Zhaoyang Palace, the imperial city of the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

After consulting with the courtiers, the empress decided to entertain the envoys of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Zhaoyang Palace.

Outside the hall, the herald summoned the inner officials loudly:

"The envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty has arrived!"

Looking at the formation, it seems that the courtiers of Northern Qi have been waiting for a long time!

I smiled slightly, looked at Yao Zhen beside me, the look on Yao Chen's face also changed a few times, and he didn't say anything more, since the mission of sending me to the imperial city has also been completed, After fighting with me, he turned around respectfully and said goodbye.

Seeing Yao Chen's figure gradually drift away, my gaze suddenly became deeper, and then I glanced at Mei who was not three steps away from me behind me, and Mei bowed her head slightly to indicate that she was ready.

I didn't feel it, and I felt a little more confident in my heart, tidied up my clothes a little, and followed the internal officials to the palace.

When I arrived at Zhaoyang Palace, I didn't feel a little relieved to see the welcome etiquette and reception banquet that had been arranged, at least the other party also had the intention of negotiating, everything depends on this banquet, whether the two sides can negotiate the conditions proposed by each other.

However, here's the problem, there should be more than one group of people who want to negotiate terms with me, right?!

When I entered the main hall, there were more than a dozen officials of the third rank and above who got up and came to greet me, and the expressions on everyone's faces when they saw me were also very different, some happy, some flattering, and some resentful......

"I'll wait for you for a long time, so please make you!"

"Thank you!"

No matter who I was, I had an indifferent smile on my face, and I bowed my head slightly to express my gratitude in the face of everyone's hospitality.

In the midst of this compliment and laughter, someone extradited me to meet the rumored prince of Northern Qi, who is now the regent of Northern Qi Yuwenzhen, who is now appointed in danger!

Now that King Gong Yuwen Zhen is the regent and acts as the king's order, he has absolutely no reason to take the initiative to stand up and salute me, a foreign envoy, so naturally I have to take the initiative to meet him.

Carefully glanced at this carefree prince, although this person is too old to be confused, good and prime, but his temples are white, and his eyebrows and eyes are full of vicissitudes, but his eyes are very sharp and sharp, which is commendable!

That's right, since ancient times, he has been accompanied by a tiger like a tiger, not to mention that he is still accompanied by a crazy man-eating tiger, and it is already very difficult to survive by the side of this man-eating tiger.

Seeing that the regent was also looking at me, I did not hurry up and bowed, and said:

"Gao Chen, the envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty, came to envoy to the Northern Qi Dynasty in the name of our monarch with the "Book of Peace", and met the lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty according to the courtesy!"

Gong Wang Yuwen returned the salute and made a letter of invitation, and there was a bit of royal majesty in his tone, and said:

"Don't be in a hurry, make you work hard all the way, please sit down first, this prince will wash the dust for the king!"

I looked up and smiled, and then said:

"Then Gao Chen might as well obey his fate!"

After speaking, together with the courtiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty, they divided the host and guest guests and sat down.

After Yuwen Zhen high-fived three times, there was the music of silk and bamboo in the hall, and in just a moment, the palace dancers jumped in, all of them were graceful, dancing with long sleeves in their hands, dancing, fascinating.

Although the singing and dancing in front of him is leveling, everyone here has not put their minds on this moving song and dance, and seems to be looking forward to what will happen next in this so-called "peace negotiation" between the two countries.

Carefully handed the rune to the charm behind him, looked back at the rich things on the table in front of him, and looked up at the courtiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty who were feasting and drinking with different expressions around me, I secretly thought about how to start with these words, but I didn't want to Gong Wang Yuwen Zhen to speak first, I saw him raise his glass elegantly, look at me with a smile, and said:

"The king was entrusted with a heavy task by the monarch at such a young age, it is conceivable that the future is unlimited, this king first respects the king a cup, in order to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, please!"

I smiled, and then I returned the salute with a bottle, saying:

"The regent is polite, Gao Chen is flattered, please!"

After speaking, he raised his head and drank it all in the cup, and Yuwen Zhen couldn't help but smile with satisfaction when he saw this.

Since the regent has opened, how can these courtiers fall, this cup has just fallen, and the courtiers have raised their glasses and said in unison:

"We also salute you, please!"

The smile on my face did not change, and after the attendant filled the wine glass, I raised my glass and toasted you in return, saying:

"You're welcome, please!"

Just like this, you come and go, and three glasses of wine will be eaten.

The ministers saw that since the foreplay had been done enough, it was time to get to the point.

During the banquet, some of the Northern Qi courtiers looked at each other without moving, and then someone took the initiative to talk, smiled and said respectfully to me:

"I don't know if this banquet can make you want to make you feel good, so that if you don't dislike it, you can stay in my capital for a few more days, so that I can wait to talk about it!"

As soon as this person finished speaking, four or five people echoed him, eager to offer all the best things he had, and unabashedly flattering and respectful.

Some courtiers looked disdainful, but Gong Wang Yuwenzhen, who was sitting upright, did not say anything to reprimand such ministers who took the opportunity to flatter and invite favors, but only sneered, holding his wine glass and watching everything that happened in front of him with a playful expression......

I chuckled and said:

"Gao Chen has long heard that the prosperity of the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty is no less than that of the Southern Chen Jinling, and today he can see that it is really worthy of the name! It's a pity that Gao Chen is under the emperor's order, and he doesn't dare to slack off a little.

Hearing this, those flattering ministers hurriedly echoed it, as if they had received some kind of promise from this envoy to themselves, and their faces couldn't help but have a little infatuation and smugness.

Seeing this situation, one of the courtiers could not help but be furious, and pointed to this group of flattering ministers and said angrily:

"Hmph, is it ashamed to flatter and flatter those who invade their own land and kill their own country's soldiers and people, and to flatter and flatter, and to flatter them?

This middle-aged official named Wen Zheng looks a little upright, and just listening to his few words, he knows that he can be regarded as a bit of literati backbone, but soon, he erupted his anger at me, and said bluntly:

"Wen Zheng dared to ask the envoy, when he saw the prosperity of his neighbor, he wanted to give everything he had, and when he saw that others were rich, he wanted to take possession of his goods, this is a thief's behavior, no wonder the sage has a cloud of 'greed and stealing heart', isn't this exactly what you are talking about in the Northern Wei Dynasty and Southern Chen?"

Seeing that this person was disrespectful, I was not annoyed, and said with a smile:

"Hey, what Brother Wen said, I don't dare to agree with Gaochen. This so-called prosperity and wealth are only superficial, just like the rice warehouse full of grain, which is easy to breed the insatiable rats. I have never seen the fat and round rats in the rice barn, but how have I ever seen the hungry farmer who cried 'I have no food'?"

Listen to me pointing directly at the internal political malpractices of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the officials are insatiable, the officialdom is corrupt, the people are suffering from it, and the people are either pale or ashamed, and even Wen Zheng's face is slightly different, I turned a blind eye and continued to speak:

"What's more, if you are slow to hide and steal, and if you are careless in collecting your finances, isn't it tantamount to asking someone to steal it? If the monarch and his courtiers are law-abiding, honest and self-controlled, and effective from top to bottom, the people will also follow suit and not covet money, then the government and the opposition will certainly form a strong and righteous atmosphere, and naturally there will be no thieves running rampant. On the contrary, it is reasonable for the upper and lower levels to collude, engage in favoritism, and corruption, and this thief swarms and the wealth is coveted by others, so how can others be blamed?"

"You ......"

Wen Zheng heard my nonsense and blew his beard angrily, but he couldn't refute it, he couldn't refute it for a long time, but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal, not to blame him for being speechless, but Beiqi was not standing upright, so he would be taken advantage of, and he couldn't help but sigh and sit down!

Zhuang Hui, who was not far from Wenzheng, was unconvinced, got up and said:

"In Xia Zhuanghui, dare to ask the high envoy to teach, as the saying goes: if the name is not right, the word is not good. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the beginning of Emperor Suzong, he turned the world upside down, violated the patriarchal law, and seized the position of Zhengshuo as a concubine and established himself as the emperor, which was unkind and unjust, disloyal and unfilial!

As soon as these words came out, there was a sense of sarcasm in the hall, which was very harsh......

I was displeased, but I didn't expect that the other party had done everything he could, doing everything he could to insult people, his eyes were cold, and he said indifferently:

"Everyone knows that Emperor Suzong of the Northern Wei Dynasty was under Zen Emperor Xianwen, at that time Emperor Xianwen was still young and powerless, the internal court of the court was chaotic and unstable, and there were Turkic and Northern Qi even horizontal pressure on the border, just at the time of internal and external troubles, life and death, Emperor Suzong was ordered to be in danger at the time of the defeated army, regardless of the world's criticism, and became the emperor by Zen, and suppressed the internal strife in the DPRK and China by thunderous means to stabilize the government, and rejected the strong enemy outside the country. The commendable thing is that Emperor Suzong still treats Emperor Wen and his descendants well, and now Xiao Yan, the right minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, is the direct descendant of Emperor Xianwen, and is also respected and loved in my Northern Wei Dynasty.

"Humph!"

Listening to my clever words, Zhuang Hui smiled coldly, although he was silent on the surface, he despised me in his heart for me, but when he heard what I said, his face couldn't help but turn pale.

I could only hear my voice turn, and there was a bit of sarcasm in my words, and I continued:

"Thinking back then, my Emperor Suzong of the Northern Wei Dynasty and can treat Emperor Xianwen and his descendants well, looking at the emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty to change their course and destroy the royal family, I am afraid that the Northern Wei Dynasty will not be able to reach it!

For several generations of the Northern Qi Dynasty, there was a certain royal family member, and the defeated person could only die without a place to be buried, and the so-called lord of Zhengshuo in the Northern Qi Dynasty had already dissipated in the bloody killing of the palace and sank, and there was no way to trace it.

"Gao Chen, you ......"

Zhuang Hui was already so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't speak.

An old man took the case and angrily scolded me for being too unscrupulous, and said:

"Gao Chen, don't you want to deceive people too much, this is still above my Northern Qi court, you dare to slander my Northern Qi ancestors like this, it is really rude and arrogant, do you really think that I have no one in Northern Qi?"

I saw that this person seemed to have passed the age of the sixtieth year, with white hair and eyebrows, and an old dragon clock, so I couldn't bear to scream harshly, and hugged my fists with the courtesy of the younger generation, and said:

"Dare to ask who this old man is?"

The old man snorted coldly, bowed slightly, and then brushed his sleeves and hands, stood with his head held high, and said:

"Taichang Temple Qing returns to Qi!"

Taichang Temple Qing is in charge of the royal family sacrifice of the Taichang Temple chief, the original name is Chang Feng, and this Gui Qi is upright, attaches great importance to etiquette norms, in the Northern Qi is also quite famous, admired.

With a smile on my face, I bowed again, and hurriedly said:

"It was originally a return to the usual service, and Gao Chen was disrespectful. ”

When Gui Qi heard this, he turned his head away and ignored it.

I didn't change my countenance, and said bluntly:

"Returning to the usual Feng Gao Chen is too much to deceive people, this is a bit too much. Gao Chen's words just now were indeed a little offensive, but this was all because Brother Zhuang was offensive first, and Gao Chen was arguing with each other on the basis of reason. As the saying goes: People will humiliate themselves and others will humiliate them. Gui Chang Feng is a minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty and still knows how to maintain the reputation of the king of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so why is Gao Chen a minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

Gui Qi was surprised in his heart, this young man is still young, but he also has such courage, which is really rare.

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Recently, I have been a little restless, unable to concentrate, I feel that my heart is getting heavier, and everything is a little boring, I am really tired......

I'm sorry, dear ones~