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The Lantern Festival in Kyoto this year is more lively than in previous years.

On the top of the city, rows of "lotus lanterns" soar into the clouds, and the lotus flowers are in full bloom, illuminating the night sky brightly.

The lance is made of moso bamboo as thick as the bowl mouth, with its branches and leaves cut off, which shows the hugeness of the "Lotus Lantern lance".

In the city, there are antique or childlike lanterns, flowers, birds, insects, fish, landscape figures and other forms, decorating the streets and alleys of the bustling capital.

People wearing auspicious costumes and holding lanterns went out to enjoy the lanterns in a festive and childish atmosphere.

There are some Voss people with different costumes and appearances from Daxuan people among the tourists.

Artists from all walks of life also gathered here. In addition to the artists of various ethnic groups in Daxuan, there were also some ethnic groups that originally belonged to the Eastern Lun Kingdom.

They performed suona, huqin, gongs and drums and some rare musical instruments, which attracted many people to stop and watch.

At this time, the hawkers in the market are also very busy. There are lanterns in the shape of buns and braised elbows on the street, and buns and elbows in the shape of lanterns in the stalls.

All kinds of gourmet snacks exude strong or light aromas, attracting tourists to come and taste them.

Beside the local stalls selling candy and candied fruit, there are also Voss vendors selling sweet cakes, pastries, and cheese. All kinds of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and fragrant snacks greatly satisfy the taste buds of tourists and add to the festive atmosphere. Cheerful breath.

The lantern show on Yujie Street is the grandest in the whole city, because the emperor would take the prince and concubines to the tower to watch it. When he saw the bright lights in the city, Emperor Qingde felt heroic in his heart: Look, I am inclusive of all rivers, and people from all ethnic groups and countries have them. , how lively and brilliant!
"Your Majesty, the King of Qin just sent someone to send a message, saying that the Voss mission has arrived outside the city, and they are going to rest for a day tomorrow, and then go to the palace to have an audience with them the day after tomorrow." Eunuch Li whispered behind the emperor.

King Qin is the emperor's uncle and the emperor's only living elder who supports him.

Let Qin Wang serve as the Governor of Kyoto. In addition to his political experience, Qin Wang has a wide range of contacts and can penetrate into various fields to obtain more political and social information.

Moreover, King Qin is not confined to the palace by various political affairs like the emperor. He has more opportunities to come into contact with all kinds of strange, novel and different cultural things, so he is quite inclusive.

These inclusiveness can help him comprehensively analyze ideas and news from various sources in the process of governing the capital, and provide feedback to the emperor.

The people of the entire capital can celebrate the festival without distractions, not the emperor, nor the king of Qin. They need to see all directions, listen to all directions, and need to understand every trace of change.

The emperor was quite surprised: "Worth Mission? What are they doing here? Why did they come suddenly?"

Although Eunuch Li's voice was not loud, the queen was beside the emperor and heard it, so she couldn't help but look at a place where singing and dancing was being performed on the imperial street.

There, there is a blond-haired and snow-skinned Voss dancer wearing a tight leather dance dress, twisting her body in a charming and colorful way.

In the past two years, with the good relations between the two countries and the encouragement of businessmen to develop in foreign countries, some Voss businessmen have poured into Kyoto, and many of them are big businessmen. They have opened restaurants and brothels in Kyoto, providing them with unique atmosphere and style. different services.

I don’t know how many Voss people are in Kyoto on weekdays, but I saw several places tonight. I thought it was because they seldom go out of the palace, so I don’t know, but now it seems...

"Your majesty, I'm afraid it didn't come suddenly. The concubine heard that Voss' caravan entered the capital a few days ago. I don't know if it has anything to do with the mission." The queen said.

Related, of course related.

Early the next morning, King Qin brought the answer, along with the request for an audience from the Voss mission.

King Qin: "Your Majesty, the envoys of Voss have already entered the capital. This time, the official history is the fourth prince of Voss, Kailidi, and the deputy history is Pazhuo, the king of Guli. Now only the officials and envoys of the Voss Ministry of Rites are outside the city. .”

Emperor: "So, they sneaked into the capital?"

Qin Wang: "It's not considered sneaking in. They entered as merchants. The few shops bought by the Voss people earlier have been operating in a tepid way. It's just a big operation during the Spring Festival. Because it is the time of the New Year, Every business is like this, but it’s not noticeable.”

Emperor: "Uncle Emperor, what do you think is their purpose for doing this?"

The King of Qin bowed and replied: "It's hard to say, if you say why you came to Beijing in advance to pave the way for something, but I haven't heard any rumors;
If you came here to inquire about some news, it would be difficult to say. The people in Kyoto have a lot of talk, and you can get a lot of content by just asking a few questions, such as the price of goods, such as the reputation of a certain official. "

To inquire about this kind of news, it is not necessary for a prince or prince to spend so much effort, Voss' careful work is enough.

Both countries have caravans infiltrating, even if there is no caravan, it is impossible that there is no secret operation, it all depends on who is more skilled and removes the opponent's manpower.

If you don't understand this matter, you can only wait and see.

Therefore, the seven-day Lantern Festival holiday ended in just two days.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the Voss mission entered the city with a guard of honor. The Voss people in strange costumes attracted the common people to come out to watch the fun. It’s the first lunar month, and it’s boring to be idle anyway.

Hundreds of officials in the palace have already waited, and they have already planned in their hearts how to mock the barbarians for their lack of etiquette and disturb them during the national holiday;

After some etiquette, the fourth prince, Kailidi, presented his credentials to the emperor.

The interpreter read aloud:
Dear His Majesty the Xuan Emperor:
Since ancient times, the princes have been adjacent to each other, how lucky they are.

You can be safe only if you have good neighbors.

The borders of the country are bordered by ethnic groups.

Although Voss and Daxuan live close to each other, they still need to work together to ensure the friendly development of the two countries.

Therefore, Sulaimansha Hushiboke, King of Voss, solemnly made an important suggestion to His Majesty Qingde, Emperor Xuan: intermarriage.

Intermarriage, the testimony of the friendship between the two countries, is also the most significant strategy to promote the development of the two countries, which can make the relationship between the two countries closer and more peaceful.

And, I would like to set an example as the king of a country.

I have heard of a woman from Jizhou in your country, whose name is Chuqing.

This woman is brave, strong, and intelligent, and her reputation spreads throughout Voss, winning the hearts of the people.

The Kingdom of Voss, the millennium-old tradition of Corning, I owe the country my grace, and my heart is like an eagle soaring into the sky.

Daydreams are hard to lose, and I worry about it in my heart every night. I hope that I can share the everlasting grace with him, the proof of the flowers before the moon and the moon.

I would like to use the jade mine mined by this woman as an employment, and hope that Emperor Shengming will marry this woman to me, so that she will never have to worry about being single for the rest of her life.

Praying for the grace of the Holy Emperor, the people of the two countries sing together with the phoenix,
This will be an ancestral gift, an alliance of a hundred generations, and I look forward to the good news as soon as possible.

May the two countries live in peace forever.

……

This, where is the intermarriage proposal between the two countries? It is clearly a marriage proposal under the banner of intermarriage!

For a while, the hall was silent, and a needle could be heard falling.