With the sound of horse hooves, dozens of horse-drawn horses galloped on the official road north of Kaifeng Prefecture. The horse-drawn knights were all wearing left-sided robes, with hats covering their heads, and ears covering their ears covering them, and slightly pointed Khitan snow hats. Although such a dress is not common in Kaifeng Prefecture, it is not rare. The pedestrians on the road were not very afraid to see these knights in Hu clothes and fur hats, but just dodged on the side of the road, allowing these Hu people galloping on horseback to pass faster.

These dozens of knights were all Khitan warriors. They surrounded a middle-aged man with a big beard. He was tall and slightly thin. He seemed to be a gentle Confucian scholar, but he was wearing a Khitan brocade robe and galloping on a horse. His body naturally rose and fell as the war horse galloped, as if he was a hero of the Northern Dynasty who grew up on a horse.

This man's surname is Xiao, his name is good at ancient times. He was appointed as the Inspector of the Gaozhou, the Great Liao Kingdom, and the Northern Privy Council was the general envoy of the envoy of He Zhengdan of the Song Dynasty this time.

The official system of the Liao Kingdom is as complicated as the Song Dynasty, and it is divided into official positions, officials, meritorious officials, and sometimes there are test officials, as well as false officials and remote officials, which is very complicated. Xiao Haogu's "Gaozhou Inner Observation Envoy" was a master, a senior military officer, who was only used to mark the official rank. In fact, Gaozhou did not need him to observe the certain states of the certain states and the certain states of the certain states and the certain states of the certain states and the certain states of the certain states and the certain states of the certain states and the certain states were not in the territory of the Liao Kingdom, but in the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to observe them...

Xiao Haogu's official position was the Northern Privy Council. This official seemed to be similar to Cai Jing's Privy Council, but in fact it was greater than Cai Jing's official position. Because the Liao Kingdom emphasized martial arts and over literature, the Privy Council was above the Secretariat, and the Privy Council was also greater than the Prime Minister. In fact, the Northern and Southern Privy Councils were the yamen for the Prime Minister's government!

Currently, the two Privy Councils in charge of the north and south are Yelu Yanxi, the heir of the throne of the Liao Kingdom. By the way, Yelu Yanxi is the grandson of the current emperor of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Hongji, but he is not the crown prince, but the Grand Marshal of the Liao Kingdom, the general of the North and South Court Privy Council, and was appointed as the Minister of the Shangshu.

Among the two Privy Councils in the north and south, the Privy Council of the North is respected. Therefore, Xiao Haogu, the Northern Privy Council of the Liao Kingdom, was a sufficiently important envoy.

The person who served as the deputy envoy of He Zhengdan was a Han civil servant, a junior doctor, and Lin Ya in the north received the imperial edict Liu Yun.

Although Liu Yun was a civil servant and a Jinshi, he was black and strong, and had a beard. He rode on a horse with no agility than any Khitan warrior.

In fact, the martial arts skills of his civil servant who was born in Jinshi are not much different than those of Xiao Haogu. This time, he was not Xiao Haogu who participated in the archery competition in Yujin Garden, Kaifeng, but Liu Linya.

The reason for this is not because he was born in the Liu family of Yanjing (one of the four major families of Yanyun) and received training from Yunwen and martial arts since childhood, but because Xiao Haogu, the Xi person, was really a bit humble in martial arts... This is actually very normal, after all, the founding of the Great Liao Kingdom was decades earlier than the Great Song Dynasty!

The nobles of the Xiao family, who have been descending from generation to generation, have enjoyed more than 200 years of blessing. If it weren't for the four-season Nabo system that allowed these Khitan nobles to follow the emperor around the four-season Nabo fields all year round, they probably wouldn't even be able to ride horses.

Fortunately, everyone can still ride horses! Liu Yun, who was riding a horse, thought: Otherwise, this time it would be impossible to run from the Sanggan River in Datong Prefecture, Xijing where Dong Nabo is located (the traditional Dong Nabo land is further north) to Kaifeng Prefecture in the Song Dynasty in such a short time, thus catching up with He Zhengdan’s name...

Speaking of this incident, it was really embarrassing! In order to force the Song State to give up the land occupied in the Battle of Hengshan and return it to the Xixia, the Emperor of the Great Liao changed the Dongnabo land and ran to the bank of the Sanggan River not far from the Daizhou of Song State. After all, he went to a few miles north of Yanmen Pass to exert pressure.

However, the Song State's attitude was unexpectedly tough. Not only did it refuse to return the land occupied by Xixia, but it also continued to launch a "shallow attack" west of Hengshan (the tactic proposed by Zhang Shi was a small-scale, continuous, and unin-depth attack). Although it could not destroy Xixia for a while, it continued to bleed the Xixia. Since the Hengshan line was completely controlled by the Song State, Xixia could not make up for its own losses by breaking into the Song Dynasty, so it could only keep losing blood and would sooner or later be beaten to death...

What the Emperor of Liao did not expect was that Song not only ignored the threat from Liao, but also violated the customs of many years and did not send He Zhengdan envoy!

This scared Yelu Hongji and his ministers... Well, it was nothing scary for the Song Dynasty to send people to He Zhengdan, but not He Zhengdan was probably the beginning of the Song and Liao dynasty's rupture!

The breakup between the Song and Liao dynasties means that there are 500,000 yuan in annual monies (300,000 yuan after the Chanyuan Alliance, and later the Song and Xia wars forced the Song Dynasty to add 200,000 yuan) to be ruined. Now the Beizhubu has not been completed, and it will definitely continue to fight. The Jiedushi, who gave birth to a daughter, Brother Wanyan Ying (the Song Dynasty called him Brother Wanyan Yang), is ready to move again, and I don’t know when to open a battlefield again... If there is no more than 500,000 yuan in annual monies, what should I do if the military expenditure of the Great Liao?

Moreover, once the Song State stops paying annual monies, Liao State will have to send troops to conquer? If that's the case, the Han people in the Great Liao territory must have ideas...

Okay, the divination in the west has not been completed, the child in the east is looking at fighting again, and the Song and Liao in the south have launched another war... The war on the third line will still make people live?

At that time, war will begin on the third line, and as long as the front line is defeated, the Great Liao Kingdom will be in a crisis of destruction!

Now one Beizhubu is in a state of great difficulty. If two strong enemies come, you will be able to win. The result of not winning is that the Liao Kingdom is trapped in the quagmire of three death wars at the same time.

Therefore, Yelu Hongji didn't care about the decent state (Song and Liao have been competing for the title of the Celestial Kingdom). In the name of He Zhengdan, he sent Xiao Haogu and Liu Yun to Kaifeng Prefecture day and night to the Song Dynasty. No matter what, the relationship between Liao and Song Dynasty could not be broken at this time!

Liu Yun, who had been dealing with the Song Dynasty for half his life, rode his horse to Xiao Haogu and said loudly in Khitan, "Xiao Observation, this is already the territory of Kaifeng Prefecture, and one day at most, he will be able to move into Duting Post."

"It's easy to drive all the way!" Xiao Haogu pulled the reins gently and slowed down a little. "Liu Linya, you often come to Song State. What strategy do you think should you use this time?"

"It's because of the pressure and intimidation!" Liu Yun said, "The Song State officials and the Empress Dowager were kept in the deep palace and did not practice martial arts. Therefore, they were timid and cowardly. It would be impossible to be wrong to threaten them first."

The children of the Liu family in Yanjing, where Liu Yun is located, have been engaged in "diplomacy" for generations. Liu Liufu, who successfully forced the Song Dynasty to add 200,000 yuan to the annual monies, was Liu Yun's uncle. The secret of the Liu family's diplomacy in Song was to suppress and intimidate.

"Can you be scared this time?" Xiao Haogu asked with a frown, "Although the Southern Dynasty is now in power, the treacherous ministers, this pair of kings and ministers is a bit brave."

Because Zhao Xu restored the new law to "harm the people", he did not have a high evaluation on "international" and generally believed that he was a foolish monarch. Needless to say, Zhang Dun, who was in power, was a "internationally recognized" treacherous minister.

Liu Yun smiled bitterly and said, "This pair of tyrants and treacherous ministers is a little bit out of sight of the coffin and does not cry... But it is always good to scare you. You really can't be scared to think of other ways."

...

"Go to the right and to the right a little further, yes, yes, that's it, you must let the Liao people see it as soon as they enter the house."

At the same time, Wu Haogu was commanding several postmen to place oil paintings "The Picture of the Officials of the Song Dynasty's Cross-Blade and Stand Up Horse". The oil painting was placed on a characteristic wooden rack, facing the gate of Duting Post. As soon as the envoys from the Liao people entered the door, they could see the oil painting immediately.

Ji Yi stood beside Wu Haogu with his arms in his arms. His current official is the editorial officer of the Quan Privy Council. He belonged to the editorial office of the Privy Council (it was wrong to write it as the north room before, because Ji Yi's general was too young and could only authorize the editorial). He also received the task of editing the "Northern Dynasty Jilu" to actually compile the experiences of visiting Liao and the map of Wu Hao's ancient paintings and spy paintings into a book.

It was precisely because of this mission that he was able to participate in the activities of receiving the envoys of He Zhengdan of Liao Kingdom and serve as a staff member for the affairs of the staff member. In fact, he was the translator of the staff member.

The so-called Guanjia Envoy is an official responsible for accompanying the Liao Kingdom, Goryeo and other countries in Kaifeng Prefecture, and is usually appointed by important officials. There is also a companion envoy opposite the Guanjia Envoy, which is an official responsible for joining the envoys in Liao Kingdom, Goryeo and other countries after entering the country.

This time, when the envoy of the Liao Kingdom came, the court had no time to send important officials as companions, but only chose a military officer on Hedong Road to pick up companions. However, the companions of the hall sent important officials, which was the Privy Council's order. Ji Yi found out the trump card of King Duan Zhao Ji for Cai Jing last time and was in love with Cai Jing's son Cai You, and now she has become Cai Jing's confidant.

The strategy of receiving Liao envoys this time has long been decided, which is to be tough but not rude. Placing the "Picture of the Officials of the Song Dynasty" at Dutingyi is undoubtedly a means to show toughness.

This is equivalent to telling the Liao envoy that the Emperor of Song was ready to lead the imperial army in person!

If you Liao people have the courage, let’s come over!

"It's done," Wu Haogu looked back at Ji Yi, "Brother Yizhi, what do you think?"

"No, not bad." Ji Yi nodded with a smile, and then bowed to an internal official named Li in charge of Duting Office (Duting Office is managed by Guoxin Office, and the officials in charge are all eunuchs). "Official Li, please take care of everyone in the museum. If the Liao envoy asked about this painting, it would be said that it was written by the painter of the Hanlin Painting Academy when the official was in front of the Qionglinyuan chasing hall."
Chapter completed!