Halfway through the banquet rewarded by Yelu Longxu, Yelu Zongzhen, who was the crown prince, left in a hurry, leaving Li Zhang and several Liao ministers who accompanied him staring at each other, no one knew what was happening, and finally the banquet ended in embarrassment, and then Li Zhang and Fu Bi were sent back to the embassy again.

"Duwei, could it be said that the Emperor of Liao is sick again?" After returning to the tent, Fu Bi immediately asked Li Zhang in a low voice, in fact, he wanted to ask just now, but he was worried that the Liao people would hear it, so he endured it until now.

"Eight * nine is not far from ten, just now I quietly observed Yelu Longxu, and found that his face was blue and white, obviously very sick, but he forcibly summoned us, and it is not impossible to suddenly get sick." Li Zhang also smiled lightly at the moment.

"So what do we do?" Fu Bi immediately asked excitedly again, if they can witness the alternation of the old and new imperial powers of the Liao Kingdom, this is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them, not to mention that this is a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty.

"Wait and see what happens, try not to be involved, otherwise even if we are envoys, I'm afraid we will be implicated!" Li Zhang said again at this time, although he also wanted to see the change of imperial power in the Liao State with his own eyes, but he was a little worried that because of the death of Yelu Longxu, I am afraid that he will not be able to return to the Great Song Dynasty in a short time, and I am afraid that he will miss the birth of his child at that time.

Thinking of this, Li Zhang couldn't help but sigh secretly, of course, if he really didn't have a choice, he could only choose to stay in Liao, after all, state affairs are important.

In the next few days, Li Zhang and the others regained some freedom, and they could leave the garrison camp and walk around, but the scope was also limited, and they couldn't get close to Yelu Longxu's palace at all, and the atmosphere in the bowl was as tense as usual, so people couldn't guess what was going on on Yelu Longxu's side?

At noon that day, Li Zhang had lunch and chatted with Fu Bi while drinking tea, but at this moment, he suddenly heard footsteps outside, and then saw a wild dog walking in quickly to report: "Big brother, a eunuch came outside, and he said he wanted to see you!" ”

Li Zhang was also stunned when he heard the wild dog's words, and immediately glanced at Fu Bi, and then said, "Please let him in!" ”

The wild dog agreed, and then turned to leave, and after a while, he saw a white-faced and beardless eunuch walk in, looking at him should be Han, not very old, about thirty years old, when he saw Li Zhang and Fu Bi, he also showed a kind smile on his face and said: "I don't know which one is Lieutenant Envoy Li?" ”

"It's down there, I don't know what the lieutenant is called?" Li Zhang immediately returned the salute politely, Zhongguan is another name for eunuchs, he used to deal with eunuchs in the palace, and he also knew that these eunuchs were the same as ordinary people, there were good people and bad people, but they were closer to the imperial power, so it was easy to magnify their likes and dislikes.

"Lieutenant Envoy Li is polite, under Zhao Anren, the current provincial attendant and the imperial court, this time he also came to inquire on the order of the Holy Concubine, I don't know if the envoy can have a gift to the palace?" I saw this Zhao Anren asked Li Zhang with a smile.

Li Zhang and Fu Bi were also stunned when they heard the words of this eunuch, although they had long known that the Khitan people had a bold personality, but they didn't expect that the concubines in the palace would ask them for gifts directly, in fact, they really had gifts for the palace, but it was for the queen of Yelu Longxu, as for this Shunsheng Yuan Concubine, they also heard of it for the first time.

"Zhao Zhiban, I don't know what the identity of Concubine Shunsheng is?" Li Zhang hesitated for a moment and finally asked, he only knew that Yelu Longxu's queen was named Xiao Bodhisattva, also known as Empress Qi Tian, but later ended up miserable, and was posthumously named Empress Rende after her death.

"Ahem, Lieutenant Envoy Li is from the Song Dynasty, and it's normal to not know Concubine Shunsheng, but you must have seen His Royal Highness the Prince, and Concubine Shunsheng is His Royal Highness the Prince's biological mother." I saw Zhao Anren explain with a smile that for some reason, he also had a good impression of Li Zhang, the envoy from the Great Song Dynasty, so he was very patient from beginning to end.

"It turned out to be her!" Li Zhang couldn't help but feel happy when he heard Zhao Anren's words, and said secretly.

Yelu Longxu and Zhao Heng became brothers, speaking of which, their pair of sworn brothers really have some sympathy, Zhao Heng was born and died, and in the end only Zhao Zhen was left with such a son, and Yelu Longxu's son also died one after another, his queen Xiao Bodhisattva gave birth to two sons who died, and finally had to raise the son of another concubine, and this concubine is the Shunsheng Yuan Concubine in Zhao Anren's mouth, her name is Xiao Yunjin.

Speaking of Xiao Yunjin, this woman, her experience is also quite legendary, although she was born in a descendant family, but her appearance is ugly, Yelu Longxu accepted her into the palace, and did not honor her at all, but arranged for her to be a maid next to her mother, that is, the famous Empress Dowager Xiao, as a result, once Xiao Yunjin unintentionally swallowed a piece of medicine like a golden rooster, the whole person turned from ugly to beautiful, and suddenly beautiful, and Empress Dowager Xiao also felt that this woman was very unusual, so she ordered Yelu Longxu to have sex with her, Later, he gave birth to the crown prince Yelu Zongzhen.

If it was just the above, Li Zhang would not be interested in Xiao Yunjin, the most important thing is that he knew that after the death of Yelu Longxu in history, Xiao Yunjin was originally named the imperial concubine, but she used her identity as Yelu Zong's true biological mother to fake the edict and establish herself as the queen.

After becoming the queen, Xiao Yunjin, a woman, was not satisfied, but quickly seized the imperial power from the young Yelu Zongzhen, and acted recklessly in Liao, almost overthrowing all the good governance before Empress Dowager Xiao and Yelu Longxu, and even in order to frame Xiao Bodhisattva, she killed more than 40 Khitan nobles at one time, and everyone in the entire Liao State was in danger.

Xiao Yunjin was not in power for a long time, only four years, but it made a mess inside the Liao State, and the national strength of the Liao State also declined sharply again, plus Yelu Zongzhen was not a promising emperor, and when he was in power, he fought everywhere, which made the Liao State fall into dire straits.

Thinking of the above, Li Zhang couldn't help but show a cordial smile to Zhao Anren, and then asked the other party to sit down very warmly and said: "I came from afar, and I didn't know the prince's life experience, it's really rude, a few gifts are nothing, besides, I don't know what else Concubine Yuan has to say, as long as Concubine Yuan is in need, I will report to the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, and try to meet Concubine Yuan's requirements!" ”

Zhao Anren didn't expect Li Zhang to become so enthusiastic all of a sudden, and he was a little uncomfortable at the moment, but when he heard Li Zhang say this, he immediately showed a happy look, because he knew the character of the concubine behind him, no matter whether Li Zhang's words were true or not, as long as he went back to tell the other party, she would definitely be very happy!