Sending Huang Xing away, it is already the end of December, and it will be the New Year in a few days, this year is extremely unusual for Zheng Fei and the Tiandao Army, because this year is the first year that the Tiandao Army has spent since its establishment without any war.

With the 200,000 Heavenly Dao Army stationed in various places for diligent training, plus more than 10,000 high-quality war horses purchased from the Liao State, and the two major naval fleets of the Heavenly Dao Army, which have begun to emerge in scale, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Dao Army is only several times higher than when it was on Jingdong West Road a year ago!

The five million people of Jingdong are also living and working in peace and contentment under the protection of the Tiandao Army, weaving a better life in the future with their hard-working hands, and at the same time dedicating their strength to the development of Jingdong Road.

Due to Zheng Fei's policy of valuing business and respecting business, the business of Jingdong Road has achieved unprecedented development, and merchants and shops from all over the country have rushed into Jingdong Road, bringing a huge trade surplus with the Great Song Dynasty to Jingdong Road, and various high-quality products represented by toilet paper, soap, oil lamps, etc. are exported to all parts of the Great Song Dynasty and Liaoxia, in exchange for countless strategic resources such as grain, grass, ore, etc.

This is an incomparably precious year, which has fully achieved Zheng Fei's true purpose of being a feudal town to Song Chengchen, and after more than a year of accumulation, Zheng Fei has considerable capital confidence that he can fight a big battle with any enemy! But Zheng Fei did not feel the slightest relaxation, because he knew very well that with the pacification of the southeast by the imperial court, the situation in the world has changed greatly, and the imperial court will definitely make another big move, and an urgent intelligence from Tokyo just proves this, just a few days ago, the Great Song Dynasty Shangshu Zuocheng Wang Anzhong wrote in the court, asking the emperor to cut the feudal domain, and the target was directed at Jingdong Road!

Although Wang Anzhong was severely reprimanded by the emperor in the name of "dividing the country", and his comments were also rejected, this is a dangerous signal, which shows that the civil and military ministers in the Great Song Dynasty have begun to be a little impatient, and Zheng Fei also absolutely believes that the emperor's rebuke of Wang Anzhong is just a false statement, and even Wang Anzhong's move may actually be instructed by the emperor.

Only a few days later, the imperial court really had a new move, yesterday, a holy decree suddenly arrived in Jingdong, the holy decree said that now the Great Song Dynasty is now peaceful, the emperor is ready to hold a large-scale celebration in the Shangyuan Festival after the New Year to pray for the blessing of the world, summon the world's ministers to Beijing to watch the ceremony, and focus on Zheng Fei said, "Aiqing sent the army to resist the summer Ju great merit, but I have not yet had the opportunity to see the pillars of the country, it is a pity, on this festival, specially invited Aiqing into Beijing to talk." ”

Of course Zheng Fei won't go, if he goes, it's the Hongmen Banquet, it is obvious that the court wants to "capture the thief and capture the king first"! And the imperial court obviously knew that Zheng Fei would not fall into the net, but why did they still do it? If Zheng Fei didn't guess wrong, the imperial court was just waiting for itself to reject them, so that they could find a reason to "resist the decree and disrespect" and pave the way for the next action they would take!

The signals are becoming more and more apparent!

Zheng Fei immediately convened the last emergency military meeting of the previous year, reminding the whole army not to be blinded by the comfort brought by the false peace of the past year, maybe a year later, maybe half a year later, maybe even a month later, the war will definitely start again!

And for this invitation from the imperial court, Zheng Fei couldn't have no reaction at all, he thought about it and decided to send Pei Xuan as a special envoy to Beijing, so he told the emperor that Qi Guogong was sick and couldn't travel far or something.

After arranging these, the new year has officially arrived, Hu Sanniang's happiness has also brought more joy to the Commander's Mansion, Zheng Fei spent a peaceful and peaceful Spring Festival with the three ladies and the two lively little guys.

After the Spring Festival, Pei Xuan set off as planned and arrived in Tokyo on the thirteenth day of January.

Zheng Fei's failure really attracted a burst of criticism from the supervising imperial historians, especially after only one day, Zhu Wu, another lord of the Great Song Dynasty, came to Tokyo in person, which set off how arrogant the Duke of Qi was, contemptuous of the emperor, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military criticism of Zheng Fei reached its peak in an instant.

But all this will not have any impact on Pei Xuan, his face that has not changed for thousands of years as if everyone in the world owes him a few dollars can not see the slightest joy and anger at all, anyway, when he came, Zheng Fei also told him that when he arrived in Tokyo, he should eat and drink, and you will take whatever you want, and if you meet your sister-in-law's favorite gadgets, just buy them, and the commander will come back to reimburse you.

The only thing that touched Pei Xuan was the meeting with Zhu Wu at the celebration.

The significance of Zhu Wu's arrival in Beijing with his wife, Emperor Rongde Ji Zhao Jinnu is extraordinary, which shows that the trust and relationship between Zhu Wu and the imperial court has reached an extraordinary level, showing that Zhu Wu's heart of complete obedience, the emperor is also a dragon face Dayue, and a high-standard grand welcome to the arrival of his son-in-law Zhu Wu,

In comparison, although Zheng Fei did not come, he still sent an envoy after all, which can almost be equated with his arrival, but the welcome ceremony arranged by the emperor and Zhu Wubi was extremely shabby, and at the subsequent celebration banquet, the emperor's favoritism was undoubtedly revealed again, at the dinner, Zhu Wu's seat was arranged extremely high, ranking first among the hundred officials, and Pei Xuan's seat was only ranked seventh, extremely contemptuous, and at the same time, in the emperor's congratulatory message recited by the court ceremonial officer, The emperor also gave Zhu Wu all the praise words that could be used, and only a few words of praise for Zheng Fei.

Facts have proved that Zheng Fei's choice to send Pei Xuanlai is correct, in this case, if Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong and others come, I am afraid that even the table will be lifted, only Pei Xuan can implement Zheng Fei's meaning, and at the same time, others can't find the slightest reaction from his expression, anyway, Pei Xuan just stuffed his head and enjoyed the palace food he ate for the first time in his life, and didn't care about anything else.

It's a pity that although he doesn't care about others, others come to him.

When Pei Xuan was feasting on a crystal elbow that was simply delicious, he felt that the light in front of him was dim, and when he looked up again, when he saw the person standing in front of him, even his stiff face couldn't help but twitch.

It's Zhu Wu! I saw Zhu Wu holding a wine glass and looking at Pei Xuan with a smile,

In an instant, the surrounding bustle quickly calmed down, and many people were looking at Zhu Wu and Pei Xuan, intentionally or unintentionally, looking at this direct meeting between the two major feudal towns of the Great Song Dynasty, including the emperor,

"As far as the minister knows, when Zhu Wu betrayed that Zheng Linfeng, he wanted to kill him, but it was Pei Xuan's defection and hostage of Zhu Wu that made that Zheng Linfeng retreat." Wang Hao then leaned into the emperor's ear and said,

The emperor nodded lightly, only then did he understand that these two people had such a past, and his face couldn't help but flash a little regret, and he sighed that his son-in-law was really careless at the beginning, if it was the result that day, then Zheng Linfeng, wouldn't there be so many things later? And maybe even Zhu Wu won't be able to become a climate, forcing me to marry my daughters to ...... him.

The emperor thought about it, sighed deeply, and continued to look, only to see that Zhu Wu was talking to Pei Xuan in the field, Zhu Wu was always smiling, but Pei Xuan still looked cold, and he couldn't even sit down, looking at Zhu Wu rudely and coldly,

"What are they talking about?" The emperor asked Wang Hao and the others,

Liang Shicheng immediately said, "The saint is not in a hurry, this time the slave specially selected a few clever servants and Pei Xuan, and I will ask them later." ”

The emperor nodded, and at this moment, an unexpected scene suddenly happened, only to see Zhu Wu raise his glass as if to salute Pei Xuan, but Pei Xuan actually poured a glass of wine in front of him at Zhu Wu!

Zhu Wu didn't hide, and was directly splashed all over his face by this full glass of wine!

The audience instantly fell silent, and everyone looked at the scene in front of them in amazement!

A tall entourage who followed Zhu Wu was furious when he saw this, and was about to step forward to catch Zhu Wu, but was stopped by Zhu Wuyi as soon as he stretched out his hand to follow, only to see that Zhu Wu was not annoyed, but just raised his sleeve and wiped his face, still with a smiling face, as if nothing had happened just now,

Then, Zhu Wu took his wine glass and drank it all, smiled at Pei Xuan before turning around and leaving.

Pei Xuan picked up the chopsticks again and continued to move on the delicacies on the table.

The emperor's eyes lit up, "Liang Shicheng, go and ask what they said just now?!" ”