The next day, the Song State received the Jinling envoys in the Zichen Hall with the etiquette of receiving the subject countries.

For Zhao Kuangyin, the Southern Tang Dynasty was an extremely important step for him to first go south and then to the north. The Southern Tang Dynasty is not like the replacement of the five generations in the Central Plains. For a long time, the two generations of the Li family have been in business, and they can be regarded as Guotai Min'an and Wufu Minfeng. If the Zhao and Song dynasties wanted to dominate the world, recover the sixteen states of Yanyun that Shi Jingjiao had sold to the Liao State, and restore the glory of the Central Plains to the west, they needed strong money, grain and population to support them.

The war between the Song army and the Southern Han Dynasty against Hou Shu and the Southern Han Dynasty had reached the late stage, and the battle situation had been decided, so that only the Southern Tang and Wu Yue were left in the south. The wealth of Shu made Zhao Kuangyin's desire to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty stronger and stronger, but when he accompanied Zhou Shizong Chai Rong to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty, the scene in front of the Zhengyang Bridge, Lin Renzhao, who was invincible, has always remembered it vividly.

For many years, Lin Renzhao has been stationed on the Yangtze River defense line and trained the naval army, which has always given the Jiangbei Northern Army no opportunity. In all fairness, in the bottom of Zhao Er's heart, he still admires a high-level general like Lin Renzhao who can fight well, but he also knows that it is difficult for such a character to be under his command, so he came up with this trick to get rid of the stumbling block of his southward trip to Jiangnan. He believes that without Lin Renzhao's Nantang, he can drive straight into it like his own backyard.

And the arrival of the Jinling envoy is Zhao Kuangyin Jihua's Zuihou step, how to show the portrait of Li Congshan, he is still considering.

Zhao Kuangyin sat on the dragon chair in the Zichen Palace, above the Golden Palace, standing left and right with a cadre of civil and military forces. In order to prevent this young empire from dying like the five generations, he released his military power with a glass of wine, and he strengthened the status of the civil and official group of scholars and doctors to consolidate his imperial power. Cut off the authority of the front secretary of the palace, and change the power of the three yamen and the privy council, in order to avoid the arrogance of the generals under his command.

Now Zhao Kuangyin is very satisfied, the future of the empire is bright, and the strength of the civil official group has been further strengthened, as long as the country is unified and the world is peaceful, he can further weaken the authority of the military generals, then the empire he established will definitely be able to create a prosperous world.

As an emperor, as long as he is not unreasonable, unambitious, and content, everyone wants to build a powerful empire with his own hands, and then be admired by all generations. As the founding monarch of Zhao Kuangyin, he didn't want to fall apart like Qin Shi Huang, and he didn't want to be like Han Gaozu and his relatives were dictatorial, and he almost lost the country.

Looking at the sun that had just climbed up from the side of the mountain outside the main hall, Zhao Kuangyin felt that he was getting closer and closer to what he thought in his heart. He glanced at the old slave Wang Jien beside him, and lightly ordered: "Xuan come in and let the envoys enter the palace." ”

Wang Jien bowed and nodded, then straightened up and shouted in a deep voice: "Bixia has a decree, and the envoys of Xuanjinling enter the hall to face the saint." ”

The two visiting envoys of Jinling, who were already waiting outside the hall, heard the summons and walked into the hall slowly. It was the first time that Xiao Zuo was wearing a scarlet robe and a veil hat, but because he had no hair, he looked a little weird.

The official uniform of the Southern Tang Dynasty still follows the old system of the former Tang Dynasty, and the style of the head is the dome right-angled head, which is a kind of hard wrapped head, lined in front of the forehead with a "wooden head", and then wrapped in a scarf, and can also be made of rattan grass into an inner shape, pasted with soap yarn outside, painted, and woven with iron wire, covered with lacquer yarn, so that it stretches out to the left and right.

At this time, the officials of the Song State wore square-topped hard-shell hats, which formed a stark contrast with Li Xiao and the others. This week, with iron wire or rattan grass woven into the inner type of hard shell, and then paste silk or Luo, and painted in black lacquer, the appearance of the square and raised, the left and right feet are made of wire, and paste lacquer yarn, stretching or upturned to both sides, and Zhao Kuangyin himself also brought this middle head.

It is said that this kind of hood was invented by Zhao Kuangyin himself. It is said that after he sat on the dragon chair, he was very worried about the colleagues who broke into the world together back then. I especially hate the ministers of civil and military affairs in the court, talking to each other and commenting on the government. One day, Zhao Kuangyin went to the morning court, and when he was listening to a minister's recital, he found that many officials on both sides were whispering and very impolite. Zhao Kuangyin was a little annoyed in his heart, but he didn't show his face.

After retiring from the court, he came up with a way to send an edict to the subordinate officials to add long wings to the back of the veil hat. The long wings are made of iron sheets and bamboo strips as skeletons. The iron wings on each side of a hat are more than a foot long (which will get longer and longer). This kind of hat must be worn except for official activities in the court and officialdom, and it is not worn on ordinary occasions. Because wearing it, it is extremely inconvenient to walk on the street. Officials can only talk face-to-face, and it is difficult to sit side by side. From then on, it will be difficult for the ministers to go to the court, and it will be difficult to line up and talk to each other, which will affect the seriousness of the court.

The two walked to the front of the hall, bowed down, and said in unison: "Foreign minister Li Congshan (Xiao Zuo) knocked to see the emperor of the Song State. ”

"Flat. Zhao Kuangyin smiled slightly, although he had only seen Li Congshan twice, he also had an impression, and Xiao Zuo, who looked young, couldn't help but take a few more looks.

When he saw that Xiao Zuo's temples had no hair, he was a little surprised, although when he was in the court, his brother had already stated the identity of this Xiao Zuo, but he had not completely put his mind at ease.

Zhao Guangyi believed Xiao Zuo's allegiance because Xiao Zuo was Yanshou's apprentice, and the letter when Yanshou passed away, not the fine work sent by Jinling. But Zhao Kuangyin thought a little more, and it was understandable that the monk wanted a certain future, but since he chose to be an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty, why did he come to show favor to himself again.

What kind of Buddha's dream words, in Zhao Kuangyin's view, fooling the next people and spending a golden body for himself is okay, if it is used as a basis for judging people, it will be too. If he changed his identity to a more obvious one, he would be able to guess his plan, and Zhao Kuangyin would dare to use it boldly, but what this kid wants is to continue to lurk in Jinling, so he can't help but be suspicious.

Could it be that he wants to meet the source left and right? Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but think when he saw Xiao Zuo's slightly pale face. Xiao Zuo's first impression of him was a snake and mouse at both ends, and the wind blew on both sides of the wall.

If Xiao Zuo knew that Song Taizu saw it like this, then he would definitely jump in fright. Just by looking at it so simply, you can see through Xiao Zuo's mind, this is not God, what is it.

Although Xiao Zuo is not unprincipled, and he fell to that side when he saw that big tree was in the shade, he showed his heart like Zhao Guangyi, and then asked to stay in Jinling, in fact, he also made another idea, Baolin Renzhao. And to protect Lin Renzhao, on the one hand, he needs to destroy Zhao Kuangyin's counter-plot, and on the other hand, he needs to help Lin Renzhao get Li Yu's reuse.

Although he didn't have much contact with Lin Renzhao, Xiao Zuo had already figured out the temperament of this friend who still hated him. If a person who is loyal and dedicated to serving the country is not reused by those in power, there is only one end: an ugly death. Xiao Zuo hated Lin Renzhao's foolish loyalty, but it was also because of this that he had the idea of saving Lin Renzhao's life no matter what. There are not many people like this in the world, and Xiao Zuo doesn't want to die like this.

Therefore, on the one hand, Xiao Zuo wanted to destroy the small court of Jinling for Zhao Song, and on the other hand, he wanted to help Lin Renzhao ascend to the throne in the Southern Tang Dynasty. But once Lin Renzhao takes the position, it means that he does not hand in his homework in Zhao Song well, and he is actually very difficult. Unconsciously, he didn't expect to end up in such an embarrassing situation today.

Zhao Kuangyin was looking at Xiao Zuo, and Xiao Zuo was not peeking at Zhao Kuangyin. Although as a courtier, he couldn't look directly at the emperor, he still peeked at Zhao Kuangyin from the corner of his eye, and his eyes were a little weird, as if he was peeking at his sweetheart.

There were not many film and television dramas about Zhao Kuangyin in his previous life. I don't know if it's because this history is really not much entertainment, so many producers didn't choose to put Song Taizu on the screen seriously.

In Xiao Zuo's memory, when he was very young, he was about the first grade of primary school, and he came home from school every day and watched a TV series about Zhao Kuangyin filmed in Singapore with a small bench next to the TV, called "The Peerless Heroes", which can be said to be the most classic film and television work about this period of history. At that time, Xiao Zuo, who was standing next to the TV, knew that the TV series was about to start as soon as he heard the familiar southern sesame paste advertisement.

To this day, he is still very familiar with the fate and encounter between Zhao Kuangyin and Li Yu in the TV series, as well as the grievances and hatreds between this history. A once street thug was almost cornered, but Zuihou became the founder of the country; the other is the pride of the sky, the lord of the country who is full of poetry and songs, but Zuihou has become the king of the dead country, and even gives his wife for others to play in order to save his life.

This TV series had a great impact on Xiao Zuo. Zhao Kuangyin's grassroots fighting spirit easily infected the young Xiao Zuo, and from that time on, Zhao Kuangyin became his idol.

Now that he can see his idol when he was young, Xiao Zuo's mood is both apprehensive and excited. When he saw Zhao Kuangyin's slightly dark face, he was a little disappointed. Zhao Kuangyin's appearance is still a certain gap with the actor who played Zhao Kuangyin in the TV series he watched when he was a child.

Zhao Kuangyin doesn't match Shuai Zi at all, but it can't be regarded as sorry for the audience. Thick eyebrows and big eyes, a Chinese face, a thick beard, and a middle-aged uncle. Ancient people were precocious, which can be seen from this.

But Zhao Kuangyin, as an emperor, has naturally cultivated the prestige and aura over the years, which makes Xiao Zuo, a modern person who has no concept of etiquette and religion, also have a sense of awe.

Especially when the eyes of the two people met, Zhao Kuangyin's slight smile couldn't help but make Xiao Zuo feel in his heart that he couldn't help but want to bow down and follow him with all his heart. Perhaps this is the strong personal charisma of the leader.

Zhao Er, I'm here, this stage, I don't know if there will be a place for me. At this moment, Xiao Zuo realized that to be a man should be like Zhao Er, who walked vigorously in the world to live up to this shijie.

Unconsciously, Xiao Zuo's mentality has changed again, and life should not only be wasted in mediocrity. He doesn't want to be able to reach the height of Zhao Er, but he also wants to find his own place on this shijie.

"This young man is interesting, he actually met my gaze, without a trace of panic, rare. Looking at Xiao Zuo, Zhao Kuangyin secretly thought, perhaps, he should be given a chance to see how he will behave.