Zong Han's sudden death caught the Great Song monarchs and ministers a little unprepared, and now the new emperor of the Jin Kingdom succeeded to the throne less than a year before the infighting, the most ferocious Zong Han died, and another fierce man was still licking his wounds just after getting out of danger, and the powerful Zong Gan and Zong Xuan saw that they were about to fight again, which can be said to be a good opportunity for the Northern Expedition again.

However, the Great Song Dynasty has just leveled the Dali Kingdom, and now the veterans have retired, and the recruited recruits are still practicing 'one-two-one', and the materials are not ready to deal with the big war. And it was already winter, even if you wanted to fight and assemble the army, it would be a month later, and at that time the northeast had entered a severe winter, and it was no longer suitable for launching a large-scale and standardized operation. There is no way to do it, and after the monarch and ministers have discussed, they can only temporarily give up the Northern Expedition and sit back and see what new tricks the little emperor of the Jin Kingdom can play.

The emperor's complaints were still effective, which touched the rulers, improved their working methods, and instead of asking for instructions on the agreed matters, they instead reported their arrangements and progress every other month for the emperor to know about the progress, and at the same time cleared their stigma of arbitrariness, overthrowing the emperor, and wanting to be powerful ministers. In this way, everyone felt relaxed, and the Zhao Ta case was much thinner, but if such a big country would not have an accident one day, it would be impossible to completely get rid of the suffering of the case.

However, this procedural reform still gave Zhao Ta more time to concentrate on his own affairs. After the Northern Expedition, Zhao Ta ordered all the armies participating in the war, from the commander Zhao Yong to the cooking fire army, to sum up their experience and write down their experiences. Then it was handed over to the Privy Council, and Zhao Ta specially assigned Zhao Li and Zhao Yi to be responsible for sorting it into a book, and now the manuscript has been sent to Zhao Ta for review before the case.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, under the personal auspices of Zhao Ta. The gradual production method was used to manufacture the first hydraulic all-metal 'precision' machine tool in the Great Song Dynasty, although it could not be compared with the most ordinary machine tool in later generations. But it was also an epoch-making invention, and the machining accuracy and speed increased geometrically. With this 'mother machine. Soon a batch of the same machines will be cloned, first of all, it will bring changes to the way guns are produced, improve the performance of weapons, and they will be used immediately on the successful iron cannons.

The ocean-going fleet has completed the trial voyage at this moment, and the personnel training and material preparation have also been completed in due course, and it will set sail after the arrival of the trade winds after the New Year, and Zhao Ta has also shown the "Universal Map" drawn by himself with his memory, and Zheng Qiao has finally obtained the "Naturalist Chronicles" that the emperor has 'treasured' for a long time. Just as Zhao was thinking about whether to talk about functions to the doctors of the 'Academy of Sciences' next, the end of the year had quietly arrived. The busiest time for him, the emperor, also followed......

In recent years, Zhao Ta has conquered the east and west to settle the surrounding countries, opened up the trade routes in the southeast and northwest, not only restored the ancient Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty, but also re-dredged the ancient tea horse road. The policy of opening the sea made maritime trade the second prosperous 'Silk Road', and the Great Song Dynasty extended its tentacles to farther continents, which also made understanding and communication between countries more convenient and smooth.

Zhao's first impression was that there were more and earlier missions visiting this year than in previous years. Of course, there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, including traditional friendly countries, those who want to hug their thick legs when they see the growing strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and those who just want to establish economic relations. Among them, there are also many ambitious people who hope to rebel against the throne with the help of the power of the Great Song Dynasty, and more of them follow the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty to see what the legendary country of the East full of gold looks like.

Regardless of the idea, these missions gathered in the capital a year ago, and this time the officials of the Ministry of Rites were busy. The Sifang Pavilion, which was specially used to receive foreign guests, was so crowded that the local vassals who came to Beijing to congratulate had to borrow other places. For a while, Bianjing City was full of Yiren who spoke 'bird language' and wore strange costumes. They wandered around the capital like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and of course they inevitably got lost, drank and made trouble, and the language barrier caused fights. Kaifeng Mansion had to go to work with all its staff. To maintain order, the Guards and the Imperial City Division were also put on alert. To prevent accidents, anyway, the people of the Great Song Dynasty enjoyed the pride of all countries coming to the dynasty, but they also had to pay a price for some inconvenience.

Of course, the most wanted to see these envoys was the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and they could have lunch with him, and Zhao Ta of course also wanted to know more about this world, and began to meet with him a few years ago, in fact, the main thing was to accept the national letter, worship, collect tribute, give something, be friendly to each other, have a meal together, talk about each other's national conditions, ask each other's ideas, and talk about cooperation.

The emperor's performance once again impressed the officials of Honglu Temple, not only did he pop out of his mouth from time to time with a bird language such as 'Smecta', 'Sayounala', 'Bai Lu Bai', 'Samaritan Gong', etc., but also summoned some countries to envoys without even having to interpret, they could talk directly, and they were familiar with the etiquette of various countries, and they could talk to their history, geography, and humanities, and there were some things that they professionals had never heard of.

Those envoys were even more stunned by Zhao Ta, not knowing how much the Great Song Emperor knew about their country. Of course, in addition to impressing them, they also invisibly narrowed the relationship between each other, after all, it is also an honor for the emperor of a large country of the Celestial Empire to know their remote state so well, so it is often the guest and the host who enjoy themselves, laying a good foundation for cooperation. In fact, this is thanks to Zhao Ta's instructors, in order to enable him to carry out tasks in various parts of the world, devilish indoctrination is indispensable......

Since the friends have old and new, the treatment they get must be different, but there is a newcomer who was favored by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, summoned him alone, and gave him a very high courtesy - personally sent him out of the palace, so countless people became interested in this benevolent brother, and quickly figured out his details, this person turned out to be just the leader of the Mengwu tribe of the Murwei tribe in Mobei, named Hebule.

This guy is not well-known in the Central Plains, but he is the number one person in the Mobei grassland, and their ancestors moved west from the small Xing'an Mountains and Heilongjiang River to settle in the area of the Onen River and the Krulun River, and became the subjects of the Khitan tribe that was powerful at that time. During this time, he conquered another major nomadic people, the Chazarat. Taking advantage of the decline and fall of the Liao State, it developed at a faster and higher speed.

After the fall of the Liao State, the Jurchens replaced the dominant position of the Liao State in the north, and naturally the Mongol tribes naturally became the subjects of the new master, the Jin State. But when they saw that the Mughal tribe was becoming more and more powerful, Wu Qimai wanted to deal with this potential and extremely dangerous opponent first, so he invited Hebule to Shangjing for a light meal. As long as the people who have no problem with their brains know that the Jurchens have no good feast and no good meeting, and they may not be able to come back if they go, but Hebule not only went, but also brushed the dragon beard that Wu begged bought!

After receiving Wu Qimai's invitation, Hebule led a dozen followers to Huining Mansion in Shangjing. Now that he has seen through Wu Qimai's thoughts, of course he has to be wary, but the measures adopted are somewhat unusual, that is, pretending to be stupid, putting on a hillbilly posture to enter the city, seeing what is fresh, eating and fragrant, I can't see any scheming, and later even the Jurchens who have just learned to eat with chopsticks ridiculed that Hebul is too earthy, and it is simply that the scum of the soil has tripled.

Hebule's performance successfully deceived Wu Qimai and the ministers of the Jin Kingdom, thinking that he was a 'countryman' who deceived a group of 'city people', he was a little proud and accidentally drank too much at a banquet, and showed his original form like Zhu Bajie, and actually ran to Wu Qimai's roots, and touched Wu Qimai's beard with his hand. How could the emperor's dragon whiskers be touched casually, and the atmosphere at the banquet suddenly became extremely tense, and he was about to fall to the ground.

The situation in front of him is very similar to the scene at the 'fish head banquet' by the river more than 20 years ago, except that Yelu Yanxi was replaced by Wu Qimai, and Aguda became Hebule. And the development of things is also strikingly similar, Wu Qimai may feel that he is already the king of a country to kill a foolish chief for such a trivial matter, it is too cheap, it will damage his prestige, and he will not reflect his broad mind, how will the Dajin Kingdom win the trust of the people of the world in the future? So Wu Qimai decided not to punish Hebule, but instead rewarded Hebule with a lot of cloth, saying that he did not take it to heart.

However, after the "whisker pulling incident", Hebule knew that his life would be in danger at any time, so he no longer dared to continue drinking and having fun in Jinguo, so he found an excuse at will, hurriedly bid farewell to Wu Qimai, and embarked on a journey back to the grassland. But Wu Qimai was confused, and the civil and military ministers around him were not confused, in order not to repeat the story of the tiger returning to the mountain, everyone tried their best to tell bad things about Hebula in front of Wu Qimai, and there was only one goal, that is, the grass must be cut down and the roots must be eliminated, and Hebul must be killed.

So Wu begged to buy the old trick and invited Hebul to go back and have a look many times, but he knew that he would definitely not be able to come back if he went again, and he also saw the Jurchens' faces that wanted to kill him. Hebul pondered that this time he was sending envoys, and next time he would definitely send an army to clear the Mughuls. After thinking about it, he decided to raise an army against Jin, but it scared the clansmen, and they understood that it was not seeking death to fight against the rising Dajin Kingdom with their own strength? The unanimous opinion was that Hebul was burned out of his head and full of nonsense.

But everyone underestimated Hebule's courage and determination, he was already determined to fight against Wu Qimai's Jin State to the end, in order to prevent the opposition of others, he simply killed all the members of the Jin State's mission, broke the kettle, left no way back, and dragged everyone into the water, at this moment everyone has offended the Jurchens anyway, and only follow him on the road of no return against Jin...... (To be continued......)