Chapter 59: The Turkic Envoys
Three days later, the Southern Dynasty envoy Xu Ling and the Turkic, Khitan, and Goguryeo envoys were summoned by Emperor Gao Wei of Qi on the same day.
On the morning of early spring, there was some mist that shrouded this majestic palace castle, and at the base of the wall of the Qianqiu Gate, the cars of other envoys were already waiting there, accompanied by officials of the Ministry of Rites, who accosted the envoys. When they heard the sound of ruts, they turned their heads and looked at the car slowly approaching in the white fog with curiosity or indifference.
"Well, it's the envoy of the Southern Dynasty who is coming...... the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites Fang Yanqian is responsible for entertaining the envoys here, seeing this car, he recognized that this is the car of the envoy of the Southern Dynasty, so he took two members of the Ministry of Rites to greet him, "Your envoy, please come down ......"
Xu Ling lifted the curtain, showed a kind smile, and said, "There is a waiter in the labor room......
Fang Yanqian smiled slightly: "Don't dare to be, this is a matter within the next division, Shangshu specially instructed us to take care of several noble envoys, how dare you not take it to heart?" Wait a minute, the Yellow Gate is coming, and your envoy will please take a break, and wait here for a while......"
"Okay......" Xu Ling got out of the car with the support of his subordinates, and looked at the three envoys and their entourage in front of him.
The one standing in the middle, similar in appearance and dress to the Central Plains people, but different from the Central Plains people, with a fairer complexion and slightly higher cheekbones, but always hunched over his waist, looking at him quite flatteringly, this should be the rumored Goguryeo envoy. As soon as he saw Xu Ling, he nodded and said hello, and Xu Ling smiled back, which made him overjoyed. I heard that the whole country of Goguryeo admired the Central Plains, and this statement seems to be true.
Next to the Goguryeo envoy was the Khitan envoy, wearing a fur coat, and the hair on the top of his head was shaved, leaving only a strand on the back of his head and temples, which looked very strange. The Turkic envoy on the left is white-skinned and red-haired, with a left side of the hair, a hooked nose, deep-set eye sockets, gray-green eyes, and similar clothes to the Khitan envoys, but his face is full of loneliness, not standing with the Goguryeo and Khitan envoys, as if he looks down on them, seeing Xu Ling coming, he just glanced at him, and then said impatiently to Fang Yanqian: "Isn't the emperor of your country still summoning me, if it goes on like this, I won't wait any longer!" ”
Aggressive, everyone present frowned slightly, Fang Yanqian said patiently: "Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, Your Majesty must finish washing before summoning you, and please wait patiently for a while......"
The Turkic shouted: "Just now you told me like this, but it hasn't been a stick of incense, and your little emperor still doesn't summon me and others, don't you look down on our Turkic Great Khan?!" ”
The Turks are the emerging grassland overlords, pacifying the old steppe overlord Creep (that is, Rouran), becoming a giant similar to the Xiongnu, the scenery is unique, these years because of the marriage relationship with the Northern Zhou Dynasty to suppress the Northern Qi, often gathered hundreds of thousands of Hu people Koubian, thinking that they are no longer afraid of the Northern Qi, arrogant.
[These forging slaves are really presumptuous! These Turks were originally just forging slaves under the tent of the Rouran people, but now they are powerful, and they dare not take the Central Plains Celestial Empire in their eyes?! A flash of anger flashed in Fang Yanqian's eyes, his face became solemn in an instant, and he stared at the Turkic envoy and said, "Your envoy, please be cautious, don't be disrespectful to the emperor of our dynasty again, otherwise you will bear the consequences!" ”
The Turkic envoy didn't care at all, and laughed:
"I want to see what the consequences are!
My Turks are a big country, and the Khan of the wooden pole is an eagle in the steppe!
With a single order, the Khan will gather millions of people who control the strings, and the siege of the city is as simple as drinking water, and a country can be wiped out in an instant!
The wolves are still prostrate at the feet of the eagle, and I am the envoy of the eagle, who in the world dares to be disrespectful to the Turks? ”
Fang Yanqian frowned slightly, still in that cold and serious tone, and said:
"Your envoy is not in a good state today, so let's see Your Majesty another day......"
"Am I not in good shape? I'm in great shape! ”
The Turkic envoy was very arrogant, and said:
"I brought the Khan's letter this time, and I won't stop until I see your little emperor!"
"If the envoy dares to speak disrespectfully, he will be expelled from Yecheng."
But the Turkic envoy said with no disdain: "What, is our Khan's letter still worthy of your little emperor going out of the palace to welcome him?" ”
[Sure enough! Several envoys all looked at Fang Yanqian and the Turkic envoy, Xu Ling stroked his beard lightly, and watched with interest, holding the psychology of watching the excitement and not thinking that it was a big deal, wanting to see how Fang Yanqian would solve this matter.
Even the Khitan envoys were interested in this, at this time the Khitan was still in the situation of the Eight Tribal Alliance, not unified, and often blackmailed by the Turks, so they have always been close to the Northern Qi, but when this happened today, they also wanted to see if the Northern Qi could overpower this arrogant Turk.
If it can't, then the Northern Qi will be disgraced and thrown home today.
Unexpectedly, Fang Yanqian smiled contemptuously: "Before the Turks, Pingliang Zahu Ye, surnamed Ashina. Emperor Taiwu of Wei destroyed the Qu clan, and Ashina ran to the creep with 500 families. The sun of the world living in Jinshan, for the worm ironworker, the shape of the gold mountain resembles an iron helmet, and the common name of the iron helmet is Turkic, because it is called ......"
He looked at the Turkic envoy who froze and said: "Ashina is brutal by nature, and does not know how to pity the people, this is called unkindness, Wu Ping, promised not to be on the border, and then came to invade my border the year before last, and did not keep his promises, this is called injustice, Ashina has to be sheltered by the worm to survive, but he will kill the worm behind his back, this is called disloyalty, Ashina clan for the throne of the Khan has killed his brother and father, this is called unfilial piety, so unkind and unjust, disloyal and unfilial monarch still dare to compare with my son of heaven?" Who gave you the guts?! ”
The words were amazing, everyone was shocked, they didn't expect Fang Yanqian to say such a direct and sharp rebuttal, which pierced the original face of the Turkic steppe wolf, and pointed out that the Turkic Khan was not worthy of the solemn courtesy of the lord.
Xu Ling stroked his beard for a moment, and looked at Fang Yanqian's eyes with complex and admiring expressions, and so on:
[The Northern Dynasty is really full of talents...... not to mention anything else, just that temperament is much stronger than the literati of our Dynasty......]
Xu Ling asked himself, if this happened in the Southern Dynasty, most of the courtiers of the Southern Dynasty would be angry, but that's all, dare to be angry and dare not speak, who would risk provoking a war between the two countries and then being used to defend the dignity of the Lord?
[It's just that in this way, the fate of Fang Shilang is good......]
Xu Ling was faintly worried about Fang Yanqian, and the Turkic envoy was even more annoyed and angry, and said:
"How dare you insult me like this?!"
As he spoke, he drew his retinue's scimitar and stepped forward, and the guards at the Qianqiu Gate raised their crossbows and aimed at him, shooting them into hedgehogs if he dared to take another step forward.
Fang Yanqian's expression was fixed, unmoved, and said indifferently:
"Your envoy still thinks clearly, your envoy comes with a credential, if you don't hand over the credentials because of one or two arrogant remarks of your envoy, your khan will certainly be dissatisfied with my great unity, but the first person he blames must be your envoy, for the sake of your envoy's future, I hope your envoy will not be impulsive, think clearly and then ......"
The Turkic envoy's face turned blue and white, and at last he gritted his teeth and threw his scimitar to the ground.
The Khan was old and moody, and if he had known that one of his foolish actions had brought shame to the Turks, the Khan would have cut off his head and belittled his entire family as slaves!
At this time, the Qianqiu Gate finally opened, and one or two small yellow doors came out of it, followed by the forbidden army dressed all over their bodies, glanced at the envoys of various countries, and said in a sharp voice: "Your Majesty has a decree, the envoys of the Xuanchen Dynasty will meet you!" ”