"You two really dare to think about it. The Taizu of our dynasty and the two late emperors, Taizong, only want to recover the land of Yanyun. You two actually want Changbai Mountain. Wouldn't this destroy Liao?"

Mi Youren and Ximen Qing were standing side by side at this time. Mi Youren was wearing a green robe, holding a folding fan, and a peony flower picked from somewhere on his ears. He was really a romantic talent.

Ximen Qing was dressed in white, with a square scarf on his head and a folding fan in his hand. Although the back of his ears and temples were empty, he still looked a little charming.

The person who spoke was Ximen Qing. Although he was the descendant of Youzhou Zhenya and his ancestors had the ambition to restore Yan, no one had ever thought of pacifying Liao. In Ximen Qing's view, it was already a huge difficulty for the Song Dynasty to regain Yan Yun, and it was a dream to pacify Liao.

Ma Zhi smiled and said, "For the Song Dynasty, restoring Yan and peace with Liao is actually a matter!

If Yan can be restored, it will not be difficult to win Liaodong. If there is no ambition to pacify Liao, it will not be difficult to recover! And the defeat of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty in the two northern expeditions was due to the lack of the intention to pacify Liao."

"Why did Brother Ma say this?" Mi Youren couldn't help asking.

After all, he was born in a general and knew about the success or failure of Taizong's Northern Expedition, but no one has ever equated the Revival of Yan and the Destroyed Liao.

Ma Zhi smiled: "This theory is actually a common argument for the Liao Kingdom. Although the Great Liao Kingdom has two sides, if it loses one, it will destroy the country. This south and north are just as important to the Great Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, the Battle of Yanyun was the icing on the cake for the Song Dynasty, but for the Liao Kingdom, it was a battle of survival and death. The whole country must conquer life and death, and never give up the land of Yanyun in the south to protect the north."

"But Liao Kingdom has a territory of thousands of miles. After going to Yanyun land to the south, it is still a great country."

"Haha," Ma Zhi shook his head and said, "Yuanhui, you don't know anything. Although the Liao Kingdom has a territory of thousands of miles, most of it is sparsely populated. Only Yan Yun and Liaodong are truly rich.

If Yanyun is lost, the wealth of Liao will be lost by seven or eight, and the population will be reduced by more than 50%. Moreover, the prestige of Khitan to rule the north will be gone, and the tribes of the grassland, the Xi tribes of the Bohai Sea will all take Liao.

The so-called great powers of thousands of miles will fall apart and smoke everywhere!”

"Well said it, it's really clear!" Wu Haogu slapped.

This horse plant is really good! After analyzing, the importance of Yanyun's land to the Liao Kingdom was clearly explained, and it was reasonable and well-founded.

The Liao Kingdom lost Yanyun and would not only lose a large amount of population and wealth, but also lose the prestige that relies on to rule the grasslands and deserts and the white mountains and black waters.

For northern tribes, prestige is equivalent to strength.

With prestige, other tribes will come to rely on the Huns. When the Huns had prestige, they all depended on the Huns on the grassland. Everyone who rose up in Rouran was Rouran. When they arrived in the Turks, all tribes surrendered to the Turks, and now the Khitans dominate.

Once the Khitan loses the land of Yanyun, those tribes that depend on the Khitan will immediately think that the Khitan has weakened and deviate one by one.

By then, the Khitan will really collapse!

Therefore, the land of Yanyun is the land of Khitan's survival. If Yanyun is abandoned, the Khitan will face the crisis of destruction of the country and the clan.

If the Khitan is not his own end, the Song Dynasty must have the determination to destroy the Khitan if it wants to win Yan Yun!

The decisive battle under Yanjing was the battle of survival of the Khitan. If the Song Dynasty won, the main force of the Khitan would inevitably be crushed. The Song Dynasty did not have to stop in the sixteen states at all, and it could completely create a prosperous Tang Dynasty atmosphere.

"Then Brother Ma thought, does my Song Dynasty have the power to pacify Liao and restore Yan?" Mi Youren asked with a frown at this time.

"Yes." Ma Zhi said, "The Daliao now has a weak heart, weak trunks and strong branches, and is disconnected from all directions. It has long since disappeared from the courage of the past.

The power of the Song Dynasty is booming, with a population of ten times that of Liao and a wealth of hundreds of times that of Liao. People are happy, the ruler and ministers are harmonious, and the whole world is peaceful. How can we not restore Yanyun and destroy the Khitan?"

"Brother Ma," Wu Haogu interrupted, "But my Song Dynasty's method of using troops to win is not as good as that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

It is difficult to raise a large army to destroy Liao with ten times the population and a hundred times the wealth of Liao."

"What's the difficulty?" Ma Zhi smiled, "If it were the Khitan a hundred years ago, there would be no way. But today, the Khitan has long been terminally ill. The heart of the heart only knows how to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha's name, so where can there be combat power? The soldiers of the Song Dynasty are weak... Isn't it enough to train another new army?

Use the methods of the Later Zhou Dynasty, select and train them carefully, and use the above-mentioned equipment, and then use the command of the good generals of the Western Army. If you use people to get the skills, you can become a powerful army in ten years. After using them, it will not be too late to release the military power with a glass of wine. Now, the Song Dynasty has been established for more than a hundred years, and the scholars and the people are happy, and the world is back. Are you still afraid that a few generals who lead troops will have a very unjust intention?”

Ma Zhi paused and said, "At the same time, you can also use equipment and wealth to bribe the tribes in the Liao Kingdom, such as the grassland tribes, the daughter-born tribes, etc., so that they can raise troops to echo the Song Dynasty.

By the way, there are now rebellions on the grassland, and we have been fighting with the Khitans for six or seven years."

After listening to Ma Zhi’s high argument, Wu Haogu thought to himself: It’s true that he read it right, Ma Zhi is really a talented person!

In the future, he might be recommended to Song Huizong as soon as possible. With Ma Zhi's assistance, Jingkang's shame will definitely be avoided.

Maybe Song Huizong could transform himself into Emperor Wu of Song!

"No, no," Mi Youren shook his head repeatedly, "It's not the five seasons of trouble now, how can we imitate Zhou Shizu? Besides, the soldiers that Zhou Shizu worked hard to train were not there later... the Chenqiaoyi mutiny?

Besides, the Song Dynasty has always been in charge of military power, so how could it be possible to train another elite soldier that is difficult to control? Wang Jinggong's "The Art of Generals" is the ultimate. It is impossible to select a powerful general in the Western Army to train a new army. Even Xianggong Zhang dared not go further. Otherwise, his husband would be over!

Even the Western Army generals and gates are now, Xianggong Zhang had no choice but to use them. If the Western thieves were pacified one day, the Western Army generals would seize the military power and go to Kaifeng Prefecture."

Mi Youren is right!

Ma Zhi knew Liao, so he could see the fatal point of Liao Kingdom at a glance. What he said and said would not be much different, but he did not know Song!

Mi Youren is an artist from the Song Dynasty. Although he doesn’t know much about the soldiers, he knows the fundamental reason why the soldiers in the Song Dynasty are weak and difficult to recover.

In the final analysis, it is because they are afraid that others will learn from Zhao Kuangyin's mutiny and seize power. In fact, it is not just that they do not believe in military generals. Civil officials really want to control military power, but the officials in the Song Dynasty also do not believe in it.

The so-called civil servants' control of military affairs is just to let civil servants lead military generals to fight, not to let civil servants truly control military power. The military power of the Song Dynasty was managed by multiple people, and it was dismantled and many yamen could manage a little, but no one could get the general responsibility, except for the emperor who did not know how to fight.

Therefore, it is impossible for one or several ministers to be responsible for training the new army, whether it is civil or military!

At least it was not possible in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty could train the new army, and also trained the famous Yue Family Army, Zhongshun Army, and Anfeng Army (the latter two main forces that resisted Mongolia).

Now that no one can be responsible (except the emperor himself), no matter how good it is, it cannot be achieved.

The Sakyamuni Pagoda became quiet, Ma Zhi and Mi Youren stopped talking, and Wu Haogu was mostly interested.

Ma Zhi's method of training the new army is probably not feasible in the Northern Song Dynasty...

But if the Liao Kingdom is really as Ma Zhi said, and is already terminally ill, then where will the future world go?
Chapter completed!