LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 264 The contest at the banquet
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he also smiled slyly, looked at Tuoba Yin and said: "Your Majesty, your country is a huge country with numerous talents. I wonder if you and the gentlemen of your country's mission can give you a gift within a quarter of an hour. Do I have an answer?"
Just take your time and let her rest for a while. She was already thirsty from talking just now.
"Such a complicated question! A quarter of an hour is not enough!" Someone from the mission immediately said, "How could anyone come up with the answer in such a short time?"
"Princess, please give me a moment to burn incense!" Tuoba Yin said with a slight salute.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he looked at the emperor and saw him waiting for his head. He said with a smile: "Since the prince has said so, it will only take a stick of incense!"
The emperor laughed and said, "While the prince and your lords are solving problems, let's appreciate the talents of all the talented people and beauties in our court! I wonder if any of them are willing to come on stage to perform!"
"..."
The entire hall suddenly fell into silence. Firstly, everyone was busy doing math, and secondly, no one dared to perform on the stage. This is a state banquet to entertain foreign envoys. If you perform well, you will add to the fun of the banquet and make yourself visible. If you perform poorly, you will lose the face of the dynasty.
"Your Majesty, I would like to come on stage and play a piece of pipa." A charming voice sounded. Everyone looked around and saw a stunningly beautiful young girl in gorgeous palace clothes kneeling under the main hall and saying.
I got to know this girl at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. I saw her last time at the Prince Consort's house. She was Yu Qingqiu, the granddaughter of the right minister in the court. Seventeen or eighteen years old, he is proficient in playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
When the emperor saw that she was the granddaughter of the right prime minister, he immediately agreed. Yu Qingqiu hugged the pipa and walked onto the stage in front of the hall. After a while, the sound of the pipa like beads falling on a jade plate sounded in the hall. Everyone was mesmerized when they heard it. Those who were addicted to doing math just now put down their questions. Open your ears and listen to the music.
Sure enough, listening to the music is far more interesting than doing the questions.
However, at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he looked towards the Beidi Mission and saw that Tuoba Yin was still leading the people to solve the problem. It seems that he is also a competitive person and will not give up until he can think of an answer.
On the martial stage, Yu Qingqiu took the lead, followed by several noble ladies who came on stage to perform, including Miss Yang. Their superb talents attracted everyone's applause. The emperor looked at these versatile and talented women and nodded frequently with satisfaction.
"Jingshu, if you want to marry Yi Ning a concubine, which of these girls do you think is suitable?" the emperor said to the queen.
The queen looked at the emperor and smiled, "I'm afraid you asked the wrong person this question. Whether King An's concubine is suitable or not depends on his or Princess An's wishes. You ask me, I don't know!"
"In your opinion, among these women, who do you think is more virtuous?" The emperor asked a different question.
The queen was surprised, "Is it possible that the emperor wants to find a concubine for Prince An's marriage?"
The emperor looked at Yuan Chuyi and sighed, "Yining is a hero of our dynasty, why can he only marry one concubine? Besides, if the Yuan family is gone, he must marry her!"
"..."
The queen suddenly fell silent. She had known Xiao Jing for more than a day or two. She was the granddaughter of the Taifu family and had known the emperor and Xiao Jing since childhood. She also knew a thing or two about Xiao Jing's character. Xiao Jing wanted to marry him. Whoever wants to marry may not listen to the emperor's arrangements. If the emperor grants marriage, it will be counterproductive.
"Your Majesty, I have something to say. I don't know whether I should say it or not?"
"There are still things that we can't say between you and me, but it doesn't hurt to say it," the emperor said.
"Prince An is your brother who grew up with you. As the elder brother, I think it's better not to interfere with his marriage to his concubine. If he really wants to listen to your advice and marry a woman, he won't have to do it now. The child is less than one year old!" The queen said with a gentle smile, "Besides, there is only Yuanshi in his backyard, and Yuanshi has a quiet temperament. Why not, let him have a quiet backyard, and he can serve the court without any distractions! "
The other meaning behind the queen's words is that Xiao Jing has enough power. The natal family of Yuanchu Yi who is now married has little power, and there is no power in the court to help Xiao Jing. If Xiao Jing marries a member of the right prime minister's family, A daughter or the daughter of a minister's family is all to help him, so why not just let his backyard be quiet and serve the court wholeheartedly.
When the emperor heard the queen's reminder, he immediately felt that it was unnecessary for him to give Xiao Jing a concubine in marriage.
"The queen reminds me that we should wait and see how Yuanshi's health is before we talk about the concubine!"
The emperor and the queen were talking here, and there were singing and dancing on the stage over there, so the time for burning incense came quickly. Yuan Chuyi looked at Tuoba Yin, but saw that he was still making gestures on the table. It seemed that he still couldn't come up with an answer.
"My lord, what do you think?" Yuan Chuyi asked with a smile.
With sweat on his forehead, Tuoba Yin bowed his hands and saluted on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, "Xiao Wang really can't think of how many steps there are in this ladder. For this question, you, Princess An... win!"
I didn’t expect that I, who had always read poetry and books, and was well-informed, would lose to a stay-at-home woman. I was really unwilling to accept it!
Yuan Chuyi smiled, this can only mean that they only focus on the study of the Four Books and Five Classics, and do not pay attention to arithmetic. In fact, the answer to such a simple question will come naturally as long as the content of multiples of Xiao Gong is clarified.
"Princess An, I am also very curious. According to what you just said, how many steps are there on that ladder?"
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he hurriedly saluted the emperor and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, he is at least one hundred and nineteen levels."
"One hundred and nineteen!"
Tuoba Yin immediately picked up a pen and made some calculations on the paper. All the ministers also discussed among themselves.
The emperor became interested and asked Yuan Chuyi: "How did you come up with the number one hundred and nineteen, Princess Shu'an? Can you tell me?"
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Yi Hao raised his voice and expressed his ideas for solving the problem: "From the first five conditions given in the question, we can see that as long as one step is added to the ladder and the number of steps, it will be the five numbers two, three, four, five and six. The common multiple of , the least common multiple of a number is sixty. Therefore, as long as sixty is subtracted from one, the number fifty-nine can satisfy the first five conditions of the question. But fifty-nine cannot satisfy the subsequent seven-level conditions, so , as long as sixty is added to fifty-nine continuously until it is divisible by seven, the smallest number obtained is the smallest number of heaven-level. Fifty-nine plus sixty is one hundred and nineteen, one hundred and ten Nine is exactly divisible by seven, so this ladder to heaven has at least one hundred and nineteen steps.”
After Tuoba Yin made some calculations on the number one hundred and nineteen given on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty and confirmed that it was correct, he couldn't help but said angrily:
"Xiao Wang has no objection to the number one hundred and nineteen!"
He didn't expect that this arithmetic could be used in this way. It was his fault that he and the people he brought were more interested in literature than in calculation and did not learn this arithmetic well.
Seeing that Tuoba Yin had no objection to the number one hundred and nineteen, the emperor nodded approvingly towards Yuan Chuyi with a smile, "Princess An is indeed smart, reward her!"
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty." Yuan Chuyi hurriedly led Yunxuan and the others to kneel down to express their gratitude.
Seeing that he had failed again, Tuoba Yin felt very embarrassed and couldn't help but sit down and drink wine angrily. However, one of his ministers came over and whispered a few words in his ear. He immediately smiled again and said arrogantly to the emperor: "Your Majesty, all the talents just now are there." It is up to Princess An alone to compete with Xiao Ben. Your dynasty is a big country with numerous talents, and you cannot only look at Princess An's style. With such a beautiful time, why don't we invite several talented and beautiful people to come out to recite poems and compose poems to add to the fun of this banquet? How about it?" Tuoba Yin said with a smile again.
Everyone came to challenge him. How could the emperor refuse to challenge? He immediately said "Okay", looked at Tuoba Yin, and asked with a smile: "I wonder what the prince's regulations are for reciting poems and writing poems?"
Although it is to add to the fun, it cannot be without rules and themes.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, she heard that the talents and beauties of the two countries were going to compete. She immediately became energetic and sat upright, watching what they would compete with.
Tuoba Yin looked around at the banquet and smiled, "Since the emperor has arranged such a sumptuous banquet for us to catch up with the world, then we might as well use the banquet as the theme and recite poems to answer questions. Let the talented people take turns to write poems. If no one can answer the question, we will stop. how?"
The emperor laughed and said, "It's just a matter of reciting poems. There are many among his civil and military officials and their relatives who are good at reciting poems." "Please come first, your envoy!"
The emperor showed his generosity to the extreme, putting Tuoba Yin first in everything, which fully reflected his respect for the envoy and the prince.
In the early Yuan Dynasty, I was not interested in reciting poems and composing poems. After all, her specialty was not composing poems. Memorizing a few poems was fine. If she was asked to compose poems by herself, she would probably have to think for a long time before she could come up with a crappy one. Therefore, she was not interested in reciting poems and composing poems. She didn't participate, and Tuoba Yin had just suffered her loss. This time, the people from the Ministry of Etiquette would not choose her as a contestant. She obediently sat aside and watched them fight over poems. She was not interested, and her mind had already wandered to Xiao Jing.
It has been five days since Xiao Jing left Beijing. Apart from yesterday's message, there is nothing else, and I don't know if he is safe.
She was lost in thought when she suddenly heard Tuoba Yin's triumphant laughter, which brought her back to her senses. She saw that the candidates chosen by both parties to write poems and poems had actually competed after several rounds of competition. It was a tie, which made Tuoba Yin extremely happy. Finally, he was not at a disadvantage, which made him more confident.
Tuoba Yin laughed happily, his confidence doubled, and his narrow phoenix eyes showed a cunning look, and said: "Your Majesty is willing to trade a phoenix blood vine for a border city. This really makes me see you, the emperor." Full of sincerity..."
"What!" Yuan Chu was stunned when she heard this. This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for her, and the same was true for other ministers.
"What is the Phoenix Blood Vine? Why is the Emperor willing to trade a city for it!"
"What is so precious and worth so much?"
"..." Yuan Chu looked at the emperor blankly. How could she be able to make the emperor make such a big sacrifice? She had too many questions in her mind, but at this time she could not directly ask the emperor. She could only look at him blankly, then looked at Tuoba Yin, and listened to him continue:
"Although His Majesty is willing to trade a city for this Phoenix Blood Vine, I, the Emperor, still feel that the price is too small. After all, it only takes a hundred years for this Phoenix Blood Vine to grow, and there are only two of them in the entire Beidi. It’s really rare.”
The emperor looked at Tuoba Yin and secretly clenched his hands on his knees, but his face was still restless. He asked in a deep voice, "How can the emperor of your country be willing to exchange this phoenix blood vine?"
"The Emperor said that if you are willing to hand over the three cities on the border to me, the Phoenix Blood Vine will be given to you immediately!"
"What!" The emperor could no longer control the anger in his heart, and he immediately started shouting, "Although this Phoenix Blood Vine is rare in the world, I also want to get it very much, but if what your country asks for far exceeds its value, then This deal is over now!" He waved his hand and said angrily, his eyes darkened when he looked at Yuan Chuyi, he looked at her and silently said sorry.
Tuoba Yin laughed again and said: "My emperor expected that the emperor would react like this, so he asked me to make a bet with you. I wonder if you dare to bet?"
"What are you betting on?" the emperor said angrily.
"Some people in my dynasty got a treasure that fell from the sky by chance, but we don't know what it is. If someone in your dynasty recognizes this thing and uses it, we will offer the Phoenix Blood Vine with both hands, together with the treasure you promised You don’t need that city. But if no one in your dynasty knows this thing and doesn’t know why it is used, then if your Majesty still wants the Phoenix Blood Vine, please give those three cities in exchange!" Tuoba Yin was extremely arrogant. said.
"This..." The emperor hesitated. This bet was indeed very tempting, but it was just a recognition of something. They were full of civil and military officials, and there were many strange people and strangers. There were many rare treasures in this world that they had not seen. of. However, there is a world outside the world, and there are people outside the world. If this thing is a rare treasure that they have never heard of or seen, and they rashly agree to it now, it will be a big loss.
Those are three pools, not three houses. Although those three cities originally belonged to Beidi and were conquered by Xiao Jing a few days ago, they were gained by sacrificing the lives of countless soldiers. How can we do it now? Handed over so easily!
"Your Majesty, I don't know why the object you recognize looks like? Can you let us see it first before making a decision?" The queen saw that the emperor was deep in thought, and she couldn't help but said gently. She knew that the Phoenix Blood Vine was used to save Yuan Chuyi. She and Yuan Chuyi were already close friends, but she couldn't bear to watch the antidote at her fingertips but failed to catch it, causing Yuan Chuyi to lose his life.
Tuoba Yin looked as if he had a chance to win and was very proud of himself.
"Yes! As the Queen wishes!"
As he said this, he immediately ordered people to go out and move the things he wanted to recognize into the main hall. Everyone looked at the main hall door eagerly, wanting to see what treasures there were in Beidi that the world didn't know about.
Not long after, an object covered with red silk cloth was carried in from outside by two giants and placed in the center of the stage. Tuoba Yin stepped forward and said:
"I have seen this thing with capable people from all over the world and from several neighboring countries, but no one knows what it is or what it is used for. If there are hundreds of civil and military officials of your dynasty or any capable people, If a stranger recognizes this thing, then Xiao Wang will really be impressed by your country!"
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he looked at the object under the red silk. From its outline, he could tell that it was very big. He seemed to recognize it, but whether it was something he recognized or not, he had to take off the red silk to find out. But Tuoba Yin, as if to arouse their curiosity, was still talking a lot of nonsense, but did not lift the red silk. She had no choice but to wait patiently.