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Li Tai turned his little face and looked at it, and suddenly snorted coldly.

Li Chengqian also turned his head to take a look, his eyes fell on those generals, a trace of pride flashed on his face instantly, and he turned to Li Tai and said: "Qingque has seen it, these generals are all people who are good friends with this king......

"Brother Chengqian, don't be arrogant, the power of the junior brother in the army is shallow, I am indeed inferior to you in this regard, but can you compare to him?"

This 'he' can be said from the mouth of King Wei, and he doesn't need to think about it to know that it refers to Han Yue.

Li Chengqian was slightly stunned, then shook the sleeves of his robe fiercely, and said coldly: "Although Brother Wei can't compare to him, I can at least compare." Qingque, you are pitiful, there is a group of useless scholars in the house, all of them have lotus flowers, and there is really no plan in their chests......"

When he said this, he suddenly possessed himself, leaned close to Li Tai's ear and said, "If the old things of Xuanwumen are repeated one day in the future, can you and your group of scholars go to the battlefield?" They can't even carry kitchen knives......"

Li Tai's face changed slightly, and he was about to sneer at each other, when suddenly more than a dozen horses ran in the distance, and one of them laughed and said, "The two princes have arrived early?" What are you still standing for, hurry up and enter the palace, I want to have a drink tonight. ”

The person who came was Li Xiancheng biting Jin and others, more than a dozen princes turned over and dismounted, and the guards stationed at the palace gate stepped forward to check it, and then bowed down and retreated quickly.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai snorted lightly at the same time, raised their feet and went directly into the palace. In the back, Lao Cheng haha continued, hooking shoulders with more than a dozen princes, and soon entered the palace gate......

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At this time, the night is blurry, it is the beginning of the lanterns, the palace is hung with red lanterns everywhere, countless Gejia soldiers patrol back and forth, and there are dozens of masters hidden in the dark, by the flowers, under the big trees, there are faintly hidden people.

As time went by, more and more banquet attendees entered the palace, and everyone followed the path all the way across the Jinshui Bridge, then bypassed the Taiji Hall of the Shang Dynasty, and finally came to the Lizheng Hall on the east side of the palace.

There are four major palace groups in the Tang Imperial Palace, one of which is the Taiji Palace, which is where the emperor deals with political affairs. The second is Li Yuan's Da'an Palace, which became the hermitage of the Emperor Taishang. The third is the Prince's East Palace, which is now vacant due to Li Chengqian's cut.

The last palace group is the Lizheng Palace, this palace group has a total of eight buildings, covering an area of 670 acres, divided into two courtyards before and after, it is the fourth largest palace group in the palace.

The courtyard in front of the Ritsusho Hall has two main halls, and it is here every time the royal family holds a large banquet.

There are six palaces in the courtyard at the back, but foreign ministers are not allowed to set foot at night, because it belongs to the category of harem, and the sleeping palace of Empress Changsun is there.

At this time, it is two o'clock in the evening, converted into eight o'clock in the evening, the summer wind is as cool as water, the insects and cicadas on the flowers and trees in the palace are singing, everyone who came to the banquet entered the door and sat down, suddenly heard a few bells ringing behind the hall, and Li Shimin's figure went around a screen.

The emperor came in a hurry, followed by the eldest grandson queen of Lianbu, followed by the four main concubines and the four concubines, in addition to three Jieyu who held children in her arms.

In fact, Jieyu can no longer be regarded as a concubine, the position is much lower than that of the concubine, only slightly older than the talent, it is said that Jieyu is not eligible to participate in the royal banquet, but these three Jieyu have given birth to princes, since ancient times, the royal mother is expensive by her son, so these three Jieyu have been stained with the light of their sons.

Li Shimin's eyes slowly swept and found that the hall was full of people going to the banquet, and countless palace maids had already prepared dishes with plates, but because he and the queen had not arrived, no one moved chopsticks to eat and drink.

Han Yue also arrived early, it was the first time he participated in this kind of banquet, he didn't understand all kinds of etiquette, and finally sat somewhere under the guidance of a palace maid, looked around for a while, and found that he had a table alone.

The palace maid who instructed him was the queen's personal maid, and after she arranged for Han Yue to sit down, she asked the eunuch to bring a table and four chairs to put on the side, and then respectfully invited the four girls of Doudou to sit in the middle.

This famous hall is called the matching table, the status of ancient women is not high, and they can only sit on the side of their husbands when attending the banquet, for example, the table of the eldest grandson is next to Li Shimin, although she is the queen of a country, she also sits at the matching table.

The palace maid was extremely clever, and specially set up a table of light and delicious dishes for the four girls of Doudou, which was full of precious supplements such as ginseng, bird's nest and shark fin soup, which was obviously thoughtful.

Doudou is the most kind-hearted, seeing that she is busy and can't help but want to thank her, but the palace maid suddenly giggled, lowered her voice and said: "Don't blame the four princesses, we women can't be in the main position, so the slave maid can only make some means from the dishes......"

She glanced left and right, and continued in a low voice: "These ginseng bird's nests can only be enjoyed by the queen and the concubine, I secretly ordered the imperial kitchen to make an additional one, and the princesses should not say it......"

This is a gesture of affection, Han Xiao rolled his eyes a few times, suddenly took off a bracelet from his wrist, stuffed it to the palace maid and said, "Sister has been busy all night, I will give you this thing to wear." ”

The palace maid was startled, shook her head again and again, and said: "This bracelet slave has seen it, it is the queen's mother's beloved thing, and the mother rewarded you out of favor, how dare I wear this little palace maid." ”

"If you want to take it, you will take it!" Han Xiao stuffed the bracelet hard, and said with a grin: "If you don't take it, you will look down on me, and if you look down on me, you will look down on my husband." ”

The palace maid was stunned for a moment, turned her head to peek at Han Yue, and didn't know what she thought in her heart, and suddenly her pretty face was flushed and feverish......

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At this moment, Li Shimin laughed and raised his voice: "Why are you Aiqing reluctant to move chopsticks? Come on, come on, although tonight is the royal dinner, but it is also a celebration banquet for the court, the family will hold up the wine glass, and we will have a drink together......"

The emperor has an order, who dares to disobey? In the main hall, both the royal family and the courtiers stood up respectfully, holding the wine glass and draining it in one gulp.

The first glass of wine was eaten, and the banquet officially began.

Tonight is the royal banquet, but also the celebration banquet, the celebration will involve the reward, Cheng Yanjin suddenly said loudly: "Your Majesty, now that the grassland has been pacified, the Turkic war is terrifying, the battle of one million, 10 million prisoners, this battle can be called the biggest victory after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, please Your Majesty will not hesitate to reward the hearts of the soldiers." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, the needles in the hall could be heard, and the eyes of many people flashed quietly, and they secretly said in their hearts: "It's going to start!" ”

Du Ruhui stroked his beard with a smile on his face, turned his head and whispered to Fang Xuanling: "Cheng Zhijie is the best at falsely reporting his military exploits, and now he is the first pawn under the command of King Zhao of Xifu. ”

Lao Fang nodded slowly and said lightly: "That's how it should be!" ”

The two prime ministers glanced at each other, and then raised their eyes to see Li Shimin's face, and the same was true for everyone in the hall, everyone wanted to see the emperor's reaction.

I saw Li Shimin taking a sip of the wine glass, and kept nodding and saying: "Since ancient times, meritorious service must be rewarded, if you treat meritorious people harshly, who will be loyal to the country in the future?" ”

He slowly groaned, and suddenly asked Cheng Yanjin and said: "Zhijie, you are not only the founding prince of the country, but also from the family of the army, why don't you give me a suggestion, how to reward this time." ”

As soon as the emperor said this, everyone in the audience was shocked, and a military general suddenly stood up in the hall, and retorted loudly: "Your Majesty must not be like this, Cheng Zhijie likes to exaggerate military exploits the most, do you dare to let him suggest a reward?" Fang Caichen was angry when he heard what he said, he clearly cut 500,000 in the array, but he falsely reported that he had killed 1 million, and he clearly captured 300,000, but he falsely reported 10 million prisoners, this fang is extremely shameless, and the minister asks His Majesty to severely punish him......"

Cheng Biting Jin was furious, jumped up and scolded: "Grass you grandma, we obviously captured 4.3 million prisoners, how can it become 300,000 in your mouth?" Erase the big head and say zero, those four million prisoners of war let you eat? ”

The military general hugged his arms and laughed, deliberately seducing: "You said 10 million just now, why has it become 4.3 million now?" ”

Cheng Biting Jin didn't even think about it, pointed at his nose and scolded: "Isn't it okay for Lao Tzu to falsely report his war exploits, Your Majesty still won't expose it, how old are you old?" Who's crotch wasn't clamped well tonight, and it leaked out of your turtle grandson......"

Hob meat is hob meat, and he doesn't care that the other party tempts him to tell the truth. Lao Cheng not only admitted that he had falsely reported his military exploits, but also opened his mouth to scold the other party for being a **, and everyone in the hall laughed, and there was a sound of squirting wine everywhere.

The military general was furious and shouted: "The miscellaneous surnamed Cheng, there is a kind of let's go out of the palace to fight, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will kill you." ”

"Whew!" Cheng Biting Jin spat heavily, and said with disdain: "If you want to fight with Lao Tzu, you are not qualified......"

"Everyone is a national prince, why is the old man not qualified?"

Lao Cheng rolled his eyes and snorted: "What about all the Guogong, Your Majesty once said that the Guogong and the Guogong are actually very different." You've only won a few battles, and you've had a lot of feats......"

The generals sneered at each other and said loudly: "How much you have won battles, and are you very thick in battle?" ”

Lao Cheng laughed, and said proudly: "You really asked the right person this question, although we didn't win many battles, but one is worth a hundred of you, this time to pacify the steppe Turks, and win the Jieli Khan Tent in a battle, I was the left-wing vanguard at that time......"

The general's face was stunned, and he was suddenly sullen and unable to make a sound.

War merit is war merit, this is a real battle record, and no one can slander it.

Han Yue had been sitting upright, as if he hadn't heard the scolding of Lao Cheng and the general, the palace maid quietly came to his table earlier, and said in a low voice: "The prince needs to be careful, this person's name is Wu Shi Tong, he was named the Duke of Yingguo of the Tang Dynasty, and he was the governor of Lizhou, he is an old man who followed the Emperor Taishang to raise troops, and in the past, the East Palace had the prince's left and right guard rate, and this Wu Shi Tong served as the commander of the guard rate, and he commanded a full 30,000 horses......"

Han Yue didn't hear it, he poured himself a drink with a wine jug, and suddenly smiled and said: "This wine is not good, the taste is too light to drink, and it is not as strong as the high-grade wine brewed by this king." ”

The palace maid was stunned for a moment, and she opened her mouth to continue, but Han Yue waved her hand lightly, signaling her not to speak again.

At this moment, Li Shimin suddenly stood up, smiled faintly with a cup in his hand, and said: "Cheng Zhijie doesn't need to fight anymore, Wu Shi Tong doesn't need to be ashamed, I have been thinking about the reward for a long time, you all sit down." ”

Lao Cheng hurriedly bowed his hand, and the warrior Tong also bent down and saluted.

Li Shimin slowly glanced at the main hall, and suddenly shouted at Han Yue: "My son hasn't gotten up yet, hurry up and listen to the seal!" ”