Chapter 575: The Emperor's Difficult Decision

As a student of the Great Demon King, Zhuo Luolan, a new generation of generals in Western Xia, is now considered to be up-and-coming.

She had the record of hanging the Great Demon King up and beating her at Suiyuan Pass, and she also had the record of retreating from the Qingtang battlefield.

Later, he reached an understanding with the Great Demon King, and quickly started trading, exchanging iron ore and coal for soybean feed, and now after a period of recuperation, the grassland is truly rich, and there are fat cattle, sheep and horses everywhere.

As a fan of the Great Demon King, only she truly understands the political intentions of the Great Demon King.

Seeing that the Great Song Dynasty is flourishing now, there are actually hidden dangers. Wang Yan was a great strategist, and Zhuo Luolan believed that his purpose in attacking the port of Suzhou in the Liao State was not to avoid war, but to win the last strategic buffer for the Great Song Dynasty.

This must be a tightrope walk, but seeing that the Great Demon King is close to success. But even if he is temporarily deprived of the diplomatic power of the Great Demon King by the Song Imperial Court, it doesn't matter, relying on the politician mentality of Lao Xiao of the Liao State, if this matter is not responded to for a day, the Great Demon King will not be cold mixed by the Song Imperial Court.

The more time drags on, the more deployments Wang Yan can make and relocate more industries to prepare for the war.

Based on these, the Western Xia, who had been licking his wounds for several years, wanted to intervene again, in order to avoid the interference of the anti-war Empress Dowager Wuzang's people, and did not leave Beijing with Pang Zang, and specially initiated the Xiping Mansion Conference, and after discussion, he wanted to appoint Zhuo Luolan as a special envoy to go to Beijing to find his father's country to deal with this interest, intending to carve up the depth of the Song Kingdom.

But Zoloran refused. The reason is that they are planning a world war that will not be won in the end, and as the commander-in-chief, Zoloran refuses to command a war that has problems at the beginning.

This caused him to be very unhappy. So he temporarily appointed Duo Yu Ji as the special envoy of Western Xia, and urgently rushed to his father's country to go to Beijing, without telling Pang that Lao Xiao must be persuaded to respond to the Suzhou Port incident.

You can't just delay, if the war is inevitable, you can't hesitate, start this process as soon as possible, otherwise it will definitely not be a good thing to wait for the Great Demon King to finish his preparations.

This was Zo Loran's final suggestion. Yes, as a general, after the unsuccessful anti-war, when the Western Xia had decided to get involved, although Zhuo Luolan refused to go to Beijing, he still gave the most favorable advice to the Western Xia.

Therefore, as a special envoy of Western Xia, this time the mission of eating more is to persuade Lao Xiao: to compromise with Song Guo's diplomatic mouth as soon as possible, and treat the Suzhou Port incident as an accident rather than a provocation.

"Do you really think so?" In the mansion, Xiao Hui looked at herself with interest.

Eat more and say: "Xiao Xiang, this is to retreat as advance." If you can resist the internal political pressure of the Liao State and say that the Suzhou Port incident was an accident and only made the Song State lose money, it is a delaying tactic. I, Xixia Yipintang, have always monitored the situation in Bianjing, and Wang Yan is now politically breaking with the Song court, and Wang Yan's position has been temporarily retained because of the Suzhou Port heart disease. If this boot lands, I Xixia thinks that Wang Yan will soon withdraw from the administrative echelon. ”

"At that time, it was an opportunity, and without a unified policy of centering and coordinating, it would infinitely slow down the progress of the Song State Dengzhou Shipyard, and the efficiency of the entire Daimyofu's industrial system for the Song Navy that was now fighting in the East China Sea, and the aid plan for Wajima, etc., would be greatly reduced."

At the same time, after the Liao State made concessions, it would further reassure Han Qi and Wang Anshi and step up the mobilization of resources to respond to the Jiaozhi incident in the southwest of the Song State. This is the fuse of the whole world. ”

"In fact, the Jiaozhi people have been testing and don't really trust Liao. Once the Great Song Dynasty really responds forcefully now, and there are many dead people, Jiaozhi will be forced to get involved in the war against the Song Dynasty, and that will be the time when my Western Xia will send troops again and redefine the outcome of the Qingtang War. And once this result appears, the Wall-headed Goryeo will really intervene in the Bohai War and seize the greater interests under the immaturity of the Song Navy. ”

These were the suggestions that Zhuo Luolan had to make. Now it is relayed to Xiao Hui by Duo Yuji as a special envoy.

Xiao Hui, the popular political star of Liao, responded to the Xixia envoy after thinking about this for two days: You can accept Xixia's suggestion, but you need to vote for it, and my Liao State will "lose power and humiliate the country" and recognize Suzhou Port as an accident.

The content of the nomination: Once the Great Demon King is refrigerated, the Song State enters the period of no backbone, and when the strategy is shifted to the southwest to deal with the Jiaozhi people, the Western Xia needs to immediately send troops to Qingtang to show loyalty, which is equivalent to challenging the core interests of the Song State, and the Western Xia has no way out. Then Liaoguo will follow up after confirming these signals.

Xiao Hui's request can't be said to be too much.

In fact, now the internal situation of Western Xia also feels like a pill, and the Liao State is indeed powerful and unsightly, but the Liao State does not care about the Western Xia, and the land of the Western Xia is useless to the territory of the Liao State.

But this is not the case with the Song State, and everyone knows that the ultimate goal of the Song State is to take away all the minerals and labor in the land of Western Xia. In contrast, at that time, the Liao people even broke the Xingqing Mansion, but finally returned all the land to the Western Xia.

This situation did not make Pang think: Song State may not like to kill people, but it is still ugly compared to Liao State, referring to Qingtang's current policy, and it was garrisoned. Now is the last opportunity to break the hegemony strategy of the Song State, if it cannot be achieved, then in eight to ten years, I am afraid that the whole world will be the fate of Qingtang now. This is naked imperialism.

Although the Great Demon King set up a strategic flickering bureau to suppress the "***** Circle Statement" of the Angry Green Party, he didn't know that the Angry Green Party was just shouting, and the Great Demon King's heart was such a purpose. The Great Demon King is the worst and most hateful person in the world......

May 1 was the "Labor Day of the Industrial Party" set by Dayan himself, but when this day came, the Great Song Dynasty did not celebrate.

Emperor Zhao Zhen dragged his sick body and rarely walked out of the Shangqing Palace, letting the bright sun of Mayday shine on his body while breathing fresh air. But this did not warm the emperor's heart.

In the early hours of the morning, I heard a report that Bao Zheng died.

Bao Zheng's housekeeper said that before his death, Bao Zheng left a letter to the emperor, in which he described the new financial situation facing the Great Song Dynasty as the third envoy.

Just look at those things, Lao Bao is known for not understanding the economy. When Zhao Zhen appointed him as the envoy of the three divisions, he did not plan to carry out good economic reforms, but only expected him to take an iron-fisted posture and turn the three divisions into neutral and break the policy of the previous generations of sitting on the pond and the fish from the left to the right.

Bao Zheng also worked hard, but he didn't seem to do a good job just for this job, and the time was too short, except for giving some green lights to Wang Yan, it didn't play a big role.

It happened that because Bao Zheng gave the green light, he greatly indulged Wang Yan's policy to the extreme and even arrogant, and now, Wang Yan has caused dissatisfaction among many ministers, including his father.

But Zhao Zhen didn't have the energy to think about these things, and maybe Ouyang Xiu was right when he commented on Bao Zheng on some issues.

It's just such an old man who has followed Zhao Zhen all his life, this old man who makes Zhao Zhen the most unhappy and twists everywhere, but also makes Zhao Zhen trust him all his life, the housekeeper said that he was shaking his hands an hour before he died, writing and submitting the economic outlook to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. It was all nonsense, but Zhao Zhen was very moved.

At this twilight, the old man who followed Zhao Zhen all his life and trusted Zhao Zhen the most passed away first, which couldn't help but make Zhao Zhen feel older and his mentality was more and more affected.

Daddy Manager Chen is also very old, and he doesn't know what to say about his gray hair, so he just quietly looks at the emperor basking in the sun but shivering with cold, and finds that the emperor's eyes are slightly red......

Bao Zheng didn't have much achievement, but he had a good reputation, he was synonymous with Qingtian in this era, and others were not.

When the news of his death spread and the emperor gave him a posthumous posthumous title, the world was shocked and the whole country mourned.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the way to the funeral of Bao Lao Xiangye, but it was unusually quiet.

When this situation appeared, even Bao Zheng's political enemy Ouyang Xiu had to admit that Lao Bao's life was very satisfying......

In late May, Xiao Hui, the envoy of the Liao State, entered Bianjing.

This inevitably makes people feel that pills, Xiao Hui is now the number one political celebrity in Liao, and the specifications of this envoy are so high, it is Xiao Hui who came in person, I am afraid that it means that the Song Navy is going to land on the ground in Suzhou Port, Liao, and no one knows whether it is war or peace.

Both the people and the imperial court have been responsible for Wang Yan's troubles, and at the same time, they have once again entered the climate of fear of Liao.

This is indeed a rare big problem, and Xiao Hui came in person, so Zhao Zhen cheered up, dragged the sick body to personally preside over the negotiations, and conducted many "sincere exchanges".

During the negotiations, Han Qi and Zhao Zhen tried their best to state that "the Song Navy went to capture pirates, not against Liao, did not attack Liao's territory, and did not fire on Liao's warships." The impact was an accident, and the responsible Song Navy remedied it and gave life jackets. ”

After the negotiations lasted until June 1, Xiao Hui generously gave a bottom-line answer: he promised that the Suzhou Port incident could be regarded as an accident rather than an invasion.

Liaoguo, who is known for its ugly appearance, actually gave this answer. This made Han Qi and Zhao Zhen a little nervous.

Xiao Hui pretended to be embarrassed and demanded that the Song State compensate two Liao warships, plus 50,000 taels of silver for various losses, and open the export of steam engines to Liao.

Not only are these conditions not excessive, but the situation is very good.

The only thing is that the export of steam engines makes the negotiation team led by Han Qi a little dissatisfied, but Liao is Liao after all, and when the conditions are not too excessive, no one wants to tear them up. In the end, in order not to be delayed in the deployment of Guangnan, the negotiation team led by Han Qi agreed to Xiao Shumi's conditions.

However, after all the intentions were reached, Xiao Hui finally mentioned a supplementary request: the Song State should severely punish Wang Yan, the person responsible for the Suzhou Port incident, otherwise it would be impossible to explain to the Liao State.

So it's a little sensitive.

But Xiao Hui's attitude makes people feel that this negotiation is sincere.

This requirement was a bit excessive for the Song Kingdom. Even if Han Qi wants to refrigerate Wang Yan's guy who committed crimes against the wind now, he is still resistant. It's okay to deal with Wang Yan, he did make trouble, and he arbitrarily authorized the navy to enter the port of Liao and almost provoked a superpower dispute, and it was not too much for Song to lock him up.

But this can only be an act of internal affairs. If he brings down his own heroes under the oppression of hegemony, this makes Han Qi feel a bit like losing power and humiliating the country and cutting off his arm.

Wang Anshi and Han Qi did not respond to this, and the negotiations dragged on until June 10 and could not reach a consensus.

But on the other hand, the major blow of Bao Zheng's death had just occurred, which made the emperor's mood very unstable, and he happened to encounter the coercion of the hegemony under the mood of fear of Liao. And after Zhao Zhen thought carefully about the Suzhou Port incident, he also thought that Wang Yan had gone too far and was too out of place.

Zhao Zhen knew a long time ago that that kid could be of great use and could also be cold and cause great trouble. Now that he is really inflated, in addition to getting Han Qi and Wang Anshi to tolerate him, Liao Guo also wants him to be responsible for the Suzhou Port incident.

Based on the need to maintain a stable mentality and protect the child politically, Zhao Zhen finally agreed to all the conditions of Xiao Hui in late June and made the difficult decision to refrigerate Wang Yan.

This is the second major blow that Zhao Zhen suffered in his later years, and Bao Zheng's death made Zhao Zhen cherish his ability to be a minister more than ever. It is really not easy for a courtier to do well and completely win the emperor's trust.

In the past ten years, Zhao Zhen has basically watched this little kid grow up step by step with the mentality of an uncle, leading Da Song to solve problems.

But now he is in trouble and arrogant, and it may be secondary to provoke the Liao people when the reason is insufficient. His biggest problem was that he began to rebel against his father and began to work with Zhao Zhen's other minister, Han Qi. This is commonly known as a crime against the wind.

The palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, Han Qi is a tiger, and his qualifications and prestige are obvious. When Han Qi did not let go of major mistakes, and on the contrary, the prodigy began to be politically incorrect, Zhao Zhen felt that he could only temporarily refrigerate the child, so as not to let it go and cause political chaos in the Great Song Dynasty.

So just like he Wang Yan refrigerated the group of clear streams in Beijing, now Zhao Zhen has made a heart-wrenching decision: refrigerate Wang Yan......