"I heard from the eunuchs who procured the goods, today the concubine of the Southern Dynasty entered the city, and now he is living in the post house arranged in advance by the Ministry of Rites, and it is said that the bride price brought is filled with more than 20 cars......" The palace maid saw that Princess Lando's face was not good, and hurriedly lowered her head and said.

"Over the years, the Southern Dynasty has coveted my rivers and mountains, and has repeatedly invaded my borders in Great Xia, but my father married me to a Nanan, so won't the Southern Dynasty intrude on my Great Xia?" Princess Lando's tone was full of anger and unwillingness.

The nurse on the side hurriedly persuaded: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the emperor of the heavenly family has always had no reason to marry herself!" ”

Knowing that Princess Lando didn't want to marry the Song people, and had pleaded with His Majesty the Emperor many times to no avail, the nurse stayed by Princess Tuduo's side all the time, and then enlightened: "The princess of the Han Dynasty married the Xiongnu in the north, and the princess of the Tang Dynasty married to Tubo, which one can bear it, Her Royal Highness the princess is the pearl of Your Majesty's palm, how can parents in the world not feel sorry for their children, although Your Majesty is reluctant in her heart, but she is also forced to be helpless!" ”

Princess Lando didn't know the reason, and her anger towards Lotte became a little heavier, and she instructed the palace maid who inquired about the news: "What else have you heard, tell me quickly!" ”

The palace maid then reported: "Your Royal Highness the princess, I heard that this concubine of the Southern Dynasty won the favor of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and gave the concubine a lot of property for his wedding, in addition, the concubine was also very attentive to the princess, and he brought 500,000 taels of silver as a bride price......"

"How can I care about his possessions!" Princess Lando's expression was full of disdain, and her tone was full of hatred and melancholy: "I heard that this person followed the Southern Dynasty to conquer our dynasty, causing our dynasty to lose troops and generals, but my father wants to marry me to him, can it be that if you marry me to this southern person, then the Southern Dynasty will not intrude on me in Great Xia?" ”

The palace maid who reported the situation did not dare to answer Lan Duo's words, "The slave maid heard that tomorrow morning, His Majesty will meet with the Southern Dynasty concubine!" ”

"Tomorrow?" Princess Landau raised her eyebrows, but her frowning brow suddenly relaxed.

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"Xuannan Dynasty envoy Lotte, meet ......," outside the main hall of the Xia Palace, the small chamberlain of the Xixia Palace shouted at the top of his voice.

Hearing the edict, an attendant took Lotte and the accompanying officials of the Ministry of Rites to the main hall of the Xixia Palace.

Yesterday I arrived at Xingqing Mansion, took a short rest, Lotte toured around, and it only took two hours, Lotte took a look at Xingqing Mansion. Of course, when Lotte visited Xingqing Mansion, it was inevitable that there would be spies from Western Xia who looked at each other from time to time.

The overall image of Xingqing Mansion to Lotte is a small character, the circumference of the city wall of Biandu City is more than 60 miles, and the circumference of Xingqing Mansion is only 18 miles, that is to say, the area of Xingqing Mansion is less than one-tenth of Biandu, that is, it is much smaller than the city of Caizhou, Lotte's hometown, and the population is much worse, I am afraid that it is only equivalent to Pingyu County.

Xingqing Mansion is small, the Xixia Palace is even smaller, of course, the palace of the Great Song Dynasty is not big, but the Xixia royal family is more compact.

Entering the main hall of the Xixia Palace, Lotte in a scarlet robe and a good-skinned look stood among the military generals of the Western Xia Dynasty, which was eye-catching.

Whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or the Western Xia, anyone who can enter the court must have many years of official qualifications, so people who are thirty or forty years old above the court can only be regarded as young people, fifty or sixty are the backbone, and seventy years old is the most respected and powerful person.

So among the middle-aged and elderly people, Lotte is too young, too conspicuous and too eye-catching.

"The Great Song envoy Lotte has seen the Lord of Great Xia!" Lotte bowed upward, and his voice was neither humble nor arrogant. The officials of the Ministry of Rites who came with him also bowed together.

Seeing Lotte, a group of Western Xia civilians couldn't help but shout hello in their hearts, and secretly sighed that they were indeed talented people of the Southern Dynasty. At this time, the mood of these Western Xia officials towards Lotte is very contradictory and complicated, although the young man in front of him is born with a good skin, but who would have thought that this Southern Dynasty official who looks a little weak is actually the culprit of the Great Xia's loss of soldiers, so that the dynasty humbly begged for peace with the Great Song Dynasty, and even married the princess.

"Don't be polite, raise your head and let me have a good look!" Just as Lotte bowed down, he could only hear Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun who was sitting on the dragon chair say.

This...... The title of son-in-law is now used, Lotte was stunned, and then smiled helplessly, and said in his heart that this Li Qianshun is really not an ordinary person, no wonder after the Jurchens destroyed Liao and the Northern Song Dynasty, the national glory of Western Xia lasted for more than a hundred years at the time of the drastic changes.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everything has to be carried out according to the etiquette procedure, and it is a matter of national character, and Lotte naturally cannot be driven by temperament.

"A virtuous son-in-law is a talent, worthy of being a talented figure in the Southern Dynasty, and Gu really didn't see the wrong person!" Putting aside the national interests, Xia Chongzong and Li Qianshun are also very happy with Lotte.

"Your Majesty has a false reputation!" Lotte hurriedly replied.

Looking up at the same time, he was also looking at the emperor who walked between the Song, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, and the emperor of the Western Xia, this Li Qianshun looked similar to Zhao Ji of Huizong, and the difference between him and the Song people was not big, but the characteristics of the nomadic Wen people in the Western Regions were slightly more between the eyebrows, except that Hu Shun was slightly curved, otherwise the dragon robe on his body was completely different from the Great Song Dynasty, different from the Han people, but not different from the other Western Regions and northern peoples in the imagination.

Li Qianshun nodded, but did not continue to talk to Lotte, his eyes looked at the waiter next to him and said, "Declare the decree ......"

Decree? Lotte was puzzled when he heard this, he had just met the emperor of Western Xia, and he hadn't dealt with the diplomatic etiquette order yet, so why did he suddenly talk about the proclamation.

The inner attendant who approached Li Qianshun hurriedly answered, and then instructed the little eunuchs waiting there on the side of the main hall: "Present the holy decree of the lord of the country and read it in public!" ”

"Yes!" At this time, I only heard a small eunuch waiting on the side of the main hall answer, and then stepped forward with a scroll of holy decree in his hand.

The official eunuch who was waiting in front of Li Qianshun was about to take the holy decree, but when he saw the face of the little chamberlain, he was stunned: "Gong ......"

Hearing that the eunuch who was waiting beside him suddenly lost his voice, Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun, who was looking at Lotte, turned his gaze over, and then a little surprised expression flashed in his eyes, but as the king of a country, he quickly regained his calm, but there was still a little helplessness in his eyes, and even a little anger in his eyes.

The little eunuch who stepped forward with the holy decree was stunned when he saw the eunuch who came to receive the holy decree, but he smiled: "I'm afraid that the noble man is a little uncomfortable today, so this holy decree will be read by the little nobleman!" ”

"This ......" was in a dilemma, and in the end he could only set his eyes on Xia Chongzong on the Danqi.

Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun was helpless, so he had to order: "Fold, your throat is uncomfortable for the past two days, let him read it!" ”

Lotte didn't care about these details at all, at this time Lotte was thinking about what it would mean for Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia, to do this, after all, diplomacy is no trivial matter, and things involve the two countries and their own vital interests, and Lotte has to think about it repeatedly.

In fact, this matter is unprecedented, throughout the dynasties and dynasties, there are no envoys to other countries and were proclaimed by other countries, Lotte can be said to have opened a precedent in history, not only unprecedented, but also unprecedented.

The little eunuchs stared at Lotte, unfolded the holy decree in their hands, cleared their throats and read: "The envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, the princess of the Shiben Dynasty Lando, and the concubine Letian received the decree......

Hearing the little eunuch speak, Lotte stepped forward and bowed: "The little envoy receives the order......

Seeing that Lotte was just bowing down, the little eunuch couldn't help but raise his eyebrows lightly, and said, "Please also ask your envoy to accept the order!" ”

"This little noble man is talking like this, I'm afraid it's not in accordance with the rules!" Hearing this, Lotte raised his eyebrows lightly, turned his eyes to the little eunuch who announced the decree, and said: "Le is the messenger of the Great Song Dynasty, and naturally represents the Great Song Dynasty, how can he bend at will?" ”

While speaking, Lotte began to look at the little eunuch of Western Xia in front of him, only to see that the eunuch who read the decree was not tall, but he was born with red lips and white teeth, but his temperament was a little different from that of the other eunuchs, his demeanor looked arrogant, and there was a coldness in his eyes.

Lotte has been an official for more than a year, and naturally has dealt with eunuchs countless times, after the eunuchs were cut off from the roots, because of the lack of male sex hormones, there is naturally more inferiority in the expression, and because the slave has to wait for the master, the demeanor is even more humble, but the little eunuch in front of him is too different from other eunuchs.

Not only was Lotte surprised, but also a group of civil and military officers in the Western Xia court, this little eunuch was really unruly when he spoke like this, but after thinking about it, this Song people defeated the Great Xia army in a row, and the whole country hated it, and this little eunuch did this, thinking that it was out of righteous indignation.

Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun, who was sitting on the dragon chair, also looked pale when he heard this, and wanted to say something, but he closed his mouth again, and the wry smile on the corner of his lips became a little thicker.

Listening to Lotte's refutation, the little eunuch who announced the decree said: "It is true that Your Excellency is an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, but don't forget that you are still my concubine of Great Xia, and the concubine receives the holy decree of His Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia, so naturally you want to worship!" ”

"I'm afraid that the little nobleman has just been on an errand in the palace? The rules are tight, and Le doesn't care. Lotte smiled, and then said: "In what the little nobleman just said, there are some slips of the tongue and logical errors in common sense, and Le pointed them out with the little nobleman today."

First, the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, except for His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Liao, could not bow down with the leaders of other countries; Second, the leader of the Great Xia Kingdom is the lord of the country, and he is a subject of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to the level of the prince of our dynasty, so he does not have the right to order people to perform the worship ceremony! ”

Feeling that what Lotte said was irrefutable, the little eunuch muttered: "The southerners are really sharp-tongued!" ”

What is going on today, how can a little eunuch be so bold and dare to argue with the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, all the Western Xia ministers in the palace are very strange in their hearts, and it is even more strange how His Majesty the Emperor above Danqi suddenly remained silent today.

Glancing at Lotte indignantly, the little eunuch picked up the holy decree and read: "Regarding the holy decree of Princess Shilanduo and the concubine Lotte, the Marquis of Leshan."

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The emperor of the day carried the edict

Sage Yun: "The country has virtuous ministers, and the country must be solid." "In the Great Song Dynasty, the scholars are allowed to know the book and understand the reason, expensive and thrifty, and do not slack to follow. In order to show its nobility, it is specially sealed as the Marquis of Leshan, and the food of Leshan is within a radius of 300 thousand households. Er Ling is not ignorant, and he still knows the glory.

Chin this! ”

As soon as the little eunuch finished reading, he took out another volume of the holy decree, glanced at Lotte with slanted eyes, and read it with a little annoyance in his eyes: "About the holy decree of the father of Leshan Hou Lotte to give a bachelor of Chengde Lang Hanlin Academy, and the mother Ge Shi to confer the blessing of people.

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Heaven carries the emperor's edict

Yi said: "In the house of goodness, there will be afterglow." "He who has not bowed down to goodness, and then he is not uplifted. Lonely is not stingy with praise for the loyal and righteous people, the father of Lotte, the righteousness of his nature, the goodness of his conduct, Yunwen Yunwu, the outline of the Quartet, Qingyan Naizi, Hanmo Qixiang, even mourning, and bowing. It is advisable to praise and compile to show the potential virtue. Zitter: Cheng Delang, bachelor of Hanlin Academy. Er Ling is not ignorant, and he still knows the glory.

Edict said: Lourdes is in the people, and the parents are also. Therefore, the imperial court chased the tin and arrested it, Ge Shi, the mother of the Marquis of Leshan, filial piety, diligence and thrift, chastity and quiet Shuyi, and the heir of the philosopher, and the official of the emperor. Zite Gift is a respectful person, nine original knowledge, admiration innumerable.

The treasure of August 18 of the first year of Yuande

Chin this! ”

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