The news of the establishment of the Jin State by the Jurchens did not reach Bianjing until the beginning of this year, and Li Gang, who supervised the imperial history, immediately went to the imperial court, and Li Yanqing, the Xie Yuan of Xiangzhou, mentioned the founding of the Jurchen state in the examination paper last year, although Li Yanqing was soft-spoken, and most of the courtiers disdained him and thought that he was crazy nonsense, but Li Yanqing's question still attracted the attention of some courtiers in a small area, and Zhao Kai was one of them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He looked at Li Yanqing and asked, "You mentioned the Jurchen establishment of the Jin State in your strategy, how did you know this news?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "The establishment of the Jin State was a matter of the year before last, although the Liao State tried its best to block the news, but how could paper contain the fire, this news had already flowed into the Great Song Dynasty through various channels, I heard a few Liao businessmen talk in Xiangzhou, if the imperial court can remain vigilant and establish a perfect intelligence network, it will never know the news until now." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's very simple, I believe that the news of the post stations in Hebei is very well-informed, if the imperial court can give the post station the function of intelligence collection, when this information appears, the post station will immediately report to the imperial court, and then the imperial court will send someone to verify, late two months, fast one month, the imperial court can know all the movements between Liaojin and Jin, in the final analysis, it is because the imperial court is indifferent to Liaojin intelligence."

Zhao Kai nodded silently, he knew that Li Yanqing was right, if the imperial court was willing to work intelligence, there would not have been a strategic miscalculation last year, spending money and food millions of Guan to send Tong Guan to lead the army north, and now he has to withdraw the army back, working the people and money, spending money and effort, and I don't know how to make up for this deficit.

"My father has always regarded Zhao Liangsi's strategy of destroying Liao with Jin as a national policy, but I see that Shaojun bluntly said in his question that the Jurchens were the henchmen of the Great Song Dynasty, and put forward the strategy of 'helping Liao to destroy Jin, and then destroying Liao', I want to know, why does Shaojun think so?"

Li Yanqing said unhurriedly: "I can compare Liaojin to wolves, Liaodong to wolves, the current wolf king is Liao, but every year the imperial power infighting has led to the old age of Liao, and there is no longer the ambition of more than a hundred years ago, although individual Khitan nobles are still ambitious, but Liao as a whole has long been unable to invade south, just like an old wolf king, try to keep his territory and his wife and daughter."

And Jin Guo is a young wolf who has just grown up, wild and fierce, bent on biting the old wolf king to death and becoming the new wolf king, once the Jin State replaces the Liao State, the Jurchens are the Khitan people more than a hundred years ago, full of vigor and ambition, will it be like the old wolf king to keep it, and keep to itself? ”

Li Yanqing's words were analyzed very well, which made Zhao Kai admire, and he asked puzzledly: "Then why are my father and many ministers willing to accept Lianjin and destroy Liao as a national policy?" ”

Li Yanqing sighed slightly, "How can a hundred-year-old national feud be thrown away for a while, the shame of the Tanyuan Alliance has taken root in the hearts of the Song people, and the hatred has blinded them, and many people can't see that the old Liao State is actually the barrier of the Great Song Dynasty."

The constant replacement of the grassland overlord has been the law for thousands of years, but every time the grassland overlord changes, it will bring profound disasters to the Central Plains Dynasty, from the Xiongnu to the Xianbei, from the Turks to the Uighurs, from the Khitan to the future Jurchen, all of them should not be fulfilled, once the Jurchen iron hoof goes south, what will the Song army, which has been nourished by peace for a hundred years, resist? ”

Li Yanqing saw that Zhao Kai was worried, so he smiled and comforted him: "I hope I'm just alarmist!" ”

Of course, Zhao Kai knew that what Li Yanqing said was not alarmist, just to comfort himself, and he also sighed, "I must find an opportunity to persuade my father, whether he likes to listen to it or not." ”

Li Yanqing just smiled, how can things be so simple, the Great Song Dynasty has been weak for a hundred years, unless there is a majestic and strategic monarch like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to carry out strong reforms and re-distribute interests, it is possible to gradually reverse the weakness, even the ambitious Song Shenzong Zhao Ji is powerless to change the weakness of the Song Dynasty, and finally died depressed, not to mention Zhao Ji, who is famous for his mediocrity in history?

Even he himself couldn't think of a solution, let alone a young prince.

At this time, an accompanying eunuch outside urged: "Your Highness, it's not too early, it's time to go home!" ”

Zhao Kai nodded, he had recognized that Li Yanqing had seen Gao Bo, and he should listen to his high arguments more, at this time, he remembered something, and asked with a smile: "Can Li Shaojun ride a horse and shoot arrows?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "After a few days of study, it's barely possible!" ”

Zhao Kai was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Every spring and autumn, my father has to urge the prince to go out hunting, practice bow and horse diligently, I will go to the western suburbs to hunt the day after tomorrow, I don't know if the young monarch is willing to go along?" ”

Li Yanqing thought about it and said with a smile: "I am willing to accompany His Highness to hunt!" ”

"Then it's a word, I'll send someone to find Shaojun later, and I'll leave early in the morning!"

Zhao Kai got up and left, Zheng Rongtai scratched his head, King Jia didn't invite him, but he immediately understood the problem, he was too fat to ride a horse at all, barely outing, where can he follow them to hunt, he was suddenly strongly stimulated in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly be ruthless, "Lao Tzu also wants to lose weight and ride a horse!" ”

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Early the next morning, Li Yanqing returned to Xinqiao's father's residence, and as soon as he walked into the yard, he saw the magpie and Qing'er who were fetching water next to the well, and the two saw Li Yanqing at the same time, and immediately exclaimed, the magpie rushed like a real little magpie, and threw himself into his arms, trembling with excitement, Qing'er ran a few steps, but stopped, did not dare to look at Li Yanqing, lowered his head and rubbed the corners of his clothes uneasily.

Li Yanqing was also very happy in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "When did you come?" ”

The magpie left Li Yanqing's arms, scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I arrived yesterday afternoon, we came by boat, little official, I can't take a boat, I'm dizzy!" ”

"Oh! Is Qing'er seasick? ”

"I ..... I'm okay. Qing'er blushed and replied a little shyly.

At this time, Li Yanqing felt a little wrong, why didn't Sister-in-law Ju greet him, he looked at the kitchen, but he didn't see Sister-in-law Ju's shadow, he couldn't help but ask strangely: "Didn't Sister-in-law Ju come with you?" ”

The magpie slurped: "Little official, sister-in-law Ju is married." ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, "Who are you marrying?" ”

"Aunt Gu was a matchmaker for her and married Uncle Xiao Zhong, just last month, and the master gave them the main marriage."

Li Yanqing didn't speak for a long time, Li Zhong is the younger brother of the patriarch Li Zhen, in his early thirties, his wife died of illness last year, leaving a three-year-old child, the family is quite solid, and Sister-in-law Ju is Gu Sanniang's niece, and it is understandable that she is in charge.

But why don't you tell yourself about it? Li Yanqing was really a little unhappy in his heart, Sister-in-law Ju had been with him for almost two years, and everyone didn't say a word to him about such an important matter.

"Little official, sister-in-law Ju is willing to do it, and the master also agreed." The magpie whispered.

The unhappiness in Li Yanqing's heart could only be put aside for the time being, and he reluctantly smiled: "Didn't you go out to play?" ”

"Nope!"

The two little ladies replied in unison, and the magpie shook his arm and begged, "Little official, take us out to play!" ”

Li Yanqing looked at Qing'er again, and saw that her eyes were full of anticipation looking at herself, and he was about to go to the street today, so he smiled happily: "I'll take you to visit the royal street." ”

"Okay!" The two ladies cheered together.

Li Yanqing hired an ox cart, and Mishang got on the ox cart and slowly walked towards the inner city royal street.

The royal street is the main road of Bianjing, it is up to two hundred steps wide, it is not so much a street, it is better to say that it is a square, there is a vermilion lacquer stick in the middle, the branch is the imperial road where the emperor travels, there is a royal corridor on both sides of the royal road, which is full of dense shops.

The royal road is full of people, the big businessmen who come and go from the south to the north purchase all kinds of exquisite goods in the shops of the royal street, each shop is arranged magnificently, this is the most prosperous and the most concentrated street of wealth in Bianjing, almost all the shops have a background, power and wealth are perfectly combined on this street.

The two little ladies have already come down from the ox cart, wandering all the way, looking around, they have to go shopping in each shop, and they are constantly amazed by the goods in the shop, of course, they are also quite rewarded, Li Yanqing bought them three sets of dresses and two pairs of embroidered shoes in Zhang Xianyi ready-to-wear store, the weather has gradually become a little hot, they are still wearing winter dresses, and they need to change them.

They bought a little bit of their favorite gadgets, Qing'er bought a bronze mirror and a comb, and the magpie bought some paper and pencils, at this time, Qing'er and the magpie were going to a shop to buy headdresses, Li Yanqing gave them a few taels of silver, and then pointed to the Lianggong sword shop in front and smiled: "You guys go to play by yourself, I'll go to the front weapon shop to have a look!" ”