Jinyi Night Walk

"When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky for wine. I don't know the palace in the sky. What year is it? I want to go back by the wind, but I'm afraid that Qionglou Yuyu will be too cold on the heights. Dance to find out the shadows. How is it like being in the world?"

Following the sound, under the moonlight, I saw an elegant scholar in a Confucian shirt and soft hat, standing on a small boat with a cup in his hand, swinging leisurely towards the round platform. He came out and was floating on the water. This kind of appearance was really exciting, the noise from all around disappeared, and everyone looked up to the stage.

"Turn to Zhuge, a low-key household, and a sleepless night. There should be no hatred, why don't we go to farewell..."

As soon as the boat touched the edge of the round platform, the man toasted and stepped onto the stage, with his sleeves fluttering, step by step, he was extremely elegant. When he stood still on the stage and turned around, Xia Xun couldn't help laughing. This person is Huang Zhen Huang Yushi who stole the sheep.

Huang Yushi held the cup coquettishly in his hand, smiled and said: "My lords, all of you Xinke Scholars, under the permission of the emperor and the Ministry of Rites, we will enjoy poetry and wine tonight on the Mochou Lake. It's time for the imperial army to come As the North wins every victory and good news spreads frequently, we are gathered here, let us first congratulate "..., ouch, who threw something at me? "

Huang Zhen suddenly yelled and covered his head with his hands, Li Jinglong scolded angrily: "It's me!"

He was still holding a walnut in his hand, and eagerly scolded: "My lord, do you know where the song-and-dance masters from the yard have come? They want to show off their wonderful songs and dances. Why are you running up to make a fuss, an old man? Tonight's poetry reception, but It is to celebrate the new subjects Jinshi's leaping into the dragon's gate, high-ranking officials have to do it, and horses have to be ridden, so there are so many reasons for it!"

When Li Jinglong heard the good news from the north, he didn't get angry. He just took a piece of fried walnut and threw it away.Fang Xiaoru's face darkened, and he reprimanded coldly: "Huang Yushi is a member of the imperial court, and he will preside over the poetry and wine event tonight. The people here are either ministers or Jinshi from the new department. Don't Cao Guogong think that he is too rude?"

Li Jinglong glanced at him coldly, and said bluntly: "Li? What is a ceremony? Can it be eaten? Can it be worn as clothes? Or can it be used as a soldier?"

Fang Xiaoru was furious, and clapped the case and said: "Rites are the foundation of the country. When you govern the people, there is no one who is good at rites, and rites prosper." People rule; rites abolish and people make chaos. You are the current state Sir, how can you be so disrespectful? "

Li Jinglong was not annoyed either, he smiled and cupped his hands and said: "Wonderful, wonderful, listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books, Li Jinglong has been taught."

Xi Xiaoru didn't expect him to accept his teaching so happily, he was slightly taken aback "but he was also a little happy to see a prince who was trained by him to admit his mistakes", then he flicked his sleeves and said: "That's all!Huang Yushi, please..."

"Wait!"

Li Jinglong crossed his legs and scratched his ankles." He said leisurely: "I, Li Jinglong, didn't know how to be polite and offended Mr. Huang. Here, I will accompany you, Mr. Huang. "

Ah, ah...,..."

Huang Zhen stood on the stage, wanted to bow, the wine was still full, raised his glass, but felt that it was not the case, it was a little embarrassing.

Li Jinglong raised his voice and asked: "Mr. Xiaozhi, what is your current position in the court?"

Fang Xiaoru is now a doctor of literature, and a fifth-rank official. Although he is actually the prime minister of the dynasty and holds great power, his official position has not yet reached his official status.Fang Xiaoru cupped his hands and said: "Thanks to the trust of the emperor, Fang is now a doctor of literature and a fifth rank in the dynasty."

"Wow! In order to govern the people, there is nothing good at etiquette. What is prospered by etiquette is ruled by the crowd; what is abolished by etiquette is destroyed by the crowd. I, Li Jinglong, have been taught."

Li Jinglong slapped the table, looked at him and sneered: "I, Li Jinglong, am the first rank in the dynasty, and I am the Duke of the country. The Duke of the country came later than you, and you are sitting there with a big face, but you, a fifth-rank official, got up to greet you! Ben The official sits down, it’s been so long, and I don’t see you, a fifth-rank official, coming forward to greet you! What’s the etiquette? May I ask Dr. Fang, what’s the proper way?”

The more Li Jinglong spoke, the louder his voice became, and then he became stern: "Li Jinglong is ignorant, and he doesn't know if he remembers it right or wrong. If it's wrong, please ask Dr. Fang Da for advice. According to my Ming Dynasty etiquette, officials meet each other. For those whose grades differ more than the fourth class, the humble ones bow down, the honored ones sit and accept, and those who have something to do will kneel down.

Dr. Fang Da, please set an example and salute now! "

Xu Huizu got annoyed, jumped up and said, "Li Jiujiang, don't mess around!"

"Naughty?"

Li Jinglong's eyes were faintly stern, and he said with a smirk: "Wei Guogong, the rite is the foundation of the country. This country's lord is observing the etiquette, why did it become a nonsense?" He glanced at Fang Xiaoru, and said in a deep voice: "Fang Xiaoru, Are you praying or not? If you don’t salute, salutation is nothing! From now on, don’t keep talking about salutes to the Duke of your country!”

In full view, everyone was watching, Fang Xiaoru blushed for a while, then turned pale for a while, feeling ashamed.

Although his official position is not high, he has always been highly valued by the emperor, just like the prime minister of the court. Who doesn't respect him, and now even Wei Guogong Xu Huizu respects him too?When he first arrived in Beijing, he paid more attention to these details. When he saw officials of higher rank than himself, he knew how to avoid them and salute them. After a long time, he has become accustomed to being flattered by others. Now As a fifth-rank official sitting with dukes, earls, first- and second-rank officials, he didn't feel cramped at all, but took it for granted. Now Li Jinglong suddenly turned his face, making his face hot.

He also taught Li Jinglong just now that "the ritual prospers, the crowd rules; the ritual abolishes, the crowd messes up." Now, this ritual, does he keep it or not?

When Xu Huizu saw his face, Li Jinglong pouted back, and glared at Xu Zengshou fiercely in a fit of anger. Xu Zengshou invited this guy here just for disgusting people. Li Jinglong didn't instigate this trouble. One step was a bit beyond his expectation. Xu Zengshou hurriedly tugged on Li Jinglong's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Jiujiang, don't..."," Li Jinglong shook his hand, and said solemnly: "Third brother, etiquette is what makes everyone happy. What is governed; what is abolished by etiquette, and what is disordered by the public, can you afford this crime? "

"Uh……,…"

Xu Zengshou was also dumbfounded: "When did Li Jiujiang become such an ass?"

At the beginning, Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng used Li Jinglong to squeeze out the Xu family, and he was used willingly, but later the two "abandoned the pawns to protect the commander" and blew Li Jinglong's nose like a big nose, and Li Jinglong hated him very much. Anyway, he is already like this, A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, but is he afraid of offending Fang Xiaoru. His mentality at this time is quite similar to that of King Ning when he was cornered, just pretending to be crazy.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the ranks were very strict, and there were strict regulations on what clothes, hats and sleeves the officials, gentry and common people should wear.

Fang Xiaoru gritted his teeth, walked over with a blushing face, knelt down in front of Li Jinglong, and bowed four times." He choked out a voice from his throat: "Official Xiaoru, pay homage to Cao Guogong. "

Li Jinglong shook his robe, looked down at Fang Xiaoru and said, "Dr. Fang, do you have something to report?"

Fang Xiaoru gritted his teeth and said, "I just came up to pay my respects because I saw Lord Cao Guogong here." There was nothing to report. "

"Oh!"

Li Jinglong nodded, and said with a smile on his face: "Get up today, the officials and the people are having fun together. Go back to your seat and enjoy poetry and music. Don't disturb the interest of my country's princes talking and laughing with colleagues and friends."

"Thank you, Mr. Guo!"

Fang Xiaoru kowtowed again, and when he got up again, his face was livid, and he returned to his seat and said, "Fang feels unwell at times." Tonight's poetry reception "I can't participate." Zhou Liao, leave. "

Xu Huizu hurriedly got up and said: "Mr. Xiaozhi..."

Fang Xiaoru walked away with a flick of his sleeves, only a breeze came back to meet her.

Xu Huizu stood blankly for a while, then followed quickly, Ran Shu from the Ministry of Rites saw it, and Chen Di hurriedly followed up to persuade them. As soon as the three left, Huang Zhen stood on the stage, full of flirtatious words. He couldn't show it anymore, so he made a short and concise speech, hurriedly ended his speech, let the Kabuki dancers of Jiaofang Division take the stage, and the poetry reception began hastily.

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Xia Xun was very happy. After he arrived in Beijing, he already knew how Li Jinglong was abandoned by his civilian allies after his defeat. Seeing Li Jinglong's confrontation with Fang Xiaoru at this moment strengthened his idea of ​​instigating Li Jinglong's rebellion.Li Jinglong may be very incompetent in the military, but this does not mean that Li Jinglong is incompetent, or that the Li family is incompetent.

If the Li family hadn't had its own faction and subordinates, and had enough influence, how could Huang Zicheng have the ability to help him to the top and replace the Zhongshan Palace?Furthermore, although Li Jinglong was squeezed out of the power center, he is a general who has fought several battles with the Yan army. If there is any major military plan in the court, he will still be recruited for details. He has the opportunity to participate The people of the military plane, once they succeed in instigating a rebellion...

The more concubine Xun thought about it, the more excited she became, she didn't notice that Xu Huizu came back in a rage, and called Xu Zengshou away again.

Xu Huizu caught up with Fang Xiaoru, but Fang Xiaoru is also a character with a fiery personality. If he was still a professor of Hanzhong Fuxue, he might not feel anything, but now he is like the prime minister of the country. Disrespectful?Guan Sheng has a bad temper, which was a matter of course, but now it is a great humiliation imposed on him by Li Jinglong in full view.

But now he was being held tightly by the word "li" by that trash of Li Jinglong, and asked him to perform the first salute. Fang Xiaoru regarded it as a great shame and humiliation, how could he have the face to sit and drink calmly in front of his colleagues and his disciples.Although Xu Huizu chased after him and apologized humbly for a while, he still left in anger.

Seeing that Xu Huizu's plan to make peace with civil officials failed, even after this incident, the mutual estrangement will deepen, making Xu Huizu so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. On the contrary, he is very bachelor. He has offended Fang Xiaoru, a powerful figure, so is he still afraid of Boss Xu?You are the Duke of the country, and I am the Duke of the country. Everyone is unlucky, and no one is afraid of the other.So he followed carelessly.

Prince Consort Huaiqing was worried that Xu Zengshou would be reprimanded by Xu Huizu who was enraged, and worried that Li Jinglong would be violent and quarrel with Duke Wei, so he also followed, and when Xia Xun's countermeasures against Li Jinglong formed a little outline in his mind When he woke up, these people had all disappeared, and the rest of the people on the boat were already very lively.

The big shots always think that they are an indispensable and important embellishment at the banquet. In fact, in the eyes of ordinary people, what they dislike the most is their presence. Didn't he just finished a glass to see if he is in the middle of drinking, so as to find the best time to go up to toast, and he has to sit there pretendingly, who can drink to his heart's content?

As soon as these two groups of people left, those petty officials and new scholars were greatly relieved. You raised a glass and I poured wine, and you recited poems and I opposed it. It was really relaxing.

All the big names at Meng Shilang's table were gone, so he simply made a table with a few Jinshi. These Jinshi were not ordinary people.

Meng Fusheng twisted his beard and said: "I was receiving the envoys from [Japan] and the country behind the mountains at that time, and I never saw you playing right in the hall. Afterwards, I read the records, haha..., Hu Jing, what did you say?" Your Majesty always adheres to the principles of benevolence and righteousness of the sages and sages.I hope that your Majesty will not take the minister's words as a detour, but will act earnestly, and the effect will not only last today. , is indeed the finishing touch, no wonder he was selected as the number one scholar in this subject. "

Hu Jing had a look of color on his face, and he quickly raised his cup and said, "Wan Sheng dares to be praised by the boss, Mr. Minister, please drink."

Wang Gen was a little surprised when he heard this, because he should have been named the head of the department, but because he was not as good-looking as Hu Jing and Zhou Zheng, the emperor had reversed the two of them, and now he heard Meng Shilang Praising Xi Jing made Wang Gen feel very uncomfortable.

Meng Fu has been in the officialdom for many years, how old-fashioned he is, at a glance, he boasted: "Wang Gen, your sentence "I heard that the world is dominated by one person, and the king is based on one heart.If the master's heart is oriented, then he should do his best to complement it. , is also wonderful, it can be called a good sentence. "

Wang Gen smiled lightly, cupped his hands and said, "Your Excellency is absurd. Compared with Hu Jing's talent and learning, the late student is still inferior. Otherwise, why should he be inferior."

This person has an upright personality and doesn't know how to speak. Meng Fusheng was a little displeased when he heard this, and Tanhua Li Guan looked at his face, and hurriedly smoothed things over and said: "Ah! I also heard that the servant minister was welcoming the envoys of the vassal state that day. , so I was never there. Uh "...the two seats next to me are the envoys of [Japan] and Shanhou Kingdom?Later students heard that people from that country have admired our Chinese culture for a long time, and have also studied my Chinese poems and books. Tonight's poetry and wine feast, it seems that they are only drinking alcohol. First, with wine? "

Meng Fusheng nodded happily. He had already toasted at those two tables just now, but the guests at each table were reciting poems and odes, only the guests at those two tables were only drinking, which seemed out of place with everyone, and he felt a little left out The foreign guests wanted to toast another glass of wine, and they were very happy to hear the proposal, and praised: "Okay, okay, Li Guanna, your proposal is very good."

Meng Fusheng raised his glass and walked to Mitsuo Shimadzu and He Tianyang, and said with a smile: "You two noble envoys, tonight's poetry and wine feast, with poetry to accompany wine, and wine to accompany poetry, the two noble envoys only drink and don't sing, how can it be possible? , Ha ha, how about asking each of you to compose a poem?"

After hearing this, Mitsuo Shimadzu moved the two black spots on his eyebrows, pressed his hands on the table, stared round his eyes, and said nervously, "Nani?"

He Tianyang thought that the cup was too small, and was drinking from a large bowl. When he heard the poem, he also put down the big bowl, and said with his tongue out, "Ha... what?"! ~!