In the second year of Yuan Fu, Yuan Ri.

It was getting brighter, but the sun didn't show up. It was a gloomy morning, and there was a bitter north wind, and although the wind was not strong, it still hurt like a knife on the face. The square outside the Donghua Gate was crowded with people, all of whom were officials, envoys, forbidden soldiers and sentencing people waiting for the Great Song Dynasty officials to appear. Among them is Xiao Haogu, whose neck is so sore that he is numb, and the big golden crown on his head is too heavy! And it will have to go on for several hours, and tomorrow we will have to go to dinner with it......

He was even a little envious of his deputy envoy Liu Yun, who, according to tradition, wore a relatively normal Han-style official uniform. It's just that a gold belt is tied around his waist, which is enough to be the width of a palm, the inside is cowhide, and the outside is a dozen heavy pieces of pure gold - there is also a suspicion of showing off his wealth!

But in Xiao Haogu's opinion, such a dress is simply stupid! What kind of wealth did the Great Liao Kingdom show off in front of the Song Dynasty? And the people who came up with the idea back then simply couldn't understand what real wealth was.

"It's snowing! It's snowing! ”

"This is Ruixue!"

"It's Ruixue!"

Suddenly there was a low cry from the queue waiting to worship the emperor, with a kind of surprise.

The rain on the first day of the new year is not a good omen, and no one will feel comfortable. But snow is a symbol of a good year...... However, this is the opinion of the farmers south of the Great Wall, and Xiao Haogu, a Khitan who eats fasting and recites Buddha, is frowning.

If it is still snowing heavily in Kaifeng Prefecture on the first day, it means that the temperature is very low this spring, and there is likely to be a white disaster (snow disaster) on the northern grasslands. Meng Chun's white plague was the most difficult for herdsmen. If the recovery of the grasslands is delayed by snowfall, there are many herders who have lost their cattle and sheep and have to choose between starving to death and raiding southward!

At the same time, Khitan herders who can spend the winter in Shannan (south of Yanshan) will also postpone their journey north due to climate reasons...... And if they stay in Shannan for one more day, they will have more conflicts with the Han people, and if they stay too long, they may miss the agricultural time in Shannan.

In short, in the past few years, the weather has become colder and colder, and the days of the divination people on the northern grasslands have become more and more difficult. And these barbarians refuse to starve to death quietly, they will rebel when they starve, and there is no way to extinguish the rebellion when they rebel......

Xiao Haogu, who was waiting a little impatiently, suddenly asked Liu Yundao, who was standing next to him: "Liu Linya, when did the official family of the Song people go to Donghua Gate?" ”

Liu Yun turned his head and looked behind him a few times, and said, "It's coming, it's coming...... The people are almost full. ”

"People?" Xiao Haogu also looked back, and hey, the square behind him and the street in front of the horse were really crowded. "What are they coming?"

Liu Yun said: "Come and visit the official's house." ”

Xiao Haogu was stunned for a moment, "Do you have any money to receive after worshipping?" ”

"Nope." Liu Yundao, "The Song people in Kaifeng all support their official families, and I remember that when the Son of Heaven died more than ten years ago, the people of Kaifeng were still crying day and night. ”

Cry? Xiao Haogu thought to himself: Isn't the Divine Sect a faint monarch? Why did the Song people cry and do him? The Song people are so stupid! The Liao people are smarter than them in this regard, if the current Ming Jun of the Great Liao Kingdom dies, no one will really cry except for monks and nuns......

At the same time, Wu Haogu, who was dragged by Pan Qiaolian to the square outside Donghua Gate, also muttered in his heart: It is not good to squint at home on such a snowy day, and more than 100,000 people ran to the square outside Donghua Gate, just to pay homage to Zhao Xu, the official of Biden's Donghua Gate, from afar, and it was spontaneous...... Is this really the Great Song? How does it look a bit like some fanatical militaristic state?

The official Zhao Xu is likely to really become a faint gentleman at this time, a dizzy gentleman! Although the Yuan Day Dynasty is not held, there is still a lot of red tape in the New Year's vigil of the Heavenly Family, one moment to worship the ancestors, one time to worship the great god, one time to worship the queen mother, and one moment to pretend to let people worship, since yesterday noon has been busy now, tired and almost tired.

But no matter how hard and tired you are, you have to keep working! And not only do the work in front of you, but also work hard to create the next Great Song Dynasty official...... Although Zhao Xu's health is really not good, and most of his kidneys are also defective, he still works very hard to "hold hands" with the beauties in the harem, and this professionalism of working hard to do his job is really worth learning from the hundreds of millions of people of the Great Song Dynasty and future generations.

Just when Zhao Xu secretly prayed to the heavens that he could let a certain beauty in the harem conceive the dragon seed earlier, the imperial chariot he was riding had already arrived at the Donghua Gate.

"Your Majesty, the civil and military officials and the envoys of the Quartet, Zhusheng, and the people of Kaifeng Mansion are waiting outside the Donghua Gate."

Cao Yu (Cao Bin's descendant) put on his armor and walked to Zhao Xu's palace to report loudly.

Zhao Xu's mind was retracted, and he said solemnly: "Drive Donghua Tower (Donghua Gate Tower)." ”

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The sky-high drum music resounded in the sky, and Wu Haogu had heard this drum music in his original memory - it seemed that he was also going to Donghua Gate to worship the emperor!

This drum music sounds, which means that the emperor is coming. Pan Qiaolian looked very excited, pulled Wu Haogu's sleeve and shouted: "Brother Dawu, the official family, the official family is coming!" ”

Do you need to be so excited? Wu Hao Guxin said: It doesn't matter if others are excited, what are you excited about? If Chen Youwen hadn't exposed it in time, maybe you would have become the wife of the next official......

"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray......"

When a group of figures appeared on the Donghua Tower, the onlookers of Kaifeng began to shout long live. Pan Qiaolian and her two "slaves" Jin Zhu'er and Pan Ying'er also shouted together.

Wu Haogu stretched his neck and looked around, not looking at the emperor, he had seen the emperor, and the place where he was standing now was too far away from Donghua Tower, it was impossible to see the emperor's appearance clearly.

He just wanted to see the fanatical appearance of the people of Kaifeng Mansion - this is indeed a bit unexpected, now it is not the early years of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, but the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty when the drawbacks appeared, and the people still supported the officials of the Great Song Dynasty so much. Obviously, the rule of the Great Song Dynasty is still quite satisfactory, at least it can satisfy the people of Kaifeng Mansion......

The official Zhao Xu looked at the crowd in front of him, listened to the sound of cheers, and his spirit suddenly perked up. He lowered his head slightly and set his gaze on the hundred officials, envoys, and beings who were close to Donghua Tower. After a little search, he found a golden "big hat", which was the golden crown of the Liao envoy, and since he sat on the throne of the emperor, he had always wanted to take this golden hat away from the head of the hated Liao envoy...... This goal still looks achievable!

"Swing the Vertical Arch Palace," Zhao Xu stood on the Donghua Tower for a moment, feeling a little cold, so he recited to the Zhihu Sect Affairs Cao, "Xuan Zhangdun, Cai Jing and the envoys of the Liao State are here. ”

Although the Great Dynasty will not be held, the envoys of the Liao State still have to go to the palace to face the king. Moreover, the Liao envoy who visited this time was not only for He Zhengdan, but also on the mission of "mediating" the battle of Song and Xia!

Moreover, the Imperial City Division had just reported that the envoy of the Liao State had stolen a painting from the Duting West Post yesterday afternoon......

It seems that Zhang Dian and Cai Jing's strategy is very likely to succeed! If you can really kill the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Western Xia, it will also be a very happy thing.

This woman is a madman, since she became the queen mother thirteen years ago, she has sent troops to invade the country every year, but she has not scared herself when she was still a teenager...... It would be better if this woman could be caught in Kaifeng Mansion!

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Finally, it's the audience's turn!

Xiao Haogu stretched out his hand to support the golden crown on his head, and then said to Liu Yun beside him in Khitan dialect: "Let's go and see if the official family of the Great Song Dynasty can really cross the sword immediately!" ”

Liu Yun smiled and said: "Most of them are fake, where can the Great Song official family ride a horse?" ”

After finishing the benefits of the tongue, the two Liao envoys followed the Xuanmen who came to proclaim the praise, and swaggered towards the Donghua Gate.

At this moment, Zhang Dian and Cai Jing, under the guidance of a Xuanzan, had already walked into the Donghua Gate, and they were still talking in a low voice while walking.

Cai Jing said: "Xianggong, the Liao envoy actually stole the painting hanging in the Duting West Station, it seems that he was fooled." ”

Zhang Dan smiled: "Haha, that Wu Dalang is really capable, if the Lord of Liao is also fooled, then give it to his official." ”

"Ji Yizhi is not bad," Cai Jing said again, "Trick the two Liao envoys around...... He should also be credited. ”

"Well, he's a capable person." Zhang Dian nodded, "When he returns to Beijing, he will take a vacation, so that he can go all out to prepare for next year's Spring Festival...... If there is a jinshi, you and I will be the successors. ”

"Oh, Xianggong thinks so highly of this person?" Cai Jing was stunned, he didn't expect Zhang Dian to equate Ji Yi with the successor of the New Party.

Zhang Dian smiled and said: "You and I are old, and the destruction of Western Xia may be completed in the hands of you and me, but the restoration of Yanyun is only left to future generations." Yuan Chang, you see that in the middle of the court now, who can be this latecomer? ”

"How is Ling Lang?" Cai Jing asked tentatively.

Several of Zhang's sons have already been admitted to the Jinshi and are officials in the court.

"Juxian still has to avoid relatives," said Zhang, "and my dogs are too upright, and it will be the end of being appeased in the future." But your eldest brother can inherit your mantle. ”

"You'er, you say?" Cai Jing shook his head, "It's a bit capable, but it's too frivolous......"

Speaking of "frivolity", Zhang Dian and Cai Jing stopped talking at the same time. The official Zhao Xu's body is still worrisome, and no one among the beauties in the harem is pregnant with the dragon seed...... Now it depends on when a few princes will be able to give birth to sons to the heavenly family, otherwise this big position may fall on the frivolous King Duan.

Although King Duan's mind is the same as that of the official family, he wants to destroy Liao in Pingxia, but his frivolous nature is really not suitable for ruling the world, let alone dealing with two battles to destroy the country.