In the summer of the eleventh year of Chunyou of the Great Song Dynasty, Lin'an Da Nei Yanhe Palace.

Lin'an as a line, in the early days of Gaozong's southern crossing, just a state, after Gaozong arrived, Hangzhou was changed to Lin'an Mansion, with Lin'an as the capital, the right and settled.

At that time, everything was hasty and simple, and Gaozong lived in the original Hangzhou Prefecture, without a palace hall, and the emperor's living and working conditions were similar to those of a state official.

It was not until the Shaoxing period that everything settled down, and only then began to build a palace city under the Phoenix Mountain, but in the hearts of the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs, they have always regarded Bianjing in the north as the origin, and the palace city here must not be more magnificent than the crape myrtle city in the north, so the palace city in Lin'an was not big at the beginning.

Several emperors after Gaozong, slowly and gradually in the process of repair, Ouchi slowly expanded, to the Lizong Dynasty, the scale of the palace city, there is the approximate size of Bianliang palace city, to live, much more comfortable.

However, some old halls, because of the previous foundation restrictions, can not be expanded, can only be used, Yanhe Hall, is one of them.

This side hall is located in the main hall of the west side of the Daqing hall of the Duo Palace, promote the narrowness and small, the regulation is simple, such as the ordinary people live, because it is connected with the main hall, it is not convenient for the expansion of the civil engineering, the majesty step in the hall is only one level, and it is generally rarely used as a formal occasion. It's just that sometimes after the emperor goes down to court, if there are some urgent matters to discuss with the ministers of the previous court, he will move to this side nearby.

On this day, after the dispersal of the dynasty, Li Zong walked in with several close relatives.

The hall is furnished at will, on the dragon couch that is one step above the ground, it is naturally the emperor Emperor Zhao Yu, counting down from his left hand side, sitting on the round pier is the left minister Du Fan, the right phase wanderer, the privy envoy Zhao Kui, the governor Xie Fangshu, and the top few bigwigs in the court, are all here, which is enough to show how big the topic is to be discussed.

As for Fan Zhong, who the eldest grandson Hong once visited, he had died a few years ago, and his place was taken by Du Fan.

Li Zong sat on the couch with a gloomy face, he kept a straight face, and the rest of the people naturally did not dare to laugh.

In his hand, he was still holding a piece of paper, and everyone could see that it was a good news that had just been circulated to everyone earlier.

"What now?" Li Zong had a headache: "Where is our peace envoy now?" ”

He didn't call anyone to answer this question, but Uncle Xie Fang, the governor of the political affairs, got up and replied tacitly: "It's still in Jingzhao Mansion." ”

"It's still in Jingzhao Mansion!" Li Zong's tone suddenly raised an octave, and he looked at Uncle Xie Fang with some annoyance and said, "How long has it been since this happened, and it is still in Jingzhao Mansion!" It's good now, the whereabouts of the chief Kublai Khan are unknown, who to negotiate peace?! ”

"This, this ......" Uncle Xie Fang's head was full of sweat, and his legs were weak when he stood there: "The minister has already sent someone to rush over and go to the Mongolian capital to go to Lin to find the chief Guiyou to discuss." ”

"And the forest, and the forest!" Li Zong threw the piece of paper to the ground, pointed at Uncle Xie Fang's nose and scolded: "Don't think I don't know, He Lin is thousands of miles away from Jingzhao Mansion, and when the envoy arrives at the place, this side will already be in a mess!" When will the peace negotiations be successful? Well?! ”

Uncle Xie Fang's sweat had already flowed to the tip of his nose, and he peeked at the other people in the seat, but saw Du Fan and the others looking at their noses and eyes, and they hung their heads and didn't speak when they were settled, as if they were demented.

Uncle Xie Fang scolded in his heart, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Your Majesty, there will definitely be news about this matter, and please wait patiently for Your Majesty." ”

"Wait! Wait! Li Zong's temper flared up: "You have also seen how loud the voice of the court asking for troops just now, I didn't dare to say no, but you want me to wait, how long to wait?" Wait for them to come and cry and die? ”

Uncle Xie Fang didn't dare to speak anymore, so he simply knelt on the ground with a puff and kowtowed to the gold brick ground.

Li Zong looked at him like a dead pig, his teeth itched with hatred, he stood up suddenly, gritted his teeth and said: "At the beginning, you said that there was no problem with peace, so I handed over such a major matter to you, but now it's okay, you want to finish with a few kowtows?" Don't! If you don't get this done for me, I'll punish you!" ”

After scolding, Li Zong slapped the table again and shouted at the other people who seemed to be out of the matter: "You guys also talk about it, come up with an idea!" ”

Those few people slowly raised their heads, coughing and coughing, panting for air, but no one spoke.

Li Zong puffed out his bull's eyes and glared at him one by one, and no one dared to look at him.

The current situation is very clear, the Song army was victorious, the Mongolian army was defeated, although Henan was lost, but Hanzhong was recovered, and the gains and losses were offset by the gains, and the Song army faintly had the advantage, so the ministers celebrated together in the early dynasty just now, and they all looked happy.

However, this is not in line with Richom's expectations.

Of course, it is important to regain the lost land, but it must not provoke the noise in the temple, according to the idea of the sect, the land in the north is the land of the ancestors, although it must be recovered, but it should be slowly drawn, not swallowed, and all the progress should be in the hands of the emperor, not to provoke a backlash from Mongolia and provoke a national war.

In a word, it is to control the scale of the war as much as possible, to negotiate peace if it can, to stop fighting if it can be without fighting, and to convince people with morality.

There is a basis for this, since the Great Song Dynasty moved south, the Northern Expedition has been many times, which time is not a disgraced return, come back and pay compensation for the land, begging the father to tell the grandmother to ask people to go around their lives, is it easy to be the emperor to guard the family business? Why don't those ministers understand? Every day, there are shouts to recover the homeland and return to Erjing, can you do it? Who can't shout just yelling, you have the ability to help me take it back! Who would dare to take this trick?

Li Zong can't find anyone who can recover Erjing, but he looks at everyone like Wu Lin who rebelled in Sichuan after the tail is too big, and the following generals are not good at the outside world, but they are experts in dissenting from the outside, and they don't take the court seriously when they are uncles, and Li Zong is worried.

Therefore, Li Zong's ambivalence is very clear to everyone here, Uncle Xie Fang wants to pat Li Zong's sycophants, and he is eager to negotiate peace by relying on the fact that he has dealt with Mongolia a few times on the border, but now that things are messed up, naturally no one will help him out.

When Li Zong began to stare at the second time, Zuo Xiang Du Fan raised his head slowly, slowly arched his hand, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to blame Lord Xie, and Lord Xie is also a sincere heart, although there are ups and downs, it is not human fault, the top priority is to think of possible afterthoughts, and it is the right way to deal with them properly." ”

In a word, Uncle Xie Fang was gently brought over, and everyone present secretly sighed that the old fox could speak, and Uncle Xie Fang, who had kowtowed to the ground and had swollen forehead, secretly threw a grateful look at Du Fan.

This is a human sentence, Li Zong's anger eased slightly, and turned his head to Du Fan: "Du Xiang and elaborate." ”

"According to the old minister's view, the great victory in Hanzhong is a gratifying thing, in order to conform to the will of the people, Your Majesty should praise the meritorious ministers, in order to show justice, in order to promote the prestige of the country. As for the Mongolian side, this new defeat, the whereabouts of the chieftain Kublai Khan are unknown, and there will be no leader in the short term, and there will be no major moves. On the other hand, please send another envoy to Mongolia to sue for peace, so that there will be no major incident! ”

"As for the discussion of the Northern Expedition between the DPRK and China, the old ministers and others mobilized their colleagues, bitterly stated the pros and cons, defended them one by one, and fought with the main fighters in an angular and angular manner, and fought back and forth, and this matter was finally delayed, and when there was a result, the peace negotiations in the north had already been reached, and no one mentioned this matter again."

There are not many words, and the words are not heavy, Du Fan's procrastination trick perfectly solves the problem of Li Zong.