Regarding Empress Dowager Gao's question about the reason why he entered the palace, Zhao Yan did not answer immediately, but straightened up and turned his head to look at the old man standing next to him and said: "Queen Mother, several ministers and ministers in the palace know it, but I don't know who this is?" ”

"Your Royal Highness Qiqi, this gentleman's surname is Wang Minglun, he was originally a Han from Liao, but because his heart is to the Great Song Dynasty, he moved his family to vote!" Without waiting for Empress Dowager Gao to answer, Sima Guang, who was standing next to Wang Lun, preemptively said, he assisted Empress Dowager Gao and Zhao Yan in the struggle for power, but afterwards Zhao Yan not only blamed him, but also took the initiative to hand over the power in his hand, which made Sima Guang also admire Zhao Yan's high style and brightness, and specially visited Zhao Yan for this reason, which greatly eased the relationship between the two.

"Grass People Wang Lun pays a visit to His Royal Highness King Yue!" Wang Lun was also reminded at this time, and hurriedly saluted Zhao Yan.

"Oh? It turned out to be from Liao, but as soon as Mr. Wang came to my Great Song Dynasty, he was able to get my mother's personal pick-up, so there must be something extraordinary, right? Zhao Yan glanced Wang Lun up and down a few times at this time, and then asked knowingly with a smile.

"His Royal Highness has a good reputation, Lao Yu is just an ordinary scholar, although he was born in Liao, but he has always thought that the Great Song Dynasty is the orthodoxy of the Han people, so he moved his family to the Great Song Dynasty, in addition, Lao Yu also has a better understanding of the situation in Liao, and knows that the Jurchens in the far north have always been a big problem in Liao, so he offered a strategy to the imperial court, as long as the imperial court is willing to ally with the Jurchens, and provide a little material to aid them, it can greatly consume the strength of the Liao State, so he was received by the Empress Dowager!" At this time, he saw Wang Lun saying very modestly, and he thought that Zhao Yan really didn't know the reason why he was received by the Empress Dowager Gao.

"An alliance with the Jurchens?" Zhao Yan deliberately showed a surprised expression when he heard this, and then glanced at Sima Guang and the others, before turning to the Empress Dowager Gao and saying, "Queen Mother, do you really want to form an alliance with the Jurchens?" ”

"The alliance with the Jurchens is also being discussed with the mourning family and the ministers. Speaking of which, the Jurchens are just a group of uncivilized savages, and forming an alliance with them does lose the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty, but since we recovered Yanyun, the Liao State has always wanted to take Yanyun back, so the Mourning family feels that it would be a good thing if someone could contain the power of the Liao State. As for the loss of decency, there is no need to care too much about such trivial things. Empress Dowager Gao's calm voice came out again, although she couldn't see her expression through a curtain, but Zhao Yan could feel that Empress Dowager Gao was already a little dissatisfied with him talking about the government.

"What the Queen Mother said is very true, when His Majesty Yingzong was in power, she also mentioned the alliance with the Jurchens, but then I don't know why, and now the Queen Mother brings up the old things, which can be regarded as inheriting the legacy of His Majesty Yingzong." At this time, Chen Shengzhi also opened his mouth to agree. When Zhao Shu was in power, although he was not in the phase, he was also an important minister in the court, and he had heard about the alliance with the Jurchens, but he didn't know that this matter was actually caused by Zhao Yan's exile to the Jurchens, and he didn't know that the alliance was also destroyed by Zhao Yan.

Hearing Chen Shengzhi mention that Zhao Shu had almost formed an alliance with the Jurchens during his reign, Sima Guang and several other ministers also expressed their opinions, and most of them were also in favor of forming an alliance. After all, no matter whether this matter is successful or not, it only needs to pay a little material. This is not worth mentioning at all for the wealthy Great Song.

Seeing the opinions of the ministers, Zhao Yan deliberately sighed at this time and said: "It seems that the Queen Mother and all the ministers have already known about the fact that they almost formed an alliance with the Jurchens when their father was in power, but it is a pity that the old Xianggong Han and the Xianggong Ouyang who knew the inside story of this matter have passed away, otherwise they will definitely prevent you from making this decision!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yan's words came out, Sima Guang and the others were immediately stunned. Wang Lun next to him had a little smile on his face, but when he heard Zhao Yan's words, the smile on his face also froze on the spot, and at the same time, he also had a very bad feeling in his heart.

"King Yue, why did you say this?" At this time, the Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain was the first to react, and asked at the exit.

"The queen mother didn't know. In fact, the alliance with the Jurchens was inseparable from the son's minister, and this matter needs to start with the envoy of the son-rechen and the imperial brother to the Liao State......"

Zhao Yan said that he and Zhao Ji went to the Liao State, and how he ended up in the Jurchen Wanyan Department, of course, he was afraid of Zhao Ji's reputation, and the matter of provoking the infighting between the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State was just passing by, but everyone present was a human spirit, and how could they not hear the meaning of Zhao Yan's words, but they also knew that Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan were also thinking about the Great Song Dynasty, especially Zhao Yan rushed to stay in the Liao Palace in order not to arouse the suspicion of the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State. Sima Guang and the others were even more impressed with Zhao Yan, and at the same time, they finally understood why Zhao Yan trusted Zhao Yan so much, they were not only brothers, but also almost lived and died together, this kind of relationship is naturally extraordinary.

The experience of Zhao Yan and Zhao Ji's envoy to the Liao State had been spread long ago, but it was not as detailed as he said, so Sima Guang and they didn't feel so surprised, but when Zhao Yan said that he was exiled to the Jurchen Wanyan Ministry, it was the news that he was blocked by the Imperial City Division, and very few people knew about it back then, and now no one knows about it, and even when that Wang Lun knew that Zhao Yan had been to the Jurchen Wanyan Department many years ago, he was even more surprised when he cried out.

For his experience in the Wanyan Ministry, Zhao Yan deliberately chose some very tragic things to tell, such as insufficient diet, and could only let Zhou Tong and a few other guards go out hunting in person, and because of the distrust of the Wanyan Ministry, Xu Shan, one of the guards, was cut off an arm, and even Zhao Yan's life was threatened, in order to save the lives of his own people, Zhao Yan had to come up with a plan to form an alliance with the Wanyan Ministry. Of course, these are also true, this alliance plan was indeed conceived to save lives.

"The queen mother, among the people who were exiled to the Wanyan Department with her sons, in addition to Zhou Tong and other three guards, there were also Su Shi and Su Zizhan, he and his sons also lived and died together, and later the sons persuaded the leaders of the Wanyan Department, so Su Shi was sent back to get in touch with the imperial brother, and then the imperial brother contacted the father and reached an alliance!" When Zhao Yan said this, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Su Shi, who came with him, and said.

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, as the deputy envoy at the beginning, did ride a hot air balloon with His Majesty and fell into the hands of the Jurchen Wanyan Department, and the minister can also testify that what His Highness said just now is true!" At this time, Su Shi also stepped forward and spoke, and at this time, Su Song, who also followed Zhao Yan, finally understood the reason why Zhao Yan called Su Shi.

"I see, I didn't expect that you would encounter such a risk when you went to Liao, but it made you suffer, King Yue!" At this time, Empress Dowager Gao's voice came out from behind the curtain again, but compared to the previous calm, her voice was a little sad at this time, probably because she heard Zhao Yan mention Zhao Ji, and it touched her pain of losing her child.

"Your Highness, although the alliance was a decision that you had to make at the beginning, but from the situation at that time, it was also beneficial and harmless for our Great Song Dynasty to form an alliance with the Wanyan Ministry, with the wisdom of His Majesty Yingzong, he should agree to this matter, but why did it not happen later?" At this time, Chen Shengzhi asked with a strange face, although Zhao Yan was very dissatisfied with Wanyan in and out of his words, but this matter was beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty, so Zhao Yan's private feelings were not important at all.

Chen Shengzhi's question was actually exactly what everyone else in the hall wanted to know, especially Wang Lun was even more anxious, because he suddenly had a very bad premonition, I was afraid that his previous plan to form an alliance with the Jurchens as a promotion rank would be in vain.

Hearing that someone finally asked about this, I saw that Zhao Yan was deliberately a little embarrassed and smiled: "What Chen Xianggong said is that with the wisdom of his father, he was also very much in favor of this matter, and even in order to show the sincerity of my Great Song Dynasty, he also specially asked his eldest brother to escort a batch of materials to the east coast of Wanyan by boat, hoping to exchange me with these materials, but unfortunately, when the two sides were discussing the alliance, this king thought of the humiliation he had received in Wanyan before, and he was very annoyed, plus he was young and vigorous at that time, In a fit of rage, he actually slashed to death the leader of the Wanyan Division, and ordered the soldiers on the ship to blow up the Jurchens on the shore with ballistas several times, so that the Jurchens who came to form an alliance suffered heavy casualties, and now they will definitely not be able to form an alliance again. ”

"Ahh You ......" Sima Guang heard that Zhao Yan had killed the Wanyan leader who came to form an alliance because of his anger, and he was speechless for a while, Chen Shengzhi and the others were also dumbfounded, and they didn't expect the final result to be like this.

"Alas, it's all because the king is young and vigorous, and he did such a wrong thing when he was angry, and then my father was also furious about it, fortunately, I made some contributions to the Liao State, so my father made the merit for the crime, and there was no reward or punishment." Zhao Yan deliberately opened his mouth again at this time, shaking his head as he spoke, as if he was regretting the mistakes he made when he was young, in fact, he was using these words to block the mouth of the Empress Dowager Gao, anyway, the mistakes he made at the beginning had been punished by Zhao Shu, and now no one wants to make a fuss about this matter.

Hearing Zhao Yan's words, Sima Guang and the others all looked at each other, no one could do anything about Zhao Yan, after all, people had been killed by Zhao Yan more than ten years ago, and it was useless to regret it. And after this incident, Wanyan will definitely hate Da Song to the bone, even if the current leader has no blood relationship with the leader killed by Zhao Yan, I'm afraid Wanyan will no longer trust Da Song, let alone sincerely form an alliance with Da Song. (To be continued......)