Li Shi has been haggard for a long time because of the matter of the crown prince Li Chen.

At this moment, when I heard Wei Renshi's words, I was in a better mood because of the arrival of these Tang envoys, but I instantly fell into a trough.

"The Wa Kingdom has always been obedient, and because of his admiration for my Tang education, he sent Tang envoys to study. As the country of the suzerain, I, the Tang Dynasty, should educate all the people in the world. Li Shi said: "Is Wei Qing a little serious? ”

Wei Renshi shook his head and said, "Weichen really doesn't have anything serious. Your Majesty, not only these envoys to the Tang Dynasty, but all the things in the Armament Prison in the capital, as well as anything that our Datang has a leading advantage in the future, should be kept absolutely secret from other countries. Even if there are more advanced substitutes of the same kind, they can only know the finished product, but never the craftsmanship. In this way, we Datang can always maintain its advantages and sell those eliminated things as commodities. There is a saying that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, but this sentence is about to be used in these technical products, and it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish! ”

Li Shi frowned and thought about it, and said, "What Wei Qing said is also true. Now that my Datang has a lot of skills that far surpass them, and I have made a lot of profits from them, and I have been learned by outsiders, which is indeed not good for my Datang. This matter must also be guarded against - it is better for Wei Qing to go to support these Tang envoys as a representative of the imperial court. Wei Qing can decide on his own matters, but he must report to me in time. ”

When Wei Renshi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" This time, the minister will definitely not be able to steal advanced skills from our Datang, and he will have to make the Wa Kingdom pay the price for the many things that he stole from my Datang before! ”

Li Shi waved his hand and said, "Later, I will go to the Sifang Pavilion to send the Tang envoy, and Wei Qing will go and prepare." I'm tired. ”

After the old Li Shi finished speaking, he leaned back in his chair in frustration.

When Wei Renshi left the palace, he began to think about how to deal with this group of Tang envoys. However, if it is just to deal with this group of Tang envoys, there is no need to bother so much. Wei Renshi thought more long-term, and prepared to send Tang envoys through this gang of envoys, so that the goal was to trap the Japanese state.

The holy decree in the palace was transmitted to the Sifang Pavilion the next day.

Wei Renshi deliberately delayed for a while, and then went to the Sifang Pavilion.

In the Sifang Pavilion, counting the past and present lives, this is the first time that Wei Renshi has sat face to face with the Japanese.

The two people in front of them didn't look as shabby as they imagined, they were dressed quite well, their skin was white, their skin was fine, and their skin was tender. Therefore, it is regarded as the beginning of formal exchanges, so the main envoy and deputy envoy on the opposite side are wearing court clothes, which are very similar to the Tang Dynasty, and they should also be learned by the previous Tang envoys. If you don't speak, you just look like this, and it's no different from the Tang people.

Wei Renshi was observing these Tang envoys, and the people on the other side were also observing Wei Renshi.

Seeing that Wei Renshi was not very old, but the bearing of sitting there was definitely not what such a young person would have, he couldn't help but be curious.

Wei Renshi lifted the kettle, poured the tea in the pot into the cup in front of the envoy of the Japanese Kingdom, put down the kettle, and said with a smile: "Your country has never had this method of brewing tea, so why don't you taste it first." ”

"Thank you Lord Wei for the tea, my country is barren and far away, tea is a cherished thing, let me taste it." The envoy of the Japanese kingdom named Fujiwara Katsuno Maro first bowed his head and thanked Wei Renshi for pouring tea, and then while speaking, he put his hand together and picked up the teacup, put it under his nose and sniffed it gently, he couldn't help but look surprised, and took another sip and swallowed it gently, and the surprise on his face was even worse: "This tea ......"

"This is a new style of tea-making that has emerged in Datang today." Wei Renshi smiled and said, "After the tea leaves are picked, after some means of concoction, they have such a flavor. ”

"I see!" Fujiwara Katsuno Maro said suddenly: "I haven't been in contact for many years, and Datang has changed a lot now!" ”

"Yes, today's Tang Dynasty, compared to the last time your country sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, it is not what it used to be." Wei Renshi nodded, said, and then smiled again: "Your envoy's Chinese is very good. ”

Fujiwara Katsuno Malu smiled and said: "Don't dare, just admire the Tang culture, since I was a child, I often heard the previous Tang envoys talk about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and I have been fascinated for a long time, and I have always dreamed that one day I can come to the Tang Dynasty to admire the prosperous times, so I have studied the classics of the Central Plains since I was a child." ”

"Is Mr. Kiyoshi good?" Wei Renshi asked.

In the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty, he was the chief envoy of the fifteenth Tang envoy of the Wa Kingdom.

But seeing Fujiwara Katsuno Maro's sad face, he lamented: "My husband has passed away for three years, and now I can only see each other in my dreams." ”

"Your envoy mourns the change." Wei Renshi pretended to be gentle and persuasive: "Your Excellency has made a lot of contributions to the exchanges between our Celestial Empire and the Japanese Kingdom, and if Your Excellency can follow his will and make the two countries more reconciled, it will be enough to comfort his soul in heaven." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wei." Fujiwara Katsuno Maro saluted Wei Ren and said, "Since Mingzhou landed, as for Chang'an, what I saw along the way couldn't help but make me sigh. Heaven is biased in favor of the Tang Dynasty, giving the Tang Dynasty endless land and wealth, loyal courtiers and subjects. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is even more than imagined. His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is worthy of being the emperor of the Celestial Empire with all corners of the world! ”

Wei Renshi smiled, unmoved by his sycophants, just knocked on the table with his knuckles, and said, "Don't hide it, do you know why Your Majesty sent Ben Hou to see you after so long?" ”

In fact, because of Li Yu's physical reasons, Li Shi was not in the mood to meet these Tang envoys, but Wei Renshi had another explanation.

"Please also ask Lord Wei for advice!" Fujiwara Katsuno Maro Masase.

Wei Renshi also said with a straight face: "Datang respects the heavens, and does not dare to call the number of days in vain, and pretends to be the sky." Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty has a territory of thousands of miles, countless people, and prosperity, the Tang Emperor only called himself the Son of Heaven to show his awe of God. There are only a few islands and no more than a million people, so why does the lord of the country dare to claim the emperor? Where did you put my Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty? ”

Fujiwara Katsuno Maro's face changed slightly, and he was about to speak, but he heard the deputy envoy Ishikawa Michiyi beside him say: "The title of the emperor is that the people of our country respect the lord of the country, so there is this title, this is just my people calling our lord, but I don't know what it has to do with His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, it is worth making a big fuss about it?" The people of our country call the lord of the country the emperor, just as the people of your country call your majesty the emperor, and that's it, so why can't the emperor of the east be the emperor of the west? And more than a dozen times before sending Tang envoys to Tang, all of them were like this, and they were also warmly received by the emperor of Tang, and they didn't say anything wrong, why did Lord Wei say it was inappropriate today? ”