The Luoyang Imperial Palace and Jixian Hall were arranged in the main hall of the table tables and candlesticks early. Countless palace maids and eunuchs were shuttled through it. Before nightfall, guests had already arrived one after another.

Jixian Hall, also known as Yingxian Palace and Jixian Hall, was built by Wu Zetian in his later years.

In the late Wu Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zetian favored Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Zongchang's brothers. This was not enough. He selected beautiful young people all over the world and worshiped them, founded officials such as the Control Crane Supervisor, the Chief Crane Supervisor, and selected other scholars as the accompanying candidates, and used the Minister of Defense Zhang Yizhi as the Control Crane Supervisor, and Zhang Changzong and others as the Control Crane Supervisor.

In addition to attending the government in the court, Wu Zetian drank with this group of worship officials in Yingxian Palace and enjoyed the fun of playing the game.

In the 13th year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang invited officials, ritual officials and scholars in Yingxian Palace. When he saw the crowd of talents, he comforted him. Xuanzong said in public that the sayings of gods and immortals are empty and ethereal, and I do not accept them. Virtuous talents are the foundation for helping me govern the country. Jixian Palace should be renamed Jixian Palace.

From then on, Yingxian Palace was officially renamed Jixian Hall, and at the same time, the Lizheng Academy in the hall was renamed Jixian Academy. Jixian Academy is the largest library in the Tang Dynasty and the most magnificent cultural hall in the world.

During the Kaiyuan period, Li Longji was an enlightened monarch, diligent in government affairs, and basically invited court officials to hold banquets, and at the same time, he was not afraid of talking about state affairs.

However, it is easy for the court to speak out and meet the saints, so the ministers do not need to make direct comments at the banquet. In this way, the atmosphere of the banquet seems extremely detailed and lively.

Zhang Jiuling and Pei Yaoqing came late.

At this time, many ministers had arrived first. When they saw the two, they all gathered around to greet them, especially many officials who were not common in prime ministers. They rarely had the opportunity to meet the left prime minister after the New Year, and they all took the opportunity to get to know each other.

Zhang Jiuling was not very enthusiastic. He had been in the court for many years. He greeted officials who had been in the court with a smile and occasionally stopped to greet them. However, he was obviously alienated to those officials who had relied on nepotism and hereditary ancestor Meng. He just nodded slightly when greeting him. Only the ministry could barely bow his hand.

The day was different from the usual banquet. The envoys of the ten dynasties in the world all went to the east to report to the emperor, and these people were also invited to the palace banquet.

Because Zhang Jiuling was an interview envoy from various departments, the mobilizer established by the Chaoji envoy, and the current left prime minister, when he arrived, these Chaoji envoys couldn't help but come to him, wanting to talk to him about the situation in his area.

As for Li Linfu, who had just become the minister of the Huangmen, because of these magistrates, he did not even have the chance to meet Zhang Jiuling and say hello.

Being ignored next to him made Li Linfu, who had just reached the top, was particularly embarrassed.

Li Linfu returned to the seat and was depressed for a while. When someone came to congratulate him on his promotion, he could only smile.

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The banquet was almost beginning, and Li Longji still did not show up. At this time, the princes, accompanied by guards, appeared at the door of Jixian Hall.

The head of the prince is Li Ying, and in addition to this, there are Li Yao, King E, Li Wan, King Guang, Li Ju, King Yong, Li Lin and King Shou.

When Li Longji arrived in Luoyang this time, he did not bring all the princes and princesses with him, and most of them were left in Chang'an.

When the princes sat down, drums and music suddenly came.

The palace musicians on both sides of the hall began to play "Little Breaking the Formation Music", which was adapted by Li Longji based on "Breaking the Formation Music" in "Leibuji", as the opening music of the palace banquet.

As the music sounded, four palace maids wearing golden armor came out from behind the gauze tent and danced gracefully in the venue.

The princes and ministers all stood up to greet them.

Accompanied by Concubine Wu Hui and Princess Xianyi, Li Longji walked in from the entrance of the hall, and all the princes and ministers bowed and bowed to him wherever he passed.

Li Longji came to the main seat and turned to face the princes and ministers. The music stopped and the dancer retreated. Li Longji waved his hand and signaled, "Your family, come to the seat."

The princes and ministers saluted together, and they waited for Li Longji and Wu Huifei to sit in the main seat before they sat one after another.

The main position is on the three-story jade stairs. In addition to the seats of Li Longji and Wu Huifei, there are also seats of Prince Li Ying and Princess Xianyi on both sides.

There is no need for Li Longji to host the banquet. At each palace banquet, there are specific people who are toasting for the emperor. This time, the newly-elected Huangmen Minister Li Linfu came out of the seat to celebrate the toast.

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The banquet begins.

The palace banquet focused on festive and lively. After Li Linfu's toast for three tours, he immediately performed a palace singing and dancing.

From the Tang Dynasty to Kaiyuan, the relationship between the monarch and the ministers was harmonious, and there was not much constraining in the palace banquets.

After the dance music began, the princes and ministers relaxed, ate themselves, tasted wine, and whispered from time to time, whispered in a slightly noisy environment.

What everyone is most looking forward to is the performance of Gongsun, the famous sword dancer of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Gongsun’s finale was about to appear, so everyone could only calm down and watch the dancers trained by the court essay. Even though these dancers were slightly inferior to Gongsun’s, they were much better than the dancers raised by ordinary ministers.

At the most exciting part of the singing and dancing performance, the princes and ministers pointed at each other, and their faces were full of intoxication.

At this time, Li Longji quietly called Li Linfu to his side and whispered a few times, which made many people present smell a scent of "conspiracy".

The two rounds of singing and dancing performances have come to the stage of poetry preparation.

The poems for court banquets are basically poems that ministers praise the emperor, praise the country's prosperity and prosperity, and wish the country's prosperity.

The whole audience calmed down, and Li Linfu stood under the jade steps and said loudly: "Your Majesty set up ten roads in the world, each set up a military governor, interview envoy, court envoy, government affairs in the world are all based on the grace of the holy people. Today's banquet will be based on this, and a poem will be followed. The person with the best poetry talent will be given to the two dancers."

Since the title is about poetry, all ministers can create it according to the situation, it is like a competition with a lottery.

The title of the poem that day was "The Ten Interview Envoys and the Minister of the Court" was "The Fenghe Shengshi Sends Ten Interview Envoys and the Minister of the Cong". Caitou was two dancers who had just performed at the banquet.

Because there was no reservation for which two to give, and the dancers who performed just now were naturally among the candidates, which made those who praised the court dance music secretly moved. I just wanted to train my own dancers. Now I saved it. Whoever wins and the emperor gives me two will be given directly. Choose as you like. Who will not be moved by such a good opportunity?

The heart is moving, but the mouth is not easy to move.

There were many Hanlin people in front of the emperor. These people specialized in creating poetry and entertainment at palace banquets. There were also many famous talented men attending the banquet. Whoever wanted to win in this kind of poetry-making competition would have to pass five levels and defeat six generals. Without real skills, they would really not be able to make it to the table.

After Li Linfu made public the title of the emperor's repost, many people looked around and wanted to know who dared to come out to make a poem.

Some people who are ready to move are also in a dilemma.

This topic is too "geeky". Since it is a poem sent to ten interviews and court collectors, in addition to the request to praise the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, it also has the intention of admonishing these people, reflecting the great grace of the emperor. This makes it more difficult to express emotions in poetry, which is much more difficult than to praise singing and dancing, or simply to practice it for anyone, or to praise the emperor.

It was not the first time that Li Linfu hosted a palace banquet, and he had already been at ease in dealing with such a scene.

When he saw that no one had risen up to write poems, he smiled at Zhang Jiuling, who was in the chief seat on the left, and asked, "Zhang Linggong, you have always been good at poetry and prose in the court. You and Your Majesty have proposed to establish it. If all your colleagues cannot come up to answer poems, should you also sit here to watch the fun?"

Li Linfu obviously wanted to give Zhang Jiuling a difficult problem.

I've just treated me coldly. I won't take revenge on you now if I have the chance?

You don’t have much time to think about such a difficult topic. If you can write good poems, it will be a strange thing. If you can’t write them, it will be like making a fool of yourself in front of others.

Everyone looked at Zhang Jiuling, and even Li Longji looked at him with a smile.

Concubine Wu Hui's voice suddenly came: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zhang's poems are unparalleled in the world. I heard that all the scholars in the world want to go and pay homage to him. For this reason, he made a difficult question. No one can come to the door yet. I wonder if it is true?"

Zhang Jiuling hated Concubine Wu Hui, but at this time he had to stand up and answered respectfully: "It is true that what Empress Hui said to him."

This attracted a lot of discussion, and even looked at Zhang Jiuling and laughed meaningfully.

Zhang Jiuling didn't know what these people were laughing at. He didn't know where to start if he wanted to defend himself.

Suddenly, Li Longji made a noise and said, "The Zhang Qing family is now the Lord Ling, and is an example of civil officials. It can also be said to be the teacher of scholars in the world... The teacher gave questions to students and took the students' knowledge. What's wrong with it?"

Even the emperor spoke, so no one dared to say much.

Li Linfu interrupted: "It is natural for teachers to take the students to take the exam, but what if the teachers' talents cannot convince the public?"

"The Li Qing family must not be rude to Zhang Linggong."

Li Longji seemed to scold him, but there was no annoyance on his face, as if he was joking, "Who doesn't admire Zhang Linggong's talent in the world? He said that he is the teacher of the scholars in the world. Who else is not convinced? Even I want to call him a teacher."

The emperor put on a high hat. If he didn't show it, he would be just a name.

Zhang Jiuling looked at Li Linfu with disgust, and his anger rushed to his forehead... The two had been flirting with each other for a long time, mainly because Zhang Jiuling's despise of people who were exploring power skills from the bottom of his heart.

Li Linfu thought that Zhang Jiuling could not write poetry in a hurry, because he was based on his own talent and knowledge, but he did not know that Zhang Jiuling was well-educated and his poetry was even more amazing.

Zhang Jiuling twisted his beard and nodded and said, "That minister will be ugly."

In Li Linfu's surprised gaze, Zhang Jiuling read out the poems he created in public:

"A plan is made every three years, and all countries are heading for Heluo.

The lesson is the most powerful, and I will reward Yan'en and return the prize.

The clothes hanging down deeply share the same principles, and the rules are as simple as the rules.

The first way back to the bamboo talisman, and the wooden bell splits.

There is a way to go for the precepts, but the imperial edict will not be sent to you.

Clearly move astronomy, and diligence is in trouble.

I hope for this and think about it for the end of the day.

You should be self-reliant after you have done so that you can cultivate in spring and gain harvest in autumn.”

After reading a poem, it was extremely neat. It not only showed expectations for interviews and commissars from various places, but also felt grateful for the great grace of the emperor. With the ardent hope, the minister's sincere heart was displayed in the poem with extremely high poetry.

After Zhang Jiuling finished reading a poem, people present waited silently.

Li Linfu's face turned dark and could not speak for a long time.
Chapter completed!