Li Buqi had already taught the imperial doctor how to control the emperor's exercise through changes in physical signs such as pulse, so grounding Li Buqi had no impact on Zhao Zhen's fitness career.

Li Buqi was confined to his home, but others could come to see him, and it had no effect on his plans. Every day, people often knock on the door of Sun Yushi's house and ask to go in to see what the life of a true gentleman is like, and even climb directly to the tree outside the wall to look into the courtyard. Sun Yushi, who has always been relatively cold in front of the door, has a tendency to be in the market.

However, for Li Buqi, Sun Yushi is already a dead tiger, and as the "truth" spreads more and more, Sun Yushi will eventually become everyone's laughing stock. Li Buqi is now focusing on the envoys of the Liao State, but fortunately, judging from the information that is constantly coming back, the development of things is basically in accordance with the script arranged by Li Buqi.

On March 17, the Liao envoys arrived in Bianliang, and Zhao Zhen sent people to meet them at the Shili Long Pavilion. Zhang Weiji, who was in charge of announcing the edict, cleared his throat vigorously after opening the edict, and then read aloud in a heavy dantian: "Fengtian carries the emperor!" The edict said...... "Reading this, he deliberately stopped and glanced at it, and was satisfied to see that both the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty and the envoys of the Liao State were shocked.

Ha ha! It's so uplifting! Fengtian carrier, this means that my Great Song Dynasty is the court of Fengzhengshuo. Don't you Liao always want to compete with me for orthodoxy in the Great Song Dynasty? Now I'll tell you plainly don't think about it, my Great Song Dynasty is the orthodoxy of Fengtian's carrier.

He gave Li Buqi dozens of praises in his heart: How do you say that Li Buqi can come up with such a surging rhetoric, why can't those Hanlin scholars who read poetry and books come up with it?

He gave Sun Fu Yushi a silent tribute in his heart: he offered the words "Fengtian Carrier" to Li Buqi and did not give credit directly, and the official family would also protect Li Buqi, and Sun Yushi's loss was decided. Back then, those imperial historians shamelessly drove Wang Deyong out of the capital, but the officials have always felt uncomfortable, and this time the officials won for a while.

After everyone's initial consternation passed, Zhang Weiji read the decree aloud again: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says ......"

Before accompanying the emperor to meet the envoys of the Liao State, Lu Yijian patted his ass and said: "It is really appropriate for the official family to add the four words Fengtian to the holy decree. I don't know how the official family thought of it, I never thought of it. ”

Zhao Zhen's face was slightly red, but he hurriedly comforted himself in his heart: Li Buqi is right, this is all to make me more domineering and convince the Liao people, and it is nothing to lie once for the sake of Sheji and Li Min. He quickly coughed to cover it up and said, "It's nothing." It's just that the Khitan has always claimed to be the Zhengshuo of the Tang Dynasty. I think I should clearly tell the people of the world that the Song Dynasty is Zhengshuo, and it is carried by the heavens, not the barbarians. ”

"Your Majesty is wise, I can't wait!" Zhang Dexiang also waved a horse over. Zhao Zhen felt that he seemed to be a little more accustomed than just now, and this time he didn't blush.

Although he was a little dizzy when he arrived in Bianliang, he was a little dizzy with the sentence "Fengtian carries the emperor", but what should be done still has to be done. Xiao Ying, the envoy of the Liao State, and Liu Liufu, the deputy envoy of the Liao State, submitted their credentials, proposing that the Great Song Dynasty return the land of Jinyang and the ten counties south of Waqiao.

These lands were brought down by Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong that year, and were inherited by the Great Song Dynasty from the Later Zhou, and of course they could not be returned to the Liao State. As a result, the day after the news broke, the people of Tokyo City saw groups of samurai with helmets and armor, riding war horses, and carrying bows and swords.

Lao Zhang, who sells cooking cakes, asks Lao Zheng, who sells slurry, "What's the matter?" Is there going to be a war? ”

"You don't know yet? I heard that the Liao Kingdom wanted me to cut the land in the Great Song Dynasty, and I heard that the children of the Xungui family got together last night and said that they could not give up the land that their ancestors had beaten down to the Liao people, and they would fight to the death with the Liao people. Isn't this going to Xuande Gate to ask for orders? ”

"Huh? How do you know so clearly about Xungui? ”

"That's not what a customer who bought a face wash just said. You see, the direction they're going isn't Ouchi......"

"Yes. That one riding a black horse seems to be the Pan family's Yanei, right? ”

"It seems to be. Hey, that seems to be the Yang family's ......"

So in the early dynasty, a group of sons and daughters of Xunde knelt outside the gate of Xuande, and the emperor personally came forward to comfort them, and the sons of Xungui handed over a letter of war, expressing their willingness to work for the country and not lose the land of their ancestors. The emperor said that he would never succumb to the pressure of the Liao State, and staged a great drama of determination to resist the war. According to the script, the envoy of the Liao State was "justly" led through the royal street to see this scene, and the face of the Liao envoy at that time was gloomy and could drip water, especially Xiao Ying's face was full of worry.

Judging from the gloomy clouds on the faces of the Liao mission, the play was a success, and the only discordant voices were made by the civil officials. When the sons and daughters of those nobles gathered at the Xuande Gate, several imperial historians jumped out and asked the emperor to punish these nobles, saying that they wanted to coerce the emperor to start a war against Liao in order to seek military merit. Fortunately, the emperor, the prime minister, and the governor of the council had the same attitude on this matter - the determination of the nobles to protect their families and defend the country must be affirmed, and the country still depends on them to fight the war.

How to perform the following drama is not something that Li Buqi can say. The people who negotiated with the envoys of the Liao State were all civilian officials, not to mention that Lu Yi and the Prime Minister of Jian would definitely have to command it personally, and a fifteen-year-old boy would definitely not be comfortable pointing fingers at the civil officials.

The emperor said that he wanted Li not to give up the grounding, and Li did not give up and could not give face. Uncle Cao Guo saw that Li Buqi was grounded, so he soaked in Crossbowman Alley every day, and insisted that Li Buqi make alcohol first. Li Buqi also found that if he didn't steam the wine again, he would let Lian Guangzhi and Yang Shilang drink it all secretly.

The first batch of molasses mixed with sugar water has lost its sweetness after fermentation for more than a month, but the aroma of the wine is already very strong. Li Buqi put the low-strength wines into custom-made oak barrels and stored them in the storeroom of Wuweifang. The concentration of twenty jars is close to thirty degrees, and it is moved to the backyard of Baiyuzhuang Tofu Factory.

Li Buqi must give Zhao Zhen face, and he can't let people see him leave Crossbowman Alley, but no one dares to check Uncle Cao's carriage casually, and he is not afraid to let people know if he quietly goes to the tofu workshop in the carriage of the Cao family.

Uncle Cao Guo watched with a blank eye, Li Buqi inserted a bamboo stick with a copper block on the lower end into the wine, made a mark on the bamboo stick, and then poured the wine into the steamer. The alcohol concentration of more than 20 degrees is still too low, and it is not only expensive to steam it, but also need to be very careful, otherwise the concentration of the steamed wine will not increase much.

Li Buqi carefully heated it over low heat, and it took two jars of wine to steam out in one day and one night. Now I am not afraid of people stealing it, and the Song people still like low-alcohol wine, and they have no interest in too strong wine.

Li Buqi inserted bamboo skewers into the wine again to make a mark, and then poured the two jars of wine into a small steamer and slowly distilled them. It was distilled several times like this, and in the end only a small half jar remained. Uncle Cao watched in horror as Li Buqi poured the wine into a copper barrel, froze it in water, and then added quicklime to it. After bubbles for a while, Li Buqi filtered the remaining liquor into a small steamer, and then put the steamed liquor into two small porcelain bottles. That's pure alcohol.