The next day, there was a large banquet in the main hall of the Luanhe Palace, the nobles of the Liao State and the envoys of various countries were all present, and Yelu Hongji on the dragon chair held his wine glass high and said: "Today is my birthday, everyone toast together!" ”

"I wish your majesty a long life! Longevity! As soon as Yelu Hongji's words fell, the civil and military officials of the Liao State immediately stood up and saluted him, and then a burst of birthday music sounded, and Yelu Hongji immediately signaled the hundred officials to calm down, and then everyone raised their wine glasses and drank the first glass of wine together.

Immediately after a group of dancing girls entered the main hall, began to dance the dance of birthday celebration in the hall, and after the end of this dance, the civil and military officials of the Liao State have presented their own birthday gifts to Yelu Hongji, among which the longevity peach made of gold, the flaming red coral tree produced in the South China Sea, the BMW produced in the Western Regions, etc., although the gifts are different, but they are all precious and rare.

After the civil and military officials sent the birthday gift, they also went to the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty and other countries to send the birthday gift, the first one was naturally the Great Song Dynasty, only to see Zhao Ji strode into the hall, and saluted Yelu Hongji and said: "Your Majesty, the first gift prepared by my Great Song Dynasty for Your Majesty is called Wanshou Tu, which is written by hundreds of our calligraphers, writing 10,000 longevity characters, and please read it!" ”

Zhao Ji said and waved his hand, and immediately several attendants sent a thick scroll up, and then gently opened it on the ground, and as a result, on this scroll about several zhang long, it was written a very priceless calligraphy work.

"Good! The Great Song Dynasty is worthy of being an outstanding person, and only the Great Song Dynasty can write such calligraphy! Yelu Hongji also praised loudly when he saw this picture of longevity. He has always loved calligraphy and poetry, and now he naturally likes this picture of longevity that has taken a lot of thought.

Next, Zhao Ji also sent several other important birthday gifts one by one to introduce, such as the incomparably valuable Shu brocade, porcelain, etc., all of which are the top commodities of the Great Song Dynasty's foreign exports, and it can be seen from here that the Great Song Dynasty attaches great importance to commerce, and even the birthday gifts given to Yelu Hongji are these export commodities, so that it is equivalent to playing a large-scale advertisement for free, and the surrounding Liao nobles are likely to be aroused to buy them after seeing these gifts. Thus increasing the external business income of the Great Song Dynasty.

Wait until Zhao Ji sends a birthday gift. Next, Western Xia, Dali, Goryeo and other countries also sent birthday gifts in turn, and there were also some tribal leaders within the Liao State, such as Jurchens, Xi people and other tribes, of course, the status of these tribal leaders was far lower than that of the envoys of various countries. There are good and bad gifts. A qiē is all related to their tribal strength.

Zhao Yan was very interested in these tribal leaders of the Liao State. To be precise, he was very interested in a certain tribe, but unfortunately he didn't know which tribe leader was the person he was looking for. At this moment, I suddenly saw one of the middle-aged men wearing animal skins stand up and salute Yelu Hongji and said, "Wanyan Congratulations to Your Majesty on your longevity. Ten black bear skins, twenty red fox skins, and twenty hundred-year-old ginseng ......"

Hearing the three words "Wanyan", Zhao Yan immediately perked up, he finally found the person he was looking for, and looked seriously at the middle-aged man in animal skin, only to see that the other party had a round cake face, thin eyes, a big nose and a big mouth, a typical Jurchen appearance, which made Zhao Yan finally completely sure that this guy was the person he was looking for.

I saw that after the gifts prepared by the leader of the Wanyan Department were delivered, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Yelu Hongji a few times, and then crawled and retreated, which is the common salute of all the Jurchen tribes when they saw the nobles of the Liao State, because in the eyes of the Khitan nobles, the Jurchens are actually a group of talking beasts, so they are not qualified to look up at themselves, so the Jurchens salute the Khitan nobles, and they must crawl back and retreat, otherwise they may anger the other party, which will lead to death.

Zhao Yan, who was sitting next to him, looked at the Wanyan Ministry leader with his forehead to the ground, and crawled down after using his hands and feet, but he was sneering in his heart, don't look at the Wanyan Department is so deferential to the emperor of the Liao State now, but who would have thought that a few decades later, it was this group of Jurchens who were despised by the Khitans who destroyed the Liao State with lightning speed, and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty a year later, leaving only the Southern Song Dynasty to guard the small court of Lin'an.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao Yan's mouth couldn't help but hang a sneer, although he didn't like Liao, but in comparison, he hated those barbaric Jurchens even more, especially thinking of what the Jurchens did after they captured Kaifeng (this history is too cruel, book friends with strong psychological tolerance can check it), it makes him extremely heartbroken, now that he has crossed over, then he will never let those Jurchens have a chance to rise again!

After everyone sent the birthday gifts, the birthday banquet finally officially began, the music sounded, the dancers danced very happily, and the wine and food were also sent up, and then everyone drank happily, and the hall was full of jubilation, which seemed to be a bit of a prosperous scene, which also made Yelu Hongji laugh happily and revel in the lively atmosphere created by himself.

However, in contrast, Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji were a little worried, because they knew that Yelu Chongyuan's father and son were likely to take advantage of the birthday banquet to carry out a coup d'état, but because the birthday banquet was going to be held for three days, Zhao Yan and the others did not know which day Yelu Chongyuan's father and son planned to carry out a coup d'état?

Speaking of which, in the three-day birthday banquet, Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan only needed to show up when they gave gifts just now, and the rest of the time was to eat, drink and have fun, even if they left quietly, no one would know, so Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan had already planned, as long as Yelu Chongyuan's father and son did not make a coup d'état on the first day, then they would leave quietly the next morning, so as not to put themselves in danger.

It is precisely because of the above plan, so at the beginning of the banquet, Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji secretly prayed in their hearts, hoping that Yelu Chongyuan's father and son would not carry out a coup d'état today! In addition, from the beginning of the banquet, the attention of the two of them has been on Yelu Chongyuan, who is sitting not far away, but the other party is now talking and laughing with the people around him, and it seems that he has no intention of rebelling at all.

But even so, Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji didn't dare to relax in the slightest, because they knew that Yelu Nerugu did not attend the birthday banquet because he was injured, and he was the one who strongly advocated Yelu Chongyuan's rebellion, so as long as Yelu Nerugu was there, Yelu Chongyuan's people could rush in at any time.

Speaking of Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji's good luck, the birthday banquet on the first day lasted until the end and there was nothing abnormal, Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan saw that Yelu Chongyuan was poured a lot of wine, and he was drunk in a mess, and then he was carried down by some palace people, which also made them breathe a sigh of relief, Yelu Chongyuan did drink a lot of wine, and it didn't seem like he was pretending to be drunk, so today, today should not be the day of his coup d'état, otherwise he must at least stay sober.

However, although Yelu Chongyuan left, but the birthday banquet is still continuing, according to the arrangement of the Liao State, the three-day birthday banquet starts every morning, and will not end until the third watch in the evening, although the sky outside is already dark, but it is still far from the third watch, and because many people are half drunk, the birthday banquet is more lively, especially those Liao nobles and tribal leaders, the demeanor that they tried to maintain before has long been gone, and they are drinking one by one. Many people are no longer confined to their own wine tables, but carry wine jugs around looking for people to fight for wine, and some people start to sing and dance to the music, only to jump halfway to the "coodong" drunk to the ground, and then dragged down to rest.

"Although the nobles of the Liao Kingdom have studied my Central Plains etiquette for many years, it is a pity that they have no own background after all, and they usually look decent in front of people, but as soon as they drink, they immediately return to their original form, and now these Liao nobles are not much different from those tribal leaders." At this time, Su Shi leaned into the ears of Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji and whispered, with a bit of disdain in his tone, if it was the birthday banquet of the Great Song Emperor, there would definitely not be such a chaotic situation in front of him.

"Haha, this is also, last year's father's birthday banquet, it was also a big banquet for hundreds of officials, but in the end, although there were many drunk people, they either recited poems or discussed Fengyue, except for a few envoys from other countries, there was indeed no one like the nobles of Liao State singing and dancing." Zhao Ji also nodded in agreement when he heard this, although he had always been respectful to Yelu Hongji and other Liao nobles on the surface, but in fact, he looked down on each other in his heart, because in his and Su Shi's opinion, the Liao State was established by a foreign race after all, although the national strength was stronger than that of the Great Song Dynasty, but there was a barbaric atmosphere in his bones.

Zhao Yan didn't have a particularly big sense of civilization superiority for Su Shi and Zhao Xuan, and even he felt that the Liao banquet in front of him was not bad, at least it was very lively, as for the banquet in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Yan didn't like it, the key is that although he can memorize a few poems, if he discusses poems with others, it will definitely be exposed, so if Zhao Yan chooses, he would rather have a banquet without poems.

Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji had something in their hearts, they didn't leave the venue in advance because they had to monitor Yelu Chongyuan, and they saw that Yelu Chongyuan was also drunk before, the two of them looked around again, and now they didn't pay attention to them, so after discussing it, the two decided to leave now, and then go back to discuss how to leave tomorrow.

In addition, Su Shi didn't know anything about this matter, and he was worried that he would accidentally leak it out, and he would have to confess to him tonight, so in this case, Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji pulled Su Shi to stand up and were about to leave. But at this moment, he suddenly heard a noise from the table next to him, and then he only saw a scream, it seemed that someone was fighting, and when Zhao Yan turned his head to look, he stopped in some surprise. (To be continued!u.)

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