Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet (Part 1)

"The emperor is here!" The high-pitched voice echoed in the hall. Everyone hurriedly bowed and saluted, shouting long live.I quickly followed their example and knelt down, but I couldn't utter those feudal and obsequious words. This kind of scene reminded me of the leader of the Dragon Sect in Wei Xiaobao, and I couldn't help laughing out.Fortunately, everyone's shouts were as orderly, loud and powerful as the slogans shouted in university military training. My laughter was undoubtedly like water dripping into the sea, but it still attracted the sideways glances of Yu Wujian beside me.

"Pingshen!" A slightly old and hoarse voice sounded majesticly, "I believe that all the gentlemen already know that there were two great happy events in my Lan Dynasty yesterday, one is the five emperors who have been separated from me for 22 years I have finally returned; the second is that I have passed down an edict to establish Luobei as the crown prince, and all the ministers will try their best to assist the crown prince in the future so that he can inherit the century-old foundation of our Lan Dynasty as soon as possible." As soon as these words came out, everyone had different expressions on their faces. The last words of the emperor had a lot of meaning, as if he wanted to abdicate as soon as possible and let the new crown prince take the throne. It seems that the Lan Dynasty will change soon.

The emperor looked at the people below and continued: "Tonight I will host a banquet in the Mingyue Palace and invite all the ministers to participate, mainly because today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I want to get together with the ministers and the emperors; There is news from northern Xinjiang that the Mongols on the border seem to be ready to move again, General Ye will leave tomorrow to rush back to northern Xinjiang, and tonight's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet can be regarded as my farewell party for General Ye." "Thank you, Your Majesty, Ye Tan." A figure knelt in front of the emperor with a resounding and powerful voice.

Only then did I realize that Ye Tan was also among the group of people who came in with the emperor. Today he was wearing a dark blue cloth robe, and he looked very simple and plain among the people around him in brocade clothes, exuding a strong masculinity. The emperor personally lifted Ye Tan from the ground and ordered the meals to be passed on. This Mid-Autumn Festival banquet officially kicked off. When the emperor and a group of members of the royal family sat down one by one on the royal throne at the front of the hall, I finally saw Jun Luobei and Mo Siyou. Jun Luobei's expression is calm, no emotion can be seen in the eyes as silent as water, and the dark eyes are as deep as the night sky, far away and mysterious, people will never be able to see through the darkness contained in them.

On Mo Siyou's high bun, three white jade phoenix-headed hairpins of the same style were inserted obliquely, and a pearl flower was pasted on her forehead. Her pink and white oval face was as bright as a spring mountain, and her almond eyes were shining with sparkles. During the air of arrogance, two thin red lips were pressed under the small and erect Qiong's nose, her whole face was as pure as a brook and as cold as the sea.She has an exquisite figure with slender shoulders and a thin waist. She wears a light purple bottomed silver rayon jacket with a large purple gold belt around her waist. She wears a light purple crepe skirt embroidered with orchid patterns and covered with a purple gold engraved silver silk long gauze.

Her dress today is very decent, graceful and luxurious yet elegant and graceful, neither stealing the limelight from concubines in the harem nor inferior to any courtiers and family members, which is very suitable for the status of a crown princess.And the quietness between her brows and eyes is not at all bleak compared to Jun Luobei's coldness and nobility beside her. I have to admit that she really matches Jun Luobei. After a while, countless court ladies and eunuchs entered the hall one by one with food plates in their hands, and placed all kinds of delicacies on the tables in the hall in an orderly manner. The new prince provided them with a lot of topics.

"Lan'er, did you really want me to marry that concubine at the beginning?" Yu Wujian asked me in a low voice, and glanced at the front of the hall. "Yeah, don't you think she's pretty?" I really wanted to encourage him to fight. "Well, it's not ugly, but she looks very proud. This kind of woman is the scariest." "How?" I turned to look at him. "Most proud women like her are too persistent in their hearts and tend to go to extremes." "I'm proud too..." I stared at him, my eyes widened. He squeezed my chin and raised a smile: "You are different from her. You are more proud than her, and you have buried this pride very deeply. You don't bother to show your pride to ordinary people, so You always look so calm and easy; her pride is on the outside, and it is difficult to tolerate flaws."

I was silent, Mo Siyou was indeed too proud to tolerate any imperfections, and at the last stage of the arena, she bet her own life safety to win a perfect husband in her mind, and her temperament was indeed a bit extreme. But Yu Wujian boasted that I was always calm and free and easy, but I was a little ashamed to hear it. At least on the eve of my marriage to him, my mood was never calm. I always wanted to take revenge on Jun Luobei, but I was not as free and easy as he said , I am also very narrow-minded, even selfish enough to use him as my weapon of revenge. Someone as smart as him must have known that there was a reason why I was in a hurry to marry him, but he chose to ignore it and agreed to my request that should have embarrassed him.

His love and tolerance for me are vivid in my memory, and I am both moved and guilty when I think about it. "Wujian, why don't you stop being an official, I know you don't really like being an official." I said sincerely, holding his hand. "I promised you something, how can I go back on it?" He held my hand instead and gave me a smile. "It's okay, I don't want you to do it now, can't you do it?" I was a little anxious. "Why did you change your mind again?" "Uh, things in the court are too complicated, I don't want you to be hurt."

"Don't worry," he patted the back of my hand, "I didn't want to be an official before, not because I didn't know how to be an official, but because I was too lazy to deal with those big and small officials; you want me to be loyal to the emperor, just as the new emperor is about to ascend the throne, it is When new forces are needed, it is exactly what the new emperor wishes for me to join the hundred officials, and he will definitely promote and love me, so I don't have to deliberately please those officials in the court." He paused and continued: "I also know that the officialdom is dark, but as long as the emperor needs me and I have no dissatisfaction with him, those filthy and despicable fights will not break me down. After a few years, the new emperor will cultivate a group of himself When he is your confidant, I will be nothing to him, then I will resign immediately, even if I have done my best to Lan Chao, it will not break my promise to you."

The more I listened, the more I looked sideways. It seemed that Zhuangyuan Lang was really talented and knowledgeable. He clearly analyzed the situation of the court and his own position in one sentence. Maybe I shouldn't stop him anymore. A man always has his own ambitions. Now that he is ready, let him show it. I believe he will protect himself well, and I believe he will be in court Well done. It seems that Jun Luobei is destined to face his ex-wife's current husband for a long time. Even if his feelings for me faded later, or even disappeared, I would have returned the shame he threw at me at the beginning. "My lords and I raise our glasses to wish General Ye a smooth journey on this trip!" The old voice of the emperor interrupted my contemplation, I raised my glass immediately and stood up, looking towards the front of the hall. Ye Tan stood next to the emperor holding the glass high, with a solemn expression. After the emperor drank the wine, he also raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, but his resolute and spirited eyes swept towards me. I was startled and quickly raised my head Drinking to avoid his sight, under his sharp eyes that can intimidate the whole army, I'm not completely sure that I don't know him. "This second cup is to celebrate the wedding of the prince and princess." The emperor continued. After thanking you, Jun Luobei and Mo Siyou also looked towards me. Although it was only a short glance, I caught it. "The third cup is for all my dear friends to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together." Everyone below is grateful again. Then it was time for everyone to eat freely, I immediately chopped it up unceremoniously, the royal banquet is not so easy to attend, there are a lot of rules and pomp, I was hungry early. Within five minutes of eating, Ye Tan came up to Yu Wujian with a cup, and glanced at me vaguely.My heart trembled, and I hurriedly continued to bury my head in the food, trying to maintain a calm face, but my ears were pricked up. I only heard the two of them calling each other affectionately, and they drank several glasses of wine in the blink of an eye, and finally Ye Tan still mentioned me. "My siblings look a lot like an old friend of mine." Yu Wujian hurriedly introduced me to Ye Tan, and I held up the cup without looking into his eyes, just staring at the tip of his strong nose and said: "Qin Lan wishes General Ye a smooth journey to northern Xinjiang, and drives the Mongolian thieves back as soon as possible." grassland." "According to your good words, I also wish you to be refreshed and smile often." His voice was deep, thick and steady as before, but I was shocked when I heard it. In order to invite him to unveil the foundation, I sent him a post, in which I drew a Q version of his avatar with colored paints, and wrote eight characters next to the avatar: refreshed, always smiling open.What he just said to me is exactly the same as what I wrote to him at the beginning, and it seems that he has recognized me.However, he acted as if he was seeing me for the first time, which made me feel a little relieved. I raised my head and gave him a grateful smile, and my eyes no longer avoided him. He looked at me fixedly, his eyes were peaceful and quiet, as high and open as the sky, but his voice was a little hoarse than before: "You two, take care in the future, I will never go home until I defeat the Mongols, if God does not favor I, Ye Tan, the three of us may not have a chance to meet again." After he finished speaking, he walked out of the hall without looking back, leaving Yu Wujian and me with a resolute and stalwart back. I'm a little emotional. This should be the legendary man of passion and iron bones. If Lan Chao didn't have such a loyal general like him, he might have been wiped out by Kublai Khan a few years earlier. Yu Wujian was in a low mood and kept drinking. I could understand his mood and raised my glass silently to accompany him. After drinking several cups, he finally held down my left hand, which was toasting again: "Lan'er, thank you..." I held his hand instead and gave him a knowing smile.He looked at me quietly, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes seemed to be full of strong wine, which made me intoxicated involuntarily. At this moment, my heart and eyes are filled with jade Wujian... After thirty days of drinking, some anti-prince factions in the court began to attack Jun Luobei. They took the opportunity of toasting him to ask all kinds of difficult questions, and the voices became louder and louder, so that I, who was sitting in the front row, did not want to listen are difficult. "The prince must have gained a lot of extraordinary insights from traveling abroad for more than 20 years. My minister Wei Yishan would like to ask the prince how to increase the income of the imperial treasury and improve the lives of the people in the entire court?" After everyone asked questions, Wei Yushi, one of the three lords, also spoke. The questions he asked were very tricky. Improving finances and improving people's living standards have always been the lifelong goals of rulers throughout the ages. There is no upper limit to answering this question. No matter how Luo Bei answered, he would not be perfect. "My lord Yushi, today's Mingyue Palace is not the hall of the imperial court. The purpose of the emperor's banquet is not to discuss the government affairs, is it?" Mo Siyou spoke at a critical moment. I secretly admired in my heart, what a smart and blue-hearted woman, her short sentence was extremely sharp, not only insinuated Wei Yishan's disregard of the occasion and lost his identity, but also changed the topic without any trace, avoiding Jun Luobei's embarrassment. However, Wei Yishan’s question reminds me of one thing. The western economy has developed rapidly after the industrial revolution, and the first industrial revolution was marked by the application of the Jenny textile machine. The textile industry is the beginning of modern industrial civilization. In my previous life, it was also one of the main industries that accommodated a large number of laborers. If the textile industry was established in the Lanchao, it would not only absorb many idle laborers and improve their living standards; it would also promote the economic development of the Lanchao and increase the country’s fiscal revenue. In this time and space, because the looms were outdated, weaving cotton was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the common people weaved only silk and linen fabrics.Rich people wear silk, which is what is called "silk satin" in the book; while ordinary people wear hemp, so the ancients often used "sackcloth" to refer to ordinary people.At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty in China, a great female textile artist Huang Daopo was born. She invented the textile machine four hundred years earlier than Europe. Huang Daopo’s deeds are well-known in her hometown of Shanghai. It was inhabited by the Li people on Hainan Island later. The Lan Dynasty is now at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty in Chinese history. If you want to send people to the south to explore, you will be able to find the Li people who are leading the textile technology in the Central Plains, and then send some textile masters. After research and study, we can definitely make a textile machine like Huang Daopo. The cotton used for weaving cotton can also grow on very barren land, and it can be widely planted in the Lanchao. When the new textile machine is invented, the Lanchao's economy is waiting to take off. Thinking of this, I unconsciously smiled all over my face.