Zhang Shuye is still as clear and handsome as ever, and there is a young man at the same time as him, who calls himself Wang Kang, with sword eyebrows and handsome eyes, and a feminine air between his eyebrows, but he is decent and generous, and he is Zhang Shuye's deputy envoy.

Emperor Tianzuo's leather room in the big tent of the civil and military ministers are there, Zhang Shuye presented the Great Song Dynasty to congratulate His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Liao State on the gift of the empress, as well as the congratulatory note written by Song Huizong himself, he has a thin gold body of the congratulatory sticker font generous, calligraphy art is extremely high, but it is a pity to give Emperor Tianzuo a reckless man, but it is not good to get anything.

Sure enough, Emperor Tianzuo snorted coldly after seeing it: "It is said that the emperor of your Song Dynasty is a great talent, but he is a stingy ghost!" ”

All the subordinates are said to be, the civil and military officials are all present, the king of the northern court, the privy envoy of the northern court, Yu Yue, the privy envoy of the southern court, the general of the leather room, the small general, the commander of the horse army, the commander of the infantry army, etc., the attitude of the important ministers of the Liao State towards the Great Song Dynasty is still more hostile.

Uncle Zhang said without humility or arrogance: "After I made a pilgrimage to hear that His Majesty was overjoyed, I specially prepared all kinds of gifts, and the unit had its own handwritten congratulatory notes to express my heart, in addition, this time I also brought 50,000 horses of miscellaneous silk, and the seeds of the acacia tree purchased by 10,000 gold, and sent them to Your Majesty and the Empress Chitose, I wish the emperor and Empress of the Great Liao Kingdom Qin Se and Ming and Mei peace and health, and wish Your Majesty a thousand years of prosperity and a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren!" ”

A set of rhetoric came down, and Emperor Tianzuo turned his anger into joy, very happy, and ordered the left and right to give wine, Uncle Zhang took it and drank it all, and then thanked Your Majesty, Emperor Tianzuo waved his hand, and Uncle Zhang retreated.

Immediately after the envoy of the Goryeo Kingdom came up, and after offering the gift, the envoy knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, please save our Goryeo Kingdom!" ”

This scene was very embarrassing, and Emperor Tianzuo's face was not very natural, so he ordered his subordinates to help up the Goryeo envoy, and comforted him with kind words: "Why is the envoy so painful, and what is the danger of the Goryeo Kingdom?" ”

The envoy said: "The king of Goryeo is grateful for the kindness of the kingdom to us and Goryeo, and sent troops into the Bohai Sea to cooperate with the war of the Great Liao State against the Jurchens. Now our king is estimated to be unable to hold on, and I implore the Great Liao Kingdom to send troops to rescue ......"

Wanyan Zonghan repeatedly defeated the army of the Liao State, and when he heard this opponent, the civil and military officials and important ministers of the Liao State were all silent, and Emperor Tianzuo was even more embarrassed, and said to the Goryeo envoy: "The envoy does not need to worry, we will immediately discuss sending troops to rescue your king, please go down and rest."

After the incident of the Goryeo envoy, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi was in a bad mood, declared that he was not feeling well, ended the congratulatory ceremony of praise early, and went down to rest by himself, and everyone dispersed, Xiao Zhonggong stopped Xiao Ming from afar, and told him that at the banquet in the evening, he would introduce several important people to him.

"The person introduced by Brother Xiao must be a hero in the world, and I will definitely wait"

Xiao Zhonggong laughed and said: "Brother himself was a hero at that time, don't be too humble!" ”

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After separating from Xiao Zhonggong, Xiao Ming went to the embassy alone, and said to the soldiers guarding the door in more than a dozen gray tents of the Great Song Dynasty envoy group: "You go in to report, just say that Uncle Zhang Ye, who is visiting the Great Song Dynasty mission, is Uncle Zhang!" The soldier saluted respectfully and went in to give his respect.

After a while, Song made Zhang Shuye take that Wang Kang out with him, and after seeing Xiao Ming's smiling face, Zhang Shuye couldn't help but be shocked! hurriedly retreated from the idle people on the left and right.

"It turned out to be the ambassador of Xuanhui, why did he become the uncle of Liao!" Uncle Zhang bowed and saluted at night.

"Master Zhang doesn't have to be polite, it's a long story, it's really hard to say! Let's sit down and talk" Xiao Ming and Zhang Shuye sat down hand in hand, and then began to tell about his experience, his experience is really tortuous, Zhang Shuye has already received a report from Song Jiang who returned from the border about Xiao Ming's experience, but this is only a part, Xiao Ming's experience in Liao has never been heard.

Of course, Xiao Ming still picked up some important things to talk about, but it still made Uncle Zhang dumbfounded, and after Wang Kang heard such a wonderful experience of Xiao Ming, he couldn't help but praise and said: "Qing Zhen was a hero at that time, my Great Song Dynasty has a talent like you, why worry that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun can't get it back!" ”

Xiao Ming glanced at him and said, "This benevolent brother has a noble temperament and talks extraordinary, I don't know who he is?" Forgive me for being clumsy, haven't asked for advice yet? ”

That Wang Kang smiled lightly, and Uncle Zhang on the side said: "This is His Royal Highness King Kang Zhao Gou!" ”

Xiao Ming was taken aback, is this the future Song Gaozong! Now it seems that he is very young and promising!

Zhao Gou said: "This trip to the Liao Kingdom is my father's father, and the follower Lord Zhang came as a deputy envoy, mainly to cooperate with Lord Zhang to complete some special tasks, Lord Xiao is his own identity and so special, he will definitely help us."

Xiao Mingqi said: "I don't know what mission Lord Zhang brought to the Liao State this time?" ”

Zhang Shuye said: "This matter is not new, Emperor Huizong has been interested in recovering the sixteen states of Youyun for many years, on the one hand, the military strength of my Great Song Dynasty is insufficient, on the other hand, if I start a war with the Great Liao, but the mountains and rivers of the entire Liao country are still completely unfamiliar with the stage, we are very lacking in this information!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Could it be that His Majesty Huizong still insists on joining forces with the Jin State to attack the Liao State?" ”

Zhao Gou interjected: "The court and the central government are also arguing about this matter, last time Lord Xiao had brought five thousand war horses to my Great Song Dynasty through trade, and my father felt that it was a good way to strengthen the cavalry combat power of my Great Song Dynasty by means of trade, but the possibility of joining forces with the Jin State could not be ruled out, so in this regard, we will continue to liaise."

"Oh!" Xiao Ming pretended to be true, but he still couldn't help but scold: "This loser Song Huizong who stepped on two boats!" When can I have a little brain? ”

The trade system across the Song, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, which he worked hard for more than half a year to establish, if it was because of Song Huizong's rash action of quick success, not to mention that a large amount of horse trade would definitely be broken, and it would also anger the Liao State, although these Khitans couldn't beat the Jurchens, it wasn't that they weren't brave, but they couldn't fight, but against those infantry of the Great Song Dynasty, wasn't it a piece of cake?

It seems that he is still too naïve, Xiao Ming thought, if he did not support and cultivate some political forces in the Great Song Dynasty, it was very likely to destroy the trade system he had worked so hard to build, and smash his own money-making plan, which he could not tolerate.

Seeing that Zhao Gou was in front of him, Xiao Ming was very interested in this real person in power in history in the future, so he invested in it as a potential stock, Xiao Ming naturally would not give up this opportunity, he said to Zhao Gou affectionately: "His Royal Highness King Kang, come to Liao State incognito, depict the geographical appearance of the mountains and rivers here, and dare to take risks in order to recover his homeland. Xiao Ming admires! ”

Zhao Golian said there, Xiao Ming said: "The Khitan people are vulgar, such a thing as describing the geography of mountains and rivers must belong to the Han people, and the first few emperors of the Liao State will definitely complete the description of this kind of map, in this regard, the Zhongjing and Xijing of the Liao State, I can't see it, but Shangjing will definitely have it, but now that Shangjing has been occupied by the Jin State, I think if possible, I will replace the two of you to go to Beijing to find the original geographical map of mountains and rivers, and you have worked hard to depict it."

Zhang Shuye and Zhao Gou were overjoyed to hear it, with the help of a character like Xiao Ming, a character like the geographical map of mountains and rivers will definitely be completed easily, they really don't have to run around, although they are envoys, but if you run around in Liao, people will still misunderstand you if they catch you.

Xiao Ming talked with them for a long time, to the effect that after they went back, straighten out the policy of the Great Song Dynasty swaying left and right, although it may not have any effect, but some things experienced personally are always somewhat convincing, although the Liao State was defeated by the Jin State several times, but the elite of the whole country is still there, and there are still many fierce generals who can fight well, and it is better to maintain the status quo of trade without solving the combat power of the Great Song cavalry.

Then there is to help Xue Bingchang deal with some things in the border trade through the identity and status of the two, and Xiao Ming will help them find a way to get a geographical map of the mountains and rivers of the entire Liao country, and at the same time, he will also establish his own intelligence agency in the Liao country to transmit some necessary information for Zhang Shuye and others in a timely manner.

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In the evening of the same day, the emperor of Liao feasted the ministers and envoys, and the wine and meat of the flowing water feast were openly supplied, and all kinds of mountain and poultry species, deer breasts, bear's paws, leopard fetus, monkey brains, roasted whole cattle and whole sheep...... There are countless delicious dishes, but unfortunately these are all dishes from the Northland grassland, and Gu Xiaoliu, who came with Xiao Ming, complained bitterly, so he had to eat some watermelon fruits.

All kinds of liquor in the leather bag has been replaced by the altar of fine wine, people who can drink just drink, wine to the hearty, more than ten Khitan warriors in front of the emperor to pounce for the play, each of them ** upper body, grappling and falling, fierce fighting, these Khitan warriors are vigorous, strong strength, there is another change between the shots, although the change is not as good as the Central Plains warriors, but direct hits, such as used in the battle array, seems to be more effective.

Ami has already followed Emperor Tianzuo to sit on top of the chairman, it seems that he and the emperor get along well, so that Xiao Ming was directly invited by the guards to the chairman, sitting next to Emperor Tianzuo, Emperor Tianzuo took Xiao Ming's hand and said: "Uncle Guo is a hero in the world!" As a result, Xiao Fengxian, the king of Hailing, took the lead and began to toast to Xiao Ming backwards......

Xiao Ming did not refuse, the wine was dry, a group of civil and military ministers, officials at all levels, and envoys from various countries also came up to join in the fun, and came up to toast, after drinking, Xiao Ming estimated that he had drunk three or four hundred cups, a golden cup as big as a bull's horn, and there must be nearly one or two wines in one cup, Xiao Ming's face was as usual, his expression was calm, and everyone was shocked!

I heard that Xiao Ming of the Wuhuai Department is a hero, but after all, it is still a legend, and now when they meet this amount of wine, everyone is convinced, Xiao Zhonggong was going to introduce Xiao Ming to a few dignitaries of the dynasty, and he had to give up when he saw that he had been sitting next to the emperor, but he was very happy that his brother showed his face, Yelu Yujian and others also nodded secretly, and Xiao Zhonggong was even more happy.

In fact, the happiest person is Emperor Tianzuo, seeing that Uncle Guo is so good, he can't help but be overjoyed, and said: "Uncle Guo!" You are really the warrior of my Daliao, I want to make you a big official! Ami said on the side: "Isn't it that Your Majesty wants to give my eldest brother any official position?" ”

Yelu Yanxi opened his mouth with a deep sigh and said, "I will make you my privy envoy of the Southern Liaoning!" Let you command 100,000 troops, and help me snatch Shangjing back from the Jurchen barbarians! ”