Chapter 52: Three Questions from the Summer Breeze
In a majestic and magnificent hall, hundreds of officials appeared in their positions in turn, but there was a person on the dragon chair with a frown.
And none of the officials spoke, and the atmosphere in the entire Taihe Hall became very weird, the emperor did not speak, and so did the ministers.
"Gonggong Cao, the envoy of the Xuanxia Dynasty." Emperor Lu Hua'an, who was on the dragon chair, knew that they had no countermeasures now, so they could only let the envoys of the Xia Dynasty enter the Taihe Palace.
"Xuanxia Dynasty envoy Xia Feng is here!"
"Xuanxia Dynasty envoy Xia Feng is here!"
As Gonggong Cao's words fell, there were echoes in the entire Taihe Hall and outside the Taihe Palace, but it was not the voice of Gonggong Cao alone, but the voices of other eunuchs.
When Emperor Lu Hua'an announced the Xia Dynasty's pilgrimage, all the ministers were waiting, and they also wanted to see Xia Feng, the envoy of the Xia Dynasty, the second prince of the Xia Dynasty.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no envoy from the Xia Dynasty, and everyone knew that this was the Xia Dynasty giving the Qingyu Dynasty a dismount, but this time the Ma Wei was afraid that they were wrong, and Emperor Lu Huaan was not a soft persimmon.
After waiting for a while, he still didn't see the envoy of the Xia Dynasty, even Lu Jiuyuan frowned a little, since the emperor Lu Hua'an asked the ministers to go to the court to receive the envoy, then he must have received a message from the envoy, and then the Xia Dynasty did so, but he lost his trust.
"Since the Xia Dynasty does not give me face, Gonggong Cao retreats from the dynasty." Emperor Lu Hua'an saw that the envoy of the Xia Dynasty had not come for so long, so he announced his retreat from the dynasty, anyway, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
"The envoy of the Xia Dynasty has arrived."
"Your Majesty" When Cao Gongcheng was about to announce his retirement from the dynasty, there was a message outside the palace that the envoy of the Xia Dynasty had arrived.
"Retreat." Emperor Lu Hua'an was in full swing, how could he listen to it.
"Your Majesty, no!" The two prime ministers and the newly appointed Shangshu Guo Jia of the Criminal Department came out to stop them, and the other ministers still did not change at all.
"Your Majesty, the Xia Dynasty is deliberately angry with Your Majesty, and it is to make Your Majesty rude." The prime minister glanced at each other, and then said by the right minister Zhao Jiulong.
"Etiquette? Isn't it a rude act of the Xia Dynasty? Do I want to wait for him personally for an envoy in this Taihe Palace, don't I want to lose my face? ”
Hearing this, Zhao Jiulong looked at Li Nan and Guo Jia, the envoy of the Xia Dynasty had indeed gone too far, after all, the identity of Emperor Lu Hua'an was much higher than that of an envoy.
"Why don't Your Majesty make an edict declaring that the envoys of the Xia Dynasty have violated imperial etiquette, and then secretly send someone to add some words, it is best to pass it on to the border pass in the south." Guo Jia saw that Li Nan and Zhao Jiulong didn't have any good opinions, so he said his thoughts.
"Wonderful, Gonggong Cao immediately made an order according to what Guo Shangshu said."
Hearing Guo Jia's words, Emperor Lu Hua'an was very surprised, and after a long time, his anger dissipated a lot, if it was according to Guo Jia's words, even if the Qingyu Dynasty lost in the later competition, there was an argument, and the Xia Dynasty did not understand etiquette, for outsiders, even if they won the competition, they would not feel that they had won glory.
"The old slave obeys." Gonggong Cao immediately went to draft the decree, he knew what kind of result the emperor wanted to see.
And the two prime ministers looked at Guo Jia with strange eyes, with Guo Jia's calmness and wisdom to become a secretary of the criminal department, I don't know if it is a bit overkill, even the emperor Lu Huaan feels the same, but the emperor has no way to let Guo Jia be the prime minister.
Even if the emperor asks Guo Jia to be the third prime minister, it depends on whether Guo Jia has more great merits, and he can't think that Guo Jia's talent is excellent just because of this matter.
Different from the thoughts of the minister and the emperor Lu Hua'an, Lu Jiuyuan thought that this trick could be described as killing people, and one of the purposes of the envoys of the Xia Dynasty was to compete in culture.
After Emperor Lu Hua'an issued an order, everyone now saw how bold the envoy of the Xia Dynasty dared to do so, I am afraid that they did not take the Qingyu Dynasty in their eyes.
Although the Taihe Palace has the rules of the Taihe Palace, all the ministers can't help but look at the gate of the Taihe Palace, look at Xia Feng, the envoy of the Xia Dynasty, and see how good he is to dare to do this.
Soon I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy wearing a brocade official uniform, revealing an indescribable aura all over his body, like an abyss, this abyss was different from Lu Jiuyuan, and there seemed to be an evil feeling.
This person is Xia Feng, the envoy of the Xia Dynasty, Xia Feng is quite satisfied when he looks at the courtiers of the Qingyu Dynasty and the emperor on the dragon chair.
If Emperor Lu Huaan left in anger, he would have a reason to attack the Qingyu Dynasty, and if Emperor Lu Huaan did not get angry at the court but waited for him, then there are only two possibilities, one is that Lu Huaan is calm, and the other is that Emperor Lu Huaan is incompetent, but obviously it cannot be the second one.
"Xia Feng, the envoy of the foreign minister, greets Your Majesty."
Xia Feng did not kneel, Emperor Lu Huaan glanced at Gonggong Cao next to him when he saw this, and Gonggong Cao also understood what Emperor Lu Huaan meant, so he left from the sight of the ministers and Xia Feng, and the ministers could guess what Gonggong Cao was doing, and Xia Feng was still kept in the dark.
"Flat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"I don't know what happened to the Qingyu Dynasty where your Xia Dynasty came to me? I remember that your Xia Dynasty seems to have sent troops to attack Nanjun in the south three years ago. ”
Lu Jiuyuan, who was in a wheelchair, had to deny that Emperor Lu Huaan did have a plan, and he had even thought about his rhetoric a long time ago, and directly found a question that was difficult for the envoy Xia Feng to answer, and he was preconceived.
And Xia Feng was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and he didn't see that all the ministers of the entire Qingyu Dynasty were looking at him and asking him to answer Emperor Lu Hua'an's question, but he was still just a teenager, and he was not as good as these sophisticated people at all.
"Foreign Minister Xia Feng only came to have cultural and martial arts exchanges with your country on an order, and he doesn't know much about the border war."
"Huh, huh?"
For Emperor Lu Hua'an s chuckle everyone knows the meaning of it, you said that you are a prince of a dynasty and you are powerful, how can you not know about the border war, who would believe it.
And Xia Feng is also a little embarrassed, but he can't leave directly, he came with the orders of his brother and father, and he must not leave without negotiation, otherwise how will the ministers of the Xia Dynasty view themselves.
"Let's say, what other purpose is there besides the cultural and martial arts competition?"
"Your Majesty, when the foreign minister came to your country, my father once explained that my father had three questions to ask your country, and I wanted your country to solve my father's doubts."
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