Jia Chaochang suddenly threw the question to Han Qi, which was something that no one expected.

All of you here are high-level officials in the Northern Song Dynasty at the level of the governor's political affairs, and none of the officials who can do this level are simple, they know very well that Han Qi is probably Jia Chaochang's biggest enemy.

Han Qi has made great contributions in the northwest in the past two years, and with this huge credit, he has surpassed the convention.

After the failure of the new law, most of the leaders of the new law headed by Fan Zhongyan were degraded, and it was almost impossible to recover, but in the middle, there were some exceptions, for example, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Fu Bi, who were young and had certain potential, were kept by Renzong.

Renzong kept them, not preparing to restart the change, in Renzong's heart, the way to change the law has been cut off, and if you want to save the Northern Song Dynasty, you must take another way.

The reason why they were kept is that they are still young, they are the dry city of the country, as long as they have been honing in the local area for a period of time, they can understand that the previous approach is wrong, as long as they have accumulated enough experience, they will be transferred back.

In history, whether it was Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, or Fu Bi, they all came out like this, and in the next ten years, or even more than ten years, they finally returned to the center again.

Han Qi and Fubi have all become veterans of the Three Dynasties and important ministers of the country, but it is ironic that Gancheng, who once changed the law, became the biggest obstacle to Wang Anshi's change of law later.

Now, Han Qi has not taken the path of history, but in less than two years, he has made a contribution that is enough to change everything, and he has overwhelmed the identity of the Fa Reform Sect, and the return to the center, almost without exception, will go further.

Everyone knows that Han Qi has crossed the road of deputy position, as long as he is promoted, he must be a regular position, so there are only three positions waiting for him, the head of the East Mansion, the head of the West Mansion and the three envoys, some honorary positions, the status is quite high, but in fact, they do not have any real power, for example, the position of the third wife is basically a fictitious position of honorary support.

Among the three main positions, the head of the East and West Mansions is the most likely, and even among the two, the privy envoy is the most likely, among the merits of Han Qi, the initial and the most dazzling is to pacify the Western Xia War, even if the Xingqing Mansion was not occupied by Han Qi in the end, but the Western Xia eventually perished, this is the credit.

Who knows, Jia Chaochang did not sit still, but chose the solution to the problem, and even boldly proposed that I attack Western Xia and take the sixteen states of Yanyun, this is no longer a plan, this is the dream demon of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Most of the officials were out of steady opposition, and a few, with military knowledge, keenly felt that this might be the best opportunity to attack the Liao State, but they felt that this was not conducive to the stability of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Han Qi's ability is far beyond Jia Chaochang, whether it is military or government affairs, it is much stronger, Han Qi's ascension to the throne is definitely a good thing for the development of the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as it is stable for a few years, with the rise of the economic and military strength of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the time comes, it will be easier to solve the problem, not only the sixteen states of Youyun, but also the territory of the future Liao State.

The feat of dominating the world still attracts everyone, these people, even if they see the opportunity, they still oppose it.

This is also the fundamental reason why the vast majority of the entire court is opposed, not everyone has no vision, on the contrary, some people have a very unique vision.

On the one hand, in the entire Northern Song Dynasty political arena, Han Qi is definitely one who knows the most about longbows and fortresses, and on the other hand, Han Qi is almost directly facing Jia Chaochang, under this premise, Jia Chaochang threw the question to Han Qi, what will Han Qi do? Target.

Jia Chaochang threw the problem to Han Qi, and Han Qi didn't expect that when most people thought that Han Qi would be able to solve Jia Chaochang's problem as long as he didn't express it positively, delay it a little, or think about it in the long run, but he didn't expect that Han Qi didn't speak, but lowered his head.

The entire palace fell into silence, and everyone knew that Han Qi's answer would have the final impact on this court discussion, and everyone's focus was on Han Qi.

Becoming a high-ranking official in the court, he has long been involved in political affairs, even if he is still young, Han Qi has never been afraid of other people's eyes, but what he can't get around is his heart, he will not speak with a clear conscience, let alone talk nonsense for the opportunity of a privy envoy.

Just a cursory flip through, although he has seen most of the plans, but he still has to look at them more carefully, mainly to see the details.

There are many factors that determine the victory of the war, but strength, generals, and chances are all very important.

Needless to say, in the report of the Privy Council, it has been shown very clearly, Yuan Hao made a big fuss in Liao, and the results were huge, whether it was the population or the army, the Liao State suffered great losses, and it may not perish, but it is already in the worst time.

So whether you can achieve the results, and after the results, under the crazy counterattack of the Liao State, whether you can hold on to it has become the key.

Looking at the entire report carefully, the entire palace, including Renzong, did not urge, some people had different thoughts in their hearts, and Jia Chaochang also stabilized from the previous slight panic.

I'm afraid that Han Qi won't even look at it, and directly refuse, as long as he reads it, with his understanding of Han Qi, Han Qi will not make such a decision easily.

Sure enough, Han Qi looked at it more and more slowly, although, because of the increasing pressure on Jia Chaochang, he did not come up with an unrealistic plan indiscriminately, but seriously considered it, in this plan, if Jia Chaochang did not cheat, he had already prepared very perfectly, and unceremoniously said that this is an opportunity, an opportunity to completely control the sixteen states of Yanyun.

From Zhao Xin's point of view, in the past year or two, the Northern Song Dynasty has spared no effort in collecting intelligence on all aspects of the Liao State, and has collected some intelligence from all aspects through more advanced methods.

In the eyes of the Northern Song Dynasty, the mobilization of the Liao State was all-round, as long as it was recruited, it was an army of 100,000 or million.

However, through systematic understanding, I know that even the cavalry on the grassland needs to prepare something, but compared with the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of preparations is slightly less, but it still needs to be prepared.

This has been known from the intelligence collected in the Liao State, and because of this, the importance of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun has increased a lot.

Before the change, the Northern Song Dynasty thought that the sixteen states of Yanyun were not particularly important on the territory of the Liao State, but every time they attacked the sixteen states of Yanyun, they would be subjected to the crazy counterattack of the Liao State.

At that time, it was very strange that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were very important to the Northern Song Dynasty, not necessarily to the Liao State, and the land area was not very large, but after carefully understanding the intelligence of the Liao State, they understood why.

Along with the intelligence collection and all aspects of the Liao State, they knew that the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were very important or important to the Liao State, and once they touched it, it was almost a lifeblood.

Liao will definitely react, it is a big reaction. Now, after receiving several heavy blows in a row, Liao's strength has been greatly weakened, and such an opportunity is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In terms of the current situation of the Liao State, as long as the sixteen states of Yanyun are taken, it should not be said that as long as most of the sixteen states of Yanyun are taken, the Liao State will not be a threat here in the Northern Song Dynasty, and with the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song Dynasty becoming stronger and stronger, as long as one is eliminated, it is only a matter of time before the Liao State is taken, but it is only a matter of time.

The weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is relative, was able to unify the Central Plains region in the chaos of the war like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and became a huge country, and the Northern Song Dynasty was also on the basis of annexing many countries, and completed the unification.

Yuan Hao's weakened Liao State, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, perhaps, because of the loss of a large number of people, the Liao State will continue to decline, but nomads, God knows what way to return blood, as long as they attack a few large tribes, after harvesting richly, they can gain enough strength.

In fact, after determining the current losses, the Liao State has begun to prepare, and began to target the grasslands, the Jurchen people in the northeast, to carry out a part of the oppression, and capture those nomads in the deep mountains and wild forests, so as to improve their combat effectiveness and tide over the difficulties.

This is what Han Qi hesitated about, Jia Chaochang was very right, this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if you miss this opportunity, perhaps, there will really be no chance.

Dominate the world and create a powerful empire that is unparalleled in the world, this is Han Qi's greatest hope, even if this opportunity was not created by him, but he believes that he can push it on single-handedly.

In the end, Han Qi answered Jia Chaochang's question head-on, and was sure that the changes brought about by the longbow could increase the strength of the forbidden army by at least twice as much, and in a specific place, when attacking the city, it would improve even more.

In the same way, it also affirmed the combat effectiveness of the fortress, using the example of the Battle of the Northwest, with only less than 1,000 people, the fortress can calmly face 100,000 elite troops, and it is no problem to defend it for a few months.

For the attack power of the longbow, as well as the defense of the fortress, in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the most vocal is Han Qi, he not only personally led the longbow, fought in the northwest, won Lingzhou, but also won Xingqing Mansion, unceremoniously said, for the battle of the longbow, the most understood, is also Han Qi.

Of course, Han Qi did not point out the real role of the fortress and the longbow in detail from the details, he only pointed out a few key points, the 75,000 army has been transformed by the longbow, it is very powerful, you know, when he was in Lingzhou, it was only 20,000.

20,000 against 30,000 or 40,000 iron harriers, under the flexible use, in a short period of time, can completely annihilate the iron harriers, which shows the terrible longbow forbidden army.

The protective strength of the fortress is very strong, with the current arrangement, even if the Liao State comes to attack, it will not be possible to break through this defense line, but it will be hit to the head and bleeding.

It seems that Han Qi did not comment on Jia Chaochang's plan, but commented on the key points, 75,000 is stronger than 20,000, if measured in this way, 20,000 will be against the 100,000 Liao army in Western Xia, and will not fall behind.

20,000 is equivalent to 100,000, at least not weak, 75,000 is equivalent to 200,000 even if it is discounted, and it is a huge force to use it flexibly.

The most important thing is that Han Qi has pointed to a key point, now, these fortresses prepared by Jia Chaochang can withstand the attack of the Liao State.

This is the point, 75,000 troops, it looks huge, but at present, even if it is lost in the thriving economic and military environment of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, it will not cause great turmoil, at most, it is just a little less invasive ability, and it must be changed from strategic offensive to strategic defense. At most, it is just a big war with the Liao State, which can resist the Liao State and get attacked, and even through this war, use the defensive one to wear down the combat effectiveness of the small unit.

Such a move, of course, is very good.

Even if there is only Jia Chaochang and Han Qi, the support of the banner Xuanming, but one of them is a privy envoy, and the other is a commander who has only recently made great achievements, and at the same time, for a new weapon such as a longbow, it is quite expected, and their opinions are very important under the combination.

In particular, both of them affirmed the strong role of the fortress, and what they were most afraid of in the battle of the Liao State was not how many results they had achieved when they entered the territory of the Liao State, but the damage caused by the counterattack of the angry Liao State.

Han Qi and Jia Chaochang will not talk nonsense on this, more than 200 fortresses, each of which can withstand 100,000 troops on the basis of stationing 500 to 1,000 people, such a defensive strength is very terrifying.

At this moment, those who opposed it before didn't dare, they insisted, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, what kind of place is that, that is the dream demon of the Northern Song Dynasty royal family, this opportunity to take this dream demon, put it in front of him, and he is not afraid of being retaliated by the Liao State, the biggest failure is only a loss of 75,000, which is the weakest price for the high-level of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is an acceptable price.

The middle and upper echelons of the palace soon unified their opinions and began to make a battle plan with the Privy Council as the main body, and the focus of the entire court was on this aspect.

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