When Liu Min saw Hongyun coming to him, he knew that something unexpected had happened; Hurriedly stood up.

Hongyun couldn't wait to say to Liu Min: "Master, Wei Xu and the two dog thieves in Changzhou went to tell the secret when they saw Qian Yan, and the conversation of the dog thieves was eavesdropped by Zhang Jing; The slave maid rushed to Jinming Lake non-stop to report to you, and Lan Mei, Lu Xing, and Bai Xue returned to Yishu Garden to inform Grandpa Huo, Gong Niangniang, and Sister Jing that they had gone! ”

After listening to Hongyun's story, Liu Min grabbed her hand tightly and said, "Sister Hong has worked hard, and she is not allergic to the princess Wei and the king of Xiang's guards; The officers and soldiers did not dare to approach, so you quickly returned to inform Zhang Jing; Let him do a good job of defending the carriage and horses! ”

Liu Min paused when he said this: "Sister Hong, Minzi has seen Governor Lu on the way to Jinminghu!" He is now a pacification envoy, and Governor Lu reported an unfortunate news, that is, General Ma Xiao died for the country! ”

After Liu Min said this, she looked at Hongyun and saw that tears had filled her eyes.

Hongyun let out a long sigh and said: "Ma Xiao's martyrdom was a month ago, and the slave maid had heard from King Xiang's mouth that Ma Xiao died in battle for the country; Red Cloud will never forget him until he dies! The dead are gone, and the living are like this! ”

Liu Min was stunned, she didn't expect Hongyun to say the sentence "The dead are gone, and the living are like this" This sentence from "The Analects of Zihan" came from.

The living are meant to be the ones who have died and will never exist again, and the living should live well as they always have; Let the souls of the deceased be at peace in the other world.

If Hongyun can say such things, it means that she is reading in obscurity. Hongyun was originally a Fang Ji, who was bought by traffickers to Qinglou since she was a child; It was Liu Min who met her in the Qingshichuan Horse Husbandry Prison, and her fate changed since then.

Hongyun is handsome, and Zhao Heng, the king of Xiang, has long taken a fancy to him; Of course, Zhao Heng also took a fancy to Yang Cuihua and left her by Li Xin's side as a scholar.

Zhao Heng's drunkard didn't mean to drink, Liu Min had already known it; But this guy is the future emperor, and Liu Min will know it in later generations.

It is not too normal for the emperor to have seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courts, and it is not too forbidden to accept Liu Min and then accept Hongyun and Yang Cuihua.

If this is the case, Liu Min may not be able to ask for it; Because in her future life, she has two more sisters by her side, which is a good thing, not a bad thing.

This is Liu Min's mind, unlike Lu Pheasant and Wu Zetian, who brutally harmed others in order to be the queen; and even hitched a ride on their own flesh and blood.

became the queen, and intensified the persecution of the people surnamed Liu and the people surnamed Li; The imperial power and obscenity stirred up the commotion in the world, and innocent people died.

It is rare for Liu Min to have such an open-minded mind, even so, those unscrupulous literati in later generations still poured dirty water on her - a drama of "Tanuki for the Prince" completely notorieted Liu Min......

Liu Min muttered in his heart for a while, and held Hongyun's hand tighter; Said: "Sister Hong will leave here immediately, if you can intercept Wei Xu and Changzhou in the middle of the road, it will be the best policy!" ”

Hongyun heard Liu Min say this, hugged her and was about to leave; saw Zhang Qi coming over from there.

When Xiangwang Zhao Heng sat on a sliding rod and rushed to Jinming Lake, Zhang Qi trotted all the way and followed closely behind.

Zhang Qi entered the Xiangwang Mansion at the age of 11, and he was the first to look forward to Zhao Heng; Zhao Heng likes Liu Min, Hongyun, and Yang Cuihua, and Zhang Qi naturally likes the three girls.

When he was still in the black pine forest behind Xiangwang's mansion, Zhang Qi, Liu Min and Hongyun masked and killed Lan Caihe and Wang Jien, and the three of them could be said to share weal and woe.

Zhang Qi has been accompanying Zhao Heng since he came to Jinming Lake, and Zhao Heng is very interested in the drills of the water army on Jinming Lake; When I was happy, I wanted to say a few words to Liu Min, but Liu Min didn't know where he went.

According to Zhao Heng's character, Liu Min should be found, but he saw that the water army was fascinated by the drills and did not move the nest; But he said to Zhang Qi: "Zhang Qi, you go and look for it, see where Aunt Min has gone!" ”

Zhang Qi stood up and searched for it, and when he saw Liu Min talking to Hongyun here, he ran over.

When Liu Min saw Zhang Qi running over, he told him about Wei Xu and Changzhou's whistleblowing.

Zhang Qi was stunned, took a step closer to Liu Min and said: "Aunt Min, the villain who killed Lan Caihe and stabbed Wang Jien has already told King Xiang, and King Xiang already knows that the three of us did it; He said that this matter could not be told again, and it must be kept secret! ”

After Zhang Qi said this, he said a little excitedly: "King Xiang is here to protect Aunt Min!" ”

"Look at your stupidity!" Liu Min choked Zhang Qi and said: "If King Xiang doesn't protect Minzi, he will confess when the emperor interrogates him in the Vertical Arch Palace; Why do you have to cooperate with us so much! ”

Liu Min paused as he spoke: "The emperor ordered Lu Chengyu, the master of the horse, to capture Minzi, but he let Jiang Qing, Shen Yang, Han Fei, and Yang Guang act alone, while Lu Chengyu did passive sabotage, and Wei Xu and Changzhou must be looking for Jiang Qing, Shen Yang, Han Fei, and Yang Guang if they tell the truth!" ”

Liu Min fixed his mind and gritted his teeth and said: "The amount is small, not a gentleman, non-toxic and not a husband; We have to surprise Jiang Qing and these dog minions to attack him unprepared, and kill him with a black goo dong! ”

As soon as Liu Min's words came out, he was immediately responded to by Honghe Zhang Qi; Zhang Qi said impassionedly: "Do you want to tell the third prince!" ”

"Tell him!" Liu Min said excitedly: "Tell the third prince that the prince is going to cause Liu Min to die, and ask him to be mentally prepared!" ”

Zhang Qi heard Liu Min say this, and said, "Aunt Min and Miss Hong are waiting here now, and the kid will tell the third prince immediately!" ”

Zhao Heng was shocked by the deduction of the water army on the lake, and pondered that the Great Song Dynasty was repeatedly humiliated by the Liao State on the northern border; If such an elite naval army is strengthened in training and attacks the Khitan from the waterway, why worry about Yidi not dying.

Zhao Heng muttered in his heart, and then he remembered several difficult characters in the Khitan territory.

The two difficult characters are all women, one is Xiao Zhuo, the empress dowager of Chengtian, and the other is Shu Luping, the queen of broken wrists.

After the death of Yeluxian of Liaojingzong, the twelve-year-old prince Yelu Longxu succeeded to the throne; Yelu Longxu was young, and his mother, Xiao Zhuo, nicknamed Yanyan, was the son of the Empress Dowager Chengtian.

Empress Dowager Xiao was born in Nanjing (later Beijing) with the original surname of Bali, and Bali was given the surname Xiao by Yelu Abaoji, a Khitan ethnic group.

Empress Dowager Xiao was a famous politician, military strategist and reformer of the Liao Dynasty, and during her regency, the Liao Dynasty entered the most glorious period in the history of ruling the Central Plains for 200 years.

After Liao Jingzong succeeded to the throne, he chose Xiao Zhuo as his concubine; She was canonized as empress in 969 AD.

In 971 A.D., he was born to Yelu Longxu, the Holy Emperor of Liao, and later gave birth to 3 sons and 3 daughters.

In 982 AD, Liao Jingzong collapsed, and Liao Shengzong succeeded to the throne; Honored Xiao as the regent of the Queen Mother.

Xiao Sui's father, Xiao Siwen, is a close confidant of Liao Muzong and the nephew of Shu Luping, the "Queen Mother with a broken wrist".

Xiao Xuan's mother is the daughter of Yelu Deguang of Liao Taizong, the princess of Yanguo, Yelu Lu Bugu, in terms of generation; Xiao Zhuo should be called Aunt Shu Luping, the queen of broken wrists.

The broken wrist queen Shu Luping, like Xiao Zhuo, was a female politician in the Liao State.

Shuluping's small character "Yue Liduo", "Ping" is her Chinese name. Her father, Aunt Shulu, was a descendant of the Uighurs, and her mother was the aunt of the Khitan nobleman, Yelu Abaoji.

According to clan tradition, Jerod and Shulu were two tribes that intermarried; Each is looking for a mate in the other's tribe.

Counting it up, Shu Luping and her husband Abaoji are cousins and sisters, and they are close to each other.

When Shu Luping was fourteen years old, according to clan customs, he married his twenty-year-old cousin Yelu Abaoji.

In 901 AD, Abaoji became the chief of the headquarters, and Abaoji, who had power, began to conquer the surrounding tribes; Acquired a large number of slaves, cattle and sheep wealth.

And Shu Luping also followed Abaoji's side closely, gave him advice, and fought around with him.

In 907 AD, the Khan of the Khitan alliance died; The eight leaders of the Khitan jointly elected Yelu Abaoji as the new khan.

According to the rules of the clan, the khan is elected once every three years; It is discussed by the eight chiefs.

Because Abaoji continued to expand the territory for the Khitan after becoming a khan, he made outstanding achievements; As a result, he was re-elected as Khan for three consecutive terms.

With the passage of time, there were more and more Han Chinese among Abaoji's advisers; Under their influence, Abaoji had the idea of changing the system of electing the khan to a hereditary system using the Chinese law.

And this idea was strongly supported by Shu Luping; The couple began to use their power to secretly prepare for this purpose.

Originally, except for the Khan, the following "management class" of the Khitan tribal alliance were in charge of the military, government and civilian power.

Abaoji decentralized their power and divided them into two houses, the north and the south. The main power of the Khitan tribal alliance was in the hands of Abaoji. Abaoji's attempt to centralize power and hereditary status gradually aroused the opposition of the surrounding Khitan nobles, and it was his own brother who first stood up against it and had the most resolute attitude, and then the "Rebellion of the Brothers" occurred in history.

Abaoji still had a little incense at the beginning, and once wanted to release some of his relatives who were involved in the rebellion; However, Shu Luping helped him make up his mind to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Shu Luping carried out a purge against the "anti-Abaoji forces" against the Diera Ministry, at the end of this bloody power struggle; Hundreds of imperial relatives were executed, and even Abaoji's only sibling sister, Princess Yu Luzhi, was not spared.

The Diera tribe finally returned to calm and loyalty in the bloody storm, but this was only one of the eight Khitan divisions; The other seven nobles are still secretly preparing to overthrow Abaoji.

In 915 A.D., the seven nobles finally waited for their chance; On the way back from Abaoji's conquest of the Huangtou Muro, the seven nobles rose up, kidnapped Abaoji, and demanded that he step down.

Abaoji, who was outnumbered for a while, had no choice but to resign from the post of Khan and migrated to the Luanhe River with other ethnic groups from the Diera tribe and the Khitan tribes that had been captured or annexed one after another.

Abaoji used the advice of Han strategists in the Luanhe River area to build a city in imitation of the Han land; And vigorously develop agricultural salt and iron.

Soon, the military strength and population of the Diera tribe ranked first among the eight Khitan tribes, and the other seven tribes had to be provided with salt and iron by him.

Shu Luping seized this opportunity and proposed to Abaoji the idea of cutting down the roots of those who stand in the way and making a comeback.

The idea was immediately put into effect, and the careless Seven Chiefs set a date to gather for a feast.

Just when the seven chieftains and nobles were all drunk, and the atmosphere of the banquet was the most enthusiastic; The ambush soldiers who had been arranged for a long time rushed forward, and all the guests were cut in two without saying anything.

All the opponents of Abaoji in the Khitan tribal alliance almost disappeared after this Khitan version of the Hongmen banquet directed by Shu Luping......