Chapter 566: Centennial Banquet

It was also when the Great Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi were playing lively, but the Guangyang County Wangfu in Tokyo was full of joy, Cao Ying, who was pregnant for ten months a few months ago, finally gave birth, and what surprised Zhao Yan was that this child was really a boy as Cao Ying insisted, which also means that Zhao Yan's Guangyang County Wangfu finally has a son.

Although Zhao Yan prefers girls, his strength alone is undoubtedly very small in front of the world, especially in the matter of giving birth to boys and girls, and he cannot change the inherent concept of the Great Song Dynasty, so when Cao Ying gave birth to this boy, the whole capital was discussing this matter for a while, especially after Zhao Shu gave the child the name Zhao Jia, which made this little guy the focus of Tokyo City for a while.

Speaking of the name Zhao Jia, Zhao Yan always felt like a girl's name at first, but Zhao Shu told him that he had asked the people of Qin Tianjian to calculate it for the child, and it turned out that the child lacked soil in the five elements, so it was best to have a soil character in the name, and finally Zhao Shu simply added two soils, so there was the name Zhao Jia, although Zhao Yan didn't believe in this set, but saw that Zhao Shu also spent a lot of effort on this, so he didn't say anything, anyway, the name is just a code name, and in the identity of his son, In the future, I am afraid that few people will dare to call him by his name.

For the birth of this child, not only Zhao Yan is happy in the house, but the Cao family also attaches great importance to it, among which Cao Ying's parents needless to say, even before giving birth, they have already lived in the house, and there is also Cao Yan, who is personally outside the delivery room during childbirth, afraid of any accidents in the production process, fortunately, Cao Ying followed Xue Ninger and them to exercise every day, and their bodies were also very strong.

Compared with others, the happiest person is, of course, Cao Ying. Even when she had just given birth to the child, she had no strength in her whole body, but she still insisted on asking the midwife whether the child was male or female, and when she learned that it was a boy, she burst out laughing and then fainted. At that time, I almost didn't scare Zhao Yan outside to death, but fortunately, Cao Ying woke up after a while, and then held the child and didn't give anyone, the nurse couldn't feed if she wanted to, and finally Zhao Yan coaxed for a long time before taking the child out of her hands.

After the birth of a child, there are several days to celebrate, such as the nine days, double nine, full moon, etc., and for boys. One of the most important is 100 days, Tokyo City is called 100 years old, it is said that after the birth of the child to the 100th day of the celebration, the child can live to be 100 years old, today is the day of 100 years old, Zhao Yan's house once again a large feast, entertaining the invited guests.

Zhao Yan first came to the main hall to greet the guests, but these people had been waiting for Zhao Yan to come out and pour wine. Therefore, Zhao Yan couldn't resist it after a while, and hurriedly pretended to be drunk and fled back. In addition, there was a separate banquet in the inner hall, among which Zhao Shu and Zhao Ji also took time out of their busy schedules, and there were also Queen Gao, as well as Princess Bao'an, Princess Shoukang and others, it can be said that Zhao Yan and his family are all here.

It is rare to take advantage of this opportunity to get together cheaply, and Zhao Shu's interest is also very high. While talking to Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji, he raised his glass again and again, although Queen Gao kept persuading him to drink less, but Zhao Shu didn't care, and in the end he was also drunk. In desperation, Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji had no choice but to personally support Zhao Shu to sit on the dragon bowl, and then Queen Gao took care of them and returned to the palace.

After Zhao Shu and Queen Gao left, Princess Bao'an and Princess Shoukang and other female dependents also went to Cao Ying to visit Xiao Zhao Jia, Zhao Yan did not leave immediately, but came to the Bianhe River not far away with Zhao Yan.

"Third brother, you finally have an heir, and Jiaozhi is also a success, which can be described as a double happiness for our Great Song Dynasty, no wonder my father is so happy!" As soon as Zhao Ji sat down, he immediately said with a smile, during this time, both the court and the people were paying attention to the war against Jiaozhi, especially the war column in the Da Song Daily, which reported the collected war reports every day.

"Hehe, speaking of which, this Guo Kui is really capable, and he even hit the city of Shenglong Mansion in a row, but although Jiaozhi was beaten by him very badly, the Western Xia troops under him still suffered little losses, which is not good news." Zhao Yan also smiled when he heard this. Although Guo Kui is as famous as Di Qing, but in later generations, Di Qing's reputation is much more than him, and even Zhao Yan had never heard of him in his previous life.

"Guo Kui is not simple, although the imperial court emphasizes literature and light military force, but also knows that there can be no shortage of talented generals in the army, especially on the Western Xia side, there is a need for a general to sit in charge, originally Yang Wenguang Yang is old, the imperial court originally planned to wait until he retreated, and let Guo Kui go to the top, but I didn't expect that Western Xia was destroyed by us, Guo Kui, a general, even if he was transferred to the northwest, I am afraid it will be useless, but I didn't expect this Jiaozhi invasion to let him show his style!" Zhao Ji also smiled at this time, he knew better than anyone about the situation of civil and military officials in the court.

"I see." Zhao Yan couldn't help but nod when he heard this, but then he smiled and said, "Big brother, I heard that this General Guo is very good at being a man, this time while fighting on the Jiaozhi side, he is sending things to the imperial court?" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan ask about this matter, Zhao Yan couldn't help but smile and said: "Third brother, you are well-informed, Guo Kui is not only good at fighting, but also very cautious, he is not from Jiangmen, although he is stronger than Di Qing, who was born in a reckless manner, but he has no background, it can be said that he can achieve his current position, all by his own ability and hard work." ”

When he said this, he saw Zhao Xuan pause for a moment and then said: "At the beginning, Di Qing's military achievements were great, and he was even promoted to the privy envoy with a military position, but unfortunately he had no background in the court, and as a result, he was excluded from Beijing everywhere, and finally ended up being demoted out of Beijing, and ended up depressed, Guo Kui estimated that he accepted Di Qing's lesson, so he was very cautious, and at the same time tried to make friends with the powerful people in the court. Although the captured booty has not yet been delivered, a booklet of the number of booty has been sent to the imperial court, and there are even 700 elephant pulls. ”

When Zhao Yan said the end, he couldn't help but smile and shake his head, as if he was amused by Guo Kui's caution, but Zhao Yan was surprised when he heard this: "Elephant pull? Where did this thing come from? ”

The elephant pull is actually the elephant trunk, which belongs to one of the eight treasures of the Central Plains, and is a very precious ingredient, but Zhao Yan is very curious about where Guo Kui seized these elephant pulls?

"Haha~, third brother, why did you forget, the people of Jiaozhi have always had the habit of training elephants to fight, among which the elephant soldiers are the trump cards in their hands, but unfortunately in the border war, they were defeated by Guo Kui, and the elephant soldiers composed of thousands of elephants were also killed and wounded, these elephants were from those elephants who died in battle, and they also captured nearly a thousand elephants, and the father has ordered these elephants to be distributed to Yongzhou and other state capitals, it is said that these elephants are very important laborers over there." Zhao Ji explained with a laugh.

Zhao Yan frowned slightly when he heard this, he didn't expect Guo Kui to even let go of the elephants that died in battle, but then he thought about it again, when he was on the battlefield of Western Xia, he saw with his own eyes that the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty dragged the dead war horses back and ate them, after all, it was already very good to have meat to eat on the battlefield, and it is estimated that the elephants killed in the battle over there will also be eaten, and these elephants are just specially left to give to the imperial court.

Zhao Ji didn't notice the change in the expression on Zhao Yan's face, but said with great interest: "Third brother, you have always loved food, these elephants are rare treasures, when Guo Kui sends them over, do you want me to leave you more?" ”

"Uh~, no need, I don't like to eat elephant pulls!" Zhao Yan hurriedly excused himself when he heard this, he was not hypocritical, but he was really a little repulsed, it was estimated that he was also influenced by his previous life, and he felt that the elephant's trunk was nothing to eat.

After Zhao Yan finished saying the above words, he was worried that Zhao Yan would insist on sending him an elephant again, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Big brother, what is the situation on Guo Kui's side now, I have been busy making a 100-year-old banquet for Jia'er in the past few days, but I haven't paid attention to the battle situation on Jiaozhi's side. ”

Hearing Zhao Yan ask about the battle situation in Jiaozhi, Zhao Ji really didn't bother about the elephant pull anymore, but replied with a smile: "A few days ago, Guo Kui defeated Li Changjie's Jiaozhi army again in Fuliangjiang, and the shame of being attacked before Yixue, you already know about this, and now he has led the army to Shenglong City, and besieged it, it is also very interesting to say, before the Jiaozhi people besieged our Yongzhou City, now our army is besieging the other party's country, this can be regarded as karma!" ”

"Oh? Is it just a siege, didn't Guo Kui start attacking Shenglong Mansion? Zhao Yan then asked.

"How could it be that there was no attack?" Zhao Ji smiled again when he heard this, "Guo Kui has always remembered the consumption of the Western Xia army in his heart, so after collecting the military rations, he immediately began to attack Shenglong Mansion, and he chose to attack the Shenglong Mansion head-on, and he paid a lot of casualties in just a few days, but he was worried that if he continued to suffer such casualties, it would cause dissatisfaction in the army, so now the attack has been suspended, and the Jiaozhi people are desperately asking us for peace during this time, but the war is provoked by them first, and they want to make peace if they can't fight, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?" (To be continued......)