At this year's palace banquet, Jiang Yuqing and Jing Yan discussed it and set it for the twenty-ninth day of the New Year. In this way, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the hundred officials do not need to enter the palace again, and they can only reunite at home in peace.

This arrangement could not be more reasonable and considerate, and won the unanimous approval of all officials.

The palace banquet is still placed in the Liangyi Palace. There is no longer a small desk for two people in the past, which is time-consuming and laborious, and it also takes up space.

All use ordinary round tables, according to grades, or according to families, up to eight people per table, saving time and effort.

In addition to the singing and dancing performances of previous years, ventriloquists and jugglers were specially invited from outside the palace at the palace banquet, which increased the interest of ornamentation and appreciated the elegance and vulgarity.

In addition, a lottery has been added, which can be regarded as another benefit for hundreds of officials.

The prizes are varied. There are real money, silver, antique jade, as well as various ancient books or overseas treasures, and even an intermediate beauty pill specially put in by Jiang Yuqing.

There are valuable things, but there are also ordinary objects, such as a jar of wine or a plate of fruit.

What you win depends on your luck. For example, her father's luck is very average, and he only won a plate of fruit. Her brother's luck was good, and he drew a lone ancient book.

A small official had the best luck, and he actually won the most valuable intermediate Dingyan Pill here, and he immediately gave the pill to his wife.

This made the wives of the other officials present envious, and also pushed the whole banquet to a climax.

The Jiang family sat at two tables, one for the women and one for the men. Jiang Yuqing slipped to her mother's table and accompanied the female elders of the family to eat a few chopsticks dishes.

Then she brought a plate of beef jerky to her father's table.

There are few men in the Jiang family who stay in the capital, except for her father and grandfather, her third brother and her own brother Jiang Yuchuan.

plus Doctor Qiu and her eldest brother Tian Guang, and a specially invited Li Deshun to the palace. And just like that, the table wasn't full.

Her master, Doctor Qiu, don't look at her age, but her teeth are very good. It's best to have beef jerky, and there is good wine here, and of course this can't be missing.

The old man was very satisfied with the little apprentice's intimacy, and glared at Tian Guang, the big apprentice next to him who was carefully waiting for him to drink. Tian Guang is also very helpless, as long as there is a little junior sister, several of their apprentices are scum.

Her father peeled a few shrimps and let Jiang Yuqing eat them. Jiang Wenyuan is also willing to spoil her, and her baby daughter will peel it if she likes to eat.

The way the father and daughter get along with each other as fathers and friends, in the eyes of the officials around them, everyone is thoughtful.

It turned out that Jiang Shangshu and the queen got along like this in private, and it felt very good.

As for Jing Yan, his eyes never left Jiang Yuqing the whole time. Wherever she went, he always saw her for the first time.

For the officials, this year's palace banquet is finally no longer a boring and rigid formal convention.

This is the best atmosphere and the most relaxed and happy year in history, and everyone has received unexpected little surprises. Therefore, as soon as they left the palace, everyone began to look forward to next year's palace banquet.

Just after the end of the New Year, before the Lantern Festival, the envoys of the Peacock Kingdom came. No one expected them to come so quickly. However, the Peacock Country does not have a New Year's Day, which is understandable.

It was still the officials of Honglu Temple who came forward to receive them and arranged for them to live in the state guesthouse. Unexpectedly, the state guesthouse caught fire on the night they stayed, but fortunately, it was put out in time and did not cause a catastrophe.

Later, the reason was investigated because most of the envoys of the Peacock Kingdom believed in the peacock god of their country. When they got home, they lit lamps and candles and prayed for blessings, but they did not blow them out.

When I was sleeping, I didn't close the window, and the wind blew down the candle flame in the middle of the night and lit the curtain, which caused the fire. Fortunately, the Yulin guards guarding the State Guesthouse were vigilant and did not burn anyone.

Even so, nearly a third of the house where the Peacock people lived was burned down. The people from the Ministry of Engineering went to determine the damage, saying that it would cost at least 40,000 taels of silver to repair everything.

This unjust money had to be taken from the treasury of Great Xia. This can make Jiang Wenyuan angry enough, and he always thinks that he has to get it back from the Peacock Country.

Before he could think of Zhao'er, two more groups of people came in the capital, which were the teams of Jin Xiguo and Dongnuguo. It's a bunch.

The Eastern Woman Kingdom is a subject country of Great Xia, and it can be regarded as half of its own people. And this time it's the queen of the East Woman Country.

And because Dongnu had an unpleasant quarrel with the Peacock Country, the officials of Great Xia were afraid that it would not look good if their enemies met again.

Therefore, the queen of the East Female Kingdom and her entourage were specially arranged in the most luxurious Yunji Hall in the state guesthouse.

Kim Seok Guo visited Bactria for the first time. Jin Xi is a neighbor of the Peacock Country, just northeast of the Peacock Country, on the same continent as the Peacock Country.

The people of Jinxi Kingdom believe in Allah, do not eat pork, and have many territorial disputes on the border with the Peacock State, and the two countries are considered mortal enemies.

Originally, the officials of Honglu Temple wanted to separate them. But when he heard that both countries wanted to come to Great Xia to buy treasure ships and iron tools, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately arranged them in the same hall.

Ahem, what, since you're all neighbors, let's continue to be neighbors. It's all from the same place, and it looks kind.

The envoys handed over the credentials, no matter what the reason was, it was reasonable for Daxia to set up a banquet as the host country, so the reception luncheon was set on the day of the Lantern Festival.

The queen of the Eastern Female Kingdom came in person this time because she was seriously ill and came to Daxia for medical treatment. The gift she gave was a very weighty one, a newly discovered silver mine that had not yet been mined.

The Peacock Kingdom is still the same prince from last time. It is a bottle of gold pagoda that is sent.

Jin Xiguo is also a prince, although it is the first time to visit Daxia, but the gifts he prepared are very attentive.

A red coral nearly a meter high, a box of pearls of neat and well-proportioned size like a dragon's eye, and a box of gold bars. Ming people don't say dark words, Jiang Yuqing likes such arrogant and real guests.

The reception luncheon of Daxia was also prepared very carefully. Because the people of Jinxi believe in Allah and do not eat pork, they abandon pigs and choose mutton in their dishes.

The people of the Peacock Kingdom and the Jinxi Kingdom do not know how to use chopsticks, so Great Xia prepared spoons for them. Jin Xi is okay, what is used in Daxia, he is very polite.

Peacock people have always been self-centered, and they dislike eating with a spoon without temperature, so they start grabbing it directly. While eating, I still dislike that there is no curry, it is not delicious.

Such behavior is really too different from that of their polite neighbors.

The officials of Great Xia had already learned the lesson, and if they heard it, they should not have heard it. Didn't they come to buy a boat? When the time comes, it would be nice to have a little more money from them.

I heard that today is the annual Lantern Festival in Daxia, and there is a large-scale beautiful lantern festival in the capital at night. The envoys of the Three Kingdoms were very excited and wanted to see the prosperity of Great Xia.

Therefore, after the luncheon, they went back to the museum and prepared to go to the lantern festival in the evening.

Jing Yan specially explained to the people of Honglu Temple, and sent more people to follow them. Especially the peacock people, you must keep an eye on it, it is not good to make a mess during the big holidays.

The officials of Honglu Temple are only the only ones. In fact, even if Your Majesty doesn't say it, they will do it.

The last time the Peacock people came to Great Xia, they had a lesson in the capital, and knew that although Great Xia was friendly to people, they would not get used to them.

Therefore, although there were some minor problems this time, there was no major mess. I finished the festival peacefully.

The sixteenth day of the first month. Jiang Yuqing personally received the queen of the Eastern Female Kingdom in He'an Hospital.

This is a very calm, introverted and wise middle-aged woman. Jiang Yuqing scanned her whole body with her divine sense, did a detailed examination, and found that she had breast cancer, known as the "pink killer".

Jiang Yuqing concluded that if he hadn't met her, the queen would not have lived for more than three months.

Because the sick place is too private, even if the medical skills are as good as her master, Doctor Qiu, the queen is afraid that she will not dare to speak easily.

In her condition, she must not be removed, Jiang Yuqing can only use golden needles supplemented by rejuvenation surgery to remove the cancer cells in her body little by little.

This process is carried out several times and lasts up to half a month.

The queen of the East Woman Kingdom was overjoyed when she heard that it would only take half a month to be cured.

On the way to Daxia, she also privately found many famous doctors and medical women, and they all said that there was little hope of cure.

Empress Daxia and Divine Doctor Qiu were her last hopes. If she could, she would prefer to ask the queen of Great Xia to treat her, after all, everyone is a woman, and it is more convenient.

And because of the noble status of the Empress of Great Xia, she gritted her teeth and offered the newly discovered silver mine as a gift. If the silver mine is gone, you can find it again, and if you don't have a life, you won't have anything.

At this time, the business negotiations for the export of treasure ships have officially begun.

The people of the Peacock Kingdom have a great appetite, and they want 30 of the most advanced large treasure ships when they open their mouths, and they also need to be equipped with matching heavenly thunder bombs and their launching devices.

Officials in Great Xia said that the boat could be sold, and the heavenly thunder bomb was a state secret, and no matter how much money there was, it would not be sold.

When the people of the Peacock Kingdom saw that this road was impassable, they said that Jin Xi was their mortal enemy, and asked Great Xia not to sell treasure ships and iron tools to them.

The officials of Daxia immediately expressed their embarrassment: "This is open for business, and everyone who comes is a guest." We can't offend anyone.

Do you think that will work? They're all old friends. How about we give you the lowest discount at the original price? ”

As soon as the peacock people heard that there was a advantage to take advantage of, their eyes immediately lit up and asked, "How much?" ”

"Eighty percent of the original price."

"It's expensive, it's cheaper."

“......”

The two sides have been talking back and forth for two days, no matter what Daxia says, the peacock people are too expensive.

Therefore, after two days of talking, Mao didn't finish the talks, and let these guys rub their food for two days in vain, but the official in charge of this matter was angry enough.

After Jiang Yuqing heard about it, she found her father: "Aren't peacock people too expensive, we also have cheap ones." ”

Her father glared at her and said, "Where there is cheap, there is no cheap treasure ship." ”

Jiang Yuqing sighed, smiled evilly and said, "Daddy, have you forgotten the ships we collected when we fought Liju and the Wa Kingdom in the past.

Although it is broken, it is a treasure ship.

Aren't they both cheap and new. Just repair the outside of the hull and paint it again to look new. I didn't say how good the inside was.

No, we can send them one more. For example, how about the Blizzard, which has a perfect face? If you can't get it right, there is still a return business to do? ”

Jiang Wenyuan also heard his daughter talk about the Fengxue, and when he heard its name this time, his eyes lit up: "Come, good baby, let's sit down and talk about ......"