Zhao Huan cleared his throat, looked at the ministers below who were like facing a great enemy, and shook his head again and again, he just told a story, do you need to be prepared?

"There was a little donkey carrying salt across the river, and it slipped a little and fell into the river, and some of the salt melted into the water, and when he got up he felt much lighter, and this made him happy."

"One morning, a few days later, the little donkey crossed the river again with some cotton, and he thought to himself that the last time he crossed the river with salt, he fell, and it was easy to get up, and this time he will definitely cross."

At this time, he was complacent about his cleverness, and then he felt that the sky was bluer, the sun was walking leisurely, the trees were greener, the flowers were more vivid, and the river was flowing as if it were singing, and everywhere was full of joy. In this way, the more he thought about it, the more energetic he became, and he cheered loudly. ”

"Then the little donkey went into the river, and deliberately fell, and fell into the water, and when he got up, he found that the cotton on his body was heavy and heavy, and he took two steps with great difficulty, and was washed away by the river."

"It was dark and dark, the sun was hiding in the clouds, the trees were devoid of spirits, the flowers were dejected, the brook was flowing as if it were weeping, and everywhere it was lifeless."

After Zhao Huan finished telling this story, several of the many ministers in the court laughed.

This is a story for little ones!

A story full of holes! There is no comparison with the two stories told by the previous officials at all!

A speech official stood up with a smile on his face and said, "Official, the minister has a word"

"Nope! You don't! It's a pity that before the words of this famous official were finished, he was rudely interrupted by Yuwen Xuzhong.

Yuwen stood up instead and said, "The official, the ministers have no way, please forgive me." ”

Zhao Huan motioned for Yanguan and Yuwen to sit down and speak, he was not angry, this story is told to children, and children will ask, is the donkey so smart?

Tell it to the ministers of the DPRK and China, and the ministers of the DPRK and China can come up with 10,000 reasons to refute this naïve story.

But is the story really about the donkey?

"In the first year of Jingde, the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State signed the Yuanyuan Covenant, and they agreed to be brothers' countries, and they were peaceful for a hundred years until the Liao State was destroyed by Jin."

"At that time, the Liao State had been founded for eighty-eight years, and the soldiers were unfavorable, even if they sat on the sixteen states of Yanyun, they were still helpless against our Great Song Dynasty. Same as salt on a donkey's back. At that time, the country was in ruins, and it also needed to recuperate. ”

"But now, in the first year of Jingkang, just eleven years after the founding of the Jin State, the Liao State has already been beaten to the ground."

"At that time, the peace with the Liao State was based on the inability of the Liao State to go south, and the Kou Prime Minister at that time had already seen the weakness of the Liao State's successor."

"But dare to ask the princes of the court! It has only been ten years since the founding of the Jin State! Founding Soldiers! The destruction of the country is here! Is the Jin Kingdom unable to go south? ”

"The Liao and Jin kingdoms of the Lanyuan Alliance are like the salt and cotton on the donkey, and their harm is different. The heart of the Jin people to destroy my Great Song Dynasty is already known to passers-by. The only way to end this war between Song and Jin is to die, and this is a battle to the death. ”

Zhao Huan stood up from the imperial case, he walked to the side of the imperial ministers, and said: "I know that the people are suffering, I have seen with my own eyes that the family on Hedong Road is ruined, and the people live on the cliff in order to avoid the golden disaster. ”

"But when the kingdom is gone, will the people be safe? You can't even live on the cliffs. ”

It's not that the ministers can't see the difference between the situation of the Lanyuan Alliance and today, but that Zhao Huan stands from the perspective of the emperor and the overall situation.

And the courtiers, such as Liu Chengqing, his eyes fell on the household, and what he thought all day long was limited to the household.

And a very important point is that they were born in a prosperous era, and the war they experienced was only the battle when Yan Zongwang besieged Bianjing City.

But Zhao Huan knew very well that the Jin people would still go south, and the Han people under the rule of the Jin people would be ten thousand times more miserable than now!

The old and thin man is called the fire, the woman is a young man, the name is not envious sheep, and the child is called and the bone is rotten, and it is also called the two-legged sheep.

They hadn't seen that kind of cruelty, so naturally they couldn't know that the cruelty of the Jin people was even worse than they thought!

After the peace talks, will the sky really be bluer, the trees greener, the flowers more colorful, and the river will really be cheerful?

Zhao Huan was sitting in front of everyone, and the courtiers were thinking about the deep meaning of Zhao Huan's story, a very naïve story, but it made the courtiers extremely silent.

"Besides, even if peace is not negotiated, Hedong, Yanjing, and Hebei Road will not be war zones. Only Yunzhong Road is a war zone, and Jin Ren has no wings, so he can't fly across the Yanshan Mountain Range and enter Yanjing Road. ”

"Zhao Duzhi, bring the sand table over!" Zhao Huan shouted loudly.

The sand table was stacked by Zhao Huan and asked Zhao Ying to stack it according to the map of the world, Zhao Ying is a clever person, and it is very intuitive to pinch this sand table according to the legend.

"If you guard Datong in the clouds, you will guard the gate of Hedong Road, you will guard the Zhangjiakou Military Fort in Fengshengzhou, and you will guard the entrance from Juyong Pass to Yanjing Road. And here," Zhao Huan said with a round wooden stick in his hand, pointing in the direction of the clouds.

The ministers under their own command, they have not taken geography classes, this sand table is the first time they have seen it, they are civil ministers, they really know very little about military affairs, their understanding of the terrain, and the understanding of geography is even inferior to Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan sincerely thanked the nine-year compulsory education, although he was far inferior to the ancients who studied hard in ancient classics.

However, he surpassed the ancients in his understanding of the situation in the world, especially in his understanding of geographical advantages.

"In other words, only Yunzhong Road will become a war zone?" Liu Chengqing asked stunned.

If this is really the case, then whether to negotiate peace or not is not in accordance with the meaning of the official family? I didn't bother to talk about it.

What he worries about is that if peace is not discussed, most of the Northland will fall into the dead cycle of Hebei Road and Hedong Road in the past.

In order to prevent the Liao people from going south, there are three roads in Hebei and Hedong, and the people are not happy.

Li Gang nodded and said to Liu Chengqing: "That's right, otherwise why would I want to recover Yanyun in my heart?" ”

Li Gang has seen the incomparably fine map of the world, this kind of confidential drawing, in fact, only a few real henchmen of the official family have seen it.

Zhao Huan's map has always been in the Wende Palace, and the Wende Hall is now not allowed to enter except for Shen Cong, Cheng Chu, Zhao Ying and even Zhu Lian.

Zhao Huan didn't even let the palace people in, and the courtiers naturally hadn't seen this map, and the sand table brought out this time was an eye-opener for the courtiers.

The cognitive difference caused by information asymmetry.

Zhao Huan finally understood why the group of capable ministers under his command, who were good at governing the country and the country, suddenly wanted to negotiate peace.

The Great Song Dynasty and the Central Plains Dynasty have lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for too long!

So much so that they all forgot that this Yanyun was truly invincible in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty.

"The official family Wen Taowu is admirable, thank the official family for his teachings." Liu Chengqing bowed his head and said.

Since it does not affect the livelihood of the people in most parts of the Northland, it is in line with the will of the official family.

Liu Chengqing looked at this sand table, there are really many various things in the hands of the officials, which is eye-opening.

"The official envoy has arrived at Chenqiao, do you want to see him today?" Li Gang saw that Liu Chengqing was no longer involved in the matter of peace, and knew that the matter was over, so he asked softly.