Zhao Zhen didn't want to disturb Zeng Gongliang's research, his obsession with Gewu had reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat, Peng Qi wanted to step forward to remind him that it was time to send the official family away, but Zhao Zhen grabbed his armor.

"I have such a civil servant who works for the country, what red tape do I care about? The fact that he can create what I want for me is the greatest respect for Zheng. ”

Peng Qi still had something to say, but he stopped talking when he looked at Zhao Zhen's eyes, yes! His Majesty has never punished anyone for these subtleties, Zeng Gongliang will only make the official family feel good about him, and will not cause disaster, no wonder the government and the opposition praise the official family for being sympathetic to the subordinates.

Zhao Zhen walked on the bank of the Bianshui, looked at the sparkling water surface and asked Peng Qi in a low voice: "You have been on duty in the front of the palace, and you have also experienced wars, you tell the truth, if the Great Song Dynasty pours the strength of the country into the Northern Expedition, can you recover the land of Yanyun?" ”

Peng Qi was speechless in shock, his expression was reflected in the water for Zhao Zhen to see clearly, and he turned his head to glance at him, this guy's face was no longer visible, his eyes were about to pop out of his sockets, and his lips were trembling and knotted......

Zhao Zhen chuckled: "Why are you so nervous? I'm just asking you, and I don't really plan to go on a northern expedition. ”

Peng Qi smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, so naturally it is a constitution, and what comes out of your mouth will naturally be regarded as a will." ”

Zhao Zhen shook his head slightly and said: "This is just an idea, everyone thinks that the Great Song Dynasty should first win the party and then wave the Northern Expedition, this process will even drag on for a long time and even the emperors of later generations can do it, but I don't want to delay it for so long, now my Great Song Dynasty soldiers are strong and strong, the armor is strong, and the treasury is full, this fashion is not taken, how can future generations be sure of the opportunity?" ”

Peng Qi said cautiously: "The official family can wait a little longer, after all, it is necessary to plan for the recovery of the smoke and clouds, and now the party Li Yuanhao is on the side, although he has a map of the Western Regions, he can always think of the opportunity to fight with the Great Song Dynasty to seek the opportunity to establish a country, if the Great Song Dynasty swings the Northern Expedition and points to the Liao Dynasty, he is likely to go south and approach the hinterland of the Central Plains!" ”

"Can't the Northwest Forbidden Army of Yanzhou and Hongzhou stop him?"

Peng Qi shook his head slightly and said: "The Northwest Forbidden Army has a setback, but he has more than enough to defend the city and attack the enemy, and the party members can completely bypass the city and go straight to Jingzhao Mansion." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slightly, which is why he asked the Great Song Dynasty to promote urbanization, thinking of this, Zhao Zhen turned his head to look at the northwest and said: "If the northwest is full of high walls and deep ravines under the rule of the state capital, can you resist the enemy and the northwest?" ”

Peng Qi was surprised: "Your Majesty is saying that the northwest is full of walled cities? Well, maybe this is a good strategy, but it's a pity that the time is too long, and there is time to train elite soldiers to stick to the northwest. ”

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath and said: "Actually, this is the same, if I wave the army of the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao people will also take action, after all, everyone knows the truth of cold lips and teeth." ”

Peng Qi said cautiously: "But the Song and Liao have always been commensurate with the country of brothers, if I wave the army in the Great Song Dynasty, it will be a private destruction of the covenant between the first emperor and the Liao Emperor, and when the troops are out of the party, the Liao people will go south and the Liao Dynasty will break the contract." ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Peng Qidao in surprise: "Why did even you start believing in this ridiculous covenant?" Whether it is the Liao people or my Great Song Dynasty, as long as the contract is broken, its purpose is the same, everything is for profit! ”

Peng Qi smiled bitterly: "The minister doesn't believe in those so-called covenants, the Liao and I have broken the covenant more than once, but the minister thinks it's better to let the Liao people break the covenant first, even the courtiers think so." ”

"That's right!" Zhao Zhen patted the plate armor on Peng Qi's body, and the smooth and hard surface made Zhao Zhen's hands hurt: "Everyone thinks that my Great Song Dynasty should attack the party first, and then the Liao Dynasty, even my Great Song courtiers think so, and the Liao people will naturally think so, right!" ”

Peng Qi said in surprise: "Your Majesty means to attack it by surprise?" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "That's right, that's what I plan, when everyone thinks that I won't wield the Northern Expedition, I will do the opposite, recapture the Chinese homeland that belongs to my Great Song Dynasty, and the land of Yanyun must return to the hands of my Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Peng Qi asked puzzledly: "Why does the official family have to take back the land of Yanyun?" ”

Zhao Zhen turned his head to look at the open land outside Tokyo and sighed: "If you lose the north of the mountains, you will be harmed by Yanyun, and if you lose Yanyun, you will be harmed by the Central Plains!" ”

Zhao Zhen's words pointed out the importance of the sixteen states of Yanyun, which are dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The loss of the northern barrier of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun directly led to the Central Plains being naked under the iron hooves of the northern ethnic minorities, which is the top priority of the Chinese civilization to resist the iron hooves of foreign peoples, from the Qin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Moreover, this land has a significant impact on the decay and even the demise of the Great Song Dynasty!

The sixteen states of Yanyun, which were incorporated into the Liao Dynasty, were not only the most economically developed areas of the Liao Dynasty, but also the most prominent place for the "Han people" problem in the Liao Dynasty.

The geographical situation of China, to the Yellow River Valley, is the Great Plains. As soon as you get out of the Great Wall, it is the Great Plains. Therefore, to fight in the north, you must have cavalry. China's response to the enemy outside the northern region is even more indispensable to cavalry.

The horses needed for cavalry were produced in only two places in China. One in the northeast and one in the northwest. And these two places, when the country was founded in the early Song Dynasty, one happened to be taken by Liao, and the other was taken by the party, and they were not in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is also the reason why Zhao Zhenxi conquered the party, which is pitiful, but a country with a vast territory like the Great Song Dynasty could not find a pasture suitable for raising horses...... And since taking Helan Yuan, the Great Song Dynasty has a thousand miles of horse farm in the real sense!

The lack of horses in the Great Song Dynasty does not mean that the south of the Yangtze River cannot raise horses, but that the horses produced are not as good as the horses in the north in terms of combat power and endurance, and more importantly, the war horses produced in the agricultural areas can only be counted......

First take the land of the party's horses, and then form a cavalry to seize the hometown of the sixteen states of Yanyun, if you take the land of Yanyun, you can use Qi Jun's dangerous Taihang Mountain to block the Liao.

Zhao Zhen looked at Peng Qidao: "Yanyun is since the beginning of Qin in the Central Plains to occupy a key place, the country Xingwang land, according to the upstream and build the middle summer, control the right arm and strangle the Western Regions, the plate is depressed, for the Shuo land a metropolis, the Liao people have been operating in such a treasure for a long time, and set Youzhou as Nanjing, with the jurisdiction of Nanjing Road, it can be seen that its plot, not to take back at this time, there will be no chance in the future!" ”

Peng Qi came back to his senses and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty is going to only take the smoke cloud and not the entire Liao Dynasty?" ”

Zhao Zhen laughed and said: "The Liao Dynasty has a vast territory and many grasslands, as long as I cut off its smoke and clouds and grain routes and strengthen the garrison, I can compress the activities of the Liao people, and the Liao people will no longer be the opponents of the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, and there is time to attack it!" ”

Peng Qi nodded again and again, it turned out to be like this! His Majesty planned to surprise the Northern Expedition, and the footsteps stopped at the Great Wall, relying on the danger of the Great Wall to resist the counterattack of the Liao people, and then in Xu Xu to map the entire Liao Dynasty, such a cannibalization strategy is really clever, but I am afraid that the party members in the northwest will not be able to sit still......