"Taishi, do you think it's feasible?" Zhao Ji looked at Cai Jing expectantly.

Cai Jing actually really didn't want to fight with the Liao State in his heart, Zhao Ji above didn't know, and Zhao Liangsi below didn't know either, but he knew very well what the combat power of the Song army was.

If it is said that the Song army is stationed in the city and defended, three or four percent of the strength of the Song army is qualified, but if it is to fight in the field, then the Song army only has one or two percent of the strength at most is qualified.

Note that it is qualified, which means that these people can fight, but being able to fight and winning are two different things, and most of these qualified sergeants are still in the Western Army.

If he can, Cai Jing also hopes to preside over the battle to destroy Liao, as long as he can destroy Liao, his position as a leader in history can probably be compared with Xiao He, at least higher than Zhuge Liang at the end of the Han Dynasty.

But Cai Jing is a calm person, if he is not calm, he will not be able to recover again and again, how much appetite and how much to eat, the Song army wants to destroy Western Xia, as long as it is steady and steady, it is not difficult, but to destroy Liao, in Cai Jing's eyes, it is still a lot worse.

What's more, after the destruction of the Liao State, it is not the end, there are still Jurchens who have just flourished, Cai Jing, who is familiar with history books, knows very well how invincible and greedy these newly emerging northern alien races are in the early stage, and when they go to the Liao State, can the Song State resist the Jurchens? Cai Jing is not optimistic.

But Cai Jing is Cai Jing after all, he has lost his courage in the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, he values his position more, he saw Zhao Ji's desire to destroy Liao, and he decided to retreat.

"Official, since Lord Zhao is so confident, it is naturally possible, but if you want to do this, you must first form an alliance with the Jurchens." Cai Jing said with a smile.

Zhao Ji looked at Zhao Liangsi again, and Zhao Liangsi said with excitement on his face, "Weichen is willing to go." ”

"Official, after all, Lord Zhao has no experience in envoys, so it's better to choose another person and let Lord Zhao be the deputy." Cai Jing said again.

When Zhao Liangsi heard this, he was not very happy in his heart, what? Am I not qualified yet? But he didn't dare to say anything, but he hated it in his heart.

"That.. On the treasury? ”

"In order to recover Yanyun, Weichen must collect money for the treasury!" Cai Jing said with a righteous face, and Zhao Ji, who watched it, applauded again and again.

The national policy was basically decided in this way, although the general policy was set, but to succeed, a lot of preparations had to be made, Zhao Ji was only excited for two days, and his attention was diverted by other interesting things, the Liao envoy was ordered to receive it well, prepare to negotiate and find out the details, and the Goryeo envoy who was about to die was put under house arrest with good food and drink.

Whether Goryeo is surnamed Liao or Song, or surnamed Jiang, anyway, it won't be surnamed Wang.

When Zhao Ji's canonization edict was sent to Goryeo, it was already late autumn, and the Goryeo Peninsula was full of harvest figures.

Because Goryeo is now divided into three pieces, the situation of the three pieces is not the same, most of the princes under the rule of the mountains are mountainous, the output is less, and many nobles have fled here, Wang Mata in order to win over these nobles, but also gave a lot of benefits, because of the extreme lack of money and grain, the autumn harvest here, naturally is a large increase in taxes and plunder, but after all, he is the king of Goryeo, although the tax is raised, or to the people to leave a breath.

And in Xijing and other places, occupied by the Jin soldiers, the consciousness of these Jurchens is still in the white mountains and black waters, all non-Jurchens are all slaves, even the leader of Tuo Junjing has to shout when he sees these Jurchens, since even people are slaves, let alone property, in just a few months, the rich and big households in the entire northern Goryeo have basically been looted, and I don't know how many young people have been pulled to fill the army, in a short period of time, the number of Goryeo troops in the north has increased to 1560,000, and the number is terrifying.

In South Goryeo, which was occupied by Yangsan, it was a different story.

In Kaijing City, the young Wang Ni was held in the arms of a young woman, who sat on a high position and bowed her head from time to time to comfort Wang Ni.

Jiang De is sitting next to the throne, there is almost no difference between the two seat positions, the only difference is probably that Jiang De is not sitting on a wooden seat but a sofa in later generations, Jiang De is not willing to sit on the hard chair, it is simply a sin on the buttocks.

"Commander-in-chief, the population statistics work in various places has been completed, this is the inventory, and due to the light taxation, the fiscal revenue has been greatly reduced, and I am afraid that it will not be able to make ends meet." Li Ziqian handed over a booklet and said.

Hua Diao walked down and took the booklet, and then handed it to Jiang De, Jiang De looked through it and said, "The population is more than I imagined." ”

According to the records in the booklet, the population is about 1.78 million, which really surprised Jiang De, according to his previous understanding, the population of the entire Goryeo should be about three or four million, and he now only accounts for one-third, and the population is actually half.

"Back to the lord, this is because many nobles have hidden population, after the arrival of our army, lightly pay for the meager endowment, and let the people around the country be the masters of their own officials, crack down on local tyrants and inferior gentry, so that many nobles are grateful, donate land and population, so there are more than before." Wu Yong explained.

"The main reason is that the commander's light and meager endowment made the people on both sides of the other sides come to vote one after another, and Zhou Tianzi is probably like this in the past." Li Ziqian said complimentingly.

Jiang De secretly rolled his eyes, this is too good at talking, of course he understands what is going on, to put it bluntly, the Liangshan army killed nobles with bad deeds everywhere, and turned those tenants into commoners.

The most important reason why tenants are willing to be tenants is that they do not have their own land, but at the same time, because tenants who are nobles are not too disadvantaged, firstly, they are exempted from a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and secondly, they can also be exempted from some hard labor.

The tax system of Liangshan is a ladder system, some poor people are exempt from taxes, and the taxes of ordinary people are also very low, but the tax rate for those noble landlords is very high, because there are no people in the Liangshan army who have finances in Goryeo, so there are no messy interest groups to make trouble, and the tax reform is going very smoothly.

Most of the original Goryeo army also pursued a lean policy, and Yangsan was the only one of the three parties that not only did not recruit but disbanded the army, which reduced the number of Goryeo troops under Yangsan to 50,000. With the addition of the original Yangsan army, Jiang De's strength in Goryeo was about 80,000 at this time.

"After a few months of repair, our army has recovered all the wounded soldiers, and it is the autumn harvest, it is the time to use the troops, and the students suggest sending troops to Jiaozhou and Maxiling!" Xu Guanzhong said.

"Our army has fewer troops... Is it inappropriate? Li Ziqian said worriedly.

"Lord Li doesn't understand military affairs, it's normal to say so, this soldier is not more than fine, the general is not brave, although our army is small, but the morale is strong, well-trained, on the other hand, Wang Yu, most of his subordinates are defeated soldiers, the army is unstable, the generals are not in harmony, and it is not difficult to break it." Xu Guanzhong waved his sleeves, but he had the feeling that the canopy was in ashes while talking and laughing.

"Report !!"

At this moment, a guard walked in and said, "Report to the commander, Jeju Island urgent letter." ”

"Bring it up."

Hua Diao went down and took the letter, handed it to Jiang De, Jiang De looked at it, handed it to Hua Diao and asked him to pass it below, and said, "A letter from Jeju Island, Zhao Ji's envoy has arrived on Jeju Island, and he will come to Kaijing in three days at the earliest, he brought the canonized objects, how do you say to deal with it?" ”

"Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, this is Zhao Ji is going to canonize the lord!" Wu Yong was the first to say.

Li Ziqian also bowed and said, "The commander saved my Goryeo people from fire and water, and he deserves to be rewarded." ”

Jiang De snorted, but didn't say anything, Xu Guanzhong said, "I'm afraid the lord is worried about going to Kaifeng to thank you." ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "But that's the case." ”

Li Ziqian's eyes rolled and said, "This matter is easy, this canonization, the Duke of the Kingdom must also be canonized, we can wait for the border turmoil as an excuse, the commander does not go and the Duke of the Kingdom goes in person, so I can't say anything to the Song Court." ”

Jiang De looked at Li Ziqian with some surprise, he didn't expect this Li Ziqian's attitude to change so quickly.

And when the young woman above heard that she was going to send the child in her arms to Song Kingdom, she was afraid and expectant in her heart, and if she was sent to Song Kingdom, she should not suddenly die.

Jiang De thought for a moment and said, "Our foundation is in the Song Dynasty, if we easily refuse, I'm afraid that Liangshan will face heavy troops again." That's it, let's talk about everything when we see Song Envoy. ”

After a few days, the Song envoy came to Kaijing City under the escort, when he saw a peaceful and prosperous Kaijing City, he couldn't believe that this place had really changed hands, when he saw a group of sergeants patrolling the streets from time to time, and the people saw that most of these sergeants gave their hands to salute, and couldn't help but be even more curious.

"Why don't these people fear the armor?" Song Envoy asked.

"Lord Hui, these soldiers are all people who protect the people of the city, why should they be afraid?" The Goryeo minister who was sent to receive the Song envoy said with a smile.

The Song envoy nodded, he keenly found that these sergeants were speaking in Song dialect, and it must be the army that passed on Jiang Xinzhi.

When the group came to the Goryeo Palace, the Song envoy observed all the way and found that all the Goryeo ministers had no grief, knowing that these people had defected, and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.

Coming to the main hall, Song Envoy looked at the young woman holding the child and the man with the mask above, and his heart grew angry, this kind of behavior is not a chaotic minister and a thief, since he looks here, he knows that this Jiang Xinzhi is not a minister!

"It's the Song envoy?" Li Ziqian asked.

"It's Song Chen?" The Song envoy asked rhetorically.

Everyone looked at Jiang De, Jiang De nodded and said, "I am the official canonized envoy of the festival, naturally Song Chen." ”

"Since it's Song Chen, I came with the imperial decree, why don't you kneel down to greet you?" Song asked again.

Jiang De said hehehe, "This is a foreign land, I am a military general, I am armoured, and I am not allowed to give full courtesy, which is also an ancient precedent." ”

"Then why do you dare to sit high!"

"Guogong is young and needs someone to take care of him, but Lord Ma, what is your intention to embarrass the general again and again?" Jiang De snorted and said, and several generals next to him snorted together, like thunder.

This Song envoy is none other than Sun Fu, who later broke the city of Kaifeng.

Sun Fu, the word Boye, is a native of Haizhou. Dengjin Shidi, good at talking about the world, is a person who can speak the Tao, and therefore the road is prosperous.

Since he grew up by the sea, he has some knowledge of Goryeo and other countries, so he was chosen as the envoy this time.

Sun Fu didn't expect Jiang De to really dare to resist him, according to his thoughts, as long as he brought Zhao Ji out and then showed his identity as a jinshi, Jiang Xinzhi, who was just a bandit general, should immediately kneel to the ground.

"Master Sun, what did the official family ask you to do?"

"The official family has a purpose, why don't Jiang Xinzhi hurry up to meet the order?" Sun Fu shouted loudly, hoping to suppress Jiang De with the holy decree.

Jiang De saw that this Sun Fu was still making a tone, and glanced at Zhu Wu who was standing behind, and Zhu Wu nodded and walked out.

"Lord Sun, I sent troops without authorization, what can the DPRK say?" Jiang De changed the topic and said.

Sun Fu snorted, "It turns out that Lord Jiang still knows that he is sending troops without authorization, but the grace of heaven is vast, and the official family knows that you sent troops for the sake of the trapped people of the Song Kingdom, not only have they forgiven you, but they even feel that they have taken the responsibility of sending troops." ”

Jiang De exchanged glances with the following ministers, and Jiang De asked again, "I don't know if the official family came to canonize the prince of the kingdom this time?" ”

Sun Fu took out a roll of yellow silk and said, "This is the holy decree of the official family, why don't you welcome it?" ”

Jiang De got up and hugged Wang Ni, who was moving from time to time, and stood there and bowed, Sun Fu's eyebrows were about to be raised, what a domineering thing this is.

"Commander, there is a messenger asking to see you!" At this time, Zhu Wu came in and said with a strange face.

"Oh? Call in. Jiang De said as much as possible to make his face not too weird.

Two or three people dressed as Liao people walked in, first looked around, and found Sun Fu standing there, each of them glanced at each other, and the first one said to Jiang De, "The superior is Lord Jiang?" ”

Jiang De sat down again and said, "This will be Jiang Xinzhi." ”

The man first beat his chest and saluted and said, "The envoy of the Liao State, Yelu, has seen Lord Jiang tirelessly, His Majesty of our country heard that the general was brave, first broke Goryeo, and then defeated the Jurchens, and his heart was really yearning, and he specially ordered to bring a hundred taels of gold and a thousand taels of silver to meet him, so that there is a canonization document, and I hope the general will accept it." ”

Jiang De glanced at Zhu Wu playfully, but saw Zhu Wu shaking his head slightly there, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, but he still said as discussed before, "Canonization? I am a Song minister, how can I be canonized by your Liao lord? As he spoke, he glanced at Sun Fu.

Sun Fu suddenly exhaled a long breath, and then said to Yelu unremittingly, "Lord Jiang is Song Chen, is your Liao State's hand a little long?" ”

Yelu glanced at Sun Fu and said, "Oh? I don't know what title you give General Jiang? What official title? ”

As the saying goes, if you don't steam steamed buns, you will fight for breath, the Liao and Song dynasties have been opposed for a hundred years, and the courtiers below are also not pleasing to each other, and they are not willing to admit defeat, Sun Fu opened the yellow silk and said, "I know that Jiang Jiedu is outside the territory of Yang Wei, loyal to the monarch and serves the country, and is specially named the Marquis of Pingyin!" ”

"Poof!" Yelu smiled tirelessly, and then said, "It's just a marquis, what's so strange, and it's also the Marquis of Pingyin, as far as I know, this Pingyin is in Shandong, you want General Jiang to return to the Song Kingdom, but I don't know that when you arrive in the Song Dynasty, the general can still live for a few spring and autumn, and their Zhao Guan's family is very famous." ”