The emperor met Yan Yan in the south study.

When Yan Yan entered, the emperor was sitting on the kang to review the folds, there were two stacks of thick folds on the kang table, there was a pile of kang heads behind him, and there were a lot of books at the end of the kang, but the most attractive thing for Yan Yan was that there was a map about two meters long and about one and a half meters wide hanging on the wall of the kang head.

Yan Yan saw that this was the territory of the Great Zhou, so she glanced at it before kneeling down to greet her, but when she retracted her gaze, she happened to meet the emperor's eyes looking at her.

Yan Yan realized that he had exceeded the rules, so he hurriedly bowed his head and knelt down, "Yan Yan, a woman, knocked on the emperor." ”

"Get up, raise your head and let me see, I haven't been angry this month, have you? What about the kid, did he bully you? After Li Cong finished speaking, he carefully looked at Yan Yan's complexion, "It's not bad, come, tell me what you've been doing this month?" ”

Yan Yan briefly summarized the daily activities of the day, which was nothing more than saying goodbye, exercising, serving meals, urging Lu You to read books and write scriptures, and do needlework.

"You mean that in addition to training that kid to speak, you also forced him to study and do his homework, why is that?"

"Back to the emperor, after this month of contact, the woman found that her husband has a high level of understanding in reading and has an amazing memory, but unfortunately he can't speak, so the woman will think of urging him to do his homework while training him to speak, and then consider sending him to the academy or hiring a gentleman for him after he communicates with outsiders without hindrance, I want him to take the scientific examination in a year."

"Scientific expedition? A year later? Li Cong really didn't expect Yan Yan to give him such a big surprise, of course, the surprise was definitely greater than the joy.

The main reason is that Lu You's submissiveness and fear of fear and intimidation left him with too deep an impression, at first glance, he has not been in contact with outsiders for many years and does not deal with outsiders, not to mention that he can't even say a complete sentence, even if such a person has studied for a few years, he is too far away from the scientific examination, right?

But this girl's face is clearly full of confidence, and her tone is also very determined, in other words, that kid must have some unknown strengths that are unknown to outsiders and were discovered by this girl, so this girl said that she would send him to the scientific examination.

"What do you need me to do for you?" Li Cong asked, unconsciously replacing "I" with "I".

"Back to the emperor, there is really a small matter, we plan to move out to live for a while after the first month of next year, and ask the emperor for approval." Yan Yan didn't dare to say that the family was separated, Mrs. Lu was still there, and Lu Duan was still there, so it was impossible to really split the family.

Fortunately, Yan Yan didn't refer to the Lu family's property, she just wanted to get out of the Lu family's control and live a relaxed life.

"That's it?" Li Cong didn't seem to believe it.

"That's it." Yan Yan repeated it affirmatively.

"Then let's wait for the New Year, let him go to Taixue for a year. There are a few little four and six here, and no one dares to bully him. Li Cong pondered for a moment and said.

"Thank you for the emperor's mercy, but the women don't want to make trouble for the emperor, the husband has no merit, no title, and the third is not a royal family, so it is not appropriate for him to go too much. The folk woman has already thought about it, these days let him annotate the "Analects" and "University", and write a few scriptures, and when the spring comes, take him to Songlu Academy to visit Mr. Ji Weiming to see if it can be taught. Yan Yan refused.

The Taixue of this era is different from the Taixue of the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of them are royal nobles, and there are also a small number of accompanying them, but they are also the best ones selected from these families, such as the father of the original owner, such as Lu Ming.

Therefore, without thinking about it, he knew that if Lu You went, he would definitely have to suffer from other people's eyes and gossip, Yan Yan was afraid that the poor self-confidence he had built up so easily would be destroyed again.

At this point, Li Cong believed that Yan Yan was not going around in circles with him, but really didn't want to beg him.

"You're good, better than I know, but cheaper than that silly boy." Li Cong really regretted not leaving Yan Yan by the prince's side at this time.

"Uncle Emperor didn't bring in the people's women to praise the people's women, right?" Yan Yan wants to get to the point early, and she is still waiting for her to eat.

"Yesterday, your uncle came to me and officially told me about the war in the north, or the idea you put forward last time to unite the Liao State to destroy the Jurchens. This time, he put forward several new grounds, therefore, at today's court meeting, I took out this matter to discuss, the court is basically divided into three factions, one faction proposed that no one will help, watch the tiger fight across the mountain, and after the vitality of the Liao State is greatly injured, we will send troops; One faction is in favor of sending troops, uniting with the Jurchens to destroy Liao, and then returning to our Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures; There is also a faction like your uncle, uniting with the Khitan to destroy the Jurchens, but there are very few people in this faction who support it, what I want to know is, why are you so sure? Li Cong didn't go around in circles, and asked directly.

He didn't listen to Yan Yan's proposal, but was curious why a boudoir woman who stayed at home was interested in the war, and why she asked Yan Peng to hand him the words again and again?

"Back to the emperor, the third aunt of the folk woman has been with the third uncle of the folk woman at the border for many years, and she has heard and seen it, and she understands the current situation of the Liao State to some extent. When the emperor asked about this, the women had the courage to say a few words, and asked the emperor to forgive the women for being presumptuous. ”

"Say, I called you here just to hear your true thoughts, don't hide your secrets, you just say it." Li Cong still has this bit of open-mindedness.

"First of all, the Khitan has been established for hundreds of years, and although they have been fighting with us intermittently for many years, they have no ambition to annex us, and because most of the residents of the sixteen states of Yanyun are Han Chinese, the Khitan people have been assimilated by the Han people a lot in the past hundred years; Secondly, I can see from the book that most of the policies pursued by the Liao State also refer to the system of our Han people, and even they have introduced their own scientific examination system; Third, I heard from the third aunt that in the past ten years, there has hardly been any serious fighting on the border, and it is nothing more than a small fight to grab some food, women and children. Therefore, the women believe that the Liao people should be willing and want to maintain this status quo, not to mention, they are now being attacked by the Mongols and the Jurchens, and they are still too busy to take care of themselves, and they definitely have no strength to provoke our Great Zhou. But the Mongols and the Jurchens are different, in recent years, they have continued to annex and encroach on other people's tribes and territories, as if they have become the new overlords of the steppe, extremely aggressive, I am afraid that when the time comes, their appetite is not only to swallow the Liao State and Western Xia, but a large area of fertile land in our Central Plains. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Yan paused and pointed to the map on the wall, "Your Majesty, please see, the terrain of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has been a natural barrier on the northern border of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times. ”

Li Cong was suddenly asked.