I was engaged in development in the Qin Dynasty

Before the Warring States period, most people only ate two meals. The first meal was around nine o’clock in the morning, called Chaoshi, and the second meal was around four o’clock in the afternoon, called supplementary food, and called “飧”. However, princes and nobles also had Those who ate three meals, waited until the Qin and Han Dynasties, only some officials with lower official positions and ordinary people ate two meals, and other nobles ate three meals. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lunch among the three meals a day has become the main meal. As for two meals or three meals, it will be determined according to the economic situation of each place.

The dinner on Zhao Zheng’s birthday started at around four o’clock in the afternoon. At this time, it happened to be the time for supplementary food. The dinner lasted until the end before midnight. On the second day, you had to go to court normally. Very hard.

To participate in this kind of banquet, generally, those with smaller official positions will come early, and the later, generally, the ones with higher official positions. There are also two officials of almost the same level. In order to suppress each other, they deliberately come later than the other one. However, This time point should be set well. Although you arrive later than officials of the same level as you, but if you arrive later than your boss, you will offend your boss, and the loss outweighs the gain.

This dinner is Zhao Zheng's birthday. In addition, Zhao Zheng is the king, the man with the highest status in a country, so he naturally waits for everyone to arrive before showing up. Of course, the hour cannot pass. Of course, these There are palace people reminding that Zhao Zheng doesn't need to worry about it, he just needs to show up under the palace people's reminder.

When Zhao Zheng arrived, the participating officials stood up one after another, saluted Zhao Zheng, and waited for Zhao Zheng to sit on the throne before letting the officials stand up and announcing the start of the dinner.

Zhao Zheng came to the dinner party, looked at the officials kneeling in front of him, and glanced carefully. Some were respectful, some were indifferent, and some were even careless. He focused his attention on Lu Buwei and Lao Ai. The etiquette he performed was not particularly respectful. Obviously, he did not approve of him as a king in his heart, no matter how nice they said.

"Everyone's family is flat." Zhao Zheng raised his hand and asked them to stand up.

"Thank you Your Majesty" everyone got up and took their seats.

Zhao Zheng continued to speak, "Everyone is here, let's start." As soon as Zhao Zheng's words fell, the sound of ritual music sounded from the compartment of the banquet hall. At this time, the dancers lined up in a line with their soft postures, and then came in orderly from the small hall next door. Soon, the wonderful dancing posture added a dazzling brilliance to the whole hall.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by the dancing posture of the dancer in front of them, and there were a lot of wine and wine on the court, which was a scene of prosperity.

Zhao Zheng drank wine, looked at the dancer's dancing posture, but thought of Liu Ze in Zhuangzi, and he also wanted to find a girl for Liu Ze. Zhao Zheng secretly focused on following his parents to participate On the young lady of the dinner party, the girl from the Meng family, um, looks too rough, without the gentleness that a daughter's family should have, so it is not suitable. The one from the Wang family, En is also a military general, and the one from the Li family, she is not pretty enough...

Zhao Zheng felt that the little fairy deserved the best girls, and these girls were not suitable.

Liu Ze didn't know that Zhao Zheng was making plans for his marriage. Fu Su left, and Liu Ze stayed alone in Zhuangzi. It's interesting for Fusu to be pecking at each other, but Fusu's little bean has a strong learning ability. When he was still standing still, Fusu's chess skills began to improve slowly. Lai Pi regretted chess, the excuse is that he is not familiar with the rules, but he can't use this excuse all the time, it would be too shameful, so it is necessary to come up with a new kind of chess.

After the wine was half drunk, all the ministers began to present gifts to Zhao Zheng, starting from the youngest officials. Of course, the officials who can participate in Zhao Zheng's birthday are the lowest rank four officials. The birthday gifts are eye-catching, and it is also a good promotion own chance.

Most of the gifts given by officials were quite standard, and there were very few innovative gifts. However, after Zhao Zhengyi tasted the distilled wine Liu Ze gave him in the morning, it also became bleak.

Finally, when Lu Buwei and Changxin waited for Lai Ai to present gifts, the two of them did not forget to compete for a high position on Zhao Zheng's birthday. Lu Buwei presented a set of screens. What was presented was a strange stone, which was more than three feet high. From a distance, it looked like a woman hugging her child.

Looking at the stone, Zhao Zheng narrowed his eyes. He looked at the queen mother, who was smiling and looking at Lai Ai with burning eyes. Zhao Zheng squeezed his hand tightly.

"Wang, this stone is not easy to come by. From a distance, it looks like a mother hugging her child, just like the king and the queen mother, with deep feelings and deep love between mother and child," Lao Ai said.

"Changxinhou's strange stone is very good, Aijia and Wang naturally have a deep relationship, mother and child love deeply," said the Queen Mother.

Lai Ai looked at Lu Buwei proudly, what about the picture of the tiger descending the mountain, can it compare to his mother-child love stone?Lu Xiang, oh Lu Xiang, today, you have been suppressed by me.

Lu Buwei looked at the stone, and his heart sank. The Queen Mother and Lai Ai really wanted to die. He looked at Zhao Zheng, and saw that Zhao Zheng's face was so ugly that Lu Buwei cursed Lai Ai in his heart. If a villain is successful, he dares to act against the king in this way. Lai Ai had better hope that the king will not be able to govern in person for the rest of his life, otherwise, he will be the first to take the knife. Now that the king has grown up for many years, many officials in the court have turned to the king. After all, the king is the orthodox Qin royal family, and sooner or later the government will be handed over.

Zhao Zheng looked at the stone indifferently, without the slightest smile on his face. Seeing this, Luo Yu hurried to Zhao Zheng's side and reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, should you take out that thing and give it to all the adults?" Evaluation together?".

After Zhao Zheng heard Luo Yu's words, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "I like Lu Xiang's fierce tiger descending the mountain screen very much, and I also like Chang Xinhou's strange stone. It just so happened that someone also gave me a gift. The widow thinks it is really good, so I brought it here specially for all the nobles to evaluate together." After finishing speaking, Zhao Zheng patted his hand. Be there and pour them wine.

"Wang, this bar is the one who doesn't know gifts. You are too stingy, and you only give half a glass of wine," Meng Yi said.

"You can't blame the widow, this wine is rare, general, let's taste the difference," Zhao Zheng said.

Meng Yi picked up the wine bottle, looked at the half glass of wine in the wine bottle, shook his head helplessly, and then drank it down. He swallowed the wine, closed his eyes, and felt the glass of wine carefully. Afterwards, he let out a long sigh and shouted: "Good wine, what kind of wine in the world can still be drunk after drinking this wine?".

Hearing Meng Yi's evaluation, everyone picked up the wine bottles and began to taste it. By virtue of this, voices came from all sides one after another, "good wine".

"Wang, this is not enough to drink, let's have another pot," Wang Jian said loudly after finishing his drink.

"Good wine is hard to come by. If it wasn't for the widow's birthday, the widow would be reluctant to take it out. It's all here. You can see if there is any left in the jugs of the palace servants," Zhao Zheng reminded.

The people of Qin are martial, and most of them are military generals in the court. The generals are bold and unruly. This is not the army, and there is no distinction between superiors and subordinates. After being reminded by Zhao Zheng, they acted quickly, found the target, and quickly served the wine. When the palace people moved away, they wanted to find the palace people who were still in the jug and take the wine for themselves.

When this came out, the scene suddenly became lively, and the previous event of gift giving was suppressed by the matter of the ministers grabbing wine.

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I have seen many people say that in ancient times people ate two meals. Let me popularize it here. In ancient times, it was also divided into periods and economic conditions. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, three meals a day were very common, and the economy was relatively good. , if the economic situation is worse, keep two meals to thank the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution during 2020-03-3000:45:38~2020-03-3017:54:26~

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