Chapter 246: Forcible Occupation
Ouyang Shu was a little beaten, in this era, ADHD has not yet been recognized as a disease, and even a clever doctor naturally has no cure. I can cure it myself, but the problem is that this disease is not the same as a cold and fever, and it can't be cured overnight.
At this time, I heard Hu Xiaoguan say: I have offended you, if you are not willing to help me, it is okay, you must go to see my father's illness, otherwise, I will not get up today!
When Ouyang Shu heard this, his heart felt a lot better about this little official. Although he is naughty and mischievous, he is still a filial child. So, Ouyang Shu had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: You get up, I'll go with you to see your father!
Chapter 192 of the text The Queen Mother's illness
After another two days, Zhao Xu finally summoned Yelu Yanxi, agreed to the peace agreement mediated by the Great Liao, and summoned Liang Fuchang, the envoy of the Western Xia Kingdom. It turned out that this Liang Chang was the man who had a secret meeting with the deputy envoy of the Liao State in the inn outside the Chenzhou Gate that day. Although this Liang Fuchang is a native of the Western Xia Dynasty, he has lived in Bianjing for a long time, and has long been accustomed to the customs of Bianjing, and his words and deeds are no different from those of the Song Dynasty. This time, the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty negotiated peace, because it was the Liao State that was matchmaking, and the Western Xia State was not convenient to send an envoy before understanding the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty, so it took out this fine work that was placed in Bianjing many years ago and used it as an envoy.
Therefore, with the presence of Yelu Yanxi, the grandson of the emperor of Liao, the Great Song Dynasty exchanged letters with the Western Xia Kingdom, and promised that in the future, if there are red and white ceremonies and major policy changes, they should communicate with each other to maintain envoy exchanges and avoid misunderstandings. As for the Western Xia's re-assertion of vassals to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty gave a small amount of annual gifts to the Western Xia, it is also the proper meaning of the title.
Liang Changchang came to the peace talks this time, but in fact, there was still a big stone in his heart. This big stone is the question of the ownership of the Jia, Lu, Mizhi, Futu and a large area of land in Anjiang ceded by the Great Song Dynasty when the Empress Dowager Gao was in charge.
In recent years, the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia have been at war, although there are also reasons why the Western Xia took the initiative to provoke in order to divert domestic contradictions, but the most fundamental reason is that after Zhao Xu took office, he did not recognize the ownership of these lands on the side of the Western Xia. Although Zhao Xu could not directly regret his grandmother's black and white words due to etiquette considerations, he took many practical actions to prove his dissatisfaction with his grandmother's land cession policy.
Xixia's request for peace this time is very sincere, if the peace is not successful, and continue to fight against the Great Song Dynasty like this, it will become more and more chaotic. However, if they were to spit out the land they had eaten again as a condition for peace, it would be absolutely impossible, even if the war continued for a hundred years. Therefore, Liang was mentally prepared for difficult negotiations this time. But the edict given by the Empress Dowager of Western Xia this time is to ask Liang Jiachang to promote peace no matter what, otherwise
This was a dilemma, on the one hand, the Western Xia were unwilling to make too many concessions, and on the other hand, they demanded that the peace negotiations must be successful. And with Zhao Xu's unwillingness to suffer losses in everything, this negotiation is almost impossible to succeed. This is also the reason why Liang Changchang made an appointment to meet the Liao envoys and asked them to assist from the side.
But the development of things greatly exceeded Liang Michang's expectations. After all, the peace agreement was reached, not to mention, Zhao Xu actually did not mention a word about the issue of ceding land sovereignty at the beginning, and did not embarrass him at all, and the peace agreement was completed.
Liang was in a dream. He knew that as the actual occupants of these lands, it was undoubtedly more beneficial for them to not mention the right of ownership. If you don't mention it for a year or two, you can still don't mention it for ten or eight years, or even for decades, not only the Western Xia people, but even the Song people will not have many people who still remember that it was still the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.
This is like the sixteen states of Yanyun, which were originally the land of the Central Plains. But today, not only the Khitans of the Liao State, but even the local people, do not consider themselves to be Song people, but they think they are Liao people. And even in the Great Song Dynasty, which was bent on restoring his homeland, no crazy person would think that it was still the land of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was just forcibly occupied by the Liao State.
When the peace agreement was reached, Zhao Xu and Liang Changchang were naturally overjoyed, but Yelu Yanxi, who had been full of gloom for the past two days, as if he owed him a lot of money all over the world, also smiled. At present, it is a lot of etiquette such as hundreds of officials entering the congratulatory service, so there is no need to repeat it.
Ouyang Shu is very idle these days. Because Zhao Xu was busy, he didn't have time to see a doctor or check his body, so he had more leisure. Due to the fact that Qin Mu was helping in the yamen, Ouyang Shu was almost in a state of setting himself up, but when he returned home, there were more things, but as a civil servant in charge, it was really not Ouyang Shu's style to go home during work hours.
On this day, he was sitting in the yamen, and suddenly saw a servant outside running in to report: County Zun, someone is in the palace, please go out for a while!
Ouyang Shu was quite surprised. As far as he knew, the envoys of Liao and Xia had to understand before returning to China, and today Zhao Xu was going to accompany the two of them to socialize, unless he suddenly fell ill, it was impossible to find himself. dash; What went wrong?
Ouyang Shu was suspicious in his heart, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly explained two sentences to Qin Mu, and walked out of the yamen quickly. This time it wasn't Ouyang Shu's old buddy Tong Guan who came, it was actually Liang Congzheng! Ouyang Shu was even more puzzled in his heart, Liang Congzheng had always served by the Queen Mother's side, and rarely ran around for Zhao Xu's affairs. Last time, Zhao Xu gave a decree to several women in Ouyang Shu's family and asked Liang to come to politics to pass on the decree, but it was only because of the decree that there was not only Zhao Xu's holy decree, but also the decree of the queen mother and the princess. And this time
Liang Congzheng's face was very serious: Please go with the Sprinkle family!
Ouyang Shu nodded, and while walking forward with Liang Congzheng, he asked: Liang Daguan, why did you come in person this time, summon the lower officials, just send a small yellow door to come, why bother you
Liang Congzheng said lightly: This time, it is summoned by Chongqing Palace!
When Ouyang Shu heard this, he was shocked: The Queen Mother is also sick?
In fact, the last time he entered the palace, Ouyang Shu vaguely heard that the Queen Mother was sick, but Zhao Xu and the Queen Mother never found him, so it was naturally impossible for him to recommend himself. The ** thing in the palace, even if ordinary people know, they have to try to pretend that they don't know anything, Ouyang Shu has no reason to run to expose himself.
Liang Congzheng sighed softly and said: County Lord Li doesn't have to ask more, when you get to the place, you naturally know.
Ouyang Shu heard this, but it was not good to continue to ask more, so he nodded and silently followed Liang Congzheng's side. After a while, the two of them came to the palace, because Liang Congzheng was an internal attendant, the forbidden palace could be unimpeded, Ouyang Shu and he did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and they did not even experience any body search, and easily came to Chongqing Palace.
Coming to the gate of Chongqing Palace, Liang Congzheng turned around and said to Ouyang Shu: County Lord Li, wait outside, wait for me to go in!
Ouyang Shu nodded. He knew that this was the place of the harem, no better than the front harem, and a complete man like him could not enter and leave at will.