The next day, Gao Pet got up early as usual, practiced martial arts, and finally played a set of Tai Chi. The third princess was already waiting on the side, holding a coat in her hand, it turned out that the third princess had come to return the coat that Gao Pet had draped on her last night. Although this grassland is rainy and dry, at night, due to the large temperature difference, dew will also condense, so I don't know when, a coat with the smell of men's sweat was draped on the body of the third princess, and the three princesses did not refuse.

"Gao Gongzi, this is your clothes." The princess of this Dangxiang clan is more atmospheric than the woman of the Song Kingdom, and she returns the man's clothes to Gao Zhong in front of the guards.

"Have you eaten breakfast?" Taking the clothes, Gao Pet asked.

"Nope." The third princess's voice was low, her head was bowed, and the boots were against the weeds. As soon as Gao Chong praised the atmosphere of the women in this period, he immediately saw a woman's posture and the classic expression of a young girl.

"Wait until I'm done washing my face and let's have breakfast together." Gao Pet is just a polite touch.

"Hmm." Seeing Dazhu serving rice porridge to Gao Chong on the side, the third princess ran over to help.

The most popular breakfast is rice porridge, dried meat and pickles, and salted duck eggs. This is a very luxurious thing among the Tangut people, even if it is royal. This pickle, this salted duck egg is another invention of Gao Pet, the third princess seems to like to eat the yolk of salted duck eggs, and Gao Pet also gave his own one to the third princess.

The third princess ate happily.

Ren Cong and the prince, who were watching Gao Zhong and the third princess having breakfast from a distance, heard the princess's laughter from a distance.

"It's really exciting to let Gao Pet be my family's colt, and the third sister will be very happy. But I don't know what my father will think. The prince said to his teacher.

"Let the third princess descend (marry) to Gao Gongzi, maybe it is really a good choice for us in Western Xia. Perhaps we should return to the Imperial City as your father had arranged. ”

"I don't care about a day or two, wait until I'm done with this sweet water river!" This little prince has a decision in his heart. Perhaps the ancients were really precocious than the modern people.

The clay layer in the Tianshui River, the peat in the small pool, the gypsum in the sand and gravel, all of this, when Gao Chong walked through this small basin to the foot of the mountain in the south, Gao Chong has confirmed in his heart that this is one of the five major coal mines in the country, the discovery place of large dinosaur groups, the ancient porcelain capital of the Western Xia and Yuan dynasties, and the location of Ciyaobao Town in the previous life.

Gao Pet They stopped in front of this mountain, and then two horses came from afar, waiting for the prince's guards to let them in, and when they saw the human face clearly, the prince's eyes were sharp, and he said loudly:

"Is it Gonggong Sun and Captain Chen?"

When the two horsemen heard the prince asking, they asked the horse to run a few paces, turned over and dismounted, and knelt down to meet them:

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince, the young master, it's the lower official."

"Get up."

One of them is a royal eunuch, and the other is a captain of the Royal Proton Army, who is the person of the royal "six classes in the royal siege".

Grandpa Sun got up, took out a yellow silk bag from his arms, and held it high above his head. Lang shouted:

"The emperor's holy decree, the crown prince, the young master and the high-favored prince will receive the decree."

The crown prince, the young master Ren Cong, and Gao Zhong were about to kneel down to receive the order. At this time, Grandpa Sun said again:

"The emperor said: The prince, the young master, and the high-ranking prince live in the wilderness, and there is no need to be formal."

"Thank you, Emperor Longen."

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: The prince travels to study, is eager to learn and progress, and he is very relieved. Young Master Ren Cong is diligent and sensitive, teaching by word and deed, and teaching well. The son is highly favored, although he is not a citizen of my country, he has made suggestions and suggestions for my Western Xia, and his loyalty is commendable. The three of them immediately returned to Beijing to face the saint. Chin this. ”

After receiving the holy decree, Ren Cong and the prince came over to apologize to Gao Chong:

"Mr. Gao, I didn't tell Mr. Gongzi the truth before, and I ask Mr. Gongzi to forgive me."

"Your Royal Highness's identity is sensitive, and I am not so emotional, but I am highly favored in front of the prince and the young master, and I am presumptuous in my words and deeds, please be lenient."

"Ha, everyone, don't be polite, let's go back to the capital." The prince is very easy-going and carefree. And the three princesses on the side, following behind Gao Pet, followed suit, but they didn't speak, and they didn't know what to think.

After receiving the holy decree, everyone packed up and went back to Xingqing Mansion.

Gao Pet and his entourage walked through the valley, went straight to the west, and did not turn back, walked for more than an hour, arrived at the Yellow River, and went downstream again to find the ferry. From the ferry port to Xingqing City, there are only more than 80 miles away.

The horse had been running for more than an hour, and it was evening, and he saw a great city in the distance, with a wall nearly three feet high, and a moat about ten feet wide. This is Xingqing City, the imperial capital of the Western Xia Kingdom.

After Li Jiqian, the founder of Western Xia, seized Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty, he changed Lingzhou to Xiping Mansion as the ruling center. After his son Li Deming succeeded to the throne, he believed that Xiping Mansion was located in a place of four stops, which was not conducive to defense, and was not as favorable as the situation in Huaiyuan. In 1020, he sent the minister He Chengzhen to lead the servants, crossed the Yellow River to the north to build a city, built a city palace and a sect of the community, and set the capital here, named Xingzhou. After Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao (i.e., Li Yuanhao of Chongzong of Western Xia) succeeded to the throne, in 1033, he built a palace city and built a palace, and promoted Xingzhou to Xingqing Mansion. and formally established a civil and military class here; Establishment of the Western Xia ruling body. Zhutai south of the city, in the first year of the Heavenly Rite Law Yanzuo (1038) October 11 here to be canonized, that is, the emperor's throne. The emperors of the Western Xia Dynasty used it as their capital. This Xingqing City has been the capital of Western Xia for more than 100 years now, and the population of this city has reached more than 200,000.

The convenience of Xingqing Mansion as the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty is obvious. From the perspective of the military and geographical situation, the original base of the Western Xia, the area of Yin, Xia, the southeast is the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the northeast is the powerful Liao State, which is not only greatly restricted in its outward development, but also is close to the Song and Liao border defense towns, and is militarily vulnerable to threats, while the Xingqing Prefecture region, the water and grass are abundant, and the land is rich and grainy, and the Song and Liao forces cannot effectively control here. From the point of view of traffic and geographical location, Xingqing Mansion "controls Heshuo in the north, leads Qingliang in the south, and according to the upstream of Zhulu, chokes the key points in the west", and its geographical situation is much superior to that of Yin and Xia. From the perspective of the economic environment, agriculture and animal husbandry in the surrounding areas of Xingqing Prefecture are relatively developed, and the relatively stable irrigation agriculture in the Yellow River basin can ensure the military and civilian food supply in the city. In addition to the original Tang Lai, Hanyuan ancient canal and other irrigation benefits, Yuan Haoshi also built the "Haowang Canal" on the alluvial plain at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, which is more than 200 miles long, so that the agricultural and animal husbandry production in the suburbs of Xingqing Mansion has been greatly developed, and it has become one of the grain bases and important pastures in Xixia.

When I entered the city gate, it was a city of Weng, in which there were no residents, only a small row of houses, which were the rooms of the guards guarding the city. Only after passing through the city of Weng can you enter the city. Walked more than two miles, saw the gate of the inner city, entered the inner city, saw all the tile houses, the structure of the building is very similar to the Great Song Dynasty, this inner city is the place where the officials and families of the Western Xia live, the Western Xia State stipulates that only officials can build this tile house. The inner city is very large, about eighteen miles around, the houses in the inner city are not dense, there are many large pieces of grass empty, and on the side of the road leading to the imperial city are very luxurious manors relative to this Western Xia. And the Imperial City is right in the heart of the inner city.

Ren Cong arranged a group of more than 300 people in a large post house. It was an embassy district, generally where the emissaries of various countries or tribes lived, closer to the imperial city. Ren Cong arranged for Gao Pet to live here, and he was highly treated. He asked Gao Zhong to wait for the emperor's summons. He returned to the imperial city with the prince, princess and others.