In December, Zhao Baozhong (i.e., Li Jisheng) replied to the decree that Li Jiqian had surrendered. The goal was achieved, regardless of whether it was true or not, the surrender of the son-in-law of the Liao State to the Song Dynasty was at least a major diplomatic victory. On the 18th, Li Jiqian was appointed as the assassin of Yinzhou.

In this year, the Great Khitan began the first imperial examination in their history. Only 1 person was admitted to this subject, and the best of the best were really selected. His name was Gaudí.

On January 11, the 2nd year of Duangong (989), Yelu Longxu ordered all the armies to gather under the city of Yizhou. On the 21st, the siege began, and the next day the city was broken. The Great Song Dynasty Yizhou assassinated Liu Qi and descended to Liao. That is, the horse quality was used as the history of the Great Liao Yizhou Thorn and announced the withdrawal of the army. On the 29th, he returned to Youzhou.

On January 11, above the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor asked the civil and military ministers to prepare their own strategies. Zhang Xun, Wang Yuyan, and Tian Xi all made their own speeches.

On March 7, the Great Liao Yuyue, the king of the Song Dynasty, and the god of war Yelu Hugo held a grand rebirth ceremony. According to the Great Liao system, only the emperor and the empress dowager could hold the rebirth ceremony. Jeruxiugo won this honor for his brilliant military exploits, which can be described as an outlier. But Hugh himself may not know the Dao, this is his last illustrious appearance. Because in more than 4 months, he will meet the nemesis of his life...

On July 6, due to Zhao Pu's recommendation, Zhang Qixian was transferred to the Hui Dynasty and served as the deputy privy envoy.

Jeruxiugo got the news in July. The Song army's prestige army was short of food and grass, and Zhao Guangyi ordered Li Jilong to send a large number of elite troops to escort thousands of grain trucks to rescue the emergency. Grain, grass, grain... When Jeruxiu heard this, he came to his senses. He personally led tens of thousands of elite cavalry, not only to destroy the grain and grass of the Song army, but also to take the opportunity to wipe out all Li Jilong's troops.

On the way to the march, the god of war very accidentally encountered a small patrol of the Song army. This mixed infantry and cavalry force is only more than 1,000 people. The god of war ignores it, so he doesn't see it. But he didn't know that this was the only and fatal mistake he made in his life...

The leader of this Song army has a big black face, and his name is Yin Jilun. Gather all your men together, "These bastards think of themselves as swordsmen, and we all as fish and meat. They will go to war. If you win, come back and snatch us to the north. If you lose, you'll be angry with us when you come back. Today's plan. Let us roll up our armor and follow them. Give them a raid. If we win, we have done a great job. If you lose, you will not lose your loyalty. What do you think?"

As a result, Yin Jilun's whole team immediately quietly followed behind the Khitans and followed them until near the Tang River in the last battle. Don't shoot a gun, work quietly ... Just the next morning, before dawn, when the Khitans had just had breakfast, Yin Jilun and his 1,000 subordinates suddenly rushed into the camp of tens of thousands of people. Cut down when you see someone. and cut directly at the handsome tent of Yelu Hugh. Brother Hugh was eating breakfast, and the chopsticks were still in his hand, when a Song soldier rushed to the front and almost cut off his arm with a knife in his hand. According to records, this was the first time that the god of war fled on a horse on the battlefield. At the same time, Li Jilong, his deputy Kong Shouzheng in Dingzhou City, and Fan Tingzhao in Zhenzhou were all alarmed. The army covered up and killed, and Jeruhugo was seriously wounded and fled. In this battle, the Liao army suffered an unprecedented setback. "History of the Song Dynasty" recorded in two sentences after the war: "The Liao people did not dare to go south for several years" and "The Liao people prescribed: When the black-faced king Yin Jilun avoided", it was time to watch the joint performance of Li Jishuang and Li Jiqian, a pair of party brothers. They will dazzle and dizzy both the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Khitan.

In January of the first year of Chunhua (990), Zhao Pu resigned due to illness. On December 9, the Great Khitan wanted to offset Li Jiqian's surrender to the Song Dynasty two years ago. The Song Dynasty named him the influence of the Yinzhou Assassin History, and sealed his own concubine Li Jiqian as the king of Xia.

On June 7, the 2nd year of Chunhua (991), Pan Mei, the first brave general of the Northern Song Dynasty, died. This is a real soldier. It is precisely because of his purity that he is subordinate to others in the officialdom. It's not a shame for him. On the contrary, it is his glory! Maybe his military talent is too high, so the monarchs of Zhao and Song are wary of him! Think about it, why did you give Cao Bin Shangfang the sword when he conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty? Why didn't Yongxi take him as the main general during the Northern Expedition? To the generals of the generals. Beware!

Pan Mei's father, Pan Lan, was just an ordinary military academy, and he was destined to start from the lowest level when he started. But he had great ambitions, and once said to his friend Wang Mi: "The Han Dynasty is coming to an end, the murderous ministers are raging, and there are signs of change in the four seas." The eldest husband does not make meritorious service at this time, takes wealth and wealth, and does everything with all things, but he is ashamed to "just like the eldest husband was born in troubled times, he should carry a three-foot sword and make immortal merits to ascend to the rank of the Son of Heaven."

Pan Mei's fame began with the first battle of Gaoping in Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong. Although there is no accurate record, he was promoted to the deputy envoy of the West Pavilion Gate after the war, and since then he has emerged in the Later Zhou Dynasty and has been recognized by Zhao Kuangyin. After that, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied, Pan Mei dared to go back to Kaifeng alone, so that the civil and military forces of the Later Zhou Manchu Dynasty listened to his message and were panicked and helpless, and the Queen Mother took the little emperor out of the palace for refuge. After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Pan Mei rode into Shaanxi alone and took Zhao Kuangyin's political opponent Yuan Yan into Beijing to meet His Majesty.

In history, Zhao Kuangyin returned to Kaifeng on the day of the mutiny, and when he entered the palace to clean up the ruins of Chai Rong, he found Chai Rong's two youngest sons. One of them is King Ji. Zhao Kuangyin asked what to do, Zhao Pu smiled slightly, and only replied with 2 words, "Go", and the people around him agreed. Only Pan Mei pinched the pillar with her hand and bowed her head silently. Zhao Kuangyin asked, "You think it's unacceptable," Pan Mei was silent. Zhao Kuangyin sighed, "Alas! That is, the position of the person, the son of the murderer, I can't bear to be" At this time, Pan Meicai said, "The minister and His Majesty are both in the north of Zhou Shizong." persuade His Majesty to kill him, that is, to lose Shizong. persuade His Majesty not to kill, His Majesty will suspect me" But he still took Chai Rong's 1 son home and raised him as his nephew. From then on, Zhao Kuangyin didn't ask, and he never mentioned it. This is Pan Mei. He can chase fame and fortune and compete for merit, but he will never be desperate to destroy his conscience!

Later, Zhao Guangyi was ambitious and sent Pan Mei, Cao Bin, and Tian Chongjin to lead a 3-way army to recover 16 states of Yanyun. Pan Mei is in charge of the West Road. It was this expedition that happened the most criticized thing in his life - the failure of the Northern Expedition and the death of Yang Ye in battle. But please look at the overall situation, Pan Mei has been devastating all the way, connecting the 4 states of Huan, Shuo, Yun and Ying. He progressed too fast, dwarfing Cao Bin, who was the main attacker on the East Road. Cao Bin was at both ends of the rat, advancing and retreating, and chaotic formation, which led to the defeat of Qigou Pass. Cao Bin was defeated, Pan Mei had to retreat, and then Yang Ye was defeated in Chenjiagu and died in battle. Investigate the root cause, if there is no defeat of Cao Bin, how can Pan Mei withdraw from the army? How could Yang Ye die? But Pan Mei was ashamed of this, and she was unhappy in her heart until she died of illness in Taiyuan.

Throughout Pan Mei's life. He is worthy of the heroes of a lifetime, and the great husband of the people. hated an unknown person who wrote a book "The Romance of the Yang Family", and since then Pan Renmei has become a heinous traitor. And the reason why he can call the wind and rain is completely because his daughter is Zhao Guangyi's Xigong Niangniang.

It's pitiful, Pan Mei's daughter is Song Zhenzong's daughter-in-law and Zhao Guangyi's daughter-in-law! And died before Zhenzong ascended the throne, the "Empress Zhang Huai" who was posthumously crowned after Zhenzong ascended the throne really has the power of the harem is Cao Bin! The granddaughter of the first general married Song Renzong. Later, there was a stronger great-granddaughter, the Empress Dowager Gao, who helped a certain brother who smashed the cylinder to restore the old one.

Pan Mei, Cao Bin... This is the Gemini constellation shining on the field in the early Song Dynasty, the pride of the Han people. It's just that Cao Bin was respected at the time and admired by later generations. Pan Mei is falling apart day by day, and she is rumored to have become a generation of treacherous ...... Sad! Every penny he earned from the Zhao Song official family. Smell it and smell it is full of the bloody smell on the battlefield. Thrown to the ground, each piece was enough to hurt Cao Bin's feet. But that's fate. Since the Song Dynasty, China has become a world of bastards who have been wronged and rewarded for their good character...

In July, Li Jiqian heard that the Song general Zhai Shousu was going to send troops to attack him, and hurriedly announced that he would surrender again. The price was that he was also renamed and was called Zhao Baoji from then on. In addition, Zhao Baozhong (that is, Li Jichong) also recommended his younger brother Li Jichong. All right! Let's change the name too! From now on, your name is Zhao Baoning. In October, this time Li Jisheng didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, maybe Xiao Jiji had robbed him of his privileges in the Great Song Dynasty? Or does he also want to marry a Liao princess? So he also surrendered to the Great Khitan. Well... The princess is not there for the time being, but I will also give you a high-ranking official - King Xiping. What do you think? It's higher than what Da Song gave, right? Not so good. Zhao Baozhong was enraged. Xiao Qian is now a king, and I am a king? Empress Dowager Xiao, do you know that Xiao Qianqian is also a member of the Great Song Dynasty now? You really don't know the way?

Empress Dowager Xiao was furious, the bastard's party item was white-faced! Married the princess of my Liao Kingdom. even became an official of the Song Dynasty! This will not be tolerated! In December, she sent the general Han Dewei to lead the troops to ask for the guilt!

In February of the 3rd year of Chunhua (992), the mother-in-law of Liao came to scold, let him go... Li Jiqian fell ill. No visitors... So Han Dewei had no choice but to vent his anger on other party members. came to a traditional sports project of the Khitan people, played a large-scale grass valley, and then returned to China to make a difference...

July 14th. Zhao Pu, the founding prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, died in Luoyang, Xijing, the Great Song Dynasty, at the age of 71. Throughout the life of the first prime minister, it can be divided into 3 stages: in the first stage, he has unlimited scenery, from a commoner to the founding prime minister, and has been alone for 10 years, which is rare in the long river of history, and can be compared with Qin Prime Minister Li Si and Han Prime Minister Xiao. After that, his fate was very similar to these people, he flourished and declined, stood on the verge of death, and even fell into disrepute at any time. In the second stage, he reappeared as a pure speculative politician, helped the emperor and saved himself, and returned to the top from the bottom of his life. In the third stage, Zhao Pu spent the last five years of his life, not using power and tricks, not coercing or cheating, but with real work, so that his former political enemies and the current emperor sincerely accepted him, and let his younger generations take him as an example, so that his political behavior and typical political methods will continue to reappear in the years to come. Such a person is usually called a peerless person.

On August 1st, the temple in Zhao Guangyi's heart - the "Secret Pavilion" of the Great Song Dynasty New Book Museum was completed, and on the 7th, the emperor wrote the "Secret Pavilion" 2-character inscription plaque in flying white calligraphy. And since then, he has continued to take prime ministers, privy envoys, close ministers, and even military generals to study in the Secret Pavilion, so that the whole world will know the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty Wenru!

On November 10, Zhao Guangyi's second son, quasi-crown prince, Kaifeng Yin, and Xu Wang Zhao Yuanxi went to work normally, but as soon as he sat in the waiting room of the early dynasty, he felt uncomfortable. And immediately I can't support it, so I go home immediately. Zhao Guangyi then rushed to the bed, and Yuan Xi was already lying on the bed. At first, he could answer the old father, but he died in a very short time. He was only 27 years old.

Zhao Guangyi witnessed the death of his son, was grief-stricken, hugged the corpse and wept bitterly, and posthumously presented him as Prince Gongxiao. The emperor still wept all night in the palace, lingered and couldn't sleep, wrote the "Poem of the Dead Son" and chanted it repeatedly, and passed it on to his close ministers...

But in the blink of an eye, a new order came out of the palace: to dismiss and investigate the personnel at all levels in Kaifeng Mansion and Xu Wangfu. The concubine Zhang was killed, and his parents' graves were destroyed and his relatives were exiled. On the 27th, Zhao Yuanxi's prince-level funeral was suspended, and it was reduced to only a first-class official.

The drop is too big. Why? Yuan Xi's death method fell in the eyes of Zhao Guangyi, who had studied and practiced medicine, especially poisonous wine, and the characteristics were too obvious. Immediately investigate, serious cases are handled. Zhao Guangyi sent the great eunuch Wang Jien to go out in person. Remember this man, right? It was the night of Zhao Kuangyin's death. It was he who led Zhao Guangyi into the palace. On the night of Zhao Guangyi's death, it was another coup d'état in which he wanted to carry out the second 'axe and candle shadow'.

The case was quickly solved, and so there were those sudden changes above.

Wu Zetian, in a narrow sense, is unique because she is the emperor. But in a broad sense, Wu Zetian is not the only one who has reached the actual dominance. There is also one in the Northern Song Dynasty. In ancient times, if a woman wanted to reach such a position, she had to follow the same path - to become a royal concubine. If you want to have a higher success rate. You should wait for the emperor's wedding before the emperor's pro-government to compete for the queen's throne. If you want to test your vision, try your luck among the many princes. If the prince you marry becomes the crown prince, then congratulations, Wu Zetian's shadow looms over you. The Northern Song Dynasty version of Wu Zetian is like this. At this time, she has been in the capital for many years, and she is still in absolute obscurity. No matter which condition she is measured, she is far inferior to the current quasi-crown prince Zhao Yuanxi's favorite concubine Zhang, and is closer to Wu Zetian's height.

At this time, the Zhang family had already said everything in King Xu's mansion, not only surpassing the specifications to build a large tomb for his dead parents, but also killing servants in the mansion every once in a while. The strength has long overwhelmed the lady of the main room, the Li family. Yuan Xi and the two of Zhang's had an agreement in private. It is necessary to abolish the Li family and establish the Zhang family as the main room. But you can't be in a hurry, it is much more troublesome to abolish the princess than to remove an official from the court. But Zhang didn't care, especially since she was used to killing people. So what's the big deal about another human life? Do what you think! She secretly paid a high price and asked someone to make a special wine jug with double liners inside. One puts wine and the other puts poisoned wine. On this day, Zhao Yuanxi was before leaving. Zhang took a wine jug and poured wine for him and Lee. But I don't know what illness Zhao Yuanxu committed that day, and suddenly expressed his intimacy to the eldest lady in public, and the wine glasses were exchanged. Here's a super drink... And so tragedy struck.

The Zhang family originally wanted to kill his rival with Wu Zetian's ruthlessness of killing women, but unexpectedly cut off his own support. The methods are rough and inferior, she is fundamentally too far behind the genuine Northern Song Dynasty Wu Zetian... So her ending was also extremely miserable: first chopped and then nailed, and the corpse was displayed to the public...

But could it be that his son died at the hands of his favorite concubine, and Zhao Guangyi wanted to be so angry and contemptuous, take out his anger at his dead son, and dismiss all the government officials in Kaifeng Mansion? At most, it's just that the private officials in King Xu's mansion are at fault, what is the matter with the people outside the gate?

Everything has to be found from Wang Jien for reasons. Before he got out of the horse, everything was calm. After he finished the case, Zhao Guangyi turned his face. He must have found out something...

"The End of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Continuation of the Governance of Tongjian" contains: Zhao Guangyi wants to arrest all the officials of Kaifeng Mansion and interrogate them strictly, and he will definitely get things to the bottom of the matter. At this time, a person named Wei Yu cautiously said something to the emperor, and only then could he cover up the matter: "Your Majesty, the prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty raised troops to rebel, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's accomplice to him was just a few whips. Now that King Xu's crime does not exceed that of Prince Er, he should be more lenient with his subordinates" Looking at this statement, Zhao Yuanxi's crime has reached a considerable scale. Prince Er raised troops back then, and he was lighter than Prince Er, that is, he did not raise troops, but he had conspired?

Zhao Guangyi remembered that in September last year, five ministers led by Song Xin wrote to Zhao Yuanxi as the crown prince. Zhao Guangyi's reaction was to be furious, and he criticized the four words "crazy words" on the table and severely punished the five ministers. But the matter was not over yet, Zhao Guangyi followed up and went online and called Prime Minister Lu Mengzheng as well. Sneered at the cronie he had picked up with one hand. You don't give you a few more words than others, a total of 8 words "invoking intimacy, stealing Lu and stealing An" That's it, Lu Mengzheng was dismissed as prime minister "stealing Lu and stealing An", saying that he didn't do anything, white-collar salary. But what can be done, his boss is Zhao Pu, and such an old-timer can not respect the "invoking kinship" Song Xin is a relative of his wife, and he recommended it. Fools can see that Song Xin asked for the crown prince to listen to his instructions.

Whoever it is, don't try to threaten my throne! History proves that this is the true voice of the great slut's life. Three years later, he will be roaring so openly again!

In December, the Great Khitan sent a famous general, Xiao Hengde, who stayed in Tokyo, to crusade against Goryeo. (To be continued......)