In the main hall, Yu Liyan sat on a wide earthy yellow carved couch and listened to the ministers below arguing fiercely. The Khitan admired the Han culture, and all kinds of etiquette and utensils were learned from the Tang people, so the style of the emperor's dragon chair on the main hall was also learned from the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The Khitan people regard soil as their virtue, so they advocate yellow, and the emperor's couch is naturally yellow.

The couch is now different from the past, a small table is placed in the middle position, Yu Liyan sits on the right side of the low table, and the left side of the low table is empty, which is naturally a place reserved for Zhou Nan. At the back of the couch, there was a pale cyan fine gauze screen, and behind it sat the female officials of the Hanlin Academy, who had formed and credited Yu Liyan.

A few days ago, on the order of Zhou Nan, Li Shi, who was sitting in Zunhua City and coordinating the front and rear, wrote a letter with sharp wording, and asked several questions in succession, bluntly saying that today's Yanjing, but the Liao State of that day? Or the Khitan Kingdom? When a horse went to the Southern Dynasty, was it as a Liao envoy or as a horse? Or as the marshal of the Wansheng Army? Finally, Yu Liyan should be the name of the country as soon as possible, and the name of the monarch should be justified, and everything will be right, and the whole will be united.

Li Shi's letter can cause an uproar in Yanjing, and it also happens to resonate with Yu Liyan. This time, Zhou Nan sent an envoy to the Southern Dynasty, and on the gift list to the Southern Dynasty, Yu Liyan thought of this question, in what capacity did Zhou Nan go to the Southern Dynasty to envoy the Southern Dynasty? Presumably, Zhou Nan should have a deep understanding of the Southern Dynasty, which is famous for its rules and etiquette everywhere.

On this issue, Yu Liyan also discussed with the female officials of Hanlin in private, if it is still the name of Liao, Liao is not a good fortune to see that the country is declining, and most of the territory has been occupied by the Jin people, and Yu Liyan is also faintly disgusted with the name of Liao because of his disgust for his father Yelu Yanxi.

If you take the Khitan as the country name, the Khitan is the family name, and it is used as the country name, which seems a little casual, and the Khitan word, which is the meaning of iron, now the Jin people take gold as the country name, and there is the meaning of Jin Ketie, and it is even more inappropriate to use the Khitan as the country name.

Li Shi was appointed by Zhou Nan to stay in Zunhua City, and also shouldered the important task of connecting the imperial court and the front-line army, and had served as Hanlin in the court, and he was also a champion, so he was naturally qualified to play in Yu Liyan. Yu Liyan simply publicized Li Shi's recital to the ministers, and these courtiers immediately argued about the issue of the country's name, whether it was in the court or in private gatherings, they were often red-faced.

The ministers are basically divided into two factions, one is to advocate continuing to use the Liao State as the country name, because the princess is inherited from the Liao State, and the ministers have been the old ministers of the Liao State for a long time, even this Yanjing City is also the Liao State Nanjing, and the people in the country are basically Khitans, and the new country name is still appropriate for the Liao State. This is not to say that this faction of people still wants to follow the Tianzuo Emperor of the old Liao, but they feel that the Liao State has the meaning of being a far-reaching country, which is magnificent, and it is easier to attract the people of the old Liao and strengthen their own strength.

The opposing faction believes that the Liao State has gone, and although Yanjing is now the old Liao Nanjing, it can preserve Yanjing City from the Southern Dynasty and the Jin people, but the Wansheng Army, which is Zhou Nan, is not the imperial tent army of the Great Liao. Although the princess and the old Liao Emperor are father and daughter blood, it is a pity that the old Liao Emperor appointed a traitor and killed the princess's mother, so don't mention this account. The current people in the country include Khitans, but there are also Xi people, as well as many divination people, Tangut people, and Han people who are comparable in number to the Khitans. It can be said that there are all ethnic groups in the Yanjing area today, and it cannot be said that the Khitans are the mainstay.

Interestingly, among the people of these two factions, they are not distinguished by Han or Khitan, but by age. The older ones still wish to take Liao as their country name; The younger ones are more willing to be able to create a new empire as a witness, so they are more willing to establish a new country name to separate it from the old Liao.

Yu Liyan summoned Li Shi to Yanjing and asked Li Shi to also participate in this national name dispute, because she could see from Li Shi's recital that Li Shi was willing to update the national name. She asked Li Shi to come to Beijing, hoping to add some weight to the faction that changed the country's name.

"Although the land of Yanjing and Pingzhou is small, it should be a country. If it is a country, it has a country name. "Historical Records" has clouds: from the Yellow Emperor to Shun and Yu, they all have the same surname and different country names to show their virtues. Today, I can have Yanjing once, so that my generation can survive in the meantime and not be insulted by foreign insults, because there are princesses and concubines working together. However, if the name is not right, it will not be good, and even the laughing stock of the bereavement will not only be the humiliation of the princess and the concubine, but also the humiliation of my courtiers. Therefore, the national name must be newly established to bless our country's national fortune! In the court, Li Shi saw that it was not a matter of arguing like this, so he said to Yu Liyan in a big matter.

"Li Hanlin is right, no matter how high or low the country is, no matter how high or low it is, who doesn't know that there is stability today, but it is really the princess and the horse who work together?!" A minister who was about fifty years old took over and said, "It's just that if you go to the Great Liao Kingdom and crusade against the old land against the Jin people in the future, you will definitely be criticized by the Jin people." ”

"The country of the Great Liao, whether to go or not, in the future, will attack the old land, will be criticized by the Jin people, does Cao Shilang still want to be unable to reason with the Jin people? Talking to the golden people, only the flying cars and explosive arrows of the horses are the most effective! Zhang Yingmo, who is in charge of criminal litigation, admires Zhou Nan the most, and Zhang Yingmo also admires Zhou Nan's style of acting the most, so Zhang Yingmo is not polite to refute the opposition when he uses the matter of recovering the old land in the future as a shield.

Zhang Shangshu is really young and vigorous, and he has the confidence to speak, and the old man is willing to bow down. The old man still thinks that there are no disadvantages to continuing to use the name of the Great Liao State. Those who benefit from it pursue the old land and recruit the old people. Needless to say, the crusade against the old land, but also the people and scholars of the old Liao can be recruited for the use of our dynasty and create a more vast and vast empire for me! Yu Zhongwen couldn't help but stand up and say.

Kang Gongbi, who is also an official of the Left-behind Division, has always been left and right, and this time is no exception, he got up from his seat and said to Yu Liyan: "It seems that the matter of the country name should be postponed, and when the horse returns to Beijing, the princess and the horse will decide." The most important thing now is to welcome the horses. This time, the horse sent an envoy to the Southern Dynasty to defeat the Jin people's plot, which can be regarded as a victory and return to the dynasty......"

"Exactly! What Kang said is extremely true! A group of ministers were unanimous at this point.

"Your Excellency doesn't know, the horse has thought about the war, and when he came back from the Southern Dynasty, he has gone straight to Yuguan in Pingzhou......" Yu Liyan couldn't help but sigh and said.

As he was talking, an attendant suddenly ran into the hall and said loudly: "The horse has sent someone to deliver a letter, and I will return to Beijing tomorrow!" ”