Yan Zi Go to the State of Chu as an Envoy

Yan Zi Go to the State of Chu as an Envoy

Chinese diplomat Yanzi

Yan Zi was about to go to the state of chu as an envoy. The king of Chu heard Yan Zi was short and wanted to humiliate him. He had man dig a small opening beside the city gate for Yan Zi to enter. Yan Zi said: ``If I`m a envoy to dog`s regime. I`d go through a dog`s opening. Now I`m an envoy to the state of Chu. I shouldn`t go through a dog`s opening.`` So the Chu officials had to let him enter through the gate.

When he met the King of Chu. the King asked: ``Is it that Qi doesn`t have any other people that the your King sent you as an envoy?`` Yan Zi answered: ``Qi has a large population. There are as many as thousand of streets inside our capital. still. people have to move about with their shoulders packed. Should the people of Qi raise their arms together. their sleeves would hide the light of the Sun. If they clean their sweat off their forehead together. it would have looked like a sudden shower."

"Then how come your King send a man like you as an envoy?`` asked the King. 1155815.cn

Glibly Yan Zi answered: ``It is a custom in our state that the most capable and intelligent officials be sent to the moral states for diplomatic missions. whereas those incapable and stupid officials go to the indecent states. I`m the most incapable and stupid of all in our state. So the King send me to be an envoy to Chu.``

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That left the King of Chu and his court dumbfounded.

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