Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2119, All nations come to court 2
"The envoy of Ning Kingdom has an audience!"

In the Golden Luan Palace, accompanied by the little eunuch pulling his voice, Liu Yangzheng, the left prime minister of Ningguo, walked into the Golden Luan Palace wearing a crimson crane court dress of Ningguo first grade, wearing an official hat and holding his head high.

At this moment, Liu Yangzheng is very old, his eyebrows, beard, and hair are all gray, but he is full of energy, just like the number one scholar in high school.

There is nothing better than this in life.

I think he was just a scholar at the beginning, a scholar who couldn't even pass the exam.

Now, representing Ningguo, Ningguo's prime minister Zuo, wearing a crimson crane official gown, walked into this place that he dreamed of stepping into when he was young.

It is almost the dream of every scholar in Ming Dynasty to be named on the gold list.

In the morning, he is Tian Shelang, and in the evening, he goes to the Tianzitang. There is no kind of general, and a man should strengthen himself!
For the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, it is undoubtedly a lifelong pursuit to be able to stand in this golden palace one day.

But the people who can really stand here are very few, very few.

Liu Yang is from Jiangxi. In Jiangxi, the hometown of the top test, it is as difficult as climbing the sky to get into Juren.

When he was young, he failed Sun Shan time and time again, and he could only watch his fellow countrymen, the same year, and the same family get nominated on the gold list, and the scenery was boundless.

However, today, Liu Yangzheng came back, and he was still wearing a first-rank official crane robe. Although he was not a first-rank official of the Ming Empire, he was also the Prime Minister Zuo of Ningguo.

He walked in with his head held high, and looked at the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty on both sides, including some former classmates, classmates, friends and so on.

I have struggled for decades, and I finally have the opportunity to stand with them at this golden moment.

"Chen Ningguo Zuo Chancellor Liu Yangzheng, on behalf of Ningguo and King Ning, congratulates His Majesty on the great treasure that will last forever!"

"I present nine boxes of precious stones, nine boxes of jade, nine pairs of corals, nine boxes of gold, and nine boxes of silver. Nine beauties from Tianzhu!"

Liu Yangzheng took out a long gift list and began to read it. This time, King Ning also put in a lot of thought and money, and all the gifts were worthless. Of course, when he finally read the nine beauties from Tianzhu, his voice was amplified. a lot of.

"Ok!"

"Uncle has a heart!"

When Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, heard the beauty from Tianzhu, his small eyes shone slightly. He didn't have many hobbies. This beauty is one of his life hobbies. .

Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao is Zhu Houzhao's grandfather according to his seniority, and he is of the same generation as Ming Xianzong, so Zhu Houzhao also called Ning Wang his uncle.

After presenting the congratulatory gift, even if it was over after Zhu Houzhao said such a sentence, Liu Yangzheng also respectfully withdrew from the Golden Luan Hall, feeling refreshed.

This life was worth it, and I finally had a beautiful walk in the Golden Luan Hall.

"The envoys of the state of Chu have an audience~"

Soon, the voice of the little eunuch opened up again, and this time Chu State dispatched Zhu Xianrong, the prince of Chu State.

"Minister Zhu Xianrong pays homage to Your Majesty!"

Zhu Xianrong, who was dressed in a python robe, came to the main hall and saluted Emperor Zhengde respectfully. He was actually Zhu Houzhao's uncle in terms of seniority.

"Uncle Wang is free!"

Zhu Houzhao also said hastily.

There are too many descendants of the old Zhu family, and Liu Jin beside him has already made relevant preparations in advance, and has clarified all the relevant seniority so that there will be no chaos.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zhu Xianrong thanked the gift, he also began to think about Chu's gift this time.

Compared with Ning State, Chu State is much more shabby.

Although Chu State is also very large and occupies the rich East African Plateau, it has not found any gold or silver mines, and can only develop animal husbandry and agriculture.

Although the land is vast and sparsely populated, the common people don't have to worry about food and drink, but in terms of money, they are not as rich as King Ning. King Ning didn't know how much money he made by selling slaves.

"Two boxes of diamonds, nine pairs of ivory, nine lions, nine elephants, nine leopards, and nine giraffes"

Listening to Zhu Xianrong's gift list, everyone couldn't help laughing. This Chu country dared to bring all kinds of animals from Africa, and it was really poor.

To be honest, there are all kinds of animals in the zoo in the capital of Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Hou took care of them too much, he was not very interested in these animals anymore.

"Uncle has a heart!"

When he finished reading, Zhu Houzhao also nodded and said that he had a heart, and the current king of Chu is also from Zhu Houzhao's grandfather's generation according to his seniority.

One after another, the vassal kingdoms continued to enter the Jinluan Hall to present congratulatory gifts to the Emperor of Heaven.

"The envoys of Xingguo have an audience~"

After waiting for half an hour, it was finally Xingguo's turn.

Mao Cheng walked into the hall wearing a crimson robe. At this moment, he was almost the same as Liu Yangzheng, and he was considered proud of his life.

His life experience is very similar to Liu Yangzheng's. He was frustrated in Ming Dynasty and always failed the rankings. Now that he has arrived in an overseas feudal state, he can be regarded as a salty fish turning over.

"On behalf of Xingguo and Xingwang, Chen Maocheng congratulates His Majesty on the long ascent of the Great Treasure, for generations to come!"

"I present here six elephants, six lions, six leopards, six gorillas, and six pairs of parrots."

Many ministers really wanted to laugh when they heard the gift list read out by Mao Cheng.

This Xingguo is even worse than that of Chu. This is almost because 6 animals of all kinds in the African tropical rainforest have been caught to make up the number.

At any rate, the State of Chu also sent two large boxes of diamonds and several boxes of gold and silver. Xingguo had never heard of gold and silver from the beginning to the end. It was really miserable and stingy.

"Ok!"

When Mao Cheng finished reading, Zhu Houzhao nodded his head as if it was over.

All kinds of strange animals have been donated in each of the feudal kingdoms. It is estimated that there are hundreds of lions, and a lion garden can be built here in the capital.

Mao Xi was also suffering in his heart, this time coming to Daming, not only would he be ashamed, but he also had to brazenly ask to see the Supreme Emperor, and he also shouldered the arduous task of withholding some money from the Supreme Emperor.

"See you at the time of the South African colony!"

When the vassal state's audience was finally over, it was the turn of Ming's colony, and the colony of South Africa was naturally at the top of the list.

Liu Da, dressed in a South African colonial official uniform, walked into the Golden Luan Hall with his head held high.

Many ministers also looked over one after another. Everyone knew that Liu Da was the son of Liu Jin. The tiger father had no dogs. All of Liu Jin's sons had gone overseas. It is the governor of one of the South African colonies.

Looking at Liu Da again, his appearance is almost exactly the same as Liu Jin, almost no different from Liu Jin when he was young, so that Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but slightly widened his eyes and only looked at Liu Da, and then looked aside Liu Jin.

"It's really the same. When I was young, I felt very similar, very similar. I didn't expect this to be more similar when I grew up. Even this temperament is similar to that of Lao Liu."

Zhu Houzhao murmured in his heart that he used to go to Liu Jin's house often, and he had seen all of Liu Jin's sons, and even teased them.

"Chen Liu Da, on behalf of the South African colony and the Governor of South Africa, congratulates His Majesty Long Deng, the great treasure, for generations to come!"

"Specially present nine gramophones and nine cameras."

Before Liu Da finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao said quickly: "Wait, what are this phonograph and camera?"

"Return to Your Majesty~"

"The phonograph and camera are new inventions in South Africa. The phonograph is a machine that can be used to record and play sound."

"A camera is a machine that can be used exclusively to take pictures."

While speaking, Liu Da ordered someone to bring up a phonograph and a camera.

When everyone in the court heard it, they all became interested. There is such a machine that can record and play sound?
And this one for photoshoots?

What is a photo, everyone is also very curious.

Soon, gramophones and cameras were also brought in, and Zhu Houzhao was quite interested in these things.

Apart from women, what interested him most were these weird inventions.

"How does this phonograph work? What's the principle?"

Zhu Hou took care of the gramophone in front of him, a big speaker, and the camera, just like a big box.

"Your Majesty, the principle of this phonograph is to use the grooves on the record to affect the pointer, and the pointer is connected to a magnet to affect the current, thereby producing sounds of different frequencies."

"Chen let it play the blessing Daming sung by our very famous singer in South Africa now!"

Liu Da explained with a smile, and at the same time began to operate.

Soon, the loudspeaker of the phonograph began to play a song. When the melody sounded, everyone's eyes couldn't help but widen slightly.

This machine can actually play sound, and the sound is still very clear.

"This machine is really good. From now on, you can listen to music at home. Not only listening to music, but also listening to music is very convenient."

"Yes, yes, there is such a machine."

"It's really amazing that such a sound can be played by a machine."

Everyone was amazed when they saw it.

Although all kinds of strange machines have been seen a lot, this phonograph still surprised everyone.

"It's really good!"

"I like this gift!"

Zhu Houzhao listened carefully, then looked carefully, and nodded happily.

Looking at the weird camera next to a big box, he said, "What's the principle of this camera?"

"Your Majesty, this camera uses the principle of optics. It uses strong light to expose the scene to be shot onto the film, forms an image on the film, and then develops the film to take a picture."

Liu Da also introduced it in detail, and at the same time ordered someone to operate it.

PS: Ask for tickets~~
(End of this chapter)