Li Hai twitched his lips and smiled: "Yan Yushi, don't worry, as long as I have merit, I will definitely not miss it. I have asked Honghe Temple to set up a banquet in the harem, and today Yan Yushi must open his heart to drink !"
Amid the shouts of long live, Li Hai led Rong Chang'an, Yan Li, Zi Yan, and many other heroes into the palace.
The banquet was placed in the imperial garden. The banquet was nothing more than delicacies, wine and luminous glasses, it is not enough to say. Accompanying the banquet were officials from various Shangshu provinces, the current prime ministers. Among them are Zhao Hongru, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, Bai Xiangwan, Minister of the Ministry of War, Dong Wanshan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, etc.
Yan Li and Rong Changan sat on the left and right of Li Hai.
Li Hai raised his glass and said with a smile: "Ministers, the northwest of my Great Thorn Country suffered a huge drought. It can be said that there was no grass growing, bones were exposed in the wild, and no chickens crowed for thousands of miles. It was terrible. Yan Yushi and Queen Rong worked tirelessly to go to the northwest to provide relief Saving the common people is the mainstay of our country. Today I am announcing here that I will give Yan Yushi a mansion area, a thousand servants, ten thousand taels of gold, a thousand taels of silver, and other cloth, regardless Let Yan Yushi choose the number."
After hearing this, Yan Li immediately came out and prostrated himself on the ground: "Your Majesty, please take back your order. How can I, Yan Li, enjoy so many material things by myself! Why don't we just donate them to the people in the disaster area!"
Yan Li raised his eyes and glanced at Rong Changan, who was sitting next to Li Hai, and saw her blinking, obviously to wink at Yan Li. She wanted Yan Li to accept Li Hai's reward.
But Yan Li turned a blind eye.
A look of displeasure flashed across Li Hai's eyes immediately.
"Yan Yushi, you are really kind to the common people!"
There was some sour feeling in the words, Yan Li immediately understood what Rong Changan meant.
Yan Li didn't want the emperor's reward. On the one hand, he didn't want to give Li Hai face, and on the other hand, he meant to establish prestige to the people. This was the thing Li Hai, as the emperor, feared the most. Yan Li's heart skipped a beat: Why didn't I think of it! It would be bad if the monarch and ministers were jealous!
Yan Li's dark eyes turned: "Your Majesty, why don't you do this! I accept the mansion and the gold and silver, but I wonder if the cloth can be donated to the common people in the name of the Emperor?"
Li Hai thought to himself: Yan Li, even if you still know what's going on! Then he smiled and said:
"Today Yan Yushi is one of the protagonists, so you can do whatever you want!"
When Yan Li heard this, he was extremely terrified, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "No matter what time it is, the emperor is the protagonist! Yan Mou dares to overstep!"
The corner of Li Hai's mouth curled into a smug smile.
"Then I will approve Yan Yushi!"
After coughing twice, Li Hai said to Rong Changan beside him, "Queen, what reward do you want?"
Li Hai's attitude towards Rong Changan at the moment is completely different from Yan Li's attitude. In Li Hai's heart, Yan Li is one of his own, and it doesn't matter if he is a little bit fierce to him; Rong Chang'an is an outsider, so she must be kept safe, and she must not be suspicious. Therefore, Li Hai's attitude towards Rong Changan was more gentle and polite.
Rong Changan smiled, and the corners of his mouth curled into a crescent-like smile.
"What does the emperor want to reward me for?"
Li Hai thought for a while, and said: "I can't think of it, let the queen say it herself!"
Rong Changan looked sharply at Ziyan next to him, and asked Li Hai, "Your Majesty, if you reward Ziyan noble concubine, what will you reward her?"
Li Hai said without hesitation: "Concubine Ziyan naturally likes good clothes and headgear, and the queen's..."
Li Hai realized that he had said something wrong, so he quickly shut up and smiled at Rong Changan.
Rong Chang'an naturally knew what Li Hai meant, he wanted to tell Rong Chang'an that if he wanted to keep his position as queen, he had to obey him obediently, otherwise, he could abolish Rong Chang'an at any time and let Zi Yan do it.
Rong Chang'an smiled, turned his back on the guests and said: "Your Majesty, the concubines actually don't want many rewards. As long as the Emperor tells the ministers that my position as empress is permanent and irreplaceable, I will be satisfied. It is better than that." Various rewards of gold, silver and jewels."
Ziyan is coveting the queen's position, and she doesn't want Rong Changan to take over the queen's position and hold the queen's position tightly.
Zi Yan hastily signaled to Li Hai not to agree to Rong Changan.
Today's banquet is for the ministers of the court, so Li Hai can't ignore Rong Chang'an's meaning in public. After thinking about it, he said:
"Since the queen has said so, why don't I make a gesture to reward the great heroes of our Great Jing Kingdom!" After coughing twice, Li Hai announced, "I have decided today that if the queen does not commit any special crimes , the queen's position remains unchanged!"
Rong Changan smiled. She knew that Li Hai had intentionally given a restriction of "not committing any special crimes", so this restriction was worthy of scrutiny. The emperor is the law, and the emperor is the authority. If he says you have committed a "special crime", then you have committed a special crime, and there is no room for negotiation. Therefore, Li Hai's promise to Rong Changan is equivalent to air.
Of course, Rong Changan couldn't expose him face to face, so he also came out, made a gift to Li Hai, and said with a smile: "Thank you, the emperor, for the reward!"
"Queen please get up, please go back to your original seat." Li Hai said.
This can destroy the purple smoke next to it. Rong Changan deliberately poured cold water on her hopes.
"Rong Chang'an, sooner or later, you will fall into my hands!"
Her heart was full of viciousness, but she still kept a smile on her face. Holding the glass cup, she came to Rong Changan, bowed and smiled and said:
"Empress, I offer you a toast, congratulations on your great role in disaster relief!"
The words were really ironic, probably aimed at Rong Changan's horseback riding among the begging victims.
Rong Changan smiled, raised his glass and said to Ziyan: "Concubine Zi, when I was drunk, I just said something that should not be said to the emperor, the concubine should not take it to heart."
As he said that, he raised his eyebrows at Ziyan, so angry that Ziyan was full of smoke, but it was not easy to get angry in front of Li Hai and all the ministers, so he could only pull the corners of his mouth and smile, and returned to his position, sulking.
Ziyan took the lead, and other concubines came to toast Rong Changan. On the one hand, she is the master of the harem, on the other hand, she is a hero today. Even if there are people who don't like Rong Changan, they still have to raise their glasses to drink with Rong Changan.
"Empress, you are so wonderful, you are a heroine!"
"Empress, it is said that you saved Yan Yushi, what happened?"
"Empress, I wish you and the emperor a happy life!"
The Ministers of the Ministry of Rites, Ministers of the Ministry of Households, and Ministers of the Ministry of Officials also came to toast Yan Li and Rong Chang'an, praising their merits.
After drinking for three rounds, suddenly a eunuch came over and said a few words to Eunuch Liu, the chief eunuch, and Eunuch Liu brought the words to Li Hai's ears.
After Li Hai heard this, a trace of doubt and nervousness flashed across his eyes.
"Why does the Queen Mother want to see Yan Yushi?"
The eunuch said: "The slave doesn't know either, but he just followed the Queen Mother's order to pass on a message."
Li Hai picked up the wine and took a sip, staring in thought.
That's right, Yan Li killed the prefect, who belonged to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager wanted to trouble Yan Li at this moment! But Li Hai wanted to keep Yan Li and asked Yan Li to be his right-hand man, and he was determined not to let the queen mother kill him.