Volume 1 The Towering Great Yi Chapter 103 A green snail on a silver plate
The Great Yi Empire, Shengjing City, was used as a residence for receiving envoys from various countries.
At this time, there was an old woman walking like a fly, and she was heading in the direction of Beiyuan.
Although she looked like a rickety figure at first glance, her movements between walks were very neat, which did not match the age on her face.
I'm afraid that many young men in this Shengjing City can't compare to her neatness.
Beiyuan is the place where the envoys of the Winning Canal of the Great Yi Empire who went to the Fanghua Banquet lived.
After careful calculation, at this banquet of the next country, all the countries sent princes, princesses and other nobles with royal blood to show respect and submission.
But only Yingqu is the current king of Yingqu, Hu Yankang, who personally led the envoys to the Shengjing City of the next country to go to Fanghua banquet as the king of Win.
For this point, the envoys of various countries can actually think about it a little, and they can also think about it.
After all, it is because the current Queen Yingqu is the princess born by the first emperor of the Dayi Empire, the eldest daughter of the emperor of the Tiande Dynasty, and her status is not as noble as others.
Therefore, the envoys of the countries were not very surprised by the fact that King Hu Yankang personally sent the envoy to Dayi, and even this matter did not add any more waves in the palace.
There is only one thing that makes everyone have to be a little surprised in their hearts: the queen of Yingqu did not accompany the Yingqu delegation to return to Dayi this time.
Naturally, the reason given by King Ying at the banquet was that before the carriage and horses of the Winning Qu Mission were leaving, the queen happened to be diagnosed as being two months pregnant.
The husband and wife thought that in order to avoid a bumpy road from Yingqu to Shengjing, after all, if the queen was uncomfortable on the way and missed the heir's event, it would be very uneconomical.
After all, it has been ten years since the thirteenth year of Tiande, and the princess of Hui'an in the following country married into the winning royal family.
In the past ten years, King Hu Yankang has not been born without heirs, but none of those princes have crawled out of Queen Win's belly.
Until now, a full decade has passed unconsciously, and Queen Win is finally pregnant with an heir.
This is really a good thing for the Great Yi Empire.
After all, it is far more convenient for a crown prince with the royal blood of the Great Yi Empire to inherit the throne of Yingqu than a prince born to the noble daughter of Yingqu country.
It was because the couple discussed this mission, and the next country was to be represented by King Ying alone, and the couple came together.
And, in response to Queen Win's request, King Ying also brought the three princesses of Winqu with him on this trip.
It is said that Queen Win likes the three princesses the most in Win Qu China.
The queen also thought that after all, King Win was a man, and it was inconvenient to go in and out of the backyard of the deep palace, so this time Queen Win specially invited the third princess to go back to Dayi on her behalf to see her sisters.
It's just that it's very unfortunate that on the second day after the Fanghua banquet, the third princess fell ill immediately, and the imperial doctor sent to the hotel couldn't say any exact reason when he returned to the palace to restore his life, but he just said that maybe the water and soil were not adaptable.
Therefore, if you count it carefully, the third princess of the Huyan clan has not left the gate of the hotel so far.
At this end, after the old woman quickly stepped into the North Garden, there were no guards who stepped forward to stop her all the way, so she hurriedly trotted to the courtyard where the third princess Hu Yanzi lived now.
After seeing the two masters sitting in the room talking, the old woman bent down and made a winning gift before she opened her mouth to talk about the things she wanted to report to her master about this trip.
"Princess, the housekeeper of the Xuanwei Hou Mansion personally sent an invitation to the flower-viewing banquet in three days."
As soon as she opened her mouth, she spoke a very standard Central Plains official dialect.
This is extremely rare at her age, not only the Yingqu people, but most of the tribes on the grassland are born arrogant and extremely xenophobic, and they easily look down on anyone.
Not to mention learning the official dialect of those Central Plains people who are weak and can't help but "fall down as soon as the wind blows".
This situation is everywhere, but the country of Yingqu is a little different in this respect compared to the surrounding tribes.
After all, when the royal princess of the next country and Yingqu were thousands of miles away, what they brought over was not only the rich dowry of the women who envied the world with red makeup.
There are also brocade ornaments and cushions with various patterns and patterns with the characteristics of the Central Plains, and of course, there is also a life-size Buddha statue of the ancestor Shakyamuni in Buddhism, which is widely believed in by the people in the Central Plains.
And hundreds of volumes of Buddhist scriptures, teachings and other classics, and those gold and jade cast of all kinds of furniture and even more innumerable.
Among the group of people brought to Yingqu by Queen Win that year, there was especially a team of skilled craftsmen, who were the imperial chefs, pastry chefs, imperial doctors and craftsmen of various craft workshops that Renzong loved his daughter and specially instructed to bring.
Among them, it naturally includes many kinds of special technical works and classics of the Central Plains process, hundreds of common prescriptions for treating diseases by the people of the Central Plains, and medical classics written by the Tai Hospital.
In particular, the various grains that Princess Hui'an brought to Yingqu back then have now become the main source of crops in Yingqu Country today.
Naturally, there are crops, and there are many kinds of farming tools, which also greatly saves the time and energy spent by Yingqu farmers in the fields to a certain extent.
In this way, the eldest princess of Hui'an and her relatives Yingqu brought more of the culture that passed down from generation to generation for nearly a thousand years in the land of the following country.
These things cannot be exchanged for money and force in a short period of time.
It's just that although the old woman reported to the princess in her mouth, what responded to her was a male voice that sounded extremely powerful.
"The Yang family of Xuanwei Houfu?" There was a clear piggyback on the tone of his voice.
The old woman's expression did not change at all, but she bowed respectfully and replied.
"Wang, the Xuanwei Hou Mansion is the Xie family, and Mrs. Hou's maiden family, that is, the mother family of the Hou Mansion's son, is the Yang family."
When King Win heard this, he bowed his head to indicate that he knew, and then waved his hand to make people retreat.
Hu Yankang, the winning king, is already thirty-two years old, and among men of ordinary age, he is really a representative figure who holds power at a young age.
And looking up, Hu Yankang's appearance can actually be quickly recognized that he is not from the Central Plains, because his appearance is really very rough.
The people of Yingqu believe that the beard is a blessing given to the prairie boy by the god of the grassland, and that throughout their lives, they will not trim the beard on their faces, but let it grow naturally.
So his dignity needs to be looked at carefully, in fact, whether his facial features are seen separately or combined, they have nothing to do with good looks or even brilliant.
The people of Yingqu have always praised the king of their generation, and it is not without reason that they have a brave wind.
After all, no one had ever heard the Victors sing the praises of their kings as the Usun people praised their priests.
Probably true, because it's a bit lackluster, right?
Naturally, perhaps because Hu Yankang has been practicing martial arts with his father and brother since he was a child, he has a good martial arts, so it is easy to scare people when he looks at the breath around him.
The grassland people don't understand the etiquette law, and Hu Yankang doesn't seem to be good at this way, not to mention that he is the monarch of a country at a young age, and he is full of ambition.
If you think about it in this direction, it seems that the sense of domineering around him can be much lighter for no reason.
It's not as noticeable as his full beard.
It's just that he has the unique fortitude and courage of a man who grew up on the grassland, and he is also quite decisive in his words and deeds.
But after all, at this time, his undisguised edge is still too explicit, so that as long as he is not blind, everyone can get a glimpse of his rebellious temperament.
It's just that what I don't know is that he doesn't care about the disasters that may result from being too sharp, or if he doesn't know how he feels under his coercion.
At this time, I heard a woman's voice in the room.
"Brother, I don't know how many posts the nobles of the next country have voted in the past few days, but you never asked before."
The woman's voice is not as delicate as the average woman in the boudoir, but has an indescribable crisp and neat energy.
"Third sister, Xuanwei Houfu is after the meritorious service."
The conversation between smart people and smart people is always point-to-point, saying that three points leave seven points.
"Brother wants me to marry into the Yang family?"
After the woman reacted immediately, she asked directly.
There is no trace of the squirming and shyness of the vast majority of boudoir daughters when they encounter their own marriages.
The woman is wearing a crimson long skirt, the cuffs are wide, the wind blows, the clothes are fluttering, and there is a sense of fluttering fairy feeling that she is about to ride the wind in a trance, which is the style that women in the Central Plains usually dress.
Hu Yanzi is a girl who grew up on horseback, and her complexion is not as fair as that of the women of the following country, so wearing this crimson dress makes her complexion a little dull.
It's just that if you count it seriously, Her Royal Highness the Third Princess of Yingqu, she is already seventeen years old this year.
The age of seventeen is already married early in the next country, especially in some southern countries, such as Loulan and the Western Regions, where some women are married when they reach the age of ten.
However, the situation of unmarried double ten is very common in Yingqu, the medical conditions of the grassland are backward, and the local people will not look for a doctor when they are sick, but go to various witches or shamans as soon as possible.
Especially in the early years of Yingqu, even when a woman gave birth, Yingqu people also believed that they could go to a shaman to perform spells, so that the female dependents of the family could give birth to a healthy and strong Lin'er.
Therefore, every time the girls on the grassland give birth, they are like breaking through the ghost gate, and most of them rely on luck.
But it is precisely because of their absurd ideas and inaction that there are many people who can't break through with one corpse and two lives.
And the steppe people undoubtedly care about and hope that the tribesmen will become more and more prosperous, because they are naturally good at grabbing territory by force.
And only when more and more sturdy males are born in the clan, will the clan have the force to plunder more survival resources.
Therefore, the vast majority of the common people in Yingqu believe that women will marry and have children after two decades, and only then will the people in the tribe prosper and flourish.
"Why not the Xie family?" Hu Yankang asked with a smile, he made no secret of his admiration for his sister.