In the Jiaotai Hall, the queen took her concubines to pay her respects to the empress dowagers of the two palaces.

During the New Year's Eve banquet, the Holy One would naturally send people to bring back the empress dowagers of the two palaces who were recuperating in Yichang Garden.

Even though she didn't see the two empress dowagers for many years, the empress still had a natural fear of this royal mother-in-law. So when she felt the eyes of the two empress dowagers coming towards her, she flinched a little.

The Empress Dowager Rensheng looked calm. These years of 'recuperation' had made her more discerning about the world.

The Cisheng Empress Dowager, on the other hand, had a gloomy and sharp look on her face. Instead of calling out first, she looked at the Queen from head to toe. When she turned her eyes away and glanced at the concubines, she fixed her eyes on the alluring woman on the left and rear of the Queen for a moment.

Taking a breath, Fang asked them to get up in a lukewarm manner.

The concubines sat down carefully.

The banquet begins at the right moment.

"Your Majesty has arrived——"

Outside the palace, the inner prisoner sang, and the ritual music started playing at the same time.

The emperor, wearing a bright yellow mian robe and a nine-pin robe, surrounded by twenty-four guards and many internal eunuchs, stepped onto the yellow robe paved on the passage of Jiaotai Hall, and walked steadily towards the throne above the hall.

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All the concubines and relatives of the emperor knelt down and worshiped, shouting long live the mountain.

After the Holy Emperor and the Queen Mothers of the two palaces greeted each other, they turned around and sat down, raised their hands and shouted.

The music stopped and the firecrackers sounded outside the hall.

When the call ended, gentle laughter came from the throne: "Today is a family banquet. It is a rare day for people to get together. Everyone here must not be rigid and drink to the fullest."

Someone answered from below: "Since the Holy Spirit has spoken, how can we not respond? We must drink until we are happy!" The person who spoke was Uncle Changhuang.

Atmosphere.

At this moment, he swept around again and said cheerfully: "Everyone, don't hold it back now, you can drink it to your heart's content. Anyway, the Holy One has spoken, so I won't blame you if you drink too much. With such a good opportunity, everyone can

Don’t miss it!”

Princess Chang pinched his arm hard, and Uncle Chang made an ouch, which made everyone laugh.

The person on the throne laughed. When his peripheral vision swept across the hall unexpectedly, he paused for a moment in one direction.

The woman behind the long desk, with her double bun, flower-shaped hairpin, and deep blue moire imperial concubine's court dress, is like a shining pearl. Even if she sits there motionless, she is so dazzling that it is difficult to move away.

Eye.

At this moment, she was looking quietly in the direction of Uncle Chang and Princess Chang, and with his peripheral vision, he happened to catch the moment when she was distracted.

His heart skipped a beat, and his neck suddenly felt itchy. The hand on his knee tapped twice, and he stopped the urge to touch the side of his neck.

He moved his eyes and looked in the direction of Uncle Chang Huang, swaying his eyes with a smile: "Uncle Chang Huang and Princess Chang have a very close relationship, which is enviable."

Uncle Chang Huang made a bitter face: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment. But I know in my heart that many big men in the capital laugh at me in private, saying that I am henpecked."

Everyone around me laughed in good faith.

Princess Chang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just now she was really afraid of her prince's remarks, so she responded by saying that the emperor and empress were in love. Fortunately, her prince knew what he was doing and was very cautious.

After a few jokes between the monarch and his ministers, the banquet was about to officially begin.

Feng Bao took half a step forward and sang loudly outside the palace: "Xuan, serve the banquet——"

The maids filed in carrying delicacies, and at the same time, the musicians from the Jiaofang Division also entered the palace carrying various musical instruments and played "Ming Emperor Song".

After the Holy One drank the first glass of wine that everyone paid homage to, the atmosphere in the hall gradually became lively.

"The two queen mothers are looking better and better."

During the banquet, the Holy Emperor rarely exchanged polite words with the empress dowagers of the two palaces.

Empress Dowager Rensheng was very understanding and politely replied, "Your Majesty is Renxiao, everything goes well for them in Yichang Garden".

But the Cisheng Empress Dowager said nothing, even put down the jade chopsticks in her hand, and sat with a drooped face, looking very depressed.

Her mood was so obvious that the emperor could not turn a blind eye, so he asked with concern whether she was feeling unwell.

"Thank you for your concern, my mother is not feeling unwell, but her heart is uncomfortable." Empress Dowager Cisheng said, taking out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, "The reunion day of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new will inevitably make people recall the past. Thinking about those years.

When the late emperor was still alive, every New Year’s Eve banquet, the Holy One would hold Yi’s hand.

Come to the banquet with your son's hand. Yi'er is gluttonous, so as the elder brother you will always give instructions ardently, and Yi'er also listens to you the most, and he will do whatever you say. At that time, you had a good relationship as brothers, and you were respectful to each other.

Yes, even the late emperor praised it several times. Unfortunately, that scene will never be seen again."

The Holy One put down his chopsticks.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng looked around the entire palace and sighed: "When I think that Yi'er is still suffering and freezing in Huangzhuang, while the Ai family is enjoying delicious food, how can I still have the appetite to eat it?"

As early as the Empress Dowager Cisheng sighed and shed tears, everyone in the palace lowered their eyes and only focused on the dishes on their plates. They did not even look upward with their peripheral vision. Although the palace was not completely silent, there was no noise at all.

Lively, a little awkwardly quiet.

"Worry is harmful to your health. Mother, please take care of yourself and don't worry about your unfilial son again."

The Holy Spirit spoke with concern, then turned his face and whispered: "Send someone to the Imperial Mansion to reprimand King Ping for his unfilial piety. If there is a next time to warn him, let him face Yichang Garden and kowtow a thousand times to apologize. If he dares to refuse to change after repeated admonitions, then he will be punished."

The number of knocks for the first time is doubled each time.”

The Empress Dowager Cisheng was shocked and angry: "You!"

The Holy Emperor ignored the other party's shock and anger, and turned his body towards the main hall, the golden nine strands in front of him swaying.

"Let's accept the banquet."

Feng Bao immediately announced loudly outside the palace: "Xuan, accept the banquet——"

Everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief. Once this opera was sung, it would probably relieve the awkward atmosphere in the hall.

They had good intentions, but when it came time to order a play, some people refused to act according to common sense.

According to the practice in previous years, although the Holy Father would ask the Queen Mothers of the two palaces to order first as a sign of filial piety, the first piece of music ordered by the Queen Mothers of the two palaces must also be the "Prosperity and New Year" for the occasion. Unexpectedly, there was an exception this year.

"Then let's order "Shiro Visits His Mother" and "Teaching His Son on the Road".

Empress Dowager Cisheng jumped in front of Empress Dowager Rensheng and spoke harshly.

This time the whole hall was really silent.

The Holy Father sat for a moment, showing no emotion: "After all, the opera is not lively enough. Stop the opera and put on singing and dancing."

At this time, someone in the main hall stood up and invited me: "Holy Majesty, I am brave, I wonder if I can order a song "Dance to Peace the World"? The northwest war has been a series of great victories. Although I am in Kyoto, my blood is boiling when I hear the news. I only regret that I don't have any martial arts skills to fight on the battlefield.

kill

Enemy! I think that in just three years, I, Daliang, have regained the lost territory of the three continents, enriched the country and strengthened the people, and had a prosperous national destiny. Even the people on the street said that Daliang is now in a prosperous age! In such a prosperous age, we should play "Dance to Peace the World" to suit the occasion of our future in Daliang.

Bring all nations to court!"

This person is still Uncle Na Chang.

The Holy Emperor sighed with emotion: "It's great that all nations have come to court. The Emperor's uncle said so well. So according to the Emperor's uncle's request, he played "Dance to Peace the World."

The dancers filed in, and the majestic music sounded.

Uncle Chang Huang took the lead in beating the table and beating the rhythm, singing along and cheering, and gradually the atmosphere in the hall became lively again.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng's face turned blue with anger, and she wanted to have an attack but could not find the place to do so.

The Empress Dowager Rensheng didn't show anything on her face, but she had mixed feelings in her heart.

Why bother? After so many years, how come the Merciful Saint still can't look away? What benefits can be obtained by competing with the Holy One? Even if she is the biological mother, the Holy One will not accept that trick at all, so no one can even think of using the word filial piety.

Come and suppress him.

Nowadays, the Holy Sage has full wings and holds great power. If you can't get along with him, you can't get along with yourself. Rao has been recuperating in Yichang Garden for many years, but she has heard more or less that in recent years, he has regained lost territory and expanded his territory.

Employing military attaches to suppress the arrogance of civil servants, the power of suppressing civil and military officials in the court reached an unprecedented balance, and his own prestige also reached a height unprecedented in previous dynasties.

She had to admit that her previous idea that the Holy Emperor was not suitable to be the leader of the beam was wrong.

He managed Daliang Jiangshan very well.

Now she could more or less guess at the great aspirations of the Holy Emperor, who probably wanted to establish some unparalleled achievements. What he was comparing to was not the mediocre late emperor or the previous dynasties, but the holy ancestor who founded the foundation and started a business.

Perhaps we can get a glimpse of this from the moment when he took control of the government with great vigor and resoluteness.

Empress Dowager Rensheng ate calmly. As long as the emperor did not harm the country, she would be worthy of her ancestors. So she did not need to worry about anything.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng did not have such a good attitude, because her favorite son was still imprisoned in the Imperial Mansion and had not seen the light of day for many years.

She was filled with hatred. One moment she hated the saint who was cold-blooded and cold-blooded, and did not care about the love between mother and son. The other moment she hated those civil servants who were blind-minded. Back then, they said that her Yi'er was fat, stupid, and did not have the appearance of an emperor, so she chose the so-called

Zhu Jing, who had the courtesy of an emperor, became the emperor.

Oh, do they choose the leader of a country just based on appearance?

That was a Zhongshan wolf, a kind and tolerant person who had hidden for many years and hit the target with one strike. I think those civil servants probably have nowhere to regret it now. They really deserve to suffer the consequences.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng felt a little relieved after thinking about it like this, and her eyes glanced at the woman wearing a flower hairpin in the palace.

The atmosphere in the palace was lively. After three rounds of drinking, the Holy Father stood up from his throne.

After all, there was still a banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and he, the master of the beams, needed to host it.
To be continued...