Yang Huairen continued, "The Liao State wants to annex Western Xia, and it doesn't want to spend too much of its strength, so it thinks of ways to provoke the relationship between Western Xia and our Great Song Dynasty.

According to the original plan of the Khitans, perhaps the assassination of Liang Yiqi's son in Huanzhou at the beginning of the year should have triggered a large-scale war between Song and Xia.

In their plan, they must feel that the Western Xia military strength is stronger than our Great Song Dynasty and will gain an advantage in the situation, while our Great Song Dynasty will follow the previous practice and change places for peace.

However, the northwestern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty has long been out of place, and we can't let it out of Guanzhong, so maybe we will use another way to buy peace with money. ”

Zhang Dian seemed to have an understanding, "The old man understands a little, the Khitans came out to mediate and pretend to be peacemakers at this time, and made profits from it, it seems that the Liaoxia Alliance made a profit from the Great Song Dynasty, but the tricks of the Khitan people will definitely not make the Western Xia so easy to profit, but will get it back from the Western Xia from another aspect." ”

"Well, that's what I thought too."

Yang Huairen pondered for a while, "Maybe the Khitans feel that the current government and situation in Western Xia will launch a war against the Song Dynasty, and then use similar methods to provoke infighting in the Western Xia court."

The party nobles naturally did not want to see a foreign Liang family control the government for a long time, and the little emperor who believed in Western Xia was not willing to live under the wings of the Liang family.

If Liang Yikui could not fairly distribute the benefits from the Great Song Dynasty after the gains, it might have triggered a battle in the Western Xia court.

The kid faintly felt that the two Empress Dowagers Liang of Western Xia seemed to have a dislike with Liang Yiqi. The situation of the dictatorship of the mother party may be difficult to change at present, but the controller of the Liang family may be changed. ”

Zhang Dian was secretly surprised in his heart, although Yang Huairen was reluctant to give up the court, but he was well aware of the situation inside and outside the Great Song Dynasty, and some of his views and analysis of the situation were often seen very thoroughly, and even he, the new prime minister of the dynasty, was a little embarrassed.

"According to Yang Jungong's opinion, how do you think our Great Song Dynasty should deal with it?"

"It's very simple, our Great Song should seize the opportunity and start a war with Western Xia before the conspiracy of the Khitans!"

"The idea...... Very good. ”

Zhang Dian was surprised by Yang Huairen's bold idea, but felt that this idea of grasping the opportunity was indeed the best way.

It's just that he is very clear about the current situation in the Great Song Dynasty, and he is afraid that he will start a large-scale war without preparation, and it seems that it is difficult to get the approval of all the civil and military ministers in the court.

"On the official side, they may agree with Yang Jungong's idea, but the other civil and military ministers in the court are afraid that they will not be willing to see the Great Song take the initiative to go to war with Western Xia at this time."

Yang Huairen said with a serious expression, "There are some things that can't be done, and some things that have to be done." The reason is very simple, if we don't do it, the Liao State will do it, when the Khitans unify the northern grasslands, who does Zhang Xianggong think their next target is? ”

Zhang Dian was stunned, he didn't think about this result, but he just felt that this thing would definitely happen, but it wouldn't be now, maybe ten years later, twenty or thirty years later, Da Song would also face such a problem.

Now that he is the prime minister, he feels that he still has at least ten years to prepare for all this, but he did not expect that from Yang Huairen's analysis of the current situation, he feels more and more that time is running out.

"To start a war with Western Xia, there are a lot of things to prepare in all aspects, and we can't prepare them properly if we talk about it casually. A large-scale foreign war basically requires the strength of the whole country to ensure a high probability of success. ”

"Actually...... It doesn't have to be so exaggerated as the power of the whole country. Sometimes to conquer a country, you don't have to use an army to occupy every inch of their land. ”

Yang Huairen's statement is getting more and more bizarre, the amount of information is too big, although Zhang Dian is quick to think, but Yang Huairen's thinking span is too large, and the jump is too frequent, making him an old man in his early sixties a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

Why is that? Is it possible to use the army without fighting? ”

"That's not it," Yang Huairen said with a smile, "The battle will definitely be fought, but there is no need to burn the flames of war to the entire Western Xia." Since the internal relations of Western Xia are complicated, and the Khitans know how to instigate, we don't have to be gentlemen.

Moreover, although the Western Xia was ruled by the party members, the population composition of the Western Xia was only forty percent of the party members.

The Han people of Western Xia also had people of other nationalities and tribes, and their status in Western Xia was not high, and they basically belonged to the class ruled by the party members.

If the regime of the Western Xia is stable, those ethnic minority tribes will naturally not dare to resist the rule of the party members, but if the Western Xia becomes chaotic because of the war, the leaders of those tribes may have new ideas, which are all points that we can take advantage of.

When Western Xia fell into internal and external troubles, were you still afraid that we would not be able to win on the frontal battlefield?

Maybe a war will not allow the Western Xia to perish, our purpose is to first seize back the land that has been ceded to the Western Xia in the past few decades, and then further advance into Xingqing City to put enough pressure on the party and the government.

At the same time, contact the ethnic minority tribes of Western Xia, promise benefits, let them help us, even if they waver and refuse to give in, there is no need to be afraid, as long as they do not stand on the side of the Western Xia court, it is equivalent to greatly weakening the overall strength of Western Xia. ”

Zhang Duan was puzzled, "What Yang Jungong said, the old man also thinks it is feasible. However, if the Great Song and Western Xia went to war, if it was just like the previous Song-Xia wars, the two sides were just fighting for some land or interests, and the Liao State might sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

But if the Western Xia is at risk of extinction, they will naturally turn to the Liao State for help, and the Liao State will not see the Western Xia being destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"What Zhang Xianggong was worried about was the key to the Song-Xia War. When the Song and Xia wars began, the main army of the Great Song Dynasty would definitely be sent to the Western Xia battlefield, and at this time, the defense of the Song-Liao border would become relatively weak.

If the Liao State besieged Wei and rescued Zhao in such a situation, it would indeed be something that our Great Song Dynasty had to guard against.

However, the kid was not too worried that the Liao State would intervene at that time, because the kid felt that the internal problems of the Liao State might not be simpler than those of the Western Xia, or even more complicated. ”

Zhang Dian heard that he was a little puzzled by this, although Yelu Hongji, the lord of the Liao State, had just passed the age of six, but he heard that he was in good health and did not have any diseases.

Although Yelu Hongji's only son Yelu Jun died young, the emperor's grandson Yelu Yanxi is now an adult, and it seems that there is no potential risk that this person is both civil and military, quite his grandfather's style, and will inherit the throne of Da Liao in the future.