At the beginning of July, Dayong decided to send a delegation to Xiyan to exchange friendship and discuss the joint fight against the Turks. In recent years, the Turks have flourished, and in addition to constantly harassing Dayong, they have also often launched disputes with the Western Yan bordering it, which shows their ambition for expansion. In this sense, the Turks were the common enemies of Dayong and Xiyan, and Dayong and Xiyan had the basis for joint troops. Last year, the Western Yan Mission also mentioned this matter briefly, and last autumn the Turks became more and more rampant, and the matter of joint military dispatch became necessary and tense.

Emperor Changtai announced the list of personnel of the mission, and Fang Congzhe, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, was the chief envoy, and Xu Shen, the deputy envoy of the military department. This time, these two people led the team to Xiyan, and also transferred many officials from the nine temples of the three provinces to form a mission, and the officials of the mission were huge, most of them were officials from Honglu Temple and the Ministry of War, among which Shen Zeru was impressively listed. Shen Zeru's talent revealed when he received the Xiyan delegation last year, Fang Congzhete named him, although this envoy was for mutual friendship, but also had the purpose of promoting the prestige of the country, people like Shen Zeru were naturally indispensable.

Shen Huashan and Shen Zejing were both very happy, this trip was obviously a gold-plated trip with qualifications. If there is no accident, most of the officials will be promoted, and with a literary talent like Shen Zeru, with the opportunity to go on an envoy, it will be easier to make achievements. This mission is really an excellent platform.

Shen Zeru and his wife Shen Chen came to Jingtai Street, and he was going to be an envoy soon, to say goodbye to Shen Huashan and listen to his suggestions.

"On this mission, we still have to seize every opportunity to perform well! After coming back, although they will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds, although they will be added to the official, they must have achievements. "Between uncles and nephews, there is nothing to hide politely, this kind of envoy is just to make merit, if Shen Zeru can't even figure this out, he will stay in Jingzhao in vain.

"My nephew knows." Although Shen Zeru is outstanding in literature, he is not a dead reader, and his brain is quite flexible. Maybe it's because of Shen Deshan's inheritance, although he doesn't do business, the little calculation in his heart and Xiao Jiujiu never stops. At the beginning, he knew that there would be a day when he would be an envoy at the banquet, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, so he didn't prepare well.

"You don't need to prepare anything, the talent is in your head, and you can't prepare it, so when the time comes, you can just take it out and use it." Shen Ze said this to Shen Zeru, the two brothers have been together for a long time, and Shen Zejing knew what he was thinking as soon as he looked at Shen Zeru's face.

"Xu Shen is a good person, and besides, he has some friendship with me, I will ask him to look at you more." Shen Zejing said again, thinking of Xu Shenxing's nephew, he still had to get this matter done.

"Fang Congzhe is an honest man, but this person's strategy is lacking, and sincerity is insufficient, if there is a real change in this trip, it is still necessary to rely on Xu Shenxing to be safe." Shen Huashan said that he didn't have much contact with the officials of Honglu Temple, but he had a good relationship with Qian Tongshi recently, and he had heard him say a few words about Fang Congzhe, and also reminded Shen Zeru of this point, making him a little smarter.

"I have a task for you, you are on an envoy this time, taking Yi'er and a few people, in addition to behaving well, you also have to complete this matter, this matter is the most important ......" Shen Huashan's voice was very slow, but it was extremely serious. At this moment, he is not a kind uncle, he is giving orders to Shen Zeru as the patriarch of the Shen clan.

Shen Zeru listened carefully to plastic surgery, but the more he listened, the more he broke out in a cold sweat, and his face slowly became solemn, this is too difficult......

Shen Zeru will be elected into the mission, Shen Ning has known for a long time, Shen Zeru is famous, this is not a difficult thing to guess. In the previous life, he also sent an envoy to Xiyan, but that time he was led by Shangguan Changzhi. Because of this mission, Shen Zeru greatly praised Shangguan Changzhi's performance, and became close to him, which invisibly also affected the Shen family's attitude towards Shangguan Changzhi, and Shen Yuhong served in the Five Princes' Mansion, the Shen family naturally favored the Five Princes, and soon set a marriage for Shen Ning and Shangguan Changzhi.

Fortunately, this time Shangguan Changzhi would not go to Xiyan, and was replaced by Fang Congzhe.

After Shen Zeru left, Shen Huashan called Shen Zeyuan again and asked Hu Shi'an Hetang if he was ready. It turned out that this time the mission would also take part of the business group to Xiyan, earlier Shen Huashan had found a position for Hu's Anhetang, it was inconvenient for the Shen family to come forward, it just so happened that Hu's Anhetang could go to explore the depth of Xiyan, and by the way, he took some of the Shen family's sons and nephews to Xiyan to cooperate with Shen Zeru's actions in Xiyan.

"It's all ready, Zexue has already come to Jingzhao from Hangzhou with Yu Zhang, and Qiao Cheng'an and the people from the hall will go to Xiyan." Shen Zeyuan replied, he already knew what was going on in Ruliu, and his heart was naturally shaken, the Shen family's bureau was a bit big, and then thinking about what Shen Zeru was going to do in Xiyan, he also sighed in his heart, it was too difficult.

Shangguan Changzhi was also annoyed, originally he served in Honglu Temple, and he should have participated in the matter of Xiyan this time, but there was no him in the list of personnel announced by Emperor Changtai, what is the reason, he is also very clear, it seems that the impact of the rumors last time is still there, otherwise why wouldn't my father let me go? In the current situation, he also understands that staying in Jingzhao will not help the development of the situation, so it is better to send an envoy to Xiyan, maybe it will be an opportunity.

So he sent a letter to Emperor Changtai and applied to send an envoy to Xiyan, explaining that going to increase knowledge would be helpful to the country and the imperial court, but unfortunately Emperor Changtai still did not allow it. There was also Shangguan Chengyou, who also applied to Emperor Changtai to go to Xiyan at the suggestion of Concubine De and Chen Zhihao.

Emperor Changtai received letters from two princes one after another, and sent envoys to Xiyan, it was impossible to send two adult princes to go, so he had to go to neither of them, so Emperor Changtai did not agree to the applications of these two people, and Shangguan Changzhi was of course disappointed, and privately let Li Guifei say a lot of good things, and he couldn't let Emperor Changtai change his mind.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, Fang Congzhe held the festival charm, bid farewell to Emperor Changtai, led a delegation of more than 300 people, and also brought tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and gold silk to Xiyan. When the mission set off from Jingzhao, everyone in the Shen family went to send it off, because there was Shen Zeru inside, Shen Ning of course also saw Shen Yuyi beside Shen Zeru, dressed as a little girl, it seems that the sixth uncle has another task to go to Xiyan this time, Shen Ning thought, it seems that it is arranged by his grandfather again.

Shen Zeru looked back at the Jingzhao City Gate, and only turned around until there was only a small black dot left in the city gate, and a distressed expression appeared on his face, thinking of the task given to him by Shen Huashan, he couldn't help but scratch his head. It's easier said than done to establish a base for exchanging information in Xiyan. Not to mention that Xiyan is strict with the examination of household registration, let's just say that Shen Jihe is such an old man and Shen Yuyi is such a small person, how can he take root in Xiyan? Even if you can establish a stronghold, how can you send the news back to Daeyong?

"I also know that this is difficult, otherwise I wouldn't let you do this, it just so happens that Dayong also has a merchant group to follow the mission to Xiyan, and many of them have settled in Xiyan, so it is also feasible to let Yi'er integrate into it, and then you will cooperate with you." Shen Zeru remembered his uncle's words, and touched the huge amount of silver ticket in his arms, in fact, what he wanted to do was difficult to say, simple and simple, that is, to use the convenience of the envoy to contact the officials of the Xiyan Household Department, and seek a few household registration documents for Shen Yuyi and others, so that Shen Yuyi and others have an upright Xiyan identity, so that they can stay in Xiyan safely, and the most important thing is that it cannot arouse the vigilance of Xiyan officials, how can this be done?

Shen Zeru looked at Shen Jihe and Shen Yuyi as if they were stuffy gourds, their heads hurt, and the Xiyan stronghold was managed by these two stuffy gourds, can it be done? His head hurt even more.

"Father, what's the use of establishing a stronghold in Xiyan?" Shen Zejing asked about the things he had always been strange, what Shen Zeru wanted to do, he felt that it was impossible, besides, it was not necessary, what could Xiyan have to do with the Shen family? Infiltrating each other, that should also be a matter for the royal family and Jin Wuwei, why should the Shen family take such a risk.

"......" Shen Huashan didn't know what to say, in fact, his son's doubts were also his own doubts, more precisely, it was a hazy idea for him to establish a stronghold in Xiyan. His intuition made him do so, and he only felt that doing so would be of great use in the future, and as for the reason, he couldn't say. Since the death of his brother Shen Congshan, Shen Huashan has had such a feeling, and will always unconsciously think about problems from Shen Congshan's point of view, such as this matter, if his brother knew about it, how would Confucianism react to sending Xiyan? The elder brother will definitely take this opportunity to establish a stronghold in Xiyan, Shen Huashan easily came up with such an answer, as for what is the use of establishing a stronghold in Xiyan, he can't answer Shen Zejing.

This hazy thought, as he began to give Shen Zeruren the task, gradually became clear, yes, he must do this, in order to pass on the news in the future, he must do this step in advance.

Shen Huashan did not return to Shen Zejing's words, but his heart was more determined.