C1064 Gift (1/2)

In 1868, the year of Wenchen Dragon. When the news of Xiao Letian holding a grand New Year banquet in the Ryukyu spread out, all the high officials under the Prime Minister's curtain stirred.

A telegram was sent out to all parts of Asia. It was only two months until the New Year, and there seemed to be plenty of traffic in the nineteenth century, but it was far behind schedule. Many of the Ryukyu officials working in the Midwest of Southwest, India, and Great Qing had to plan their return home in advance.

Xiao Letian's attitude towards this banquet was extremely clear. As long as all the people in charge were gathered, from 1865, when Xiao Letian was Prime Minister of Ryukyu, there had not been a gathering of all the higher-ups in the past three years. This New Year's Meet would immediately shake up the entire Ryukyu's forces.

Shang Tai had been drilling around the Shouli City warehouse like a mouse for the past three days. The Head Elder who was in charge of the warehouse knelt down and said, ”Your Majesty, I have already confessed, and I am greedy for twenty taels of gold! I'll return it tomorrow. For the sake of this old subject serving you all my life, please spare me. ”Wuu!” With that, the head minister cried as hard as he could.

”Shut up! Shut up! What nonsense, I am looking for a New Year gift for Shang Fu's big banquet! ”How did you get hooked up with checking accounts …”

The old official on his knees heard ”Ah?” Your Majesty, are you looking for a gift? If I had told you earlier, you would have scared me to death … This old official is familiar with this work, there are no treasures in this treasury that I do not know about! ”

After many twists and turns, the Head Elder brought Shang Tai to a corner and took out an object wrapped in bright yellow silk out of a black wood, which was inside a Shark's skin and horns box.

Looking at the faded silk, even the dry edges seemed to show signs of eroding. Opening the satin, a bright yellow jade ring was revealed, and on the concentric ring were carved two rain dragons.

”Your Majesty, this is one of the gifts bestowed by the Ryukyu to Emperor Hong Wu after he handed the letter to Emperor Da Ming. Our Ryukyu has been hoarding this jade for more than four hundred years, and it is said that this jade was originally a treasure from the Song Dynasty, it is extremely precious …”

”Look, there are six years' worth of names in the inner circle of the Jade Ring! There were still eight years of Hong Wu's moniker here … Such a treasure would definitely be worthy of the Prime Minister's credit! ”

Shang Tai was overjoyed upon hearing this. ”Good, good, good … This item is very good, without Shang Fu, there would be no Ryukyu. I am afraid we would have long been annihilated by the Japanese, as the significance of Shang Fu for the Ryukyu is equivalent to that of Emperor Hong Wu bestowing the Ryukyu. This item is the best gift to Shang Fu … ”

Shang Tai walked out of the treasury while holding onto a jade ring. Just when the head minister let out a long breath and thought that he had succeeded in passing, he didn't expect Shang Tai to say this without even turning his head back.

”It's about time for this coffer room to be filled with gold. Remember to bring the gold weapons back later. Confess and defend, this is Shang Fu's teachings …”

”Huh?” The head minister's legs gave way and he sat on the doorframe.

He was not the only one who was preparing gifts like, all of the higher ups under Xiao Letian's command had started to move, even Dragon Lord who was in the dark of the mountain had left their hiding place and were preparing to return to Ryukyu to participate in this extremely important banquet.

In the midst of the goose feathers blizzard, more than three hundred soldiers in white camouflage clothes were lurking at the edge of the forest. Inside the Dragon Lord's telescope, a log town stood beside a frozen river.

old ginseng head laid down beside Dragon Lord and said in a low voice, ”It's here, the wolf pens camp. There is a company of Russian stationed there. ”Pfft, it's this dead chicken. It robbed my village in the summer, and the best ginseng I have kept was taken away by him …”

”Sir!” Let's pull out this nail, I want this dead chicken's head, you can bring it to the Ryukyu as a New Year gift for the Prime Minister! ”When the time comes, our men on the other side of the pass will still have to show our filial piety …”

”Prime Minister, you brought us to get revenge, and even gave us so many Gun, we must have some good intentions too!”