Great Sui Guoshi

Chapter 5 Sixty

"...The envoys of Yiwu paid tribute, fifteen pieces of Huotan cloth, two gold jugs of Fuju, five pairs of glass luminous cups...The envoys of Turks paid tribute to 120 top-quality horses, 1 regular horses, 25 sheep, [-] camels and [-] cattle each... The envoys of Gaochang pay respects to the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty. Fifty fair-skinned beauties from the Western Regions, [-] musicians, crystal Two buckets of mica, agate, pearls and green....Tuyuhun envoys paid tribute to the Son of Heaven, a bloody horse, a Persian gold-plated silver pot, [-] pieces of Hetian jade and mutton jade, and a pair of Daqin chain mail ..."

In the Daxing Hall, the eunuch held the gift list and passed it loudly outside the hall. The envoys from the four countries on the Baiyan imperial steps came up step by step. After the final body search, they entered one by one. When they saw the civil and military personnel in the hall, they were somewhat frightened. They lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the golden steps on the opposite side. The Great Sui Emperor above.

The four stood in the middle two in front and two behind. Standing in front was Prince Murong Shun of Tuyuhun, who was in his late teens and handsome in appearance. Next to him was King Qu Boya of Gaochang. He was tall and thin with a typical face of people from the Western Regions. One is the Turkic envoy, and the Yiwu envoy.

After standing still, they heard the eunuch salute loudly, and the four of them used the etiquette of their respective countries to bow to Yang Guang who was on the dragon chair, or kneel on one knee, or put one hand on his chest and bowed.

"I will pay my respects to the emperor of Shangguo!"

"Get up and talk."

Hearing the voice from the emperor above, the envoys of the four kingdoms dared to stand up, and occasionally raised their faces to look at the past, and went up a few golden steps, sitting on the dragon chair, wearing a crown and wearing a golden dragon robe. On one side, there was an old man holding a sword and wearing an official robe standing with his beard, looking at them with interest.

"Murong Shun, is your father Busabo Khan alright?"

After the other party finished the ceremony, Yang Guang started a conversation, first looking at Prince Tuyuhun, who quickly cupped his hands and lowered his face slightly: "Report to the Son of Heaven, Father is in good health, and Princess Guanghua is also doing well."

This prince named Murong Shun was soft-spoken, and he didn't need to ask the emperor about the clan woman who married Tuyuhun Khan in his early years to speak first, but he won some favors from the civil and military people in the palace.

"Princess Guanghua is doing well, so I am relieved."

After finishing the gift list over there, Yang Guang replied with a smile. He took the gift list and looked at it, with a wider smile on his face, "Tuyuhun is richer than I thought. The gift on it should come from a foreign country farther away, right? There are so many good things .”

Then he handed it over to Yang Su, Duke of Yue who was beside him, and added.

"I'm afraid it's richer than my Chang'an."

After the last sentence, the entire hall could hear the breathing of civil and military officials below, and Murong Shun's face turned pale immediately, and he quickly knelt down and cupped his hands.

"Your Majesty, what is owned by Tuyuhun is what is owned by Shang Kingdom, a country of brothers, regardless of each other."

Being in the Sui Dynasty and being a prince, it is natural to save his life first, what he said is not important anymore, who knows if the Sui emperor in front of him will be dragged out and beheaded because of his dislike.

"Get up, I'm just talking casually, don't take it seriously."

Yang Guang grinned, raised his hand with a smile, and asked the other party to stand up. He has been on the throne for two years, and he is very good at one of the emperor's moody tricks, which is difficult to figure out.

"It's not easy for the four envoys to come to our Sui Dynasty from afar. I am very satisfied with the tribute gifts, so I will hold a banquet with all the civil and military officials in this Daxing Hall. The four envoys should not shirk, this is the etiquette of our Sui country."

"Your Majesty invites you, so naturally you won't shirk."

King Gaochang showed joy on his face, and he bowed to worship. Behind him, the Turkic and Yiwu envoys looked at each other sideways, and one of them nodded slightly. The small country of Xiabang has admired the culture of the Central Plains for a long time, and specially prepared another gift."

"Oh?" Yang Guang smiled, exchanged a glance with the old man standing beside him, and raised his cuffs: "Then present it here for me to see."

"Your Majesty, this gift is nothing but a small country trick."

The Yiwu envoy bowed his head and said softly, and heard the emperor of Sui above say, "Then I want to take a closer look." ' Then he bowed and saluted, stepped back a few steps, stood up straight facing the palace gate, and stretched out his hands to clap.

clap~~

In an instant, a Yiwu attendant respectfully held the gilded copper lock box, crossed the threshold, and under the watchful eyes of the guard, walked to the side of the four, carefully put the copper lock box on the ground, opened the copper lock on the cover, and He got up and went straight back to the outside of the palace gate.

"The gift you said is in the box?" Yang Guang leaned back and narrowed his eyes.

After finishing speaking, the guards on the left and right sides of the main hall came over quickly with swords and armor leaves on their bodies, all shaking with a 'boom boom', surrounding the Longting, forming a human wall.

The Yiwu envoy arched his hands and bowed upwards.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

On the clean floor of the main hall, the gilded wooden box with the copper lock suddenly creaked softly. Yang Guang, who was leaning back, leaned forward a little, staring at the lid that was slightly opened with a gap. Curiously, he tilted his head and cast his eyes on the box on the ground.

The next moment, there was another squeak.

Suddenly a very small black shadow protruded from the gap of the slightly opened box lid. Yang Guang looked carefully and found that it was a human arm with white and slender skin, like a thin thread rubbing against it.

"Is this a little man?" The emperor became interested. He had seen Jiaolong before, and he had seen a lot of magic spells among cultivators. Seeing the slender arms stretched out, it was not difficult to guess how small that man was.

Next to him, Yang Su, Duke of Yue, was also a little surprised, pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it may also be Renzhi."

The old man has been friends with Lu Liangsheng for many years, and he has some understanding of Renzhi. For ordinary people, as long as they are ruthless and eat it, it is a magic medicine for increasing life and curing diseases. soared.

"If this is a tribute from the small Yiwu country, I can ask for it from His Majesty in the future..."

Yang Su caressed the tip of his chin, and when he glanced at the emperor on the dragon chair beside him, a voice from the officials below exclaimed.

"Come out, you are really a little man!"

The gilt wooden box was opened, and what caught everyone's sight in the hall was a small velvet bed spread out on the bottom of the box, on which a little figure in a tulle dress lay on his side. Seeing the box open, he sat up and stretched, Stepping on the tiny embroidered shoes, he jumped out, stood on the floor, and looked around curiously.

In the Daxing Hall, Yang Guang and Yang Su also felt quite miraculous. The former got up from the dragon chair, walked up to the golden steps, and looked past the guards and landed on the little man.

"It's only the size of a thumb...heh...it's still a woman."

The little man on the ground, who was looking around, sensed the gazes around him, covered his mouth and smiled lightly, flicked his long sleeves, his body whirled and gradually rose higher in the eyes of everyone.

The loose long sleeves fluttered, and then slowly brushed down, revealing a delicate and glamorous face of a woman from the Western Regions, with bright red flame patterns dotted between her brows, her eyes are as bright as snow, revealing amorous feelings, and she climbed up her curved and slender eyebrows, her lips are slightly thick , Confiding Yinling chuckled.

In the main hall, all the civil and military personnel realized that this is the so-called 'ritual'.

Yang Guang looked at the woman who appeared suddenly, and his four eyes couldn't move away from each other. At this moment, music sounded from somewhere, and the slim figure in the hall had the unique tallness of women from the Western Regions. He twisted his waist lightly, The embroidered shoes with a velvet flower sewn on them kicked out of the skirt and turned slowly, dragging the long sleeves with both arms and whirling like blooming lotuses.

Among the dancing blue hair, her eyes revealed her charm, staring straight at the emperor standing on the Dragon Court.

Chapter 561 Good Old Lu Liangsheng

The main hall was quiet, and it took a long time for the surrounding civil and military officials to recover from this dance.

"This...here, why did the little man suddenly become a woman again?"

"Is this woman from the Western Regions really just out of the box?"

"It's really mysterious."

"I'm afraid it's too much to give way to the national teacher."

"Hmph, with such a trivial trick, I dare to use an ax in front of the national teacher, but the national teacher is not in the court. Otherwise, this group of foreign barbarians will know what is the law of the gods."

All kinds of whispers sounded in the middle of civil and military affairs, but the woman did not dissipate, or returned to the gilt copper lock box, with a smile on her lips, stretched out her hand to stroke her hair, listening to all kinds of words around her, suddenly raised her long hair Sleeves, red lips pursed and blown into the palm, the air suddenly floated and flapped wings, forming countless colorful butterflies, flying in the hall one after another.

Some of the guards in front of the golden steps flapped their wings and landed on Yang Guang, who was standing still in front of the dragon chair. The latter reached out to pick him up, and Yang Su's voice suddenly yelled, "Presumptuous—"

Clang!

Jin Ming made a big move, and pulled out the scabbard with a flash of cold light. Before Yang Guang could react, he felt a silver light flash across his vision. The butterfly that landed on his fingertips instantly separated its wings and body, and broke into two pieces. Cut, turned into smoke and drifted away.

"He even dares to show off his small skills in the Golden Palace, and he doesn't know how to live or die."

Yang Su swung the dharma sword slanted to the side, walked to the side of the emperor, looked serious, and paused: "Left and right, take it down for me, and put it in the prison. If you dare to resist, I will kill you with one sword!"

The old man's voice was majestic, and the window frames around the trembling hall were buzzing. At this time, the guards in the hall heard the words and drew out their sabers one after another. The soldier who came over knelt down on the ground trembling.

"slow!"

On the golden steps, Yang Guang raised his hand to let the rushing soldiers retreat, and looked at Yang Su with a smile, "Mr. Yue, don't get angry. This is a trick. I think it's not bad, so don't embarrass a woman. Wouldn't it be detrimental to my Da Sui's reputation if I said it out?"

On such an occasion, the old man knew that he could not reason with the emperor as usual, so he cast a sharp glance at the woman from the Western Regions below, and put his sword back into its sheath.

"Your Majesty is young, and I don't want to hurt your life. If you dare to tease Your Majesty next time, I will definitely kill you."

Yang Guang's eyelids twitched, and he didn't dare to go to the old man's side. With a smile on his face, he went back to the dragon chair and sat down, looking at the Yiwu envoy.

"Hehe, is this a small gift from you guys? It's really interesting, I accept it."

At this time, among civil and military affairs, Min Changwen pursed his lips, walked out anyway, stood to the side of the aisle, and bowed his hands: "Your Majesty, it is better not to bring women from the Western Regions into the harem."

Hahaha--

The emperor laughed suddenly from the dragon chair above, making Min Changwen choked up all the words he had prepared in his heart. He was stunned for a moment, and then Yang Guang waved his hand: "Min Shilang is worrying too much, this is just a joke."

Then, looking at the woman from the Western Regions, she paused and spoke again.

"I never thought that I could accept a country's national teacher as a harem beauty, girl, do you think so?"

"what?"

This time, civil and military affairs exploded. They knew about the envoys, but they didn't have more detailed information like Yang Guang. When they heard about the little person who was the size of a thumb, he turned into a woman from the Western Regions in a blink of an eye. National Teacher Yiwu couldn't help frowning.

"Isn't it embarrassing for the majestic teacher of a country to do this?"

"...In my opinion, it's shameful for Yiwu to let a woman be a national teacher."

"Don't talk about it, I don't think it's wrong for a woman to be a teacher of the state. It's only a matter of talent. How can it be judged by gender. Maybe the Western Regions think it is reasonable."

Over there, the woman raised her face, stepped back slowly with her bare feet, and grabbed the long-sleeved and hooded body that was dragging on the ground. In the blink of an eye, the tulle dress turned into a wine-red robe, with silver ornaments and agate hanging on it. Embellishment, walking with bare feet evokes the beauty of reaching out, the veil flutters, and the woman bows profusely in Chinese with her red lips hooked.

"Ibti Haji, I greet Your Majesty."

"Get up."

Yang Guang looked at the sudden change of beauty from the Western Regions for a moment, calmed down, and took a deep breath, as if to get rid of the charming eyes and red lips of this woman in his mind, and cast his eyes on the envoys of Turkic, Gaochang, and Tuyuhun.

"The national teachers of your three families should also call out together."

Qu Boya, king of Gaochang who was sandwiched between Turkic, Tuyuhun, and Yiwu, looked around and hurried out.

"Your Majesty, Gaochang does not have a national teacher, and will not bring it."

It seems that there is no one mind, Yang Guang stroked the armrest, nodded: "Well, it seems that the Gaochang Kingdom is small and weak, I will take care of you more."

The remaining Turkic envoys and Murong Shun from Tuyuhun lowered their heads, before they could speak, a gust of wind blew up outside the hall.

"Hahaha, Tuyuhun Buddha Lianzun, pay homage to the Emperor of Sui Kingdom!"

At the entrance of the hall, an old monk without a beard, wearing a khaki monk robe, hanging Buddhist beads, walked in like that with a cane, two or three steps beside him, there was a thick man with disheveled hair, between the leather jacket, there were a lot of hangings. Bottles with talismans.

Seeing Yang Guang in the Dragon Court, he snorted coldly, just raised his hand casually, and turned his face away.

"The Turkic White Wolf God Religion, Anashi has met the emperor of Shangguo."

"Bold!"

"The barbarians in the north dare to be presumptuous!"

Seeing this, the surrounding civil and military officers rolled up their sleeves and scolded, as if they were about to go up and teach the barbarian in front of him. Anashi glanced sideways, as if he was too lazy to look, and looked at the top of the golden steps.

"I heard that your country's national master has profound magic power. I just want to learn it when I come here. If it's not there, it's okay. I heard that your grand master is also very powerful."

Hearing these words, not only Yang Guang, but also Yang Su who stood beside him holding a sword couldn't help laughing, "Your Majesty, just let him do as he wishes."

The emperor held back his smile, and raised his hand to summon an eunuch.

"Go tell Grand Master Yu Wentuo to come to Daxing Palace."

"Yes!"

The eunuch who was waiting at the bottom of the golden steps bowed and said, just turned around and took two steps, when a voice sounded outside the hall.

"What is His Majesty calling Tuo for?!"

A figure dragged a cloak and stepped up the Baiyan imperial steps, holding the Xuanyuan sword in his hand, and crossed the threshold, the divine power seeped out of the armor, Anashi's face suddenly became dignified, and the eyelids of Tuyuhun Guoshi beside him trembled. Glancing at the broad sword in the opponent's hand, he turned around and bowed his head towards Longting vertical seal.

"I would like to report to the emperor of Shangguo, I didn't come here to fight, but I just wanted to compare my practice with your country's master."

Yu Wentuo picked up the Xuanyuan Sword, put it under his arm, looked at the three Fanbang national masters with both arms green, and snorted coldly, "Even I dare not, so you are worthy?"

...However, the Turkic national teacher has a somewhat familiar aura...

It is very similar to the Turkic high priest who was beheaded by me three years ago. Could it be that the two came from the same school?Is this for revenge?

Listening to the emperor talking to the old monk on crutches, an old man in a white robe and green shirt slowly walked up outside the temple gate.

"Tell you not to go so fast, so what if I wait, it's not about going to have breakfast, where is it all?"

The old man's voice spread suddenly, Buddha Lianzun who was talking to the Emperor of Sui over there glanced back, the old man came with his hands behind his back, his temples were like snow, his pale eyes were unblinking, and he was looking straight ahead , walked to the gate of the palace, raised his foot casually and stepped over.

Buddha Lianzun was a little surprised, the other party gave him the feeling that he had returned to his original nature, after all, who could appear in the palace, how could it be an ordinary person?Looking at his age, could it be... this old man is the Sui State Teacher?

The old monk glanced at Yu Wentuo, who was reaching out to help the old man, and he was more sure of the other party's identity in his heart. A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he stepped forward leaning on a cane.

"Amitabha, this seat is good at the way of enlightenment, and I can also spread beans into soldiers. I just want to compare with Your Excellency."

After the words fell, he quickly added another sentence.

"It's not like fighting, it's just showing magic powers."

Is this talking to the old man?