Zhao Ta watched Xiao Niang run out of the building, and after standing in place for a while, she also walked out.

At this time, the morning sun was just right, warm, and soft and comfortable on the body.

He glanced outside, and saw Jin'er fiddling with some flower seeds in front of the stone table, and the little lady was also there, but she was back, and she couldn't see what she was doing.

As if hearing footsteps, Jin'er looked over and wondered, "Lord Wang, where did you go just now?" I wiped the pier and didn't see it, and I thought the prince was gone. ”

"I'm ......" Zhao Ta went to the table and glanced at Xiao Niang, Xiao Niang just lowered her eyebrows and fiddled with a hairpin in her hand, and used the hairpin to divide the flower seeds, but it seemed that her heart was not on it at all, and she couldn't tell it clearly, and she always had to start over again in the end.

Zhao Ta said: "I just went to the back of the building to take a look, there should be a flower garden over there, if you need to send someone to get it." ”

Jin'er immediately looked at the little lady happily and said, "Lady, didn't you say earlier that you wanted to get another small garden?" Now that the prince has said it, isn't it right? ”

The little lady glanced at her and whispered, "When did I say that...... Even if I said it, the two of us can open it. ”

Jin'er immediately made a bitter face: "Lady, where do we have such strength, and the little brother is not here, I'm afraid that the hoe will not be broken." ”

Xiao Niang didn't dare to look up, and she didn't know what to say, but where had she ever encountered such a thing now, she was always in turmoil, but she just pretended to be calm and didn't dare to let people see it.

Zhao Ta smiled: "I'll go first, and I will send someone over in a moment, and it won't take too much effort." ”

When he saw that the little lady's face was thin, he left first, and after telling Lei San in front, he was going back to the study to read.

At this moment, the steward at the gate of the palace came to report that someone from the palace was coming.

When he looked over, it was Zheng Fu, the chamberlain, and said, "But the official family has something to do?" ”

Zheng Fuli said: "Prince, that's right, the official family asked the prince to enter the palace now." ”

Zhao Ta was puzzled: "What do you know?" ”

He wondered in his heart, although the Hebei side will not be able to exterminate Tian Hu for a while, but it is stable now, Wang Xiang has just left with soldiers and horses in Huaixi, and there should be no situation, what is the matter with recruiting himself at this moment?

Zheng Fu said: "Lord Wang, I don't know about the little one, but I know that the official family also recruited Bai Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites." ”

Zhao Ta thought about it and didn't have a clue, so he asked the carriage to enter the palace outside.

When he arrived at Yanfu Palace, Emperor Daojun was in the Fuyun Pavilion, and after entering the pavilion, Bai Shizhong arrived one step earlier.

Zhao Ta saw the salute, and when Emperor Daojun saw him coming, he said to Bai Shizhong: "Since the King of Qi is here, this matter will be handled by the two of you." ”

Zhao Ta was confused: "Official, what do you have to do?" ”

Emperor Daojun said: "Dali asked for the seal again some time ago, Yan Muyi Huailai, willing to be a concubine, I remember their perseverance for more than 100 years, this time it is approved, Dali has sent someone to come to pay tribute, and will arrive in Tokyo in the near future." ”

When Zhao Ta heard this, he suddenly realized that it was the Dali Duan clan who had come to ask for the national seal again.

It is also strange to say, in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Dali sent envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for tribute many times, all of which were rejected by the Great Song Dynasty, and the Dali tribute envoys did not receive the Honglu.

But Dali seems to be indomitable, no matter whether the Great Song Dynasty refuses to refuse or not, in short, every few years, it must be sealed.

According to Dali, it is to thank Song Taizu for the grace of Song waving the jade axe.

After Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, destroyed Hou Shu, the general Wang Quanbin played, wanting to take this opportunity to go straight into Dali and destroy Dali.

But Zhao Kuangyin picked up the jade axe at hand, drew a line along the Yangshan River, that is, the Dadu River, on the map, and made the Song army's offensive end here, and said that it was not owned by me.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin may not have been the same in this matter, after all, Wu Yue and the Southern Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River had not yet surrendered, and the Khitan in the north was eyeing each other, and the Great Song Dynasty of the new country still had to face many strong enemies, and Dali was in a corner, and the mountains and rivers were far away, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he withdrew his troops and thought it was the best policy.

After all, Dali has many factions within Dali, the struggle is fierce, the local tribes are strong, and they often disobey the control of the imperial court, and some powerful families in the court often make trouble, so no matter who is in power, for the sake of orthodoxy, they all want to find a strong reinforcement, as for other considerations such as business culture, so Dali has always wanted to be friendly with the Great Song Dynasty, so he kept showing favor to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for the title.

But the Great Song Dynasty has always been indifferent to Dali, even if Dali is willing to be a vassal and be entitled, but it is thankless, at least in the early years of Zhenghe, the Great Song Dynasty has rejected Dali's request to beg for the title of a vassal before and after, and has come up with a set of rhetoric to prevaricate the envoy of Dali.

The cold face of the Great Song Dynasty was actually a lingering fear of the Guilin Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, and pursued the so-called policy of guarding the internal and external diplomatic relations.

For the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the relationship with Dali is stable on the front line of Yangshan River and does not fight, it is good that any rewards, canonizations, and in-depth exchanges between the two sides will go.

In the end, only Emperor Daojun, who was so happy, agreed to Dali's request for sealing, and also held a canonization ceremony of Fengheng Yuda.

Emperor Daojun officially decreed the canonization of Dali Duan and was known as the Zijin Guanglu Doctor, the Inspector Sikong, the Yunnan Jiedu Envoy, the Shangzhu State, and the King of Dali.

This is the only official canonization of the Great Song Dynasty in the past two hundred years, and the only one recognized as a vassal state by the Great Song Dynasty.

In order to publicize the major events of the submission of these four states, Emperor Daojun actually came up with the question of "Acting on behalf of Yunnan Jiedu to make the king of Dali thank you for the calendar" in the imperial examination the following year.

Zhao Ta thought of this, and he already understood the ins and outs, but he was still a little puzzled, this kind of thing is enough to have the Ministry of Rites or the Privy Council, after all, the Privy Council also has diplomatic power over this kind of neighboring vassal states, why should he be involved?

As if seeing Zhao Ta's question, Emperor Daojun said: "Dali sent a prince to ask for the seal, originally I thought about this matter and let King Yun go to receive it, but I heard that this prince of Dali likes to dance with guns and sticks, I thought that King Yun may not be able to talk to him together, so I can only let King Qi take on this matter." ”

Prince? Who?

Zhao Ta thought about it, and now the king of Dali is Duan Heyu, also known as Duan Zhengyan.

The eldest son of this Heyu is called Duan Yichang, who is the later Dali Jingzong, could it be this person?

He touched his chin, this Yi Chang has never heard of anything too much, and his literary and martial arts are not known, but this is not to blame him, it is really that the old ones above him and the small ones below are too strong.

His father Duan Heyu, his son Duan Zhixing, it is indeed difficult for him to fight his way out of the encirclement.

Thinking of this, Zhao Tali said: "Minister, the order." ”

(End of chapter)