In the Liaoyang Palace, Li Shi'er finally decided to meet the former prefect Lu Long.

Zhao Paner and Xie Daoqing also came to the main hall where Li Shier came together.

In the imperial study room of the palace, Wanyan Tak, who dared to sit upright when facing Zhao Kuo, was actually not even sitting when facing Li Shi'er. Even though Li Shi'er signaled him several times, Wanyan Tak stood stubbornly and showed great respect.

Li Shi'er obviously did not expect that she had just been grateful to Wanyan Tu for helping him guard the house in Lu Long, and asked Ye Qing for personal relationships to promote Wanyan Tu. However, she did not expect that in just a short time, Wanyan Tu had become an important official of the Song Dynasty court.

This made Li Shi'er seem a little dazed for a moment. I don't know if the Jin Kingdom didn't know how to use people, or if he was wise and had a sharp eye, he actually gave Song Ting such an usable talent.

"You don't have to thank me. These are all your own efforts. If you don't have the ability, the court will not reuse you." Li Shi'er said lightly.

Wanyan bowed respectfully and then said, "If the princess recommends it, the official will never be there today. So after the princess comes out of the palace, he will go straight to you to see what you have to give. The official will go south to Yangzhou to handle some local government affairs. If the princess needs it, the official can bring it back for you."

"No need, there is nothing here. Even some things in the south will be given there." Li Shi'er said.

There naturally refers to the Yan Prince's Mansion. Although Ye Qing is not in Yanjing, the things transported from Yangzhou and other places to the Yan Prince's Mansion will deliberately leave a copy for the Liaoyang Prince's Mansion.

"Then the official will say goodbye." Wanyan Tu didn't dare to stay in the Liaoyang Palace for too long. This is why he never dared to sit down and talk to Li Shi'er.

If Ye Qing was in Yanjing, it might be better, but now Ye Qing is far away in Changling, Wanyan Shu needs to carefully grasp his attitude towards paying homage to Li Shier.

Li Shi'er nodded without saying a word, and then when Wanyan Tsu was about to leave, he said, "If you should write to the King of Yan, you will write. If you have anything to say, if you don't understand, ask as soon as you should. By the way, since all the troops have been sent to you for the breaking camp, whether it is Wanyan Chen or Wanyan Xielie, let them have a long experience with you."

"The official understands, the official will do it now." Wanyan Tu responded without hesitation.

Monk Wanyan Chen and him have been to many places. This time, Wanyan Xielie planned to let him follow Yelu Chucai to Taiyuan Prefecture, Kaifeng and Luoyang Prefecture.

As for Qishilie Baishan, he had already followed the King of Yan to Liaoyang Prefecture earlier, and is still waiting for Ye Qing in Liaoyang Prefecture in Changling.

At this time, a map that was not too big but very exquisite was piled up at Changling Pass.

Mr. Liu Ke was looking at the vast mountains and rivers with great enthusiasm, and then pointed to the crescent-like lake in the distant north and asked, "Where is this?"

"Lake Berga." Ye Qing said lightly.

Master Liu Ke looked at it with relish, nodded repeatedly, and then pointed to the peninsula in the east: This place must be Goryeo, a remote place, which is indeed not worth our waste of time and energy.

This is the grassland, which goes straight west along the Hexi Corridor, this is the desert, Kunlun Mountains, and further west... This is the so-called Pamir Plateau?

So what you mean is... the Kunlun Mountains and Karakoram Mountains must be included in the territory of our Song Dynasty? Should we use this Himalayas as our Song Dynasty?

"It's a bit hard for us without the help of the Mongols, and if something goes wrong in the process, the court will put a lot of pressure on us. If we want to achieve peace in the world and place more territory that is beneficial to us, we cannot do without their help." Ye Qing sighed behind his hands.

Master Liu Ke nodded silently. From then on, his gaze almost never left the entire Western Regions.

After a long time, he said, "Fortunately, when Xie Shenfu was appointed as the left prime minister, he did not attack Xiping Prefecture and other places, otherwise everything would have to be started over again."

Ye Qing curled a disdainful arc at the corner of his mouth and snorted: "Do you think he doesn't want to? It's just that no one is willing to go. Although Xiping Prefecture and other places are already the territory of our Song Dynasty, the people of Xia and Liao are still the main body. Those officials who want to be promoted from the south to the north know better than anyone else. Although the career is very important, there is only one life after all. Therefore, even Xie Shenfu dared to easily get involved in these places."

"After Xiping Prefecture, this vast and deserted territory is almost always under the control of the Mongols, and there is also the Tubo... These can not be completed in a year or two." Liu Keshi shook his head and said, just by looking at the terrain map, he felt an invisible huge pressure.

There are mountains that stretch for hundreds or even thousands of miles, and some peaks are covered with snow all year round. If you want to cross mountains and ridges, you may not be able to do without a few good guides. Even if the army goes deeper, you may be lost in it.

If you think about it, Liu Keshi had to admire the tenacity and pioneering nature of the Mongols. After all, these places were more like a completely unfamiliar extraterritorial world, and there was an absolute difference between them and the poetic and picturesque southern land and the bold and bold northern land.

If the Song court was still in peace with Lin'an, Jiangnan, I am afraid it would be Liu Keshi himself, even in his dreams that one day the court could lead to magnificent places.

But he really wanted to figure out why Ye Qing was so fascinated by these places.

And judging from his current situation, Ye Qing must have not just started planning recently. Obviously, he has already had intentions and ambitions about these territories in his mind.

"The mountains are high and the water is far away, and the desolate and empty. I am afraid that birds are unwilling to fly over this place. Why does King Yan... have a special liking for this?" Liu Keshi finally asked the doubts in his heart.

After all, not only in Liu Keshi's opinion, even any official from the Song Ting Dynasty would not think that these places would be of any help to the Song Ting Dynasty.

"Who knows, I just feel that I feel unique and greedy." Ye Qing did not answer directly, picked up the teacup, opened the window, and let the sunlight shine into the room. A slight cool breeze blew over my face, and I felt indescribable.

Master Liu Ke also knew Ye Qing very well. Seeing that Ye Qing did not give the reason, he stopped asking, but he had already secretly remembered Ye Qing's ambitions in his heart.

Although it was enough to keep his name in history to regain lost territory, fall into Xia, Liao and Jin, Liu Keshi was not without greater ambitions, let alone following Ye Qing, which made him regard every move of Ye Qing as a feat of creating the world since time.

So, since Ye Qing has such ambition, then he should follow this ambition to make suggestions and do something!

Otherwise, he, a weak scholar who came out of the alley of Yangzhou, would have no chance to see a different world in his life?

"I'll count it at that time?" Liu Keshi stood behind Ye Qing and said with a breeze blowing on his face.

Ye Qing turned around in surprise, looked at Master Liu Ke with a serious face, and said a little strangely: "You have a lot of ambitions. Even the Anton Protectorate can't satisfy your ambitions?"

"It's not important to be ambitious or not, and fame and fortune are not important at the moment." Liu Keshi smiled, then took a deep breath, and then sighed: "People, to put it bluntly, are cheap. When there was nothing, they only wanted to make achievements and leave their reputation in history. But when all this was already in their hands, they felt that these were not what they wanted, what they wanted... it seemed like the whole heaven and earth!"

"You just say this in Changling. If you say it elsewhere, be careful that the court impeaches you for rebellion." Ye Qing said with a curvy smile.

Master Liu Ke was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that from some point on his mind, he seemed to have forgotten what the current surname of Jiangshan in the Song Dynasty was.

"Thank you, King Yan, for reminding me, I was really presumptuous just now." Master Liu Ke said hurriedly.

"Okay, don't be hypocritical. As long as I, Ye Qing, have no intention of rebellion, you are all loyal ministers of the court." Ye Qing said with a smile.

Master Liu Ke stroked the short beard on his chin, shook his head and laughed, and then said, "Will the Xiaguan still have a chance to go to Xiping Prefecture?"

"Anxi Protectorate, Xin Qiji and I are now serving as deputy Protectorate. The Protectorate was originally King Qing Zhao Kai, but he had already quit last year. The time has not yet come, so let's talk about it later." Ye Qing thought for a while and said.

When he was traveling from Yanjing to Liaoyang Prefecture, Zhao Kuo came to visit him in person. The two of them also spoke openly about Anxi, Andong, and Anbei Protectorate in their study.

Originally, they were all taken from afar by King Qing Zhao Kai, but the actual power was controlled by the two deputy lieutenants.

Although Zhao Kuo had no intention of competing with Ye Qing for anything, he still asked about the three major protectors. Ye Qing did not hide anything and frankly talked about the three major protectors.

In the end, what surprised Ye Qing was that Zhao Kuo hoped that Ye Qing would be appointed as the Protectorate. Of course, the appointment and removal could not be appointed and removed by Ye Qing himself, but the court would be appointed and removed by him.

Zhao Kuo is not very concerned about the territory close to the border in the north, just like the mentality of a nouveau riche. Now in Zhao Kuo's mind, these places can be regarded as the territory of the Song court, or as not the territory of the Song court.

After all, even when the Song Dynasty was established, those places had no relationship with the imperial court.

Now that the territory of the Song Dynasty has expanded like this, he, the emperor, is naturally happy, but if he loses it one day, he will not be too angry. After all, for Zhao Kuo, how to protect the territorial cities that the Song Dynasty established was his top priority.

When the two were silent, the door of the room was knocked open. Zhong Can walked in and said excitedly: "King Yan, Chi Lao Wen has arrived outside Changling, and now he is ready to enter the pass."

"We're finally here." Master Liu Ke said, rubbing his hands impatiently.

Ye Qing also let out a long sigh. Chi Lao Wen finally couldn't stand the pressure. Since he was here, it would be half the success.

Of course, it is impossible to deal with Chi Lao Wen as simple as dealing with Yao Li. Moreover, his purpose for Chi Lao Wen is different from that of Yao Li.

Yao Li can control it, but Chi Lao Wen can only cooperate.

Of course, this is because Chi Lao Wen has what Ye Qing wants here, and Ye Qing also has the benefits that Chi Lao Wen wants under the current situation.

Chi Lao Wen's sister, He Daan is Queen Temujin, so as long as you know this, you can almost easily judge that Chi Lao Wen's support for Tolei and will not support Chagatai and Ogedei.

It is precisely because of this that Temujin once asked Tolei to go to Yanjing to find Ye Qing, so no matter what, as long as Ye Qing tied himself and Tolei together, it would be equivalent to having a force that cannot be underestimated on the grassland.

What we need to do now is how to form an alliance with Chi Lao Wen to the outside world, and then expand territory, and overtake the entire Western Regions and Tubo from the Mongolian to the territory of the Song court.

The grassland needs a certain degree of independence, and through war and powerless conquest, all they can obtain is a brief surrender.

If you want to connect the bloodlines of Tubo, grassland, and Western Regions with the Central Plains, in addition to civilizational assimilation and recognition, what is more important is how to make the Central Plains a fertile soil that can't survive if the grassland leaves the Western Regions.

Master Liu Ke has already followed Zhong Can to greet Chi Lao Wen, so Ye Qing naturally does not need to lower his posture to greet him, but he naturally has to come out to host tonight's welcome banquet, which can be regarded as giving Chi Lao Wen face. Of course, it is more because of Tolei.

Chi Laowen was not surprised that Ye Qing did not appear immediately.

I have been to Yanjing once. Although I feel a little bit impatient about the hospitality method of Central Plains, I do not show any impatientness. Even because I have been to Yanjing, I have now adapted to this kind of polite greeting without any substance.

"The King of Yan has official duties at this time, so he cannot come out to welcome the commander. However, after completing the official duties, he will come to see the commander immediately." Liu Keshi smiled and brought Chi Lao Wen into the conference hall to rest.

Chi Laowen still likes to go straight: "You Central Plains people have a lot of intestines. Because of your own identity, you don't have to go around the old."

Mr. Liu Ke was not embarrassed at all. He was still a look of being told by the facts and making up for it.

"If it were others, maybe we would still do this, but as the commander of the Qixue Army, if so, we would seem to be disgraceful. I hope the commander will be in a state of great importance." In short, Liu Keshi's words were unnutritional, which meant that even if you, Chi Lao Wen, didn't believe it, you had to pretend that it was just like that, otherwise, the topic would not be able to continue.

Chi Lao Wen obviously doesn’t want to worry about this. If you make the decision on your territory, you can do whatever you say.

Of course, the incident of going to Yanjing also made Chi Lao Wen realize that although the people in the Central Plains liked some stupid things, they were unambiguous when they encountered something.

Just like when they were blocked at the gate of Yanjing, the people of the Central Plains did not show a kindness or a kind of attitude of turning big things into small things, but instead gave them a tough warning at the gate of the city.

So this made Chi Lao Wen realize that the people of the Central Plains were not as afraid and cowardly as they thought.

After some politeness, Liu Ke ordered people to bring Chi Lao Wen to the courtyard where he temporarily lived. Around the courtyard, Liu Ke did not deliberately argue with Chi Lao Wen, so he allowed the Qixue army he brought to guard.

As for the other Qiexue troops, they were naturally arranged in the military tent, and the Song Dynasty's Huahua family army was "guarding" around them.

As night fell, in an open space in Changling Pass, a pile of firewood used for bonfires had been set up, and the fat sheep had been set up on several small bonfires.
Chapter completed!