Renzong's face became grim, he had already tolerated this matter. In the past few days, he has also inquired from the people, and those people are quite sympathetic to Chen Shimei, and what they hope now is that Bao Zheng will release Chen Shimei on the spot! At this time, as Fan Zhongyan said, if he forcibly detains the charge of making trouble on Chen Shimei's head, the people will not be convinced!

Although Renzong was not a Ming monarch in history, and he was not even a good emperor, he was not confused, and said coldly at the moment: "This matter can be discussed later." ”

According to Li Yuanhao's meaning, it is best for Renzong to make an order now, immediately behead Chen Yuan, and then promise to marry the princess to him, and then send troops to fight the Liao State with him, which is the best.

But Renzong is not his subordinate Li Yuanhao, and he can do whatever he wants. Things have to be done step by step, and they have to be prioritized.

When he saw Renzong's resolute attitude to say that he would discuss it later, he was obviously unwilling to kill Chen Shimei immediately. Li Yuanhao didn't say anything more. Now Chen Yuan's problem is a trivial matter, even if Renzong is not satisfied with what he is dealing with now, as long as he wins the Liao State, he has enough capital to negotiate again!

They have already explained their attitudes, and the other three states have also expressed their attitudes. Let's talk about it later!

Li Yuanhao's topic immediately turned to the proposal of relatives: "Long live, Xiao Wang has admired the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, and he is very close to the Great Song Dynasty in his heart. This time, the main purpose is to ask Long Live to marry the princess of the Song Dynasty, so as to form a party and the good of the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years, so that my party Xiang will always be favored by the Great Song Dynasty. ”

There is nothing to dispute about this issue, Renzong originally planned to agree first, and then drag it out on the grounds that the border war is tight, and wait until the end of the war between the party and the Liao State, and then talk about marriage.

So when this issue was put out, Renzong responded vaguely: "I already know this." It's rare that you have this heart, and I promise you that it is. ”

Li Yuanhao hurriedly knelt down again to thank him: "Thank you long live!" ”

Renzong continued: "But now that the war is going to start there, the matter of marrying the princess should be talked about until the war is over." Rest assured, since I have promised, I will never break my word. ”

Li Yuanhao's heart is not close to the Great Song Dynasty at all, and he has never seen the princess. He did this to seek support, even if it was only in name! So when Renzong agreed, Li Yuanhao did not ask to marry immediately, and the princess must return to the party with him now: "Long live what I said is very true, marrying the princess is the most important thing in Xiao Wang's life, and it is abrupt." When the war is over, Xiao Wang should prepare the etiquette and personally come to take the princess back to the party! ”

Renzong nodded: "Okay, is there anything else?" ”

Li Yuanhao also knew that things could only be done like this first, as long as Renzong agreed to marry the princess to him, he would nominally support the party and the Khitans to fight this battle. As for Chen Shimei, he is a small person, as long as he blocks the attack of the Liao State, I think Renzong will not turn his face with himself because of this little person.

Nominal support has been obtained, so the next step is to see if it can get substantial support, including persuading the Song Dynasty to send troops to help if the war situation is unfavorable.

This process is much more difficult, and the possibility of the Song Dynasty directly sending troops is zero, and material support is also very unrealistic.

So Li Yuanhao didn't expect to be able to convince the Song Dynasty immediately, he didn't have the ability to do this, and he didn't have the time. He was leaving, but he had to leave behind a capable assistant, who had to have the ability to convince the Song Dynasty. He had already chosen, it was Zhang Yuan.

He left Zhang Yuan absolutely assured, Zhang Yuan's eloquence, literary brilliance, courage, Li Yuanhao are very clear. In the Song Dynasty, except for a few old people like Bao Zheng and Pang Ji, the new young ministers were almost no match for Zhang Yuan.

So when Li Yuanhao was leaving, he explained to Zhang Yuan, this time in the Great Song Dynasty, the main opponent was Yelu Nie Gulu of Liao! Yelu Gollu will inevitably do his best to sabotage the diplomatic strategy of the party members in the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Yuan had good reasons to stay here, the first was to discuss the marriage of the princess with the Song Dynasty, and the second was to replace Li Yuanhao to assist Bao Zheng in passing through the court.

In general, things are quite satisfactory to Li Yuanhao. Although Chen Yuan has not been killed, and the princess is still married, these Renzong have agreed, and it is only a matter of time.

He decided to go, go home, and go back to fight the Liao State.

Renzong was relatively satisfied with these things, but after the people of the mission left, Renzong suddenly let out a long sigh: "Hey! "There was a lot of frustration on his face.

Bao Zheng didn't speak, and Pang Ji asked, "Your Majesty, are you worried about Chen Shimei's affairs?" ”

Renzong pointed to the direction that Li Yuanhao had just left: "I'm worried about the Great Song Dynasty!" Look at it, look at the envoys who came from the party this time, how young they are, and this Li Yuanhao is not in his thirties! Look at Liaoguo again, it is also young people who have jumped up so fast! That Yelu Neng was only twenty-four or five, and Yelu Hongji was younger than him, and he had already led the army to fight! What about us? ”

Looking at Bao Zheng's dark face with wrinkles, and then looking at Pang Ji's white hair, thinking about Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo, Song Qi and others Renzong was very disappointed, and finally shook his head, and sighed again: "Hey! ”

He didn't have the heart to stay any longer. Seriously, Renzong is not very old, just forty years old. But Renzong was with this ordinary minister every day, and he felt as if he was also old. When facing Li Yuanhao just now, Renzong suddenly had an inferiority complex, an inferiority complex for no reason!

The vigor on Li Yuanhao made Renzong envious, it was not a person's youth, it was the youth of a team! That team is pioneering and enterprising! But what about Da Song? What I hear every day is: "The emperor thinks twice!" The emperor is cautious! ”

After thinking twice, being cautious and cautious, it turned out that the Great Song Dynasty seemed to have nothing but three thoughts and prudence.

Suddenly, I remembered what Fan Zhongyan said to him a few years ago: "I have been weak since the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to get rid of the shortcomings and make the society stable, you must change the law!" ”

Reform? This thought flashed in Renzong's mind, and his whole person was shocked, but he immediately subconsciously thought: "No! Think twice, think again! Prudently, cautiously! ”

Chen Yuan has been in the prison for five days, and he has been thinking about it for the first few days, but then he found a very strange thing, that is, he also likes to listen to that person talk about things outside the window! The man said wonderfully, one hour a day, and this hour was the happiest time for all the people in the whole prison.

I don't know what that person's name is, and Chen Yuan, who was locked up because of what, doesn't know. All the people in the prison called him sir.

The gentleman was the most respected prisoner here, and whoever had his eye on his clothes had to give him them. He has taken a fancy to the rice in your bowl this time, and you have to exchange it with him. Otherwise, he would not lie on the window and look out of the window, and sometimes he would not say anything even if he looked at him, which made all the people dare not offend him, because he was the only pair of eyes in the whole prison.

"The little lady who sells vegetables outside is here again, she is still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, but today she looks cleaner, I think she washed it at night. I guess this little lady's family must be very poor, otherwise she wouldn't have to do the laundry at night. "When he describes the scene outside, he always adds his own imagination, and this is also the time when everyone can speak. They all knew that if they spoke casually, they would make the gentleman angry.

"Sir, is this little lady pretty?" A guy with some obesity said immediately.

"It's not pretty, but it's very pleasing to the eye, and it belongs to the kind of little lady who lives at home." The gentleman said very calmly, but when the fat man heard it, he slammed the wooden fence twice: "Damn, if Lao Tzu can go out, he must marry this little lady back!" I'm telling you, I don't want anything else now, I just want to find someone to live the rest of my life together. ”

His words obviously resonated with everyone, this seemingly simple injustice is already the highest luxury here, and everyone is silent. And the gentleman stopped looking at this time, turned around and walked on the bed, let go of his voice and said, "The new one, why were you locked in?" ”

Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment, then pointed to his nose: "You ask me?" ”

The gentleman nodded, "Yes." ”

In the past few days, Chen Yuan also knows the rules here, that is, he never asks how others came here. So no one ever asked him, he never asked anyone else, he was always a well-behaved person, the same everywhere.

But the gentleman is different, and here he has privileges.

Chen Yuan looked at him: "What if I don't tell you?" ”

The gentleman smiled: "Hehe, you'd better say it, otherwise I won't say anything when I look outside tomorrow, I think they will definitely scold you." ”

Chen Yuan found that several people were staring at him, and the prisoner next to him even said: "Yes, you better tell Mr., otherwise we will take turns to scold you!" ”

Everyone lives in a single room in the prison here, so the most powerful weapon is swearing. Two people often can't tell the difference between scolding, but when dealing with the kind of person who is angry, they often use "scolding together" and "scolding in turn". The people who were scolded basically couldn't hold on. And whoever offends the gentleman is undoubtedly guilty of public wrath.

Chen Yuan didn't want to try whether he could hold on, so he smiled bitterly at the moment: "Okay, I said." ”

He roughly explained what happened, and thought that what he had done was earth-shattering, but he didn't expect that after he finished speaking, those people looked indifferent, and the fat man laughed twice: "You are also too lucky, it is not good to fight with anyone, and you actually fight with the party members." ”

Chen Yuan glanced at him: "What about you?" How did you get in? ”

The fat man sat down on the ground: "Barricade and rob." ”

Chen Yuan asked: "Didn't you say that such a small case would not enter Dali Temple?" ”

The fat man sighed: "I'm unlucky better than you." Originally, I was looking at a caravan, and the caravan only had a total of twenty guys, and I could put them all down with a big knife without anyone else! I was also blamed for being greedy and not informing my companions, and when it was dark, I took a knife and went. I didn't look at the place again, I went in with a knife, kicked the door open and shouted: Robbery! As a result, I was stunned when I looked at the whole thing. ”

Chen Yuan was very curious: "What's wrong?" ”

The fat man sighed again: "The black pressure inside is full of officers and soldiers!" It's also transporting imperial grain. ”

(To be continued)