The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it’s almost dusk.
Time flew by and it was two hours in the blink of an eye.
It was not far away, and everywhere outside the palace, except where the guards were on guard, was already crowded with people who came to watch the fun.
"Your Majesty should be arriving at the city gate soon!"
"Um"
"I didn't expect to see the congratulatory gifts from those foreign missions before that mysterious surprise. It's really a bit surprising."
"It is said that His Majesty had no such plan originally. It was the foreign missions that requested it."
"Proactively requesting it? So the foreign missions have brought good things and they want to deliberately show off to our Dragon Kingdom? Or do they want to take this opportunity to prove that their comprehensive national strength is better than our Dragon Kingdom!"
"That should be the case, otherwise why would you ask for it!"
"In this case, we should take a closer look..."
"It's natural."
........
The people on the periphery were talking a lot, and your words were heard far away, while the faces of the various envoys on the other side were getting more and more ugly.
They really didn't expect that Li Mo would make such a big noise.
But there is no place to reason about this kind of thing. People are exempted from this ritual in the first place, but they insist on making sacrifices.
If there had been no request, the various envoys would have already sat in the ceremony hall and started eating and drinking.
How could he be criticized by the people of the Dragon Kingdom?
Next, when Li Mo arrived at the city gate, various envoys would present congratulatory gifts one by one, and then they would board the city gate one by one to watch a performance. The specific performance was not stated clearly.
"That's all. Now that it's become like this, let's follow the rules of the Dragon Kingdom. I just hope that what the envoy of Dayan has is amazing enough."
After a long time, all the envoys sighed.
At this time, we can no longer say that there are too many people, or we should give up.
"Your Majesty is here!"
At this moment, a father-in-law's voice was heard in the distance. Looking again, Li Mo was already sitting in a dragon chariot and leading the ministers to the entrance of the inner palace.
After nodding politely to the envoys, Li Mo sat in front of the Luan rites that had been prepared long ago.
What the various envoys and the common people did not notice was that it looked like Li Mo's team was still the same as it was when offering sacrifices to heaven in the morning. In fact...many ministers did not show up again.
"The gift presentation begins, please invite the Daliang envoy!"
After Li Mo and the ministers sat down, the eunuch in charge stood at the entrance of the palace and shouted loudly.
The order of presenting congratulatory gifts was also decided upon by the various congratulatory missions. Their idea was very simple. It would not take much to save the good things until the end to suppress those in front of the Dragon Kingdom.
"Has it started yet?"
Hearing this, the two leading ministers of the Daliang envoy, one civil and one military, looked at each other and walked towards the city gate.
"The Daliang envoy brought ten thousand taels of silver and three thousand pieces of cloth to congratulate His Majesty on the founding of the country in good times, and to wish the Dragon Kingdom peace and prosperity..."
Bowing slightly, Envoy Daliang said.
Wow!
However, the next moment, before Li Mo, who was sitting on the throne, could respond, the people outside immediately went into a panic.
"Isn't it? Ten thousand taels of silver and three thousand bolts of cloth?"
"That's it? I thought they took the initiative to ask for gifts because of something scarce, but...sigh! Could it be that our Dragon Kingdom is short of cloth? Aren't the silks and double-sided embroidery in Ruyang better than cloth?"
"Ten thousand taels of silver? Qingfeng Casino only earns two or three hours of income."
"It's not that the place where we received the gift dislikes that the gift is small...but...they want to show off, and they ended up showing us this? Isn't it humiliating us?"
"It means deliberately humiliating our Dragon Kingdom."
"Don't laugh, you all. This is the national strength that Daliang wants to show, hahahahaha."
The people were not very far away from Luan Jia, and the voices of their discussions reached the ears of the Daliang envoys word by word.
Whoosh!
The next moment, the ears of the two envoys turned extremely red. They were embarrassed and wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.
In fact, they only prepared about 5,000 taels of congratulatory gifts before they came, and this was all added later.
It would have been even worse if we didn't add more.
"Your Majesty, I, Liang...have no..."
After finally regaining consciousness, Envoy Daliang raised his head in embarrassment and whispered.
At this moment, he really hated Dayan's ghost-faced counselor in his heart. How could this situation have happened if he hadn't come up with that bad idea?
"Your Excellency, please don't blame us. The people of the Dragon Kingdom are outspoken. In fact, we are very grateful to the Southern Kingdom for sending a delegation here. Please!"
Sitting on the dragon chair, Li Mo nodded slightly and made a gesture of invitation.
Seats have been prepared for diplomatic missions from various countries on the side.
"Thank you, Your Majesty..."
The two envoys hurriedly thanked them and quickly walked to their seats.
To be honest, what Li Mo just said was more hurtful than the words of the people, but there was nothing wrong with it.
At the side door, other envoys also saw this scene clearly, and they were stunned and extremely annoyed at the same time.
This scene was simply more uncomfortable than a public execution.
"what to do?"
Some envoys couldn't help but ask.
Now that the matter has come to this, it is useless to blame the ghost-faced counselors anymore, not to mention that they agreed to it in the first place.
"I have no choice but to add temporary gifts!"
Cookie and Khan frowned almost at the same time.
Although the words spoken by the people of the Dragon Kingdom were extremely unpleasant, if you think about it carefully, there is some truth in them. They were the gifts requested by the missions from various countries, and then bringing out those ordinary things really meant a little bit to insult the Dragon Kingdom.
"But...is it too late now?"
There was a meal for the envoy.
"If you have time, just send the congratulatory gifts to the Rites Department before leaving Ruyang."
"Oh, this is the only way!"
Just when the rest of the envoys were having troubles, the father-in-law spoke again in front of the palace gate.
“We’re inviting a delegation from the South!”
In such scenes, even Yang Guoxiao, the leader of Tianyin Sect, felt great pressure. In addition to the common people, there were also the momentum and gazes of ministers from all walks of life in the Dragon Kingdom.
call!
Taking a deep breath, he led the generals to the front of Long Chu.
"The envoy from the Southern Kingdom brought one hundred thousand taels of silver and thirty carts of silk to congratulate His Majesty on the founding of the country, and to wish the Dragon Kingdom peace and prosperity..."
So he said.
Having said that, Yang Guoxiao quietly started to hear the discussions from the outside. He really wanted to know what the people outside would say. After all, this gift was the limit of what he could collect.
"One hundred thousand taels? Thirty carts of silk? Although this gift is not unusual, it is also so-so and not too shabby."
"That's right, it seems that the southern country's national power is much stronger than that of Daliang."
"I can only say that it's just average. If you want to show off in front of our Dragon Kingdom, it's not that interesting."
"Okay, let's look at the next mission."
...
"It's okay! It's not too embarrassing."
Hearing this, Yang Guoxiao's face suddenly looked much better, and his body became much straighter than before.
"Your Excellency, please don't blame us. The people of our Dragon Kingdom are very outspoken. In fact, I am very grateful for Daliang to send the envoy here. Please!"
Li Mo nodded slightly on the dragon chair.
For people like Yang Guoxiao who have old grudges with Yi Bo Lou, even if they have ideas, they will not reveal them at this time.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
As everyone knows, the same sentence means two different things to different people.
Envoy Daliang, who had already sat down, looked increasingly ugly, and his fists were clenched tightly.
"They...they deliberately plotted against me!"
"That's right, when I asked the Southern Kingdom envoy before, Yang Guoxiao said that he only prepared five thousand taels of silver and nothing else. But now...he asked for one hundred thousand taels..."
Liang Wenchen nodded angrily.
In this case, wouldn't it mean that they, the Liang family, would be killed in the end?
