It is getting closer and closer to the Shengshou ceremony, and envoys from various countries have come to Luoyang.

Numerous countries, including Goryeo, Wa, and the Bohai Kingdom, which was supported by the Great Song Dynasty, also sent a huge number of missions, carrying gifts even more than Khotan.

If you continue to count, it also includes dozens of countries such as Jiaozhi, Cham, Dali, Mayi, Bagan, and Tianzhu.

Of course, there are true and false ones, at least there are dozens of Tianzhu's missions, each of which claims that they represent the royal family, but in fact, most of them are businessmen pretending, just to celebrate their birthday and get a little reward.

This kind of thing has seen a lot in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Ministry of Rites will deal with it, Wang Ningan means that he can also take care of some, provide some food and lodging, and take them to visit the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty, as for wanting to take advantage and take benefits, then he made a mistake, he Wang Ningan is not a person who suffers!

You must know that the best war horse in the Great Song Dynasty is the Ma Wari horse from Tianzhu, Wang Ningan is salivating for Tianzhu, of course, unlike Elder Tang, Wang Ningan doesn't want to ask for any Buddhist scriptures, what he needs is the land there, and endless resources.

Wang Ningan has already asked people to start buying the merchants from Tianzhu to see if they can use their hands to get a piece of territory in Tianzhu, gain a firm foothold first, and then swallow and eat and take down the entire Tianzhu.

After all, since the Mauryan Dynasty, India has always been a place name, not a country, with thin skin and big filling, delicious and juicy, and I'm sorry if I don't take it down.

Of course, Wang Ning'an was preparing to march on two routes, one side from the sea, and the other side through the Western Regions to the south, seize those key mountain passes, and then sweep South Asia from north to south.

Wang Ning'an has already begun to plan the entire grand strategy, and those businessmen from Tianzhu are still immersed in the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty, many of them have been vegetarians all their lives, and horseback riding and wrestling are not their strong point.

But don't underestimate the Tianzhu people.

People are born to be masters of plug-ins.

They can play flutes and attract cobras to dance.

You can perform the suspension technique on the street, or make a large oil pot and meditate in it.

There are also monks from Tianzhu, who claim to be from the source of the Bodhidharma patriarch, and came to the east to promote Buddhism, they perform yoga and teach cultivation, which is actually quite popular.

In the face of this group of foreign monks, the most angry person was Buddha Yin, who was like thunder.

Someone robbed him of his business, it was tolerable, but it was unbearable!

Buddha Yin showed a hideous side, he instigated people to go to the yamen to denounce, saying that the Tianzhu mission was fake, and also found a master of the rivers and lakes, came to challenge, beat people to the head, and ran around the street.

Of course, even if the Buddha seal is angry, he doesn't dare to do too much, and all kinds of foreign monks are still in a steady stream.

"You're in the picture."

Shao Yong was not without pride, he smiled and said: "Buddha Yin, your family can travel thousands of miles to come to the Great Song Dynasty to promote the Dharma, if you want to win over others, you should cross the ocean and go to Tianzhu to promote the Dharma. Bodhidharma comes to the east, Buddha India crosses to the west, one day, your name will be written in the history books, and it will be widely spread by future generations, and you will bow and worship! ”

Buddha Yin squeezed his eyebrows and struggled for a long time.

"Immortal Shao, you are also a Taoist, why don't you go and preach?"

"Me?" Shao Yong pointed to his nose and said with a stinky fart: "The days of poverty have not yet arrived, and you still have to covet Hongchen and practice your heart, so you can't accompany the monk brother, you go, I will recite the scriptures for you!" ”

Shao Yong looked selfless and compassionate, and patted the back of the Buddha seal vigorously.

"Get out of here!"

The monk suddenly burst into a rage and scolded, "You enjoy the blessings, let the monk be unlucky!" I, I'm not used to curry, I'm afraid of diarrhea! ”

He left angrily, and Shao Yong shook his head, "If you don't suffer from hardship, how can you get sweet!" Monk, you can't become Dharma in your life. ”

"Of course I can't become a Dharma, but I can sponsor a few Dharma!"

Buddha Yin thought about it for a long time, and he ran to find Da Su.

Let Su Shi find him a few literate criminals, and then fool some ruffians and scoundrels, Buddha Yin will pay for them, train them well, and then send these people across the ocean to India to pass on Buddhism.

As the saying goes, the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, what results can be achieved by making such a group of people in the Buddha seal?

These so-called masters, the Dharma was not transmitted, but they became the helpers of the Song army, probing for them, passing on news, procuring materials, and recruiting manpower...... Not to mention, it helped a lot.

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In addition to these strange people, singers and dancers from the Western Regions, and even people from the Seljuk Empire, as well as more distant countries, have appeared on the streets of Xijing.

They impacted the worldview of the Song people, and the Great Song Dynasty also strongly shocked them!

The elder from Baghdad, seeing the prosperous Xijing, wept bitterly, exhausted his imagination, heaven is just paved with gold and silver, flowing milk and honey, compared to the city that never sleeps in the Great Song Dynasty, compared to all kinds of convenient services, as well as rich singing and dancing acrobatics, everywhere business opportunities, here is simply more like heaven than heaven!

Of all the foreign guests, the most envied are the Khotanese people, or rather, they are no longer guests.

Li Shengtian was revered as the Son of Heaven, he could be ranked with the emperors of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the Ministry of Rites of the Great Song Dynasty sent the most learned officials to repair the history of the Khotanese State for the sake of Li Shengtian, and included Li Shengtian in the present chronicle, and also stipulated that the history of the Khotan State, as an official history book, should be the same as the Historical Records and the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, and become a compulsory course for students.

Every day, people go to worship Li Shengtian and remember the battle of Khotan in the Western Regions.

Since the last time the black tiger sent a ghost, with the crowd to the Yellow Emperor Temple, he also burned a stick of incense in front of Li Shengtian's portrait, he was like a demon, and he would run over every day.

Listening to the narrator over and over again, telling the story repeatedly, over time, he was even able to understand the content, and there was a faint smile on his face full of meat.

The people who came to worship also knew this big man from the Khitan Kingdom, and they also knew that he was a wrestling master. Someone would give him a thumbs up, and the black tiger grinned and smiled widely.

He was also obsessed with the snacks on the streets of Xijing, and relying on the competition, the Black Tiger had a lot of bounties in his hands.

Although as a slave, everything he has to belong to his master, no one has dared to check the black tiger's pocket to see if he has hidden private money...... In this way, the black tiger quickly degenerated, and it simply changed into a person!

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"Great Song is a magical place of sin!"

An old man in a black cloak gritted his teeth and said, "The prosperity and convenience of this place will corrupt the hearts of all warriors and turn them from tigers into lambs!" Your Excellency, Your Excellency, sooner or later, your warriors will betray the Khitan and become the lackeys of the Great Song Dynasty! Or even turn around and bite you! ”

Yelu Huage did not deny it, but smiled faintly, "Elder Musavi, you stopped the business between the Great Song and the Khitan back then, but unfortunately it didn't succeed. ”

Mousavi snorted, "It turns out that I was right, you have lost, you have lost badly...... If you continue, your fate will be even worse! ”

"Perhaps!"

Yelu Huage's confession made Mousavi stunned for a moment, since he knew the problem, why did he keep stopping it?

"Elder Musavi, if I give the order to stop the exchanges, the Black Tiger will immediately betray the Khitan and throw himself into the arms of the Great Song Dynasty, there are too many things that cannot be solved by orders...... Just like the current Xixia, isn't it different! ”

For a moment, the skillful Mousavi had no words.

Indeed, this time, the last to arrive in Xijing, and the last to participate in the Shengshou ceremony, were the envoys of Western Xia, and their straight-line distance was the closest, but they were slower than any other country.

Li Liangzuo didn't want to come at all, and he was even more reluctant to add glory to Zhao Zhen's holy life.

But the Khitan is here, so many countries in the Western Regions are coming, and the Great Song Dynasty has also released Dong Yu, before Mu Zheng and the old fox Yeli Yuqi were killed, and the Qingtang group of dragons had no leader.

The Great Song sent Dong Yu, who had behaved well, to reorganize the Qing Tang Dynasty and canonize him as the king of Tubo, while the Great Song actively wooed the Uighurs, seeing that the encirclement against the Western Xia had been formed.

If the Western Xia unilaterally refuses to communicate, the Great Song Dynasty can be at will, and they will be the unlucky ones at that time!

Therefore, Xixia had to send an envoy to Xijing 5 days before the Shengshou ceremony.

When they arrived, the Western Xia envoys found themselves in an embarrassment.

For example, countries are actively participating in the competition and fighting for places.

The champion of each competition can get the opportunity to face the saint, and can get rich rewards, and can even be carved into statues, placed on display, and extremely glorious.

Other countries are all fighting hard and refuse to admit defeat.

What about Western Xia?

If they don't send people to participate, they will be said that the Western Xia warriors are incompetent, and they don't even have the courage to participate in the competition.

Participating in the competition is equivalent to congratulating Zhao Zhen on his birthday and showing weakness to the Great Song Dynasty.

And it's not good to lose the game, but what about winning the game?

Can they ask for Da Song's bounty?

If you want it, lose face, don't want it, and you can't explain it to your own samurai.

Xixia can only come up with a bounty by himself, and it can't be less than the Great Song Dynasty, but the question is where did Xixia get so much money? Isn't that going to kill you!

The game is certainly just one of many embarrassments.

There are also gifts, and the gifts taken out by various countries this time are very rich, including the Khitan.

What about Western Xia, if you give a generous gift, it's a shame!

If you don't send it, it's poor and sour, and it's still a shame!

What about accommodation?

The arrangement for them is said to be to buy people's hearts.

Give them bad things, saying that they look down on Western Xia.

The food is the same, according to the Da Song Dynasty, the sumptuous hospitality, they are unwilling to accept it, just roast meat and pastries, and pick three or four.

All in all, awkward to the extreme.

Fortunately, the officials of the Great Song Rite Department have a good temper, otherwise they would have to fight. Tangled to come, tangled to go, finally came to the day of the grand ceremony, according to the etiquette process, the envoys of various countries wanted to congratulate Zhao Zhen on his birthday.

This brings us to the question of how to queue up.

According to the idea of the Ministry of Rites, Khotan ranked first, followed by Bohai, Tubo, Dali, Khitan, Jiaozhi, and then Western Xia...... But the envoy of Western Xia did not do it.

How can they be ranked behind these countries, Western Xia must be ranked first, and if they don't rank first, they refuse to participate in the grand ceremony! 10