With the missing carvings in Zichen Hall, the small drum of Chen Shi was ringing.

The envoys of the countries began to enter the hall to congratulate them in sequence under the guidance of officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The first person to enter the palace was the Liao envoy.

This time, the Liao Kingdom sent a huge delegation of envoys to celebrate the Holy Day.

The gifts sent have also reached the highest level in history.

There are as many as 180 forest ginseng in the northeast alone.

Moreover, they are all old ginseng that are over a hundred years old!

In addition, there are hundreds of sable skins, tiger skins, and bear skins.

There are dozens of other gold products!

Zhao Xu's good emperor's brother, King Liang of Liao and grandson Yelu Yanxi, also sent generous gifts.

There are dozens of marten clothes alone, utensils made of silver, and more than ten decorative pieces.

There were thirty-eight gift boxes carried by the Liao people to the hall.

Hundreds of people were used just to carry these boxes to the hall.

There is naturally a reason why the Liao people gave such generous gifts.

Zhao Xu knew very well this - it was nothing more than hope that the Song Dynasty would not support Goryeo.

It is also hoped that the scale of trade in the Song and Liao Jiaozi will be further expanded.

However, this did not prevent him from pretending to be confused at all.

After the Liao people carried all the national gifts to the hall, Zhao Xu said to Yelu Yongchang in the hall: "I have accepted the generous gifts from the emperor's uncle, the emperor's brother, the emperor's brother, the king of Liang. Please send my gratitude to the emperor's uncle and brother after returning to the country."

Yelu Yongchang didn't care, and touched his chest and said, "Your Majesty's good wishes, and the foreign minister should convey them."

In Yelu Yongchang's eyes, Zhao Xu was just a smarter child.

The various measures of the Song Dynasty court were just for publicity and decoration.

Today's so-called "the military and national affairs minister requested the emperor's will" is just an external propaganda performance.

The real idea of ​​this country is the two palaces behind the curtain and the priest in the hall.

Even though Yelu Yongchang was in the hall and talked directly with Zhao Xu, he still thought so.

It's not his fault.

It is really impossible for humans to imagine what they have never seen before.

In politics and diplomacy, people cannot imagine things outside of their history.

And in Liao Kingdom, let alone the young master in power.

Even the adult king was quite immature and childish when he first ascended the throne, and needed the support of his mother to settle down.

For example, Yelu Hongji is like this.

Back then, when Yelu Chongyuan was in trouble, fortunately Empress Dowager Renyi was still there.

Otherwise, Yelu Chongyuan would have a chance to succeed!

Under the preconceived circumstances, even though Yelu Ju told him that the Shaojun of the Southern Dynasty was extraordinary.

Even though he was in the hall now, he heard Zhao Xu's voice.

However, Yelu Yongchang still believes that all this is a performance.

Just like before he left Liaoyang Prefecture, when King Liang and Grandson Yelu Yanxi were taken by the emperor to meet the leader of the Nu Zhizhu tribe, the Bohai tribe and the representatives of the gentry who surrendered to the Goryeo.

Yelu Yongchang naturally believed that everything now is also a performance that has been rehearsed for a long time.

But what about...

In fact, Yelu Yongchang doesn’t care about these things either.

Because Yelu Yongchang came to congratulate Yelu Hongji this time, it was only a secondary task. His main task was to work with Yelu Ju to be responsible for the negotiations with Song, especially the latest timber export trade negotiations.

As for the original deputy envoy Yelu Yan?

Although he still lives in Duting Post in the name of the deputy envoy.

But both in the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty basically regarded it as a futures dead.

When he was resigning, Yelu Hongji personally told him that if you want wood in the Southern Dynasty, give it to them!

but……

Have to add more money!

Only ten to twenty cents of oak that have been over a hundred years old can I give you?

Even if the shipping fee is included, it is only twenty to forty cents per piece.

Even if the Great Liao Dynasty could recruit various tribes, go deep into the forest, and then use the developed river transportation of the Huntong River to go downstream and send it directly to Yaozhou (now Yingkou), Zhenhai Prefecture Suzhou (now Lushun), and Baozhou (now Xinyizhou, North Korea), and then ship to Dengzhou in the Southern Dynasty.

But it's still too few!

Yelu Hongji hopes to double the increase, at least 30% or 50%.

As for the reason?

Yelu Hongji wanted to use the increased income to buy various tribes of the Nashizhi tribes and appease the rich people of the Bohai Sea.

That's why he chose Yelu Yongchang.

Yelu Yongchang was a member of the Holy Sect. His grandfather was the Prince of Huntong, the governor of Jianxiong Army, and the reign of Tokyo. He was the King of the North Courtyard, and Yelu Zongyuan.

Because Yelu Zongyuan's biological mother was a Han Chinese, the Yelu Yongchang family had a very close relationship with the Wenzhong royal palace.

His family has lived in Liaoyang Prefecture for generations and intermarried with Han and Bohai rich people.

This can be seen from Yelu Yongchang's official title - the governor of Ningyuan Army.

This is the jurisdiction of the Liao Kingdom under the jurisdiction of the Chongde Palace (Empress Dowager Chengtian).

Chongde Palace and Wenzhong Palace have always been dependent on each other.

Therefore, Yelu Yongchang's thoughts are not at all in this Zichen Hall.

He just thought of negotiating with officials from the Southern Dynasties as soon as possible to complete his mission.

Then, I purchased a large amount of goods from the Southern Dynasty and went back to explain to Chongde Palace.

He was too lazy to care about other things and didn't care about them.

But Yelu Yongchang would not have thought that his background and feet had been sold out by Yelu Ju.

And it was sold by Yelu Ju!

Because Yelu Ju was in the outer room of Bianjing, the former Li Shishi and now Mrs. Liu are about to give birth.

In order to give his unborn child a good birth in the Song Dynasty, Xing Shu only gave a slight hint that Yelu Ju told Xing Shu about Yelu Yongchang's feet, background, and bean-like, and then passed it to Zhao Xu.

Therefore, Zhao Xu has been observing Yelu Yongchang.

When Yelu Yongchang completed his tribute and was about to give in, Zhao Xu suddenly called him: "Please stay with the Liao envoy."

Yelu Yongchang raised his head and looked at the young master of the Southern Dynasty who couldn't see clearly on the imperial seat in the hall. He bowed and asked, "Do you have any instructions?"

"There is no instruction." Zhao Xu chuckled: "But there is one thing that I want to ask my beloved to tell the emperor's uncle on my behalf after returning to my country."

"Um?"

"At the time ago, I sent Hu Zongyu to the minister, as the envoy of Emperor He's uncle Tian'an. I ordered Hu Zongyu to mediate disputes between Liao and Goryeo..."

"The emperor's uncle refused..."

"But I think about the innocent people of Goryeo... I still want to persuade them..."

"If so, please remember the innocent people and stop the military battles!"

After Zhao Xu finished speaking, he looked at Yelu Yongchang with a smile: "What do you think?"

This is to create cards in Void again.

At the same time, it was also a secret threat to intimidate the Liao people.

This looks a bit funny though.

It tastes quite like the famous scene on modern TV - stop hitting, stop hitting...

However, as long as Zhao Xu expressed this attitude, even if he did nothing, he could put pressure and influence on the Liao people, and at least distract the Liao people.

In this case, perhaps, in order to appease the Song Dynasty, the Liao people would expose some benefits.

Even if it cannot, there will be no loss to Zhao Xu and the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, this is also a response to the fact that Yelu Hongji sent someone to the Song Dynasty a few days ago and said that he should mediate the "Song-Xia dispute."

It’s impolite to come but not go!

Yelu Yongchang was stunned for a moment, and then bowed: "As your majesty's wish, after I return to my country, I will convey Your Majesty's words to my Lord..."
To be continued...