The Yanhe Hall of the Imperial Palace sits south to north, commonly known as the 'Inverted Seat Palace', which is the palace for the Empress Dowager Liu E to participate in the court and politics. And today's Yanhe Hall is also very lively, but not because the first day is approaching, but because of the Queen Mother's birthday.

Because the Queen Mother's birthday 'Changning Festival' is approaching, that is, the Queen Mother's close ministers proposed to be the Queen Mother's honorific title, and across a layer of bead curtains, the Queen Mother looked at the official Zhao Zhen sitting in the palace with a smile.

As the queen mother Liu E, who has been raising official parents for 19 years, she is still very satisfied with the benevolence and filial piety of the official family, and Zhao Zhen has already agreed to give her the honorific title. "Ying Tianqi Shengxian Meritorious Chongde Benevolence Baoshou Empress Dowager", she has been waiting for this title for several years, and now she is about to turn sixty, and she has finally waited for this day.

"The Queen Mother has been handling government affairs with a curtain so far, with a degree of orders, clear rewards and punishments, and has reached the Qingming Dynasty; It is even more dedicated, but there is now a prosperous scene of the Great Song Dynasty, and the minister thinks that the Queen Mother's Honorific Ceremony can be placed in the Tian'an Palace. Cheng Lin, the third envoy, said. Cheng Lin once presented "The Picture of the Martial Empress Linchao" to Liu E, although she was thrown to the ground and refused to do anything that would disappoint her ancestors, but then Cheng Lin was appreciated by the Queen Mother.

"The minister thinks that it is impossible, Tian'an Hall is the place where the first emperor has ceremonies to the present, and things that are not emperors can not be used, although the queen mother has contributed to the society, but it is not appropriate to enter the palace of the emperor in the name of the queen mother." In the same book, the scholar Wang of Jixian Hall was busy stopping it.

"The minister seconded the proposal", "the minister seconded the proposal", the governor Lu Zongdao, and the privy envoy Cao Yu also came out to agree with Wang Zeng's words.

The three important ministers in the court unanimously stopped it, and the rest of the ministers were silenced at that time.

Seeing this, Liu E's face turned cold, and she thought in her heart, "These stubborn people are against themselves everywhere, if they hadn't used these three people in desperation, how could they have set such a stumbling block for themselves, and sooner or later I would have to dispose of them." ”

Zhao Zhen's face was not moved, and said slowly, "This matter can be discussed later, there is a matter to discuss with the queen mother, on the birthday of the queen mother, I want to lead the secretary to celebrate the birthday of the queen mother in the Huiqing Palace, and kneel down to worship in order to fulfill filial piety, what do you think?" ”

Liu E looked at Zhao Zhen and was quite surprised.

"The official family can't, the minister thinks that the son of man should fulfill his filial piety in the harem, lead the princes and royal families to the queen mother, and perform family etiquette. A loud voice came from the end of the hall, and everyone looked back, but it turned out to be Fan Zhongyan, the head of the Secret Pavilion.

"Little official position, what is the identity of this matter." The First Empress Dowager said disdainfully, and there was a sound of laughter all around.

Fan Zhongyan did not defend himself, but still stood up and said loudly, "Now the Queen Mother is an auxiliary government, although the official family has a position in the south, but there is no ceremony in the north.

As soon as this remark came out, there was a lot of discussion, and everyone was surprised and admired for such a bold statement that dared to offend the Queen Mother in public.

In the imperial history, Cheng Yanshu's face was already blue at the moment, he was familiar with the methods of the Queen Mother, this Fan Zhongyan said this today, it can be regarded as overstepping his duties, and he is not far from being demoted. Even he, the recommender, will inevitably be affected.

Zhao Zhen, who was sitting on the top position, looked at Fan Zhongyan playfully, and said secretly, "The head of the secret pavilion, the official position is not big, how can you have the confidence to say this?" If this person is not a loyal person, he is a person who is too good at judging the situation and thinking deeply. Is this a sign of faithfulness today? ”

Liu E behind the curtain also squinted at the person at the back of Wenchen's team, less than forty years old, looking resolute and upright, she snorted coldly in her heart, "Fan Zhongyan dares to make a big statement above the court, isn't there someone behind him?" Now that the official family is about to be weak, there are people who are unwilling to be controlled by themselves. ”

"The Queen Mother has protected me so far, and she has done her best for national affairs, and her virtue stops. Now that the Queen Mother's 60th birthday is approaching, I think that the Changning Festival should be given clothes by hundreds of officials, and the world will give banquets, and the ceremonies will be like the Qianyuan Festival. Zhao Zhen finished speaking, and the ministers in the hall were stunned, the specifications of the Changning Festival were compared with the emperor's birthday Qianyuan Festival, and the official family was too benevolent and filial.

"Official ......" Wang Zeng and others were about to step forward to persuade them, but they were stopped by the official family.

"The secretaries don't need to say anything, I have made up my mind, the queen mother deserves this ceremony, on the day of the Changning Festival, I should lead the secretaries to live for the queen mother. The ceremony of longevity is arranged by the king. Zhao Zhen looked at the different expressions of His Royal Highness's ministers and said with a smile.

"The official family has flourished, I should withdraw the curtain and return to the official family, the heart of the king, I and the official family can be saved, I hope the secretary will continue to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country with this heart." There were words from behind the curtain, and it was the voice of the Queen Mother Liu E.

Taken by the Queen Mother's long-term obscenity, the ministers could only say one sentence, "The Queen Mother is Shengming." ”

Because of the Queen Mother's birthday, a matter of removing the curtain and returning to the government slowly came to an end, and the Queen Mother returned to the official family, who knows when it will be implemented? Everyone knows that this is the Queen Mother's reassuring words, but who dares to question it?

There is a storm in the court, and once the curtain ends, I don't know how many officials will rise and fall in the sea next. For the people of Bianliang City, as long as it is not about their eating, drinking, and Lazar, who will care about the queen mother's honorific title and who will have a birthday; Whether the Queen Mother hangs the curtain to listen to the government, or withdraws the curtain and returns to the government, who will pay attention to these, it is just to add some talking points after tea and dinner, maybe it is better to inquire about the neighbors, who is more interested in having a romantic affair with whom.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, ordinary people's homes have already begun to 'steam steamed buns and fried towers, applique flowers', making preparations for the New Year. In the area of the Great Xiangguo Temple in the inner city, the shop vendors actually sell the new calendar of brocade, all kinds of large and small door gods, peach charm Zhong Kui, the tiger head and the golden color wisp flower, the spring post banner victory and the like, the crowd is crowded, and there is a festival scene everywhere.

At noon, a team of camels ushered in the Guzimen in the west of the outer city, more than 30 people with more than 10 camels and more than a dozen horses, each camel was carrying heavy goods, but more than a dozen horses were pulling people and goods, this team of people looked very eye-catching.

The guards guarding the door immediately cheered up, covered their foreheads with their hands, and looked at it, but it was a group of Hu merchants, and the leader on the horse was a fair-skinned and handsome man in his twenties. Before the caravan could approach, he had the people around him call their team to come.

When the young man arrived at the gate of the city, he jumped off his horse, and a voice immediately came from the opposite side, "Kangjuro, it's been three months since you went out this time, but you've come back with a full load?" It was the short, stocky team that was smiling at him.

Kang Shilang hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Thank you Team Li for taking care of you, this time it is still a few incense medicines, spices, and some gadgets that have been transported from the Western Regions. "After that, please ask the team to check.

The team was casually flipping through it and said with a smile, "Can the Kang family's goods still be at ease?" ”

Kang Shilang casually stuffed something into the team and said, "Give the brothers a drink, don't shirk." ”

The team was half-pushing and half-pushing the purse into his arms, and waved it away.

The group of people and goods began to march again, straight into the "Kang Zhai" in the boundary alley of Panlou Street in the inner city.

Speaking of this Kang surname, it is the big surname in the "Zhaowu Nine Surnames", the Kang family is said to be the royal descendants of the Kang Kingdom, and later moved to this Bianliang, hundreds of years of accumulation, the Kang family's shops have been all over the Great Song Dynasty, Liao and Western Xia. Now the Kang family is like the head of Hu Shang.

This Kang Shilang is the tenth son of the Kang family, Hu Ren is good at business, and the men in the family are all urinating to learn how to do business, so although this Shilang is only in his twenties, he has been to the Western Regions many times.

After handing over the goods to the butler for arrangement, Yasujuro led a dozen guards from the caravan into the backyard hall. In the hall, he hurriedly led the leader who seemed to be a guard to the upper seat, and said, "Khan, forgive me, I have wronged you all the way." ”

The leader was of medium stature, also dressed as a bearded man, with a shrugged nose and deep eyes, a beard covering most of his face, and his figure was quite strong. He waved his hand and said, "Shilang is polite, now that the family and country are dead, what are you talking about Khan, if there is no Shilang along the way, I am afraid that I will be caught by Li Yuanhao's people a long time ago, but I want to thank Shilang." ”

"When my Kang family was in the Uighurs, it was thanks to the help of the Khan that we had the current situation, and this journey was only a matter of effort, and the Khan did not have to worry about it." As he spoke, Yasujuro instructed his subordinates to prepare hot soup and hot rice so that the khan could wash his dust.

"What the Khan mentioned on the road, after the father and brother come back, we will discuss it again, and we will definitely help the Khan see the emperor." Kang Shilang saw that he was thoughtful, and knew that he was thinking about it, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to comfort him.

"In this way, I am here to thank Shiro for his help, if he is expected to return to the country one day, I will thank the Kang family again." Isn't this the Uighur Khan who is separated at night?

After the Uighurs were destroyed by Li Yuanhao of Western Xia, Li Yuanhao has been tracking this night separation, and the night settlement has fled again and again, and after only a dozen guards remained, he met Kang Shilang in Kangzhou with good luck, so they pretended to be the guards of the Kang family caravan, and they also came to Bianliang without danger all the way.

Now that he has arrived in Bianliang, he is worried about how to see the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, so he has to turn to the Kang family, hoping to rely on the wealth of the Kang family to help him see the current saint.

Not to mention that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty could see him if he wanted to, just after seeing the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, he was not sure whether the Great Song Dynasty could help him restore the country, and his beloved daughter Yelia didn't know if he had come to Bianliang, everything could only turn into a deep sigh, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly when he felt that the road ahead was bleak.