The most depressing thing in the world is not that I have face blindness and can't see that my slave girl is a great beauty, but that I watch my enemies get better day by day, but I rot day by day......

Xiao Haogu, who was wearing a narrow purple robe that was not warm at all, was now very sore, cold, and depressed.

He is He Zhengdan's envoy, so he naturally wants to go to Donghuamen to meet the official family of the Great Song Dynasty. So he also put on the dress of the envoy of the Liao Dynasty early in the morning, and also wore the ridiculous big golden crown - the great Liao He Zhengdan envoy in the early years must have been a big man with a very thick neck, but he Xiao Haogu is a fetal element, and his neck is very slender, and he is guilty of carrying such a golden crown.

But what is even more sinful is to watch the prosperous and rich city of Kaifeng Mansion!

This is the best place in a great country! Where is like Liaoguo, Zhongjing, Nanjing, Xijing and Tokyo are all called Huazi City, and when you go to the farm, you are stinky and begging for food, and it looks like a big thing.

As for the capital of the Great Liao State, it is called Huazi a little less, but it is desolate and cold, and it is not so much the capital of a great country as a frontier fortress that suppresses and obstructs the tribes. And once the various tribes of the obstruction are unified by the strong people on the grassland, the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing will suffer a catastrophe......

And once the Western Xia turned back into the Great Song Dynasty's Dingyan Army Jie Du Envoy, then the "iron ban" on the obstruction grassland would disappear. Similarly, the "horse ban" on the Great Song Dynasty will no longer exist. At that time, the national situation of Daliao will be precarious.

On the other hand, the Great Song Kingdom, although there are many problems inside and out. For example, like the Great Liao State, there is the disaster of land annexation. However, the industrial and commercial development of the Song State could bear the problem of food after the reduction of agricultural taxes caused by land annexation and the loss of land by a large number of peasants. Moreover, the Song State has long been not a gate valve world, and there are still a large number of righteous men who plough and eat together, so the problem of land annexation is not as serious as that of the Liao State.

In addition, because of the recruitment of soldiers in the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the imperial court has money, there can be soldiers, and land annexation has no effect on the number of recruits at all. The Liao State is different, the Liao State claims to have 1.2 million Jingzhou soldiers who are also farmers and soldiers, similar to the government soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Liao court not only did not pay military salaries, but also required the Jingzhou soldiers to bring their own weapons and horses. Therefore, the peasants of the Han and Bohai tribes must have a certain amount of land to be able to afford military service. Once bankrupt and lost land and reduced to customers, how can they afford military service if they can't eat enough?

The so-called 1.2 million Jingzhou soldiers now exist in name only. Only a small number of Han and Bohai clans can still pull out some clan soldiers when necessary...... But once the Song army went on a northern expedition, would these big clans with clan soldiers be of the same heart as the Khitans?

Thinking of this, Xiao Haogu couldn't help but look at the team of people walking in front of him, it was the iron cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty to support the Japanese army! All of them wear armor and show off their might, although the war horses under the crotch are a little short, but the armor on the people's bodies (in fact, it is also reduced, but Xiao Haogu doesn't know), and the sturdy men are real! It looks tall and strong, not much worse than the elite Tielin Army of Daliao......

This is still the most useless forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty Kaifeng in the legend, if it is replaced by the elite of the Western Army, maybe what will it become?

It seems that the negotiations to be held after the first day of greetings will be quite difficult!

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"Sister Shadow, you will follow me in the future, obediently, I will not treat you badly!" Pan Qiaolian pulled her flower-like half-breed little sister and said.

Shadow nodded obediently: "Well, slaves and slaves listen to my sister." ”

"Does Sister Shadow have a surname?"

Shadow shook her head and said, "The slave doesn't have a surname, only a nickname. ”

"Then take my surname, and I will be called Pan Yinger in the future."

"Okay, sister, the slave will be Pan Ying'er from now on."

Pan Qiaolian, who felt that she had subdued the mixed-race little Lori, turned her head to Wu Haogu and said: "Well, Brother Dawu, you are also wide now, and you really have to have someone around you to serve." Why don't you do this, and give you the vial, and let her serve you. ”

"Vial, good, good......"

"Eighteen sister, slave ......" The little bottle that followed Pan Qiaolian's ass all day didn't expect to be given away, so she was in a hurry.

"What? Don't you agree? Pan Qiaolian had a hole on the horse, glared at her, and really had the majesty of a tiger girl.

"The slave doesn't dare to ......" The vial looked like she was about to cry, and nodded aggrievedly.

"Then follow Brother Dawu well!" Pan Qiaolian said, "You can't leave a single step." ”

The half-breed slave has become a little girl who has not yet grown up. And it's hard to say whether this little girl is here to serve herself or to spy on herself!

Wu Haogu was a little reluctant to look at the shadow who hadn't even eaten yet, oh, he didn't even hug and hug the shadow that hadn't come, and squeezed out a wry smile.

It seems that what Mi Youren said also has some truth...... This Pan Qiaolian looks very good, but it's a little prickly, it seems that she needs to be trained well in the future.

Pan Qiaolian looked at Wu Haogu, and then looked at her newly obtained maid, and Mei Zizi laughed. In fact, she also knew what Wu Haogu was thinking...... Men, it's all like this, when it's wide, it becomes bad. Wu Haogu is now like this, if you don't think about it, there must be something wrong.

But it doesn't matter, Wu Haogu can come down to her!

Moreover, she is not completely unacceptable to Concubine Wu Haoguna...... It's a matter of time, but it's always good to be later.

I must at least be like the county lord's sister-in-law, blocking for ten or eight years.

Thinking of this, Pan Qiaolian beckoned to the eldest lady of Pan Xiao'an's main house and a few concubines sitting in the No. 7 private room, "Sisters-in-law, keep playing, the slave will go back first." ”

It turned out that Pan Daguan was going to be on duty today - put on the armor that cut corners, rode a shrunken war horse, and walked in front of the Liao envoy who wore an overweight gold crown on his head. Xiao Haogu probably never dreamed that the Song Dynasty warrior who walked in front of him was probably richer than the emperor of the Liao State!

And it is impossible for Pan Qiaolian to go home now, it is true that she wants to have a private meeting with Dawu's brother Wu Haogu.

Kaifeng Mansion City on the first day is the most lively and fun!

Moreover, she also had to inquire about the ancient envoy Liao of Wuhao...... When will you leave? How long is it going to go? What kind of official can you be when you come back?

Her brother Pan Xiao'an has set a very high condition, and he must be a Beijing official or an ambassador to marry her.

"Eighteen, don't worry, I will definitely be able to be an official or ambassador in Beijing in three years at the latest, if it doesn't work, I'll take the Jinshi exam."

Wu Haogu swore to Pan Qiaolian that if history had not changed, Emperor Zhezong would have died in February of the third year of Yuanfu! Then there is the world of Duan Wang Zhao Ji, he can't be a Beijing official and an ambassador, and Pan Xiao'an will no longer stop him from marrying Pan Qiaolian......

"Jinshi?" Pan Qiaolian laughed, "This is almost the same thing that Erlang said, you said that you are really getting better and better at bragging." ”

Is it bragging? Wu Haogu pondered: Jinshi is really not too difficult for himself, if he really needs it, why not exercise one? Even if Yuanfu can't do it for three years, Chongning will definitely be able to exercise to a Jinshi in the second year......

Having made up his mind, Wu Haogu turned the topic to Christie's again, so that Liao's mission could not be talked about on the street.

"Eighteenth sister, after the first day, will you also come to Christie's main store to help?"

"Slave?" Pan Qiaolian was a little surprised, but then she understood what Wu Haogu meant, "Brother Dawu, do you want the slave to help Guan Jiashi succeed after you go north?" ”

"That's right," Wu Hao Gu said, "My father will go to Luoyang Province after the first day, and it will take at least a few months together, and he is not a person who can do big business." So Christie's will bother you and Su Dalang and Mi Yuanhui to take care of it. Also, can you bring Li Xigu to Christie's? ”

Li Tang is not only a painter, but also has a good eye for his appreciation of calligraphy, painting and literary play, and is responsible for the palm of the hand in the Pan family's gold and silver silk shop.

And the biggest shortcoming of Wu Haogu's Christie's current line is that he doesn't have many eyesight and good palm masters. Wu Haogu himself can only look at the paintings of "Wu Family Style" and "Huang Family Wealth", Wu Chengzhi's level is about the same as his son, Su Dalang's eyesight is even worse, Mi Youren has a pair of fiery eyes, not only proficient in calligraphy and painting, but also able to read gold and jade porcelain, but Mi Youren will enter the officialdom sooner or later, and he can't work for too long at Christie's.

Pan Qiaolian thought for a while and nodded: "I have to discuss this matter with my eleventh brother, if he can find someone to replace him, I will pull him over." ”

"Okay, great."

While Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian were talking, they went up to the third floor of Pan Lou and entered the Tianzi No. 3 private room, which was the one chartered by Ji Yi. This is a good place to see the scenery, and the two of them found a window facing the royal street and just stood up, and the cold air mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke came out. There are two exhaust dead wind lamps hanging on both sides of the royal street, extending straight to the south, and under the dead wind lamps, it is bustling with citizens who are watching the lively Kaifeng City. Many people and citizens also carry various colored lanterns in their hands, and from a distance, it seems to be two starlight streams.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Pan Qiaolian suddenly raised her hand to the south, Wu Haogu looked over, and saw a fire dragon coming from nowhere, surging from between the two starlight streams.

That should be the officials, envoys, sentient beings, and forbidden officers and soldiers who went to Donghua Gate to pay homage to Zhengdan. Wu Haogu thought to himself: Today next year, he should be one of them! In February next year, the official Zhao Xu will leave behind the strong Song Dynasty Daye Long Yubintian, who has just started a game, and then it will be Zhao Ji's era......