This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 292 The special envoy is coming

In the Prince's Mansion of Runan County, Zhao Yunrang hummed happily, took a handful of tea leaves and put them in the pot, and put them on the charcoal stove next to him.

It was snow outside and a howling wind.

After a while, the eldest son Zhao Zongyi came in through the door.

After saluting respectfully, Zhao Zongyi said: "My lord, the granary in Datong Mansion has been built by someone, and the granary in Chengdu Mansion has also been completed. Now there is something wrong with Hangzhou, and Su Jun is very strict. We Not easy to do."

"Su Junshou and Sen'er have a good relationship, so let's avoid Hangzhou for now." Zhao Yunrang thought for a while and said, "If you change to Guangzhou or Quanzhou, Zong Yi, go and investigate, bring your wife and children, and a few children. Concubine, take a good look around."

"Good sir." Zhao Zongyi sat down, carefully took the tea from his father, thought for a while, and then asked: "Brother Shu is in Hangzhou, if I go to Hangzhou, is it convenient for me to meet him? It’s been a year since I’ve seen him, so I miss him.”

"Brother wants to see younger brother, who dares to stop you." Zhao Yunrang said with a chuckle, "And now his name is Zong Shi, not Zhao Shu."

Zhao Zongyi was stunned for a moment, then understood something, and laughed lightly: "Indeed, it's Brother Shi, not Brother Shu."

The father and son chatted casually for a while, and then Zhao Zongyi left.

Not long after, the old butler came in.His body was covered with snowflakes. Zhao Yunrang handed over a cup of tea, and the old butler took it casually, and said casually: "Mr. Sir, our people in Xi'an City have already put away some of the ordnance. But because my uncle is sitting in Dingzhou over there, and It seems that he intends to relocate the Xingqing Mansion, the two cities are not far apart, so the amount we secretly transported is very small, fearing that it will affect the overall situation he set up."

The old butler has been with Zhao Yunrang for at least 45 years, and the two have been together almost since the beginning of their pants. The relationship between the two can be said to be even better than real brothers.

The princes in the palace did not dare to behave casually in front of Zhao Yunrang, but the old housekeeper did.

Zhao Yunrang nodded and smiled lightly: "It's okay, now that Sen'er is making a world-shattering sound, the whole world is attracted by him, we can do things faster."

"Young master is really powerful." The old housekeeper looked at Zhao Yunrang with admiration: "And Mr. Lang actually estimated early in the morning that the future of young master is unimaginable, so he rejected all opinions, and even sent Lian Er to young master to degrade her status. What a sight." long."

Hahaha.

Zhao Yunrang smiled happily.

As the most powerful "investor" in the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu Sen was the investment he was most proud of.

Originally, he only wanted to invest in family affection, but the benefits he brought made him feel a little scary.

However, he knew better that between himself and Lu Sen, and his daughter Bilian, it was only suitable to invest in family affection, even if there was no interest, it didn't matter.

While he was thinking about his future plans, a guard knocked on the door.

After getting permission, the guard opened the door and came in to report: "Your Majesty, Grand Master Pang, Bao Longtu, Ouyang Canzhi, and Yan Shangshu are asking to see you at the same time."

"This is not a good person. It seems that there is trouble this time." Zhao Yunrang shook his head, and said to the old butler standing beside him: "Please come to the study with the four of them."

The old butler nodded and went out.

Not long after, four important officials of the court appeared in the study at the same time. They patted the snowflakes off their bodies and sat down casually.

Especially Taishi Pang, he took the tea stove on the charcoal stove, poured himself a cup of hot tea, then put his hands together around the edge of the tea, feeling the heat from the tea inside, warmed his frozen hands for a while, and said: " Runan County King, we won’t talk about beating around the bush, this time we want to invite you to Dingzhou to appease Master Lu.”

Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "Why?"

"Just because your surname is Zhao." Grand Master Pang snorted, "It's just because you are his father-in-law."

"Grandmaster Pang, your granddaughter is not his wife." Prince Runan snorted, "Send your son out."

"That bastard of my family, he and Sen'er are facing each other, it's strange that he can talk to each other." Grand Master Pang shook his head helplessly, and then said seriously: "We're going to be polite first, and now we're asking. If you don't start after a few days, That is the official document of Zhongshumen."

The face of the Runan County King turned dark: "It's amazing...the important officials under the Zhongshu sect are so powerful. You want me to clean up the things you made yourself. What about the face, do you still have it? "

"It doesn't matter if you have face or not." Yan Zhu folded his hands in his sleeves, he was very afraid of the cold, even if there was a heater in the study, he still felt cold: "If you can solve the problem properly, there will be no problem."

The King of Runan County looked at Bao Zheng, but Bao Zheng closed his eyes and did not look at him.

"It seems that you are planning to let me encounter this bad luck." Zhao Yunrang sneered: "Okay, I will leave in two days. But Sen'er is very assertive, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have any influence on him."

"It's better than doing nothing." Bao Zheng said with a smile: "There is something wrong with Master Lu. It is true that we are wrong, but his words are too disregarding the overall situation."

"The overall situation?" Runan County King sneered and said, "In Sen'er's eyes, the inheritance and recovery of our Han land is the overall situation. As for what we ordinary people think and think of him, he doesn't care."

"We are clear about this." Grand Master Pang sighed, "So now we have to express something, otherwise the Khitan people will definitely find a way to contact him, even Xi Xia..."

Everyone understood something, and the King of Runan County frowned slightly. He was indeed a little worried in his heart that Lu Sen would be disappointed with Song and then defected to Khitan.

After all, Khitan... is the Song of the Small.

"I'll leave in two days." Runan County King looked at them coldly: "Then are you ready for the apology? You can't let me go to Dingzhou to see Sen'er empty-handed."

"Princess Fukang..." Yan Zhu spoke cautiously.

The Runan County King interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Don't talk about such nonsense, what Sen'er wants is the real thing."

The four were silent for a while, and finally Bao Zheng said: "We really don't know what Master Lu wants, so... I entrust you to negotiate."

King Runan felt a toothache: "You are making things difficult for me, that's all! I'll go and ask Sen'er what he thinks."

Just as the Northern Song court began to warm up and win over Lu Sen, Khitan and Xixia were also trying to find ways to send people to contact Lu Sen.

Let's not mention the Xixia Palace for the time being, but the Khitan side already has a plan in place.

It was still a small resort of the fairy family in Xiao's mansion, Yelu Hongji sat opposite to Xiao Rongrong, and said: "Renren Lu has a rift with the court of the Song Dynasty, Empress, you have a way to invite Master Lu here."

Xiao Rongrong smiled wryly and said: "What's the virtue and ability of my concubine, but I can invite a real immortal."

"No, you can do it." Yelu Hongji said with a smile, "It doesn't seem difficult for you to pass on the letter to Feihong."

Xiao Rongrong's body stiffened immediately, she understood what Yelu Hongji was talking about.

But then she relaxed again, and said: "I do have correspondence with Master Lu, but...is this the reason why people from the palace suddenly said some crazy words a while ago?"

When Xiao Rongrong remembered what happened some time ago, he rushed forward with anger and blood, feeling a little furious.

At that time, two father-in-laws suddenly came out of the palace and said some crazy things in front of her. She thought that some concubines in the palace were jealous of her, so she sent someone over to entertain her.

however!
Looking at it now, it was actually Yelu Hongji who did it.

"Your majesty, you and I are husband and wife." Xiao Rongrong looked at the man across from him sadly: "Even if I am not qualified to be a queen, I shouldn't be allowed to do something that discredits public morals."

"It's just what they need." Yelu Hongji turned his head and looked outside the system home: "Now the Xixia army has been defeated, and even the civil strife in my Khitan is related to Master Lu. If he can come to my Khitan, If you become a national teacher, all troubles will no longer be troubles. I can continue the entire Khitan kingdom, and I won’t face my ancestors after I die, and you can get what you want, queen, isn’t it? Is it good?"

Xiao Rongrong was so angry that his whole body was trembling: "Your Majesty, I have never had an affair with Lu Zhenren."

"I believe in the queen." Yelu Hongji smiled coldly, and he had an expression of disbelief at first glance: "And it will make people outside believe that even if Master Lu comes, you will still be the queen, just tell Master Lu like this , he understands."

After all, Yelu Hongji left without waiting for Xiao Rongrong's objection.

Xiao Rongrong sat quietly, and after a while, suddenly covered her face and cried in pain.

Lu Sen didn't know about Xixia and Khitan's actions. He was standing at Hue Ferry with Di Qing and Mu Guiying, looking at the Xixia army on the other side of the river, facing the enemy, and the river was covered with thin ice.

Di Qing said with a smile: "At present, Di Zi of Xixia has no courage to fight again. As long as I find a way to cross the river, I can defeat him in one go."

Mu Guiying also nodded beside him, agreeing with Di Qing's statement.

But Lu Sen shook his head and said: "The opposite is the Black Mountain Fuwei Army Commander, and they still have to contain the Khitan. If we destroy them, we will have to fight the Khitan's 'Xiao' directly. Not good. Now is not the time."

"Then Master Lu means to manage Mount Helan and Wuhai for the time being?"

Lu Sen nodded and said, "Yes, it's already deep winter. The soldiers are tired after fighting for several months. Let's take a break and wait until spring begins."

In the cold winter, it was originally Beidi's home court. Now fighting against the opponent, it's not that they can't win, but the battle damage will be much higher.

At the same time, without the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division, the Khitan people will be much more comfortable and will free up more tactical space.

Now both the tactical and the strategic initiative are in their hands, they can just hold it, and there is no need to play the cards.

It's not that we don't want to fight Xixia people, but that it's not the time yet.

Although Di Qing looked rather regretful, he also understood that it was really impossible to continue fighting now.

After that, the Song Army gave up going north and returned to defend Helan Mountain. This made the Heishan Weifu Army Division in the north of Xixia heaved a long sigh of relief.

Lu Sen nestled back to Dingzhou City, and urged Lu Huiqing to provide relief with work, and organized the poor people in Dingzhou to build roads in the cold winter.

This sounds very inhumane. In winter, when the snow is flying, people are asked to build roads, but almost all farmers are grateful to Lu Huiqing and Lu Sen.

Many times the cold is not terrible, what is terrible is that when it is cold, there is no food to eat.

If there is nothing in the stomach, there will be no heat, and a random gust of wind can turn people blue and lips white.

And this road construction, three meals a day, each meal can eat a large bowl of rough grain, although the taste is not very good, it may fill the stomach full.

In addition, the government actually distributed clothes. Although they were thick linen clothes and linen shoes, if they were worn without a pair of close-fitting clothes, they would scratch their bodies and make their bodies itchy and painful, but this was much better than wearing no clothes.

There is food to eat, clothes to wear, and the daily workload is not very hard. This allows the people of Dingzhou, whether it is Han Jiaerlang or the descendants of Xixia, to see the hope of surviving the cold winter.

Many of them would have given up.

Because in Xixia country, every day in the cold winter, many poor people will die.

Starved to death, frozen to death, they have long been used to it.

However, the relief behavior of the government of the Song Dynasty made them feel... especially the Xixia people felt that living with such a government seemed not bad.

If there were sporadic 'rebellions' or resistances in Dingzhou before, then with the development of the large-scale project of work-for-relief and road construction, these things have decreased at an extremely fast speed.

"As long as you have enough food, there will be no chaos in this world." Sitting opposite Lu Sen, Lu Huiqing said with emotion: "Although I understood this truth before, but now I have a more intuitive feeling."

Lu Sen took a sip of Fenjiu, which was bought locally. To be honest, the taste is very ordinary: "Speaking of which, Mr. Lu, when do you want to return to Beijing? Now that you have accumulated enough qualifications, as long as you return to the capital, You can go up to at least three levels in a row."

"Wait a little longer."

"Aren't you going back? You've already lost a lot of weight. If you stay here any longer, your image will definitely change in two or three months. Even your parents won't recognize you."

Lu Huiqing looked up at Lu Sen: "Is it really so miserable?"

"It looks miserable."

"Wouldn't that be better?" Lu Huiqing sipped her wine happily, and said with a smile, "I'll wait two or three months longer, and I'll return to Beijing after the road is repaired. When the court sees that I'm already inhuman, they will definitely think that I'm in Xixia It’s been extremely hard, and this is a political achievement.”

Lu Sen rolled his eyes helplessly, this Lu Huiqing is too official.

Seeing Lu Sen's appearance, Lu Huiqing smiled, and then asked seriously: "Did Master Lu think about how to reply? I guess the special envoy from the capital will be here soon."

"Whatever special envoy he is, I still say the same thing, if you provoke me again, you will go to Khitan."

Hearing this, Lu Huiqing's face turned from black to pale again: "Really Lu, you can't say this in front of me. My heart is beating so fast."

As a smart person, he knew too well what kind of harm it would cause to the Northern Song Dynasty if Lu Zhen really went to Khitan.

And based on his time with Lu Sen and his understanding of the latter, he knew that Lu Sen would most likely do this.

"I hope that the Grand Dukes of the court will be smarter and stop persecuting Daoist Lu."

　The previous group was blown up, now a new group is built 297173938
　　Everyone can go in and have fun, the book friends speak very nicely.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)