Chapter 44: The First Encounter
The Turkic mission lived in a pavilion specially arranged by the Ministry of Rites, located in Guiyifang, the largest and most luxurious courtyard among the pavilions.
The Turks, Tibetans, and Silla were the three strongest of the surrounding states of the Tang Dynasty, and they were treated first-class, which was not comparable to the weak ethnic groups of ordinary small countries.
Li Rong and An Jinzang dressed up as the blue-robed officials under the Ministry of Rites, and followed Li Shangzhen, the host and guest of the Ministry of Rites, into the welcome post.
Mohe Dagan had already received the news from the Tang Dynasty and came to the courtyard to greet everyone from the Ministry of Rites.
"Li Yuanwailang, I'm tired!" Mohe Dagan stepped forward and said with a smile on his face, fluent Chinese with a slight accent.
"Ambassador Mohe, this is the grace of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, and it is just an errand below." Li Shangzhen said with a smile.
Outside the door, the officials of the Ministry of Rites directed several carts loaded with silk horses into the courtyard.
Then Li Shangzhen officially read out to Mohe Dagan the will of the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian to grant the Turkic mission.
After listening to this, Mo Hedagan got up and took the edict, and happily invited Li Shangzhen to sit down in the main hall without mentioning it.
At this time, Li Rong, An Jinzang, and another official of the Ministry of Rites walked in with three delicate boxes in their hands.
"What is this?" Mohe Dagan looked at the three of them and said with some questions.
"This is a gift from the Queen Mother to Ambassador Mohe, the Great Chief of the Shifting Greedy Khan, and General Asili, so it's better to invite those two out." Li Shangzhen pointed to the wooden box and said.
Mo Heda was stunned for a moment, in previous years, there was no practice of giving gifts to envoys alone. Of course, the Tang court sometimes gave some gifts to the Turkic Great Khan and important people, which were passed on by the envoys.
What made Mo Hedagan hesitate was that Tang Ting directly found out the identities of Yili Greedy Khan and Asili, although the envoys did not deliberately conceal it, but they did not explain it, but they did not expect Tang Ting to still know their identities and reward gifts.
"Go and ask the Great Chief of Shifting Forces and General Asli to come!" Mohedagan waved his hand and ordered the Turkic warriors who were standing beside him.
Mo He Dagan's eyes swept and looked at Li Rong and the three of them holding the wooden box, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't know what to think.
"Who are these two people with extraordinary appearances and heroic appearances?" Mohe Dagan pointed at Li Rong, and An Jinzang said.
Mo Hedagan has a good eye, and when he saw the extraordinaryness of Li Rong and An Jinzang, he pointed it out for the first time, wanting to see what tricks Li Shangzhen was playing.
"Haha, where, where? It's just two ordinary officials of my Ministry of Rites, but I didn't expect to be in the eyes of Ambassador Mohe. Li Shangzhen said indifferently.
"It's so thick-skinned!" Mo Heda scolded in his heart.
Li Shangzhen is obviously talking nonsense with her eyes open.
As he spoke, Azli walked in from the backyard.
Li Rong's attention was immediately attracted by the evil youth who came in. The young man was dressed in a pale yellow brocade robe, wrapped in a black scarf, with two black braids, a high nose and deep eyes, and a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, showing a strange handsomeness and exuding a strange charm.
Li Rong used the microscopic eye that he had just learned, and looked directly at the evil youth. He had an intuition that the young man in front of him was looking for the murderer Asli.
Although the Shifting Force Greedy Sweat next to him had a vicious aura on his body, and his hands were obviously covered with blood, his temperament was not as weird as Ah Sili's.
Ah Sili felt Li Rong's gaze, turned his head and smiled at Li Rong as he passed, and stepped forward to greet Mo Heda.
An Jinzang stared at Asli deadly, and the situation of the death of the clansmen flashed in his mind, his close guards, and the clansmen died one by one in the hands of the Turks led by Asili, and he couldn't help but be really angry, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were exposed, and he almost wanted to do it to Asli now.
An extremely soft true qi suddenly came from the side, suppressing An Jinzang's actions.
An Jinzang turned his head to see that Li Rong's shoulder hit him, signaling him to calm down.
Mohe Dagan was telling Li Shangzhen and Asli in Turkic about Li Shangzhen's intentions, and clarified his suspicions about Li Rong and An Jinzang.
Li Shangzhen smiled silently, picked up the cup and drank the cheese. He knew Turkic and just pretended not to know.
The milk made by the Turks is more authentic, and Li Shangzhen occasionally drinks a few glasses.
Li Shangzhen is from the Li family of Zhao County, one of the seven families with five surnames in Shandong, close to the Turks, so that he likes Turkic food. Before he came, he was instructed by his boss Cui Xuanli to allow Li Rong and others to act at will.
After Mohe Dagan finished speaking, Shifting Greed Khan and Asli turned to Li Rong and An Jinzang to prepare to accept the gifts.
Li Rong happened to face Aceli and handed the wooden box in his hand to Acely.
Asli smiled evilly, showed his white teeth and reached out to take the wooden box, and a fierce true qi attacked Li Rong through the wooden box.
"Hmph" Li Rong snorted in his heart, and the true qi of the demon in his body burst into his hand, and the golden light flashed, and he unceremoniously fought with Asli across the wooden box.
The wooden box shattered and fell to the ground, revealing a jade belt.
No matter how delicate and sturdy the wooden box is, it can't withstand the impact of the true qi of the two six-rank masters.
"Huh" Ah Sili's body shook slightly, and the true qi attacking from the opposite side was fierce and domineering, not much inferior to himself.
Ah Sili glanced at Li Rong with a slight surprise, with a hint of war intent in his eyes, but he didn't expect Li Rong to be a master.
He was so greedy that he didn't do anything, and calmly took the wooden box and put it in his hand. He is already a master who has experienced a hundred battles and leads a side, and he will not be as fierce as Asli.
"Who is this little brother? I think I am a young talent in Datang, I have always admired Datang martial arts, I don't know if I can teach a thing or two. Asli said suddenly.
The Turkic interpreter standing next to Li Shangzhen listened and hurriedly translated it into Chinese and spoke.
Gentle Fang Shangshu Li Hui on the house.
"My lord, Hood, the head of the North City Horse Traveling Society, is dead." Ge Weide hurriedly ran to Li Hui and saluted.
"The Turks did it?" Li Hui sat on the couch and asked.
"I don't know who it is, I guess it's Qiu Shenji's hand, not only in Beishi Ma Xing, but also in all the clubs that are close to us have encountered Jin Wuwei's investigation, and many people have been imprisoned in Jin Wuwei's prison." Gweed said in a deep voice.
"Qiu Shenji?" Li Hui groaned slightly.
"According to the information report of Jin Wuweizhong, Qiu Shenji is clearing the traces of adults, and the generals and captains who are friendly with us are either transferred to other idle positions or expelled from Beijing, do you want to ask what your adults should do?" Gweed said.
Li Hui has been in charge of Jin Wuwei for more than ten years, with a deep foundation, and many Jin Wuwei senior and middle-level officers are from Li Hui's subordinates.
"Once a son of heaven and a courtier, I don't blame him for cleaning up Jin Wuwei, but Qiu Shenji has attacked those ordinary people who provide us with intelligence information, and it is a bit too much." Li Hui sighed.
Qiu Shenji has been narrow-minded since he was born, and he should have expected it a long time ago, but he didn't expect him to care about attacking ordinary people.
"The people related to us are evacuated from Luoyang and protected them. I will repair a letter to the head of the Qiu family. Li Hui said, "In addition, the person who killed Hood, I think it would be better to go down and accompany Hood." ”
"Yes, sir." Gweed answered, turning to leave.
"It's just a small official in the Ministry of Rites, his name is not enough to hear, and he dares to fight with Turkic warriors." Li Rong listened and said.
The interpreter translated Li Rong's words into Turkic and said to Asili.
"This person is just a small official under the Ministry of Rites, An Neng competes with the Turkic warriors, and another day we will send the Imperial Guards to fight with this warrior!" Li Shangzhen said softly.
Li Rong detected his bottom line from the true qi attacked by Ah Sili, the sharp and fine true qi, such a true qi and the scimitar would leave that kind of dense scars like spider webs, and it could even be concluded that Ah Sili was the murderer of the Nanshi corpse splitting case.
"I didn't expect that it seems to be a lofty, but it's just a coward, are the Han people all useless farmers?" Asli said in a contemptuous tone.
As soon as he walked into the main hall, Asli experienced a strong hostility from Li Rong, and only then took the opportunity to test, it turned out that Li Rong had a strong sense of vigilance against him, and Asli tried to ask Li Rong to compete, preparing to kill Li Rong during the competition, and it was inevitable that he would miss by chance during the competition.
"What is he talking about?" Li Rong looked at An Jinzang and said.
"He called you a coward," Mr. Ahn said.
"Hmph, I'll clean him up when I get back." Li Rong snorted lightly.
This is the post house, a place to entertain foreign envoys. If a foreign envoy is injured or killed here, no matter what the reason, it will cause disputes between the two countries and affect the face of the imperial court. Besides, there was a seventh-rank grandmaster like Shifting Greed Khan standing next to the other party, so he wouldn't take advantage of it anyway. Li Rong certainly likes to compete with masters, but he wants to kill Asli directly.
Mo He Dagan glanced at Li Rong meaningfully, and opened his mouth to stop Asli's challenge request, and Li Shangzhen also borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, chatted a few boring clichés, and left with everyone.