This year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, out of the need to stabilize people's hearts, although it could only be held in the palace, was more grand and grand than in the palace.
Even Yun Fenghuang was not busy here. After all, Concubine Shu had already accompanied King Song to the vassal, and one of the high-ranking subordinates under her was replaced. She could only temporarily promote Concubine Jing to serve as a subordinate, which involved some errands outside the palace. You must ask Jiang to help keep an eye on it.
This time the palace invited many more guests than before.
In the past, it was because of the emperor's children that they began to reach adulthood. Nowadays, vassal kings everywhere generally have a mediocre relationship with the emperor.
Therefore, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival banquet certainly symbolizes reunion, but in fact, it means that the emperor's family and the officials from the capital are having fun together, at most including the Yiwang brothers.
But at this moment, King Zhou and other vassal kings have not yet returned, but they have to attend the Wanshou Banquet.
If these vassal kings had their own way, they would surely wish to return to their fiefdoms and take a break.
However, the matter with King Mao got serious, and it was difficult for them to leave.
The court would not let them go because they were afraid that King Mao would go crazy and it would be too dangerous if they were assassinated on the way back.
In fact, this is certainly a reason to worry. To prevent King Mao from assassinating the feudal prince and framing the court, the most important thing is to fear that they will be attracted to King Mao. After returning to the fiefdom, they will immediately raise troops to respond and join the rebellion.
This is not an unfounded worry. During this period of time, there have been several princes or heirs of vassal kings who have been ready to take action. They even directly announced that the princes and princes on the court were pretenders. They had been harmed by the court and forcibly inherited the throne of the vassal king. , went to meet King Mao.
Therefore, these feudal kings could not leave at all.
Chunjia forcibly detained people and used their names to suppress their fiefdoms, so naturally they had to be treated more leniently.
So I told Yun Fenghuang in advance that no matter how high the banquet standard was, there was no need to worry about the cost.
Yun Fenghuang then gathered his men and made the palace banquet extremely luxurious and prosperous. He even ordered Concubine Jing to personally supervise the rehearsal of the song and dance.
Ever since the blow that year, Concubine Jing has been reluctant to come forward.
Especially when I have a daughter, I just want to spend the whole day guarding my child and don't want to get into trouble at all.
At first, I was not happy when I heard about this mission: "Mother, I am stupid, I am afraid that I may not..."
"Concubine Jing." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the queen. Yun Fenghuang looked at her lightly and said, "I am not discussing with you, but giving you instructions. Do you understand?"
Concubine Jing was stunned for a moment, and there was some anger in her eyes subconsciously.
I remembered that she, Meng Youyi, and Ouyang Fulu were all noble ladies of the imperial capital. After entering the palace, they suffered many losses at the hands of the queen. Later, Meng Youyi and Ouyang Fulu were even more... four noble ladies from high families, aiming at the queen. Not only does no one in the palace who has entered the throne be able to get involved in the Phoenix throne, but he is the only one who is still alive now.
At that time, Yun Fenghuang was also like this, arrogant, strong and unquestionable.
Even though Concubine Jing is no longer young, thinking back to those days, she still feels blood rushing into her brain!
She took a deep breath: "Yes, I understand, and I will obey the Queen's wishes!"
The Queen sneered. She had been working with Concubine Jing for so many years, but she didn't take it seriously at all. Besides, Concubine Jing also had a biological princess, and Concubine Jing did not dare to make any mistakes for the sake of this daughter.
Yun Fenghuang put down the tea cup and said softly: "You are a noble girl from a high family, and you are well-informed. This year's banquet is different from the past. Many clan members are present. There is no need to show off anything that is nothing new. There is no need to show off. The dignity of the royal family has been lost. Therefore, we must work hard and rehearse well, and we must let the ministers and vassals know that everything in the royal family has been better than before in the past two years."
"...I obey my orders." Concubine Jing lowered her head while holding back her anger.
Although she was unwilling to give in, she was still afraid of the queen, so she still used all her skills to let the palace servants rehearse several fresh songs and dances in a short period of time.
Yun Fenghuang saw it in person and thought it was good. He praised it a few words and gave some rewards.
Perhaps because she was afraid of being criticized by the queen, Concubine Jing really put her thought into it and even arranged a sword dance, which was specially prepared for the generals of the Dingbei Army who were present.
The Dingbei Army was ordered to serve King Qin, and the vanguard had already arrived in Gyeonggi Province, and had just repelled the coalition forces of King Mao and others. Although it was only a small victory, it at least allowed the court to regain some dignity after a series of unfavorable events.
For this reason, the imperial court made a lot of boasts, as if King Mao's faction was about to overthrow the trees and disperse the monkeys.
For this reason, even though the ranks of the soldiers who came to the rescue were not high, the royal family made an exception and allowed some of them to participate in the banquet as a show of favor.
Yun Fenghuang had not originally considered taking special care of these people, but now that Concubine Jing had thought of it, she would not dismiss it and said some words of encouragement, so it was settled.
So when the Mid-Autumn Festival was held, there was a lot of singing and dancing, the monarchs and ministers were enjoying each other, and they were drinking and drinking. It seemed that King Mao and others were not afraid of scabies. The whole banquet was filled with laughter and laughter without any gloom.
After three rounds of drinking, as soon as the singing and dancing started, a group of kabuki dancers with high buns on their temples and lots of pearls, wearing soft armor on colorful skirts, wearing fast boots, holding long swords, came on the stage with a high-spirited pace that was very different from ordinary kabuki dancers. .
The emperor and his ministers were quite surprised when they saw this. Yun Fenghuang smiled and introduced: "This is Concubine Jing's intention. It was specially rehearsed for the Dingbei Army to come all the way to show their military merit."
The emperor immediately gave the vanguard of the Dingbei Army a cup of royal wine.
The pioneer stood up to thank him, and Yun Fenghuang took a look, only to realize that the other person turned out to be Qi Jiuzhang.
Her smile did not change at all, but she felt somewhat sad in her heart.
When she was a teenager, she was not unfamiliar with Qi Jiuzhang. He was Qi Jiulu's half-brother.
Although the Chen family doesn't like concubine children very much, because the Qi family has few heirs in these two generations, Qi Jiulu himself has a good relationship with Qi Jiuzhang.
After all, Qi Jiulu was both direct and eldest, with outstanding talents. He was the undisputed candidate for the eldest son. His brothers who were born from a common concubine had no capital to compete with him, and he never thought that his half-brothers would be enemies.
Later, when Xie Fenghuan's incident came out, Qi Jiulu was obsessed with Yun Fenghuang and did many things that disappointed the family. The head of the Qi family was so angry that he promoted Qi Jiuzhang to defeat his eldest son who had high hopes.
However, neither Yun Fenghuang nor Qi Jiulu took the threat of the Qi family head seriously.
One is that he knows that the Qi family has been cultivating Qi Jiulu for many years and is determined not to give up on Qi Jiulu until he has to; the second is that Qi Jiuzhang has mediocre qualifications and not a good temperament, and is even quite paranoid and unruly. From childhood to adulthood, apart from comparing Except for his brother, who was always more submissive than him, he was not very obedient to his biological father, the head of the Qi family. When seriously considering the candidate for the future head of the family, there is a high probability that the elder Qi family would not choose him.
In short, Yun Fenghuang didn't have much ill feelings towards Qi Jiuzhang. She still remembered that when Qi Jiulu was dying and the Chao family was running around, Qi Jiuzhang also stayed with his brother-in-law.
But in her impression, Qi Jiuzhang was a slightly pale and frail young man, with a silent expression and stubborn eyes.
The Qi Jiuzhang in front of him, although he had specially changed his robes for the banquet, was tall and tall, with a stern face, and an old wound at the corner of his eye and cheek. Nian Yingying, coupled with the roll call of the chamberlain just now, Yun Fenghuang didn't recognize the family friend who used to timidly call her "Sister Huang".
She sighed in her heart, and while the emperor was talking to Qi Jiuzhang, she asked the Qing people in a low voice: "Is he here this time? Where is his brother?"
"General Qi has to sit in the north and it is difficult to escape." The Qing people also looked at Qi Jiuzhang and whispered, "Maybe for this reason, to show loyalty, Qi Jiuzhang was specially sent as a vanguard? After all, if General Qi doesn't come, Qi Jiuzhang will You must express something. Otherwise, the court may suspect that General Qi is deliberately watching the fight between tigers and tigers."
Qi Jiulu married the young Gu family back then. Since the Gu family had no heirs, it was natural for him to inherit Gu Fangshu's legacy in the Dingbei Army. In addition, he came from a poor family and had many meritorious services. He was in the army. He has been promoted frequently and is now actually in charge of the Dingbei Army.
Regarding this point, many old people are talking about Yun Fenghuang's methods behind his back.
Do you think that if she hadn't been so powerful and had a firm hold on the emperor, based on the relationship between Qi Jiulu and Yun Fenghuang, the emperor would have been able to safely hand over the large army of Ding Bei to his former love rival
Of course, both the Empress and Qi Jiulu are very human nowadays. Such words can only be said in private, but no one dares to really convey them.
Yun Fenghuang occasionally heard some rumors. Although he was annoyed and asked someone to deal with the slave who talked nonsense, it didn't cause any trouble.
After all, if it gets too big, everyone will be embarrassed.
Listening to it now, I sighed slightly and said nothing.
Just as the emperor finished his words of encouragement, he ordered Qi Jiuzhang to return to his seat.
The bells, drums, strings and bamboos were blaring below. Along with the sound of the music, dozens of beauties in colorful skirts waved their long swords with fierce momentum and began the sword dance.
Yun Fenghuang then restrained his mind and concentrated on admiring it.
Generally speaking, the skills of these palace concubines are not as good as those of the Imperial Palace Jiaofangsi. After all, how long does the royal family stay in the palace in a year? Most of them are still in Miyagi City, and of course the best tricksters are chosen to serve in the Jiaofang Division.
But there is a bottom line for those who can serve the Heavenly Family, no matter how bad they are.
Concubine Jing had not trained them for many days, but they all had a dashing figure, and when the specially made soft sword danced, a cold light suddenly appeared, like large groups of snowflakes, setting off waves of cool breeze in the palace, setting off the autumn breeze at the moment. The climate is quite impressive.
Yun Fenghuang has been in the palace for many years and is used to seeing extravagant scenes. Although this sword dance is a bit new, she has something on her mind now and she became a little distracted after watching it for a while.
Just as I was thinking about the current situation, I suddenly felt that something was wrong with the situation in front of me: the dancers were dancing forward, but they were approaching the throne at a speed that was not fast but definitely not slow.
… It seems like there was no such scene during the rehearsal
Yun Fenghuang immediately went to see Concubine Jing, but Concubine Jing was not at the table
She suddenly became alert. She didn't know if this was specially arranged by Concubine Jing or if she had some hidden agenda. She suddenly raised her hand and brushed off the wine cup in front of Chunjia -
Now that we don't understand the situation clearly, if it is a false alarm, it will cause the royal family to be embarrassed if it gets too big.
At this point of time, the royal family is particularly disgraceful.
It also seemed that she, the queen, was indeed from a humble background, and was suddenly unworthy of the Phoenix throne.
But if there is a serious difference, others will just pay it forward. Chunjia has three advantages and two disadvantages. What should she do
So it is better to find an excuse to ask the emperor to back off immediately, so that no matter what happens, it will not...
Who would have thought that just when her fingertips touched the edge of the wine cup and she noticed that Chunjia was looking along her arm, the two leading dancers suddenly separated while dancing sword flowers, revealing the main dancer in the middle. .
The trickster didn't know when he suddenly pulled out a small and powerful crossbow from his sleeve, pointed it at Chunjia, and fired it repeatedly!
The crossbow arrows shot out in a fan shape, almost blocking all Chunjia's dodge space!
The color of the arrow clusters is a faint blue, which has clearly been tempered with poison. It is the same as the color of the trickster's eyes, with murderous intent and awe-inspiring!