Since the Hehuang class, Li Liangzuo has rarely had a few days of leisure, but he has not been idle for a few days, although the envoys from various countries have come to Xingqing Mansion, but there are fast and slow, the fastest is the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty has an army of 200,000 to Longxi, and the Song envoy has come to Xingqing Mansion again, Li Liangzuo can't figure out what Song Yingzong wants to do for a while?

Late at night in the imperial study.

Li Liangzuo called all the five important ministers of the cabinet, and Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon chair and asked the five people: "Five Aiqing, tell me what this Song Yingzong wants to do!" Is it war or peace! ”

Zhou Wentai first stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I am foolish to see that the Song army may have the intention of violating the border Hehuang, and now my country has occupied Hehuang for less than two months, and the people's hearts in the land of Hehuang are still unstable. Moreover, Hehuang is the source of the Song army's military horses, and the Song army may not give up easily! Therefore, Weichen suggested that His Majesty send troops to attack the Song Dynasty, and strike first. ”

Li Liangzuo frowned and asked Zhou Wentai: "If you send troops to attack the Song Dynasty, how long can the treasury money and grain last?" ”

"Your Majesty, now that Hehuang's money and grain have been filled into the treasury, it is enough to fight for more than a year." Zhou Wentai said to Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo nodded and asked Zhou Wentai again: "Then once the war lasts, what will be the amount of taxes I will lose?" ”

"This ......," Zhou Wentai said in a muttered manner; It is estimated that there will be two or three percent. ”

Li Liangzuo sneered: "Two or three percent, Lord Zhou, your abacus is really clanging!" Don't you really know it? Nowadays, most of the taxes of our Great Xia Kingdom come from trade with the Great Song Dynasty, once the war between the two countries is interrupted, our Great Xia Kingdom will instantly waste the fruits of the three years of reform;

I don't want to say any more superfluous words, I just want to tell Mr. that Mr. is now Xia Chen first and then the Son of Man, as long as Mr. sincerely assists me, I will one day fulfill Mr.'s dream, but now is not the time. ”

"Yes, Wechen understands." Zhou Wentai said with some coldness.

Li Liangzuo glanced at the five ministers and said, "I know that you all have the heart to protect the country, but now the Great Xia Kingdom is still not the opponent of Song and Liao, and it cannot be compared with the two countries in terms of military strength, civil power or national strength;

The Song and Liao countries have been established for a long time, the territory is vast, and the people are numerous, and the Song army has more than 1.5 million soldiers at this time, and it can also recruit millions of soldiers in wartime; The Liao State is a soldier of all people, with a strength of no less than 1.3 million; And what about my Great Xia Kingdom! There are only about 400,000 soldiers in the whole country, and people can drown us with a mouthful of saliva;

Although the combat strength of the Song army is not as good as that of our Xia army, once the war drags on for a long time, the war situation will be unfavorable to our country, so no matter why the Song army is coming this time, we must try our best to avoid the exchange of troops between the two countries, and wait until we are really rich and strong in Daxia;

At this time, we have to be hard, but our mouths must be soft, for the Great Song Dynasty can be flickered, for fame and fortune, I don't lie, I care about interests, Hehuang has eaten into the stomach, I can't spit it out, as long as the conditions of the Song Dynasty are not too excessive, try to agree to him. ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this will damage my Great Xia national prestige!" Wei Ge Ningling said to Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo said with a smile: "The country is gone, and the country wants to be prestigious; Tomorrow, the Song envoy will enter the palace, and all the officials will go to the palace gate to greet me on behalf of me to show grandeur. ”

"Yes, the ministers obey." The five men took the decree and withdrew.

After the five people withdrew, Li Liangzuo's face changed, and he immediately sent someone to find Li Yi, and after Li Yi came in, he saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "The last general will meet Your Majesty." ”

"Li Yi, get up!" Li Liangzuo said to Li Yi with a serious face; "When the Song envoy comes to see you tomorrow, you can be presumptuous in the main hall, and I will forgive you for your innocence, but there is one thing, that is, let the Song envoy see the power of my Xia army, understand?"

"The last general understands, please rest assured." Li Yi commanded.

Then Li Liangzuo lay on the dragon chair and waved his hand to Li Yi, Li Liangzuo's move is to show people to be weak first, and then show people to be strong, neither can offend the Song envoys, nor can it damage the prestige of the country, but this will make the faces of the five cabinet ministers (cabinet ministers) a little unbearable!

In the early morning of the next day, not long after the beginning of the early dynasty, the Song envoy Fubi arrived, according to Li Liangzuo's meaning, the five ministers led the hundred officials to greet them at the palace gate, but most of them were civil ministers, and there were very few generals, especially none of the generals of the new army.

Seeing that the hundred officials of the Western Xia greeted Fu Bi very arrogantly, thinking that Li Liangzuo was afraid that the Song army would attack Hehuang, so Fu Bi's mind became active, originally Fu Bi just planned to let Li Liangzuo imitate the old days and sell 40,000 war horses to the Great Song Dynasty, but when he saw this scene, Fu Bi wanted to take half of the Hehuang land from Li Liangzuo's hands for a while.

"Xuan Song envoy to the palace." Xiaofuzi said loudly.

After Fu Bi came in, he bowed to Li Liangzuo and said, "Fu Bi, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, meet the lord of Xia." ”

Li Liangzuo casually glanced at Li Yi, and Li Yi immediately stood up and shouted angrily to Fu Bi: "Fu Bi, see why my emperor doesn't bow down." ”

Fu Bi said stiffly: "The Heavenly Empire is a kingdom, and it does not worship the lord of a small state. ”

Li Liangzuo smiled and said: "Forget it, the Song envoy is reasonable, the poor countryside of Western Xia doesn't know what the Song envoy is doing here?" ”

Fu Bi said to Li Liangzuo: "I came here today to ask why the lord of Xia raised unrighteous soldiers to attack and punish Hehuang, Hehuang and Western Xia are both vassals of the Great Song Dynasty, and today the lord of Xia does not say a son ugly Yinmao, tomorrow my 200,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty will arrive in Xingqing." ”

"If you want to fight, you will fight, and our Central Army is still afraid that you will not succeed." Li Yi drew his sword and pointed directly at Fu Bi and said.

"Battle, battle, battle......" the generals in the court shouted in unison, and the sound was like thunder that shook the sky.

Fu Bi trembled with fear from this life, and Li Liangzuo angrily reprimanded the generals: "A group of bastards still don't keep talking. ”

Li Liangzuo stepped down from the dragon chair and walked to Fu Bi's side and said: "Lord Song is frightened, most of my generals are some mountain and wild villagers, I hope your lordship will not blame!"

As for why I attacked Hehuang, I was also forced to be helpless! Hehuang and Xifang are the birthplace of our ancestors, how can I let the land of my ancestors fall into the hands of others, please rest assured that I have absolutely no intention of being an enemy of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"That's good, that's good......" Fu Bi said resignedly; In fact, Fu Bi's entry into summer this time was not to question the lord of the country, but because during the period when he occupied Hehuang, he had traded 40,000 good horses with my Great Song Dynasty every year, and now the lord of the country occupies Hehuang and dares to ask if these 40,000 good horses can be the same as the future. ”

"Oops!" Li Liangzuo took Fu Bi's hand and said; "I'm afraid this thing will be difficult to do! I, Western Xia, also lack war horses! I'm afraid it won't work. ”

"Isn't this matter discussed?" Fu Bi continued to ask Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo put down Fu Bi's hand and returned to the dragon chair to sit down, his eyes flashed with a sharp light and said: "This matter really has no need to be discussed, if the Song envoy comes for the alliance between the two countries, I will have hundreds of officials to greet me, if it is for profit, I have my own army to welcome me." ”

"Isn't the Lord of Xia afraid of my 200,000 Song army?" Fu Bi questioned Li Liangzuo again.

Li Liangzuo smiled: "Dare to ask how the combat strength of the Song army is compared to that of the Tubo army?" The 300,000 army of Tubo was wiped out, and if the Song army wanted to fight, I would fight to the death, and the country would be destroyed, and I could bite off a piece of meat from the body of the Great Song Dynasty, but at that time, I am afraid that the cheapest one would be the Liao State in the north. ”