Chapter 32 The Beauty of the Country

Lu Siyi saw that he was still not leaving, so he asked: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, the emperor should please go back." "Shi Chonggui remembered something at this time, so he asked: "Uncle Concubine, your swordsmanship is so exquisite, it is really eye-opening."www.biquge.info I have a question that has been buried in my heart for a few years, I don't know if I should talk about it today?" Lu Siyi was shocked when he heard this, and thought: "Could it be that he knows about Shi Jingjiao?" It turned out that since he learned that his brother Lu Guanyan was killed, Lu Siyi was bent on revenge, and he happened to meet Shi Jingjiao in Taiyuan. Lu Siyi pretended to follow Shi Jingjiao back to the house, but he didn't expect Shi Jingjiao to be the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and there were many masters around him to protect him. In order to avenge his brother, Lu Siyi did not hesitate to admit that he was a thief as a husband, hid in Taiyuan and devoted himself to practicing swordsmanship, and later came to Kaifeng with Shi Jingjiao. finally killed Shi Jingjiao four years ago and avenged Lu Guanyan. After taking revenge, Lu Siyi wanted to kill herself, but she thought that there was still something to be done, so she let go of the idea of suicide and continued to stay in the palace.

Shi Chonggui saw Lu Siyi sitting in a daze, and read the sentence "Uncle and concubine?" Lu Siyi came back to his senses, looked at Shi Chonggui, and said calmly: "If the emperor has anything to say, just say it, I will listen attentively." Shi Chonggui showed a smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "Uncle and concubine, I don't understand something, why were you willing to go back to Kaifeng Mansion with your uncle back then?" Lu Siyi saw that he had something to say, and responded coldly: "Your Majesty, don't go around the bush, just say what you know, right?" Shi Chonggui saw Lu Siyi's face was slightly gloomy, and hurriedly smiled: "Don't be angry, uncle, don't be angry, I heard some rumors today, and I said...... Talking about my uncle's death, it's good...... Seems to be related to you. ”

Lu Siyi expected this time, and said lightly: "There have always been many people in the DPRK who slander me. If I'm not mistaken, the person who said this is one of the people I just mentioned. Shi Chonggui said with a smile: "Uncle and concubine are really smart, which is exactly what Taiwei Du Chongwei said." But don't panic. Even if it was really my aunt and uncle's doing, I would never let anyone else hurt you. After speaking, he held Lu Siyi's hand tightly. Lu Siyi was full of emotions at this time, and he didn't know how to answer, so he only heard Shi Chonggui say: "Uncle didn't listen to Liu Zhiyuan and Xu Yuanfei's advice back then, and insisted on ceding the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, which led to a great increase in the Khitan national strength, and now the Great Jin is no longer the opponent of the Khitan. A few months ago, before the Khitan envoy arrived in Kaifeng, he was assassinated in the Jin Kingdom. Yerod Light has already conquered the expedition. If this is the end of the Great Jin Dynasty, I am willing to return to the mountains and forests with you. ”

Lu Siyi was shocked when she heard this. When Shi Jingjiao was alive, she never forced her to do things she didn't want to do. Therefore, Shi Jingjiao has always flattered this concubine, but until she died, she was not able to have a skin-to-skin relationship with Lu Siyi, and she is still a virgin. Shi Chonggui has always had a thought, that is, to make her his wife. Now that the enemy is present, Lu Siyi didn't expect Shi Chonggui to put his children's private affairs above national affairs, so he said angrily: "How can the emperor be so childish, the emperor doesn't care about this throne, many people care a lot." Shi Chonggui was reprimanded by her, and hurriedly said: "Uncle and concubine, I am telling the truth. Lu Siyi said: "There are countless generals who can fight well in my Great Jin, the king of Beiping is already in Hedong, and Murong Yanchao and Du Chongwei can also take orders to go out at any time." Why should the emperor be discouraged. Shi Chonggui sighed loudly after hearing this. Lu Siyi's words are indeed reasonable, but the kings of troubled times are mostly bullied by generals with heavy troops. Since the Tang Anshi Rebellion, the division of feudal towns has intensified, and the central government is often unable to do so. In this dynasty, except for a few generals such as Liu Zhiyuan and Li Shouzhen, who guarded the states, the others did not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court, resulting in more defeats and fewer victories in the battle with the Khitan.

Just as Shi Chonggui and Lu Siyi were talking in the Warm Spring Palace, the great eunuch Wang hurriedly ran over when he saw the past. Shi Chonggui asked, "Why did you come to me in such a hurry?" Wang Jianxi trembled and took out a copy of the fold and handed it to him, saying, "This is a secret report sent urgently from the front line for eight hundred miles. Shi Chonggui was shocked when he opened it, and said: "Yelude's heart to kill my Great Jin is not dead, and he actually stationed more than 100,000 troops in Dingzhou and Daizhou, trying to surround my Great Jin from the west and north. ”

Wang Jianxi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, what can I do?" Shi Chonggui was silent. Seeing that the matter was critical, Lu Siyi hurriedly persuaded: "The emperor should take military affairs first. ”

Shi Chonggui left the Nuanfang Hall and returned to the Chongyuan Palace, where Du Chongwei, Cui Mingyi, Murong Yanchao and others were already waiting in the hall. Shi Chonggui consulted with everyone for one night, and decided to let the Taiwei Du Chongwei lead him to the front line in person, and together with Li Shouzhen, the commander of the soldiers and horses, to defend the Khitan along the river in Hengzhou.

Murong Yanchao was very dissatisfied with Du Chongwei's collusion with the Khitan back then, worried that this time the old trick would be repeated, and resolutely opposed making Du Chongwei the commander of the Jin army. Shi Chonggui hesitated, thinking that Du Chongwei was his uncle, and he would not betray the Great Jin Dynasty, so he still issued an order to appoint Du Chongwei as the envoy of the northern camp department, led 100,000 troops, and left Beijing after half a month. He also ordered Liu Zhiyuan, the king of Beiping, to strictly prevent the Khitan from attacking the northwest border of the Jin Kingdom. At the same time, Murong Yanchao was arranged to be responsible for the dispatch of the front-line army's food and baggage, and Cui Mingyi was appointed as the temporary commander of the Imperial Forest Army in the capital. Shi Chonggui thought that the Khitan had repeatedly invaded and harassed the Central Plains in the past 40 years with hundreds of thousands of people, and this time he must annihilate the Khitan army. ”

After making arrangements, Du Chongwei, Cui Mingyi, Murong Yanchao and others retreated one after another after receiving the order to thank him, Shi Chonggui was about to go back to the dormitory to rest, remembering that he would summon Yelu Zhongying today, so he turned his head and asked Wang Jianxi behind him, "Is Monk Chen here?" Wang Jianxi replied: "Lord Chen has received Her Royal Highness Princess Yelu and others, and they have been waiting outside the main hall for a long time. ”

Shi Chonggui asked the king to see Xi Xuan and them in. Chen Ruseng walked in the front, and Yelu Zhongying slowly walked into the main hall, followed by Lu Wanli and Crane Liantian. Shi Chonggui saw that the person who came was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old woman, with a graceful figure and a handsome appearance, and suddenly remembered Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu", "The hair is like the light clouds covering the moon, and the fluttering is like the snow of the wind." Looking at it from afar, it is as bright as the sun rising in the morning glow. Forced to observe it, the scorching waves appeared. The fiber is heartfelt, and the fit is shortened. These few sentences are best used to describe Yelu Zhongying. Shi Chonggui took a deep breath and thought, "I want my concubines not to see her, otherwise they will all be ashamed of themselves." Shi Chonggui always thought that his uncle and concubine Lu Siyi were the most beautiful women in the world, and regretted that he didn't meet her before his uncle, so he had the idea that he would rather not be the emperor yesterday and want to get along with her day and night. When he met Yelu Zhongying today, he found out that there was a more beautiful woman than Lu Siyi.

Yelu Zhongying walked to the center of the main hall, bent down slightly, lowered his head and said, "Yelu Zhongying of the Khitan Kingdom has seen the Emperor of the Great Jin. According to the previous agreement between the Great Jin and the Khitan, Shi Jingjiao called Yelu Deguang "Father Emperor", and the monarch of the Great Jin Dynasty needed to salute when he saw the Khitan envoy, and in turn the Khitan envoy did not need to salute the Great Jin Emperor. However, due to Shi Chonggui's slight backbone, he refused to pay tribute to the Khitan anymore, so the previous agreement was naturally invalid in the Great Jin Palace. Yelu Zhongying and his entourage knew that they didn't want to fall out with the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty as soon as they came to the palace.

Shi Chonggui opened a pair of big eyes and looked at Yelu Zhongying blankly, not knowing what to say. I only heard the king behind him remind in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness Princess Yelu has saluted." Only then did Shi Chonggui come back to his senses and replied, "yes...... Her Royal Highness Princess Yelu is exempt. ”

Yelu Zhongying asked Lu Wanli to hand over the letter written by Yelu Deguang himself, and Wang Jianxi stepped forward to take the letter, turned around and handed it to Shi Zhonggui, who was sitting on the dragon chair. After reading the letter, Shi Chonggui's face turned purple with anger. Lu Wanli and Crane stood behind Her Royal Highness the princess and laughed secretly. Yelu Zhong said loudly: "What does the emperor think?" Shi Chonggui raised the letter in his hand and said angrily: "You Khitan have bullied me for more than ten years, and now you still want me to bow down and be a minister, it's really wishful thinking!"

Wang Jianxi, who was standing behind Shi Chonggui, was worried, he entered the palace twenty years ago, and he had been cautious and did not dare to anger Tianyan, so he lived like a fish in water in the palaces of the Later Tang Dynasty and the Great Jin Dynasty. Wang saw that Yelu Zhongying's face changed suddenly, and the two people behind her were murderous, and she couldn't help but sweat for the emperor in her heart. He just wanted to remind the emperor not to be angry, but Shi Chonggui said loudly: "The Khitan army has not yet attacked Kaifeng, but you have wantonly killed in Kaifeng Mansion first." ”

Yelu Zhongying's face was full of doubts, and he said: "Your Majesty, what do you say? I sent an envoy to the Great Jin Dynasty at the behest of my father, and strictly restrained my soldiers along the way. Since entering Kaifeng Mansion, we have been living in the Wanguo Pavilion and have never left half a step. ”

Chen Ruseng, who was standing on the side, hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, what Her Royal Highness Princess Yelu said is very true, and the lower officials can guarantee ......" Before Chen Ruseng finished speaking, Shi Chonggui interrupted him: "Chen Qing, you can also trust the Khitans? Have you forgotten how they deceived Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures back then? Besides, can you guarantee that they will not come out of the wall at night?"

When Chen Ruseng heard the emperor say this, he remembered that it was at night when the party warriors were attacked, and he couldn't help but weaken his feet, and he was so frightened that beads of sweat appeared on his forehead one by one. Without saying anything, he said, "This ...... At ......this time, Wang Jianxi gave him a look, and he slowly retreated to the side of the main hall, silent.

Yelu Zhongying and the three of them heard the conversation between the monarchs and ministers of the Great Jin Dynasty, and felt that Shi Chonggui was really funny, so that he could sit on the emperor's throne with such an IQ, and it also suffered the ordinary civil and military generals of the Chongyuan Palace. He Liantian couldn't bear the loneliness, and said loudly: "Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, you make it clear, who did we kill?"

Shi Chonggui sat upright, glared at the crane and said, "You don't know what you're doing? That night, did you kill the party warriors in the Farewell Building?"

"Dangxiang warrior?" Yelu Zhongying was stunned in his heart, and remembered what happened in the mountains and forests of Weizhou a few days ago, could there be any connection between the two things, and he couldn't think of it for a while. He Liantian suddenly said, "I remember." Okay, I see. Yelu Zhongying and Lu Wanli both turned around, and the Great Jin monarchs and ministers in the palace also looked at him. I only heard Crane Liantian continue: "As soon as I arrived in Weizhou, I was chased and killed, thinking that the people in the mountains and forests that day were those party warriors. ”

Shi Chonggui didn't know what happened that day, but he was quibbling for a long time, so he said: "So when I met them in Kaifeng Mansion, I started to kill, right?"

Yelu Zhongying was made to laugh and cry by this Great Jin Emperor, and stood up and said softly: "Your Majesty, the Khitan has no deep hatred with the party, how can we kill them at will in the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty." This matter is very strange, and I hope that the emperor will be aware of everything and return my Khitan innocence. ”

Lu Wanli also stood up and said: "The Khitan envoy disappeared in the Jin Kingdom for no reason, and there are no bones left so far. The matter is not over yet, and the emperor took out the assassination of the Khitan guards, isn't it to shirk responsibility. This is just the emperor's plan to cover his ears and steal the bell. Shi Chonggui was speechless, and beckoned Chen Ruseng, Yelu Zhongying and others to step down. Yelu Zhongying saluted again, and then slowly withdrew.