In order to receive the envoys of the Yan State, the Qin State arranged the largest etiquette since the Zhou Dynasty - the Gift of the Nine Guests, in order to show that the Qin State attached great importance to the Yan State's invitation to the ministers to return this time.

The gift of nine guests was originally the highest etiquette for Zhou Tianzi to receive the princes of the world at the spring court. The so-called nine guests refer to the prince, the marquis, the uncle, the son, the male, the orphan, the secretary, the doctor, the scholar, a total of nine guests. Among them, the first four guests are princes, and the last five guests are various ministers and court officials with unequal fiefs. The gift of the nine guests is complicated and complicated, only for the different guests of the way, there are three: Tianyi, Shiyi, Shiyi, non-full-time ministers long-term practice, not enough to achieve the full realization, and the Qin State has also prepared for this for more than two months, just to consult the ancient books, looking for a full set of etiquette norms of the gift of the nine guests, it took more than 20 days of effort.

In fact, a weak country like Yan is not worthy of Qin paying such attention to courtesy, and Qin received the envoys of Yan with such a grand ceremony, except that Yan Guo took the initiative to pay tribute to Qin, but the most important thing is to declare that Qin will become the general trend of the world's co-lord, because the past Jiubin gift can only be used by Zhou Tianzi, and this time Qin Wangzheng discharged the Jiubin ceremony, which is to show that Qin will replace the Zhou family, the atmosphere of the king of the world, in order to show the prestige, not really how much attention is paid to Yan Guo.

After Gao Yuan got up early in the morning, he also changed into a new clothes, put on his medicine bag, and rushed to the palace with his father and son, and just turned into the central avenue, Gao Yuan found that the atmosphere today was very different from usual. In the bluestone avenue has been washed with clean water, and scattered a layer of loess, and on both sides of the avenue, standing full of black helmets and black armor, holding Changge armor, one by one stood solemnly, the expression was grim, and behind the armor, there were still a lot of onlookers of the people, discussions, very lively.

In front of the palace gate, I saw that on the left and right of the palace gate, there was a row of chariots, and the soldiers of the Qin army standing on the wall of the palace city were holding guns and halberds and axes, and five steps and a flag, ten steps and a flag, the blade was like a forest, the cold light was shining, the flags were flying, and the atmosphere was very serious.

At this time, other civil and military officials also arrived at the gate of the palace one after another, and the palace gate was wide open, and the ministers were rushing one after another. And the plateau got off with Mengwu father and son, walked through the palace gate with the flow of people, and walked into the palace city, only to see that on the left and right sides of the palace city avenue, there were hundreds of Qin soldiers, and the weapons they held were replaced with bronze axes, like the golden forests of Hesse, which made people shudder, and it looked like a solemn atmosphere.

Although the plateau has also entered the palaces of Zhao, Wei and Qi, and the scale of the palaces of Qi and Wei is not much worse than that of the Qin palace, the plateau also has to admit that in terms of majesty, the Qin palace is far beyond other palaces.

After passing through the gate of the middle palace, a group of people came to the front of the central hall, because the envoys of the Yan State had not yet entered the palace at this time, so the officials did not enter the main hall, and they all gathered in the side halls on the left and right to rest and chat.

Although the space of the left and right side halls is very large, each is about nearly 100 square meters, but each side hall is concentrated in sixty or seventy civil and military officials, plus the service personnel, there are nearly 100 people, so the side hall is also crowded, the ministers are in groups of three or five with each other, or sit or stand, talking in a whisper, and the inner waiter, the palace maid also continues to carry tea, snacks, back and forth.

Of course, Gao Yuan didn't know who was who, but there was Meng Wu's father on his side, and he also introduced a lot of officials of the Qin State, among which there were a few Gao Yuan to know the Dao, but most people didn't know the Gao Yuan at all, after all, there were hundreds of officials in the Qin State, and there were only a dozen people who could leave their names in history, and the Gao Yuan could know the Tao was very limited. However, in the past two days, the name of the plateau has spread among the officials of the Qin State, and many officials know that Qin Wangzheng admires the plateau, so they have also talked with the plateau.

After talking for a while, I saw an attendant come to the door of the matching hall and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom have entered the palace, please enter the main hall and take their places according to the class, and wait for the king." ”

After hearing the words of this chamberlain, all the officials walked out of the side hall one after another, came to the main hall, and stood according to the level of their official positions.

The space of the main hall is very large, there are three or four hundred square meters, there are eight vermilion pillars, divided into two sides, there are dozens of armor soldiers holding axes and axes around the periphery, standing against the wall, and in the middle of the main hall, a high platform has been raised, there are nine steps, between the two big pillars, in front of a huge carved screen, it is the high throne of the king of Qin. However, at this time, there was no one on the high platform, but there were eighteen armor soldiers standing under the high platform, all of them were tall, with helmets and armor, holding axes, guns and halberds, murderous and majestic.

In a short time, the officials were in place, divided into three columns on the left and right, each of about twenty people. Gao Yuan didn't know where he should stand, so he came over and led Gao Yuan to his place.

The location of the plateau was specially prepared for celebrities like him, who had no official position, and was located on the right side of the high platform, and between the first and second columns stood with him, as well as Chunyu's father and daughter, and several other celebrities. However, it is not appropriate to talk on this occasion, Gao Yuan only nodded to each other with Chunyu's father and daughter.

At this moment, only to hear a loud bell from "Dangdang Dangdang", a total of nine rings, all the officials immediately held their heads high, held their breath and stood still, and the whole hall was silent.

Before long, I heard a shrill voice say, "The king has arrived." ”

The words fell, only listening to the sound of footsteps, Qin Wangzheng wore a balance crown on his head, with six reins of pearls in front and back, wearing a royal dress with gold trim on a black background, the crown belt was neat, and he wore an unusual long sword at his waist, and his steps turned out from behind the screen calmly. Originally, Qin Wangzheng's figure was very tall, and standing on a high platform with a balance crown on his head, he looked even more magnificent and abnormal, and he was not angry and arrogant.

However, Gao Yuan paid close attention to the long sword that Qin Wangzheng wore on his waist, with a golden swallow, a fish skin sheath, inlaid with gold and jade, and the length of the handle, which could reach about five feet, even if the blade was slightly shorter, it was far beyond the length of the ordinary iron sword of this era.

After Qin Wangzheng sat down on the throne, all the officials knelt on the ground together and saluted Qin Wangzheng. ”

Qin Wangzheng nodded and said, "Xuanyan State's envoys Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang are in the Governor's Map. ”

After listening to it at the entrance of the main hall, he immediately said loudly: "The king has an order, and the envoys of Xuanyan State, Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang, are in the directory to see him." Then a wave came out.

When the Qin soldiers on both sides of the avenue heard it, they also shouted in unison: "The king has an order, and the envoys of Xuanyan State, Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang, are in the map of the governor." Then he slammed the bottom of the handle of the halberd axe in his hand into the bluestone ground, making a sonorous sound.

Gao Yuan tilted his head slightly, looking from the gate of the main hall, he saw the gate of Nakamiya Castle open from a distance, and two figures passed through the gate of Nakamiya Castle and walked in the direction of the main hall.

At this moment, the bell rang again, and the Qin soldiers on the left and right sides sang the song of "No Clothes" in unison, and for a while, the song of "No Clothes, with the Son", intertwined with the sonorous sound of the bottom of the gun halberd axe hitting the bluestone ground, and shook the sky.

Jing Ke held the long box wearing the map of Du Kang in both hands, held his head high, and walked through the singing of the Qin army, his demeanor was self-assured, his demeanor was natural, and he was not affected by the singing or impact in the slightest.

The two came to a stop at the foot of the steps in front of the central hall, and Jing Ke said in a loud voice: "Jing Ke, the envoy of the Yan State, and Qin Wuyang have entered the King of Qin to see the King of Qin. Then he walked up the steps.

Just now he only climbed one step of the stairs, only to hear a heavy wheezing sound, Jing Ke's eyes swept away, and he saw Qin Wuyang beside him with a pale face, dull eyes, and shortness of breath, looking very nervous.

Jing Ke frowned slightly, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart. Since accepting the task of assassinating Qin, Jing Ke has been looking for a candidate for the deputy envoy, although Jing Ke has full confidence in his martial arts, but the assassination of Qin, after all, is very important, if there can be a capable assistant, the two of them work together, then the success of assassinating Qin Wangzheng will also be doubled.

It's just that it's too difficult to find a candidate like this, and Jing Ke has been searching for nearly two years, but he has never been able to find a suitable candidate. At this time, the Qin army had already approached the edge of Yishui, and Tai Xiaodan saw that Jing Ke had no intention of moving, and suspected that Jing Ke had changed, so he recommended Qin Wuyang to Jing Ke as his deputy envoy, and asked Jing Ke to leave for Qin immediately to carry out the plan to assassinate Qin.

And Jing Ke was silent for a long time before he sighed and said: "Lift a dagger and enter Qiang Qin, if you can kill anyone, why do you need Jing Ke!" My original intention was to wait for someone who is truly worthy of the great responsibility, so that he can go on the road with his peers. That is, the prince blamed me for being late. Jing Ke decided to resign, with Qin Wuyang as the deputy envoy, and set off immediately. So he took Qin Wuyang and left Yan Country to rush to Qin State.

Qin Wuyang is a warrior of Yan Kingdom, he killed people when he was twelve years old, and people passing by did not dare to look at him directly, so Prince Dan thought that it was enough to use Qin Wuyang as a deputy envoy, but Jing Ke knew that although Qin Wuyang was a young man, he was nothing more than a maniac erector, like this, it was okay to do some small things, but it was difficult to be a big responsibility, and sure enough, after coming to Qin State, Qin Wuyang's mood was highly tense and moody, although after Jing Ke's many comforts and enlightenment, he was slightly better. But entering the palace of King Qin, Qin Wuyang seemed to be a little abnormal again.

But at this time, Jing Ke couldn't say anything more to Qin Wuyang, so he had to whisper: "Qin Wuyang doesn't need to be afraid, it's better to follow me." ”

Qin Wuyang stiffened his neck, nodded without strength, although his mouth opened a few times, he couldn't even say a word, just let out a "hmm" sound.

Jing Ke couldn't help but sigh in his heart, at this time, he could only resign himself to fate, so he turned his head, didn't look at Qin Wuyang, and climbed the steps step by step.