The Prime Minister's Mansion is lively, and of course the palace is not lonely.

Dali likes to imitate the Song Dynasty everywhere. The Song Dynasty has Funing Hall, and Dali also has Funing Hall.

What is Funing Hall used for? It is the place where the emperor eats and rests, and it is also a bedroom.

In the magnificent Funing Hall of the Dali Palace, Duan Xingzhi drank tea while looking at the "China News Agency of the Great Song Dynasty".

When he saw the publication of the Hu people losing more than 50% in Xi County, he couldn't help but pat the table.

"This Hu man is not that powerful, right?" Duan Xingzhi said while reading the newspaper.

While being excited, he couldn't help but ask the eunuch beside him: "Zuisheng, how do you view this matter?"

"I don't know." The eunuch beside him lowered his head and felt ashamed of his incompetence.

It seems that Duan Xingzhi was so worried that he had asked Yu Blind.

Sure enough, I am really alone, and no one has ever shared my worries.

Although this palace belongs to itself, it is actually like a cage.

The one who imprisons himself is not someone else, but the person from the Gao family.

The imperial guards here may also have people from the Gao family, who speak carefully.

The eunuch may be his own person, but he has limited knowledge after all.

By the way, how could I forget someone?

He waved to the eunuch and signaled him to come over: "Go and call Zixin (Duan Shi, Duan Xingzhi's biological brother)."

"Your Majesty, is it still here?" The eunuch was about to leave just now, and suddenly felt something was wrong. This was the bedroom.

Duan Xingzhi thought for a while and said, "Qinzheng Hall, no, it is Funing Hall."

There are imperial guards in Qinzheng Hall, so it is inevitable that there are people from the Gao family, so it is better to have some insurance here.

After a stick of incense, a handsome boy wearing a python robe came in.

This person is nothing else, but his younger brother Duan Shi, King Qin.

Duan Shinian is very young, seventeen years younger than him, only eighteen this year, and just became an adult.

"Report to the emperor, I don't know what to do to find my foolish brother?" Duan Shi came to Funing Palace and looked at the absence of a queen or concubine, then bowed and asked carefully.

Duan Xingzhi saw his eyes and knew his thoughts. His brother was really an honest person.

He couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry, there are no women here. Of course, there is something wrong with me, and it is a very important thing."

After Duan Xingzhi finished speaking, he handed Duan Shi the "Song of China News" in his hand, and he devoted himself to dealing with the drunk spring breeze.

Duan Shi took the newspaper and carefully read the important news, without letting go of a word.

Although Duan Xingzhi was tasting tea, his eyes were still on his brother's expressions, and he was seen becoming more and more serious.

He sipped the tea gently, looked at Duan Shi and asked, "My brother, what do you think after reading the newspaper?"

"Brother, it seems that the disaster in Dali is coming soon." Duan Shi's expression changed drastically, and his face turned into a look of fear and fear.

Duan Xingzhi's eyes were also panicked, and he nodded at the same time: "The Hu people have no way to deal with Da Song, so they vent their anger on Dali. This is my brother. What is the key to this benefit to the Duan family?"

"The advantage is that the Hu people massacred the city, and the royal family of the Xixia and Jin Kingdom were almost completely slaughtered." Duan Shi couldn't help but smiled miserably when he thought of this, "Although the Duan family in Dali does not have much real power, after all, they have been rooted in Dali for hundreds of years. Will the Hu people let it go?"

"Although the Duan family is now a royal family, in fact, there is no real power. Brother, what should we do when facing the invasion of the Hu people?" Duan Xingzhi looked painful on his face, nodded and felt deeply in agreement, and he couldn't help but ask.

Duan Shi also took a sip of tea and fell into deep thought. After a long time, he said, "What are you afraid of? Someone is even more panicked than us. Now the Gao family is more anxious than us. There are tall men holding on to them under the sky."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. The emperor should have been worried about state affairs, but now the emperor is not in a hurry to be eunuch.

If you think it is wrong, it should be that the emperor is not in a hurry to the prime minister.

If it is the most cowardly emperor in the world, it must be the Duan family in Dali.

"It's wrong, brother, there is a chance in crisis, crisis, danger." Duan Xingzhi did not agree with his brother's words, but shook his head, looked at his brother, and said thoughtfully.

Duan Shi was shocked and did not understand for a moment: "Brother, it is obvious that the disaster is coming, what chance is there?"

"What if I ask the little saint to come to Dali in the name of the Dali royal family?" Duan Xingzhi did not answer his question, but instead reminded him.

Duan Shi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother, I am not a blow to your enthusiasm, your order is not to leave the palace."

Duan Xingzhi was not discouraged, but looked at Duan Shi and showed a smile: "My foolish brother cannot leave the palace, but his virtuous brother can leave the palace."

He said this, but did not continue, but looked at Duan Shi with deep meaning.

Duan Shi certainly knew his brother’s thoughts, and he kept weighing the gains and losses in his heart.

There is no possibility of falling pie in the sky, and there must be risks in doing things.

The greater the risk, the greater the profit.

I wonder if the benefits or risks are big in this matter?

Duan Shi suddenly stood up from his seat and circled around the desk.

"Brother, are you trying to get a trick to drive away tigers and wolves?" He walked a few times, stopped suddenly, staring at Duan Xingzhi.

Duan Xingzhi nodded and smiled bitterly: "Brother, what other methods do the Duan family have in addition to this method?"

"This is an opportunity. But the Duan family can consider it, and the Gao family may not have considered it." Duan Shi thought for a while and finally said a prompt.

Duan Xingzhi also stood up from the chair and asked, "If you were a little saint, would you choose a royal cooperation with a name but no power, or a powerful minister with a name but no power?"

Duan Shi did not speak, but suddenly sat down in the chair, drinking tea while falling into deep thought.

"Brother, this is the only chance God has given to the Duan family. There is only one opportunity, and loss will never come." Duan Xingzhi looked at Duan Shi who was thinking while drinking tea.

Duan Shi drank all the drunken spring breeze from the teacup in one sip, and stood up and bowed respectfully to Duan Xingzhi: "Abide by the order."

Duan Xingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, found an extremely thin rice paper, wrote a few lines, and then stamped it with a seal, and handed it to Duan Shi solemnly.

Duan Shi pulled out the dagger, carefully wrapped Duan Xingzhi's edict on the dagger, and then carefully put it into the scabbard.

"Please." Seeing Duan Shi accomplished this matter so meticulously, Duan Xingzhi bowed to Duan Shi.

Duan Shi returned the courtesy without being arrogant or humble, and then left with his pride.

After Duan Shi left, Duan Xingzhi felt that there was nothing to do for the moment, and then opened the "Three Kingdoms".

If the Hu people were the Wei Kingdom among the Three Kingdoms and the Song Kingdom was the Wu Kingdom, then Dali would be the weakest Shu Kingdom.

It is the best strategy to make friends with the Song Dynasty to deal with the Hu people, but now the Song Dynasty court does not have this awareness.

It seems that the Song Dynasty's court has no vision, but unexpectedly, this was seen by the little saint Zhao Ping.

Thinking of this, Duan Xingzhi couldn't help but shake his head, then folded the newspaper and placed it on the bookshelf, then spread the rice paper and wrote with a pen.

He unconsciously set two big characters, one was Liu and the other was Cao. Then he placed it on the pen holder and said to himself: "Which is my Liu Bei? Is it the little saint Zhao Ping?"

Thinking of this, he took Zhao Ping's "War Talk", rubbed his forehead, tore the two big words he wrote to pieces, and threw them into the trash can.

"Dad, are you writing again?" A crisp voice like a yellow oriole came from behind him.

He knew who this person was, but he just focused on the words and did not look back.

Although he ignored this person, this person disturbed him.

This is a little princess about ten years old who is made of pink and beautiful. When she saw Duan Xingzhi ignore her, she simply shook Duan Xingzhi's arm with her slender and fair little hands.

Duan Xingzhi was shaken by Huai and no longer wrote in his heart. He had to put the ink pen on the pen holder and look at the cute little princess with a smile.

Seeing Duan Xingzhi throwing his words into the trash can, she stepped forward and slowly polished ink for Duan Xingzhi, while looking at Duan Xingzhi and said pitifully: "Dad, can you write to Yanyu too?"

Duan Xingzhi glanced at the most beautiful princess in Dali, smiled kindly and said, "Okay, OK!"

Then, he wrote two words with his pen: "Yanyu".

The little princess looked at the font, looked up at Duan Xingzhi and said, "Okay, Dad is writing about my name again, thank you dad."

After saying that, the little princess blew the words dry, carefully put them away, and asked the palace maid to put them away.

Duan Xingzhi kindly glanced at the little princess and suddenly had an idea.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the situation in Dali Kingdom was much more complicated.

In fact, in the south of the Song Dynasty, there were not only small countries such as Dali and Annan, but also small countries such as Qi, Luo family ghost countries, Luodian countries, and Tian family or local regimes.

The Luo Family Ghost Kingdom is in Bijie and is the predecessor of the Shuixi Tusi.

Luodian was in the Zhenfeng area of ​​southwestern Guizhou, and it was the only way for the Song Dynasty to buy horses from Guangxi to Yunnan.

The Tian family is equivalent to the Tujia chieftain later, which is about the smallest among the four small countries in Qianjiang and Shizhu.

The Luo family ghost country, Luodian country, and Tian family were enthroned by the Song Dynasty.

The country of Qi is the largest among the four small countries, and its area is larger than the other three small countries combined, but it has not been officially enthroned by the Song Dynasty.

Although Dali is a country, it is similar to a tribal alliance, and it can also be said to be an emirate, similar to Mongolia before the reunification.

The main sphere of influence of the Gao family is in Yaozhou, Shanchan, and the actual control is approximately equivalent to the current Kunming City in Yunnan, Yimen, Yiliang, Lufeng, Songming, Yao'an and other places.

The Duan family's sphere of influence is smaller, mainly near Dali City.

Other places in Dali are tribes or aristocratic spheres of influence, and they only accept Dali's rule in name.

There are two main forces in Dali, one is Baiman and the other is Wuman.

If the Duan family and the Gao family are outstanding representatives of the Baiman family, then the Ziqi country is outstanding representatives of the Wuman family.

After the Gao family obtained real power in Dali, they planned to learn from the Song Dynasty and truly unify Dali, and later sent troops to Wuman.

From the perspective of Dali Country, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

However, for the Wuman tribe, this is a bad thing to destroy their tribal power.

In the third year of Yuanfu in the Song Dynasty (1100), in order to resist the land occupied by the Gao family of the Dali Kingdom, Shizong, Maitreya, Jishu and other tribes jointly established the Ziqi Kingdom with the 37 tribes of the Yi people in eastern Yunnan under the leadership of the leader Ziqi.

These were from Qi Kingdom and were the ancestors of the Yi people in later generations.
To be continued...