As soon as the sun set, Cui Xiuning took a few guards to the Kaijing Branch of the Special Investigation Bureau to give her students a new task.

Li Luo, on the other hand, went to the palace with thirty-two other mission officials to attend the palace dinner before leaving.

These thirty-three mission officials are both civil and military. Most of them are Beijing officials, and a small number are local officials like Li Luo, Jin Guangxian, and Cui Zhi.

Among them, the highest grade is second only to the deputy envoy, and the lowest grade is the eighth grade service. There are more than a dozen of them that are higher than Li Luo's grade. Li Luo is more than enough than the top in it.

Participating in the palace banquet is not allowed to bring family members, and can only be an official of the mission above the eighth grade.

Along the Chongren Road of the royal city to Songyue Mountain, a large piece of majestic palace appears in front of you, condescending, bright lights, very imposing. This is the Goryeo Royal Palace: the Full Moon Terrace.

Under the palace castle, there are many armors and strong guards. When the guards saw Liu Yan, the leader of the courtesy, they did not stop them in the slightest, and only searched for weapons with their eyes.

There are three main palaces, three main halls, and three main pavilions on the full moon platform, known as the Nine Palace Pavilions. Tonight's palace banquet is set up in Rende Palace behind the Huiqing Palace.

When I arrived at the Huiqing Palace, there was already a middle-aged white-clothed eunuch waiting there, and when he saw the mission official, he immediately greeted him.

"The judges, the officials who participated in the palace banquet, are they all all Smecta?" The eunuch asked respectfully.

Liu Yan didn't stop at his steps, didn't even look at the eunuch, and said lightly: "People are not together, you can count them." ”

The eunuch smiled awkwardly, not daring to refute at all.

Li Luo shook his head secretly. Looking at the color of this eunuch's uniform, it should be the eunuch next to the king of Goryeo, and the grade is not low. This is going to change my Ming Dynasty and my Qing Dynasty, even the scholars dare not ignore him so much. But Liu Yan insisted on giving him a look.

It can be seen from this that the strength of the Korean gate valve. You must know that this Liu Yan is not only the judgment of Licao, but also the head of the Liu Valve family.

The edict led a group of mission officials around the Huiqing Hall, which was used for the court, and went straight to the brightly lit Rendeok Palace.

Entering the banquet hall of Rende Palace, the banquets have already been set up, and the eunuchs of the palace have all bowed their heads and stood silently, and the banquet was headed by the king and queen, and there were several VIP seats on both sides.

All the bells and drums used for the ceremonial banquet, as well as the musicians and dancers, are also ready.

"Sit down in order." The judge gave a faint order, and sat straight on a VIP seat.

Li Luo quickly found a position that was neither forward nor backward, and sat down on his knees. There was no food on the table, only wine jugs and melons and fruits.

Except for a few high-ranking officials of the mission above the third grade, everyone was sitting in a precarious position.

After waiting for a while, the king of Goryeo and the two deputy envoys had not yet arrived, and Liu Yan was not happy.

"Dong Eunchen, why hasn't the king arrived yet?" Liu Yan asked the high-ranking eunuch.

The eunuch replied respectfully: "It is good to teach the scribe to know that the king is still in Shouchang Palace, and he will tell the queen to tell the difference." ”

Liu Yan couldn't help but show a wry smile, the so-called king and queen are clear, to put it bluntly, they are quarrels. In fact, it's not a quarrel, you think, men don't dare to squeak, but women chatter and scold, is this a quarrel? This is one-sided bullying.

As the lord of the Liu clan and an important minister of the imperial court, Liu Yan was of course very dissatisfied with the queen's bullying of the king, which was slapping Goryeo in the face.

However, he did not dare to oppose the queen.

"Why is the queen angry?" Liu Yan asked.

In the entire full moon platform, the only one who can be called "adult" is the queen. is the queen mother, and she is only called a mother.

Dong Eunchen said: "It's because of the eunuch boy." Originally, eighty-one eunuchs were ready, and they would go to Dadu tomorrow. But who would have thought that there were three eunuchs who were not castrated well and suddenly died today. ”

Liu Yan secretly screamed badly. The eunuch was a boy between the ages of ten and twelve, who was castrated and sent to the Imperial Palace as a slave. In recent years, Goryeo has taken advantage of the happy events of the Wanshou Festival and the Thousand Autumn Festival every year to present "tribute girls" and "eunuchs" to the Yuan court, which is an example.

But this time three eunuchs suddenly died, and the number was wrong. If you castrate three more now, you will definitely not be able to get on the road tomorrow, and you will probably die after a long journey.

"Then why don't you pick three little eunuchs in the palace to fill the number?" Liu Yan asked.

Dong Eunchen smiled bitterly: "Scrivener, where are there little eunuchs in the palace?" Therefore the queen was angry at this. ”

Liu Yan sighed, "Now castrated, this new wound will not be able to go on the road tomorrow, it is really difficult." However, the so-called number of ninety-nine is also paid attention to by the Koreans and the Central Plains, but the Mongolians are not particular. It doesn't have to be eighty-one eunuchs. ”

When Li Luo heard this, he was very disdainful. This Korean man is simply too good at kneeling and licking, sending tribute girls and eunuchs every year, and stammering Meng Yuan to do everything, which is really ugly.

At this moment, two ministers in purple clothes and jade belts walked into the Rende Hall together, one was a seventy-year-old man with a dignified bearing, and the other was a middle-aged man with a clean bearing.

Li Luo immediately recognized that the minister with a clean demeanor was the "uncle" Li Qi, that is, the left deputy envoy of the birthday mission.

As for the old man, needless to say, it was the head of the Kim family, the prime minister of Goryeo, and the right deputy envoy of the mission, Kim Fangqing.

Everyone stood up and saluted, and came forward to greet them, and their attitudes were very respectful.

"Lord Zujun." Jin Guangxian stepped forward again to greet Jin Fangqing.

Li Zhiyi also stepped forward to sign a salute to Li and said, "Father." ”

Li Luo could only step forward to salute, "Uncle." ”

"Good. Sit down. Li Qian nodded to the two, and sat on the VIP seat with Jin Fangqing and talked to Liu Yan.

The three important ministers whispered, shaking their heads for a while, and bowing their heads for a while, not knowing what important matters they were discussing.

After a while, suddenly an unbridled laughter came: "Hahaha, this town is like a horse in the morning rushing to eat dew-stained grass, to catch this wine feast!" ”

Before the words fell, a tall and burly man, with braided hair and a scimitar on his shoulder, walked into the hall with a smile. As if no one was beside him, he walked over with a loud horn.

In fact, the vast majority of the people present could not understand what he said, including the three important ministers. Because, he speaks Mongolian.

Mongolian language, for the Central Plains and Koreans, is actually very difficult to learn. Especially for Jin Fangqing, Li Qian and other elderly ministers, it is not easy to learn Mongolian.

However, although the three of them did not understand, they quickly stood up to greet them.

Just because this person is the Yuan court's residence in Goryeo Daru Huachi: Zahan.

Today, there are dozens of Daru Hwachi in the whole country of Goryeo, but the first one is Jakhan. For example, the loss of capital in Daruhua Hua Chitari in Ganghwa County was also controlled by Zahan.

Zahan was not an ordinary Mongolian nobleman, because his surname was only a catty.

As a member of the Golden Family, the fifth grandson of Temujin, even if Zahan was not crowned as the king of the Mongols, he was also the top Mongolian official. Therefore, before the age of thirty, Zahan became a Goryeo Daru Huachi, an official residence.

Although Jahan did not directly control the military and political power of Goryeo, he had great power of supervision.

However, under the insidious and feminine methods of the Goryeo monarchs and ministers, the young Zahan had long been intoxicated by the mellow beauties of Goryeo, and basically did not take on the important role of supervising Dalu Huachi.

"Lord Zahan!"

"Daru Huachi is a big official!"

Although many people did not understand Mongolian, they still stood up to salute. Although everyone was very respectful on the surface, in fact, everyone scolded in their hearts: Mengtar Yidi!

Zahan laughed unreasonably, sat on the VIP seat at the front, and shouted to Gong E next to him: "Pour wine!" ”

In his heart, how can he afford to look down on these Goryeo officials? It was nothing more than a flock of cowardly and pitiful lambs, who only gained the mercy of the Mongol warriors by their humble deference and taming.

At this moment, suddenly a singing voice came: "The king has arrived!" The Queen has arrived! ”

Almost at the same time, the bells and drums rang together, and the entire Rende Palace suddenly resounded with a dignified and solemn sound.

Immediately afterwards, a pair of men and women dressed in Mongolian costumes slowly walked into the main hall.

Everyone bowed down together, and Li Luo could only follow perfunctory.

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