Chapter 669: See the Japanese Again
Li Xiu and Pei Lin were chatting in the inner hall, but suddenly heard a commotion outside, which made both of them stop talking and look outside with puzzled faces, the inner hall and the outer hall are only separated by a wall, and they can also hear that there seems to be a quarrel in the outer hall, but they can't hear what is being argued outside?
"What's going on in the outer hall?" Li Xiu couldn't help frowning at this time and asked, after all, the New Year is coming soon, and he is still in his own house, if someone makes trouble, it will be too face-saving for him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hearing Li Xiu's inquiry, someone immediately went out to inquire about the situation, and soon came back to report: "Master Qiqi, there was a conflict between the two groups of guests outside, and now they have been arrested by the guards." ”
"Who is so bold that he dares to make trouble in your Guogong Mansion?" Pei Lin next to him heard the report of his subordinates, and couldn't help but ask in surprise at the moment, after all, with Li Xiu's current status, there were really few people in the Manchu Dynasty who had such courage.
"Qi Qi Pei Gong, speaking of which, these two groups of people are not officials of our Tang Dynasty, but envoys of Silla and the Wa Kingdom, it is said that there was a conflict between their two countries, and it just so happened that they all chose to visit the house today, and as a result, they quarreled as soon as they met, and they even made a move just now, fortunately, our guards reacted quickly, otherwise they would have died if they didn't say well." The next person reported again.
"Huh? Envoys from the Wa Kingdom and Silla also came? Li Xiu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, although he didn't have any good feelings about Silla, but now Silla is still an ally of the Tang Dynasty after all, but the Wa State is different, last time Li Xiu let the old enemy humiliate the people of the Wa State Mission, not only showed those few Wa people to the public, but also knocked the Wa State Mission hard, it is said that the Wa State envoy also complained to the Tang Dynasty for this, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him at all.
"It turned out to be these barbarians who didn't know etiquette, no wonder they dared to make trouble in the Guogong Mansion!" Pei Lin couldn't help but laugh again when he heard the report of his subordinates, he knew a little about the grievances between the Japanese and the Silla, the two countries were not far apart, and Silla was relatively wealthy, so there were often Japanese robbers who came ashore to loot, and behind these Japanese robbers were the support of the Japanese state, which made the two countries continue to be filthy, and the envoys of the two countries naturally did not have a good face when they met.
"Interesting, forget about the Silla people, just drive them out, but I want to see these Japanese people, I don't know if Pei Gong is interested?" Li Xiu showed an interested expression at this time and said, he had seen the envoy of the Japanese State on the road last time, and later rectified a few people from the Japanese Mission, but he was more interested in why the other party would come to his house to visit?
"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be interested in these arrogant widows, in that case, then let's just meet, I'm very interested in overseas scenery." Pei Lin is a guest and host, and nodded at the moment.
Seeing Pei Lin agree, Li Xiu immediately asked people to bring the envoys of the Wa Kingdom, as for the envoys of Silla, he didn't have time to pay attention, in fact, Silla was oppressed by Goguryeo at once, and he was always worried about being destroyed by Goguryeo, and now the Tang Dynasty is strong, which made Silla see the opportunity, so he has been hugging the thighs of the Tang Dynasty, which is also their only means of deterring Goguryeo.
After a while, I saw a low Japanese man being brought in, with big ears and some blessings, which is very rare among the Japanese people, but the forehead was a little red and swollen, which is said to have been smashed on the head by the Silla envoy with a teacup just now.
After seeing this Japanese man come in, he immediately bowed to Li Xiu, and then said in very fluent Chinese: "The Japanese State sent the Tang envoy dog to visit Yan Guogong!" ”
At the beginning, the name "Wa Guo" did not have much derogatory meaning, because the Wa Kingdom called itself "Yamato", and the pronunciation of Yamato's Wa language was the same as "Wa", so it was called Wa Guo, and the Central Plains Dynasty before the Tang Dynasty also used this name officially, and even the Wa Kingdom itself used this name, but later with the deepening of exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa State, the Wa State may feel that the word "Wa" is not good, so it was declared to be Japan, but the Central Plains is still used to calling them Wa Guo, and it lasted until the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"No need to be polite, speaking of which my lord and ambassador are very fateful, the last time we destroyed the Turks and returned triumphantly, we happened to meet your country's embassy outside Chang'an City." Li Xiu saw that this dog Mita was very kind, as if he didn't do what made people humiliate those widows in the first place.
"The national strength of the Tang Dynasty is strong, and when I heard that the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks on the road, I also felt extremely admired for the military strength of the Tang Dynasty!" It's not the first time that Inugami Mita has sent an envoy to the Central Plains, and he was the one who came to the Central Plains to see Yang Guang last time, so he also knows the situation in the Central Plains very well, and he knows how powerful the Turks are, so after knowing that the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, he also restrained the arrogance in his heart, and at this time he was very humble and humble, without the arrogance when he first met Yang Guang.
Seeing Inougami Mita put his posture so low, Li Xiu was also a little surprised, not long after the Japanese came to Chang'an, in addition to the incident in the West Market last time, there were also a few other incidents, and this time they dared to clash with the Silla people in Li Xiu's mansion, which shows their boldness, after all, if it is an envoy from other small countries, they will be honest after coming to the Tang Dynasty, and they will not dare to do anything out of the ordinary, but these Japanese people are very bold, and they will make trouble from time to time.
"The Turks have invaded my frontier many times, and Jieli is even more brutal and unkind, and my Tang Dynasty will destroy them on behalf of the heavens." At this moment, Pei Lin also smiled and said, hearing his words, Inugami Mita also looked at Pei Lin curiously, I don't know who this old man sitting opposite Li Xiu is?
"Hehe, this is Pei Lian, the prince of Hedong County of my Tang Dynasty, Inugami Mita should have heard of it!" Although Li Xiu didn't have a good impression of these Japanese people in his heart, he was very gentle on the surface, but if necessary, he did not hesitate to stab the Japanese people, for example, last time he suggested that Li Shimin try to control the outflow of some key technologies.
"It turned out to be Pei Gong, who had heard of the name earlier, but he never had the opportunity to visit!" When Inugami Mita heard the name Pei Lian, he immediately saluted, but it was obvious that his attitude towards Pei Lian was far less respectful than Li Xiu, after all, Pei Lian was just an idler now, far inferior to Li Xiu, the big celebrity in front of Li Shimin.
Pei Lin is a good person, and naturally he can see that Inugami Mita is contemptuous of him, but he just smiled indifferently and didn't say anything, but Li Xiu's face sank, and then asked lightly: "Ambassador Inu, I don't know if you have anything important to do when you come to this mansion?" ”