The Mongol envoy made a list and returned to his station that evening to rest. The next day, I went to see the prime minister of Zhengdongxing Province again, and learned that the prime minister was ill. Of course, the messenger thought it was false, and went to visit the sick.

Not long after making the request, I saw the lost princess Da La, the wife of the prime minister of Zhengdong Province, Kudulu Jieli, coming out of it. Stopping in front of the messenger, the princess said angrily, "What do you want to wait for the door?"

"Returning to the princess, the minister came to visit the sick." The messenger replied in a loud voice.

As soon as the princess stretched out her hand, the attendant hurriedly handed over the horsewhip, and struck the messenger on the head with a whip. The messenger is good at it, dodging and dodging.

"Dare to hide." The lost princess was furious and whipped again.

The messenger took a few steps back and exited the circle. Seeing that the princess insisted on obstructing it, the envoy said loudly: "Then bother the princess to inform the prime minister, and the minister will wait for the prime minister to recover." ”

Of course, the king of Goryeo was not really sick, and when he learned that his arrogant and domineering wife had solved his urgent need, the king of Goryeo hurriedly greeted him in the mansion. The lost princess of Kudulu Jieli played a big role and was very happy. However, the person opposite was a Mongolian envoy after all, and the princess took the teacup brought by the king of Goryeo, and said casually: "You will prepare some tribute first." It's not a problem to drag it all the time. ”

"Huh." The King of Goryeo smiled bitterly. If the Mongol envoy had been so easy to dismiss, he would have done so a long time ago. Mongolia has always been cruelly oppressed by Goryeo, and Goryeo really can't bear it. Now it can only be delayed for one day.

When the princess returned to the house, the king of Goryeo gathered his men to discuss what to do next.

"Now that the Song Kingdom has recovered Hebei, it's a pity, if they go out of the customs, we won't be afraid of Mongolia coming."

This remark sparked agreement in the small circle of the king of Goryeo, and the recovery of Hebei by the Great Song had little essential effect on the relationship between Goryeo and Mongolia. Because Hebei did not cut off the reality of Mongolia's border with Goryeo in the ground.

"The Song people are so bad that they actually sent our envoy to Mongolia. I don't know what they think! ”

"Indeed, the Song Kingdom himself didn't dare to go out of the customs, but he even forgot about it."

There were also Koreans who violently attacked the foreign policy of the Song State. But no matter how you talk about it, Goryeo did not have any substantive means of dealing with the Mongols and the Great Song Dynasty. Finally, the king of Goryeo ordered, "We will send envoys to Horin and Hangzhou respectively. ”

The days passed like this, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye. Snow melts after mid-February, and temperatures rise. Spring is coming.

In Hangzhou, the feeling of warmth is even more pronounced. The intelligence department sent news that some Koreans had first gone to Dengzhou and wanted to take a ship to Hangzhou. According to the observations of the intelligence services, this guy should be a Koreana of upper class. The purpose of this visit seems to have nothing to do with trade.

Zhao Jiaren was very satisfied with the response of the intelligence department, so he verbally praised it. As for how to deal with it, Zhao Jiaren originally wanted to hold a meeting to tell the important ministers Zhao Jiaren's attitude. Then Zhao Guanjia changed his mind and began to write articles. In the middle of the night, Qin Yuzhen saw that Zhao Jiaren had not come back to sleep, so she went to the study to look. I saw Zhao Jiaren writing hard in the bright light of the candle. There were a lot of similar manuscripts on the wide desktop, and Qin Yuzhen didn't enter the study, but went to the kitchen to make tea. The new thermos is easy to use, the hot water is still hot when it is poured out for a few hours, and black tea cannot be brewed with boiling water. That's good.

Seeing his wife come in with tea, Zhao Jiaren smiled slightly, took the teacup and took a sip, and then continued to write. Qin Yuzhen picked up the manuscript written by Zhao Jiaren and read it. Just after reading the outline, Qin Yuzhen asked, "Is this Huayi's debate?" ”

"It's a little similar, but it's not the same. The Huayi debate is an idea, and my argument is something that includes nationality law and citizenship concepts. It is mandatory. The Song people should finally be the country of the Song Dynasty, and they can't turn their backs on the country just because they are abroad. Similarly, the state has an obligation to protect the citizens of the Great Song Dynasty. It's a reciprocal relationship. ”

Qin Yuzhen pondered for a moment and recited a passage of Mencius, "The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. ”

"It's a bit similar, but it's not the same. The kind of relationship that Mencius mentioned, everyone still has a choice. The monarch can see his subordinates as siblings, or he can see his subordinates as dirt mustard. If this idea becomes a system, it becomes a law. Whatever the monarch thinks, he has to do it according to the law. Because the law is the bottom line of behavior, whoever breaks the bottom line will be punished by the law. ”

Qin Yuzhen originally just came to take a look because her husband didn't sleep on time. When I heard my husband talk about politics, I felt a little impatient. It's already late at night, except for a guy like Zhao Jiaren, who would still think about the law, the relationship between monarchs and ministers, and the establishment of a system at this time. Probably Zhao Jiaren will do this.

Seeing her husband struggling to write, Qin Yuzhen wanted to go back to the room to sleep, but when she saw that her husband's sideburns were already a little silver, she suddenly felt a tenderness in her heart, and sat back in her seat. Zhao Jiaren did not take concubines, nor did he mess with other women. Couples spend a lot more time together than other couples in high positions. After 20 years of husband and wife, Zhao Jiaren has changed from a young hero who is diligent in royal affairs to a middle-aged emperor who is diligent in political affairs.

Looking at this husband, who had never been lazy, Qin Yuzhen suddenly felt that she wanted to talk to Zhao Jiaren. As a wife, Qin Yuzhen has accumulated experience with Zhao Jiaren, and she said gently: "San Lang, who are you going to deal with with what you wrote?" ”

"Against whom?" Zhao Jiaren sped up his writing speed as he spoke, and finally scribbled a few strokes on the paper, he stopped, "Of course, those officials who have their own purposes, and I don't know if they are stupid or bad." Sooner or later, we will have to deal with Goryeo, and I personally think that Goryeo is a barbarian, and there is no need to become a Chinese citizen, and there is no need to kill them like the Mongols. So there will definitely be officials who will come out and say some. Rather than talking to them about Goryeo, it is better to simply come up with the definitions of the country, the people, and the citizens. ”

"Sure enough." Qin Yuzhen said with a smile. Zhao Jiaren's actions, including writing a book, are all about struggle, and the object of struggle changes according to the current situation. From this point of view, it becomes much easier to talk to Zhao Jiaren.

Zhao Jiaren picked up Qin Yuzhen and put it on his lap, and then said with a smile: "I heard that Zhao Feiyan can dance on the tray, it doesn't matter if she can dance or not." But I like how light you are. ”

"Cut! Don't compare me to the kind of woman who died in the country. Qin Yuzhen expressed dissatisfaction. She wanted to fight back with 'you can find it if you want', but after all, she is also forty years old, and she is really weak when facing young girls. So I used a more serious statement.

"I just wanted to say that you're light and can't find any other good comparison. Don't think about it. Zhao Jiaren rested his head on Qin Yuzhen's shoulder.

Qin Yuzhen was also very moved in her heart. She was born in the Jinshi family, and compared with the Jinshi who were on the list of the appropriate age, the number of daughters of the Jinshi family was always more, and the Qin family did not dare to expect her to marry the Jinshi of the appropriate age. Qin Yuzhen has seen the virtues of the jinshi in the face of women, and her father has several concubines. Zhao Jiaren's father also had a concubine, and was later forcibly expelled by Empress Dowager Chen. As for some favorite concubines of the official family, they have been the same for thousands of years.

As the wife of Jinshi and the queen of the official family, Qin Yuzhen is now in a situation of being loved by thousands of people. She had read many books and had never heard of such a thing. When she was young, Qin Yuzhen was confident in her appearance, and she still had three children to educate, so she didn't think about this problem. Now that the children are beginning to become independent one by one, Qin Yuzhen finds that she is no longer young. That sense of panic often comes to mind uncontrollably.

Zhao Jiaren didn't think about it so much. He was thinking about other things in his heart, and now the situation facing Da Song was becoming clearer and clearer. The fierce war of resistance against Mongolia has ended, and no matter what Zhao Jiaren says about the 'old land of the Han Dynasty', the people actually do not think that the land owned by the Han people hundreds of years ago is the land that the Great Song Dynasty should take for granted, and must do everything to regain it. In times like these, if you want to build a new idea, you have to rely on propaganda and education. However, propaganda and education need to be based on a self-consistent theory that the state is owned by the emperor, or that the idea of the government and the scholars ruling the world together is not sufficient to support the modern nation-state.

When the object of the struggle has changed from the enemy with a clear sword and a gun to the old forces, what Zhao Jiaren can rely on is no longer the sword, but needs to see how many things he can write and how many systems he can substantively establish. The ideological struggle is more intense, more protracted, and more difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat than a war with open swords and guns.

"Official, but don't you want to tell who the enemy is?" Qin Yuzhen asked softly.

"It doesn't matter who the enemy is. The key is to see if I can get the edge in my hands. If you have a blade in your hand, you have countless enemies, and you just have to engage them one by one. If you are unarmed, you will be useless in doing anything. Zhao Jiaren's nose was buried in his wife's clothes, and his voice sounded dull.

"That'...... There's no need to stay up late like this, go and rest. It's never too late to be busy during the day. Qin Yuzhen said softly.

When he woke up the next day, Zhao Jiaren felt in good spirits. When he got to the study to clean up the manuscript, he couldn't help but laugh after a cursory reading. Now it seems that the whole text is full of preconceived positions and a sense of guilt. Neither calm nor atmospheric.

Putting the manuscript on the table, Zhao Jiaren felt that he might have thought too much and done too little before. As long as the Koreans arrived, there would definitely be people who would try to gain some political advantage in the affairs of the Koreans, and there was no need for Zhao Jiaren to be the first to anticipate the enemy as he was during the war. It's never too late to wait for someone to do so.