Chapter 53

Qin mubai closed the invitation and asked, "second brother, there's no reason. Why does the king of Wei want a banquet? How does he know I'm back from my vacation?"

"You are a big tree now. It's not easy to know that you have come back. Yesterday, your appearance in the world's first wine was enough to let the king of Wei know the news. I don't know how many of the officials and scholars who drank and entertained there were disciples of the king of Wei. " Qin Bin said, "as for the reason for the invitation, Yuxiong seems to have heard that the king of Wei wanted to invite all the scholars to have a song and drink."

"Qushui Liuqi? Funny! It's all summer. What's the flow and what's the cup? " Qin mubai couldn't help laughing.

Qushui Liuqi is an ancient custom that began to spread in the Jin Dynasty. It is said that Wang Xizhi, a famous calligrapher and internal historian of Kuaiji in the Jin Dynasty, together with his family and friends Xie an and sun Chuo, held the activity of "drinking and writing poems on Qushui Liuqi" in Lanting, which has been a good story for thousands of years. This Confucian style has been handed down to the present. At that time, Wang Xizhi and others sat on the ground on both sides of the Qingxi River in Lanting after the ritual of xiuxi. They put the wine cup in the river and slowly went down from the upstream floating water. After passing through the winding stream, whoever the wine cup turned or stopped in front of had to improvise poetry and drink.

In this game, 11 people each wrote two poems, 15 people each wrote one, and 16 people could not write a poem, so they each drank three drinks. Wang Xizhi collected all the poems and wrote down the world-famous preface to Lanting collection with cocoon paper and moustache pen.

Today's Emperor Li Shimin loves Wang Xizhi's calligraphy to the bone marrow, which has caused a great upsurge of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, the elegant entertainment style of Qushui Liuqi also spread among the scholars of Tang Dynasty. However, Qushui Liuqi is usually held at Shangji festival in March, and now it is the summer solstice.

"This fool doesn't know." Qin bin shook his head and laughed. "I heard from fellow guests that it was in March this year that the king of Wei was ordered to accompany his Majesty in the palace to discuss the compilation of Kuo Di Zhi, so he missed this year's Qushui cup. So when I'm free, I'll make it up again. The king of Wei had a close relationship with many literati. Qushui Liuqi had always been an important form for him to get in touch with others. I don't want to waste it! "

"I see..." Qin Mu Bai shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm a Wufu. I've only met the king of Wei. What do you want me to do? Isn't that just trying to embarrass me? "

"Third brother, do you really understand, or do you fake it?" Qin bin laughed, "this has been set clear, the king of Wei wants to pull cage you!"

Qin mubai chuckled: "then go! Anyway, I can't recite poems against you. Let's go and have a look. If I don't go, and I don't hit him in the face? Just the second brother, I want to ask - what's your relationship with the king of Wei? "

Qin bin gave a cool smile: "you don't know what your father taught you. Although he met the king of Wei in Hongwen hall and Wude hall, there were few words, let alone friendship. As for the king of Wei, he also seems to be indifferent to me, a junior scholar. The reason why I'm invited this time is that I'm going to invite you, right? Ha ha, brother Yu has followed you. "

"Ha ha, isn't it just eating and drinking? ——The second elder brother will wait a moment. I will leave with you when I change my clothes. "

Shortly after that, the two brothers ordered their clothes, took a carriage and left their home for the Wei palace.

Li Tai, the king of Wei, is the most favored prince by the emperor, even far better than Li Chengqian. Over the past few years, Li Shimin, a thrifty emperor, has constantly allocated money to Li Tai to repair his mansion. The money and silk supplied by him is almost equal to that of the east palace. For this reason, many old ministers did not give less advice to the emperor, but Li Shimin, who had always accepted the advice, still preferred Li Tai. In addition, Li Tai does have some abilities, and his special skills in "cultural administration" are not comparable to those of ordinary princes. In recent years, with a group of scholars, he has compiled a large number of books, among which kuodizhi, which includes the introduction of ten prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty, is the most famous.

The emperor's preference, Li Tai's own efforts, let him gather around the power of more and more huge. Nowadays, the emperor's intention to abolish the throne and Li Tai's intention to fight for the reserve are well-known secrets.

Li Tai is also a pioneer in "Qushui Liuqi" on a hot day. In fact, we all know that Li Tai is now busy competing for reserves, which can be called "a million opportunities in a day". Every minute is very expensive. The reason why he has invited a large number of people to play is to seize the opportunity to win people's hearts. In the Tang Dynasty, imperial power was a tree, while scholars were the root of the tree. With the support of the officials, he is undoubtedly the most powerful arm of the prince. Although Li Tai is only 20 years old, he is obviously a resourceful political course and will not do meaningless things in his spare time.

The location of the Qushui drinking cup is in the magnificent back garden of the Wei palace.

Qin mubai and his brothers arrived at the mansion by car. As soon as they were settled, the door officials came to greet them. After the invitation, the door pulled its neck and exclaimed, "Bai Qi's envoy Qin mubai and Hong Wen Guan's proofreader Lang Qin bin are here!"

It's a bit like the rookie in a wine shop.

At this time, there was a lot of traffic in front of the gate of the palace. Most of the people were young people dressed as officials. The voice of Menzi attracted many people's attention and even whispered comments."Look, those should be the two CHILDES of Qin Shubao's family!"

"The taller one is Qin Sanlang, the general of Baiqi emissary who is now hot in the emperor's hands?"

"I didn't expect him to come together with the king of Wei! The king of Wei is so quick. It seems that his strength has been greatly increased

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Menzi leads them back to the garden. Along the way, they see a large number of young officials gathering in front of the Flower Pavilion, talking happily, or pushing cups for the moon. In addition to luxury, the decoration of Prince Wei's mansion is full of literati atmosphere. It can be seen from time to time in the memorial archway of stele and stone. The setting of the back garden is also quite ancient, with the meaning of "Orchid Pavilion".

Along the way, Qin mubai saw no less than three or five hundred scholars. What surprised him a little was that most of these people were very young, and seldom saw a middle-aged man over 35 years old.

"Second brother, it's interesting to make friends with the king of Wei. Most of them are young people." Qin mubai said.

"The king of Wei has always been like this." Qin Bin said in a low voice, "most of the people around him are the nephews of the meritorious old ministers, or the rising stars of the new officials in the imperial examination. You should be able to think of why. "

Qin Mu Bai gently twisted his brow, thought carefully, and his heart gradually became clear.

Now there is a prince in the Tang Dynasty. No matter how much Li Chengqian let the emperor down, he was still the real prince. According to the usual practice, Li Shimin would arrange many important ministers to work part-time in the east palace to assist Prince Li Chengqian. And the court officials are also bound by the traditional idea that "the prince is the foundation of the country", and most of them are partial to the prince. For example, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, the two most influential ministers, have always had a clear-cut attitude and strongly supported the crown prince.

Because of the etiquette and conventions, Li Tai, the king of Wei, had no choice but to target his descendants. Tang Dynasty attaches great importance to menyin's family background. Maybe within ten or twenty years, these members of the "Prince party" will be able to take over the old ministers. As for those young scholars, not to mention, they can get the acceptance and support of the famous King of Wei. How can they not give their heart and soul to serve? At that time, it will be the reign of the king of Wei.

"The deep consideration of the king of Wei is far-reaching." Qin mubai smiles and whispers.

"The king of Wei has always been wise as a fool, and his city is very deep." Qin bin a language to break it, concise said, "third brother, must not underestimate him."

"I see."

After spending a little time, the two brothers strolled around for a while. They had never met a few acquaintances, who had never been able to communicate with talented people. About half an hour later, there was a sound: "the king of Wei has arrived!"

Three or five hundred young people swarmed towards the back garden. Many of them looked anxious, afraid that they would not be able to occupy good terrain if they ran slowly.

The Huaxi River is obviously artificially opened and smashed, and is specially built for entertainment music. A winding stream runs through the back garden. There are a lot of rare flowers and stones beside the stream. Everyone sits on the ground with their own futons. They put a few inks in front of them. There is no shortage of snacks like zither and zither.

It is really a grand gathering of scholars.

The chubby Li Tai was already on the scene, and there were too many people on the scene. He couldn't say hello one by one. After a prologue, he asked everyone to sit down. When the elegant music is played, the atmosphere becomes relaxed, casual and elegant, and the drinking of Qushui begins immediately.

Li Tai himself did not rush to sit down, but walked back and forth on both sides of the Huaxi River, talking with several young people from time to time. Most of the officials he talked with looked flattered. And others, most of them cast envious eyes.

Qin mubai and his brothers were sitting in a small corner. They looked at each other with a smile and were silent.

This Li Tai is very popular with the officials.

As if inadvertently, Li Tai came to Qin mubai brothers. At first sight, Li Tai sighed in amazement: "Oh! Aren't these brothers of the Qin family? How can you sit at the bottom? The slave is stupid, stupid

After that, Li Tai, full of fat, walked quickly to them and arched: "forgive me, forgive me! Please follow Xiao Wang to the first place

"You are welcome. I'm not good at poetry. If I come here, I'll just watch. I don't have to, do I? " Qin mubai arched back.

"Brother mubai, what do you mean?" Li Tai narrowed his eyes with a smile, grabbed Qin mubai's wrist and dragged him forward, "no, no, how can you hide in the end of the stream? Come and change seats with Xiao Wang

There was a low hiss, and hundreds of eyes were fixed on Qin mubai.

"So he is Qin mubai! ——”

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