Yi Zhangdun smiled and said, "Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, the old man really admires Yang Jungong's whimsy." ”

Yang Huairen raised his glass to toast, "Zhang Xianggong is too elevated to the kid, and the kid is just talking nonsense after drinking." ”

"What is the explanation that Yang Jungong said that it is difficult to return to a state of equilibrium between the three kingdoms of the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Liao and the Western Xia?"

"Equilibrium is built on a state of stability."

Yang Huairen continued to talk eloquently, "Ten or twenty years ago, perhaps this kind of mutual relationship between the three countries was relatively stable.

But today, whether it is the Great Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia, it is very coincidental that we all have to face the same status quo. ”

"The same status quo?"

Zhang Dian tilted his head and thought for a while, suddenly took a sharp breath of cold air, and asked in a low voice, "What Yang Jungong said is the Lord Shaoguo suspicious?" ”

Yang Huairen shook his body and nodded violently, "Exactly." ”

The conversation between the two of them is getting more and more rude, and they are getting more and more bold after drinking too much, and even their own emperor is getting into it.

Yang Huairen smiled bitterly and pointed at Zhang Duan and himself, "If others hear this, I'm afraid they will misunderstand that we are going to rebel, hehe." ”

Zhang Dian wanted to slap Yang Huairen's mouth, this kid is really timid, and he dares to say anything, but at this time, the other people at the table have already seen that the two of them seem to be talking about something important that they don't understand, and they have consciously retired, so Zhang Dian dared to persuade in shock, "The matter of the saint, you and I know it in our hearts, it is better to talk about Western Xia and Liao." ”

Although Zhao Xu has been an emperor for eight years, he has really begun to take power, in fact, he has just begun, and he has not had a few months of work.

Moreover, as soon as he took power, he used a thunderous momentum to clear the courtiers who had different opinions and views on governing the country from him, and now although the situation in the court is slowly returning to calm, the real situation is not as peaceful as it seems.

Many local officials could not understand the emperor's new policies, and those who were demoted to the local areas did not agree with these new policies in the first place, let alone sincerely helped implement them.

Therefore, it is not too much to say that the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty is suspicious of the lord and the country.

It's just that Yang Huairen is not really drunk to the point of not being rational at all, since Zhang Dian said that he knows it in his heart, he naturally acquiesced to his statement.

Another point is that Zhang Dian is currently the prime minister, which is the supreme implementer of Zhao Xu's entire set of new policies, although he does not agree with all of those new policies, but since the emperor trusts him so much, he will also abandon some of his own views and wholeheartedly help the emperor implement the new policies.

And he and Yang Huairen, two important ministers who are very valued by Zhao Xu, criticize the emperor in private, which is really a bit inappropriate, but talking about the emperors of other people, it seems that they don't have so many scruples, and the two of them don't have to have any psychological burden.

"Okay, then let's talk about Liao and Western Xia. The situation in Western Xia is very simple and clear, Li Qianshun was just a nursing child when he ascended the throne, and he is not yet ten years old now.

The military and political power of Western Xia was almost in the hands of the Liang family. ”

Zhang Dian nodded and said, "Yes, although the ancestor of the Liang family is a Han Chinese, he has a deep grudge against my Great Song royal family, and there is no possibility of having a heart for the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"I'm also very aware of that. Liang Yikui, the minister of power in Western Xia, is a Han Chinese, but he has a kind of hatred for our Han people, which may be the ancestral training of their Liang family. ”

Yang Huairen laughed, "The proportion of Han people in Western Xia is more than half, but the living standard and status of Han people in Western Xia are very low.

The Liang clan initially took advantage of the power to call on the Han people of Western Xia to ascend to the throne, but it did not bring any benefit to those Han people. This caused the poor Han people of Western Xia to be dissatisfied with the Liang family and the Western Xia royal family.

This kind of dissatisfaction seems to be ordinary, but after a long period of resentment, sooner or later something will happen.

And most of the power of the Western Xia dynasty was in the hands of the Liang family. Such a dictatorship seems solid, but it seems to the boy that their problems are from within.

The dictatorship of the mother party will not be fully recognized and supported by the nobles of the Western Xia party, and if they do not oppose it now, it does not mean that they will not oppose it in the future, but they are limited in strength now and do not have enough ability to resist the Liang clan.

The internal affairs of the Liang family are not monolithic, and the relationship between Liang Yiwei and the two Empress Dowagers Liang does not seem to be so harmonious, if one day there is a struggle for power and profit within them that leads to chaos in the government, the kid will not be surprised at all.

And the external environment of Western Xia is actually more dangerous than that of the Great Song Dynasty. On the surface, the Khitans allied with the Western Xia and secretly colluded to unite to grab more benefits from our Great Song Dynasty, but in fact they were just being used by the Khitans.

The Khitans would not hesitate to sell Western Xia for their own interests, and the Huanzhou incident is a good example.

The Western Xia military equipment looks strong, but the national strength is actually the weakest among the three kingdoms. More critically, the Western Xia army was not in the hands of the imperial family, but in the hands of the Liang clan and several major nobles of the party.

If one day there is really a war with the Great Liao or our Great Song Dynasty, the various forces within them will avoid the war in order to preserve their own strength, and retain their strength for internal power struggle. ”

"What does Yang Jungong mean?"

Zhang Dian seems to have gotten a bold idea from Yang's analysis.

"That's right! Zhang Xianggong and the kid are thinking the same thing, the Western Xia is currently the weakest of the Three Kingdoms, and the Khitans have the strength to swallow the Western Xia, but in order to save their military and financial resources, they are planning to gradually weaken the power of the Western Xia, and wait for the best time.

Such strength, in fact, we also have it. This is also a point that the Khitan people are worried about, they want to annex Western Xia, and they are afraid that our Great Song Dynasty will also participate in it and get a piece of the pie, so while weakening Western Xia, they are also weakening the strength of our Great Song Dynasty.

Our Great Song Dynasty may not be as strong as Liao's military strength at the moment, but if the government is stable, the economic strength is incomparable to Liao's, and there is enough money and grain as support, the Great Song Dynasty may also annex Western Xia. ”

Annexation of Western Xia?! Zhang was very surprised. It's not that he hasn't thought about such a thing, it's just that when he was alone before, he thought about it as a fantasy or a dream, and he didn't really think about preparing to do it.

Now Yang Huairen suddenly put forward such a point of view, which seemed to make him suddenly open, and he also understood why Yang Huairen said that the balance of the Three Kingdoms could not be restored, and it turned out that all kinds of signs had already indicated that the Khitans were going to make a move against Western Xia.