In the late Song Dynasty, Zhenzong was troubled by internal troubles. There are Khitan in the north and party items in the west, and they have been constantly harassing the border. The "Lanyuan Alliance" had just been signed, and although the battle against Liao was completely victorious, it was necessary to send 300,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk to the Khitan every year in exchange for peace. In order to whitewash the peace, Zhenzong trusted Wang Qinruo and others to forge the "Book of Heaven", seal Mount Tai, and build a temple, while ordinary people lived in hardship and the people were struggling to make a living. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng's health is getting worse and worse, the queen Liu E is the auxiliary government, and the traitorous ministers Ding Wei and Wang Qinruo in the court are corrupt officials, and they are treacherous and powerful. In the harem, Queen Liu E framed concubines and princes, and Zhenzong had no children until he was old.

The palace maid Li was inconspicuous, had a cowardly personality and a humble family background, and was not valued by the emperor and the Liu family. After a Cheng En, she accidentally became pregnant with a dragon fetus, which made Queen Liu panic and framed her. Li's life is big, and he is safe and sound after taking the abortion pill, which is actually the result of the loyal palace maid Li Qiao'er guarding day and night. If one plan fails, Liu's will have another plan. The day of Li's birth went very smoothly, and Zhao Heng, the true sect who had been looking forward to the child for many years, was very happy to hear the baby's cry, and immediately named Li as Concubine Chen. However, what came out was a demon fetus, with a hideous face like a cat, and a cry like a baby but very sad. Queen Liu E invited the Taoist chief Chen Wenyi to come to diagnose, this is actually "the birth of the cat demon", Zhenzong was very displeased, and ordered someone to secretly strangle this son and bury it in the prince's forest, and beat the Li family into the cold palace, and all the palace maids and eunuchs were not allowed to mention this matter again.

On the day Concubine Li Chen gave birth, Zhang Shi, the wife of Ye Buzhi, the deputy envoy of the household department of the three divisions, also gave birth to her eldest son, named Ye Hao. However, a few days later, Ye Hao died mysteriously, and Mrs. Zhang was heartbroken, reading her son's name every day, caressing her son's clothes and crying. It wasn't until the next year that the Zhang family added another daughter, named Ye Pei, that the longing for the eldest son gradually subsided. However, the Zhang family always likes to dress Ye Pei in his brother's clothes and pretend to be a boy, and the family sees that Zhang always smiles when he sees Ye Pei dressed as a man, so they don't interfere too much.

Zhang's family was originally born to Princess Shou'an, the daughter of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and her son-in-law Zhang Yongde, and was considered to be one of the famous families from which they were born. Zhang's mother and sister, married to Taizong's eighth son, Guangling County King Zhao Yuanyan as a concubine, the relationship between the two sisters is very good, every summer ambush, Zhang will take the little daughter Ye Pei to live in the Eight Princes' Mansion for a period of time as a summer retreat. The eldest son of the eighth prince, Zhao Yunxi, was born to the eighth princess, four years older than Ye Pei, and the two Zhang sisters discussed, hoping that this cousin and sister would settle an in-law and marry for a hundred years.

Just a few days after Concubine Li Chen gave birth, the concubine Wu of the Eight Princes' Mansion also gave birth to a son, named Beneficiary, ranking sixth. Because it was a concubine, the whole house did not celebrate. Zhao Yingfu has been in poor health since he was a child and often gets sick, but he is talented and eager to learn and work hard. Ye Pei's mother likes Zhao Yingfu very much, and every time she comes to the mansion as a guest, she must visit the "sixth brother", or make clothes, or bring food. Ye Pei was influenced by his mother, and he also respected this beneficiary brother since he was a child.

This concubine Zhao Yingying, who was not taken seriously, turned out to be the mandate of heaven, because the true sect had no children, and wanted to choose someone of the right age in the clan to be fostered in the palace. On this day, Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng came to the eighth brother Zhao Yuanyan's mansion, and it happened that Zhao Yingyi chased and frolicked with Ye Pei, Zhao Yunxi and others, and Zhao Yingyi accidentally collided with Long Yan, and everyone was so frightened that they couldn't kneel. Zhenzong Zhao Heng took a fancy to the thin and white Zhao Yingli at a glance, and several questions and answers were answered fluently, and Zhenzong immediately decided to bring this "sixth brother" back to the palace to raise him. Queen Liu E has no children, and hopes to use this child to take power, although she disciplines Zhao Ying harshly, she can be regarded as loving and loving.

Above the court, Empress Liu E formed a party for personal gain, sought personal power and personal interests for the Liu family, reused Ding Wei, Cao Yu and others who supported her, and degraded Prime Minister Kou Zhun and other loyal ministers. Zhenzong didn't see Kou Zhun for more than three months, so he asked the ministers, "Why haven't you heard Kou Zhun nagging in front of me recently?" But none of the ministers dared to answer. It is said that Wang Qinruo, Lin Te, Ding Wei, Chen Pengnian, and Liu Chengqi are the "five ghosts", and there is such a sentence: "If you want to win the peace of the world, you should pull out the eyes of the Ding, and if you want to win the world, it is better to summon Kou Lao." The second prime minister, Li Dijuan, claimed that the former prime minister Kou Zhun was not guilty and was deposed, and recounted several sins of Empress Liu, and was soon removed from the prime minister. Many of these loyal ministers were deposed one after another, including Ye Pei's father, Ye Buzhi.

Ye Pei's father, Ye Buzhi, the word Yuantai, was born in a poor family, was a scholar in the Xianping year, loyal and outspoken, and the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Households. was not an important feudal official, but because he was dissatisfied with the treacherous and evil power of the imperial court, he said that the queen was retrograde, but Emperor Zhenzong did not see the sword, but the Ye family waited for the official document that was degraded. Ye Buzhi was demoted to Shuzhou Xinjin Tong Sentence and set off for office at a later date.

Everyone knows that although Shuzhou is rich, the Shu road is difficult to walk, and many officials are not guaranteed to die on the way to office. Fortunately, the Ye family is in the prime of life, and the number of domestic servants is not large, most of them are loyal servants to marry Mrs. Zhang, so it is not difficult to travel. Zhang Zhi, who was in charge of the history of Shuzhou regimental training at that time, wrote to Ye Buzhi's classmate and friend: When he went to Shuzhou, he should be Yuantai to catch the wind. As a result, as soon as they entered the territory of Shuzhou, the twenty-nine members of the Ye family were killed by gangsters, and Ye Pei was seven years old this year. As for whether it was a vendetta or interception of money, no clues have been found out for several years, and it has become a famous unsolved case at that time.