"Everyone, please salute His Majesty the Heavenly Chosen Emperor..."
Following the shouts of the eunuchs in front of the palace, all the officials of the Yi Dynasty and the envoys from the vassal states in the Hall of Taihe knelt down and worshiped and chanted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live..." "
During the chants, the envoys from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries also bent down to Zhang Rui who was sitting on the seat, and performed a chest caressing ceremony to show their respect for the Emperor Yi Dynasty. Of course, they did not hide it at all. I just mean business.
At this moment, the most conspicuous person in the palace was the Japanese envoy. All five members stood upright without any intention of saluting. Even though the disciplinary officials in the palace repeatedly reminded them, they remained indifferent.
Regarding everything in front of him, Zhang Rui, who was sitting on the dragon chair, just watched quietly without showing any expression on his face.
As a modern person who has no habit of kneeling, Zhang Rui doesn't like to kneel to others, and he also doesn't let others kneel to him. Basically, unless it is a particularly important day, when he, as a representative, needs to accept everyone's kneeling, on weekdays, he will not let others kneel to him, even the eunuchs and maids who express their status as slaves in this era.
However, although Zhang Rui doesn't like people to kneel down, he is not completely opposed to kneeling down.
If kneeling down was just for him personally, then he didn't care about it at all. After all, “Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.”
But if this matter is raised to the level of the country, it is completely different. For example, Zhang Rui also had to kneel down when he was worshiping heaven and law.
In this barbaric era, envoys from other countries knelt down and worshiped the current monarch as a sign of submission.
People all have the mentality of admiring the strong, and so does the country.
When a country feels that your country is on par with theirs, they will come out to cause trouble. He just looks for trouble all day long and starts a war. When they feel that you can crush them to death with one finger, they will be able to calm down and the world will be much more peaceful.
Looking at the standing envoys of His Highness, Zhang Rui couldn't help but think: "How upright you stand now will determine how happily you kneel down in the future. The Emperor's lack of a world map back then, now it's It can only be done by me. What I hated most in the past was taking the English test. From now on, Chinese must be the only common language in the world. Let them do the headaches!"
"Also, little Japan, okay. Very good. I have more reasons to beat you."
"Everyone loves you..." Zhang Rui seemed to have not seen the Japanese envoy who did not salute at all, and simply asked everyone to get up.
"I thank you for your grace..."
Since the Japanese envoys stood at the end of the queue, they stood upright without saluting. Almost no one except the officials who came out to correct discipline in the palace knew about it.
However, they found that the emperor who had witnessed the matter did not raise a voice to question, and they themselves would not stupidly speak out at this time to slap themselves in the face.
This matter can only be settled later.
"The Japanese envoy..."
At this time, the disciplinary officials in the palace looked at the five Japanese envoys with fire in their eyes and teeth itching with hatred.
"If you have something to do, go to court, if nothing happens, leave the court..."
Since this visit to the court was dealing with a diplomatic matter, these words were addressed to the foreign envoys. The officials of Yi Dynasty will not report the affairs of this Dynasty at this time.
Of course, even if foreign envoys have something to report to Zhang Rui, they cannot report things in a swarm without order. Instead, they must report to the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Yi Dynasty in advance that they have something to report today. The officials came to arrange the memorial.
Generally speaking, the things that foreign envoys can report are nothing more than establishing diplomatic relations, establishing trade exchanges, requesting tribute to the vassal, requesting for imperial edicts, requesting for rescue, and requesting surrender and peace talks, etc.
At least among all the envoys that Yi Dynasty faced so far, no envoy from any country dared to negotiate any special and harsh conditions with Yi Dynasty.
"In response to the order of the Shogun of the Japanese Empire, Tokugawa Ieshige, I, the envoy of the Empire of Japan, Matsudaira Takemoto, bring the letter of credence of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan to the Emperor of Japan." The eunuch in the palace had just finished speaking, and according to the arrangements of the Ministry of Rites The order should have been announced by Annan's envoy, but Wu Ping Wu Yuan, who was standing behind him, said it first.
At this time, everyone in the hall focused their attention on Matsudaira Takemoto. The look in his eyes was a mixture of surprise, confusion, anger and amusement.
Faced with the focus of many complicated eyes, at the beginning, even though he was an upper-class person in Japan and had many experiences, Takehira Takemoto still felt extremely nervous, but this nervousness was fleeting.
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At this time, his mind only deeply echoed what Tokugawa Iedashige and several other senior middlemen had told him when he had just left: "When you go on a mission to the Yi Dynasty, you must not disgrace the Japanese Empire and disgrace it." To protect the reputation of the shogunate, so that they will not be laughed at by future generations for thousands of years."
"Okay, since you all think so, then I will definitely do it. Otherwise, won't I have nothing to do when I go back?" Matsudaira Takemoto comforted himself and said in his heart.
"Japan itself is a strong country, and it is protected by the 'divine wind'. For thousands of years, it has been easy for us to hit others, but it is difficult for others to hit us. Only the weak need to abide by other people's rules, and the strong themselves are the rules."
"Envoys of the Japanese Kingdom, who are you? You don't understand the rules? Is it time for you to speak now?" Before the disciplinary officials in the palace had time to speak, Prince Annan Li Weiyi, who was serving as Annan's envoy, immediately rushed He shouted and cursed at Matsudaira Takemoto who was standing on the middle path.
Li Weiyi was historically killed by Lord Zheng, who was in power at the time, in December of the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign. However, because of Zhang Rui's appearance at this time, he helped Annan transfer the power back to their Li family, so Li Weiyi Yi had an incomparable love for Zhang Rui and was a bitch. Especially after the Yi Dynasty swept Siam and Burma in one fell swoop, this fanaticism only increased. How could he tolerate anyone who dared to cause trouble in front of Zhang Rui?
At this time, Songping Wu Yuanding took a quick look at the clothes Li Weiyi was wearing, and based on his understanding of foreign envoys over the past few days, he probably knew that he should be Annan's envoy.
I saw that Songping Wuyuan didn't seem to be angry at Li Weiyi's scolding. Instead, he said with a mocking look: "Rules? Those are established for countries like Annan who have no strength and are willing to be others' dogs. The strong ones, I never follow the rules, because the strong are the rules themselves, but I tell you this, you don’t understand it either.”
