But no matter what, Zhao Xu's nervous mood finally eased. This time, Huang Shang was not summoned in vain, and all his strategies were correct.
Zhao Xu immediately fulfilled his offer to Suining County Prince Zhao Ji, and then proposed marriage to Xia in his name.
Huang Shang also sent a private message to Li Qiushui to let her know that this was what he meant, and explained the situation in front of the curtain and the obligations that Xia needed to bear in a very sincere tone, without the bossy and nostril attitude in the past.
Li Qiu Shui sneered in his heart while holding the letter. When he wanted to marry his granddaughter to Xiao Feng, Huang Shang didn't think so and seemed fearless, but he was just being tough.
However, although Li Qiushui despised Huang Shang, some of Huang Shang's words were still right. For Xia, it was best to maintain the status quo. If Song could not destroy Liao, it had to avoid letting Liao destroy Song. Moreover, Li Qiushui would not suffer any loss from these two bets.
Besides, the prince who is asking for marriage is also Huang Shang's disciple. If you don't understand this prince, how can you understand Huang Shang? Judging from Huang Shang's attitude towards Xiao Feng, he couldn't be any worse towards this prince's disciple. With Huang Shang endorsing the prince, Li Qiu Shui quite approved of it. He is just a little old, but like Emperor Zhao Xu, "enough".
Huang Shang started to contact the Jurchens again, by way of Goryeo, but in fact, it was through Huang Feng who was next to Li Ziyi that he contacted the Wanyan Department and Wanyan Aguda of the Jurchens.
Wanyan Aguda once worked as a pirate under Huang Feng, but later joined forces with Xiao Feng and ran away. This led to the sharp decrease in the number of Jurchens under Huang Feng, and he had no choice but to follow him to land.
His identity as a pirate made Huang Shang unwilling to let him go home, so he arranged for him to be with Li Ziyi, whose strength in Goryeo had increased dramatically.
Huang Feng will definitely be able to contact Wanyan Aguda, and he can use it now.
As soon as the news of the marriage between Song and Xia came out, the Liao envoy from the Jurchen tribe was attacked on his way back. The entire army was wiped out, leaving no one alive.
He was fine at ordinary times, but something happened when he was about to attack Song. Yelu Hongji didn't believe it if there was no connection here.
But Yelu Hongji did not doubt the Jurchen tribes. At this time, the Jurchen tribes were still very weak, and the Liao's oppression of the Jurchens was no different from before. They really had no reason to take action.
But this is the hinterland of Liao, thousands of miles deep. How could Song come here to kill people without leaving any traces?
As for the collusion between Song and Jurchens, Yelu Hongji did not think so. He even doubted whether Song knew that there was a Jurchen nation in the world.
Xiao Feng concluded that this was done by Song, but he could not tell the specific details.
Yelu Hongji thought of Xiao Feng's righteous warriors, who came and went without a trace. They could kill people so invisible in the hinterland of Daliao. If he really entered the Song Dynasty, the consequences would be unpredictable.
Nothing happened when he didn't want to go to war. Just when he wanted to go to war, one after another accidents happened, which made Yelu Hongji feel uncertain. He rushed to mobilize his troops, but he didn't dare to take the lead.
Finally, under the mediation of Xiao Feng and Huang Shang, both sides explained that they had no intention of provoking a war, and the war disappeared without a trace.
The Jurchen Wanyan Department received funding from the Song Dynasty and only killed a Liao envoy without revealing their identity, so they could be the only beneficiaries.
The materials given by the Song Dynasty to Wanyan's tribe were military expenditures, and they were for fighting against the Liao Kingdom, so the Song Dynasty could spend a lot of money on gold, silver, materials, weapons, especially bows and arrows.
But Zhao Xu didn't know, and Huang Shang wasn't very clear about the current scale of the Wanyan Department.
When Li Ziyi and Huang Feng saw that although the Wanyan tribe was savage and fierce, the tribe was actually very poor and backward, it was a pity to give all the supplies they had to them.
Li Ziyi and Huang Feng did not give them all the supplies. They intercepted all the gold and silver and only gave them part of the supplies and weapons. This made the Wanyan tribe suddenly rich from the poor and became the leader of the Jurchen tribes. The strongest one started the process of unifying the Jurchens.
Li Ziyi and Huang Feng knew that these were given to the Jurchens by the imperial court, not Huang Shang. They would not take the public money for free. They had embezzled most of the property, but they did not tell Huang Shang this time.
Huang Shang was shrewd in big things, but he didn't care about this kind of specific work. After the incident, he didn't even ask.
Li Ziyi, who was already powerful, gained this windfall, and his strength and ambitions grew exponentially.
King Wang Yun of Goryeo is getting worse and worse. Once he dies, his eldest son Wang Yu will succeed him.
Wang Yu was the son of the daughter of Li Ziyi's second uncle Li Shuo, and his biological sister was also a princess, and his second son was Wang Yun, the Marquis of Hanshan.
Li Ziyi wanted to support his nephew to succeed him. In the past, he only dared to think about it, but now he feels that he has the ability.
But there is no room for mistakes in this kind of matter of seizing the heir, and any mistake will lead to irreversible disaster. Internally, he has strong soldiers and horses, and externally, he has never forgotten his strong support, which is the Huang family of Yanping, Song Dynasty and Fujian. He also believes that when he encounters such a thing, the Huang family will go all out.
Huang Feng is this natural contact person.
When the news was handed to Huang Shang, Huang Shang thought about it again and again. It didn't matter whether it was successful or not, even if it failed, the Huang family would have nothing to lose.
The only thing Huang Shang has to consider is actually the Huang family's children around Huang Feng. How to protect them when things are going wrong.
As a result, Huang Shang sent Ding Chunqiu to Korea.
When Master Bo Wu Xingyun was unable to do anything to him, Ding Chunqiu was already in despair. If Huang Shang's battle with the old Shaolin monk hadn't made Ding Chunqiu wake up again, I'm afraid no one would be able to use Ding Chunqiu now.
Ding Chunqiu was ruthless in his work and understood that Huang Shang's bottom line was just to protect the Huang family's children, which was too simple.
He was impatient to wait for the tug-of-war between the various forces in Goryeo. When he arrived in Goryeo, he asked who Li Ziyi's enemies were. Without saying a word, he poisoned them all, including the king and the prince. Ministers who could pose a threat to Li Ziyi were also poisoned one by one. By the time Li Ziyi came to his senses, he was the only one in the civil and military power of the entire dynasty.
The throne was very bloody, but looking around, Li Ziyi couldn't help shouting: "Who else is there?"
When there is an eldest son, it is unfair for the second son to seize the legitimate son, no matter what method is used. In this case, why waste so much effort.
Being both acting and standing at the same time is not Ding Chunqiu's style, that is Xuanci's style. Ding Chunqiu just wanted to achieve his goal by any means, and he didn't care about the infamy after death or the infamy when he was alive.
The young master succeeded to the throne, and the young master was suspicious of the country. Li Ziyi took over the power with absolute advantage. The coup was not as easy as his.
However, what he took over was also a mess. He got the throne easily, but how to eliminate the Youyoukou in the future was enough for him to rack his brains.
Ding Chunqiu knew about Li Ziyi's difficulties and sneered with contempt: "Whoever dares to go against you in the future, just tell me and I will just kill him. Looking forward and backward, what is the use of grabbing power with you like this?"
