In March, Yang Yan also led the army that went out to Western Xia to return triumphantly.

When Yang Yan arrived in Jiankang, it was late in the afternoon that Wang Yan, who had just served as a privy envoy, and Xin Qiji, the deputy envoy, and the three supervisors of the forbidden army went out of the city for ten miles together to welcome them back. Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru saw it from a distance, and they also hurriedly dismounted and met everyone. Wang Yan and Yang Yan have worked together twice, and Xin Qiji and Yang Yan are old acquaintances, the two have not seen each other for more than two years, and they are naturally very happy to meet this time.

After everyone met, they greeted each other and worked hard for each other. After a bit of politeness. He also asked Wang Yan and Xin Qiji to tell Yang Yan that it was too late to pass the scriptures today, let Yang Yan go home first to rest, and the emperor would review the three armies in the square in front of the palace early tomorrow morning, and also asked Yang Yan to hold a "prisoner sacrifice ceremony".

The "Prisoner Sacrifice Ceremony" is the highest ceremony for the imperial court to show off its victories and military exploits, and the chief general who has made military exploits must personally report his military exploits to the monarch, and will cut off the heads of the enemy's troops, prisoners, and the trophies captured are displayed on the school military field, and the monarch personally receives the good news, reads the trophies, inspects the participating troops, and commends the meritorious soldiers. For the generals who lead the army, it is a very high honor.

After learning the news, Yang Yangang and the generals called, and after arranging the arrangements, handed over the men and horses to Li Xianzhong, Chen Min, and Qi Fang, and brought them back to the barracks. And with him back to Jiankang, there were two Mongolian envoys: Zha Ba'er Huo and Huo Erchi. However, Yang Yan didn't want to give birth to Zhang for the time being, so he didn't invite them to the pavilion to rest, but asked Ali to take them to find a place to live temporarily and wait for news. Then together with Zhao Yueru, he took Zhang Wei and a few relatives back to the house.

The family had already received the letter, Yang Yan left Jiankang in September last year, and this was more than half a year, and the other five ladies who stayed at home were all worried, and when he finally came back, he was naturally overjoyed.

Yang Quan, the chief housekeeper of the mansion, waited at the door with the other four chief stewards and a group of men and some neighborhood relatives, and hundreds of people stood there, almost occupying a street. Before Yang Yan and the others walked into the house, they were immediately surrounded by everyone, greeting him and talking non-stop. Immediately, there were people beating gongs and drums, and firecrackers roared, and it was full of festive atmosphere. Yang Yan and the others finally squeezed through the crowd before they entered the mansion and handed over the people outside to Yang Quan to send away.

At this time, the five wives and concubines in the family all stood in the courtyard and waited, and when they saw Yang Yan coming back, Zhao Qianru and Tassel greeted them first, Zhao Qianru's voice was a little choked, and said, "Xianggong, you are back!" ”

Yang Yan also couldn't help but miss them, and regardless of whether they were in the courtyard, he opened his arms and hugged the two of them into his arms one by one. Said: "Qianru, tassel, I miss you too." ”

Zhao Qianru and Tassel plunged into his arms, and couldn't help but "woo" and sob. Yang Yan patted them on the back and comforted them softly, and Zhao Yueru on the side also looked sad and happy, and came over to persuade: "Okay, aren't we coming back?" I started crying. Let's all go into the house! ”

Zhao Qianru and Tassel found out that they were losing their temper in front of the public, and they both blushed unconsciously, and just wanted to get out of Yang Yan's arms, and Lin Yinzi and Lin Yanhong also cried and laughed, and immediately burst into tears of joy.

Yang Yan was also very excited in his heart, hugging them painfully and coaxing, plus the two ladies Zhao Yueru and Yan Rui were a little older and calmer, and persuaded them for a long time, finally let them stop crying. At this time, the eldest daughter Yang Shunhua squeezed to Yang Yan's side, pulled the hem of Yang Yan's body, met the small eyelid, and said, "Daddy, daddy hug." ”

At this time, Yang Shunhua was already two and a half years old, and he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, and he had grown a lot taller, wearing red silk clothes, combing two pigtails, a round face, and a pair of big eyes, looking very good. Yang Yan looked happy and **, and said, "Take your daughter, let your father hug you." As he spoke, he leaned over and picked her up, kissing her several times on the little cheek. This little girl is also very good at being coquettish, putting her hands around Yang Yan's neck, wiping her little face next to Yang Yan's face, wiping it around, and kept shouting: "Daddy, daddy." ”

Seeing the child, Zhao Yueru also liked it very much, and leaned over from Yang Yan's body, touched Shunhua's face, and said with a smile: "Nannan, haven't you called me yet?" ”

Shunhua was really very obedient, opened her little hand again, stretched out to Zhao Yueru, and said, "Auntie, aunt hugs Nannan." ”

Zhao Yueru couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly reached out and hugged Shunhua, kissed her on the face, and then stuck to her little face, and was beaten and beaten.

Yang Yan then said: "What about the other children? ”

Zhao Qianru said with a smile: "The other children are still young, and they are all asleep in the house now, so they didn't take them out, let's go to the room to see them later." ”

This inch Yan Rui came over and smiled: "Xianggong, madam, don't stand in the courtyard and talk, let's go to the house first." ”

Only then did Yang Yan remember that he had been back for so long and had spoken to other people, but he had not yet said hello to Yan Rui. Among his wives and concubines, only Yan Rui never competed with others for favor, and even retreated to the end at this time. I couldn't help but feel pity in my heart, took Yan Rui's hand, and said, "How are you doing these days when I'm not at home?" Everything in the house is all for you to worry about. ”

In fact, Yan Rui didn't want Yang Yan in her heart, but she felt that she was from a humble background, and she was the only one older than Yang Yan among the wives and concubines, and she was almost infertile, so she was quite inferior, and she was the most humble among the ladies on weekdays, at this time, she was held by Yang Yan's hand, and she was moved in her heart, and she almost burst into tears, and her voice was a little choked: "Xianggong, I ...... it"

Yang Yan kissed her on the face regardless of being in the yard, and said with a smile: "Don't cry anymore, they are finally all fine, if you cry again, I'm afraid that you will hook them up again, and you will cry today." ”

Yan Rui couldn't help but burst into tears and laughed, and said, "Xianggong, come into the house quickly." ”

In this way, Yang Yan pulled the tassel with one hand and Yan Rui with the other, Zhao Yueru hugged Shunhua, pulled Zhao Qianru, Lin Yinzi and Lin Yanhong accompanied them on both sides, hugging his wife and concubine, and then entered the house together. first worshiped the ancestors of the Yang family, and then went to see the other three children who were still asleep, and then Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru and others went to bathe and change clothes, and then returned to the hall to accept the congratulations of their family members. Later, there was a big banquet in Yang's mansion to celebrate Yang Yan's homecoming.

After the dinner, the guests also said goodbye one after another, and the seven husband and wife, or the four children, gathered in Zhao Qianru's room, talking about the interesting things in the house after Yang Yan left, while teasing the children. Now there are a total of four children in the house, and every day is naturally lively, and the mother naturally puts all her thoughts on the child, and the mother is also very painful to the child**, and the house is full of laughter every day.

They talked for a while, and all the wives and concubines knew that Yang Yan would enter the palace to see the emperor early tomorrow morning, so although they were eager to linger with Yang Yanen**, they couldn't bear to spare him to rest, so they got up and left, and Tassel and Lin Yanhong also left with their children in their arms. Zhao Qianru also asked the nurse to carry Zai Chi and Shun Ying to sleep.

At this time, there were only three people left in the room, Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru, and Zhao Qianru, and Zhao Qianru told Zhao Chen about how he planned to reward Yang Yan. After Yang Yan listened, he also nodded, he didn't care about any official position, and said with a smile: "It's good to do this, I couldn't be a privy envoy in the first place, it's good like this." ”

Yang Yan stretched out his hand and gently held the slender waists of the two of them, and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't care about being a high-ranking official, after defeating the Jin Army in the future and recovering the lost territory, I will resign from the office, retire to the forest, accompany you at home, and live the rest of my life with peace of mind." ”

Zhao Qianru pillowed her head on Yang Yan's shoulder and said, "Yanlang, I really hope that day will come sooner." ”

At this time, Zhao Yueru stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, it's not too early, I'll go back to rest, you should rest early." ”

Zhao Qianru immediately had jade cheeks and said, "Sister, don't go." ”

Zhao Yueru smiled slightly: "You haven't seen each other for half a year, so if you don't want to miss it, let him accompany you alone today, but you have to remember that tomorrow is still going to the court, but you must get up early." Then he turned and left.

In fact, Zhao Qianru didn't want to have fun with Yang Yan in her heart, hearing Zhao Yueru say this, although she was shy in her heart, she also fell on Yang Yan and didn't move. After Zhao Yueru left, Yang Yan hugged Zhao Qianru to the bed and repaid his lovesickness for Zhao Qianru with practical actions.

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Early the next morning, Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru rushed to the military camp first, gathered people, and let Cao Xun lead them into the city to be inspected by the emperor. The two of them rushed to the palace first, accompanied Zhao Chen and other ministers to the ancestral temple of the Great Song Dynasty first, paid homage to the ancestors of the Song Dynasty, and reported the news of this victory over Western Xia to the ancestors.

Then Zhao Chen, accompanied by the five ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, came to the military field of the school to review the three armies. And a ceremony was held to present the prisoners.

Most of the captives of the Western Xia army were redeemed by the Western Xia court, and there were less than 2,000 people left, and Yang Yan only selected 200 physically strong captives from them and brought them back to Jiankang. However, there are a lot of trophies of the Western Xia army, knives, guns, utensils, gongs and drums, tents, war horses, banners and armor, everything, from which it is a full set of 300 pieces of "iron harrier" iron armor, together with the war horses, all neatly draped, although there are no knights, but you can still feel a heavy sense of oppression, so that Zhao Chen and many officials have stopped to watch carefully, and it has also become the focus of this "prisoner sacrifice".

After a night's rest, the soldiers recovered their fatigue, and they lined up in a neat line full of energy, walked in front of the viewing platform, and stopped in front of the viewing platform, and shouted long live to Zhao Chen.

Later, Zhao Chen read aloud the memorial text for the fallen soldiers on the viewing platform, and announced the commendation for the fallen soldiers. The next step is to upgrade the rewards for other soldiers. Of course, these promotion orders have long been transmitted to Sichuan, and all the generals know their official positions promoted by the scriptures, but now the promotion orders are issued by the emperor himself, and they also feel very honored. At the same time, everyone also received a different amount of rewards according to the size of their merits, except for Yang Yan who obtained the food estate, the other generals above the command were also given different amounts of land, so all the soldiers were happy.

Of course, there were also soldiers stationed in Sichuan who could not come to Jiankang in person to receive the reward, but this time it was also announced and sent to Sichuan to distribute to the soldiers.

In the end, Zhao Chen announced that a state banquet would be held in the palace that night to celebrate the victory and reward the three armies.

Then Zhao Chen met Yang Yan alone in the palace, accompanied by Han Yanzhi, Zhao Ruyu, Wang Yan, and Xin Qiji. At this time, Yang Yan explained to everyone that there were Mongolian envoys who returned to Jiankang with him, and presented the collected Mongolian materials to everyone.

Everyone knows about uniting Mongolia and attacking Jin, so they are also very interested in Mongolian information. Zhao Chen said: "Yang Qing defeated the Western Xia army this time, and also brought back the Mongolian envoys and made a great contribution to the imperial court. ”

Yang Yan said with a smile: "This minister doesn't dare to take credit, even the contact with Mongolia is the credit of Lai Wenzheng, Ali and others, and the minister just brought them back to Jiankang by the way." ”

Zhao Chen said with a smile: "Victory is not arrogant, I'm afraid that Yang Qing is only one person in my Great Song Dynasty." He turned his head and said straight to Han Yan: "Han Qing, it's better for you to see when I will summon the Mongolian envoys." ”

Han Yan said straightly: "Your Majesty, it is certainly a good plan to refuse the gold from Mongolia, but my Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia are not connected, and it is very difficult to get in touch, and I am afraid that I may not be able to act in unison." Moreover, although the Mongolian envoys came to Jiankang through the scriptures, Ali was just a Hu businessman, and his views may not be comprehensive, we do not know the real situation of Mongolia, nor do we know what the real intentions of Mongolia are? Therefore, the minister thought that Lianmeng's plan should be cautious. ”

Zhao Chen nodded and said, "Yang Qing, what do you think?" ”

Yang Yan said: "Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, I have also considered this point, but now the plan is only for the imperial court to send people to Mongolia to meet their khans and meet them face-to-face, so as to understand the true intentions of Mongolia." ”

Wang Yan also nodded and said, "This is a solution, if it weren't for the relatives of the imperial court to send someone to investigate, I would always feel uneasy." But is this task difficult to say, and it is not easy to say that it is not easy, so please be able to take on it? ”

Yang Yan said: "Your Majesty, the minister is not talented, and he is willing to take on this task." ”

Zhao Chen pondered for a moment, then looked at the information about Mongolia that Yang Yan brought back, and said: "I and the ministers should watch this information carefully, and Yang Qing will first entertain the envoys from Mongolia for me, and then make a decision after I and the ** Qing have read it." ”

Then he smiled at Yang Yan and said: "In more than a month, it will be my twentieth birthday, even if I finally decide to go by Yang Qing, I will have to wait until after my birthday." ”

Only then did Yang Yan remember that unconsciously, Zhao Chen Yijing was completely an adult man who had grown up, and when he recalled the past, he was full of emotion.