Mi Fu, a newcomer who has never had any experience in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty, is on the road.

His advantage is that no matter how easy he is, it is impossible for the Liao State to get any secrets of the Great Song Dynasty from his mouth, because he doesn't know about it at all, and he doesn't care about it......

If someone wants to start from Mi Fu to spy on the secrets of the Great Song Dynasty, they must be dumbfounded, and they think they have met a loyal minister with firm beliefs.

Gao Yu feels that Mi Fu has a great responsibility, mainly because he is afraid that if the Liao people get nothing from Mi Fu, they will be angry and angry, and they will destroy the flowers, which is a tragedy.

Say everything is an old friend.

Gao Yu can't see death without help, right?

Mi Fu often comes to Su Shi's house as a guest, and this goods often skip one or two hundred miles to Su Shi's house. Generally speaking, the jurisdiction of one or two hundred miles must exceed the jurisdiction of a seven-rank official, and if you change someone, you will already be in prison.

If it weren't for Mi Fu being the brother of Emperor Shenzong, his mother Yan was the head of the female officials around the Empress Dowager Gao, and the red man around the Empress Dowager, he would not be treated as air by the emperor, and he would have been given a monthly salary.

"Yuanzhang, if you go to Liao this time, the Liao people will definitely take your words."

Gao Yu cautiously reminded Mi Fu that he could not be taken lightly.

Mi Fu frowned slightly, and said with all his thoughts: "Don't worry, Jinxian, I won't reveal the secrets of the palace to the Liao." ”

Mi Fu ......

This Emperor Yingzong has known him since he was a child, and he is also familiar with Empress Dowager Gao, and he is also the milk brother of Emperor Shenzong, if he really says some secrets of the Great Song Dynasty, it is very explosive. I'm afraid that when the Liao people listen to the ground, they will rise up and return to the Great Song Dynasty, and they will be clicked by Emperor Zhao Xu - who asked you to talk about my family's affairs outside?

However, this answer will definitely not satisfy Gao Yu, Gao Yu is in a cold sweat, and said in a weak heart: "The palace is secret...... If you can't say it, it's better not to say it. ”

Gao Yu took a deep breath and said contemplatively: "I mean that the Liao people probed on the secrets of my Great Song Dynasty, the attitude of the court towards the Liao State, and the deployment of our army on Hebei Road and Hedong Road. In case asked, what do you say? ”

Mi Fu seemed to be humiliated, and his heart said: "Gao Yu, do I look like a traitor?" ”

Mi Fu stood up, straightened his chest and scolded angrily: "I won't say anything about killing me!" ”

Gao Yu was dumbfounded, he found that his brain circuit and Mi Fu could not have crossed at all, he was worried that Mi Fu went to Liao to fall into the Liao people's tricks, but also hoped that Mi Fu tied him to the Liao people to spread some false information, so that he could calmly deploy the army.

Since Li Kui returned to the capital, Gao Yu felt that the pressure to confront the Liao army was increasing.

He needed a helper, a helper who could confuse the Liao.

"No, you have to say. Not only do we have to say it, but we have to say a lot of it, so that the Liao people can know some news that we are willing to let them know. Gao Yu gestured to Mi Fu and explained.

Mi Fu's brain is fine, but the idea is simple, and he was soon dizzy by Gao Yu. said strangely: "Do you want the Liao people to know, or don't you want the Liao people to know?" ”

"Oh, Mi Fu, why can't you turn the corner?" Zheng Yi, the eunuch of the Hedong Road Supervision Army, interrupted: "General Gao means that you will bring false news to the Liao people, and you can't easily confide it, so you have to be careless to say it when the Liao people are constantly testing you with tactics." You should know all this, right? ”

I have to say that eunuchs are the most eccentric in this era, but they are also the most active.

Mi Fu suddenly realized, disgusted: "Say it early!" It's simple. ”

Mi Yun, as Mi Fu's elder, can't stand it, looking at Mi Fu's eyes with more care, as if looking at the fool's pity. said: "Forget it, I'm afraid that Yuan Zhang will do bad things." ”

Stung by the eyes of his elders, his self-esteem, Mi Fu was unhappy: "Uncle, when I was a child, I was known for my intelligence, this kind of little trick, can I still be stumped?" ”

Mi Yun doesn't want to say it, when he says this, Mi Fu is afraid that he will have to die. Mi Fu when he was a child, his wife was a red man around the queen, and later Gao was promoted to the queen mother, this identity is also a first-class thigh in the big family, who dares to offend him?

If a person is often praised by others for his good looks when he is a child, this is probably true, at least most probably.

If a person is praised for being smart as a child, he needs to ponder.

Is it really smart, or is it fake smart?

Really, everything is fine. If it's fake, it's because others can't judge it from the aspects of appearance, ambition, and luck, and can only say: This kid is smart!

This may even fall on a fool, as long as his father, or his mother is good enough.

And Mi Fu happens to have such a background.

Gao Yu looked at Mi Yun and felt that although this old general was in the middle and upper echelons of strength, he was straightforward and fast-talking, and he was a friend to make.

Mi Fu was a little discouraged, but then thought that he was talented. Immediately said confidently to Gao Yu and the others: "Don't say it, I can paint everything I see and hear in Liao with a brush, and even the new monarch, queen, and minister of Liao State...... can be drawn and then sent to the capital, and the same can be meritorious. ”

It's a good idea, but there's a problem.

The eunuch Zheng Yi asked: "You are an envoy, it is easy to see the new monarch of Liao, why do you want to paint a portrait of the queen of Liao, it is not easy." ”

"Really?"

Zheng Yi affirmed: "The current harem of the Liao State is similar to that of my Great Song Dynasty, unless the emperor allows it, it is difficult for non-eunuchs to enter the harem." But if you really go in, all the secrets of the Liao Kingdom will be equivalent to not fortifying you. ”

Mi Fu thought of the loophole in his plan, and said angrily: "Forget it, the harem will not go." ”

At about the time when the Liao envoys stepped into the Kaifeng Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, Mi Fu also went on the road.

His destination was Nakyo.

As for Nanjing in the Liao State...... The newly enthroned emperor Yelu Yanxi stood at the head of the burned city of Xijin Mansion with a sad expression. When he left, only one gate of this prosperous city of Liao was burned, and the other palaces and officials in the city were intact.

But I never thought that when I came to Xijin Mansion again, most of this once glorious city had been burned down, and the city was full of ruins and broken walls, so it was not desolate.

"Your Majesty, half of the imperial city is still left, and if you repair it, it can be restored to its former scale."

Han Zirang followed behind Yelu Yanxi, Xiao Ping miscalculated the battlefield situation and fell for the tricks of the Song people, and he was already on the verge of falling out of favor, and he needed to rely on his sister to pull him. By the way, his sister is the queen.

The Xiao family has always been the descendants of the Liao royal family, and although their status is not as good as the Liang family in the Western Xia before, it is not much worse.

There is no problem at all to keep my brother's glory and wealth.

Yelu Yanxi also wants to repair the Xijin Mansion, but the problem is that more than half of the entire city has been burned, and if it costs money, the gold and silver mountains are not enough! What's more critical is that since Yelu Hongji and the Song Kingdom went to war, it has become clear that they don't want New Year's coins. The Song State contributed 500,000 taels of silver to the Liao State every year, which was a drop in the bucket for the Great Song Dynasty, but it was a huge income for the Liao State. Once he lost this income, Yelu Yanxi was worried that after he ascended the throne, he would not be able to get the gifts for his courtiers.

After all, the Liao State could not produce fine porcelain, nor did it have such necessities as silk tea.

The 500,000 taels of silver of the Song Kingdom were all used to purchase these luxury goods of the Song Kingdom. If you really let the Liao State Treasury take the money, you can't afford it at all.

Brother Xiao Chang went to the Song Kingdom to preach the funeral, not because Yelu Hongji died, and was sent to the Great Song Dynasty by Yelu Yanxi because of the friendship between the Song and Liao countries, but because he shouldered more important responsibilities. If you want to restore normal diplomatic relations between Song and Liao, at least 500,000 taels of silver per year must be missing.

Can the Song Congress give it?

Yelu Yanxi didn't know the bottom of his heart.

Brother Xiao Chang didn't know the bottom of his heart.

After all, the two countries fought each other, and the Song State won the war, Yelu Yanxi couldn't think of the possibility that the Song State would continue to pay the Liao State coins.

Even if the Liao State got this money, Yelu Yanxi was reluctant to invest in the repair of Xijin Mansion.

He had just ascended the throne, and when his imperial grandfather Yelu Hongji was in power, he fought in all directions, was invincible and invincible. The only opponent who failed was Song Guo, and it was also a recent incident. What made him speechless was that when Yelu Yanxi established his identity as the successor and was about to ascend the throne as emperor, he found that the Liao State was an empty shell.

The treasury was empty, and the Liao State had no money at all.

Not only that, Yelu Yanxi also discovered a secret, his imperial grandfather Yelu Hongji fought everywhere and won countless losses, where did the money go?

It wasn't until he was about to ascend the throne that Yelu Yanxi understood why his imperial grandfather always had to destroy one or two small tribes every year, if not for anything else, but for robbery.

An emperor, who has no money in his hand, goes to rob disobedient tribes, such nonsense, if Yelu Yanxi was the emperor's grandson, he would not believe anything.

But now, he believed.

The little money scraped together can only bury Yelu Hongji smoothly.

But after he ascended the throne, the money for the celebration has not yet been settled?

Disappointed, he returned to Zhongjing with his men.

Zhongjing and Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom are not far from each other, and they can be reached by crossing the Yanshan Mountains.

Waited until Nakyo.

He heard that the time sent by the Song State had already set off from Tongzhou and was about to arrive in Zhongjing.

Where is the same state?

Xijing of Liao.

Now that it has been occupied by the Song people, when he thinks of this, Yelu Yanxi can't wait to hack the envoys from the Song Kingdom to death. But now that the Liao State is weak, Yelu Yanxi has to swallow his anger and deal with the envoys of the Song State carefully.

From the list of envoys of the Song Kingdom, the scale, and the status of the study of countermeasures, I asked a circle of courtiers, but found nothing.

Mi Fu, I don't know where the Song Dynasty high-ranking officials came from, no one in the Liao court can say, where did this come from?

"What do I want you for?"

Yelu Yanxi didn't dare to lose his temper in the court, and in the end he had no choice but to find someone to ask for advice.

Xiao Ping finally kept his official position with the help of his sister Empress. Although the official position was retained, the soldiers and horses who wanted to control Nanjing had completely lost their chance. Now, because of the preservation of the court of the Great Liao Xijin Mansion, Han Zirang has been entrusted with an important task by Yelu Yanxi. On the contrary, it was his brother-in-law who fell out of favor a little. Who would have thought that Han Zi, the first Liao general to be defeated since the Song Liao War last year, turned out to be the best performing general after the final review of the military push, and the talent is rare.

Although it was a fall from grace, when Yelu Yanxi had no one to ask, he still thought of Xiao Ping.

"Mi Fu, the envoy of the Song State, is about to arrive, but above the court, no one can tell the origin of this person. If it is the new science and technology of the Song Kingdom, it is reasonable. But this person is not short of an official, and he has been a member for more than 20 years, why do I know nothing about him. Could it be that the secret agents of my Liao State in the Great Song Dynasty are not doing anything? ”

Yelu Yanxi was quite dissatisfied, obviously feeling very uncomfortable.

Xiao Ping stood in front of Yelu Yanxi with low eyebrows, secretly raised his eyelids and glanced at his brother-in-law, and said in his heart: "Without this brother-in-law, you can't do anything, and in the end you still ask for it, right?" ”

But who Mi Fu is, he doesn't know.

But he estimated that there was one person who might know, Yelu Chen's slave.

Since fleeing back to Zhongjing with Yelu Hongji, Yelu Chen's slaves have been dragged back. In fact, not long after returning to Zhongjing, Yelu Hongji, the old emperor of Rongma's life, died.

It was almost a month earlier than the announced date of death.

The reason why he did not mourn was that Yelu Hongji lost a lot of soldiers and horses belonging to the Liao royal family, and the leather room army lost 30,000 horses at once, and the strength of the Liao royal family was greatly reduced. In a country like Liao, if the emperor loses his strength against soldiers and horses, no one will recognize that he is still the king of Liao.

In order to gain strength and win over power, Yelu Chen's slaves used means to deprive several families of their military rights. Finally, 100,000 horses were gathered.

These 100,000 horses, plus the remaining 70,000 leather room troops, are the confidence of Yelu Yanxi to ascend the throne.

But at the same time, after the strength of Yelu Chen's slaves skyrocketed, Yelu Yanxi was also wary of this imperial uncle.

There is no way, the other party is also the dragon son and grandson of Liao, if a coup is really launched, Yelu Yanxi will also be finished.

"Your Majesty, why don't you ask the King of the Southern Courtyard?"

Xiao Ping didn't know what he was thinking, he just lowered his head, and Yelu Yanxi couldn't see the other party's expression clearly.

Yelu Yanxi said worriedly: "The king of the Southern Courtyard has no intention of taking charge of the Xijin Mansion now, and he is not far south, do you know his intentions?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it doesn't matter what the king of the Southern Courtyard thinks, but Your Majesty must be prepared. Now that the royal family is withering and its strength is greatly damaged, if the king of the Southern Courtyard is bewitched by the villain, the minister is worried that there will be a big disaster, and he asks His Majesty to make plans as soon as possible. Xiao Ping continued to insist.

Yelu Yanxi had a bit of a headache, he came to Xiao Ping to ask about the identity of the Song envoy, but Xiao Ping seemed to have been targeting Yelu Chen's slaves, what was going on?

Obviously, Xiao Ping also doesn't know Mi Fu. Yelu Yanxi simply followed the other party's words and asked: "The treasury has no money, and if you want to build an army, you can't do it, right?" ”

"Hungry people can be requisitioned from Tokyo Province, Tokyo Shenzhou is the land of Longxing, and there is money and food to use. It is better to form a 'resentful army' for His Majesty to drive. Only then did Xiao Ping reveal his true intentions.

Yelu Yanxi understood that this was to take military power for himself.

The remaining guard of Tokyo Province is Xiao Baoxian, Xiao Ping's uncle, and after this army is formed, it is likely that the command will fall into the hands of the Xiao family.

Yelu Yanxi rubbed his head, he had a headache, the people below were all fighting for power and profit, and he, the emperor, was about to become a loner.

But he can oppose it, and he can't say a reason.

Besides, it is not a bad thing that the army is controlled by the Xiao family, at least, the Xiao family also has to get a share of money and food. Yelu Yanxi nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Mi Fu sat on the big car for several days, and the bumpy bones were about to disperse, and in a daze, he found that the car stopped: "My lord, Liao sent a minister to meet my lord." ”

"Haven't you already sent someone?"

Mi Fu puzzled, from the Liao border, there are officials of the Liao State accompanied.

Mi Fu believes that this guy is not a good person. But Gao Yu, Mi Yun and others told him before he left: Tell the truth, don't lie to people, you are not this material.

Anyway, Mi Fu was very angry at the time, who to look down on? He felt humiliated.

Later, I found out that even if you are a grassland person, your heart is not simple!

So, Mi Fu said everything he could, and then he found that his treatment was getting better and better day by day, in recent days, the Liao people actually used beauty tricks on him. A real beauty, or an exotic beauty, enchanting, and coquettish. It's a challenge to his bottom line...... He has not been dragged into the water so far, mainly because he is in a hurry, and his body hurts everywhere, if he is idle, I am afraid he will not be able to hold on.

And from Mi Fu's mouth to know a lot of news of the Liao State reception officials, was immediately sent to the court.

Mi Fu was escorted to the Honglu Temple in Liao.

This is the highest pavilion for the Liao State to receive foreign envoys, and the level is much higher than that of the Sifang Pavilion.

After the official who escorted Mi Fu to Zhongjing was sent to the palace, he immediately attracted several court bigwigs from Liao, including Emperor Yelu Yanxi.

"Who is Mi Fu, have you inquired clearly?"

"The son of the Mi family, a meritorious family, Mi Yun of his clan commanded the first army of the East Road of the Song Dynasty, and was quite powerful in the Great Song Dynasty. His reputation is not obvious, mainly because he is the brother of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Kingdom, he is low-key, likes calligraphy and painting, and is higher than the current Emperor of the Song Kingdom, so he is not visible in the court. ”

Without waiting for Yelu Yanxi to speak, Xiao Ping, the emperor's adviser, was anxious to perform, and said excitedly: "It turned out to be Song Shenzong's 'An Answer', the brother of the late emperor of the Song State, and the uncle of the current Emperor of the Song State. If it is in Daliao, at least it is the head of the five capitals, and the kings of the north and south courtyards are possible. ”

Yelu Yanxi thought about it, there was nothing wrong, and said tentatively: "Then use the identity of the prince to receive Mi Fu?" ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" The ministers complimented Xiao Ping under the leadership.