"Xuan Shen Poison Envoy, Prince Saijiantuo and the accompanying mage are here!"

As the eunuch's shouting came out from the Taiji Hall to the outside of the palace, like a relay, there was a eunuch at each palace gate who shouted the message, and the will soon arrived outside the palace gate.

At this time, the poisonous envoy who had already entered the palace gate and was waiting to be summoned on the side walked forward at the signal of the palace guard.

There are three roads leading to the palace in front of them, and the eunuch led Sai Jiantuo and his party to the leftmost road and said: "The envoys and monks take the road on the left, and the entourage please follow our family on the right road!" ”

After saying this, the eunuch took his attendants, the little novices, and the nuns to the right and took the right road, and the middle road was empty.

Prince Sejiantuo was very strange, and asked as he walked, "Why can we only take this path, why can't we take the middle path?" ”

The leading eunuch explained: "This road in the middle is called the imperial road, which is the emperor's special road, and the courtiers can't walk it!" On the left is the road taken by the minister of civil and military affairs, and on the right is the road taken by the waiter, which is all in accordance with the rules and cannot be crossed. ”

Prince Saijiantuo felt that the etiquette of this Qianguo was strict, and there were still so many rules for walking, which was really eye-opening.

When they really entered the palace, Sai Jiantuo and his entourage of senior monks saw the towering tall palaces on both sides, with white jade as railings, glazed as tiles, and gold and jade as bricks, which were brilliant and magnificent.

As he walked, Sejiantuo and his entourage unconsciously ceased to hold their heads high, gradually revealing humility and respect.

After passing through several palace gates in a row, he walked for a moment, and it seemed that he had not yet reached the ground, until Sai Jiantuo faintly felt a layer of fine sweat on his forehead, and the leading eunuch said: "Your Excellency, the Taiji Hall has arrived, His Majesty the Emperor and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs are in the main hall, please come with me!" ”

Sai Jiantuo walked into the Taiji Hall with his entourage, only to see that there were dozens of thick gold lacquer pillars supporting this hall, the ground was paved with a smooth and shiny black and gold floor, the roof was very high, and the whole hall was very spacious around it, with many windows around it, which was both bright and ventilated.

Standing in it, people feel very empty, and the momentum is very solemn.

Then look at a man in a golden robe on the high platform in front of him, wearing a crown, sitting on a wide dragon chair made of pure gold, and two graceful and luxuriously dressed women sitting on either side of the lower head.

"Sejianta, the son of the king of Magadha, Kumara Gupta, has come to see His Majesty the Emperor of Daqian, the empress and the concubine!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Prince Saijiantuo and the two mages are exempt!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Sejiantuo took a roll of silk cloth from the hand of the attendant next to him and presented it: "On the order of his father, Saijiantuo has brought some special products to His Majesty the Emperor as gifts, including a lion, an elephant, ten bottles of divine oil, a box of gold, silver jewelry, ten boxes of various spices, and a golden Buddha statue consecrated by the master. ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled: "Okay, I'm smiling!" Come, take the gifts that the poisonous king gave to me, and carefully select some of the specialties of our dynasty, and bring them back when His Royal Highness the prince returns! ”

"No!" Kang Yide stood up and agreed, and motioned to a little eunuch, who quickly stepped forward to take the gift list.

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor!" Sai Jiantuo thanked him, and then turned around and introduced the entourage who had followed him to Zhao Junsheng and all the great courtiers.

"Your Majesty, on the left of Xiao Wang, this is my playwright and poet of Magadha, and on the right is my bhikshuni Temora!"

Kalitasa and Temora stepped forward together and saluted: "I have seen His Majesty the Great Qiandi!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and asked, "Are both of you serving the palace of the poisonous country?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "There are playwrights and poets in the royal palace, and I know that there are many such talents in the king's palace in the west, but there are bhikshunis in the palace, which makes me very surprised. ”

Temoro clasped his hands together and said, "I am one of the royal mages of the Magadha Palace!" ”

Prince Sejiantuo explained to Zhao Junsheng and the ministers: "Your Majesty, Master Timoro specially preached the scriptures and explained the Dharma for the Queen Mother, and solved the doubts of the Queen Mother! ”

The official of Honglu Temple asked, "Your Royal Highness, is the Queen Mother you are talking about the Queen Mother the Princess of the Chaori King Druvardvi?" Is she your grandmother? ”

King Chaori, Chandra Gupta II, the third monarch of the Gupta dynasty in India, the Gupta dynasty developed to its peak in his hands, and the throne passed to Sejianta's father Kumara, and the Gupta dynasty began to decline.

Sai Jiantuo was quite surprised: "I didn't expect that Lord Liu would also know the name of my grandfather and the name of my grandmother!" ”

Another official from Honglu Monastery asked, "Your Royal Highness, I heard that your grandmother Druvadvi was not the princess of your grandfather King Chaori at the beginning, she was the princess of your grandfather's elder brother Rama Gupta, and your great-grandfather passed the throne to Rama Gupta, and then your grandfather killed his brother and usurped the throne and then forcibly usurped your grandmother?" ”

Killing his brother and usurping the throne and occupying the imperial sister-in-law are shameful no matter which dynasty and country they are placed in, and Prince Saijiantuo's face instantly turned red, this is not a glorious history after all.

Kalitas stood up and said, "The rumors that this lord has heard are wrong, and the matter is not what the lord said!" Rama was violent and moody, and he often took pleasure in killing people, and he was always expropriating and tyrannical in administration, which made my people miserable, and the people were very opposed to him! Once, he led an army against the Scythians in the west, but was defeated by the Scythian king and besieged in a mountain fortress, and later in order to let the Scythian king withdraw his army, he could not bear to sacrifice his princess Druvadvi to the Scythian king for fun! ”

"The king of Chaori was serving in the army at that time, and he was very angry when he heard the news, and thought it was a great shame, so he only led a few hundred soldiers to attack the camp of the Scythians day and night, and rescued the princess, and the princess thought that the king of Chaori was heroic, so she fell in love with him!"

"Rama's death was not the work of the king of Chaori, but because of his tyranny, which caused the people to oppose him, and he died at the hands of his subjects, and the king of Chaori was the king elected by his subjects!"

Wan Yutong, who was sitting at the bottom left of Zhao Junsheng, clapped his hands and smiled: "The love between this Chaori King and the imperial sister-in-law is also a good story!" ”

"Ahem!" Zhao Junsheng hurriedly coughed twice, what do you little girl want to do, isn't you saying this in disguise to encourage this taboo?

Wan Yutong turned his head to look at Zhao Junsheng, and when he saw him staring at her with a serious face, he stuck out his tongue in fright.

Sai Jiantuo immediately skipped this topic, so as not to cause embarrassment again, he saluted Zhao Junsheng and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, my father sent me to envoy Daqian, because recently, many businessmen have said that Daqian has increased tariffs, and they have to raise the price of goods after returning to China, but this has caused great trouble to the people's livelihood in our country, and the cost of paper used by our royal family and local governments has increased by a few cups, and the prices of various porcelain, silk, and tea have also surged!" ”

"Your Majesty must know that our country and China and China have frequent exchanges in commerce and culture, and they are also dependent on each other in the economic aspect, and the great cadres have unilaterally raised tariffs this time, which has caused heavy losses to our country, and I would like to make representations to Your Majesty on behalf of my king, hoping that your country can reduce tariffs to a normal level as soon as possible, if this goes on for a long time, our country will definitely not be able to afford it, so we have to take the risk of sending a caravan to the Song Kingdom by sea to seek business opportunities, and maybe we can open up a shipping route!"

Zhao Junsheng heard the words and said: "I know the intention of His Royal Highness the Prince, what I want to tell the prince is that this increase in tariffs will not last long, at most it will be reduced to normal levels by this time next year, and the reason why my country is doing this is to retaliate against the country!" ”

"The prince should know about the Bada people, they are not only the enemies of your country, but also the enemies of my great cadres, in terms of fighting the Bada people, I think that our two countries have a common purpose, our country has reached an alliance with Persia to deal with the Bada people, if your country can join in, this will undoubtedly increase a force, if you can contain or even drive away the Bada people, I think this is good for your country to collect, what is the tariff for a mere year?"

Sejiantuo's face was happy: "This is true? ”

"Of course, hasn't Your Highness received the news that both Persia and my country have sent troops to war against the Oda people?"

"Rogered, that's what happened!"

Sejiantuo asked: "If this is the case, it is reasonable for your country to increase the tariff for one year, but can Your Majesty guarantee that the tariff will be reduced to the original level within one year?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said unhappily: "I am the emperor, how can I not talk without words?" ”

"Then our country will also join this alliance and attack the Bada people together!"

At this time, when I beat the water dogs, I thought about how much disaster the people had brought to the Tianzhu people, and now it was time for revenge.

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "I welcome the body poison to join in the crusade against the Bada people, and then I will send the officials of the Honglu Temple to discuss with His Highness in detail!" ”

"Okay, okay!" Sejiantuo hurriedly agreed.

At this time, the female Nitimoro clasped her hands together and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the poor nun heard that the noble concubine Niangniang believes in Buddhism, and the poor nun came to Qianguo this time to bring a string of Buddhist beads that the master blessed with Buddhism back then, and I hope to bring it to the noble concubine Niangniang with my own hands to show the sincerity of our country!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Junsheng looked at Wan Yutong.

But he saw Wan Yutong's face full of joy, "The mage is already a master of the Tao, and the mage's master must be a famous mage with poison, and his belongings must be extraordinary, thank you very much!" He stood up.

Temoro took a wooden box from the palm of a female nun at his side, and walked towards His Majesty with both hands.

The two armorers in front of the palace under His Majesty Dan immediately held their halberds to stop Tiemoro, and no one was allowed to approach His Majesty Dan for half a step.

Wan Yutong hurriedly said: "Get out of the way, let the mage come forward!" ”

The armor turned a deaf ear, but there were three supreme rulers of the Daqian Dynasty above, and if something went wrong, they couldn't afford it.

Wan Yutong angrily turned his head and shouted to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, look at them!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was helpless, it was worth saying: "Let the mage come up!" ”