Duan Zhengyan, Emperor Xuanren of Dali State, was awarded the title of Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor, Yunnan Jiedu Envoy, and King of Dali by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

With the southern crossing of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Taizu's "immediate" policy for Dali, Dali and the Song Dynasty were estranged, but even so, Dali would still pay tribute to the Song Dynasty every year.

This also allows the royal family such as Zhao Gou, who is bullied by the Jin people every day, to find a trace of the majesty and pride of the kingdom from Dali, which is far away in the southwest border.

The current Dali Emperor Duan Zhengxing, as the son of Duan Zhengyan, competed for the throne of Dali with the help and support of his prime minister Gao Liangcheng.

Now Duan Zhengxing is more and more convinced of Buddhism, and the prime minister Gao Liangcheng is also old, so it is effective to imitate his father as a monk and Zen as a son.

"The envoy sent by Dali is Duan Zhilian, the son of Duan Zhixing, the prince of Dali, who came from the Great Song Dynasty to seek the Tripitaka in the name of it." Ye Qing, who was reprimanded by Zhao Gou, stood in the palace in Deshou Palace, playing to Zhao Gou the movements of the Dali envoys who were about to arrive in Lin'an.

And what made Ye Qing wonder was that the name of the country of Dali was really peculiar to the extreme, Duan Zhengchun, Duan Zhengyan, Duan Zhengxing, if it were in the eyes of the Han people, it must be the name of the three brothers, but who would have thought that this special one was actually three generations of grandchildren!

And the son of the current Dali Emperor Duan Zhengxing, the current prince of Dali, Duan Zhixing, completely respected the traditional virtues of three generations, Duan Zhixing, Duan Zhilian, and Duan Zhixiang's ancestors and grandchildren.

"Do you know what their true intentions are?" Zhao Gou glanced at Ye Qing, walked back to his seat and sat down and continued to ask.

Ye Qing pondered the state situation of Dali over the years, combined with the news that the Imperial City Division could get now, and pondered for a while: "During the Shenzong period, Duan Shouhui, the emperor of Dali, was forced by the situation to become a monk and gave up the throne of Dali to Duan Zhengming, and then was abolished by Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai father and son, and Gao Shengtai became the rightful emperor of Dali. Although Gao Shengtai asked his son Gao Taiming to return the throne of Dali to Duan Zhengchun of the Duan family before he died, the Gao family has always been a noble and noble family in Dali. ”

"At the moment, I don't know any less about those things than you do." Zhao Gou was not in the mood to listen to Ye Qing tell him about the grievances and hatred between the Dali Duan family and the Gao family.

"Yes, the Emperor." Ye Qing gestured a middle finger at Zhao Gou in his heart, and then continued: "Judging from the news that the minister has gotten, whether it is Duan Zhengxing, the emperor of Dali, or Gao Liangcheng, the head of the noble Gao family in Dali, they are both very old, Duan Zhengxing intends to follow his father's Zen position and become a monk, and Gao Liangcheng's two sons, Gao Shouzhen and Gao Shouchang, are full of wolf ambitions. At that time, Gao Taiming had to return the throne to the Duan family due to the pressure of Dali's mansions that had not returned to the Gao family, especially the ministries, but now the Gao family's power must be even greater than at the beginning, so if Duan Zhengxing really intends to take the throne, his son Duan Zhixing's throne is afraid that it will not be stable. And Duan Zhixing sent his son to envoy to my Great Song ...... at this time. ”

"Are you saying that they came to Ann because they asked for me?" Zhao Goufa asked.

"I'm afraid that's the case." Ye Qing lowered his head and replied.

Ye Qing didn't believe that Zhao Gou, an old fox who had been playing tricks and scheming with courtiers and officials all his life, could not see through the situation in Dali, not to mention these things, after the Dali mission entered the Great Song Dynasty, the Imperial City Division had already played it to him.

So at this moment, Ye Qing was a little unsure, Zhao Gou asked himself about these things, did he only ask himself, or was even Shi Miyuan and Han Yanxuan, who were in front of him just now, also asked?

And what is his purpose? Give up Taizu's long-term strategy and plan to support the Dali Duan clan? Even so, what is his purpose?

He didn't dare to ask Zhao Gou in person, and Zhao Gou didn't take the initiative to tell him what he meant, and after the two monarchs and ministers were silent in the main hall of Deshou Palace for a while, Ye Qing was released by Zhao Gou.

Han Yanxuan and Shi Miyuan had already disappeared without a trace, and at the head of Wanshou Bridge, only Wang Lun stood there waiting for him.

"Cao, soldiers, detectives?" Ye Qing walked up to Wanshou Bridge with Wang Lun, looked down at his feet and asked inexplicably.

"Yes, the three words correspond to the names of the three of you, so now, you can live a solid life." Wang Lun sighed, he had a feeling that he could see the moon when the clouds were open, and he was naturally happy for Ye Qing in his heart.

But Ye Qing couldn't be happy no matter what, just now in the hall, the conversation with Zhao Gou was still lingering in his ears.

Of course, he didn't believe that Zhao Gou was idle, so he didn't play against the real courtiers, but regarded himself as the minister of the humerus to discuss with him.

"Not only you, Shi and Han were also asked the same question as you by the Emperor Taishang, and the answers were similar. Shi Miyuan's lord Taizu's legacy is not too far away, and Han Yanxuan sent people to Dali, firstly, to be more clear with Dali about the way of the monarch and the subordinate country, and secondly, I hope to take the opportunity to show the power of heaven for my Great Song Dynasty. Wang Lun said with a smile.

"What does the Emperor mean?" Ye Qing frowned.

He sighed and said nothing. Wang Lundao.

Ye Qing, who walked across the Wanshou Bridge, was suddenly startled, and then subconsciously accelerated his pace and walked in the direction of leaving the palace, Wang Lun next to him was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, and said, "What, I suddenly remembered?" Now you know what else is going on? ”

"Hurry, don't ink. If I don't leave the palace again, I'm afraid of ....... Before Ye Qing finished speaking, the road ahead was stopped by a palace maid whose face was a little colder than the winter before the Yuan Dynasty.

"Let's ask for more blessings, our family will retire first." Wang Lun looked at the palace maid who was blocking the way, bowed slightly to him, and after the palace maid also returned the salute, he smiled and turned around and walked in the direction of Wanshou Bridge, and directly threw Ye Qing to the palace maid who blocked the way.

"The queen asked the slave maid to wait for Lord Ye here, and asked Lord Ye and the slave maid to meet the queen." The palace maid's tone was also extremely cold.

Needless to say, it was entirely because of the news of the princess's death, so he spoke coldly to himself.

"This ......." Ye Qing's eyes swirled in his sockets, and he skipped several ways to escape in his mind, but obviously none of them were applicable.

"Since Lord Ye can't even protect a person, since he returned to Lin'an safe and sound, don't you feel guilty and blame yourself? What, or is it that the queen can't please move you? The palace maid's tone was full of hostility, as if Ye Qing had a grudge against her for killing her father.

"May I ask the ...... Whether Master Shi and Lord Han are also ....... Ye Qing saw that he couldn't escape the past, so he had to explore the truth first to see if he was the only one who got the grace of being scolded this time.

The palace maid has obviously been in the palace for a long time, and the city is not very deep, so she glanced at Ye Qing angrily, and said coldly: "Lord Shi has already left the palace, as for Lord Han, he has been called away by the Queen Mother, and I am afraid that it will be indispensable to ...... when the time comes." ”

Seeing Ye Qing's sudden realization and nodding clearly, the palace maid obviously realized that she had talked too much, and suddenly turned her pretty face a little colder, and said impatiently: "Are you going to go?" ”

Zhong Qing's accident obviously hit the queen and the queen mother very hard.

Although when he saw Zhao Gou, Ye Qing could also feel the anger in Zhao Gou's heart and his disappointment in himself from the tone and words of Zhao Gou's scolding him.

But no matter what, as a top politician in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou never showed his expression, even when he scolded Ye Qing, or another Han Yanxuan who blamed each other for Zhong Qing's accident, he only used words such as straw bales and fools.

The queen's eye sockets were still a little swollen, but compared to Zhao Gou's thunderous anger, Queen Xie Sufang's sad situation was even more difficult to resist in Ye Qing's opinion, he didn't dare to imagine that if the saint came in at this moment and saw the scene in front of him, would he think that he had done something to his queen!

looked at himself sadly, asked sadly about the cause and effect of the matter, his red eyes, and the tears that almost fell made Ye Qing want to let people change the queen in front of him to ten Zhao Gou and scold him at the same time.

Like Han Yanxuan who was with the Queen Mother at this time, when Han Yanxuan attributed Zhong Qing's accidental jumping into the lake to Ye Qing, Ye Qing also put the blame on Han Yanxuan, of course, if you dig deeper, you can vaguely see the shadow of the unlucky guy Shi Miyuan who has been sneezing since leaving the palace.

"Queen, the minister has already picked up Princess Xin in the carriage and traveled to Zhongshan, a few miles ahead, but there is a smooth Jingkou official road, but...... Who would have thought that Han Yanxuan had been prepared for a long time, and actually ambushed the Nankang army to protect Princess Xin there. There are not many people with the minister, but at this time, the minister's heart only wants to protect Princess Xin, and he must not live up to the queen's entrustment. Kechen is ...... though. Ye Qing was heartbroken, his eyes were red, and his face was full of regret and regret: "If the minister could have gained insight into Princess Xin's mind earlier, even if he could hold Han Yanxuan and the others ......." ”

"That Han Yan is the nephew of the queen mother, just talk about these words here in the palace, don't let you have grievances in the court because of this matter. Alas...... Zhong Qing's temperament...... Don't look at the gentle and tranquil on weekdays, but in fact it is very stubborn. The queen wiped her tears, looked at Ye Qing and continued: "You get up, this palace doesn't blame you." You were able to escape from a tiger's lair like the Jin Kingdom, but ...... How many people have lost to their own people. ”

Even the queen, who does not participate in the political affairs of the court, knows how serious it is to form parties and gangs in the court now, and naturally, she also knows more that in this deceit, open and secret fighting, how many loyal courtiers did not die in the hands of the Jin people, but were framed to death by their own people.

"The minister is incompetent, and the queen is asked to punish him." Ye Qing said with a loyal and enthusiastic expression.

"You go down, this palace summoned you, I just want to know some details." Queen Xie Sufang wanted to speak and stopped, she wanted to ask Ye Qing a few more words, whether she could still find Zhong Qing's body in Xuanwu Lake, but after thinking about it, pursuing it was a topic that made her more uncomfortable, after all, if she could find it, I believe Ye Qing would never return empty-handed.