Winter has gone to spring, another year has passed, the distribution of newspapers has become more and more smooth, and even some special informants have begun to appear in the capital, relying on selling intelligence news to newspapers for a living, and the newspaper has also been divided into two, opening a morning newspaper and an evening newspaper, the morning newspaper focuses on current affairs, while the evening newspaper focuses on entertainment, and even some people have begun to serialize legends in the evening newspaper.

Last year, the Liao army was defeated by Li Yuanhao, and this matter was also reported by the newspapers, and it was reported on this matter for several days, and people from all walks of life also expressed their opinions in the newspapers, but there was only one sentence, that is, the Liao State was no longer the Liao State of the past, and it could not even beat a single party.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, just when the Liao army was just defeated, Goryeo in the east also suddenly sent troops, stormed the Liao army in Baozhou and other places on the east side of the Yalu River, the Liao State has a total of six states on the east side of the Jiangdong, collectively called the Jiangdong Six Prefectures, this is also the heart of Goryeo, before the Liao State has drawn a lot of troops and horses from the six states of Jiangdong, in the face of the onslaught of Goryeo, the six states of Jiangdong were also quickly lost.

The defeat of the East and the West caused the Liao State to further decline, and the domestic contradictions broke out again.

Zhao Zhen also had some intentions for the Liao State, but in the end, after the persuasion of Li Zhang and Lu Yijian and others, he still temporarily dispelled the idea of sending troops, first, the Great Song Dynasty was in a critical period of reform, if the troops were sent at this time, it would definitely disrupt the process of reform, in addition, although the Liao State was defeated, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, maybe the Liao State was now unable to attack outward, but there was no problem in shrinking the force to defend.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Zhang told Zhao Zhen to be vigilant against the party, if there is another war between Song and Liao, Li Yuanhao will definitely take the opportunity to annex the land of Liao and enhance his strength as he did last time.

In the side hall of the vertical arch hall, this is called the Jiangshan Hall by Zhao Zhen, because he ordered someone to arrange a huge sand table here, presenting the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are also some local detailed sand tables, some are domestic, some are overseas, and Li Zhang and Zhao Zhen are standing next to an overseas sand table at this time.

"Cousin, Li Yuanhao occupies the west of the Wugulu River, and even threatens Zhenzhou of Liao, and Zhenzhou is too far away from Zhongjing, after the defeat of the last army, the Liao army does not have the strength to take the initiative to attack again, if Li Yuanhao conquers Zhenzhou, then the western grassland of Liao will probably be difficult to keep." Zhao Zhen held a flag representing Li Yuanhao in his hand and placed it next to Zhenzhou.

This is a map of the whole territory of the grassland of Liao, with mountains, rivers and rivers, as well as some important towns, these are made according to the map secretly drawn by the spies sent by the Great Song Dynasty, some places may not be very accurate, but there is still no problem in general, and today Zhao Zhen finished handling the government affairs, and discussed the situation of the Liao State and the party with Li Zhang.

Li Zhang's eyes at this time also focused on Zhenzhou, before Yeluren was defeated first, and the remnants of the army also withdrew to Zhenzhou, Zhenzhou is the seat of the Northwest Road Recruitment Division of Liaoguo, although Li Yuanhao laid a large area of land on the Northwest Road Recruitment Division, but has not been able to conquer Zhenzhou, before Yeluren first went west, it was also based on Zhenzhou, and once recovered a large area of land west of Zhenzhou, but after the defeat, those lands were all lost.

Now Li Yuanhao's army is stationed dozens of miles west of Zhenzhou, and from time to time he will send people to harass the defenders of Zhenzhou, and Yeluren was also recalled to Zhongjing by Yelu Zongzhen after the defeat of the first army, and now the defender of Zhenzhou is Yanniang's younger brother Yelu Zhirang, that is, Li Zhang's brother-in-law.

"I'm afraid Zhenzhou will be difficult to hold!" Li Zhang pondered for a moment and finally spoke, "There is no big city in a radius of hundreds of miles from Zhenzhou, even if the Wugu Enemy Lie Commander Army Division in the east is quite far away from Zhenzhou, in this way, Zhenzhou is also equivalent to being alone, plus the Liao army after the last defeat, the morale must be very low, and the real prestige of Yelu Sect has also been hit again, the tribes on the grassland are respected by the strong, I am afraid that not many people will be willing to obey the dispatch of the Liao State, in this case, what will the Liao army use to hold Zhenzhou?" ”

"My thoughts are the same as my cousin's, but what makes me wonder is why Li Yuanhao has not attacked Zhenzhou, when he defeated Yelu Renxian last year, he had the ability to take Zhenzhou in one go, but he was stationed outside the city, and he didn't have the intention of sending troops until now?" Zhao Zhen touched his chin at this time and said with some doubts.

"I think Li Yuanhao should face the same problem as our Great Song, that is, to rectify all kinds of internal problems!" Li Zhang smiled slightly at this time, he has been paying attention to the situation of the party, and some news from the party has also made him understand Li Yuanhao's intentions.

"Is there a problem within the party?" Zhao Zhen also asked with some surprise when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, don't forget, the foundation of the party was originally in Xingzhou, and then Li Yuanhao was forced to the territory of Liao by us, so that he has lost the foundation of the party, and he has been trying his best to expand in recent years, but there are not many real party members in his hands, most of them are grassland tribes that belong to him, these tribes have no loyalty to him, when Li Yuanhao is strong, they will naturally obey him, but in case the party is weak, these people will definitely be the first to rebel."

When he said this, Li Zhang also paused and then said: "And since last winter, Li Yuanhao has begun to carry out a series of internal reforms, such as unifying clothing, etiquette, and setting up officials in imitation of our Great Song Dynasty, etc., he also began to call himself the king of Western Xia, and at the same time encouraged his party members to intermarry with foreign tribes, and he alone accepted no less than 100 foreign concubines, these are his means to strengthen his internal rule." ”

Zhao Zhen also nodded when he heard this, the grassland people respect the strong, so Li Yuanhao's strength on the grassland is also expanding very fast, but this expansion will leave countless hidden dangers, maybe other grassland people will not have such an idea, but Li Yuanhao can be called a generation of heroes, and his mind is very cautious, if he waits until he unifies the interior, he will definitely burst out with a very terrifying power.

"I didn't expect Li Yuanhao to have a comeback one day, instead of waiting for him to integrate his strength, let's send troops to destroy this hidden danger first, cousin, what do you think?" Zhao Zhen suddenly opened his mouth at this time and proposed, in the face of the party items that are growing up day by day, he also feels threatened, especially when the Great Song Dynasty almost destroyed the party items and forced the other party to leave the Liao State, he didn't believe that the other party would not hold grudges, so the contradictions between the Great Song Dynasty and the party items could not be reconciled at all.