Song Gexing

Chapter 153 The party at the East Palace

To put it bluntly, Xixia was originally supported by the Liao Kingdom and consumed the national power of the Song Dynasty.

It's just that the Liao Kingdom got away with it. I didn't expect Li Yuanhao to be so unruly and unruly. After becoming powerful, he simply abandoned the Liao Kingdom and stopped listening to his orders.

But the Liao Kingdom still had to hold on with tears, otherwise it would not be able to restrain the Song Dynasty.

In order to support Li Yuanhao, the Liao Kingdom married a princess to him as a concubine. If he hadn't been supported, how could such a thing have happened.

You must know that Li Yuanhao was already married and had children at that time, and the Liao Kingdom also married the princess to him for an obvious purpose.

Later generations often say that the Song Dynasty and even the small Xixia were helpless. People who say such things have really low vision.

The war must be viewed from an overall perspective. It is not that the Song Dynasty cannot destroy Xixia, but it cannot and does not dare. Otherwise, it will start another war with the Liao Kingdom, and no one can predict the outcome.

As fierce as Da Mao is, he is also helpless against Er Mao, because the fight against him is ostensibly Er Mao, but in fact it is the entire West.

Zhao Fang's current strategy is to weaken Xixia and then pretend to show that he has no intention of destroying it. It is just because Xixia invaded the Song Dynasty and counterattacked to drive it away.

After the Liao Kingdom was stabilized, others were ready to take action. They could secretly beat the drum and provide materials, money and grain to encourage the tribes that had been forcibly ruled by Xixia to rebel.

Xixia is not without enemies. The original Tubo tribes have always refused to deal with it, and Li Yuanhao has forcibly annexed various tribes in the Western Region. These are all time bombs.

Sure enough, after the news of the defeat in the northwest spread, the people of the Song Dynasty rejoiced, but the Liao Kingdom immediately sent troops to Hebei and sent envoys southward.

However, the Song Dynasty suddenly stopped pursuing him and sent people to lecture Xixia, reprimanding Wu Zangying Pang for being disloyal to the court. This time, the court saw that he had suffered heavy losses and would not pursue him.

If there is another next time, it will be classified as a rebellion, and the court will definitely put down the rebellion.

Wu Zangyipang, who was about to cry without tears, didn't dare to resist now. Originally, Xixia was a professed minister, and it was reasonable for others to train you, not to mention that you couldn't beat them.

After a lot of good words, the Song army returned to its original garrison area. The news spread to the Liao State. Now the Liao State was embarrassed and quickly sent people to chase the envoy.

As I said before, I went to Bianjing this time to threaten the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty and force them to retreat.

But wouldn't it be funny if he retreated on his own and continued to yell about it? Daliao couldn't afford to lose face like this.

An accountability debate turned into a cultural exchange meeting for envoys from the Liao Kingdom to the Song Dynasty. The people who came after them caught up with them, but they had already caught up to Bianjing City.

The envoy had no choice but to go home here. That would be too funny. Fortunately, the deputy envoy to the Liao Kingdom was also a Jinshi with good attainments in Confucianism. He had an idea and came to the Song Dynasty to exchange culture.

After a harmonious exchange of playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and talking about poetry and lyrics, the Liao ambassador hurriedly ran home to find his mother.

He was crushed by the Song Dynasty. This time he was humiliated and humiliated. When he met Yan Jidao, who had just returned to Beijing to report on his duties, he wrote a few poems about small mountains that made the Liao envoy burst into tears. There is no such thing as bullying.

Yan Jidao has grown up a lot over the years. No, he must have matured. He has encountered obstacles everywhere. If people didn't know that Zhao Fang was standing behind him, he would have been framed and dismissed from his post and investigated.

The power of the artillery army attracted the attention of the imperial court, and it was decided to establish a special artillery army with a tentative number of 1 people under the control of the Palace Front Secretary.

The original artillery was temporarily under the control of the Imperial City Department. Now that it has officially formed an army, it will naturally be formally established, including 6000 regular soldiers and 4000 auxiliary soldiers.With this military exploit, Yao Lin was promoted to commander of the Artillery Corps. According to the system, he was assigned a civil servant as an instructor.

In this way, Yan Jidao was transferred back by Zhao Fang privately and asked his brothers to cooperate. Although some of the officials questioned it, they did not raise their voices loudly and it was quickly passed.

After all, Yan Jidao was not only the prince's companion, but also the son of the former prime minister Yan Shu. Even Enyin was enough to be promoted.

There were several people gathered at the Prince's Mansion that night, and if anyone was suspicious, they might all be suspected of the Prince's rebellion.

Except for Yao Lin and Yan Jidao, all the generals of the Western Army gathered together, including Yao Si, Zhe Jizu, Zhong E, Yang Wenguang, and Yang Wei.

Although Yang Wei and Yan Jidao were civil servants, one was the commander-in-chief of this battle, and the other was the incoming instructor of the Artillery Corps. No matter how they looked at it, they were not clearly related to the generals.

Especially Zhe Jizu's presence here is a big surprise. He is no longer an ordinary general. The hereditary military and political administrator of Fuzhou can be said to be the largest military leader of the Western Army.

"I came to you to reminisce about old times, and to give you a confidential mission. Everyone must keep this secret. Except for my father and several ministers, no one can tell it, including your family members."

After a few glasses of wine, Zhao Fang dismissed the kabuki, closed the door and whispered.

The expressions of Zhe Jizu and the others present here remained unchanged, they drank wine happily and looked at him waiting for the next step.

But the faces of the Yang brothers turned green. Fortunately, they didn't have to hide the following words from the emperor and the prime minister, otherwise they would have thought that they were going to be dragged into rebellion by the prince.

How can there be such a scary family, the prince gave a secret mission, it is so scary.

The emperor must be upright and upright. This is what Confucianism has always emphasized. The person who is the emperor must not use conspiracy, because if the superiors do something good, the subordinates will follow suit.

Once a monarch likes conspiracy, then his ministers must be traitors. This is the same reason that later generations opposed fishing and law enforcement.

Because although you have gained immediate benefits, no matter how big the benefits are, it will leave endless troubles in the future. No amount of benefits can restore a broken heart.

"Your Highness, please speak. I am all ears."

After all, Yang Wenguang was very familiar with Zhao Fang. He had served as the commander of the personal guards of the Wei Palace, so he immediately adjusted his hand and said.

Zhao Fang chuckled and said: "The Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council have formulated a strategy and asked me to tell you in secret. I just don't want others to know."

After explaining it first, Zhao Fang continued: "The Zhe family and the Yang family have lived in the northwest for a long time. They should have contacts with the Tubo tribe and the tribes in the Western Regions. The rising star of the Zhong family, Zizheng, should also have channels. Wu Zhi is almost there, but it is not impossible. , order you to send personnel to secretly contact these related tribes and promise them to resist Xixia, and we can give them money, food and material support..."

After all the arrangements were made, Yao Lin fell asleep after listening to them. Yao Si glared at him several times, but he didn't notice it yet.

Yang Tian's eyes lit up and he applauded: "This plan is a great good! It can not only weaken the power of Xixia, but also weaken the power of all ethnic groups in the northwest. When the time comes, it will be settled in one fell swoop, and the northwest will be determined from now on!"

Zhao Fang chuckled, looked at Zhe Jizu and said, "Do you understand Ying Zhi? From now on, the descendants of the Zhe family must study more. Once the northwest is pacified, the Zhe family's military power will be weakened. You must prepare early."

(End of this chapter)