After more than a month of trekking, the Great Song Dynasty mission finally arrived in Shangjing, in comparison, the Liao State is far less prosperous than the Great Song Dynasty, such as Zhao Yan They came all the way, many times there is no post station, can only camp in the wild to rest, the city passed on the way is not particularly prosperous, in general, the biggest impression to Zhao Yan is that the land is vast and sparsely populated.

Of course, along the way, Zhao Yan did not just care about the road, but has been observing the biggest opponent of the Great Song Dynasty with his own eyes, speaking of which Zhao Yan is most interested in the ethnic issues within the Liao State, for example, although the Liao State was established by the Khitans, there are a large number of Han people, Bohai people, Uighurs and other ethnic groups in the country, among which the Han people are the largest ethnic group in the Liao State, more than the Khitans, Zhao Yan wants to know how these Han people live under the rule of the Khitans?

It is precisely because of this that everywhere he goes, Zhao Yan will deliberately observe the local Han people, and what surprised him is that the Han people here are not oppressed by the Khitans as later generations imagined, but are similar to the Great Song Dynasty, and also have their own land, and there are also rich and poor, and they are not very resentful of the Khitans who rule them, as if they have long accepted the fact of being ruled by foreign races.

In addition, what disappointed Zhao Yan even more was the attitude of those scholars among the Han people, most of the Han people in the Liao State he contacted had no sense of belonging to the Great Song Dynasty, in their opinion, their Liao State was much earlier than the Great Song Dynasty, so they were the orthodox Central Plains Dynasty, and these scholars generally called the Liao State the Northern Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty the Southern Dynasty, which also means that in their hearts, the Great Song Dynasty is actually a part of the Liao State. It's just that it was split out by the Zhao family before.

It is precisely those Han people who have these ideas, so they do not have a good impression of the Great Song Dynasty's mission, and even some people are very hostile to the Great Song Dynasty, often shouting to recover the lost territory of the Southern Dynasty. In fact, it is not surprising that this situation occurs, after all, the national concept of the ancients was relatively indifferent. In addition, the Liao State has always claimed that it is the orthodoxy of the dynasty, so that those Han people have long been brainwashed successfully, or they don't care whether it is the Han or the Khitan who rule them.

Of course, not all Han people have the above ideas, there are still a considerable number of Han people who think that the Great Song Dynasty is orthodox, but the number of these people is not much, and they are usually suppressed by the Liao State. Therefore, Zhao Yan only heard about it, and he did not meet those scholars who had a great Song Dynasty in their hearts.

Compared with the scholars, those ordinary Han people have no concept of nation and state, in their opinion, whether it is Khitan or Han. As long as they can provide for themselves and their families, then they will willingly accept the rule.

For the above situations, Zhao Yan felt heavy in his heart, because the above situations all showed that although the Liao State was established by a nomadic people, after years of rule, its foundation has been very strong, and even the Great Song Dynasty will become strong in the future. I'm afraid it's not so easy to defeat and rule the land of Liao.

As for the Jurchens who rose to prominence decades later, they just used brute force to completely shatter the Liao State, and then re-established a country on the ruins. However, this method was obviously not suitable for the Great Song Dynasty, because what the Great Song needed was to conquer rather than destroy it, and it was impossible to directly destroy civilization with barbarism like the Jurchens.

With a slightly heavy heart, Zhao Yan finally came to the capital of Liao State on this day, and on the second day after entering the city, he encountered the marriage of Princess Zheng Guo. Zhao Yan was not surprised by this, because he had just arrived in Liao on the first night. I already learned from Huang Wude that Zhang Renxian, who had become a living dead, was very blessed. Yelusi, the princess of Zhengguo who is about to marry Da Liao, in fact, Yelujun has already calculated the days on the road, and rushed to Shangjing just the day before his sister's wedding, in order to attend the wedding banquet between Princess Zhengguo and Zhang Renxian.

Originally, when Zhao Yan first heard that Zhang Renxian was going to marry Princess Zheng Guo, he was also startled at the time, thinking that Zhang Renxian had already recovered, but he didn't expect that this was a political marriage, Yelu Hongji in order to envelop Zhang Xiaojie, it can be said that he had invested enough money, and he actually pushed his daughter down the fire pit with his own hands, which also made Zhao Yan a little impressed by Yelu Hongji, it seems that the other party is not just an emperor who only knows how to indulge in wine.

After knowing that Zhang Renxian was still speechless and paralyzed, Zhao Yan finally put his heart in his stomach, and even when the other party got married today, he specially prepared a few gifts with Zhao Ji, and then came to the wedding with Yelujun, after all, whether it is Princess Zheng Guo or Zhang Xiaojie, they are both important figures in Da Liao, and it is normal for the two princes to attend such a wedding, and Zhao Yan also wants to see what Zhang Renxian looks like now.

Seeing Ye Lujun and the two princes of the Great Song Dynasty coming, Zhang Xiaojie also immediately stood up, smiled and walked a few steps forward to greet him: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the two princes are here, the lower officials have missed the welcome, I hope the three of them don't blame!" ”

"Prime Minister Zhang is polite, my third brother and I heard about Brother Ren's wedding, and said that Brother Ren Xian sent me to the Great Song Dynasty, and this king once set up a banquet to see him off, but I didn't expect that the last time I said goodbye, this meeting turned out to be the day of Brother Ren's wedding, which is really gratifying!" Zhao Ji laughed and said at this time, without mentioning Mr. Zhang Ren's illness at all, and listening to the enthusiastic tone in his words, it seemed that Zhang Renxian had nothing to do with what he is now.

Zhao Yan next to him couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he saw Zhao Xu's enthusiastic appearance, seeing that his own skin was still not thick enough, and his acting skills were even more 108,000 miles away from Zhao Xu, at least when he faced Zhang Xiaojie's father and son, he couldn't be so relaxed. It's just that Zhao Yan didn't show up at this time, and when Zhang Renxian, who was being held, looked at him and Zhao Ji, although he still had a dull expression on his face, there was endless resentment in his eyes, and he even seemed to want to tear their brother to pieces and swallow it.

Speaking of Zhang Renxian, since he became the appearance of the living dead now, at first he always thought that he had a strange disease, but then the more he thought about it, the more he felt wrong, so whenever he was sober, he would recall his experience before his illness repeatedly, and in the end, he burned the palace of the Great Song Dynasty, and then the Great Song Dynasty only caught a few small shrimps, which is obviously not normal, but he just came back from the Great Song Dynasty, and he contracted this strange disease. Then a qiē can be explained.

Of course, the above is just Zhang Renxian's conjecture, and there is no evidence, but Zhang Renxian has become the current appearance of a person who is not a ghost or a ghost, and his heart has already become distorted, plus he has never had any good impression of the Great Song Dynasty, so he quickly took his conjecture as a fact, thinking that his current appearance was all due to the Great Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan entered the city yesterday, Zhang Xiaojie went to greet Yelu Hongji with him, so the three of them were also acquaintances, and they were polite at the moment, and then Zhang Xiaojie invited Zhao Yan and the three of them to enter the hall, after all, now that the auspicious time has come, they can't be delayed any longer.

"Worship heaven and earth~" With the shout of the master of ceremonies, Yelusi and Zhang Renxian bowed out together, but Zhang Renxian's body was stiff, so he could only be worshiped by two servants, looking wolf and funny, Zhao Yan next to him looked at Zhang Renxian's appearance, and then thought about the people who were burned to death by him, especially the Cui Nei servant who desperately protected the sweet potato seedlings, so that Zhao Yan not only did not have half sympathy for the current Zhang Renxian, but also had a faint pleasure in his heart, which made the corners of his mouth can't help but smile a little.

Yelusi saw that Yelujun's younger brother still remembered to participate in his own wedding, she finally felt a little better, and under the guidance of the bride, she began to worship heaven and earth with Zhang Renxian, but when she just worshipped, she saw the Guangyang County King of the Great Song Dynasty next to her looking at herself with a meaningful smile on his face. In fact, this is her misunderstanding, Zhao Yan is looking at Zhang Renxian next to her instead of her, and Yelusi is now wearing heavy makeup, so she can't see her true face at all, and Zhao Yan has no interest in her princess at all.

Originally, most of the people who participated in the wedding were now looking at the two newlyweds with a smile on their faces, but Zhao Yan was standing closest to Yelusi because of his special status, and although he was smiling on his face, there was a bit of revenge in his eyes, and even a little bit of pride, which made Yelusi, who was a woman, very sensitive, and noticed Zhao Yan at once.

Especially when Yelusi thought of Zhao Yan's identity as the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, she immediately overreacted, thinking that Zhao Yan was laughing at herself, after all, Yelusi was a dignified princess, but now she was going to marry a waste person like Zhang Renxian, and Zhao Yan was the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was normal to laugh at her when she saw that the princess of the enemy country had fallen into such a fate.

Yelu thought of the above, and his mood immediately became worse, especially when he thought that Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji would definitely tell their marriage as a joke after they returned to the Great Song Dynasty, and then not only did the people of Liao know that she married a princess to a wasted person, and even the entire Great Song Dynasty would laugh at herself, which made Yelu Si angry and angry for a while, but there was nothing she could do, and finally she had to glare at Zhao Yan viciously.

"Huh? Why is she staring at me? Zhao Yan's feeling was also very sensitive, and he suddenly saw Yelusi's fierce gaze, which made him stunned at first, and his heart was full of doubts, it is said that he and this princess Zheng Guo should meet for the first time, and there can be no grudges, but the other party just looked at him as if he was looking at an enemy, which was a little inexplicable. (To be continued)

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