"Xiping Prince's Mansion? I haven't heard of it. Is it related to the Western thief?"

Ji Yi, who had drunk a few more glasses of wine, heard Liu Yun's "Xiping Palace" that seemed to have accidentally asked, but looked confused.

"It's related to the Western thief," Liu Yun looked at Ji Yi and whispered, "Isn't the Western thief the past your King of Xiping, the governor of Dingnan Army?"

"The envoys of the Western thieves are all in Duting West Post," Ji Yi took another sip of Wang Lou Yujiu and said with a smile, "There has been repairing it since November, and it will be no longer possible to live in it."

The area of ​​Duting West Post is not as good as Duting Post. It is located in the west wing of the outer city of Kaifeng Prefecture. It was built after the Qingli peace talks. It is newer than Duting Post. Now Duting Post has not been majorly repaired for many years, so there is no reason to repair Duting West Post.

Moreover, Duting Xi Post is used to entertain missions from many countries such as Xixia, Uighurs, and Tubo. If the missions from Xixia are not coming, it does not mean that the missions from other countries are not coming. Why are they closed down and repaired? Could it be that Duting Xi Post is to be converted into Xiping Prince's Mansion?

"Do you hear that the Western Xia delegation has arrived in Kaifeng Prefecture?" Liu Yun continued to inquire.

"I haven't heard of it." Ji Yi shook her head and said, "Isn't the war still going on in the west? How could there be a delegation exchange?"

"Isn't Weiming Ah Ben in Kaifeng Prefecture?"

"Wei Ming Abang was captured," Ji Yi smiled, "now is imprisoned in the Censorate Prison."

The Censorate Prison is used to detain ministers who are waiting for trial. The conditions are relatively superior. It is also considered preferential treatment for Weiming Abang and Meile. However, no matter how preferential treatment is, the Censorate Prison is, you may not be able to take leave to go shopping, right?

The two envoys of Liao Kingdom looked at each other: This matter is... very strange!

It would be fine if the Song people caught Mei Ledu in Tiandu Mountain. He was the military supervisor of Tiandu Mountain. Although the official was not small, he was not at the level of commander. It was possible that he was accidentally arrested.

But Weiming Ahma is the commander of the six Xixia troops! How could such a large general beside him without thousands of elite guards? How could he have captured the Song army, which was attacked by two or three thousand light cavalry, alive? Is that useless Song army or the Iron Lin army of the Great Liao? Even if the Iron Army of the Great Liao Dynasty wanted to capture Bumogus, it would have taken no effort... I haven't caught it yet!

And even if Wei Ming Ambam's guards could not defeat the Song army, wouldn't they still protect Wei Ming Ambam? Will Wei Ming Ambam even wipe his neck and commit suicide? Why did he be so embarrassing to be a prisoner of the Song people? And he was also a prisoner who could bring his little wife to Wanglou to eat and drink!

If there is nothing strange about this, what is the matter considered strange?

No, I must go to Duting West Post to find out!

After making up his mind, the two Liao envoys had no intention of drinking and shopping. They immediately returned to Duting Post with Ji Yi, changed into Confucian dynasties, and then threw away Ji Yi and the Song Dynasty officials in Duting Post. The Song Dynasty was also an old feudal dynasty for more than 100 years and was no longer a newcomer who cares about everything, so the guards of Duting Post have always relaxed - they climbed over the wall and came out of Duting Post, and then went west to Duting West Post.

Duting West Post is indeed being repaired, and many places are scaffolding, but no one is working on it. After all, today is the New Year's Eve, and most of the craftsmen have had a big holiday. The gate of Duting West Post is closed, and there are a few listless soldiers guarding the door in front of the door. There are no military discipline. While guarding, they are still having fun, and they don't pay attention to the two Confucian scholars Xiao Haogu and Liu Yun.

Xiao Haogu and Liu Yun just walked around the corner and listened.

"That Uighur lady is so white. Her figure and posture are no different from that Mo Madam who is in Christie's..."

"Hi, hey, be careful, that woman is different from Madam Mo. Madam Mo is a courtesan, and she is an official family member! The Dangxiang Qiang was granted the surname of the country, and it seems that he was also appointed as the deputy envoy of the Dingnan Army...."

Dangxiang Qiang? Give the surname of the country?

Needless to say, it must be Wei Ming's that product.

He was also appointed as the deputy envoy of the Dingnan Army. There was no such rank among the military officials of the Song Dynasty... No, this deputy envoy of the Dingnan Army was not a rank official, but a official!

Wei Ming Ganshun... Maybe it was Zhao Ganshun that boy was the governor of Dingnan Army, and Wei Ming Abang was the deputy envoy of the governor! Xixia is about to become the Dingnan Army of the Song Dynasty again!

It's so bad now that the sky in Daliao is about to collapse!

The territory of Xixia continued to block the territory of the people, and the border line was very long and it was impossible to block it. At that time, iron tools would flow into the people.

In addition, once the Western Xia becomes the Dingnan Army of the Song Dynasty, the 200,000 utility soldiers of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty can be transferred to Hedong and Hebei immediately...

"Liu Linya, can you turn over this wall?"

Xiao Haogu still had some thoughts, so he wanted the agile Liu Yun and Liu Linya to sneak into Duting West Post to inquire.

"Not here, there are many people here..." Liu Yun looked around and said to Xiao Hao's ancient road, "Observe, let's walk around Duting West Post and find a place with few individuals."

"OK."

Xiao Haogu nodded and followed Liu Yun to circle the corner of Duting West Post. Although the territory where Duting West Post is not as lively as the inner city, it is quite prosperous. Moreover, it is now the night of the new year, and the streets are full of people, so it is not easy to find a place without people.

Fortunately, the two of them found a hidden side door. As soon as the old soldier came out of the door, he was snoring from a noodle stall on the street and was snorting a bowl of soft sheep noodles.

The two Liao envoys were really brave. They took this opportunity to push open the side door and crawled in. Inside the door was a hall that had just been half repaired. A plaque was hung on the main door of the hall, with the words "Guiyitang" written on it. The word "Guiyitang" was written very well, and it was obvious that it was from a famous artist (written by Cai Jing).

Xiao Haogu ordered Liu Yun, "I'll take the wind, you go in and take a look."

"Good." Liu Yun responded, then quickly ran to the door of Guiyi Hall, and found that the door here was also hidden and opened as soon as he pushed it. There was an empty hall inside the door, with no one, the wall had just been painted white, and there was a mural on the north-facing wall that had just begun to draw lines. I don't know what to draw? There was also a wooden shelf with an unfolded scroll hanging on it, which should be a pink book, but with his back to Liu Yun.

Liu Yun rushed up quickly, and walked around the front of the easel. Then, when he saw the dim light, his face suddenly changed.

The person in the painting turned out to be the Queen Mother Xiaoliang of Xixia!

Liu Yun once went on a mission to Xixia and met Empress Dowager Xiaoliang many times, so he recognized the woman in the picture as the current Empress Dowager Xixia at first glance.

It seems that the mural to be painted here should be "Mrs. Liang leads the crowd to return to the right and the other way" and so on...

This Empress Dowager Xiao Liang was probably beaten by the Song army to the point of desperate situation. She asked for help from the Liao Kingdom but could not get help, so she had the idea of ​​betraying Liao and surrendering to Song!

Thinking of this, Liu Yun gritted his teeth, took off the scroll hanging on the easel, and ran out like flying.

"how?"

Xiao Haogu was a little stunned when he saw Liu Yun stealing a painting.

What's going on?

Why are you still stealing things? It’s so embarrassing to say it out. A great Liao Linya came to Kaifeng Prefecture as a thief... If this was caught by the Song people, how could the Liao Kingdom have the face?

"Run, run..."

Liu Yun seemed panicked. He was from the four major families of Yanyun and was also a Jinshi. When did he steal things? Without this experience, he was naturally panicked. Of course, his first reaction after stealing things was to run away.

You can't let the Song people catch them!

When Xiao Haogu saw him running away, he had no choice but to run with him. He was an accomplice!

The two of them walked out of the side door that they had just entered. They ran for a while and found that no one was chasing behind them, so they breathed a sigh of relief and stopped.

"What's going on? Liu Linya, why did you steal a painting?"

"Steal? Why is it stealing? Stealing...it's stealing!" Liu Yun corrected Xiao Haogu's wrong statement while pulling him to the corner of the wall, and then spreading the scroll in his hand, "Look, see, how is this?"

Xiao Haogu knew a little about calligraphy and painting, and also knew that the Liu family of Yanyun had collected a lot of calligraphy and paintings, so he first glanced at the place where the signature was signed. There were indeed words on it: Hanlin Painting Academy ministers used virtue copying.

"Is it a copy?" Xiao Haogu said disappointedly, "It was copied by the painter from the Hanlin Academy of Painting..."

The copy is not valuable, if you want to steal it, you can steal it...

"Copy?" Liu Yun was stunned, "Observe, look at the person in the painting! Do you know the person in the painting?"

Look at people? Who?

Xiao Haogu then looked closely and said in a lost voice: "It's Empress Dowager Xiao Liang! Why is it her? How could her portrait be in Song State?"

"It's her!" Liu Yun stomped his feet and said, "It must be that she wanted to surrender to the State of Song, so he asked someone to draw a photo and send it to Kaifeng Prefecture to let the tyrant monarchs and treacherous ministers of the Song Dynasty recognize their familiar faces.

That Wei Ming Abang must be her secret envoy!”

"What should I do?" Xiao Haogu asked.

"You have to send someone to send this painting to the emperor!"

"Yes, yes, yes...must be fast!"

...

Ji Yi was walking quickly in Zhang Dun's Prime Minister's Mansion. Now he can enter the inner hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion without notice!

This is the treatment that only Zhang Dun’s children and confidants can receive!

However, Ji Yi only temporarily had the treatment of a confidant, because he did have a confidential matter that he had to report to Zhang Dun in person. This confidential matter was to arrange two envoys from the Liao Kingdom to get the "Photo of Empress Dowager Xiao Liang" copied by Du Yongde. And it must be done seamlessly!

He received the order from Zhang Dun a few days ago. The time was short and the requirements were very high. It was not necessarily possible to complete it if it was replaced by the Imperial City Department. However, Ji Yi and Ji Daguan completed the task very successfully.

Just one hour ago, the members of the four Khitan delegations rode out of the city and ran north.
Chapter completed!