Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 268 Uninvited Guest

Even though we are already familiar with each other, when it comes to formal occasions, we still have to say polite words on the spot.

When Zhao Mu faced Duan Zhengchun's thanks, he quickly bowed and returned the courtesy: "Your Majesty, you are so polite. It is our great honor that your Majesty Brother can come to our Song Dynasty in person. This is also a good thing for the good relations between our two countries." Start."

After Zhao Mu finished speaking, he stepped away and said, "Brother, please come into the city. Your Majesty has already arranged a reception for your brother."

After Duan Zhengchun heard this, he turned around and mounted his horse.

Zhao Mu stood on the side of the road and glanced at the ceremonial officer of the Ministry of Rites next to him. The ceremonial officer understood what he understood and then loudly announced: "Dali's peace envoy! Enter the city!"

As the ceremonial officer's voice fell, the drum music that had been prepared began to play one after another. Suddenly the whole street was filled with the sound of drums welcoming the mission. There were still officers and soldiers on the street to maintain order, and a road was cleared leading directly to the imperial city.

And those who watched the Dali delegation enter the city were not only the common people in the city, but also many dignitaries who had reserved window seats in the restaurants on both sides of the street early.

Zhao Mu's sister-in-law, Princess Xiao Qian, and her husband were also waiting here early.

Princess Xiao Qian held up a small fan and looked at the carriage of the Princess of Dali and said: "This carriage is really majestic, worthy of the majesty of a princess of a country. Those carts carrying boxes and the servants following behind should be like this It’s a dowry for a princess. I didn’t expect Dali, a small country in the south, to be so generous.”

Nowadays, Zhao Lan is very satisfied. Ever since Zhao Mu was awarded the title of King and became a popular person in front of the emperor, his husband is not as cold to her as before, but is more attentive to her. As for her husband's concubines, they have now behaved themselves with their tails between their legs, and no longer have the same pampering and arrogant attitude towards her before.

Then Princess Xiao Qian looked at her eldest sister-in-law Zhao Lan. Princess Xiao Qian asked: "Sister, you said today is the big day for me, the Song Dynasty, to take over the Dali mission, why did you just leave us alone?"

Even at Prince Shang's Mansion, Prince Shang and his son were all present. The same goes for Prince Deng's Mansion of the Qian family.

All civil and military officials in the court who could go to court to listen to the government, as well as some relatives of the emperor and noble families, all received invitations to attend.

Her husband, Dongping Wang Zhao Yong, who was sitting next to her, looked quite ugly. But Princess Xiao Qian just glared at him and ignored his stinky face.

Among them, there are two places in the Prince Zhongxiao Palace. The first place is naturally for Prince Zhongxiao, and the other place is for his husband, Prince Zhongxiao Hu Yanxian.

Zhao Lan smiled and shook his head and said: "I don't know about this. The guests attending the banquet are all decided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The emperor did not summon the eldest brother to go. Maybe he was left behind?" Although Zhao Lan smiled, but when he spoke, It turned out to be very strange. And he also seemed very proud.

Although Princess Xiao Qian is much younger than Zhao Lan, Zhao Lan still has to be more respectful to her as her "eldest sister-in-law".

But only Dongping County Prince's Mansion has no place.

Because tonight there is a banquet in the Jiying Hall of the Imperial Palace specifically to receive Dali's envoys, and the scale of this reception banquet is even grander than the last one.

Although Concubine Chai will attend, she will only attend the wedding a few days later as Zhao Mu's mother. Female family members will not be invited to this kind of reception banquet.

In the entire capital, except for the Prince of Dongping County, all the other nobles and nobles have basically received invitations. Even several founding princes have received invitations to enter the palace for the banquet. However, only Zhao Yong, the King of Dongping, was left out. aside.

It was precisely because Zhao Yong did not receive the invitation that he had time to follow his wife and sister to the street to watch. As for everyone else, they entered the palace and prepared in advance. Sometimes Zhao Yong even felt that Zhao Mu was deliberately targeting him.

But it was true that he was overthinking this matter. Although Zhao Mu was very petty, he was shameless, not bored. Zhao Mu didn't have to deal with his useless brother, not to mention that he didn't deserve it.

The person targeting Zhao Yong was not Zhao Mu, but Emperor Zhezong Zhao Xu. Zhezong specially sent someone to investigate Zhao Mu's family relationship. He knew that Zhao Mu had a bad relationship with his eldest brother. Since Zhao Mu has a bad relationship with him, Zhe Zong, as the person standing next to Zhao Mu, will naturally not give him a good look.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Yong had nothing serious to do, Zhe Zong would have jerked off his Wangjue to him.

Looking at the dowry of the Dali Princess, Princess Xiao Qian was very envious. If the Wuyue Kingdom had not returned its territory to the Song Dynasty, but had become a vassal state, I would have been able to achieve such a success. I can also marry a better person, instead of marrying King Dongping who is so much older than me and is so useless in every way.

However, it was not just the nobles of the Song Dynasty who were watching the entrance ceremony. There was another group of people sitting at another table not far from Zhao Yong and others.

Although these people wear Hanfu and look the same as people from the Central Plains, they are actually Liao people.

But they were not ordinary Liao traders, but Liao missions heading to the Song Dynasty. The leader was Yelu Yanping, King of Jin of Liao Kingdom.

But what is interesting is that this Yelu Yanping is not a member of the Liao clan, and he is not even a Khitan, but a real Han. His ancestral home is Jizhou and his ancestral surname is "Han". His name should be "Han Yanping".

And he is the "stepfather" of Liao Shengzong, the descendant of the traitor Han Derang.

At that time, because Han Derang was the lover of Empress Dowager Xiao, and he also worked on political affairs in Liao Dynasty, he had many military exploits in the Battle of Gaoliang River, Yongxi's Northern Expedition, and the subsequent Chanyuan Alliance. Therefore, his stepson Liao Shengzong and his mistress Empress Dowager Xiao gave him the surname "Yelü" and the name "Yelü Longyun" and made him the king of Jin.

From then on, Han Derang's descendants all forgot their ancestors and adopted the Liao Kingdom's surname "Yelü" as their surname.

In order to flatter their masters, these naturalized "Khitan people" were also the main force in the southern expedition within the Liao Kingdom. Some real Khitan nobles, headed by the King of Nanyuan, wanted to live a good life in a luxurious way and accept the annual coins from the Song Dynasty as offerings instead of using force.

The marriage between the Song Dynasty and Dali Kingdom has also been spread back to the Liao Kingdom. If things like the peace between the two countries were placed in normal times, it would not be a big alarming event. After all, Xixia and Liao have made peace many times over the years.

During the reign of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Empress Dowager Xiao once sent the daughter of the clan, Yelu Yanshou, to marry Xixia in order to unite with Xixia to attack the Song Dynasty. And for hundreds of years, the two families have been marrying each other's princesses constantly.

Nowadays, the marriage between Song Dynasty and Dali is not a big deal.

If Princess Zhaohua of Dali Kingdom was betrothed to another Song Dynasty clan, or even married to the Emperor of Song Dynasty. Even the Liao Kingdom would not pay such attention. But the person who married Princess Zhaohua was Zhao Mu.

A person who was mentioned emphatically by Xiao Yuanshan, the coach of Shushan Army, a person who was promoted from marquis to king within one year, this had to make the Liao Kingdom be wary.

This time, Yelu Yanping accepted Yelu Hongji's order and came to the Song Dynasty to explore the truth on the pretext of asking for this year's new year's coins.

Yelu Yanping also deliberately chose to arrive in Bianjing at this time. He wanted to see who Dali had sent.

(End of this chapter)