Lin'an City these days are full of lights, jubilant, the Western Song and Northern Song Dynasty army in the Western Xia successive victories, has attacked the Xingqing Mansion under the city of the news has reached Lin'an City, so that Lin'an City is jubilant, people go out of the house to sing and dance, so that the celebration has reached a climax.

Similarly, the great victory of the Western Xia Dynasty was also extremely important to the Son of Heaven Zhao Gou, so that his throne was quickly stabilized, and also made the court support the Emperor Taishang to restore a demonic wind abruptly stopped, right Fan Zhixu immediately put forward a bill, so that out of the door of the book, due to the abstention of the vice state Zhu Shengfei, so that the proposal was passed in the Zhizheng Hall by three to two, and the Son of Heaven Zhao Gou immediately approved the implementation, which means that the will of the Son of Heaven does not need to be countersigned by the Emperor Taishang to promulgate, which is equivalent to blocking an important channel for the Emperor to interfere in the government affairs.

But this decree also means that the skin between the Son of Heaven Zhao Gou and the Emperor Zhao Ji has been completely torn, and there is no room for maneuver between the two sides.

However, taking advantage of the great victory in Western Xia, Zhao Gou, the son of heaven, did beat the more and more arrogant arrogance of the Emperor Zhao Ji, and Zhao Ji fell silent for a while.

On the morning of this day, a painting boat stopped at the West Lake Wharf of Yinlong Villa, which is the courtyard where Emperor Zhao Ji lived, and had just been renamed Yinlong Villa.

Although Huang Qianshan slaughtered the Du family for a sum of money, after all, he and the Du family are fellow villagers, if he does not give Du Chong a little compensation, it will be difficult for the two families to meet in the future.

Du Chong is also an old minister of Zhao Ji's era, and he was quite important to Zhao Ji in the past, although he is now responsible for shipbuilding in Mingzhou, but he has a wide network in the imperial court and still has a certain role, so Zhao Ji is still quite enveloped by him, so that Du Chong soon became a loyal member of Zhao Ji.

When the two came to the gate of the villa, a eunuch came out and said with a smile: "The Emperor Taishang is receiving guests, please come with me, rest for a while, and I will report for the two of you." ”

Huang Qianshan was a little strange in his heart, this time point was specially made by him before, and the emperor would not easily change the agreement, who would be here? He couldn't help but ask, "I don't know who the Emperor is receiving?" ”

The eunuch smiled slightly, "I am receiving the envoys of Western Xia stationed in Lin'an." ”

"Is it Andrean?"

"It's him, he asked to see him temporarily, so he had to wait for a while."

"It doesn't matter! Anyway! ”

Huang Qianshan was suspicious in his heart, could it be that the emperor was going to meddle in Western Xia? He didn't want to ask much, so he followed the eunuch to the resting place.

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In the study, Zhao Ji was on a high place, drinking tea, while listening to the cry of the Western Xia envoy Andrea, "The Western Xia has been established for a hundred years, and the Great Song Dynasty was born together, and it is the Great Song Dynasty all the year round, and it is called a minister to Your Majesty. I implore His Majesty the Emperor Taishang to give Xixia a way to live, the descendants of all the people of Xixia are willing to be the children of the Emperor Taishang, and my king is also willing to be the servants and slaves of the Emperor Taishang, 100,000 urgent, ask the Emperor Taishang to save his life in danger! “

Zhao Ji himself has no sympathy for Western Xia, if he was in power, I am afraid that he would have reprimanded Li Yanqing for being too slow to destroy Western Xia, but now the problem is that the great victory of Western Xia brought his son great prestige, consolidated his son's throne, and made his plan to abolish the emperor suffer a heavy setback, of course he hated Li Yanqing's great victory in Western Xia, and he wished that Li Yanqing would be defeated in Western Xia and the whole army would be destroyed, and then he could abolish the emperor in a grand manner.

The battle of Western Xia itself is a double-edged sword, defeat hurts the other, wins hurts himself, Zhao Ji originally wanted to bet on Li Yanqing's defeat, but he didn't expect that the final result was a heavy blow to himself, so that he has been spending these days in extreme depression.

Now that the envoy of Western Xia came to beg him, it made him realize that the prestige of his son Zhao Gou was not over, if Li Yanqing really destroyed Western Xia, Zhao Gou's prestige would be in full swing, and he would completely sit on the throne, and it would be almost impossible for him to find an excuse to abolish him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji said slowly: "The Great Song Dynasty is a country of benevolence and righteousness, and will not do things that are the heirs of the people, if the Western Xia can change their minds and change their faces, and from now on they can be a vassal country of the Great Song Dynasty with peace of mind, and the Great Song Dynasty is also willing to let the Western Xia have a way to live, I can agree to this matter, please ask the envoys to reply to your king, so that he can rest assured that the Western Xia will not be destroyed." “

Andrean was overjoyed and kowtowed, "The benevolence of the Emperor Taishang, all the people of Western Xia will remember it from generation to generation!" ”

"Go ahead! I will inform the emperor and ask him to end the Western Xia War immediately. ”

Andrean wept bitterly and thanked him again and again.

Zhao Ji walked in the study for a while, thinking about how to put pressure on his son Zhao Gou, when a eunuch whispered at the door: "Your Majesty, Huang Zuocheng and Du Chuanenvoy have been waiting for a long time!" “

Zhao Ji then remembered that he was going to meet these two people today, and he suddenly had a change of mind, maybe he could just use them.

Zhao Ji hurriedly said: "Quickly announce that they are coming to see me!" ”

Not long after, Huang Qianshan and Du Chong were led in by the eunuchs, and the two bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty the Emperor Taishang!" ”

"Two lovers are exempt!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Ji sat down with the two of them again, and he sat back in his high position, which was a specially designed chair by Zhao Ji, which was taller and wider than ordinary seats, and sitting on it gave people a feeling of being on top, so that the courtiers below could only look up to him, so that Zhao Ji had a sense of satisfaction when he usually received the courtiers.

The two palace maids came in and served tea, and Zhao Ji asked Du Chong with a smile, "How is the shipbuilding situation in Mingzhou?" ”

Mingzhou is today's Ningbo, is the nearest seaport of the Song Dynasty and the largest shipbuilding place in the Song Dynasty, Du Chong was demoted to Mingzhou shipbuilding, it has been almost two years.

"Your Majesty, four ships of ten thousand stones have been built, twenty ships of five thousand stones have been built, and now we are making every effort to build three thousand stone ships, all of which are sea ships, and in a year, about 100 ships will be built, which is enough as a merchant ship for maritime trade."

In order to open up financial resources, the imperial court is preparing to set up a semi-official caravan to go to the countries of the South Seas, so the requirements for sea ships are great, which makes Du Chong busy in the past two years, but Du Chong wants to return to the center of power of the imperial court as soon as possible, so he almost stayed in Lin'an during this time.

Du Chong changed the topic and said: "Your Majesty, the shipbuilding has come to an end, Wechen is very willing to serve Your Majesty, and I implore Your Majesty to give Wechen a chance." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, but did not answer Du Chong's plea, turned his head and asked Huang Qianshan, "What's the matter with Zhu Shengfei?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it should be related to Zhang Ji, the former Chengdu Metropolitan Transit Envoy, he is Zhu Shengfei's in-laws, originally Zeng Xiulin's right-hand man, after Zeng Xiulin was liquidated, Li Yanqing did not take Zhang Ji under the knife, but recommended him as the deputy transfer envoy of Sanchuan, and the official family also approved it very happily, this favor Zhu Sheng has to return, it should be for this reason?"

"So he stabbed me at a critical moment, he has to be so generous!"

"Your Majesty, it is estimated that it has something to do with Li Yanqing's victory in Western Xia, Zhu Shengfei saw that the momentum of the official family was rising, so he had the idea of taking refuge in the official family."

"Humph! The grass on the wall with three knives on both sides, after I am reset, the first one will clean him up. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ji said again: "I have something to hand over to the two of you to do?" ”

"Please command, Your Majesty, the ministers will not give up!"

Although this is a bit exaggerated, their attitude made Zhao Ji very satisfied, so he said to the two: "You go to contact the hundred officials, ask to accept the Western Xia for peace, and launch a proposal to oppose the destruction of the Western Xia, which is not in line with the virtue of the Great Song Dynasty to establish the country, and the momentum should be bigger, and the people will also release the proverb of destroying the country and creating conditions for me to put pressure on the rebel!" ”

The two hurriedly bowed down and said, "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Zhao Ji said to Du Chong again: "If you do this well, I will transfer you back to the capital and appoint you to a heavy position!" ”

Du Chong was so excited that he hurriedly kowtowed, "Wechen will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty, Wechen will mobilize all your connections to contribute to Your Majesty's efforts to promote this matter!" ”