The next day it was warm and breezy.

Bao Zheng and the others entered the palace hall early, waiting for Xia Liao's envoys to come and mention the competition.

Xia Liao envoys tried to try, yesterday Bao Zheng has been presented to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen as the emperor, naturally impossible to do something that damages the majesty of the country, when Bao Zheng mentioned this matter, Zhao Zhen immediately agreed, and said that today to find the ministers to discuss how to meet the enemy.

On both sides of the civil and military officials, Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair, glanced at everyone, and asked, "What do you think of the envoys of Xia and Liao asking me for a Great Song competition?" ”

As soon as Zhao Zhen asked this, the court immediately ordered to discuss, and at this time, Lu Yijian immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the two countries of Xia and Liao dare to challenge my Great Song Dynasty, our Great Song Dynasty must not be stage frightened, we must compete with them, and we must win, let them know how powerful our Great Song is." ”

Lu Yijian's words can be said to be very arrogant, but this does not mean anything, because Lu Yijian is a very smart person, he can naturally see that the emperor must be compared, since he wants to compare, then why not say some high-sounding words to win the emperor's favor?

As soon as Lu Yijian said this, the other courtiers immediately echoed him.

Zhao Zhen saw that the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty were so excited, and he was quite satisfied, but at this time, he saw that Di Qing was alone in the hall and was silent, Zhao Zhen frowned slightly, looked at Di Qing and asked, "Di Aiqing, what do you think?" ”

Di Qing as a military general, but at this time did not wear armor, now he is about forty years old, because of the perennial war, full of wind and frost, he saw the emperor ask about himself, immediately arched his hand and said: "Naturally, it is to be compared, my Great Song Dynasty is full of talents, and I am afraid that they will not succeed, but Weichen thinks that since Xia Liao's envoys are not good, we must be fully prepared, the art of war is cloudy, know ourselves and know the enemy, and we will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" ”

Just now, those courtiers were just full of echoes, and they didn't mention how to resist the enemy at all, and now Di Qing raised this, Zhao Zhen immediately appreciated: "Okay, very good, Di Aiqing is reasonable, I listened to Xia Liao's envoys, there are quite a few people who are good at civil and military affairs, since this is the case, my big Song Wen will be handed over to Yan Aiqing to arrange, Wu, it will be Di Aiqing, this matter is handled by Yin Bao Aiqing of Kaifeng Mansion, all matters, the three of you can discuss, and after the Xia Liao envoys came, they agreed on a date, Then the three of you go down and prepare. ”

After the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty discussed this, the envoys of Xia Liao rushed over.

Because it was the emperor who met the Great Song Dynasty, there were not many people coming, only their commander Li Jingming came from the Western Xia, and the Liao State was the general Yelu Ye.

After the two of them saluted Zhao Zhen, Li Jing immediately said arrogantly: "Between our Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, there has been a perennial war, and now there are organic meetings and exchanges, and we Western Xia cherish it very much, but I didn't expect that after coming to your Great Song Dynasty, it would be so uncourteous, and even want us Xixia people to live with the envoys of the Liao State, what do you mean?" ”

Li Jingming is a man about thirty years old, with a burly figure, but there is a trace of elegance, although he said these words angrily, but his face is calm as usual, giving people a sense of unfathomable.

And as soon as he said this, Yelu Ye of the Liao State immediately couldn't stand it, and raised his neck and shouted at Zhao Zhen: "My Great Liao is commensurate with your Great Song brothers, and now I come to your Great Song Dynasty, but I live in the same place with a small country in Western Xia, do you look down on my Great Liao?" ”

As soon as Li Jingming and Yelu Ye shouted like this, Zhao Zhen immediately felt his head sink, touched his forehead slightly, and said: "If my Great Song Dynasty can coexist peacefully with Western Xia and Great Liao, it will naturally be the best thing, but there is only one post house, and it is enough for you to live, so why fight for it?" ”

The corners of Li Jingming's mouth twitched slightly: "This matter is related to my Xixia face, and I will never compromise!" ”

"My Da Liao also has a face and is uncompromising."

As soon as the two said this, Bao Zheng immediately felt slightly angry, but he was not easy to attack, so he had to say: "Since you two countries already think that the victory is determined by competition, what are you doing with all these words?" I am a great Song Dynasty, how can I allow you to be presumptuous in this court? What you want to compare, when to compare, you can list it. ”

Bao Zheng said something, and the envoys of the two countries suddenly turned red with anger, but although their faces were red, they had no choice, and finally had to set the date and the event of the competition.

After discussing it in this way, Zhao Zhen immediately announced his retreat from the court, while Yan Shu, Di Qing and Bao Zheng considered the strategy of defending against the enemy according to their respective responsibilities.

When Bao Zheng returned to the mansion, Hua Lang and the others were already waiting, and as soon as everyone met like this, Hua Lang immediately asked what they were trying.

Everyone sat down in the living room, Bao Zheng drank a cup of tea, and then said: "In most aspects, there are only two sides of literature and martial arts, but there are many subdivisions of literature and martial arts, and its Chinese is more than poetry, and martial arts is more than archery and blades." ”

After Bao Zheng finished speaking, everyone felt that there was nothing unusual about these competitions, and at this time, Bao Zheng continued: "Wenbi two, Wubi two, a total of four, after the four games, whoever wins the highest number of games will be counted as who wins, of course, after who wins, it will be up to whom, alas, I really didn't expect it, don't you just live somewhere, and now it has evolved like this, almost forgetting about business." ”

What Bao Zheng said about the right thing naturally refers to the matter of the peace between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty.

It's just that they don't care much about the matter of peace, they care about this competition, so after Bao Zheng sighed, Hualang asked very inappropriately: "When will the competition start?" ”

Bao Zheng's eyes widened, and then he slowly closed slightly, and said: "Tomorrow, now Yan Shu and Di Qing have already gone to find candidates to be in charge of every competition, tomorrow Brother Hua must arrive, my Da Song can't afford to lose." ”

Bao Zheng didn't say this, in order to join in the fun, they must also go.

It's just that this sentence can't afford to lose, but it makes Hualang a little puzzled.

And at this time, Bao Zheng also seemed to see Hua Lang's puzzlement, so he hurriedly said: "That's the case, now in my Great Song Dynasty competition, no matter how martial arts, we all have to win, no matter which aspect we lose, it is a great shame, this aspect of the text, I am not very worried, after all, I have a lot of people in the Great Song Dynasty, and if I take out any one, they are all better than those in Western Xia and Liao; It's just that in terms of poetry, it is a little worrying, since the Tang Dynasty, there are fewer and fewer people who have achieved something in poetry, and it can be said that it is difficult to reach one-tenth of the Tang Dynasty. After Bao Zheng finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh.