The tall building in front of Fang Yunming and them is the most important building in the inner city of the Imperial City of Shangjing, the Emperor Heng Palace, which is the central location of the entire Shangjing City and the main place for holding various major events.

Today's inner city is heavily guarded, with ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and there are Pegasus troops and warlocks patrolling in the air, and Xia Yuan's side can be said to have made sufficient preparations for this banquet to celebrate the victory.

When Fang Yunming entered the Diheng Hall under the leadership of the inner attendant, the hall was already brightly lit, and the silk and bamboo pipes were singing in unison, when Fang Yunming and the others wore straight military uniforms and walked into the hall full of ancient decorative style, this building gave Fang Yunming a special feeling, as if they did not come to an alien planet, but came to ancient China by time machine.

When the leather shoes stepped on the ground of the main hall and made a unique crisp sound, when the twenty male and female officers entered the main hall in unison, Xia Yuan's civil and military generals wearing court clothes looked back at them together, because they gave these people a very special feeling, and both sides were a little curious about each other.

Because Xia Yuan is too similar to ancient China in every aspect, their race is the same as Fang Yunming, they are all black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin. Although the language they speak is not Mandarin, it is very similar to the southern official dialect used during the Song and Song dynasties.

However, this includes other southern dialects, and their costumes are very similar to the costumes of the ancient Song and Ming dynasties in ancient China, and the way they greet each other is also bowed to each other, and they rarely have physical contact like earthlings.

These are nothing, what surprised Fang Yunming the most was the characteristics of the words they used, which were also very imaginary from Chinese characters, of course, they were also very different, for example, the text they used was very different from Chinese characters, their strokes were horizontal, vertical and not vertical, and after a single font was written, it was like a cloud in the sky, very elegant, they called this kind of text Yuan Wen or Yun Wen.

This kind of writing is very complicated to write, and it is also very difficult to understand, this is when Fang Yunming was looking through Xia Yuan's books in the state guesthouse, he asked the official in charge of the reception of the state guesthouse, and when Fang Yunming first came into contact with this very beautiful but complex and abnormal text, his head was about to explode.

And the teammates of other countries also shook their heads when they saw this kind of writing, and Fang Yunming, who is a linguist here, when he saw this kind of writing, he came up with an answer that the literacy rate of the people in this country is definitely not high, and it would be good to reach ten percent, because these words are too difficult to understand.

Not to mention proficient mastery and use, it is already very good to be able to understand them, because their stroke structure is very complex.

But what surprised him was that, of course, due to the rapid development of human genetic engineering on the earth, diseases such as myopia and diabetes, which are called immortal cancers, have basically been completely overcome by humans, so Fang Yunming has no glasses to fall.

However, to his great surprise, the literacy rate of the entire Xia Yuan's hundreds of millions of people was basically more than 85 percent, and each of their five-level administrative organs had government-built official schools and private schools sponsored by ordinary people, mainly the landlords and gentry in the countryside.

This answer made Fang Yunming and them very surprised, they didn't expect that the cultural level of the people of Xia Yuan's country would be so high.

This made them very strange and surprised, how did these Xia Yuan people master such complex characters? You have to say that those aristocratic lords who do not distinguish between grains and grains and are not diligent can study these strange characters for a day.

So those ordinary peasants, handicraftsmen, how could they have the energy and time to study such complex characters, the average life expectancy of these ordinary Xia Yuan humans was only more than sixty years old, how did these people do it? This made Fang Yunming and them puzzled.

So now the question arises, how could such a high level of civilization be attacked by those barbarians to their capital? Could it be that civilization can't defeat barbarism? With such a question, Fang Yunming and the others very much wanted to know more about this country, so they were very much looking forward to tonight's banquet.

With these questions, Fang Yunming and they came to this banquet, and they are the last guests except for Cheng Mingci and Cheng Xiuyi, the father and daughter, today they are one of the protagonists of this banquet, in fact, there is another protagonist in this banquet, that is, Helan Mingxiu, but now he is thinking about it in his own mansion.

When they saw Fang Yunming and them walking into the main hall, the Gao family's father and son immediately stepped forward to greet them, because after all, the two sides had fought side by side together, and it could be regarded as a fateful friendship.

Gao Chong personally brought Fang Yunming and them to their seats, the form of the Xia Yuan banquet and the form of the ancient Chinese banquet are also very imaginary, using a mixture of the separate meal system and the joint meal system, a small square table for two people, there are two cushions behind the square table, Fang Yunming saw that the guests who had come first knelt on the cushions.

But when they saw the sitting posture of these people here, they grinned and knelt down! What age is this, if the banquet is going on for more than an hour, Fang Yunming and their legs must be crippled.

Moreover, Fang Yunming and Moon's seats were closest to the main seat, that is, the position given by Emperor Cheng Mingci, and the rest of the people were arranged in other positions, basically quite far from the main seat, but they did not leave the main hall after all.

Because there are a lot of courtiers attending the dinner this time, so many people's positions are outside the main hall, you say that after all, people are great emperors, you can't always have other courtiers are serious kneeling, you old people sit cross-legged for a long time.

Besides, it is not possible to sit cross-legged, and the blood circulation in the human legs is not circulating for a long time, and no one can stand it, so Fang Yunming and Moon stood next to the table, and neither of them sat down.

The position of Gao Chong's father and son was next to Fang Yunming, and the father and son had both sat down, but seeing that Fang Yunming and they were still standing, the two of them asked strangely: I don't know why the two of you are still seated, Your Majesty and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess will lead the members of the royal family in a while.

At this time, Moon was very embarrassed and said to Gao Chong: "Your Excellency, to be honest, it is really hard for us to imagine how you can sit down in this posture in such a banquet for at least an hour, that is, half an hour, as you say.

When Moon said such words, although the hall was full of people at that time, because Moon himself spoke very loudly, and the entire hall was carved by a warlock with a sound amplification circle, Moon's words clearly reached everyone's ears.

So all the Xia Yuan people, including Gao Chong, looked at Fang Yunming and Moon En together, and at this moment, a very majestic voice suddenly asked, "Then I don't know how Your Excellency thinks it's good to sit?"

As soon as Moon turned his head, he saw a middle-aged man who looked about forty to fifty years old came to Fang Yunming's side, only to see that he was wearing a crown of heaven and sun, wearing a moon-white robe, the cuffs of the robe and the edge of the hem were trimmed with gold thread, and the pattern of the sun, moon and stars was embroidered on the official robe.

The middle-aged man was very handsome, Fang Yunming saw that his face was somewhat similar to that of Emperor Cheng Mingci of Xia Yuan, and he thought in his heart that the middle-aged man in front of him should have something to do with the royal family, and he couldn't say that he was still a prince.

Sure enough, as Fang Yunming expected, at this time, the noble father and son who were originally stunned at Fang Yunming and Moon looked at this middle-aged man, and the father and son quickly stood up from their seats, and bowed their hands and said: The last general Gao Chong will see the prince of Xi, and the king will drive a thousand years old and a thousand years old.

I saw this prince wave his hand and said: They are all brothers for many years, you kid is so polite every time you see me, it's really unbearable, you kid wasn't like this before, why is the official getting bigger and bigger, but this person is getting more and more polite.

Gao Chong smiled when he heard this and said: "Prince Xi just likes to joke, wasn't the prince sent by His Majesty to Nanjing to escort some officials' families? Why did you come back so soon, did Prince Yu and Prince Yue come back with you?"

Lord Xi laughed and said: I'm back, isn't it, say hello to Uncle Wang.

After finishing speaking, the King of Xi pointed to the other end of the hall, and someone dressed similarly to him was giving Cheng Zuting a salute.

King Xi looked at Fang Yunming and them, looking at the two of them dressed differently from others, King Xi stroked his beard while looking the two up and down, and made a kind of chirping sound in his mouth, his performance made Fang Yunming and the others feel very uncomfortable, but out of politeness, the two did not show it.

At this time, Gao Chong knew that they were unhappy when he saw the faces of the two, so he hurriedly came out to play a round and said: Lord Wang, these two are

Just when Gao Chong wanted to continue, the King of Xi waved his hand and said: I know, my niece has a life-saving benefactor, Uncle Wang told me just now, and I have seen the other people under them.

After finishing speaking, he turned to face Fang Yunming and they continued: "I'm sorry two just now, I saw that your clothes are very good-looking, so please forgive me for offending just now, I am so virtuous, don't misunderstand."

This king doesn't mean anything else, but to be honest, your clothes are really quite powerful, this king heard that you are all soldiers, or what kind of alien planet is called the Earth Federation, this is the military uniform you usually wear, right? It's weird and beautiful, it's much more beautiful than the military general's robes that our generals usually wear.

At this time, standing on the side, Gao Chong also smiled and said: Don't mind the performance of the prince just now, the prince was born in the military and has always been informal, so please forgive me just now.

Fang Yunming looked at a prince, a ruler, all of them were national-level cadres on the earth, and he and others were on other people's territory, so what could he do if he didn't forgive?

So Fang Yunming and Moon smiled and nodded to show that they didn't mind, at this time, Cheng Zuting led the other two princes to come here, and then Prince Xi continued the topic just now and asked: The two of you said that we can't sit like this, so how should we sit?

At this time, Moon shook his hand and said: "Hello, Your Royal Highness, we are not saying that this is bad, we respect the customs of your country, but we feel that this sitting posture is not suitable for us.

At this time, Prince Yu, who was standing on the side, asked curiously: "So, may I ask if people in your country don't sit on the ground like this, so they should sit there?"

Fang Yunming smiled and said: We usually sit on stools, chairs or sofas.

The people around looked at each other, and they didn't know what a stool, chair, or couch was, because they didn't know what the nouns meant.

The youngest of them is Gao Shijie, and he asked curiously: Two, what is a chair, a stool, and a sofa?

Fang Yunming smiled and took out a three-dimensional display from his jacket pocket, then turned it on, pressed a button, and the holographic three-dimensional images of chairs, stools and sofas flashed on the monitor.