bastard seizes tang

Chapter 229

Outside the city of Yangzhou, facing northwest, there is a protection lake next to the outer city wall. It is by the lake.

This is Li Ke's first visit to Yangzhou, which is of great significance. It is also an opportunity for these local tyrants to show their faces in front of the new owner of Yangzhou. It can be described as a rare event in several years.Therefore, in the entire city of Yangzhou, everyone who is worthy and respectable will come to the banquet to clean up the dust for Li Ke.

Li Keduan sits at the top, Yangzhou governor He Xiu sits at the bottom right, and Li Ke's confidant Wang Xuance sits at the bottom left.
Guaranteeing the reception banquet by the lake, there were nearly a hundred people in total, including state and county officials, aristocratic families, and local tycoons, all of whom were leaders in all aspects of Yangzhou City. The hour, and Li Ke barely remembered the general idea.

"This king was ordered by his father to go south to supervise Yang. It is a heavy burden to take charge of the military affairs of the [-] states in the southeast. The guard is very heavy. However, this king is young and his talents may be insufficient. I am afraid that he will be overwhelmed and hurt his father. Ming. You are all heroes of Yangzhou. In the future, if there is anything unclear about my king’s affairs in Yangzhou, I still need to ask you for advice, and I hope you can help me.”

At the beginning of the banquet, Li Ke had an overview with all the guests, and ordered his maid to pour a full glass of wine, and raised the glass to say goodbye to all the guests.

Now that Li Ke had raised his glass, everyone at the banquet stood up one after another, followed by He Xiu, the governor, and said: "Your Highness has an order, if you dare not follow, I will serve you to death."

"Haha, with everyone's opinion, the king will feel at ease." Li Ke picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

Li Ke raised his head and drank his stomach, and everyone drank the wine in their glasses one after another.

Li Ke has a good capacity for alcohol, and drinking a glass of wine is nothing but child's play, but there were some people who were not good drinkers during the banquet, and after drinking a full glass, their complexion turned slightly red.

He Xiu put down his wine glass, and said to Li Ke: "I've heard about His Highness's greatness for a long time, but I haven't had the chance to see it in person. Today's meeting is really worthwhile."

The wine drunk during the banquet was jade scallion wine produced in Yangzhou. Although it is not a strong wine, it is inevitable for ordinary people to blush after drinking a full glass, but Li Ke's face remains the same, which shows that he can drink well.

Li Ke looked at the scene in front of him, but he remembered the scene when Li Ke went north to Turkic for the first time in the ninth year of Wude.

At that time, the Turkic people held a banquet, which was called to welcome Li Ke, but in fact, it was to celebrate the great victory of going south and show off their might.Li Ke still clearly remembered that the situation was unfavorable that day, and he was forced by Kang Sumi to drink three cups in a row, which was how he got off the stage.

But now time has passed, the Turks have been defeated, Kang Sumi has long been turned into bones, and now Li Ke is also ordered by his father to guard the southeast.

Li Ke glanced at the wine glass in his hand and said: "This wine is sweet, with wine aroma and fruit aroma. The two complement each other perfectly. It's really good wine, but I don't know what the name of this wine is?"

Li Kezhi had just finished speaking, and He Xiu hadn't spoken yet, but someone else spoke first during the dinner. Li Ke followed his reputation and found that he was a middle-aged man in his forties.

The man said: "The name of this wine is Yuxie, and it is a local wine from Yangzhou Jiuyao. It is rare for His Highness to drink it."

Li Ke looked at the man who spoke, but he still remembered his identity. His name was Chen Zhang, he was from the Chen family of Guangling, and he was the elder of the Chen family.

The Chen family in Guangling is one of the Huainan aristocratic families. Its ancestors were inherited from Chen Jiao, a famous official in the late Han Dynasty. For hundreds of years, there have been many famous officials, and they have a certain reputation in Huainan.

The Chen family is a prominent family in Yangzhou, and Chen Zhang is the elder of the Chen family. He took the initiative to talk to Li Ke at the banquet, which was meant to show his favor.

Li Ke has just arrived here, and he has to deal with these local gentry. Since Chen Zhang offered to be friendly, Li Ke would not refuse people for thousands of miles.

Li Ke said with a smile: "This wine is very good. It is not inferior to the fine wine in the palace. It is very much in line with the king's intentions. I have to ask you to arrange it."

Seeing that Li Ke likes this wine, Chen Zhang said with a smile: "It's good that your highness likes this wine, but I have three beauties in Yangzhou, it's a pity that your highness only sees two of them today."

Li Ke heard the words and asked curiously: "But I don't know if it is the three beauties, which one of the beauties has not been seen by this king?"

Chen Zhang replied with a smile: "I have three beauties in Yangzhou. Your Highness has seen and tasted the beautiful scenery and fine wine just now, and the third beauty is the beauty that His Highness has not seen yet."

Li Ke listened to Chen Zhang's words, first he was slightly surprised, and then smiled.

As the so-called "Yangzhou dream once in ten years, win the reputation of the brothel." There are many beauties in Yangzhou, and Yangzhou beauties can make people drunk for ten years without knowing life and death.

Although Li Ke was young, he was also known as "lusty" in Chang'an. According to the rumors in the neighborhood, Li Ke was a frequent visitor to the brothel in Pingkang Fang, a familiar hand in the rouge market, and Li Ke even competed with others in Chang'an Xieyulou Chen Zhang and Li Ke are not familiar with the "good story" of transferring the forbidden army into the brothel to help out, so it is normal to think that Li Ke likes Li Ke as the rumors say.

As for "lust", it was the mud that Li Ke himself smeared on his face, so why would he care about it.What's more, "Young spring shirts are thin, and the building is full of red sleeves." The youth is romantic, which is harmless.

Hearing what Chen Zhang said, Li Ke also guessed what Chen Zhang meant, so he asked in a timely manner: "I have seen the beautiful scenery and tasted the fine wine, but I don't know how this Yangzhou beauty compares with Chang'an, but Chen Zhang Since you mentioned the beauty, it must have been arranged long ago?"

Chen Zhang said with a smile: "I have heard for a long time that Your Highness is a young man who likes vocal music. I have specially prepared a song for His Highness. I don't know if His Highness would like to give it a reward."

How could Li Ke not know what Chen Zhang said. In Chen Zhang's view, Li Ke didn't like any kind of vocal music, but the beauty who played music.

Chen Zhang had been prepared for a long time, and the words had already reached this point, Li Ke couldn't refuse to refuse, and didn't want to spoil everyone's interest, so he said with a smile: "So I will thank Mr. Chen."

Hearing this, Chen Zhang smiled, clapped his hands and said, "Play music!"

As soon as Chen Zhang finished speaking, a servant brought out a guqin and a piece of brocade, and placed it in the middle of both sides of the banquet, in front of Li Ke. He came lightly in small steps, and walked to the side of the Jinta in front of the Guqin.

Li Ke has excellent eyesight. When he first saw the woman from a distance, he felt familiar. The woman turned out to be the fairy who played music for him on the canal a few days ago.

Xianniang is very beautiful, even in the eyes of Li Ke who is used to seeing beauties, Xianniang is definitely the best choice, Chen Zhang calls it a beauty, there is nothing wrong with it, but Li Ke never expected , the world is such a coincidence that they can meet again here in just a few days on the river.

Li Ke recognized the identity of Xianniang, and Wang Xuance, who was sitting next to Li Ke, also recognized it. Wang Xuance raised his head to look at Li Ke, and it happened that Li Ke was also looking at Wang Xuance. Shi Yi smiled and nodded.

(End of this chapter)