922.Chapter 922: The Short Boy of Dongying
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Because today to meet foreign missions, so early in the morning outside the palace gate is full of civil and military officials, when the time comes, after the palace gate opens, civil and military officials go to the court one after another.
Li Shimin said a little to the ministers in the early court, and then ordered people to let the envoys of various countries go to the court.
The voices came out one after another, and after a short time, the envoys of various countries went to court one after another.
Although there are no nations, there are dozens of these envoys combined, and dozens of people stand on top of the court at once, which is still very spectacular.
After the foreign envoys came up, they came in one by one to offer gifts, and expressed some wishes of their masters, and so on.
In any case, now that all countries are coming to the court, it can be regarded as the affirmation of other countries for Datang and the affirmation of him, the heavenly khan.
The flattery of these people satisfied Li Shimin's wish for great success.
And while these envoys were talking, it was soon the turn of Zheng Zhong of Goguryeo.
Zheng Zhong is about forty years old, a little thinner, but very tall, after he stood up, first expressed their king's blessing to Li Shimin, and then hoped that the friendship between the two countries would last forever or something, after saying this, the next thing is to repay the gift, Zheng Zhong took the gift list and muttered, after saying this, he said: "Your Majesty the Heavenly Khan, before coming to the Tang Dynasty, there was a storm in our Goguryeo, and as a result, a dwarf blew on our island, this dwarf is very interesting, For this reason, I, the king of Goguryeo, want to dedicate this dwarf to your Tang Dynasty, I don't know if His Majesty the Heavenly Khan wants to see him? ”
Dwarves, there are all in that country, it is not unusual, but Zheng Zhong said that it doesn't matter if you want to, but you must see it, so Li Shimin asked Zheng Zhong to bring the dwarf.
Soon, the Goguryeo mission brought a dwarf, who was less than five feet tall, probably only to the waist of the Tang Dynasty, fat and fat, with a very round face, but it gave people a sense of anger.
The dwarf seemed reluctant and unhappy when he came in, and when he came to the main hall, he did not know how to salute, but looked up very proudly, as if he did not take anyone seriously.
If it were someone else, the hundred officials of the Tang Dynasty would have been angry a long time ago, but this little dwarf is too small, and it feels very funny, so the entire hundred officials of the Tang Dynasty did not treat him as a person, since he was not regarded as a person, why should he be required to abide by human etiquette?
Everyone just regarded him as a gift, or a plaything, so when he raised his head and looked arrogant, the whole court suddenly burst into laughter, and they thought this villain was too interesting.
Everyone laughed, but it angered the villain, only to see the villain muttering and not knowing what to say, but judging from his expression, it was definitely not a good word.
Seeing this, Zheng Zhong, the envoy of Goguryeo, turned slightly pale, and was very afraid that Li Shimin and others would be annoyed by this, but what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin and the hundred officials of the Tang Dynasty laughed even more, they couldn't understand what this villain said at all, and when they saw that the villain was so funny, they naturally couldn't help laughing again.
Seeing this, Zheng Zhong was a little relieved, and when the laughter gradually subsided, he said: "Your Majesty the Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty, this villain was scraped from the sea in the east, and when we caught him and asked him anything, he was like this, and we didn't even know what he said, so we still don't know where he came from, otherwise we can send a boat to their place to hide and catch a few to play." ”
Treating a person as a plaything, Zheng Zhong didn't think there was a problem at all when he spoke, but as soon as he finished speaking, the envoys from other countries next to him immediately stood up.
"Your Majesty the Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty, I heard that you Datang are full of talents, I wonder if anyone can understand what this villain says?"
Yesterday, Ma Zhou said that there are no capable people in these foreign missions, and they are still holding their breath, and now they encounter such a good opportunity, how can they just give it up?
As soon as these people said this, the people of the Tang Dynasty immediately looked at each other and started to discuss, and Zheng Zhong of Goguryeo showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, in fact, he brought this villain up, he deliberately made it difficult for the Tang people, but his strength in Goguryeo was not strong, so he didn't dare to say anything difficult, he only sent this villain as a gift, and then guided it a little, he believed that the missions of other countries would definitely not help but make things difficult for the Tang Dynasty after hearing his words.
Now it seems that his purpose has been achieved.
Foreign envoys asked to see if there were any capable people in Datang, but Li Shimin didn't expect that in the early dynasty, these people would make it difficult for them, he looked up at Zheng Zhong, and in an instant, there was a killing intent in his eyes.
Li Shimin is very smart, and the reason why this situation occurred was because of Zheng Zhong's words, so he had every reason to suspect that this was Zheng Zhong's conspiracy.
This Goguryeo envoy is not simple.
Although the battle between Datang and Goguryeo was won on the surface, it caused Datang to suffer heavy losses, and it was the most unwinked victory in Datang's foreign wars for so many years, so Goguryeo was a thorn in the heart of Datang.
Now that he has been challenged by Goguryeo, if he can't win, it will be even more shameful for the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin frowned slightly, looked at the ministers and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, who understands the language of this dwarf?" ”
The ministers looked at each other, and there were many discussions, Tang Zhou stood aside and stared at his eyebrows, judging from the situation of this dwarf, Tang Zhou can be sure that this dwarf is a Dongying person, and may be a fisherman of the Dongying people, but he encountered wind and waves at sea and was blown to the island of Goguryeo, but what this Dongying dwarf said was not the kind of Yamato language that Tang Zhou knew, he said the ancient Dongying language of the Dongying people.
In the era of the Tang Dynasty, only people from the Dongying royal family said this language, and ordinary people did not speak this, and the ancient Dongying language was a little difficult to understand, but it had something in common with the language spoken by ordinary people.
Tang Zhou had learned some Dongying cuisine in his previous life, so he would have some such words, although Tang Zhou couldn't understand all of what the Dongying dwarf said, but he still understood the meaning of some of the words.
However, Datang is full of talents, and maybe someone can understand it better than him, so he is not in a hurry.
The discussion and hope continued, and when the foreign missions saw that no one in Datang stood up, they were all a little proud and a little disdainful.
"Tian Khan of Datang, can no one of you Datang understand the words of this dwarf?"
Li Shimin frowned slightly, and looked at the ministers, with a slight anger in his eyes, but the ministers knew what this Dongying dwarf said, so no one dared to stand up.
Seeing this, Tang Zhou knew that no one in Datang really knew this language, so he stepped forward.