Manchu traitor, how can you let me be the emperor of the ages

The next day.

Compared with serious daily lectures, higher-level sutra feasts are more relaxed.

The Jingyan banquet is very large, so a Jingyan official is required to preside over it.

And the banquet official is usually served by the prime minister, and this time it is naturally Qin Hui.

But the Jingyan official is not necessarily a lecturer. There are other people who are responsible for lectures to the emperor and officials. They can be Japanese lecturers or other court officials.

It's just that the imperial court is just holding the sutra feast for the first time, and can't find any suitable candidates who are not opposed by the emperor to give lectures, so let the lecturers come for a few days.

If you can speak successfully once, there will be a second time, and if there is a second time, there will be a third time, a fourth time... an infinite number of times, until the activities of daily lectures and sutra banquets are completely stabilized and become a routine.

From four to five quarters of Mao time, officials have successively arrived at the square of the front hall of the Wenhua Hall and sat down according to the arranged positions.

This is the first sutra banquet that many people have experienced in their life, so it is inevitable that there is still something fresh, and they greet colleagues around them with a smile.

"Master Liu, I haven't seen you for a long time, and my complexion is getting better and better."

"Master Zhang is the same..."

The civil servants are generally in a good mood. It is not easy to win a victory from His Majesty the Emperor, let alone such an important victory.

How meaningful is it that the daily sutra feast, which had been stagnant for nearly a hundred years, was reopened, and the emperor began to learn the scriptures again?

These ministers who have worked so hard for it, vying to persuade the emperor to correct his mistakes and get back on track, will probably leave a mark in the history books in the future...

While the officials were chatting and laughing, several senior officials in scarlet robes came from the front together.

"Uncle Da Zong, Da Sikong is here~"

"And Shaozuka Zai and the others..."

The chattering voices of the officials were slightly lowered, trying to appear more dignified in front of many bigwigs.

On the other side, Wang Mang and the others didn't need to care about these things, they came to the front row and sat down while chatting and laughing about the interesting things about the capital and various places in the past few days.

"Pharmacist?"

Yu Wenkai suddenly looked at Li Jing, who had been sitting here for a long time, and was very surprised: "It's just a few days since I saw you, why is your complexion so bad?"

Wang Mang also turned his head when he heard the words, and looked at Li Jing with a bit of puzzlement on his face.

At this moment, Li Jing's face was pale, faintly blue, his lips were bloodless, and even his eyes were a little dim.

Li Jingqiang cheered up, greeted the two of them with a wry smile, and then explained in a hoarse voice: "I have a cold these days, it's not a serious illness, just take some medicine and you'll be fine."

While saying this sentence, he coughed several times.

Both Yu Wenkai and Wang Mang were surprised. You must know that Li Jing used to be a general who could lead troops to the battlefield. His body was always very strong and he rarely fell ill.

Besides, it's the end of April, when the cold turns warm, and it's not the late autumn when the warm turns cold. Normal people won't be prone to cold symptoms, right?

And looking at his condition now, it is much more serious than contracting a cold.

But since Li Jing said that, the two of them couldn't get to the bottom of it, they asked a few words to pay attention to their health, and then focused on the sutra feast that was about to start.

The sun in the sky is getting fuller, and more and more officials are present.

It wasn't until around [-]:[-] pm that almost all the officials had arrived, and the scene gradually quieted down, before Cai Jing came slowly from behind.

Officials who were close to him went up to salute and say hello. Although Mr. Cai suffered a bit from the turmoil of the test a while ago, his power should not be underestimated.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that the camel is not dead yet, it is just a sick camel.

Cai Jing greeted these people with a smile. Although there are many people, it can make every official feel like a spring breeze and feel very comfortable.

But at this moment, a discordant voice suddenly came from the front.

"Master Cai."

Qin Hui stood in front of all the officials, looking at Cai Jing expressionlessly: "This is my first time presiding over a sutra banquet. I have never had any experience. Maybe there are a lot of mistakes. I would like to ask Mr. Cai to help me maintain the sutra banquet. Manners and discipline."

The smiles on the faces of several officials who were greeting Cai Jing just now froze.

The few remaining officials who were still chatting quietly, like ducks being strangled, lowered their heads and stopped talking, and the atmosphere in the banquet suddenly became calm.

Cai Jing also paused for a moment, raised his head and looked at Qin Hui in front, and said with a smile: "The sutra banquet is related to sagehood and morality, and it is also a matter of concern to all the adults in the court. If Qin Xiang is unable to catch up, I will naturally be obliged to do so."

As he spoke, he walked to his place in front of him.

Seeing that no conflict broke out between the two on the spot, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised their heads and quietly glanced at Qin Hui in front of them, wondering why Prime Minister Qin is so...aggressive today?
If you listen to this sentence alone, it is actually quite normal, but if you combine it with the situation just now, there is a problem.

Qin Hui said that he has no experience in hosting a sutra banquet, so does Cai Jing have it?If Qin Hui can't do it, Cai Jing probably can't do it either, but Qin Hui still asks Cai Jing to help maintain etiquette and discipline.

And just now the order here is actually very good, almost no one talks anymore, and the only one who makes noise is Cai Jing.

So this is very meaningful.

Your constant talk here is annoying, so please help me out and take care of yourself.

The sutra banquet is about to begin, you should be a little bit self-aware, don't wander around here, and make me mess up.

That's the connotation of civil servants scolding people. If you don't have a good eye, you won't be able to hear people scolding you.

But it's not a good thing to understand, even if you grit your teeth angrily, there's nothing you can do about him.

After all, people are talking to you in a polite manner... Why are you swearing or not?I don't know, are you thinking too much?

Just as Cai Jing sat down, three silent whips sounded from the Wenhua Hall.

As soon as everyone heard it, they understood that the time had come.

Everyone looked towards the entrance of the hall together, and found that His Majesty the Emperor was approaching slowly under the escort of a group of eunuchs and imperial guards.

"The ministers are waiting to see my emperor." All the ministers got up to salute one after another.

"Don't be too polite."

Li Gan got off the sedan chair, sat down slowly at the table in the middle, and glanced at the ministers at the same time.

Basically all come.

After he sat down, under the guidance of Qin Hui, all the officials performed a series of complicated etiquette, and then Qin Hui announced the official start of the feast.

The Sutra Banquet is not just a simple lecture to the emperor, it is also a platform for communication, and all the people present are the audience.

"It is said that Zhuge Liang's lectures were compiled by Hanlin."

In the eyes of all the big shots, Zhuge Liang was wearing a blue official robe, and came all the way from the direction of the side hall to the desk in front of Li Gan.

In fact, many ministers are a little worried about today's Jingyan. In their opinion, can't they choose an old minister who often attends court meetings to be the lecturer?

If you have to find such a rookie who has just entered the officialdom, this kind of person will not be scared to the ground when he sees such a big scene at the first time?

The ministers do not want any accidents in this sutra banquet, and everything must be safe.

But for some reason, Qin Hui and a few others resisted all opinions and insisted on letting Zhuge Liang come.

Fortunately, so far, everything is normal and there are no accidents.

The book exhibition officer opened the scriptures on the table to the page to be talked about today, and then slowly stepped aside.

After Zhuge Liang saluted Li Gan in front, he was ready to start speaking.

But at this moment, the unexpected surprise that the civil servants least wanted appeared.

Several civil servants in blue official robes ran over from the south sweating profusely. Just as they were about to bump into the Jingyan scene, they were stopped by the surrounding Huben Guards.

"stop!!"

The two Huben Guards put their hands on the hilts of their sabers and greeted them with vigilant faces.

Now the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty should all know that now is the time for the sutra feast.But even so, he still wants to break into it, which is very abnormal.

If it weren't for the official robes on these people, the two tiger guards might have drawn their swords.

Several officials also knew that today's situation was important, but they were still flushed with anxiety and insisted on going inside. The leader said a little anxiously: "Get out of the way, urgent military report, you can't afford to delay!"

According to the rules of the Ministry of War, as long as the Minister of the Ministry of War is in the capital, he must be informed as soon as he receives a military report of this level. Even if he is on the concubine's bed, he must be dragged off by him.

Same now.

If these people break in and destroy this symbolically significant first sutra banquet, their future official careers will probably be very bumpy, but if they don’t go in now to make a report, this official will not need to be an official, and may have to go by the way A trip to prison.

The lesser of two evils, everyone understands this.

If there were other reasons, the Huben Guards might not have paid any attention to them, but when they heard that it was military situation, they hesitated for a while.

The noise here soon spread to the Jingyan scene, and even Li Gan heard the movement, and raised his head to look outside.

At this time, the adults finally couldn't pretend to be deaf-mute anymore, and all of them looked out from embarrassment, wanting to see who is so short-sighted!
Li Gan waved his hand, signaling Zhuge Liang to stop first.

Qin Hui also stood up, and walked towards that side expressionlessly from behind the officials.

"Qin Xiang..."

Before Qin Hui could ask a question, the military official in the lead blushed and said: "The urgent military situation at eight hundred miles was sent from Dingyong Pass!"

As he spoke, he took out a letter with chicken feathers from his sleeve and presented it.

Qin Hui looked at the envelope and narrowed his eyes.

Although he knew that there must be a reason why these people dared to interrupt the sutra banquet, he never thought that it was such an important reason.

Qin Hui didn't move to receive the military newspaper, but turned sideways to let it go: "The Great Sima is inside."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin."

Several officials trotted past him towards the field.

Li Jing had also noticed this scene a long time ago, his pale face became serious, he stood up with his support on the table, walked over to take the military newspaper in their hands, and took it aside to check.

At this time, almost all the ministers present were staring at his back, especially the military generals with good ears. They clearly heard the emergency military report just now...

So... how urgent is the military report?Is it worth the war by the Ministry of War?

Li Jing came to the side, first checked that the sealant on the envelope had not been tampered with, and then carefully opened it.

It was full of three sheets of letter paper. The person who wrote this military newspaper seemed to be in a hurry, and the handwriting was almost connected together. When Li Jing saw the content on it, his face just recovered a little, and it turned pale again in an instant. stand up.

Sitting behind the case, Li Gan looked at Li Jing who was reading the letter from a distance, frowning slightly.

His intuition told him that the sudden news shouldn't be good news.

Sure enough, after reading the letter, Li Jing immediately walked towards Li Qian. He seemed to have staggered half a step during the process, but he didn't seem to notice it.

"Big Sima..."

The old eunuch immediately went up to greet him. It stands to reason that courtiers are not allowed to approach His Majesty the Emperor at will.

Li Jing didn't force it, but directly presented the military report in his hand to Li Gan.

The old eunuch then handed it over to him.

Li Qian glanced at Li Jing's pale face first, then took the military newspaper and opened it to read.

"On the tenth day of the fourth lunar month, Dingyong Pass received a report. The Jinlu led three thousand troops to attack Meng Pass, our commander, and will be dispatched..."

Li Qian read it quickly until he found the key information: "... 160,000 soldiers and horses were raised... Dingyong Pass was also breached by the enemy..."

He suddenly understood why Li Jing reacted like this.

In order to guard against the grassland countries, Dagan deployed a series of frontier defenses at the border. Among them, the northeast border is collectively called the Northeast Frontier. This huge border fortress system is mainly based on Dingyong Pass, supplemented by a series of other small and medium-sized customs.

Now that Dingyong pass has been breached, how long can other pass defenses last?
This military report is from ten days ago. Have the enemy troops already broken through the frontier and drove straight in?

Li Gan looked at the content word by word, clutching the letter paper tightly in his hand, his heart sank gradually.

The last thing he wants to see now is the destruction of the stable situation, but he didn't expect the accident to come so suddenly.

In Li Qian's view, the most important thing is not these golden soldiers, but if this war destroys the existing stable situation and leads to more serious consequences...

For a moment, his thoughts became chaotic, and Li Gan even thought of the scenes of riots in various counties and counties across the country...

"Your Majesty..." A hoarse voice came from ahead.

Li Gan woke up suddenly, raised his head, and saw Li Jing's haggard face.

After the two looked at each other, Li Gan took a deep breath and looked around, only to realize that all the officials were looking at him.

The more it is at this time, the more important it is to have a stable and stable administrative system of the court.

If Li Gan himself panicked, then don't expect the people below to act calmly.

"This is the end of today."

Li Gan glanced at them, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, go back to the Yamen first, and after I discuss it with Prime Minister Qin, I will make up the Sutra feast in a few days."

The ministers below looked at each other in blank dismay. At this time, even people with no eyesight could see that some important military affairs must have happened at this time.

Qin Hui hurriedly stood up when he heard the words, and cooperated with Li Gan's order to evacuate all officials.

After Li Gan took a look at them, he turned around and walked directly to the Wenhua Palace behind him: "Da Sima, you come with me."