Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 129 The Golden Rice Bowl

After Yu Jia arrived at the palace, those clans who were not close to the saint were sent away first, and they went home to plan their future, and those who were left behind were the ones who won the holy family.

"The sage said, 'Since you have returned to Chang'an, let Xue play a round of cards'."

Xue Bai was summoned away in front of Yan Yan's face, which can be regarded as a solid name for the gambling family.

All the way into the Forbidden Garden, Li Longji was watching Zhang Lizhen, the interviewer under An Lushan's command, present the tribute.

"An Dafu has always told the craftsmen that saints like wine vessels, and they also look forward to celebrating the saint's birthday on the Long Live Qianqiu Festival."

"Hu Er has a heart, and when he arrives, he will naturally see the 'dancing horse'."

Li Longji laughed out loud.

Xue Bai stood aside with the servant, his eyes fell on the silver pot in Li Longji's hand, and he was in a daze for a moment.

Thousands of years have passed, and he has seen it before. It was called "silver pot with gilt dancing horse bit cup pattern leather bag".

Dancing horses holding cups is another grand scene of the Tang Dynasty.At every saint's birthday party, the dancing horse will be made to dance, and the saint will be toasted to celebrate his birthday with a wine glass in his mouth.

This picture is embossed in gold on the skin pot. The skin pot is in the Khitan style. It is unique in design and production, and it is completely different from the Central Plains wine vessel.

Others didn't understand, but after thinking about it carefully, they realized the power of An Lushan's gifts.

You have to understand that the saint has the habit of collecting drinking vessels; you must understand that dancing horses is one of the saint's favorite things; and then calmly mention that you care about the saint's birthday.

Xue Bai felt ashamed of himself.

Compared with An Lushan's ability to please the saint, he is far behind.

When is the saint's birthday?the fifth day of August.

For the Long Live and Thousand Autumn Festival, Anlu Mountain is treated as the biggest event of the year, and even the war is for the purpose of offering prisoners in autumn.

This is just a small gift, and there are not many such gifts in the box.

And it's just started now, and the convoy of gift-giving from Anlu Mountain has not yet finished its journey. More captives, cattle, sheep, llamas, rare birds and animals, and jewelry are all on the way.

After Zhang Lizhen presented several more tributes, Li Longji finally noticed Xue Bai, and spoke again.

"Xue playing cards, why is he so reluctant?!"

"Responding to the words of the sage, I'm about to take the New Year's Exam." Xue Bai pretended to be embarrassed: "I always play cards all night, and after that I have no energy for several days."

Li Longji laughed.

There are not many people who rush to play cards with him, but it is not as interesting as a strong man.

"I don't feel tired yet, how old are you?" Li Longji put down the calendula in his hand, and looked proud, "Come, serve."

On the side, Zhang Lizhen, who just picked up the next piece of goldware and was about to introduce it, was taken aback for a moment.

When he came to deliver tributes in the past, the sage listened to his explanation of each artifact, and sometimes asked a few words.This has never happened before.

Xue playing cards?
After a year of absence, Chang'an City unexpectedly produced such a character who could steal the Sacred Heart.

~~
This time playing cards together are Yang Yuhuan and Zhang Ting.

Zhang Ting, as the prince's concubine, often went to the palace to play cards, but no one was worried that Li Longji would snatch another daughter-in-law.

Because there are actually too many beauties around Li Longji, there are dozens of well-known beauties in the government and the public, and each of them has a romantic story.He is now in his sixties, and what he needs more is a playmate.

The game here is the same, while Li Guinian plucked the strings and sang, it is different from Xu Hezi.

"The fragrance of red lotus root and the remnant jade mat in autumn..."

Yang Yuhuan pushed a card and hummed softly, but his singing style was completely different from Li Guinian's, he had mastered Xue Bai's singing style.

Li Longji continued to sing, more and more complacent, glanced at Xue Bai contemptuously, and asked, "How is your singing better?"

Xue Bai was surprised: "I sing like that... a saint compares with me?"

"Haha, Zhu Zi, you can't even sing the same way?"

"Temperament is an elegant thing, I can only play cards."

Li Longji smiled and said: "I am good at rhythm and dominoes. It can be seen that dominoes are as elegant as rhythm."

Although Zhang Ting didn't know what they were talking about, but the emperor made a joke, she immediately laughed.

"Thanks to the blessing of the saint, I am also elegant."

After all, she pushed down the dominoes in front of her.

"Bullshit."

Li Longji smiled and rewarded Zhang Ting with a tribute.

Zhang Ting said, "When I came, I just met Ah Tu coming back. Talking about the trip to Zhongnan Mountain, I couldn't stop talking about the rare meeting of Xue Lang, who is famous in Chang'an."

"In a blink of an eye, Ah Tu has caught up with Ji."

"Daughter's house, it's inevitable to be curious when seeing novel things. It's a story and a new word, so I can't finish it."

Li Longji could sense what Zhang Ting meant, and looked at Xue Bai.

Xue Bai lowered his head and took a sip of water.

"Zhuzi, I'm talking about you, what are you avoiding?"

What are you avoiding, even the servants on the side know it well, in this Tang Dynasty, who wants to marry a clan girl?There are many princesses and princesses of saints, and all of them are worried about marrying.

Suddenly, Yang Yuhuan smiled and said: "The young man has been praised and knows how to be humble."

She beckoned and called Zhang Yunrong to bring over the golden lotus petal bowl she received today.

This golden bowl was also made by Anlu Mountain. The lotus petal pattern was punched on the bowl wall, which is extremely delicate.

Craftsmanship of hammering and embossing is not what the Central Plains craftsmen are good at. It can be seen that An Lushan is definitely a master of gift giving.

"You gave those good things, the sage promised you a future when you grow up, but I haven't rewarded you yet, so I will use this golden bowl to give you the good fortune of 'no worries about food and clothing'... The premise is that you win today's game .”

"Thank you, Concubine Gui, for your kindness."

With a golden rice bowl, why bother to be a princess?
Hearing this, Li Longji laughed and said: "The golden bowl given by Taizhen can hold ten dendrobium of wine, can you drink it?"

"If the sage is reluctant to give it, he won this kid..."

Zhang Ting was disappointed when he saw that the saint refused to talk about the marriage.

After a joking sentence, Yang Yuhuan turned her beautiful eyes and glared at Xue Bai with a hint of reminder and warning.

——This time, I will save you from the siege, and see if you dare to provoke right and wrong in the future.

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The sunlight shines through the paper window, shining brightly on the golden bowl on the table.

"So beautiful!"

Qing Lan has been lying there staring at it for a long time, even her eyes are shining with golden light.

But she was not willing to use this golden bowl to pour water, wiped it clean and put it away carefully, as if it was being offered for nourishment.

Xue Bai was not at all interested in these gold and silver, and thought that porcelain was just fine.

He stared at Qing Lan's back for a while, and suddenly thought, the last time I asked her "Do you want to be my concubine" was so shameless... Every time I just woke up, I had these messy thoughts.

Chang'an City is not as quiet as Zhongnan Mountain, and guests have already come to see it before they wake up.

……

In the hall, Pei Qiao was chatting with Du Wulang. It looked calm, but there was anxiety in his eyes. When he saw Xue Bai, he stood up.

"Xue Lang is finally back, Zhong Nanshan and his party, have you gained anything?"

"Following Master Qixuan, I learned the method of breathing and breathing, and I realized a lot."

Pei Qiao laughed and said: "In the past, Lu Zang used to live in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain and was awarded a high-ranking official. Instead, it is difficult for a person who keeps his career to do business."

Xue Bai understood, and led Pei Qiao into the study, asking, "Is Mr. Pei in trouble again?"

"An Lushan is about to go to Beijing to pay tribute." Pei Qiao said, "This Hu is a disciple of Ge Nu, and he has already announced that he will take the position of Royal Doctor, so he must deal with my father."

"So arrogant?"

"Hu'er is deeply favored, and he will definitely frame my father in front of the saint. I'm afraid I will have to ask Uncle Guo and Xue Lang to help me a little bit."

Pei Qiao's face was serious, and he was able to come to discuss with Xue Bai, a white man, which showed that he had a very pessimistic estimate of the situation.

But Xue Bai asked: "Since it is going to be framed, there must be a crime. Brother Nu and Hu'er can't harm Peigong out of thin air, right?"

Pei Zhen knew that he was asking about Pei Kuan's details, so he didn't want to say it.However, after hesitating, he still chose to trust the ally in front of him.

"When my father was the envoy of Fan Yang Jiedu, he connived at the frontier army to rob Khitan slaves and maids, sell them privately to distribute the stolen goods, and lied about their military exploits. Of course, this is the usual practice of the frontier army."

"Since it's a custom, can they use this to deal with Pei Gong?"

"Does Xue Lang know anything about Khitan?"

"Appreciate further details."

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, in the third year of Zhenguan, the Khitan Dahe clan attached to the Tang Dynasty and gave the surname Li. For the next 70 years, the Dahe clan governed the eight Khitan tribes as the governor of Songmo, until the Yaozhan clan and the Dahe clan were in conflict and rebelled. Tang, take refuge in Turks..."

Pei Qiao roughly talked about the origin of the Khitan Rebellion.

To put it simply, the Dahe clan was loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and the Yaozhan clan rebelled against the Tang Dynasty.

"During the Kaiyuan period, the sage appointed Zhang Shougui as the envoy of Fan Yang Jiedu, and repeatedly broke Khitan. Later, he used Li Guozhe of the Dahe clan to get rid of Ketuyu of the Yaozhe clan. The court named Li Guozhe the king of Beiping County and Songmo. The governor, in command of Khitan, seems to have ended the Khitan rebellion. The saint believes that Zhang Shougui has made great achievements, and wants to reward him heavily, and even wants to make him prime minister. But Xue Lang knows why Zhang Jiuling opposes this?"

Xue Bai said: "Is there any credit?"

"Getting rid of Ketuyu will not solve the Khitan rebellion at all. In the second year, the leader of the Yaozhe clan killed Li Guozhe and rebelled again. Therefore, Zhang Jiuling believed that Zhang Shougui's contribution was not enough to worship the prime minister. , 'And Shougui broke Khitan, and your majesty will be the prime minister; if Xi and Jue are completely destroyed, who will reward them?'"

"This is Zhang Shougui, my father's previous envoy of Fanyang Jiedu, and An Lushan, who is the successor. This man is Zhang Shougui's adopted son. He is good at speaking nonsense, cunning, and capable of fighting. But both Zhang Shougui and An Lushan have one. The ability is to lie about military exploits."

At this point, Pei Qiao was a little embarrassed, and asked, "Do you understand what I mean? My father was in the post of Fan Yang Jiedu, and he cleaned up military discipline and was considerate of the people. He thinks that if he wants to destroy the Khitan, he should have a long-term plan."

On the contrary, Xue Bai dared to say it bluntly, saying: "The sage prefers ministers like Zhang Shougui and An Lushan who can do things."

From these things, we can see Li Longji's perfunctory in governing the country.

Zhang Jiuling's view of the Khitan situation is obviously more far-sighted.As for Li Longji, he is not so short-sighted as he is overjoyed and impatient. He may not be unable to see the root cause of the Khitan Rebellion, but he just finds it annoying and delays his enjoyment.

Therefore, Zhang Shougui fought a victory, and then boasted of his military exploits, that is, he defeated the Khitan, his meritorious service is outstanding, comparable to Wei Huo.In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, everything was good.

Complacent, complacent, selfish.

The emperor showed an arrogant and indulgent mentality as early as the Kaiyuan period, but at that time there were still many famous ministers who were good-looking and restrained.

Up to now, there is no one who can check and balance this all-powerful emperor.

"The bad habits of the frontier army, my father actually restrained them the best when he was in office, but there are indeed." Pei Qiao said: "How about this matter... Anlu Mountain is in Fanyang, and it sends troops every year. It has victories and defeats with Khitan. In Saint In the eyes, it is a great achievement. When my father was in office, he was invincible and invincible, but he will be prosecuted instead."

Such was the atmosphere in court during the Tianbao period.

Those who know how to make money can brag about [-]% of the credit as [-]%; those who are too conscientious can be framed as [-]% of their omissions.

The problem lies at the root, and Xue Bai has nothing to do.

"I'm just a white man, and I don't have the right to advise saints on such important military affairs, and my uncle doesn't know anything about it." Xue Bai said, "Brother Pei, how do you want me to help?"

Pei Qiao asked slowly: "The one who is qualified to discuss the affairs of the Northeast in front of the sage, and who can say something fair, should be the Northwest General?"

He wanted to ask Donggong to reconcile. Of course, not all the generals in the Northwest were close to Donggong, but right now, the power of speech on border affairs was overwhelming that of An Lushan, and Wang Zhongsi, the Jiedu envoy of the Four Towns, could not be avoided.

Today I came here not only to ventilate, but also to make friends with Wang Zhongsi through Xue Bai.Maybe Wang Zhongsi captured Shibao City within a month or two, and then he could protect Pei Kuan with a word of advice.

Xue Bai understood and shook his head.

But when he thought about it again, Pei Kuan was helpless.

Right now, apart from Wang Zhongsi, in this court controlled by brother slaves, there really is no other important official who dares to come forward to discuss side affairs with An Lushan.

"Pei Gong wants to get close to the East Palace, and I have no objection. Right now I'm only white, and the year-old exam is coming up, so I won't get involved in this matter, and concentrate on my studies." Xue Bai thought to the end, and spoke slowly.

Pei Qiao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Draw a line."

"Can……"

"They are all the courtiers of the sage, and we should discuss everything according to the facts." Xue Bai said solemnly: "Otherwise, are we the cliques who form cliques between the court and China?"

Pei Qiao's eyes flickered, and he vaguely understood.

He smiled wryly, and said: "I have one more thing to do today... I wanted to discuss marriage with you."

"The joint right now? We can only let it go."

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Xue Bai didn't want to marry the daughter of the Pei family.

Now that he has set his ambition, he also has the criteria for marrying a wife.

She can neither be the princess of the Li family nor the daughter of a family with deep roots, her family status can neither be too high nor too low, she can support him but not dominate him, it is best to have a reputation and talent, and then she has to have a good personality and talent , Convincing and magnanimous, his character can be admired.

After all, it is home, country and world, so it can be stable...

Thinking too far, he shook his head, dispelled these idle thoughts, picked up Wentie and a large bag of red dates from the Western Regions, and went to Yan's house.

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"A big watermelon..."

"Brother, what is a watermelon?"

"Hot melon, go on, a big watermelon, cut in half with a single knife, and half will be given to you..."

In the yard, the sound of cicadas rang for a while, but it was not noisy. Small white flowers bloomed in the bushes beside the yard, giving people a sense of leisure.

Xue Bai and Yan Yan finished a set of punches slowly one after the other, retracted their punches, and exhaled.

"Remember?"

"How can I remember it so quickly."

"Oh."

"Brother, come and teach me tomorrow. Also, there are too few stories today, right?"

Yan Yan's complexion has indeed improved recently.

She used to be short of blood and her face was a little pale, but her cheeks were quite rosy after punching today.

"The annual exam mainly examines the scriptures, not the stories." Xue Bai said.

"I have Ji Lanzi's drama to read. She is much more diligent than brother. By the way, can she go directly to brother's house to pay a visit? I have to show brother the script."

"I'll go there tomorrow." Xue Bai didn't want to let Li Jilan come home.

Now Yan Zhai has the most salvia and astragalus. Recently Xue Bai comes every day, and when Yan Yan drinks astragalus soup, Wei Yun will boil a bowl of salvia for him.

After punching, the two sat at the stone table in the courtyard and drank from bowls.

"It's so bitter, there are a lot of angelica in the astragalus soup."

Yan Yan sighed, seeing that Xue Bai drank the Danshen soup, so she continued to drink the medicine.

"Brother, is there any benefit to drinking this?"

"I don't know, oh, my wife said to solidify Qi and nourish Yuan."

~~
It was night, Xue Bai had a dream.

He dreamed that he was in the middle of two boulders, and he was staying well. Suddenly, a big fat man ran to the left, and several people ran to the right, male and female Taoist priests, and both sides began to push the boulder.

Xue Bai thought he was going to die... Fortunately, the boulder seemed to have turned into something else, soft, so it didn't squeeze him to death.

After the dream, it really changed.

After waking up, he sat there in a daze for a while, knowing that he was thinking about it every day and dreaming at night.

The big fat man was coming, and the Pei family fled to the East Palace in fright, where would he go?
Suddenly, I regretted not being able to slap each of these people in the dream.

"Let you push."

……

In the afternoon, I went to Yuzhen Temple.

Walking through the alleys of Fuxingfang, this time I actually met Li Chu, the king of Guangping.

"Xue Bai? What a coincidence."

Li Chu's eyes lit up, he stepped forward to chat enthusiastically, and said, "I'm here to visit my aunt, how about you?"

"Isn't King Guangping grounded? Oh, it's too rude for me to ask like this."

"It's okay, Guzu will be returning to Wangwu Mountain soon, so I asked to come to see her." Li Chu asked again: "What are you doing here?"

"Meet friends through writing."

"Xue Lang is talented, making friends with literature, elegant."

Li Chu had a gentle smile, like Xue Bai's close friend, he took him aside and talked cordially.

"I already know about the matter between you and the Seventeenth Lady of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, or it may be the unspeakable secret you said. It's a pity that things in the world cannot be controlled by others, and they cannot be forced."

"Yes." Xue Bai said, "You can't force it."

"Think about it." Li Chu said: "You will meet a wife who is more suitable for you in the future. After a man gets married, he should regulate his words and deeds and treat his wife well, right?"

"What King Guangping said is true, you should treat your wife well."

Li Chu became more and more cordial, and said: "I regard you as a confidant, so it's not surprising that I have kept my words light and deep."

The two exchanged a few words before saying goodbye.

Xue Bai stepped into Yuzhen Temple, looked back at Li Chu's back, and frowned slightly thinking of Zhang Ting's words in front of the saint.

He felt that the grandson of the emperor had been too free recently.

　Chapter 2 is still being written, please don’t wait~~ I’ll make some adjustments, and I’ll try my best to be on time later~~ Ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a ticket at the beginning of the month, thank you everyone~~
　　
　
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