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Chapter 231 Tianning Festival

The hall fell into silence, Su Ting frowned, and said after a while: "I have been handling cases for many years, and there are falsehoods and truths, half truths and falsehoods."

Hearing his honesty today, unlike other people who always say nonsense that dare not speculate, I couldn't help but praise him a few words, and said: "Beside me, you are loyal, unlike them."

No one in Wende Hall dared to guess who they were, they all lowered their heads, thinking they were clay sculptures.

Today, I don't need anyone to agree: "After you have checked, don't hand over the things to me, just send them to Prince Jin's mansion, let King Jin have a look at them first, and see clearly whether King Jin is happy or worried, flustered or calm."

He wants this son to read things first and see how King Jin reacts. If he is calm, maybe this informant letter is related to King Jin, or if King Jin is too calm, he also wants to suppress King Jin's arrogance. .

Su Ting took the order and left, and the gloom on Jinshang's body dissipated a little.

Wei Qiao put on some hot tea and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the account book for Liangguang Road has been delivered. Would you like to have a look at it?"

Picking up his teacup, he took a sip of hot tea and sneered: "They worked together to keep the salt and iron tightly sealed, and the account books were as much as they wanted, and even the smelters were blown up whenever they wanted. I thought I didn’t know who Li Lin was the scapegoat, but I didn’t want to pursue it because neither King Yan nor King Jin was injured.”

After hearing this, Wei Qiao quickly said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Today I shook my head: "I'm not a sage, I just know that family affairs are always being dealt with, but now it seems that they have lost their sense of proportion, and they have even forgotten who owns the world. In other words, just say that I trust them, if something goes wrong and I fail to live up to my painstaking efforts, that Xiangye will also be implicated by them."

Wei Qiao responded softly, and sent out the two sealed account books intact.

Today, I know that even if the Zhang family has the key to the treasury now, he can't touch them at the moment. It is not so easy for a huge monster to fall down. A mere whistleblower letter, even if the crime is confirmed, can only be folded in. one person.

Besides, even if there is a big event, it must be suppressed, and it cannot be caused before the Tianning Festival.

The monarchs and ministers are all looking forward to the safe arrival of Tianning Festival. On the tenth day of October, the palace will set up a mountain tower in the Jiying Hall.

Above the main hall, there is a vermilion lacquer Yuta. Behind the Yutao, there is a large screen with an immortal pine painted by Fu Daoyin. Under the Yutao, there are tables and chairs. Senior officials and envoys sit in the main hall, and the rest are on the corridor.

Roses, crape myrtle, crabapple, peonies, and early lotuses are placed everywhere in the hall.

The banquet starts from the unitary hour, and the younger the officials, the earlier they will arrive. They sit according to their seats. The banquet guests are seated one after another. The corridors on both sides of the main hall are filled first. Everyone comes and goes to say hello, and at the same time, they look at the officials entering the main hall. .

Before today's arrival, the last ones to arrive were King Jin and King Yan.

Today's Tianning Festival, the people with the banquet can wear official clothes, fashionable clothes, and court clothes. In order to avoid wearing the same official clothes as King Jin, King Yan deliberately changed the clothes today. Dressed in a crimson color with a curved collar, his expression has the look of a high-ranking person, and he has a bit of majesty, which makes people dare not say more.

King Jin is wearing a public uniform, a purple round-neck shirt, with a white middle single inside, the two colors blend together, originally gorgeous, but it makes him have the light of the sun and the moon, with a slight smile on his face, a calm expression, and a myriad of manners.

The officials in the corridor rushed to see the demeanor of the two princes, and accidentally knocked over the wine glass, which made a loud noise on the ground. King Yan was startled, and looked back with displeasure, as if accusing, and called the officials who lost their hands. Fear.

King Jin slightly turned his head and looked sideways. His eyes seemed to avoid the dazzling candlelight, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, as if deliberately softening the sharpness of his eyes. The corner of his mouth was smiling, which made people feel like a spring breeze.

It was inevitable that everyone present would compare the two princes together, and it was clear at a glance which one was better.

King Jin has a dignified manner and a beautiful temperament. Even if he cannot enter the East Palace in the future, such a stunning figure will leave a strong mark in the annals of history.

The seating arrangement of the two princes is very ingenious, one on the left and one on the right, next to each other, there is no distinction between high and low.

King Yan sat on the left side, beside Zhang Rui, Zhang Rui and Yue Zhongtai sat side by side, King Jin sat on the right side, Dong Tongying was next.

Everyone in the third division followed Dong Tongying on the right side, with the faint intention of respecting the king of Jin.

There were also Liu Qiuyu and others who showed displeasure and showed no respect for Dong Tongying. They looked straight to the left and wanted to change seats before the present and the concubine arrived.

What is surprising is that the two young kings usually try their best to hide themselves behind King Yan no matter what the occasion is, neither wanting to be seen nor causing trouble for King Yan, but this time they sit Arrived behind King Jin.

The two are still good regardless of you and me. Before going to the banquet, they discussed it carefully, and finally agreed that King Yan is terrible, and King Jin is even more terrible.

But King Jin's horror reveals a trace of kindness, pity for the weak, while King Yan is disgusted with their brothers, as if they are the witnesses of Zhang Guifei's infidelity today.

If the king of Yan is in power, I am afraid that the two of them will not be able to live well, so it is better to go to the king of Jin.

There are also some Zhengchen Qingliu, who don't care whether they are left or right, and only guard the three-acre land in front of them, without looking sideways.

It seems to be clear at a glance who has a better chance of winning between King Jin and King Yan.

After the people from the previous dynasty arrived, Imakami brought the harem to Jiying Hall.

Concubine Zhang Guifei seems to be the head of women in the harem, but because she is not in the middle palace, she cannot sit on the side of the upper body, nor can she sit in the main seat in the side hall, but even if she sits in the side seat, she is still the head of the harem.

Today, it was mentioned that Concubine Zhang should be established as the empress, but the admonishing ministers broke their heads and prevented Concubine Zhang from entering the central palace. There are twenty-four large and small flowers in the dragon and phoenix flower hairpin crown worn, which corresponds to the number of crowns and beams of the empress.

There are many irregularities in her fine attire, which can be clearly seen even through the partition between the two halls. After the censors performed the ceremony, they all frowned and whispered to each other, intending to join the noble concubine .

The censors didn't hide their actions, and Concubine Zhang Gui could see it. Faced with this situation, she just lowered her head and looked at the Dingzhou red porcelain vase in front of her. Inside was a slim lotus.

Now that he is in a high position, he naturally saw it too. Seeing that the censors stopped talking because today is the Tianning Festival, he couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief and let Wei Qiao order the servants in the side hall to hang up white gauze to block the gap between the two halls. Exchange of eyes.

The white gauze was quickly and slowly unfolded, Zhang Rui led all the ministers to congratulate Jin Shang on his birthday, and presented birthday gifts. Although the birthday gifts were full of jewels, they seemed unremarkable in the imperial palace where rare treasures were readily available.

Until King Yan poured out the urn of "Yellow River Qing", the whole Jiying Hall suddenly boiled.

(End of this chapter)