As we got closer and closer to the Holy Birthday Ceremony, envoys from various countries arrived in Luoyang one after another.

The countries, including Goryeo and Japan, also supported by the Song Dynasty, also sent huge missions, and even brought more gifts than Khotan.

If you continue to count, there will also dozens of countries including Jiaozhi, Zhanpo, Dali, Mayi, Bagan, and Tianzhu.

Of course, there are real and fake ones. At least there are dozens of missions in India. Each of them claims that they represent the royal family. In fact, most of them are pretended to be merchants, just to continue to celebrate their birthdays and get some rewards.

The Song Dynasty saw many such things, and the Ministry of Rites would deal with them. Wang Ning'an meant to take care of them, provide some food, accommodation and entertainment, and take them to visit the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. As for wanting to take advantage of the benefits, he made the wrong plan. Wang Ning'an is not the one who suffers!

You should know that the best war horse in the Song Dynasty was the Mawari horse from Tianzhu. Wang Ning'an was salivating at Tianzhu. Of course, unlike Elder Tang and others, Wang Ning'an didn't want to ask for any Buddhist scriptures. What he needed was the land there and endless resources.

Wang Ning'an had already asked someone to start buying the merchants from Tianzhu to see if they could use their hands to build a piece of land in Tianzhu, first gain a foothold, then swallow the whale and erode the entire Tianzhu, and take down the entire Tianzhu.

After all, since the Mauryan Dynasty, India has always been a place name, not a country. It has thin skin, large filling, delicious and juicy. I am sorry for God if I don’t take it down.

Of course, Wang Ning'an was preparing to march in two directions. While starting from the sea, he went south through the Western Regions, snatched the key passes, and then swept across South Asia from north to south.

Wang Ning'an has already begun to plan the entire grand strategy, and those merchants from India are still immersed in the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. Among them, many of them have been vegetarian all their lives, and riding horses and wrestling is not their strength.

But don't underestimate the Indians.

They are born to be experts in plug-ins.

They can play the flute and attract the cobra to dance.

You can perform hanging techniques on the street, or make a large oil pan and meditate in it.

There are also monks from Tianzhu who claimed to be from their family with the founder of Bodhidharma and came to Dongtu to promote Buddhism. They performed yoga techniques and taught practices, and they were actually very popular.

Facing these foreign monks, the person who was most angry was Foyin, who was furious.

It is tolerant that someone actually robs his business, but who is unbearable!

Foyin showed a hideous side. He encouraged people to go to the yamen to report, saying that the Indian mission was fake, and even found experts from the martial arts world to challenge them. He beat the people to run away in a hurry and ran around the streets.

Of course, even if Foyin is angry, he dare not do too much. All kinds of foreign monks are still continuously.

"You're in the picture."

Shao Yong was not unlucky, and he smiled and said, "Foyin, you can travel thousands of miles to the Song Dynasty to spread the Dharma. If you want to surpass others, you should travel across the ocean and go to India to spread the Dharma. I have calculated it for you. You will definitely be accomplished and become a saint when you go there. Bodhidharma comes to the east and Foyin passes through the west. One day, your name will be written in history books and will be widely circulated by later generations and worshipped!"

Foyin winked and struggled for a long time.

"Shao Xianchang, you are also a Taoist person, why don't you preach?"

"Me?" Shao Yong pointed to his nose and said stinkingly: "I have not yet arrived. I still have to be greedy for the world and cultivate my mind and practice, so I can't accompany my brother Monk. Go, I will chant the scriptures for you!"

Shao Yong looked selfless and compassionate, and patted Foyin's back hard.

"Get out of here!"

The monk suddenly became furious and cursed, "You enjoy your happiness and let the monk go to the trouble! I, I can't get used to curry, I'm afraid of diarrhea!"

He left angrily, and Shao Yong shook his head, "How can you be sweet if you don't endure hardships? Brother Monk, you will never become a Bodhidharma in your life."

"Of course I can't become Bodhidharma, but I can fund a few Bodhidharma!"

Foyin thought for a long time, and he ran to find Da Su.

Asked Su Shi to find him a few important criminals who read and read, and then fool some soldiers and rogues, Foyin paid for them to train them well, and then sent these people across the ocean to India to pass on the Dharma.

As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, what results can Foyin get after he has made such a group of people?

These so-called masters did not pass on Buddhism, but became the helpers of the Song army, inquiring about information, passing on information, purchasing supplies, and recruiting people... It's true that they were wrong and helped a lot.

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In addition to these strange people, singers and dancers from the Western Regions, even those from the Seljuk Empire, and even more distant countries all appeared on the streets of Xijing.

They impacted the worldview of the Song people, and the Song Dynasty also strongly shocked them!

The elder from Baghdad cried bitterly when he witnessed the prosperous Xijing and exhausted his imagination. Heaven was just covered with gold and silver, with milk and honey flowing. Compared with the ever-sleeping city of Song Dynasty, it was extremely convenient than the services, as well as the rich singing and dancing acrobatics, and business opportunities everywhere. This place was even more like heaven than heaven!

Among all the foreign guests, the one who is most envied is the Khotan people, or in other words, they are no longer guests.

Li Shengtian was respected as the emperor, and he could be ranked alongside the emperors of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The Ministry of Rites of the Song Dynasty sent the most knowledgeable officials to study history for the Kingdom of Khotan and include Li Shengtian in the general annals. It also stipulated that the history of the Kingdom of Khotan, as an official historical book, should become a compulsory course for students, just like the Records of the Grand Historian and the Three Kingdoms.

Every day, people go to worship Li Shengtian and commemorate the battle process of Khotan's Kingdom in the Western Regions.

Since the last time the Black Tiger was accused of being a god, he followed the crowd to the Huangdi Temple and burned a stick of incense in front of Li Shengtian's portrait. He was like a possessed person and would come over every day.

He listened to the tour guide over and over again and told the repeated stories. Over time, he could even understand the content, with a faint smile on his face full of flesh.

The people who came to the sacrifice also met this big man from the Khitan Kingdom and knew that he was a wrestling expert. Someone would give him a thumbs up, and Heihu also grinned and showed a bright smile.

He was also fascinated by the snacks on the streets of Xijing. Heihu had a lot of bounties in his hands due to the competition.

Although as a slave, everything he had to belong to his master, no one dared to check Heihu's pocket to see if he had hidden his private money... In this way, Heihu fell quickly and became a different person!

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"The Song Dynasty is a place of evil with magical powers!"

An old man wearing a black cloak said with his teeth: "The prosperity and convenience here will corrupt the hearts of all warriors and turn them from tigers to lambs! Your noble envoy, sooner or later, your warriors will betray the Khitan and become the lackeys of the Song Dynasty! Even turn their heads and bite you!"

Yelu Huage did not deny it, but smiled faintly, "Elder Musavi, you have stopped the business dealings between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan back then, but unfortunately you did not succeed."

Mousavi snorted, "Facts have proved that I am right. You have lost, and you have lost miserably... If you continue, your fate will be even worse!"

"Maybe!"

Yelu Huage's confession made Musavi stunned for a moment. Since he knew the problem, why did he keep stopping it?

"Elder Musavi, if I order to stop the exchange, Heihu will immediately betray the Khitan and throw himself into the arms of the Song Dynasty. There are too many things that cannot be solved by orders... Just like the current Xixia, is it different!"

For a moment, the clever Mousavi had no words.

Indeed, this time, the last time they arrived in Xijing and attended the birthday ceremony was the Xixia mission. Their straight-line distance was the closest, but they were slower than any country.

Li Liangzuo didn't want to come at all, and he was even more unwilling to add luster to Zhao Zhen's holy life.

But the Khitan came, so many Western countries came, and the Song Dynasty also released Dong Wen. Mu Zheng and the old fox Ye Lihuiqi were killed before, and the Qing Tang group had no leader.

The Song Dynasty sent Dong Wen, who performed well, to reorganize Qing Tang and to enthrone him as the King of Tubo. At the same time, the Song Dynasty actively won over the Uighurs, and as soon as the encirclement against the Western Xia had already taken shape.

If the Xixia unilaterally refuses to interact, the Song Dynasty can do whatever it takes. They will be the one who will be unlucky at that time!

Therefore, Xixia had to send envoys to Xijing five days before the Holy Birthday Ceremony.

When we arrived here, the Xixia mission found that they were in awkward situation.

For example, all countries are actively participating in competitions and seeking quotas.

The champion of every competition can get the opportunity to meet the saint, and can get generous rewards, and can even be carved into statues and placed in displays, with extremely gloriousness.

Other countries are striving for it and are unwilling to admit defeat.

Where is Xixia?

If they do not send people to participate, they will be said to be incompetent and will not even have the courage to participate in the competition.

Participating in the competition is equivalent to congratulating Zhao Zhen’s birthday and showing weakness to the Song Dynasty.

And if you lose the game, it’s not good to watch, what if you win the game?

Can they get the bounty of the Song Dynasty?

If you want it, you will lose face. Don't, you will not be able to explain to your warrior.

Xixia could only give out a bounty by itself, but it could not be less than the Song Dynasty. But the question is, where does Xixia get so much money? Isn’t this a life-threatening person?

The competition is of course just one of many embarrassments.

There are also gifts. This time the gifts given by various countries are very generous, including the Khitan.

What about Xixia? If you give a generous gift, it will be embarrassing!

If you don’t give it, you will be poor and embarrassing!

Where is the residence?

The arrangements for them were said to be a bribe to people's hearts.

I don’t give them good things, and I say I look down on Xixia.

The same goes for food. According to the rich treats in the Song Dynasty, they were unwilling to accept them, but they just barbecued pork noodles and picked three or four more.

All in all, it's so awkward.

Fortunately, the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Song Dynasty had a good temper, otherwise they would have to fight. They had to worry about it and finally came the day of the grand ceremony. According to the etiquette process, envoys from all countries would celebrate Zhao Zhen’s birthday together.

This involves the question of how to queue up.

According to the Ministry of Rites, Khotan ranked first, followed by Bohai, Tubo, Dali, Khitan, Jiaozhi, and then Xixia... But the envoys of Xixia were no longer there.

How could they be behind these countries? Xixia must rank first. If they don’t rank first, they refuse to attend the ceremony!
Chapter completed!