"Your Royal Highness, when it comes to the Liao State, when the old slave has not left the Imperial City Division before, he once received a matter about the Liao State, Your Highness should be interested, originally the old slave wanted to report to His Royal Highness, but it was delayed because of the Queen Mother's seizure of power, and then I left the Imperial City Division and forgot about this matter, until we talked about the Liao State just now." At this moment, I saw Huang Wude suddenly frowning and saying.

"Oh, what's the matter?" Zhao Yan was also stunned when he saw Huang Wude's appearance, because he knew the other party's temperament very well, if it wasn't a particularly important matter, I am afraid that the expression on Huang Wude's face would not be so dignified.

"Your Highness, do you remember when you and Scholar Su deviated from the direction in a hot air balloon and ended up with the Jurchens?" Huang Wude asked again at this time.

"Of course, what happened?" At this time, Su Shi also asked with some curiosity, just now he also mentioned the laziness with Zhao Yan, so naturally he would not forget the matter on the Jurchen side.

"That's the case, some time ago, I suddenly received news from the Liao State, the Shangwan Yan Department who had suppressed His Royal Highness and Su University Scholar suddenly became shocked, and contacted other Jurchen tribes to rebel, and the Liao State sent troops to clean up, but according to the information I received, the Liao State did not seem to be smooth, and even was defeated, and lost a lot of troops, but I don't know about the next development." Huang Wude also sighed with some regret when he said the end, he originally wanted to send someone to continue to pay attention to the situation on the Jurchen side, but unfortunately he was quickly pushed to the end by the Empress Dowager Gao, so the information on the Jurchen side was naturally cut off.

"Wanyan rebelled!" Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and then stood up in shock, others may not take the little Jurchen in their eyes, but he didn't know that from later generations, he knew that this originally very inconspicuous little barbarian clan had destroyed the invincible Liao State in less than ten years. Moreover, in the past ten years, the Jurchens have defeated the strong several times, often defeating tens of thousands of people in the Liao State, creating miracles in the military history of the Central Plains again and again. This makes people think of the word "Mandate of Heaven".

"No, I also kept you concerned about the situation of the Yan Department a few years ago, didn't you say that Yan was getting weaker and weaker, and even the small tribes that vassal them fled one after another?" After Zhao Yan was shocked, he quickly thought of the situation of Wanyan before, and asked in disbelief.

When Zhao Yan left Wanyanbu, although he personally killed the impeachment brothers, he was still a little uneasy about Wanyanbu, so after he came back, he kept asking Huang Wude to use the power of the Imperial City Division to secretly monitor the situation of Wanyanbu. It wasn't until later that he learned that the younger brother of the impeachment of Libo had impeached Sun as the leader and brought the Wanyan Department into a state of detachment from morality, that he was relieved and thought that the Wanyan Department could not rise again as it did in history.

But he didn't expect that in just a few years, Wanyan would rebel unabated, and the momentum was huge, and he actually defeated the army of Liao, if they were allowed to develop. Maybe there will be a reproduction of the rise of the Jurchens in history, although now the Great Song Dynasty is different from the past. But if the Jurchens rise, it will also be a big threat to the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness, you said at the beginning that if the Jurchens rise, it will threaten the safety of my Great Song Dynasty, but now it seems that my Great Song Dynasty is strong. Even the Liao Kingdom was defeated by the hands of my Great Song Dynasty, and the Jurchens were not only weak, but also located in the extreme north, separated from the entire Liao Kingdom by my Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that they have not yet grown up. It will be destroyed by the Liao State! Seeing Zhao Yan's surprised look, Su Shi immediately opened his mouth to comfort him, although he had heard Zhao Yan mention the threat of the Jurchens before, he still couldn't believe it, especially with the current strength of the Great Song Dynasty, he didn't take the Jurchens seriously.

"The world is unpredictable, although the Jurchens are weak now, no one dares to guarantee that they will not be able to threaten my Great Song in the future!" Zhao Yan couldn't explain to Su Shi the horror of the Jurchens, but he still insisted on his opinion, and he still maintained an extreme vigilance against the Jurchens.

"Your Royal Highness, the Jurchens and our Great Song Dynasty are separated by a big Liao, in the past, when the old slave presided over the Imperial City Division, in order to monitor the situation over there, he had to invest a lot of money and manpower every year, and now the Imperial City Division has been taken over by the Queen Mother's people, I am afraid that it will not spend so much effort to monitor the Jurchens, so that the imperial court's intelligence on the Jurchens side will be cut off." At this time, Huang Wude also sighed and said, although he couldn't understand why Zhao Yan valued the Jurchens so much, but he knew that Zhao Yan would never do something meaningless, so for Zhao Yan's request, as long as it did not harm the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, he would never refuse.

"Know yourself and know your opponent! Know yourself and know your opponent! Zhao Yan also stood up anxiously when he heard this, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can win all battles, but now that the Great Song Dynasty doesn't even know anything about the situation on the Jurchen side, how can he deal with the changes in the future?

"Your Highness, if you are really worried about the situation on the Jurchen side, it is better to go to the palace to discuss with the Queen Mother, and ask the Queen Mother to let the Imperial City Division pay attention to the situation over there, and at the same time, you can also remind the Queen Mother!" At this time, Su Shi spoke again, although he still had a lot of doubts about the rise of the Jurchens, but seeing that Zhao Yan was so anxious, he could only think of this suggestion.

Zhao Yan heard Su Shi's words and thought for a moment, although he felt that Empress Dowager Gao should not believe that the Jurchens who had just risen in the far north would threaten the safety of the Great Song Dynasty, but now he had no other way, after all, he had handed over the power in his hands, although he still had a lot of influence on the court situation, but like this kind of chasing after the wind and shadows, Zhao Yan's current influence alone would never make the court make a decision.

At that moment, Zhao Yan no longer had the heart to fish, and after sending Su Shi away, he returned to the study and thought about it for a while, and then hurried to the palace to ask to see the Empress Dowager Gao, speaking of the power from Zhao Yan after handing over the power in his hands, he never entered the palace again, so for his sudden visit this time, the Empress Dowager Gao was also a little strange, and met him in the Kunning Palace at the moment.

Zhao Yan did not hide his intention this time, and directly told the story of what he heard about the Jurchen rebellion in the north of the Liao State, and then showed that he was trapped in the Jurchen tribe at the beginning, and he knew the barbarism and cruelty of the Jurchens very well, and now the Jurchens have rebelled, and a certain force has been formed, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Liao State to stop the pace of the Jurchens, so he hopes that the Empress Dowager Gao will prepare early.

However, what disappointed Zhao Yan was that after listening to his words, Empress Dowager Gao just smiled and said that she knew and would pay attention to the situation in Liao in the future, but Zhao Yan could see from her expression that Empress Dowager Gao didn't take this matter to heart at all, and even looked at him with a little suspicion in her eyes, which also made Zhao Yan immediately understand that it was estimated that Empress Dowager Gao might think that he wanted to use this matter to regain control of part of the government.

Thinking of the above, Zhao Yan was disappointed and helpless, but her reaction to Empress Dowager Gao was also reasonable, after all, no matter who she was, she would feel that the Jurchens were too far away from the Great Song Dynasty, and the affairs of the Far North could not affect the Great Song Dynasty at all, so it was also a normal reaction for her not to pay attention to this matter.

Knowing the above, Zhao Yan left the palace in disappointment, because he knew that if he continued to talk about it, there would be no result, and it would only make Empress Dowager Gao even more suspicious. It's just that after returning home, Zhao Yan is restless, worrying about the situation on the Jurchen side all the time, although the Jurchens can't be the opponent of the Liao State in a short time, but they can defeat the Liao army once, they can defeat the Liao army for the second time, and the Jurchens have a magical ability, that is, they can strengthen themselves in the war, and every time they win, their strength will increase several times, which is also the main reason why the Jurchens in later generations were able to destroy the Liao State.

Zhao Yan was worried about the rise of the Jurchens at home, and there was also one thousands of miles away from Tokyo City who also had trouble sleeping and eating because of the Jurchens, and this person was Yelujun, the emperor of Liao.

In the palace of the capital of the Liao State, Yelu Jun walked around the main hall with an anxious face, and he had been thinking about the situation of the Jurchens in the north, speaking of which the Jurchens had become the border trouble of the Liao State for more than a day or two, as early as when his father Yelu Hongji was in power, the Jurchens in the north rebelled from time to time, but at that time, the Liao State implemented a policy of equal emphasis on grace and power for the Jurchens, and on the surface, a group of powerful Jurchen tribes were subdued, such as a large tribe like Wanyanbu, This made the Jurchen rebellion always under the control of the Liao State.

But later, with the civil strife in Liao, Liao's control over the Jurchens also slowly declined, resulting in the Jurchens slowly losing control, and the momentum of the rebellion became bigger and bigger year by year, but after he dealt with the domestic rebellion, he immediately began to deal with the Jurchen problem, among which Yeluren guarded the north for many years in his early years, and his prestige among the Jurchens was great, so as long as there was a problem with the Jurchens in the past, he would send Yeluren to lead the troops first, and each time it could be solved quickly, and Yeluren first guarded the north, Those Jurchens didn't dare to mess around.

Originally, as long as Yelujun was given a few more years, he could control the situation on the Jurchen side, but unfortunately at this time, the Great Song Dynasty invaded Yanyun, this war greatly damaged the vitality of the Liao State, and even Yelu Renxian was killed in battle, which made the Liao State's control over the north weakened again, so that the Jurchen problem broke out all of a sudden, at the beginning of this year, there were several Jurchen tribes rebelled together, especially the Wanyan Department, which united with other tribes to defeat the northern defenders, so that The situation in the area of Huanglongfu in the north of Liao has completely gotten out of control. (To be continued......)