Xu Liu glanced at him and said with a smile: "Zhao Xiang, although my brother Xu Jiu is a martial artist, he is not a fool, right?" ”

"Why did Xu Xiang say this? For King Xu Jun, Zhao has always admired him. Zhao Ding said solemnly.

Xu Liu retracted his gaze and explained: "If we can expelle Beiyi and recreate rivers and mountains with our strength alone, why should Xu Jiu bother to connect with the Khitans? And do you know the benefits of uniting the Khitans? ”

"Needless to say?" Zhao Dingzhen suspected that Xu Liu thought he was a fool.

"Then do you know the disadvantages of uniting the Khitans?" Xu Liu asked again.

This made Zhao Ding speechless. To be honest, the matter of uniting the Khitans has always been handled by the Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Division, and although the imperial court has always been aware, from the emperor to the courtiers, I am afraid that they are not too concerned about this matter, because the anti-Jin still relies on their own strength after all. I believe that everyone knows the benefits of uniting the Khitans, but what are the disadvantages......

Seeing this, Xu Liu said to himself: "The most wrong thing we did was to join the Jin to fight against Liao, and now the United Liao is fighting against the Jin ......."

Zhao Ding raised his eyebrows: "You mean, you will repeat the mistakes of the past?" ”

"It's hard to say." Xu Liu shook his head. "We have formed an alliance with the Khitans solely because we have a common enemy. If the Jurchens are defeated in the future and the Khitan restoration succeeds, we will also recover the lost land as we wish, and ...... next"

Zhao Ding's expression became gloomy and muttered, "I understand, I understand." ”

"Knowing this, we still want to unite, because even if we don't go to the Khitans, as the situation changes in the future, they will come themselves. Rather than this, it is better to unite with him first and defeat the Jurchens before calculating. In fact, the maritime alliance back then was the same, even if we didn't join the Jin, after the Jurchens destroyed the Khitans, they would still go south to invade the Song Dynasty. "In the end, they are brothers, Xu Liu and Xu Jiu have the same idea.

Zhao Ding nodded frequently: "That's the truth, as long as you prepare in advance, even after the Jurchens are eliminated, the Khitans will come ......."

"No, no, no, it's not to be destroyed, it's to be defeated." Xu Liu immediately corrected it. "Zhao Xiang, you think, whether it is the party, the Khitan, the Jurchen, the threat of my Great Song Dynasty has always come from the northern court. If we join forces with the Khitans to eliminate the Jurchens, we will have to start dealing with the Khitans in the future, and this will return to square one. In the absence of the strength to completely wipe out the forces of the North, if the North is not at peace, we will be at peace. ”

Zhao Ding completely agrees with this. Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there have been two enemies, one is the party and the other is the Khitan. For a long time, it has been a gourd that has been poured down, and if you don't fight with the Khitan, you will fight with the party. However, whenever the Khitan and the party fought, the Great Song Dynasty was peaceful.

He understood what Xu Liang meant, thought for a long time, and said: "The fat sent to the mouth is not allowed to eat, Xu Xiangxiang's reaction to the middle?" ”

Xu Liang nodded: "So, I am discussing with Zhao Xiang now, how to stop this matter, you and I both understand that this piece of meat is inedible." ”

Zhao Ding slowly leaned back in his chair, raised his head to the sky, and muttered: "I'm afraid this is not easy, the Jurchens only mentioned a 'truce and a strike', and then Gong sent Henan Huaidong back, this."

It's impossible to refuse. You say, I will properly communicate with the Khitans on this matter......"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Xu Liang vetoed: "Impossible, the only basis for our alliance with the Khitans is to have a common enemy." You go and tell people, don't worry, we are just an expedient measure, we have to go back to Huaidong, Henan for the time being, what should happen in the future, do you think the Khitan people will believe it? ”

"That's going to be hard. Even if you and I are opposed to each other, what is the attitude of the Holy One? What is the attitude of the DPRK-China colleagues? And most importantly, what is the attitude of the front-line generals? Zhao Ding asked three times.

The more Xu Liang listened, the tighter his brows became, he thought of the first two, but he didn't expect the attitude of the front-line general. Zhe Yanzhen, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangguo, these three defense areas are facing Henan and Huaidong, and if they knew that the Jurchens were going to give them away, they would definitely strongly approve of it.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Liang said: "Let's see what the saint plans first." ”

On this day, there was nothing else to do, and the emperor did not summon the prime minister to consult on the matter of peace. After Xu Liang dispersed in the afternoon, he heard that the fourth sister-in-law Xu Wang and his entourage had arrived and were still living in the pavilion for the time being, so he sent someone to welcome him to his home and settle down. Xu Wang's body was unwell, so he asked someone to invite Lang Zhong to see the illness, and held a family banquet in the evening, needless to say.

But it was said that at the same time, in the forbidden, Emperor Zhao Chen was suddenly overjoyed because of the Jin State's request for peace, and he was suddenly shocked because of the Sichuan and Shaanxi performances. Coupled with the annoyance of these things, I didn't pay attention to rest and keep warm during the day, and because I was in a high mood at the time, I didn't do anything. But in the evening, it began to be hot, and the imperial doctor was summoned to take a look, and the attendant followed the doctor's instructions and applied ice, which had some effect. Now, have slept.

Shen Ze stayed in front of the couch inch by inch, and waited for a while, and the ice handkerchief on the emperor's forehead was no longer cold, so he changed it again. Although it is in the south, even the water is biting in the cold winter, let alone the ice? Shen Ze is a eunuch, with no yang energy at all, but he also endures the cold to the bone.

When it was almost the second watch, Shen Ze saw that the emperor was sleeping deeply, and his own sleepiness also came up, so he wanted to squint outside for a while, but after all, he still couldn't rest assured of the emperor, so he leaned on and took a nap before the collapse. I don't know how long it took, he was suddenly awakened by the emperor's dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Zhao Chen pushing the quilt aside, his originally pale face was flushed, his whole body trembled, his mouth trembled, and he had slurred words.

Shocked, Shen Ze reached out and touched Zhao Chen's forehead, feeling that his hand was hot and knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly went out and shouted: "The doctor is too fast."

Because the emperor's illness was repeated, the imperial physician was ordered to be on duty at night, so he served all night outside. As soon as he heard the call, he hurriedly came in, Shen Ze pointed to the imperial couch, and the imperial doctor did not give orders, and stepped forward in a few big steps, and his face changed when he saw it. Reaching out and touching his forehead, he raised the emperor's arm again to clear his pulse, and his face obviously showed a panicked look

Shen Ze looked at it from the side and asked, "How?" How? ”

"It's not good, the high fever of the saint will not go away, it will not work if it goes on like this" The imperial doctor is a veteran who is over fifty years old, and he has won the trust of the Taoist monarch and the emperor, and the prestige in the imperial hospital is also very high, he has said so, it seems that the situation is indeed not optimistic.

"What then? Otherwise, use more

Ice? Shen Ze was sick and rushed to the doctor.

The imperial physician put the emperor's hand back in the quilt, invited Shen Xue to the side and said: "If others can use this method, but the holy imperial body is already weak, and it has been unable to resist the invasion of diseases and evils due to the wind and cold, if it is immersed in ice water, the lower officials are afraid that the heat will not go away, but it will be ......" He did not say the words later.

"Then, then you can find a way" Shen Ze's eyes reddened.

"Now there is no other way, the lower officials can only place the medicine of Xin Wen San, hoping to ......" the imperial doctor made a decision.

"Don't hope, hurry up and write a prescription, I'll go to the Shang Pharmacy to get it immediately, hurry up" Shen Xue almost pushed and drove the imperial doctor out.

"Shen Duzhi, you have to feed the saint as much water as possible......"

Looking back at the emperor, his face was as red as a burning cloud, his mouth was dry and cracked, and he wanted to feed some water, but Zhao Chen's teeth were clenched so tightly that he couldn't pry them open. When she was in a hurry, the queen arrived again.

Empress Zhang, the daughter of Zhang Zhongxiong and the granddaughter of Zhang Shuye, has been taking care of the emperor since he became ill. Ben also insisted on keeping vigil tonight, but was discouraged by the palace people. But she was so worried that she came to visit. When I saw this scene, I was so frightened that I lost my face.

"This, how is this good? High fever does not go away, the most dangerous, how did the doctor say? Empress Zhang sat on the edge of the couch and asked in a hurry.

"Back to Niangniang, the imperial doctor said that he could only give a pair of Xin Wensan medicine," Shen Ze replied helplessly.

"It's all scalded like this, how can you wait for it to disperse? How to do without ice? "Because the emperor is weak and sick, Empress Zhang has some understanding of medical science. I know that this so-called "Xin Wen San" is to make the patient sweat with medicine, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing fever. But the emperor burned like this, and when you sweat, I'm afraid it's too late

"The imperial doctor said that the ice is useless, and the official family is weak and can't withstand the toss." Shen Xue was already crying.

At this time, the emperor no longer talked nonsense, which made Empress Zhang and Shen Ze worried. Empress Zhang stepped forward and shook Zhao Chen gently, and called the official family a few times, but Zhao Chen did not react at all.

Although she is the queen of the world, she is a young woman after all, and she lost her sense of proportion for a while, and urged Shen Zedao: "You hurry up and send someone to Deokshou Palace and ask the queen mother to visit." ”

"Yes, yes" Shen Xue responded twice and walked out of the palace quickly. In a moment, the emperor's dormitory was full of chickens and dogs, such as the great enemy Emperor Zhao Huan and Empress Dowager Zhu heard that the emperor was seriously ill, they were worried, Empress Dowager Zhu's mother and son connected hearts, and immediately drove over, and the Emperor Taishang could not make the trip because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, so he could only wait for news in Deokshou Palace.

When the Empress Dowager Zhu arrived at her son's dormitory, she was so shocked that she had no idea when she saw the emperor's sick face, so she only persecuted the imperial doctor with all her might. The doctor is also a person, not a slaughterer, and many doctors who rushed to the hospital after hearing the news have tried various methods, but they are all ineffective, and they can't get rid of the heat. It's not that these people who work together in Tai Hospital are incompetent, they are all the top Xinglin saints in the country, and the disease of wind and cold is not a difficult and miscellaneous disease. The blame is that the first emperor was weak and easily sick; Secondly, the emperor was too tired and rarely had enough time to rest, even if he was sick,

They also often insist on governance; Finally, and most importantly, since the beginning of winter, the emperor has been infected with wind chills five or six times in a row. According to traditional Chinese medicine, wind and cold are a combination of wind and cold, and the disease invades the body, resulting in headache, cough, heat, and body aches. The emperor was continuously infected with wind and cold, and the previous disease was not eradicated, and then it came again, wave after wave, and the body could not bear it at all, and it was difficult to return.

After tossing and turning until the third watch, after pouring the decoction on Zhao Chen, he still didn't see any improvement, but became more and more drowsy.