After the tile bridge pass is the white ditch. This place is like the Chu River and Han border on the chessboard, it is the national border between the Song and Liao sides, and this place represents an era.

Kou Xiangye mobilized millions of soldiers and civilians to go into battle at that time, and fooled the emperor who peed his pants to the front line to supervise the battle in order to boost morale. In the end, the result of the game is the alliance of the abyss. Therefore, this dividing line generally ensured the peace of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State for a hundred years.

Liao soldiers, bandits, horse thieves or something, crossing the boundary river into the Song realm to rob has always been. But since there is a national policy, the action will not be large, so it is generally stable.

When he arrived at the snow-covered border, Gao Fangping stopped first and looked at the countless Liao soldiers on the opposite side in a daze.

Tong Guan knew that Gao Fangping was going to pretend to be forced again. This little shark is not pretending to be uncomfortable. For the sake of his interests, he has always used Kou Xiangye to mobilize millions of soldiers and civilians and the emperor and fight for the Great Song Dynasty to bring a hundred years of peace as a gimmick. Therefore, now that he has come to this border, this is Kou Lao Xi'er's political legacy, and of course he wants to pretend to be forced.

Sure enough, Xiao Gao shamelessly raised his face at a forty-five degree angle, and began to praise Kou Lao Xi'er in front of Liu Zhengfu and Lin Yu's two deputy envoys, Tong Guan, the main envoy.

In this way, Tong Guan and the others were drowsy when they heard it.

Tong Guan has become well-behaved, but obviously Lin Ji, the mallet, is not aware of it, and he is still supporting Tong Guan and Cai Jing's "Northern Policy", so Lin Ji rode over and talked eloquently next to Gao Fangping: "I think that Kou Lao Xi'er's policy is too conservative, and Gao Xiang is such a rare new generation of war gods of the Great Song Dynasty, so there is no need to raise Kou Lao Xi'er so much." ”

Liu Zhengfu is more treacherous than a ghost, and looked at Lin Yu playfully and thought: Hehe, you wait for death, do you still think that you are shooting the horses of the big demon king? Slap you in the face, you Lin Zhen really can't be an official. The Great Demon King made Liao and Yu Baigou reiterate the correctness of Lan Yuan at this time, which shows that he is an extremely conservative person in terms of policy towards Liao. You Lin Bangbang, don't pat on the horse's leg this time, my Lao Liu follows your surname.

Sure enough, Lin Yu was gushing, but Gao Fangping had been squinting at him for a long time.

Lin Ji stopped a little awkwardly, thought about it and felt that he was right, and said strongly: "Xia Guan thinks that the policy should not be overly conservative, the so-called defense does not exist, and the offense is actually the best defense." ”

"Oh, Lord Lin is really witty enough, I only serve you when it comes to talking about mouth cannons and paper talks." Gao Fangping said, "Let's ask, what kind of attack is the attack?" ”

Lin pouted and said, "Of course, it's an attack with the army." ”

"So where did the members of the army come from? And where did the equipment for the army come from? Where did they get the food and grass they ate? Gao Fangping said curiously.

Lin Ji is also a witty person after all, so he became embarrassed.

Gao Fangping smiled slightly: "Yes, you are not wrong, these are criticisms of 'offense is the best defense theory', which is a false proposition at all." To put it mildly, how simple is the offense, and what to attack? They all thought I was a god, and they all thought that winning the Song and Xia national war was because I used my soldiers like a god, right? In fact, you are all wrong, and you have not yet understood the common people. What really won the battle of Song and Xia was the national strength of our Great Song Dynasty, and it was the peace negotiations led by Zhang Shuye and other ministers nearly six years ago, and the transformation of our Great Song Dynasty from offensive to defensive, which won me Gao Fangping time to recuperate, which is defense. The so-called offensive confidence comes from defensive construction. ”

"Admittedly." Gao Fangping continued in the wind and snow, "Maybe without me, the Song Xia National War would have groped in the dark quagmire for a longer time. But I can tell you responsibly that the Great Song Dynasty will not lose during that period, with me without me, it will not affect the final result, as long as Jiangzhou and Jingxian, the two industrial bases obtained by defense, exist, the Great Song Dynasty will not lose, and will eventually win the national war. ”

"The Ming Mansion is mighty and domineering." Liu Zhengfu applauded.

Gao Fangping pointed at Liu Zhengfu and said to Lin Yu: "You see that he understands, do you understand?" ”

Lin Ji looked unconvinced, expressing his dissatisfaction with Liu Zhengfu.

Gao Fangping said: "Liu Zhengfu, for you, find another allusion that defense is the way of the king to prove my theory." ”

Liu Zhengfu thought about it very wittily and said: "The Great Wall built by the First Emperor of the Ancestral Dragon is proof of this. If the attack is the royal road, then it proves that the construction of the Great Wall by the First Emperor was a manifestation of the water in the brain, and denies the necessity of the existence of so many cities on the earth. The art of war is cloudy, and it makes sense to be able to defend and attack. ”

Tong Guan and Lin Ji scolded Liu Zhengfu in their hearts for being shameless, and they only obeyed Liu Zhengfu in terms of wit. This whole material of talking about people at first sight and talking nonsense when he sees ghosts, but he can be quoted by the classics, such a hooligan in the literary world is really annoying.

So there was no interest, and several people scolded each other psychologically, all carrying harmonious smiles on the surface. Then with the tiger head camp, it began to pass the customs as if it were a group traveling abroad.

This time, the "customs" of the Liao State stood aside, this was not an ordinary tour group, but the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Rites of the Liao State who were waiting here in advance, and they were specially responsible for the group brigade of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, the formalities are inevitable, and the Ministry of Rites of the Liao State carefully examines each member of the mission according to the details of the national letter, checks the "ID card" of the Song State personnel according to it, and then checks the name of the ID card in the hands of the Song people according to the name of the national letter, the characteristics, and so on.

The letter of state in their hands was presented to the Liao State in advance by the Great Song Dynasty, and it was for this reason that Gao Fangping told the emperor that it was inconvenient to change his name.

The names of Liu Zhengfu and Lin Ji are also there, because since the deputy envoy has been appointed, there will be supplementary documents to the Liao State. At the same time, the accompanying Hutou Battalion guards also have a quota.

But there is no Gao Fangping.

Under normal circumstances, people who don't have a name will really be repatriated like tourists waiting to pass the customs in later generations, but Gao Fangping is of course special, and after directly saying to them "My dad is Gao Yu", the bureaucrats who came to greet them in Liao did not dare to be careless, although they did not have a diplomatic passport, they still let Gao Fangping pass the customs.

Of course, these bureaucrats are better than anyone else, and they know that Gao Fangping is the mastermind behind this time. Perhaps, the situation of Liao-Song diplomacy will change this time.

"What are you doing in a daze!"

A Liao State Rite Lang Zhong raised his whip and whipped a Liao State warrior in the face and shouted: "Reverse as quickly as possible, report to Xiao Xiang, and say that Gao Fangping will accompany the envoy to Liao, and in addition, immediately dispatch the leather room army from Youzhou to the south, and escort the Song State envoys." ”

The leather room army is the personal guard of the Liao State, known as the most elite. The specifications are equivalent to Zhao Ji's Japanese army.

Tong Guan, who did not have a strong sense of existence in the Song State earlier, was neither a diplomat nor a minister, so everyone acquiesced that although Tong Guan was a favorite of the Song Emperor, he couldn't solve any problems this time, so this diplomacy was a procedure, which was of a harmonious nature. Of course, it was treated hastily, and there was no big guard of honor to greet it. In terms of specifications, there is only one Ministry of Rites Langzhong (Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

But now that he knows that Gao Fangping is with him, of course everything has changed, and there can be no moths, otherwise the disaster will be big, the faux pass is a trivial matter, and there can be no problems in safety, so he temporarily dispatched troops stationed in the outer skin room from Youzhou to accompany him to protect.

The Liao State has a large number of leather chamber troops and is also stationed abroad, but there is no border, only Youzhou has it. Youzhou is Yanjing, the vice capital of the Liao State, Nanjing, that is, the "North 1 Capital" in later generations.

In view of the fact that there was still a tiger head battalion and the personal guards of the Liao bureaucrats, they did not want to wait at the border and continued to march north.

As for the entertainment with the Liao bureaucrats, Tong Guan is the main envoy, and he just needs to socialize.

The northern lands that are now walking are buried with these countless resources, especially coal. This is what Gao Fangping has been thinking about along the way.

It's a pity that because of the actions of the mallet Shi Jingjiao, the sixteen states of Yanyun were handed over to the Khitans......

Yanjing is the most important town in the Liao Kingdom, and its importance to the Liao State is definitely greater than that of the Daimyo's Mansion to the Great Song Dynasty.

It is located in a key area, connecting the north and south, as well as the desert and the important trade settlement of the Western Regions. Almost half of the world's cattle, sheep and horses, salt, tea, spices, beads and ivory all pass through here.

The transit of trade is actually the embodiment of hegemony!

Only the overlord can decide the direction of trade, but now that the Liao State is corrupt and declining, they have not done this well and wasted their unique position.

In fact, the territory of Liao is really as exaggerated as that of the Soviet Union in later generations. Once their iron horse, it was also a powerful deterrent like a mushroom. Goryeo, Western Xia, Jurchen, these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods are either subjects or subordinates of the Liao State. The Great Song Dynasty was theoretically their ally, but in addition to actually giving them tribute, they were actually controlled by trade to a certain extent.

For this reason, there are very few cities in the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, and even if there are a small number of them, they are small fights among the people. Trade with the Western Regions was also in a blank state because it was separated from the Western Xia of Tibet.

So how is the problem solved?

Resolved by the Liao State. Almost most of the materials of the Song Kingdom will come to Yanjing for transit, and the Liao people will sell them to the Western Xia and the Western Regions.

This is hegemony: you can't do business with them, only through me, the agent.

Then Yanjing is the place that can only bear this one.

Therefore, Yanjing is known as the best soldier in the world, and it is personally garrisoned by the leather room army. The folk ghosts, snakes, and gods are also powerful, and the interests and strengths from all parties converge to form the Wall Street of this era - Yanjing.

This place is not something that can be easily solved by force. It is for this reason that when the Song army invaded Yanyun in the north in history, the resistance encountered was unimaginable.

As the money bag of the Liao State, this place must be protected militarily.

Politically, the interests involved here are too great, and the Song magnates and businessmen have endless interests here. For example, Cai Jing had great interests in Yanjing through his agent Lu Junyi, so if the Song army wanted to go on a northern expedition, it would first have to face all kinds of moths and resistance in its own domestic politics.

Third, it is still because of the interests of the people here, so even if the Song army takes down here, it is likely to be dragged into the quagmire of endless street fighting.

It is for these comprehensive reasons that the Great Song Dynasty in the historical years did not really have the ability to pass through Yanjing, and all the people who used troops against Yanyun thought things too simply. So the ultimate way out is failure. They thought it was just a military issue.

In fact, military affairs are always the last line, and everything is a matter of dividing interests.