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Chapter 572 Wen Yanbo: It’s done!

The Empress Dowager made the decree on the spot. The wives who come to court today are ordered to have a chariot each.

And this is exactly what Zhao Xu wants.

A palace banquet can spread the spinning wheel throughout the country through these women from all over the world.

Of course, Zhao Xu also knew that it was nonsense to expect these ladies to promote and use spinning wheels.

After they got the spinning wheel, most of them probably wouldn't use it at all.

He would only offer it up and put it in the ancestral hall as his own glory.

Although it seems to be a useless effort, however, when cotton is sold all over the world.

These things can play their role.

They will become ready-made drawings, just find a few carpenters, dismantle the spinning wheel, and then put it back together again.

There are fruit platters, dried fruit platters, candied fruit platters, and even a herb platter called "Luxianjin Herbs".

Now it seems that this legend is mostly a cover-up.

After Lu Yijian learned about this, he immediately took action.

This gift lasts for decades!

Otherwise, Prime Minister Lu may continue to appear.

Look at these people, how sensible they are!

It's no wonder that the Lu family was able to thrive in the Song Dynasty.

Thinking like this, Zhao Xu lowered his head and continued to eat his white fish.

Moreover, it is very likely that they have been sending gifts regardless of whether anyone from the Lu family is in court or not.

That is to say, Mr. Lu made a wrong bet on Zhao Xu in his previous life and died too early.

The dishes for the palace banquet in the evening were obviously richer and more delicious than those during the day.

……

In short, it is very luxurious.

It is a description of the fireworks display during the Lantern Festival.

Since the emergence of gunpowder and its application in military affairs, the prototype of fireworks has actually appeared.

Today's 'fireworks' are more similar to what modern children play.

During the meal, there are even more tricks.

The Lu family in Shouzhou, with four generations and three prime ministers (written by Lu Mengzheng, Lu Yijian, and Lu Gong), can be said to be a unique family in the Song Dynasty!

Halfway through the palace banquet, Feng Jing came to Zhao Xu and asked for instructions: "Everyone, the various fireworks sent by the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau are already in place."

The Empress Dowager smiled and nodded: "Brother Six, why do you suddenly ask about this?"

Especially the Huai white fish (Huai River's cocked mouth) in this season, the meat is delicate and plump, and there is a faint aroma of distiller's grains in your mouth. As for the fish bones of the white fish? It has long since been removed by the imperial chefs using various techniques.

While eating Huai Baiyu, Zhao Xu thought about something, turned around and asked the Queen Mother in a low voice: "Mother, the white fish in the palace has always been supplied by Xianggong Lu's family, right?"

Compared with the fireworks that Xin Qiji saw, they were naturally backward and primitive - during Xin Qiji's time, the muskets had begun to be used in the military, and early rockets such as the fire dragon water also began to appear.

This is Yang Conspiracy.

Then, on a summer night like tonight, he sent his wife to the palace and brought the Huaibai fish that had just been fished ashore from his hometown of Shouzhou and marinated with wine lees.

You can reverse engineer how to build it!

"Yeah." Zhao Xu nodded.

However, at this time, fireworks are called "fireworks".

Among all the dishes, Zhao Xu’s favorite is Huai white fish with distiller’s grains.

Moreover, it is extremely delicate and artistic, and the presentation alone has more than a dozen different shapes. The appearance alone has surpassed those modern Internet celebrity stores by dozens of blocks.

Therefore, this textile revolution will come faster than imagined.

It's amazing, it's an improved civilian version of the military's poisonous fireball.

There are more than a dozen kinds of tapas on offer.

Xin Qiji of the Southern Song Dynasty had a poem: The east wind bloomed with thousands of flowers and trees, and even blew them down, and the stars were like rain.

There are everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, and swims in the water.

Never doubt that the ruling group of the Song Dynasty was accomplished in enjoyment!

"Nothing!" Zhao Xu said, "I just suddenly remembered it."

Huai Baiyu is related to a well-known story in the Great Song Dynasty. At that time, Lu Yijian was the prime minister. In order to consolidate his position, he found out from somewhere that Renmiao liked to eat Huai Baiyu, but because of his shame, he was embarrassed. Ask the local official to deliver it.

Because, through Zhao Xu's answer to the Queen Mother, he already knew that the Lu family has been responsible for supplying Huaibai fish to the palace since the Renmiao era.

After this incident, the banquet began.

According to folklore, there were ten baskets of Huaibai fish sent to the capital that year, but Lu Yijian only asked his wife to send one basket.

This means that the purity, formula, and preparation technology of gunpowder at that time had already achieved breakthroughs.

So, when Feng Jing came to report again, all the fireworks had been placed at the designated position.

Zhao Xu stood up and paid homage to the Empress Dowager: "I would like to inform you that Sun Chen has prepared fireworks for today's Holy Day. Please come out of the palace to watch."

At this time, the banquet was almost finished.

The Empress Dowager then stood up and said, "That's fine, just follow the official's instructions."

Then he and Empress Dowager Xiang led the late emperor's concubines, princes, princesses and concubines from Ren Temple who were dining behind the curtain out of the palace.

At the same time, an edict was issued, and the ladies were ordered to accompany him and watch.

So, a group of people came to Fengxianghe, which had already been cleared out.

The royal family members naturally came to the top of the attic on the third floor.

Other married women, depending on their status and relationship, watched from the second floor, the first floor, and in the open air.

When everything was ready, Zhao Xu said to Yan Yuan: "Marquis Yan, let's start."

"No!" Yanda bowed and accepted the order.

Then, opposite Feng Xianghe, in the open space next to the inner pond.

The Yulongzhi people holding torches, under the guidance of the technical officials sent by Shen Kuo, began to light the fuse of the first fireworks.

As the fuse is ignited, it burns quickly and then...

boom!
The first man-made fireworks on earth appeared in the sky above Inner Pond.

After adding various metal powders, the gunpowder produced a beautiful flame reaction when it bloomed.

The shape of its blooming fireworks has already been designed.

These technologies were mastered by Shen Kuo and his craftsmen from the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, who spent several months.

Today, there are several types of fireworks of different colors and shapes.

Tonight, these fireworks bloom in the sky in the backyard.

The Empress Dowager looked up at the fireworks blooming above her head, which were so bright and dazzling.

At this moment, she felt that she was indeed the greatest mother-in-law of all time!

Otherwise, why would there be such a scene of peace and tranquility for the country and the people?
……

Zhang Qi's old house rented by Su Song is close to the imperial city.

He raised his head and looked at the sky, the sky deep in the imperial city, where the fireworks were blooming.

The fireworks like falling stars made him addicted.

"Cunzhong, are these fireworks?"

Opposite him, Shen Kuo nodded slightly: "That's right! These are fireworks."

"Good!" Su Song praised, stroking his beard, and suddenly became interested in it.

I was about to discuss with Shen Kuo, how did these fireworks become so beautiful?
Su Song's wife Wang and Shen Kuo's wife Zhang had already led their servants to bring the prepared food.

Su Song and Shen Kuo quickly stopped talking.

They all know that their wives hate it when they discuss work outside of work.

So, the family sat in the courtyard, quietly looking towards the direction of the imperial city, admiring the fireworks blooming from the bricks and tiles of the palace wall.

……

Naturally, it was not just Su Song and Shen Kuo who saw the fireworks that appeared in the sky over the imperial city.

The entire old city of Bianjing was awakened by soldiers, civilians, officials and merchants at this night.

People climbed up to the rooftops or to high places in the city, looking at the fireworks rising and blooming in the sky in the direction of the imperial city.

This is a grand occasion they have never seen before.

Looking at it from a distance, I was filled with admiration.

Even the courtesans and their patrons in the Goulan climbed up to the roof and looked into the distance that night.

Yan Jidao is one of them.

With the help of his best friend, he climbed onto Wazi's roof.

Then I pillowed my pillow on the warm fragrance of nephrite and looked at the fireworks blooming in the imperial city.

His mind wavered, his eyes wavered, and he softly recited the words he had written when he was a boy: "We first met in front of the Doucao steps, and we met upstairs when threading needles... Looking for the road in dreams, in the rain and falling flowers..."

He was so high-spirited and free and easy back then.

In his opinion, everything in this world is easily accessible and should not be cherished.

however……

Thirty years after the dream, looking back, he thought about his current situation. He was nearly fifty years old, still a minor official, but he had been favored by the new king and could be promoted.

But because of his naivety, greed for alcohol, and lust, he made mistakes and was convicted by the officials. "Alas!" Yan Jidao thought about his past.

His life has been on a downward spiral since his father's death.

And every time, at the critical moment, he always made the wrong choice.

Even the happiest scene in his life was filled with beauties who were extremely disappointed in him and abandoned him.

The sparse eyebrows of "Xie Jia Qingcao sings Qing Shang Hao" were crying, and the heartbroken expression was shaking in front of his eyes.

However, he couldn't give Shumei what he wanted.

Even her last hope was torn to pieces by his own hands - in the seventh year of Xining, he wrote a poem to Zheng Xia and ran into a big thunder.

He was imprisoned for that poem.

During this period, Shumei was helpless in Bianjing. In the end, she had no choice but to be sold to a wealthy foreign businessman by the owner of Wazi in despair.

He wanted to search, but he could no longer find the woman who shed tears for him and was willing to use her personal money to buy him wine, pens, and ink.

However, Shumei was only the first beauty to be hurt by him.

Xiaoqian is like this, Xiaolian is like this, Xiaoyun is still like this.

He remembered that last year, his good friends Shen Junlong and Uncle Chen Lian saw that he had a special liking for their singers Xiaozhen, Xiaolian and Xiaoyun, and they wanted to fulfill their wishes.

But he couldn't help but feel ashamed, and at the same time he was worried that the three women would suffer along with him and would not accept it.

As a result, Shen Junlong fell ill and died in December last year, followed by Uncle Chen Lian.

Therefore, Xiaoqian, Xiaolian, and Xiaoyun, the new owners of the Shen and Chen families, directly gave these beauties to the nobles in the capital.

Who specifically? Yan Jidao didn't want to mention it, nor did he want to mention it.

But he remembered how he felt when he saw Xiaoqian and others for the last time. He was in great pain, but he could only force a smile.

From then on, he could only write words and reminisce - the setting sun outside, the distant water. It's like A-Lian's double pillow, in the painting screen.

Or when you are drunk late at night, you think of Xiaoqian's voice and appearance, so: I remember Xiaoqian's first meeting, the double heart word "Luo Yi", and the pipa saying lovesickness. The bright moon was there at that time, and it once illuminated the colorful clouds!

Thinking of this, Yan Jidao's nails dug into his own flesh.

Because the beauties he let down should not have such a fate.

If he had not followed Zheng Xia in making noise, he would not have been jailed. If he had not been jailed, Shumei would not have been taken away.

Last year, when he entered Beijing, the officials gave him grace.

He was allowed to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to wait for Que, and when he heard that he would be given a fat job, Lian sent someone to tell him clearly - Quan Fa sent Luoyang Jiedu to promote the official.

This is the pinnacle of selection for state and county officials from the eighth rank.

As long as you don't make mistakes, study hard, and add the official's respect and status as the prime minister's son, it will be easy to change the official position in the capital in one or two years.

Even ascending directly is unknown.

But at that time, because he was in the capital, he saw the singer Shishi who had stayed with him in Xuzhou, being held in the arms of a pot-bellied businessman, and his defenses were immediately broken!

Therefore, he gave up the dispatch arranged by the officials.

Even so, the officials did not give up on him, and even arranged for him to work as a housekeeper in the store.

However, at that time, because he was depressed after breaking the guard, he spent all day at Shen Junlong and Uncle Chen Lian's house, drunk and dreaming every day, only playing with Xiaoqian, Xiaolian, and Xiaoyun.

Didn't take office again!

This time the officials broke through the defense!
At that time, Gao Zunhui, the right-selecting member who was in charge of selecting officials for the Ministry of Personnel, directly deleted his name from the list of officials awaiting employment in the Ministry of Personnel.

If so, he went to Luoyang to take up the post, and even went to the shop and housekeeping department to take up the post.

Why were Xiaoqian, Xiaolian and Xiaoyun given away to those noble people by the Shen and Chen families?

Thinking like this, Yan Jidao's heart felt even more painful, as if it was being cut by a knife. He could only pick up the wine jar and pour it down his throat.

The famous prostitute beside him is the contemporary Xu Poxi.

Xu Poxi looked at Yan Jidao's sudden melancholy and gloomy look, and saw him drinking alcohol. He couldn't help feeling a little distressed. He stretched out his hand to stop Yan Jidao from continuing to drink and eat too much: "What's wrong, Yan Lang?"

Yan Jidao sighed dejectedly, looked at Xu Poxi, and then looked at the wine jar in his hand.

"Drinking and sex spoil things! Drinking and sex ruin things!"

"From today on, I will give up drinking and sex!"

Xu Poxi covered her mouth with a smile, stepped forward and hugged the contemporary Liu Sanbian's neck, and rubbed his beard with her red and plump lips: "What nonsense did Yan Lang say?"

Can Yan Jidao give up drinking and sex?
Then you might as well believe that the great monks in Bianjing will abide by the rules and precepts of the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha.

Yan Jidao was immediately dejected by Xu Poxi's blow.

"yes……"

"How can I stop drinking and having sex?"

Although he is nearly fifty years old, Yan Jidao still lives when he was seventeen years old, when his father was still alive and the Yan family was at its peak.

His mentality is also the same as the first song he wrote that was sung, "Linjiang Fairy" - the flowing water will follow the spring, and the flowing clouds will be with whom!

It doesn't matter!
Just ...

Yan Jidao looked at Xu Poxi's delicate and charming young face.

"Madam, why do you fall in love with me?"

Xu Poxi covered her mouth and laughed: "It's because of Yan Lang's talent!"

This is the contemporary Liu Sanbian!
As long as you keep him, you won't be afraid that no one will comment.

Don’t worry about not being liked by others!

Who among the nobles and wealthy businessmen in Bianjing wouldn’t want to share a woman with Yan Jidao, the prime minister’s son and the second in command of Liu Sanbian?
This value naturally increased immediately.

There will be a good place for re-employment in the future - many wealthy businessmen and dignitaries are willing to take a beautiful, intellectual and talented girl who has been enlightened by Yan Jida as a concubine.

Even if it is kept, it is comfortable.

Isn't it because of this, or is it because of Yan Jidao's almost fifty-year-old age and his body corroded by alcohol and sex?
……

"Amitabha!" In the Kaibao Temple, the purple-robed Chief Minister Jin looked at the fireworks in the sky and couldn't help but sigh.

In front of him, several monks were kneeling.

"Why do you speak in front of the Crown Princess without authorization?" President Jin asked.

The monks bowed and said, "President, this poor monk realizes his mistake."

"Alas!" Jin Zongzhi sighed: "The Kaibao Temple cannot accommodate you and others."

"Let's go out for a wander early tomorrow morning."

"Otherwise, I might be in trouble!"

The willing monk of Bathhouse Temple is now imprisoned in Si Lusi's prison.

As for the crime?

As a monk, you are talking about government affairs! Defamation of national policy!
Wish Cheng is the one with the purple clothes bestowed by the emperor.

But he was still mercilessly imprisoned!

But his imprisonment was uneventful, and no one in the court even discussed it.

The crows on the Yushitai closed their mouths tightly.

This is the consensus of the ruling and opposition parties!
As President Kim knew, a storm was already building.

Kaibao Temple, as a royal temple, will only be torn into pieces if you get involved - eating the inside and outside, what use do you have? !

When the board comes down, let alone him, the entire Kaibao Temple will have to be cleaned.

……

Late at night.

The lights in front of Wen Yanbo's mansion were still bright, and the halberds lined up in front of the door were still white and sharp under the red light of the lanterns.

Two carriages slowly emerged from the night, escorted by dozens of retinues, back to the gate of Wen Mansion.

Then, a woman wearing a married woman's uniform stepped out of the carriage.

The door of Wen Mansion also opened immediately.

Several of Wen Yanbo's sons came out to greet her: "My sons respectfully welcome my mother back home."

It was Wen Yanbo's wife Wang who returned from the banquet, and Wen Yanbo's youngest concubine daughter Wen.

Surrounded by their family members, Wang and Wen returned to the back house.

Then, they saw Wen Yanbo waiting for them to come back in the yard.

"Officer." Wang quickly stepped forward: "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

Mrs. Wen also bowed and said, "My daughter has given you your regards." She kowtowed.

Wen Yanbo chuckled and said to Mrs. Wen: "The Emperor's kindness is so great that I express my gratitude to you. I will wait here for your return."

After the news came out in the palace that his daughter Wen was also ordered to enter the palace.

Wen Yanbo was ecstatic! Where can I sleep?

He immediately asked his wife: "How is it in the palace?"

Wang then briefly told Wen Yanbo what happened in the palace.

After hearing this, Wen Yanbo's old face suddenly burst into laughter.

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" He said three good words in a row!

why?
Because from Wen Yanbo's perspective, today's official family, where is Wen's praise?

But the thirteenth mother in the palace!
Wen's virtuous person = Thirteenth Niang is also a virtuous person!

That's it!

Now, as long as a dowry of 5 million yuan is prepared and the queen is given the title of queen, who else can be given to her husband and granddaughter? !

(End of this chapter)