female concubine

In the palace of King Xingqing, Li Yuanhao comforted Song Envoy in a harmonious voice, "Don't be impatient, Song Envoy, if someone is really lost in Xingqing, I will definitely find it for you."

"It doesn't matter if you are an official, but it is a congratulatory gift from His Majesty the Emperor to the King. If the woman that His Majesty spent half a month to select from Jiangnan is lost, I am afraid it will be difficult for you to be an official."

"Jiangnan girl?"

The Song envoy presented a painting, "Yes, please take a look, Your Majesty, it is the woman in this painting."

The confidant took it for him and opened it. The Western Xia officials opened their eyes wide. The woman on the painting is wearing Han Chinese costumes. The place where the painting is located is also a building in the Central Plains. The painting is old and does not look like a new one. They were surprised: "This. ..”

Li Yuanhao's eyes lit up when he saw the woman in the portrait, "She is really a graceful beauty."

The confidant panicked: "Your Majesty, this is the wife of General Yeli Qiyu, the king of Tiandu."

The news that the Song envoy offered Li Yuanhao a beauty soon spread to the Central Palace from the Outer Dynasty.

The maidservant who had been close to Empress Yeli took the opportunity to fan the flames: "Your Majesty is able to eradicate the Weimu family, relying on your two elder brothers, the Empress, and now Your Majesty proclaims you the Emperor, although you are a queen, but Your Majesty has never said anything to you. The two great kings won the battle for His Majesty, not only did they not get rewards, but they scattered their brothers."

The maid's words and Li Yuanhao's indifferent attitude in the morning made the jealous Yeli even more dissatisfied, and in a rage, he led people from the middle palace to the court hall to make a scene.

The female relatives in the general's house were all taken to the main hall of the palace by the Suwei army of Yiwei Division.

The envoy Song looked at the portrait and pretended to be shocked: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be unbelievable that there are two people who look so similar in the world."

"Emissary Song, did you know the beauty of our general's wife and came here to mock her?"

"Your Majesty, the Great Song Dynasty would never do such a thing. This was done by the painters of the Great Song Dynasty. None of the painters in the Imperial Academy had been to Xixia. How would we, the Song courtiers, know about the Great General's wife? Even if Han people have seen it, it is only Can it be so clearly described by virtue of the description?"

"Wu Zu..."

Li Yuanhao stared at the woman in the center of the hall without moving, and then the courtier raised his hand and said: "What he said is not unreasonable."

It was the first time for the Wuzang clan to enter the palace, and he was brought in by some rude soldiers, so he patted his slender white hands, "It's such a cold day, don't you people even know how to be compassionate and sympathetic?"

"Presumptuous, why don't you kneel down when you see Wuzu?"

"Wu Zu?" The Wuzang family pretended not to know.

"Are you Qiyu's wife?"

"I'm not." I never thought that Wu Zang would deny it without even thinking about it, and then said: "Is there any wife who has lived in different places with her husband for several years?"

"He only has those few favorite concubines in his eyes, and he takes them with him even in wars. Whose husband will let his concubines bully his wife?" Mrs. Wuzang said arrogantly with his hands in his hands, "I don't like him, Ben I don't want to marry him either."

The sergeants and ministers on both sides wanted to reprimand, but Li Yuanhao raised his hand to stop him. Li Yuanhao stared straight at the woman and asked with great interest, "Do you know where this is?"

"Xingqing's palace, the residence of the Khan, you are the emperor Wuzuqing of Daxia."

"Knowing that you still dare to talk nonsense in this temple?"

"Your Majesty, if Your Majesty wants to regard the truth that I have said as nonsense, then please execute me to death."

"You are bold."

"They all said that His Majesty is very fierce, and he treats women too. When I saw him today, I felt that what they said was wrong."

"Oh? Then tell me what's wrong?"

"All the generals who brought me in were all dressed and belted, but their behavior was very rude. Fortunately, they knew whose wife my concubine was..."

"Wu Zu, the minister waited..."

"Shut up!" Li Yuanhao shouted.

"Wu Zu, the Queen broke in..."

Seeing this, the Xixia ministers on the side turned their heads one after another, while the Song envoy standing on the side seemed to have been forgotten. The attendant was dissatisfied with the Xixia king's neglect and wanted to intervene, but was stopped by the envoy who borrowed his hand. The envoy shook his head and signaled, " Don't meddle in your own business."

Empress Yeli burst into the hall angrily, "Your Majesty." Soon after, she saw the 'sister-in-law' who was having a good conversation with the emperor.

To everyone's surprise, the queen stepped forward and slapped the woman before Li Yuanhao could speak.

--Snapped! ——

"Are you crazy?" Li Yuanhao grabbed her hand angrily, "She is your brother's wife, not a beauty sent by Dongchao."

"Your Majesty's remark is a guilty conscience? This slut has an affair with the head of the elder brother's house, and now he is still trying to seduce His Majesty..."

"Oh?" Mrs. Wuzang touched her slightly flushed face, and immediately saw that Queen Yeli was neither afraid nor saluted to her, "This is my first time here and I was tied up from the bed by these guards. Come down, which eye of the queen saw that the concubine was hooking up with His Majesty?"

Empress Yeli was even more annoyed at the words of the Wuzang family who were not taboo or concealed, "How can there be such a shameless woman like you in the world?"

"I don't know what the empress means by shame? Could it be that you can deceive the emperor just because you are a concubine with shame? Or is shame more important than life?"

"you..."

"Enough!" Li Yuanhao scolded, "What is the empress doing outside the court, and what are the guards outside eating?"

"His Majesty..."

"Come here, take the queen back."

"Yes."

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The emperor and queen of the Western Xia Dynasty were at odds, and the monarchs and ministers in the palace tents of the Northern Liao Dynasty also guessed. The courtiers gathered together to discuss the grand court meeting of the Song Dynasty on New Year's Day.

"It's been a while since the last court meeting held by the Song court."

"Wei Song seems to have made some reforms in recent years, and the internal struggle is now fierce. Besides, I heard that several prime ministers were fired because of this matter, and the tossing and tossing never stopped."

In addition to the nobles of the Northern Liao Dynasty, there were also many Han Chinese among the officials discussing the matter. Among them was the son-in-law of the Han who married the princess of the Northern Liao Dynasty. , looking at the Han ministers from time to time.

"Etiquette, righteousness and shame, knowing shame and then being brave..."

"Tsk tsk tsk, this is Beiliao. The men in Beiliao are all heroes on horseback. It's not like you guys are fighting with a book all day long and hiding behind women."

"That's enough!" It was not Yeluming, the emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty, but Yelufang, the emperor's uncle, Marshal Yelufang, who spoke to shock the court. Seeing that he had gone quiet, Yelufang knew that he had overstepped the rules, so he clasped his fists at the emperor, "Before the Song court meeting Do you have any ideas, His Majesty?"

Yeluming sat on a big tiger-skin chair, "Since the Song court specially sent an envoy to invite us, as a big country, we cannot miss this gift. I have to learn all the etiquette, arrogance will only keep people in place."

Yelufang looked at the wise and foolish emperor's nephew in front of him, his eyes were full of surprise and suspicion, and after a while, he still clasped his fists and bowed his waist and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

"When the first emperor was in power, he relied on the marshal. Before he died, he entrusted me to listen to the marshal in the future. Uncle, the most valiant man in the Northern Liao Dynasty, did his part. Since the Emperor Gao of the Northern Liao unified the grassland, Taizong raised his troops to the south. There is today's grand occasion. Although it is to go to another country Court meeting, but we must not lose the majesty of the great kingdom of the Northern Liao Dynasty," Yeluming looked at his own uncle, "so I want to invite the emperor's uncle as an envoy..." Then he hesitated and lowered his head, "But I am worried about the emperor's uncle old age..."

Until the emperor's words came out, Yelufang frowned tightly. The implication of his nephew's words was that if he didn't go on mission, he would admit that he had reached the age to retire. There are also some confidantes and clans left behind by the late emperor. They can cover the sky with one hand, besides holding the power in their hands, there are nephews who are submissive on weekdays. Yelufang narrowed his eyes and cupped his fists, "Thanks to your majesty's trust, minister, accept the decree."

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Not far from the tent of the emperor's palace is the residence of the queen mother, which has many flowers and plants brought from the Central Plains.

Yelu was lying on the Empress Dowager's chair imposingly, looking sideways at the woman who was pruning the branches, "Your son is starting to be wary of me, and now he is trying to get me to leave."

"Leave? Where?"

"Song Kingdom, they are going to celebrate the New Year, and Emperor Wei Song will hold a grand court meeting on New Year's Day."

"In recent years, you have often traveled to the Song Kingdom."

"It's because your husband can't see me dangling in front of his eyes, and now he's your son again."

"If you don't want to refuse, why come to me to complain."

"If I don't go, I'm afraid I can only be an idle old man, and I'm afraid I will be uprooted by your son and become a prisoner."

The woman stopped the hands of pruning the branches, raised her eyebrows and said, "Tomorrow he..."

"It's not that I'm reluctant to bear power," Yelvfang stood up, "I'm reluctant to bear you."

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On the first day of the 11th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, the Zhengdan Great Court Meeting, a total of more than [-] foreign countries came to the court, which was more than twice the gift in the early years of the Qianyuan Dynasty. As an envoy, after the court meeting, the emperor left the Beiliao envoy and the Xixia envoy, and then left the Xixia envoy alone to Shangyuan until the end of the lantern festival.

The curtains of the Xixia envoys and the prime minister’s curtains are next to each other, but the emperor allowed the envoys to go upstairs to accompany them to watch the lanterns. A young man in scarlet robes stood next to the curtain at the back. The man secretly clenched his fists while watching the joy upstairs in Xuande. "Did the officials forget that this person was the murderer who killed me Weng Weng the year before last, but now they can talk and laugh happily with him, as if what happened back then didn't happen?"

"The official family is the ruler, the father, and the lord of the world. They see things differently from ordinary people, so how can they sit and watch the sky?" Zipao walked to Feipao's side, "Cao Zhongcheng."

Fei Pao cupped his hands towards Wang Wenfu, "Mr. Wang."

On the city tower, the emperor sat on the throne where Huang Luo set up a tent, enjoying himself with his wife, children, mother and family, and occasionally chatting with Xixia envoys sideways.

Yeli Qiyu had been in close contact with the emperor for several days and felt familiar, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't remember who it was, and his eyes were full of confusion.

"The concubine found out that this emissary seemed to treat officials differently..."

The emperor glanced over, and immediately moved closer and whispered, "I've seen him many times, but he rarely sees me."

"When you were in Xixia?"

The emperor nodded, "I was lucky enough to meet a nobleman, and I wore a half-covered mask and never took it off. Except for that nobleman, I'm afraid no one will recognize it... No one..." She then remembered that all she could do was save her. The princess, and a woman once asked her to take off her mask.

"Why did the officials keep him on purpose?"

The emperor looked at the painters of the Hanlin Academy who were painting upstairs in the Xuande Building, "Because there will be a good show soon."

In the spring of the 11th year of Qianyuan, Tiandu Wang Yeli Qiyu and the emperor of the Song Dynasty drank and talked under the Lantern Festival on the night of Shangyuan.