The rise of the prince

Chapter 356 Before the Mid-Autumn Festival

Everyone continued, all the way Wanyan Yingge continued to tell Chen Yu more of her great achievements. From time to time, Wanyan Yingge and Liu Xu were amazed at the scene of flowers outside the car window.

But when we walked to a section of the road, suddenly the stench came in, almost making it difficult to breathe. There was also a lot of silt and dirty black things on both sides of the road, and many people were cleaning it up.

The old man also held his nose and didn't speak until he passed the street before he said, "Those are because the underground passages are blocked and the sewage is flooding. It was caused by heavy rain last month."

Wanyan Yingge nodded. Although Liaoyang and other cities where they are located did not go to Beijing University, they still have such problems, especially in winter, when it is bitterly cold outside the customs, and the water turns into ice.

After looking at it for a while, the old gentleman said: "Now Kaiyuan has seen most of it, but there is a special place that I want to show you. The scenery is different from other places in the city, and it can be said to be unique."

Wanyan Yingge suddenly became interested.

The gray-black wooden wheel is like the scales of a black dragon, and the water surface is sparkling. On the big river, the water waves are undulating. Those gray-black scales creak and rotate with the current, stretching for more than ten miles from the shore, like a magnificent long dragon swimming in the river. .

The square houses on the bank are neat and orderly, like dense fish scales, stretching from the river bank to the mountains behind, with black smoke coming from the dense chimneys, people coming and going at the spacious desk, busy, and you can see it from a distance. Hear the uproar.

Wanyan Yingge was standing on the other side of the river. She had never seen such a spectacular scene, as if the dragon in the water of more than ten miles had driven half of the mountain. It was simple, rigid and disciplined, full of vitality.

"What is that? Where is that place?" She asked two questions in a row, and Liu Xu also looked over. This was exactly what he wanted to ask.

The old gentleman stroked his beard and smiled, "Didn't you just ask, that is King Pingnan's residence, his father's Prince Xiao's residence."

"King Pingnan!" Liu Xu exclaimed, then shook his head: "It seems that he is really a genius like the master said, although I don't know what he is going to do, but just looking at it is also a wonder."

Wanyan Yingge didn't say a word, she silently looked at the orderly and inconceivable little kingdom on the other side like a fortified city, and slowly clenched her fists.

"Can I pay a visit to Prince Xiao's Mansion?" Wanyan Yingge asked suddenly.

These words made both Chen Yu and Liu Xu pause a bit, as envoys to call on important officials, this is inappropriate.

Liu Xu hurriedly said: "Princess is just curious, it's just a whim, you don't need to care about it." She gave Wanyan Yingge a wink while talking, but she didn't refute, she probably understood that she was impulsive.

Chen Yu smiled: "Hahaha, it doesn't matter, Xiaowang's mansion is an old neighbor, but you need to ask the Holy One and the Southern King to make it."

The Mid-Autumn Festival has always been an important festival, so at the beginning of August, before the Mid-Autumn Festival arrives, there is already a lot of excitement in Beijing and central China, and preparations have begun everywhere.

Tingyulou, Zhiyuelou, Zhiqiulou and other Wangfu restaurants have already been contacted by people, wanting to book a banquet on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, in the capital today, the restaurants in the Xiaowangfu are of the highest quality, and they have the potential to win the victory of King Nan , As the tide rises, all the nobles and rich families come to talk.

At this time, it is not money that can solve it. After all, the restaurant has limited space, and it has become a means for the palace to make friends.

This year the emperor will personally preside over the court discussion ceremony, so it has attracted the attention of many people, but only a small number of people can enter the palace for debate, and everyone is still not allowed to enter.

For the common people, the most lively thing is to appreciate the moon, and for the students, it is the poetry meeting.

The ancient Mid-Autumn Festival does not need future generations:
The expensive houses decorate the terraces and pavilions, and the folks compete to occupy the restaurants and play the moon.The strings are heavy, and the residents near Neiyan hear the sound of sheng taro late at night, just like outside the clouds.The children in the room, the wedding drama all night, and the night market Piantian, are familiar with it.

There is no curfew on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is an all-night celebration.When he went out to the new army camp, he found that in the past few days, some big merchants and brothels on the river bank had started to prepare flower boats.

The Chen family's Yongyue Pavilion poetry meeting is naturally indispensable.

But this year, I'm afraid there won't be such a grand event as in previous years. Chen Yu will enter the palace to debate and be entertained by the emperor. Without the Yueyue Pavilion poetry meeting hosted by him, it's like lacking a soul.

However, Li Xingzhou has not been free recently, apart from purges of the new army, the queen specially asked him to enter the palace yesterday, and repeatedly told him that after the Mid-Autumn Festival, she would take Gillian back to Jiangzhou to meet his parents.

Both the palace of the prince and the prime minister's palace had already performed the ceremony of acceptance, and it was agreed that the wedding will be held after the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is no reason why Gillian's parents will not be seen at this time.

Li Xingzhou thinks about it too, Gillian has lived in the palace for two or three months, if she doesn't do it, she will have a bad reputation in the future, but she is too busy to take time off.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Degong personally came to the door and told him that Gillian's parents would come back to the capital for the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and asked him to meet him in the past. Be nice to her, but don't lose sight of the other.

In fact, this is telling him in disguise that if he is too busy, he can take advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law instead of going to Jiangzhou.

This is naturally disrespectful to Gillian's parents, but it is also a last resort.

Finally, Degong said to him earnestly: "Now you are the commander of the new army, the champion general, and also the post of the Privy Council, the young supervisor of military weapons, and the official of Kaiyuan Mansion; Those who lead the army do not lead the army, and those who lead the army do not adjust the army. The emperor wants to prevent usurpation of power, but now you have several positions, both civil and military, and have the right to adjust the command. Why is the emperor like this? You have to think more think."

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the palace is also busy.

News from the north also kept coming. The 16 Liao army was confronting the [-] Jin army in the area east of Zhongjing City, and the battle was imminent.This has also become a new topic of conversation and gossip among the people in Beijing and the literati after dinner, talking about who loses and who wins, and who dominates the north.

Of course, most people are not optimistic about the Kingdom of Jin, because the disparity is too great. Although King Pingnan of the Kingdom of Jin also has a story of one thousand breaking one hundred thousand, he is still a traitor, and he cannot compare with Liao State cavalry.

Li Xingzhou also likes to go to the Goulan Restaurant in his spare time to listen to people bragging and arguing, but he thinks in his heart that if the Jurchens are defeated, he would be happy to see it, because the Liao Kingdom is at best equal to Jing Jing.

But if Jin Guo wins, maybe the rise of Jurchens will be unstoppable.

In the previous life, 2 troops defeated more than 70 soldiers of the Liao Kingdom one after another, and swept the Jurchen of the Liao Empire who dominated the north in a short period of time. If that was the case, it would be much more difficult to deal with than the Liao Kingdom.
While he was thinking wildly, Chen Yu's eldest son, Chen Wenxi, came to visit the palace and handed him an invitation to the Mid-Autumn Festival Yongyue Pavilion Poetry Club.

But when he saw the invitation for the first time, he was so scared that Li Xingzhou spit out a mouthful of hot tea. It was not an invitation to participate in the poetry meeting, but it was clearly written in black and white on red paper: "Invitation to be the guest of honor"!
The so-called guest of honor at the poetry meeting is those who sit on the high platform and comment on poems. He can copy poems, but criticizing poems will kill him!

(End of this chapter)