Last year, the Northern Qi Dynasty planned to use their princess to marry His Majesty the Emperor Chen as his queen, but the young emperor regarded it as a great shame and humiliation, and directly drove the Qi people out of Jiankang.
Unexpectedly, a year later, these arrogant Qi people would come over and mention this matter again.
Yang Xiangguo frowned slightly, first turned to look at His Majesty the Emperor with a cold expression, and then looked at Qian Qian, the envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and said in a deep voice: "I mentioned this matter last year. My Queen of Da Chen wants to be a mother.
In the world, it is impossible to marry the Qi royal family as a queen, let alone..."
Yang Xiangguo had a rare toughening of attitude.
"It's even more impossible to marry a descendant of Beidi!"
The princess last year was the niece of the Emperor of Northern Qi. If the emperor married her, he would call the Emperor of Northern Qi "uncle" according to her seniority.
If the so-called princess this time is the daughter of the Emperor of Northern Qi, after the marriage is completed, the little emperor of Chen Kingdom will actually become the "son emperor".
This kind of shame was absolutely unacceptable to the emperor and the entire court.
At this point, Yang Xiang looked calm and said: "If your Qi State insists on sending a woman to Jiankang, you might as well become a concubine for our emperor."
A concubine is a concubine.
Taking concubines does not harm ethics, let alone being a lower generation.
Qian Qian stood in the court hall, first glanced at the little emperor, then at Yang Jingzong, and suddenly smiled.
"Yang Xiangguo, I have respected you for being the leader of the country for many years, so I will not quarrel with you. However, if Nanchen dares to insult the Tian family, then I, the King of Northern Qi, will immediately send troops south to capture Jiankang."
Mr. Qian has an arrogant attitude.
"When the time comes, your country will move south again, and I'm afraid you will have to move to Danzhou!"
These words are extremely arrogant.
Not only the young emperor couldn't bear it, but also the expressions of many ministers in the court changed slightly. His Majesty the Emperor stood up from the throne and looked at Qian Qian coldly.
"The ambition of the Northerners is obvious. You have the ability to conquer Jiankang. You have already come here to fight. What excuse is needed?"
"You go back and tell Zhao that I will be waiting for him in Jiankang!"
Before the Northern Qi Dynasty entered the Pass, they were hunting and nomadic people with no Chinese surnames. After entering the Pass, they proclaimed themselves emperor in Yandu. In order to win over people and establish the imperial court, they began Hanization about forty years ago, and the royal family changed their surname to "Zhao".
In recent years, it has even begun to be publicized that they are Zhu Xia Zhengshuo.
However, despite changing the Han surname, the Northern Qi Dynasty was still divided between Han and Hu. The Hu aristocrats controlled a large amount of social resources and killed Han people wantonly in the early years after entering the customs. Even today, sixty years later, because the majority of the upper class are Hu
Due to human reasons, the social system of Northern Qi was still not perfect.
For example, if the barbarians killed the Han people, they could use their military merits to pay for their crimes.
As for the barbarian nobles, let alone mention them.
Therefore, although Emperor Zhao in the north had a Han surname, he was actually a Hu emperor.
Qian Qian stood in the court, bowed to the young emperor and said, "Your Majesty, you are still young. It is best to discuss some matters with the ministers."
As he said that, he chuckled: "Princess, I have already arrived in Jiankang with the foreign ministers. I am now living in the guild hall of the Ministry of Rites. I am only waiting for your country's court to discuss it before we can get married in Jiankang."
After saying that, the envoy from the Northern Kingdom bowed his hands to the emperor, then turned around and left the court.
In the court hall, the little emperor sat on the throne with a dark face and said nothing.
The ministers in the court also looked at their noses and their minds, lowering their heads and pretending that nothing happened, and no one spoke.
Even Prime Minister Yang Jingzong frowned and said nothing.
After a period of deathly silence, the little emperor stood up from the throne. He glanced at his courtiers coldly, and then said in a cold voice: "The nobles have already seen the faces of the Northerners."
"How should this matter be handled? The ministers will discuss the regulations. Tomorrow, several prime ministers will come to the palace and report to me face to face."
After saying that, the young emperor shook his sleeves angrily and walked away.
After His Majesty the Emperor left the court, Yang Jingzong and Prime Minister Yang, who had been silent, turned back to look at the officials, and then said silently: "The officials from the Ministry of Rites went to Zhongshu Province to discuss matters, and the others went back to the Yamen. Let's disperse.
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After all, Yang Xiangguo has been in charge of court affairs for many years. He is still in charge of the central government at this time, so his words still have weight. After he spoke, all the officials in the court immediately dispersed. Only the Minister of Rites and the two ministers followed Yang Jingzong and
Several other prime ministers came to Zhongshu Province together.
There were five prime ministers in Chen State, and they were not necessarily all chief officials of the three provinces, but they generally held temporary posts in the three provinces. If there were things to discuss on weekdays, they would always be discussed in Zhongshu Province.
In the Zhongshu Provincial Government Office, there is a side hall specially used for discussing affairs, which is called the "Meeting Hall", and the door of this meeting hall is jokingly called the "Xiangmen".
It means that once you step into this threshold, you are not a prime minister, but you are half a prime minister.
But today, the atmosphere in the meeting hall was not very good.
Prime Minister Yang Jingzong was still sitting on the main seat. After everyone took their seats one by one, he glanced at the four prime ministers and three officials of the Ministry of Rites present, and said slowly: "What's going on?"
Yang Xiang's voice was low: "Your Ministry of Etiquette is in charge of foreign affairs, but you didn't know about this matter in advance. You forced that man named Qian to enter the court meeting, and he even made wild remarks at the meeting!"
Yang Xiang's voice was a little angry: "I almost have to wonder if your Ministry of Rites has taken advantage of Qi Ren!"
This incident is indeed a serious diplomatic incident.
Because the envoys of the Northern Qi Dynasty did not necessarily have to appear at the court meeting or in front of all civil and military officials.
If the people of Qi met the emperor in private, they would at most be accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Rites. No matter how harsh the request was, the court would just pretend they didn't hear it.
As for His Majesty the Emperor being angry...
Young people, it's okay to be a little angry.
But this time, the Qi people's envoy was blatantly rude to the emperor at the court meeting, and Chen Guo could not really kill the Qi people's envoy, which made Yang Xiang a little angry.
The Minister of Rites is an old man who is nearly seventy years old. He looked at Pei Yuan next to him and sighed: "Servant Pei is in charge of the foreign affairs of the Ministry of Rites. Let's talk about it."
Pei Shilang had no choice but to stand up, cupped his hands towards Yang Jingzong, and said helplessly: "Mr. Yang, these Qi people arrived in the capital yesterday, and they clamored to meet the Holy Spirit after they arrived. I don't have any
As for the method, I asked Zhou Shangshu and Zhongshu for instructions yesterday afternoon, and Zhou Shangshu and the prime ministers all nodded. As for what they want to say..."
Mr. Pei smiled bitterly and said, "We only have half a day, and the official didn't figure it out beforehand."
Yang Jingzong frowned and said coldly: "What about the princess? They brought a princess into the Rites Hall, and you didn't know?"
Shi Pei sighed again and said: "I know, I know. I thought she was the family member of the Northern Qi envoy. It wasn't until I went to court this morning that the official found out that the woman was the princess of the Northern Qi."
"Have you checked your identity?"
Yang Xiang took a deep breath and asked: "The Emperor of Northern Qi has a total of four princesses, which one is she?"
"neither."
Vice Minister Pei looked around at the several prime ministers and two colleagues from the Ministry of Rites, with a bitter look on his face.
"I just found out that this is the Princess of Northern Qi last year. This year the Emperor of Northern Qi promoted her to a princess and sent her here..."