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Imperial Palace, Gyeongbokgun.

"Richard will be in Beijing tomorrow."

Zhao Kai sat on the chair and said to Li Qi, who was sitting below.

Li Qi was a little surprised when he heard this, and said, "So fast? Didn't you say it would take a few more days? ”

Zhao Kai said: "Originally, according to the itinerary, he would arrive in seven days at the earliest, and I think they, like Park Zhiqian, rushed over." ”

Li Qi suddenly couldn't help it, and laughed.

Zhao Kai glanced at him and said, "This is all your credit, if you hadn't asked to cut off the business with the Western Xia, and then let the Zhejia army and the seed army cut off their private salt for a month or two, I don't think he would have come to Beijing so soon." ”

Li Qi rolled his eyes and said: "You also have a part in this matter, without the emperor's secret instructions, I can't do it alone, don't push it all on me!" ”

Zhao Kai coughed lightly and said, "When are you going to see him?" ”

Li Qi pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, we have to be righteous when we come out to mix, our original plan was to see him in seven days, he arrived early, that is his business, we don't need to accommodate him, just go to his side." ”

Zhao Kai scolded with a smile: "You really dare to say it, people are also princes, what is called going cool." ”

Li Qi said: "Then what do you say, Your Majesty?" ”

Zhao Kai said: "Actually, cough cough, I also think that they are not in a hurry enough, and they should also be taught a lesson, but people have come all the way to my Great Song Dynasty, full of sincerity, is seven days too long, or six days?" ”

md。 There's a hairy difference! Li Qi gave a thumbs up and said, "The emperor is sage." ”

Zhao Kai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Then who is the most suitable person to receive Richard during this period?" ”

Li Qi thought for a moment and said, "Wang Youxiang." ”

"Him?"

Li Qi smiled: "Your Majesty." Don't underestimate this fat old man - no, Wang Youxiang, he is very cautious, he will not say anything that should be said or not. It's like water, even if you have been accumulating strength for a long time, but you can't hit it well, and besides, he likes to make small stumbling blocks between his actions, and I am often yin by him. He often relied on his daughter's face, came to my drunken immortal residence to eat and drink for nothing, and walked around without eating, even if he was alone, and often brought people here, even if I had hinted at him several times. But he pretended not to know, and it was only fitting to use him to entertain Richard. ”

Zhao Kai laughed and said: "Actually, I don't know much about Wang Zhongling, but it can make you suffer, presumably he also has some means, so okay, let him go." ”

There was a pause. He said again: "Oh, there is news from the south that Dali has also sent envoys to my Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Really? How did I not know? ”

Zhao Kai said angrily: "Have you come to the court in the past few days?" ”

"Well, although I didn't come to the court, I've been working hard in state affairs, no way, I was born to work hard." Li Qi wiped a cold sweat and quickly changed the topic: "Your Majesty, I promised Duan Shiwen at the beginning that I would definitely support him, and this time he came." I'm afraid it's just that I have to fulfill my promise, I think we have to get some blood."

Zhao Kai nodded and said: "I know this, it must be out, so be it, food." Just transfer from Jiangnan, and if you want to use weapons, you can arrange it, but you have to make our money worthwhile! ”

Li Qi snorted and said, "Don't worry, the emperor, I never make loss-making transactions." ”

Zhao Kai smiled: "If I don't believe you, even if Duan Zhixing comes, I won't give them a penny, but when do you plan to send troops?" ”

"This depends on the internal situation in Dali, but I hope that as soon as possible, after all, we are racing against the Jin State to see who can stabilize the rear faster, I have already sent someone to Jiangnan to mix in Dali to inquire about information."

On the second day, Richard came to the capital, although the Western Xia was not a big country, but in the Central Plains, they were at least higher than Goryeo and Japan.

Like Park Zhiqian, Iga Baichuan and others came, they all lived in Xiangguo Temple, but Richard was arranged in a small post station, you must know that Richard is still the prince, and it is not the first time to come back to the Great Song Dynasty, but it is the first time to live in a post station, and the post station in the capital is generally for some foreign entourages to live, and the big people live in Xiangguo Temple, which is also a symbol of status.

According to the rules, on the second day of his arrival in Beijing, he should have submitted the congratulatory letter, but he never received the order to enter the palace, and it took a day for Richard to be approved to submit the congratulatory letter, but the Song court did not let Richard enter the palace for various reasons.

Richard was completely panicked, and the Song court clearly deliberately treated him coldly, and the reason was naturally that they sent troops together with the Jin State.

It is said that it is difficult for a small country on the edge of a big country to survive, and this is really true.

After this battle, the Western Xia is now undoubtedly in a very embarrassing situation, in fact, at the beginning, the Western Xia has been hesitant to send troops to the Great Song Dynasty, although they also sent troops to hoard at the border, but Tungui Tun, they have not moved, until Wanyan Zongwang hit Kaifeng, the Western Xia saw that the Central Plains Dynasty was in danger, so he hurriedly sent troops to fish in troubled waters, after all, this kind of thing is like to do it, and the Western Xia did not put the Song army in his eyes, how to know that the war was repelled by the Song army, Immediately afterwards, Wanyan Zongwang suffered an unprecedented defeat in Kaifeng.

Now Xixia is completely panicked, I don't know what to do, continue to fight, no one can beat the Jin Kingdom, what else can we do, don't fight, the front is all fought, how can the Song court stop here.

However, when they learned that the Song and Jin were ready to negotiate peace, they hurriedly turned to the war to sue for peace, apologized to the Song Dynasty, and hoped to resume exchanges between the two countries, but Zhao Kai was willing to stop there, canceled all the battles between the two countries, and put on a posture of breaking with the Western Xia.

As soon as the Song Dynasty broke off its trade with the Western Xia, the Western Xia had nothing to do, almost every time. However, in the past, the force of Western Xia was stronger than that of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was possible to force the Great Song Dynasty to open trade by force, but the current Song army was not the previous Song army, this move was obviously inappropriate, and. In the past, salt could still be smuggled, but now the subordinates of the Zhejia Army and the Seed Family Army are strictly ordered not to smuggle the green salt of Western Xia, and there is no forgiveness for violators, and in addition, there is a large-scale sweep of civilian smugglers on the border between the two countries.

This salt and pig sample cannot be sold. Tea and grain can't come in, this is simply a pit of Western Xia to death.

What made Xixia even more depressed was that Wan Yan Sheng and Wan Yan Zonghan repeatedly sent envoys to question Xi Xia, since you have surrendered to my Dajin, not only did you not obey my orders, but at the most critical time. Put me along, how did you behave as a courtier?

The king of Nassixia was criticized as having no skin.

In the past, Western Xia was always able to wander between Song and Liao, but this time, they offended both sides.

They are a small country, how dare they offend these two bigwigs at the same time, so on the one hand, they explained to Jin Guo and explained their hardships. In addition, he hurriedly sent Richard to Kaifeng to apologize to the Song Dynasty.

What kind of advantage did not take advantage of, but caused a commotion, aggrieved!

On the way here, Richard had already expected that this task would be very arduous, but he thought that according to the previous practice of the Song Dynasty, no matter what the relationship between the two countries was, he still did a very thoughtful job in etiquette. He encountered an unprecedented cold reception, not to mention the emperor's reception, not even a single official who received him, two days, Richard has ever seen the biggest official. It is a small scribe who spreads the word in Honglu Temple.

All kinds of signs were very unfavorable to Western Xia.

In the past few days, Richard has really been an ant on a hot pot, and the news of Li Qi sent people around to inquire is not that he has a close relationship with Li Qi, but that those ministers in the previous court, such as Cai Jing, Li Bangyan and others, are all dead and gone, and now in the central organs of the DPRK, he knows Li Qi, and he doesn't look for anyone Li Qi, but Li Qi has disappeared in the past few days, and no one has been seen.

It wasn't until the third day that Zhao Kai finally sent a minister with enough weight to receive Richard, of course, this weight must have been dù on the weight.

This person is none other than Wang Zhongling.

Wang Zhongling originally thought that his deputy prime minister should shoulder more responsibilities, and it would not be a problem to receive the Western Xia envoys, but the problem was that Zhao Kai just asked him to entertain Richard, and then--then there was no more.

Wang Zhongling understood that Zhao Kai didn't have an important task for him, it was really for him to entertain Richard, a purely etiquette issue, but he was not annoyed, but he felt that it was quite good, after all, it was easy.

But anyway, for Richard, this is really a long drought and nectar, no matter what, the other party is also the deputy prime minister, not to mention anything else, at least I can get a lot of news, especially about Zhao Kai, after all, Zhao Kai has just ascended the throne, if you understand Zhao Kai, it is equivalent to understanding the direction of the central policy of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

However, after three days of getting along with Wang Zhongling, Richard's wishful thinking was wrong.

Wang Zhongling is an old fritter, he takes Richard everywhere to see, play everywhere, eat, drink and have fun, but if you want to talk to him about state affairs, even if it is a little bit of a side, he takes out the four books and five classics, and talks about a lot, saying that Richard is dizzy, and finally sorted it out and figured it out, but he feels that there is no information in it, which is equivalent to not saying it.

What's even more cheating is that he usually eats big meals with Wang Zhongling, all of which are paid by himself, where does this fat man look like a master, he is clearly a scoundrel!

Since Li Qi revitalized the Drunken Immortal Residence, Wang Zhongling has developed the habit of wiping his mouth and leaving, paying money or something, but he has no concept at all.

Hurry!

Richard, an acute son, met Wang Zhongling, a chronic son, it was really overcome, to tell the truth, Richard is now eager to strangle this Wang Zhongling, he only wants to find one person now, this person is Li Qi.

Qin Mansion.

I saw Li Qi leaning against the kitchen door in an apron, as if he was pondering something, while Wu Xiaoliu was sitting on the threshold, holding his chin with both hands, looking like he was in pain.

It turned out that on the day of Richard's arrival in Beijing, in order to avoid being harassed, Li Qi took Ji Hongnu's mother and son, called the door, and hid in the Qin Mansion, after all, Mrs. Qin is Li Zhengxi's godmother, which is very normal, and here, you can also meet Wang Zhongling very well.

However, he has been nesting in the kitchen for the past few days, because Zhang Chuner has told him the location and rules of the competition, and the location is Xiangguo Temple.

Idle is idle anyway, so Li Qi began to think about the dishes.

Wu Xiaoliu pursed his mouth, looked up at Li Qi, and said, "Brother Li, isn't Mrs. Zhang your subordinate a defeated general, is she so serious?" ”

Syllable!

"Oops."

Li Qi didn't say a word, slapped Wu Xiaoliu on the head, and said, "Then what do you say seriously?" ”

Wu Xiaoliu rubbed his head, held his mouth, and said with teary eyes: "I-I was wrong." ”

Here it is again. Li Qi snorted and said, "Don't underestimate Zhang Chun'er's cooking skills, and the key to the cooking competition is the new taste." ”

"New taste?"

"Yes, I told you before, the tongue can store taste, which is why people often say, a delicious dish, eat 10,000 times, will also spit out, the tongue also has the habit of liking the new and hating the old, if we take the Buddha to jump over the wall to compete, then we will lose from the beginning, because the Buddha jumping over the wall will not bring any surprises, the judge will taste with a disappointed mentality, if we want to win, we must make a new taste."

Wu Xiaoliu didn't seem to understand when he heard it, and said, "But aren't there only a few kinds of flavors?" ”

Syllable!

"Oops!"

Li Qi slapped Wu Xiaoliu on the head again, and said angrily: "How many times have I told you, every food has its own unique taste, what is called a taste, what are you doing in the past few years?" Roll in at once and wash all the utensils for me. ”

"Huh? Brother Li, I only washed it yesterday. ”

"You ate yesterday, don't you have to eat today?"

"Yes, yes, I'll wash it now."

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