The father and son of Li Liangfu and Li Xiao'er originally thought that the third princess being a daughter-in-law was a matter of course and certainty, but they didn't expect that a person called Gao Pet would come out to disturb the trouble, and he not only hated it in his heart. But this imperial competition also had to be made. But his son Li Xiao'er was eager to try this competition, full of confidence, and wanted to show off in front of the emperor. He said to his father, Li Liangfu:

"Father, what's there to worry about, I knocked him over during the martial arts competition, so it's too late for him to cry, and you want to compare with me? Hum! ”

"Son, there is no diamond diamond, no porcelain work, since people dare to compare with you, it means that people must have confidence, not to mention a big Song person, we still want to think of some stable ways."

"This martial arts competition, it is the emperor himself who came up with the question, our party is a nation immediately, this martial arts competition is not only a cavalry and archery battle, but also a battle formation strategy, your little battle formation, is far from mature, if you are not in our army, you can have a chance to rise to the current position? You prepare me well, especially the military books on the battle formation, and I will go to the Taishi and Taifu to maybe they can get some rumors. Li Liangfu is also regarded as a general of Western Xia, his own culture is not good, but he cares about his son's education very much, and has invited a lot of teachers to educate a few children, and this Li Xiaoer is usually a little domineering but can be literate and martial, and there is no one else in this Kyoto teenager, so Li Liangfu and his son have some reputation in Xingqing City. Li Liangfu is very proud of this son, and he is usually very showy, and sometimes even tiresome.

This imperial competition was definitely a major event on the road of the Li family and Li Liangfu's life, and they had to mobilize all their strength.

Three days later, in the evening, a carriage with a yellow curtain hung in front of the door of this post house was opened, which was a special family car in the palace, and out of the carriage came a person, a eunuch. The eunuch's favored guards know him, and he is his grandfather in the Sweet Water River. But the group of "six classes in the imperial enclosure" around him, that is, the imperial guards, were replaced.

When the guard battalion saw Grandpa Sun arrive, he stepped forward to greet him. Grandpa Sun waved his hand: "Take me to see Gao Gongzi, the emperor has a holy decree." ”

Gao Pet has been painting the layout of Tianshui River to build a fort and open a town in the past two days, and Gao Pet has made a plan to burn porcelain, open a coal mine, and build a nitrate factory in Ciyao Town. It includes the overall plan of personnel logistics, roads, living facilities, and security and defense. I heard that Grandpa Sun came to announce the decree and said that it was a summons. Let me wait for so many days, this Western Xia king only now remembers me Gao Pet, Gao Pet muttered in his mouth, and hurriedly came out to receive the order.

Seeing Gao Pet come out, Grandpa Sun and Gao Pet were also acquaintances, so they said hello. Immediately in a serious manner, he shouted in that thin voice:

"High favor to take orders!"

Gao Zhong knelt down to receive the order. This kneeling is really not used to a former modern person, thinking back to Gu Tian's life for more than forty years, except for the time when his grandfather died, he knelt down as the eldest grandson, and never had such an experience. And today is the second time, but Gao Zhong knows that in this society, he can only follow the customs, so he does not have too much burden in his heart to kneel down and accept the order.

"The emperor said: Let this kid come to see me and ask him, a Song man, why he wants to marry my baby princess of Daxia. I am waiting for him in the palace of the diligent government. ”

This high pet knelt there and felt aggrieved, marrying the princess as his wife, did I think about it in my heart, but I never said it, and even thinking about it is a sin? How do you know? But Gao Zhong didn't know that he nested in the post house every day to do his homework, as if he had disappeared. Gao Pet also honestly waited for the summons. Among the group, only Lao Qian is a busy man, doing his own business. And this Deng family brother and sister may have fallen into the shadow of the incident in Blackwater Fort last time, and they refused to act alone again. And this Xingqing City was about to turn upside down because of his arrival. Gao Zhong has become a celebrity.

That Deng Yu heard about the third princess, he was very unhappy, in Heishui Castle, Gao Chonggang said that he was his fiancée, but it was not two days before the third princess, and I don't know what other four princesses and five princesses there are, my heart is tied to his body, every day in front of his eyes, and I have never seen him feel emotionally attached to himself, I only know how to write, paint, or something there, I don't know what he thinks about himself, Deng Yu feels deeply in crisis, and only works hard by himself, don't let the other party forget himself, so he is even more attentive to Gao Chong, serve tea and water, and nest beside Gao Pet if there is nothing to do.

Gao Zhong accepted the order and asked Zhao Yi to seal a letter of ten taels of silver to Father-in-law Sun, which is a lot of money, if it is exchanged for copper coins, it can be picked up. Gao Pet was generous, and Grandpa Sun was very happy, and waited patiently for Gao Pet to prepare in the living room. After a while, Gao Chong changed his clothes, a Hanfu gown, followed behind Grandpa Sun, and went to the palace in a carriage.

The Xixia Palace was built in imitation of the Tang and Song Imperial Palaces, and some elements of party culture were also added, but the difference between the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Forbidden City in Gao Chong's mind was too great, but in this Southern Song Dynasty, the Xixia Palace was built after more than 100 years. It also has a scale. Gao Zhong followed behind Gonggong Sun and walked from the corridor on the side to Li Qianshun's Qinzheng Palace. Because it was not a formal meeting, Gao Zhong was not qualified to take the central avenue at this time. When I arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, the eunuchs and guards in front of the palace here were already waiting here. took away Gao Chong's personal weapon, searched up and down again, and the guard instructed Grandpa Sun to take Gao Chong in.

In the middle of the Qinzheng Hall is a large kang or a throne like a kang, and behind the kang is a picture screen full of Western Xia script, and there is a large long case on the kang, piled up with many case files. Li Qianshun sat down in the back, this is a diligent emperor, maybe another Yongzheng.

"The Great Song Dynasty Gao Pet meets the Emperor of Great Xia, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Gao Zhong knelt more than ten steps away from Li Qianshun, and saluted the supreme ruler of Western Xia according to the temporary visit guidance on the Sun Gong Highway.

After a while, Li Qianshun raised his head from the case file, saw Gao Zhong kneeling in front of him, and asked solemnly:

"Are you guilty of high favor?"

"I don't know!" Gao Pet knelt down and bowed his head there and replied.

"You talk about state affairs in vain, say that our dynasty is 'taking grain as the key link' is 'carrying out destructive construction', bribing powerful ministers, probing the intelligence of our Great Xia Kingdom, privately searching for military horses, and all kinds of capital crimes, what else do you have to say!"

"Return to the Emperor. What I talked about to my subordinates was nothing more than what I saw and heard on the road, and I lamented the abandoned land. As for the matter of encouraging the subjects of the Western Xia State to cultivate wasteland, it is only the young master of the crown prince who has doubts and asks me to answer it, and with the permission of the prince, I will talk about my views on the current policy, and I will not deceive people in public. A little gift to the prince is to thank the prince for the banquet, and the prince who didn't know at the time was the prince, but he knew each other because of the prince's young age, and most of the gifts were also produced by my Gao family, not to mention that there was no intention. I learned that I was in the country of Daxia, and I knew that Daxia produced horses, and my home was in the midst of war, bandits were rampant, and I had many Gao enterprises, and the enterprises were far away, and the protection force was limited, so I hoped to build a horse team to quickly counterattack the infestation of bandits. Seeing that my Great Xia Kingdom is strong, because of the thought in my heart, the prince asked and gave him hope, but it was just a thought, and there was no selfish search. So the grass people are not guilty. ”

"If what you say is reasonable, let's be even!" Gao pet has been kneeling since entering the hall, such a big body you say kneeling is not tired, in fact, the most tired for Gao pet is the heart, and in the future, when entering this society that has to kneel at every turn, it is really necessary to overcome the psychology of modern people. This is a courtesy, and you have to get used to it! Gao Pet got up from the ground, and in this house, the figure appeared bigger and taller, with a square face, sharp edges and corners, two sword eyebrows, and a slightly upward scratching of the corners of his mouth, making Gao Pet look more handsome and handsome.

Li Qianshun looked at the high pet in front of him and knew some of the reasons why the third princess didn't marry him, but just because she was handsome, it would be an underestimation of the princess's wisdom to make a princess fall in love. Such beautiful men are not uncommon in the party.

"How old are you, and what is the relationship between King Kaiping and you?"

"Back to the emperor, the grass people are fourteen this year, and the second year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty was born. Gao Huaide, the king of Kaiping, was the ancestor of the grass people. "In addition to the face is still a little immature, the voice is a little hoarse, the deep eyes, the way of speaking, in front of this emperor, under the solemn atmosphere, there is no timidity and uneasiness, words and deeds as all show the mature wisdom of the high pet, where there is a little bit of young man is a shadow?

"Come on, show Gao Gongzi." Grandpa Sun brought a round pier to Gao Pet.

Gao Zhong bowed in thanks, but did not sit down.

"Gao Pet, I told you to sit, why don't you sit?"

"Back to the emperor, you are the lord of a country in this Great Xia Kingdom, and my high favor is just a grass citizen in the Song Kingdom; And from the perspective of the elders, you are my elders, and the younger generations should bow down to each other. ”

"Sit down, I have something to ask you."

"Thank the emperor for sitting." Gao Pet sat down, but only half of his ass.

"Gao Pet, you want to buy my Great Xia military horse, don't you know that my Great Xia has banned all horses from losing to the Song Dynasty since the beginning of Taizu, do you think I will violate the ancestral system to ban and give you horses?"

"Go back to the emperor. To open the ban or not to open the ban, this time, that time. ”

"Oh, tell me how to do this and that?"

"Throughout the first hundred years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, I think that at the beginning, there were only 100,000 people in my Great Xia, most of them were ignorant grass people, the land was not more than a thousand miles, and it was still a barren and barren land, surrounded by strong enemies in the Song and Liao, and the Uighurs and Tubo tribes in the west were constantly eroded and harassed, and now, occupying the land of Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Jing, Ling, Hui, Sheng, Gan (now Zhangye, Gansu), Liang (now Wuwei, Gansu), Gua, Sha, and Suzhou, the territory is thousands of miles, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, why not? It is the crystallization of the political wisdom of the kings of all generations of my Great Xia. They are well versed in the diplomacy of small countries and weak countries, strengthen the army and consolidate the foundation, open the government, repair the text, and set the calendar, and get Ningxia, the granary of the south of the Yangtze River, to open the country and call the king, which is the fundamental reason why the Great Xia Kingdom survives and grows in the gap between the strong countries. ”

"Just like my king, Liao Cun will help Liao, Xinyi will also, and Liao will die with gold, it is for the sake of the people, sacrificing himself, not like the first prince, and using things with will, otherwise, is my Xia country the Xia country today? Therefore, the death of the first prince may not be the blessing of our party and the Great Xia Kingdom. "He also knows about the prince? This is a secret ban in the palace. In this palace, you still have to drive a sense of secrecy, Li Qianshun thought.

"At the beginning of the Song Taizu set the world, Song Taizong made great efforts to exterminate all countries, Song Qiang, cover Liao in the north, Song attacked Xia can not act recklessly, can not pour the strength of the country, plus my Great Xia soldiers are brave, so as to survive. Military strength is heavy on cavalry, and more cavalry is stronger. The ancestors of the party cut off the source of the Song horses, and the Hexi Corridor and Hetao, the places where the Song Dynasty raised horses, were in my hands, and the sixteen states of Youyan in the north fell into the hands of Liao, because there was no substitute for the cavalry, the Song army was weak. Weak Song Gong, this strategy to break Manan is the first merit. ”

"After Jingkang, the current Great Song Dynasty is based on the south of the Yangtze River, and it is no longer yesterday's Great Song Dynasty, although the hundred-legged insects are dead but not stiff, but the Great Song Dynasty is no longer the current threat of my Great Xia Kingdom."

"Western Liao, now in order to survive in the Western Regions and fight with Zhufan, if it unifies the Western Regions, it will definitely avenge the enmity of the country in the future, but don't worry, the countries of the Western Regions have ill intentions, and the Western Regions cannot invade the east if they are uncertain, a little prevention is enough."

"The view of the great gold, the army and horses of 1.2 million people, the new value of the victory, the unity of the people, its momentum, unstoppable, Zong Han, the old puff, flying and dialing, violent and unkind, killing innocents, forcibly marrying my second princess, treating my Great Xia as a mustard, it is according to its momentum, its edge is irreversible."

"Dajin is now supporting the pseudo-Qi Liu Yu, a puppet ear. If the rights and interests of his expansion are too rapid and he is unable to rule, Liu will not last long. Liu Qi is really golden, not credible. ”

"Dajin, the heart of the tiger and wolf, if you are not prepared, it will be Dajin who will destroy my Great Xia Kingdom in the future."

"Gu, Daikin is my enemy. If Song is extinguished, then Dajin will use all his strength against me, I and Dajin, the national strength is very different, even if I can resist it temporarily, I can't afford to consume it, and the defeat is already decided. Therefore, the strong Song and the weak gold should be my political leaders in the future. ”

"However, there are some things that can be said but not said in politics, and some things that can only be said but not done."

"Supporting the Song Dynasty and making money can be done but not said, and helping the gold to resist the Song Dynasty can be said but not done."

"As the saying goes, 'the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit', and the same is true of the country's politics and diplomacy."

"The ancestral system was made according to the situation at that time, but the world is ever-changing, rigid and practical, harmful, according to local conditions, and the power changes. This time, that time. ”

Gao pet used both ancient imitation styles and talked eloquently, but fortunately, Chongzong could still understand it. Listening to Gao Chong's words, this Chongzong beat the drum in his heart. Li Qianshun thought that in ancient times, Ganluo 12 could worship the prime minister, Zhou Yu 13 could lead the troops, and Huo Qu was 19 years old and waited. Even my old fox can't you see through it, am I old? If such a talent is used by the Great Song Dynasty, it will endanger my Great Xia and kill him? Li Qianshun was taken aback by his thoughts! Recruit him to Daxia as the arm of filial piety? As a child of the Great Song Gao family, is it possible? Li Qianshun's face changed back and forth. Only then did I see Li Qianshun breathing a long sigh of relief.

"I heard that you like the third princess, the pearl is still the pearl in the palm of my hand, although you are a disciple of the family, but now you are just a grass people, do you think you can give the third princess happiness?"

"Go back to the emperor. I heard that the eldest princess is now the princess of Xiliao, but her life is not as good as a palace maid in the palace, and the husband of the second princess is the generalissimo of Dajin, but the second princess washes her face with tears every day, and hopes that her father can take her back every day, and they are not happy. Although I am a grass people, but I have my own career, but also enough to ensure my own safety, the ancients said: 'You can bully the old, you can't bully the young', a teenager you can't predict his growth, that's the truth. "Gao Zhong has his own self-confidence. Although he is not the third princess who cannot be married, he is not allowed to be looked down upon, even if you Li Qianshun is the emperor of the Western Xia Kingdom.