You will, or you won’t.
The dinner’s right there.
Even if Zhu Pingan is no longer willing to go to the banquet, but after the sun set, Zhu Pingan still followed the Hanlin together out of the Hanlin Academy, do not go can not ah, a month’s salary has been paid out in advance! How to eat back some of the cost.
I can not figure out how the Ministry of the household so good to talk, all the new people in the Hanlin Academy a month’s salary is so to send! Tonight is said to give Zhu Pingan and their newcomers to receive the dust feast, but the wine can rely on these salaries!
Finally, I know why my eyelids were fluttering at noon! One month’s salary is gone!
Hanlin Academy chose the restaurant from the outside look very inconspicuous, is a very common courtyard look, hung a paint signboard, but went in and found that the inside is very different, the first into the ordinary furnishings can not even be counted on the star, but the second into the courtyard furnishings and décor is definitely rated on the four-star, the second into the several courtyards through, very wide. The rockery bonsai small garden, and dressed in uniform service personnel, there is a heavenly paradise ah.
This place should be about the people of the Hanlin Academy often come to the place, the shopkeeper and Li Chunfang they are familiar with, meet this lord that lord. There are also many people from other government offices who eat here, and Li Chunfang and the others also meet acquaintances from time to time to say hello and introduce Zhu Pingan and the others.
In addition to the Hanlin Academy, there are also officials from the Imperial Hospital, the Ministry of War, and the Jinyiwei who are eating here today, only the exact location of the meal differs.
Li Chunfang led Zhu Pingan into the courtyard where they were usually located – the Ink Washing Pavilion, which was a small independent courtyard with two private rooms spaced about three metres apart, one of which was already occupied, with several people from the Imperial Hospital seated; when the people from the Imperial Hospital saw Li Chunfang and the others, they took the initiative to get up and come over to greet them, and also asked the shopkeeper to give a greeting to the officials from the Hanlin Academy. The man from the Imperial Hospital saw Li Chunfang and the others, took the initiative to get up and come over to greet them, and also asked the shopkeeper to send two jars of good wine to the people from the Hanlin Academy, which was counted on their account. Li Chunfang was also polite, while Yuan Wei was directly arrogant and impatient, coughing twice. The other Hanlin also nodded and passed.
Through this scene, Zhu Pingan also truly understood that in feudal Ming, the status of doctors was not like in modern times, where the status of doctors was still very low. Despite being a Imperial Doctor, they were still looked down upon in the eyes of the feudal bureaucrats.
When these doctors came over to greet each other, Zhu Pingan noticed that there was another person sitting on the table in the Imperial Hospital who did not move, it was a young doctor who was sitting there calmly drinking the tea in his hand. Not at all like the other eunuchs that tend to be aggressive.
This is an interesting eunuch, Zhu Pingan wrote this person down.
Into the private room, in accordance with the official position of the guests and masters of their respective seats, Li Mo is not coming, said the Ministry of mandarins have something. Li Chunfang is a little older, official position is also high, then sat on the main seat. Zhu Pingan also sat a little forward, because his official position in that, Zhang Siwei and Zhu Pingan separated several seats.
Shortly after Zhu Pingan and the others took their seats, two more people came together.
One of them made his entrance with a fragrant and greasy smell. He was very handsome and Zhu Pingan knew him, the same Zhang Juzheng who wanted to sing curry to gay the last time he saw him for the first time. Look so handsome, but also make-up and spice, really do not give themselves so not handsome people stay alive, in addition to make-up, Zhang Juzheng’s clothes are also complementary, clean and bright, spotless a fold are not.
Another person Zhu Pingan but do not know, long than their own handsome not to where, but full of condescension seems to be more serious than Yuan Wei. Also. Can and Zhang Juzheng together, is not easy generation, Zhu Pingan to this person is full of curiosity.
“Suqing, Shuda you can come, if you come a moment later. You may have to be punished with a drink.” Yuan Wei got up and greeted the two with a smile as they took their seats.
The person who can make Yuan Wei so arrogant and conceited to be treated like this, surely the strength can make Yuan Wei look high, this kind of person must be a famous person in history, Su Qing? Whose character is this, so familiar.
Zhu Pingan pondered.
“Oh, Yu Wang first opened the residence to receive the scriptures not long ago. It was difficult to get away for a while, but fortunately, thanks to Shuda’s help, he had time to get away today.” That person Yuan Wei called Su Qing said with a smile.
King Yu? Su Qing? These two came out together, instantly reminding Zhu Pingan, making Zhu Pingan remember that Su Qing is not the historical word for Gao Gong! Gao Gong, it turns out that this person is actually Gao Gong, no wonder this face is full of condescension ah, it is Gao Gong is not surprising.
Historically, Gao Gong is a conceited wizard, arrogant character, just like his name, and high and difficult to arch. According to history and wild history records, high arch is also counted as a prodigy of the Ming Dynasty, five years old couplets in one breath, eight years old will be able to memorise the preamble, seventeen years old to “rituals and scriptures” Kui in the township. This also developed the high arch of the arrogant character, conceited and high, often look down on people around, whether it is the superior or colleagues, not to mention the subordinates, the mantra is: you bunch of stupid ….
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan looked up when he saw the high arch jokes when the deep-seated contempt of the bottom of the eyes.
Oh, interesting, speculate on the character of the two, Zhu Pingan sitting there in the mind can not help but hysteria out of Yuan Wei and high arch two people’s journey.
Yuan Wei: I can’t see their gang of stupid, I can see Su Qing and Ju Zheng you.
Gao Gong: I f*cking even you stupid …… I can’t even look at you, you’re stupid!
After the pleasantries, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng are seated, coincidentally Zhang Juzheng is seated at the bottom of Zhu Pingan’s seat.
Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, Li Chunfang, Zhang Siwei, this future can be Daming’s Cabinet Chief Minister ah…… One table actually sat four people who will be the future ministers of the people.
The world is really wonderful, I actually sat with the four cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty to drink together!
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but tickle the corners of his lips when he thought of this.
Four chief ministers at a table?
Maybe, who can say in the future.
But speaking of later, later from this time about five hundred years later, there is a called Xu Beihong painter for this time the Hanlin Academy to receive the dust baptismal feast to do a painting, called “the banquet of the first minister”, five hundred years later Xu painter is based on the historical records to create this “the banquet of the first minister”, it is because there is no any table banquet sitting people than this table has weight, it is because there is no any table banquet can make up for so much! Of the premier ministers of the Great Ming Dynasty, especially one of them is to push the Great Ming Dynasty to a height that is difficult to reach in any dynasty. Because of the cleverness of Master Xu Beihong’s material, the wonderful interpretation, and the outstanding workmanship of the painting, the painting has become a classic among classics. Especially in Xu Beihong master a hundred years later, this “the first minister of the banquet” in an international auction to create history, the sale price than the history of religious masterpiece “the last supper” but also more than 10 million dollars, became the most at that time.
