A watchtower was built on the heights of the Crow River. Telescopes made in the Song Kingdom are very expensive and unaffordable, but even with the naked eye, you can see the scenery of the grassland to a certain extent.

Before the sun set, Zhuo Luolan stood in the wind and watched from the watchtower the scene of "the wind blowing the grass and seeing the cattle and sheep".

Now is one of the best times in Western Xia, at least the Zhuo Luolan Territory, which was the first to trade with the Daimyo's Mansion.

Back in the day, when winter came, the air inhaled into the nose could sting. Perhaps the royal capital Xingqing Mansion could not experience such suffering, but in fact, Zhuo Luolan knew that such a desperate cold and biting cold was a problem faced by most of the Western Xia.

Where there is trade, there will be "sets", which will gradually form so-called cities. Unlike the Song people, the Western Xia did not have too many resources to build cities for the time being, so compared with the past, there are now a few more "small towns" in Zhuo Luolan's territory.

From time to time, when I go to these small towns, I can see a lot of different customs, and the number of Hu people with the smell of on their bodies has gradually increased. In the past, such people only liked to concentrate in the Song Kingdom.

In recent years, the harvest in all aspects has been very good, and the fat cattle and sheep have a unique grass fragrance of the grassland. This is a high-end food, which can be sold at a large price on the table of the powerful people of Bianjing in the Song Kingdom, and has formed a stable trade line.

Zhuo Luolan knew that those guys were now poisoned by talking about "ideas", and they threatened not to eat cheap feed pigs and feed chickens. This was an opportunity for Western Xia, and Zhuo Luolan encouraged the people of the territory to eat agricultural grain imported from the Daimyo Prefecture and "export the best grassland beef and mutton for foreign exchange". Then several sets of steam engines were also imported with this money.

This is an honor, the steam engine was banned from the Liao State, but it was loosened from the Western Xia.

At that time, Zhuo Luolan was like an outdated poor girl, holding the banknote in her hand and reluctant to use it, so she went to the Funing County Steam Engine Factory to wander for a long time, and she was reluctant to buy Xu Langshan's machine, but bought the machine of the Northwest Investment Bank at half the price.

Now the grassland people have experienced the novelty, and many people have time to go around to watch the steam engine, which is regarded as a new faith, instead of praying to God and Buddha all day long.

Seeing the sun set, Zhuo Luolan, who was thinking about this, sighed softly. It has been almost four years since the defeat in Qingtang.

As a front-line commander who came to the Qingtang battlefield at that time and fought many times with the Demon King Army, Zhuo Luolan still has lingering palpitations, and when he thinks about it, he is like a man.

And now, the royal capital Xingqing Mansion is sharpening its soldiers and horses, and is about to send troops.

This seems to be a Western Xia interest?

But Zhuo Luolan believes that this is mainly due to the personal interests of Pang.

At that time, the little emperor wanted to govern himself through war, but failed. But it won't stop there, as the emperor gets older, the need for pro-government who are eager to try it out will increase. For this reason, it is inevitable that there will be a conflict with the unscrupulous Pang.

In Zhuo Luolan's view, harmony was only temporary, and these were the ultimate hidden dangers of Western Xia politics.

Didn't lie to Pang a few days ago and forcibly married his daughter to Emperor Li Liangzuo as the queen, and now the prince has it. In other words, the royal family has a new mascot, and it is the grandson of the unscrupulous Pang. In such a situation, theoretically, Pang would not care about killing another emperor.

But the balance between brother and sister is still there after all, and the Queen Mother finally has some control. Even if the Empress Dowager didn't want to give power to the emperor, she would never kill her son. So now the three sides are pulling together.

The war waged by the Emperor was lost, and now there is no need to wage war to regather the power that is gradually scattered.

So unfortunately, the Western Xia army that had recuperated was gathering, and it was about to send troops to Qingtang.

Zhuo Luolan does not advocate sending troops, but the situation of the times is so helpless, if the Western Xia has a lofty goal, it cannot do without the complete Hetao region, it must get Qingtang, and it must recover the Xiliang Mansion lost in the last Qingtang War.

The current result is that the Qingtang War was forged, and if it is to be redefined, then there is no doubt that a larger war will be needed.

Now, the rich territory of Zhuo Luolan has been ordered to supply food and grass, and a great war is imminent. is waiting for the final signal, the so-called signal is a larger conflict in the East China Sea, and the military deployment in the southwest of the Great Song Dynasty continues to increase.

These are all conspiracies to slander Pang and eat more of themselves and the Liao State, and they are their interests.

When the Qingtang War was lost, the strategic town of Xiliangfu was also lost, which was a war launched by Emperor Li Liangzuo. If there is no slander that the war that Pang is waging now can take back Xiliangfu and rewrite the results of the last Qingtang War, then there is no doubt that Taishi will be a "national hero", and his prestige will be subverted, and the emperor's pro-government plan will be thwarted again.

For this reason, Pang initiated the second Xiping Mansion Conference as early as July, specifically avoiding the people of the Empress Dowager in the capital, and summoned Zhuo Luolan to Xiping Mansion to participate in the pre-war meeting.

The issue of sending troops is not negotiable, and the question of who is in command is discussed.

He didn't want to appoint Zhuo Luolan to enter Qingtang, but Zhuo Luolan refused to go out on the grounds of "not winning".

I almost provoked it.

Zhuo Luolan said at the Xiping Mansion meeting: It is very easy to defeat Dong Yu's army and defeat the 20,000 garrisons of the Great Song Dynasty in Qingtang, there is no suspense at all, and other generals can also do it. But this is just the beginning and not the end, the world is changing with each passing day, you have not been to the Daimyo's mansion, you have not seen what productivity is, you will not understand.

Of course, the beginning will be victorious, but in the ongoing war, even if there is no Great Demon King, the Song Kingdom will gradually come out of the protracted war, and carry it with national strength and achieve the final victory. What's more, the Great Demon King is still there.

Zhuo Luolan's second reason for opposing the dispatch of troops to Qingtang: fighting Qingtang is basically equivalent to declaring war on the Song Dynasty, because the current garrison in Qingtang is not a "volunteer army", but a Song forbidden army. According to the Qingtang armistice agreement that year, it was a joint defense agreement, which was manifested as: the Great Song Dynasty was attacked and Qingtang had to send troops, and when Qingtang was attacked, the Great Song Dynasty garrison in Qingtang unconditionally began to help counterattack. This means that fighting Qingtang must represent a declaration of war against the Great Song Dynasty.

And Zhuo Luolan felt that she couldn't defeat the Great Song Dynasty, as the commander, she didn't want to invade and command a war that could not be won in the end.

Khan, she flickered like a circus in the royal capital market, and the people at the Xiping Mansion meeting were stunned, and Pang finally had to agree not to let Zhuo Luolan go to the front line, and let her territory supply grain and grass for the "great cause of the nation".

Zhuo Luolan is very helpless about this, but it is a pity that people are soft-spoken, just like the folk say, the people who rule the world are almost a group of fools.

Since Zhuo Luolan could not oppose the tone of the Xiping Mansion Conference, it had been established that Western Xia would inevitably send troops. So as a responsible general, Zhuo Luolan did not oppose the war again, but put forward two suggestions for the deployment of Wu Zang Pang:

First, since we have to fight, we will not fight Qingtang. Adopt a fast and accurate baa-style blitzkrieg method, and quickly concentrate forces to attack Funing County, Yinzhou, Great Song Dynasty. Second, since war is inevitable, there is no need to wait for the so-called signals, which are all signals for cowardly and indecisive people. The Western Xia himself could act as an active attacker to establish a signal.

Since the premise of the war against the Song Dynasty has been decided, it is necessary to eat the industrial town of Funing County in the Great Song Dynasty at any cost before the Great Demon King's "industrial relocation and industrial workers go to the countryside", and quickly transform the left-behind personnel, mineral resources, and industrial scale of Funing County into war resources in Western Xia.

In this way, I don't know if I will win the battle with Song Zhuo Luolan, but the Western Xia, who will inevitably send troops, will definitely gain more depth.

These are all the opinions of Zhuo Luolan.

However, today's Great Song Dynasty is a deterrent, and it takes too much courage to directly attack the Great Song Administrative Region, and he has reservations, believing that if he attacks the Great Song Administrative Region without waiting for the signal to truly establish the ants and elephants, once the war situation is reversed, the Western Xia will be the end of the country's destruction.

So in the end, he rejected Zhuo Luolan's suggestion and set a policy of sending troops to Qingtang and not directly confronting the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhuo Luolan is very sad about this, since this group of war maniacs has decided to be killers, but they are not thorough enough, they want the archway, which will kill the Western Xia warriors sooner or later.

In Zhuo Luolan's view, the nature of sending troops to Funing County is the same as sending troops to Qingtang. All declared war on Song. With Wang Yan's urine, the revenge and price he suffered afterwards were the same, he would never be soft on Western Xia when he had the opportunity, just like Zhuo Luolan would not be soft.

It's a pity that this is a group of self-deluded politicians making decisions.

In Zhuo Luolan's opinion, it is useless to defeat Qingtang, and it will not affect the real war potential of the Great Song Dynasty. I can only wait for them to catch their breath slowly.

But if you take Funing County, an important industrial town, it will be equivalent to pinching the egg of the big demon king, and there will be conditions to talk about it at that time. The Great Demon King would even sell Qingtang backhand in order to obtain a united front with the Western Xia, at that time, as long as he saw that the Liao State could not hold the situation at all, the Western Xia would turn against the battle and enter the Liao State to divide the land in Shangjing Road with the attitude of an ally? By the way, you can avenge the fall of Xingqing Mansion that year, isn't it?

If it were to change Zhuo Luolan's decision, he would be forced to do so. But no.

In short, thinking about everything now is equal to zero, and after the second Xiping Mansion Conference, it is a foregone conclusion that Western Xia will send troops to Qingtang.

Now looking at the fat cattle, sheep and forage on the watchtower, Zhuo Luolan was very cold in his heart.

Four years ago, Zo Luolan braved taboos to bring some people home from the battlefield. However, how many of the soldiers who went out this time will be able to go home after four years?

Once they participated in this conspiracy and eventually lost the war, Western Xia would never have sovereignty again. It is difficult to determine whether it will be enslaved for the time being, but as long as the Qingtang War breaks out, after the Song army is killed or wounded, it will definitely face a crazy counterattack as the situation advances.

Relying on the Great Demon King's almost demonic brainwashing ability, the terrifying productive forces of the Song Kingdom, no matter who launched the invasion, no matter how many countries participated, they would eventually be reduced to white bones and completely lose the war.

When it finally got dark, Zhuo Luolan got up and went home, and there was no point in thinking about it now. What he could do was to help the Western Xia delay the loss of the war as much as possible within the framework of the unscrupulous.

In the darkness of home, she rode her famous horse and sang.

When did he have these thoughts, Zhuo Luolan didn't find out about it, but it was definitely from the Great Demon King's discourse. His writings are always so novel, so deviant, so reasonable. The Great Demon King always reveals between the lines of his writings: he must be loyal to his duties, he must have ethics and morality, and he can oppose a policy, but once it is activated, it will be the will of the country, and he must not be held back, he must cooperate with the work of his colleagues, and he must support the unity of his superiors. This is a political plot in his place.

I don't know if this statement is right or not, but in fact, Zhuo Luolan has always believed in the Great Demon King, and Zhuo Luolan did this at the second Xiping Mansion Conference, and he did his best......