Chapter 282: Duan's (I)
The team stopped and walked along the way, allowing Song Envoy to enjoy the style of Dali and enjoy incomparable respect, but after walking for more than half a month, he had not yet arrived in Dali City, which made Chen Ke and others anxious
"It's just too slow." One day after dinner, Chen Ke and a few of the same years went for a walk in the fields outside the town, no matter how gorgeous and boundless the scenery was, there was also a day when they were tired of seeing.
"I think they're clearly procrastinating." Lu Huiqing said: "There must be some ulterior secrets." β
"You still need to say it!" Zeng Bu scolded with a smile: "Actually, they are just arguing about two points, one is what to talk about with us, and the other is how to deal with Nong Zhigao. If you think about it, the three must have their own positions. β
"What do they stand, you say?" Lu Huiqing glared at him and said.
"It depends on what they want to do." Zeng preached: "But regardless of whether the Gao and Yang families are disobedient or not, they definitely don't want to see the Duan family and the Great Song Dynasty get too close." β
"That's nature." Wang Shao nodded and said: "Neither of the two families is willing, the Duan family has a backer behind them, but unfortunately none of them know, this backer can only support, in fact, it is unreliable." β
"Don't be so sharp." Lu Huiqing shook his head and said: "You have also experienced this journey, more than 1,800 miles of trekking through mountains and rivers, and there are dangers everywhere, and the imperial court is beyond the reach of the whip. I now finally understand why Taizu was not allowed to go further south when he hit the Dadu River. The price of attacking Dali is too high.
"How can there be a country that can be defended by natural danger." Wang Shao laughed and said, "Isn't Shu an example? β
"That's not the same ......"
"How different!"
"Stop fighting." Chen Ke hurriedly pulled away the two guys who were always bickering and said, "It's not too late to discuss this kind of high-level strategy when one of you becomes the prime minister and the other becomes the privy envoy." β
It made everyone laugh.
"In any case, we have to urge them to hurry up," Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "The penetration of Dali by the Great Song Dynasty is too weak, we have to open up the situation ourselves." When I arrived in Dali, the situation was much better. β
"How's that sound, like you have hole cards?"
"We'll see." Chen Ke smiled and said, "I'm not sure either." β
Under the urging of Chen Ke and them, the team finally stopped stopping and stopped, and five days later, they arrived at the shore of Erhai Lake and boarded the long-waiting boat.
The boat travels to Erhai Lake, but the lake water is green and crystal clear, boundless, sparkling, and sand gulls soar and gather. Like a beautiful girl, clinging to the snow-capped Diancang Mountain on the mountaintop and the white clouds on the mountainside, it is also a place where the bell is beautiful.
At night, the water is still and the wind is light, the moon shadow is shining, and the whole Erhai Lake turns into a white piece again, which is breathtakingly beautiful.
"This is the real Cangshan snow, Erhai Yue." Standing on the bow of the boat, Chen Ke looked at the beautiful scenery between heaven and earth, and let out a long sigh.
"Listen to the adults." A deep voice sounded, and the eagle-like Yang Yizhen appeared beside Chen Ke: "It seems that I have been to Dali before." β
"I've been here in my last life." Chen Ke said lightly: "Maybe in my last life, I was from Dali." β
"Adults actually know about their past lives?" The people of Dali believe in Buddhism, so Yang Yizhen also believes in reincarnation.
"Hehe......" Chen Ke smiled and ignored him.
"I'm going to Dali City tomorrow." Yang Yizhen didn't care, and said with a straight face: "My lord, let's talk openly and honestly." β
"I am the deputy envoy, and the prince is the companion." Chen Ke looked at the boundless wind and moon and said, "What can we talk about?" β
"My lord, Ming people don't say secret words." Yang Yizhen said: "Along the way, can't I still see that it is not the respected envoy who has the final say in the Shangguo Mission, but the adult?" After a pause, he puffed up his chest and said proudly: "And Dali is the world of white people, and our Yang family is the strongest family among white people. Of course, the Dali people will not call themselves so, they call the white barbarians white, and the black barbarians are called blacksγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» which is not from the color of the skin, but by the color of the national costume.
"Young Master Yang is drunk." Chen Ke turned his head to look at him and said, "How did I hear that your royal family is also white?" β
"This γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»" Yang Yizhen didn't expect that Chen Ke really knew their ingredients, so he had to change his words: "The king is the king of all the tribes in Dali, and he can't be counted as white or black." β
"Hmm." Chen Ke nodded and said in his heart: "That's the gray man," and said quietly on his face: "Okay, what do you want to talk about." β
"I should ask you that." Yang Yizhen said.
"We're here for a simple reason." Chen Ke said lightly: "It is to determine whether Nong Zhigao is in Dali." β
"What if it's there?"
"I hope your country will hand him over to us."
ββ¦ This was originally the proper meaning of the question, Yang Yizhen pondered for a moment and said: "Since the Celestial Empire has sent envoys from thousands of miles away, it must have conclusive evidence. β
"Yes." Chen Ke nodded and said: "There is a lot of evidence that he is indeed in Dali."
"But it has been more than a month since the noble envoy left the Great Song Dynasty, and this time is enough for Nong Zhigao to leave." Yang Yizhen said a little shamelessly.
"So, he's been to your country at least?"
"Yes," Yang Yizhen nodded and said, "Don't tell you that in my Dali, the Nong tribe is one of the thirty-seven black tribes, and it is a very strong one. After a pause, he said: "And after Nong Zhigao's father was killed, he relied on the power of the black man to recapture Guangyuan." β
"After his defeat, he brought a lot of his clan over, and we Dali didn't want to accept him, but under the protection of the leaders of the thirty-seven tribes, they still settled in the territory of the Nong tribe."
"Your confession is unexpected." Chen Ke said approvingly: "It can be called open and honest." β
"Thank you for the compliment." Yang Yizhen smiled: "Since he is the enemy of the kingdom, he is also the enemy of our Yang clan. If he is still in Dali, we will assist Shangguo and arrest him. β
"The prince's heart, the lower officials have written it down." Chen Ke nodded and said, "I believe that with the assistance of the prince, our trip will be much smoother." In the future, when things come to China, I must ask the official family to reward the Yang family. β
"As long as the kingdom knows that in the south of the colorful clouds, there are loyal servants like our Yang clan, the Han family will be satisfied." Yang Yizhen first thanked her, and then said with concern: "Dali is too cold at night, so you should enter the cabin as soon as possible." β
"I'll stand a little longer." Chen Ke smiled: "This is really a peaceful country. β
"Then don't bother the adults." Yang Yizhen bowed and bowed.
Chen Ke didn't wait long, and another person came out of the darkness, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it was Gao Shengtai.
Gao Shengtai gave Chen Ke a delicate tin wine pot and said: "The freshly scalded mourning wine will drive away the cold for adults." β
Chen Ke has been drinking this mourning wine for a while, in fact, it is the Yunnan copper pot wine of later generations, because there is a copper pot distillation process at the end, so this wine is also clearer and more energetic than that of the Central Plains. It's about 30 degrees of liquor.
At first, the people of Dali were very complacent, saying that although we were not as good as Shangguo, only this wine was better than Shangguo. Then Chen Ke asked people to take a jar of 'fairy dew', and when they came out, they would never boast again.
However, this wine is really good, at least not as intoxicating as Xianlu.
Chen Ke took a sip and said: "Living in this paradise, drinking fine wine and looking at the beautiful scenery, it is really a fairy-like day." β
"Adults haven't seen the most beautiful in Dali." Gao Shengtai's decent face showed an expression that all men understand: "The beauties of Dali are even hotter than Xianlu." "Then you have to see it." Chen Ke laughed.
"It's all on Xiaohou," Gao Shengtai patted his chest and said, "Adults must appreciate it." β
"How can you live up to the good intentions of the little marquis?" Chen Ke said happily: "Xiaguan is looking forward to it. β
"Otherwise, your Excellency will be disappointed." Gao Shengtai is also very happy, people are afraid that they don't have a preference, since Song makes this good, it will be easy to do. didn't talk about business, only introduced Dali's customs to Chen Ke, and without a trace, he promised countless bribes.
He is very knowledgeable, and he is also funny, and Chen Ke has a very happy conversation, the two really know each other late, and they chatted until the second half of the night before they went back to their rooms.
Back in the room, Chen Ke hurriedly got into the quilt and shivered: "Fuck, this ghost place, the night is like winter." β
"How's your conversation with the two boys?" Song Duanping, who was in the same room, asked in a low voice.
"It's all characters." Chen Ke's teeth chattered, he took out the Xianlu wine and drank two sips, and then he said with a hot breath: "But Gao Shengtai is better than Yang Yizhen, and this is very important in this mountain-lined Dali country, so I am more optimistic about the former." β
"But judging from the words of these two, they don't seem to take the Duan family very seriously." Chen Ke scolded with a smile: "I don't know how Duan Yu and his grandfather got mixed up." β
"Duan Yu his grandfather?"
"It's Duan Silian." Chen Ke sighed and said: "The situation in Dali seems to be far more complicated than imagined before, if its lord does not have authority, our errand will be troublesome." After a pause, his eyes condensed and said: "Maybe, I will be swept into the whirlpool of Dali's country." β
"I'll see Lao Duan tomorrow, maybe the two boys are bragging, and they are still a generation of heroes." Song Duanping smiled: "Let's take a look and talk about it." β
"Hmm." Chen Ke nodded and blew out the light.
In the early morning of the next day, the building ship arrived in Dali City, and Duan Silian, the monarch of Dali, personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to greet him, and the ceremony was extremely grand.
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