Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they looked at it, it turned out that the person who spoke was none other than the veteran Zong Ze, who was now serving as a squire in the military department and concurrently serving as the commander of the palace.

To say that this general can be said to have fought a lifetime of war, the Liao State in the north, the Xixia Kingdom in the northwest, the Nanyue Kingdom in the south, and the Jianghu forces in various places, this Great Song Dynasty basically two-legged race He has fought against, and the battle is brave, the sex is like fire, and the prestige in the army is extremely high.

He is now over the age of six, in fact, it stands to reason that he should have retired a long time ago, he has also proposed several times and has been rejected by Huizong, and now the world is not very peaceful, and he feels more at ease with a veteran of the Three Dynasties.

Originally, Huizong frowned when he heard those words, and he was just about to get angry when he saw that it was Zong Ze who spoke, and the fire disappeared again, he knew that this old man was the temper that he had just committed, if it weren't for his merits, even if he didn't do the secretary of the military department, he would at least be a second-grade festival envoy or a commander in front of the palace, how could he still be just a third-grade official? But there is absolutely no need to question his loyalty, and Huizong is indeed a 'junior' in front of him.

Therefore, Huizong said with a smile: "Please also ask the elder to calm his anger, what the widow said is not the old general, if the old general has any good way, please come quickly." ”

Zong Ze Zhengse said: "These thieves have now developed a climate, and the world is now full of thieves, by no means Cai Taishi Tong privy they usually say that the world is peaceful, as an old minister, I went home to the province last year and met two or three groups of thieves who did not open their eyes, if this Liangshan thieves have been rampant to the point of openly arguing with the court, it can be seen how arrogant they are, if they can't be quickly defeated, the rest of the thieves must be like this, then we will never have peace." ”

Huizong knew that Zong Ze would not lie, and when he heard this, he glared at Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Tong Guan and the others fiercely, and then said: "The old general is reasonable, but to deal with these thieves at the same time, the imperial court is also a little powerless, Gao Qing brought fifty or sixty thousand forbidden troops in the past, and they were all defeated by that Liangshan in the past, this time to deal with so many thieves at the same time, where to transfer troops?" ”

Huizong's problem is not untargeted, although the imperial court claims to be 800,000 forbidden troops, but now half of them have been sent to various places, after all, the world is not peaceful now, the remaining 400,000 Gao Yu this time folded 50,000 or 60,000, and the rest have to be stationed in the capital and the surrounding important towns - Huizong is not the kind of brave emperor of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, there is no hundreds of thousands of people around him to protect but there is no sense of security at all, and to successfully crusade against Liangshan, oh no, the Tang State will definitely not have 70,000 or 80,000 people, so there is this question.

Zong Ze naturally understood Huizong's temperament, and knew that if he wanted to call the forbidden army defending the city again, it would be tantamount to grabbing food from the tiger's mouth, and Huizong would never agree, and even if Huizong was willing, those ministers would probably have to join forces to oppose it, and their mansions were also in Tokyo, he immediately said seriously: "Your Majesty, the forbidden army to protect the safety of the capital is naturally not to be moved lightly, but don't forget that we still have five or six hundred thousand troops." ”

Huizong was puzzled: "Isn't the old general going to use the Xiang troops of those prefectures and cities and even the township warriors of the townships and counties, I'm afraid this will not work, the strength of the Liangshan thieves is not trivial, and the combat effectiveness of those Xiang troops is not enough, even if the old general personally commands it, it is very risky." ”

Zong Ze smiled and said: "What the last general said is naturally not those village warriors, but our border army, in recent years, the Liao State is not very honest, always creating friction on the border, the 300,000 army of the old kind of Jinglu is naturally not suitable to move lightly, but the Xixia Kingdom has not moved for more than ten years, and the border army of the small kind of Xianggong has been stationed There is inevitably a bit of a waste, the last general suggested that a team from the side of the small Xianggong should be sent out to deal with the Liangshan bandits, the border army has always been brave, and dealing with Liangshan is like a soup pouring snow, and it will inevitably be like a bamboo. ”

It turns out that the current imperial court has two strong enemies on the border, namely the Great Liao in the north and the Western Xia in the northwest Hetao region, since the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin established the country, the three kingdoms have fought each other no less than 100 times, the Northern Song Dynasty has been more than one defeat and less for various reasons, and later through various means such as harmony, tribute, and opening the border city to barely maintain peace, although there has been friction in recent years, there has been no large-scale battle.

However, the imperial court did not dare to be careless, so in addition to the forbidden army, there were two border armies to deal with the Liao State and the Western Xia State, which were led by the famous general Lao Chong Jing Xiang Gong Shi Dao and his younger brother Jing Lu Xiang Gong Shi Zhong, of which there were more than 300,000 on the old Xiang Gong side, and nearly 300,000 on the small Xiang Gong side, all of which were elite in the territory.

Among them, the Liao State due to its vast territory and strong strength, it is common for provocations and even some radical divisions to rob on the border, and the comprehensive national strength of the Western Xia is much worse than that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Of course, now the Jurchen clan in the rear of the Liao State has already skyrocketed in strength, and Wanyan Abaoji has even established the Jin State to openly resist the Liao State, and the Liao State has failed to send troops to suppress it several times, but the attention of the important ministers on the side of the court is still on the Liao State, even if there are spies to report the intelligence there, no one pays attention to it.

When the hundred officials heard Zong Ze's words, they all talked about it, and many people nodded and praised, and Huizong was also quite moved, and immediately asked the privy councillor and several lieutenants of the palace marshal's mansion to discuss Zong Ze's suggestion together.

Tong Guan, Zhao Guang and several other privy councillors, as well as Brother Qiu, Su Yuanjing, Yang Jian and other lieutenants discussed on the spot, they knew that Huizong was really angry this time, so they didn't care about restraining each other, they all seriously analyzed the situation, after a heated discussion, Tong Guan returned to Huizong on behalf of everyone, and said that Zong Ze's plan was feasible, and he could send 80,000 horses from the small kind of Jingluo Gonggong, and then select 20,000 from the forbidden army to 100,000 to crusade against the Tang State.

Huizong was very happy when he heard this, and issued a holy decree on the spot and selected a few Qin messengers to send troops to the small kind of Jing and slightly related to the public office, and then the hundred officials were naturally all kinds of flattery and advanced the victory, and the monarch and the ministers became happy again, and the previous tense atmosphere had long since disappeared, and everyone seemed to have seen the grand occasion when the Tang State was completely broken a few months later.

Then the minister of the Qin mission packed up and set off on the same day, but the next day after he left, a major news quickly spread back to the capital, shocking the entire government and the opposition were stunned, this news was only five words - the invasion of the Western Xia Kingdom!

Finally start pumping interracials, brothers, how does it feel?

(End of chapter)