The place where the war first started was not Nigu Village, Yanmen Pass, or the desolate Taihang Mountains.
The city of Tokyo in the early morning is still shrouded in a light blue smog. This smog has only begun to appear in recent years. In the past, the city of Tokyo would often have the fragrant fragrance of flowers in the spring morning. Now, it has been replaced by the choking soot.
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In the bell tower that told the time, the bell ringer rang the copper bell slowly and melodiously. The bells slowly dispersed to the surrounding areas, and the Tokyo streets that had been busy all night regained their vitality.
As usual, the first to go out are the officials who go to court, and the officials from Yushitai will leave earlier.
Today was different. Thirty fully armed cavalry escorted a carriage and arrived in front of the palace gate early. The Liao envoy Yu Mahuachi stood in front of the palace gate like a wooden figure with his eyes closed and holding a volume of credentials.
As soon as the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty came to court, he was ready to meet the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Pang Ji was helped out of the carriage by his family, and he arranged his official robes and appearance meticulously. Then he walked to the palace gate, looked up at the morning light on the horizon, and saw that it was still early, so he asked Yu Mahuachi.
"Why does the envoy need to come to the palace to see your majesty? Why is there no news from Honglu Temple?"
Yu Mahuachi opened her eyes and said calmly: "This is my emperor's personal letter. It needs to be handed over to the officials of the Song Dynasty in person. Doesn't it mean that the Prime Minister also wants to investigate the personal letter of my emperor?"
Pang Jigong cupped his hands and said: "The Emperor of Liao and our official family of the Song Dynasty have a brotherhood. Naturally, I cannot interfere with their personal letters. I just want to ask the envoy whether the Liao Kingdom's Chun Naibao has ended? Have they ever sacrificed to the gods?
peaceful?"
Yu Mahuachi said with a smile but not a smile: "The whole fish feast has been eaten, which is a sign that our Daliao Lake and the sea are peaceful. The whole goose feast has also been eaten, which is a sign that our Daliao mountains and rivers are beautiful. The souls of our ancestors have been sacrificed. This year's swans
The first pearl plucked from the crop has been dedicated to the gods. Why, doesn’t the Prime Minister want our Daliao Kingdom to be peaceful and peaceful?"
Pang Ji shouted: "What a shame!"
Yu Mahuachi smiled slightly and remained silent, still standing there waiting for the Emperor of Song Dynasty to receive him.
The palace doors opened wide, hundreds of officials filed in, and a new day of court meetings in the Song Dynasty began.
Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair, coughing softly. Zou Tong, who hurried back from Yanmen Pass, looked at the emperor worriedly with his whisk in his arms. The queen had begged the emperor in the back hall not to hold on. Since the winter, his asthma has stopped.
It's very serious and has affected my speech.
Zhao Zhen did not listen to the queen's plea and still ordered the court meeting to begin. In his opinion, the Song Dynasty had truly entered a troubled period at this time, and the country needed him, the emperor, to sit on the dragon throne properly.
Zou Tong announced the start of the court meeting. Some eunuchs had already told Pang Ji and others that the emperor was unwell before they went to court, hoping to shorten the time of the court meeting.
"Your Majesty, since the opening of the seal on the 16th of the first lunar month, the Zhengshitang has received 671 memorials from the state capital and the military. After selection, it will be able to enter the six departments, as well as 330 memorials from the left and right censors.
Three letters, one hundred and thirty-two letters have been sent to the Privy Council. The rest are mostly trivial matters, such as seals, acceptances, congratulations, confessions of sins, illness, and pardons. They have been sent to the relevant departments for disposal, so Your Majesty does not need to worry.
As for the military information documents, the veteran has already marked the minutes, and the secretary will meet with His Majesty Chen."
Pang Ji saw the emperor sitting on the dragon chair and having difficulty breathing. He sighed and went out to report. He didn't want the emperor to be in bad health, especially in this difficult moment.
"The peace in the world and the peace in the world all depend on the efforts of your ministers. Since nothing happens, just roll up the curtain and retreat from the court!"
The Chief Minister of Honglu Temple hesitated for a moment, then went out and announced: "Your Majesty, Yu Mahuachi, the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, has asked to see you. He said he was holding a handwritten letter from the Liao Kingdom and also brought a box of gifts from the Liao Emperor to your majesty.
, but I don’t know whether I saw it or not.”
Zhao Zhen sat up straight, coughed and said: "The envoy of Xuan Liao Kingdom."
Zou Tong looked at the chief minister of Honglu Temple angrily and hurried out of the hall to greet the Liao envoy on behalf of the emperor.
The envoys from the Liao Kingdom came here at this time, and they definitely had evil intentions. After Zheng Bin returned to Beijing, he had reported everything they had experienced in the Liao Kingdom. Since the emperor of the Liao Kingdom was not dead, it means that Gao Jide's sneak attack failed.
Yes, meeting the Liao envoys at this time is just humiliating yourself.
Zhao Zhen sat high on it, with a slight smile on his face. He also wanted to know what kind of losses his arrangement had caused to the Liao Kingdom. The ongoing massacre on the Nanjing Road and Xijing Road in the Liao Kingdom
The purge could not escape the eyes and ears of the Song Dynasty secret agents. Long before Yu Mahuachi knew that the Song Dynasty army had secretly attacked the Liao Emperor, he already knew that the attack failed.
Over the years, Emperor Liao always gave him one surprise after another, but he didn't know how Emperor Liao would react after knowing that he had given him a big surprise. So at this time, Zhao Zhen was looking forward to it very much.
Yu Mahuachi walked into the main hall and met Emperor Song in accordance with the imperial rites, and then said: "Emperor Rensheng Wenwu of the Liao Dynasty said: My brother was in Beihai and saw a big fish dead. He was frightened and frightened, so he sent an envoy to greet him!
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The faces of Pang Ji and others changed greatly. The death of the big fish meant the collapse of the mountains. The Emperor of Liao was so unreasonable and was about to scold Yu Mahuachi when he heard Zhao Zheng covering his mouth with a handkerchief while coughing and saying with a smile: "Thank you, my dear brother."
Care, the fish in the North Sea are too small for the heavens and humans to sense me, but I have been in the North for a long time, so please take care of me."
Yu Mahuachi raised his hand again and said: "In the Liao Dynasty, Emperor Rensheng Wenwu said: I am hunting in the North Sea and don't want to hunt some southern things. This thing looks very strange. It has a head full of ears. I am really surprised.
I don’t know what kind of southern custom this is, so I cut off some ears and asked the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to identify it.”
After saying this, he ordered his servants to present a huge box and prepare to carry it into the main hall.
Zou Tong stood at the door and checked the box. His face turned pale, and he returned to the main hall and whispered a few words in Zhao Zhen's ear.
Zhao Zhen closed his eyes, cultivated for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes and said: "This thing is called Xingtian. Although the head is not there, it can still fight on the battlefield, and the fighting spirit is immortal. It is very ominous for my brother to see this thing.
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Pang Ji and Han Qi walked to the door, ordered someone to open the box and looked at it. They returned to the court without changing their expressions, raised their hands and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom has behaved inappropriately. I thought that the envoy of the Liao Kingdom was sent to the palace."
It is better to carry a stick and drive them away."
Yu Mahuachi burst out laughing loudly, took out a volume of documents from his arms and said: "In the Liao Kingdom, Emperor Rensheng Wenwu said: If the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wants the sixteen states of Yanyun, this is not non-negotiable.
, you and I are two countries of brothers, what can't we discuss? Since the emperor of the Song Dynasty has never forgotten the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, I specially presented the mountain and river geography map of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to explain the situation of the emperor of the Song Dynasty.
The feeling of longing.”
After finishing speaking, he invited Zou Tong to come out of the hall again and led two tall and strong Liao men into the hall carrying a huge mountain and river geography map. The two strong men put the mountain and river geography map on the ground.
Standing aside, Yu Mahuachi cupped his hands towards Zhao Zhen and said: "I would like to inform your Majesty the Song Dynasty that this geographical map of mountains and rivers is the result of the Queen of our country inviting the best craftsmen from the Liao Kingdom to use gold threads and various treasures plus the best
The wool was woven into a carpet, and the pattern on it was exactly the victory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Under the sun, the golden light shone, and various gems competed to shine. The majestic pass and the river were lifelike. It was a rare treasure of the Liao Kingdom.
Now is the time when the red sun is rising, which is the best time to view this picture. I would like to ask Your Majesty to take a closer look!"
Zhao Zhen chuckled and said: "First it's the big fish to test my mind, then it's the human ear to test my courage, and then it's the geographical map of mountains and rivers. Does the emperor of Liao still want to test my knowledge?"
After saying this, he slowly walked down from the throne. He was really curious about this treasure of the Liao Kingdom. The Song Dynasty also had a map of the Sixteenth State of Yanyun. That map was engraved on a white jade screen and placed in the palaces of emperors of the past dynasties.
, showing that he has never forgotten the sixteen states of Yanyun, but this kind of carpet has never been seen before.
Yu Mahuachi crouched on the ground and unfolded this huge carpet with his own hands. After unfolding it only a little, Zhao Zhen couldn't help but take a breath. This map is indeed extremely luxurious. Blue gems are decorated with rivers, and black gems are decorated with rivers.
The high mountains, the city walls are woven with gold threads, and the roads are woven with silver threads. As the remaining mahuachi slowly unfolds, Yanzhou, Yunzhou, Zhuozhou, Yizhou, and Yuzhou among the sixteen states of Yanyun appear one by one.
The rivers, mountains and city gates are majestic and dazzling.
Seeing that the entire carpet was about to be unfolded, Han Qi suddenly jumped onto the unrolled carpet roll and shouted: "This kind of thing can only be used by barbarians like you."
, someone comes and takes it!"
At the same time, Pang Ji stood up to protect Zhao Zhen and retreated hastily.
Yu Mahuachi roared angrily, overturned Han Qi who was standing on the map, and kicked away the remaining map. A long shining knife appeared at his feet. Just look at the blue blade and you would know that this knife was
The knife is by no means a good thing.
The two strong men from the Liao Kingdom who carried the box and the two strong men who carried the carpet into the hall with their bare hands rushed into the hall like crazy tigers. The two thin eunuchs tried to stop them, but were stopped by one of them.
The strong man grabbed the two eunuchs' heads and bumped them against each other, smashing the eunuch's heads to pieces immediately.
Yu Mahuachi roared: "Zhao Zhen, our Majesty wants me to come and take your head!" After saying this, he rushed towards Pang Ji and Zhao Zhen with his long sword. No one in the palace could stop them.
people.
The generals led by Gao Jixuan and Shi Zhongxin howled and rushed over, trying to stop Yu Mahuachi, but they were kicked back by the sturdy Yu Mahuachi. Pang Ji pushed the emperor back hastily, but was knocked back by Yubi.
The railing above was blocking the way, so I had to grab a smoking copper crane incense burner and throw it at Yu Mahuachi.
Yu Mahuachi's long knife was made of hundreds of fine steel, and he cut the copper crane incense burner into two pieces with a single move, and kicked Pang Ji hard in the lower abdomen. Pang Ji spurted out a mouthful of blood, and took advantage of the situation to fight hard
He hugged one of Yu Mahuachi's legs, used his thin shoulders to push Yu Mahuachi's knife-raising arm, and shouted: "Your Majesty, leave quickly! (To be continued)