaction.
Seeing Zhao Gou's expression, Zhao Shen couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. His father was really difficult to take care of! Moreover, Zhao Gou was a master he had seen before, and ordinary gifts were not attractive at all. Now, If his gift can satisfy him, it is not in vain.
"As long as the father is satisfied, this is what a son should do."
Zhao Shen said respectfully.
"Father, although my third son is away from home, he has also prepared gifts for my father and sent them over!"
Zhao Shen continued.
"Um!"
Zhao Gou nodded, "It's rare for you to show filial piety, so please bring it up for me to see!"
Zhao Shen had four sons, but the fourth died young, leaving only three.
These three sons were all born to the late Empress Guo.
Among them, the eldest son is Zhao Wei, who is now Shaobao, the governor of Yongxing Army, and granted the title of King Deng.
The second son was Zhao Kai, who served as the military governor of the Xiongwu Army and was granted the title of King Qing.
The third son is Zhao Dun, who is now the envoy of the Zhentao Army. He opened the mansion with the three divisions and was granted the title of Prince Gong! He was later named Guangzong of the Song Dynasty!
It stands to reason that Zhao Shen has been on the throne for two years now, and the eldest son Zhao Ming has reached the age of twenty, so it is already time to establish a crown prince.
Civil and military officials have already invited Zhao Shen several times to appoint him as the crown prince as soon as possible.
However, Zhao Shen had some worries in his heart.
First of all, his throne was passed down to him by Zhao Gou, but he is not Zhao Gou's biological son.
Under such circumstances, if he directly makes his son the crown prince, I am afraid that the Supreme Emperor Zhao Gou will have some thoughts in his heart.
Therefore, the matter has been dragged on, and there is no conclusion until now.
However, the establishment of a prince is a major matter for the country. Now that Zhao Shen's throne is stable, it won't be long before the civil and military officials will appeal to the matter again.
We will talk about these other things later, but after Zhao Shen finished speaking, Wang Quan on the side sang loudly!
"The envoy of the Yongxing Army, King Deng, congratulated the Supreme Emperor on his birthday and presented a congratulatory gift of a South China Sea jade coral!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several chamberlains carried a bonsai that was about one foot high into the main hall. They lifted up the red cloth covering it, revealing a huge red coral tree in front of everyone.
"Well, yes, yes, this coral tree has a novel shape and translucent color. It is really extraordinary!"
Zhao Gou commented.
"The envoy of Xiongwu Army, King Qing congratulated the Supreme Emperor on his birthday and presented a congratulatory gift, an authentic work of Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty!"
"I'm interested!"
With the previous gift from Zhao Shen, this authentic painting of Yan Zhenqing, Zhao Gou just nodded slightly and said nothing more. Moreover, although authentic paintings of Yan Zhenqing are rare, Zhao Gou also has many in his hands.
Therefore, the performance is naturally not that enthusiastic!