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Chapter 754 Winning the Lottery?
The pastries, melons and fruits were removed and served by the waiter.On the stone table are the Four Treasures of the Study.

Lu Chengqi calmed down, rubbed the ink with the high pick, but he was still there, thinking about what an appropriate name should be.The Taiye Pond is the most appropriate, but it's a pity that it has long been in the palace, in the back garden. "Kunming Lake? The diameter is only more than 100 meters. It's a bit reluctant to call it a lake. Besides, Kunming Lake is inside the Summer Palace. If you want to use it, you don't need it! Tianchi? No, it's okay to use the small to describe the big, but it's too small. no no no..."

When Lu Chengqi was struggling, he suddenly saw the relief on the pillars of the gazebo, which was a swimming dragon with teeth and claws, and his heart moved: "This pavilion is the Nine Dragon Pavilion, why not call it Nine Dragon Pool? By the way, Nine Dragon Pool is not bad!"

After Gao Hao finished grinding the ink, Lu Chengqi picked up the golden pen, dipped it in the thick ink, and carefully wrote down the three words "Jiulongchi" stroke by stroke. Zhou Zhiruo looked at it from the side, and said with a little surprise: " I never thought that His Majesty's words actually have the demeanor of Liu Gongquan!"

Lu Chengqi was very unhappy at first, this was his best handwriting, but after being hit by Zhou Zhiruo, he almost staggered: "Zitong, what are you talking about!"

Zhou Zhiruo covered her mouth and snickered: "Compared to before, Your Majesty's handwriting has indeed improved..."

She didn't lie, Lu Chengqi's handwriting when he was reborn was really like a dog crawling, and he had to learn traditional characters one by one, and the writing was crooked, even a child who had practiced calligraphy for three years, probably could write better than Lu Chengqi.Lu Chengqi also knew his own shortcomings, and spent a lot of time practicing calligraphy, and finally achieved something.It's not that Lu Chengqi doesn't want to invent a "quill pen", but he thinks it's unnecessary.Calligraphy is all about cultivating the mind.As the saying goes, handwriting is like a person, and beautiful handwriting is very pleasing to the eye.Besides, there are regular script, running script, and cursive script with a brush, and the writing speed is not slow. Over time, I get used to it.

Seeing that Lu Chengqi was hit hard, Zhou Zhiruo felt a little bit sorry. She picked up the rice paper that hadn't dried out, and pretended to say, "This character is well-proportioned and thin, and it has the power to follow the Wei stele. The stippling is neat and straight, with strong bones and a tight structure. Indeed. It has the charm of Liu Gongquan, but it's a pity that His Majesty follows the law too strictly, so he can't be regarded as a master of the generation."

After hearing this, Lu Chengqi's face became more pleasant: "What do I want to do, everyone, it's not easy to be an emperor..."

Zhou Zhiruo didn't dare to answer these words when she saw that there was a servant there.Lu Chengqi saw that the ink was dry at this moment, so he asked Gao Hao to take the word and hang it on the pavilion as a supervision block.

"Zitong, do you think I'm a good emperor?"

After all the servants retreated, Lu Chengqi was silent for a long time before suddenly asking.

Zhou Zhiruo blurted out: "If Your Majesty is not a good emperor, the concubine thinks that there is no emperor!"

Lu Chengqi shook his head, smiled wryly and said, "Zitong don't want to comfort me anymore, if I'm a good emperor, why would anyone turn against me?"

This proposition is a bit big, and Zhou Zhiruo didn't know how to answer it for a while.After a long time, Zhou Zhiruo answered irrelevantly and said, "Your Majesty considers the people of the world, collects less taxes, and has done a lot of good deeds. Rest with the people, and light corvée. Throughout the ages, only Emperor Guangwu can compare."

Lu Chengqi shook his head and said: "I can't compare to Emperor Guangwu. Emperor Guangwu can do that even if the Huns provoke him, he will not send a single soldier. Once the Liao Kingdom invades the frontier, I can't bear it. How can you be so warlike? Compared with Emperor Guangwu?"

"But Your Majesty did beat the Khitan people away? In the eyes of my concubines, Your Majesty is a good emperor, a good emperor who cares for the people..."

"Oh, I'm afraid that in the eyes of some people, I will be the chief culprit who cut off their fortune!" Lu Chengqi said with emotion.

Zhou Zhiruo comforted him and said: "These people have no regard for national interests, and are bent on selfishness. Why should Your Majesty care about such villains? As long as the supervisory department conscientiously enforces the law and prevents problems before they happen, the world will be peaceful! As long as His Majesty cares about the people, how can the people turn against him?"

These words are quite enlightening.Lu Chengqi also understood this truth before, but after experiencing a series of unfavorable obstacles, he began to doubt himself.Indeed, reform is difficult. Once the interests of diehards are touched, they will fight back wildly.I'm afraid these are all pediatrics, because Lu Chengqi also took their interests into account while reforming, so they didn't cause disasters.If the whole people are taxed and the tax-free privilege of the scholar-bureaucrat class is abolished, I am afraid that some people will make trouble.

Lu Chengqi secretly sighed, and did not tell Zhou Zhiruo the worries in his heart.Looking at the sky, Lu Chengqi said softly: "It's getting late, Zitong will follow me to have lunch!"

Zhou Zhiruo was eating preserved fruit at the moment, and when she heard the words, she spat out the core, but it was a plum.Lu Chengqi was secretly a little surprised, why did Zhou Zhiruo like to eat such sour food?You must know that the plums at this time are really made of green plums. After picking the green plums from the tree, wash them with clean water, then put them into a large tank, add salt water, and soak.After about a month, it can be taken out. After taking it out, it should be placed in the sun to dry it. After that, it can be marinated with sugar and vinegar and dried in the sun. The time is plum.Because the sugar at this time is expensive, so if you put less sugar, the plums will be very sour.

Secretly clicking his tongue, Lu Chengqi didn't ask any further questions.After the two of them drove to the imperial dining room, they brought lunch with Shangshi.

Lunch is mutton soup, fake fried meat, three flavors of jade filling lung, and a fish soup.Don't look at the fake fried meat and jade filling lung. The name is meat, but it is actually a vegetarian dish.It is not uncommon for vegetarian dishes to be named after meaty meat. Vegetarian steamed duck is "a steamed gourd".Jade filling lung is made of six kinds of ingredients: real powder, oil cake, sesame, pine nut, walnut, and dill, adding white sugar and a little red yeast rice as the powder, mixing and steaming, and cutting into lung samples. The fake fried meat is made of gourd and bran thin Cut and fry with ingredients, bran is soaked in oil and fried, gourd is fried with meat fat, and fried with green onions, peppers, oil and wine.

But for some reason, Zhou Zhiruo, who always had a good appetite, frowned when she saw these three dishes today.

"What's the matter, Zitong, is this dish not to your taste?" Lu Chengqi asked in surprise.

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Zhiruo suddenly covered her mouth, and with a "wow", she retched.

"Call the imperial doctor!" Lu Chengqi panicked, "It's so good, why did you suddenly vomit? This... how can this be good?"

Lu Chengqi quickly and softly patted Zhou Zhiruo's back, and shouted loudly.

Gao Hao didn't dare to neglect, and hurried away.

After a while, Zhou Zhiruo calmed down, forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty, my concubine is fine, but I don't know why I suddenly feel like vomiting..."

Lu Chengqi looked weird, and thought: "Could it be... that you won the lottery?"

(End of this chapter)