Chapter 408： Banquet of the chief assistant

Chapter 408 The Feast of the Chief Assistant

Will you or don't

The dinner party is right there

Even though Zhu Pingan was no longer willing to go to the banquet, but after the sun went down, Zhu Pingan still went out of the Imperial Academy with all the Hanlins. It was impossible not to go, and one month's salary was paid in advance! No matter what, you have to pay back some costs.

I can't figure out why the Ministry of Accounts is so easy to talk about, and all the new recruits in the Imperial Academy are given a month's salary just like that! Tonight is said to be a welcome feast for Zhu Ping'an and his newcomers, but the money for the drinks is based on these salaries!

Finally know why the eyelids twitch at noon! One month's salary is gone!

The restaurant selected by the Hanlin Academy looks inconspicuous from the outside, it looks like a very ordinary courtyard house with a signboard with peeling paint, but when you enter, you find that the inside is quite different. The first time you enter, it is just an ordinary decoration with a star rating Not even counting, but the furnishings and decoration of the second entrance courtyard are definitely rated as four-star. This second entrance has opened up several courtyards, which is very spacious. The rockery bonsai small garden, and the uniformed service staff are so unique.

This place should probably be a place where people from the Hanlin Academy often come. The shopkeeper is familiar with Li Chunfang and the others, and they are all from this adult or that adult when they meet. Many people from other yamen also ate here, and Li Chunfang and the others would meet acquaintances from time to time to say hello and recommend Zhu Pingan and the others.

In addition to the Hanlin Academy, officials from the Imperial Hospital, the Ministry of War, and Jinyiwei also ate here today, but the specific places to eat are different.

Li Chunfang and the others led Zhu Pingan and the others into the usual courtyard—Ximo Pavilion. This is an independent small courtyard with two private rooms separated by about three meters. One of them is already occupied. It was a few people from the Imperial Academy; when the people from the Imperial Academy saw Li Chunfang and the others, they got up and came over to say hello. Li Chunfang also said a few words of politeness, Yuan Wei directly coughed twice in arrogance and impatience, and the other Hanlin also nodded and passed by.

Through this scene, Zhu Pingan also really understood that in the feudal Ming Dynasty, the status of doctors was not as it is in modern times. The status of doctors here is still very low. Although they are imperial doctors, they are still underestimated in the eyes of feudal bureaucrats.

When these imperial doctors came to say hello, Zhu Pingan noticed that there was another person sitting on the table in the imperial hospital without moving. Like other imperial physicians, he followed the trend.

This is an interesting imperial physician, and Zhu Pingan recorded this person.

Entered the private room, and took their seats according to the official position of the guest and host. Li Mo didn't come, saying that the official department had something to do. Li Chunfang was a little older and had a high official position, so he sat on the chief seat. Zhu Ping'an also sat a little closer to the front, because his official position was there, and Zhang Siwei and Zhu Ping'an were separated by several seats.

Not long after Zhu Ping'an and the others took their seats, two more people came hand in hand.

One of them appeared on the stage with a smell of greasy powder. He was very handsome, and Zhu Ping'an also knew him. He was Zhang Juzheng, who wanted to sing curry for gays the first time we met. Looking so handsome, and putting on makeup and spices, there is really no way to survive for someone who is not handsome like himself. In addition to makeup, Zhang Juzheng's clothes also complement each other, clean and bright, spotless without a single wrinkle.

The other person, Zhu Ping'an, didn't know him. He was not much handsomer than himself, but the arrogance on his face seemed to be much more serious than Yuan Wei's. That's right, the one who can come with Zhang Juzheng is Yi Yi's generation, Zhu Ping'an is full of curiosity about this person.

"Suqing, uncle, come here. If you come a quarter and a half later, you will be punished with alcohol." Yuan Wei got up and smiled and greeted the two to take their seats.

Someone who can treat someone as arrogant and conceited as Yuan Wei like this, and someone whose strength can make Yuan Wei look up to him, this kind of person must be a celebrity in history, Su Qing? Whose word is this, so familiar.

Zhu Ping'an was thoughtful.

"Hehe, King Yu opened his mansion not long ago, and it was difficult to escape for a while, but fortunately, Uncle Lai gave a helping hand, so he has time to escape today." The person Yuan Wei called Su Qing said with a smile.

King Yu? Su Qing? These two came out together, reminding Zhu Pingan all of a sudden, and reminding Zhu Pingan that Suqing is a high-profile character in history! Gao Gong, it turns out that this person is Gao Gong, no wonder his face is full of arrogance, it is not surprising that he is Gao Gong.

In history, Gao Gong was a conceited wizard with a haughty personality, just like his name, tall and difficult to arch. According to historical records and unofficial records, Gao Gong can be regarded as a child prodigy of the Ming Dynasty. At the age of five, he could compose couplets in one go, at the age of eight, he could recite the preface, and at the age of seventeen, he was the first in the country with the "Book of Rites". This has also formed Gao Gong's arrogant character, high self-esteem, and often looks down on the people around him, whether it is superiors or colleagues, let alone subordinates, the mantra is: You guys are stupid.

Thinking of this, when Zhu Pingan looked up, he saw the contempt hidden in Gao Gong's eyes when he was talking and laughing.

Hehe, interesting, trying to figure out the characters of the two, sitting there, Zhu Pingan couldn't help thinking of the mental journey of Yuan Wei and Gao Gong.

Yuan Wei: I don’t like their stupidity, but Suqing and Juzheng.

Gao Gong: I can't even look down on you being stupid!

After exchanging pleasantries, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng both took their seats, and by coincidence, Zhang Juzheng sat at Zhu Ping's lower seat.

Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, Li Chunfang, Zhang Siwei, they will all be the chief assistants of the Ming cabinet in the future. There are four people who will be extremely powerful ministers in the future sitting at a table.

The world is really amazing, I actually sat and drank with Daming's fourth cabinet minister!

Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but twitched his lips when he thought of this.

One table with four shoufu?

Maybe, who can tell in the future.

But when it comes to the future, about 500 years later from this time, a painter named Xu Beihong made a painting for this Hanlin Academy's cleansing banquet, called "The Banquet of the First Assistant", five hundred years later The famous artist Xu created this "The Banquet of the Chief Assistant" based on historical records, because there is no banquet table with more important people than this table, and it is because there is no banquet table that can hold so many first ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Yes, especially one of them pushed Daming to a height that was unattainable by any dynasty. Because of master Xu Beihong's ingenious selection of materials, wonderful interpretation, and excellent painting skills, this painting has become a classic among classics. Especially after a hundred years after Master Xu Beihong, this painting "The Banquet of the Chief Assistant" made history at an international auction. the most.

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