In the past two days, Lin'an Mansion has become a sea of jubilation, for two days and two nights, the people of Lin'an carnival all night long, celebrating the great victory of Hebei, the Song army recovered Hebei, and completely drove the Jin forces out of the Great Song Dynasty.

The news came from the "Zaobao", which was an urgent military report received at noon, and under normal circumstances, the newspaper would not publish the news until the early morning of the next day.

However, in order to seize this opportunity, the "Morning Post" printed 300,000 copies in a short period of time in the form of a special issue and distributed them to the whole city free of charge, and the result suddenly detonated the enthusiasm of the people in the whole city, and everyone ran out of their homes, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, and cheered to celebrate the recovery of Hebei.

In the evening of that day, in the regent's mansion, Li Baoyan ran into the back hall and said to Cao Yun with a depressed face: "Sister-in-law, my master may not be able to go with us tonight. ”

Li Baoyan's master is Li Qingzhao, who is also the master of Li Yanqing's eldest daughter Li Xiaolian, in addition, Li Qingzhao is also a visiting professor of Taixue, and will go to Taixue to give poetry classes to students.

Tonight, hundreds of thousands of people in Lin'an will spontaneously go to West Lake to mourn the fallen soldiers of the Northern Expedition, and Cao Yun's family will also go.

Cao Yun smiled and comforted her sister-in-law, "Be patient, she will come, if she can't come, she will definitely send someone to tell us." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qingzhao hurriedly walked into the backyard and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry! It's late. ”

Li Baoyan ran forward and hugged Li Qingzhao's arm, and said coquettishly: "Master, didn't you say that there is no class today?" Why is it too late. ”

"Today, the people from the "Morning Post" came to me, and I was delayed for a little time."

Cao Yun stepped forward and said with a smile: "Eldest sister is probably going to be busy again." ”

Li Qingzhao said helplessly: ""Morning Post wants to open a new column, called Yi'an Commentary, in the third edition, every Friday and October every month, I will write a draft, and each manuscript will give me thirty taels of silver for the pen, I want to write!" I think it's too much trouble, I don't write, and I can't bear the silver, so I'm in a dilemma! ”

"Of course Master has to write!"

Li Baoyan smiled and said, "I also wrote a poem, and then Master took it to the "Morning Post" to help me comment on it. ”

"Go! has no face and no skin, you must evaluate the words of famous artists, what kind of famous artist are you? ”

"Master commented that I am a famous master."

"Then you study hard, and if you make progress, Master will help you evaluate it and make you a talented girl."

Li Baoyan jumped up with cheer, Cao Yun shook her head with a smile, "Baoyan, you go and urge the second sister-in-law." ”

"Here we are!"

Master Li and Zhao Fujin walked quickly with Xiaolian in hand, and said with a smile: "Everyone is here, let's go!" ”

"The carriage is ready, let's go get on it."

At this time, Master Li didn't see Li Pu, so he asked, "Why didn't Pu'er see him?" ”

Cao Yun smiled bitterly and said: "Pu'er was found by several ministers, and it is estimated that he will participate in the official sacrifice, and I can't control him." ”

"But he's still young, can he do it alone?"

"A few fathers take him, it shouldn't be a big problem, and besides, his father is not there, he should also bear a little for his father."

As they spoke, they walked outside, and they got into four carriages with a group of maids, Li Qingzhao and Cao Yun sat in one carriage, and Li Baoyan ran to the latter carriage and sat with Xiaolian.

"Yun Niang, you seem to be a little unhappy?" Li Qingzhao asked in a low voice, she could see that Cao Yun was a little worried between her eyebrows.

Cao Yun sighed, "Yesterday we went to drink tea, and we heard a few tea guests next door chatting, saying that Yanqing can completely replace the Zhao family and establish itself as the emperor. ”

"Then what kind of attitude do they have, attacking Yanqing?"

"I didn't criticize it, but they were all in favor, but Jin Nu and Fujin were there, the scene was very embarrassing back then, Fujin was a little better, after all, Yanqing was also her husband, and Jin Nu's face changed, if it wasn't for Fujin pulling her, she would have rushed over to quarrel."

Li Qingzhao laughed, "Are you worried that the world will criticize you, or are you worried that the Zhao sisters will be unhappy?" ”

"To be honest, I'm a little worried, he is already a very popular minister as regent, and he has too much ambition to replace the Zhao family."

Li Qingzhao sighed and said: "I don't think he is ambitious, to do his position, many times I can't help myself, I look at history, he has come to the step of taking the power of the world with the army, if he doesn't go down and stops at the position of a courtier, then once he dies, the Zhao monarchy is re-established, then the fate of his descendants will be very miserable, including the Cao family, the history of the past thousand years has been written very clearly, for himself and his descendants, I hope he will take this step down, go to the end." ”

"But he doesn't have enough qualifications now!"

"Not necessarily now, you can take your time, how do you see the "Morning Post" reporting on the recovery of Hebei? The title is called the expulsion of the Tartars, the recovery of Hebei, the recovery of the Han family, not a single Song word is mentioned, and then the regent led the army to fight bloodily, annihilating 70,000 gold soldiers, a picture next to it is a young general with a horizontal knife immediately, everyone knows who this is at a glance, the morning newspaper credits all the credit to Yanqing, and the Zhao family has nothing to do with it, completely ignoring the Zhao family, more than ten years later, who will remember the Zhao family? Then slowly restore the prosperity of the north, make the people rich, make the country strong, and the whole world will only recognize him as a king. ”

Cao Yun nodded silently, she had to admit that Li Qingzhao had a point.

In front of the West Lake, there is already a sea of people, the people have put the lotus lanterns into the river, sacrifice the fallen soldiers, the lights in the whole West Lake are dotted, like the stars in the sky, it is very spectacular.

In a secluded place, a hundred female guards were on guard around to prevent strangers from approaching, Cao Yun and others also lit more than a dozen lotus lanterns into Huzhou, and sprinkled a few handfuls of rice into the lake, at this time, on the official altar of Yongjinmen, Li Pu participated in the official sacrifice as the prince regent, he was dressed in black, followed by a large group of officials, Fan Zhixu finished reciting the sacrifice, and the hundred officials bowed together under the leadership of Li Pu.

In the distance, the bell of Lingyin Temple rang 'Knock-Knock-'.

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Ten days later, the 100,000 army led by Li Yanqing arrived at Lin'an Mansion and was warmly welcomed by the people of the city.

Li Yanqing waved all the way to the enthusiastic people, causing a burst of cheers like a tsunami, this spontaneous advance into the city went for more than an hour, Li Yanqing was stopped three times by the old people with tears on their faces, and he had to dismount three times to appease the people.

Until noon, when the army returned to the barracks, hundreds of thousands of people gradually dispersed, and Li Yanqing returned to the Imperial City Prison Mansion and sat down in his seat.

He took a few sips of tea, and then Gao Shen walked in and said with a smile: "Everyone has been waiting for a long time, please ask me to urge Your Highness." ”

"I haven't sat on this chair yet, at least give me some tea!"

"Go back and drink slowly, and come with me."

Li Yanqing had no choice but to get up and follow Gao Shen to the Zhizheng Hall, Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "I heard that during the official festival of the West Lake, my son was arrested and strong?" ”

"Look at what you said, what is it called catching a strong man, is the son of the world representing you well, although he is only ten years old, he is very angry, and everyone praises him for having the temperament of a prince."

Li Yanqing said lightly: "It's best not to mention the word prince casually in public. ”

"I know, but Baiguan does say so, Yanqing, tell me about your plan!"

Gao Shen is Li Yanqing's confidant, when Li Yanqing was in the northwest, Gao Shen was his spokesperson in the capital, Li Yanqing trusted him very much, and he would not tell the Cao family many important things, but he would tell Gao Shen.

Li Yanqing sighed and said: "Some things can't be rushed, you have to take your time, when the time is ripe, it will naturally come to fruition." ”

Gao Shen nodded, and said: "The Morning Post has been controlled by you!" ”

"Why do you say that?"

"I feel that the "Morning Post" is subtly guiding the people, and in the entire coverage of the Northern Expedition, it was your wise leadership, and there was no mention of the royal family."

"It's a fact, not a guide!"

"Yanqing, there are some things I can see clearly, I just remind you, sometimes the more you deliberately don't mention the royal family, the effect is not good, everything goes naturally, let the people and courtiers criticize the royal family, this is a normal phenomenon, just like you said, take your time, you can't do it quickly."

Li Yanqing nodded, "I understand, thank you for reminding me!" ”

The two quickened their pace, and soon came to the prefect's hall.