Compete for the Song Dynasty

The story of Xixia's palace: To sum it up, it is one word "chaotic", a thread in the inextricable clues, that is, it is all because of love, Li Yuanhao's promiscuity, which caused the prince to kill his father; Liang's going out of the wall led to the bloodbath of Li Liangzuo's in-laws' family; and now, there is a gap between Li Liangzuo and Liang Luoyao, and it will be another palace chaos.

"So, Li Gong is afraid that I will be imprisoned without knowing it, so he said this trick?" Wang Pang asked.

Li Xili recovered from the bloody storm in the court, and he said truthfully: "To be honest, the invitation to invite the prince is indeed to figure out the empress's admiration for the scholars of the Song Dynasty, so I want to find a suitable candidate and take the opportunity. Aroused Li Liangzuo's suspicion and abolished the Liang family. But after talking with the prince for many days, he really found that the prince is a talent, so he wanted to learn from Wang Yun, and the conspiracy turned into a conspiracy. Even if it was a trick, it was also a conspiracy for Diaochan , You can also know how to deal with and withdraw yourself.”

Wang Pang knew that what Li Xili said was the truth, the key was not what Li Xili thought, but Li Xili's character, which was really weak, strategy was not his strong point at all, he had no ideas but his emotions were wavering.As for Wang Pang, the purpose of his trip was to find the stone. Since the prince is the incarnation of the god Baishi, how would he see the prince if he was not close to the queen.

Instead of letting Li Xili sway, it is better to take the initiative and let Li Xili cooperate so that there is more space.Why listen to others and simply sell favors to Li Xili to do what you want? Thinking of this, Wang Pang said: "Thank you for telling me the truth today, Mr. Li, but have you ever thought about it, Mr. Li? In case there are any mistakes in this matter, or cause chaos, do you think Li Gong's identity is not afraid of being infamous in Xixia Kingdom through the ages?" [

"This..." Wang Pang also said what Li Xili was thinking, and he didn't know how to answer.

Wang Pang thought to himself, since Liang Luoyao admires the culture of the Song Dynasty, what's more, he has Liang Yibu by his side, and if he comes, he will be safe, and he can't send it to the door by himself.He saw that Li Xili was silent, if this person was still wavering, he would be in danger, so he might as well choose another opportunity to talk. "To be able to talk with Mr. Li up to this point today, we can be regarded as confidants. When we arrive in Xingqing Mansion, I will try our best to communicate with you first."

Hearing what Wang Pang said, Li Xili was assured that Wang Pang would not betray him, he was not sure what Wang Pang thought, but he couldn't continue to ask, thinking in his heart: "Wang Pang, please do your own thing, leave everything to fate."

Unknowingly, Li Xili's carriage arrived at Xingqing Mansion.This ancient Huaiyuan town at the foot of Helan Mountain and on the bank of the Yellow River became Xingzhou after the Dangxiang Qiang people established their capital.Xixia Guo was born from here, and radiated from here, gradually becoming the boundary of Dangxiang Qiang.

Yuan Hao changed Song Mingdao's reign name to Xiandao on the grounds of avoiding the taboo of his father Deming's name, which marked that he began to use his own reign name.Two months after the implementation of the baldness order, Yuan Hao changed the Xingzhou named by his father to Xingzhou Prefecture, designated it as the capital, and began to build large-scale construction projects to build palaces and palaces.In this way, a small town at the foot of Helan Mountain quickly became the capital of Xixia and the political, cultural, economic, and military center of the entire Xixia Kingdom during the Xixia period.

Li Xili originally wanted to ask Wang Pang to come to his house, but Wang Pang felt disturbed, and he himself felt that it was inconvenient for him to move, so under Wang Pang's insistence, Li Xili arranged for Wang Pang and others to stay in the posthouse. On the next day, the king asked the driver who came to deliver the fragrant cakes to go back to the Song Dynasty first and take a letter from home to report his safety.

In the next few days, Li Xili led Wang Pang to visit the capital of Xixia, various temples, and the Han Academy.In the academy, because Wang Pang is the founder of "Cloud Picks", he is especially sought after by students.Fortunately, it was Cai Jing who came with the king this time. Cai Jing has literary skills and good calligraphy and painting.Whenever there is communication, Wang Pang said calmly: "Let my book boy write a few words."

How many people in later generations do not know "Su Huang Mi Cai" Four famous calligraphers and painters in Song Dynasty, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Di, Cai Jing.It can be seen that Cai Jing's calligraphy and painting attainments.But Cai Jing himself didn't know it, and people at the time didn't know that Cai Jing was recognized as a famous master by later generations.But the paintings and calligraphy of the book boy next to Wang have already been recognized in the Han Academy.For a while, the fact that Wang Pang came here caused a sensation in the pro-Song faction in Xingqing Mansion.

There is an endless stream of people who come to visit the king every day, not only folks, but also Han officials in the Xixia court.In private, Wang Pang got acquainted with some high-ranking Han officials through Li Xili. Here, Wang Pang paid most attention to: Wu Hao, deputy envoy of the Qun Mu Division; official affairs of Kaifeng Mansion: Xue Yuanli; Zhang Jiang, deputy envoy, and Xu Min, envoy of salt and iron.

Wang Pang stayed in Xixia for more than half a month, busy with socializing every day, not talking about Yunzhai's calligraphy and painting, Yunxuan's tea culture.Or during the banquet, let Cai Jing show his skills in a small way, this kid is an idiot in calligraphy and painting.But at the same time, Cai Jing's foodie is not for nothing. What Wang Pang showed Cai Jing was not to sit on the table to eat, but to use his own cooking utensils to show one or two hot fried side dishes that Wang Pang pointed out to Cai Jing when he was in Bianjing. .

Now more people came to see the king because of the fame.Even Cai Jing complained about the entertainment every day. He took the list of people he had visited from the post office cabinet, ticked off the names of the people he would meet the day after tomorrow, and muttered: "Young master, we have been here for so many days. Now, when did you see people like this every day?"

Wang Pang drank tea, calmed down the alcohol, and said with a smile: "If you don't want to see, just don't tick the box for the day after tomorrow."

For the past few days, Cai Jing helped Wang Pang arrange the people he wanted to meet, and selected a few from the enthronement invitations on the Guanyi cabinet every day, and arranged for the next day.Then put it back on the cabinet. Basically, people who come to visit the king will come to see if they are there.He is a bit careful, first looking at the official position, and then looking at the department he belongs to.Wang Pang knew that Cai Jing was doing the work of a secretary. Occasionally, Wang Pang also took a look and found that Cai Jing was doing a good job as a secretary.

While Cai Jing was choosing, he was happy. After so many days, he could finally take a day off. There would be no arrangements for tomorrow. The young master finally agreed to go for a walk on the street.However, he suddenly saw a greeting card, and hurriedly said: "Young master, come out, the name you said to be waiting for has come out, and said that he will pick you up to his house, this, do you want to arrange tomorrow?"

Hearing what Cai Jing said, Wang Pang put down the teacup in his hand and walked closer. It was indeed written in the invitation that Wang Pang asked Cai Jing to pay attention to the Prime Minister Liang Yibu.

After seeing Xixia, the ranks of Wang Pangjian's characters are getting higher and higher. Although they are mainly Han people, there are occasionally one or two Xixia officials, such as Ye Tongma, Ren Duo Baozhong, and some with a double surname.It seems that whether it is the Yeli family or the Wuzang family, after two civil strife, their popularity in the sphere of influence of the Xixia court has been greatly damaged.However, with the name of Wang Pang and the legend in Xixia official circles, both Liang Yibu and Liang Luoyao couldn't sit still.

Liang Luoyao and Liang Yibu, originally Li Xili would obediently see Wang Pang over, but they didn't expect Wang Pang to go to Xixia for normal cultural exchange, but not to pay respects to the powerful, but some of these officials went to see Wang Pang. Beside Wang, Liang Luoyao became more and more curious.Liang Yibu became more and more annoyed.

If Wang Pang came to Xixia and delivered it directly to them, it would not have any impact, but now this outsider only took less than a month to gain a little fame in Xixia, Liang Yibu was not easy to do it. What's more, my sister has spoken, you go and see what kind of person this king is, why don't you come to see the deity.

Liang Yibu asked his queen sister: "This person is so disrespectful, do you want it?" [

The younger sister of the queen stared, Liang Yibu just had to send a greeting card to the king in a disheveled manner.

When Wang Pang saw the letter, he sneered and said to Cai Jing: "Tomorrow, as we said, I will take you to visit this place. This is for Liang Yi to bury the Prime Minister of the country. If you don't see the third letter, we will not arrange it."

Cai Jing's eyes widened: "My lord, this is the Prime Minister of Xia Kingdom."

Haha, what is the Prime Minister afraid of, his subordinates are defeated.Wang Bang thought so in his heart, not to mention that the Prime Minister of the country has already started to send greeting cards, even if he is under pressure, why not let him be more stressed.

Relax and take a good rest for a day. Before seeing the prime minister again, the king should take a good look at Xixia.

The emperors of Xixia were all built with reference to the architectural model of the Song Dynasty. They were directly influenced by the layout of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and Kaifeng City in the Northern Song Dynasty. In a square shape, the streets are relatively wide, and there are more than 18 neighborhoods such as Chongyi.

Cai Jing wandered the street looking for novelties, but this building did not arouse his great interest. He suddenly saw so many Xixia people in strange clothes, secretly laughing at the special hairstyle of Xixia people all over the street.Fortunately, Han Chinese also accounted for a certain proportion here, so the two of them would not appear different in this environment.

Wang Pang didn't notice this. The Xingqing Mansion has an imperial city of a certain size, and the royal palaces and gardens in the city occupy a large area; with the imperial city as the center, the surrounding government offices, Fan Han Academy, and various temples have been established along the way.Wang Pang discovered that there were many religious places in Xingqing Mansion.This is probably because the empress dowager did not believe in Buddhism during her lifetime, and Li Liangzuo was also a Buddhist worshiper.

The imperial city then went to the outer city, workshops were born because of the city, restaurants prospered along the streets, one-story houses were built around the palace, and ordinary residents were densely distributed in dozens of neighborhoods, all of which were low earthen houses or earthen board houses.

Wang Pang is not very interested in these buildings; nor is he interested in the exotic clothes of Cai Jing, who is from the Song Dynasty.He was wandering in the market, and the things that could arouse his interest were naturally not in clothing and architecture.There is a kind of shop in Xixia on the street, which specializes in selling knives, swords and other weapons.

In the Song Dynasty, swords were under control, and few people carried swords and swords on the street, and even fewer put swords in front of blacksmith shops.But this place is different. On the counter in front of the blacksmith shop, there are all kinds of swords and swords. When you walk near the shop, you can hear the sound of clanging iron.Obviously, behind the storefront, there is a blacksmithing furnace in full swing.

Xixia people are brave and fierce, especially swords are not controlled, and there are often people with swords and swords on the street.From this point of view, it is no wonder that Liang Yibu was in Kaifeng and carried Song Wenjian with him.Thinking so, Wang Pang stopped in front of the blacksmith shop. He looked at the swords placed on the counter, and picked up one casually to have a look.

Seeing that Wang Pang and Wang Pang were looking at the knives, the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted Wang Pang to look at the goods on the cabinet: "Young master, you will know the goods at a glance. This knife is a good steel." A knife said.

Wang Pang also saw that this knife was different, and just as he was about to ask the price, a few Xixia men came over, one of them was bald, wearing a felt hat, sideburns, and two big earrings.He pouted and approached, looked at the knife next to the king and said, "This one is worth two taels of silver, I want it!"

Wang Pang saw this man with short eyebrows and small eyes, narrow nose bridge, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones; with his sleeves on his back, he leaned over to look at the knife in his hand.Suddenly I heard the shopkeeper say: "Oh, Mr. Jila, I'm so sorry, this knife has already been paid for by the gentleman."

The man looked at the king, turned his head and said viciously to the shopkeeper: "Old man He, I warn you, don't think that if you don't sell me a good knife, I can't do anything with you."

The shopkeeper surnamed He was over 50 years old, and he hurriedly said with an apologetic smile: "Young master, what did you say? Now this knife is really sold to you."

After finishing speaking, he waved to Wang Pang and said, "Since the young master has paid the silver, take it quickly."

Cai Jing looked at Wang Pang, Wang Pang looked at the saber in his hand, he was puzzled, he didn't give it away in vain, this saber is a good saber, Nai himself knows very little about weapons, is there something wrong here?