Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 480 Lu Ming Banquet

After a set of procedures was completed, the emperor announced that he would give a banquet to the Luming Pavilion, and he went down to the harem with the support of Li Fuguo.

Li Heng's health is not as good as before. Today, he felt dizzy after taking thirty Jinshi examinations.

The Luming Hall is located in the Daming Palace, and it will only be open when the Xinke Scholars give a banquet.

Only court ministers at the level of Zaizhi and Shangshu, and nobles at the level of the Duke of the State, are eligible to enter the palace for a banquet on New Year's Eve.

And if ordinary officials want to eat in the palace, they can only win the Jinshi's Qionglin Banquet.

The Luming Pavilion is taken from the meaning of "Yoyo Luming, the apple of the wild food, I have guests, and I play the sheng" in the "Book of Songs", which means the presence of talented people from all over the world, which also shows the emperor's importance to new scholars .

Because it is held in the Luming Pavilion, it is also called Qiongling Luming Banquet, or directly called Luming Banquet.

The emperor himself would not attend such a banquet. The one seated in the Luming Hall was the chief examiner of the Jinshi examination, the prime minister Pei Mian who also served as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the other examiners including Yan Zhenqing, plus The examiners of the Ministry of Rites, Imperial College, and Hanlin will also have banquets.

Compared with the previous private banquets, the Luming Banquet in Qionglin is a ceremonial banquet, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites have also been trained on the rules of the banquet yesterday.

Moreover, the master and the elders are here. Although this banquet is a banquet to celebrate the selection of new scholars, everyone still dare not be too presumptuous. They just follow the etiquette, first thank the emperor under the leadership of Wang Chengwei, and then express their gratitude to the master on the main seat. Pei Mian drinks.

Then he drank wine to the other examiners and graders, and after finishing drinking, Yu Chaoen took the emperor's order and handed over a bag of gold cakes to Wang Chengwei.

Everyone thanked the emperor again, and Pei Mian and the examiners finally left.

At this time, the banquet was finally relaxed, but at this time in the palace, it should not be too noisy.

At this time, the youngest Jinshi in the Jinshi Division stood up and said, "Today's Luming Banquet, first of all, I want to congratulate Mr. Zhuangyuan on being granted the title of Wannian County Prime Minister!"

Everyone raised their wine glasses one after another. Wannian County is in Chang'an City, and it also belongs to the sequence of Beijing officials.

Everyone wants to be a Beijing official, not only because the Beijing official is an official in Chang'an City, but also because the promotion system of the Beijing official is different from that of the local officials.

The promotion path of local officials is from the county to the state, and then they have the opportunity to be transferred to Chang'an.

Some of the people present had to be appointed as the county magistrate of Zhongxian County. When the county magistrate was appointed, they had to wait for the county magistrate to be vacant nearby before being promoted to the county magistrate through qualifications.

After becoming a county magistrate, he has to wait for vacancies in the state capital before he has the opportunity to continue to be promoted.

If the state capital has no chance, it will have to wait until the local Jiedushi sponsors and get a position in the Jiedushi's feudal town.

If there is no great contribution at this time, basically being an official in this life will almost come to an end.

But the promotion system for Beijing officials is completely useless.

A censor can be promoted among the three platforms. For example, the censor in the palace can be promoted along the censor of the censor, the censor, and the audience.

The censor can also be transferred to other yamen, and if there are vacancies in the six departments and nine temples, they can also come out of Santai and enter these departments.

Even if the Beijing officials don't want to be Beijing officials anymore, if the censor is released, it will be a good position like Changshi and Sima in the state government.

As long as Beijing officials don't make mistakes, or stand in the right team, they can always be promoted step by step, and they don't have to go through seniority like local people-friendly officials.

Wang Chengwei wanted to be an official close to the people, and the emperor specially selected an official close to the people belonging to the sequence of Beijing officials for him.

This is why the emperor gave him the favor of the Wannian county magistrate.

Afterwards, all Jinshi congratulated each other one by one. After the round of drinking, Gu Kuang stood up and said:

"According to the usual practice, we have to compile the same year record, and this matter will be handed over to Mr. Zhuangyuan."

Tongnianlu is an ancient "classmate record" that records the hometown, family address and brief introduction of each Jinshi on the same list.

But for Jinshi on the same list, the same year record is very important.

In the ancient times when communication was inconvenient, this was an address book. Only after having the same year record can it be convenient to communicate with each other.

Jinshi on the same list is the most important relationship network for a Jinshi who first entered the officialdom, and the same year record is not the end of one revision, and it will be revised every year after that, and then sent to the same year.

The work of compiling the Tongan Chronicles naturally fell on Wang Chengwei's shoulders.

After he did his part, everyone drank alcohol to him again.

At this time, there was the sound of bamboo boards being beaten outside the Luming Pavilion, and it was time for the music to end.

A week later, everyone met and held a Wenxi banquet outside Chang'an City. This lively Jinshi banquet finally came to an end.

In the next few days, the emperor met with the top few candidates in the Ming Jing Department, and all of them were awarded official positions. The Jinshi exam that has lasted for two years has finally come to an end.

Next, Wang Chengwei went to the official department several times, got his appointment procedures, and received a green official robe and a copper seal representing the identity of the county magistrate.

Because he took office in Chang'an City, and now there is a vacancy in Chang'an County, he can go to take office at any time.

The other colleagues were different. They had to go through the formalities of conferring officials within a week, and then set off immediately after the wedding banquet.

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, if you fail to take office on time, you will be punished. Now that the army is in chaos, the sooner you start, the safer.

However, Wang Chengwei was not prepared to take office so early. When he became an official in the Tang Dynasty, he only had one day off at the end of each month, and he had no holidays throughout the year.

During this time, Wang Chengwei visited various friends, from Prime Minister Pei Mian to other examiners, plus officials he knew in Chang'an.

He also sent a gift of Longyou specialties to his future boss, Jing Zhaoyi, Cui Guangyuan. Cui Guangyuan was also very polite to this subordinate and returned the gift.

Since the release of the expansion pack of "The Wind Rises from Chang'an", many players have flocked to Chang'an.

Officials and players all have errands, and they will not get official positions in Chang'an even when they arrive in Chang'an, so it is naturally impossible to leave Longyou casually.

Most of the general players are in Longyou, and some ranger players are busy in Uighur and Tuyuhun.

Among the players who flocked to Chang'an, the most were merchant players.

And with the influx of these players, many Longyou "specialties" also appeared in Chang'an City.

Among them, the most popular ones are still a large number of textiles from Longyou.

During the prosperous Kaiyuan period, merchants gathered in Chang'an from all over the world. At that time, even women from ordinary families would bring some dowry silk when they got married, and middle-class families became increasingly extravagant.

However, after a war, it has been thoroughly demonstrated that the so-called middle class in Chang'an City are nothing but water without roots.

The emperor returned to Chang'an, and now Datang regained control of Guanzhong, together with the entire southern part of the empire. As long as the direction is right in this imperial chaos, the ministers who took refuge in Li Heng in Lingwu or Fengxiang Mansion will start to make a fortune again .

Guanglufang, Pingkangfang, these workshops where important officials of the empire gather, the sound of silk and bamboo began to resound again, and the best things of the empire were sent to Chang'an City.

But those ordinary people don't even have the money to repair their own houses, let alone consume luxury goods such as silk.

The high-quality and cheap Longyou cloth was welcomed by the people of Chang'an as soon as it entered the Chang'an East and West Market.

After the continuous transfer by the players, Longyou's dyes have entered the second stage. They are not limited to extracting dyes from natural materials, but have begun to use simple chemically synthesized dyes.

The colorful Longyou cloth not only satisfies the extravagant character of the people in Chang'an, but also has high quality and low price, so it quickly won the favor of the people.

In addition to cloth, woolen clothes are also very popular.

Snow has already fallen in Chang'an, and the warm and warm sweater does not have the animal smell of the previous leather clothes, and it is fluffy and warm.

People who have no money to buy ready-made clothes can still buy wool and go back to weave clothes by themselves.

Nowadays, there is a trend of knitting hats and scarves in Chang'an. Even some young ladies from wealthy families will pick up sweater needles and give their lovers a warm and comfortable scarf, which is no more practical than embroidering a sachet!

In addition to these clothes, Longyou's snow-white paper has also become something that scholars in Chang'an are rushing to buy.

Tang people had a special pursuit of pure color. The emperor appointed the prime minister, and the hemp paper used to worship the prime minister was woven with a kind of natural white linen.

The high-grade white paper that can only be used by appointing a prime minister is not as comfortable to write as the Longyou newspaper.

Moreover, in order to enter Chang'an, Longyou Paper Industry produced another thing called "Xianglan Paper".

Before the paper is finalized, spices are added to the pulp. This kind of paper has an orchid-like musk fragrance. As soon as it enters Chang'an, it is welcomed by dignitaries and nobles, and it is sold out quickly.

In addition, clocks and kerosene lamps, which were all the rage in Fengxiang Mansion, also appeared in Chang'an's market.

But none of the above are the best-selling goods in Chang'an. Now it is the matches from Longyou that have really entered the homes of every Chang'an citizen.

Ever since the player exploration team discovered a phosphate mine near Jiuquan, the chemical industry association in Jiuquan saw business opportunities and quickly moved a set of match production processes into the "game".

This kind of thing that only needs friction to start a fire is much easier to use than flint.

Moreover, what is fired is an open flame, so there is no need to use tinder to ignite it, even a slightly dry firewood can be ignited.

The matches were light and easy to carry, so Guo Ping brought them into Chang'an.

At the beginning, it was just a bonus product that could not be found for change, but as winter came, it became more difficult to start a fire, and matches, a convenient tool for starting a fire, were immediately welcomed.

The price of matches is not high, and making fire is the daily need of every household, and finally became the most sold commodity in Longyou.

(End of this chapter)