Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 734 Heaven Doesn't Follow People's Wishes (Please Subscribe!)

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Goodbye to Li Qingzhao, Zhao Mingcheng's heart suddenly "thumped", and subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away!
Fortunately, at the last moment, Zhao Mingcheng stopped the steps he was about to take.

After hesitating and hesitating, hesitating and hesitating again, Zhao Mingcheng bit the bullet and moved to Li Qingzhao in small steps, then saluted respectfully, and said, "Ma'am."

After staring at Zhao Mingcheng for a long time, Li Qingzhao turned to Li Yan who was beside him and said, "Thank you, Lao Li, for helping me find my family official. I will never forget your great kindness, and we will definitely come to pay our respects someday. "

With Li Yan's super high EQ, how could he fail to hear Li Qingzhao's order to drive away guests and his deliberate estrangement, and even Li Yan could hear the intention of breaking up friendship from it.

Li Yan glanced at Zhao Mingcheng calmly, then glanced at Wang Jieru who was with Zhao Mingcheng and stared blankly at Li Yan, and then smiled politely at Li Qingzhao, and said: "Okay, let's go back See."

After speaking, Li Yan turned and left.

After watching Li Yan leave, Li Qingzhao looked at Zhao Mingcheng and asked, "Where are you staying?"

After 20 years of husband and wife, Zhao Mingcheng immediately heard the indifference and alienation in Li Qingzhao's tone, and then felt extremely depressed, and even he felt that he was almost overwhelmed.

However, Zhao Mingcheng had to answer Li Qingzhao's question because of the respect from the bottom of his heart that he had cultivated in 20 years.

So, after working hard for a long time, Zhao Mingcheng looked at Wang Jieru, then saluted deeply, and said, "My lord, I don't know which inn we are staying at?"

At this time, Wang Jieru hadn't fully recovered from the shock of seeing Li Yan just now, and couldn't help thinking: "What is Your Majesty doing here?"

Hearing Zhao Mingcheng's question, Wang Jieru came back to his senses, and then replied: "At Huaiyuan Station."

Zhao Mingcheng couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself when he heard about the inn that Dazhong had arranged for these envoys of the Song Dynasty!

Foreign exchanges in the Northern Song Dynasty were very active, so there were many envoys from various countries who came to the Northern Song Dynasty, and they were very frequent.

In terms of reception, the Northern Song Dynasty generally implemented the system of one country, one hotel.

For example, envoys from the Liao Kingdom were arranged to receive them at the Duting post.

Xixia envoys are usually received at the West Station of Duting or the Laiyuan Station.

The Goryeo envoy is in the Tongwen Hall in the outer city.

Envoys from Tubo, Dangxiang and other countries were received in the Courtyard of Protocol.

However, Jiaozhou, Qiuci, Zhancheng, Dashi, Zhucharian, Khotan, Ganzhou, Shazhou, Zongge and other places paid tribute and sent envoys to live in Huaiyuan post.

Although the foreign ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty said to the outside world, the buildings, board and lodging conditions, and service levels of these post houses were similar.

But in reality, there is a difference.

The best one here is Dutingyi.

Located in the most prosperous part of Tokyo, Dutingyi is the state guesthouse with the largest scale, the best conditions and the highest reception standards in Tokyo.

In the past, the Duting Station was mainly used to receive Liao envoys, because there were a large number of Liao envoys, and the largest one was more than 600 people.

Later, the Duting Station was used to receive the Jinshi. In order to live in the Dutingyi, the Jinshi had a big fight with the Northern Song Dynasty.

And the worst is Huaiyuan Station.

Huaiyuan Post, like Tongwen Hall, is also located outside Bianliang City (there is also a Huaiyuan Post in Guangdong, and these two Huaiyuan Posts are used to receive envoys from southern countries), and its environment is a little worse than other post houses. , In addition, it is mainly those small countries in the south (in fact, these countries in the south are not all small countries, but these countries in the south are far away from the Northern Song Dynasty, and the connection with the Northern Song Dynasty is not so close, and the relationship is not as strong as the north, west, and east. It is so big, and usually not too many envoys are sent, so they are classified as small countries) to receive tribute and general use, so their status is relatively low.

Diplomacy is no small matter, let alone arranging the residence of envoys?
Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng has already felt the difficulty of this peace negotiation from Dazhong's arrangements for these Song envoys.

Zhao Mingcheng did not fight, first of all it was useless, secondly the Southern Song Dynasty did not have the confidence to fight, and thirdly Zhao Mingcheng was not an envoy who fought hard like Ma Kuo and Gao Qingyi.

Zhao Mingcheng said to Li Qingzhao, "I'm staying at Huaiyuan Station."

Li Qingzhao said: "Then I will go back to pack my things in a while, and then move to Huaiyuan Station to live with you."

When Zhao Mingcheng heard the words, he felt bitter, and said in his heart, "What are you afraid of?"

Hearing Li Qingzhao's words, Wang Jieru, who had some understanding of Li Yan's character, finally figured out why Li Yan appeared here, and then said to Li Qingzhao: "Master Li, the diplomatic post has always only accommodated diplomatic envoys, so you can't go there. live."

Li Qingzhao frowned when he heard the words.

Wang took the opportunity to persuade: "Going to live in Huaiyuan Station, we will inevitably get angry. It's not like we don't have a place to live, so why should we suffer that crime?"

It's not hard to think of this truth. The Southern Song Dynasty came to beg for surrender, so how could its envoys not be pissed off?

Zhao Mingcheng is very different, the Wang family is also here, but he can't care about the Wang family now, he is now full of thoughts on how to stay away from Li Qingzhao, the god of plague, so Zhao Mingcheng ignored the Wang family, and followed Wang Jieru and Wang's advice Li Qingzhao said: "I have important matters to attend to this time, Madam, don't spoil my important matters!"

Li Qingzhao really didn't want to live in Li Yan's Zhuangzi anymore, she was afraid that she would not be able to control herself, and Li Yan would get her way!
But everyone disagreed with her going to Huaiyuan Station to live with Zhao Mingcheng.

This can't help but make it difficult for Li Qingzhao.

After weighing it for a while, Li Qingzhao said to Zhao Mingcheng: "There is one thing I want to hear from you to confirm it yourself. You and I will take a step to talk."

How could Zhao Mingcheng not have thought of what Li Qingzhao wanted to prove, and this is what Zhao Mingcheng was most afraid of, so without even thinking about it, Zhao Mingcheng said: "If you have anything to say, let's talk about it later, we can't let hundreds of people from the two countries Own."

After speaking, without waiting for Li Qingzhao to answer, Zhao Mingcheng said to Wang Jieru, "My lord, please."

How dare Wang Jieru let Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao have too much contact?
Therefore, Wang Jieru also said: "Master Zhao please." Then he walked away.

Zhao Mingcheng followed him as if fleeing, and he didn't dare to look at Li Qingzhao again from the beginning to the end!
What Zhao Mingcheng didn't see was that the moment he turned around, Li Qingzhao's tears welled up all of a sudden, and Li Qingzhao couldn't stop, "He didn't even ask me where I live... ..."

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After Li Yan returned to the harem, he went straight to the Southern Song Palace.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Li Yan saw that Xing Bingyi was holding a one or two-month-old child basking in the sun in the courtyard.

That's right.

Xing Bingyi gave birth.

It's a pity that Xing Bingyi's wish was not fulfilled - she gave birth to another daughter to Zhao Gou this time.

To be honest, Li Yan is also very disappointed about this - if Xing Bingyi can give Zhao Gou a son, in the case of Zhao Gou's childlessness, Li Yan will have an extra heavy political bargaining chip in his hands. Political chips are likely to play an unexpected role at some point in the future.

No matter what!

God doesn't obey people's wishes!
Seeing Li Yan coming, not only Xing Bingyi hurriedly stood up to meet him, but also Concubine Wei Xian, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei and others hurried over to meet him.

Li Yan stood at the door and looked at Xing Bingyi, Wei Xianfei, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei and others for a while, then looked at Zhao Foyou and other five little girls who were kneeling with them, and then said leisurely: "Zhao Gou sent someone to discuss peace gone."

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I had a fight with my daughter-in-law because of trivial matters, and I was physically and mentally exhausted. In this state, I really can’t write. I can only pass on what I have written before. Sorry, and please understand.

(End of this chapter)