Chapter 353: Responsible for the National Envoy

Gao was silent for a moment and said, "What do you want?"

Chen Ao smiled and said, "How dare students ask for the Empress Dowager's things? But students are juniors. So they have a lot of courage. Just bet on the golden hairpin on the empress dowager's head. If I lose, all the money I won will be returned. If the Empress Dowager loses, they will reward the golden hairpin to the student. How about it?"

A pair of golden hairpins is worth no more than 20,000 yuan. On the surface, it is a big sale with tears in his eyes, but from a deep perspective, the phoenix hairpins are the face of the Empress Dowager and a manifestation of honor. If you lose, it is not the phoenix hairpins that lose, but the face.

Gao smiled and said, "Okay, the Ai family wants to see how powerful you are."

Empress Dowager Qinci gave Chen Ao an encouraging look. Chen Ao cheered up his spirit and shuffled the card. This card Gao's card was good. He had just three hundred words, four hundred words, five hundred words, and another one with ten thousand words, twenty thousand words, and thirty thousand words. The last two were 200,000 words and 400,000 words. A smile appeared on her lips. She had to wait for one 300,000 words and this deck of cards. She had to win the deck of cards.

Gao looked at Chen Ao disdainfully. Seeing Chen Ao frowning deeply, he knew that he had not obtained good cards and felt more and more proud.

Then he grabbed another card, which was a seven-part. Gao's mouth glanced slightly and played the seven-part, and he was determined to catch the 300,000 guan. After a few rounds, Gao was quite impatient. After changing to the past, he had already found this card. In a bad way, Chen Ao, the previous family should have produced one, but he waited around and didn't even have a ten-point card. Gao was already a little anxious.

In fact, she didn't know that Chen Ao had calculated from the few cards she had just drawn that what she wanted should be ten thousand coins. As for the tens of thousands coins, she still didn't know. Therefore, although she had more than ten thousand coins in her hand, she would rather dismantle the cards than play them.

Gao became more and more anxious as he played. He was obviously a good deck, but he was about to fail. When she grabbed a nine cents next time, she simply played 200,000 yuan. She planned to change her luck and dismantle the ten thousand yuan card.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she disassembled her card, she could not regret it. Chen Ao actually played three or four thousand yuan in a row, making her face so angry that she looked blue. When she got together with the nine-part articles, Chen Ao didn't even have another card, and was at the moment when Gao was upset...

Chen Ao put the card on and said with a smile: "Nine Corners, Empress Dowager, the student seems to have won."

Gao looked at Chen Ao's cards with a stern face. Seeing that Chen Ao was indeed playing the cards from Yi Guan to Jiu Guan. He was angry and annoyed, but it was not easy to get into trouble. He took off the phoenix hairpin on his head, then stood up and left. Before leaving, he said to the old eunuch who helped her, "Go, get 20,000 yuan for them." Then he walked quickly.

Empress Dowager Qinci was overjoyed and praised Chen Ao for a few words. In her heart, Chen Ao was just a qualified card friend. Now that she has earned such a big face, she has been very pleased with him. She asked someone to give him some things before she was willing to let him go back.

After playing cards for a whole morning, Chen Ao was a little tired. With a golden hairpin in his arms, Qian Chao left the harem. As soon as he arrived at the front hall, he bumped into Yang Jian. Yang Jian saw Chen Ao from afar, stepped up his steps and said, "Chen Ao, Your Majesty is looking for you, so you are here."

Chen Ao smiled and bowed to Yang Jian, saying, "I played several cards with the Queen Mother and the others, and my father-in-law also knew that it was my first time playing cards and I was always bullied."

Yang Jian giggled: "The family doesn't know you yet. The Empress Dowager left the Empress Dowager's bedroom just now. She looked unhappy and said that she had lost 20,000 yuan and a golden hairpin to give her a bachelor's degree. I also said who is this bachelor's degree? It turns out it was you!" Yang Jian paused and said: "Give the things!"

"Things, what?" Chen Ao felt a thump in his heart.

Yang Jian stretched out his hand: "Golden Chai."

Chen Ao had no choice but to take out the golden hairpin and said, "My father-in-law, this is what I won."

Yang Jian said angrily: "I know you won it back, but you don't think about it. This golden hairpin belongs to the Empress Dowager. Is that the person you should offend? The family will return it for you later. I will say a few good things to you and ask her to keep it up. You dare to take the phoenix hairpin of the Empress Dowager. You are so bold."

Chen Ao had no choice but to give the phoenix hairpin to Yang Jian, and he secretly complained in his heart that he finally won the phoenix hairpin and had to return it. The Empress Dowager's airs are really big.

Yang Jian took the phoenix hairpin, carefully put it away, and then stretched out his hand and said, "What else is there."

"What else?" Chen Ao's eyes were round.

Yang Jian smiled and said, "That 20,000 yuan is the Empress Dowager's wealth and money."

Even the money was confiscated, Chen Ao sweated profusely: "I won all by the Queen Mother, but I didn't win a single point."

Yang Jian looked up and down at Chen Ao: "You kid, even the Zajia family has cheated. The eunuchs in the harem have long reported to Zajia. You won all the money, a total of 21,200 coins, which was handed over to you by Zhou An in front of the Empress Dowager."

Chen Ao had to take out a stack of money and handed it to Yang Jian reluctantly, thinking to himself, does this father-in-law want to be a bad person? Alas, this morning has been wasting many brain cells.

Yang Jian took the money, dipped it in saliva and counted it, and chuckled and said, "Why are there only 20,000 guan, and there are still 1,200 guan."

"Yes, why is there so much missing? It must be embezzled by the guy named Zhou An. I'm going to find him." Chen Ao rolled up his sleeves in anger.

Yang Jian sighed and said, "Don't hide it, hand it over. The family is here to eliminate disasters and send things back. The Empress Dowager has steps, so she will not make things difficult for you in the future."

Chen Ao smiled embarrassedly and had to say, "I'm looking for if I still have it on me." He touched his body and found twelve hundred-ton coins of money, and said in surprise: "Hey, why do you still have so much money on me? It's really strange."

Yang Jian took the money and said with a stern face: "Let's go and see the emperor with the family first."

Chen Ao followed Yang Jian to Wenjing Pavilion. Zhao Ji in the pavilion was stunning at an ancient book. Chen Ao came in without realizing it. Chen Ao walked over carefully and saw that Zhao Ji was reading the book "The Record of Painting Yuntai Mountain". "The Record of Painting Yuntai Mountain" is Gu Kaizhi's painting theory, which tells some of the essence of paintings. It is one of the few authentic works left by Gu Kaizhi, which are extremely precious. Chen Ao has read in later generations, but he is just copybooks.

Zhao Ji raised his eyes with a painful face, sighed, and said, "I really can't bear to send it out."

Chen Ao said: "Your Majesty plans to give this book to Princess Qinghe?"

Zhao Ji then discovered Chen Ao's existence and nodded worriedly: "So what if I don't send it? I can't afford to send this father and daughter. I will send the paintings and let them calm down for a few days. I will also have an explanation in front of my mother. Chen Ao, sit down and talk."

Chen Ao sat down.

Zhao Ji said seriously: "This time I plan to let you be a national envoy, a mission to Liao, and let Wu Wencai, the Ministry of Rites welcomes guests, be your deputy. However, this national letter needs to be carefully considered. Chen Ao, what suggestions do you have?"

Chen Ao thought for a while and said, "The first thing is to make the king of Liao Kingdom surrender."

Zhao Ji said with some embarrassment: "Song and Liao have always signed alliances with brotherly countries. If they ask them to surrender, they are afraid that they will not agree. This matter is related to the face of the Liao people. If this is added, the Liao nobles will definitely oppose it vigorously, and they are afraid that they will miss the big thing."

After the Liao people entered the pass, the Nanyuan had always been governing the country with Confucianism, and he was somewhat infected with the habits of the Han people, which made them surrender, which was even more uncomfortable than them. Zhao Ji had adopted the national policy of joining Liao, so he was determined to conclude a new alliance with the Liao people to consolidate the status of the two countries and resist the Jin Dynasty together. However, he expected that the Liao people would not accept this. Once they accepted it, it would be extremely shocking to the entire Liao Kingdom and would have a very bad effect.

Chen Ao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, since it is a negotiation, it is to ask for a price everywhere and repay the money by landing. If we add this one, the Liao people will definitely fight against this one and they will inevitably neglect the subsequent clauses. At that time, it will be much easier for us to use the first clause to force the Liao people to accept other clauses."

Zhao Ji couldn't help laughing, and immediately understood Chen Ao's trick. The first one was just a guise to attract firepower. It was used to scare the Liao people. When the Liao people saw it, they praised you. You are a big-headed ghost. This is related to the decency of the entire Liao Kingdom. So they used all their thoughts to compete with Shen Ao for the first one. At that time, Chen Ao reluctantly deleted the first one and made such a big "concession". Shouldn't the Liao people express their opinions and regress on other terms obediently?

"You are right. This one must be added. The Liao people bullied our Song Dynasty for so many years. I will scare them first." Zhao Ji felt a sense of pleasure that the haze in his chest was wiped out. He laughed a few times and said, "What's next?"

Chen Ao said: "The first is to surrender, and the second is to ask the Liao Kingdom to return the sixteen states of Yanyun. The sixteen states of Yanyun are the foundation of the Liao people at the moment. Of course, they will not be willing to repay them. However, we first propose to ask for the sixteen states. The lion opened his mouth and then bargained with the Liao people. At least a few states would be brought back."

Zhao Jihe nodded: "You are right, take back a few states." He was quite excited. When Emperor Taizu was there, he could not even get a small piece of land from the Liao people. Today, he took back a few states, which was enough for him to leave a good reputation for expanding territory. Who doesn't like the name in history, let alone get it at your fingertips.

Chen Ao put forward many conditions, such as how many war horses are contributed every year, sending princes to take hostages, etc., it is the same thing. However, in the past, most of the lions of the Liao Kingdom spoke loudly, but today the Song people are proud.

Zhao Ji was very happy and said, "Okay, I will ask the Ministry of Rites to write the national letter immediately. Go back immediately and be ready to listen to the orders at any time. Chen Ao, please give you all my connections with Liao. Show your spirit of refusing to suffer losses and give the Liao people some strength."

If it weren't normal, Zhao Ji wouldn't say such a rascal rogue thing? It's just that after being with Shen Ao for a long time, he was infected by him with a little unwilling to suffer losses. He said it in one sentence and felt extremely happy.
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