At the pavilion in the center of the West Lake, a series of large or small, luxurious or elegant pleasure boats slowly docked at the pavilion in the center of the lake. Zhao Kuo, who climbed the pavilion in the center of the lake with Xie Daoqing, looked at the scenery around strangely. Although he had been to West Lake many times, he spent most of his time sitting in a carriage to go to Gushan, and this was the first time he came to this pavilion in the center of the lake.

"It is said that this Huxin Pavilion was built by Ye Qing at that time, and was built for Emperor Xiaozong. At that time, Emperor Xiaozong stayed in Gushan. When he was repairing and expanding the Gushan garden, he built this Huxin Pavilion together." Xie Daoqing explained to Zhao Kuo.

All the way from He Ningmen to Huxin Pavilion, the two of them took different carriages. Only after boarding the pleasure boat did Zhao Kuo have the opportunity to really say a few words to Xie Daoqing.

Xie Daoqing was nearly seven years old, and she was still quite nervous along the way, and was worried that the nobles who came out of the palace would not be easy to get along with. However, since she just climbed the pleasure boat and drove towards the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the short conversation made Xie Daoqing much easier.

It was not as difficult as Xie Daoqing imagined. He often had a smile on his face, his fair cheeks were slightly fat, and he was not very tall. He wore a white narrow-sleeved Confucian scholar's robe. Although he was not as handsome as the wind, he also looked quite elegant.

"No wonder, it seems that Ye Qing still respects Emperor Xiaozong very much." Zhao Kuo agreed with Xie Daoqing's words.

Just like Xie Daoqing, Zhao Kuo was originally worried that Xie Daoqing would feel uncomfortable when he was with him because he came out of the palace. However, seeing Xie Daoqing, who took the initiative to talk to him and introduce the scenery of West Lake since he boarded the pleasure boat, Zhao Kuo's faint concern immediately became relieved.

Xie Daoqing has a cheerful personality. Otherwise, she would not have known Ye Qing, and she would not have dared to shout at the same time as she was uncle after learning about Ye Qing's identity.

The moment he stepped onto the Huxin Pavilion, Xie Daoqing and Zhao Kuo were confirmed. After all, Xie Daoqing brought Zhao Kuo to attend the gathering of young scholars in Lin'an, so everything was naturally dominated by Xie Daoqing.

So Zhao Kuo suddenly had a new name and identity he had thought of: Zhao Gong, Xie Daoqing's cousin.

The name is because he was born in Prince Gong's Mansion, so he named him Zhao Gong. As for Xie Daoqing's cousin, it was Xie Daoqing's proposal.

The trees are shaded and the paths are quiet. There are not many tourists in the entire lake center pavilion, which makes Zhao Kuo and Xie Daoqing feel a little strange, but obviously these are not what they care about, because there are already laughter and joy in the place where the real lake center pavilion is in front of them.

"Zhao Gong, my cousin, from..." Xie Daoqing looked at Zhao Kuo with a fat face, raised his head and thought, "Come to Lin'an from Jiaqing Mansion to have fun. He is your book boy, and these are the servants in your mansion, how about it?"

Zhao Kuo looked back at Wei Jing, who was the eunuch Bin Shutong, and then looked at the strong man who had been following them silently since he got on the pleasure boat. He nodded and agreed to Xie Daoqing and said, "Okay, then you are...my cousin."

"That's right, from now on, I'll be your cousin. After a while, remember to follow me and let me introduce you to who the woman you want to see today." Xie Daoqing, who lowered his voice while walking forward.

Zhao Kuo nodded repeatedly when he listened. The book boy behind him consciously distanced himself from the servants so that the two of them could attend today's rally without being disturbed.

Whether it was Weijing or the guards, they were not worried about Zhao Kuo's safety at this time. After all, today's Huxin Pavilion has been blocked. If you want to step onto the Huxin Pavilion, which is facing water like a small island, you still need to undergo identity checks.

The arrival of Xie Daoqing and Zhao Kuo still made the men and women in the pavilion look at the two of them.

It was not because others were afraid of Xie Daoqing's identity as the granddaughter of Xie Shenfu, the Lin'an pacifier, but because behind Xie Daoqing and Zhao Kuo, and several people including Wei Jing, seemed a little abrupt on this occasion, which attracted the attention of others to look at them.

Zhao Kuo, who noticed a slight strangeness, made a gesture to Wei Jing and others behind his mature hands, and then smiled on his face. He looked at several women of similar age as Xie Daoqing not far away, waving to him and signaling them to come here.

Following Xie Daoqing to the side of the girls, a sound of chattering like a yellow oriole. It sounded obviously much more pleasant than the voices of the ministers in the court.

Zhao Kuo, who instantly became more relaxed and comfortable, listened to Xie Daoqing talking to several sisters while looking at the other people in the huge lake pavilion.

His eyes quickly swept across everyone, and a girl in a slightly secluded direction attracted Zhao Kuo's attention. With such an inadvertent glance, Zhao Kuo didn't even see clearly what others looked like, and his eyes seemed to be attracted by something and turned toward the woman who looked very quiet.

The girl seemed to notice that Zhao Kuo had been staring at her, and unconsciously turned her head and looked over, then saw a boy of similar age. The moment she looked over, she quickly turned her gaze to other places.

"What a beautiful woman..." As soon as the woman looked over, Zhao Kuo turned his eyes away, but it was also because the girl looked at him that Zhao Kuo's heart suddenly beat faster at this moment, and even a slight sense of suffocation.

After realizing that his sleeve was being pulled down, Zhao Kuo turned around and saw Xie Daoqing motioning for him to sit down.

"Do you know all the people here?" Zhao Kuo asked Xie Daoqing, who finally stopped chatting with his sisters.

Xie Daoqing laughed and whispered: "They were still praising you for being handsome just now."

Zhao Kuo became a little uncomfortable in an instant. It was the first time he was praised by someone of similar age. Whether it was true or false, at least this kind of praise was much more useful than the praise of the ministers in the court.

"Don't joke with me." Zhao Kuo, who was a little uncomfortable, said vaguely, but his eyes occasionally glanced at the woman he had just seen.

Xie Daoqing followed Zhao Kuo's gaze. At this time, the woman who had just looked at Zhao Kuo was wearing a light blue shirt and a blue-white wide-sleeved trouser outside. She sat quietly not far away, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and quietly watched the people next to her talking.

"Are you talking about her?" Xie Daoqing pointed at the woman with his own eyes.

Zhao Kuo, who was a little embarrassed to face Xie Daoqing's gaze, secretly glanced at the orchid-like girl in the valley again, and then nodded silently.

For some reason, after Xie Daoqing asked, Zhao Kuo became nervous and even felt at a loss.

"She is the daughter of Han Yanjia, the man in the Ministry of Personnel. Her name is Han Ying. The one over there is her brother and classmate. Almost everyone here is the children of an official family." Xie Daoqing is already the oldest among this group of people.

"Han Ying?" Zhao Kuo subconsciously recited the name, and as for the purpose of his trip, he had gradually thrown it behind him.

At this time, in the Cining Hall of the Imperial Palace, Qingqiu respectfully reported to Li Fengniang about the whereabouts of the current emperor. The high-ranking Empress Dowager Li Fengniang's face was calm, so Zhu Yeer couldn't see it. Is the Empress Dowager happy or angry about the Emperor's private exit from the palace?

"You mean... is Xie Shenfu's granddaughter picking up the emperor outside the palace?" Li Fengniang was silent for a moment before asking Qingqiu, who had been bent.

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, it is the granddaughter of Xie Shenfu, the appeasement envoy in Lin'an." Qingqiu said to Li Fengniang with certainty.

Li Fengniang glanced at Zhu Yeer next to her, sighed slightly, and signaled Qingqiu to retreat.

"This matter must be unrelated to Ye Qing." Li Fengniang's tone was slightly helpless. When Qingqiu mentioned the Lin'an comfort envoy Xie Shenfu, Li Fengniang almost realized that Zhao Kuo's private exit from the palace recently must be because of Ye Qing's instigation.

Xie Daoqing, who was in charge of Zhao Kuo, met Ye Qing by chance for some reason, and she even encountered him.

So at this time, Zhao Kuo was taken out of the palace by Xie Daoqing and went to the West Lake. The purpose was self-evident, probably to get a glimpse of Yan Keji's daughter's appearance.

"Empress Dowager, do you want to send someone..." Zhu Yeer said softly at Li Fengniang with a calm expression.

"No need. Since it has something to do with Ye Qing, there is no need to worry about his safety. Just pretend... I don't know about this." Li Fengniang thought about it, but finally she resisted looking for Zhao Kuo and returned to the palace immediately.

But even if he is so tolerant of Zhao Kuo, Li Fengniang will obviously not be so tolerant of another "culprit". This account will naturally be counted on Ye Qing, who is far away in the north.

In the yamen office in Chang'an City, Ye Qing sneezed several times, which made Yu Yunwen next to him ask worriedly if he had caught a cold.

Ye Qing waved his hand and signaled that he was fine, then said, "What do you think is the safest thing to do about the Eight Thorns? Obviously, if you want him to use it for us, this feasibility is not high. The reason why I am willing to come to Chang'an is obviously still to use our power to help the Liao Kingdom restore the country."

"Since Princess Chengli has decided, the official believes that you don't have to pay attention to him, and I can test it first. In this way, no matter what purpose he is for, we can temporarily keep him in Chang'an and give Li Heng more time to win over the Liao people..." Yu Yunwen suggested to Ye Qing.

"Yelu Yue is more anxious than me. When the cessation is constantly going to be in trouble, she will not want to drag this matter down again. "Yelu Yixue sighed with emotion and continued to say, "Yelu Yixue has set off from Muma Town to Xiping Prefecture. The purpose is to help Li Heng win over the Liao soldiers at the instruction of Yelu Yue. So at present, how to deal with the Basshehei has become quite subtle. Once the killer is used, it will probably affect the morale of the army after the incident, but if you stay in Chang'an, it is obviously not an easy thing. Such a person will inevitably cause trouble for you everywhere, let alone at present... Anbei still needs to mobilize some large troops to Shandong Road immediately. Once the Basshei knows, I am afraid that something will be leaked."

In the next days, Anbei and Anxi will secretly send an army to Jinan Prefecture in order to prepare for the next Northern Expedition. Therefore, there is an unstable factor such as Battish Hei in Chang'an. Although Ye Qing will not affect the overall situation, it is a bit disgusting to think about it.

But if this person was dealt with in Chang'an, Ye Qing was a little worried, which would cause dissatisfaction among the Liao soldiers who were mixed up by Li Heng into the army.

But if he had stayed in Chang'an forever, Ye Qing was also worried that Bashin Hei would notice the movements of various armies in Anbei and Anxi, which would affect his subsequent Northern Expedition.

"Aren't you worried Yelu Chucai?" Yu Yunwen felt that Ye Qing put the cart before the horse in this matter.

Ye Qing shook his head silently, and then said, "Yelu Chucai was a Khitan Liao after all. At present, the Khitan Liao people in the Jin Kingdom have begun to gradually become in opposition to the Jin people. The strategy of adding two households to one household is finally Wanyan Jing did not choose to believe what I said, but planned to do it alone. So once the Khitan Liao people

If the dispute with the Jin people breaks out, it will become easier to fight for Yelu Chucai."

"You won't be..." Yu Yunwen looked at Ye Qing calmly, thought for a while and said, "Once the Andong Protectorate starts the Northern Expedition, are you planning to bring Yelu Chucai with you when you advance from Yanzhou, right?"

"It does have such a meaning, so after I arrived in Chang'an, I ignored Yelu Chucai, just to let him see with my own eyes whether Chang'an under our rule is better than Chang'an under their rule, so that he can attract him to join us. Yelu Chucai was an official in the Jin Kingdom after all, and the Yelu surname was also like a noble in the Jin Kingdom. This is very important for me to attack Jin from Yanzhou to echo Xin Qiji, Mo Xiaobao and the others." Ye Qing stood up and walked to the map, his eyes looked towards Taiyuan, and his heart was beaten quickly, hoping to occupy Taiyuan immediately, thus forming a cross-border attack with Xin Qiji!

"Just that... you are alone and weak. Taiyuan is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Moreover, there is the most important Yanmen checkpoint. If you want to win all of them, when you arrive in Taiyuan, you must divide the troops into two groups and advance in unison. What should you do if you are alone..." Yu Yunwen said with some concern.

He had asked Ye Qing several times to let him go from Yanzhou with him, but Ye Qing refused every time.

Of course, the reason why Ye Qing refused was because he was worried that when attacking Jin, the three Hetao Routes would usher in the invasion of the Mongols from Yinshan. At that time, if the Anbei Protectorate Palace did not have a backbone, it would obviously be impossible to compete with the Mongols.

Although Liu Minxing has been operating the Hetao Three Routes in the past two years, he has worked hard on local officials. Liu Minxing is completely an amateur in commanding troops and can't count on them at all.

"That is why we need to win over Yelu Chucai, hoping that he can be used completely for me at that time." Ye Qing also said helplessly.

It is naturally extremely difficult to attack Yanjing from the west. Whether it was during the Song Dynasty's time to the Liao Kingdom or the Jin people, he had never been involved in Yanmen Pass for so many years. Therefore, it can be imagined that the difficulty of capturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is definitely not because the Song army is weak and the combat effectiveness is not strong. It must be because the checkpoints are all between the mountains and ridges, which has caused various difficulties to the army.

Of course, there is another way, but Ye Qing has never made up his mind whether to do this. Yu Yunwen also said that this matter can be considered as Ye Qing's family matter, and it is not easy for him, the Anbei Protectorate, to make such suggestions.

What's more, although the Liao Kingdom has fallen, Yelu Yue is still the Princess Chengli of the Liao Kingdom. She asked her to fully guard the Hetao Third Route for the Northern Land. She had to worry about the safety of Yelu Yue, and also... the safety of the Northern Land.

This is not because Yu Yunwen believes in Yelu Yue, but because it is reasonable and reasonable, there is no reason to let a princess who has just lost her country help them to defend the rear of the Jin queen in the north.

Just as Ye Qing had almost the same concerns, although he was not worried that Yelu Yue would take this opportunity to restore the country and fight against the Mongols after he attacked Jin and guarded the three routes of Hetao, he had to guard against the Battalion Hei who followed Yelu Yue to Chang'an.

Yelu Yue may be able to decide not to restore the country, but once the three Hetao Routes or the entire Anbei Protectorate were empty due to the attack on Jin, will the Eight Thorns Hei take the opportunity to deceive the Liao army under Yelu Yue and launch a battle to restore the country against the Mongols?

And at that time, once Yelu Yue is a little careless and is successfully bewitched by the Eight Thorns, it will be a serious disaster for Ye Qing or the entire Northland.

Before attacking Jin, Yelu Chucai must be used for his own use, and the hidden danger of Eight Thorns and Hei must be completely dealt with. Otherwise, even if Yu Yunwen guarded the entire Jingzhao Prefecture, for Ye Qing, who had attacked Jin, there was always a vague hidden danger behind him.

"Disposing the Eight-Thorn Black will bring hidden dangers, but not dealing with it will also bring hidden dangers..." Yu Yunwen was also a little confused, and the topic unknowingly returned to the rather difficult issue that Yelu Yue brought back to Chang'an.

"What if I were taking my wife to fight?" Ye Qing suddenly turned his head and murmured at Yu Yunwen.

"This...this..." Yu Yunwen was shocked by Ye Qing's proposal and couldn't speak. He had never heard of father and son soldiers in battle, and had never heard of the couple leading troops together.

"Are you going to collect gold with Princess Chengli?" Yu Yunwen asked with wide eyes.

"There are now 30,000 Liao people in Muma Town. Even if you guard them when I conquer the Jin Dynasty, I am not very relieved. But what if I were with me and fighting against the Jin people for us? What's more, with the deep hatred between the Liao people and the Jin people, coupled with the conflicts between the Khitan Liao people and the Jin people in the Jin Dynasty, then the nearly 30,000 Liao people in Yelu Yue's hands will never be worse than our army in the north, right?" Ye Qing said as he felt that this matter was feasible.

"But will Princess Chengli agree? Besides... you have thought about it. Leading troops to fight is not as easy as living a life. You..." Yu Yunwen's expression became a little strange, and his tone was also questioned: "If this is the battle, once you and your wife have a different relationship, who should you listen to then? Although you are the commander of the first army, your status in the mansion..."

"Get out!" Lord Ye said angrily with a gloomy face.
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