The messages he sent out recently had not received a response, and he didn't know what had happened over there.
But time waits for no one.
Li Fei quickly made up his mind. He took a box, stepped forward, and whispered, "Your Highness, this is a toy I made, and I present it to Your Highness."
Yan Shiyue smiled and said, "What is it?"
Wei Xin took it and opened it. Inside was a wooden sculpture of a kitten. It wasn't very lifelike, but it looked very delicate.
Yan Shiyue exclaimed, took it and took a closer look. The wooden cat was about an arm long, and its waist and four legs were made of several pieces of wood wedges connected together. It could bend in any way and felt super flexible.
Li Fei said: "It can also catch prey."
Yan Shiyue put it on the ground, and Li Fei took a ball and rolled it gently over. The wooden cat immediately arched its back, then stretched out its two front paws and pounced on the ball. Everyone screamed in unison.
Yan Shiyue exclaimed in admiration, he didn't expect that carpenters in this era were so advanced.
Yuwen Dan and the others were also very impressed, but since this was someone who had worked hard to please his superiors, they were too embarrassed to come over and take a closer look.
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Yan Shiyue thanked him, and after dinner, he took the baby away.
However, Xia Bei, the eunuch who followed the Fourth Prince, couldn't help but look at them a few more times.
After Yan Shiyue went back, he asked Wei Xin to send the reward money. Li Fei came out from the iron smelting furnace and thanked him with a simple and honest look on his face.
He put the gold ingot into his arms, and when he turned around, he ran into Xia Bei.
Yan Shiyue did not bring any eunuchs with him. The only eunuch on the mountain was Xia Bei. Most people in the palace did not like the eunuchs very much, but outside the palace, no one dared to show any disrespect to them. After all, eunuchs were reserved for the royal family.
Li Fei hurriedly bent down and said, "Eunuch Xia."
Xia Bei said calmly: "Carpenter Li is very skillful! He really made the little prince happy."
Li Fei said: "I dare not! I dare not!"
Xia Bei said: "Carpenter Li, there is no need to be too modest. Everyone knows that the young prince is a man of character. If you can please the prince, your achievements will naturally be limitless. I will have to rely on Carpenter Li in the future!"
Li Fei looked extremely terrified and said, "I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it."
Seeing that he was so honest, Xia Bei didn't want to beat around the bush, so he said directly: "You know, His Highness wants to make an important thing, so he picked out five or six people and wanted to choose two people from them... Carpenter Li is among these five or six people, and he still needs to work harder."
He didn't notice that Li Fei, who was bending over, had a gleam in his eyes at that moment.
Then, Li Fei looked up with surprise: "Really?"
He took out the gold ingots he had just obtained without hesitation and stuffed them all into Xia Bei's hands: "Please help me say a few good words, father-in-law... I still have some private savings, and I will give them to you when the time comes."
Wow, this boy looks honest, but he is quite sensible!
Xia Bei left with satisfaction.
Yan Shiyue was not in a hurry about this matter. Generally, envoys from various countries would resign one after another after attending the Lantern Festival banquet, and the military exercise was scheduled for January 16th.
But this was news only known to insiders. The actual practice was that Emperor Yan of the Ming Dynasty would leak the news at the Lantern Festival banquet, and then "reluctantly agree" to the military exercise at the request of envoys from various countries.
At this time, Prince Gyatso was already getting impatient staying in the inn.
He felt like he was being left out! After the first day of the New Year, Emperor Ming Yan had never summoned him again!
I wanted to meet the so-called Goddess Fu, but I never saw her. The two officials from the Ministry of Rites also ignored me. When I went out for a walk, even mentioning the name of the envoy from Mobei didn't work at all.
Prince Gyatso was very angry.
Their country in the north of the desert has a vast territory and is full of heroes. If there really is a war, would you still be afraid of them?
But the King of Mobei had to kneel down and beg for peace, and they all came to beg for peace, but Dayan was so ungrateful!
He discussed with the warriors around him that after returning to Mobei after the Lantern Festival, they must immediately send troops to attack Dayan! Let them pay the price for what they did!
As the Lantern Festival approached, officials from the Ministry of Rites came and conveyed an oral order, inviting them to attend the Lantern Festival banquet.
Prince Gyatso had already made up his mind to go to war, so he naturally didn't respond to them with a smile.
In the afternoon, the Mobei interpreter passed by downstairs and overheard two officials from the Ministry of Rites talking.
One said, "What a bummer! We were just planning to wipe out Mobei, but they came to ask for peace."
The interpreter shrank back suddenly and pressed himself against the wall.
Then another person said, "Could it be that they have found out about us? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? We were planning to send troops last month, but less than a month later, they sent people to ask for peace."
"Maybe! No wonder the emperor doesn't like them very much."
"Yes! But if we really want to fight, we can. This Mobei prince looks bad-tempered and rude. If he offends the emperor, won't he have a legitimate reason to fight?"
The two walked away while talking.
The interpreter was terrified and rushed back to report to Prince Gyatso.
Although Prince Gyatso has a bad temper, he is not stupid, otherwise he would not have been asked to be an envoy.
He had originally been thinking about starting a war, but when he heard that the other party was so eager for a war, he couldn't help but become frightened, wondering if the other party really had a trump card hidden?
On the evening of the fourteenth, Yan Chengyuan personally led people to Xishan, transported away the Shenwei cannon and the trained gunners.
Everything went smoothly.
At the Lantern Festival banquet, envoys from various countries asked about Princess Fuyan. Emperor Mingyan waved his hand and said, "This child is very naughty. The imperial guards are training in the West Hills, and she insisted on following Wulang to watch the fun."
Since the emperor took the initiative to bring up this topic, the Nanzhao envoy immediately responded, "I heard that a few days ago at Anlan Pass, the Shangguo divine soldiers defeated the Falcons. They were so powerful that they even had divine weapons that could spit fire. They were really amazing!"
The envoys from Nanzhao could speak Chinese, but they were not very fluent. They were a small country, so they kept a low profile and stared at Emperor Mingyan.
Emperor Ming Yan looked as if he didn't want to talk about it any more: "It is true. Well, what do you think of this wine, envoy?"
"It's very delicious." The envoy of Nanzhao said, "We have come from afar just to see the majesty of your country. I wonder if the emperor would let us see it for ourselves?"
Prince Gyatso did not speak Chinese, so the interpreter would translate in his ear for every word they spoke.
Prince Gyatso could not help but say, "If you really have any weapons, just show them out! Why are you hiding them? The Han people are never straightforward in doing things!"
How could the interpreter dare to say this? He could only smile awkwardly. However, Dayan also had his own interpreter. He whispered this to Emperor Mingyan, who then said, "Since this is the case," and ordered his subordinates, "Have someone prepare tomorrow. I will invite envoys from all countries to review the army."
On the 16th, it was a rare good day.
Emperor Ming Yandi led his men to the training ground, which was where the imperial guards usually trained. There was a special pavilion for inspection, and it was not luxurious. It looked obviously hastily cleaned up, and the paint on the pillars had not even been touched up.
After Emperor Ming Yan led all the officials and envoys from various countries upstairs, they began to practice.
First it was ordinary archery and horse racing, which didn't seem to be anything special, especially since Mobei could be said to have grown up on horseback. It just seemed ordinary, and Prince Gyatso even chuckled without any hesitation.
He should have known that the Han people like to be mysterious and exaggerated!
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