Li Si's arrival was the prelude to this event. After Li Si's arrival, the invited monarchs of the vassal states came to the capital of Daqin one after another to pay homage to the Daqin Emperor.
Ryukyu King Shang Ning was the second vassal state monarch to arrive right after Li Gui. He seemed to be very upset that he couldn't arrive faster than Li Gui, but after receiving Xiao Ruxun's consolation, he wasn't so upset anymore.
Xiao Ruxun's destruction of the Nihon Kingdom was equivalent to removing the biggest threat in the north for him. The Satsuma Vassal's invasion of Ryukyu began at this time. In the process of the Daqin army destroying the Satsuma Vassal, Shang Ning also sent 1,000 troops to act together with Xiao Ruxun.
Well, for Ryukyu, 1,000 troops was indeed not a small number.
This time, Shang Ning came not only to celebrate Xiao Ruxun's birthday, but also to express Ryukyu's gratitude to Xiao Ruxun. Speaking of which, before Xiao Ruxun destroyed the Nihon Kingdom, Ryukyu once wrote to Xiao Ruxun, saying that they were attacked by the Nihon Kingdom and asking the Celestial Empire to help them.
Xiao Ruxun directly mobilized a hundred thousand troops to stand up for them.
Of course, this was not for Ryukyu, but for Daqin itself.
But anyway, after this war, Daqin's sense of existence and prestige among the surrounding vassal states had been greatly enhanced. Otherwise, it would not have been possible for so many monarchs to attend the birthday party of the Daqin Emperor.
Shang Ning knelt and kowtowed to Xiao Ruxun, expressing his gratitude with tears in his eyes. He said that Ryukyu would always follow in the footsteps of the Daqin Empire, and would always be the barrier of the East Sea of the Daqin Empire. He would go through fire and water for the Daqin Empire.
Xiao Ruxun took this kind of words seriously. Anyway, it didn't matter if it was true or not. As the saying goes, when something is false, something is false. If Xiao Ruxun really wanted to go through fire and water for Ryukyu, the people of Ryukyu would probably hate Shang Ning to death for talking nonsense today.
Xiao Ruxun did not pay much attention to these small vassal states who had always been respectful to him. Sometimes one came alone, and sometimes several came together. Xiao Ruxun would meet them together, invite them to a meal, and then arrange for them to live in a suitable place.
After that, they could stroll around, but they also needed to learn the Daqin royal etiquette so that they could pay their respects to the Daqin Emperor on his birthday.
Compared to the rulers of these small countries, the people from the three northern powers were more worthy of Xiao Ruxun's attention.
Not to mention, this time was the first time that Buyan Chechen Khan of the Chahar tribe had announced that he would personally come to congratulate the Daqin Emperor on his birthday. This person was not an ordinary person. One could tell just by looking at his surname, Borjiejin.
This was the surname of Genghis Khan. He was a descendant of Genghis Khan. Although it had been torn apart, he was still the Great Khan of the Mongolian Khaganate.
Unfortunately, with the passage of time, things remained the same, but the people had changed. The Mongolians who had swept through the entire Eurasian continent were no longer as strong and prosperous as they used to be. They were getting weaker and weaker. Although they still occupied the vast grasslands, the tribes had long gone their own ways and no longer cared about the descendants of Genghis Khan.
This Borjiejin Buyan was like this. His territory was only a small part of Chahar, but he still held the title of Great Khan of the Mongolian Empire. Even so, not many people paid attention to him.
He wanted to restore the glory of the Mongolian Empire, but his subordinates did not listen to him at all.
Not to mention the distant ones, the leader of the Horqin tribe, Weng Guodai, who was also coming to congratulate Xiao Ruxun on his birthday, was leading the disobedient ones.
It was unknown whether it was because he had heard that Buyan would come personally to congratulate Xiao Ruxun on his birthday, so Weng Guodai came. However, Xiao Ruxun had discovered many opportunities from this.
After all, he was the nominal Great Khan of the Mongolian Khaganate. In terms of status, he was not lower than Xiao Ruxun. This was because Northern Yuan had never surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, nor had they established formal diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. Their relationship was even worse than that of the Yarkand Khaganate.
Therefore, Buyan wanted to personally congratulate Xiao Ruxun on his birthday. The Daqin officials had already exaggerated this as a journey to break the ice in the diplomatic relations between the Daqin and Mongolia.
Although Buyan could not represent Mongolia at all, he was, after all, nominal. With the nominal righteousness, the Daqin could boast about it as much as they wanted. Therefore, for Buyan's arrival, the Daqin officials still used a relatively high standard to receive him.
Generally, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would send people to greet the monarchs of the vassal states. When it was Buyan's turn, it was Ye Xianggao, the assistant minister of the cabinet, who was responsible for greeting him.
Buyan and his entourage had more than 500 people. They brought a lot of cattle, sheep, horses, and special products of the grassland as a congratulatory gift to the Daqin Emperor. Ye Xianggao placed them on the north side of the Daqin military camp outside the city, and then led Buyan, his important confidants, and dozens of guards into the territory of the Daqin capital.
Xiao Ruxun thought that Buyan's visit was not simply to discuss the trade with him. There must be other important things. Therefore, as soon as they entered the Daqin border, they were closely monitored by Black Water.
And the fact was not beyond Xiao Ruxun's expectation. Before entering Beijing, Buyan personally had a private conversation with Ye Xianggao for more than ten minutes in Chinese, which was not very proficient. The central content of the conversation surprised Ye Xianggao, and he urgently sent someone to contact Xiao Ruxun.
After Xiao Ruxun learned about it, he was also a little surprised.
The birthday gift that Buyan wanted to present to Xiao Ruxun was the Imperial Jade Seal.
Regarding the Imperial Jade Seal, Xiao Ruxun knew a lot of news in his previous life. Anyway, there were different opinions, and no one knew who was telling the truth. All kinds of news flew around, and the more it spread, the more chaotic it became. In the end, where the real Imperial Jade Seal was or whether it really existed became a mystery.
But the Imperial Jade Seal was indeed very valued in history.
After the Qin Dynasty, all the emperors of the past dynasties regarded the Imperial Jade Seal as the orthodoxy, and regarded it as a rare treasure. It was the national treasure. If it was obtained, it symbolized that the emperor was under the command of the heaven. If it was lost, it meant that the emperor's destiny had come to an end. Those who became emperors but did not get the Imperial Jade Seal were ridiculed as "White Emperor", which seemed to lack confidence and was despised by the world.
But after putting herself in the shoes of this era for so many years, Xiao Ruxun realized that the attitude of the people towards the Imperial Jade Seal had changed greatly during the middle and later period of the Great Ming Dynasty. Many times, they even treated it as a joke and didn't take it seriously.
Perhaps because the Imperial Jade Seal had appeared too many times in history, and it had been forged too many times, people had gradually lost their superstitious attitude towards the Imperial Jade Seal, and even the basic trust did not exist.
You forged it, I forged it, and there was no Imperial Jade Seal at all in the Daming Dynasty. After two hundred years, now the Daqin Dynasty also did not have the Imperial Jade Seal. How powerful was the Daqin Dynasty?
The Imperial Jade Seal …
Was it still very important?
And since the Tang Dynasty, there was no news of the real Imperial Jade Seal. There were rumors in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty, but they were all fake.
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