The seventeenth day of the lunar month is the day when He Zhan deploys a proper plan to start, this day is also particularly tormenting for Lu Li, he is a sick person, of course, he can't travel at will, but it is really difficult to feel at ease when he waits passively, so he also confessed to his trusted family members to visit Pingkangfang, so as to know the situation in time, and he didn't want to send the family to never return, but there were really He Zhan's dead soldiers knocking on the door for help, and the Yan people naturally had already received Lu Li's order, and after checking the code, they quickly released the three dead soldiers.

"How's it going?" Lu Li was not in a hurry, even if there were pursuers behind, he couldn't avoid door-to-door searches, as long as the three dead soldiers were hidden in the secret passage, they could avoid the search, so Lu Li had the leisure to ask about the situation at this time.

"Got it." The leader of the three of them first said: "Lang Jun told Brother Bai to be responsible for the arrow attack on the new Turkic envoy, the guard was really skilled, flew to block an arrow, but only injured his shoulder, Brother Bai made up an arrow, before shooting it, the guards rushed up to take Brother Bai, we also fought with it according to the order, and helped Brother Bai get out smoothly, then fled in all directions, how did the governor take the place but there was a nobleman led by the retinue, heard the New Turkic language, and actually stepped forward to help, his appearance, should also be a New Turk, this person is even more skilled, we were finally able to get out, But because of such a delay, he happened to meet the patrol, so he had no choice but to come to Lang Jun to take refuge according to the deployment. ”

These people had been disguised before the operation, but although their original faces were not revealed, they did not have time to remove their disguises when they evacuated, so once they met the patrol guards, in order to get rid of the tracking, they had to go to the shelter that had been deployed in advance.

As he was talking, he didn't want to hear a series of steps, Lu was startled, and before he had time to respond, the door of the study was pushed open with a "bang", and the three dead men were shocked, and they showed their swords one after another, but they saw that the intruder turned out to be two noble children, one large and one small.

"Aye!"

"Brother Xue!"

It turned out that the intruders were none other than Xue Zhao and Ruan Ling.

Lu Li's maid in this villa was a carefully selected henchman, and they all knew that there might be an emergency today, and the Yan people would not carelessly let people in, but the person who knocked on the door was not only his own Xiao Langjun, but also followed by the patrol guards who were tracking the assassins who were about to search for the assassins, if the Yan people turned Xue Zhao and the others away, of course it would arouse the suspicion of the patrolmen, so they had to let the two in.

Why did Ruan Ling lead Xue Zhao here today? It turned out that he only heard about Lu Li's illness today, but Xue Zhao didn't know anything about it, it turned out that Xue Zhao usually lived in the ancestral house of Xue Mansion, and did not live in another garden with his father, so he didn't hear that Lu Li was suffering from illness.

Although the patrol is for official business, but the people living in this area are all dignitaries, and they have to wait for the Yan people to report to enter, and only after they can be allowed to search, Ruan Ling is anxious to leave the condition, and he has to stop those patrols: "This is the residence of the Xue She people, and the Xue She people are recuperating, although you are on official business, you can't disturb the Xue She people, and wait here, wait for me to enter to see how the Xue She people are doing, and then inform the Hui Er and others how to act." ”

led Xue Zhao all the way inward, and walked unhindered along the way, without being stopped by anything.

This garden because of the trusted people, the number is not too much, Lu Li for the sake of caution, today is to send out a part of the servant women in advance, in addition to the Yan people, there are two or three left in the front yard to watch the wind, if there is not a long-eyed patrol in case of breaking into the door, it is also good to pass in, do not want the little master to appear unexpectedly, the patrol is also blocked in the curfew, the wind watchers know that they can not be blocked, otherwise it will inevitably attract the suspicion of the patrol, so they have to watch the little master all the way in.

Lu Liju also left only a maidservant Ah Fu outside the courtyard, although he stopped it, where could he stop it? didn't even have time to ventilate the news, but Ruan Ling took two steps forward and pushed the door open.

That's why it's become this big-eyed situation.

Lu Li blamed himself, and secretly regretted that the arrangement was not thorough enough, he only went to the patrol, and he didn't expect Xue Zhao to come here today, it doesn't matter if he was just knocked out by Xue Zhao, it didn't matter if he was hit by Xue Zhao, it was Ruan Ling who gave him a headache, how should this be explained?

"Don't do it, it's your own people." Seeing that Ruan Ling and the dead man wanted to fight because of a misunderstanding, Lu Li had no choice but to say a word first.

Ruan Ling then realized that the assassination of the envoy might have something to do with Lu Li, and neatly returned the long knife in his hand to the sheath: "Brother Xue, don't worry, those patrols will be sent by me!" ”

Lu Li saw that he was going to help without asking, and his heart was also relieved, but he hurriedly called people to stop: "Ruan Lang is slow, there is no need to send the guards, there is no obstacle to letting them in." ”

He also asked Xue Zhao to follow out and deal with the guards, and then activated the secret door and let the three dead soldiers hide inside.

As a "recuperator", Lu Li had never dressed up, his hair was only loosely tied to the top of his head with a hosta, and a front collar was wrapped around his jacket, which was supported by the maid Ah Fu, and he stood under the eaves of the porch to entertain guests, and the head of the patrol team explained the reason again, and Lu Li politely said a word or two, so that they could search for assassins to sneak in, and they went back to the study to rest.

Where would the guards suspect that the scholars in the hall would collect assassins, but they were just worried that the assassins would jump over the wall and not be discovered, they didn't dare to search the study where Lu Li was, so they only looked at all parts of the courtyard and the vacant house, and found nothing, and confessed to Xue Zhao again, so they went to search the next one.

"Today's matter ......" Lu Li had the leisure to receive Ruan Ling, but he had just gotten up, and he saw Ruan Ling waving his hand again and again: "Brother Xue has a reason to act, there is no need to explain to a certain person, Brother Xue rest assured, what I see and hear today Ruan will be tight-lipped, and if Brother Xue needs it in the future, I will listen to Brother Xue at any time." ”

Lu Li: ......

Ban Xiang smiled and said: "In this way, Xue thank Ruan Lang for his help." ”

Ruan Ling asked again that Lu Li's body was fine, so he completely relieved himself, didn't stay long, and said goodbye and went out, because Xue Zhao wanted to stay in the other garden to serve the illness, he rode alone and still went to Cui's house, but he was very happy along the way, and he was very glad that he was involved in this accident today, and finally his friendship with Lu Li was able to progress, and he didn't mind that he became an accomplice in the assassination of the envoy.

He also said that He Zhan today, because of this assassination incident that had to be unavoidable, he could not command on the spot, and he was a little absent-minded, but it happened that on this day, because Xie Ying was in the middle of the needle, the Queen Mother was persuaded by him to treat the envoys of Dongying and Silla in the greenhouse hall.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Silla was one of the first to establish diplomatic relations, and Zhou Wuzong allied with Silla, destroyed Goguryeo together, and annexed Yingzhou and other places as the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou.

It is also said that Dongying, and the Central Plains established diplomatic relations very early, but there is no lack of duplicity, such as the former dynasty and the end of the emperor tyrannical and unreasonable, leading to the chaos and disputes in the world, after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but for a while there are internal and external troubles, the national strength is not strong, Dongying took the opportunity to ally with Baekje, intending to annex Silla, when Zhou Wuzong, Dongying even had a naval battle with the Great Zhou, was defeated, this is completely honest, and showed a flattering face to the Great Zhou, extremely flattering.

Among the envoys sent to Zhou, Dongying and Silla people accounted for eighty percent, and the two countries were greatly influenced by the Great Zhou rituals, so the emperors of the past dynasties often feasted, and often brought the two countries to the envoys and made a hospitality.

Since the conquest of Baekje by Silla, Emperor Zhou was jealous of its great power and gradually became slightly biased towards Dongying, and when Empress Dowager Wei was in power, she was actually more biased towards Dongying.

In the early years, the envoys of Dongying and the envoys of Silla had a dispute over the seat, and the Empress Dowager Wei leaned towards Dongying, and insisted that the envoys of Silla sit in the back, and when rewarding utensils, there was no lack of favoritism, and Silla was dissatisfied early, but the king of Silla also understood that it was not beneficial for him to make enemies with the Great Zhou, so he did not provoke.

However, Silla was unwilling to submit to Dongying, so when the envoys of the two countries returned to receive the edict banquet, there was a rather strong smell of gunpowder.

The same is true today, before the wine is three times, the envoys have begun to attack each other, at first they were still cynical, and then the Jinshou Chang Dan couldn't hold it back, and directly asked the Queen Mother, saying that it was to "please" all the porcelain of this batch of official system Liuli Zhou, and the reason seemed to be unassailable: "The tribute offered by our country is three times that of Silla, and it is full of sincerity, and I hope that the Queen Mother will give courtesy." ”

The Silla envoys snorted coldly: "How much is our country's tribute, how does Tsumori-kun know?" ”

Tsumori also snorted coldly: "No matter how much Silla tribute is made, our country will be three times more redundant." He raised his eyebrows again and squinted his eyes: "I heard that the king of Silla was stingy, and even the Silla nobles had to limit the number of maids, and even the concubines were not allowed to wear some emeralds, I don't know if he was so frugal whether he intended to provoke a war!" ”

This is not an ordinary tongue, and the Silla envoy almost burst into a rage: "What nonsense! Please also ask the Queen Mother to reprimand Dongying for slandering our country's words and deeds! ”

Today's attendees of the envoy's banquet, in addition to the officials of Honglu Temple, there are also He Zhan and Xu Xiuneng, two living houses, and because Xie Ying has the role of threading the needle, she is coquettishly pestering the Queen Mother to allow her to watch, so even Eleven Niang was not left behind, at this time and Xie Ying accompanied the Queen Mother on the left and right, and it was even more coincidental that He Ye, the King of Jin, happened to enter the palace to greet him, and was also brought by the Queen Mother to accompany the wine.

He Ye originally only cared about drinking singing and dancing wine, and didn't seem to care about the competition between the envoys of the two countries, but when Tsumori questioned the scheming of the King of Silla, he quietly pricked up his ears.

Silla is at the junction with Panbu and Northern Liao, and if it really joins forces with them to attack Zhou, of course, it will be very detrimental to the current situation.

I also heard that Jin Shou Changdan said unhurriedly: "If the king of Silla is not ill-intentioned, why is he still indifferent when he hears that the Northern Liao and Pan armies jointly captured Youyan?" At that time, Goguryeo bullied the realm of Silla, if it were not for the reinforcements of Emperor Wuzong, Silla was only afraid that the country would have been destroyed, and now the Great Zhou is in danger, and the king of Silla should raise troops to attack Liao to solve the urgent needs of the Great Zhou. ”

This was very much in line with the Empress Dowager's wishes, so under her signal, Xu Xiuneng took the lead in agreeing: "What Jin Shoujun said is very true, Park Jun should be loyal to the king of your country, my Great Zhou and Silla have diplomatic friendship, and Silla should share the same hatred with my Great Zhou." ”

At this time, the Silla envoys were embarrassed.

Silla was originally a small country, even if it occupied the territory of Baekje at this time, but there were also many internal and external troubles, the king of Silla could not even hold power alone for a time, and was restrained by the nobles, whether it was Pan Bo, the king of Andong, or Northern Liao, it was by no means comparable to Silla, if the real army came to the aid of the Great Zhou, it would immediately attract retaliation, and what country was willing to cause trouble for itself and damage the national strength and people's livelihood?

Therefore, the Silla envoys had no choice but to agree to return to China first, and temporarily stopped the verbal dispute with the Dongying envoys, but complained of bitterness and hindered many difficulties in the country one by one, for fear that the queen mother would misunderstand the Silla king's suspicions and want to be unfavorable to the Great Zhou.