Chapter 170: Unlucky Envoy



Who is Kangxi, his history is naturally more comprehensive and real than Su Li's patchwork by watching those messy Korean dramas. In fact, there was a lot of dissatisfaction with North Korea when he was in the Later Jin Emperor Taiji, and he had already formed an alliance under the city and a brotherly state. However, when Huang Taiji asked North Korea to send troops to the Ming Dynasty, North Korea unilaterally tore up the treaty, and between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, North Korea chose the Ming Dynasty without hesitation. Later, even after being beaten into a water dog by Huang Taiji and making him submit to the iron hooves of the army, he could not get North Korea to send troops to Ming. Over the years, although they have paid tribute every year, it seems that they still seem to be in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. However, seeing that they are on one side, he is honest and too lazy to care, and now his attention is all on the use of troops in the northwest, and he doesn't want to make any more extraneous skills, so he quickly suppressed his unhappiness and glared at Su Li.

Su Li shrank her head and looked back at the curtain, the envoy was already kneeling outside, kowtowing in fright, aren't they popular to sit and wait for the guilt? Why are you so untemperate? Looking back, it was also true, the envoys didn't provoke themselves, but they just caught up with him and appeared in front of him with Yin, and he couldn't be angry with Yin, so he had to be angry with him. Think about it, people are also pitiful, forget it! Learning from Yin's appearance, he cleared his throat before slowly speaking, "Your Majesty, they are a small country in the mountains and wilderness, and they are not reasonable, please forgive Your Majesty!" ”

"Well, Nian Er can't understand etiquette, and this time I wrote it down, if you cause trouble, you must ask the lord of the country for the crime of not being a minister." Kangxi scolded sharply, but he also got off the donkey.

"Your Majesty, you talk to the envoys, and the slaves and maids will cook, and they will be able to eat in a while." Su Li felt so bored, she happened to hear the bell ringing outside, and she was busy bending her knees to cook.

"How fast?" Kangxi listened to this, but when he was eating on weekdays, Su Li dared to go at this point, but he was afraid that it would be really fast.

"Hey! That little place, what can it be. Two quarters of an hour at most! Su Li smiled deliberately, but I was afraid that the envoys outside were about to go crazy! Thinking about it, I still felt that I was not relieved enough just now, and suddenly I thought of a famous main station god who said that the metallurgical technology of the sticks is good, and their knives are very good, but it seems to be the Song Dynasty at that time. I don't know how it is compared to the Qing Dynasty, take care of him, take some medicine first, and then say, "Your Majesty, there is nothing good to play in North Korea, but I heard that they have good knives, and the envoy's escort must have it on him, let him bring it to you to palm your eyes, and see what is different from ours." ”

After saying that, he ran away. Looking back, cold sweat broke out on the envoy's head.

Su Li dared to say that she could eat in half an hour because she had instructed people to prepare in the morning, and all kinds of kimchi were taken out and cut into sesame oil, and put them in delicate small plates. The flowers are green, and a table has already been set. That's actually half done. The beef trotter soup was boiled yesterday, and after that, the oil foam was skimmed off and some shallots were added; The cold noodle soup is also ready and put on the ice cubes, and the soba noodles have long been boiled, and now they have been put aside for later use. Now it's just spicy fried rice cakes and roast beef to be made, but the rice cakes are cut and cooked, and they are only fried in the oven, and the beef is also marinated in miso. It takes less than five minutes to bake fresh. But it was really unpleasant to see the envoys, so he temporarily asked for more time, sent people to cut meat and tofu, and temporarily decided to make a Korean-style hot pot. Let them see their craftsmanship, and half an hour later, Su Li sent someone to set up the table and bring the table up.

"What is this, such a big table?" Concubine De looked dazzled, and there was a large table of flowers and greenery. Small plates and small bowls, looking strange and beautiful.

"Niangniang, don't look at a big table, there are no serious dishes, they are bitter and cold, there are few people in the land, so they mainly eat seafood, we don't have it here, so we pick up some meat dishes and make them. This beef or something. Only the royal family and the nobility can enjoy it. So even the royal family has to eat kimchi on weekdays. Miso soup to serve with rice. These flowers are all pickles, similar to the pickles that our poor people eat. "This is what Mrs. Su said, setting a big table, in fact, there are no two serious dishes.

"yes? It's pitiful, Your Majesty, give them some meat! Concubine De sighed, holding her chopsticks and not knowing where to stretch.

So is Kangxi. Su Li sandwiched a piece of roast beef between the three of them. Pickle the ground with the miso they sent. Roast tenderly. In the middle, roll on the water, roasted and dried matsutake mushrooms. Served with Korean sauce. This is the main course. Of course, this is still Su Li's study with "Da Changjin".

Kangxi nodded after eating. Noncommittal. Su Li knew that he didn't love it. Dried matsutake mushrooms even if the water is up. There will also be some resilience. Kangxi teeth are not good. Didn't like this food. Nodding his head is considered to be giving face to North Korea. Pointing outward. Li Dequan shouted. Give! The maid took the dish out. Give it to the envoys.

"Your Excellency. What do I do is your national flavor? Su Li deliberately glanced at Yin. Asked outside the curtain. Concubine De covered her mouth and smiled. Yin bowed his head and was silent.

"The princess is very skilled. Your Majesty has never tasted such a delicacy! The envoy looked excited.

"You mean I don't do it like that?" Su Li was furious. I wanted to forgive him. I didn't expect to be so stupid. What a stick.

"It's not. No! The subordinate land means that the princess is indeed the taste of our country. But His Majesty felt that the princess made it more delicious. Even in the palace, there is not necessarily such craftsmanship. "He's a seven-grade petty official. I have never eaten such exquisite palace food. But he was also able to send him out because he was a spiritual person. Immediately waved his hand and praised desperately.

Su Li nodded, turned around and whispered, "They like to eat beef, and they often say that the most delicious thing in the world is just beef produced in their country. ”

Yin finally saw Su Li's small utensils, and people didn't mess with her, she was dead anyway, and she was determined not to get burned first, so she lowered her head and ate a bite of kimchi, which was a little spicy and cold, and it felt weird. I stretched out my hand to coax the rice cake, but when I looked at the red one, I was afraid that it would be spicier, so I didn't know what to do for a while. Su Li pushed away his chopsticks, took a lettuce leaf, wrapped some roast beef, a little kimchi, and a little rice, and rudely stuffed it into his mouth, almost choking him to death.

"This is shallots and beef trotter soup, they say that it is long and strong, you can taste it, and the slave maid also made spicy fish soup, ginseng chicken soup, kimchi pot, and a Korean hot pot." Su Li turned his head and introduced the dishes to Kangxi again.

"It's all soup?" Concubine De saw it at this time. Pots and pots are soup and water.

"Didn't you just say that? They have soup for three meals a day, so make some for you to taste. They are the same as our grandfather, if they have nothing to do, they just take the soup and soak the rice and order kimchi, which is a meal. It's bibimbap, with some fresh vegetables and their chili sauce and an egg. Of course, the royal family will still add some beef. Su Li mixed rice, took a small bite for each person, and then gave it to the envoy.

Kangxi ate it, "It tastes good, but the king of a country also eats like this?" ”

"Well, they're also considered kings?" Su Li smiled, and there was no derogatory meaning in her words.

Kangxi thought about it, isn't it a subject country? Wear the ground or the color of the Grand Duke's clothes, so I won't say anything. "What's that?"

"Spicy fried rice cakes, babies like to eat them, you can try them."

"Eat it. Their diet seems to be all the same taste. "Concubine De has been eating for a long time, and she really told Su Li, she hasn't had a serious play for a long time, but looking at the envoys, she is eating very happily, it seems that Su Li's cooking is their taste.

"It's okay to eat dim sum, this is a kimchi pancake, Your Majesty, you should be able to eat two bites." Su Li thought about it, and took chopsticks and kimchi pancakes, she made this last night for the baby and Huizhi to eat as a snack. The two little ones ate with round bellies.

Kangxi saw Su Li's recommendation, so he took a bite, hot and soft, and it was not so spicy, so he made an exception and ate another piece. Finally finished eating, Kangxi's face was stinky, although it was better than the previous imperial dining room, and he could eat a few bites, if it was too far from what he usually ate. After eating for a long time, I didn't fill my stomach, and I felt uncomfortable.

"Is it good for the envoy?"

"Your Majesty has never eaten such exquisite food for a long time, has the princess been to our country? How can you know so much about the affairs of my DPRK and China? ”

"Well, I don't know who of you is the king now. I only know a little about your customs from the mouths of the merchants of your country, and these are also what they taught me, so the envoy is satisfied. Su Li smiled indifferently and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

"By the way, is this a Korean sword?" Su Li saw a delicate long knife on the table on the side. Su Li herself has never seen a North Korean long knife. I touched it with my hand, and the scabbard was very beautiful, but she didn't dare to touch it yet. Everyone knows that in front of Kangxi, no one can really show the blade, "Why is it a bit like a knife?" Looking at the handle and slender blade, Su Li was a little puzzled.

"It's not stupid, legend has it that the Korean knife and the Japanese knife are both derived from the Datang swords." Yin smiled and explained gently.

"I think so, how can their country be so smart?" Su Li didn't think it was strange at all, and sure enough, he took plagiarism as his nature, "Your Majesty, are their knives really good?"

"Not bad." Kangxi nodded, he just sent someone to take a look, it is really harder than that used in the army, and it is very suitable for marching and fighting. Suddenly, his heart moved, he glanced at Su Li deeply, and looked back at the envoy, "I just heard the fourth princess talk about your affairs in the court, I am very dissatisfied, no matter your clothing, writing, and laws, you have imitated the previous Ming Dynasty, where is my Qing Dynasty?" However, the princess said that you are the people of the mountains and wilderness, and they have not been educated and exempted from punishment. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." When the envoy was full and in a good mood, he didn't expect Kangxi to bring up the clothing issue again, so he was so frightened that he knelt down in a hurry, even if he heard that he was exempted from punishment, he was panicked.

"What are these words, could it be that you still have a little majesty? And disobedient? Su Li likes to correct this kind of word the most, and immediately shouted, no matter what he Kangxi thinks, she is happy to see that Gaoli's stick is uncomfortable.

Yin rolled his eyes, the old man was called the Great Khan in Mongolia, the Heavenly Khan, the old man didn't say anything, the typical nothing to look for, alas! If you want someone's knife, just say it, can you use it to sing and drink like this? In my heart, when Comrade Su Li was very unhappy, the North Korean envoy who appeared bowed to tears of sadness, but he did not dare to speak for fear that Su Li would take advantage of the question and add another crime to himself.

"Big ......... His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire spared his life, and his subordinates didn't mean that! "Tears in the eyes of outsiders, he was sent because he is fluent in Chinese, and he has also completed several missions in the past few years.

"Forget it, but the princess is right, even if you don't have the heart of disobedience, I can't help it, like this. This time, I will send someone to go back with you, and the weapons except the guards must be handed over to the Celestial Empire. ”

Su Li was also stunned, and looked at Kangxi with a look of admiration, is this okay? It turned out that I didn't let myself pick a thorn just now because I didn't want to make a difference, but now I fell in love with someone else's knife, so I immediately used the question to swing. Tall! It's really high!

Kangxi saw Su Li's adoring gaze, accepted it calmly, and gave her a white eyeball, calmly waiting to see the envoy's reaction.

"Ahh The envoy was directly dumbfounded, he was a civil official, how could he have participated in any military affairs, but he also knew that they were disarmed like this? "But...... But ......"

"Huang Ama. It seems inappropriate to let Li Chao hand over his weapons, but his disobedience is wary. Why don't you just let them hand over the 100,000 fine knives within a time limit? Yin cleared his throat. Think it's time to go out on your own. Su Li looked at Yin, then looked back at Kangxi, and immediately understood that Kangxi was asking for a sky-high price first, and Comrade Ascaris Yin immediately repaid the money on the spot, so that the envoy could not refuse.

"100,000 contempt countries can't hand over the land. The swords in our country are all cast by the masters, and they have become one over the years, how can they be counted in ten thousand? "The envoys are about to cry, but the North Korea has made their sword artwork. And the masters are numerous, how can it be possible to pay 100,000 at a time, and the Korean sword does not have a certain standard, how can it be possible to fulfill their requirements? In the end, there was no way, knowing that Su Li didn't have a good impression of his country, he still became a dead horse doctor, "Princess, you know the affairs of the country, you say something!" ”

Su Li looked at the sky. It's her business, she doesn't know what they're up to.

"Princess, help!" The envoy kowtowed desperately, but Su Lidang didn't hear it, and was kicked under his feet. Look, Kangxi is glaring at himself. Su Li was stunned for a moment, how could she still have her own business? Yin had expected it and secretly opened his mouth to make lip shapes.

"You idiot, is it possible that His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Empire just wants the works of those masters who have not been seen and used? It's just a matter of your faithfulness! Su Li had no choice but to speak first, looked at Kangxi's face and said, speculating on Kangxi's meaning. That one. Your Majesty, I guess there aren't that many of them. There are only a few people in total, 100,000 fine knives, and it is not certain whether they have those fine irons. ”

"That's, that's it, I'm infinitely loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Heavenly Empire!" The envoy choked.

Yin squeezed her eyes, Su Li said while thinking, "They have few lands and many people, and even their kings only eat those, so you can imagine that the place is so poor." Your Majesty is the co-lord of the world, and he governs the country with benevolence, how can he turn a blind eye? It's better to do this, Your Majesty symbolically accepts five ......" She stretched out five fingers, Yin stretched out two fingers, she understood, "Twenty thousand knives, it can be regarded as a small lesson for them." By the way, what kind of masters are invited to exchange, and there are also blacksmiths, coppersmiths, and silversmiths who are untouchables who have moved into the territory of our Qing Dynasty, exempted from their untouchable status, given land and houses, and also relieved some burdens on the king of Joseon, what do you say? ”

In the end, Su Li thought of the craftsman himself, and didn't he say that the craftsman was a treasure? It's better to get these people here than to leave them to suffer in South Korea. She doesn't feel like she is a fenqing at all, how kind she is.

"Yes!" Kangxi nodded, "Li Dequan passed on the decree!" ”

Li Dequan didn't give the envoy a chance to refute at all, so he asked the envoy to be carried down, and he fainted completely.

Kangxi laughed, "Clever ghost, how did you think of a craftsman?" ”

"Well, although the DPRK is poor, the craftsmen are good, especially the silversmiths and coppersmiths, and the bronze they make is very beautiful, and the little copper bowl can be beaten as bright as gold. There is also a kind of women's makeup knife made by a silversmith is also exquisite, usually used to trim eyebrows, can be used to hurt people when attacked, and can also be used to commit suicide after failure, how thoughtful it is, it is very easy to use. Su Li said excitedly, she has been in love with Da Changjin's silver makeup knife for a long time, and it seems that she has no place to buy that play, so if she doesn't take the opportunity to get a few back now, who is she worth? But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Kangxi and Yin fall to the ground.

"Really?" But Concubine De is energetic, the little silver knife that can trim her eyebrows, how small and delicate it is, and her love for beauty will not change no matter how old a woman is.

"Of course, Li'er went to the silver store to order, but they didn't do well, so they must have a special way to strengthen the hardness. Let's get a few of them back and open a workshop, let the thirteenth master take care of it, and the mother will wait for the cashier! Su Li confidently assured Concubine De that as long as the craftsmen were controlled, this technique could be kept secret, and it would be easy to make money. Concubine De is not short of silver, but who would be afraid of having a lot of money, and she was suddenly overjoyed.

Just when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were dreaming of wealth, Kangxi cleared his throat, "The fourth family, talk about something serious, get some food, this meal in North Korea is really ......"

"Yes, looking at that big table, there's no serious play at all." Concubine De was busy co-authoring, and she was completely consistent with Su Lao Niang's opinion.

"Actually, there are also things that can be eaten, is it good to make some kimchi gnocchi soup for Your Majesty? Use beef trotter soup as a base. ”

"You can do it!" Kangxi waved his hand.

After a while, the gnocchi soup was served, some pumpkin was cut and boiled, and the kimchi seasoning was a Sino-Korean practice, sour and spicy and delicious, and the pumpkin and gnocchi were soft and refined to cooperate with each other, which really made Kangxi and Concubine De very satisfied. They actually ate a lot of miscellaneous just now, but they felt that there was nothing real, so they didn't feel full, and now one person has eaten a bowl of gnocchi soup and eats it, and it is hot, and it is comfortable.

"Go early, that's what it's called rice!" Yin also felt satisfied, and sighed comfortably. Forgetting that Su Li was angry with himself, he immediately ushered in Su Li's eyes, he cleared his throat, and when he didn't see it, he saw Concubine De smiling evilly at him.