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"The Southern Song Dynasty is willing to call our Dazhong a vassal, they ask the official family to canonize the Song Kang King as the Song lord, every official birthday and New Year's Day, they are willing to send envoys to congratulate, they hope that the two countries will be bounded by the current occupied territory, that is, Sichuan and Shaanxi plus the area south of Huaishui-Dasanguan as the Song land, they are willing to cede Tang, Deng Erzhou and Shang, Qin Erzhou Dazhong unoccupied land half to Dazhong, they are willing to pay an annual tribute to Dazhong 250,000 taels of silver, 250,000 horses of silk......"

After listening to Wang Jieru's reply to the peace conditions proposed by the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Yan asked Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding, Xu Guanzhong, Zhu Wu, Tang Ke, Sun Jing, Chen Gongfu, Li Guang, Chen Hoopou, Bao Kang and other ministers: "What do you think of this peace proposal?" ”

Sun Jing sneered: "Wishful thinking! ”

Bao Kang also said: "What Lord Sun said is good, if it is according to what the Southern Song Dynasty envisioned, then they will have a chance to breathe, and when they calm down the civil strife, they will go north to invade the border of our Dazhong and map our Dazhong territory." ”

Zhu Wudao: "The southern line is easy to say, it really can't work, just send troops to fight down, at present, in our big middle, the biggest trouble and threat comes from the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line in the west, Shaanxi has always sent strong troops, the Northern Song Dynasty can have two hundred years of rivers and mountains, mainly relying on the support of Shaanxi soldiers and Hebei soldiers, according to the news heard by Fuzhou Zhejia, Shaanxi should still have more than 30 nearly 400,000 Song Western Army, and it is precisely because of these Song Western Army to resist that Western Xia has no way to advance eastward, and Shu has always been rich, and easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the Southern Song Dynasty has these two places, If we can occupy these two places, we can go down the river and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. ”

Zhao Ding shook his head and said: "This is unrealistic, we know the importance of the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line, and the Southern Song Dynasty naturally knows the importance of the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line, I dare to conclude that one of the bottom lines of the Southern Song Dynasty is to keep Shaanxi and Shudi." ”

Zhu Wu and Zhao Ding are actually right.

And at this time, it is the time when Li Yan, the monarch, needs to be in charge.

Li Yan thought for a while and said: "The Southern Song Dynasty is here to beg, and it is impossible to stick to the bottom line and not let go at all." ”

After thinking about it again, Li Yan said to Wang Jieru: "I want Shaanxi from the Southern Song Dynasty, now, the Southern Song Dynasty has no Central Plains to defend, Shaanxi is not so important to the Southern Song Dynasty, if you negotiate profitably, the Southern Song Dynasty is likely to give up Shaanxi, at least most of Shaanxi." ”

Zhao Ding stopped Li Yan and said: "Official, this Shaanxi is currently a chicken rib with my big middle, if you get it, you have to send a large army to defend Western Xia, and you will get a lot of burden out of thin air, so it is better not to let the Southern Song Dynasty and Western Xia continue to confront each other in Shaanxi, and contain a large number of elite troops of Western Xia and Southern Song Dynasty." ”

To be honest, judging from the current situation alone, Zhao Ding's choice is more rational than Li Yan's.

If Dazhong takes back Shaanxi now, at least 100,000 elites must be stationed in the west, and this is still under the condition of peaceful coexistence between Zhongxia, in case of a war in Zhongxia, it is not good to say how many elites of the Chinese army will be contained.

Figuratively speaking, if Dazhong takes back Shaanxi, then Dazhong may change from a two-front operation to a three-front operation.

This is not a little bit worse, especially for large and medium-sized enterprises in development.

But what Li Yan thinks about is-

At this time, if Shaanxi is not recovered, after the Southern Song Dynasty stabilizes the current situation, it may take ten times or even a hundred times the effort to recover Shaanxi.

In addition, Shaanxi's geographical location is extremely important.

The south of Shaanxi and the Qinba Mountain area of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River tributary Hanjiang River basin and the upper reaches of the Jialing River, facing each other across the Yellow River in the east, Inner Mongolia in the north, Xixia in the west, Micang Mountain and the main ridge of Daba Mountain in the south and Shu land, bordering Hubei Province and Henan Province in the southeast, since ancient times, the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi is an important channel for China's east-west traffic, the ancient Qinchi Road, the Silk Road and Chang'an-Luoyang Avenue are all famous passages that connect the east and west through Guanzhong, in short, Shaanxi plays an important role in the economic and cultural exchanges between the east and west of China and between Asia and Europe.

In addition, Shaanxi is strangles east and west, and spans north and south, and its strategic position is also very important.

In history, not only the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and other dynasties chose Shaanxi Guanzhong to build the capital, making Shaanxi an important place in Gyeonggi and the center of the country's political economy and transportation, even after the Song Dynasty, Kyoto moved eastward, Shaanxi's strategic position was still highly valued, not only stationed heavy troops, but also sent the imperial prince or powerful generals to defend it.

The Northern Song Dynasty built the capital of Kaifeng, Shaanxi was regarded as the west gate of Kyoto, and the Western Xia attacked to the east, and the Northern Song Dynasty Kaifeng was thorned in the back.

In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, although the capital was built in Beijing, it still attached great importance to the defense of Shaanxi.

For a long time, there has been "Shanxi, the neck of the world, and the leader of the Beijing Division." If there is something in Shanxi, it should be even worse than reporting the burning and drowning. One or the unprepared, and the disaster is irreparable".

There is another point, that is, Shaanxi has the best quality soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, if Dazhong can win Shaanxi, then the best quality soldiers will become Dazhong, and the Southern Song Dynasty will have no threat under the elimination of the other.

In the end, if Dazhong can win Shaanxi, it will be able to better map the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line, and then it will be easier to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.

Let's put it this way, Li Yan and Zhao Ding are actually not wrong.

It's just that Zhao Ding attaches more importance to the gains and losses in front of him, while Li Yan sees farther.

In other words, Zhao Ding is more secure, while Li Yan is more adventurous.

This is also the difference between the founding emperor and the minister who governs the world.

In the end, Zhao Ding still failed to twist Li Yan, and Dazhong's foreign policy was set as: to fight for Shaanxi.

At this time, it reflects that Zhao Ding is stronger than Li Gang.

After Zhao Ding lost the battle, he did not choose to pick a son like Li Gang, but actively made up for Li Yan's shortcomings, and soon proposed two remedial measures - first, actively establish diplomatic relations with Western Xia. Second, it must be Chuzhou and Zhao Li.

The former is easy to understand, and if Western Xia is stabilized, it will greatly reduce the burden on Dazhong, so that Dazhong can free up his hands to concentrate on separating the victory from Dajin and seizing the vital Yanyun.

In addition, it is also the right time to make friends with Western Xia now.

Not long ago, Western Xia sent a request to Dazhong as an envoy.

Moreover, Li Qianshun also said that his queen Yelu Nanxian had died two years earlier, and he hoped to marry one of Li Yan's daughters, who would serve as the empress of Western Xia.

If people in later generations heard such a request, they would probably immediately jump up and scold Li Qianshun for being delusional, thinking that the request of his colleague Li Qianshun was a very humiliating thing.

But in fact, if this thing is really done according to this, then Western Xia Ke will naturally become a vassal state of Dazhong, just like Western Xia became a vassal state of Liao, and the relationship between Li Qianshun and Li Yan has become the relationship between Li Qianshun and Yelu Yanxi at the beginning.

From the perspective of the people of this era, it is a great thing to exchange a woman for a vassal state.

Moreover, this woman may not be Li Yan's biological daughter, Li Yan can recognize a daughter at will, as long as she is named Li Yan's daughter.

It's a pity that Li Yan doesn't like to use his daughter to make friends, even if it's just a nominal daughter.

Li Yan is up to speed, and no one can do anything about Li Yan.

Zhao Ding and the others could only be flexible and ask Li Qianshun to marry two aunts to come over and be Li Yan's concubines.

However, this is all for later, so let's stop for the time being.

All in all, if Dazhong can recover Shaanxi by negotiating peace, then it is imperative to improve relations with Western Xia.

So, there's not much to say.

The key is the latter, what's going on with Chuzhou and Zhao Li?

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