Chapter 10
Seeing that King Xuan made a toast, the military officers also came up to toast Wang Zhuoyan and said blessings one after another. When all the officials had their turn, it was already time for a cup of tea.

Seeing that it was Shen Shi, the celebration program began.

On the stage, a group of dancers in tulle danced lightly to the cheerful and clear sound of zithers and flutes. The charming and enchanting appearance of their slender figures like willows can really take away the souls of men.

Almost all the ministers in the audience were fixed on it and couldn't extricate themselves, of course Shen Qingnan was not included, he had never been interested in women.

What he wants to do now is to find an opportunity to attack their armed forces, and he hasn't let go of the fire just now.

Eyes dangling around, I suddenly saw the pleated fan Xia Hanming put on the table. I picked it up and found that it was a landscape painting and there was a poem beside it: ancient pottery Wanli Biying In spring, the pagoda Qianshan Baixiu soul.Wuwrapped Temple is surrounded by steep hills and ripples around the fields.

I don't know who wrote such a beautiful picture and such a good poem.

"If the prime minister likes this fan, I will give it to you."

The sudden sentence really startled Shen Qingnan, but he did not show it because of the deep cover-up.

It was only then that Shen Qingnan discovered that Xia Hanming did not have any singing and dancing in the stands.

"I just think the paintings and poems on this fan are excellent, and I don't know who made them."

"This is all from the hands of a friend of mine. When he saw that I liked it, he gave it to me."

"Oh? King Xuan also likes Danqing's poems?" Shen Qingnan asked in astonishment as if she had discovered something extraordinary.

Xia Hanming nodded and then said very humbly: "It's just a little bit of understanding, and naturally it can't be compared with the prime minister."

"Where is this? Although I like it, I'm not good at it. I'm afraid I'm not as good as the prince. Since you don't like watching the gaudy dance and listening to the disturbing sound, why don't you compare poems with the ministers?"

"Compare poetry?"

Xia Hanming asked Shen Qingnan but didn't answer, so he regarded him as agreeing. Shen Qingnan stood up, waved his sleeves at the people on the stage and ordered them to go down, and then said to the ministers: "I and King Xuan both feel optimistic. Dance is very boring, so I decided to make it more interesting than poetry. I, Xuan Wang and today's Shoulao Wang are the judges. Civilian and military officials are divided into two factions. The competition is divided into three rounds. One faction writes a poem and the other faction wins if the faction gets the most approval from the judges. The winning faction can still go to court tomorrow in a horse-drawn carriage, while the losing faction has to go on foot in person tomorrow.”

After the rules were announced, without waiting for others to express their opinions and raise objections, Shen Qingnan shouted: "The game begins."

After speaking, the literary party at the banquet secretly laughed at the military party, while the military party complained, comparing it to some civil servants as poetry?Isn't the prime minister clearly showing favoritism?

All the military officers began to look at King Xuan, hoping that he could stand up and speak for the armed forces.Xia Hanming did stand up as expected, but he was not pleading but said: "According to what the Prime Minister said, the competition has officially started, who will the Wu Party send to fight?"

Now that King Xuan said so, those ministers didn't dare to make any more complaints. They only heard "I" and then a man in gray brocade clothes in the middle row stood up.

It was Ning Zetao, the son of General Ning, and Jia Qing, the son of Zhongshu's servant, was sent by the Wen Party.

This poem is based on peony flowers.For Wen Dang, this was a piece of cake, so it took only half a stick of incense to write the poem neatly on rice paper and began to stand aside and wait for Wu Dang.

After another stick of incense, Wu Dang finally finished writing, waiting for the attendants to slowly walk up to the high platform and lift up the rice paper of both sides together.

Wen Dang: Warm trees and a cup of wind and wine, fall into the courtyard in late spring and gather together.The famous flowers have been drunk for a long time, and the guests of Luoyang have been drunk.

Wu Dang: When I climbed to the Zhuque Terrace, I saw the peonies blooming.The color of the king of flowers, come for the king.

Obviously, the literary party wins in any aspect, such as literary style and sentence style.

At the beginning of the second round, the Civil and Military Party sent another person from each party. This time, it was still the Wen Party that won.

(End of this chapter)

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