Sifang Pavilion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Sui Dynasty, the Sifang Pavilion originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Honglu Temple, in order to receive ethnic minorities and foreign envoys from the east, west, north and south, and set up four envoys, each in charge of the exchanges and trade between the two sides.

However, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Sifang Pavilion was separated from the Honglu Temple and placed under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province.

The envoys of the Japanese State who were reprimanded by Wu Yuanqing were arranged to stay here. Originally, there was a place for foreign envoys to stay under the Honglu Temple, but Wu Yuanqing was not in a good mood when he saw the little devils, and he didn't want them to dangle under his nose, so he threw them directly to the Sifang Pavilion.

"Yaga"

After the people of Honglu Temple left, as soon as the door was closed, the Yutian spade could no longer hold back the fire and scolded with a black face.

"How can this be reasonable, this Tang Dynasty man dares to despise us so much, and when the Tang Emperor receives him, I will definitely sue him."

Medicine Master Huiri nodded with the same ugly face: "That's right, we are envoys, and we are here to meet the Tang Emperor on behalf of His Majesty Emperor Shu Ming, not to be bullied." ”

"I just don't know where this Wu Shaoqing came from, and he dares to blatantly humiliate us, aren't you afraid of causing a conflict between the Tang Dynasty and our country?" Ota Spade couldn't understand how such a mallet-like person could be appointed as Honglu Shaoqing to engage in diplomacy and usher in such intrigues as send-off.

It's completely unreasonable!

"In the past, many scholars and students from the Sui Dynasty sent to the Sui Dynasty did not follow the mission back to China, but stayed here to study, and we can ask them." Pharmacist Huiri said.

"That's right, just now I saw that there were people with Japanese banners in the crowd that greeted us, it should be the learned monks and students you said, they followed us all the way here, and now they should be outside, you can meet them later, and ask what Datang's attitude is towards the arrival of our envoys." Ota Shovel nodded with joy on his face.

"Okay, the lower official will let them in. By the way, my lord, Childe's side? Pharmacist Huiri nodded in agreement, then looked left and right before asking in a low voice.

"You go and inquire about the news, I'll go and appease Childe," Ota said with a headache.

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"Bang Dang"

"Bang Dang"

"Bang Dang"

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in a few days, and the samurai family is busy preparing food for the festival.

The Yang family led the eldest girl and the second girl, the prince Yu Xiangcheng and they picked the stuffing and kneaded the dough, and Wu Yuanqing skillfully held the mold with both hands and pressed it into the dough to buckle the moon cakes.

At this time, Datang did not have a special moon cake, there were almost a cake called the moon ball and a small cake, but the diamond-shaped one, and the osmanthus cake, lotus paste cake or something, is "available at all times, let it be called, do not miss the customer", that is, people can buy cakes on weekdays.

The appearance of the name moon cake is estimated to have slowly appeared after the great poet Su Dongpo's sentence "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and dumplings".

The habit of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Wu family was only after Wu Yuanqing crossed over, and it was still the first year of Zhenguan, and Wu Yuanqing also held a sensational Mid-Autumn Festival party in Jinyang at his home.

Since that year, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival martial artists have the habit of beating moon cakes and eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

With the increase in the production of peanuts and pumpkins in the past two years, the ingredients in the samurai's mooncake filling have also increased.

Wu Yuanqing is a northerner who doesn't like southerners to eat moon cakes, eggs, meat, crab roe, etc., so he likes to put some walnut kernels, peanut kernels, melon seed kernels and other dried nuts and sesame seeds. Because there are no sunflower seeds at this time, melon seeds can only be replaced by pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, loofah seeds, etc. Then serve with brown and white sugar, and then knead and put in the baked sesame cake. The noodles are made with sesame oil, flour, eggs, etc.

To make these things to eat during the holidays, Yang and others like to do it themselves. Wu Yuanqing has nothing to do, he just takes a hand when he is idle at home, anyway, what he needs to do is simple, just button the moon cakes.

A plate was buttoned up with a mold, and the maids took it to the oven to roast.

"Is that all?" asked Li Chengqian while eating a baked mooncake in his hand.

"Or else?" Wu Yuanqing's hands kept moving, and he asked casually.

"Of course, I will fight for it again," Mr. Li said.

"I'm sick in the brain, fight for that," Wu Yuanqing pouted.

The conversation between the two was incomprehensible, but in fact, Li Chengqian asked about Wu Yuanqing's removal from his post as an envoy to the Japanese state.

That's right, Wu Yuanqing was withdrawn again.

Li Shimin was furious when he learned what Wu Yuanqing had done on the dock, and many courtiers also wrote to impeach Wu Yuanqing for treating the envoys of the Japanese State for being slow, which damaged the image and reputation of the Tang Dynasty and would have a bad impact on the diplomatic relations between the Tang Dynasty and various countries.

Therefore, Li Shimin sent an edict to Honglu Temple on the same day to ask Tang Jian to make a profound review, and by the way, Wu Yuanqing was withdrawn.

However, it was not the official position that was removed, but the reception work was dismissed, and he was still the Shaoqing of his Honglu Temple, but the reception task had nothing to do with him.

Replacing Wu Yuanqing is the old rival Changsun Chong, because the eldest grandson's family has business contacts with the Wa State, and he knows more about the Wa State, so this errand was successfully handed over to the hands of the Changsun Chong, and with this Changsun Chong was also promoted to two levels, and he became the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple.

As for saying that Zongzheng Temple is in charge of the affairs of the imperial family, managing the genealogy of the royal family, clans, and relatives, and guarding the royal family's mausoleum temple, why can it come to do the work of receiving envoys?

Hehe, the emperor wants him to do it, not to mention the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, even an ordinary official, and the emperor can do it as much as he wants.

Not to mention that because Taoism in the Tang Dynasty is the state religion, Zongzheng Temple also manages Taoist priests and monks, and there are many monks in the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom. It is no problem to let the eldest grandson Chong, the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, come to receive the envoys of the Japanese State, and it is very suitable.

Li Chengqian asked Wu Yuanqing if he could not be withdrawn like this? Because in Li Chengqian's opinion, his emperor father obviously attaches great importance to the arrival of the envoys of the Japanese State, otherwise he would not have specially promoted his cousin Changsun Chong to receive the Japanese people by two levels, because the eldest Sun Chong had just been promoted two months ago.

Father and Emperor value it so much, if Wu Yuanqing can be well received and do a good job, maybe his father will let him be directly promoted to the position of Honglu Temple, you must know that Tang Jian is already a person who is going to be promoted, as soon as Tang Jian leaves, someone will definitely make up for the position of Honglu Temple.

So Li Chengqian later asked Wu Yuanqing, don't you fight for it?

It's a pity that Wu Yuanqing has no interest in being promoted at all, let alone relying on receiving little devils to get promoted.

He would rather let his old rival Changsun Chong be promoted, and he would not like to accompany Xiao to receive the little devil.