Changsha City of the Great Song Dynasty.

There was good news in the palace again.

Concubine Ning Yueyue, who had just been married into the palace by the emperor for more than a month, also gave birth to a princess for the emperor.

Zhao Yueya, the third princess of the Great Song Dynasty.

The lanterns and red paper in the palace had just been removed, and not long after the scene of the lanterns and red papers reappeared.

Since the emperor returned from Lin'an, there have been many happy events in the palace.

First, Concubine Xiang Yunjing gave birth to a princess for the emperor, and then the emperor married Concubine Xiang, Concubine Ning and Concubine Duan into the palace at the same time. Now it is Concubine Ning who gave birth to a princess for the emperor.

And those who know that Le Wu is also pregnant calculate the time, probably in a few months, Concubine Duanniang should also give birth.

Fortunately, the emperor did not mean to be extravagant, otherwise it would be a lot of expenses just to organize these happy events.

Although the Great Song Dynasty paid abundant taxes, its expenses were also huge, and there was not much money to spare, and it really couldn't withstand the emperor's lavish spending.

In the blink of an eye, another three days passed.

The envoys of Tuoba, Shetuo, Sikong and the martial arts family went to the outside of Chengdu Mansion.

They are all from the army, and they are the most trusted cronies of She Tuoli, Tuoba Wu and others. At the same time, he is also eloquent and lively.

She Tuoli and others obviously attached great importance to this surrender. Because this path is the best choice for the four.

Only at this time, the war is coming, and the gate of Chengdu Mansion is already forbidden.

When the four envoys arrived outside the north gate of Chengdu Mansion, they saw that there were already people lining up outside. The pace of entry into the city was extremely slow.

In order to prevent the enemy from entering the city at intervals, the officers and men of the Shuzhong Military Region carefully checked at the city gate.

Everyone who enters the city not only needs to have the certificate of making a book of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but also needs to carefully explain where they live and why they want to come to Chengdu Mansion.

And then there are those people in the rivers and lakes, and the weapons they carry with them also need to be kept by the army before entering the city.

Otherwise, don't even think about going into the city.

This is all required to be registered, and it is undoubtedly quite complicated.

The envoys of the four great families looked at each other.

In the past, they had also heard about the census of the population in the Song Dynasty and the issuance of "ID cards" to the people of the Great Song Dynasty. At that time, I only felt that the Great Song Emperor was so fastidious.

After all, although this can let the Song court know how many people there are in the country, it is extremely depleting of manpower and material resources. For this matter alone, the Song court inevitably had to set up more yamen.

And now, they see other things that the census can do.

Under such an investigation, it is really more difficult for the spies in their army to sneak into the city than to ascend to the sky.

What surprised them even more was that the Song Dynasty was able to carry out a census in Chengdu in such a short period of time.

The efficiency of the Song Dynasty government can be described as quite amazing.

Then, the envoy of the Tuoba family said: "Ladies and gentlemen, there are Song army soldiers in Chengdu Mansion who are strictly checked, how are we good?" ”

They can come dressed as people from the rivers and lakes, just to hide people's eyes. But I never thought that Chengdu Mansion would be so martial law.

After all, Da Song had hardly done this kind of thing before.

It's just because the Great Song Dynasty didn't have such conditions before. After such conditions were met, the battlefield had also shifted to Dali and the New Song Dynasty.

The envoy of the Sikong family frowned slightly, and said, "Looking at the speed of the interrogation, I am afraid that it is extremely strict, and it is impossible for us to sneak into the city." If we want to enter the city, we are afraid that we will have to ...... Be honest about who you are. ”

"But there ......are so many people here," said the envoy of the Tuoba family, with a look of great worry on his face.

Even if She Tuoli, Tuoba Wu and others did not give a special explanation, they all knew that the matter of the Song Dynasty must not be leaked out at all.

After all, the empress is not easy to deal with, and if she learns about this, she is very likely to do something to prevent the four major families from surrendering to the Song Dynasty.

The messenger of the Sikong family said, "Why don't I go up and try it first?" ”

The other three emissaries all chose to default.

Then the messenger of the Sikong family dismounted and walked towards the gate of the city.

He passed past the line until he was at the front of the line, the close of the Great Song soldiers.

Before he could speak, a soldier shouted at him: "Don't cut in line, hurry up and line up at the back!" ”

The envoy of the Sikong family is also a powerful figure in the army, and he was almost annoyed by being drunk like this, but he also had to forcibly suppress his anger.

With a calm face, he walked towards the highest-ranking general at the gate of the city.

This can be distinguished by the armor and clothing.

"Stop!"

But he had only just taken a few steps, but he was stopped by the soldier, "What are you going to do?" ”

Even the soldiers around him looked at him with a defensive look, and their eyes were quite unkind.

In fact, it's no wonder that these soldiers don't have a kind attitude, but they are actually soldiers of the Chengdu garrison. Most of the soldiers are newcomers, and when they are facing a big war at this time, they are nervous, and they dare not slack off on this investigation, and their attitude will naturally be much more blunt.

The envoy had no choice but to stop again.

Originally, he wanted to show his identity to the general, and then let him pass on the general of the Song army in the city to him. Now, this is clearly not possible.

He had no choice but to say to the young soldier in front of him: "I am from Western Xia, and I have come to see the main general of the city. Please also pass it on your behalf! ”

And as soon as the two words of Xixia came out, the eyes of the soldiers in front of him were already wide, as if they were facing a great enemy.

"Sonorous!"

The soldier immediately pulled out the saber from his waist.

This made the soldiers next to him a little nervous, and hurriedly gathered around.

The envoy of the Sikong family was bitter in his heart, but he could only say again and again: "I am not hostile, I have secret military intelligence to report." What are we going to do? ”

Fortunately, the movement here finally alarmed the commander general who was standing directly below the city gate.

The commander with a red tassel on his head walked over to this side, "What's going on?" ”

This finally made these recruits who had not experienced any major battles not tie up the envoys of the Sikong family.

When the commander approached, the young soldier who stopped the envoy said, "General, this man said that he was from Western Xia, and he had a secret military report and asked to enter the city to see the main general. ”

The commander of the thousand commanders looked at the envoys of the Sikong family, "People from Western Xia?" What is your identity? And what is the military situation? ”

It was impossible for the envoy of the Sikong family to tell his intention in front of so many people, so he only said: "I can only tell you about this matter!" ”

The commander of the thousand commanders showed a suspicious look on his face, and said in his mouth: "How can the main general be seen if he wants to." ”

He was afraid that he was also worried about what kind of master this envoy of the Sikong family would be.

If such a person were to be brought into the city, it would probably cause some kind of turmoil in the city.

The envoy of the Sikong family was already scolding his mother in his heart at this time.

He didn't expect these soldiers to be so difficult, and from his experience, of course, he could see that these soldiers were all newcomers.

Even if it is this commander general, I am afraid that he will not serve in the army for a long time. Perhaps, he was promoted in the imperial examination of the Song Dynasty.

He hesitated: "Can't please pass it on your behalf?" ”

The commander of the thousand commanders chuckled, "Now that we are going to fight with our Great Song Dynasty, how can we let us go to see the main general!" ”

The envoy of the Sikong family had no choice, so he muttered for a while, and had to say, "Then it's always okay to hand over a letter for me?" ”

The commander of the thousand, who was in charge of the investigation of the city gate, finally did not refuse this time.

The envoy of the Sikong family borrowed pen and paper from them, wrote down the intentions of himself and others on paper, and gave them to the commander.

The commander of the thousand commanders sent his soldiers to the city.

From beginning to end, there was no intention of letting the messenger of the Sikong family into the city.

The messenger could only wait outside the city.

Time seems to be so hard.

It was only after about half an hour that I finally saw the messenger running out of the city.

The soldier whispered a few words to the side of the commander general.

The envoy of the Sikong family was about to ask, when he heard the commander of the thousand commanders say: "Our lord has already read the letter, go back!" ”

The envoy of the Sikong family was slightly stunned, "The master general has no other words to convey?" ”

The commander said, "No." ”

At this moment, the envoy of the Sikong family was furious.

In his opinion, this was undoubtedly despised by the generals of the Song army in the city.

But what can he do?

After his chest rose and fell violently a few times, he had to ask again, "Dare to ask you have indeed passed it on?" ”

The commander of the thousand commanders said: "What are you cheating? ”

The envoy of the Sikong family had no choice but to give up his hand, turned around and walked towards the back, his expression extremely solemn.