Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and prosperous, with an open atmosphere, and from the bones it was arrogant, domineering, like a noble son, and had to be looked up to in the dignity.

The Kaifeng of the Song Dynasty is also expensive, not noble, it is rich, I can't see the arrogance of Chang'an City, even the palace is surrounded by civilian houses, no longer lonely to stay in the north of Chang'an City and look down on the whole city, or like a kind-hearted land, full of brocade robes, pleasant spring breeze, although rich, but full of civilian models.

Including the names of the divisions, the inner divisions are considered normal, the Academy, the Imperial City Division, the Sifang Pavilion, the Ke Province, the East and West Shangweimen, the Tongjin Division, the Inner Bow, the Sword and Gun Armor Arsenal, the Hanlin Division, the Inner Servant Province, etc. But when he arrived at the outer divisions, this civilian atmosphere was exposed, such as the French wine storehouse, the inner wine shop, the cattle and sheep division, the cheese courtyard, the Yiluan division, the Cheluan courtyard, the worship warehouse, the sundries warehouse, the miscellaneous sales, the east and west workshops, the upper and lower realms of the silk brocade courtyard, the cultural embroidery courtyard and so on. In order to train the soldiers, Zhucang is in the south of the state, and the soldiers need to carry the south warehouse into the north camp, and they are not allowed to hire people to carry the burden, and they come on their shoulders, but when the straw comes, the business is prosperous, the ox carts are clogged with the roads, and the rear of the cars is connected. Outside the Donghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, it is a commercial giant market, where it is forbidden to buy and sell, so the food, the new flowers and fruits, the fish are turtle crabs, quail rabbits, and gold and jade treasures play with clothes, and the wonders of the world can not be seen here. Its things and the quality of ten, the guest wine to be divided into one or twenty flavors, if it is the age of fruit melon, vegetables and eggplant gourds on the new market, not to take the catty, but to the value, often a pair can be worth thirty or fifty thousand, the rich compete for the expensive price to get.

It can also be seen everywhere in other places, restaurants and inns, everywhere you can see the purple clothes with the white shirt and hood sitting together, talking about wine.

Zheng Lang is the most prosperous, and occasionally outside the court, he can hardly be seen wearing official uniforms, all of which are white shirts and hoods or ordinary scarves, and he is extremely civilian. Dr. Ranshi was not ashamed of it.

This kind of commonwealth also encourages the common people to like to talk about politics.

Witnessing Yang Shousu entering the palace, many people began to discuss.

It is very interesting, some people oppose the peace, and the Tangut people should be beaten, beaten hard, so that they will never be able to live beyond their lives. There are many people who hold this view. The indignant youth did not exist in later generations, and the foreign politics of the Song Dynasty also produced many indignant youths, including the common people, the literati, and the poems.

There are still a few people who want to make peace.

Up to now, the Song Dynasty, with the efforts of the monarchs and ministers, has little influence, and it is impossible that it has no impact at all, and the interests of some groups have begun to be harmed. Among them were some merchants, as well as some ordinary people. They were overwhelmed and wanted peace.

The streets were crowded with people as they had been in the past, but the minds of many people flew to the palace, speculating on what was being said in the palace.

Out of the royal street, it is the state bridge, also called the Tianhan Bridge, the bridge is a little short, only the West River can cross the flat boat. Along both sides of the bridge are stone walls, carved with seahorse water beast flying cloud pattern, stand bluestone as a pillar, do stone beam stalagmites, and set up two shallow boats in the west of the bridge, put several giant dry iron guns at the head, hold iron cables on the shore, hang on the water surface at night, prevent the fire boat. To the south of the state bridge, it is the famous night market in the capital, when the street sells rice, pork, dried food, badgers, wild foxes, preserved meat, chickens in front of the Wang Building, Mei family and Lujia snacks goose, duck and chicken free belly lungs, eel buns, chicken skin, waist and kidney, chicken minced, each fifteen Wen. All the way to the Suzaku Gate, all kinds of snacks, dizzying. After nightfall, many people in the capital poured in, eating from beginning to end, called miscellaneous chewing, until the third watch.

There is also business during the day, and some restaurants come and go, and the tidings have been ringing since the third watch, and they have never stopped. In a restaurant by the river, a pair of young men and women are sitting. Looking out from the window, you can't see the outside, and the city of Tokyo is still thriving as usual.

But the young man and woman knew that this prosperity was a sign of exhaustion.

The woman raised her head and asked, "Yan Lang, do you think the peace negotiation will be successful?" ”

The little fat man put down his chopsticks and said, "Lady, I don't know." ”

"Your husband didn't write to you?"

"I wrote it, but I said that we have all grown up, and we must learn to read and think in the future."

"Is he going to give up on you?"

"You can't talk nonsense," Yan Rong was so anxious that he didn't know what to say. Without Zheng Lang, there is him today. The teacher is like a female eagle, bringing up her eaglets and letting her reading power fly. Holding the chopsticks and pondering, he said after a while: "Lady, I don't know, but where did the person come from the gentleman to the capital, I guess it's weird." ”

"You say it's fake and?"

"I think it will, if it is true peace, they will send an envoy directly to the capital."

"Still fighting?"

"The war will not be long." Yan Rong lowered his head and began to eat.

"Why is the war so short?"

Yan Rong didn't answer and continued to eat.

"Speak."

"Redundant."

Little Lady Chen was a little dizzy and asked, "What's redundant?" ”

"The Tang Dynasty transported a bucket of materials from Jiangnan to Chang'an, and the cost was only about 30 Wen. Now from Sanmenxia to the west, since ancient times, the channels opened have been congested, but the cost is only twice as much, and then to Jingyuan Road, it takes two times and four times enough. The shipping cost is still ten times that of the Tang Dynasty! Where did the sixfold go? ”

"Where?"

"Taizong used troops in the northwest, and the country was short of it, so he took salt, wine and tea, sent additional servants, and encouraged merchants to transport materials to the northwest. Why has it not been interrupted since then? ”

"Why?"

"I don't want it to be interrupted. So the loss of expenses is three or four times enough, and it becomes ten times. In the past, I asked my husband in Taiping Prefecture that he used money to buy grain in the northwest, and salt and tea to attract wine to the imperial court, so that not only the northwest could get good grain, but the imperial court would also save money. Mr. said, that's the case, once it is implemented, Haoqiang will be damaged, and the world will be in an uproar, who will dare to implement it? The Northwest has used troops for three years, and the cost is nearly 100 million yuan, and the imperial court is overwhelmed, and it is inevitable. ”

The solution is not very simple, many disadvantages are like this, they can be solved in a very simple way, why not do it. Behind the simplicity, there is a very complex background. Therefore, they had to open fields and open three white canals to solve the grain problem from the local area.

Little Lady Chen was silent.

Then he raised his head and looked in the direction of the palace to the north.

……

Yang Shousu replied calmly: "Your Majesty, the two countries are at war, the people are not happy, my lord has repentance, but I am afraid that the court will refuse and be humiliated." Thinking of the four ministers on the edge, only Zheng Lang had the highest merit and was the deputy minister of Xifu, so he asked the minister to come to Weizhou to test Zheng Lang's style, open the gap, and heal the wounds. ”

"You are a good boy of the Han family...... Why are you ...... thief?" Zhao Zhen sighed. calmly resolved, and the response was very decent, which is also a kind of ability, Zhao Zhen has a heart of love.

How could Yang Shousu answer?

Zhao Zhen's gentleness is also a kind of personality charm, but the bow that is opened has no arrow to turn back! At this time, Yang Shousu felt a little melancholy in his heart.

"Is Yuan Hao really harmonious or a repeat of the old trick?" Lu Yijian asked.

"No, how dare I go to Beijing?"

"Ruohe, ask him to write a confession and submit it to the capital." Zhang Dexiang said.

"The people of the two countries are good, if they admit their sins, and the people of Daxia do not accept it, the Lord will be embarrassed."

"How can Yuan Hao get along?" Yan Shu asked.

"Your Majesty, your ministers, the ministers just came to Weizhou to talk to Zheng Xianggong on the order of the lord, and they didn't expect Zheng Xianggong to send the ministers to the capital, Yu Xingzhou has not talked about specific terms, Your Majesty wants to turn the war into a jade silk, the minister will immediately return to Xingzhou, inform the lord, let the lord draw up the terms, and then come to Beijing to discuss with you."

Let's hurry up.

The capital is good, but it is not a place for me to stay.

"Zhuqing, what do you think?" Zhao Zhen asked the prime ministers.

Several prime ministers thought for a while, and Yan Shu said: "That's fine, as long as Yuan Hao confesses his guilt in a letter, he can negotiate peace." ”

Several other prime ministers chimed in.

Zhao Zhen looked at several bigwigs, holding Zheng Lang's secret music under the table with his left hand, and at this time, he suddenly felt ridiculous.

After a pause, he said: "Yang Shousu, you have come from afar, the carriage and horses are tired, since you have come to the capital, I will discuss with Zhuqing a grass submission, let you take it back to Xingzhou, and I will send someone to take you to the post house to rest." ”

If you want to go back, it's that simple.

sent someone to send Yang Shousu to the post house half-pulled and half-strong.

He looked at Yan Shu again and asked: "Yan Xianggong, what if he repeats his old trick and does not make peace, but it is really to tempt my border soldiers to neglect to prevent war and attack suddenly?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister of the border attaches great importance to vigilance, if the war is prepared, if the peace is the summer thief who takes the initiative to send an envoy to our court to discuss peace, the negotiation is beneficial to our court."

Several more prime ministers echoed him.

This is the consistent policy of the Song Dynasty, the ostrich policy. When the enemy comes, he burrows his head into the sand, hits, it doesn't hurt, it hurts, he sticks out his mouth and pecks it to fight back. The enemy stopped fighting, and went to a short distance to rest and prepare for another battle, and the ostrich stood up again, refreshed, and showed off his might.

Fortunately, the Khitan is getting more and more falling, the Western Xia is thin and weak, and the Song Dynasty is slightly weighty, and the diplomatic pain is heavy, and there is no danger to life. Once you don't have weight, the enemy becomes more ferocious, and destruction comes.

Zhao Zhen didn't think about it so long-term, he only felt that this scene was very funny, listening to a few bigwigs talking eloquently, but his heart flew to the book at the bottom of the case, there were eight words on it, Your Majesty can be seen as a group of ministers and fools. Silently meditating in my heart, I know by doing, I see foolishness, but I don't see wisdom.

Waving weakly, he said, "Go down too." ”

It's very hurtful.

……

It was not Zhao Zhen who was really injured, but another person.

But at this time, he was in high spirits, and he didn't realize it at all.

Fu Bi and Zhang Maoshi came to Khitan Qingquandian in August. At this time, the Khitan continued to make bowls in the summer, and in the northeast of Montenegro, they did not turn to the Fuhu Forest in the autumn bowls. The distance from the capital is also nearly 200 miles farther than Fuhulin.

Fu Bi and Zhang Maoshi sat down to rest. Both of them were very hard, from Montenegro to the capital for thousands of miles, in just three months, they ran back and forth for one and a half trips, not counting more than half of the delay. Fu Bi is even more bitter, plus a Le Shou to go back and forth to the capital.

I was so tired that I was just about to rest, and the Khitan Pavilion accompanied Ye Luren and Liu Liufu first and asked why.

Fu Bi replied: "You Khitan must not be in-laws, you can marry, there is nothing." Or the money and silk alliance can make the Western Xia supplement and increase by 200,000 per year, or if it doesn't, it will increase by 100,000. I brought with me two letters of state, three affidavit. ”

Now you should be satisfied, what do you Khitan want? The choice is yours.

But there is no money for the people, and there is no one for the money.

I was so angry that I let it out, and I didn't give the two pavilion companions a good face at all. In his thoughts, he shouldn't mention it with his relatives, damn Lu Yijian!

The two companions knew they were bored and left quickly.

The next day, Liao Xingzong received, the specifications were very high, there was his imperial brother Yelu Chongyuan, the future Xiao Feng's sworn brother Khitan prince Liang Wang Yelu Hongji, Khitan ministers Xiao Xiaosi, Xiao Xiaomu, Ma Baozhong and others, separated on both sides.

Liao Xingzong said slowly: "The marriage may separate the flesh and blood of the Southern Dynasty, maybe the princess and the king of Liang may not be happy, what should I do?" ”

It seems to be quite nicely said, but is it really so easy to make peace? The Khitan little emperor changed his voice and said: "It's better to increase the New Year's coin, but increasing the New Year's coin for no reason is not beautiful in the end, I need a name, and I must add a dedication to the oath." ”

It's not that our Khitan violated the alliance of the Yuanyuan, these 200,000 are dedicated to our Khitan by your Song Dynasty.

Fu Bi was so angry that he trembled all over, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "Offering is a word of offering, and it cannot be applied to the enemy country. Besides, the Southern Dynasty is a brother, how can a brother be dedicated to his brother's evil? ”

The little emperor of the Liao State said: "The Southern Dynasty left me with thick coins, because they were afraid of our Khitan, and the money was given, what is a small dedication?" ”

Fu Bi's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said angrily: "I am the emperor who cherishes the living souls, so I am not afraid of the Northern Dynasty, Your Majesty suddenly said this, it is to abandon the old good, if so, what will I be afraid of!" ”

All retreat to this, you still have to spoof, then start a war!

Let's die together!

Liao Xingzong was frightened by Fu Bi's big eyes, and couldn't help but take a step back, he was really a little scared, this Han man was not afraid of death, he had read Han books, and he was not allowed to learn Tang Ju, and if he was angry, he would become a ridiculous King of Qin.

It was the spirit of Fubi that strengthened the alliance between the Khitan and the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were ministers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, but there were also many ministers who were not afraid of death, and there were so many people, soldiers, and wealth. In a fight, it may not be known who will kill the deer.

Liao Xingzong turned a thought in his heart and said: "You can't offer words, how about changing it?" ”

"No way!" Fu Bi continued to roll his eyes wide.

Lu Yijian's mind was wrong, if he sent his people over, I don't know what this negotiation would become. Under the residual authority of the Khitan, these negotiations can be negotiated, and there are not a few people in the entire Song Dynasty.

Liao Xingzong was helpless and said, "Where is the oath?" Take 200,000. ”

"Can the Khitan make the Western Xia section attached?"

"Little Xixia, command the ear!" Our Khitan is not your Song Dynasty, we have been fighting for three or four years, just like milk, we haven't squeezed out milk for half a day, and our mouths have been worn out. Let Xixia obey the order, at most send a messenger, and the little Yuan Hao will lower his head and come to the Khitan to confess.

You have such a mind......

Fu Bi took out the credentials and affidavit.

At this time, Liao Xingzong showed his cute side many times, hugged the letter of state and the oath tightly, the action was very funny, the goal was obtained, it was better to be able to increase, and it was not bad if the terms on the letter could not be added, and it could not be returned to the envoy of the Song Dynasty. hugged it tightly, felt at ease, and said: "I will add a word to the widow, and I am stubborn, I am afraid that I will lose the main thing." If I support my troops to go south, won't it be a disaster for the Southern Dynasty? ”

"Your Majesty, can you guarantee that your country will win when it goes south?"

Liao Xingzong was cute again and replied honestly: "No." ”

At this time, Fu Bi made the cunning and honesty of this little emperor so angry that he laughed, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and said: "You may not win, how do you know that you are undefeated?" ”

"Since the Southern Dynasty gave me a thick coin, why do you have to care about a Na Zi, besides Na Zi, you Han people have had it since ancient times."

"Since ancient times, only Tang Gaozu borrowed troops from the Turks, to serve as a minister, at that time it was called a sacrifice, and it is not known, and then Jieli was captured by Taizong. Is this kind of circular retribution what you Khitan want? At this, Fu Bi roared.

Liao Xingzong saw that Fu Bi's words were full of strength, and knew that his ambition was unbreakable, and said: "I will send an envoy to discuss it with the Southern Dynasty." ”

You kid is not afraid of death, but some of you in the Song Dynasty are ministers who are afraid of death, so I don't play with you, I play with other ministers in your Song Dynasty.

"If I wish to make a letter to Your Majesty, please record your Majesty's conversation with Your Majesty today, so that I can ask for guilt."

Liao Xingzong was silent, and said after a while: "Qing Zhongxiao is a state affair, how can it be a crime. ”

Speaking of this, unable to talk any further, Fu Bi withdrew from the account. Although it is August, the northern country is cold early, the autumn wind has risen, the yellow clouds in the sky are blown by the wind and tumbling and galloping, Fu Bi pointed to the green mountains in the distance and said loudly: "This mountain can be climbed, but the word you want to offer is more difficult than climbing to the sky, it is absolutely impossible." My head will be cut off, and I will never agree to this. ”

The sound was like thunder, suppressing the whimpering wind, and after hearing this, the Khitan monarchs and ministers in the tent were quiet......