Chapter 57, Don’t say it, I don’t want to hear it.
A few minutes later.
"The Japanese envoy group, see the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
A group of Japanese people wearing Tang costumes were kneeling in the main hall with extremely respectful expressions.
These Japanese people are both male and female. Except for a short winter melon, the others are basically of normal height. Even if they ignore their appearance and only look at their clothes, they are no different from the people of the Tang Dynasty.
"Me?" Li Xingyun frowned slightly.
He spotted the short winter melon in the crowd at a glance. Why did this guy go to the Japanese envoys again? Wasn't he working as a waiter in some restaurant before?
"It's me, Your Majesty." I replied immediately.
"Who are you?" Li Xingyun asked.
"Japanese ninja." I said without hesitation.
"Ninja?"
Li Xingyun reached out and touched his chin, becoming curious about this ninja. In his memory from the future, there was no memory of ninjas.
"Your Majesty, to put it simply, ninja is a special profession that our Japanese country has developed based on the yin and yang of the five elements of China since ancient times. Based on this, we have innovatively integrated it." I explained.
"Are ninjas very powerful?" Li Xingyun asked curiously.
"I dare not boast, Your Majesty, but I wonder if you are interested in seeing the ninjutsu of Japanese ninjas?" I patted my chest and said.
"You have said so. I am also a little curious, so let's see it." Li Xingyun nodded noncommittally.
"Your Majesty, please move away. Some ninjutsu are destructive and can easily damage buildings." I replied in a respectful tone.
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Ten minutes later.
Li Xingyun followed the civil and military officials to the square outside the palace. It was flat and smooth, with several stone pillars standing there, and the ground was paved with thick white stone bricks.
"Your Majesty, can you start the display?" I asked.
"You guys start showing off." Li Xingyun waved his hand and said.
The words fell.
I waved to the crowd of Japanese envoys, and a slim and graceful woman came out.
This woman is in her thirties, wearing tight-fitting purple-black leather armor. She has a slender figure, a round chest, and straight and slender thighs. She looks like a work carved from white jade.
The snow-white skin and deep ravines are exposed under the shoulders, and the long purple-black hair is casually scattered behind her.
The long hair is shawl, and there is no wind. When the breeze blows, the purple-black hair naturally ripples from both sides of the body.
She has a perfect face and is extremely charming, with no flaws on her fair face.
Her eyes are dark purple, but her lips are bright purple.
There was a purple gem hanging on her forehead, with layers of purple halo rippling, slowly flowing past her head.
"Your Majesty, her name is Gaocheng Yuriko. Not only is she from the royal family, but she is also the strongest person in Japanese ninjutsu today. This time she is the person in charge of the Japanese envoys coming to pay homage to the Tang Dynasty."
I first explained to Li Xingyun who this woman was, and then nodded to Yuriko Gaocheng, saying that she could now demonstrate Japanese ninjutsu in front of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The other side.
Takagi Yuriko didn't hold back, she only saw her hands forming seals very quickly, and the energy of heaven and earth gradually surrounded her. Basically, everyone could see her preparing a big move.
About six seconds later.
"Si-Wei-Shen-Hai-Wu-Yin, fire escape, the art of powerful fireball!"
Takagi Yuriko's eyes moved slightly, and the seal movements on her hands stopped. She opened her jade mouth slightly and spit out a fireball about the size of an egg.
Before anyone could start laughing at the little fireball and wonder what its use was, the little fireball was able to grow in the wind and soon expanded into a fireball with a diameter of three meters.
At this time.
Including Shi Yao, the great emperor, many royal guards appeared beside Li Xingyun, and even hundreds of powerful bad guys appeared in the outer area.
If Yuriko Takagi dares to have evil thoughts, within three minutes at most, the entire palace will be completely closed, and thousands of imperial troops will surround the place.
When the time comes, it will not be a joke to dismember the body with knife.
However, as a representative of the Japanese envoys, Takagi Yuriko naturally did not have such dangerous thoughts. She just blew the big fireball with a diameter of three meters to the unoccupied stone pillar.
"Bang..." The sound of flame explosion.
The temperature of the flame was very high, and a heat wave hit. After the big fireball slowly disappeared, the stone pillars became extremely black, looking like they were burnt.
"I, you ninjas, do have something!" Li Xingyun sighed.
Now he probably understands why he has never been able to see through his own strength. Although he looks no different from ordinary people on the surface, he can often encounter him in some dangerous places.
Although Li Xingyun doesn't know who is stronger between myself and Gaocheng Yuriko, but I can sneak into the Japanese envoys, so my own strength is not too bad.
Good guy, in the future memory, the ninjutsu you showed me, the so-called technique of knocking you two with a plop, was not secretly forming seals behind your back. You are really good at hiding things!
"Don't dare, Your Majesty, without the foundation of Chinese Yin Yang and Five Elements, it would be difficult for Japan to create ninjutsu." I explained in an extremely humble tone.
At this time, Gaocheng Yuriko and the Japanese envoys heard the Emperor Li Xingyun of the Tang Dynasty praise him, and their faces showed a look of pride.
It is a great honor for the Japanese country and them to be personally praised by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. There is no regret even if one dies for it.
At this time.
Hearing his Majesty praising an outsider, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed across Shi Yao's face and he said, "Your Majesty, the time she has spent in sealing is enough for me to kill her a dozen times."
In her opinion.
The so-called ninjutsu are all flashy, just good-looking, but the speed and reaction are not fast enough, and the woman opposite can't even catch one of her own moves.
"Hey, don't say that. Confucius said that when three people walk together, there must be my teacher. Therefore, the disciple does not have to be inferior to the teacher, and the teacher does not have to be better than the disciple. There is a priority in learning the Tao, and there is a specialization in skills, that's all."
"Ninjutsu also has its own special advantages. It doesn't have to be used for killing. For example, it can be used to light fires... ahem, in short, ninjutsu is still very useful."
After Li Xingyun comforted Shi Yao beside him, he turned his attention to Gaocheng Yuriko.
"Come here!" Li Xingyun hooked his fingers.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Gaocheng Yuriko ducked in front of Li Xingyun. Her speed and reaction were not as slow as Shi Yao had imagined, and the internal energy she was steadily exuding was also at the level of Great Heaven.
But the most noteworthy thing is that her Tang Dynasty Mandarin sounds very standard, even more standard than myself, a Japanese who has stayed in Datang all year round.
"Besides Fire Release, what other ninjutsu are there?" Li Xingyun asked curiously.
He does not value the lethality of ninjutsu. In his future memory, he can directly destroy everything within a hundred meters with one move of his fist carrying the explosive power of qi.
It's just a fire escape ninjutsu. Although it looks very gorgeous, the sealing process is slow. In the end, it just burned a stone pillar.
Even if I am now, as long as my fist is filled with the explosive power of Qi Meridian, I can punch out casually and smash a stone pillar without much difficulty.
So.
What Li Xingyun really values is the ability of ninjutsu to easily mobilize the power of the five elements of heaven and earth energy through seals.
As for the shame of a big country?
What's so shameless about this?
Because we are a small country, why don’t we look down on other people’s ninjutsu?
Everyone has their own strengths, and the most taboo thing in life is to be arrogant.
This is like Raojiang.
They don't even have a unified political power now, but they have multiplied the art of Gu to the extreme.
Let’s not talk about the altar of soldiers, gods and monsters, let’s just talk about the death-resurrection voodoo. This strange voodoo can even bring people back to life after death.
As long as the poison does not die, people will not die either. This shows that even a small country has its own strengths.
Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.
"Reporting to your Majesty, not long after the creation of Ninjutsu, I have only created two of the Five Elements Ninjutsu. I wonder which Ninjutsu among the Five Elements your Majesty would like to see?"
Gaocheng Yuriko glanced at Shi Yao when she spoke, and she saw a deep wariness in his eyes.
But does it matter?
It's not important!
As long as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is interested in ninjutsu, she has no way to do anything to herself.
"Me? She is the one who created Ninjutsu?" Li Xingyun asked doubtfully.
"The founder of Ninjutsu is of course the strongest..." I lowered my head.
See him like this.
Li Xingyun was too lazy to waste words. He waved to Yuriko Gaocheng and said softly: "I am a little interested in ninjutsu. You can show it all."
"I understand." Gao Cheng Yuriko nodded.
The next time.
Yuriko Takagi showed many Five Elements Ninjutsu in front of Li Xingyun. Li Xingyun nodded repeatedly while watching, and at the same time, an immature idea came to his mind inadvertently.
......
Half an hour passed.
Daming Palace, Jinluan Palace.
"Lily Zi, I see that you have a deep research on the art of the Five Elements. I wonder if you are interested in coming to the Tang Dynasty as an official?" Li Xingyun sat on the dragon chair and asked this question.
Honestly.
If ordinary people were to evaluate Li Xingyun, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they would think that he, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, has been sucking the blood of the vassal countries.
As a suzerain country, we don’t want to give gifts to the vassal countries in return. Instead, we always want to take away the good things from the vassal countries. Now we have actually started poaching people in person.
But in Li Xingyun’s own opinion.
Don't say that you suck blood or not. If the suzerain country doesn't suck the blood of the vassal country, will it be sucked by them in turn?
If this is the case, the sovereign country has been bleeding blood to support these vassal countries under its command. Isn't this a big mistake?
Li Xingyun shouldn't take advantage of him. It's okay to ask him to suck blood. No matter what, he can't drain out any blood.
The other side.
Regarding the personal invitation from Emperor Li Xingyun of the Tang Dynasty, Gaocheng Yuriko hesitated for a moment. She frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about something.
But she didn't think about it for long before she made up her mind.
Half a minute later.
She straightened her clothes, knelt down in the main hall, and said: "I... I am willing to serve as a minister of the Tang Dynasty and to serve your majesty."
For her personally.
The culture and ideas of the Tang Dynasty attracted her, and the Japanese country where she was located was also a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
If she could choose, she would naturally prefer to stay in the prosperous land of Datang and serve it.
Let’s just say that.
Now among the Japanese envoys, many of them looked at Gaocheng Yuriko with envy, jealousy and hatred. They also wanted to win the favor of the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
Betrayal?
It doesn't exist at all. The Tang Dynasty is the suzerain state, and the Japanese vassal state not only wears the same clothes, but also has basically the same cultural ideas. To become an official of the Tang Dynasty is a high promotion.
Below the Jinluan Hall.
Regarding Li Xingyun's recruitment of people from vassal states as officials, the civil and military officials in the court did not speak a word, as if they had collectively become mute and completely forgot how to speak.
The reason is simple.
Just four words, take it for granted.
Since the time of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has begun to appoint foreign ministers, appointing Hu bureaucrats, and reemploying Hu generals. There is no taboo about the distinction between Hua and Yi. They will be appointed when they need to be appointed, and they will be reused when they need to be reused.
In the meantime.
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, did not choose to repair the Great Wall to prevent the nomadic people on the grassland from going south to plunder.
Instead, they chose the nomadic people who swept the grassland, not only to sweep the grassland but also to rule the grassland.
But to rule the grasslands, you must not only have a powerful army, but also export order, and to export order, you must first establish a name, and this name is naturally Tian Khan.
Later grassland tribes and city-states in the Western Regions had to be canonized by the Khan of Heaven in order to gain the legitimacy of their rule.
This is the authority of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Heavenly Khan. Without his canonization, you, the king, would have an unfair reputation.
The consequences of being dishonest and dishonest are very serious. Your throne may be overthrown at any time, and your throne is simply not stable.
So...
Even though the Tang Dynasty has been lonely for thirty years, as long as the descendants of the Li Tang royal family can successfully restore the Tang Dynasty.
Many small countries in the past still had to come to pay tribute. They hoped to be canonized by Li Xingyun, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so as to confirm that their throne was legitimate.
In their hearts, China is an extremely magical land full of miracles. There was the Eastern Han Dynasty before and now there is the Eastern Tang Dynasty.
In the future, even if Li Xingyun cannot reach the level of the Great Tang Heavenly Khan, he will at least be as good as Emperor Guangwu.
......
The next time.
The Japanese country also reported tribute gifts. In addition to common things such as beauty gold, there was also a Millennium Snow Ganoderma lucidum. In terms of its own value, it was not inferior to the Millennium Fire Ganoderma lucidum.
Millennium-level spiritual grass cannot be found everywhere. There is no doubt that this Millennium Snow Ganoderma is the Millennium Snow Ganoderma excavated from the Jin Kingdom not long ago by the Japanese Ronin.
The Millennium Snow Ganoderma lucidum was born. Including Li Xingyun, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and all the civil and military officials in the court, they all understood what they didn't understand before.
I am afraid that it was precisely because of a great ninja like Yuriko Takagi that we were able to take away this Millennium Snow Ganoderma from under the nose of Jin State Tongwenguan.
"The meeting is over and will continue tomorrow." A sharp voice sounded.
Finally, after the Japanese tribute was over, at dusk and sunset, it was time to go to court today. Li Xingyun, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took the lead in the charge and chose to be the first to go to court.
I went to court for a day and met people for a day.
He, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is almost exhausted.
I need to go home and have a good rest.
"Yunji, Xueer, Xuanxuan..."
Li Xingyun, who had worked hard all day in the court, tried to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by three beauties, but he didn't succeed. Instead, he was dodged by the three of them.
"Brother, you are amazing. You see hundreds of beauties a day. Can your body bear it?"
Lu Linxuan poked Li Xingyun's head hard, not treating him as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
She can't learn the palace rules at all.
But fortunately, with Li Xingyun's indulgence, it doesn't matter even if she can't learn.
"Those things have nothing to do with me, they are all given by them. Besides, these people will be palace maids at most in the future. Can your senior brother and I be so hungry and selective about food?" Li Xingyun said helplessly.
He is not a god, he is just a mortal. It is already very difficult to deal with the three of them plus Jiutian Saint Ji. If there are more people, I am afraid that he will really be unable to make ends meet.
The consequences of not being able to make ends meet are serious, and the kidneys will quickly wither and dry up.
"Who knows, the beauties in different countries have different styles, some are gentle, some are intellectual, some are passionate... Who knows if you will become bestiality." Ji Ruxue said coldly.
"Alas... practicing internal strength every day, all animalistic qualities are gone." Li Xingyun sighed.
No one can understand the pain of practicing his inner strength every night, just like no one can understand the fatigue of an old cow plowing the fields every day.
He really doesn't want to practice internal strength every day, and occasionally wants to take leave, but if he doesn't practice internal strength, these women won't let him go.
They all seemed to be competing for one thing, to see whose belly would grow bigger first, and to be the first to successfully give birth to a prince and princess for the Tang Dynasty.
"Xingyun, a very special person came from the Mobei Envoy..."
"Don't say it, I don't want to hear it!"
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At this time.
The Mobei Dynasty envoys stationed outside the Daming Palace had something ridiculous happen.
"I don't believe it! I won't believe it even to my death! You are definitely not a family!"