Chapter 815: It's All About Fooling

Since Liu Mengyan met with Chen Yizhong, he has been waiting for him to send back the 'good news', but before the good news arrived, the news came that the king of Yiyang County had been temporarily imprisoned and his identity was re-verified, and Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong were impeached by the Yushitai for their involvement, suspended from their posts, and banned from the palace. When I wanted to contact Chen Yizhong again, I found that he had moved away from the Shuizhu courtyard and disappeared.

"What's the noise outside, it's a commotion!" Early this morning, there was a commotion outside the post house, which made the already troubled Liumengyan even more upset, and he yelled at the entourage outside the house.

"Big official, there is a group of students who want to break into the post house, but they are stopped by the post house, so they are making a lot of noise!" An attendant came in and replied.

"Why did the students come to the post house to make trouble? It can't be coming at us......" Liu Mengyan frowned when he heard this, and jumped up suddenly.

"Official, why?" Seeing its panicked appearance, he wondered.

"Pack up your important stuff and hide outside!" Liu Mengyan commanded while packing up the soft and printing letters.

"Great officials, this is the pavilion of the Great Song Dynasty, and we are the envoys of the Great Yuan, how dare they trespass?" The attendant still didn't understand what was going on, and scared it like this.

"Why is there so much nonsense, it was published in the tabloids yesterday, the little emperor of the Song Dynasty was assassinated in the main hall, and the assassin confessed that it was instigated by the Mongols, and those students came to us to ask for guilt!" Liumengyan said angrily. He is a politician no matter how he says it, and this political sensitivity is still there.

The day before yesterday, the "Imperial Daily" published a report on the assassination of the little emperor on the book entry instrument, and yesterday various tabloids in Lin'an reprinted the incident one after another, saying that the assassin was sent by Meng Yuan, and the public sentiment was raging for a while. Liu Mengyan had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, he was ordered to send the Great Song Dynasty, but it was only after he arrived in Lin'an that he assassinated the king. And he also tended to be an assassin sent by the Mongols, but he also secretly scolded the Empress Dowager Nanbi, which was clearly to put himself to death.

As for the Tai student trouble, Liu Mengyan also knew that it had happened many times in the history of the Song Dynasty, and every time it would make a big fuss, and it was not unheard of chasing and beating courtiers. Killing himself, a traitor and a traitor, was afraid that with the character of the little emperor, not only would he not be punished, but he would also be reused, so he felt that it was the best strategy to hide quickly.

"Big official, Yiding can't stop it, the students have already rushed in!" The entourage, who was still watching the bustle outside the door just now, suddenly found that it was coming at him, and he was so frightened that he rushed into his post house and shouted.

"Protect the peace envoy, protect the peace envoy......" The relatives in the house hurriedly shouted to the accompanying guards, asking them to block the doors and windows to prevent anyone from rushing in. But this time, he found that the big official was gone, and he didn't even have time to take away the package he had just packed.

However, with only the dozens of people in the peace mission, how could they stop the more and more students and people who were gathering, they were quickly disrupted by the angry crowd, and they were caught by a violent beating. And it was not safe to hide in the inn, the doors and windows were quickly smashed open, and it was too late to run, and they were held down and beaten half to death, and all the furniture and items in the house were smashed.

The students destroyed the post house where the Mengyuan mission lived, and did not find Liumengyan, and the crowd became more angry and rushed out again, searching everywhere in the post house. At this time, the officials of Lin'an Mansion received a report and rushed to reinforcements, which can be regarded as temporarily controlling the situation and isolating the crowd. But they still refused to disperse, and continued to block the door of the post house, claiming that they would not give up until they caught the mastermind of the assassination of the emperor.

"What can I do...... "Liu Mengyan looked out through the crack in the window, although he couldn't see the students who were making trouble, but he could still hear people's angry shouts, and the firewood room was dark and stuffy, mosquitoes and fleas could catch a big meal, and he was covered with bags when he bit him, but he didn't dare to go out, worried that the mob would go and return. However, he was also secretly glad that he saw the opportunity quickly, and slipped out of the back door first with the seal letter in his arms, hiding in the firewood room, they never imagined that they would hide here as an envoy of a great power. Otherwise, if he is caught, he will inevitably be beaten up, and with his small body, he is afraid that he will die on the spot.

"Who will assassinate the little emperor?" Liu Mengyan squatted on the ground and muttered to the mosquito with his sleeve. Judging from today's events, he felt a little strange, now most of them are presided over by the Empress Dowager Nanbi, and she will never send someone to assassinate her; And Zhenjin, who had just inherited the throne of Khan, was still on his way back to Dadu, and even if he didn't want to negotiate peace, he should know the consequences of assassinating the little emperor, so he wouldn't act blindly.

"Could it be that the little emperor directed and acted by himself?" Liu Mengyan raised his hand to slap a mosquito that fell on his face, scratched it and said softly. The little emperor has always been the main battle, and a while ago, Chen Yizhong engaged in the Book of Ten Thousand People in order to achieve the purpose of usurping power, thinking that it had been sent to the Empress Dowager Yang. In order to impress the Queen Mother and continue to fight, it is not impossible for the little emperor to come up with a bitter plan to blame Meng Yuan, and this only needs to be acted, with low cost and quick results. But thinking about it, something is wrong, entering the book ceremony is a court ceremony, and being disturbed is a bad omen, and the little emperor will never choose this time to act.

"Damn, it must be Chen and Quan's fight, he's really dizzy!" After thinking left and right, Liu Mengyan thought of his partner. At the previous meeting, he promised him that as long as he facilitated peace as soon as possible, he would help him return to the imperial court. But within a few days, his two generals, Yao Liangchen and Wei Tianzhong, were suspended, forcing him to take the risk of killing the little emperor so that the 'fool' in his hands could be put on the throne in order to reach a peace agreement.

"Stupid, shit, kill me!" After thinking about it, Liu Mengyan listed Chen Yizhong as the biggest suspect and scolded in his heart. It's okay to succeed, but now that he has failed, he has put the blame on Meng Yuan, and he has almost been beaten. And the peace discussion is estimated to be in vain, and I am afraid that I will be detained in Jiangnan, and maybe I will be slaughtered as a traitor.

"Hanfu, Hanfu ......"

"......" Liumengyan didn't know how long he stayed in the firewood room, squatting tired and sitting, sitting tired and lying down, not knowing whether to regret or hate, sighing and thinking about how to escape this catastrophe, he suddenly heard someone outside the house shouting him. But he didn't dare to agree rashly, so as not to fall into the net.

"Han Fu, Han Fu, I am Xu Qiuxin, and now I am safe, Your Majesty ordered me to come to visit!"

"Ask for heart, I'm here, here!" This time, Liu Mengyan understood that the person who came was Xu Zongren, who would not treat him like anything for the sake of his former colleagues, so he wanted to get up and go out, but his legs were weak and he fell on his stomach, and responded while crawling.

"Hanfu, what's wrong?" Hearing the response, Xu Zongren asked the people who opened the firewood room to step forward to help him with a look of urgency.

"Please save me, do the assassination of His Majesty, I really don't know!" Liu Mengyan struggled to get up, pulled Xu Zongren's sleeve and pleaded.

"Your Majesty has issued an order to punish the prince of the country, to strictly restrain the students, and to persuade the people to retreat. He also said that even if the two countries do not cut off the envoys, smashing the residence of the envoys of the enemy country is not only unworthy of the demeanor of a great country, but also uncourteous. Xu Zongren said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Mengyan saluted again, half of his hanging heart was put down, and his life seemed to be saved.

When everyone returned to the post house, Liu Mengyan wanted to cry without tears, there were already officials from Lin'an Mansion guarding here, and the courtyard was a mess, and the post house was cleaning up. In front of the inn, their own guards and relatives sat on the ground with blue noses and swollen faces, and a doctor from the medical hospital was treating their injuries. Then all the doors and windows of the house were destroyed, all the household contents in the house were destroyed, and clothes and books were thrown all over the floor.

"Han Fu, you ordered someone to take an inventory of the items, see what was lost or damaged, make a list, and make a price for compensation." Xu Zongren accompanied Liu Mengyan around and sighed.

"This ......" Liu Mengyan's face was very ugly, and he stammered and couldn't speak, in the past, the envoys of Mengyuan went to other countries without being arrogant, and they were treated as guests by the countries concerned. And he was so unlucky, not to mention the cold reception of Qiongzhou last time, this time he was directly smashed, and his entourage was all injured.

"Han Mou, I will immediately arrange another accommodation for the embassy in the Tongwen Pavilion, and I can move over in a while." Xu Zongren arched his hand.

"Thank you so much!" Liu Mengyan also returned the salute.

"I'm sorry, I'm going to let people go and arrange the building, carriage and horses, you guys tidy up first!" Xu Zongren apologized again and exited the room.

"It's okay, they didn't turn it over, it's fate!" After Xu Zongren exited the room, Liu Mengyan immediately rushed into his bedroom in a few steps, which was also destroyed, and there were gold, silver and clothes scattered on the ground, but he didn't have the intention to count and pick them up, but threw himself under the bed, pulled out a small box from the corner, and opened it with a shudder.

It is true that there is nothing to clean up after being smashed like this, and it is too stingy for Liu Mengyan to be entangled in these trivial affairs as an envoy of a country, so he ordered his subordinates to count them, and made a list and handed it to Xu Zongren, but he handed it over to his subordinates to buy it without looking at it, and all the lost property was paid according to the bill, and they were transferred to the Tongwen Pavilion.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a Honglu Temple dedicated to reception and external liaison and in charge of contributions, pilgrimages, etc., and its subordinate pavilions, Duting Xiyi, Huaiyuanyi, and Tongwenguan received ethnic minorities and foreign envoys from all over the world respectively, which were collectively called the Sifang Pavilion. But the conditions of the Tongwen Pavilion are the best among them, and it is a little apology to place Liumengyan here, which makes him feel a little better, at least his safety is guaranteed.

"Ask for heart, I have been in Lin'an City for more than a month, but I have not been able to see you, there is a great urgency, I don't know what Your Majesty means?" The Mengyuan delegation was placed in the most spacious Wuzi courtyard in the Tongwen Pavilion, and Xu Zongren did not convene it immediately, but set up wine to suppress it. After this change, Liu Mengyan found that Song Ting's attitude had changed greatly, far beyond the scope of expressing apologies, and he asked tentatively.

"Your Majesty has not yet made a final decision on whether to hold a peace conference with your country, and I want to wait for the Queen Mother to go to Beijing before making a decision. Han Mou waited a few days with peace of mind, and the Queen Mother was about to enter Beijing. After Xu Zongren poured wine for him, he raised his hand and invited.

"Then Your Majesty will also say something!" After drinking a glass together, Liu Mengyan took the wine jug and poured wine for Xu Zongren first, and inquired further.

"To tell the truth, when Your Majesty returned to Beijing from Wuhu, he did not oppose the peace talks, and I still hope to reach a peace talks. It was intended that the decision would be made after the meeting had been held. But you also know that when you first returned to Beijing, Your Majesty had a lot of things, first Yao Shangshu and Wei Shangshu falsely confessed that their clan relatives were grounded, and then issued an edict to compile a genealogy, and then there was an assassination on the book ceremony. The Assassin's confession was sent by you, so it is difficult to talk about peace. Xu Zongren took a bite to eat and sighed lightly.

"The meaning of the prayer is that His Majesty once wanted to make peace with our court?" Liumengyan gave Xu Zongren another vegetable road. But in their hearts, they secretly scolded Chen Yi and others, they said that the little emperor had no intention of peace at all, but he wanted to regain Jiangbei by expanding his army on a large scale.

"That's natural, Han Mou should know that Qiongzhou is a corner of the sea, manpower, financial resources and materials are extremely scarce, this campaign to recover Jiangnan can be said to have exhausted ten years of accumulation, where is the ability to capture Jiangbei again, otherwise how can it stop at Jiangling!" Xu Zongren sighed and said, "Although the current army is on the south bank of the Great River, it is also on the defensive, but it actually has no intention of crossing the river. Han Mou also knew that when the Mongol and Song wars were at war, there were millions of troops stationed in the Lianghuai region. If it weren't for this assassination and the Queen Mother, I'm afraid that peace would have been launched! ”

"Then why did you send troops to Taixing? In fact, it is just a preventive measure, and there is no intention of crossing the river! Liu Mengyan raised his glass and asked Xu Zongren to drink another cup.

"Han Mou, you have also served as the right minister in vain." Xu Zongren took a sip of wine, put down the glass and said with a smile, "Jiangnan has just been recovered, and the people's hearts are not stable, and the people are even more worried about whether the imperial court can hold the Yangtze River and block the Mongolian iron cavalry." And at this time, you increased your troops in Taixing and put on a posture of crossing the river, we know it in our hearts, but the people are panicking, so we can only fight a battle to calm the people's hearts. If Han Mou is in charge of the government, I'm afraid he will do the same! ”

"Alas, how come I am so stupid that I haven't figured out this joint!" Liu Mengyan was stunned for a moment, and then pounded the case with his hand.

Thinking about it, after I was ordered to make peace, I tried my best to find this and contact that, and I spent a lot of money, and the information I got was not as real as a few words with this banquet. What annoyed Liu Mengyan even more was that Chen Yizhong actually deceived himself, tricked him into sending troops to cooperate, and said that he would use public opinion to force the little emperor to agree to the peace proposal. Now Xu Zongren said that he suddenly woke up like a dream, and in this situation, even if the difficulties are great, he will send troops to stabilize people's hearts.

"Why is this Hanmou, is there any inside story?" Xu Zongren was secretly happy when he saw his angry appearance, it seems that what the little emperor said is right, this old boy owes fool......