What Lu Duan thought in his heart, Li Sidi didn't know, he gushed about the history on the way to the west. Lu Duan listened silently on the side, he didn't want to listen, but he didn't know how to interrupt for a while. It wasn't until the attendants beside Li Sidi reminded him that he came back to his senses from the gushing 'stories'. Looking at Lu Duan on the side, Li Sidi smiled embarrassedly, "I'm sorry for delaying you so much, please come with me." ”

Lu Duan replied politely, and followed Li Sidi towards a side hall of the palace.

Entering the side hall, Li Sidi invited Lu Duan to sit down, he sat down and began to look at everything in the side hall, and saw that the interior of the palace was full of 'carved beams and painted buildings' golden splendor, all kinds of large dome murals, painted all over the hall, and all kinds of reliefs and decorations, Lu Duan looked carefully, it was actually decorated with gold juice and gold ornaments. Such a luxury, it was Lu Duan who smacked his tongue, and was secretly surprised by the wealth of the Tang people in his heart. What's more, he has been looking all the way, not just in one place, but everywhere. Whether it is in various cities or villages in various places, every household is extremely solid, and there are so many livestock in the barn that Lu Duan is extremely moved.

It didn't take long for an attendant to bring tea and delicately made snacks, and Lu Duan didn't move those pastries, but took a sip of hot tea from a delicate cup.

Not long after, Li Sidi, who had gone and returned, walked into the side hall again and said to him, "Your Majesty has summoned you. After hearing this, Lu Duan put down the tea cup in his hand, got up and tidied up his clothes, he visited foreign countries to represent the face of a country, but he did not dare to let his clothes be untidy and make the Tang people and ministers despise. In other words, personal honor and disgrace are small, and humiliation of the country is great. When he had everything sorted out, he motioned to Li Sidi, "Labor leads the way!" The latter saw him tidy up with his own eyes, with satisfaction and approval in his eyes, "No wonder our country's history records that China is a state of etiquette, and today it can be regarded as a sight." ”

After hearing this, Lu Duan had arrogance in his eyes, he was wearing a robe, a crown on his head, and three gray-white beards hanging down under his chin.

After that, Lu Duan, under the leadership of Li Sidi, walked towards the Peony Palace in the main hall. It is not only a hall where the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers discuss state affairs and issue government decrees, but also a place to entertain foreign guests. When he arrived at the Peony Palace, Lu Duan understood why this palace was called Peony, and it was really named after the peony flower. The relief decoration of the temple is full of peonies, and even the surrounding area of this temple is planted with peony flowers. As for the king of flowers produced in China, why he went thousands of miles away, Lu Duan did not know, but seeing the flowers that he was familiar with was enough to alleviate Lu Duan's homesickness.

Under the guidance of Li Sidi, Lu Duan walked into the Peony Palace, and when he entered the palace gate, he saw the Tang Dynasty ministers standing on the left and right. The style of their robes is slightly the same as that of the Central Plains, except for some details. Eguan has big sleeves, and the instrument is extraordinary, and Lu Duan also found that among these standing ministers, there are not only the faces of the Han family, but also some faces of the people.

And on the golden throne at the top, there was a young man sitting, Lu Duan looked at it, and could only vaguely see that he looked very young, and he couldn't see what he looked like. In addition, what shocked Lu Duan's heart the most was the other party's golden eyes. Such an imperial vision, Lu Duan has never seen it in his life.

He suppressed the curiosity in his heart, took a few steps forward, and bowed, "The Great Song Dynasty visits the Tang envoy Lu Duan to meet His Majesty the King!" ”

The young king held his hand slightly, and said with a smile, "When I was a young man, I saw the events recorded in my Tang people's homeland in my father's mouth and in my grandfather's codex. Here, I would like to congratulate China on its reunification, and hope that our two countries will be like brothers, and we will never have a dislike for each other. ”

Lu Duanzuo's body was held up by an invisible soft force, which made him extremely shocked in his heart. After hearing the words of the Tang Dynasty Lord, Lu Duan replied, "It is an incomparable blessing that my Great Song monarch and minister can be thousands of miles away and have a country of relatives to match. The people of Anxi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were able to establish a free country again after hundreds of years, and my Great Song Dynasty was extremely happy when I first knew it. As His Majesty the King said, the Foreign Minister wishes that the two countries can be as close as the Qin and Jin kingdoms in the past. ”

"Oh? Qin Jinzhi is good? The young lord smiled, "Listening to what your envoy said, could it be that the Song Kingdom is willing to marry the princess and come here to marry our country?" ”

Lu Duan is actually just an example, he never thought that the monarch of the Tang Kingdom would know the goodness of Qin and Jin in Chinese history. Now that the words have been spoken, those who listen to the meaning of this land seem to want to marry their Great Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably marry their daughter here. This was something he hadn't commanded before he came, and he just said it casually. And how can you choose a husband for the official family? Therefore, Lu Duan could only prevaricate, "Your Majesty is joking, the matter of the marriage between the two countries is very important, and the foreign minister cannot call the shots." If Your Majesty is interested, you should send someone to my Great Song Dynasty to ask for marriage in accordance with my Chinese customs. ”

"Hehe, let's talk about this later!"

After hearing this, Lu Duan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then he took out the national letter and gift list from his sleeve, and his own attendant took the national letter and gift list in his hand and handed it to the king. The young king took the letter and the gift and looked at it.

Most of the words in the national credentials are some scenes, which are nothing more than scenes of diplomatic relations between the two countries, mutual assistance and friendship. And there are many things written on the national ceremony, all kinds of silk cloth, gold and silver jewelry, books and documents, and some rare specialties, the amount is so large that even the young king, who is accustomed to seeing wealth, cannot help but be staggered.

He smiled and said, "Song Guo gave such a rich national gift, how could Lone not return the gift?" He thought for a moment, and then said, "In this way, Gu will give back 10,000 good horses, stone honey, spices, and jewelry, and bring them back when your envoy returns to China, and by the way, bring Gu to greet Your Majesty." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Being able to get 10,000 war horses for nothing made Lu Duan's heart extremely excited, not to mention that he had seen these war horses with his own eyes, all of them were high-headed horses, which were not much better than the war horses of the Khitans. It's just that those dead things are okay, and how to get these 10,000 war horses makes it difficult for him. When the king on the throne saw this, he asked with concern, "But is there a problem?" ”

Lu Duan hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty has given you a lot of gifts, and the other ministers are very moved. He hesitated and said: "It's just that those dead things are still easy to solve, but the huge number of war horses is really difficult to solve, let alone send them to China safely?" ”

When the young king heard this, he laughed and said, "This matter is very easy to handle, and when your envoy returns to the country, I will let you ride the 'ark' to give you a ride." Those 10,000 war horses will ensure that you are transported back home safely. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lu Duan was overjoyed when he heard this, although he didn't know what the ark was, but the king's assurances made him extremely relieved. When I came to the Red Sea, there was a land that separated the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. But when he was puzzled, he felt dizzy for a while, and when everything was better, he found that the huge fleet had crossed the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Such an unbelievable thing shocked Lu Duan at that time.

In this way, the assurances of the young unspoken king on the throne must seem to him to have a way. After thanking him, Lu Duan said, "Your Majesty, can you allow the foreign minister to stay in your country for a little longer?" ”

"Of course you can!" The young king agreed, Lu Duan thanked him, he wanted to stay in the Tang Kingdom for a few more days, naturally he wanted to travel all over the Tang Realm, investigate everything here, recorded in his "Essentials of Traveling to the Tang Dynasty", when he returned to the country, he could make the Song court monarchs and ministers make a reference, and it could be regarded as a transaction. Can't wait for the monarch and minister to ask, don't know anything, or deal with it with nonsense, right? Lu Duan couldn't do this, so he implored him to stay for some time and do more investigation and records, so that his ascetic journey would not be meaningless, and second, he would give an account to the king.

After receiving the exact answer from the Tang monarch, Lu Duan was grateful. Subsequently, a lavish reception banquet began, and the Tang Dynasty ministers entertained the Great Song envoys who came from afar. At the banquet, the king, who was incomparably young in Lu Duan's eyes, asked him some things about the land of China, to which Lu Duan answered them one by one.

In the days that followed, Lu Duan asked the Tang Dynasty ministers what kind of big ship was the ark? When he got the answer, he was stunned and stunned, and exclaimed that there is such a ingenious achievement in the world, and such a sea ship that is rarely seen in the world? Later, Lu Duan went to see it on the spot, and also walked into the interior of the ark in person, and found that this place was like a cave, and there was nothing in it, not to mention 10,000 war horses, even if there were many war horses, they could be put down. Subsequently, Lu Duan sold all the goods brought with the ship at a high price, except for the national gifts given by the Tang State, and then bought war horses on a large scale and sent them to the ark, and purchased all kinds of food to feed the war horses, so as to ensure that the war horses would not lose too much weight in the long-distance shipping. After finishing all this, Lu Duan began his journey throughout the Tang Realm, and wrote a far-reaching epic record of his "Essentials of Traveling to the Tang Dynasty"!

In the garden of the palace, in a beautiful garden with green forests and streams and hills, two men and a woman sit on soft benches and look at the beautiful scenery not far away. One of the men, dressed in a black robe, wore a peculiar pendant on his chest, and a magnificent palace lamp was placed on the table beside him. And the other two, a man and a woman, who looked younger, kept looking at the palace lamp on the table, the emerald color that kept flickering like breathing, and every time it flickered, it made the two of them excited.

At this time, another younger monarch, dressed in the king's clothes, hurriedly walked over, stood beside the three of them, and said to the black-robed man who was sitting on a soft stool looking at the scenery not far away: "Grandfather, my grandson has already done what you have to do. He gave the envoy of the Song Kingdom 10,000 horses and sent him back to China with an ark. And after the Song envoy saw the ark, he sold all the silk and porcelain and other things that accompanied the ship at a high price, all of which were used to buy war horses and forage, and after accounting, he bought no less than 60,000 war horses and countless forage! ”

"Got it."

"Father, why should we give preferential treatment to these so-called relatives who have long lost their blood relationship with us?" The young man who looked carefully at the palace lamp looked at the black-robed young man with his eyes like gold. The latter said: "You don't understand, Ajlt, that this will keep the emotion called 'humanity' in my heart alive. ”

"Father, what's wrong with you?" The luxuriously dressed woman on the side heard this, with a pair of silver eyes, looking at him nervously.

"It's okay, it's just that I've experienced a lot of things, and I'm used to seeing a lot of things, I'm afraid that in the long run, I'm not a human being. While my humanity is still alive, keep my humanity and not become insensitive. "As the essence of his body and soul began to transform, he felt more and more that his humanity was slowly fading, and more and more of it was called 'divinity'. At present, in addition to maintaining his own humanity and his family members who are worthy of his own care, more and more people are like dead things and ants in his eyes. He didn't want to be like this, to become a god on the high, but to become a god of flesh and blood and feelings, who could be angry at every turn for a trivial matter, or laugh it off. But you can't ignore it indifferently, his original intention, the original intention when he embarked on this road, is still clearly remembered. The pursuit of eternity for the sake of enjoyment, the pursuit of eternal and endless enjoyment.

I don't want to end up being a person or god who is insensitive, ruthless, and indifferent to everything. For this reason, when he was interested in women, he became like many gentlemen, looking for coquettish and hot women to carnival. When he is interested in being a king of a kingdom, he establishes his own kingdom and enjoys the special pleasure of building a kingdom and growing and prospering little by little. Everything he does is carried out according to his own interests, which is his driving force and pursuit.