Luoyang, Ziwei Palace.

I don't know if it was due to the weather or intentionally, but it rained before the dinner set up for the Tang mission.

Fortunately, in this regard, the Ministry of Internal Service and Guanglu Temple have also been prepared, although the rain is a little troublesome, but it does not affect the normal progress of the dinner.

Although the Ziwei Palace in the rain curtain is a lot quieter, it still looks solemn and heavy, and in terms of giving people the feeling, it is not weaker than Daming Palace or Taiji Palace.

Of course, Ziwei Palace is also a little different from Daming Palace or Taiji Palace, after all, the political meaning is still a little lighter, but it is still very shocking among the people of the Tang Dynasty Mission.

Ziwei Palace in the night rain is like a dormant giant beast, which makes people feel very depressed.

Seeing the main hall of Ziwei Palace --- Qianyuan Hall in front of them, Sugawara Michizane and others were also quite shocked in their hearts, and the imperial palace in Heiankyo was not much worse than this.

Those forbidden soldiers on duty and patrolling were well-equipped, which also made him secretly frightened, this is the gap between the two countries, and it is no wonder that the Tang Dynasty is not interested in the Japanese Mission.

Entering the Qianyuan Palace, the dragon seat in the middle of the high platform is still empty, and on both sides under the high platform, there are a large number of small long tables.

Eunuchs and palace maids went in and out of the Qianyuan Hall like butterflies in the flowers, and exquisite dishes and pots of mellow wine were sent into the palace.

Sugawara Michizanichi exercised the group, not everyone came, there were less than ten people, and the others were not qualified to come.

When they came to the front porch of the hall, a palace maid stepped forward and bowed down to take the oil-paper umbrellas in the hands of a group of mission members, and then the eunuch introduced everyone into the hall.

The drizzle outside the hall is quiet, and the people in the hall are boiling.

Behind the long table, there were already quite a few people seated, and acquaintances were discussing with each other.

Attending the banquet tonight, in addition to a number of ministers and princes and nobles, there were also some envoys from Fanbang.

There are Silla envoys in the Tang Dynasty, there are also Khotanese royal families, there are also Xi nobles, and the Yunnan royal family is naturally there.

However, when they saw the Silla envoys, the people in the Japanese envoys were a little resentful, because the pirates of Silla had caused a lot of harm to the Japanese state.

"Envoys, your place is here."

The officials of Honglu Temple led Sugawara Michizane and his party to the right side of the high platform near the gate of the Qianyuan Palace, which shows that the Tang Dynasty did not attach much importance to the Japanese mission.

After all, the closer you get to the temple gate, the lower your status.

And the Yunnan royal clan and the Khotanese clan are all above the Japanese mission, and I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, but the Japanese mission and the envoys of Silla are facing each other.

There was still a period of time before the official start of the dinner, and Li Ye would definitely not arrive in advance, but after the Japanese delegation came, the other ministers who participated in the dinner began to arrive at the Qianyuan Hall one after another.

Don't think about it, tonight's banquet must be in advance, if you are late, it will definitely make the saint unhappy, and no one wants to do this.

"Xu Shilang, you arrived quite early."

Among the officials who came one after another, there was also Sun Kui, the political envoy of Henan Province.

In the early years, before Sun Yu was released, he served as Jing Zhaoyin, and had some friendship with Xu Yousun, although his position was higher than Xu Yousun, but his attitude was relatively kind.

It's not that Sun Kuo doesn't want to make friends with other people, but the center of the court changes too frequently, and the officials of the Xizong Dynasty in the early years have basically been cleaned by today's saints, or they are demoted, or they are already dead, and there are few people left in the court.

Like Li Zhen, Li Mi, Xu Shiren and others, they are all old people who follow today's saints, as long as their abilities are not too bad, they are basically in high positions.

And he, Sun Kuo, is not an old man who followed the saint from the Shouwang period.

Sun Yu has been away from Chang'an for many years, and he knows very little about the affairs of the imperial court, and even fewer acquaintances in the court, Xu Yousun can barely be regarded as an old acquaintance.

And he also heard that Xu Yousun did a good job in the household department, and was more favored by Li Mi, a scholar and scholar of the household department, and the saint.

With the background of the champion of the other party's imperial examination, and the deep grace of the saints, I think that I will soon enter the Sanpin Rank, depending on whether I will be released to be the assassin of Shangzhou, or stay in the center of the imperial court to hold other positions.

"It turned out to be Sun Bu's political envoy." Xu Yousun saw that it was Sun Kui, and politely returned the salute, "Although today's banquet is just a banquet to invite the Tang delegation sent by the Japanese State, as a courtier, I don't dare to be late, and when I saw that it was raining again, I simply set off in advance." ”

Don't look at Sun Kuo as the political envoy of Zhengsanpin, but it is also a little difficult to transfer back to the center, and the main competition is too great.

I didn't look at Li Yingxu as the political envoy of Sichuan Daobu, and he was just a cabinet scholar concurrently served by Tai Changqing, and he didn't even enter the six ministries. It can be seen that the competition between the DPRK and China is huge.

There are so many political envoys from various provinces, and Sun Kui is not the only one who wants to return to the center.

"Is today's banquet just to welcome the envoys of these Japanese people?" Thinking that in the past, when he received other foreign nations, the saint did not hold a separate banquet, and Sun Kui was also a little puzzled.

"I don't think it's just because of the Japanese mission, but what it is, Xu doesn't know, as a courtier, he still has to figure out the holy will." Xu Yousun said with a smile.

Although Xu Yousun didn't know what other purposes the Holy Lord's banquet had today, he didn't think it would be too simple to come to tonight's banquet.

Others don't know what the imperial court did in the Wa Kingdom, but Xu Yousun knows that those silver ingots did not fall out of thin air, but were forcibly mined by the sailor and the Jinyi Wei in the Wa Kingdom.

Nine times out of ten, the Japanese state sent a delegation to the Tang Dynasty at this time.

Although it is said that the Silla pirates are in charge, the people of the Japanese kingdom are not stupid, and there are always people who can find that the Silla pirates alone cannot be so powerful, and there must be supporters behind them.

Silla is now in civil strife, and it is certainly impossible for Silla, and most of the weapons used by Silla pirates are made by the Tang Dynasty, so the Japanese people can guess that it is related to the Tang Dynasty.

"Xu Shilang has some truth in what he said." Sun Yu nodded, and guessed that the other party might be hiding something, but it was not good to ask, it was taboo.

With more and more people coming, there are also some people Sun Yu knows, although the relationship is not necessarily deep, but it is still necessary to say hello.

As the time for the dinner came, Li Ye naturally came to the Qianyuan Palace. This kind of banquet, because it involves some political affairs, Li Ye did not let the queen and other concubines attend, so in the palace, in addition to the palace maids, singers, etc., there are no other women.

With the eunuch's shout, all the ministers got up one after another, and saluted like a tsunami, and after Li Ye said 'flat', everyone sat down one after another.

Such a banquet is naturally inevitably singing and dancing, and even Li Ye likes it very much.

Although the dances and songs are very different from those of later generations, the classical charm, whether listening to or watching, makes people feel soothed and enjoyed.

A song and dance leveled down, and the people attending the banquet were also staggering, while enjoying the dance, they whispered to the people next to them, which was very fast.

However, after the singing and dancing ended temporarily, the people of the Japanese mission were a little breathless.