While Kou Ji was thinking about it, Youzhou City was near.
A long distance away, Kou Ji saw the towering Youzhou City.
It retains the unique city walls, city gate caves, city gate towers, and crevices of the Han city, but there are Liao flags on it.
Except for those Liao Banners, there is not much difference in other places from Kou Ji's cities in the Song Dynasty.
Kou Ji even had the feeling of entering a palace in the Great Song Dynasty.
This is the performance of Liao people's sinicization for many years.
In the Liao Kingdom, Youzhou City is considered to be the most thoroughly sinicized place.
The people here are almost the same as the people of the Song Dynasty in dress, and there is not much difference even in terms of speech.
Meetings and shouts are all in Chinese.
There are Han and Liao people among them, but when they all wear Han costumes and speak Chinese, you can't tell who is Liao and Han.
In the eyes of these people, Kou Ji didn't see the kind of expectant eyes that turned to the Han Dynasty, nor did he see the eager eyes after seeing the Great Song Envoy.
Some have only curiosity, doubts, and even a hint of arrogance.
Kou Ji knew that no matter what identity, background, or blood these people used to be, they are now Liao people.
He felt sad about this, and he also felt a trace of anger.
Therefore, when an official from Liao State with a felt hat and claiming to be Xiao Bidi appeared, he didn't give the other side a good face.
Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng also didn't give him a good face.
It's not that Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng were also angry, but Xiao Pidi claimed to be Lin Ya in the north of Liao State.
Lin Ya is an official position in the Privy Council of Liao State, which can be both civil and military.
Lin Ya, to the north, is in control of Wenhan's affairs.
Similar to a deputy prince of the Privy Council of Song Dynasty, the rank is not high.
In the Song Dynasty, it was an official position with a bit of power but no sense of existence.
In Liao State, it can be regarded as a powerful official position.
But the same grade is not high.
The reason why Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng didn't give him a good face was because of his rank.
Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng were also second-rank officials in the Song Dynasty.
They traveled to Liao as an envoy of the Song Dynasty, and the Liao country had to send an official of the same second grade to receive them.
Sending a low-level official to receive them was a humiliation in the eyes of both of them.
Although the three of them were displeased, they didn't show off on the spot.
As foreign envoys to Liao, especially in public, they will naturally pay attention to etiquette.
Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng did not speak during the whole process.
Only Kou Ji had a casual conversation with Xiao Pidi, and then under the leadership of Xiao Pidi, the group went to the post house in Youzhou City.
On the way to the post house, Kou Ji also took a good look at the streets of Youzhou City.
He found that the streets of Youzhou City, although not as prosperous as Lizhou Bridge Street and other places in Bianjing City, are more than enough to surpass the downtown area of Xiwazi City.
What he can buy in Bianjing City is also not lacking in Youzhou City, but in terms of price, it may be more expensive.
Kou Ji even saw the shadow of Kou Bus on the street.
It has been less than two years since he created this thing, but it has already circulated to Liao.
Looking at the eyes of the people on the street looking at Kou Bus, they seemed to have been used to seeing Kou Bus, and they did not feel novel because of the appearance of Kou Bus.
Obviously, this thing has been circulating in Liao country for a long time.
Xiao Pidi took Kou Ji and his party to the post house, confessed to the chief of the post house, and after taking good care of Kou Ji and his party, he said goodbye.
Xiang Minzhong and Wang Zeng took Kou Ji and other officials and settled in the post.
Peace talks cannot be negotiated in a day.
It's not that after the delegation of the Great Song Dynasty arrived, they talked right away.
The ancients seem to like to pick a day, no matter what you do, you always have to choose, choose a suitable day.
It seems that this thing shouldn't be done before days are passed.
The Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu was probably also waiting for the day, and when he was in his best mood or when he was in the worst mood, would he summon the Da Song envoy.
So when Xiang Minzhong, Wang Zeng and others arrived at the inn, they fell asleep.
The two old men couldn't stand their bones and were tired and needed a good rest.
Those young officials who accompanied him, or those officials who had never been to the Liao State, did not sleep in a hurry, but left the post house in groups of three or five.
When they left, they specially found a few Liao people to accompany them in the inn.
The purpose is probably to let the Liao people prove their status as envoys when they run into trouble, so that they can get through.
Kou Ji did not go out with them, he chose to stay in the post.
It's not that the officials didn't invite him, but that he really didn't know what he could do when he got out of the station.
Although Kou Ji is greedy for food and drink, he is not obsessed with it.
He is not very interested in the local customs of Liao.
What should be seen, what he wanted to see, he had already witnessed them as early as when he entered the city, there was no need to make a special trip out again.
As for going out to appreciate the style of Liao women, Kou Ji is not interested.
Ever since he saw Xiang Yan who had opened up, he has not shown much interest in other women.
In his eyes, few women's looks can match Xiang Yan.
Guarding such a delicate flower and not picking it, go out to pick other burnt flowers
He is really not as elegant as that leisure time.
Even if it did, it would have to wait until he ruined Xiang Yan's delicate flower before it would be born.
Xiang Wang's two elders fell asleep, the other officials went out, and Kou Ji came down in his spare time. Feeling a little bored, he picked up a pen and began to write a letter.
In the past few months in the army, he didn't learn anything else, and he became extremely proficient in writing letters.
In the later age of advanced technology, writing letters is a very boring thing for him.
But now, writing letters is an extremely interesting thing for him.
He wrote to Zhao Zhen and told Zhao Zhen what he had seen and heard when he went out, and when Zhao Zhen replied, he found it very interesting to see the ignorance and envy in the lines between Zhao Zhen's words.
At this time, he always gave birth to some superiority that was more comfortable than the emperor's.
He writes to Xiang Yan, and most of the time he tells Xiang Yan what he has seen and heard outside, and occasionally will be mixed with a straightforward love sentence or two, which will tease one or two. Every time he got a reply from Xiang Yan, he would smile as treacherously as a weasel who stole a chicken.
Because when Xiang Yan wrote back to him, he always complained about Kou Ji's writing of love words so straightforwardly, and then secretly left a line or two of love poems at the end of the envelope.
He just likes this feeling of rejection and welcome.
It's just that Kou Ji also finds it boring to write too many straightforward love words.
He felt that he had to learn from Xiang Yan and write a love poem or two to let Xiang Yan know that he is also an educated person, just hiding and not leaking.
After making a decision, Kou Ji swiped his pen and wrote a sentence.
Bowl…
But before he continued to write, he heard a faint voice behind him.
"Your kid likes to be scolded by the old man's granddaughter?"
Kou Ji shook his pen in his hand and turned around abruptly. He saw Xiang Minzhong didn't know when he appeared behind him. He stared at the poem he wrote with a strange expression on his face.
Kou Ji stretched out his hand to cover the poem he wrote, and said angrily: "Why are you like Chen Lin, walking without sound?"
Xiang Minzhong's gaze slowly retracted from the paper he was holding under Kou Ji's hand, and he tossed his sleeves, and said faintly: "The old man walks and coughs twice. You are too focused on the poem. , Did not notice the old man."
Kou Ji stared, "Then you shouldn't snoop on other people's letters!"
Xiang Minzhong curled his lips and murmured, "It's not that I haven't seen it..."
Kou Ji stared at Xiang Minzhong with fire-breathing eyes, his teeth rattled.
Xiang Minzhong waved his hand and said haha, "It's alright... I just leave it alone."
After a pause, Xiang Minzhong clicked his mouth and said: "Your kid is very literary, but you write a very good story. The old man who sees the love of fish and bird has the urge to cry."
Kou Jishao stood up, and instantly there was an urge to kill Xiang Minzhong with a musket.
Seeing that Kou Ji was really angry, Xiang Minzhong stopped teasing him, and hurriedly changed the subject: "You haven't answered the old man's question? Do you like being scolded by the old man's granddaughter? The old man did not expect that you actually have this hobby. ."
Seeing Kou Ji still staring at him with an angry gaze, Xiang Minzhong said again: "This is not a shameful thing. The old man has also seen that a certain veteran has to be coaxed by his wife when he sleeps before he can fall asleep.
Also, the late Zhao Gongpu likes to sleep with horseshoe gold...
And there is..."
Xiang Minzhong said to Kou Jifen one by one, telling Kou Ji one by one the hobbies of the deceased officials and the existing ones in the DPRK.
Kou Ji glared at Xiang Minzhong, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't have this hobby!"
Xiang Minzhong said unexpectedly: "Then when you write to the old man and granddaughter, why do you use this verse in life as if you first saw it? The old man can clearly remember that when you met the old man and granddaughter for the first time, she was Pointing to the nose and scolded you.
The meaning of your verse is clearly when you missed the first meeting with the old man and granddaughter. "
Kou Ji had a dark face and said angrily: "This poem was written by someone else, I just used it."
Xiang Minzhong shook his head and said: "The old man is familiar with all the poems of the predecessors and all the poems of the present, and he has never seen this verse."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said, "Can't I just play with it?"
Xiang Minzhong curled his lips and said disgustedly: "It's a pity that you wrote a good sentence for fun. Spoiled... Spoiled..."
Kou Ji glared at Xiang Minzhong and said, "Since you always think it's a waste, don't look at it and go back to your room to sleep."
He finally tried to move a line or two of poems to pretend to be compelling, but now it's okay, and he is completely ruined by Xiang Minzhong.
Instead of leaving, Xiang Minzhong shook his head and said, "You have too little ink in your stomach to write any good poems. Occasionally, I can come up with a good sentence or two, but it is difficult to complete it.
A little carelessness will expose you.
But the old man’s granddaughter came out of it with one hand.
She has a bit of literary talent, and the old man is quite clear about it.
If she is not a daughter, she must be on the list if she goes to participate in the imperial examination.
So I advise you not to show off your literary talent in front of your granddaughter. "
After a pause, Xiang Minzhong looked at Kou Ji and said, "If you really want to show off your literary talent, the old man can give you some pointers."
Kou Ji's anger disappeared when he heard this, and he stared at Xiang Minzhong in amazement, "You always want to point me? You molested your granddaughter?"
When Xiang Minzhong heard this, his old face turned black, and he yelled: "What is molesting? What is molesting? This is mutual complaining!"
After Xiang Minzhong said this, he seemed to feel puzzled and cursed: "You stinky boy, you don't know anything about style. Why does the old man's granddaughter like you for such a thing?!"
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and curled his mouth and said, "It was your old Fei who took me to be your grandson-in-law."
When Xiang Minzhong heard this, he said angrily: "The old man was deceived by your kid. He didn't notice for a while and was blind."
Kou Ji tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, "If you dislike it, then the kid will be molested?"
Xiang Minzhong was taken aback, and said straightforwardly: "The old man is going to be blind to the end."
Without waiting for Kou Ji to run on him, he stared and said: "You kid still let the old man give me advice?"
Kou Ji hurriedly put the pen and ink on the table in front of Xiang Minzhong.
Xiang Minzhong snorted coldly and sat down slowly.
Then he began to explain to Kou Ji, what books Xiang Yan has read these years, what books he likes the most, what he likes to eat, what flowers he likes, what rouge gouache he likes...
Xiang Minzhong talked about it in half an hour.
Kou Ji was a little tired.
He wanted to pull Xiang Minzhong's sleeve and shouted, "You should write quickly, who wants to hear you talk about it."
Send the letter out first, Kou Ji has time to listen to him.
Xiang Minzhong just didn't write and kept talking about it.
The anxious Kou Ji couldn't wait to plug his mouth with something.
In the end, Xiang Minzhong did not write down either.
It was not that he was unwilling to write, but that after he finished speaking, when he was about to write, the postmen in the post came to inform him that it was Liu Shenxing, the minister of the Liao State Ministry of Rites, who came to visit.
Xiang Minzhong immediately threw down the pen and said that he was going to go back to the room to sleep.
Kou Ji, who had been waiting for nearly an hour, almost didn't scold Xiang Min to death in his heart.
There was only one last sentence.
"Aren't you going to see Liu Shenxing, the minister of the Liao State Courtesy Department?"
Xiang Minzhong snorted coldly, and said: "Soldiers against soldiers, against generals, some miscellaneous fish, and also worthy of the old man to come out to meet? You go to see."
Leaving this sentence aside, Xiang Minzhong went back to the room.
Kou Ji reluctantly cleaned up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that he wrote on the desk, tidyed up his clothes, and went out to see Liu Shenxing.
Liu Shenxing is not well-known.
His father, Liu Jing, was also a figure in Liao.
His father, Liu Jing, had a big character, he was a native of Hejian, and he was after Liu Da in the former Tang Lulong Jiedu.
During his tenure in the Liao Kingdom, Liu Jing served as a Bachelor of You Supplement, Zhizhi Gu, and Hanlin. Later he moved to the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu, and Xuanzhengdian.
After his death, he was dubbed the prince and grandmaster.
Although Liu Shenxing does not have the astonishing resume of his father, but under the shadow of his father, he can be regarded as standing firmly above the Liao Dynasty court.
But even so, Xiang Minzhong felt that this person was not worthy to meet him.