When Tuoba Shen walked to the main gate of the palace, the honor guard had been prepared, and the queue was ready to go, Lu Guang and Li Daoyuan, Pei Yue and Yulin Zhonglang were standing on the right side of the main entrance of the mansion in the stone to ward off evil spirits, obviously waiting for Tuoba Shen.

Seeing Tuoba Shen coming out of it, Li Daoyuan and Pei Yue greeted him, saluted and thanked: "Thank you, Your Highness, for being considerate, and the lower officials are inadvertently admired." ”

"The two of you are busy with state affairs, and today you are only stranded for the sake of prudence, and you are deeply uneasy, so you should give them a ride."

walked to the front of the painted wheeled car, stepped on the low table and got into the car with the help of Lu Guang, and after sitting down, he beckoned Li Daoyuan and Pei Yue to get in the car together. This car was not used by the emperor, so Li Daoyuan and the two did not refuse and got into the car together.

"General Dugu, let's go!"

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Beihai Wangdi is near the imperial city, Yaoguang Temple is in the west of the city, there is a short distance from Beihai Wangdi to Yaoguang Temple, the state guesthouse is just between the two places, just walk a little more.

Listening to the "crunch" and "crunch" sound of friction between the axles, feeling the bumps up and down from time to time, this kind of car is really uncomfortable, the ancients in order to overcome this situation, at most is to make the wheels bigger, in order to reduce the bumps caused by the uneven potholes on the ground, and then a little more comfortable is to tie the wheels with grass and fur. This also results in the vehicle being too tall and very cumbersome to get in and out of the vehicle.

The state guesthouse is used to entertain envoys from various countries, and the current states and tribes of the Great Wei have Nanqi, Rouran (i.e., worm), Goryeo, Kumoxi, Khitan, Tangchang, Tuyuhun and so on, and occasionally have dealings with Qiuzi, Gaochang and other countries in the Western Regions. Private businessmen aside, anyone who came to Pingcheng with an official background would be arranged to live here.

The state guesthouse is not a concentration of all countries, and in order to prevent the envoys of these countries or tribes from connecting with each other, it is divided into sections. Because Nanqi has the highest status among many countries with diplomatic relations, it is also in the best location, just on the side of Tongqu Avenue, so the convoy stopped on the side of the road in front of the Nanqi Pavilion.

At this time, two ox carts were parked in front of the main entrance of the Nanqi Pavilion, and several men wearing Nanqi costumes were feeding the cattle and brushing their hair. It looks like it's going out.

"Erqing came at the right time, if he came a moment and a half late, I'm afraid I won't be able to see the southern envoy today," Tuoba Shen said with a smile

As soon as the words fell, I saw several Nanqi people walking out of the state guesthouse, two of them wearing black gauze crowns and trouser pleated clothes, but unlike the trouser pleats of this dynasty, these people wore trouser pleats on the right side, and the cuffs were much wider. This kind of clothing was originally a modified clothing that flowed into China from Zhuhu in the Han Dynasty, and it was generally worn as a military uniform in the Southern Dynasties. Because compared with the traditional clothing of the Han people, the trouser pleated clothing is lighter and suitable for various movements.

"The southern envoy is also wearing trouser pleats, why not hang himself with this? Although the shape is different, it is also quite the style of the dynasty. Tuoba Shen looked at Li Daoyuan and asked, "This dynasty is plain and pants are pleated, and the top and bottom are often dressed." ”

"The host and guest Cao has said several times that the southern envoy hangs in trouser pleats, and the southern envoy uses this as a military uniform, and it is not suitable to be hanged, so he insists on his official uniform. Moreover, the Supreme wants to greatly promote culture and education, and the southern envoy is dressed in mourning clothes with etiquette. Li Daoyuan also sighed.

It was Pei Zhaoming and Xie Jun who walked out of the Nanqi Pavilion, they were originally going to meet the lord of the Northern Dynasty in Yongning Temple, but they did not expect to be rejected by the Northern Dynasty Yousi on the grounds that "the Queen Mother respects the southerners, so the Supreme does not dare to see the southern envoy in front of the Queen Mother". They knew that this was the Northern Dynasty asking them to pay homage to the Empress Dowager Feng first, but they did not get the letter of state on this trip, although they could also make their own decisions and agree, but out of prudence, they still replied with "I did not dare to hang myself without the emperor's order". I hope that the Northern Dynasty will not mention the matter of hanging again, or wait until the national credentials are obtained or it will not be too late to hang again next time.

It's just that the lord of the Northern Dynasty saw that they didn't worship the Queen Mother and insisted on not seeing them, and he was secretly anxious in his heart, and the two of them also had important things to do when they came to Pingcheng, so they couldn't delay because of this matter. So after holding on for a few days, I promised to hang the queen mother first, and then see the lord of the Northern Dynasty, I thought that I could meet the lord of the north after the worship, but I didn't expect the Northern Dynasty to ask them to wear mourning clothes to worship.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the former Song Dynasty and the Northern Dynasties, the envoys of the north and the south have a task when they go to each other's countries, which is to show each other their own culture, and at least they must not do anything humiliating when they take a step back. If you agree to hang yourself in mourning clothes in the Northern Dynasty, it makes sense according to the etiquette system, but it is a bit of a small meaning to bow down to the other party, and if you return to Jiankang, you may be imprisoned and held accountable. So he didn't dare to agree to the request of Yicao of the Northern Dynasty.

Yesterday, the two of them heard that Liu Chang, the former king of Song Yiyang, who had fled to the Northern Dynasty, saw that the Northern Lord had not seen them for a long time, and they did not agree to hang them, and wanted to secretly sow discord between the two countries and expel them from Pingcheng. So today, they are going to go together to meet Li Chong, a close minister of the North Lord, to find out if the North Lord really has this intention.

As soon as I walked out of the door of the museum, I saw a long line of military horses outside, among which there were two big and one small three people on one of the carriages. However, looking at these hundreds of military horses walking along the road, you know that there are big people from the Northern Dynasty here.

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Tuoba Shen originally planned to send Li Daoyuan and the others here to Yaoguang Temple, but he didn't expect to meet Pei Zhaoming and others, and it was probably inappropriate to leave without saying hello, and he was also a little interested in the southern envoy. It's not that there are no southerners in Pingcheng, but most of them are fleeing, which is different from Pei Zhaoming. With the help of Lu Guang, he got out of the car first, and Li Daoyuan and Pei Yue also got out of the car together.

"Pei Envoy Jun, this is His Royal Highness the Second Prince of this Dynasty, the ancient system of states intersects, my monarch should also be the other monarch, and the monarch should pay tribute to my Royal Highness first."

Li Daoyuan knew that Pei Zhaoming didn't know Tuoba Shen, so he reminded him when he got out of the car, so as not to make an unpleasant fuss.

Pei Zhaoming saw Tuoba Shen get out of the car first, knowing that this young boy had the highest status. I just thought it was a prince of the Northern Dynasty, but I didn't expect it to be the prince. The lord of the Northern Dynasty seems to be twenty-four years old today, so it seems that this prince is not small.

"The foreign envoy has seen His Highness."

Li Daoyuan's words were in line with the old system of the first Zhou Dynasty, Pei Zhaoming naturally had nothing to say, and saluted with Xie Jun and the others.

Tuoba Shen is not worried about not understanding the other party's words, because since the war in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, China has regarded Luoyang dialect as an official dialect, called "Luoyang Zhengyin", just like the Mandarin of later generations, the Nandu Shi clan arrived in Jiankang, and did not learn the language of Wu Yue, Jiankang was proud of speaking Luoyang dialect for a while, and those Wu natives also followed to learn Luoyang dialect, and could serve as messengers, so it was naturally impossible not to know Luoyang dialect. The Northern Dynasties also used Luoyang and Xianbei as the main languages. Now at least eight adults in Pingcheng can speak Luoyang dialect, so later the imperial court moved south to Songluo, and it was possible to order "ban Hu language, one from the correct tone", which has a language basis, not a policy of patting the head.