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Chapter 1 Thousands of Riders Advocate the New Song Style (1)

On New Year's Day, Zhao Si wore a robe and a crown on his head. He sat upright in the Daqing Hall and accepted congratulations from all civil and military officials and envoys from various countries.

The civil and military officials were wearing court robes of various colors and wearing beam crowns. Zhang Dun, Yao Lin and others, the heads of the civil and military officials who were walking in front, were wearing four beam crowns of Diao Chan cage scarves.

After the civil and military officials finished their worship, they all went forward and offered their offerings.

At the end of the second year of Yuanfu, when Zhao Si was regent, he was abolished and only four masters were left for the purpose of rituals.

Then the envoys from various countries came to congratulate.

The leader of the Northern Liao Dynasty was Yelu Chun.

The golden crown on the top of his head, the tip of the back eaves is long, like a large lotus leaf. He is wearing a narrow purple robe and a golden squid. The deputy envoy Li Chuwen Zhan wrapped a gold belt and wore a Han Dynasty crown on the head, just like the Song people.

When Yelu Chun entered the worship, he stood his left foot, knelt on his right foot, and bowed with his hands on his right shoulder. The deputy envoy bowed like Han Yi and performed a kneeling ceremony.

Zhao Si ordered the Northern Liao commander and deputy envoys to give each a jar of imperial wine, a pair of golden jade flowers, and a pair of jade Ruyi.

Since last year, the Song and Liao dynasties have been as close as paint, as if they were mixing oil in honey.

Even the Liao master Yelu Hongji couldn't help but say to his close ministers: "The new official of the Song State is very sensible. He tried his best to make good with our Great Liao. The relationship between the two countries has not been in a century. He is very pleased."

Next was the Western Xia general Richard Brother and Deputy envoy Zhang Yuanqing. They all wore golden crowns, short and narrow robes, golden robes, hanging their backs, and kneeling in to congratulate.

Last year, under the mediation of Northern Liao, Song and Xia successfully negotiated peace. They each stopped their troops, and the Song State released the switch and allowed the two countries to trade.

Looking at the two of them, Zhao Si muttered in his heart. In the second half of last year, merchants from Liao Kingdom purchased grain, cattle, sheep, horses, and even population in Xixia, causing a lot of gold, silver and copper coins to flow into Xixia.

After the formal peace talks, the ban was officially released, and the number of items such as tea, fairy gods, perfume, silk and other items in Xixia increased sharply.

Look at their outfits, they are really not short of money.

After Brother Richard and Zhang Yuanqing finished the ceremony, Zhao Si gave imperial wine, silver and jade ruyi and other items as usual.

Goryeo and Li Yue envoys were dressed in clothes and crowns like those of the Song people. They followed the Han rituals and spoke Chinese language and went forward to congratulate.

The chief and deputy envoys of the Uighur State in Xizhou all had long beards and high noses, wrapped their heads with silk, and put on their clothes in scattered clothes.

The chief and deputy envoy of the Kingdom of Khotan were wearing small golden flower felt hats, golden silk battle robe and belts, and his wife and children.

The chief and deputy envoy of the Karakhanate had a high nose and blue eyes, and was covered with black. The black turban was wrapped around his head and a black robe wrapped around his body. He was wearing a golden ribbon on his waist.

The gifts they presented included jade, Persian carpets, spices, gold and silver, and even camels, felt woven gold and embroidered silver, which were extremely luxurious and also used as tributes.

Seeing these envoys of the Three Kingdoms, the muscles on Brother Richard's face were shaking constantly.

These three countries are all west of Shazhou and were separated by the Western Xia in previous years.

If you want to go directly to the Song Kingdom and not be exploited by the Western Xia layer by layer, you must detour the Huangtou Uighur Qaidam Basin and then pass through the territory of the various Tubo tribes in Xihai, Hehuang and Tubo. The journey is difficult and the journey is very difficult.

The three countries are so neatly coming now, which only shows that Liangzhou fell into the hands of the Song army in July last year. After Xixia lost control of states such as Hexi and Gansu, these states had not abandoned Xia and joined Song on the surface, but they were very honest and had long been secretly engaged in secret with the Song State.

Moreover, the Song people acted very quickly. In just four or five months, they mobilized envoys from the Three Kingdoms to congratulate.

It should be the merchant group of the Three Kingdoms in Hexi Provinces, and after temptation, they came to change their vests.

Anyway, these merchants are basically relatives of the royal family of their respective countries, and are barely qualified to represent their respective countries.

Brother Richard could imagine how much sensation this wave of envoys and merchant groups would soon be carried by Hexi with a lot of Song Dynasty goods and returned to their respective countries.

Hexi has been isolated for hundreds of years. Although there have been trade groups in exchanges from time to time, under the control of Xixia, it was mainly tax exploitation, and the other was that wars were constantly going on, and the trade routes were not smooth. The desire for silk, tea, porcelain and other goods in the Western Regions, Hezhong, Persia and other countries for Song State had been accumulated for hundreds of years.

It seems like a rolling river is blocked by a dam. Now that the dam is dug up, it can be imagined how big the torrent will flow along the Hexi Corridor. At the same time, it has brought many benefits to the Hexi prefectures.

In this case, if the rulers of the Hexi prefectures do not surrender to the State of Song and connect to the trade routes, the people below will take their heads as confessions!

The foreign envoys who congratulated this time also included the chief and deputy envoys of Chameng, Zhenla and Sanbuqi brought by the South China Sea Chamber of Commerce. They were all thin, black and short, with cloth strips wrapped around their heads, wearing scarf clothes woven with Buddha's face, and presented spices, elephants and other tributes.

There are also five surnames in Qianzhou, with their squids and woven felts, just like monks. Under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, they went up to pay homage to congratulate. Zhao Si issued an edict and gave Han Dynasty brocade jackets and other items.

The finale was that the nine Tubo Zanpus presented their respective lands to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, seeking protection and under the wings of the Song Dynasty.

This is the fruitful result of the Vermillion Bird Banner in Yuanfu in three years.

After annexing the various tribes of the Tubo in Hehuang and the Sila Kingdom in Hehuang, Huluxiong, Gao Yongnian, Li Daofa and others led the cavalry of various wings of the Vermilion Bird Banner. They first bypassed the West Sea and destroyed the Ama tribes, and then defeated the Huangtou Huihe four times, forcing most of their tribes to surrender, and the rest fled to the Xizhou Uighurs.

Continue to climb over Jishi Mountain and start a sweep of the Tuosama tribes in the Heyuan area.

Next, he launched a whirlwind attack on the Qiangtang tribes in the northern part of the old Tubo area, south of the Huangtou Uighur area, as well as the Changdu tribes in the Chamdo River and the upper reaches of the Nujiang River.

The Vermilion Bird Banner Cavalry, which had been trained in the third phase of the Knights, seemed to be reborn, as fast as the wind and plundering like fire. They fought each other, and the Tubo tribes, which had no time to join the throne and cross the line, were defeated.

Ten tribal leaders of all sizes died in battle, but Zamps surrendered without falling. Anyway, they were puppets, and the only thing they rely on was the so-called noble blood flowing on their bodies. They were used to enduring humiliation and would never resist stubbornly.

By the time winter began, the Vermillion Bird Banner had swept nearly half of the old Tubo area, approaching the Uszang area in the Yabu River Basin, the hinterland of Tubo from the north and east.

In the pre-Tang Dynasty, it was extremely powerful, and it was rampant in Longyou, Hexi and suppressed the Western Regions. Now it is crawling in the Daqing Hall of the Song Dynasty, offering land to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to the Emperor.

Auspiciousness is indeed auspiciousness. But Brother Richard's face turned a little darker.

Following closely behind were the local geniuses, scholars, scholars, scholars, farmers, merchants, craftsmen, sailors, monks, Taoists, and Yuni... There were a whole of 166 people, representing the hundreds of millions of common people in the Song Dynasty, and congratulating the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

After congratulations, Wu Qiu, Jia Xiang and Liang Shicheng read out nine edicts respectively.

The first edict was to show the world that the reign of the "Tianqi" will be changed from now on, and the world will be amnesty... After the edict, Zhao Si specifically reminded that the military, civilians and officials in the world do not need to avoid the year title.

The second edict was given to the three late emperors, Taizu, Taizong and his father, Emperor Shenzong.

Emperor Taizu was honored to open the heavens and set off the emperor's great filial piety for the great martial arts, wisdom, spiritual virtue, and sage.

Emperor Taizong was honored as Emperor Tianzhang Dao's divine skills, holy despised and civil and military.

Emperor Shenzong was honored as Emperor Datianmingdao English Martial Arts and Holy Filial Piety.

No one can tell the truth about Emperor Taizu and the emperor was given the title of honor to his father. Zhezong was just an emperor brother and was really not qualified to enjoy the same treatment as Emperor Taizu and his father. This is truly called filial piety.

The third edict, called the "National Style Edict", is the first law of the National Constitutional Code.

The fourth edict, called "The Law of the Administrative Officer, is the second law of the National Constitutional Code, divided into "The Basics of the Central Official System, "The Basics of the Local Official System, "The Law of the Privy Council and the Law of the Military Guards... It formally determined the new official system of the Song Dynasty.

The fourth edict read out the appointments of officials from the center and some localities under the new official system.

Zhang Dun was appointed as the Prince's Tutor, and was appointed as the Minister of State, and was in charge of the country's affairs; Lu Huiqing was appointed as the left Pushe, Huang Fu, and An Tao was appointed as the right Pushe.

Su Che was appointed as the Minister of Secretariat Situ, Zhang Qi was appointed as the Left Chief Secretary, Han Zhongyan, and Cai Bian was appointed as the Right Chief Secretary; Fan Chunren was appointed as the Minister of the Menxia Provincial Department, and was sentenced to the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, Zhang Shangying was appointed as the Left Chief Censor, and He Zhizhong was appointed as the Right Chief Censor.

General Xu was the chief minister of the Privy Council, Sun Lu, Liu Wei, and Chen Shixi were all the chief ministers of the Privy Council, and was also the military consultant, the military capital Yuhou, and the military capital was established.

Zongze was the governor of Hebei County, Lin Xi was the governor of Hedong County, Hu Zonghui was the governor of Qinchuan County, Li Kui was the governor of Quan and Henan County, and Jiang Zhiqi was the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture...

The fifth edict is a State of the Union address, summarizing the military and national affairs of the past year and looking forward to this year's plans.

The sixth edict was the title of title that officially announced several great victories in the northwest.

The documents for awarding titles and awarding medals have been issued long ago, but this time it is just a world of excuses.


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