Seeing King Yong salute to the offerings with a sad look on his face, which didn't seem to be artificial at all, both Jiang Hao and Yu Xinghai couldn't help but nod.
In fact, they knew their mission clearly without the emperor's orders. In any case, King Yong's performance when receiving the reward still needs to be repaid.
As for Zhang Wenguan and Hao Chujun, they couldn't help but nod and praise them. Filial piety comes first among all good deeds. Even if someone is as evil as a bandit, his reputation will be better than that of an unfilial person.
Since the events of "King Zhao Wuling starved to death in the Sand Dune Palace" and "the filial and honest father moved away from home", the world's requirements for filial piety have become more stringent.
As the emperor's messenger, Jiang Hao stepped forward to help Li Xian and said softly: "King Yong, please don't be sad. Although your majesty and the queen of heaven are not seeing anyone else at this time, your servants can still see the beauty of the sky. Although the queen is miserable, her body is still good. You can bear it. After the prince is officially buried, you can enter the palace to see the saint."
Li Xian nodded and wiped the tears that had been squeezed out of his eyes.
Looking at a large pile of various gift boxes that had been wrapped, Li Xian turned to Yu Xinghai and said, "Mr. Lao, please worry. I see that these boxes are made of different materials and sizes. Have they been sized according to the official position?" , the level of the title, the types of offerings, have they been packaged?"
Receiving words of thanks was already a reward for Yu Xinghai.
Cupping his hands, Yu Xinghai said with a smile: "That's right. Most of the servants in His Highness's residence are newly recruited. I'm afraid the only one who knows the various official residences is the steward. It's not good to let the steward work hard. In this case, why not distribute the goods to His Highness? How about leaving the work of offering sacrifices to your slaves?"
here you are?
My dear, this is not a tiring job, but it is a wonderful job. Li Xian knew very well that distributing offerings was no different from conveying decrees. As usual, those officials who received the offerings would show "meaning" to the eunuch who sent the offering. Maybe this money won't be too much, but when accumulated, it will be quite considerable.
Li Xian looked back at Li Yun, saw him nodding, and then said: "In that case, I'll leave it to you. However, I request that the offerings this time must be delivered backwards. The better the offerings, the better they will be." Did you know that it was distributed to lower-level officials?"
"ah?"
Not only Yu Xinghai, but also Jiang Hao opened his mouth wide.
Hao Chujun smiled slightly and understood very well, but Zhang Wenguan stood up and asked: "Why did Your Highness make this arrangement? This is not in harmony with etiquette."
Li Xian turned around, walked to his seat and sat down, then said: "The offerings in front of the coffin have been distributed once. Compared with the previous ones, this time it is not too formal. Since you have already received them, you can do it again." It’s just the icing on the cake.
The situation is different for low-level officials. Occasionally giving them some high-level rewards can be regarded as both encouragement and encouragement. Yu Xinghai, when you disperse the offerings, don’t forget to tell them that this is the prince’s last grace, and they must do their duty more diligently in the future. "
Yu Xinghai accepted the order, but he did not intend to follow King Yong's words exactly. In any case, although the offerings were the gift of the Crown Prince, it was King Yong who distributed them. Since King Yong has given this good job to him, he must give King Yong a reputation no matter what.
No matter what, I can flatter King Yong, but I can flatter the Prince, and that’s it.
After hearing what Li Xian said, Zhang Wenguan sat down and said to Hao Chujun with a smile: "I don't seem surprised to see you."
Hao Chujun smiled and said nothing. You can't tell him. This is the most common way to win people's hearts. People who get positions such as admonishing doctors, serving as ministers, etc. are generally upright guys. These methods, even if they are very obvious, cannot be seen clearly.
but....
Looking at King Yong who was holding a tea bowl and frowning, Hao Chujun also narrowed his eyes.
Although King Yong began to win over people's hearts at this time, it was nothing when the position of prince was already confirmed. It seems that King Yong is also very aware of his situation. From a small thing, it can be seen that King Yong is not without scheming.
Although these words sounded a bit unpleasant, in Hao Chujun's eyes, they were actually complimentary.
The prince was kind, but died young. Although King Yong has now stood on one side of the crown prince's position, he is not the only one approaching there.
In order to avoid possible party strife, it would be a good thing for the Tang Dynasty if King Yong could sit firmly after becoming the crown prince.
Li Xian naturally felt Hao Chujun's blazing gaze. He put down his tea bowl and asked with a smile: "Why does Hao Zengshan look at me like this?"
Only then did Hao Chujun react and said with a smile: "I'm just curious, why did you frown after taking a sip of tea soup? But there is something wrong with this tea soup?"
Hearing this, Zhang Wenguan couldn't help but pick up his tea bowl and take a sip.
no problem!
This tea soup not only contains the common onion, ginger, garlic, and salt for seasoning, but also orange peel, star anise, and the most luxurious thing is that it even has a peel from Lingnan. After the Zhenguan Year, although Lingnan was connected to the Central Plains, the road was still difficult to travel, and Lingnan goods were still expensive in Chang'an. Although he is a dignified servant, he cannot afford such precious things.
Seeing Zhang Wenguan looking so happy after taking a sip of tea soup, Li Xian was speechless.
How to say? Do I want to tell them that this tea soup makes him want to vomit?
Isn’t it just tea? Why do you have to add so many messy things? The tea soup is made in the same way as the stew, and all kinds of flavors are mixed together. Is it really the kind that makes people soar in the daytime, or the kind that makes people fall down after rising to a hundred meters?
In desperation, Li Xian could only say: "Although Yongzhou is close to Chang'an, I rarely drink tea like this in Yongzhou, so I was in a daze for a moment."
Hao Chujun nodded. It made sense. After all, although the vassal king was rich, the peels in the tea soup were obviously tributes and could not be drunk casually. Even he, after being an official for so many years, has received such rewards only a handful of times.
Seeing that the fooling was over, Li Xiancai breathed a sigh of relief and made up his mind not to drink a sip. If he drank this bowl, he would probably vomit it out on the spot.
It tastes so bad!
When you have time, be sure to look for tea leaves that have not been ground into powder and study how to reproduce tea leaves for later generations.
Coffee and tea were the things he drank most in his later generations. Today, coffee trees are probably still out of reach on the African continent.
In this case, I can only focus on the tea leaves.
After swallowing to get rid of the strange taste in his mouth, Li Xiancai asked, "I wonder what important matters you two came to my palace to discuss today?"
