156 The lively morning
The spring breeze was once and a few times, and the sky was brighter overnight through the window.
It will be dawn when you stay up all year round. Zhang Yang and Wang Shu's family are no longer energetic at this time. After all, people will definitely not be able to stand it after staying up all night. In addition, during the Yin hour, Wang Shu and Zhang Yue went to attend the morning court. The entire Zhuque Street has been very lively since this time!
This year is the first year when Li Shimin ascended the throne, and Li Shimin should have to do it well, so Zhang Yanghe, as a son-in-law, also went to Tai Chi Palace to attend a banquet. It was just that he did not follow Wang Shu to the Tai Chi Palace during the Yin period because he did not attend the morning court.
When Zhang Yang slowly came to Tai Chi Palace, Li Mingyu had already changed into a brand new dragon robe and accepted the congratulations of all the officials in a well-dressed manner. He is now exchanging holiday gifts with the ministers.
Of course, there were no new gifts for the Tang Dynasty during the Spring Festival. The gifts mentioned here are poems given by ministers and emperors.
However, the most outstanding person today is Zhang Yue. Wang Shu planned to do this. Since Wang Shu was no longer the case, he was an official in the court and was not out of order, so Wang Shu gave him a poem like other ministers to Emperor Li Shimin.
As the head of the Wang family, a family with hundreds of years of history, Wang Shu must have a very solid and rich literary foundation.
However, as a newly promoted official after Li Shimin came to power after the Xuanwu Gate Incident this year, he was still a fourth-rank official in the court. Although his book was the fourth-rank official and the fourth-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites, he was not a small official anymore!
Originally, Wang Shu was choosing a poem for today as a gift to give Emperor Li Shimin, so that Li Shimin could deepen his impression of Wang Shu and bring in some relationship with ministers in the court. If something special is done, he would definitely not be able to do anything!
Didn’t Zhang Yang write two new poems yesterday when the Wang family was staying at the end of the year (although Zhang Yang pirated the copies at that time, after all, the original authors of these two poems have not been born yet, so no one knows that it was pirated by Zhang Yang!)
Wang Shu knew that Li Shimin valued and loved the talent and talent of his nephew Zhang Yang, otherwise he would not have tried every means to marry his daughter to Zhang Yang because of a joke, although he had already succeeded!
Wang Shu made up his mind to use these two new poems written by Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang as a gift, and to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, so that the ministers with good relationships with the Zhang family could know the relationship between them and let him and Du Ruhui get in touch!
Before Li Shimin could collect the poems sent by all the civil and military officials, ministers, lords above the court, took them out and read them, and began to comment. However, for most people, chanting poems is a laborious task, and it may be thankless!
After all, the ministers, especially the civil servants, each of them has a rich literary foundation for reciting poems. On the first day of the New Year, you should make a good poem to make the emperor happy, let him know his talent as a minister, look at him with a different eye, and pave the way for his future path!
Of course, this is for the civil officials in the court. For generals like Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde, they don’t have to worry about this. Anyway, China has been on the first day of the Lunar New Year for so many years, and countless poems are already in this world. They only need to find two scholars to help them choose a few poems, let them see them, and they choose that poem when they look at it.
This is a semi-public secret, the unspoken rule of the general industry! Li Shimin is not surprised by the perfunctory behavior of the generals. After all, Cheng Yaojin and others had already started to do this when the former emperor Li Yuan was still in power. Since Li Yuan did not blame him, Li Shimin would not blame these confidant generals!
Li Shimin, who was not sitting on the dragon throne, was looking through the poems of the ministers. This song made him less interested. After all, most of the poems here have appeared and have been recorded in history.
Most of those new poems are ordinary, with few that can make people shine. And those who have already proved their poetry talents, such as Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, etc.!
Emperor Li Shimin looked through the poems of the ministers on the dragon throne, and the ministers in the hall were not chatting in groups of three or three, or congratulating each other. After all, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, representing a new year and a new beginning. This morning is used to congratulate, not as serious as usual.
In addition, many local officials rushed back to Chang'an City from all directions of the Tang Dynasty to celebrate the festival for the new emperor. It is rare to see friends from the same dynasty in Chang'an City, so these adults are catching up to greet each other! Just as these civil and military officials, royal relatives, and lord representatives who congratulated each other and greeted each other in the court were having a hot chat, Li Shimin flipped the list of poems handed over by Wang Shu, which contained two poems that Zhang Yang had just written yesterday, and his eyes lit up!
This is the best Li Shimin has found from the list of poems in front of him this year, which made him unconsciously start reading the first poem on the list of poems in his hand:
"The evening scenery is slanting in the fragrant palace, and the years are gorgeous and beautiful palace. The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings the spring breeze...
Yes, this poem is good, I can’t tell! Wang Aiqing is also writing a good poem! Both poems are good, this year, with your two poems, you will have a great chance to win them!
These are the two poems I am most satisfied with today. As long as there are no more outstanding poems left than your two poems, you will be sure to take the lead!"
As Li Shimin said this, the civil and military officials in the court all showed a brief tranquility, which was in sharp contrast to the lively scene of the Tai Chi Hall just now!
However, this short tranquility did not last long. In less than a minute in later generations, the group of civil and military officials with deep concentration recovered one after another.
However, when these people recovered, they all began to congratulate Wang Shu. After all, they could write such an excellent poem, especially when they could receive praise from the emperor.
This is an affirmation of Wang Shu's talent in poetry! It is worth looking up to Wang Shu and congratulations to him. After all, they are all officials in court, but they look up and look down!
However, Wang Shu cannot make a contribution at this time. You must know that these are two new poems that Zhang Yang only wrote last night. Although the two are quite close, they are not the poems made by Wang Shu himself. If he took these two poems for himself, even if no one cashed in on the spot, he would be confused! But once this matter was found out later, his political career would end!
After all, the selection of talents in ancient times was quite strict. He was only considered ordinary in poetry. Once he was exposed and had moral problems, no one would use you!
After saying that when he heard Zhang Yang’s poems at the Wang family last night, Zhang Yang’s father Zhang Yue was absent, Wang Shu didn’t dare to open his eyes and talk lies. Shuo said that these two poems belong to his own, which would be too much of a loss!
So after the congratulations from all the civil and military officials, Wang Shu stood up and saluted Li Shimin and said:
"Your Majesty, although I know that these two poems are good, and they are new works. But I dare not make contributions to these two poems, because these two poems were not written by me!"
"What, it was not what you did, who did it? This is the first time I have heard it today, but these two poems are really good, where did you get it!"
"Your Majesty, these two poems are really not written by me. If you don't believe me, you can ask me my brother-in-law, Zhang Gui'an, the Duke of Min'an County, who can testify for me. He is indeed not lying to be a me!
As for Your Majesty, it is normal that you have not heard it, because these two poems are new poems, to be precise, after dinner, Weichen's family sat around the fire to watch the New Year.
The new poem written by your nephew of the empress, that is, the son of Zhang Gui'an, the Duke of Min'an County, Your Majesty's unmarried son-in-law Zhang Yang at that time, so Your Majesty just said that you had never heard of these two poems from you!
Since I really didn't come up with any good new poems today, I only wrote these two poems when I gave him a poem to His Majesty just now. After all, these two poems are very good. I believe Your Majesty will like it! He dared to do this."
Wang Shu was a little afraid that Li Shimin would misunderstand, so he quickly answered Li Shimin's words in a slightly panic-like voice!
"Did this poem come from the way Wang Aiqing sent it, Zhang Aiqing?"
"Yes, your Majesty, not only the two poems handed by my brother-in-law, Lord Wang, were written by my son Zhang Yang, but also the things handed over by my son were written by me for my son's feelings last night!"
After hearing Li Shimin's question, Zhang Yang understood what was already there and told Li Shimin!
"So that's the case! Wang Aiqing is fine. This is human nature, and you can't blame him! I just didn't expect that my future son-in-law's talent is really extraordinary.
Previously, there was "About Wine", and then there was "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" written in "Yuelailou", adding "Loyalty to the Country" not long ago, and adding the two poems "Shouqing New Year" written by now.
This is really a genius in the poetry world! With the addition of the farm tools he has improved, he looks a bit versatile. Haha, I just happened to see when he made another one this time!"
Li Shimin is now quite satisfied with the fiancé chosen by Li Mingyu, the eldest daughter of the Tang Dynasty, and is also quite confident in his vision. After he finished speaking with a smile, he searched for the poem presented by Zhang Yue from the pile of New Year's greeting poems. However, it is obvious that although Li Shimin had read a lot just now, there were still a lot left. It would take him a while to find it alone.
Originally, these poems of honor only need to be read before noon. Now he has enough time to read them slowly. However, for people like him, I have heard that many poems have been made in the world, especially in the pile of poems in front of me.
This made him feel anxious. He was a person who smoked for a long time and became addicted to smoking because he hadn't smoked for a day, so he added Li Shimin to call Li Yifeng to find him with him!
It turns out that there are many people and great power. Now it is from looking for one person to looking for two people. After a while, Li Shimin personally found the poem Zhang Yue who recorded Zhang Yang's new poem in the pile of poems.
It seems that Li Shimin is lucky! This 50% chance was given to him!
However, when the cheerful Li Shimin took the Zhang Yue's He Shi he found, he was stunned when he saw him. What is this?
This! This! This!
This is even more amazing than a new poem, and a good poem shocked Li Shimin. This thing is really useful!
This is the old man Li Yifeng who was helping Li Shimin find Zhang Yue's He Shi together. After Li Shimin found this, he reconciled the pile of He Shimin's poems that Li Shimin had not watched seriously, and after the code was neatly arranged.
When he stood up, he saw Li Shimin, who was sitting on the dragon throne, looking at the He Shi, a little dazed, so Mr. Li Yifeng walked to something with curiosity, and looked at the Zhang Yue He Shi in Li Shimin's hand and was shocked to dazed!
Now the ministers in the Tai Chi Hall who looked at Emperor Li Shimin and hoped to know how outstanding the honor poems written by Zhang Yang handed over by Zhang Yue were a little confused.
Seeing Li Shimin and Li Yifeng both looked at the He Shi handed over by Zhang Yue, their eyes were filled with shock. This made these ministers who wanted to know the truth confused!
After all, with the knowledge of Li Shimin and Li Yifeng, there are not many things in the world that can shock them. Especially when this thing is a poem, if these two people become like this, this poem can be so outstanding!
Just as everyone was in the audience, secretly guessing how excellent this poem was and whether it could make the author of the poem famous in the Tang Dynasty and be kept in history, Li Shimin and Li Yifeng came to their senses!
Li Shimin, who came to his senses, quickly grabbed the tea bowl placed on the dragon table and drank it in one sip at the tea bowl.
Now, after Li Shimin's whale swallowing dragon, the bowl of tea immediately came to an end. Unfortunately, because Li Shimin was too anxious, he was immediately choked by the water. This miserable person was choked even if he drank a sip of water!
Seeing this situation, Li Yifeng, who was standing by, quickly patted Li Shimin on the back a few times before letting Li Shimin pass through this breath, allowing the tea to leave the trachea smoothly, flowed into the liver along the esophagus, and absorbed it by the liver.
Otherwise, Li Shimin might have become the emperor with the shortest reign, and his death was quite strange. In the morning court on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when facing the civil and military officials, he drank tea and choked to death. This was really a strange story! If it were recorded in history books: Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang, in the second year of Zhenguan, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, in the Tai Chi Palace and the Tai Chi Hall, after congratulating all the civil and military officials in the court, he drank tea and died on the dragon throne, which would have made people laugh to death in the future. If anyone in the future saw this record, he would not believe it!
This is obviously too outrageous. It is a human being. As long as you don’t see it with your own eyes, you will not believe it. This is just a common saying that the people in later generations curse others. Let’s get back to the point!
After Li Shimin recovered from being choked by drinking tea, he took the silk handkerchief handed by the eunuch next to him and scrubbed his face. After all, the choked just now made Li Shimin's tears choke out!
Today, Li Shimin can be considered a loss of face! He was so embarrassed in front of all the civil and military ministers, royal relatives, and meritorious nobles!
After Li Shimin finished wiping, he was a little angry, laughed and cried, and was filled with joy. After adding various complex emotions and expressions mixed together, he showed them on Li Shimin's face, Li Shimin asked Zhang Yue:
"Zhang Aiqing, you are sure that Zhang Yang did it on the congratulatory paper you just handed over!"
When Zhang Yue heard Li Shimin talk about the contents on the congratulatory paper he handed over, he replied in panic:
"Your Majesty, I dare not make any false statements. Everything I say is true and I dare not commit this great crime of deceiving the emperor.
What I wrote on the congratulations paper is all about yesterday's wife, son of the "Medical King" Sun Zhenren, his great-granddaughter Sun Xuexue, and his personal guard given to him by His Majesty Li Kedi to his brother Wang's house to the house of the Minister of Rites Wang.
In the afternoon, when I was chatting in my brother Wang’s living room, I talked that there were still six or seven days before the beginning of spring, and the beginning of spring is the day when the earth is revived and the earth is revived.
That is, it’s time for the people to plow the spring farm tools, showing how useful my son’s improved farm tools are.
So under such circumstances, my son Zhang Yang read out what I wrote on the congratulations paper I just handed to His Majesty!
What I said is true. If Your Majesty does not believe it, you can now send someone to the Weichen Nei brother's house to summon me: Sun Zhenren and his great-granddaughter, Weichen's wife, Nei brother's wife and his two sons, as well as those present at that time, Weichen's relatives in Chang'an City can all testify to me."
After Zhang Yue finished speaking, Wang Shu saluted Li Shimin directly and said:
"Your Majesty, I am guaranteed by my personality, capital and life. I am unable to do so. Every word said by Duke Zhang, the Duke of Min'an County, is true and there is no false statement!"
Wang Shu said this, and Li Shimin believed that the ministers present had indeed recorded on the congratulatory paper, which was indeed what Zhang Yang said. This matter was no joke. If it were not the fact, Wang Shu would not dare to say that!
After Wang Shu finished speaking, Li Shimin thought for a while and asked Eunuch Li Yifeng to take down the congratulatory paper handed over by Zhang Yue in his hand and handed it to Pei Ji, a veteran of the three dynasties, and asked him to read it first and then pass it on to all civil and military officials.
After reading the things recorded on this congratulatory paper, all the civil and military officials and the meritorious nobles present, the eyes of everyone looking at Zhang Yue changed.
Except for Wang Shu, who had already known the contents of the congratulatory paper, the other civil and military ministers looked at Zhang Yue with envy and jealousy!
I envy Zhang Yue's son Zhang Yang's talent, and I am jealous of Zhang Yue's giving birth to such an outstanding son. I can be called a genius of heaven and hate that his son is not good at doing well!
However, everyone present knew that Zhang Yang had decided to be the leader of this year, and everyone was convinced!
Chapter completed!