Chapter 921

"The imperial grandmother also thinks that her grandson's words make sense?" Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of eagerness to find recognition.

"This is natural, such a simple truth, if the old woman can't see it clearly, then she will really even lose her brain." Gao Tao said with a smile.

"My Great Song Dynasty, since the Renzong Dynasty, has never had such a day as today, raising eyebrows, Xixia Xiaoer, although jumping off the beam clown, but with the support of the Liao State in the open and secret, day and night, harassing me in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty."

"It is difficult for my Great Song Dynasty to have peace, Emperor Renzong is kind-hearted, and I hope to use the New Year's gift to shake hands and make peace between Western Xia and my Great Song Dynasty, and temporarily suspend the military war, but the Western Xia has wolf ambitions, occupies my city, plunders my people's assets, and makes my Great Song Dynasty not peaceful."

"Every year, the military expenditure in the northwest is as little as a few million, and as much as tens of millions. How many people have been displaced, and how many soldiers have sacrificed their lives for the country......"

"Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Shenzong all wept for the northwest, but the situation was always ...... repeatedly"

"Today, my Great Song Dynasty has finally taken the lead and divided the territory of Western Xia into two, first taking three states, and now winning the land of Yinzhou and Longzhou, which can be described as an unprecedented victory."

"The important thing is that we still need to face hundreds of thousands of Liao troops, under such tremendous pressure, the soldiers of our Great Song Border Army, but no one flinched, everyone fought bravely, which is really gratifying to the mourning family, and the first emperors can also comfort the spirit of the spirit......

Zhao Xu silently looked at the imperial grandmother who began to recall the past, although he had heard these things more than a hundred times. But listening to it again at the moment, it makes people feel more profound.

Because this was the first foreign war of the Great Song Dynasty after his own pro-government, and it was faced with a battle involving more than one million troops.

However, the Great Song Dynasty was able to resist the Western Xia and Liao States with its own strength, and was able to occupy an advantage, which was definitely unthinkable of the Great Song Dynasty in the past.

But now Da Song has done it, and in such a situation, Da Song has already taken the advantage, so it is natural that it must be stalemate.

"Do you still remember the deeds of Emperor Zhenzong's personal conquest of Liao?" After recalling for a long time, Gao Taotao suddenly asked such a sentence.

Zhao Xu was a little stunned, and it took a long time to react. "Sun Er naturally remembers that in the first year of Jingde, the Empress Dowager Liao Xiao and the Liao Sheng Sect led a large army to the south and invaded my Song Realm. For the sake of the peace of my Great Song Dynasty, Emperor Gao decided to go to Lanzhou to supervise the war. ”

"Yes, then you know, then you know that although the alliance of the Yuan Yuan has brought a long-term peace between my Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State. However, it is clear that my Song Dynasty has won a great victory, but why after talking about peace, it is as if my Song Kingdom lost this battle? ”

"That's ......" Zhao Xu's face suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and his mouth moved for a long time, but he didn't dare to say it.

"It's not that you don't dare to say it, but you can't say it, as the so-called son doesn't say anything about his father, and his son doesn't think the family is poor. Right......" Gao said meaningfully as he looked at Zhao Xu.

"Grandson, grandson...... What the imperial grandmother said was extremely true. Zhao Xu couldn't help but be a little frightened in her heart, could it be that she had drunk and bragged with Eleven Lang Zhao Ji before and talked about this topic by the imperial grandmother, so she specially wanted to use this matter to beat herself?

"You, the mourning family is not blaming you, look at you like that." Gao Taotao was very satisfied, hmm...... Scare this stinky boy, save his mouth as if he didn't guard the door, drink in the palace, and don't pay attention to the left and right, what can be said and what can't be said.

"The mourning family wants to tell you that back then, your emperor Gaozu had to negotiate peace with the Liao State, because the Great Song Dynasty was already too poor at that time, Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were the emperors immediately, and they opened up the territory for my Great Song Dynasty and laid a great foundation for the country, but the people's livelihood has always been ......."

The Empress Dowager Gao Taotao said the reason why Emperor Zhenzong had to shake hands with the Liao State at that time, but Emperor Zhenzong's own character was too timid and cowardly.

After that, in the second year of Song Renzong's Qingqing, the Liao State took the opportunity of the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia to blackmail the Great Song Dynasty land money and grain. In desperation, Renzong agreed to add another 100,000 taels of silver and 100,000 horses of silk to Liao.

Later, in the seventh year of Emperor Shenzong's reign, the Great Song Dynasty changed the law, domestic disputes continued, and when the ministers of the court and China attacked each other, the Liao State used the excuse of the Great Song Dynasty to build additional fortresses on the border to destroy the border and ask for demarcation. In desperation, the Divine Sect had no choice but to allow the watershed as the boundary and give up some land.

The Liao State was aggressive several times, and each time, it ended in the retreat of the Great Song Dynasty, even if the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty whitewashed these humiliating things of the Great Song Dynasty into acts of peace and benevolence.

But in fact, whitewashing is only whitewashing after all, not real peace, and every time someone is forced to back down, who will feel good.

And now, the Great Song Dynasty has resisted Liaoxia with all its strength, and has frequently seized large tracts of land, winning successive battles, such an opportunity to boost people's morale, if you make peace again, it will be too stupid.

"This big battle, in fact, is a stalemate to this day, it is a meaningless competition for endurance, see who can't bear the pressure first and stand up, then, who is the real loser." Gao Tao looked at Zhao Xu in front of him very seriously, and said word by word.

"Don't pay attention to the thoughts of those ministers, today's Great Song Dynasty, it is not easy to have such an opportunity, you must grit your teeth and resist, don't let go, if you want to restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, then think about it first, how can you do it without being swayed by the ministers."

Speaking of this, Gao Taotao's big wrinkled hand gently patted the back of Zhao Xu's hand, and his eyes were full of something called expectation and anticipation.

"Grandson understands, thank you grandmother. The grandson knows what he wants, so he will not give up on this goal. ”

"The mourning family believes in you, you must be able to do better than your father, because your will is stronger than his......" Speaking of this, the Empress Dowager's surging eyes couldn't help but glow with a trace of sadness.

Perhaps, when I was at the beginning, I could understand more of my son's idea of changing the law and forging ahead, and there would not be so much estrangement between mother and son, and I might not be angry and resentful, and after my son's death, almost everything should be changed, whether good or bad.

Speaking of which, at that time, she was just an old woman in the deep palace, who was in the government for the first time, and how could she withstand the clever words of these civil and military ministers.

As a result, the estrangement between himself and his grandson is getting deeper and deeper, which can be described as overwhelming. If not......

If it weren't for the appearance of that guy from Wang Wushan, I am afraid that there would be no chance for reconciliation and sitting down and talking with his grandson.