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"The old minister has three strategies for the top, middle and lower for the government to refer to."

After hearing Tong Guan say there are three strategies, Zhao Ji asked: "What three strategies?"

Tong Guan said: "The best strategy is to acquire the military power of the champion Bo, so that the champion Bo will be transferred to civil servants. After the champion is fifty years old, he will let the champion Bo be the leader of the army as appropriate."

Zhao Ji never expected that Tong Guan would actually support Cai Jian for thirty years, and wanted to keep Cai Jian in cold storage for thirty years, and would let Cai Jian take charge of the army at his discretion after thirty years!

"this……"

Zhao Ji couldn't help but hesitate!

If you want to deal with Cai Gan as Tong Guan said, that peerless genius will be silent for 30 years!

Zhao Ji couldn't help but think: "Is Tong Guan so afraid of Cai Jian? Cai Jian is so outstanding?"

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "As of now, the champion Bo has made contributions and no mistakes in the court. Therefore, I cannot treat the champion Bo like this just because the champion Bo is young. This will make the champion Bo heart cold and the hearts of the whole world cold."

In fact, this is just Zhao Ji's excuse.

The real reason is that Cai can still fight, and now Zhao Ji needs Cai to help him recover Yan Yun.

Let me put it this way, if you want to regain Yan Yun and want to fight this national war, Zhao Ji must do his best to ensure that everything is foolproof.

On this basis, Zhao Ji will inevitably use the invincible attack to defeat Cai Jian and the Jinwu army that are now fully established and can be dispatched immediately. Except for Cai Jian, no matter who is sent to control Cai Jian's one-handed Jinwu army, they will inevitably be boycotted by the soldiers of the Jinwu army, and then violate the orders of disunity and disintegration. At least this will be like this in a short period of time. In this way, at least it may lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, or even lose the country.

Under such circumstances, at this critical moment, Tong Guan asked Zhao Ji to hold Cai still and let Zhao Ji change his generals at the last minute, which was something that Zhao Ji could not accept.

After receiving Zhao Ji's reply, Tong Guan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed!

But Tong Guan also knew that Cai Jian, the only one who could fight the army immediately, was almost irreplaceable during this period, and it was almost impossible to let Zhao Ji keep Cai Jian cold without using it.

After a while of silence, Tong Guan said: "Zhongce canceled the Jinwu Army's number, merged the Jinwu Army into the Shengjie Army, and sent some reliable future leaders Bo and Jinwu Army."

"this……"

Although Tong Guan’s middle strategy is not radical in the best strategy, it is also a matter of changing generals at the last stage and a taboo in military strategists.

That's fine, the key is where do you ask Zhao Ji to find someone who can control Cai Shen?

Cai Shen ran too fast, like pure military officers such as Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing, whose positions and ranks were not enough to control Cai Shen.

There are also people with higher ranks than Cai Shen. Many people like Gao Qiu, Tan Zhen and others have higher ranks and positions than Cai Shen, and many civil servants have higher ranks than Cai Shen, but their qualifications and prestige cannot suppress Cai Shen.

The only one who can barely suppress Cai Shen in all aspects is Tong Guan.

But if Tong Guan was the commander who regained Yan Yun's battle, he would not be able to join forces to control Cai Shen's only 50,000 troops.

More importantly, no matter who is sent to control Cai Jian and Jinwu Army, as long as Cai still refuses to cooperate, it will be useless.

In this case, instead of sending individuals to control Cai Jian and Jinwu Army, it is better to let Cai Jian control the Jinwu Army by himself. Otherwise, it will be useless and may arouse Cai Jian's disgust and then backfire.

After figuring this out, Zhao Ji kicked the ball back to Tong Guan: "Who is my dear to be competent for the position of commander-in-chief of the merged Shengjie Army?"

Tong Guandao: "The old minister thinks that Liu Yanqing may be competent."

“Or competent?”

Zhao Ji savored the four words "Share you" and said without comment: "If I remember correctly, Liu Yanqing is now Doctor Xuanzheng (fifth level of martial arts)?"

Tong Guan said: "You remember correctly, the official, Liu Yanqing is three levels lower than the champion Bo."

Zhao Ji didn't say anything, he asked Tong Guan to say himself how Liu Yanqing, who was lower than the third level, would control Cai Jian.

Tong Guan said: "Liu Yanqing fought with Xixia for more than 20 years, and was promoted to the General Manager of Fuyan Road and Deputy Commander of the Ma Army for his merits. This time, Fang La served as the commander of the commander of the entire army. Although he did not perform as eye-catching as champion Bo, his performance was remarkable. Fang La and his gang could successfully eliminate him, and he made great contributions. If the official promoted him, he might be able to control champion Bo and Jinwu Army."

Zhao Ji thought to himself: "Liu Yanqing is not better than Cai Jian than Cai Jian. Letting him control Cai Jian... is of no benefit at all, and it may also cause Cai Jian to be disgusted and backfire."

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji asked Tong Guan: "If champion Bo and Liu Yanqing are in conflict or champion Bo can't stand this grievance, how are you going to fight this battle?"

Tong Guan was speechless - Zhao Ji's words were pointed at the key point. With Tong Guan's understanding of Cai Shen, there is such a possibility, and it is very likely.

Seeing that Tong Guan stopped talking, Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "Do you think this is a self-bound hand and foot bond? "

What Zhao Ji could have thought of, how could Tong Guan not have thought of?

But Liu Yanqing is already the biggest card Tong Guan can take out, and it is even more inappropriate for others.

After a while, Tong Guan took the initiative to say: "The worst strategy is to let the champion Bo lead his troops to recover Yundi."

"Oh? Recover the cloud land? Why is this?" Zhao Ji said in confusion.

Tong Guan explained: "About Xijing and other mountains, the Jin emperor also verbally agreed to our Song Dynasty. Zhao Liangsi also pointed out that Wei, Ying, Shuo, the three states are closest to our Song Dynasty, and the Jurchens are not allowed to arrive. The champion Bo will lead his troops to Hedong first and wait for an opportunity to occupy Wei, Ying, Shuo, and Shuo. First, this is also considered that our Song Dynasty has sent troops as promised, and second, it will prevent the Jurchens from recognizing that the nine states belong to our Song Dynasty in the future. Third, it will be..."

Zhao Ji asked: "What are you doing three times?"

Tong Guan said: "Three times, in Yunzhou, there is Dangxiang on the left, Khitan on the right, our Song Dynasty on the back, and the Dadan tribes in front, so the champion Bo can only regain Yundi for the officials."

Although Tong Guan was vague, Zhao Ji also understood that Tong Guan’s meaning was that Yundi was a place of four battles, and Cai still went there. Even if he had a strange intention, he would not dare to act rashly.

In fact, Tong Guan still has two points that he has not said.

First, Hebei was not under Tong Guan's control, and Cai Shen went to Hebei and could unify the Hebei imperial guards. He received the help of the Hebei imperial guards and completed further growth. At that time, Tong Guan could not control Cai Shen. Hedong belongs to the northwest and was also under Tong Guan's control to a large extent. The key is that Tong Guan understands the extremely xenophobic characteristics of the Western Army. If Cai Shen went to Hedong, it would be impossible to gather the troops from Hedong to complete further growth. In Tong Guan's opinion, as long as Cai Shen did not grow further, it would be impossible for Cai Shen to recover the 50,000 troops of Yundi Jiuzhou. After he regained the seven states of Yan in the future, he would use the power of great victory to cross the Taihang Mountains. He would do whatever he wanted to conquer Cai Shen.

The second point is that the land of Yanyun is important to strangle the throat of the North China Plain, and Yunyu is just the icing on the cake. In this way, even if it is really recaptured by Cai, it will not be better than Tong Guan, who has recovered Yanyu. Tong Guan can still suppress Cai Shen and obtain the greatest benefit of recapturing Yanyun.

Tong Guan’s worst strategy moved Zhao Ji.

but--

As an emperor, Zhao Ji could not just listen to Tong Guan’s words and make decisions.

Therefore, Zhao Ji did not agree to Tong Guan’s worst strategy on the spot. He still had to listen to other people’s opinions, such as Cai Shen...

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Banjing Pavilion is located in Chenqiaoyi, a northern suburb of Tokyo. It is the small town where the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was put on the yellow robe. It is about forty miles from the capital.

Although Banjing Pavilion is located in the suburbs, its building, food and accommodation conditions, service levels, etc. are almost the same as other inns located in the capital.

Wu Xie was a Jurchen man, tall and burly, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a generous personality. He thought Banjing Pavilion was very good, with blue bricks and green tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, pavilions and pavilions, which made him dazzled.

Gao Qingyi is from Bohai. He is very familiar with the culture of the Song Dynasty and is also very smart. He is an old acquaintance with Zhao Liangsi. Last spring, when Zhao Liangsi and Wanyan Aguda negotiated with Liao Kingdom in Shanghai, he served as a translator next to Wanyan Aguda. He prevented Wanyan Aguda from competing the three prefectures of Pingluan Camp to Zhao Song.

Gao Qingyi was very dissatisfied with Zhao Song's arrangement. He looked unhappy and said to Zhao Liangsi: "According to the old rules of the Song Dynasty, weren't the envoys from the northern country arranged in Duting Post? Why were we arranged outside the capital?"

Dutingyi is located in the most prosperous place in Tokyo. It is the largest, best-in-class and most-convenient state hotel in Tokyo. In the past, it was mainly used to receive Liao envoys. Because the Liao envoys were large in number, the largest number of people came, more than 600 people came.

Gao Qingyi felt that there were inns in Tokyo that were not arranged, but he insisted on arranging them to live in inns outside the capital. Isn’t this clearly despise them?

Zhao Liangsi is a very mature diplomat. He knew that diplomacy was nothing small and could not promise anything easily, so he found a question and temporarily missed the inn.

The next day, Zhao Ji met with the Jin envoy in Chongzheng Hall.

Wu Xie and Gao Qingyi knelt down and said, "Foreign ministers pay homage to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. When the foreign ministers came, the emperor asked the foreign ministers and others to utter that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Because the Khitan was incompetent, they raised their troops to attack the Khitan again. Now the trend is in progress and the Khitan is about to be destroyed. So we sent us to discuss the specific time of sending troops with your country and other related matters."

After saying that, Wu Xie presented the letter to the country.

Zhao Ji said with a smile and kindness: "Thank you, Emperor of the Great Jin, for sending envoys to the Song Dynasty. The Khitan did not keep the alliance. Taking advantage of the time when the Song Dynasty attacked Xia, he broke the agreement and blackmailed me the Song Dynasty. The people and gods were angry. If they did not attack, they would not quell the anger of the public. If they did not attack, they would not quell the anger of the people. I would not slander my ancestors and ancestors. Therefore, my Song Dynasty and you and the Jin Dynasty jointly attacked the unjust Khitan. Regarding the time of sending troops and the plans for the old Han area, the major matters have been decided. For details, you can go to the residence of Prime Minister Wang Fu to discuss."

Zhao Ji then gave a lot of gold and silk to the gold envoy, and even gave them a lot of tea he drank and a paste for maintaining the jade body, which made Wu Xie very happy, while Gao Qingyi remained silent.

After Wu Xie and Gao Qingyi thanked each other, Tan Zhao sent them back to Banjing Pavilion.

Another round of diplomatic war between Song and Jin has officially begun...

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Chapter completed!