Many people saw this scene, whispering and discussing on the side of the road.
"What's going on? There are so many people. Could it be that a reward was given to which minister?"
"But this reward is too much, and it looks like calligraphy and painting. I have never heard of the emperor giving so many calligraphy and paintings to his ministers at once."
"Strange, this is really strange!"
Because the noise was so loud, it soon reached the ears of the kings and senior officials in the capital.
Prince Shu's Mansion
When Eunuch Zhao and his party were still on the way, the King of Shu asked someone to find out everything. As his son, he quickly understood the emperor's thoughts.
He smiled and said to the staff sitting below: "My father is very wise (cunning). The Daihou has always used painting Thousand Blessings as an excuse to interact with officials. Now he rewards hundreds of calligraphy and paintings. No matter what, the research is
That’s enough.”
"Now that Daihou has no excuse, he doesn't know what he will do."
"What the prince said, unless he really stays at home, no matter how he acts, he will not be able to escape from hypocrisy." An aide also smiled and answered: "But if the Daihou really has no ambitions and is pure and filial...
…I don’t believe it anyway.”
They also paid a lot of attention to this Daihou along the way. Judging from his past behavior, everything he did was not something that an honest person could do.
The King of Shu's eyebrows and eyebrows are said to be very similar to those of the young emperor, so he was very favored for this. At this time, he seemed very easy-going and had a somewhat approving expression.
"You are right. This good nephew of mine is not an honest person. If he is really an honest person, I'm afraid he won't be able to get to where he is today."
His good father, it was not because he cared about the prince that he naturalized Su Zi and turned him into Ji Zizong. If Su Zi was not available, he could be a chess piece, and he might have died outside long ago.
Thinking of his nephew's expression when he received the reward from his father, the King of Shu couldn't help but be curious. He wanted to take a look at the scene. Unfortunately, his reason made him give up this idea and just ordered: "You go to the Daihou Mansion.
Come to the door and see how the situation is."
"Yes!" After the man left, another servant reported: "Your Majesty, there is someone outside the palace asking to see you, saying that he is from the Ning Kingdom in southern Xinjiang and wants to offer you a gift."
"Ningguo in Southern Xinjiang?" The King of Shu was startled after hearing this, and looked at several of his staff: "What kind of contact does the government have with Ningguo in Southern Xinjiang?"
A look of contempt flashed in the eyes of an aide: "Your Majesty, there are so many small countries in southern Xinjiang, and they are humid and full of insects. How can someone from such a place have contact with my family?"
"Furthermore, southern Xinjiang was originally developed by the former Wei Dynasty. It was only a province. It is said that it split into twenty or thirty small countries. This Ning country is said to be a country, or it is just a tribe. In the end, it is a barbarian. In a bitter land, the slap is bigger
Wherever you dare to be king."
King Shu nodded: "I think so."
He didn't feel that what this staff member said was mean at all. Those who said that a small country was actually just a person from a county. To the King of Shu, they were not as good as even the ordinary people of Dazheng. In his opinion, they were all barbarians.
Just as he was about to wave his hand to the servant who reported the report, he suddenly changed his mind and ordered: "Forget it, let this envoy from Southern Xinjiang come in. I am a little curious. I am here to give gifts this evening. I don't know the etiquette of this. I will be beaten."
What an idea."
Since I can't go see my good nephew lively, let's find another way to spend our time.
"Yes!" the servant responded immediately and went to let the person at the door come in.
The King of Shu was in a good mood, and said to the staff present: "You don't have to retreat, just stay and open your eyes to see what this small country's envoy looks like when he comes to deliver gifts."
Less than half a stick of incense, the visitors were led to the place where the king of Shu was meeting. As the palace servant reminded him coldly, a middle-aged man wearing animal skins, tall and strong and with a beard walked in from outside.
.
As soon as he came in, he made a strange salute and spoke in half-baked Dazheng official dialect: "I am Abra, the envoy of Ning State, and I have met the noble King of Shu in Dazheng!"
The hall suddenly fell silent when he entered, and then it seemed to come alive. People sitting on both sides were whispering to each other in low voices, and their expressions looking at the Ningguo envoy were also strange and sarcastic.
The King of Shu, who was sitting at the top, showed a hint of contempt.
As he expected, this southern border is a barbarian land. Even the envoys who came to Dazheng wore animal skins. How dare such a barbarian land call itself a country?
Simply ridiculous!
But he was also curious. He didn't know why this Ning State envoy suddenly came to visit him, so he temporarily suppressed his ridicule and contempt and asked in a deep voice: "Ah, it turns out to be the Ning State envoy. I didn't know that you came to see me so late, so why?"
What's the matter?"
It was said to be a gift, but what kind of gift could such a barbarian land bring?
The envoy from the Ning Kingdom said hurriedly: "I am here to offer local products and the princess to His Majesty the King of Shu. We in the Ning Kingdom sincerely want to make good friends with His Majesty the King of Shu and send the princess to the palace for marriage. According to the custom of our Ning Kingdom, that is after dusk.
, I wonder if it disturbed the noble King of Shu?"
"Excuse me, I'm not bothering you." A trace of disgust flashed in King Shu's eyes, and he frowned: "But if you give me a gift, I need to take a look at it first to see if it satisfies me, don't you think?
"
His last words were addressed to the surrounding staff, who immediately responded with a smile: "Yes! This Ningguo envoy, please hurry up and offer a gift to our prince so that we can have a good meal."
What a blessing to your eyes! The princess of your country must be as beautiful as a fairy?"
Most people also laughed. It was obvious that in their eyes, the Ning State envoy from southern Xinjiang was just a buffoon for their entertainment, and they did not regard him as an envoy of a country at all.
Come to think of it, in a place like the Prince of Shu's Mansion in Zheng Dynasty, a "savage" wearing animal skins suddenly came to them and told them that he was an envoy from the Ning Kingdom and wanted to offer gifts to the King of Shu on behalf of the Ning Kingdom. How funny it seems.
However, one or two of the staff frowned slightly. Although they also looked down on such people from barbaric lands, they still felt that it was inappropriate for the King of Shu to make fun of each other like this.
However, these two people did not come forward because of this, they just remained silent and watched from the sidelines.
When the Ningguo envoy saw that most of the people in the hall were smiling, he felt relieved and immediately said: "My Ningguo specialty and the princess are outside the gate of the mansion, and are being taken care of by a few warriors who came with me. Since the prince is willing to accept
, just ask someone to tell them!"
"Go! Invite the princess and warriors of Ning State to come in!" The King of Shu suppressed his laughter and said to the servant standing outside the hall.
Immediately, a slave responded and went to invite someone. After a while, two men, also wearing animal skins, came in carrying two baskets of things. They placed the two large baskets on the ground and pulled off the red clothes covering them.
The king of Shu glanced at the cloth from a distance and found that it seemed to be some local products.
I originally thought that these local products were just an excuse for the envoy, a synonym for gold, silver or other things, but I didn't expect that there were actually two baskets of special products. How ridiculous is this?
How could he, the majestic King of Shu, lack such a thing?
Even if it was a rare specialty, for the King of Shu, it would only make him feel insulted to bring it in such a crude basket.
Fortunately, the girl who came in later made King Shu's eyes linger on her for a moment.