Chapter 1032: Marriage Giving (I)
Yang Huairen's state immediately changed to businessman mode, and his mind quickly calculated.
In addition, in order to send people to the Khitan Emperor to mourn the empress dowager, the Great Song Dynasty added some silk, jewelry, jade and other luxury goods as gifts to Yelu Hongji according to the etiquette.
If calculated according to the market price, the things that Yang Huairen sent to Liao on this trip are worth about 300,000 yuan.
And what about Yeluhonki's return gift? That bit of cattle, sheep and fur and other things, if you calculate it, it is worth thousands of yuan, which is too picky.
Seeing Yang Huairen's angry face, Xiao Lao'er was afraid that Yang Huairen would forget that they were still in the court of the Liao Kingdom, for fear that Yang Huairen would do something out of the ordinary again, so he hurriedly whispered, "Yang Jungong is calm, but now he is above the Liao Court, you must be calm......
Yang Huairen turned his worries into joy, and said with a smile, "Ahem, you see that you are in a hurry, you really don't have any concentration when I am not determined?" Anger is anger, but the envoy will not make trouble in front of other people's land, especially in front of other people's emperors.
I'm not stupid, besides, we signed a business cooperation agreement with so many Khitan merchants a few days ago, and in the future, we will earn a lot more money from the Khitan people than we do every year.
In addition, hehe, Xiao Lao'er, do you think the envoy is not prepared? I don't know what happened when other people came to Liao as Song envoys in the past, and I don't need to know.
But since I am a Song envoy today, I have to let the old Khitan emperor take as much as we want, and return how much to us...... Oh no, it's double the return! ”
The more Xiao Lao'er listened, the more wrong he became, and he was still very worried in his heart, afraid that Yang Huairen would do something unexpected, but he was just a little Fenglilang, and he had just become Yang Huairen's "own person", and he didn't dare to say anything more to admonish.
What Yang Huairen thought in his heart was, fortunately, I was prepared, haha, I, Hu Hansan, are back again...... Ah no, it's the first time I've come, but my brother still has to say to the Khitans, take mine and send it back to me, and if you eat me, you must spit it out for me!
The gift list is really very long, the waiter has been reading for a long time, but he hasn't stopped yet, although Yang Huairen doesn't know much about Khitan dialect, but there are only a few words back and forth in the list of tribute and return gifts, cattle and sheep, fur or something, Yang Huairen slowly figured out the law, and gradually understood.
The most ridiculous thing is that I don't know what tribe paid tribute to Emperor Yelu with 10,000 cattle and sheep each, and Emperor Yelu gave people a return gift of 50 cattle and sheep each.
This tribe paid tribute to each of the 10,000 cattle and sheep, and according to the urine of Yelu Hongji's door, it was enough to give all the envoys and delegates a gift in return.
It's annoying that you at least give people a change, people pay tribute to cattle and sheep, you receive the gift and then count out the cattle and sheep from the gift of the family fifty heads each as a return gift and then let the family take it back, do you say that people take this gift or not?
Seeing that the sun was hanging high, it seemed that it was already past noon, and the gift list was finished, and the old eunuch who read the gift list was hoarse.
Yang Huairen pondered that this reception ceremony was finally over, even if the old man Yelu Hongji slammed the door again, what kind of palace banquet would he have to hold to entertain the envoys of various countries, right?
But then he still didn't find out that Yelu Hongji had the intention of paying out of his pocket to invite guests to dinner, and he muttered for a while, and announced that he would hold a ceremony to confer the title of princess.
Yang Huairen said in his heart, yes, forget about this, the ghost sister is going to be a princess today, so if you see her again in the future, should she call her the ghost princess?
Fortunately, the ceremony of giving the seal is not complicated, and the ghost sister who announced a gorgeous costume went to the palace and recited a holy decree, she is the new princess of Daliao Anguo, in fact, Yelu Hongji recognized his daughter.
During this period, the ghost sister didn't look at Yang Huairen's side at a glance, which seemed to be a bit risk-averse, but Yang Huairen didn't care, but felt that a woman who hated the Khitan people became a Khitan princess, and things were a little weird.
Yelu Bawotai is the happiest, he is already the southern privy council envoy of Da Liao, and his daughter has become the princess of Anguo, and his family seems to have greatly improved the status of the Liao country.
Yelu Hongji also seemed to be very happy, and asked Sister Ghost kindly, "Yelu Qijin, from today onwards, you will be the princess of Anguo." ”
He turned to Yelu Bawotai with a smiling face again, "Aiqing, Princess Anguo should be twenty-eight years old in a few years, right?" ”
Yelu Bawotai replied, "Back to Your Majesty, Princess Anguo has just passed her sixteenth birthday. ”
Yelu Hongji smiled, "I don't know which family you have made a marriage contract with before?" ”
Jelu Bawotai replied, "Your Majesty, your majesty has not yet made a marriage contract for the princess. ”
Yelu Hongji asked the father and daughter, "In that case, if I marry Princess Anguo, I wonder if you are willing?" ”
Yelu Bawotai raised his eyebrows and replied at the same time as Sister Ghost, "Thank you, Your Majesty. ”
Yang Huairen watched them sing and harmonize, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly and smiled, your play is too contrived, in the past, every time Yelu Hongji made an exception to give the daughter of a child of the clan as a princess, he would give her a marriage as usual, and this practice seems to have become a common practice for a long time.
Prior to this, the matter of Yelu Qijin being given the title of princess was already known in Zhongjing City, and it was reasonable to marry her, but Yelu Hongji and Yelu Bawotai had to perform such a play again in the court, the key is that the audience had already been spoiled, and they did not show the slightest interest, which was really redundant.
Yang Huairen pondered, the ghost sister had revealed this matter before, and later, judging from Yelu Bawotai's attitude towards him, it seemed that Yelu Hongji had the intention of giving the ghost sister to him.
But Yang Huairen felt that he and Yelu Hongji didn't seem to have met in private, let alone had an in-depth understanding, so it was a bit too abrupt to give him an envoy from the Song Dynasty to marry a princess at today's court meeting?
But then I thought about it, the Khitan people learned the etiquette and culture of the Han people, and they also learned nondescript, and many times they made it very awkward, which is not very strange.
Yang Huairen raised his eyes to look at Yelu Hongji, and happened to find Yelu Hongji looking at him with a smile, and Yang Huairen knew that the previous speculations should become reality.
It's just that Yang Huairen can't guess what reason Yelu Hongji wants to use to make him an envoy of the Song Dynasty the princess of his Liao Kingdom.
I only heard Yelu Hongji ask the ghost sister, "I wonder if the princess has a sweetheart in her heart?" ”