Sugawara Michizane, the right minister of the Wa Kingdom, see the Tang Emperor! ”

When everyone was drinking and happy, Sugawara Michizane, who was the chief envoy of the Tang Dynasty Mission, put down his wine glass, got up and saluted Li Ye and spoke.

"Oh, is this something wrong with Sugawara Masasara?" Li Ye put down his wine glass and looked curiously at this figure, who was called one of the four ancient resentful spirits of his country by the Wa Kingdom.

The other ministers also put down their glasses and looked at Sugawara Michizane curiously, and even the musicians who played the music lowered their playing voices so as not to surprise the saint.

"Emperor Qitang Emperor, this time the foreign ministers came to Datang on the order of Emperor Wu, in fact, there is one thing I hope Datang can give an explanation." Sugawara Michizane said.

"Say? What does Sugawara need to say? ”

Hearing the other party use this word, Li Ye was quite unhappy in his heart, a small Wa country, also dared to question Datang?

"There's a good show!" Xu Yousun whispered to Sun Yu next to him.

"Fun? What's the show? Sun Kuo heard it in a fog.

Xu Yousun didn't continue, but smiled and motioned for Sun Yu to continue reading.

Sugawara Michizane was also a little hesitant, but when it came to the safety of his mother country, he couldn't take care of it so much, he thought it was impossible for Datang to embarrass him as an envoy, right? Wouldn't it humiliate the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

"Emperor Qiqi Tang Dynasty, in recent years, the Lingguo State near the sea of the Wa Kingdom has been repeatedly attacked by Silla pirates, and it is unspeakably miserable." Sugawara Michizane said.

"Your Majesty, the minister has some different views on the words of the envoy Sugawara, and I hope that Your Majesty can let the minister talk to the envoy Sugawara." Li Zhen stood up and first saluted Li Ye for instructions.

"Li Aiqing, please!" Li Ye raised his wine glass and gestured.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After Li Zhen finished saluting, he said to Sugawara Michizane, "Sugawara is the envoy, there is something unknown to this official. Since it was the Silla pirates who brought disaster to your country, why didn't your country go to Silla to find an explanation, but came to my Tang Dynasty and asked our emperor to explain the matter to your country?

It just so happens that the envoys of Silla are also here, did the Sugawara envoy find the wrong master? ”

Sugawara Michizane explained, "Since I'm standing here, it's natural that this matter has something to do with Datang. If this matter is only related to Silla, there is no need to travel thousands of miles from the Wa Kingdom to Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty. ”

"What do you mean? Is this looking down on me Silla? The envoys of Silla were a little displeased.

"If it's just Silla, the Wa Kingdom will naturally not be afraid." Sugawara Michizane's tone was a little disdainful, and then regardless of the expression of the Silla envoy, he saluted Li Ye and continued, "Because during the pacification of the Han Kou, the Japanese soldiers seized some pirate weapons, and found that they were horizontal knives made by the Tang Dynasty, and there were a lot of them.

Therefore, the foreign minister thought that this matter might be related to the Tang Dynasty, and hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would forgive the foreign minister's rudeness. ”

"Oh? My horizontal knife made by Datang? Li Zhen was a little surprised, "Although I Datang is not allowed to make horizontal knives without permission, the people have repeatedly banned it." And many years ago, I had been fighting in the Tang Dynasty for many years, and I was also self-reliant, and it was not impossible for the horizontal knife to flow out of the Tang Dynasty.

If it was just because some horizontal knives were captured, Sugawara Masasan asked His Majesty, is it a bit rude? ”

"This?" Sugawara Michizani was a little speechless, he didn't expect the minister of the Tang Dynasty in front of him to send him away with these words.

"Li Aiqing said a few words, since a large number of horizontal knives produced by my Datang appeared in the hands of Silla pirates, I have to check it carefully.

I wonder if Sugawara Sho Envoy has ever brought a captured horizontal knife? Li Ye asked politely.

"Yes, at the place where the mission is staying." Sugawara Michizane replied.

"Xu Shangshu!" Li Ye asked Xu Shiren.

"The minister is here!" Xu Shiren hurriedly got up.

"After the dinner, the military department will go to the residence of the Japanese mission, take out the evidence, and then verify whether it is a horizontal knife produced by the official workshop of the imperial court." Li Ye said very happily.

"Obey the order!" Xu Shiren bowed slightly.

"Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, there is one more thing for the foreign minister!" Sugawara continued.

"What? Is there anything else going on with Masasan Sugawara? You can talk about it all together! Li Ye was a little unhappy.

"Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty is angry, in the past, when the soldiers of our Japanese Kingdom were quelling the chaos, they also found traces of the Tang Army, can we check together by the way to see who is supporting Han Kou to cause trouble." Sugawara Michizane explained.

"What? Does anyone dare to pretend to be my Datang army? Li Ye frowned slightly, "Xu Shangshu, check this matter well, my Datang's prestige can't be framed by others." ”

"Obey the order!"

"Is there anything else going on with Sugawara? If there is nothing else to do, let's enjoy the song and dance together, this matter is difficult to find out for a day or two, and it will take some time. Li Ye said with a smile.

"The foreign minister obeys!"

Sugawara Michizane always felt that something was wrong, but looking at the expression of the Tang Emperor who didn't look like a fake, he was also a little puzzled, could it be that someone was pretending to be Tang Jun? Or is there a Tang Army secretly supporting Han Kou in private?

Thinking of this, Sugawara Michizane felt that things might not be simple.

Of course, he didn't think about it, that is, this was fundamentally instructed by Li Ye, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. After all, in Sugawara Michizane's opinion, how could the other party do such a detrimental thing to his identity.

"Father, my son has something to say!"

Just when everyone thought that the excitement was over, the pious king Li Yu didn't know how to stand up, everyone looked like this, could it be that this pious king was not willing to be lonely?

"Third child, if you have anything to say, just say it." Li Ye was a little puzzled about what this third son wanted to do.

"Father Xie. In the past two days, Erchen heard that the monarch of the Wa Kingdom called himself the emperor, and the title of emperor was only known to Emperor Gaozong in my Tang Dynasty, and even his father did not call himself emperor.

Erchen thought that this Japanese country was just a small country on the East China Sea, and it was a bit too much for them to dare to call themselves emperors. The son thought that he wanted the monarch of the Wa Kingdom to abolish the title of emperor and call him Wa King. Li Yu's tone could be described as sharp, and he looked at the Japanese envoy with disdain.

Li Ye couldn't cry or laugh a little, he really didn't like the title of emperor, and the people of the Japanese country loved to call it, if he called himself the emperor, wouldn't it be a drop in price?

I don't know if the third child thinks that the title of the emperor is inappropriate, or the idea given by the staff of the palace.

"Who is this?" Some people in the Japanese mission were puzzled.

Fortunately, someone next to him reminded, "This is the third prince of the saint today, and he has been named the pious king." ”

Just when Sugawara Michizane was about to get up and refute, Li Ye spoke, "Third child, this matter is the preference of the Japanese people, and I don't need to go to the Tang Dynasty to see it in general." What's more, there are important things to announce today, so don't get too entangled in this matter. ”

Although Li Ye is not interested in the word emperor, he still has to ask the Japanese to cancel this title if he has the opportunity, and there is no need to do too much now, lest the Japanese feel that they are intentionally targeted.

Seeing that his father didn't care about this, Li Yu sat down stupidly, and was also very curious about what he was going to announce today.

Soon, Wei Zhaodu got up at Li Ye's signal.

"Princes, colleagues and envoys of Fanbang, today's banquet is only one of the banquets to invite the Japanese state to send the Tang mission, and the other is to announce two things."

Seeing Wei Zhaodu get up, everyone was also a little puzzled, what is this to announce? A privy envoy is required to make an announcement.

When they were confused, Wei Zhaodu took out a holy decree and read it out in public, of course, without the original reading.

"In view of the chaos in Silla and the need to attack the Khitan and Bohai from the eastern front, the imperial court now re-establishes the Pyongyang Governorate and the Tamna Governorate, the former being the Central Governor's Office and the latter being the Lower Metropolitan Governor's Office.

"What?"

"How is that possible?"