Today's Song Liaoxia Three Kingdoms are competing for the land of the Central Plains, and the small countries around the country have not yet realized that the Central Plains is now a country that is pouring into each other, and all kinds of forces are gradually growing in the competition for the world, first the strength led by Li Jiqian has gradually developed, and then the dark horse of Yelu Long has begun to become stronger and stronger, and now they are facing a strong enemy in the Great Song Dynasty, and the strength of the enemy has threatened the rule of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, Zhao Pu also smiled and said to Zhao Guangyi: "Official, the prince is too young and has not yet realized the crisis, of course my Great Song Dynasty is not afraid of the Khitan Kingdom, but although our military strength is several million, the Liao State is a soldier, and it is the most powerful enemy of our Great Song Dynasty." Now the strength of the Liao State has been greatly enhanced, they got the land springboard for the land, which is even more ambitious for our Great Song Dynasty, they will definitely have bad ideas, and now our Great Song Dynasty is the only way to take the initiative to attack, in order to make predictions in advance, in order to be invincible, this may also be the safest way! ”

At this time, Zhao Guangyi smiled and said to Zhao Yuanzuo: "Did Yuanzuo hear it?" Now only by doing this is the best way for our Great Song Dynasty, I decided to send a person to Lanzhou to investigate the reality and understand the situation, the so-called reality is the reality of the virtual, the truth is the truth, the reality is the truth, the only way to do this can we better understand the situation, the so-called surprise attack is unprepared, I see him Yelulong continues to know what the situation is when I come? ”

Zhao Yuanzuo opened his mouth to ask his father and said, "Then who is my father going to send to Lanzhou?" ”

Zhao Guangyi also thought about it, and then thought for a long time, only to see that he also smiled and said to Zhao Pu and the two people: "I thought about it again and again, and decided to let Kou Zhun set off from Liao State to Shanzhou, and discuss the understanding of Liao State, only Kou Zhun is more powerful, and Kou Zhun has always been resourceful and smart, and he will not be like this in these problems, not to mention that he Kou Zhun can speak Khitan language, and with him, we can better understand the situation and spy on the truth, so that our Great Song Dynasty can be invincible and let them pay the price?" ”

At this time, Zhao Pu also said to Zhao Guangyi with a smile: "The official family is clever, send someone who is familiar with Yelu Longxu, and at the same time will not arouse the suspicion of others." This can also show that we respect this matter, and at the same time, it also gives him a thin face. However, the official family, I am afraid that if we do this, it will arouse the suspicion of the Liao army, will Liao Yelu Longxu think that we have other purposes, the official family, you also know that Yelu Longxu is not easy to deal with, this person is a little fox and it is not so easy to deal with, you said that we should send more people to go with him! Otherwise, it is estimated that we will suffer! What do you say? ”

Zhao Guangyi sighed, and then said helplessly to Zhao Pu: "Our Great Song is in crisis now, and now our Great Song Dynasty seems to be temporarily advantageous, Mr. Zhao's opinion is very right!" It's also a real insight, and I thought about it again and again and decided not to arrange people, why? If we arrange people, don't we tell our enemies that we are deliberately sending people, and besides, in my opinion, do you think that if we don't send people, he will not be able to see it? I thought it couldn't happen, you thought! Even you think he is a fox, dealing with such a person, such a cunning little fox, only in this way can he be surprised. I have a kind of idea that as long as they come, he will be curious, but he can't touch our pulse, which is called virtual and real and real and virtual, and virtual is real, and real is virtual. I'll see if he can survive this time, my Zhao Jiong's yang scheme, hum, let's see who of us can have the last laugh this time. ”

At this time, Zhao Pu also said to Zhao Guangyi approvingly: "Official, the old minister recently got the news, I heard that Yang Ye Wang Shu is coming back, and these news have only appeared recently, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Guangyi showed a sinister look, he Zhao Guangyi knew that Yang Ye would come back, but he didn't expect it to be so soon? So his eyes are exposed to murderous intent. At this time, Zhao Pu and his son all felt terrible, and if they wanted to talk about who was the biggest enemy of the Great Liao Emperor, there was only one person who was Zhao Yuanzuo's father, Zhao Guangyi. Zhongyuan is also an ambitious person, Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi's initial name was Kuangyi, Taizu changed his name to Guangyi, and after becoming emperor, he changed his name to Jiong. He used a palace coup d'état to gain power. After ascending the throne, he used political pressure to force Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, and Chen Hongjin, who had divided the two prefectures of Zhang and Quan, to annex the land in the third year of the Taiping Rejuvenation (978). In the following year, he personally conquered Taiyuan and destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, ending the division and division of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms. In order to further strengthen the centralization of power, in the second year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, it was ordered to cancel all the branches and counties under the Jiedu Envoy, and all prefectures were directly under the central government; Continue to transfer the envoys of various festivals to Kaifeng, remove the military power, and make the envoys a kind of false title. He greatly expanded the number of scholars in the imperial examination, and the number of students admitted to each subject soared from dozens during the time of Taizu to hundreds, or even thousands. In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo and the third year of Yongxi (986), he attacked Liao twice and tried to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, but they were all defeated, and from then on he took a defensive position against Liao. He used political and military means to try to eliminate the forces of the Dang Xiang Tuoba in Xiazhou (present-day Baichengzi, Nanbaichengzi, Wushen Banner, Inner Mongolia), but without success. In the latter part of his reign, he suppressed the peasant uprising led by Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun in Sichuan.

After Taizong ascended the throne, he continued the unification cause that began in the Later Zhou and Zhou dynasties, encouraged land reclamation, developed agricultural production, expanded the scale of imperial examinations, compiled large-scale books, set up examination institutes and judges' courts, strengthened the inspection and selection of officials, further limited the power of the temperance envoys, and tried to change the situation in which the warriors were in power and establish civilian politics. These measures followed the trend of history and made an important contribution to the stability of the Song Dynasty. However, because of his eagerness for success and profit, several Northern Expeditions to Liao were frustrated, and Taizong turned to implement the policy of guarding the inside and the outside. In his later years, the political plan followed the rules, so that the Song Dynasty gradually formed a situation of "poverty and weakness", which also brought an adverse impact on the development of Song Dynasty society.

In 979 and 986 A.D., Zhao Guangyi invaded Liao twice, and was defeated twice, and since then the Liao army has been in trouble, and the Liao army often sent troops to invade the south, and there was no peaceful life on the northern border. Zhao Guangyi's prestige was not only not raised, but his prestige was discredited, and he shrank in Kaifeng from then on, never daring to talk about the Northern Expedition and the reconquest of lost territory. Because if you want to go on the Northern Expedition, you have to use soldiers, and he really doesn't have the ability to lead soldiers, and he can't learn it in this life. If he handed over the power of the army to someone else, he would not be at ease. Because there are too many people who hate him, too many people who are dissatisfied with him, and the military power is handed over to others, there will be a mutiny at any time. For the sake of safety, I would rather endure humiliation and steal peace, and this battle cannot be fought again.

Later generations commented that the Song Dynasty was a poor and weak dynasty. Overall, that's a good statement. But to put it in detail, the phenomenon of poverty and weakness did not start from the era of Zhao Kuangyin, but from the era of Zhao Guangyi. After Zhao Guangyi took over the military command, he behaved as a great layman. He thought that the more soldiers there were, the stronger, so he recruited and increased the number of troops. In the era of Zhao Kuangyin, the number of soldiers was between 220,000 and 300,000; In the era of Zhao Guangyi, the number of soldiers was between 600,000 and 1 million (in the two wars, the defeated and broken ranks were more than 300,000), and with so many soldiers, the country was endless! raised a large number of redundant officials and soldiers, and the state's finances could not make ends meet, and soon there was poverty; Foreign enemies invaded and did not dare to fight, not only did the Liao State repeatedly invade the border, but in the era of Zhao Guangyi, there was another Western Xia secession regime and the Liao State colluded with the Song State to become enemies, which led to the phenomenon of weakness.

Zhang Qifan's book "Song Taizong" said: "The period of Song Taizong is not only the end of the troubled times since the Middle and Tang Dynasty, but also the beginning of the poverty and weakness of the Song Dynasty...... Taizong concentrated his main efforts on preventing internal changes, absorbing the maintenance and inheritance of the throne, and being willing to be a weak country externally, not to be humiliated. The weakness of the Song Dynasty intensified as a result. That is to say: the phenomenon of poverty and weakness in the Song Dynasty began in the era of Zhao Guangyi, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the country. And this phenomenon is intentional by Zhao Guangyi. As long as he can be the emperor, as long as he can pass on the throne, he will "be willing to be a weak country and not be humiliated". Then, our evaluation of him should be different from our evaluation of Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin still pushed history forward in at least two aspects, one is that he ended a 53-year turbulent era in the past five dynasties and opened a 320-year reign. Second, Zhao Kuangyin advocated a series of relatively tolerant policies, which played a positive role in promoting the emancipation of the mind and promoting the development of production. The most important role played by Zhao Guangyi was to cause the entire Song Dynasty to be poor and weak, which was definitely not a good thing. Zhang Qifan's evaluation of Zhao Guangyi in the book "Song Taizong" is:

"The adverse impact of Song Taizong and his people on the development of history cannot be denied in any way."

In history, Zhao Guangyi didn't have a big vision, and now he can only have a bigger crisis coming out? Seeing a little bit of small profit, but not seeing the current situation, Da Song is in crisis now, although he can solve it by doing so. There is also the arrival of Yang Ye Wang Xu, a bigger conspiracy has already begun.