Sure enough, after the eunuch Bingbi announced that the memorial could be played, only a few officials came forward to start the memorial.
What he said was that some auspicious beast appeared in such and such a place, and there was a great food supply in such and such a place, and other such flattering words.
In the past, Li Shimin would usually respond to these things with a few words of encouragement or praise.
But today, Li Shimin has been sitting on the throne with an expressionless face, and only said three words: Got it!
As a result, even the idea of becoming a familiar minister in front of the emperor was a little timid.
After all, even a fool can tell that the emperor is in a bad mood today! If he comes forward rashly, don’t flatter him and just slap him on the horse’s leg!
So, after a few people passed by, no one else was willing to come forward, especially old foxes like Changsun Wuji and Li Ji. They sat on the futon like an old monk in meditation, looking at his nose with his eyes, and his mind with his nose.
It's like falling asleep.
In the court hall, it suddenly became quiet.
After waiting for a while, when no one came to play, Li Shimin frowned and waved his hand lightly.
The eunuch Bingbi standing next to him immediately understood and shook his head again. He was about to speak, but at this moment, a somewhat stiff voice suddenly sounded in the hall!
"Wait a minute! Foreign Minister, Pu Zhizhang has something to report to the Emperor of Tang!"
Hearing these words, the originally peaceful hall suddenly became cold! Everyone's eyes turned to these Goguryeo envoys!
Even several ministers who had closed their eyes to meditate since the beginning of the court meeting slowly opened their eyes at this time.
"His Majesty…"
Eunuch Bingbi, who was choked, looked at Li Shimin carefully. When he saw that there was nothing strange on Xiao Lizi's face, he raised his voice, glared at the Goguryeo envoys and shouted: "Zhunzou!"
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"Come on to the Emperor of Tang!"
In the main hall, Pu Zhizhang led Gao He and other Goguryeo envoys to the central open space.
They didn't carry the banban used in court, so they could only bow their hands as a salute to Xiao Lizi.
Then, they did not wait for the emperor's order to "dismiss the courtesy", but straightened up and stuck it there like a stick!
"Hey, these bastards who don't know etiquette!"
"Presumptuous, too presumptuous!"
There was buzzing discussion about them all around, but Pu Zhizhang ignored it. Instead, he looked at Li Shimin angrily and said: "Foreign Minister Pu Zhizhang, today I will participate in the performance of the Marquis of Sanyuan County in the Tang Dynasty.
Xiao Han! And the Duke of Tang Dynasty, Liu Hongji!"
"Oh, why do you want to play with them?" Li Shimin finally spoke. There was no sadness or joy in his voice, and nothing unusual could be heard.
Pu Zhizhang saw that Li Shimin did not get angry or argue as he imagined. For some reason, Pu Zhizhang felt a thump in his heart, as if he had punched cotton and vomited blood.
However, now that the matter has come to this point, he has no way out. He can only cough lightly and continue: "Ahem, these two foreign ministers are despicable and shameless, and they care about human life! They even pretended to be thieves and bandits and came to our country of Goguryeo to burn, kill and loot, causing many deaths.
Our soldiers and civilians have suffered countless casualties! Please ask the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty not to tolerate the traitors, but to hand these two men over to us, and let us take them back to Goguryeo to deal with them to comfort the dead!"
"What!"
"They want to bring Xiao Han and Liu Hongji back to China?"
With one sentence, the entire palace was in an uproar!
Although, most of them knew the purpose of these Goguryeo people going to court!
But when I heard them unabashedly asking for Xiao Lizi and handing over Xiao Han and Liu Hongji, my face changed drastically, as if I had seen something incredible?
"presumptuous!"
Very strange!
Among the hundreds of civil and military officials, the first one to stand up and scold Pu Zhizhang was not Cheng Yaojin and other generals, but Kong Yingda, who had always been difficult to deal with Xiao Han!
At this moment, the nearly 70-year-old man was so angry that he was shaking all over. He pointed at Park Zhizhang's skinny arm and started shaking too!
"How dare you, a small country like this, to speak out such arrogant words? You actually want us to hand over the ministers of the DPRK and Central Government to your disposal! Where does this put the face of the Tang Dynasty?"
"The face of the Tang Dynasty?"
Facing Kong Yingda's accusation, Park Zhizhang not only showed no fear, but actually became excited.
Others don't know that he just said these words, just waiting for someone to jump out and refute him!
He could also use this to make the matter bigger and force the face-loving Datang to make some decisions for this!
Otherwise, people would just say in an understatement: I know, I'll check it out later! Then the big thing will be reduced to a trivial matter, and no matter how unwilling they are, there will be nothing they can do about it.
Fortunately, although the little emperor was very calm, others were not as calm, such as the old scholar with white hair and beard in front of him!
"It's not good to be so angry at such an old age! Let me teach you today how to control your temper!"
With a secret sneer in his heart, Pu Zhizhang suddenly opened the door and shouted loudly enough for everyone in the hall to hear clearly:
"Why, what you call the face of the Tang Dynasty is that people pretend to be thieves and come to our country of Goguryeo to burn, kill and loot? This is what you call a country of etiquette. This is the Tian Khan who is rumored to be surrendered by the world?! Such a person
How can a robber country convince others?"
"you!"
Kong Yingda's chest heaved violently with anger at these words. He stared at Park Zhizhang and shouted with great effort: "You are spitting blood!"
"Am I spitting blood?"
Pu Zhizhang sneered again, then took out the rubbing paper that had been prepared from his sleeve, unfolded it one by one, and then asked Gao He and another person to hold it up high and present it in front of everyone.
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As for himself, he deliberately pointed to the two names on the signature and said to the heads around him: "Have you seen how arrogant and domineering your prince is? Not only does he kill people and steal goods, but he also writes words of humiliation.
Wait? Now the black and white writing is here! Is it possible that you still want to deny it? "
"hiss……"
"I've heard it a long time ago. Those two idiots engraved their names on others. It turns out it's true!"
"How can there be such stupid people in the world! They do bad things secretly! How dare they carve their names on it! No wonder people want to come after them and settle the score with these two people!
As Pu Zhizhang showed the rubbing paper in front of all the ministers, the main hall, which had been quiet just now, instantly fell into a chaotic buzz again.
I saw countless ministers pointing at the rubbing paper held high, and occasionally chatting in low voices with their colleagues around them. I don't know what they were talking about.
But thinking about it, most of them were scolding Xiao Han and Liu Hongji, these two bastards.
