The news of the arrival of the envoys of the Dali Kingdom in Lin'an was known to the imperial court as soon as possible, as well as Ye Qing and Li Fengniang and others in the apricot garden.

But what is puzzling is that the envoy group led by Chen Ying and Gao Le of Dali did not go to the palace to meet the Great Song Emperor Zhao Kuo at the first time, but the two did not shy away from coming to the Yan Palace.

However, it is obvious that King Yan is still a very knowledgeable person, and he knows who is the real "master" in Lin'an, so in order to take care of the face of the court and the saint Zhao Kuo, even if the envoys of Dali want to ask to see King Yan outside the gate of King Yan's mansion, but King Yan's mansion has always refused to meet with the envoys of Dali on the grounds that King Yan is not in the mansion and is out.

This scene naturally reached the ears of Shi Miyuan and others at the first time, and then it also reached the Qinzheng Hall in the palace at the first time through them.

In the apricot orchard, Qingqiu didn't know where to find a birdcage for Ye Qing, and there were two orioles in it, one female and one male, and the male orioles began to cry crisply and pleasantly without waiting for Ye Qing to approach.

Li Fengniang and Zhu Ye'er, not far from the back garden, looked at Qingqiu's courtesy, Ye Qing teased the yellow oriole in the cage with great interest, and unconsciously both of them had a look of disdain.

Li Fengniang, who had just played the matter of the Dali envoy group by Zhu Ye'er, finally couldn't look at King Yan's leisurely complacency, and walked up to him and asked, "Don't you know what happened in Lin'an City?" ”

"What happened? Did the Dali envoys come to my mansion to see me? Ye Qing continued to tease Huang Li with great interest.

"Are you worried about the face of the court and the saint?" Li Fengniang's eyes also looked at the two yellow orioles in the birdcage, one female and one male, and asked.

Still teasing the yellow oriole in the birdcage, Ye Qing said disapprerovitically: "You don't want to cause trouble, but it doesn't mean that I don't want to mess with you." Turning his head to look at Li Fengniang, who was frowning at him slightly, he slowly walked into the corridor and said: "The fact that the Qinzheng Hall lost my recital is enough to show that someone has begun to impatiently provoke the relationship between me, the imperial court and the saint. And the Dali envoys came to Lin'an...... Even if you ask me, shouldn't you know how to please me? ”

"What do you mean?" Li Fengniang, who came up, faintly understood Ye Qing's intentions, but she didn't understand it thoroughly.

"It doesn't make sense, if you ask for someone, then how can you get into a dilemma for the person you ask for? Couldn't the Dali envoys clearly distinguish the subordinate relationship between the superior and the inferior? When I came to Lin'an, I ignored my Great Song Dynasty and the Holy Lord, but they wanted to come to see me blatantly, don't they know that if I see them for the first time, will it cause the court and the Holy to be dissatisfied? Besides, ....... Ye Qing stretched out his hand to hold Li Fengniang's hand, and said with a hippie smile: "Dali barbarians are obviously ill-intentioned, not to mention that I am in the gentle township of Xingyuan, and I am accompanied by beautiful women, how can I have time to meet them." ”

Li Fengniang glanced at Ye Qing with a white face, shook off Ye Qing's hand angrily, sat down next to him, sighed slightly, and said: "If I were a different person, I am afraid that I would have been ignored by the Dali envoys to ignore the actions of the court and the saints, which would have caused vanity, and I am afraid that I would not know who I am if I was praised for a long time." ”

Ye Qing also sighed, took the teacup handed over by Zhu Ye'er, thought for a while, and said slowly: "Back then, I was one with Han Yanxuan and Shi Miyuan

With the envoy to Dali, you must also know that the three of us can be said to have their own ghosts and fight openly and secretly along the way. Whether it is before arriving in Dali, or after arriving in Dali, it is not as calm as it seems. ”

Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing, and her heart was also aroused with curiosity, she vaguely remembered that Ye Qing and the three of them went to Dali to the country, which seemed to have caused a lot of waves in the court, but in the end, because Dali and his party were quite successful, the court ignored those turmoil, which made Ye Qing, Han Yanxuan, and Shi Miyuan go to Dali together, which was recognized as the first step for the three of them to rise together in the court.

Now Ye Qing has become the king of Yan, Shi Miyuan is already on the left, and Han Yanxuan was sentenced for rebellion.

Naturally, some people among them will think that Ye Qing, Shi Miyuan, and Han Yanxuan had a good personal relationship with each other before they went to Dali, but later, after the three of them slowly rose above the court, because of the relationship between each other's interests and aspirations, the three of them gradually drifted apart, and finally parted ways, and even became opponents above the court.

Shi Miyuan focused on running the court, and has never changed his goals over the years, and was initially considered to be the slowest among the three of them, although his family background is quite strong.

Han Yanxuan also has a strong family background, whether it is above the court or in the army, he has a lot of prestige and influence, he joined the army in his early years, and later went to the court, and is regarded as the fastest promotion among the three, and the road to the official career is also the smoothest.

And the later development just confirmed this, Han Yanxuan finally became the first left-hand minister of the court among the three, and his strength back then had completely overshadowed Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan.

And Ye Qing was not favored from the beginning, he did not have a family background like the first two, he did not have a strong backing above the court, and he was also born as the head of a forbidden army, so among the three of them, Ye Qing looked more like an indiscriminate person.

But it is precisely because Ye Qing is not favored that he has forcibly walked out of his own career path in the army, although the early and middle stages are not as smooth as Shi Miyuan and Han Yanxuan, but the later stage is ...... Especially since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Ye Qing has faintly revealed a career edge stronger than the other two.

And over the years, Ye Qing can be said to be the most bumpy of the three, after many lives and deaths, just like Shi Miyuan focused on the court, Ye Qing obviously knew his strengths and weaknesses, so he gave up the court without strong backing, and instead chose to focus on seeking fame in the army.

So now, although he is still quite unfamiliar with the court, his noble status as King Yan is obviously not comparable to Shi Miyuan's Zuo Biao, and now he is even more powerful in the north, which makes the one who was the least favored back then become the one who is likely to become the ultimate victor.

Now, if it is only about power, Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan are one south and one north, one literature and one martial arts, it can be said that they are indistinguishable, but if you add their own titles and so on, Ye Qing is obviously slightly better.

With the execution of Han Yanxuan, although the contradiction between Shi Miyuan and Ye Qing has not yet been made public

But almost all the officials above the court know very well that the Great Song Dynasty is now divided equally between Ye Qing and Shi Miyuan.

Listening to Li Fengniang talk about these other people's discussions about him over the years, she occasionally expressed some of her own opinions, or satisfied Li Fengniang's curiosity, and explained to Li Fengniang some unknown secrets of the three of them who went to Dali back then.

Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing a little blankly, her expression was slightly surprised, obviously, she didn't expect that when the three people with ghosts went to Dali, they had a conflict with Ziqi and Luodian before they arrived in Dali.

And after arriving in Dali, he even participated in the court dispute of others, and even at that time, Han Yanxuan would join forces with Ye Qing to deal with Shi Miyuan.

"What you're saying is true? Then why have I never heard anyone mention it in the court? Li Fengniang asked a little incredulously.

"Shi Miyuan is now the left minister of the court, and other officials above the court, who dares to talk about it? What's more, those things back then, the court didn't pay attention to them later, so it became Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds, and no one would care. Those who are willing to discuss these things either want to analyze their career path and which side they should take refuge in the future, or they are purely motivated by curiosity. Ye Qing's mood was slightly melancholy, and he unconsciously looked back and realized that those good things or bad things in the past days, in addition to making people sigh when recalling, they also felt that the lost time turned out to be the best.

"So you suspect that Shi Miyuan is secretly colluding with the Dali envoys?" Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing, and felt a little proud of Ye Qing inexplicably.

The grievances and grievances between her and Ye Qing have come to this day, and the emotions between the two have long been difficult to explain, so because of this, when Ye Qing now has such a high position as today, Li Fengniang is actually proud of Ye Qing in her heart.

Of course, the dispute between the court and the court, she, the queen mother, is naturally very clear, but at that time, Emperor Xiaozong was still in power, and she was just a crown princess, and she did not have the right to assist the emperor in handling politics like a few years ago, so she naturally knew very little about the old things.

"Not a doubt, but an affirmation. At that time, Shi Miyuan was very close to the Gao family in Dali, and this was almost the main conflict between the three of us in Dali, although in the end Shi Miyuan retreated, but this does not prove that there will be no more contact between him and Dali. Ye Qing said with a slight sigh.

Before the Dali envoy entered Lin'an, he had already sent an envoy to Lin'an, and took the lead in telling Ye Qing that he was going to visit him first, and Ye Qing was really a little self-righteous at first, which was the reason for his current high position.

But with the thinking of the past few days, especially after the Dali envoys arrived in Lin'an yesterday, they ran to their own mansion to visit them in a grand manner, and the kind of posture that everyone in Lin'an City knew made Ye Qing have to suspect that there is a behind-the-scenes promoter behind the Dali envoys.

Coupled with the loss of the cantata, and the deterioration of the relationship between him and Zhao Kuo that he had just wanted to improve, all of this made Ye Qing, when he focused on Southwest Ziqi and Luodian, also felt less guilty when he was plotting against Dali.

Of course, Ye Qing also knew that from the moment he returned to Lin'an, he had become a thorn in Shi Miyuan's side.