The people of the capital celebrated the city, and in the palace, the annual birthday celebration was ready to begin.
Envoys from various countries naturally prepared more than one gift, expensive and numerous congratulatory gifts have been sent to the treasury in advance, left in the hands of only as a top priority waiting to be sent at the feast of a gift.
Before the hour, the palace banquet had begun to be prepared. The Ministry of Ceremony and Honglu Temple of people busy in the Palace Banquet etiquette, when the hour arrived, will be the countries of the envoys and princes and ministers one by one introduced to the position to sit down.
Chu Wei's official position is not high enough to attend the banquet. He stayed in the mansion and listened to the merrymaking outside, and could not help but spread his eyebrows slightly, revealing a hidden smile.
Humble gentleman, emaciated like jade. Mrs. Chu looked at him in the hall, looked, couldn't help but smile, with the maid beside her said: "Look, our Wei brother child more and more handsome."
The maid said, "You can't find anyone more handsome than our young master in the entire capital."
Chu Wei walked in just in time to hear the words, and he couldn't help but say, "Yes."
But when the curious eyes of the bystanders came over, he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Mrs. Chu rolled her eyes at him and suddenly remembered something, "Yesterday when you were on duty, someone came to your door to give you a gift."
Chu Wei said, "Who?"
Mrs. Chu let the people bring up the gift and thought for a moment, "That person claimed to be from the Ming Sheng Post, with his strange clothes, he should be an attendant from a foreign dynasty. My son, how did you get involved with the foreign dynasty's messenger?"
Chu Wei brow slowly knit up, he went forward to receive the gift in the hands of the boy, open a look, inside is the Western Xia often gold flower accessories. Sure enough, Chu Wei eyes disgust crossed, will gift directly thrown back to the hands of the boy, cold voice: "Return back."
The Prince of Western Xia looks like a man, but has a dirty mind, and he, Chu Sanping, is the most--
Chu Wei suddenly thought of himself.
His breath caught in his throat, and ignoring his mother's cries, he turned and left through the hall.
As one foot stepped out of the threshold, Chu Wei suddenly thought.
The prince of Western Xia is so rude when he meets him, if he meets His Majesty, won't he be even more rude?
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Li Angshun was brought to sit on the place by the officials of Honglu Temple, and the rest of the emissaries of Western Xia sat behind him. Next to the Western Xia sat the emissary of the Fusan State.
The emissary from the Fusang Kingdom wanted to say a few words to the Western Xia Prince, but looking at Li Angshun's ugly face, he wisely withdrew his sight and continued to talk and laugh with the officials from Honglu Temple.
Li Angshun's face was ugly for a while and then got better, he smoothed his black hair under his felt hat and said, "It doesn't matter, it's fine if I can't see Chu Wei's silhouette. Today is Emperor Daheng's birthday banquet, I don't believe that the Prince of Harmony who refused to give me half a face won't come out today."
The Western Xia emissary asked, "Seventh Prince, what are you going to do if the Prince of Harmony shows up?"
"It's just the right time to bring him down in front of the Emperor of Daheng and the envoys of various countries," Li Angshun sneered, "to avenge the fall of our faces."
"The whole disgrace thing can't just be us."
A little later, the princes and ministers and the envoys of various countries had all taken their seats. The hall was brilliantly lit, and the lamps were already lit, as bright as the light of day.
The Prince of Peace was seated on the lower head of the front row, the most forward position.
Prince He took a look at the birthday gift he brought, the king's residence in the hundred embroiderers together embroidered out of that pair of embroidered mountains and rivers has been sent to the treasury, and now this thing, or his mouth is in the middle of the heart, the first two days personally went out of the house to find things.
Looking at this birthday gift, the Prince of Harmony couldn't help but question himself, on Gu Yuanbai's look of being suspicious of him, why did he have to be so dedicated?
The emperor didn't treat him as an elder brother, and he had to rush up to stick a cold face.
Just when his mind was troubled, the eunuch outside shouted, "His Majesty has arrived."
The temple stood up a piece of people in great numbers, the people drooped their eyes and arched their hands, embroidered with the dragon pattern of the bright yellow robe feet in front of the eyes slipped through, the palace guards do not slow to follow. After the saint sat down, only then said, "Sit down."
The voice sounded somewhat familiar, and Li Anshun's eyebrows suddenly jumped as he jerked his head up towards Emperor Daheng.
Gu Yuanbai had already taken off his heavy and flashy coronation clothes and changed into his regular clothes. He was talking to the big eunuch beside him with his head turned sideways, the distance was far away, and his face could only be seen in a blur, but his chin was thin, his temperament was remarkable, and he was exactly the same as the person who had icy coldly ordered Li Anshun on the carriage on that day.
This man turned out to be the Emperor of Daheng!
Lee Aung Soon's face changed around.
Behind the person tugged Li Angshun's robe, Li Angshun back to God, follow the force to sit down. Beside him, the Fusang emissary laughed, "Why is the face of the seventh prince of Western Xia so ugly?"
Leon Shun said in a hard voice, "It's nothing."
The eunuch at the back came forward and filled the wine, his hand holding the wine cup was hard, and his expression was shadowy between them.
Surprisingly, he is the emperor of the Daheng Dynasty! What a joke for nothing.
How could he forget that the Emperor of the Daheng Dynasty was not in such good health, and who was it if not the Emperor who was so vocal in the capital?
Li Ang Shun looked up towards the top, the face with deep features seemed to be condensed with black clouds, and it was hard to see the emperor's face from such a distance, but the demeanor was very dignified.
As the workshop artists entered the hall to sing and dance, Gu Yuanbai glanced downward and asked Prince He with a smile, "What's that sitting next to Prince He's table?"
The Prince of Harmony blocked the wooden box and gathered his sleeves again. This was the first time he had personally prepared a congratulatory gift for Gu Yuanbai, ashamed and annoyed, he said sullenly, "A congratulatory gift for His Holiness."
Gu Yuanbai looked to Tian Fusheng, who reminded him, "Your Majesty, what the Prince of Harmony's House had sent into the palace earlier was an embroidered picture of the Embroidered Mountains and Rivers."
"Prince He has a heart," Gu Yuanbai nodded slightly and smiled again, "This congratulatory gift in my hand, I have to guess what it is."
He took a sip from the cup of clear water that served as a drink, thought about the habit of the Prince of Harmony who had given gifts to the late Emperor, and said, "It's a strange stone and good jade?"
The Prince of Harmony answered in a deep voice, the eunuchs came forward to take his gift and offer it, the Prince of Harmony waved them off and stood up himself and walked over to Gu Yuanbai, "After casually searching the other day, I found a stone that looked quite passable."
Tian Fusheng will open the wooden box, inside is exactly a piece of ginseng like the general shape of the jade, body dark red, which also flows a few strands of gold silk, like this rare and beautiful things, it is very easy to let a person feel and the gods this and other legends hooked. Gu Yuanbai took it and looked at it for a few moments, "I like it very much."
The Prince of Harmony wanted to laugh, but hardened his face and said nonchalantly, "It's good that Your Majesty likes it."
The Prince of Harmony took the lead, and all the people took turns to offer their own congratulatory gifts. This gift is about intention and novelty, there are a few rare things that Gu Yuanbai really likes.
Hundreds of officials were in the front, and emissaries from various countries were in the back. After seeing Daheng's troops in the north, many of these envoys had secretly increased their congratulatory gifts. At this time, when they looked at what the envoys from other countries offered, they were both surprised and glad that even if they couldn't be the one who gave the most gifts, they couldn't be the one who gave the least gifts.
Watching this scene, the Western Xia people's expressions were not so good.
The Western Xia emissary came to Daheng this time, one is to celebrate the birthday of Daheng Emperor, two is to find out the situation of Daheng country nowadays. Thirdly, the Western Xia has a request for Daheng, so he sent the Seventh Prince to prepare thick gifts, and he wanted to talk with Emperor Daheng about the debatable field.
The debatable field is the name of the two countries in the border market, Western Xia country is small, lack of resources, can not be self-sufficient, many things have to rely on the debatable field of the market, but in the LiAngShun to come to Daheng two months ago, Daheng suddenly stopped the debatable field with the Western Xia.
Western Xia was caught off guard.
Daheng horse less, has been relying on the Western Xia to have horses into the account, it is reasonable to say, Daheng unilateral so strong off the debatable field, is not afraid of with the Western Xia stalemate, there is no stable source of horses?
This time the Western Xia sent the seventh prince to come to Daheng, precisely for this matter. But Li Angshun self-holding horse source and Daheng domestic salt dealers can not get away from the Western Xia green salt two things, the bottom of the heart, act is also quite arrogant and domineering.
This bossy, bossy to the emperor's head.
Originally, they thought that these thick gifts were enough to make amends, but when they looked at the thick gifts prepared by this country in front of them, they only felt puzzled and absurd.
Is it possible that all the emissaries from foreign dynasties have something to ask of Daheng?
Western Xia's gift was originally very thick, but now, in comparison, it is completely submerged in it and does not stand out at all.
Waiting for the gift offering turn to the Western Xia, behind the Western Xia messenger holding heavy gifts want to pass to the eunuchs, Li Angshun suddenly got up, grabbed the gift and stride forward, the eyes of the temple gathered in his body, Li Angshun closer and closer, finally able to see the appearance of the Emperor of the Great Heng.
Emperor Daheng sensed him and glanced lightly, narrowing his eyes slightly.
Li Angshun's footsteps stopped, and after an instant, he strided forward again. When he walked in front of Gu Yuanbai, before he could speak, the eunuch who followed closely behind him respectfully said, "Your Majesty, this is the emissary from Western Xia, the seventh prince of the Western Xia Kingdom, Li Angshun."
"I have some impression," Gu Yuanbai seemed to smile and not smile, "Western Xia's royal son, Jie Jie is very arrogant."
Emperor Daheng clearly did not say anything, but as if he had already taunted people, Li Angshun heart, can not be wrong, this tone is that day the car that person.
He bowed to Gu Yuanbai according to Western Xia etiquette and smiled apologetically, ''People without insight will always use bluffing to hide their uneasiness. The Daheng Dynasty is a large and varied land with great people, when we first came to Daheng, we were mesmerized by Daheng's prosperity and were timid in our hearts, and only because of this did we do something wrong. If it is because of our actions that you are disgusted with Western Xia, then we are truly not worthy of death."
Gu Yuanbai raised his hand lightly, signaling him to get up, "Rather good at talking."
Li Anshun straightened up and saw the good-looking face of Emperor Daheng again. Li Anshun liked handsome-looking people, and without mentioning anything else, just talking about looks alone, Emperor Daheng had a face that made it impossible for people to feel resentment towards him.
"The gifts sent by Western Xia, I have seen them, they are heavy," Gu Yuanbai's tone was slow, "from spices to felt blankets, from camels to horses, this is a great effort."
Li Angshun smile, the gold flowers on the coat glittering, his appearance is very good, features as deep as the eagle, just the arrogance of the bottom of the eyes is really bad good feeling, ruined such a good look, "your birthday, Western Xia certainly have to put a lot of effort."
He handed the gift in his hand to the eunuch, who stepped forward and then handed it to Tian Fusheng.
Exquisite wooden box is opened, there is a hidden fluorescent light inside, Tian Fusheng will be put in front of the wooden box to Gu Yuanbai's eyes, it turns out that the inside is exactly a nearly spherical, beautiful color, translucent a Pearl of the Night.
What is even more rare is that even under the candlelight in the temple which is as bright as day, this night pearl also actively exudes a beautiful fluorescent color, yellow-green with blue light, such as the treasure of the deep sea.
Li Angshun face vaguely proud, even if the Daheng royal family has many night pearl, but this one is definitely the best of them.
"Good stuff," Gu Yuanbai sighed decidedly, "I hadn't realized that Western Xia had such good stuff."
Li Angshun didn't hear the danger in these words of the Lord of Daheng, he smiled self-satisfiedly and said aloud, "Though I, Western Xia, am not as good as Daheng, but the good things can be as countless as the carp in the river!"
Gu Yuanbai took the night pearl in the wooden box to his hand, and it was so round and full that he could just hold it in one hand. He played with the pearl, and the faint fluorescent light showed a ghostly blue color under his eyes.
"That's nice."
Xixia, what a place to be.
Green salt, camel, horse, sheep, beeswax, musk umbilical cord, hairy brown, source antelope horn ...... Such a good place, such a good night pearl, West Xia is really a favorite of Gu Yuanbai.
The saint was overwhelmed with emotion, he asked Tian Fusheng to load the night pearl, with a smile and mildly looked at Li Angshun, as if looking at a gold mine, such a gaze are Li Angshun looked at the handsome face hot.
It's only right that such a good place should come into his hands and become part of Daheng.