Chapter 4 Chapter Four Diplomatic Ambassadors
This is Qianjinyixiao Building.
The sound of silk and bamboo music is like the sound of fairy music, and the music played by the first-class musicians in Bianliang is pleasing to the eye.
Dressed in snow-white clothes, with a thin cyan ribbon tied around her waist, her slender figure is dancing to the rhythm, her shape is graceful like a frightened bird, graceful like a swimming dragon, like a moon covered by light clouds, floating It's like the snow returning from the flowing wind.The figure turns around occasionally, the eyebrows are not drawn but are black, the lips are not painted but are red, the almond eyes are smoky, the skin is as creamy, smiling sweetly, happy and angry, this jade-like person is Liu Duo'er, the oiran of Bianliang.
As soon as she came out, she became the focus of the audience, all the noise stopped, and all eyes were on her, even Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi's eyes followed her Qianli's. The figure moved, with an expression of admiration and intoxication on his face.
There were probably only two people in the audience who didn't pay attention to Liu Duo'er dancing gracefully. One was Yang Hao, sitting not far from Zhao Guangyi, with his face facing the stage, as if he was intoxicated by Duo'er's stunning singing and dancing. But out of the corner of his eyes, he was watching a person approaching him with a cup, Tang Sanshao.
"Yang Shaoqing, congratulations on your promotion." Tang Wei hooked a chair with his toes and sat down beside Yang Hao.Looking around, seeing no one was paying attention, suddenly lowered his voice, and said viciously: "Master Shaoqing, where is Sister Sister?"
"Sister Ling?" Yang Hao looked surprised: "Brother Tang, where did you start talking, where is your sister, why did you ask me?"
"Hmph!" Tang Wei turned his face to the stage, as if he was enjoying the singing and dancing, his voice was low but clear: "If you don't burn fake incense in front of the real Buddha, Yang Shaoqing doesn't have to be prevaricated. The relationship between sister She and you, Yang Shaoqing Tang Mou is not ignorant of the matter. I reminded you earlier, you would have retreated in spite of the difficulties, but who knows...
This time, my sister-in-law fled privately on the way to Beijing. Our Tang family sent a large number of people and almost dug three feet into the ground, but we didn't find a trace of her.I wondered, could sister Sister have already found the lord?So I sent someone to check on your lord's whereabouts. Your lord is the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, but it is not difficult to find you. In the end...as expected, I was seen by my people.Mr. Yang, your official career has been smooth and you have been promoted many times. It can be said that you are proud of the spring breeze. It may not be because of the support of the nobles. If you are an official of the imperial court, if you seduce the daughters of the people and marry the bad guys, it will be very bad for your reputation and official career. , not to mention that the one my sister is going to marry is King Jin, Master Yang... Not everyone in this world can be offended, you are a smart person, do you need Tang to explain it more clearly? "
Yang Hao nodded solemnly: "No, I understand what you mean."
Tang Wei's expression eased: "That's good, where is Sister She?"
Yang Hao turned to him, and said in a low voice: "Since Brother Tang has made it clear, then Yang will not be sloppy, Yanyan is indeed here with me..."
Tang Wei showed his face and said: "Brother Yang really knows the current affairs. Well, as long as you hand over your sister-in-law, Tang will let the past go. This matter is a secret between you and me. Tang will never let others know."
Yang Hao sighed and said, "It's difficult."
Tang Weiqi asked: "What's the difficulty?" He suddenly realized: "Could it be that Sister She doesn't want to..., Brother Yang doesn't need to worry about this, as long as you hand her over, I'll take care of the rest."
Yang Hao looked at him sympathetically, and said, "Brother Tang may not be able to deal with this matter."
Tang Wei asked anxiously, "How do you say that?"
Yang Hao covered his mouth and coughed, and said slowly: "To tell you the truth, Yang and Lingmei have become husband and wife, and Lingmei is not perfect. Brother Tang has the guts to marry her to King Jin as a side concubine?" ?”
Tang Wei's face changed greatly: "This kind of thing is not a joke, Mr. Yang, you..."
"Of course I'm not joking, I'll do the math..." Yang Hao pinched his fingers seriously, and Tang Wei said in astonishment, "What are you?"
Yang Hao pinched his fingers and replied casually: "I'll figure out when you can be an uncle."
Tang Wei almost slipped out of the chair when he heard it, and said in a broken voice, "Uncle...uncle?"
"Yeah, Yanyan is already in the dark, and I didn't let her rush with me because I was afraid that she would be exhausted from the journey. Uh... counting on my fingers, Brother Tang should be able to be an uncle in the middle of next year." , I wonder if brother Tang is happy?"
Tang Wei was in a hurry, and stammered: "I... I'm... I'm a fart, you...you are so bold, you seduce a girl from a good family, you are unmarried and pregnant, I will sue the yamen with a lawsuit, Even if I ask you to be an official, you will be exiled, you..."
"Crack!" Yang Hao patted Tang Wei on the shoulder: "Then... what about Yan Yan? Didn't he become a widow?"
"I...you..."
Yang Hao took the glass from his hand, tasted it, drank it down in one gulp, and said with a light smile, "Brother uncle, you are also a smart person..."
"Uncle... Uncle brother?"
"Yes, third uncle." Yang Hao blinked at him, and said with a smile: "If you ruin me, Yang Hao, you will ruin your sister. As for marrying Prince Jin, there is no hope at all. The bamboo basket fetches water in vain. How could a smart person like Uncle San do such a stupid thing..."
Tang Wei gritted his teeth and said, "Then what should I do now?"
"It's very easy to choose. Either I will recognize this Honglu Shaoqing's brother-in-law, and I will not wrong the Tang family with my identity. Or, we will break up and everyone will be finished."
"Where King Jin..."
"Then it depends on your ingenuity, brother-in-law. We are a family now, and brother-in-law has to protect his sister-in-law more. Oh, I figured it out, hehe, being a father for the first time, you will inevitably be in a hurry, laughing, Just kidding. To be precise, next July, your white, fat, smart and cute little nephew will be born. The Tang family is as rich as a country, and the wedding eggs and wedding cakes must be made of gold. All the houses should be notified, and the preparations should start early, and the gifts should not be too shabby to be handed out. Besides, I am an upright official..."
"You...I..., King Jin..."
"What are you talking about?" Zhao Guangyi turned his head with a smile. Tang Wei quickly changed his expression and said with a smile, "Tang Wei is celebrating Yang Shaoqing's promotion."
"Oh, hehe, everyone Liu on the stage is singing and dancing, keep your voice down, keep your voice down."
"Yes Yes."
Zhao Guangyi turned his head away again, Yang Hao stuffed the empty cup back into Tang Wei's hand, stood up with a smile and said, "Mr. Yang is a little anxious, please excuse me for a while." Then he lifted his legs and left.
He was willing to cut himself to pieces, and dared to pull the emperor off his horse.Yang Hao is a person who is going to "die", and he is afraid that he will ride Zhao Guangyi's horse.Looking at his back, Tang Wei was angry and impatient, raised his glass and took a sip, only to find that the glass was empty, and he put the glass on the table in frustration, and was dunked into a big black pot for no reason Zhao Guangyi turned his head, glared at him reproachfully, put his finger on his lips, and made a silent movement.
Tang Wei quickly changed his smiling face, and said embarrassingly, "Forgive me, forgive me..."
Early the next morning, Bisu came back. He heard that the imperial envoy Xuan Fu sent a group of people back to Beijing, so he chased them back along the Bian River. He failed to catch up with Yang Hao, but met Yan Yan and others. After all, other ships had to give way, so the journey was delayed all the way, the baby was afraid that Yang Hao would be worried, so he asked him to report a letter first. Yang Hao heard that the baby and the others would not come back in two days, he was afraid that his words would not fool Tang Sanshao, so he sent someone to Jie Yanyan to go back, and then asked Bi Su and Xiao Yu to bring some brave guards from the mansion to rush back. He responded, and wrote a letter to Yanyan with his own handwriting, so as to keep his mouth open, so as not to run into someone from the Tang family and say something wrong. After the arrangement here was complete, he changed his official robes and went to Honglu Temple to take up his post.Honglu Temple is a leisurely yamen, but it is also a yamen that pays attention to decency. The front of the gate is very magnificent, with a long row of glazed walls, a gate more than three feet high, and two vermilion lacquer gates painted so that people can see clearly. A pair of majestic stone lions occupy the left and right, majestic and majestic. The surname of Honglu Temple is Zhang, and he has a very elegant name, Zhang Tailiu.But this Zhang Tailiu is not young, he is now in his seventies, his health is not very good, and there is nothing important in the yamen, so he just comes to the yamen every day to order something and leave. Today, Yang Hao took office as a new official, Mr. Zhang specially waited for him for a while, Yang Hao paid a visit to Da Honghe, and was introduced by Da Honghe, met Dian Kecheng Jiao Haitao, master of ceremonies Cao Yiting, director Ning Tianse and a group of subordinates.Da Honglu smiled and said: "Yang Zuo envoy, these are the people in our Honglu Temple. The people in charge are Qing, Shaoqing, Cheng, and the master, oh...now the government has set up Zuo Qing envoy and You Qing envoy, So under this old man, I respect you. The old man is not in good health, and the officials have given permission. You don’t have to sit in the office when you don’t have important things on weekdays. You and the high right envoy discuss and do everything in Honglu Temple. That's it." Yang Hao looked around and wondered: "Master, where is our right envoy, why is he not seen?" Zhangtai Liu Nianxu smiled and said: "The high right envoy has something to do at home today, and he has asked the old man for leave. Our right envoy is named Gao Xiang. He is a learned man and he is easy to get along with. You don't have to worry about it. Jiao Si Cheng, when Envoy Gao You arrives, introduce him to Envoy Yang Zuo. Cough cough, I have an appointment with Imperial Physician Niu, and I have to see a doctor, please stay with me." "Congratulations to the Great Honglu." After sending Zhang Tailiu away, Jiao Haitao, the Chancellor of Honglu Temple who felt ashamed of him, went back to his office with a group of officials. Yang Hao returned to his signing room, looked around, and felt very good about himself.After sitting for a while, Yang Hao sat upright, called the recording officer, and asked him: "What urgent documents do we have in Honglu Temple, please bring them to me." There is no important business in Honglu Temple, and the clerk is not good at telling him that our yamen is just a pot of tea to sit until after get off work, so I have to take some rules and regulations and official documents for him to read. Yang Hao turned for a long time , I didn't see any chance of a business trip, and I couldn't help being disappointed. At this time, a meritorious officer in the hall cast a cold glance at him, whispered a few words to others, and then came to the hall.This person is the confidant of Gao Xiang, the former Shaoqing of Honghe Temple. Gao Xiang was originally the Shaoqing, and Zhang Tailiu is already old. Yang Hao came out in the air, and Shaoqing was divided into left and right, but he wanted to be inferior to others, so he got emotional, and he deliberately didn't come to see him today. This meritorious Cao had heard of the reputation of "Yang Dabangchui" for being ignorant, and he wanted to make a fool of him, so he didn't dare to be the master of everything in the future, so he went to him, bowed respectfully, and said: "The humble Liu Linxi I have seen the envoy of Zuo Qing, the envoy of Gao You has not been in office today, but now there is a letter of credence from the Khitan of the northern kingdom, look..." When Yang Hao heard that it had nothing to do with business trips, he pinched his nose and said coyly: "I am new here, and I am not familiar with everything. Since I am a national book, the matters are not small. Let's wait until the high right envoy arrives." Liu Linxi said embarrassingly: "But... this is a big matter, it's very urgent, if there is a delay..." "Well... then you fetch it, I'll take a look first." Liu Linxi said yes, and rushed there immediately, took a short time to fetch a letter of credence and handed it to Yang Hao, Yang Hao opened it and couldn't help laughing: "Who is this? Ren Shan is being bullied, Ma Shan is being ridden by others, wait for the official to write a letter, and make him roll his eyes." Although Liu Linxi is a small official, but who in Honglu Temple is not well-educated in poetry and books, Liu Linxi was very disdainful when he heard Yang Hao speak so vulgarly, but his face became more respectful: "The lowly job is to study ink for the left envoy. .” Yang Hao picked up the brush, glanced at him, and suddenly said: "Forget it, don't just study ink, well, I said, you write, draft a reply letter." Liu Linxi was stunned, and hurriedly responded: "I obey my orders." He studied the ink, took the pen and paper, sat by the side case, picked up the pen and waited to see what ridiculous words Yang Hao would write in this letter of state, but Yang Hao opened the letter from Khitan again. , Think carefully. This letter of credence is related to the defection case of Shandong officials not long ago, because this case was also used by Zhe Ziyu to make the officials suspect that Luo Kecheng, the deputy envoy of Dongnan Dongdao Transshipment, had contacts with Beiguo, and was suspended for investigation.The details of this case have already been reported by the imperial court, and Yang Hao knew about it because he cared about the case of the Luo family. The cause of the incident was that the spies from the North Kingdom disguised themselves as businessmen and lured Fu Tinghan, the military governor of Dizhou, Shandong, and Mo Yan, the superintendent Mo Yan. Fu Tinghan, while Mo Yan, the prefect of Dizhou, managed to escape to the Northland, leaking the defenses near Dizhou, forcing the court to make major adjustments to the military deployment near Dizhou. At that time, Beiguo sent a team of 100 people to sneak into the middle isolation area agreed upon by the border between the two countries, trying to catch up with the escape of the traitor officials. Zhou Wei, the magistrate of Dizhou, who had already got the news in advance, sent a team to chase and beat the team of 100 people. Flooded. This letter of credence stamped with the seal of Queen Xiao Chuo of the Northern Kingdom confronted the State of Song aggressively, condemning the State of Song for killing the merchants of the Northern State for no reason, and ambushing the patrol team that strayed into the neutral area at the border, actively provoking and trying to create troubles between the two countries. He asked Song Guo to hand over the murderer and apologize to Bei Guo, otherwise he would send troops south to seek justice by force. This face is really shameless, it is clearly a slap in the face, Yang Hao got angry when he saw it, and immediately wanted to write back and scold him, but when Liu Linxi raised his pen, Yang Hao calmed down, he is now a diplomat, a A qualified diplomat should not have a straight temper and be led by his emotions and anger, but should correct himself and pretend to be an enemy. It is best to make the other party's nostrils smoke, and he can't say a word, eh ... How should I write this letter?
Early the next morning, Bisu came back. He heard that the imperial envoy Xuan Fu sent a group of people back to Beijing, so he chased them back along the Bian River. He failed to catch up with Yang Hao, but met Yan Yan and others. After all, other ships had to give way, so the journey was delayed all the way, the baby was afraid that Yang Hao would be worried, so he asked him to report a letter first. Yang Hao heard that the baby and the others would not come back in two days, he was afraid that his words would not fool Tang Sanshao, so he sent someone to Jie Yanyan to go back, and then asked Bi Su and Xiao Yu to bring some brave guards from the mansion to rush back. He responded, and wrote a letter to Yanyan with his own handwriting, so as to keep his mouth open, so as not to run into someone from the Tang family and say something wrong. After the arrangement here was complete, he changed his official robes and went to Honglu Temple to take up his post.Honglu Temple is a leisurely yamen, but it is also a yamen that pays attention to decency. The front of the gate is very magnificent, with a long row of glazed walls, a gate more than three feet high, and two vermilion lacquer gates painted so that people can see clearly. A pair of majestic stone lions occupy the left and right, majestic and majestic. The surname of Honglu Temple is Zhang, and he has a very elegant name, Zhang Tailiu.But this Zhang Tailiu is not young, he is now in his seventies, his health is not very good, and there is nothing important in the yamen, so he just comes to the yamen every day to order something and leave. Today, Yang Hao took office as a new official, Mr. Zhang specially waited for him for a while, Yang Hao paid a visit to Da Honghe, and was introduced by Da Honghe, met Dian Kecheng Jiao Haitao, master of ceremonies Cao Yiting, director Ning Tianse and a group of subordinates.Da Honglu smiled and said: "Yang Zuo envoy, these are the people in our Honglu Temple. The people in charge are Qing, Shaoqing, Cheng, and the master, oh...now the government has set up Zuo Qing envoy and You Qing envoy, So under this old man, I respect you. The old man is not in good health, and the officials have given permission. You don’t have to sit in the office when you don’t have important things on weekdays. You and the high right envoy discuss and do everything in Honglu Temple. That's it." Yang Hao looked around and wondered: "Master, where is our right envoy, why is he not seen?" Zhangtai Liu Nianxu smiled and said: "The high right envoy has something to do at home today, and he has asked the old man for leave. Our right envoy is named Gao Xiang. He is a learned man and he is easy to get along with. You don't have to worry about it. Jiao Si Cheng, when Envoy Gao You arrives, introduce him to Envoy Yang Zuo. Cough cough, I have an appointment with Imperial Physician Niu, and I have to see a doctor, please stay with me." "Congratulations to the Great Honglu." After sending Zhang Tailiu away, Jiao Haitao, the Chancellor of Honglu Temple who felt ashamed of him, went back to his office with a group of officials. Yang Hao returned to his signing room, looked around, and felt very good about himself.After sitting for a while, Yang Hao sat upright, called the recording officer, and asked him: "What urgent documents do we have in Honglu Temple, please bring them to me." There is no important business in Honglu Temple, and the clerk is not good at telling him that our yamen is just a pot of tea to sit until after get off work, so I have to take some rules and regulations and official documents for him to read. Yang Hao turned for a long time , I didn't see any chance of a business trip, and I couldn't help being disappointed. At this time, a meritorious officer in the hall cast a cold glance at him, whispered a few words to others, and then came to the hall.This person is the confidant of Gao Xiang, the former Shaoqing of Honghe Temple. Gao Xiang was originally the Shaoqing, and Zhang Tailiu is already old. Yang Hao came out in the air, and Shaoqing was divided into left and right, but he wanted to be inferior to others, so he got emotional, and he deliberately didn't come to see him today. This meritorious Cao had heard of the reputation of "Yang Dabangchui" for being ignorant, and he wanted to make a fool of him, so he didn't dare to be the master of everything in the future, so he went to him, bowed respectfully, and said: "The humble Liu Linxi I have seen the envoy of Zuo Qing, the envoy of Gao You has not been in office today, but now there is a letter of credence from the Khitan of the northern kingdom, look..." When Yang Hao heard that it had nothing to do with business trips, he pinched his nose and said coyly: "I am new here, and I am not familiar with everything. Since I am a national book, the matters are not small. Let's wait until the high right envoy arrives." Liu Linxi said embarrassingly: "But... this is a big matter, it's very urgent, if there is a delay..." "Well... then you fetch it, I'll take a look first." Liu Linxi said yes, and rushed there immediately, took a short time to fetch a letter of credence and handed it to Yang Hao, Yang Hao opened it and couldn't help laughing: "Who is this? Ren Shan is being bullied, Ma Shan is being ridden by others, wait for the official to write a letter, and make him roll his eyes." Although Liu Linxi is a small official, but who in Honglu Temple is not well-educated in poetry and books, Liu Linxi was very disdainful when he heard Yang Hao speak so vulgarly, but his face became more respectful: "The lowly job is to study ink for the left envoy. .” Yang Hao picked up the brush, glanced at him, and suddenly said: "Forget it, don't just study ink, well, I said, you write, draft a reply letter." Liu Linxi was stunned, and hurriedly responded: "I obey my orders." He studied the ink, took the pen and paper, sat by the side case, picked up the pen and waited to see what ridiculous words Yang Hao would write in this letter of state, but Yang Hao opened the letter from Khitan again. , Think carefully. This letter of credence is related to the defection case of Shandong officials not long ago, because this case was also used by Zhe Ziyu to make the officials suspect that Luo Kecheng, the deputy envoy of Dongnan Dongdao Transshipment, had contacts with Beiguo, and was suspended for investigation.The details of this case have already been reported by the imperial court, and Yang Hao knew about it because he cared about the case of the Luo family. The cause of the incident was that the spies from the North Kingdom disguised themselves as businessmen and lured Fu Tinghan, the military governor of Dizhou, Shandong, and Mo Yan, the superintendent Mo Yan. Fu Tinghan, while Mo Yan, the prefect of Dizhou, managed to escape to the Northland, leaking the defenses near Dizhou, forcing the court to make major adjustments to the military deployment near Dizhou. At that time, Beiguo sent a team of 100 people to sneak into the middle isolation area agreed upon by the border between the two countries, trying to catch up with the escape of the traitor officials. Zhou Wei, the magistrate of Dizhou, who had already got the news in advance, sent a team to chase and beat the team of 100 people. Flooded. This letter of credence stamped with the seal of Queen Xiao Chuo of the Northern Kingdom confronted the State of Song aggressively, condemning the State of Song for killing the merchants of the Northern State for no reason, and ambushing the patrol team that strayed into the neutral area at the border, actively provoking and trying to create troubles between the two countries. He asked Song Guo to hand over the murderer and apologize to Bei Guo, otherwise he would send troops south to seek justice by force. This face is really shameless, it is clearly a slap in the face, Yang Hao got angry when he saw it, and immediately wanted to write back and scold him, but when Liu Linxi raised his pen, Yang Hao calmed down, he is now a diplomat, a A qualified diplomat should not have a straight temper and be led by his emotions and anger, but should correct himself and pretend to be an enemy. It is best to make the other party's nostrils smoke, and he can't say a word, eh ... How should I write this letter?