Liu Mengyan and Wang Jiweng traveled all the way from Dadu to Qiongzhou by car and boat for more than two months. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn addition, it is summer, and the further south you go, the hotter it gets, and even though it's the end of August, the heat doesn't decrease at all. The two of them thought that they had been the rulers of the Great Song Dynasty, and now they were high-ranking officials of the Great Yuan, so they had to be entertained no matter what they said in Qiongzhou, but the reality was not what they thought.

As soon as the ship of the two entered the strait, it was discovered by the warships of the Song army's patrol, and if it were not for the sailors who sent them across the sea to see the opportunity and raise the white flag in time to identify themselves, they would have been sunk. As soon as Liu Mengyan, who was frightened, came ashore in anger, he named Chen Yizhong, Wen Tianxiang, and Liu Di...... And so on a list of names for them to come and see themselves. But the little head of the 'greeting' sneered and replied that they were not available, and then locked them in the barracks of the water village.

After eating brown rice and dried fish for three days, an eight-grade official from the Ministry of Rites came to check their identities, and the little official dragged it like 2580,000 yuan, checked the documents, and traced the shape and shadow to be examined by those who had seen them. After repeated confirmation, they were released and sent to the post house for settlement, saying that they could only be sent to the house to face the saint after the confession. After waiting for another two days, a member of the Ministry of Rites came to pick them up and enter the house.

"Brother Han Fu, get in the car!" Wang Jiweng looked at the carriage that was going to be used to send them into the house, but he just set up a sedan tent indiscriminately, barely able to sit two people, and said to Liu Mengyan with a wry smile.

"Humph!" Liu Mengyan was not blind, he had already seen such a simple car, he snorted coldly and did not get into the car, but turned to the main guest Si Lang Guan who was riding on the horse and said, "Is this your hospitality?" Do you know who this official is! ”

"Aren't you the Tartar's Rite Department Shangshu Liumengyan?" Wai Lang, who was riding on a horse, asked with a surprised look on his face.

"This official is the left minister of the Great Song Dynasty, leading the Privy Council, and the governor of the world." Liu Mengyan said angrily when he heard this.

"That's disrespectful! Come on, take down the traitor of the Great Song Dynasty, Liumengyan! The foreigner smiled when he heard this, but before he could be proud, he turned his face, and the soldiers who commanded the escort were about to arrest him.

"What are you going to do...... Seeing the soldiers rushing up, Liu Mengyan said in shock. Several of his retinue tried to step forward, but they were already forced by the soldiers who surrounded them with knives.

"Don't you know? Your Majesty has already issued an edict, all officials who rebel against the Song Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty will be punished, and you are at the top of the list, and your head is worth 100 gold! The soldiers at the head stepped forward with their knives and said with a smile.

"Team Zheng, what kind of spit with this traitor, killing him will not only have money to spend, but also increase the official rank!" The soldiers on the side were already impatient, and they were about to cut with their swords.

"All the military masters are angry, he is hot and confused, we are all envoys of the Great Yuan, and we came to write on the orders of the Great Khan!" Wang Jiweng saw that it was not good, and hurriedly escaped from his sleeve with a silver ingot and stuffed it into the hand of the team leader, pointing at Liu Mengyan and explaining.

"How can the Sprinkle family see that your face is familiar, have you also been an official in my court?" The team did not take the money, but pointed the knife at Wang Jiweng.

"Next...... The lower official didn't, the military master must have seen it wrong! Wang Jiweng shrank back in fright, and waved his hands together.

"Zhang Langguan, are they the same?" The team was asking the horsemates again.

"Hmph, yes and no. Let's hit the road! He snorted coldly.

"Brother Hanfu, get in the car!" Wang Jiweng hurriedly pulled Liu Mengyan and hurriedly climbed into the car and asked the coachman to go quickly.

"Phew, bad luck, I thought I could get rich!" The team was spitting at the bottom of the car, hateful. Then he commanded a group of sergeants to turn over and line up to follow.

"The Great Khan is very respectful to our capital, and a group of military men dare to be so rude to their own officials, and they will definitely want them to look good when they arrive in the capital city......" Liu Mengyan was shocked and angry when he saw it, and trembled.

"Brother Hanfu, be quiet. How have these vulgar people heard of Brother Han Fu's name, don't be angry! Wang Jiweng comforted him on the side, and he couldn't help but be depressed in his heart, and said, "I heard that it was the envoys of the Great Yuan who came, and the court and the central government would send important ministers to accompany them, serve carefully, and there would be heavy gifts to give, lest they be displeased." Can ...... today? Alas"

"The world is declining, people's hearts are not ancient, and there is no loyalty!" Liu Mengyan said indignantly, "How can we say that we were also important ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and we also have the imperial book of the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty, but we are treated like traitors, it is really unreasonable!" ”

"Yes, even if we descend to the Yuan, it is also under the decree of the Empress Dowager, in order to protect the people of the world, they are really too much. But you still have to be more careful on the way, and everything will be said when you see the concubine! Wang Jiweng also agreed. But in my heart, I secretly cursed, aren't you a traitor? If it weren't for Lao Tzu to cover it up for you, you would have become a ghost under the knife......

It is about 200 miles from Lingao to Qiongzhou, and it is extremely hot in the sedan car. On the way, if you want to relieve yourself, you have to stuff some silver into it, otherwise you can only hold it. This made Liu Mengyan even more depressed, and he didn't want to say more, so he relied on Wang Jiweng to deal with the people who greeted him. And he can't be idle, he has nothing to say and is close to others, but he often hits a wall, but he doesn't care, and he still sticks it up cheekily.

"Brother, are you safe on the way?" Wang Jiweng found that the car he was riding in was hired and not owned by the government, so he found the person to chat with, opened the sedan curtain and sat on the wheel of the car and chatted with the old man who was driving the car.

"The guest officer must be here for the first time, since the generalissimo's palace moved to Qiong, His Majesty has sent troops to sweep away the pirates and bandits, and the line has subdued the slang back and forth, and now it is very stable." The old man who was driving the car replied proudly.

"The old man sees why those people in the government hate the Northern Dynasty and the people so much, and the people are the same?" Wang asked as if he didn't want to.

"The guest officer should be cautious, here you must not talk about the Northern Dynasty and the surrender of people, but also about Tartar and rebellion, otherwise people will hear that if you are not sent to the government to ask for guilt, you will be beaten violently. If it weren't for the fact that you were strangers, ......," the coachman said in a low voice.

"Really? It's so powerful! Wang Jiweng asked cautiously.

"Of course, the guest officer did not know that there was an order from the imperial court, and anyone who captured the Tartar alive would be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, and those who killed it would be rewarded with five thousand yuan. Therefore, anyone who finds the Tartars will attack them in groups, and the merchant ships of the Tartars would rather die of thirst than dare to dock here, and you are really lucky to have survived until now! The coachman said with a smile.

"If you hate the Tartars so much, why do you live more than you die?" Wang Jiweng said in surprise.

"It is rumored that His Majesty said that the dead Tartar will still stink on the ground. However, there is a shortage of livestock in Qiongzhou, and the living Tartars can cut wood, open roads, cultivate fields, and pull carts, and there is no need to pity them, let alone pay them. The coachman replied.

"Oh, I see. What about the treatment of the descendants? Wang Jiweng listened and muttered to himself, this little emperor is really calculating, and he is obviously using Tartar as a donkey and horse.

"Your Majesty said that if a person is coerced, he can be exempted from the crime, but the officials who attach the thief will be executed regardless of size, and their families and property will be confiscated!" The coachman said, "If I say that Your Majesty is still too merciful, these traitors who have eaten my court are the most hateful, without their help to the thieves, how can we let the Tartars take away our flowers and rivers, and after they are caught, they should be cut with a thousand knives, exterminate the nine clans, and dig their ancestral graves!" Guest officer, do you think that's the case? ”

"Yes, yes, that's exactly how it should be!" There was no way to talk anymore this day, Wang Jiweng smiled awkwardly, and then went back into the stuffy sedan canopy, secretly scolding the coachman for being cunning, and he was obviously scolding himself for turning a corner......

After three days of eating and sleeping, they finally arrived in Fucheng, but Liu Mengyan and the others felt that the three-day journey was harder than that from Dadu to Qiongzhou, and it was not even as good as being escorted north by the Mongols back then. At the very least, people still have to eat and drink, and according to the rules, as soon as the envoy enters the territory of the other party, the other party will bear the expenses of the entire mission, but here not only has to pay for the food and accommodation of his own group, but even the car money for the broken car that can be turned out of hemorrhoids has to be paid by them.

However, the two of them still breathed a sigh of relief, at least this Fucheng is the residence of the court, and those relatives and friends of their are all high-ranking officials in the court, how can they take care of one or two, and give themselves this pickled breath. But they sat in the Qiongtai Post House for two days, but no one came to hear the news, let alone come to reminisce about the past. And the envoy's visit to such a big thing, if you don't know, you can't say anything.

This makes them feel that the world is hot and cold, it is really a king and a courtier, and people are cold when they go to tea, and those people obviously want to dissociate themselves from themselves. And what comforted the two of them was that after all, they still had the imperial book of the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty, and Concubine Yang would summon her if she was reasonable, but surprisingly, there was no news after the imperial book was sent. Several reminders said that the Empress Dowager Yang was ill, and the little emperor went to the south of the island to escape the summer, and everything had to be discussed after His Majesty returned.

"Brother Hanfu, let's eat!" After arriving at this Qiongtai inn, the only advantage is that neither of them has to pay for food and accommodation. When it was time to start the meal, a relative brought the food, and Wang Jiweng sat down and said.

"Liangcun, you use it first, every day is this meal that lacks meat and oil, and I really have no appetite." Liu Mengyan glanced at a few meals on the table, frowned and said.

"Hanfu, I'm also hard to swallow!" Wang Jiweng pulled the dish twice with chopsticks, and also put it down.

"Liangcun, I feel that this trip to Qiongzhou is not good!" Liu Mengyan leaned forward and said.

"I also feel the same way, our several requests for an audience have been rejected, and none of the officials in the court have shown up, only a few small officials have been sent perfunctory. They won't imprison us for long! Wang Jiweng nodded, and replied as if he remembered something. He knew that the Great Song Dynasty had such a precedent, and that Jia Rudao had imprisoned Ye Li, the envoy of the Northern Dynasty, in Linanda for more than two years.

"I thought it was possible!" Liu Mengyan sighed and said, "Now that the Qiongzhou puppet dynasty, Concubine Yang Shu doesn't understand political affairs, and King Wei is young and has not yet been in power. It was Lu Junshi and Wen Lushan who were in power, they were foolish and loyal to the Song Dynasty, and they had always advocated the use of troops against Dayuan. I am afraid that the Empress Dowager's letter will not be useful, and it may not be presented to the Emperor Wei, let alone for us to meet. ”

"So what shall we do? In the past, those old friends disregarded the friendship of their colleagues, and no one was willing to come to see each other! Wang Jiweng hated and said.

"Liangcun can be familiar with Liu Shengbo?" Liu Mengyan thought for a while and asked.

"I have also worked with Liu Shengbo in Fuzhou and have intersected." Wang Jiweng replied.

"That's good, I once sent someone to secretly investigate, Liu Shengbo is now participating in political affairs, and he has the grace to save King Wei. And this person is deeply excluded by Lu and Wen, and he has no will, you can secretly contact him and ask him to transfer to Concubine Yang or King Wei, and this matter may have a turnaround. Liu Mengyan lowered his voice.

"Hanfu is bad!" Wang Jiweng shook his head and chuckled, "According to the information I heard, the name of Concubine Yang in the Xing Dynasty is to listen to the government, but in fact, it is to defend the king and supervise the country, and the military and political affairs are all decided by him!" ”

"Oh, is that reliable? King Wei is just a nineteen-year-old child, how can he control the government! "I couldn't believe it, thinking that it was grandstanding again.

"Hanfu, this matter is absolutely reliable. As for the source, it is not convenient to tell yet! Wang Jiweng is very sure of the authenticity, but he sold it again.

"Is there any proof to back it up?" Liu Mengyan frowned. I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, thinking that he Wang Jiweng could enter the court and enter the prime minister, or recommend him in front of the Great Khan, but as soon as he gained power, he began to calculate again, wanting to monopolize the credit and hug Kublai Khan's thick legs.

"Han Fu, you think, when King Wei led the army to attack Guangzhou after opening the mansion, defeated Liu Shen first, and defeated Ali The Hague twice, the Xing Dynasty was still in turmoil, and Wen Lushan was still leading the troops in Jiangxi. The Xing Dynasty was still defeated again and again after using Lu Junshi, and was forced to move to Yashan, and King Cha Wei succeeded as the puppet emperor at this time, and Wen Lushan had been captured. Xingchao suddenly changed its declining momentum and defeated Zhang Hongfan's brothers and Li Heng. Isn't this enough to show that King Wei is in charge of military affairs? Wang Jiweng said.

"There's something strange about it, but it's still not enough to be believed!" Liumengyan pondered for a moment and said.

"Hehe, Hanfu will believe it eventually!" Wang Jiweng didn't care about his questioning, and suddenly snorted twice and said, "Eh, where does this fragrance come from?" ”

"yes, where does the aroma of wine and meat come from? You said! Liu Mengyan also sniffed carefully, and turned to ask the relatives who were waiting at the door.

"Two adults, it's from the backyard. The little one saw that he came the night before, accompanied by an official in a purple robe, and the three meals a day were delivered by the post man himself. He replied with a swallow of saliva.

"Who lives there?" Liu Mengyan and Wang Jiweng glanced at each other, and they both saw a look of surprise in each other's eyes, of course they knew that the person in the purple robe was also a third-grade official, and let Yi Cheng personally serve him, but he knew that the person's origin must be small. Think about the people in this city who can greet the purple-robed officials, except for being the ruler of the court, no one can afford it. But even so, these people have mansions in the city, and there is no need to live in a post house, so who can they be......