Your Majesty, please draw the card

Now that the emperor has come up with a question of Jinkou Yuyan, the next step is to prepare for the brewing stage.

In order to take care of some military generals and relatives with less outstanding literary talents, the seats beside the "canal" were limited to more than 50 people.The left and right prime ministers did not participate in the competition because of their identities, but there are many old students of them.Most of these people are talented and learned, so they don't seem panicked, they just shake their heads and tap the table to start thinking.

Mi Tuan took this opportunity to get close to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, that one over there is Mr. Cao whom the servant mentioned to you."

Cao Zizhen?

Liu Xi glanced intently.It's nothing special, two eyes and one mouth, not as good-looking as Bao Zheng.Although Mrs. Bao is dark and handsome, this person is just an ordinary literary youth face!

The emperor was a little disgusted with this cousin.In fact, Cao Zizhen looks like a handsome man in appearance, but the card characters accompanying the emperor are all super handsome guys, plus there is prejudice in his heart, so naturally he doesn't want to see him.

Liu Xi raised the wine glass and said a few polite words, and gave the first glass of wine, and the poetry appreciation meeting officially started.He took a specially carved "wine glass" that could float on the water, filled it with wine and put it into the "drain", and the glass floated forward little by little...

The first person whose turn came was a short official. Liu Xi remembered that he was from Prime Minister Zhao Wenshan's side.Zhao Wenshan went to the disaster area and hurried back. It took a total of more than ten days.Considering the current extremely inconvenient traffic conditions, Liu Xi even doubted whether he had set foot on the land of the two disaster-stricken states.

The Prime Minister Zuo didn't go south just to make political capital, right?

However, Zhao Wenshan brought back the news that the grain had been purchased and would be transported to the disaster area in six batches. Liu Xi was still very happy. His sons are rewarded.Zhao Wenshan's status in the court has risen in the past two days, and he is a bit of a practical man who looks down on the right prime minister Wang Ting, and he can even see it from the poems written by his officials.

In the poems of the short official, he criticized the silverfish in some countries from the perspective of ordinary people.Not to mention the righteous indignation in it, it also faintly hinted that the silverfish in the reincarnation of heaven will not live long.The current national treasury is managed by Prime Minister Wang Ting, the moral of this poem is obvious.

Thanks to Eunuch Gao for his great training these days, the emperor understood it as soon as he heard it, and then frowned.The people around were all like Chengjing, so it was obvious that the emperor didn't like this poem.

The only judge of the Poetry Appreciation Conference is the emperor, and this competition is essentially a competition to guess the emperor's mind.When is Mid-Autumn Festival?It's a good day for family reunion!Since the emperor held this meeting with great interest, how could he want to listen to sad and tragic poems?The officials gloated in their stomachs one by one.

However, the emperor was also magnanimous, and he just said "it's pretty neat" and signaled to pass it on to the next one.With this early bird, everyone immediately changed their thinking from mourning to praise.

The second official's turn was gray and not too young.He didn't want to join a group of people much younger than him to participate in the competition, but he has been an official for more than [-] years, but he has never been up or down. Seek a future.In order to impress others, he deliberately found many gunmen and prepared ten poems in advance.Although he failed to guess correctly, one of the poems chanting autumn has something to do with the emperor's title, so it can be used.

It was also this old man who was unlucky. The pile of cheat sheets he brought was stuck with sweat, and he tore them for a long time without success, but the wine glass had already stopped in front of him.For a while, the old man was sweating profusely, stumbled and read out the clear words and sentences in the cheat sheet, but the preface did not match the afterword, which made people laugh uncontrollably.Liu Xi couldn't help being happy when he saw that his poems had the style of "the sky is blue and the wild is vast, and there is a young man in my family".

"I think this poem is unique."

The emperor made a comment, and the old man wiped off his cold sweat and sat down, his heart beating like a drum. He didn't know if the emperor remembered him, and whether he was expected to be promoted next year.

"Yuglass" took another turn, one of them sang praises and praised the peaceful and prosperous age, the emperor only gave the four words "flowing in emptiness", and the other emphasized that the greatness governs the world with filial piety.The emperor thought about it, and felt that this matter was really not easy to refute, but he felt aggrieved if he didn't refute.Governing the world with filial piety, so that the emperor has no real power at all, the country is poor and weak, and the people are displaced, can it be considered a good policy?

In fact, Liu Xi knew in his heart that the reason why feudal emperors advocated filial piety was that they believed that if a person could be filial to his parents at home, he would be loyal to the emperor when he went out to fight, because the emperor was the father of all people in the world.However, Liu Xi believes that ruling the world with filial piety is not as good as ruling the world with law. Whether the discipline of the army is strict can be regulated by the law, and the moral quality of people can only play an auxiliary role in the final analysis.

"This poem is very reasonable, and the poet is also a wonderful person!" The emperor nodded, but the next sentence almost frightened the official who wrote the poem, "I think it's okay to let such a wonderful person accompany the empress dowager." Writing two poems to make her old man happy is considered a filial piety for me, what do you think?"

Naturally, the proposal was rather outlandish and bad.The Empress Dowager was the most honorable woman in the Great Yan Dynasty. Apart from the emperor and royal relatives, the only living men in front of her were eunuchs and imperial doctors.Naturally, the official who wrote the poem couldn't be an imperial doctor. If he wanted to accompany the Empress Dowager, he had to cut the words and become a eunuch.It's too sad to write a poem promoting filial piety and lead to extinction!

Fortunately, there were still a few people who interceded for this man, and the emperor didn't really want him to be a eunuch, so he waved his hand and said, "So, although filial piety is important, it must not mess with the court's principles, otherwise everyone will go to the emperor's house." I have done my filial piety in front of the Empress Dowager, so who will do this important matter for me?"

The officials below were shocked.The emperor's meaning couldn't be more clear. Foreign relatives can participate in politics, but they must not be dictatorial. If it exceeds the limit that the emperor can tolerate, the result may be very bad.Although Wang and Zhao are in power at this time, it is not that there are other officials in the court.Some officials of the faction who sit on the wall have already begun to think about whether they should switch to the emperor. After all, neither the empress dowager nor the empress dowager has a direct blood relationship with the emperor. The roots are as shallow as duckweed.

At this time, the "Yin Glass" lightly stopped in front of Bao Zheng.As a former scholar of Longtuge University, writing a poem is naturally not difficult for Mr. Bao.What's more, the emperor had already told him that what they were going to do tonight was to create momentum for legal reform, talk about the current situation of legal chaos in Dayan, and look forward to the future by the way.

The emperor greatly appreciated Bao Zheng's poems because of their content and literary talent.Everyone thought that the emperor valued Bao Zheng because he was interested in court cases, but they didn't expect that the emperor's first decree would be the official anti-corruption law and the official review and evaluation law.A large number of fallen officials regretted that they hadn't noticed the wind this night and prepared early.

Of course, this is something to say later, let's talk about the "wine glass" and several people finally stopped in front of Cao Zizhen, and the surroundings became completely silent for a while.Many people think that Cao Zizhen is the protagonist tonight. It is understandable for the emperor not to like the relatives of the Wang and Zhao families, but he has to rely on his own grandmother and the Cao family behind her, right?

Under the attention of countless eyes, Cao Zizhen stood up calmly.He had already thought about what he wanted to express. He wanted to express his feelings about the mediocrity of the court, and then tell the emperor that only with his talent can he run the world!

The young talented man's eyes were extremely sharp, and he looked at the emperor with a look that was almost impolite. If he knew the history that Liu Xi knew, he would probably be thinking about King Wen of Zhou meeting Jiang Ziya, Liu Bang meeting Zhang Liang, and Liu Bei meeting Zhuge Liang. up.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Solve the affairs of the king and the world, and win the name of life and death."

Liu Xi blinked, unable to figure out why Cao Zizhen looked at him so hard.

This poem seems to be a compliment but a derogation. Although it says that there are no major affairs in the court, what it wants to express is that the officials are mediocre and incompetent.As for the last two sentences... to end the affairs of the king and win the fame in life and after death?Extraordinary courage and great ambition.

Pity……

Liu Xi doesn't want to turn against the two factions of relatives at all now, but just wants to remind them to be restrained, not to mention that Cao Zizhen's own identity also determines that although this poem is relevant, he cannot become today's leader.

So the emperor smiled and said: "The talent is extraordinary, but the knowledge is a little lacking. If one day you become an official, you should learn from the seniors in the court."

The emperor comforted the left and right prime ministers with one sentence, and by the way, he gave the Cao family a promise to let Cao Zizhen become an official, but Cao Zizhen himself didn't appreciate it.He was extremely disappointed.Mr. Cao, who has always been aloof and proud, believes that the emperor is a monarch without tolerance, otherwise he would not say such words to belittle him after listening to this poem.

experience?In terms of knowledge, is there anyone here who can compare to Cao Zizhen?

Not only that, but the emperor might be self-willed and short-sighted, and he is not a person who can be entrusted with learning.Feeling humiliated, Mr. Cao decided that he would rather live in seclusion in the mountains than become an official in the court!

Naturally, the emperor didn't know about Cao Zizhen's mental activities, and he didn't care about it at all. At this moment, he couldn't wait to watch the highlight of tonight!

"It's getting late, and I can't choose who is the number one right now. Why don't you take this opportunity to appreciate the poems presented by the people? Eunuch Gao, go and choose a few for me. I want to join all my lovers." Appreciation."

"Yes." Gao Lishi looked at the one hundred palace lanterns. In fact, he had read these poems once, and now he had to read them again in order to complete the task assigned by the emperor.

This song is good...

This one is a masterpiece...

This one barely catches the eye, but considering the rest of them are very common, let’s pick them together!

Wait, what is this?

Gao Lishi was sure that he had never seen this poem when he hung the palace lantern.He wasn't sure who had tampered with this poem, but the poem itself was eye-catching!Although it is about drinking wine and admiring the moon, it implies the longing for the old man, and the feelings are so strong and deep that people can't take their eyes off it.

Gao Lishi hesitated for a moment, but in the end he took the extra poem from the palace lantern with the mind of cherishing talents, and presented it to the emperor together with the other two poems.Seeing the smile on the emperor's face, he suddenly had a strange feeling, why does the spirit in this verse seem familiar?

Sure enough, as Gao Lishi expected, the third poem was well received as soon as it was read out, and even the emperor said that he wanted to meet the poet who wrote it.The shouts of the Xuanren's audience spread out one after another, and Gao Lishi suddenly realized that something was wrong.

A sword, a jug of wine, and a handsome young man.

Time seemed to go back a thousand years, and the man was walking towards him.

"Don't get drunk with wine,

Qi Gekong returned to love.

Sijun is like Wenshui,

The mighty sent south. "

The lingering words that penetrated to the bones were not even half concealed!The wine jug in Gao Lishi's hand slammed into pieces on the ground. He was stunned for a moment before kneeling down to plead guilty, but the fists in his sleeves were clenched tightly.

How could it be him?How can it be so clever?The emperor actually picked him out of thousands of choices? !

"Good poem!" The emperor clapped his hands and praised, "Your name is Li Bai, right? Why don't you write a poem for me based on the current situation in Dayan!"

"The grassroots obey the order!"

There was a bit of eagerness and excitement in the light-colored eyes, but there was no tension.

The author has something to say: Poems and everything are borrowed, because the author can't make them.