"My subordinates are all such boneless trash. It's no wonder that I, Daxia, beat me to the point of ceding territory and asking for peace!" Li Dezhao sneered secretly in his heart after seeing the performance of all the officials.

As Han Qing speculated, this person followed Li Sheng and Yang Xu from Chang'an City to Ding'an County.

All of this person's actions tonight were deliberate.

The purpose was to humiliate Li Sheng as much as possible and let the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty understand that the face they lost on the battlefield could never be regained by relying on cleverness.

In addition, another purpose Li Dezhao had was to understand the preferences, personalities and abilities of the Song Dynasty officials in various places on the Yongxing Military Road, so as to prepare for the further expansion of Xiazhou.

In any case, as long as the Song Dynasty did not want to go to war with Xiazhou, no matter how hard he tried in the Song Dynasty, officials at all levels in the Song Dynasty would not do anything to him.

If the result of the torment satisfies his father Li Jiqian, he may be taken home as soon as possible and his brother Li Deming will be used as a hostage in Bianliang.

And if the war between the Song Dynasty and Xiazhou resumes, even if he hides in Bianliang Imperial Academy and does nothing bad, he will still face the end of being beheaded to vent his anger.

You make money when you win, and you don’t lose much when you lose. It’s such a cheap thing. How could Li Dezhao not do it?

In fact, up to now, the development and changes of the situation have basically been in line with his original expectations.

The local officials on Yongxing Road in the Song Dynasty were indeed as cowardly, incompetent and shameless as he had guessed. It was obvious that everyone was slapped in the face by him, but they rushed to pick themselves out, leaving Li Sheng, the right inspector, to bear the humiliation alone.

The envoy of the Song Dynasty, Li Sheng, was indeed an embroidered pillow in name only as he had guessed. In the Song Dynasty, even this unexpected situation was in a hurry. When he arrived in Xiazhou, he was faced with huge pressure. It is even more difficult to advance and retreat.

The only deviation was that someone grabbed Yang Xu's arm in time to prevent the situation from escalating.

According to Li Dezhao's assumptions, with Yang Xu's second-generation ancestor's temperament, he would definitely not choose to commit suicide if he was humiliated.

And as long as both parties take action, they can take the opportunity to make a big fuss.

It would be best if he gets punched a few more times by Yang Xu and gets obvious bruises on his face, which will give the article more opportunities to grasp. Li Sheng, the right patrol envoy, will have even less confidence when he goes to Xiazhou this time.

Even he himself didn't even have to go to Bianliang and was able to return home safely.

However, as the old saying goes, seek above and rely on the middle. This small deviation is still within the scope that Li Dezhao can accept and can correct.

As for the "culprit" that caused the deviation, Li Dezhao was not even interested in taking a second look.

Before he came to "encounter" Li Sheng by chance, through his own special channels, he had arranged the boundaries of Anding County, and had already found out all the local officials who might attend the banquet tonight.

In the list, there is definitely no young official who grabbed Yang Xu just in time.

Judging from the position where this person was sitting, he was probably the lowest grade among the guests present, and he was even just a random extra to make up the numbers.

"I really want to get close to Yang Yihui, but I have no choice but to do so. Yang Yihui misunderstood me deeply and shouted at me as soon as we met!" With his back to the two civil servants who were traveling with him, Li Dezhao did not notice that they found Han Qing. His expression when he was present was just to sneer and distance himself from Lu Xingyan, Zhang Wei and other officials, "I, Jiu Mu Da Song Fengya, heard that there was a lot of excitement in writing lyrics in the box here, so I came here to ask for advice from my colleagues. How could I have expected that it would be so good? I didn’t get a single word from you, but I almost got a punch from you!”

"Misunderstanding, it was all a misunderstanding. Before Yang Yihui left Bianliang, I probably hadn't heard that you had been awarded an official position by the imperial court and were about to study at Taixue." He knew that Li Dezhao was trying to bully everyone, so he was the one who made things worse tonight. Yongxing Military Road transferred the judge Lu Xingyan, but he still tried to "make peace".

He had been in officialdom for a long time and knew that the Song Dynasty would not take the initiative to start a war with Xiazhou in the past two years no matter what. Therefore, he knew that no matter how hard Li Dezhao tried, the court would not easily deal with this person. At most, he would just reprimand him. Or be demoted and fined.

Li Dezhao's future was not originally in the Song Dynasty, and even if he was demoted all the way to the ninth rank, it would be of no concern to him. On the contrary, he and the officials here tonight will be criticized for not knowing how to deal with things, and it will not last for many years. Wash it clean.

Therefore, for Lu Xingyan and most of the officials present, settling the matter was actually the best option. As for being deliberately robbed of the limelight twice, and even being ridiculed by Li Dezhao in person, it was nothing compared to his personal future.

What's more, everyone is flattering the right patrol envoy Li Sheng tonight, and it is the people carrying the sedan chair. Since the "sedan" has been lifted, it is Li Sheng himself who is embarrassed. No matter whether everyone has a relationship with him or with his father, Not good enough to forcefully stand up for him at any cost.

"We don't know each other without fighting, and besides, you didn't really fight!"

"It is inevitable for young people to have conflicts of temperament and temperament. Let's sit down and have a glass of wine later, and we will put an end to the past feud!"

"Since the Six Houses envoy likes to write lyrics, why not sit down and have a glass of wine, and then everyone continues to write lyrics, and invites Zi Ling and the others to play and sing. You and Yang Yihui are both top students in Taixue, why do you have to worry about it just because of a few drunken words? ?”

…

Tonight, there was more than one person who had the same idea as Lu Xingyan. Other local officials also continued to smile with their faces, trying to turn hostility into friendship.

Xiazhou has returned to the territory of the Song Dynasty in name only. Li Jiqian, Duke of Xia State, is now their colleague.

According to seniority, Li Dezhao is their junior. As elders, how can they be on the same level as their juniors?

As for Li Dezhao, although he looked down upon everyone in his heart, he knew how to grasp the rhythm of the attack. Nie squinted at Yang Xu and sneered in a low voice, "You must have some misunderstanding. Since I took the initiative to come to visit, of course I am willing. I’d like to chat with you all. However, it’s not up to me whether you can all sit down and drink together and listen to music tonight.”

"Inspector Li is about to go to Xiazhou. I would like to hear you introduce the customs and customs there first!"

"Yes, how come Inspector Li doesn't want to be friends with you? Yang Yihui didn't know just now that you have become his junior brother. Are there any inextricable feuds between junior brothers?"

"Inspector Li, Yang Yihui, do you think this is true?"

…

Lu Xingyan, Zhang Wei and others heard this and quickly divided into two waves. One wave continued to comfort Li Dezhao with gentle words, while the other wave turned to Li Sheng and Yang Xu with prayers on their faces.

Li Sheng's eyes and stomach were boiling with anger. However, given the important task of going to Xiazhou as an envoy to promote benevolence for the imperial court, how could he possibly talk to the youngest son of Dangxiang leader Li Jiqian before entering the territory of the Dangxiang people? Forge a big feud?

Therefore, the raging anger in his stomach and eyes could only be extinguished in the end. Then, he nodded to everyone with a smile. In addition, he did not forget to suppress Yang Xu for everyone, so that the latter would not cause trouble.

I just pity Yang Xu, who stood up for justice, but couldn't please him inside or outside. He was so depressed that his face turned blue, and there were faint tears in his eyes.

"Ji Ming, forget it. It's not easy for us brothers to meet once now. There's no need to get in a bad mood for someone who has nothing to do with you." She felt it was not worth it for Yang Xu. Han Qing took the other person's arm and slowly backed away.

, "Come on, let's continue to drink our food, the shopkeeper, why don't you arrange for the waiter to change the table for me?!"

The last sentence was addressed to Shopkeeper Shi. Immediately, the latter felt as if he had been granted amnesty and repeatedly agreed to escape from the side room, fearing that he would be too slow to escape and continue to suffer disasters.

"Thank you, Zi Ling, everyone, go and find a new set of pens and ink for us brothers!" Han Qing quickly looked around, while continuing to pull Yang Xu, who was already too angry to speak, towards the corner of the box where he was.

, while continuing to order with a smile.

The singer Zi Ling also found her soul immediately. She and her two maids squatted down to salute him, and then left quickly.

The other girls and boys who were frightened into silence also changed their minds one after another. They were busy cleaning up the fruits and dishes on the floor.

The order in the box immediately became a little chaotic. However, the tense atmosphere before had come to an end for the time being. Both parties to the conflict also tried their best to pretend that nothing happened, rearranged their seats, and chatted and laughed.

After a while, another steward from the Peony Pavilion arrived with a new batch of waiters and completely tidied up the box. Fruits and side dishes were replaced, as well as the missing wine sets and tea sets.

Immediately, a group of girls who looked smarter and more lively were brought in by the madam, and all the girls who were frightened before were replaced. In order to prevent anyone from being distracted in the next time and offending any official.

It will bring disaster to Peony Pavilion and Lotus Class.

While everyone was busy and had no time to take into account their own opportunities, Han Qing pulled Yang Xu and kept asking questions to divert the latter's attention. In order to prevent this person from being angry and getting sick, or

After a while, he couldn't bear the teasing anymore, and he was used as a weapon for nothing.

With his thirty-six-year-old mature mind, his ability to talk to people and tell ghosts, which was tempered by society in his previous life, and with his mental arithmetic but not his heart, how could it not be easy to deal with a young Yang Xu?

After asking, Yang Xu's attention was diverted to the border between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.

Compared with Xiazhou, which had temporarily chosen to lie dormant, the threat posed by the Liao Kingdom to the Song Dynasty was obviously more serious. Especially since the Song Dynasty mobilized the whole country to attack Xia last year but failed, the Liao army has begun to strengthen its troops.

Be ready to tear through the northern defense line at any time and attack Bianliang.

Fortunately, Yang Yanzhao and Yang Xu's grandfather Yang Si were still in the north of the Song Dynasty at this time, so the Liao army never found a suitable opportunity and invaded in large numbers.

However, small-scale conflicts have never been interrupted. The Song border army can only block holes and defend everywhere to prevent the Liao army from penetrating into the Song territory. However, they have no strength to fight back, let alone penetrate into the Liao army's territory.

Drinking horses by the sorghum river.

"I have always suspected that the Dangxiang people and the Liao invaders had colluded secretly." Suddenly he turned to Li Dezhao and glanced in his direction. Yang Xu complained to Han Qing in a low voice. "Li Jiqian chose to be soft, just to improve his troops.

Horse, in order to plan for the coming year. The Liao Kingdom took the opportunity to provoke a war in the north, making it impossible for the Song Dynasty to take care of both ends. Knowing that the old thief Li Jiqian pretended to be soft, but was actually secretly recharging his strength, he could only lose his teeth.

Swallow it in your stomach!”

"Even if these two families collude together, they can't do anything to the Song Dynasty. Just relax!" Han Qing had returned his historical knowledge to the teacher a long time ago. But he knew that the Liao Dynasty died earlier than the Song Dynasty.

Smiling, he raised the wine cup he had just changed and spoke in a low voice.

Seeing that Yang Xuyu was still angry, after thinking for a while, he continued to explain, "Besides, if you are not in your position, you will not seek political affairs. If everyone is like you, you are just a captain, but you want to take care of the Privy Council, then how can the imperial court

Isn’t it a mess?”

"This is not what you said!" Yang Xu did not dare to agree and immediately retorted in a low voice, "Not to mention, the old people in the Privy Council in the court have long since lost their energy and just want to live one day at a time. I am waiting for you.

How can I be the queen of a general and receive the emperor's favor..."

"I didn't leave Bianliang, so I didn't know how big the world is." Han Qing didn't want to talk about government affairs with him here, so she quickly interrupted with a smile, "But now, I find that I really thought about everything too much."

It’s easy.”

"What did you say? Are you sincere?" The more Yang Xu listened, the more he felt that the Han Qing in front of him was not the same as the Han Qing in his memory. He frowned and continued to refute, "I remember you told me

, all the princes in the court are..."

"I was a frog in the well at that time!" Han Qing quickly interrupted with a smile, fearing that the nonsense of the former owner of the body would reach the ears of interested people, "Now, I know what is right now and what was wrong yesterday."

"Well -" Yang Xu couldn't find any difference between the Han Qing in front of him and the Han Qing in his memory. He could also clearly feel that the other party was treating him with the same sincerity as before.

Shaking his head.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Han Qing didn't want to arouse suspicion, so she used words to distract him again, "Anyway, listen to me. The national destiny of the Song Dynasty is still long, and it is far from you and me using knives to defend it.

When we are desperate, no matter whether it is Liao or Xiazhou, it is impossible to take away the country of Song."

"Where does this conclusion come from?" Yang Qing was confused, frowned, and asked in a low voice.

"Well——, let's feel it. My own feeling." Han Qing thought about it again and again, but couldn't find suitable evidence for what he said. He couldn't tell the other party that he came from later generations and knew the general direction of this period of history. In the end,

, chose to ramble again. "Recently reading history books, usually in the last days, the people must be in decline. But now, according to my own personal experience, the people of the Song Dynasty are still full of vitality."

How could this kind of argument convince Yang Xu? The latter was too lazy to argue with him anymore. He just picked up a glass of wine and tasted it slowly. Inadvertently, a bitterness that a young man should not have appeared in the corners of his mouth and eyebrows.

When Han Qing met, he had to work hard to understand each other. However, he couldn't tell him that no matter whether it was the Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty or Xixia, after a thousand years, they would all be one family. So, after trying to understand each other for a long time, he didn't say a few words.

have pursuasive power.

In the end, he himself was tired. He shook his head and raised the wine cup with a smile, "Forget it, let's not talk about these useless things. The road to Xiazhou is bumpy. When you encounter trouble, listen to Senior Brother Li. Don't

impulse."

"I told you, I am only responsible for sending him to the border!" Hearing the worry in Han Qing's words, Yang Xu explained with a blush, "He will not enter Xiazhou. As for the next road from here to the border

…”

Turning his head to look at Li Dezhao, who was exchanging cups with Lu Xingyan and others, talking and laughing happily, Yang Xu gritted his teeth with hatred. "If this person doesn't come to me anymore, I will naturally know what is more important. If he chases me and provokes me again... "
To be continued...