Chapter 936

A cadre of civil and military officials expressed their opinions with great interest. But Wang Yang's face did not have much joy, but frowned thoughtfully.

Su Dongpo saw Wang Yang's appearance like this, and couldn't help but ask Wang Yang in a whisper. "Nephew, don't you feel happy to hear such good news?"

"Of course I'm happy, but I think it's not as simple as you think." Wang Yang glanced at the jubilant civil and military ministers, and decided to be too lazy to splash everyone's cold water, but quietly walked towards Su Dong's ramp.

Zong Ze, who was standing beside Su Dongpo, was also stunned and came over to gossip.

"Oh? What do you think is wrong? ”

"Uncle, can't you see it? The Western Xia took the initiative to shake hands with my Great Song Dynasty and sue for peace, with the arrogance and recklessness of the Liao State, if there is a vassal country, dare to have such a move, if it does not raise troops to destroy it, then it is not the Northern Liao we know. Wang Yang analyzed in a low voice.

Indeed, the Liao State has always been very arrogant, greedy, and unruly, and it can be seen in the attitude towards vassals.

But now, Western Xia actually dared to take advantage of the battle between the two armies to shake hands with the Great Song Dynasty alone, and what was the result? Xiao Shen, the commander of the Liao State, watched as the Western Xia army in the coalition army left the camp and withdrew unscathed in the direction of Xingqing Mansion.

This kind of performance will simply make people feel incredible, and the important thing is that after that, the Liao State invaded Xiazhou and won the Left Wing Divine Brave Army Division.

There was no large-scale bloody conflict, it can almost be said that it was a peaceful invasion, and you advance and I retreat.

“…… All this makes the little nephew have to suspect that in fact, the Western Xia shook hands with my Great Song Dynasty and made peace, it is very likely that it came from the instructions of the Northern Liao, or it is also possible that the Liao State raised hundreds of thousands of troops to go south, but the result was nothing, and the face was too bad, so he simply took the Xia Zhou and the Zuoxiang Shenyong Military Division of the Western Xia and took them as trophies as an explanation. ”

"Although your words are quite reasonable, but in this way, Xixia has spent so much energy and national strength, in exchange for the loss of the east, how can Xixia agree?" Su Dongpo stroked his long beard and groaned for a while, and couldn't help but ask his own questions.

"What if he doesn't say yes?" Wang Yang spread out his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and asked rhetorically towards the two.

"I see......" Zong Ze next to him slapped his forehead. With such a declining trend of Western Xia, in the face of the strong Liao State, there is indeed nothing to be done. ”

"From this point of view, the offensive and defensive alliance between Western Xia and Liao should still exist."

Wang Yang nodded, and said with great certainty: "It must exist, today's Northern Liao and Western Xia are completely dependent on each other, Western Xia cannot do without the help of Liao, and Liao still needs the existence of Xixia, after all, he married the princess to Xixia, but in a blink of an eye, Xixia is gone, that is too much to shame the face of Liao." ”

"It makes sense, the old man used to think about whether our Great Song Dynasty should pacify Western Xia in one go, but now it seems that I am afraid that we will have to think about it in the long run......"

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Su Dongpo's 800-li urgent official document arrived at the time of the Beijing Division, just in the middle of the court meeting, after hearing that the Liao army had withdrawn from its position, and the Western Xia asked the Great Song Dynasty for peace.

There was a pause in the court, and then the ministers who reacted all spoke to the Son of Heaven, in a word, that is, to quickly agree.

Put the facts, be reasonable, in short, the Great Song Dynasty has taught the Western Xia a hard lesson, and blocked the Northern Liao of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from going south, and has played the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty, which is definitely enough, so I hope that Your Majesty will stop the war for the sake of the people's livelihood of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xu couldn't bear such a huge pressure, so he simply went to the Empress Dowager to discuss, and the two of them combined, indeed, this temporary war has consumed too much of the treasury.

In addition, the Northern Liao has been evacuated, and the Great Song Dynasty does not yet have the strength to decide the situation in a war, so it is not a good thing to accept it when it is good.

"Our Great Song Dynasty, in fact, the results of these two wars have been very brilliant, first took the land of Sanzhou, and then won Yinzhou and Longzhou, and also used the land of Youzhou to block hundreds of thousands of Liaoxia coalition troops, which really played the brilliant Tianwei of my Great Song Dynasty."

"At this time, since the Liao State doesn't want to fight, and the Western Xia doesn't want to fight anymore, then it's not a good thing to take it first."

"After all, since last year, the continuous war on Shaanxi Road has been more than a year, and the people should be allowed to rest and recuperate, and the soldiers should also take a good rest."

Looking at the Empress Dowager Gao talking, Zhao Xu finally nodded. "What the imperial grandmother said is that these battles have already played the prestige of my Great Song Dynasty, and we should stop for a while, so that those ministers will always be nagging in the ears of their grandchildren all day long. And it is the autumn harvest at this moment, and we should also pay attention to the people's livelihood. ”

"In the opinion of the imperial grandmother, who will be the envoy to go to Shaanxi Road to preside over the peace talks? Now all the ministers of the court have volunteered, but Sun Er is a little uncertain......"

"Don't ask me, an old woman who no longer listens to politics, or the official family has your own ideas. However, in this matter, you should choose a person who can speak well and be quick-witted. Gao Tao smiled and waved his hand.

"Eloquent and quick-witted...... It's a pity that Wang Wushan is now a local political official, otherwise, I would like him to do it, and he will definitely be able to solve it properly. Zhao Xu couldn't help but say with some regret.

"This is true, but I'm afraid that this kid is still unfinished, and when the time comes, there will be a demon moth, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that the court will have to be stormy again, which is enough for you to bear."

Zhao Xu nodded, and began to think about what kind of candidate should be sent.

Among the civil and military officials, there are many who can speak well, but there are not many who are quick to react and can make decisions on the spot. And there are many ministers who are too old, so they can't let a big man like Liu Zhi, who is in his seventies, come forward, right?

That was too much to look down on Xixia, and in the end, Zhao Xu's eyes fell on Zhu Guangting's body.

In the end, Zhu Guangting, the priest of the wine and the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was ordered by the Son of Heaven to go to Western Xia......

"I don't give you much explanation, but you have to remember that you can't lose an inch of land, you can't allow an inch of gold, but if you violate one of these two items, you don't have to come back to Zhu Qing's family." Zhu Guangting was left alone, and the bottom line of this peace talk was directly told to Zhu Guangting.

"Your Majesty can rest assured, the ministers will naturally save money, and they will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty and my soldiers in the border areas of the Great Song Dynasty." Zhu Guangting hurriedly bowed down the stairs and assured Zhao Xu.

It is quite rare to be able to get such an opportunity, after all, in the past, the envoys sent by the Great Song Dynasty to negotiate peace were mostly because of defeat, and they wanted to shake hands with the enemy and make peace.

It is rare that the Great Song Dynasty has the upper hand this time, and this time he will go to Xixia, he will definitely be able to play his majesty, maybe in order to be able to negotiate peace and success, Xixia will definitely give himself a lot of benefits openly and secretly, thinking about Zhu Guangting is full of confidence.

As for His Majesty's words that not an inch of land can be lost, and not an inch of gold is allowed, of course there will be no problem, after all, he Zhu Guangting's bottom line is still ......