Yang Huairen said some witty words, or casually told a few small stories that he had never heard, which made Zhao Xu feel much brighter.

Just like that, Zhao Xu also opened the chatterbox, as if there was really no one in the palace who could talk to him, and talked to Yang Huairen about the recent events in the court.

Yang Huairen coped with it, not too interested in it. This can't be blamed on him, first of all, he doesn't care, and secondly, he doesn't understand the affairs of the court, let alone the pedantic and cumbersome operation of the ancient court.

And the most important thing is that he, as a traverser, knows that Zhao Xu will change his name to Shaosheng next year, and the ending of his Shaosheng reform is the same as the ending of his father's two reform reforms, which were unsuccessful.

Naturally, this kind of thing can't be told to him, let alone let him know that Yang Huairen knows what will happen in the future, so Yang Huairen can only respond vaguely and can't make a statement.

Zhao Xu also saw that Yang Huairen was not interested in the affairs of the court at all, and the more he talked, the more boring he became, so he naturally changed the topic and began to talk about his harem life.

Between men and men, if they talk about women, it is naturally impossible to have no topics. However, Yang Huairen, as a listener, was a little embarrassed.

The story of the emperor's harem, he didn't know whether to listen to it or to listen to it? Since Zhao Xu is willing to speak, let's listen to it first.

What surprised Yang Huairen a little was that in Zhao Xu's story, the heroine was not Queen Meng, but someone else.

Empress Meng was elected by Empress Dowager Gao to Zhao Xu last year, although Zhao Xu was reluctant, but due to the special circumstances at that time, he could not help but obey.

Although Yang Huairen has only seen it once from afar, Queen Meng can be regarded as a goddess-level figure from a contemporary perspective or a future generation.

A woman who can be selected from thousands of show girls to be married to the emperor doesn't have to think about her appearance at all.

It's just that because she was chosen by the Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Xu has a sense of rejection of her from the heart, and it is possible that every time Zhao Xu sees Empress Meng, he will always think of his grandmother.

Despite this, Zhao Xu has just returned to power, and he needs the stability of the harem, so in his harem, except for Queen Meng, there are no other concubines.

Speaking of which, this may be for outsiders to see, and the harmonious scene of the harem will also make the civil and military officials and people of the Great Song Dynasty think that Zhao Xu is a good emperor to a certain extent.

So the relationship between Zhao Xu and Empress Meng is quite delicate, on the surface, the two of them respect each other like guests, giving outsiders the feeling of being a model couple, but what the real situation is, it is unknown.

Fortunately, the etiquette between husband and wife, the two of them still fulfilled their respective responsibilities, Queen Meng was also pregnant recently, and there have been disputes in the palace over the years, and this matter is also a good thing worthy of the joy of everyone in the palace.

Of course, it is the same thing that Zhao Xu did not take another concubine, which does not mean that he only has a woman, Queen Meng.

We all know that there is a saying called "three thousand beauties in the harem", and there may not be so many women in the harem of the Great Song Dynasty, but there are still eight hundred children.

Although these people have no name, they may just be ordinary palace maids, but since they are women in the palace, they are all the emperor's women.

In Zhao Xu's story, the heroine is an ordinary palace maid, Yang Huairen can also hear from the story he said, this palace maid named Liu Qingqing must be extraordinary, otherwise Zhao Xu would not be so excited to tell the little story between them.

The affair between the emperor and the palace maid, because it is suspected of being indescribable, naturally wants to "omit 100,000 words here", but there is one point that makes Yang Huairen too curious.

Zhao Xu said that the previous period of Dali came to pay tribute, it was originally a very common opinion, but the strange thing is that this time Dali came to two missions, and there were also two different envoys.

This has put the reception officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple in a circle, two missions in one country? What's going on?

Dali is located in the southwest of the Great Song Dynasty is a foreign power, but the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Dali has always been relatively friendly, except for some friction during the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the two countries have maintained a relatively friendly diplomatic relations for more than 100 years.

Dali is a tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, every year to the Great Song Dynasty to attack some of their country's specialties, the Great Song Emperor also welcomes such friendly countries to pay tribute, and the return of the gift is also very generous, basically double the gift.

This time, two missions came at once, and the tribute items of the two missions were greatly increased compared with the past, which made the diplomats of the Great Song Dynasty scratch their heads.

Later, an official who had just been transferred back to the capital from Chengdu Fulu learned that something had happened in Dali recently, and that Gao Shengtai, the prime minister of Dali, had hollowed out the imperial power of the Duan clan in Dali, and it seemed that he was going to conspire to usurp power.

And the reason for the emergence of the two Dali missions has also been clarified. Of these two missions, one was sent by Duan Zhengming, the head of Dali, and the other was sent by Gao Shengtai.

Duan Zhengming sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, which must have meant asking the Great Song Dynasty for help, and the purpose of Gao Shengtai's mission was naturally to persuade the Great Song Dynasty to be on his side.

Thinking of the name Duan Zhengming, Yang Huairen felt familiar, this is not Duan Yu his uncle, it is said that Duan Zhengming is strong in martial arts, and he can also learn the six-vein divine sword of martial arts in his family, how can he be threatened by an old man? It doesn't make sense.

However, this is also what Yang Huairen associated with from the descriptions of martial arts in later generations, which is a bit empirical and taken for granted.

And in the real history, Duan Zhengming does have a younger brother named Duan Zhengchun, but whether Duan Zhengchun has a son or not, and whether his son is called Duan Yu or not, then he didn't go out to investigate.

As for the legendary Dali Duan's peerless martial arts six-vein sword, it is just a legend, there may be such rumors on the rivers and lakes, but everyone says so, but no one has really seen it, that is, it is just passed on and played.

In Yang Huairen's cognition, or the kind of martial arts that are better than pistols in film and television, there is no scientific basis, and there should be no possibility of existence, maybe Dali Duan's family is indeed a martial arts family, and it also has a complex relationship with people in the rivers and lakes.

But to say that they really have the bull martial arts like the Six Veins Divine Sword, it really doesn't make sense, otherwise they Dali Duan Clan, they don't have to be afraid of a conspiracy to usurp power.

Just when Zhao Xu couldn't understand this matter and was in a dilemma, the palace maid Liu Qingqing actually suggested that Zhao Xu hand over this matter to Yang Huairen to deal with, which made Yang Huairen unbelievable.