Chapter 674: The Emperor's Heart Technique
Lu Duan was muttering in his heart, and then he saw this Rakshasa-like foreigner bowing his hands forward, Chinese etiquette being used by this barbarian with blond hair and blue eyes, which made Lu Duan feel a little weird in his heart. Lu Duan was also surprised by the Chinese language spoken by the barbarians, "Your envoy has come from a long way, and you have worked hard all the way. Let me introduce myself. My name is Li Sidi, and I have been gifted by His Majesty as the concierge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of my country. Director of the Department, I have come here to meet your envoy by His Majesty's order."
"Huh? Protocol Department?" Then he remembered that although this title was weird, it was probably similar to the position in the Song court that was responsible for receiving foreign guests and envoys. However, he was still dissatisfied with Tang's monarch and ministers who used such a 'little official' to meet him. He couldn't help feeling resentful, "I represent Huaxia Zhengshuo to this foreign country, and there is such a small official to receive me. Could it be that the entire Tang Kingdom despises my dynasty?" This surprised Li Sidi, a Jewish man who had already been naturalized, and wondered how he had offended the Chinese envoy.
In fact, it is because, after so many years of internal development and growth, the Tang people have already formed a set of rules and etiquette of their own, both internally and externally. Which department is responsible for which matter has its own department in charge of this matter, and other departments have no right to intervene. Therefore, according to the rules of the Tang people, even if Lu Duan was an envoy of the Song court, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should appear first to receive him. Including board, lodging, lodging and travel, and then when the monarch and his ministers agree on the date of the interview, they will send a notice to postpone the invitation.
Although Li Sidi didn't understand the reason, he still received Lu Duan according to the usual etiquette. Arrange for him to rest in a side hall of the palace first, and tell him to wait for the time being, waiting for the king to summon him.
Lu Duan naturally understands this set of procedures. It is impossible for every country to meet the head of a country just because you are an envoy. Every country has a lot of big and small things, which need to be discussed and dealt with by the monarch and his ministers. It is impossible to drop everything and receive you just because the envoy visits. Everything has a priority.
Led by Li Sidi, Lu Duan walked into the courtyard of the imperial palace. He looked around at this uniquely shaped palace complex. It can be seen that there are vast areas on the left and right sides of it, and the exquisite buildings with different shapes are connected with the main hall in the center. There are guards guarding the gate all around, the ground is paved with stone slabs, and covered with moss (lawn). In the center of the palace complex, there is a group of magnificent fountain landscapes. Various reliefs are engraved on it, most of which are peony flower reliefs, and a large number of murals are painted on it. Lu Duan looked intently, but saw that the content on it was an endless queue,
Behind the long dragon is a mighty city that has been burned to the ground! In the team, the young and the strong formed an army, and the vehicles were in the middle of the team, carrying all kinds of supplies and gold and silver. Cattle, sheep, war horses and other livestock. At the front of the team, a man and a woman straddled parallel.
Lu Duan looked over and saw that the leading man was wearing a long robe with a pendant on his chest. He looked extremely young, with long hair hanging behind his shoulders. At a glance, Lu Duan recognized that the man was a pure Han family. The woman beside her is dressed in a foreign land, and looks like a foreign land citizen. Lu Duan compared the scenes in the relief with the history of the Tang Dynasty that he had learned from "watching" and "listening".
He asked, "Could it be that the figure left in this relief is the story of 'Get rid of slavery and move westward' recorded in your country's annals?"
The two of them and their entourage stopped at the embossed fountain pool, and Li Sidi smiled and said, "That's right, it's one of the embossed stories of how we, under the leadership of the god king, got rid of the slavery of the big cannibal and moved westward thousands of miles across the sea to establish a country .”
"God King?"
Li Sidi explained, "According to the rumors in the palace, the king of gods came to Europa and the Near East in order to subdue the 'seventy-two demon gods driven by King Solomon' recorded in our Jewish history. In the city of cannibals, the Tang people who were forced to be slaves for more than two hundred years were found. In anger, the god king slaughtered the big cannibals in the street, and then led the Tang people out of the big cannibal city. After that, he forced the big cannibals with supreme magic power The top and bottom returned the Tang people. And the officials of Dashi, many of whom did not know the power of the god king, slaughtered the Tang people wantonly. Under the anger of the god king, he released the plague in the city where the Tang people died unjustly, and slaughtered the city.... Afterwards, the god king led more than 10,000 people The Tang people gathered went straight to Baghdad, the capital of the Dashi, and forced the Dashi emperor and ministers to return the Tang people as slaves. They also asked for countless gold and silver supplies, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. Food capital Baghdad city."
When Lu Duan heard the previous passages, he felt indignant, and felt aggrieved for the son of the Han family who had been humiliated as a slave. When I heard that a strange man rescued the Han people, threatened Da Shi, and set fire to the city of Baghdad, my heart was full of enthusiasm. Looking at the relief on it with emotion, "Such a majestic man, Lu Duan hates that he can't meet him once in his life, it is a pity in his life!"
He said: "Where is the mausoleum of the god king of your country? I will go to worship later!" As soon as the words fell to the ground, there was no sound, but he saw the Tang people around him glaring at him, even Li Sidi, who treated him very politely, had a twitch on his face. Feeling angry, Lu Duan didn't know the reason, and was puzzled, "...but what's wrong with my remarks just now?"
Li Sidi said to him: "Mr.'s remarks are indeed inappropriate!"
Lu Duan felt bewildered by the sudden change of tone to the courtesy officer who called himself. He said: "Please give me some advice!" History, Li Sidi reluctantly forgave, he said: "The god king of our country is still alive, he has not left. He is the god of eternal life and eternal life. He came here to subdue the seventy-two demon gods driven by King Solomon back then. He must have gone out for a long time to subdue the demon gods from hell in various places in the world!"
"I really don't know, please forgive me." Li Sidi didn't care about the god of eternal life and longevity that Li Sidi said. In the long history of China, there have been too many emperors obsessed with immortality, especially the first emperor. The eternal emperor who laid the foundation for the great unification and the foundation of China's foundation, swept all over the world, and it was inevitable that he would be defeated by death. Therefore, he was obsessed with immortality, and he spared no effort to build mirage ships, recruit alchemists, and go to sea to visit immortals in order to live forever. The children of Confucianism do not believe it, in fact, in the hearts of many people, they do not believe this at all. However, even a wise and mighty emperor like Shi Huangdi could hardly defeat the fear of death. In Lu Duan's heart, he naturally regarded the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty as a figure like the first emperor, but in Lu Duan's view, this emperor was even more "excessive" than the first emperor. Even if they are dead, they are still "alive" in the hearts of their subjects, and they are even more disdainful of the so-called "divine family". In his mind, this is just a way for the superior to command and rule.
The 5,000-year history of China has not elevated the ruler to the high position of the emperor. Sons of heaven, it is only right and proper to rule you. In Lu Duan's view, this is just a means of ruling and an application of the emperor's mind. The only thing that made him feel emotional was that he could not have imagined that the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, with such great prestige and imperial means, even though he had long been 'dead' in the hearts of his subjects, he still survived, but he just went out to sweep up and subdue the despots in various places in the world The devil has gone.