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"Okay, you are very brave. Come and give me a bottle of the Fountain of Youth." Mrs. Lu sat expressionlessly behind the curtain and dictated.
Immediately, there was a nearby eunuch, holding a wooden tray, and gave a bottle of spring water of youth to the military department for Yan Feng IX.
Yan Feng Ninth immediately thanked him, but nothing happened about the official appointment and expedition.
He felt that he had not cultivated his mind well enough and the Queen Mother had seen through it.
Fortunately, this result is reasonable.
But next time, I will go to the monks and Taoist priests to learn more meditation methods so that there is only one thought in my mind.
Just now I was excited, and the thoughts in my heart came to my mind.
At this moment, a report suddenly came from outside the door.
"The Empress Dowager is informed that there is an envoy from the Dasu people stationed in Beijing outside the door, requesting an audience."
"Xuan."
Soon everyone saw a white man with brown hair, blue eyes, a tall nose and a broad nose walking up to the hall with an entourage.
"Sir Crenso, the envoy of the Dasu people, has met the Holy Queen of Heaven." The white man said with cupped hands.
"Messenger, if you don't kneel down yet, don't be disrespectful in front of the palace." the etiquette officer reminded.
"No, no, we Westerners only kneel to God, not to the king." The Dasu people's envoy shook his head.
"But the Dayang envoy has already knelt down."
"They are losers and incompetent people, so they can kneel down wherever they want, but we are the winners." The Dasu people's envoy glanced at the Daya people kneeling on the ground with disdain.
Lu Zhi was so angry that he was so angry.
Only then did she truly understand that the insults and filthiness she had previously thought were nothing in this kind of formal court.
This solemn sense of ceremony, and the humiliation she suffered in an extremely formal occasion, were more real and intense, far exceeding the humiliation she had thought she had experienced when she was in her second year of middle school.
Just like a child who feels extremely insulted, while adults wonder where he is, the difference in perspective creates a communication barrier.
She has lived for hundreds of years, but just a hundred years ago, the Dasu people's envoy knelt down and knelt down like other envoys.
Now it is really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi!
Naturally, she didn't know that Dasu people were the ones who knew best what kind of strength should be matched with what kind of treatment.
"The war has just begun, do you think you have won? Let me tell you, we will ban you from the fountain of youth! We will also drive you all out of the land of the Celestial Empire and prohibit you from living here and reincarnating!" The Minister of Rites took the lead in launching an attack.
"Hmph, we have occupied several islands in the south. If you can, drive us out! We have also stocked up enough Fountain of Youth for thirty years, but I don't know if your government can support it for thirty years.
War!" the Dasu envoy said without fear.
Everyone was surprised and suddenly understood why the Dasu people's envoy dared to initiate a war.
It turned out that they had already made preparations.
Someone glared at the Big Tooth envoy. The other party did not tell such important information. It was obvious that he had ulterior motives.
They have forgotten that such intelligence should be collected by themselves, rather than relying on foreign envoys.
Of course the Dasu people's envoy knew the news. He did not tell it because he wanted to create a time lag so that the relationship between the two parties would deteriorate sharply. In this case, the Dongfang court and the Dasu people would only fight more intensely, which would be of great benefit to them.
Only then did Lu Zhi realize how ridiculous he was. It turned out that the other party had already made a comprehensive plan.
Big-toothed people are not a good thing either.
The idea of using barbarians to control barbarians is all nonsense.
The people from Daya had ulterior motives and deliberately gave wrong advice, just to further intensify the conflict between the two parties.
The feudal bureaucrats did not think of the trade embargo at the moment, but the Daya people proposed it, but they did not say that the Daya people had already prepared for it.
China's trade embargo will only intensify the war and make the war irreconcilable.
But now, just because of the other party's attitude, Lu Zhi cannot give in.
After all, she is not a qualified politician and has a personal temper.
I am the possessor of mysterious power, how could I bow my head to you people who have been deceived by me?
Simply ridiculous!
She directly ordered: "Push it out and kill!"
The style of a feudal old queen is vividly reflected.
"Queen Mother, no!"
The chief assistant immediately stood up and advised.
"When the two countries are at war, the envoys will not be killed. Even if the envoys from Dasu are offended, consider that they are outsiders, so we should be a little lenient."
"You can't be lenient to insiders, but can you be lenient to outsiders? Kill them!" Lu Zhizhi, who was born in modern Dongzhou and didn't have the soft bones to distinguish the inside and outside, shouted immediately.
Immediately there were guards in front of the palace to drag the envoy out.
"I, I kneel, I kneel!" The Dasu envoy immediately panicked, as the opponent did not play according to the routine.
He suddenly realized that the seemingly civilized Eastern court was actually a barbaric feudal place, not their parliamentary meeting place, nor a civilized place.
"It's too late to kneel down, kill!"
An hour and three moments later, the envoy's head appeared ferociously above the main hall.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
The accompanying deputy envoy of the Dasu people was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Humph, I'm issuing an edict to declare war on the Dasu people!" After Lu Zhi finished speaking, he drove back to the palace.
All the ministers knelt to see him off.
After the Queen Mother left, the important ministers spontaneously stayed for a small meeting.
"The Queen Mother has killed the envoy. There is no way back, we can only fight on." The chief minister sighed.
"The Big Ya people's strategy is not easy to use. We can only strengthen the wall and clear the country first. They come from afar and are unfamiliar with the place. They will definitely not last long." Cifu followed.
"But if this happens, foreign invaders will be rampant, people's livelihood will be ruined, and the ports will be blocked. Even if the court has money, it will not be able to buy anything in the long run." Huang Xiong VI worried after hearing this.
Thanks to Tosi's study, the feudal bureaucrats had studied a series of mercantile books such as The Wealth of Nations and finally understood that there is another term called "inflation"...
Silver is just a currency. If the market is in recession, the more money you have, the worse it will be.
"We are backed by the inland, grassland and border trade, so we can still maintain one or two. Now we need to quickly appease the grassland and the west, and don't face enemies on both sides." Sanfu reminded.
"Let's do it separately, each write a statement, and immediately order the customs in various places to be on strict alert."
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The huge and slow Eastern court finally started to rotate slowly.
The news that the Dasu people's envoy was killed has long been spread to the Dasu people's fleet.
Originally, they were not ready to go north. They only wanted to fight a few battles in the south where supplies were easy, and threaten the court to hand over the real Fountain of Youth and its location.
In the end, the other party killed the messenger, which was obviously proof that they would never admit defeat.
What else is there to say? Let’s go to the capital!
A mighty fleet of hundreds of steamships and sailing ships headed north.
One month later, the large fleet appeared near Fuhai City, which was only three hundred miles away from the capital.
"The Dasu people have landed!"
The news spread wildly throughout the capital.
For a time, people's hearts were in a state of confusion and the market was in chaos.
Businesses closed and wealthy people fled westward.
The wealthy people among the people have a more sensitive sense of smell than the imperial court.
They knew that the imperial navy was of high quality and would never be able to defeat the Westerners.
Everyone found it strange that even though they had studied Western learning for hundreds of years, most of them were satisfied with just learning a little bit, as long as it was enough.
Of course they don't know that this is the nature of feudal bureaucracy. As long as they deal with the Queen Mother well and get a reward, who cares whether it is really advanced or fake?
After all, they have no pressure to survive, no pressure to compete from the bottom up, and certainly no motivation to innovate themselves.
They are not aliens who can see the whole world.
Mutants are under pressure to survive. If they don't evolve, they will be killed by their opponents. Of course, they must do their best to evolve.