Chapter Eighty-Eight: Your Majesty Arrives (Part I)

Taihe Palace, commonly known as Jinluan Palace, is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture and one of the three major halls in the East. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As the largest hall of the feudal dynasty, the Taihe Hall bears the weight on the top of the eaves of the palace, sits down three layers of white marble steps, adopts the golden dragon and the seal color painting, the roof of the immortal beast as many as 11 pieces, the opening of the eleven rooms, all adopt the highest form, 100 people in the parliament, will not feel crowded at all.

The Taihe Hall in the daytime, the momentum is magnificent, beautiful and noble, hundreds of officials discuss in it, they feel open-minded, as if the world is in control, and the admonition sighs like a surging river stretching endlessly.

But the Taihe Hall at night, because it is huge, is dark everywhere, unless you light 10,000 candles, it is difficult to illuminate the whole view of the whole hall.

Therefore, no one has ever come to the temple at night to discuss matters.

But tonight, the Taihe Palace, as the place where the main banquet of the New Song Dynasty, has become a place where the ministers must come....

........

Wang Sizong thought that the Taihe Hall would be darker, but what he never expected was that the Taihe Hall would be shining outward.

When standing in line outside the Taihe Hall, Wang Sizong noticed the unusual place of the Taihe Palace, at the gate of the main hall, a beam of light came out of the door, the kind of white light that was not like a lantern, Wang Sizong racked his brains and couldn't think of where he had seen it.

It wasn't until the moment he stepped into the Taihe Hall with his feet that Wang Sizong remembered what Jiang Yin had told him about something called an electric light that could always shine at night.

In Wang Sizong's imagination, things like electric lights were as dazzling as the sun, and they couldn't be looked at directly, just like those long-range lights on the construction site, but when he first saw the many electric lights in the main hall, the imaginary scene did not appear.

The light of the electric lamp is unusually soft, completely different from the sunlight, firelight, and long-beam light, it is the most unsightly light in the world, Wang Sizong intuitively bathes in this light, and is physically and mentally comfortable, and longs to have this kind of light shining on him every night.

"It's so bright, it's so bright...."

"What is this, how can it glow so softly...."

"Are these the pearls of the night? ....”

..... The ministers in the main hall all raised their heads, looking at the electric lights above their heads and exclaiming, even old people like Yang Guangyi shouted magically.

"Ahem, ahem, silence, silence." At the top of the main hall, Lin Yue was wearing the official uniform of the director of the Law Enforcement Department, standing not far from the dragon chair, looking at the people in the audience with a solemn expression.

Seeing the director of the Law Enforcement Department, the hall suddenly fell silent, and many junior officials who came to the Taihe Hall for the first time didn't even dare to raise their heads.

"Today's state banquet is Your Majesty's banquet for ministers and overseas envoys, there are one hundred and two officials, the Ministry of Rites is still the book, can anyone be there?" Lin Yue asked loudly towards the audience.

"Back to the Attorney General, all of my one hundred and two officials in the New Song Dynasty are here." Wang Sizong lowered his head and walked out of the crowd with a fold, "This thing is the list of the number of participants in this banquet, and I also ask the director to take a look." ”

A man next to him hurriedly walked over, picked up the fold with both hands and presented it.

Lin Yue stood and looked at the fold, nodded and said: "The hundred officials have arrived, sit down, and announce the envoys of other countries to see you~"

Wang Shiyi, who was in His Royal Highness, also shouted luckily: "The hundred officials have arrived, sit down, and announce that the envoys of other countries are respectful~"

"The hundred officials have arrived, sit down, and announce the envoys of other countries to see you~...."

......

When the voice of announcing the respect of the envoys of other countries came from the direction of the Taihe Palace, the envoys of various countries who had been waiting in the Hongyi Hall early in the morning were in a commotion.

"Everyone, please be calm and don't be impatient, please ask the Liao envoys to go first, the Goryeo envoys second, the Japanese envoys again, and the rest of the small countries please follow the Japanese envoys and enter the main hall in an orderly manner." A Honglu Temple inspector explained to the national missions.

As the representative envoy of the Liao State Mission, Han Derang finally felt a little proud of being an envoy of the Liao State at this moment, at least compared to those small countries, they Liao State could be the first to enter the main hall.

Under the leadership of the leading officials of Honglu Temple, Han Derang led everyone towards the main hall, but the closer he got to the main hall, the more uneasy Han Derang felt.

A month ago, Han Derang was ordered by the lord of Liao, responsible for exploring the reality of the new Song Kingdom, through the introduction of the Han people, he and more than a dozen spies entered the hinterland of Cangzhou in the New Song Dynasty, after more than a month of in-depth understanding, but he has more and more doubts about this newly built country for only a few months.

Han Derang had never seen a country that did not worry about food, but in the New Song Dynasty, rice was cheap enough for beggars to eat, cloth was unusually cheap, commerce was so hot that it was incomprehensible, and the tall and majestic city walls all marked this as an unusually powerful country.

However, this country only occupies one Cangzhou City, and the surrounding land and cities are not encroached upon, which directly leads to the villagers and people within more than 100 miles near Cangzhou City, all of whom gather towards Cangzhou City.

This city is like a big pixiu, no matter how many people, it will not refuse to eat, and those people will live the good life they dream of, in just one month, just Han Derang saw, more than 30,000 people came to Cangzhou from all over the country to do business and make a living.

I don't know where this new Song State suddenly appeared, but in a short period of time, it can rise to such an extent, Han Derang can't imagine what it can develop if this New Song Kingdom is given ten years.

So Han Derang couldn't stand it, on the one hand, he sent people back to the Liao State to explain to the Liao lord what he had seen and heard in Cangzhou for a month, and on the other hand, Han Derang took the initiative to show his identity as the envoy of the Liao State to the New Song Kingdom, in order to meet the New Song Dynasty Lord face-to-face.

Now, Han Derang finally had the opportunity to meet this legendary young king, with a nervous mood, Han Derang stepped into the Taihe Palace, but when he raised his head and saw the brightly lit palace in front of him, the whole person was stunned.......

.......

When following the Liao delegation in front of him into the main hall, Fuji Yuanmu grew his mouth, and the whole hall was like daylight, everyone could see it clearly, and the white things hanging on the ceiling of the palace emitted a bright light.

At that time, Fuji Zhiki felt the magic and magnificence of the Heavenly Empire for the first time, and Fuji Zhiki swore that he would never forget this kind of scene of the whole hall as if it was day, and he planned to return to Japan to tell the people in his family about it, and the king of the Central Plains lived in a palace full of night pearls!

........

Whether it was the envoys of the Liao State, the envoys of Goryeo, or the envoys of the Japanese State, when they saw such a brightly lit hall, they all showed the surprise that the people of the whole era should have.

Lin Yue was very satisfied with the performance of these people.

The more surprised they were, the more Jiang Yin's appearance shocked them, the corners of Lin Yue's mouth curled up with a smile, and he said magnificently: "The envoys of the hundred officials have arrived, please come to your majesty!" ~”..... (To be continued.) )