Chapter 614
Zhao Xu was wrong. Wang Ju only knew that this time the Liao Kingdom sent envoys to blackmail. He couldn't even figure out what Changliancheng and Liufanling were. However, this time Zhao Xu was "understandable" and sent someone to send a detailed map.
Wang Ju was also wondering what the watershed was.
If we follow the current boundary line, there is only the watershed between the Fen River and the Hui River. If so, don’t move the boundary line.
But it is impossible.
Then he continued to look at the map, but it was a blessing for this map, otherwise he would not be able to figure it out at all. Then he looked east and suddenly took a breath of air conditioning.
Understood!
That is not the watershed between the Fen River and the Hui River, but the watershed between the Hui River in Liao Kingdom and the Hutuo River - Huangwei Mountain.
This is too cruel.
Everyone knows the famous Yanmen Pass. Daizhou is Yanmen County. Yanmen Pass is twenty miles north of Daizhou. There is also an ancient Great Wall here, extending to Tuteng Village in the northwest, which is the place where Zhang Qixian became famous in his battle. Then the ancient Great Wall continued to extend northwest, but it belonged to the territory of the Liao Kingdom. If it were not reached, it went west along this line, and there were some mountains and ridges. The Song Dynasty barely built some military camps to defend.
However, if Huangwei Mountain is used as the boundary line, it would be like digging dozens of miles of territory from the Tutun Village to the south and giving it to the Liao Kingdom.
This land does not matter to both countries. But its geographical location is too important. This excavation is undoubtedly equivalent to the Hengshan Mountains seized by Wang Ju in Qingzhou. If the Song and Liao dynasties were in conflict, the dense defense line of Hedong Road would immediately reveal flaws. Even the Liao army did not have to attack Yanmen Pass or Tuzhizhai head-on, and directly from Huangwei Mountain, they could use troops to Daizhou's Wanxian County.
Maybe this was dug too hard, so the two Liao envoys were hesitant and embarrassed to speak.
However, Wang Ju has been away from the north for a long time and has little information on all aspects.
Although the Liao Kingdom has fallen very quickly now, the country is almost inferior to the Xixia.
But the Song Dynasty was not good at both parts of Hebei and Hedong.
The strongest army at present is the Western Army. It is the army composed of Poche, Shaanxi, the marginal archers and the foreign army. Although it is strong, it is far less than that of the Tang army at its peak. It can be used in Shaanxi, but when it comes to Shaanxi, when it arrives in Hedong, Hebei, its combat effectiveness will immediately decline. Therefore, the Jin people came south and their momentum was unstoppable. In other words, if the Liao Kingdom really started, the Song Dynasty might not be able to make a good decision. What's bad is that now that the disaster is coming and the two countries are fighting, the possibility of the Song army being defeated is far greater than the possibility of victory.
It's mainly a disaster.
So Wang Ju couldn't say that if the Song Dynasty was tough, the Liao Kingdom would not take action.
Of course, there is no need to be afraid of the Liao Kingdom after the disaster. The waste will also kill them. But isn’t the key to the disaster not over yet?
After figuring out the incident, Wang Ju replied to a memorial saying that I have been away from Shaanxi for a long time, not to mention Hedong, even Shaanxi. Now I am not very clear. If I don’t know, I dare not speak nonsense. Emperor, please do it yourself.
Eunuch Huang hurried back with this short memorial.
Zhao Xu was also asking others on the other side, first it was Cai Ting. But Cai Ting replied that it was not a problem to be so careful.
Look at the fact that the Western Xia had just been defeated, and the Liao Kingdom came to intervene. The disaster came and extorted. But disasters occurred every once in a while. Just like what Wang Ju speculated in his book, the El Nino and La Nina phenomenon occurred. Not only in the Song Dynasty, but also on super islands overseas, there were also some bad weather. Where was Wang Anshi's reform?
However, the Liao Kingdom always comes to blackmail and its appetite grows bigger and bigger. How can it be?
Therefore, the best way is to further implement the strategy of military affairs and the proposed addition of border troops by Wang Ju, and deliberately place some of the injunctions on Xihe to train. Strengthen Hedong Road and Hebei Road, this is the fundamental reason.
Cai Ting said it makes sense. But how to solve the problem now?
So Zhao Xu issued an edict to ask Fu Bi, Zeng Gongliang, Wen Yanbo and Han Qi.
These important officials were very famous during the Qingli period, including the extortion during the Qingli period. These people also participated, so they asked them about their good ideas and insights.
First, Fu Bi wrote a letter saying that in the past five or six years, the court planned to use troops to Suizhou, Luowucheng, Xihe, Chen, Jin, Rong, Lu, Jiaozhi, and only the use of troops to stop the Jiaozhi discussion. All other routes used troops, and some victory and defeat, spreading the world. However, there were rumors that Your Majesty would restore Lingxia and Pinghelan, and planned to personally conquer Pingyan. Therefore, he completed the armor, briefly cultivated the soldiers, built cities and bribes, and accumulated grain, and sent envoys to attract Goryeo. Then he set up thirty-seven generals in Hebei, and the review became more and more urgent, and the noise was getting longer and longer. Therefore, our dynasty was provoked first, not the Khitans were against the alliance. Therefore, an envoy must be sent to explain the origin and the Khitans were not unreasonable. Otherwise, the Liao Kingdom had Xia Kingdom, Yansiluo, Goryeo, Heishi Jurchen, and Datar's support, and the border affairs would be endless.
The rich man became old and recorded Dong Wei as a sage.
But the meaning is similar to Zhao Xu's idea. It is best not to become enemies with the Liao Kingdom, after all, it is a difficult time in the current disaster.
But he was afraid of Qingli and still insisted on putting peace as the most important thing. This made Zhao Xu very displeased and said, "Fu Bi is weak."
Wen Yanbo said that the court should have enough food and soldiers, strengthen the castle, protect the people, win by fighting, and be firm, and stop this. Generally speaking, the Chinese army is profitable, treat guests with the master, and be at peace and hard work, and the principle will win. However, I heard that Your Majesty wanted to take the initiative and take advantage of his unpreparedness to attack Yanji, but if there is any accident, the king's army may be killed. Moreover, if the army is famine, if the army is not resolved and the material resources are exhausted, there will be danger of Jin Tang not defending it.
Zhao Xu smiled bitterly: "I know everything."
In fact, Zhao Xu was insulted by this, but he said, "I should lead a large army to sweep Yan Ji to avenge this shame."
That was just an angry speech. Can you take it seriously? But I didn’t know how Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi learned quickly that these two people were in Daming Mansion and the other was in Luoyang.
Zhao Xu couldn't even hurry even if he thought about it.
Zeng Gongliang said that the barbarians did not speak their swearing and could not believe what they said. Just like Xixia, the alliance was not long, and invaded the boundary of Guo En's army, resulting in the annihilation of Guo En's army. Then he went to the Tongjia Fort, and our dynasty had not yet taken over. Thousands of people in the fort were slaughtered. Then he attacked Dashun City, and Li Liangzuo was seriously injured and died. Then he attacked Qingzhou, and was defeated, almost wanting to destroy the country. Then he became honest. Therefore, the Liao Kingdom was similar to Xixia. But now Hebei and Hedong have not used troops for a long time, and they have no good generals and commanders. Therefore, they must choose generals and commanders to face the meeting in case of an accident.
He and Cai Ting have similar ideas.
However, if you say it more deeply, don’t learn from the past few years. Wang Ju obviously made great contributions in Qingzhou, but he was afraid of his merits. But he was in Quanzhou where to make money. Does the country lack these small money? Can people use this kind of people?
But these are all the key points in the future. No one said that it is the key to how to solve the problem now.
So Zhao Xu waited for Han Qi's letter.
Soon Han Qi wrote a letter, and I secretly called the Khitan strong and the people who resisted China with the power of the Khitan. It has been more than 170 years since the Shijin cedes land, and the Han borders have been in the outside world, which has become more arrogant and arrogant. In the dynasty of the ancestors, they have been very violent and violent. At that time, wouldn’t I want to know the power of the world and must be with that juncture? I always cherish the living beings and reconcile them. Whenever there is something to do on the border, I deeply reminded him of Zhang Huang to provoke him. Therefore, during this seventy years, the people of the two borders were all in peace. As for old age and death, they did not know how to fight and fight.
The battle is very kind and great. I think that the court has been engaged in recent years, but it seems that it is not sympathetic to the great enemy. The enemy has always been strong for a long time, but I have never been too young. Once I see the situation, I will say that I have the intention to restore Yannan. Even though I heard that the lord was weak and slandered by Buddhism, Is there no strong Liang Zong and his counselors and counselors who led the initiative to attack others and created this quarrel? Therefore, I have repeatedly sent out arrogant envoys to make a name for fighting for the territorial realm and to see how I responded. Therefore, I would like to explain his general principles.
Zhao Xu was so energetic that Old Han was right. So let’s see what he had to do.
Goryeo surrendered to the Khitan and paid tribute to our dynasty for a long time. However, the court sent people to come from Zhejiang Road. Goryeo was a small country, and whether to come or not would have any help to the country. Khitan knew it and must have thought that our dynasty would seek it. Therefore, we could not interact with Goryeo, so as not to be suspicious of the Khitan.
Zhao Xu said it was very unfair. Goryeo sent an envoy, but when did I recruit an order?
Just recruit the order, so what? Is it worse than the grandson of the Song Dynasty?
Holding down the anger, I continued to look down.
To the west of the ancient Weizhai, the Tubo people scattered in the mountains and fields, and did not have the rulers to be the leader of the king, and they were self-cultivated by farming and pastoralism, and they were never a problem with the border. However, the court forced Xihe all the way and killed tens of thousands of old people, which was not worth it. Hezhou was the territory of Dong Jiong, and Dong Jiong was the son-in-law of the Khitan. Didn’t Dong Jiong send people to complain to the Liao Kingdom? After the Liao Kingdom heard about it, wouldn’t he be suspicious of our dynasty?
This is really irrelevant.
Next, Hebei is flat, and the strength of the Liao Kingdom is the cavalry. In order to deal with the Liao Kingdom's cavalry, the Song Dynasty planted elm willows in the West Mountains, hoping to use this green Great Wall to deal with the threat of the Liao Kingdom. Will the Khitan be happy when the Song Dynasty does this?
Zhao Xu was simply hit by the rolling thunder. If this is not right, what should I do? Or if all these elm willows were cut down, the forts were destroyed, the gates were opened, so that the Liao cavalry could move south unimpeded at any time, and the Liao Kingdom was happy? That was really happy!!!
Hebei implemented the Baojia Law and heard that it would set up regular border troops. This kind of fight and killing made the Liao Kingdom even more suspicious...
The Liao Kingdom came to blackmail, and the Song Dynasty immediately sent officials to go down to review, build cities and build trenches, and open trenches. These were all seen by everyone. The enemy had not yet taken action, but I had already spent money and efforts to get myself into trouble, and I also made suspicious of the Khitan.
There were thirty-seven generals in Hebei, and the military generals were of great power, which deeply aroused the Khitan's suspicion.
Therefore, none of these can be done. We will start from the inside and eliminate Wang Anshi's reforms together. As long as we do this, the people will be excited. If the Khitan dares to come like that, they will inevitably be driven back to the desert, then they will be powerful and restored to the old border, and will be loyal and unfair, and will be the anger of ancestors over the years. Your Majesty's merits are as bright as the sun shines endlessly.
Is this what a person says?
Zhao Xu was so angry that he wanted to throw this memorial outside the hall.
In fact, Han Qi can still forgive all the things he had in the past. If he was in the officialdom, he would be calm and not get involved in a trace of dust? If he wanted to get to power, he had to intrigue, but he could not get involved in the country.
Therefore, a few months later, when Han Qi passed away, Zhao Xu was very "sad" to send soldiers to build a tomb for him, and then wrote the inscription himself, titled "The Monument of the Conqueror of Gu Ming Decision of the Two Dynasties".
No, Han Qi is exactly an old minister of the three dynasties and a prime minister of the three dynasties, so why is there one less day?
That few dynasty, if it were the dynasty of Emperor Yingzong, then it would undoubtedly mean that Han Qi was sorry to Emperor Renzong of Song. You have no face to meet Emperor Renzong of Song underground.
If it was the dynasty of Emperor Renzong, it would undoubtedly mean that Han Qi was a traitor of the Zhao Xu Dynasty. When he ascended the throne, he almost forced Zhao Xu to step down. Before his death, he also wrote a bewitching strategy that could destroy the country!
I'm sure Han Qi's strategy and strategy are not available.
So Zhao Xu had to wait for Wang Ju to submit the memorial.
Eunuch Huang returned to the capital with Wang Ju’s memorial.
Zhao Xu hurriedly opened it and looked at it, and then he was stunned. At least Fu Bi and the others were perfunctory, but Wang Ju was very good and was too lazy to even be perfunctory. He said directly that I didn't understand the situation in Hedong, Hebei, so don't ask me.
In fact, Wang Ju really doesn't understand.
The Khitan clearly wanted to use Huangwei Mountain as a new boundary. Will Wang Ju dare to say it? What would happen if he refused? Most of them would not invade, but if he was in the court, even in Qingzhou, he could identify it through various signs and combined with some of his historical memories. But others were in Quanzhou and did not know the entire north, so how could he dare to assert? What if the Khitan was angry and embarrassed after rejecting it, what if it invaded?
However, Zhao Xu obviously didn't believe it, and smiled bitterly and said, "If you want the horse to run, you have to eat grass for the horse..."
"Yes, your Majesty."
"I have difficulties too..." Zhao Xu smiled bitterly again. Even if he was promoted to Wang Ju, he had to have a reason to be promoted. After the Qingzhou victory, he could not be promoted too high due to age restrictions. Wang Ju then resigned. In order to appease him, Zhao Xu was granted a very high position. Wang Ju resigned. But he refused. Will Wang Ju accept it? It really became a coercion to the emperor. A few months ago, the maritime merchants donated more than 3 million stones of grain to provide disaster relief, which was originally an opportunity for promotion. Because of the controversy arising from the migration of the people, Zhao Xu was inconvenient to be promoted again.
Zhao Xu was really wrong. Wang Ju didn't care too much about this official position. What can he do if he is high? It is jealous. As long as he doesn't interfere with his work, he will be satisfied. But who would believe it?
Eunuch Huang said, "Your Majesty, I have a good idea." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!