Wuchen Day (seventh day of the lunar month) in the eighth month of the first year of Da'an in the Liao Dynasty.

Emperor Yelu Hongji of the Liao Dynasty celebrates the Tianan Festival.

Yelu Hongji led his ministers to go to Linhuang Mansion in Beijing and set up tents outside the city.

Then according to Khitan tradition, a white dog was slaughtered in front of the emperor's tent, buried in the soil seven steps away from the emperor's tent, and its head exposed on the ground.

This is one of the celebration rituals of the Khitan people to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yes!

The Khitan people celebrated the full set of Han festivals.

Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Hungry Ghost Festival, Spring Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qiao Qiao Festival...

They all celebrate it! And from the royal family to the lower tribes, these festivals will be celebrated grandly.

Of course, they also added a little bit of Khitan folk custom into it. Nie Jie Nai is the Khitan folk custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eight days later, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yelu Hongji's imperial tent will be moved to the place where the white dog was sacrificed today.

Except for this folk custom, the Khitan people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival exactly the same as the Han people.

Everyone would admire the moon, and the literati and nobles would all sing and have fun.

Even since Su Shi wrote "Shui Tiao Ge Tou. When will the bright moon come", the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Dynasty would recite this poem every Mid-Autumn Festival.

Correspondingly, Su Shi's name was also very resounding in the Liao Kingdom.

After burying the white dog in the soil with his own hands, Yelu Hongji patted the dust on his hands.

"His Majesty……"

Tong Zhongshu's Pingzhangshi Wang Ji came to Yelu Hongji with his head, bowed respectfully and said: "The Southern Dynasty envoy Yang Ji and others are already outside the camp to congratulate His Majesty on his holy birthday!"

"Yang Ji?" Yelu Hongji frowned: "Never heard of it..."

"Your Majesty, Lu Jia, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty who was among the envoys to congratulate your majesty on his birthday, asked, your majesty should have heard of it..."

"Lu Jia asked?" Yelu Hongji then smiled: "The person who was scolded as a traitor by the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty?"

"What position does he hold in the Southern Dynasty now?"

"Guanglu Qing..." Wang Ji replied.

"Let them wait..." Yelu Hongji said with little interest.

"Obey!" Wang Ji stepped back.

Yelu Hongji turned around and looked at his grandson Yelu Yanxi who had been following him.

He sighed again.

In the past few days, he personally taught this grandson to read. For seven whole days, he still couldn't memorize Yao's canon!

This made Yelu Hongji's temper no longer so gentle.

This child is really stupid!

I taught a sentence several times, but I still can’t remember it!

When Yelu Yanxi saw her grandfather looking at him, she immediately lowered her head subconsciously.

Yelu Hongji took a deep breath, shook his head, walked up to him and said, "Yanxi, today is Grandfather's Day. Is it possible for the Southern Dynasty envoys to recite the "Yao Canon" in front of them?"

Yelu Yanxi shook his head.

Yelu Hongji sighed again: "Then the Analects should be memorized, right?"

Yelu Yanxi nodded solemnly.

Yelu Hongji had no choice but to say: "That's fine..."

Taking Yelu Yanxi back to the king's tent, he found that Xiao Dabu, the minister of the Privy Council, was already waiting in the tent.

"What's the matter?" Yelu Hongji asked.

Xiao Dabu also bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Xilu sent envoys to Datong Mansion to beg Your Majesty to marry the princess and make peace with the prince..."

Yelu Hongji raised his head and ordered with disdain: "Tell them to get lost!"

"The daughter of the Emperor of Liao will not marry a villain from Xilu!"

This is because the Liao and Song Dynasties were talking about the transformation of the annual currency into Jiaozi, which involved a huge wealth of three million yuan.

If he agrees to Xilu's marriage proposal at this time, what will the Southern Dynasty think?

It was also because Yeluhong basically looked down upon and even was hostile to Xilu!

…

Almost on the same day.

Bianjing City received two memorials from Qingtang and Xixia at the same time.

The memorial from the Qing Tang Dynasty is from the bones of Ali, who claimed to be the "chief of Si Miao Chuan and the king of Wuwei County".

Ali reported the news of his adoptive father's death in his memorial.

At the same time, he requested the imperial court to grant him the title of successor to Dong Fei, the great leader of Miaochuan and the title of Prince of Wuwei.

However, Xixia envoy Weiming Moduo submitted a letter in the name of Xixia King Bingchang.

In his letter, Bingchang reviewed the past, said he wanted to "change his past mistakes," and then said a lot of respectful and kind words.

The Queen Mother looked very satisfied.

However, in the last part of the letter, Bingchang changed the topic and reported that Dong Fei was dead, Ali Gu concealed the news of his death, and secretly contacted Xixia to attack the Song Dynasty together.

After reading this letter, the two palaces could not make up their minds, so they could only go to the capital hall and invite the ministers to discuss it.

Of course, all ministers hold their own opinions.

There were those who shouted to fight and kill (Zhang Dun), and there were those who wanted to calm things down (written by Lu Gong). In the end, Han Jiang’s opinion won out!

Han Jiang felt that no one could believe the Western bandits and the Qing, Tang and Tubo people, even if what they said was true!

When he raised the true temple, he repeatedly asked for canonization from the Song Dynasty, and even volunteered to attack Xixia for the sake of the Song Dynasty - was he a loyal minister? No, he just wanted to use the Song Dynasty!

Therefore, the Western pirates and the Qing Tang Tubo are actually the same.

For Da Song, the best way is to let them consume each other.

Therefore, Han Jiang asked the two palaces to pretend not to know these things.

He still canonized Ali Gu and agreed to King Xia's request.

At the same time, tell Ali Gu about what Bingchang reported.

Let the Tibetans fight with the Western thieves dog by dog.

When Zhao Xu went to Baoci Palace to pay his respects after today's sutra feast, the two palaces told him about this matter.

He also showed Zhao Xu the memorials of the Tubo, Xixia people and courtiers in the Qing and Tang dynasties.

Zhao Xu took some time to read the memorial, then nodded and said: "Xiangong Han's proposal is very good..."

"Qingtang, the land of Lingxia, let them fight on their own..."

"The key to the Song Dynasty today is still the autumn floods!"

When the two palaces heard Zhao Xu mention the autumn floods, they both sighed.

Yesterday, Han Wei, the governor of the Baoning Army in Damingfu, Beijing, reported the situation in the Damingfu river section - not optimistic.

Although he didn't say it explicitly in his memorial.

But his words still revealed his dissatisfaction with Wang Gongchen, a dead man!

Han Wei reported that there were serious problems with the river defenses and embankments in Daming Prefecture.

However, the Yellow River changed its course from Damingfu and became the Ergu River.

Therefore, the importance of Damingfu's river embankment was second only to the Huazhou embankment in the Song Dynasty today.

If Damingfu bursts its embankment, not only Damingfu itself will be hit by a GG, but the entire east-west road in Beijing may not be able to be saved.

Millions of people involved!

And how did this happen?

Wang Gongchen’s pot!

After he was appointed as a stay-at-home officer in the Daming Palace in Beijing, he spent all his time traveling around the mountains and rivers. He did not do his job properly and did not manage government affairs. He only left things to the people below him to do.

If this is the case, he is actually barely qualified.

After all, all the elders in the Song Dynasty were like this.

Except for a few elders such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Wang Anshi who knew how to do things when they were out of the country, the rest of them were not willing to deal with the government at all.

He was drunk and dreaming every day, singing and socializing with his friends.

Leave everything to the people below.
To be continued...