As a person who reads poetry and books a lot, Murong Shifu naturally will not stupidly take the emperor's "retention" as a matter of leisure.

It must be known that the most important thing about diplomatic relations between the two countries is decency, and it is to give face to each other. The Great Qi Emperor was so rude that he could even be called arrogantly detaining him, in his opinion, it was already an extremely dangerous signal - this Gao family emperor had no good feelings for Tuyuhun at all!

So what did the emperor detain him for?

Take him hostage, and then blackmail Quaru?

This article can basically be denied, taking hostages as a threat, taking something that can only be done by uncivilized barbarians, the Northern Qi Dynasty, a big country, doesn't even want this bit of decency? Second, people often say: Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, the reverse is the same, Shifu knows his father Qualu very well, his person has always been unkind and ruthless, no matter who can be used, can be used, can not be used is abandoned. If Qualu is determined to go against Daqi, he will never be shaken by the detention of Shifu, and Qualu is not the only son of Shifu!

Fu Yun's head was cut off, and his father not only didn't shed a single tear, but instead ordered someone to abandon Fu Yun's head into the wilderness, let the jackals and wild dogs gnaw and gnaw it, or Shi Fu secretly let people find it back for burial...... Fu Yun is brave and resolute, he is a rare warrior in Tuyuhun, and on weekdays, Quarlu is good to him, so that Shifu Du feels jealous, who would have thought that it would be such an end!?

Even if Shifu was cut down by the emperor, I'm afraid Qualu wouldn't frown!

Shifu didn't believe that His Majesty didn't see Kualu's personality clearly, so what did the Son of Heaven detain him in Yecheng

Murong Shifu was puzzled, and he was in suspense day and night, so he didn't mention it for the time being.

By the middle of December, the feudal kings and the northern parts of the country entered Beijing in turn to pay tribute, and the deserted Yecheng seemed to be lively again all of a sudden, and the envoys from all over the world came and went, and the closed trade routes were lively overnight. The rice warehouse is full of oil, the pearls are full of buckets, the people are rich, and the envoys who came to see the Son of Heaven lined up from the south gate to the royal street!

This is the weather that a big country should have!

In the past, Murong Shifu listened to his mother tell about her days in Chang'an and Luoyang, and he was fascinated for a while, and when he came to Ye from Fuqiu City, he also deliberately passed by Chang'an, and felt that Chang'an was really the best and most prosperous place in the world, but in recent months, he found that the grandeur and prosperity of Yecheng far exceeded Chang'an, which made Shifu's heart have a lot of impact.

For Murong Shifu, Gao Wei actually didn't pay much attention to it, and it wasn't until someone reminded him a few days before the Great Dynasty Meeting that he suddenly remembered it.

"Hmm, is that the great prince of Tuyuhun, Murong Shifu? I almost forgot. How has he been doing in recent months, his words and deeds, and is there anything inappropriate? ”

Gao Wei picked up the tea soup, took a sip, and then asked. I don't look very serious about it. Several ministers looked at each other, and then said respectfully: "Murong Shifu has been obedient in recent months, he only walks where he can travel, and strictly restrains his subordinates, abides by the rules and regulations of our dynasty, is cautious in his words and deeds, and there is nothing inappropriate in his behavior. ”

"Well," the Emperor nodded, "a clever one. ”

"I want to ask, what is Your Majesty's plan for this Murong Shifu? Whether it is killed or released, please give your majesty a word, and the ministers should make arrangements as soon as possible. Gao Gong was anxious, and he couldn't stand the emperor's fog, and he didn't care about his friend Su Wei secretly pulling his sleeve, and asked directly: "If it is killed, the minister will immediately arrange for the household department to prepare military salaries and support the Western Expedition...... His Majesty's detention of him for no reason before can no longer be regarded as a normal attitude of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Kwaralu took the initiative to seek peace, and the righteousness is not on our side, Your Majesty! ”

Gao Wei raised his head, his narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and he glanced at Gao Gong, slightly unhappy, but he still patiently explained to his prime minister, and explained sincerely:

"I don't have anything to say here, I said that I really just looked at him more pleasantly, so I kept him for some more time, do you believe it or not?"

“……”

Looking at Gao Gong's expression, he obviously didn't believe it very much.

Gao Wei had no choice but to take this stubborn donkey, so he had to say: "It's true, I just think that this eldest prince is quite polite, and he is different from the Hu people I have seen in the past, and he is just curious...... I had heard that he was the child of Kwaru's wife, and that he was of course very different from the other children of Kwarus, and I wanted to see if I could subdue this man and use him for my use. ”

Gao Gong couldn't help but shake his head: "I'm afraid it's difficult, it's not my race, at the moment he is very deferential to His Majesty, but once he returns to China, how he will agitate the countrymen to deal with us, it's still uncertain." ”

"Hmph, 'If it is not of my race, its heart will be different'......"

Gao Wei snorted meaningfully, "This has long been used badly, if you want to say this, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Jin Riyan said so?" What did Fu Jian's Wang Meng say? My father-in-law, Hu Luguang, is still a high-speed car, what do you say? On the other hand, the Sima family is not only of the same clan, but also of the same clan, what is the result? A good river and mountain has not been defeated by these losers. It can be seen that in order to govern the country well, it is useless to engage in racial discrimination. ”

In the end, he added, "That's all deliberately created by those in power to cover up their own incompetence, we are a big country, standing in the middle of the world, we have to look at the world...... This world is so big, except for the Han people, there are no ordinary races, do we want to exterminate them one by one? No matter how strong our force is, how long will it take? We will include them in China and assimilate them, isn't it better than using a sword? ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Before Gao Gong could speak again, Su Wei hurriedly came out and made a peace with the mud. Su Wei knew that there was a fundamental conflict of views between Gao Gong and the emperor in foreign affairs. The emperor has always dealt with foreigners mainly by co-opting, supplemented by intimidation. On the other hand, although Gao Gong did not support the use of swords and soldiers, he still had deep doubts about the emperor's move to win over foreigners.

This difference in concept leads to fierce verbal conflicts between monarchs and ministers, and if you don't intervene, I am afraid that it will cause unforeseen consequences!

Su Wei stepped forward quickly, took a deep look, and put aside the topic: "Your Majesty, there is still an important matter to report to Your Majesty, the vassal kings and Hu chieftains from all over the country have arrived in Beijing to wait for the day after tomorrow for the court meeting, and the roster and rewards have been prepared, but there is still an important matter here, the scale of this court meeting is larger than in previous years, Your Majesty thinks that the location of the court meeting should be changed to Xiyuan?" ”

Gao Wei was a little angry, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't it just a meeting in the palace, why did you move to Xiyuan?" ”

Su Wei didn't speak, only took a pair of eyes to hint at Gao Gong, Gao Gong arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the East Palace is still under repair, so that the foreign ministers will inevitably lose the majesty of the Heavenly Family, the West Garden is vast, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, and there are palaces such as Bronze Sparrow and Ice Tiger, which are magnificent and no less than Taiji and Zhaoyang, and it is just the place for the court meeting." ”

Gao Wei calmly didn't speak, he really wanted to go back, veto Gao Gong's proposal, change back to the court meeting in the Taiji Palace, or simply turn it into an open-air court meeting, and then take the ministers to hunt after the court meeting, just angry with this stubborn donkey!

But reason calmed him down again, after all, Gao Gong's proposal was indeed the best proposal, and he had no reason to refuse, so he could only leave that wayward idea behind.

There is no way, this prime minister was chosen by himself, and no matter how unhappy he is, he can only endure it.

There is a sentence in the Analects, "There is no joy in being a king, but only his words are not violated." "Meaning, how boring it is to be a king, the main reason is that no one dares to disobey what he says. Maybe many people don't understand, isn't it a pleasure to say that no one dares to disobey? As everyone knows, it is precisely because no one dares to disobey that no matter what the monarch says or does, he must be responsible.

Once you accidentally say a wrong word or do a wrong thing, you will face criticism from the past!

Try to think about it, what fun is there in living under this kind of pressure for a long time?

Occasionally, there is a little personal hobby, in the eyes of the courtiers, it is either chaotic government, or arrogant and lascivious, and a hat is bigger than a hat. Once you do something wrong, you will immediately come out by relying on the old and selling the old, making a fuss about a little thing, and making a long speech, which is more instigated than Tang Seng. What's even worse is the historian, the pen in the historian's hand is the most invisible, and the destruction is tireless.

In the past, Lu Yingong, the monarch of the Lu State, just privately took people to inspect the country, inspected the people's livelihood, and encouraged the fishing industry, and was recorded in the history books: "Gong Yayu Yu Tang." "The arrow means to display, saying that Lu Yingong displayed fishing gear in Tang to watch...... Later, in "Left Turn", he was also dug out as a negative teaching material, ridiculing that he had lost the dignity of a king.

Gao Wei also secretly looked at his daily notes, and almost threw Yan Zhitui into the prison and stabbed him.

According to Yan Zhitui, this is still the result of his several deliberations and revisions.

It turned out that according to the standards of Confucian scholars, he was completely unqualified...... No way, you can't really click people, right? Wouldn't Cushman & Wakefield's reputation in history be even worse? In the feudal era, a period of "morality and politics", the sentence "The emperor is happy to travel, and the group is small." "It can ruin Cushman & Wakefield's reputation cleanly.

What else can you do but endure it?

The next day, the emperor issued an edict on December 24 to hold a court meeting in Tongquetai, Xiyuan, except for the feudal kings who stayed in various places, all clans, honorable relatives, and ministers must participate in the court meeting. The door of the Xiyuan was closed and opened wide after receiving the emperor's order, and in a solemn congratulatory voice, a group of princes, ministers and envoys from various countries lined up in a long line and entered the Tongque Terrace.

At this time, Murong Shifu had already sat down, drinking wine cup after cup. Sitting beside him were two strange-looking people, dressed in Qi people's costumes, who also seemed to be of noble origin, but their behavior was vulgar, and they had no decent manners at all, and they only cared about munching on their heads. There was shiny grease sticking to his beard, and there was a large pile of ribs on the couch next to him.

Murong Shifu suspected that if they were given another sheep, they would also eat cleanly.

Curious, Shifu talked to them, only to learn unexpectedly that these two people were not princes and dignitaries, nor were they generals, but the chiefs of two small tribes in the northern parts of the Saibei, one is called Tuoba Mountain, the other is called Wumutai, the former is a Xianbei person, the latter is a Khitan person, Tuoba Mountain Yue told Shifu very frankly, "I was originally the chief of a tribe in Northern Yanzhou, and later moved into Yanzhou with the tribe, and now I am General Wu Yi on the Seven Grades of Great Qizheng." ”

The size is also an official, Shifu smiled, hehe touched a glass with someone, and then asked in Xianbei language: How are you doing in Daqi?

Tuoba Shan Yue was quite complacent, he pointed to the scarlet clothes on his body, and said that the emperor rewarded him the day before yesterday, not in Xianbei language, but in stumbling Chinese, and then pointed to the goldfish bag hanging on his belt, saying that these were all rewarded by His Majesty. He also said that they have long stopped herding sheep now, learned from the Han people to farm, lived in the city, and the profits from selling horses every year are enough to feed thousands of people in the tribe!

Ebony Tai, who was listening to it, also nodded.

And Shifu was dumbfounded and asked, "You don't all graze anymore?" They all live in the city like those Han people? ”

"What's so bad about being the same as the Han people?" Several chiefs looked at Shifu with hillbilly-like eyes: "How hard is the grassland?" Not only do you have to herd sheep, but you also have to deal with other people to rob, and in the event of a natural disaster, the old people and children can't survive it, and they all have to die. How safe is it to live in town? There were no wolves to bite our sheep, no horse bandits to rob our women and children, and many of our children were fed after moving south of the Great Wall. ”

As for tradition, how many sheep is it worth?

The chiefs expressed their disdain, and the Khitan people of Wumutai made it clear that they would never go back to that kind of bitter cold place where birds don't!

"I haven't seen the Han people's flower world before, and I thought that the Son of Heaven lived in a tent, but now that I have seen it, who will rarely go back? I have changed my name and surname to myself and my wife and children, and I have been canonized by the Great Qi court. ”

"This Middle Earth, even the water you drink is dripping with honey, and the air is sweet!"

The Hu chiefs nodded one after another.

Only Murong Shifu sat silently in place and began to doubt life!