3939 Special Envoy of Cai Bixia
"Then send..." Li Tuo suddenly stopped halfway through his words. He thought carefully for a while, and then suddenly laughed after only two or three minutes.
"You just told the families of the deceased not to make trouble, don't make trouble... The Fifth Master of Xia Wang will definitely give them an explanation. If you don't believe us, don't you believe in the reputation of the Fifth Master?"
"Tell them clearly that today the court will provide a pine coffin with one person to stop the death of the brothers! This is only temporary!"
"As long as they don't make trouble and cooperate with the fifth master's Anmin errand, the fifth master will guarantee that each of their families can change an iron-wood coffin!"
"Ah! Tiemu? How much money does this cost, and I can't get that much wood at once!" the little official asked in surprise.
In the late Qing hierarchy society, people had rules for everything they used. Nanmu, golden nanmu, nanmu, were all materials that only emperors and princes could use. Ordinary people had no right to enjoy it. You dare not use it if you had money!
The most expensive wood used by ordinary people is iron wood!
The plant of ironwood only grows on high mountains and no one can cultivate it artificially, so this wood can only rely on wild!
For thousands of years, iron wood in northern China has been cut down, so people have used a large number of materials such as pine, cypress and fir to build coffins!
Now that Li Tuo said he would exchange all five hundred households for the best iron-wood coffin, everyone below was stunned and looked at him incredibly.
Li Tuo smiled and said, "Ironwood is considered extinct in our north, and it is also in the Yunnan-Guizhou area in the south, but it is hidden deep in the mountains that are rarely visited!"
"It's indeed precious, very precious... But for some people, this wood is not rare!"
"Don't look at me, I don't have that ability... But I don't have it, he Xiao Lotte has it! The Chinese power has expanded to Luzon and Borneo. Do you know what is the cheapest there?"
"The wood! It's all primitive forests. Some of the woods that have been around for hundreds of years are... No matter whether you have rosewood, chicken wenge, rosewood, golden nanmu or ironwood... all of them are!"
"Since we have to ask for a huge price when we negotiate, we have to ask them to give us a batch of good wood to safeguard the people!"
"I want to leave after killing so many of us? Impossible!"
The people below looked up to Li Tuo with great admiration. "Sir, I am very knowledgeable... But Xiao Letian is extremely fierce. Will he listen to us?"
"Yes! Sure, it will!" Li Tuo's eyes emitted a cunning light. "Although Xiao Letian is cruel and bloodthirsty, he is essentially a businessman!"
"The biggest feature of this businessman is that he is willing to bargain and allows you to bargain! Why did he do such a big deal? It's not his series of industrial money-making plans!"
"As long as he can make a lot of money through industry smoothly, how could he feel sorry for the small money of five hundred iron wooden coffins? Don't worry, just say that, let these bannermen stop making trouble!"
"Besides, if you have the ability to make trouble, go and ask the Chinese to make trouble! Let's just make trouble with our own people!"
Only then did everyone realize it and bowed their hands to take their orders to calm the hearts of the people!
Li Tuo was asked to help by the fifth master. The aftermath of the disaster was a huge problem, and Yi Qiong didn’t have such a good guy to support him. He was really scratching his head!
It is precisely because of the capable official Li Tuo who came to make suggestions that he could discuss government affairs at Taihe Gate with confidence and wait quietly for Cai Bixia, an important envoy, to enter the palace!
At this time, Cai Bixia had already entered Dong'anmen Square and the sedan chair had entered the imperial city area. Her mind was full of the chaotic scenes on the street just now. The families of the victims and the Qing soldiers were quarreling with each other, and the scene of crying shocking made her unforgettable!
"This is a weak country! A weak country is bullied like this... If you are beaten, you can only fight in the nest! The end of the world is a scene!"
"I hope my Chinese people will never have this day. I hope the Han people can wake up early... This happy day cannot be expected from this decadent and declining court!"
"The huge Forbidden City looks magnificent, and it is just a large tomb of the feudal dynasty!"
After the sedan chair entered Donghua Gate, it could not move forward any further. Cai Bixia and the female soldiers rushed towards Taihe Gate, with their straight military uniforms so beautifully that they were dazzling!
The officers in the New Imperial Army all had experiences being trained in the Chinese. When they saw this uniform, they felt mixed feelings. On the one hand, they hated the sneak attack of the Chinese who fought undeclaredly last night, and on the other hand, they couldn't help but missed the scenes during the training camp in Ryukyu!
The prosperous scene of peace, prosperity and freedom, culture and art is truly imprinted in my bones and can’t be forgotten!
With extremely contradictory eyes, Cai Bixia watched as she walked into the Xiehe Gate and headed straight for Taihe Gate. At this time, Ma Ming and others suddenly had an idea!
"Damn! This is a female envoy! In the 200th year of the Qing Dynasty, it was the first time that the female envoy went to the imperial city to meet the emperor! Oh, hey... the old rules have been broken again!"
Isn't that true? When Cai Bixia walked over along the Jinshui River with great momentum, the scene fell into the eyes of the important officials of the empire, all the hearts and sorrows and sweets and spicys were mixed together!
Zai Chun watched the goddess get closer and closer, and his heart skipped a beat and almost went down the steps to greet him, but in the end he still held back!
"Chinese special envoy Cai Bixia... pay homage to Your Majesty!" Big Sixi shouted in a long voice.
Cai Bixia walked between the two classes of ministers, looked up at the little emperor on the steps, looked around and even looked at the huge stone lion in front of Taihe's door!
This rude behavior made the civil officials lively, and Weng Tonghe was the first to jump up, "Bold! Why don't you kneel when you see the emperor!"
"Kneel down! The rude savages in Fanbian... Kneel down and bow!" The people around him also started to clamor and shouted loudly at Cai Bixia!
Cai Bixia didn't care about this small scene, but just turned around and continued to look at the familiar brat. When he was in the Chinese, he kicked his ass a lot, but today he was wearing a dragon robe of five or six people!
After all, it is a diplomatic occasion, and etiquette should be paid attention to. Cai Bixia raised his hand and saluted Zaichun, "Your Majesty! We have been delaying for too long, and many things should have been discussed long ago!"
"If the court had been willing to see me and negotiate earlier... why would it have been this far?"
"Arrogant, mad!" Li Hongzao's forehead was full of veins, and his veins jumped up. "Your Majesty! Please punish me a lot, the common people in the foreign countries are so rude!"
"Kneel down! Kneel down..." The ministers on both sides shouted like crazy.
Cai Bixia still looked up at Zaichun, "Emperor... do you want me to kneel down? Well..."
Zaichun didn't dare to look at the goddess, and his eyes dodged left and right, "Well... OK... Cai Bixia once taught me some knowledge of navigation communication, and he is still half a master!"
"Just just marching, don't kneel!"
"Haha... Thank you for your Majesty! I wonder if Your Majesty summoned the foreign ministers to come today... Are you going to talk about what you promised before?"
Zai Chun snorted coldly, "Hmph! Put those things aside first... I am here today to express my strong protest to the Chinese people!"
"This capital is the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty! Your actions last night were to fight undeclared! You must give me an explanation! I reserve all the right to retaliate!"
In front of the ministers Zaichun, he had to show off the momentum of a king of a country, but unfortunately this momentum was really ineffective against Cai Bixia!
"Explanation? Then I would like to ask your Majesty, Mr. Huang, the Speaker of the Chinese Science Council... why have you been detained?"
"Who is rude in front of me? My dignified Chinese parliament's Speaker is comparable to that of the first-rank official of the dynasty. Did you catch me at any time?"
Chapter completed!