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Chapter 98 Chapter 101: The Envoy of the Japanese Kingdom

In history, Wu Meiniang was demoted to Yeting by Emperor Taizong because of the Shizi Cong incident, so when Li Hao learned that Wu Meiniang had entered the palace, he always carried this note with him, planning to hand it over when he met Wu Meiniang in the palace one day. Give her, give her a friendly reminder, he can only help so much.

For Wu Meiniang, he can't do too much, because she is now the emperor's woman, and he can't have too much entanglement with her, otherwise it will be very dangerous.

After Li Hao returned home, Du Hong came to report that the first batch of glass mirrors had been produced, a total of 735 pieces, but there were large and small ones.

When Li Hao heard the good news, he was so happy that he asked Du Hong to take him to inspect the goods. When he came to the glass workshop, he saw hundreds of glass mirrors neatly placed in the warehouse. Processing, the mirror frames are all framed with carved pear wood, and painted with gold paint. Shaped glass, square glass, and tall wine glass, in short, they look very attractive, and they are definitely amazing things in this era.

"Okay, well done, well done!" Li Hao looked at so many glass products and rubbed his hands happily. These are all money. For people of this era, glass is such a magical existence. Once sold in the market, the price is not up to you.

Li Hao was in a good mood. He clapped his hands when he returned to the workshop, and said in a loud voice: "Dear workers, everyone has worked hard. Because of your excellent work, I will give each of you an extra bonus this month. As long as everyone works hard, the bonus will be paid every [-] Every month, and there will be a year-end bonus at the end of the year!"

"Oh——" All the workers and craftsmen cheered excitedly when they heard the words. What is the concept of a bonus of one month's money, one year is twelve, and there is also a year-end bonus. Just thinking about it makes people excited.

Du Hong said in a timely manner: "Don't just be happy, hurry up and thank the boss!"

Those workers and craftsmen came to their senses and saluted Li Hao one after another, saying in a chaotic way: "Thank you, my boss, for the reward."

Li Hao waved his hands and smiled lightly: "You're welcome, this is the reward for your hard work, everyone keep working hard!"

After finishing speaking, he led Du Hong out of the workshop, and asked as he walked, "What is my father-in-law up to lately?"

Du Hong followed closely beside him, and replied: "Master Tu has been busy with the tea business recently, and I heard that he lost a lot of money in the past two months, but fortunately, he has already started to make money this month."

"Well, the tea business is just for fun. I didn't expect to make money from tea. Glass products are the real cash cow." Li Hao pointed to the glass products in the warehouse with high spirits, and said, "These things can It can’t be piled up in the warehouse, you have to sell it quickly, it’s all money, you can go to Chang’an to buy a store tomorrow, it doesn’t need to be big, but it shouldn’t be too small, the key point is that the location must be in a prosperous area, close to the rich District, do you understand the rich district?"

Du Hong nodded again and again: "Understood, it's where the rich live."

"There is Huigen." Li Hao nodded with a smile, "Notify me as soon as you buy the store, so I can draw the decoration drawings."

"Yes, the old slave understands."

In the early morning of the next day, Li Hao took Du Hong and Lu Yun to Chang'an. Du Hong was in charge of finding the store, while Li Hao and Lu Yun came to the gate of Suzaku. I want to know the result of Li Shimin's meeting with the Japanese envoy as soon as possible.

When Li Hao arrived outside Suzaku's gate, the Great Court Meeting had been going on for nearly an hour, seven things had been agreed upon, and the last thing was to be met with the Japanese envoy, which was also the biggest thing of the day.

"Xuan Fusang's envoys have an audience!"

Xu Lian held his whisk and made a loud announcement. Not long after, two Japanese envoys walked into the hall. The first reaction to everyone was that they were so short. Due to their low nutrition, the ancients were not very tall, 1.8 meters. The above are considered giants, generally reaching 1.7 meters five is considered very tall, and the average height of men is almost between 1.6 meters and 1.7 meters.

But the envoys of the Japanese country are really too short, only 1.4 meters by visual inspection, almost as tall as a child who has just developed. This is also related to their national conditions. With the degeneration of years, the stature will naturally be short.

In fact, there is another very important point, Qin Chaoren's height is not high...

Some people will say, nonsense!Ancient people were tall, and Xiang Yu was eight feet tall!
The length of the chi is fixed in modern times. One chi is equal to 33.3333 centimeters. However, in ancient times, the length of one chi was not fixed. In the Shang Dynasty, the length of one chi was 16.95 centimeters. At that time, people were very short and could reach 1.7 meters. A man in China is considered a giant, and 1.7 meters was ten feet at that time, that is, one foot, so he was called "husband".

In the Qin Dynasty, the length of a foot was 23.1 centimeters.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the length of a chi was 24.2 centimeters.

In the Tang Dynasty, the length of a chi was 30.7 centimeters.

Why does the length of a foot always change? It is said that the length of a foot is determined according to the length of the emperor's elbow at that time, which is not surprising!Anyway, Li Hao felt a little sloppy.

Through the above data, it can be concluded that Qin Shihuang's elbow length is 23 cm, and his height is estimated to be 1.6 meters. In ancient times, he was neither tall nor short. Xiang Yu was 1.8 meters tall, and he existed like Yao Ming in that era. Too bad there was no basketball back then.

After entering the Tai Chi Hall, the two Japanese envoys knelt on the ground and saluted, with their buttocks pouted high, looking very respectful. Many ministers nodded and smiled when they saw this, showing complacent expressions, and the sense of superiority of the heavenly kingdom was vivid on their faces.

If it was before, Li Shimin would probably be as happy as the ministers. However, after Li Hao reminded him, he suddenly felt that these Japanese envoys were a little disgusting, and frowned slightly.

After the Japanese envoy knelt down, he shouted in blunt Chinese: "Fuso's envoy Kiyanagi Taro, Ito Osamu, pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tian Khan!"

Li Shimin waved his hands and said lightly: "Excuse me."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Tian Khan!" The two Japanese envoys stood up.

After the two of them got up, Li Shimin looked at their looks and couldn't help taking a breath. They were so ugly, with a flat face, as if the whole face had been run over by a stone roller, and it seemed that they were together The facial features pinched out on the dough cake are also ugly, especially the eyes, which are pitifully small, embedded in such a big face, how ugly it is.

Li Shimin only took one look, and immediately looked away, not daring to take a second look. This is the ugliest alien he has ever seen, bar none.

After Li Shimin looked away, he slowly asked: "The two envoys traveled all the way to Datang, what's the matter?"

The envoy Guiliu Taro fell to his knees again, and said: "His Majesty Huitian Khan, the foreign minister has brought our Majesty's letter of credence, requesting to worship Tang as the suzerain..." He took out a scroll made of cloth as he spoke.

Li Shimin raised his hand: "Pingshen! Read!"

"Yes." Guiliu Taro slowly unfolded the scroll, and saw a huge sun pattern on the back of the scroll.Then I heard him read aloud, "The emperor at the sunrise in the east to the emperor at the sunset..."

"Wait!" After saying a word, Li Shimin raised his hand to stop him, and asked the Japanese envoy with a stern face, "What does the lord of Fusang call himself? Emperor?"

Hearing this sentence, Oni Ryutaro fell to his knees together with Ito Haruzuka in fright, and wanted to explain a few words, but found that he couldn't speak, and his head was covered with cold sweat.

Can they not be afraid, the invincible Li Shimin is only called Tian Khan, their emperor dares to call himself the emperor, even better than Li Shimin's title, Li Shimin will give up?

The hall was quiet for a long time, when Cen Wenwen, the servant of Zhongshu, suddenly came out and said: "Qizou Your Majesty, I thought that Fusang Kingdom lived in a corner for many years and didn't know how big the world is, so its ruler was arrogant and disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty unintentionally. , This is an unintentional mistake, Your Majesty should reprimand his lord with a letter of state and accept the title of emperor!"

Li Shimin thought for a while, then nodded: "Quick play!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Cen Wenwen retreated to the queue, Oni Liutaro and Ito Harazuka couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Li Shimin didn't pursue it, otherwise the two of them might lose their heads.

As soon as Cen Wenwen stepped down, Gao Shilian, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, suddenly came out again and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, the Fusang Kingdom is too rude to call itself the country of the sunrise in the east, while our Tang Dynasty is only the country of the sunset. The heart of disobedience, the matter of becoming a minister, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!"

The two Japanese envoys raised their hearts in their throats again when they heard the words. The people of Tang Dynasty were too good at picking thorns. The first sentence in the letter of credence was picked up by them twice. Are they still alive?
Li Shimin was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly nodded and said: "Well, what Gao Qing said is reasonable, since Fusang Kingdom is so disrespectful to our Tang Dynasty, there is no need to pay tribute, Xu Lian, send them back to the sea."

The two envoys of the Japanese kingdom were confused, so they refused?Rejected after reading a sentence in the national book?So sloppy!It took them a long time to come back to their senses, Guiliu Taro was not reconciled, and suddenly kowtowed to Li Shimin, saying: "Your Majesty the Emperor, we, Fusang, are sincere and respectful to the Tang Dynasty..."

Li Shimin pinched the two of them with his eyes, and said coldly: "Then why did your Wa country become the country of sunrise, while my Tang Dynasty became the country of sunset? Could it be that my Tang Dynasty has become a country of sunset?"

Li Shimin actually called them Waguo openly. You know, Japan in this period already hated the name Waguo, because they knew that the word Waguo had a derogatory connotation. It can be seen that Li Shimin was really angry.

Ito Osamuzuka, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said: "Back to His Majesty, my country... the monarch does not mean any disrespect, but because our country is located in the East China Sea, in the east of the Tang Dynasty, near the place where the sun first rises, so I call myself The Land of the Rising Sun."

"That's right, that's right!" Guiliu Taro excitedly said, "That's right, Prince Shotoku also wrote this in his letter of credence to Emperor Sui Yang..."

"It's the Tang Dynasty now! It's not the Abandoned Sui Dynasty!" Li Shimin suddenly slapped the dragon seat fiercely, staring and roaring, and the two of them lay down on the ground in fright with a loud shout, trembling all over, almost incontinent.

The Tai Chi Hall was quiet, and a needle could be heard. After a while, Kong Yingda suddenly came out and said, "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, I thought it was rude for Fusang envoys to bump into Tianyan repeatedly, but it is understandable."

"Oh?" Li Shimin frowned slightly, and asked, "How can it be excused?"

(End of this chapter)