The emperor of Liao is now Liao Muzong Yelu Shulu, self-proclaimed Tianshun Emperor, in 959 AD, at the age of twenty-nine, has been in the reign of eight years.

Yelu Shulu, how to say this, said that he was a tyrant, except for the bloody means of suppressing the rebellion, he never killed ministers and the people indiscriminately, and during his eight years of reign, he proposed several times to reduce the policy of taxation, which won the praise of the people.

However, this Yelu Shulu is also a very cruel person to the attendants, and often likes to use very extremely cruel means to kill the attendants indiscriminately for fun.

The first few emperors of the Liao State all relied on coups d'état, anyway, you kill me, I kill you, and the last one left became the emperor, and this is how Yelu Shulu's throne came.

It can be said that the Later Zhou Dynasty was a period of strong soldiers and horses, while the Liao State was in a moment of national turmoil, and the Liao State and the Northern Han Dynasty joined forces to fight several battles with the Later Zhou, all of which ended in failure.

In addition, Yelu Shulu was extravagant, and before he was thirty, all kinds of problems began to appear in his body, which made the emperor of Liao gradually begin to neglect the government, and the Liao State became even more chaotic.

This time he heard that the Zhou State was going to raise troops to attack the Liao State again, the Tianshun Emperor was a little panicked, and he sent an envoy to the Northern Han Dynasty, wanting to unite with the Northern Han again, but learned that the Northern Han had sent an envoy to the Zhou State to negotiate peace.

In order to increase the insurance coefficient of the success of the negotiation, he also asked Yelu Xiuge, a son of the clan, to pretend to be the prince and sent to the Zhou State as a proton, accompanied by Xiao Xuan, the daughter of the Xiao family of the descendants of the Liao State.

And the envoy sent by the Liao State this time is called Yelu Huage, the Taiwei of the Liao State, and this person has a pivotal position among the ministers of the Liao State, which shows how much Yelu Shulu does not want to go to war with the Zhou State.

Yelu Huage took the mission to the starry night, and finally arrived in Kaifeng with the Northern Han delegation, and submitted his credentials to the Honglu Temple of the Zhou State, requesting to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Zhou State.

But what made Yelu Huage feel depressed was that they had been in Kaifeng for five or six days, and they had been imprisoned in the embassy by the soldiers of the former division of the Zhou State Palace, and they were not allowed to go out, and no one came to inform them when they would be able to meet His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou.

On this day, Brother Yelu Hua was sitting in the post house, and since entering Kaifeng, in addition to normal food, there was no hospitality at all on the Zhou side, not even wine.

There are two little dolls sitting next to Yeluhua, a man and a woman, both wearing Khitan national costumes, because he is afraid of accidents, Yeluhua almost inseparably looks at these two bear children who only know how to be naughty but are not about to become proton consciousness and grief under the fence.

"Taiwei, when are we allowed to go out to play, didn't you say that when we arrive in the Zhou Kingdom, the people here will definitely receive us warmly, give us good wine and food, and invite us to visit the palace of the Zhou Kingdom?"

The one who asked was Xiao Xuan, nicknamed Yanyan, only six years old Xiao Yanyan was at the age of innocence, for this time she came to Zhou, she was excited all the way, but she didn't expect that after coming, she was locked in the post house and restricted from going out, and she wanted to run out secretly, either she was caught by her own country's attendants, or she was escorted back by Zhou's soldiers, it was really not fun.

Brother Yelu Xiu was silent on the side, he was three years older than Xiao Yanyan, I don't know why, Lord Taiwei told him all the way, let him only say that he was only six years old after he arrived in Zhou Kingdom.

Although the nine-year-old boy is also the age of jumping out, he has to be more mature mentally, and Yelu Hugo is originally relatively calm in personality, and he can now see that this mission to Zhou Guo is not as easy as the Taiwei said.

Brother Yelu looked at these two little dolls, and sighed in his heart, the peace between Liao and Zhou depends on these two little dolls.

Just when Yelu Huage wanted to make a statement to coax the two little dolls again, the accompanying soldiers of the mission came to report that the official sent by the Emperor of Zhou to be in charge of reception had arrived at the door.

"Hurry up, bring the official uniforms of this official, you two, when you see the envoy of the Zhou State in a while, you must be polite and polite, you know?"

Lu Duan didn't care about that, and he didn't have the patience to stand outside the embassy and wait, he sent someone to spread the word, and he had already brought someone to rush in directly.

"This official is sent by the emperor to be responsible for receiving the Liao State Mission, my name is Lu Duan, I don't know which one is the Liao State Envoy?"

Halfway through Brother Yeluhua's official uniform, he saw a young Da Zhou official walk in, surrounded by fierce and sturdy soldiers, and he was scared out of cold sweat.

The Emperor of Zhou will not even give us a chance to meet, so he will click on us.

After all, he is still the Taiwei of the Liao State, Brother Yelu Hua simply sorted out some official mansions that were still a little crooked, took two steps forward and arched his hand at Lu Duan and said:

"Brother Yeluhua, the Taiwei of Liaoguo, has seen Lord Lu, but he didn't know that Lord Lu had arrived, and in a hurry, the etiquette was not good, and he asked Lord Lu to forgive him."

Then, Brother Yelu Hua turned around and pulled Brother Yelu Xiu and Xiao Yanyan and said:

"Don't salute Lord Lu yet, don't let the angels of the kingdom laugh at us people of Liao who don't know how to be polite."

Yelu Hugho took two steps forward and saluted Lu Duan in a proper manner:

"Brother Yelu Xiu, the prince of Liao, has seen Lord Lu, the angel of the kingdom."

Xiao Yanyan followed alongside and said in a milky voice:

"Xiao Xuan, the descendant of the Liao Kingdom, has seen the angel of the kingdom."

Lu Duan waved his hand, his attitude was lukewarm, and said:

"Lord Yelu doesn't need to be polite, and the little prince and the little lady don't need to be polite, the official is here to announce two things to you, first, the peace talks between Zhou and Liao, the emperor has ordered the official to be responsible, and tomorrow someone will come to pick up Lord Yelu to Honglu Temple, and the peace talks will officially begin."

"Second, the little prince and the little noble girl of the Liao State have just arrived in the Zhou Kingdom, and the emperor has specially appointed the four princes and the five princes to be responsible for the reception, and it is also tomorrow, there will be someone to pick up the two little guests, you only need to bring the maids with you, in terms of security, the emperor specially sent the guards led by the four princes to be responsible for accompanying the protection, Lord Yelu does not have to worry."

Brother Yelu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, this is obviously wrong, we are sending protons, and as a result, my mission is making you ignore the answers, and there is not even a courtesy welcome banquet.

On the contrary, it is the proton we sent, but you have to entertain it as a distinguished guest, or the fourth prince and the fifth prince of the Zhou State personally received it, and also sent the Son of Heaven's pro-army guard division to accompany the Hutzi army to protect safety, this Huthorn army has never heard of it before, and it must be a strong general when it sounds like a name.

What else can I say, I came to ask for peace, and you have to continue when people throw you a face, and now the situation seems to be good.

"The foreign ministers thank His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou for his kindness, the foreign ministers came this time, bringing the most sincere respect and greetings from the Emperor Tianshun of my Liao State to His Majesty the Emperor of the Zhou State, and also brought many gifts from the Emperor Tianshun of my Liao State to His Majesty the Emperor of the Zhou State, this is a gift list, please take a look at Lord Lu."

Lu Duan waved his hand again and said:

"The gift list is not in a hurry, this official is only responsible for the peace talks between the two countries, whether he accepts gifts from your country, it depends on the emperor's thoughts, Lord Yelu should prepare for tomorrow's peace talks, and this official will leave."

After Lu Duan finished speaking, he arched his hand at Brother Yeluhua, and then led people away, without giving Brother Yeluhua a chance to get close to it.

Brother Yelu waved his hand, watched the attendant come up and take Brother Xiu and Yan Yan down, and then said:

"Find a way to contact our secret pile in Kaifeng and inquire if there are officials in charge of peace talks on the Northern Han side......