novelaction Chapter 437: The King and His Ministers Are All Black Sesame Dumplings
Chapter 437: The King and His Ministers Are All Black Sesame Dumplings
May 16th is Xie Zhaozhao’s birthday.
A grand celebration ceremony was held for Emperor An’s birthday, and the entire Daming Prefecture was immersed in a sea of joy.
Emperor Chen announced to the world: On Emperor An’s birthday, a general amnesty will be granted to all, except those who have committed the most heinous crimes!
The curfew was lifted throughout the city of Kyoto, and people reveled all night for ten days.
All citizens in the country who are ten years old or above can go to the local government to receive five taels/five strings of silver.
On this day, Changhe Town in Yulong Kingdom began to open to the public.
A month in advance, the Wise King Xie Anxia and the Left Prime Minister Ling Xun patrolled Changhe Town and checked every link repeatedly to ensure a smooth transaction.
The area of Changhe Town has doubled since the Chinese New Year. In addition to the construction of buildings and trading centers, King Xian also built a porcelain trading market, a silk wholesale trading center, and a horse farm in Changhe Town.
Xie Zhaozhao asked Li Yunmu to transport the salt from Shi'an City as well. There was a salt trading market there...
Orders from foreigners can be accepted on site, and spot transactions can also be conducted.
The imperial court sent Dong Yue to lead 30,000 troops to garrison around Changhe Town.
Foreigners can come in and trade in Changhe Town, but they cannot go out of Changhe Town and go deep into other places in Yulong Country.
As for the Dongli people originally going to Lizhou to investigate Tian Yaozu, it was Zhou Shaoyu who deliberately let them go. Otherwise, is the border just a decoration?
On this day, another large ship was launched from the Yulong Kingdom.
Ling Xun accepted a bribe of ten thousand taels of silver and gave Shuxia Sanjo and Songxia a good idea. The two presented the 10,000-ton giant ship Tanjung Bala Lock to the King of Qi and got the opportunity to meet the "Smoker".
At the Dongyingzhou Port, the Yulong ocean transport fleet has added a new member - the 10,000-ton Tanjong Bala ship, set sail!
Early in the morning, Xie Zhaozhao released Guan Yingying and asked her to attend the birthday party with him.
The weather in mid-May was slightly hot, with little rain, and quite comfortable.
The banquet was held open air in the palace. Guan Yingying changed into new clothes and watched the civil and military officials and their families walking around in the huge royal garden with happy faces.
Looking at the rows of food shelves of varying heights and the wine in the transparent glass cups, she felt a little dazed for a moment.
This looks like a high-end banquet!
It turned out that this kind of banquet also existed in ancient times, and it was much more luxurious and advanced than what she had seen in the 21st century.
Now is a real royal banquet.
She didn't recognize many people at the banquet, whether she was "Guan Yingying" or "Princess Yurong".
It was the royal banquet of Yulong Kingdom, and there were many new nobles, whom she didn't know.
"Who is that?"
She heard a lot of people talking about her.
She hadn't seen anyone for a long time, so she felt a little awkward. She pulled Manman aside and asked, "What day is today? What kind of party is this?"
Manman said, "His Majesty Emperor An's birthday banquet."
Xie Zhaozhao’s birthday!
Xie Zhaozhao is only twenty-one years old, right?
A thousand years later, at the age of twenty-one, he has just graduated from college (not yet graduated), and is either living off his parents or desperately looking for a job, while Xie Zhaozhao is already the empress of a great country!
She watched as civil and military officials kept coming up to Xie Zhaozhao to pay their respects and present extremely expensive gifts, and she felt indescribable.
"Report~ Congratulations, Your Majesty, the Tanjung Bala ship has sailed smoothly!"
"Report~ The Changhe Town Special Trade Zone was preheated three days in advance. Half an hour after the opening, the transaction volume has reached 30 million taels!"
"Report~National Master Xiandou presents a birthday gift!"
"Report~..."
Guan Yingying didn't want to listen anymore.
She knew that Xie Zhaozhao had become the emperor, but the feeling of meeting her alone was completely different from the feeling of so many people kneeling and kowtowing to Xie Zhaozhao three times and nine times.
Only now did she realize that Xie Zhaozhao was in a completely different world from her. No, she was eighteen floors underground.
Jealousy reached its extreme, leaving only deep despair and hatred towards God.
Why, to be reborn?
Wouldn’t it be better to just stay in the first life in Daqian?
At that time, Guan Yingying was the wife of a high-ranking duke and a guest of honor of the prince, while Xie Zhaozhao was just the so-called legal wife who sat on the bench in the backyard. In the end, she was forced to death by Guan Yingying and Gu Yuebai and burned to ashes!
But now the other party is not only the emperor and empress who are high above us, but also opens air routes, establishes special zones, expands the territory, and people from all over the world come to congratulate us...
Guan Yingying saw the Yulong Newspaper on the newspaper rack in a prominent position in the main hall.
Just pick up a copy of the latest newspaper.
After reading it, she couldn't help but cough.
Choked!
Who is this person? How could he know everything about her a thousand years later?
She saw the name was "Smoker".
Who is the smoker? Is he a man or a woman? Is there another time traveler in this world?
She stumbled out in a daze, looking at the people who were still worshipping Xie Zhaozhao, and screamed hysterically, "How could this happen?"
Xiu Ning came over and taught her unkindly: "It's your Majesty's birthday, why are you yelling here? What's wrong with you?"
He slapped the two eunuchs twice and said, "Send them back to Yongxiang."
When she was being sent to Yongxiang with her mouth blocked and her arms twisted, she happened to meet Shuxia Sanjo and Songxia Yishita who were coming to see Qi Wang Xie Yu.
Panasonic looked at Guan Yingying who was being twisted and sent away, and looked at her several times with a touched heart.
Guan Yingying is exactly three years older than Xie Zhaozhao, but her current appearance is that of Princess Yurong, which is one year older than Xie Zhaozhao's.
Princess Yurong, 33 years old, already has white hair on her temples and wrinkles around her eyes. She has lost weight so much that her skin is loose...
Panasonic and Guan Yingying just passed each other by.
Xie Yu was waiting for Song Yixia at the Peony Pavilion in the Imperial Garden.
Ling Xun saw Sanjo and Songyiyi under the tree from afar, and came over to introduce them to each other.
Song Yi paid the price of a boat and asked without hesitation: "Prince Qi, where is the author Yanke? Can you introduce him to me?"
Xie Yu did not keep the secret and said, "I have already met with Yanke and persuaded him to meet with you."
Matsushita was extremely excited and asked hurriedly: "Can we see her right away?"
Xie Yu looked at Zhou Shaoyu who was holding hands with Xiao Heng'er and never left Zhao Zhao's side in the distance, and said with a smile, "A little later, I will ask him to come over."
Shuxia Sanjo and Matsushita Ichi once again organized what they were going to say when meeting the ancestor.
The two of them stood under the pavilion, looking forward to something until their necks almost broke. Finally, Xie Yu and Zhou Shaoyu arrived together.
Shuxia Sanjo and Songxia were suddenly panicked. Why did King Qi bring Emperor Chen here?
The three people under the tree bowed and saluted: "Greetings to His Majesty Emperor Chen."
Zhou Shaoyu looked down from above, his eyes slightly lowered, and asked, "I heard that you want to see me?"
Shuxia Sanjo and Matsushita were stunned and said involuntarily: "I never said that..."
Xie Yu frowned and said, "Aren't you going to meet the author of Smoker?"
The three people under the tree widened their eyes: "Your Majesty Emperor Chen is a smoker?"
Zhou Shaoyu nodded: "Yes, I will use the pseudonym Yanke."
Three under the tree: "..."
Matsushita: "..."
How could the smoker be Zhou Shaoyu?
They immediately realized it was a scam, the King of Qi and the Emperor of Chen had teamed up to trick them into giving them a boat!!
"Impossible, how could His Majesty be a smoker? Impossible!" Shuxia Sanjo rejected it outright, "Smokers are women!"
Xie Yu: "The Smoker is indeed His Majesty. You didn't expect that, did you? To be honest, everyone in the capital has been guessing who the Smoker is these days."
Zhou Shaoyu looked at the other party and asked again: "Why do you want to see me? Why do you say that the smoker should be a woman?"
Poor Jurashita Sanjo and Matsushita Ichi, their minds were in a mess and they couldn't even remember what they wanted to say.
Yanke should be their ancestor, how could he be a grown man like Emperor Chen?
"Your Majesty, how did you come up with the daily life a thousand years later?" Matsushita said persistently, "It's all incredible."
Zhou Shaoyu asked back: "Is there any problem?"
Panasonic was a little crazy. Of course there was a problem. Why are you a man?
"Your Majesty, those carts are made of iron. I mean, how can they run by themselves?"
Zhou Shaoyu: "Because there is an engine that burns oil, pushes the piston, generates power, and drives the wheels to turn."
Panasonic feels right again!
Indeed, the Secret History Records seemed to mention it a little, but not as detailed as Emperor Chen did.
It sounds like Emperor Chen is more reliable.
But according to historical records, the ancestor was a woman~
Matsushita couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, why are you a man?"
Zhou Shaoyu's eyes narrowed.
Matsushita was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I spoke nonsense."
Zhou Shaoyu turned and left.
The three people under the tree watched Zhou Shaoyu leave and shouted anxiously: "Your Majesty, you can't leave!"
He spent the price of a boat and five million taels of silver to meet the "smoker", and he just sent them away with just a few words?
No!
Zhou Shaoyu looked at him coldly and said majestically: "The Third Prince wants to threaten me?"
Sanjo under the tree said anxiously, "No, no, I didn't mean that. I just want to ask Your Majesty, were all the Millennium Fantasies written by you personally?"
"So what?"
"How did you come up with this?"
"Shall I explain to you?"
"No, no, no, I just want to ask, will you continue to write the Thousand Year Fantasy?"
"Not necessarily! The vision of a better life in the future is the dream of all the people of Yulong Country, and everyone can have this dream. If the Third Prince has any ideas, he can submit them. The newspaper has a special submission box. If you are selected, you will be paid according to the regulations."
The three people under the tree were anxious. What was the point of submitting my work? I wanted to know what would happen a thousand years later. Why did I come to Yulong Country to make trouble?
Seeing Zhou Shaoyu slowly walking back, he immediately caught up with him, and Panasonic also caught up.
"Your Majesty, how do you think people will buy things a thousand years from now?"
"Of course you have to pay for things—" Zhou Shaoyu glanced at them and saw their eager eyes, and said, "But you don't have to use cash, just scan the other party's payment account and the money will be transferred."
Xie Yu secretly thought: Your Majesty is openly treating the people of Dongli as fools?
But the "idiot" Song Yixia didn't think it was a joke, and hurriedly asked Zhou Shaoyu: "Then how do they draw the portrait?"
“No one draws a portrait, but uses a machine to scan themselves, leaving behind their voice, appearance and smile, which will last forever…”
"Excuse me, Your Majesty, do you remember your fate with Dongli a long, long time ago?" Song Yi counted anxiously in his heart: one, two, three...
"I have always had friendly exchanges with Dongli." Zhou Shaoyu looked at them like idiots and said to Xie Yu, "Prince Qi, please entertain the Third Prince and the Imperial Preceptor Song Yi. I will leave now."
Shuxia Sanjo and Songxia Yichi's hands were shaking with excitement. They were sure that this was their ancestor. Even though he was a man, he was the ancestor.
Rather than Guan Ying being reincarnated as a female, they would rather it be Zhou Shaoyu.
With this image and this courage, he is simply the best emperor sent to them for Dongli to unify the world!