The Song Ting's reply was immediately sent back to the Liao Kingdom through the Liao envoy. Along with the Song Ting's reply, a report from the Liao envoy Xiao Ying was also sent to the Lord of Liao.
In the report, Xiao Ying said three things.
The first thing was that he had paid a visit to His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty King of the Song Dynasty, and saw with his own eyes that the young emperor was sitting in the Chui Gong Hall, and his behavior and speech were quite majestic.
The second thing is that Xiao Ying has already seen the situation of people in Song Dynasty when they were vaccinated.
It has been confirmed that this method does exist and is really effective.
The third matter was that Xiao Ying sued the deputy envoy Lin Ya and Liu Liufu for secretly accepting bribes from Song Dynasty officials, and refusing to admit his mistake, and asked Yelv Zong to punish him.
After receiving the report, Yelu Zongzhen immediately summoned his ministers to discuss the matter.
By this time, it was already early August.
Yelu Zongzhen's palace tent went to Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom, and settled there.
Therefore, the people he summoned were naturally all ministers from Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom.
For example, when the Liao Kingdom stayed in Nanjing, Jin Wang Xiao Xiaoxian and the Liao Taishi, Nanjing's military envoy, Nanjing Palace were all deployed, Zhao Wang Xiao Hui and others.
Of course, there were also the central ministers of the Liao Kingdom who followed Yelu Zongzhen's palace tent and walked together.
The emperor's younger brother, Yelu Zongyuan, the prime minister of the north and south, Zhengshi Ling, Wu Wang Xiao Xiaoyou, Chu Wang, Zhongshu Ling Xiao Xiaomu, and the Han officials headed by Shangfu, Taishi, Zhongshu Ling, and Han Wang Zhang Jian.
"This is the reply from the Song court..." Yelu Zongzhen handed the Song Dynasty's credentials to everyone and said: "In addition, the Song Emperor has appointed Fu Bi, the Right Zhengyan Zhijian Yuan, as the envoy to lead a delegation.
I will discuss this matter with you!"
"What do you think of Song Ting's reply?" Yelu Zongzhen asked his ministers.
Everyone looked at each other. The Liao Kingdom stayed behind in Nanjing. Jin Wang Xiao Xiao stood up first and said: "Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, I might as well agree to this matter..."
"Did King Jin feel hurt by Emperor Song's conditions?" Xiao Hui, the commander-in-chief of Nanjing's army, immediately became sarcastic: "Does King Jin really want to welcome the Queen Mother back?"
Jin Wang Xiao Xiaoxian was the privy envoy when Xiao Jin was in power, and he killed many former ministers of Liao Shengzong and Xiao Bodhisattva on behalf of Xiao Jin.
So why can he survive and even still hold a high position?
Three reasons.
First, when Yelu Zongzhen launched a coup, Xiao Xiaoxian was very cooperative, took the initiative to hand over military power, and expressed his loyalty at the first opportunity.
Second, Xiao Xiaoxian’s niece is Queen Yelu Zongzhen and the biological mother of King Yelu Hongji of Liang. Moreover, his two younger brothers are both important ministers of the Liao Kingdom - Liao Nanjing Liushou, Chu King Xiao Xiaomu and Liao Zhengshi Ling, King Wu
Xiao Xiaoyou.
Among them, Xiao Xiaomu is the biological father of Yelu Zongzhen’s Queen Xiao Tari.
Xiao Xiaomu was a die-hard imperialist, and he was also a rare enlightened political figure among the top leaders of the Liao Kingdom, and a pioneer in the reform of the Liao Sheng Sect.
This King of Chu had a famous saying: You can't change customs and steal a title. Is this the way for a minister?
To translate, it is: If you don’t change customs and customs when you are an official, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes.
Yelv Zongzhen, who was determined to inherit his father's legacy and continue reform, could not do without Xiao Xiaomu's assistance and support.
The third reason is tradition.
The marriage between the Yelu family and the Xiao family existed before the establishment of the Liao Kingdom.
To the Yelu family, the Xiao family is equal to the uncle's family.
Moreover, to the Khitan, the Xiao family is not actually a family.
Rather, it was a huge alliance of two powerful clans that could influence the foundation of the Liao Kingdom - the high-ranking nobles of the Khitan Yishi and Baoli tribes.
Then why do they all have the last name Xiao?
The answer is that Yelu Abaoji, Taizu of Liao Dynasty, was a fan of Liu Bang, Taizu of Han Dynasty and Emperor Gao.
After the founding of the Liao Kingdom, the Taizu of the Liao Kingdom deeply believed that he was a descendant of the Liu family and the heir to the Han Empire.
Therefore, he ordered that Yelu's Han surname be changed to Liu.
He also gave the surname Xiao to the Yishi tribe and the Baoli tribe who had assisted the Yelu family for generations, and ordered these loyal minions to defend and protect the rule of the Yelu family just like the Xiao He family of the Han Dynasty defended the Liu family of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Yelv is pronounced as Yelu and written as Liu.
Therefore, in fact, the relationship between the Yelu family of the Liao Kingdom and the Xiao family is not the relationship between the emperor and his relatives in the general sense.
They are also political, military and power allies.
It is the existence of two sides of one body.
The emperor could execute those Xiao nobles who offended him, but he could not eliminate the Xiao family.
Because if the Xiao family is eliminated, the Yelu family will not be far away from death.
Based on these reasons and reasons, after Yelu Zongzhen's coup was successful, he just exiled Xiao Xiaoxian to Nanjing and placed him under house arrest. After he consolidated his power, he lifted his house arrest and demoted him to the title of King of Jin.
Because his son Yelu Hongji needed the protection of brother Xiao Xiaomu.
But because of this, brother Xiao Xiaomu became a thorn in Xiao Hui's side.
If you have anything to do, just stir it up.
The reason is simple - the current Empress Dowager of Liao is the sister of Xiao Xiaomu's brother, the current Queen of Liao is Xiao Xiaomu's daughter and the niece of Xiao Xiaoyou. If the future Queen of Liao is still from this family.
Then should other families mix together?
Therefore, even if Xiao Hui's family and Xiao Xiaomu's family both had the same son, Empress Dowager Chunqin Shuluping's younger brother Aguzhi, they would inevitably be at odds with each other.
Xiao Xiao first listened to the sarcasm of his distant cousin and said with a smile: "Does King Qi think that His Majesty should not welcome back the Queen Mother to fulfill his filial piety?"
"Does the King of Qi want to put His Majesty in an unfilial position?"
A few years ago, Xiao Xiaoxian would not have had the courage because his nephew was still young at that time and Yelu Zongzhen's status was not yet stable.
But now, today is different from the past.
Starting from the year before last, the Liao Kingdom conducted a nationwide census and registration under the auspices of Xiao Xiaomu.
Now, this activity has ended, and the population in Liao Kingdom has been counted again.
As a result, corvee service and taxes were evenly distributed, and Yelu Zongzhen's rule was greatly stabilized.
Now, even if Xiao Jin is welcomed back, it will not have any impact on Yelu Zongzhen's rule.
"Haili!" Xiao Hui shouted Xiao Xiaoxian's Khitan name loudly: "Aren't you afraid of death?"
"If you die loyal to your majesty, the son of the Xiao family is willing to bend his neck and be killed!" Xiao Xiaoxian bowed his head, looked at Yelu Zongzhen, and kowtowed: "Your majesty, if you doubt me, then please let me die in front of you.
, and then let the generals dig out the heart and liver to see if it is red!"
Now Xiao Hui was caught blind, so he had no choice but to kneel down and worship: "Your Majesty, I was ordered by the late emperor to attack Goryeo. Faced with the crossbows of Goryeo barbarians, I never changed my attitude. Later, I was ordered by the late emperor.
After trying the divination, I suffered more than thirty injuries, none of them on my back!"
"If you ask about loyalty, among all the people in the court, besides the King of Han, who can compare with me?"
Yelvzong was really confused when he heard this.
He quickly left the stage, helped the two veterans up, and said: "The two beloved ministers are both my loyal ministers and loyal ministers of the Liao Dynasty. I will always be unswerving and firmly believe it!"
"My dear friends, please stop arguing over trivial matters..."
"Let's talk about it first. How should we respond to the Southern Dynasty's reply?"
