CHAPTER XLIII

Liu Cong and the others listened to the coachman's words, and got up and prepared to get off, and it didn't take long for the carriage to stop, and several people got off the carriage front and back.

The majestic Taichu Palace is in front of you, and you only need to enter the gate of this palace to see the whole picture of the entire palace.

"But the envoys who came to the palace?" asked the armored soldier as he stepped forward.

As soon as Liu Cong and the others left, this soldier came over, and Fan Shijin hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yes, we are the ministers who came from Shu Kingdom." ”

The soldier took Fan Shijin's letter, looked at the documents inside, and after confirming it again, he returned the letter, and then beckoned several other soldiers to come and check on a few people.

"You can't bring this weapon with you into this big house!" a soldier took a spear and knocked the sword on Bai Xiyue's waist.

Bai Xiyue took off the two swords on his body and handed them to the soldier very reluctantly.

"Official, you have to give it back to me in its entirety!" Bai Xiyue looked at the pair of swords.

Another soldier walked to Liu Cong's side again, also took the long sword from Liu Cong's waist, and after searching for the sword, he patted several people again, and after he couldn't find anything else, he turned around and walked away.

"Rest assured, the contents of your envoy will be returned to you in their original form. The soldier smiled with satisfaction after searching.

Then you can see, the huge vermilion lacquer door slowly opened, but the speed of opening is extremely slow, so slow that a few people want to go over to help these people to push, just open there is a light out, this light is very dazzling, so that a few people can't open their eyes, have to cover the direction of the light source with their hands, and then fix their eyes to see the whole picture of the Taichu Palace, the stairs in front of you are like a giant to create the general, go up the stairs, you can see the eaves of the Taichu Palace Palace, high up, this palace in the early morning and morning light, looks extraordinarily splendid.

Liu Cong swallowed his saliva, looking at the complete appearance of this Taichu Palace, he couldn't take his eyes off it, he was shocked by this huge palace, and he couldn't move his legs, so he could only look through the autumn water like this.

"Messengers, please!" a eunuch came to meet him.

Fan Shijin patted Liu Cong's face, and then followed with a flick of his sleeves.

Liu Congru woke up from a dream, walked behind several people, just stepped into this door, and began to look around, like a Taoist priest who had just come down the mountain, everything was novel, and every grass and tree was glowing with different light.

The eunuch walked skillfully, and the high staircase was at his feet, like flat ground, and he walked very lightly, without breathing, and walked to the front of the old man in three or two strokes.

When Liu Cong and the others went up the steps, they found that a group of officials were already waiting outside, dressed in court clothes and holding wat boards.

"Everyone, just wait here, and then the next official will report a few more. When the eunuch had said this, he walked away with brisk steps.

Fan Shijin wanted to thank him, but just as he was about to bend down, the eunuch walked away without looking back.

"This eunuch is quite busy. Xiong revered the back of the eunuch and said.

Fan Shijin hurriedly got up, calmed down and said, "It seems that these officials are waiting for the early dynasty..."

"Eh, look over there, like us, they don't wear court clothes, they must be envoys!" Liu Cong pointed to a group of people not far away, who were also not wearing official uniforms, and looked out of place with this group of officials.

"Is that the envoy of Nanchu?" Fan Shijin looked at the group of people, a little strange in appearance.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a familiar laughter, and a person climbed up from the bottom of the steps, and this person was Peng Bu.

"Don't come unharmed, Fan Messenger!" Before the Pengbu man could come up, the voice came first.

Seeing this, Fan Shijin immediately stepped forward and said, "I said why I didn't see Envoy Peng, it turned out to be here!"

"Fan Envoy, can you give the old man a hand?" Peng Bu was already exhausted from climbing the steps.

"Come!" Fan Shijin stretched out his hand to bring up the Peng Bula, and then asked, "Peng Envoy, do you know who those people are?"

Peng Bu looked in the direction of Fan Shijin's finger, and saw a group of people also dressed in civilian clothes, standing there waiting for the morning dynasty to start.

"I don't know," Peng Bu said after confirming it again and again, stroking his beard.

"I heard in the embassy that the envoy of the Chu State is also here..."Fan Shijin didn't explain the matter, and stopped halfway through speaking.

"Envoy Fan, this is a suspicion that the old man will unite with Nan Chu to deal with you, right? Peng Bu laughed dryly, but did not take his eyes off the group.

"This person is here, it is useless for the Peng envoy to say this, this Nan Chu must not be at ease, so he will send this envoy to make a final decision. Xiong Jingyi walked up to Peng Bu, and when he said the last sentence, he whispered to Peng Bu's ear.

"Southern Chu is Southern Chu, and Northern Jin is Northern Jin, which cannot be generalized. Peng Bu waved his sleeves and stopped chatting with the others, and walked to the front.

Wang Haoyue followed behind, and when she walked past a few people, she glared at a few people.

However, Liu Cong and the others didn't care about Wang Haoyue, they all had hippie smiles, some secretly sent Qiubo, some were lovely, and some were gagged, so angry that Wang Haoyue shook his head and left.

"Envoy Peng, if you lose, this General Wang beside you will stay with me as a wife. Xiong Jingchong didn't forget to say.

"Shameless maniac, if you come out of this Jianye Gate, I..." Wang Haoyue made a neck wiping gesture after speaking.

Peng Bu laughed a few times and then replied: "This matter is not the master of the envoy, so let each one rely on his ability!"

Then a eunuch came out and beckoned all the officials into the hall, leaving only three envoys to stay in place, and the envoys of the three countries did not want to communicate with each other, they all looked in the direction of the hall, waiting for the summons of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"When will it be us... Now the messengers were all left to dry. Bai Xiyue was originally a little worried, but he was not in the mood to worry about it.

"Don't be anxious, we're not the only ones waiting here. Fan Shijin stood with his eyes closed.

At this time, Liu Cong was still looking around the palace, he wanted to remember everything in his mind, if it weren't for this prophecy paper, he should be in the mood of appreciating the flowers at this moment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please move to the main hall!" the eunuch appeared in front of everyone at some point.

When the three envoys heard what the eunuch had said, they stepped forward one after another to walk up the steps leading to the main hall, which were not as long as those behind them, but they climbed with great effort.

Bai Xiyue pulled Liu Cong's sleeve on the side, and he still thought that he had waited too long, and at this time his legs began to tremble again.

"Tongmen, isn't Fang Cai too slow?" Liu Cong joked with a smile.

"Brother Cong, don't make fun of me, I can't wait to sit on the ground at this time and not leave..."Bai Xiyue said with a crying voice.

I didn't walk a few steps to see the appearance of this palace, majestic, huge, magnificent, can be used to describe this hall, the roof of this hall seems to be able to lie a dragon.

"The messenger enters the temple!"

"The envoy of Shu enters the palace!"

"The envoy of the Jin Kingdom enters the palace!"

"The envoy of the Chu State enters the palace!"

The eunuch outside the door shouted loudly, and this sound entered the main hall, and the eunuch in the main hall repeated again.

When a few people stepped into this hall, they could see the Tang King on the throne from a distance, and it was indeed a child, and there was a person sitting behind the curtain behind him.

The bead curtain crown worn by the Tang King, the bead curtain covered the face of the Tang King, making it impossible to see the person's facial expression from a distance, this bead curtain is the same as the curtain behind the Tang King blocking the Queen Mother, and the figure can only be seen through the curtain to see the appearance of the Queen Mother.

The civil and military officials stood on both sides, and on the left hand side of the Tang King stood the Wenchen, and on the right side was the military general.

After seeing the eunuch's report, all the officials looked back, but quickly turned around.

"The envoys of Shu Kingdom knock to see Your Majesty!"

"The envoys of the Jin Kingdom knock to see Your Majesty!"

"The envoys of the State of Chu knock to see Your Majesty!"

The envoys of the three countries knelt down and kowtowed one after another, and said in unison.

"Flat. Tang Wang made a childish voice, but this voice was not as weak as that, serious, solemn, and low, and he raised his hand after speaking.

"Envoys to my Southern Tang Dynasty, but do you have important matters to discuss?" a woman's voice came from the bead curtain behind King Tang.

Three envoys, you looked at me, I looked at you, I don't know who said it first, and after a while, the two envoys looked at Peng Bu, Peng Bu was older than the two of them, and he should have said first.

Peng Bu saw that the two envoys were looking at him, so he accepted the kindness in his heart, and touched the cuffs with his hand, and then said: "The envoy of the Northern Jin Dynasty, according to the will of my King Jin, specially came to meet the King of Tang and discuss the strategy of joining Tang to resist Shu. ”

"This Jin Kingdom is still interesting, my Southern Tang Dynasty is far away from this Shu land, how can I talk about joint resistance?" The woman behind the bead curtain said with a cold snort after listening to Peng Bu's words.

The ministers of the palace began to talk in a whisper, and the discussion went on and on, but no one stood up to say a thing or two.

"If the Tang State cooperates with the Jin State, I can use the Jin State Road to enter this Hou Shu, and then divide this Shu land!" Peng Bu replied.

The Queen Mother ignored Peng Bu's meaning, turned her head to look at the envoys of Shu through the curtain, and said slowly: "Why don't the envoys of Shu have nothing to say?"

"Go back to the Empress Dowager! Although my Shu land is not handed over to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the truth of this cold lips and teeth, presumably the Tang King and the Queen Mother will not be ignorant! If I fall after Shu, the Northern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Chu army will have no worries about going south, and if Shu dies, the Northern Zhou and Southern Tang will be in danger, and the Northern Jin Dynasty and Southern Chu will not dare to go south or go north. Fan Shijin heard the words of the Queen Mother and blurted out what she was going to say in the past few days.

As soon as Fan Shijin said this, the hundred officials in the court exploded, and the discussion became even worse.

"Queen Mother!Hou Shu is like a broken candle in the wind, and the Jin and Chu coalition forces will be able to level it in less than a year!" Peng Bu intended to dismiss Fan Shijin's argument that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold.

"Hahahahaha! I am easy to defend and difficult to attack, resist with the strength of the whole country, you don't have to wait for a year, even if you give you ten years, you will never want to enter my Hanzhong!" Fan Shijin looked up to the sky and laughed.

"I have long heard that this Shu envoy is not an idle person, first the Dragon King rained to open the way, and then it was rumored that the White Tiger Canteen was a person who was only eight buckets high, could it be you?" The woman behind the curtain smiled softly, and then asked.