After arranging the intelligence matters, Li Ren carefully analyzed the strength of the current imperial court. According to the current situation of Zhao Yun of the Song Dynasty in history, if nothing else, the Southern Song Dynasty can hold out for at least 20 years. I calculated in my heart that my current development is still too slow, but there is no better way. Now I have to stick to my previous strategy and slowly look for opportunities in the meantime.

The idea is made. Rihito instructed the guards: "Go quickly!" Bring me, Brother Zhiwen, Mr. Chen, and the newcomer Mr. Fang. Said I had an urgent inquiry. The guards hurried away.

After a while, several people invited by Liren came one after another, and they didn't know why they saw Liren's face full of doubts. Yang Zhiwen was the first to ask: "I don't know why Brother Xian is so anxious?" ”

Li Ren saw the three of them coming, and ordered the guards to go to the tea and watch the seats. said to Yang Zhiwen: "Oh! It's not a big deal, I'm just looking for you to discuss the current situation and see the future development direction of our Suzaku Army. ”

"Didn't the lord already know in his heart, why is he staggering now?" Chen Lin asked from his seat.

Li Ren frowned and replied: "It turns out that it was because Guang fought with the official army, and he didn't count that there was still a group of wolves on the grassland, and they may have eaten the meat of Jin Guo now." It's about to be his turn to face it directly from the Zhao family, and I'm wondering if we don't recklessly oppose it now, will we end up with the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches. ”

After listening to Liren's words, Chen Lin also fell into deep thought. Yang Zhiwen's head was spinning fast now, and he immediately said to Liren: "Brother Xian, what you are worried about is also Li, the so-called cold lips and teeth. If we recklessly oppose the Zhao family now, we will definitely see the soldiers in front of us resist the attack of the wolves on the grassland. But I want to ask how did Brother Xian know that the Jin Kingdom was about to fall? ”

Liren patted his head and suddenly realized: "Hehe! It's all my fault, I didn't make it clear beforehand. Speaking of this, Li Ren said to Fang Ning: "Mr. Fang, you now tell us what you know, so that we can be clearer." ”

Fang Ning nodded, hugged his fists at everyone, and said, "Lord, colleagues, this matter is the news that came back from my stronghold in the north. From the earliest time to the present, they said that a man named Temujin unified the steppe on the steppe more than ten years ago, and he established the Yuan. In the past ten years, Yuan has launched countless attacks on neighboring countries, large and small. It turned out that the Xia State, the border of the Jin State, had already surrendered to the Yuan State, and during this period, the Jin State also lost a lot of cities. The year before last, I heard that Temujin had died, and now it was his son, a man named Torre, who was in prison. During this time, they concentrated their forces and launched a devastating attack on King. In less than three years, the family has already attacked the capital. Now that I've withdrawn most of my manpower, I've left a small number of nimble men and continue to monitor the movements of both countries. During this period, I also heard the news that the Yuan attacked the Jin State this time, and the imperial court cheered for the Yuan to help in it. I also heard that it is possible that the Yuan and the imperial court may join forces to destroy Jin. ”

After listening to Fang Ning's words, Yang Zhiwen said a little angrily: "This court is really mediocre and confused, don't they understand the truth of cold lips and teeth?" If you really let Yuan destroy Jin, the next one will be his turn. ”

Chen Lin sighed and said, "Yes, who doesn't understand this truth?" But now there is only the voice of Shi Miyuan in the court, and I estimate that this time it must have been Shi Miyuan's own decision. ”

After listening to Chen Lin's words, Fang Ning clapped his hands and said in admiration: "Brother Chen is really like a god, but at this time, it was he Shi Miyuan who made it happen. I also heard from the insider that at that time, there were constant quarrels in the court about whether Lian Yuan would destroy Jin or Lian Jin block Yuan, and none of them could be done. In the end, after Zhao Yun came to power, Shi Miyuan did not consider it at all because of the opinions that Lian Jin Block Yuan put forward to the leaders at that time. Instead, he directly adopted the plan of destroying the gold with even yuan. Fang Ning smiled a little gloating when he said this, and said, "If there is no such a mediocre court, how can we come against him?" Do you say yes or no? ”

Li Ren said at this time: "Mr. Fang is right, without such a mediocre court, no one will suffer. No one suffers, and no one comes against him. However, if Mr. Fang directly raises troops against the Song Dynasty now, he will make the mistake that the court is annoying now, so are we a little in a hurry? ”

Fang Ning saw Liren asking himself, and after thinking about it carefully, he really didn't think of this, but his own feud blindfolded him. Immediately, Fang Ning said ashamedly: "What the lord said is that a certain person has been taught. ”

Li Ren saw that Fang Ning was not forgetting the safety of the country for the sake of his personal vendetta, and nodded: "Mr. is too modest. Superior to others, knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and being good is great. After saying this, Liren asked, "I want to ask Mr. now, is there a solution?" ”

Fang Ning didn't know much about the secrets of the Vermilion Bird Army now, and he couldn't do a good job after thinking about it for a long time. At this time, Yang Zhiwen thought about something, and said: "Brother Xian, I want to ask you, do you want to play half of the country or get the whole world?" ”

Liren replied with a smile: "Brother, you know, my ideal is to fight for the freedom of the people of the whole world. ”

Yang Zhiwen nodded innocently and said, "If you want to get the whole world, why don't you fight first and then retreat now." In this way, you can develop your own strength. ”

Chen Lin asked on the side: "What is the first fight and then retreat?" Liren also wanted to know very much, and kept looking at Yang Zhiwen with questioning eyes.

Yang Zhiwen said at this time: "Let's fight first and then retreat, the first point, we must first hurt the imperial court, so that they know how powerful we are." If we retreat, we will find an opportunity to accept the imperial court's recruitment, but our first condition is to hand over Quanzhou's coastal defense to us. So that we can build a water army, and then we want Leizhou, as our springboard, so as to accumulate our strength. ”

After listening to Yang Zhiwen's suggestion, Liren patted his thigh and said, "Brother Zhiwen really thought of it with me, but let's not Leizhou first." ”

Yang Zhiwen said with questions: "Why don't you want Leizhou?" Is that the best place to grow? ”

Liren said with a smile: "I know that it is the best place to accumulate strength, but Brother Zhiwen, have you thought of it, it is also the land of the imperial court, and we really want to gather strength on it, it is not easy." Speaking of this, Rihito pulled out a scroll of Kanyu from the bookshelf next to him and said, "Come and see." The three of them walked to the desk and looked carefully at the map in front of them.

At this time, Liren pointed to Guangzhou and said: "Look here, there are 200,000 permanent garrisons of the imperial court here, plus the surrounding troops, there are a total of 300,000 or 400,000. This is only the army, and there are still 200,000 sailors of the imperial court on the sea. Let's not talk about whether we have fought or not, let's look at the number of officers and soldiers. Even if they grind, they can grind us out two-fifths, and by that time, will our army be built after grinding? ”

Yang Zhiwen thought of the main problem at this time, and said repeatedly: "Yes! ”

Liren picked up the brush again, drew the shape of an egg in the lower right corner of the Kanyu map, and said, "We don't want Leizhou, we want it here." ”