Chapter 300: Birthday (2)

The prince who was standing behind Ji Zhong stepped forward and shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Banquet!" ”

Everyone in the audience stood up in unison, holding wine glasses, and shouted almost in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Ji Zhong stretched out his hands and pressed down. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "All the secretaries are seated, there is no need to be polite, eat and drink today, and if you don't get drunk, you won't return!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After the scene was done, they each sat back, raised their chopsticks, should eat, drink, and the atmosphere in the field suddenly became hot.

Eating is eating, and the process that should be there is indispensable. Sun Huaili, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, walked to the bottom of the steps of the imperial table, unfolded the cloth scroll in his hand, read the congratulatory message aloud, closed it again, and said loudly: "I have asked the envoys of various countries to hand over the national credentials." ”

It is said that it is a national letter, but in fact it is a formality, most of which are a bunch of sycophants drafted by ministers of various countries, expressing that they are extremely concerned about the birthday of the Great Zhou Emperor and will take care of them in the future.

The first one to go up was the envoy from the east, but this time he didn't bring anyone, he walked up alone, handed the Chinese book to Sun Huaili, then took two steps back, knelt down, and shouted solemnly: "The foreign minister represents me to go out of the east to the king, congratulations to His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou on his long life!" ”

"Okay." Ji Chong's face was kind, and he bowed his head and said, "After I go back, thank you for me, your Heavenly King." ”

Donggo is a subject country of the Great Zhou Dynasty, even if this identity is thrown away, it is impossible for the Great Zhou court to admit that in addition to Ji Chong, there is a so-called "emperor". There can only be one emperor! Therefore, on official occasions, the emperor can only ask for a demote and call himself king.

With the East going abroad to take the lead, the envoys of various countries stepped forward in turn to submit their credentials, which was a rather tedious and boring process, mainly because there were too many people, more than a hundred, Ji Chongcai didn't eat two bites, and patronized them.

After most of the hour passed, and finally got the last foreign envoy, the old emperor seized the opportunity to drink wine to moisten his throat, ready to meet the next "big war".

Sun Huaili paused and continued to shout: "Your Majesty is saluted!" ”

Outside the corridor, a celebrant accompanied by two palace guards, walked forward with a small box in his hand, knelt down, took out a pair of bracelets from the small box, raised it above his head, and said loudly: "The King of Shu presents a pair of Lang Huan jade bracelets!" I wish Your Majesty a long life! ”

The purpose of the gift link is to show off, so the outer packaging has long been removed. The pair of bracelets were not ordinary at first glance, but by the moonlight and the faint candlelight on both sides, they reflected a little starlight, which was extremely shining. The treasure came out of the box, and it immediately attracted a burst of exclamations.

"It's a big deal!"

"But isn't it, the King of Shu is out this time, look at this pair of bracelets, don't even want to exchange them for a few thousand taels of silver."

"A few thousand taels? Do you understand? This is a Lang Huan jade bracelet, one is already a fine product, let alone a pair? In the opinion of this official, the market value of this pair of bracelets is at least more than 30,000 taels. ”

Listening to the bursts of exclamations coming from below, Ji Chong's old face couldn't help but show a smile, but he said the opposite, and scolded harshly: "Mingcong, this kid is really not like words, it's too wasteful!" ”

Wang Li behind him said with a smile: "Although it is a bit of a cost, it is enough to show the filial piety of His Royal Highness the King of Shu." ”

"Huh." When Ji Chong heard this, he couldn't help but smile at his beard. "Take it."

The celebrant put the bracelet back into the locket, then stood up and followed the leading eunuch to the back of the hall.

Immediately after that, the second celebrant walked in briskly from outside the corridor, held a long box, opened the box, took out a picture scroll, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness King Wu presents a picture of the Heavenly Dragon Manifestation. ”

The scroll unfolded, causing another round of exclamations.

"This... This Danqing is actually in the hands of King Wu? ”

"Oh my God, what do I see?"

"Master Xu, what kind of painting is this? The lower officials have never heard of it, is it very valuable? ”

"It's not expensive, it's priceless." The official said proudly: "I'm afraid most of the people present don't know the origin of this painting, this Danqing was painted by Lord Tianzhi thirty years ago, and it was said that it was the last Danqing in this life, and the pen will be put aside after the painting." His Majesty asked for it but could not get it, and it was a great regret. I really don't know where His Royal Highness King Wu got it from. ”

Seeing the picture of the dragon manifestation that day, Rao is Ji Zhong could no longer maintain his composure, his face flushed, he walked down from the stage quickly with an excited face, stretched out his hands and solemnly took the scroll, and bowed deeply to the high platform. "Teacher Danqing, I will not treat him lightly."

"Huh." Takayuki nodded with a faint smile.

Ji Zhong returned to his seat with the painting, stroked the painting box lovingly, his eyes turned red, and muttered: "Mingcheng, this kid, has a heart." ”

After his mood calmed down, Sun Huaili made a look, and the third congratulatory gift was carried over by the two celebrants.

"His Royal Highness King Qing presents a blood coral."

"Huh?" Before the ministers had time to make a round, an exclamation rang out in the crowd, and then the Javanese envoy walked out quickly, and without saying a word, lay down.

"What does this mean, envoy?" Ji Zhong was stunned.

The envoy looked excited and shouted, "Your Majesty the Great Zhou Emperor, this Blood Coral is the national treasure that was previously lost in my Java country. ”

As soon as these words came out, Sun Huaili's face sank suddenly, and he opened his mouth and drank: "Bold! What do you mean, could it be that my Lord of the Great Zhou is a thief who steals the national treasure of Java? ”

"The foreign minister doesn't dare, the foreign minister doesn't dare!" The Javanese envoy turned pale and bowed repeatedly. "This thing must have been sold by thieves and accidentally fell into the hands of your lord. The foreign ministers have no other intentions, but only ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty to be gracious, so that he can sell this thing to the contempt country, and the subjects of Java will definitely feel His Majesty's grace, and they will never dare to forget it in this life. ”

"Hehe, the envoy is serious." It turned out that this was the case, Ji Zhong said with a smile: "How can a mere dead thing compare to the affection of the two countries?" Since this thing was once a national treasure of your country, I will definitely not take it away. In this case, I will give it to your country, and when the envoy is gone, he may take it with him. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I, Java, will serve the Great Zhou forever."

"Good, good! Stand down. ”

The three congratulatory gifts, all of which are extraordinary, immediately mobilize the atmosphere of the dinner. Jiang Yun waited horizontally and vertically, but he didn't see what he sent out, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, shouldn't he be the ignorant of the Ministry of Etiquette and brush him down? That's a loss, this thing can't be kept for too long, and after being damp, it's just a pile of waste, isn't it in vain that he has so much smallpox in his mind?

According to the rules, twenty gifts were given in the gift giving session, and in the blink of an eye, the nineteenth was delivered.

Six palace guards reasonably carried a huge bronze tripod and walked forward slowly, and the celebrant knelt down and kowtowed, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness Taisun presents a Yuhuang tripod!" ”

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the exclamations continued to explode in the crowd.

"Oh my God! It is one of the nine tripods cast by Emperor Dayu! ”

"It's true that Jiuding is true, I don't know which one it is."

"This is Jingzhou Ding!"

"Sure enough?"

"You can't be wrong! The old man is in charge of ancient books, and he has seen it countless times, this is Jingzhou Ding! ”

"Didn't Jiuding lose two of them hundreds of years ago? Where did His Royal Highness come from? ”

"God knows, this is a great achievement for thousands of years! His Royal Highness the Taisun really showed his face this time. ”

Jiuding? Jiang Yun looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed, this tattered thing is the origin of winning the world? That's not right! This Ding looks a little familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere. Where exactly?

Suddenly, his eyes widened and widened, grass! He had seen it in the treasury of the temple! There is also a broken tripod there, Jiang Yun didn't think so when he first saw it that day, and complained about how all the broken things were stuffed into it, such a large space, how much silver had to be put less! If it weren't for the copper tripod being too heavy, he wouldn't be able to move it alone, so he would have thrown it out directly.

Cold sweat gradually came out of his forehead, and Jiang Lan was bold, could it be that when he ran away, he took Emperor Yuding Shunlai with him?

This guy made up his mind in an instant, and after he went back, he had to find out the copper tripod and store it well, this is a genuine antique!