Chapter 19: The Great Court (2)
He now knows a lot of basic common sense that an emperor should have.
For example, these envoys who stand behind the officials of the Ministry of Rites, all with dusty faces and vicissitudes of life, are not like free and easy state envoys, but more like Tang monks who have gone through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties and finally arrived in the west, and they are the kind that are not protected by monkeys.
The truth is true, he really thinks that Emperor Taizong's spoof is a bit ruthless.
According to the regulations, all countries in the world must come to the DPRK once every 20 years.
It's very simple, the empire will cross out the country from the record book, and the gods will have countless spies on this kind of news at any time, and the countries whose names are crossed out are all destroyed, and even if they are not destroyed, they will be destroyed soon.
Because the world is vast and there are countless strange creatures, although the level of power will not exceed the limit of the world, as long as you have a wise heart, you can solve many problems.
Since the time of Emperor Taizong, the whole civilization has consciously domesticated all kinds of beneficial creatures, thousands of years, there are thousands of domesticated birds, and there are dozens of kinds of birds that can be loaded for people to ride......
Therefore, even if the entire world is more than 200,000 kilometers long from east to west and north to south, it is still impassable.
Even if you come to the gods from the far edge of the world, if you sit on a bird, three or four months will be enough.
But Emperor Taizong's regulations are a bit ruthless, in order to show the devotion to the suzerain, the envoy cannot come from the sky, but must come from the earth in the posture of a pilgrim, of course, the use of light gong is allowed.
As a result, the messengers were miserable.
Straight-line distance and real mileage are two different things, the boundless primeval ancient forest wasteland, the endless deep mountain desert, the treacherous river, the boundless inland sea...... The envoy from 100,000 kilometers away walked out of 500,000 kilometers, which was already considered to be careful enough to choose the road.
Every time the envoy passes through a country, he also takes out a pilgrimage to the official seal of that country to prove that you have indeed come.
This is not difficult, the attitude of the empire is that even if the enemy country is at war, it must not embarrass the pilgrims, otherwise it will be judged!
Add to that the unplanned circumstances, and a pilgrimage can be years or even decades. It is enough for them to see the vastness of the earth and the ruthlessness of time.
Every time the nations choose an envoy, it is a major event of national attention, and if you choose the kind of person with the most perseverance and excellence, you can be reused immediately after the pilgrimage. In order to prevent accidents, each mission is accompanied by three or five people from different routes at the same time.
The only good news is that they only need to travel lightly, and the tribute gifts have long been brought to the Shendu by the giant birds, so there is no need to worry about someone wanting to share the wealth and scatter the gang halfway.
This kind of tossing can indeed make the countries deeply understand the abyss-like gap between themselves and the world and the empire.
The envoys who can enter the main hall are lucky, at least they can see the face of the heavens, and every time they go to the country by name, the envoy can also go out and bow alone, and then silently retreat into the queue.
This requires a threshold, and the land area is at least one county, that is, more than 10,000 square kilometers!
As for those small countries that are scattered all over the world with hundreds or thousands of square kilometers, it is necessary to send envoys to worship, but they cannot even enter the imperial city, so they can go to a special department of the Ministry of Rites to register and sign their names, and hand in the pilgrimage seals that cover the customs of various countries, and then they can get a receipt and go home to restore their lives.
Of course, tribute is also indispensable.
When the roll call was completed, Jing Yan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, led the envoys to pay homage again, and then consciously and silently withdrew from the hall.
As for whether these envoys can get the true scriptures when they come to the Shendu for hundreds of thousands of miles of wind and rain and dangerous journeys, that is something that Qin Xiangye has to consider, and it will definitely make them feel that this trip is worth it, Xuanyuan Qiming just wants to worry about this now, and the old man Qin will not do it.
Immediately afterward, another team of emissaries was ushered into the temple by the officials of the Ministry of Rites.
"The ...... of the Rite Servant"
The Emperor sat at the top, but paid no attention to their reverent praise, and made himself a simple calculation to play, which he would find more interesting than being a clay idol for worship.
The four ancient kingdoms of the four ancient kingdoms that were divided into the imperial dynasty by Emperor Taizong have permanent embassies in the divine capital, and the countries of the world are assigned to the management of the auxiliary empires under their names according to the four directions, so the envoys of these countries must first go to the embassies of the four ancient dynasties to report when they arrive in the divine capital, and they will carry out some necessary etiquette teaching and process informing, and then accompany them to all the places they want to go.
It is the highest honor to be able to enter the Jinluan Hall to worship during the great court meeting.
The four ancient dynasties entered the palace with their respective teams in turn according to the order in which Emperor Taizong moved the capital.
First was the Ancient Xia Dynasty in the south of Fuzhen, then the Ancient Shang Dynasty in the east of Fuzhen, then the Ancient Zhou Dynasty in the north of Fuzhen, and finally the Ancient Qin Dynasty in the west of Fuzhen.
So an equation came up in the emperor's mind.
9 (the average number of envoys in each phalanx) * 4 (the four sides) * 24 (the total number of great court meetings in one year) * 20 (one dynasty in 20 years per country) = 17280.
"Tsk, there are nearly 20,000 countries with a land area of 10,000 square kilometers, no wonder those small countries are not qualified to go to the palace, if they all roll call them to go through, the empire will not have to do anything else. ”
In addition to making an official appearance in the gods every twenty years to remind everyone that "I'm still alive and not dead", at other times, unless it is related to a major event along the way or even several roads, or has touched some kind of iron law, it will be difficult for them to show their faces on the stage of the center of the world......
When the Western Emissary team also came off the field, two hours passed.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but the emperor, who was coming out of a daze and cheering up again, found that the entire Jinluan Hall seemed to be relieved.
swept away at a glance, it is indeed full of the demeanor of the country's important ministers, solemn, and majestic......
Cut, pretending to be true.
Receiving envoys from various countries is an important task of the Great Imperial Council, and what the Manchu courtiers need most is to show the majesty and grandeur of the suzerainty in front of the envoys of the nations, in all aspects!
Twice a month, more than 20 times a year, for decades, I don't believe you don't have any ideas in your hearts, heh
There was a tacit understanding of the silence of the whole court for a moment, as if to put away the façade that had just been tightened up for the next time, Qin Mu stood up from the seat, walked to the center of the hall, saluted the emperor meaningfully, and turned to face the ministers and said:
"The first item on today's agenda is the date number, and there are already five alternatives, which are ......"
Qin Xiang said so eloquently, it was the style of the leader's speech, and the emperor sitting on the high steps behind him really looked like a clay Bodhisattva.
The ministers were all watching and listening attentively, and as for the Bodhisattva who was seated, they had already flown out of their little heads at this moment.
The emperor had expectations for this situation, and there was no dissatisfaction with any loss, and after returning from the temple, he was sincerely determined to be a "punch-in emperor", go to work and mess around, and resolutely not make trouble.
Well, there is still a guy who is not attracted by the leader's speech...... Sensing that sight, the emperor turned his head to look, hey, isn't it the second child who probed his brain with his eyebrows and mouse eyes, this guy has really become a monkey today, and he is particularly eye-catching among the well-dressed and high-sounding civilized people of the Manchu Dynasty.
When he saw himself looking over, he winked at himself...... You still have fiery eyes and want to see my real body?
Smile at him yourself...... He also giggled.
It's over, the second child is stupid.
By the time the focus of the Manchu Dynasty returned to the emperor again, the discussion of the year name had already come to fruition.
Qin Muyu said: "Your Majesty, by the unanimous resolution of the ministers and others, the year name is Jian'an, the foundation is built, and the world is safe." I wonder if Your Majesty has any other suggestions?"
A narrator inexplicably sounded in the emperor's mind: "...... Born in the first year of Jian'an, the Yellow Turban was in turmoil, the four seas were boiling, and Cao Cheng coerced the Son of Heaven ............
Qin Xiangye, your ambition is not small!
The emperor looked at him faintly and said, "Accurate!"
Unlike the emperors in the previous life, there are several names, the simplicity here is clear, the year name is the emperor name, probably in the heart of Emperor Taizong, as long as history can distinguish who you are, there is no need to mess up a lot.