bad, i'm a fool

Chapter 294
solemn.

This is everyone's first impression of the palace behind the Hanging Sun Gate.

The merchant envoys did not have the opportunity to be summoned to the palace before. Firstly, because they had a lot of business dealings with Guojinsi, and secondly, Simeng, who was not an emperor, was too lazy to take care of these bad things in the past.

Therefore, it was indeed the first time to be invited by Han Dongwen to a banquet in the palace for the first time.

Groups of maids stood in two rows behind the Xuanri Gate. They all wore orange fluorescent small stone lamps on their waist belts, and they all carried bright lanterns in their hands.

The night is approaching, these delicate and charming girls are like fireflies in the night sky of the palace, lighting up the roads to and from, even if there are still resplendent lights on the surrounding pillars and beams, it is impossible to draw people's eyes from them move away.

In front of all of them, Zhong Lilin, who was wearing a black and brown formal robe, stood upright, and waited for the officers and soldiers of the National Finance Department to send several business envoys into the Xuanri Gate, with his arms stretched and closed in front of his chest:

"Zhong Lilin, Supervisor of Simeng Taishu Pavilion, inherits the emperor of Simeng, Xiao Xian wrote the edict of Prince Dongwen, welcome all sages, good merchants and envoys to the banquet!"

"He Suhadan, chief envoy of the Olimar Gold Merchant Group, please!"

Hadan is one of Olimar's noble titles. This Hadan named He Su wears a round hat, which is embellished with jeweled pendants. He has a black beard on his chest and a black beard around his waist. Hanging a scabbard like a full moon.

There was no knife in the sheath. Knowing that you should not bring weapons into the palace, you still took out the knife, leaving only the scabbard. Naturally, the scabbard was also extraordinary, and it was carved out of a huge sand ivory. It is decorated with crystals dotted with gold threads in series, which is obviously a representative of strong financial resources.

He raised his hand and mosuo his beard against his lips for a moment, he smiled and took a step forward.

Several court ladies immediately bowed and stood behind him.

"Commercial Envoy of the Foreign Trade Department of the White Eagle Force, Maratagno, please!"

As a consistently neutral mercenary country, the White Eagles also have commercial and foreign trade needs. In fact, the White Eagles have also been seeking to transform the country's industrial structure, and foreign trade has always been their focus in recent days.

The merchant named Malatagno was dressed in a white robe, and under the seemingly plain clothes, one could detect the clues upon closer inspection—the white robe, reflected by the moonlight and the light of the lantern, was like a tidal wave. Showing fine silver brilliance, it is obviously made of some kind of precious and unique silk.

Naturally, it's also showing off.

Several court ladies also greeted him away, and they will take him to the main hall where the banquet will be held later.

"The merchant envoy of the Blood Harbor Mianjiang Merchant Group, Lieutenant General Zhan Taiyi, please."

Zhong Lilin's voice changed weakly, and Zhan Taiyi smiled contemptuously when he heard these words, raised his leg and took a step, put his hand on the short knife at his waist, and pulled it out with a jerk.

The short knife from Taka was indeed not extraordinary. As soon as it was unsheathed, there was a strong fiery red fluorescent light, and it left a continuous flow of Sanskrit marks in the air.

If there are players here, they will definitely start arguing about how much the special effect of this knife is.

Seeing Zhan Taiyi suddenly draw his sword in front of him, everyone's expressions changed.

Taka's treasure appeared in the hands of the Lieutenant General of Blood Port, not only showing off his wealth, but also hiding in it the rampant declaration of Blood Port that anyone would dare to bite.

This round of forcing, I am afraid he pretended to win.

Only Zhong Lilin's complexion did not change, as if turning a blind eye, he cast his eyes on the next one.

Is he, Zhong Lilin, an ordinary civil servant?
Zhong Lilin entered the army at the age of eight, was incorporated into the Xiu Department at the age of 12, and became a lieutenant of the Xiu Department of the National Army Division at the age of 17.

If it weren't for Liu Cheng, he would be the youngest lieutenant in the history of the Third Division.

He still has the will to control this situation.

Besides, this is also in His Highness's arrangement.

Seeing that the civil servants in front of him didn't respond, Zhan Tai was taken aback, gritted his teeth lightly, coughed and asked: "My cabinet supervisor, I didn't understand etiquette earlier, I mistakenly wore a weapon and entered the palace, where should I temporarily store it? "

Zhong Lilin looked sideways at Zhan Taiyi, and nodded slightly: "Your Highness has explained, since there will be no danger to your safety, it doesn't matter if you want to bring anything, please take it with you."

After hearing his words, Zhan Taiyi frowned, breathing became heavy, he put the short knife back into the scabbard, and swaggered towards the few court ladies who were waiting for him to lead the way.

There are four business envoys attending the banquet today, from Blood Harbor, Olimar, White Eagle Troop, and Zuling Kingdom.

As for Taka, Taka, the upper country of Simeng, did not stay here as a merchant envoy. On the contrary, Simeng should go to Baitaka every year to exchange trade rules, not to mention that at this time, the tension inside Taka is like a powder keg, and there is no time to go outside for the time being. Gu.

There are more than these four foreign merchants in Simeng, but Han Dongwen combined the plot setting of the original game and presumed that these four are the most important in terms of national strength.

After the imperial edict was proclaimed, Zhong Lilin held his head high and walked towards the palace with the four merchant envoys accompanied by a group of court ladies.

The further you walk, the more you can see how bright and brilliant the hall is.

Under the arrangements of the Yingchun Palace and the Imperial Dining Room, everything has been properly arranged, the ground is spotless, and the two sides are divided into two tables, which are placed in the same position as the main seat of Han Dongwen directly above.

Tableware setting is the first course of any banquet.

The table top is made of a whole piece of water oil wood. This kind of wood is matched with a lacquer surface, which can prevent oil, water and dirt, but the texture is extremely delicate, and if you are not careful, it will leave marks on the table top and cannot be reused.

Such extravagance is naturally arranged by His Highness.

On the tabletop is a whole set of exquisite porcelain with cold-bone tires and azure glaze, including a soup bowl, a front bowl, a bone dish, a saucer, a pair of bamboo-covered gold-headed chopsticks, and inlaid with silver. A pair of chopstick rests and two celadon spoons.

In addition, there is a row of exquisite things cast from silver and jade in cold copper, such as a small hammer, a small forger, a pair of pliers, a shovel, a small fork, and a piece of silver and copper scraper. pieces, and a silver needle with a jade head.

Naturally, there are crabs in today's feast.

This kind of tableware basically means that the tabletop of water and oil wood will be full of scratches after eating, and there is no need to use it again.

The luck in misfortune may be that this watery wood table is only used by four merchants. As for their entourage, a small table is placed halfway behind them. Although they also serve meals to them, strictly speaking, But it's not on the table either.

The merchant envoys were brought to their respective seats, but they were not in a hurry to take their seats. Instead, they stood there facing the gate of the palace, waiting tacitly.

Shaoqing, Zhong Lilin's voice sounded solemnly:

"Holy Majesty -!"

The four merchant envoys and the entourage they brought folded their hands together in front of them, and looked towards the main entrance of the main hall.

In front is Zhong Lilin, and behind is Li Zai.

In the back, there are sixteen maids holding lamps and shaking fans, and beside the maids, there are sixteen officers and soldiers from the wounded department.

The man in the middle was pacing with his hands behind his back. His originally fragile physique had become more and more upright recently.

These few steps called him to come, and he actually walked out of a bit of atmosphere.

It was Han Dongwen.

The four merchant envoys and attendants stepped back with their left legs, knelt on one knee and bowed their heads, saying in unison: "My Highness."

It wasn't until Han Dongwen walked to the main seat step by step to sit down that he calmly said, "Excuse me."

Several people breathed a sigh of relief, got up and sat back at the table.

Among them, the one with the ugliest face is naturally Zhan Taiyi.

Just this emperor?
I brought weapons into the palace to show off, not to let you pretend to be generous, what are you crazy about?
In the entire palace, only the squinting guard behind the emperor seemed to have two brushes. With that, how dare you say there was no danger?
Zhan Taiyi sneered calmly, looked at Han Dongwen's direction, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

The direction of the theme, why are there two seats?

While he was thinking, he heard Zhong Lilin's voice again

"The Grand Duke of the Principality of West Asia, the Holy Maiden of the State Church of West Asia, the Grand Duke Tilda is here!"

(End of this chapter)