554, War Horse (3)
The construction of the big ships necessary for the Liao State to buy horses is about to begin, and what Zheng Fei has to solve next is how to get the action plan formulated by the Great Song Dynasty to realize the "Lianjin to destroy Liao".
Zheng Fei naturally knew that if the original course of history was followed, the Great Song Dynasty should have ordered Dengzhou Soldiers and Horses to take a boat from Dengzhou to Jin in the name of buying horses, and start the first secret talks between the two countries to destroy Liao, but now with the occupation of Jingdong Road and Dengzhou in his hands, then Ma Zheng also followed Zong Ze to withdraw to Hebei East Road, and everything that should have happened naturally will not happen again. In order to get in touch with the Jin State, the Great Song Dynasty is very likely to send others to Jindi through other channels, and he must know when and who will be sent to Jindi by whom and in what way, because only by getting their accurate plan of action can Zheng Fei use this to negotiate secretly with the Liao State.
But such an extremely confidential matter, it is impossible to find out only by the secret agents of the Heavenly Dao Army lurking in Tokyo, Zhang Shuye is not reused in Tokyo at present, and only has an idle position in the Yushitai, with his current official position and status, he naturally cannot access such secrets, Zheng Fei thought about it, and decided to start with Zhao Liangsi, because the strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao" was dedicated to the emperor by him, and in the original history, the most critical secret talks between the two countries were also made by him on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty, The final covenant negotiated between the Jin State and the Jin people with the emperor's handwritten letter, and if nothing else, he may be responsible for the negotiations with the Jin State this time!
Zheng Fei thought about it, and after careful consideration, he wrote a letter to Zhao Liangsi, in which he described the current situation of Liao and Jin to Zhao Liangsi in detail according to his advantages in the development of the historical process, and pointed out that with the current military strength of the Great Song Dynasty, forming an alliance with the Jin State in a vain attempt to "join Jin to destroy Liao" was actually an act of raising tigers and digging his own grave! He even bluntly predicted that the Liao State would be defeated by the Jin State, and after the Liao State was destroyed, the Jin army would take the opportunity to wave its troops south and turn to attack the Great Song Dynasty. Don't look at the fact that the Great Song Dynasty has hundreds of thousands of troops, but it has already been rotten from top to bottom, and it has no combat effectiveness at all, otherwise how could it be forced to compromise with itself and accept that it would become a feudal town? In other words, with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty alone, the goal of "Lianjin to destroy Liao" with the intention of recovering Yanyun will never be realized, and it will even lead to a disaster!
And whether he can turn the crisis into an opportunity, and in the end, not only can he recover Yanyun smoothly as planned, but also can really protect Yanyun and block Liaojin north of the Great Wall, the key is whether the Great Song Dynasty has another powerful force that can help him fight against Liaojin. Zheng Fei made it clear that the 200,000 Heavenly Dao Army in his hands had such strength! In the just-concluded Northwest Battlefield, the performance of the Heavenly Dao Army proved this!
At this point in the letter, Zheng Fei said his purpose, he said that as a feudal town of the Great Song Dynasty and a member of the Chinese nation, he had promised you that Zhao Liangsi would try his best to help you realize the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun, whether it was public or private, and then he should send the Heavenly Dao Army in his hands to help the Great Song Dynasty realize the plan of recovering Yanyun. I believe that with the help of the Heavenly Dao Army, the Great Song Dynasty can definitely withstand a counterattack from the Jin State, or a crazy retaliation from the Liao State.
But "should" belongs to "should", if you really want to let yourself act, in addition to moral considerations, you also have one condition, that is, you must also be able to participate in this plan, or, at the very least, you must be able to understand in time what step Da Song's action has progressed, otherwise when the time comes, you will only let yourself contribute, but you will not let yourself know why you contribute? And for whom? For safety reasons, you can only refuse!
It's just that he can't make this request to Da Song now, because he can't explain to Da Song how he knew about it. Therefore, Zheng Fei hoped that Zhao Liangsi could tell him in detail about the plan of the Great Song Dynasty to "Lianjin to destroy Liao" after reading this letter, and only then could Zheng Fei prepare for "Lianjin to destroy Liao" in advance!
Zheng Fei finished writing the letter, but he still felt a little unsafe, so he called Zhu Gui again, first, he ordered him to send the most trustworthy person to send the letter to Tokyo immediately and hand it over to Zhao Liangsi, and second, he ordered him to send an order to the secret agents of the Investigation Bureau who were lurking in Tokyo, so that they could temporarily put down all the tasks in their hands and focus all their attention on the two people in the court, one was Zhao Liangsi and the other was Ma Zheng, if the two of them suddenly disappeared in Tokyo one day, they must send back the news immediately!
The letter and the order had been issued, Zheng Fei breathed a long sigh of relief, and all he could do now was to wait patiently, waiting for the warship to be built, and waiting for Zhao Liangsi's reply.
Two days later, the New Year is over,
Zheng Fei spent a happy and warm New Year with Li Qingzhao, Li Luoling, Hu Sanniang, and the two little ones who celebrated the New Year for the first time.
The clock of history has also officially stepped into the seventh year of political peace!
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On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhao Liangsi received Zheng Fei's letter, and after reading the letter, he immediately threw the letter into the brazier of Zhengwang burning in the house.
He naturally didn't believe what Zheng Fei said because of the reason for being a Great Song Dynasty domain, in his opinion, there were no more than two reasons for Zheng Linfeng to do this, one was to find an opportunity to take advantage of the Great Song Dynasty's "Lianjin Annihilation of Liao" and get a benefit. The second is to continue to prove its value to the Great Song Dynasty, the higher the value, the more necessary it is to continue to be used and exist.
It's just that although he self-righteously saw through Zheng Fei's purpose, but what Zheng Fei said to him in the letter still deeply touched him, two years ago, when he met Zheng Fei for the first time, Zheng Fei had already expressed a similar view to him about the situation in Liaojin, he was just surprised that the "butcher" Zheng Linfeng understood the foreign situation, but he didn't expect that with the development of time, many things were really Zheng Fei's words. So Zheng Fei told him again that the Jin State would quickly destroy the Liao State in the next few years, although he still felt that this was a bit fantastical, but he unconsciously didn't dare to believe it. Even if this is true, then Zheng Linfeng's prophecy that the Jin State will launch an attack on the Great Song Dynasty after destroying the Liao State is also very likely to happen!
This made Zhao Liangsi very worried, especially when he witnessed the decadence of the Great Song Dynasty in several wars with the Tiandao Army, the Qishan Army, and the Xia Kingdom, which made him have a deep sense of distrust of the Great Song Dynasty, he grew up in the Liao State since he was a child, and he knew very well what the Liao Army was like, although compared to the strength of the Liao Shengzong and the Empress Dowager Xiao, the strength of the Liao Army is much weaker now, but it still has a considerable degree of combat effectiveness. In just one year, he lost a huge Liaodong, and it is conceivable how terrible the Jin army should be, so Zheng Linfeng is right, with the current strength of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, it is definitely not an opponent compared to the Jin army!
The Great Song Dynasty really needs a strong army!
Therefore, no matter what Zheng Linfeng's purpose is, he is indeed qualified to participate in this plan!
Zhao Liangsi quickly made up his mind, he wanted to make a double insurance for the "Lianjin Annihilation of Liao" to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, one insurance is the Great Song Dynasty, and the other insurance is to take Zheng Linfeng, anyway, his purpose is just to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, as long as this goal can be achieved, then who will achieve it, and how it will be achieved It has nothing to do with himself!
After thinking about it, Zhao Liangsi immediately began to write a letter to Zheng Fei, in which in addition to detailing the current plan of the Great Song Dynasty, he also told Zheng Fei an additional news,
That is, the imperial court will send a decree to Jingdong Road in a few days, the content of the decree is very simple, the imperial court hopes that the Heavenly Dao Army can immediately send another army to the south to help the imperial court exterminate the southeast Qishan bandits!