The five-person consul accompanied Nan Wan'er to the corridor on the first floor of the Senate, and the chief secretary and the chief treasurer followed, standing on both sides of the five-person consul.

The five people in power and Nan Wan'er gave in for a while, and finally Nan Wan'er helplessly stood in the middle with Lord Nezhiyue according to the opinions of the five people, and the others stood on either side of them, and after forming a formation, the eight people walked up to the wide terrace on the first floor of the Senate together, greeting the countless onlookers around the square.

The highlanders around the square saw them walk up to the high terrace, and burst into deafening cheers and shouts, and the five consuls, the chief priest, and the chief treasurer stepped forward to wave to the onlookers.

Only Nan Wan'er stood there dignified and virtuous, talking to the ruling lord beside her in a low voice from time to time.

When the five rulers come forward to wave to the onlookers, there will always be one person to accompany Nan Wan'er to stand in place to avoid being rude by leaving her alone.

The commander-in-chief of the Praetorian Guard, Xi Tuxiao, ran up the steps quickly at this time, and said loudly: "The ceremony of entering the city of the Prairie Mission is about to begin, please instruct your lords." ”

After a symbolic exchange of glances with the other four adults, Lord Nenokoshi said in a low voice, "Begin." ”

Situxiao shouted, "Yes." ”

Then he turned and trotted back to the edge of the square, and shouted to the Praetorian heralds who were waiting there: "The five-member ruling committee of the Senate of the Highlanders is on the orders of the high priest to welcome the steppe mission into the city. ”

The herald immediately replied in a loud voice: "I will obey this order." ”

Then he turned around and blew the horn in the direction of the east gate of Haotian City, and after a while, the horn sounded one after another from near to far.

The five-person archdeacon of the consul hall was led by She, guiding the elders and tribal elders to the square, and stood in front of the stairs of the senate in the order of the tribal elders in front and the senators in the back.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of Xituxiao came to the five-man government again, and he reported loudly: "The Western Mu Ji Cheng of the Central Plains Empire has arrived. ”

Na Zhiyue said: "Please." ”

Xituxiao turned around and shouted loudly: "Please invite the Western Mu Ji of the Central Plains Empire to become an earl." ”

According to the practice of dividing the titles of the royal family of the Central Plains Empire, the three generations of blood relatives of the royal family can be crowned dukes and lower than the emperor's titles in the genealogy;

He usually doesn't mention his title at all, which is the subtlety of his personality, and Ji Buyun was embarrassed to let him serve him, if he knew his identity as an earl, he would be even more embarrassed.

Now that he had come to participate in the ceremony of welcoming the steppe envoys of the highlanders on behalf of the Central Plains Empire, he naturally wanted to show his status as an earl.

After a while, Ji Cheng accompanied by a deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard to the steps of the Senate, and after exchanging greetings with him, the five consuls invited him to wait for the steppe mission on the steps.

It was about the face of the Central Plains Empire, and Ji Cheng did not shirk, walked up the steps, and stood beside Lord Buyun.

Nan Wan'er first glanced at Ji Cheng, and then smiled and arched her hand: "It turns out that Steward Ji is still the Western Shepherd of the Central Plains Empire, and he also has the status of an earl, and he has offended Wan Wanghaihan in the past, but I don't know who has a higher title between you and the little brother." ”

Ji Cheng hurriedly bowed his hand and saluted: "The princess is polite, the prince is a royal noble, the title is supreme, Ji Cheng is a little earl, how dare he compare with the prince." ”

The five people in power are all the best among the people, and when they listen to the string song and know the meaning of elegance, they immediately understand the meaning of Nan Wan'er's words.

Especially Lord Nezhiyue, the sweat on his face is about to come down, although Ji Buyun is the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard among the highlanders, and his position is not prominent, but he is also the son of the emperor of the Central Plains Empire himself, and he is a royal blood relative with the right to inherit the throne, in terms of dignity and humility, he has more power to represent the Central Plains Empire, and more importantly, he is also the chosen companion of the high priest, which is a key position that can directly determine the future of your lords, how dare you forget him?

By the way, there are also jade priests.

Lord Nezhiyue and Lord Buyun exchanged glances without a trace, and Lord Buyun said to Lord Nezhiyue: "The grassland mission is about to arrive, can you go and invite Gongzi Ji and the priest to offer jade?"

Nezhiyue-sama: "Well, it's okay, it's up to Lord Ben to invite it!"

Lord Buyun said: "There is Lord Raune." ”

"It is our duty to serve the High Priest. ”

These few words of the two of them, a scene is very good, it seems that they specially arranged to invite Ji Buyun and the jade priest to come out at the end, in order to show the dignity of the two, although there is a suspicion of neglecting Nan Wan'er here, Ji Buyun's high priest's chosen companion and the identity of the royal son of the Central Plains Empire are there, and she can't find anything.

Lord Nezhiyue took Yu Shi and Xi Tuxiao to the terrace on the first floor, and respectfully invited Ji Buyun and the jade priest to the foyer to watch the ceremony.

The jade priest didn't say anything, and Ji Buyun said in fear: "My lord, I'm just the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, and it's really inappropriate to stand in that position." ”

Nezhiyue is humane: "Everyone knows that Gongzi is usually humble, but today's situation is special, don't talk about you." He pointed to the west, paused, and continued: "Just by virtue of Gongzi's status as a royal nobleman of the Central Plains Empire, if you don't go on stage to watch the ceremony, people should say that we highlanders don't know etiquette too much. ”

After speaking, he dragged Ji Buyun downstairs, Ji Buyun couldn't resist, so he had to follow him to the stairs in front of the Senate.

Ji Cheng saw Ji Buyun coming down, hurriedly greeted him, and bowed according to royal etiquette, Ji Buyun knew that he intended to do so, so he had to go with him.

The seven adults all knew that this was the etiquette of respect and humility under the Central Plains Empire, and they didn't care about it, what should they do, only Nan Wan'er was watching it seriously, her big eyes were turning around, and she didn't know what the hell she was thinking.

The patriarchs and tribal elders under the steps are all human spirits, and they have long heard Ji Buyun's identity as the prince of the Central Plains Empire, otherwise, they are not worthy of the noble highland people's priests, and they all pretend not to see it.

The crowd of onlookers around the square was surprised to see a high-ranking official in the costume of the Central Plains Empire on the stairs of the Senate kneeling to a person in Praetorian Guard costume, and they were very surprised and began to discuss.

There are quite a few people in Haotian City who know Ji Buyun, and some of them know the deceased, and they said to the onlookers around them: "Do you see? Do you see? The Praetorian Guard worshiped by the officials of the Central Plains Empire is the chosen companion of the noble high priest, and the most handsome Praetorian Guard of our highlanders in the past three hundred years. ”

"Oh, is that the half-breed Praetorian Guard? handsome. ”

The person who said this was more than a hundred zhang away from Ji Buyun, and I don't know if he was born farsighted or had any special skills, anyway, he could see Ji Buyun's appearance from afar.

"What do you know? He also has an identity, he is the son of the emperor of the Central Plains Empire himself. ”

"He's a royal son, why is he wearing a Praetorian Guard uniform?"

"He is the nephew of Lord Buyun, he grew up among our highlanders since he was a child, and I heard that he gave up a county in the Central Plains Empire for the sake of the high priest. ”

"Big brother, big brother, what is Caiyi?" asked a lonely and unheard person.

"Caiyi is his fief, and the emperor gave him all the things in that county, including the common people, and everything in that county, including the common people, belongs to him alone. ”

"Big brother, how big is a county?"

"It's hard to say how big it is, it's equivalent to five or six of us. ”

The onlookers who didn't know the truth were in an uproar, it turned out that the status of the High Priest's Chosen Companion was so noble.

Ji Buyun originally intended to stand on the side of the big priest, but Lord Ne Zhiyue pulled him to stand beside him, and said: "The prince and the princess are the most noble among all the people present today, but Lord Ben is the master, so he has to be wronged by the two of them to accompany each other on both sides." ”

Turning to Lord Buyun, he said: "After Lord Ben goes back, he must let his family write it down on the family tree, today Lord Ben stands between the prince of the Central Plains Empire and the princess of the Elf Clan, which is the most glorious moment for our Ne clan." ”

Several adults laughed together.

Lord Wo Zhixiang, the ruling man from Worth, laughed and said, "Lord Ne, it's better to ask a painter to draw this scene and hang it at home as an heirloom." ”

Several adults laughed together again.

This Lord Wo Zhixiang is the uncle of the high priest, and he is usually the most low-key, but he has the best popularity.

At this time, the sound of trumpets came from far to near, which meant that the grassland mission had officially begun to enter the city.

Lord Ne Zhiyue introduced to Ji Buyun and Nan Wan'er in a low voice that the mission jointly sent by the nine barbarians of the grassland this time was led by the great wizard of the grassland and the princesses of Tuoba and Tuiqi, and the other tribes also sent the children of the close branches of the royal family.

The steppe sorcerers, who served as the head of the mission, had a similar status among the steppe barbarians as the highlander high priests, independent of the nine tribes, and in charge of rituals, but they worshipped many gods, unlike the highlanders who only believed in Haotian.

The nine barbarians of the grassland implement the alliance system, each of which takes turns to serve as the leader of the alliance for three years, and now the leader of the alliance is the Tuoba Department, this time they sent the eldest princess Tuoba Shuang as the overseer of the mission, and has the final decision on all matters of the mission.

The princess and the prince in the barbarian tribe are equal in power, it is said that the eldest princess of Tuoba can be good at making decisions and brave people, and she is the best choice for the leader of the Tuoba Department.

The territory of the Raider Department is close to Shan Fox Mountain, and the war with the demons is dominated by them, and they sent the little princess Turf Ling, who is also a woman who does not let her eyebrows go, and can fight well, she serves as the deputy head of the mission.

Nan Wan'er squeezed her eyes at Ji Buyun and asked Lord Na Zhiyue, "I heard that you are about to hold a plenary meeting of the Senate, is it a coincidence that their mission arrived at this time?"

Lord Nenoyue snorted and said, "It should be intentional." ”

The five of them decided to convene a plenary meeting of the Senate more than two months ago, and the Nuomin River, where the Prairie Barbarian Alliance is located, is more than 5,000 miles away from Haotian City, if it is decided to send a delegation to Haotian City after hearing the news, it will take four months at the earliest, and they arrived in such a short time and said that it was not communicated with Lord Ao Zhiwu in advance, I am afraid that fools will not believe it.

Ji Cheng leaned over to Ji Buyun at this time and whispered: "Childe, this Tuoba eldest princess once led the army to confront Ji Heng, the god of war, seven battles on the grassland, only she led the army twice and did not wipe out the whole army, I heard that she also fought with the god of war on the battlefield, the barbarians do not judge heroes by success or failure, after the war, the nine departments recognized her as an unborn general, but unfortunately, I met the god of war." ”

Ji Buyun snorted, looked up at the crowd of onlookers, and he clearly saw the ants sitting by the window on the second floor of the restaurant opposite, and the brothers Ji Meng and Ji Fan were standing next to him.

Ji Cheng attached to Ji Buyun's ear and said: "Childe, the god of war retired to the forest because of her, after the battle of the grassland, someone attacked the god of war and said that he deliberately relaxed the conditions of the armistice to the barbarians because of his unclear relationship with this eldest princess. ”

Ji Buyun hummed again, and Ji Cheng retreated very consciously.

Nan Wan'er followed, whispered a few words in Ji Cheng's ear, and Ji Cheng nodded again and again.

Xitu Xiao whispered in his ear behind Lord Nezhiyue, and Lord Nezhiyue nodded in agreement.

Xitu Xiao stood on the stairs and waved his hand down, Ao Xian appeared from nowhere, and he and Qi Seventeen first commanded the Praetorian Guard with twenty rune weapon battle formations and quickly laid a formation around the patriarch and tribal elders.

Then Situxiao personally led the Praetorian Guards of ten battle formations to set up a position in the key points inside the Senate.

Ji Buyun knew that this was the last routine post of the Praetorian Guards during major events, but he didn't know when they were connected with Qi Qi, thinking that Ao Xian saw that the prince of the Wind God Temple was doing nothing in the Senate, so he was temporarily arrested.

The patriarch and tribal elders couldn't help but look suspicious when they saw the last Praetorian Guards with their bare hands, and at this time, a well-informed person pointed to Guide Wan'er, and then pointed to the golden decorations on the arms of the Praetorian Guards, and quietly told their colleagues that it was the legendary powerful runic weapon, which was given to Ji Gongzi by the elf princess.

On the main road leading from the square to the east gate of Haotian City, the figure of the Praetorian Guard as the lead finally appeared.

At this time, Lord Nezhiyue explained to Ji Buyun and Nan Wan'er that the reason why the entrance ceremony of the steppe barbarian mission was held in the senate instead of at the city gate was because the most honorable archsorman in the mission was only the spiritual leader of the barbarians, and his status was lower than that of the high priest who was about to ascend the throne as king.

After the three hundred blue-robed leading Praetorian Guards entered the square in a neat manner, they automatically divided into two columns along the central axis of the Senate steps and turned into alert mode.

After leading the Praetorian Guard, a thousand ceremonial standing troops, wearing helmets decorated with black feathers on their heads, dressed in black standing army robes, and carrying the famous highland spears on their shoulders, marched in orderly steps to the edge of the square, and then were guided by the Janissaries to form a formation of ten centurians on the outside of the square.

In order to prevent the armed intervention of the standing army, the highlanders had strict regulations on the stationing and opening of the standing army, and the standing army could only be stationed in the specified area, and the standing army was not allowed to enter Haotian City, and the standing army serving as ceremonial troops was not allowed to enter the Senate Square.

After the 100 members of the standing army were arrayed, there was another sound of horns from far to near, and this time the horn sound was particularly long and long.

With the sound of the horn, Lord Ao Zhiwu accompanied the grassland delegation to officially arrive at the Senate Square.

At the front were thirty-six barbarian knights, all white horses dressed in silver armor, followed by eighteen black horses, all dressed in black robes, black cloaks embroidered with white wizard motifs, and bronze masks.

The knights divided into two columns in front of the square, and then, Lord Ao Zhiwu accompanied an old man in black robes to appear at the edge of the square, they were surrounded by their respective retinues, behind them were two golden horses and high-covered carriages, each with more than a dozen maids riding horses to accompany them, and then behind, hundreds of lightly armed guards, and finally hundreds of horses of various colors, but there were only a few dozen passengers on the horses.

A knowledgeable bystander pointed out that the horses were the horses of these people's transfers.

The five-person archdeacon of the Consulate by the commander-in-chief of the Shehe Praetorian Guard, Xi Tuxiao, was at the edge of the square to greet him, Lord Ao Zhiwu and the black-robed old man dismounted at the edge of the Senate Square first, and the highlanders strictly forbade anyone to ride a horse in the Senate Square, although the Grand Wizard of the Prairie had a noble status, this rule still had to be observed.

The carriage also stopped at the edge of the square, and two women came down from the carriage, the middle-aged man was graceful, dressed in a blue and white close-fitting robe, with a golden belt around his waist, and a white felt hat;

Ji Buyun noticed that the middle-aged woman inadvertently turned around and glanced at the wine shop on the street in the distance when she got out of the car.

The three of them, accompanied by Lord Ao Zhiwu, first exchanged greetings with Yushi and Xitu Xiao, and then walked towards the foyer of the Senate together, accompanied by the two.

The Praetorian Guard, who was in charge of the guidance, came and quickly left with a group of lightly armed guards and transfer horses.

At this time, all the Praetorian Guards in the square shouted in unison under the signal of Xituxiao: "The five-member ruling committee of the Highlander Senate is ordered by the High Priest to welcome the Prairie Mission to Haotian City. ”

shouted more than a dozen times in a row, and the sound shook the world.

Nan Wan'er secretly glanced at Ji Buyun, and said to Lord Ne Zhiyue: "My lord, you can introduce Ji Gongzi first when I meet with them later!"

Lord Ne said in a low voice: "The princess is a distinguished guest from Haotian Tongtianyuan, and she should introduce the princess first." ”

Nan Wan'er said with a straight face: "There are not so many rules, people are just trade envoys, and Ji Gongzi has another important identity! ”

At this time, Lord Ao Zhiwu accompanied the three envoys to the foot of the steps of the Senate accompanied by She, Xitu Xiao, he walked up a few steps and said loudly: "Ao Zhiwu, the commander of the standing army of the Highlanders, accompanied the great wizard of the grassland, the eldest princess of Tuoba, and the little princess of the Turkey Cavalry to meet the five ruling lords of the Senate of the Highlanders. ”

Lord Nezhiyue also said in a loud voice: "On the orders of the Great Priest of the Highlands, please." ”

The dialogue between the two men made clear the basic ceremonial position, that if the highlanders were mainly governed by five, and the five lords, as equal masters, should go down the steps to greet the three messengers, but now the five rulers were ordered by the high priest to greet the three messengers on behalf of the most honorable person of the highlanders, then there was no need to go down the steps to greet them.

Lord Ao Zhiwu is also a time-tested old fritter, this difference does not need to be considered, he reacted immediately, he turned back to the three messengers and said, "Please." ”

The three envoys exchanged glances, the great wizard in front, the two princesses in the back, and the three of them slowly climbed the stairs and slowly walked up.

The crowd erupted in deafening shouts.