Chapter 90: Fear the Prime Minister but Not the King (Fifth update!! Please subscribe!!)
Sixty years ago, the Northerners captured Chen State's Yandu, and for the next twenty or thirty years, the two sides were in fierce struggle.
Northern Qi wanted to go south and eat Nanchen in one go.
On the one hand, Chen Guo was actively defending, but on the other hand, he also wanted to return to his old capital and recapture half of the country in the north.
However, after twenty or thirty years of fighting, both sides discovered that it was difficult for each other to win over the other.
As a result, in the past thirty years, although the northern and southern imperial courts still occasionally fought wars, both official and private parties have begun to communicate with each other.
For example, the two sides already have actual diplomatic exchanges.
About a year ago, that is, in the fourth year of Hong De's reign, His Majesty the Emperor of Northern Qi sent someone here. It probably meant that the young emperor of Nan Chen was about to reach the age of marriage, and Northern Qi was going to marry one of their princesses.
Come here and be the queen to Emperor Nanchen.
Even though the emperor was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, he was very angry and thought it was a great shame and humiliation.
At the court meeting a few months ago, the emperor also criticized Yang Jingzong and Yang Xiang because of this incident.
Now, a year later, Northern Qi sent a delegation again.
Diplomatic matters have always been handled by the Ministry of Rites, but the people in the Ministry of Rites were not very willing to deal with the Qi people. After pushing and pushing, the right minister Pei Yuan was pushed out, and Pei Yuan was responsible for receiving these envoys from the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Although Pei Shilang was unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to wait at the door early in the morning. Unexpectedly, the envoy from Northern Qi ignored him and went straight into Jiankang without stopping.
This made Mr. Pei very angry.
Although the Ministry of Rites belongs to the noble yamen of the Qing Dynasty, he is still one of the six ministers and a serious senior official of the court. Who in Jiankang City met him and was not polite enough to call him minister? I don’t know how many people, I think.
I want to come and make friends!
But now, these northerners are so arrogant and unreasonable, and Minister Pei has nothing to do with them.
Sorry, it's not appropriate.
beat?
The emperor was not sure about starting a fight with Northern Qi, let alone his little minister.
There is no other way but to endure the calm for a while.
After the Northern Qi envoy entered the capital, they stayed in the Rites Hall as usual. Because it was already afternoon, these envoy members did not go into the palace to see the emperor. Instead, they waited until the court meeting the next day to follow Pei
Together with the minister, they entered the palace city and came to the palace hall.
Early in the morning, the young emperor went to court as usual to handle state affairs.
Chen Dynasty does not have a court meeting every day. There is a small court meeting once every five days and a big court meeting once every ten days. This day happens to be the big court meeting of the Chen Kingdom. His Majesty the Emperor is sitting on the dragon throne and patiently listens to the ministers.
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At this time, the little emperor had just taken over state affairs, and only took over part of the state affairs. He was still in the excitement period, so he was very concerned about state affairs, and basically handled everything he could handle personally.
When you become an emperor, you usually go through this process.
After a few years, when the novelty wears off, there's no telling what he will look like. He may indulge in pleasure like the late emperor, or he may directly turn into a coward and start to behave wildly.
It’s not that there are no emperors who can start well and end well, it’s just that there are too few.
After all, once the position of emperor is firmly established, the only one who can restrain him is actually himself. If a person has no restraints and no goals, it will be difficult to achieve self-discipline.
But at least now, the little emperor is still "forging ahead".
At the court meeting, the ministers spoke one by one. After the court affairs were almost finished, Pei Yuancai, the Minister of Rites, held the court scepter in his hand and went out to report: "Your Majesty, the envoys of the Northern Qi Dynasty entered Jiankang yesterday. They are waiting.
Summoned by His Majesty."
In the past few years, ministers in the imperial court had habitually referred to Jiankang as the capital city.
But after His Majesty the Emperor scolded Yang Xiangguo, the word "Jingcheng" became less and less in the court, and everyone began to mention the name Jiankang again.
"Envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty?"
His Majesty the Emperor frowned, and then said in a deep voice: "Come in."
Pei Yuan nodded and quickly brought in the envoy from Northern Qi.
The envoy from the Northern Qi Dynasty was wearing the official uniform of the Northern Qi court. He was tall and had three long beards. It was obvious from his face that he was a Han Chinese.
Of course, after several generations, there are now many Han people in the northern royal family. In Yandu City in the north, there are many people who are obviously serious Han people, but they insist on saying that they have Hu blood.
Superior to others.
The Northern Qi envoy came to the main hall, first looked up at the emperor, then bowed his head slightly and saluted, and said: "Qian Qian, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites of Da Qi, pays homage to the Southern Emperor."
Hearing the words "Emperor of the Southern Kingdom", the little emperor looked angry. He glanced angrily at the doctor named Qian and said angrily: "How brave!"
"Seeing that I don't bow to you, you still utter arrogant words. Is it harmful to bully me with the sword in your hand?"
Qian Qian was not afraid. He raised his head to look at the emperor and said, "Your majesty's sword is not very sharp. The foreign ministers don't know, but the foreign ministers know that it may not be that easy for the swords of the Southern Kingdom to kill my Daqi officials."
"His Majesty the Southern Kingdom wants to kill the foreign ministers, and he will kill them if the foreign ministers provoke him."
The little emperor took several deep breaths and gritted his teeth: "Come here, pull this thief down for me!"
Qian Qian just stood there and didn't move.
At this time, Yang Jingzong and Yang Xiang, who was standing in the first row of civil servants and had gray beard and hair, finally opened their eyes. He first looked up at the emperor on the throne, and then looked back at the envoy of Northern Qi.
Sighed.
Yang Xiangguo left his job silently, bent down to the emperor, and said: "Your Majesty, the people from the north are rude and bumped into the emperor's place. Please forgive me."
The little emperor sat on the dragon chair and glared at Yang Xiangguo, but finally snorted and did not continue the attack.
Yang Xiangguo turned his head again, glanced at Beiqi's Shichen, and his voice became deeper.
"Mr. Qian, you are now in Jiankang, my country, and in my country, Chen. No matter you are a minister of Northern Qi or a member of the royal family of Northern Qi, I, Chen, can kill you with my sword."
"In Dachen, you have to know some rules."
Qian Qian's face was full of arrogance, but after hearing Yang Xiangguo's words, he glanced at the already senile old Xiangguo, and his attitude became lower unconsciously.
"Yang Xiangguo, it's not Qian who doesn't understand the rules. It's really the emperor of your country who is too aggressive..."
Before Qian Qian could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Yang Xiangguo.
"Okay, there's no need to say any unnecessary nonsense. Just explain your purpose."
Qian Qian raised his head and glanced at the angry little emperor, then at Yang Jingzong, and nodded silently.
Comparatively speaking, he was more afraid of Yang Jingzong than the little emperor.
Because he knew very well that if the emperor of Chen State wanted to kill him, he might not be able to kill him, but if the old man Yang in front of him wanted to kill him, he would not be able to leave Jiankang City no matter what.
Thinking of this, the money doctor lowered his head slightly to Yang Jingzong and said.
"Mr. Yang, it's like this."
He coughed and said: "His Majesty the Southern Kingdom has reached the age of marriage. As the elder, my emperor took the initiative to arrange a marriage for the Southern Emperor last year and married my princess from Daqi. However, it seems that your Emperor does not want to