Please ask me to be the emperor

Appreciating lanterns during the Lantern Festival, for Zhang Shun, who comes from a later era of feasting and feasting, "lanterns" are not a rare thing, what is rare is just "reward".

Since his rebirth, Zhang Shun has never participated in lantern viewing. Compared with the colorful neon lights of later generations, the few solitary lights on the street are actually of little value. This time again, time was tight, and it wasn’t much better.

Fortunately, this time, under the guidance of Zhang Shun, Song Xiance only spent two days and one night to start this lantern festival, which is rare.

When you exit Wangjing Gate, the north gate of Prince Fu's Mansion, the first thing you see are two red lanterns hanging on the left and right sides of the Prince's Mansion. Looking further into the distance, there are all kinds of lanterns such as figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, insect and fish shaped lanterns, revolving lanterns, palace lanterns and dragon lanterns. Colorful and varied.

Liu Rushi, Zhu'er, and Jian'er were all very excited, jumping up and down like children. Gao Guiying curled her lips to show disdain, but her beautiful eyes shone brightly.

Although the red lady was pregnant, she happily walked around with Li Sanniang and Ma Yingniang. She couldn't wait to arrange for Li Xiang to say: "Please pay more attention to the head of the house. Guests will come soon and we won't be able to show up. Please be patient."

"Don't worry, leave this matter to me and Xiao Ai!" Li Xiang and Liu Rushi, both dressed in men's clothing, followed Zhang Shun like handsome young men. Firstly, to prevent Zhang Shun from relapsing his old illness, and secondly, to help Zhang Shun avoid making jokes when he interacts with literati.

The inconvenience of "appearing in public" actually means that it is inconvenient to follow Zhang Shun on formal occasions when Zhang Shun meets gentry and scribes, so as not to give people the impression that Zhang Shun is lustful and "subject to the hands of women".

After the arrangements were completed, they went to enjoy the lanterns alone under the protection of Wukong. At this time, the streets were already crowded with people, especially women and children who did not often go out. They dressed up and went out.

Married women led their children, who carried lanterns in their hands, and appeared in groups on the street. They gathered around lanterns, various snacks, and sometimes urchins playing rogue children, and there was laughter and laughter everywhere.

Unmarried women were also in groups, looking at the lights and people. From time to time they pointed at the men passing by, not knowing which young talent they had fallen in love with.

"Not bad!" Zhang Shun nodded with satisfaction and praised Song Xiance beside him, "It is really rare to be able to create such a lantern festival in just two days!"

"It's nothing!" Song Xiance waved his hands modestly, smiling like an immortal, "It's just that he recruits more craftsmen and spends more silver. He can do it all."

Having said that, Zhang Shun and Zhang Shenyan are both pragmatic people, and of course they know that this also requires high organizational skills. The two men smiled and shook their heads, but did not expose Song Xiance's "lie". After all, it is inconvenient for a worldly master to be contaminated by the philistines in the world, otherwise he will lose his masterly demeanor.

At this time, the old mountain leader Zuo Lengchan came over with his disciple Huang Deqing and dozens of disciples. He saluted Zhang Shun and said with a double meaning, "I haven't seen such a grand scene for a long time. It's all thanks to the power of King Shun that Luoyang City is what it is today!"

After saying this, he did not wait for Zhang Shun to return the gift and said: "My useless disciple Huang Deqing has been with me for a long time. Now he wants to serve King Shun. Is it possible?"

Zhang Shun returned the salute and said with a smile: "The mountains never get too high and the sea never gets too deep. The Duke of Zhou vomits food and the world returns to its heart!"

"What a great Zhou Gong, the world has returned to its heart! King Shun really has the ambition of the world." As soon as Zhang Shun finished speaking, someone couldn't help but cheer.

Zhang Shun took a closer look and saw that this man was in his 28th or 9th grade. He was tall, handsome, and quite magnanimous. He couldn't help but ask: "Who is this?"

When Huang Deqing saw that Zhang Shun attached great importance to him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and responded quickly: "This man is a member of Mengjin's family. His surname is Li Jiqi and his given name is Yingwu. He has a good family tradition and has always been famous in the countryside for his faith. He heard that King Shun wanted to recruit him. The wise men in the world also admire King Shun's reputation for benevolence and righteousness, so they come here to seek refuge with King Shun!"

"Good, good, good!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but praise loudly after hearing this, "Sure enough, he is motivated and does more good deeds for the people, and I will not be stingy with rewards!"

When Li Jiqi heard this, he couldn't help but frowned and remonstrated: "The way to govern a country is to value etiquette but not profit, to value benevolence and righteousness but not wealth. If King Shun asked me for wealth, no one in the world could have as much wealth as the imperial court. ? How can we achieve success by using a short attack to attack a long one?"

Huang Deqing was stunned when he heard this. He never expected that this guy would give King Shun a blow when he came up. He couldn't help but his expression changed, and he wanted to intercede for him.

Zhang Shun smiled when he heard this, gave a salute and said: "What Wu said is true, I will accept it!"

In fact, although Li Jiqi's words were reasonable, they seemed to be trying to make a point. However, Zhang Shun was already planning to recruit talents today, so how could he get angry and argue with him? In this way, even if he was speechless, he still could not achieve his goal.

When Li Jiqi heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned. He never expected that King Shun would accept his advice so quickly, and suddenly felt that "a scholar will die for his confidant." He couldn't help but bow and said: "King Shun is magnanimous and tolerant of all rivers. He really has the heart of Duke Zhou to support him. If King Shun does not give up, Li is willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses!"

"Easy to say, easy to say!" Zhang Shun quickly took two steps forward and helped Li Jiqi up.

Wang Jinyi, who was behind Zhang Shun, had already widened his eyes, fearing that someone would take the opportunity to assassinate King Shun. This shocked Li Jiqi, who had just stood up.

Then he realized that this person was King Shun's bodyguard. Li Jiqi then remembered that King Shun had just been injured by Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province a few days ago. Looking carefully, it seemed that there were still wounds on his throat. He couldn't help but think excitedly: King Shun had just been seriously injured, but he still valued the world's talents, and he was no less fond of talents than Duke Zhou in the past! Such a heroic master should conquer the world!

How did Zhang Shun know that in just this moment, this person had a lot of thoughts and was almost ready to "die" for Zhang Shun.

When Lao Shanchang, Huang Deqing and Li Jiqi separated and followed Zhang Shun, Lv Weiqi, the former Minister of War in Nanjing, led a large group of scholars to arrive belatedly.

He couldn't help but take two steps forward and apologized: "I'm late, but I kept King Shun waiting for a long time!"

"It doesn't matter! We, the world's heroes, are looking forward to seeing you! Don't say that you are here a little late. Even if you come many days and months earlier, I will still feel late!" Zhang Shun laughed after hearing this.

"Unexpectedly, King Shun is a wonderful man!" As soon as Zhang Shun finished speaking, someone couldn't help but said, "I happened to have something, so I wrote a poem and asked everyone to correct it."