Chapter 111: The Imperial Council (2)
"This ......" "Unlikely......
"Will the Liao Lord be willing to take a risk for the Western Thief?"
The ministers quietly exchanged heads and began to discuss.
Zhao Xin looked at this situation and shook his head slightly.
He knew that these Great Song Wenchen had made their naïve old mistake again.
Literati are always like this, as soon as they pat their butts, they decide on their heads.
Use your own brain to make up and believe in what you believe to speculate on reality.
As a result, jokes are often made, and a laughing stock that makes future generations cry and laugh in history is born.
If they mess things up, these guys immediately learn from the ostrich, bury their heads in the sand, and as long as they can't hear it, it doesn't happen.
Do you still need to think about this?
In the affairs of militarism, it is always necessary to anticipate the enemy's leniency.
How can we win the national war without taking into account the worst-case scenario?
However, this kind of thing has long been commonplace in Zhao Xin's previous life.
Great Song Wenchen, except for a few people, most people do not have strategic thinking at all.
These scholars and doctors who climbed up from local states and counties are all good at handling civil affairs, managing government, collecting taxes and building roads.
However, it is unable to handle complex international relations and lacks strategic vision.
It's not that they can't, and it's not that they mean to.
They don't have that ability at all!
The vast majority of these people have never been on the battlefield in their lives and have no relevant experience.
Their understanding of war and diplomacy is based on books written by the ancients hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
So, behind closed doors, the blind man touched the elephant.
This is a common problem of pure civil officials!
And not only Wenchen, but also the king of the Great Song Dynasty.
Just like Zhao Zhen, since the war with Yuan Hao, he has repeatedly sent his own mental formation map to the front-line generals, asking the front line to arrange troops according to his formation map and fight against the enemy.
Even, sometimes he will be possessed by Chang Kaishen and directly conduct micro-manipulation on the front line, wanting to show his military talent.
And the result is usually the same as Chang Kaishen......
Therefore, Zhao Xin also understands that this situation cannot be changed in a short period of time.
He had no choice but to be patient and explained: "Fang is under today, and there is the trend of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty......"
"I have to guard against the Western thieves and the Liao people, imitate the stories of Sun and Liu, and fight against the Great Song Dynasty together!"
When you say it, many people may not believe it.
In today's world, the Great Song Dynasty is orthodox according to Cao Wei, while the Liao people follow Shu Han.
The reason is very simple - all history is contemporary history.
So, the ministers immediately paid attention to it.
Because, what Zhao Xin said, they can understand and understand, and even immediately started to associate - if Liao and Xia converge, then, wouldn't they be able to immediately join forces with Sun and Liu of the Three Kingdoms, and have the ability to stop the Great Song Dynasty in any direction?
Thinking about it like this, countless people broke out in a cold sweat, including Zhao Zhen.
The official immediately said: "No matter what, we must prevent the Liao people from getting closer to the western thieves!" ”
Zhao Xin listened, sighed in his heart, and understood that his father was frightened by himself.
He hurriedly made up for it: "Aya, if the Liao lord insists on merging with the Western Thief, Erlang thinks that simple concessions and compromises are useless......"
If the people of insight in the Liao State realized that the current international situation needed the existence of the Tangut people to drag down the Great Song Dynasty and consume the Great Song Dynasty.
Then, no amount of concessions can change this situation.
Because that's their strategy!
And although the Liao people, like the Great Song Dynasty, have also begun to become civil officials, the current Liao lord is also a person who is accustomed to making decisions on his ass.
But after all, the Liao people have more military vision and military strategic talents than the Great Song Dynasty.
You must know that after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful.
But the Liao people are not idle.
After the previous Liao lord Yelu Longxu was in the alliance of the Yuanyuan, he turned around and pressed the Goryeo people to the ground and rubbed them for more than ten years.
The army of the Liao State even entered Pyongyang, the royal capital of Goryeo, and captured Kaesong, the royal capital of Goryeo.
The Great Liao Iron Cavalry wreaked havoc on the entire Korean Peninsula.
And those Liao generals who participated in the Goryeo War back then are still alive now.
"What then?" Zhao Zhen listened and immediately panicked.
"Aya, if that's the case, you should take a strategy to lead the water to the east......," Zhao Xin said softly: "When the Liao envoy comes, you can let the Liao envoy know that our dynasty has sent an envoy to Goryeo......"
And then ...... Using Goryeo as a bargaining chip, an agreement was reached with the Liao......"
"Huh?" Zhao Zhen didn't quite understand.
"Aya, our dynasty can give up its support for Goryeo as a descendant of Goguryeo, and admit that Goguryeo advocated by the Liao people is dead, and Goryeo has no right to claim the Goguryeo heritage after Silla!"
For Liao, the Wang Zhengquan of Goryeo is a heart disease!
From the beginning of Yelu Abaoji, the Goryeo royal clan continued to invade and attack the Bohai territory controlled by the Liao State.
The Goryeo people even claimed that they were the descendants of Goguryeo and should have the rights and interests to the Balhae homeland.
The Liao State was an invader who had invaded the land of its ancestors.
In order to fight against the Liao State, the Great Song Dynasty also supported Goryeo's appeal in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend.
This annoyed the Liao.
If the Liao people were still nomadic at the beginning of the founding of the country, the Song court's solidarity with Goryeo would probably be a fart.
But the problem is that today's Liao State has been sinicized and considers itself China.
Song Ting's verbal support for Goryeo became very disgusting.
Zhao Xin also felt disgusting.
So, in his previous life, knowing this, he immediately took the initiative to write a letter to the lord of Liao, acknowledging all the claims of the Liao state about Goguryeo, and sent an envoy to Goryeo, ordering the Goryeo people to give up all unrealistic illusions.
And the result was very touching - the lord of Liao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and wrote back a special letter to praise Zhao Xin's behavior.
Then, the Liao lord took the army of 200,000 Liao and plunged headlong into the quagmire of the Korean War.
It is precisely because of this that Zhao Xin has enough space and time to perish in Western Xia.
Of course, Zhao Xin didn't care about the jumping feet and scolding of the Koreans.
East Asian footwashers should have the consciousness of footwashers.
Now, living another life, Zhao Xin immediately did not hesitate to sell Goryeo again.
In fact, all his previous foreshadowing was to sell Goryeo as soon as possible.
Sell Goryeo, let the Liao army, plunge into the quagmire of the Korean War more than ten years in advance, and create a relaxed international environment for the Great Song Dynasty to deal with the Western Xia issue.
In this way, the Song Dynasty destroyed the Western Xia and solved its own northwest frontier defense problem.
Liao merged Korea to solve the thief in the northeast direction who has been constantly teasing and disgusting people, and at the same time dragged the Jurchens in the northeast forest into the Korean War to be cannon fodder, solving the opportunity for the rise of the Jurchens in the future, and solving all the historical problems related to Goguryeo and Goryeo in the future in one fell swoop.
Quadruple win!
There's no reason not to do this kind of thing!