Although Lu Yijian said that he was going to have a long insight, Zhang Dexiang and Yan Shu both understood what was going on.

The last time Ren Fu's army was annihilated by the Xia thieves, Yuan Hao sent envoys to ask for peace—in fact, everyone knew that it was actually forcing the Great Song Dynasty to sign an alliance under the city—and the emperor and most of the ministers were not willing to pay the New Year's coin to the Western Xia, which was much weaker than the Liao State, so the matter dragged on. Although several ministers hoped to end the war as soon as possible, the general climate at that time was such that no one dared to make their attitude clear.

But the war has been fought for more than a year, not only the treasury has long been empty, and it has been blackmailed by the Liao State, but it is also a big defeat, and the original high-profile main war people have been broken and coaxed, and now the wind is shouting that they want to stop war with Western Xia as soon as possible and rest with the people. Therefore, the conditions for accepting Western Xia are already popular among the people, and the only problem is that the emperor is unwilling to bear this infamy.

If it was in the past, several ministers reached an agreement, and the imperial historians did not dare to speak out casually because of the successive military defeats, and the emperor would definitely obey the ministers. But this time, the emperor insisted on listening to Li Buqi's opinion, which couldn't help but make the ministers worry - who knows what this kid will say, in case the emperor changes his mind again, it will be troublesome. Therefore, Lu Yijian called everyone to come to watch the emperor and Li Buqi, in case Li Buqi poked out some baskets, he could quickly remedy it.

The three of them have the same mind, and they handed over the sign to meet without saying a word. The three important ministers met Zhao Zhen together, and it was not good to let them in, so Li Buqi just saluted Zhao Zhen, and the three ministers entered the Chongzheng Palace.

Zhao Zhen saw that the three ministers had arrived, and no matter how embarrassing the topic was, he had to start, so he said: "Li Buqi, this time my Great Song Dynasty is exempt from fighting with the Liao State, and you have a share of the credit." After Fu Yanguo sent an envoy to Liao, he praised you for your analysis of Liao, which is indeed to the point. But today, the external troubles of my Great Song Dynasty are not only the Liao Kingdom, but also the Western Thieves. Do you know that just now, my Great Song Dynasty defeated the Xia thieves again, losing nearly 10,000 troops. ”

Zhao Zhen blushed and coughed and continued: "Since the second year of Baoyuan, my Great Song Dynasty has repeatedly defeated the Xia thieves, and now the country is not enough, and the Liao people are eyeing it, and the ministers think that it is difficult to continue to fight Xia. I can't decide. I wonder what you think about this? ”

Li Buqi had already made up his mind, bowed down under the gaze of several pairs of eyes, and said: "This is a major national matter, the ministers are humble, and they don't know the specific situation, so they don't dare to talk nonsense." ”

Lu Yijian and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. But Zhao Zhen said very resolutely: "You just have to say, I will forgive you for being wrong." ”

So Li Buqi's later words raised the hearts of the three ministers again.

"The kid thinks that since there are many constraints at the moment, it is difficult to defeat the summer, so it is not a big deal to negotiate peace with him, and it can be used as a strategy to delay the army. Just buy time and get ready to fight back in the future.

At that time, Han Gaozu was frustrated by the Xiongnu and had to adopt a policy of harmony, and four generations of people worked hard to drive the Xiongnu north; Tang Taizong was the male lord, and he also had the Weishui Alliance, and then recuperated and recuperated the national power of Dasheng to destroy the Turks. It's all a well-known story. It's just that if Your Majesty and the ministers ceased war with the Xia thieves, they must learn from the Emperor of the Han family and Tang Taizong, and never forget to work hard to eliminate the Xia thieves one day. Otherwise, a truce with the Xia thieves will do more harm than good. ”

Zhao Zhen immediately asked, "Why don't you sweep away the summer thieves and do all kinds of harm and no benefit?" ”

Li Buqi said: "The Xia thief was originally a subject under the rule of my Great Song Dynasty, but now he has seized the land of my Great Song Dynasty, so he is a thief." Kid is right? ”

This is a consensus, otherwise why would Yuan Hao be called a summer thief when Yuan Hao is mentioned in Tokyo City.

After seeing Zhao Zhen and the three ministers nodding, Li Bu gave up and said: "If this thief does not die, but lives a nourishing life, then it will set a bad example for the people of the world, I am afraid that there are still those who are unpredictable and unpredictable to start the idea of learning from the summer thief." On the way back to Tokyo from Shaanxi, the boy heard that there was a lawless man who said, 'If you want to become an official, kill people and set fires, and be recruited.' 'If Yuan Hao doesn't kill, there will be more thieves with this kind of thought. ”

Zhao Zhen listened to Li Buqi's words, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and he looked at the three ministers: "Murder and arson, and be recruited?" But is that true? ”

Li Buqi mourned for Yuan Hao for three minutes in his heart. With this sentence, I believe that no matter whether Zhao Zhen will agree to negotiate peace now, he will always be thinking about Yuan Hao, and he will definitely get rid of Xixia and then quickly.

When I was a child, I knew that Di Qing was probably the last famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, but he was killed by civil officials. Zhao Zhen never forgot Xixia's words, and he should protect Di Qing in the future, right? Maybe Di Qing can play a bigger role?

Lu Yijian secretly stumbled. With Lu Yijian's understanding of Zhao Zhen, he knew that Li Buqi's last few words were too lethal. What was the Emperor of the Zhao family worried about? The most worried thing is that there will be another person in a yellow robe who overthrows the Zhao family, so not only is it strictly guarded against military generals, but it is also careful against civil officials. But now Li Buqi tells the emperor that if you don't kill Yuan Hao, more and more people will learn from Yuan Hao to cut your territory, and in the end, your country will be finished, what kind of thoughts do you think the emperor will have? It would be ridiculous to say that "in a deserted place, it is useless to work on an expedition to the country". In the emperor's heart, it must be the rhythm of immortalizing Yuan Hao's vow.

But fighting a war requires sufficient money and food, and a strong army. Because the treasury is empty and the army is incompetent, the emperor already has the idea of changing people and changing the law, if Lu Yijian and the others can't give the emperor these two things, wouldn't this be more determined to change the emperor's decision? This was a more serious issue for him Lu Yijian than whether the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia negotiated peace. So I had to take action, and I must not let the emperor keep his fighting spirit.

But before Lu Yijian could speak, he spoke first: "This is if he is allowed to negotiate peace, and then send troops to conquer, it is not the work of Renjun." ”

Li Buqi bowed down and said: "The summer thief is barbarian, the wolf is ambitious, and he is insatiable. Does the prime minister think that the summer thief will keep the covenant? The summer thief will definitely break the covenant first. You can know this by looking at Liaoguo. ”

Zhang Dexiang also said: "If the negotiation is successful, the Xia people and all the people in the world are generally the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Even if there is a slight mistake, with His Majesty's benevolence, he cannot easily make a big move. ”

What is this theory? Li Buqi was directly stunned, swallowed and foamed, but he still said respectfully: "I see, that's easy to do." Since it is the people of the Great Song Dynasty, it is natural that they should be treated equally, and those who are guilty should be punished. Your Majesty can not pursue the Xia thief, but whether the people whose family members were killed by the Xia thief can be held accountable for the crime of the Xia thief, the court should always give justice to the people who died. ”

Zhang Dexiang was choked for a moment, Rao is profound cultivation and his face was flushed. Lu Yijian hurriedly picked it up, but with Li Buqi's words, he had no choice but to retreat: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks what Li Buqi said is also reasonable." ”

"It's just that Fan Xiwen and Han Zhigui are the leading ministers of the dynasty, Liu Ping, Ren Fu, and Ge Huaimin are all the choices of the moment, and they are all forbidden army forces, but they still can't defeat the Xia thief, and the minister doesn't know who else can defeat the Xia thief. From this point of view, the Chinese people have always been not strong enough to fight, and their scheming and deceit are not as good as barbarians. Please also ask Your Majesty to think of the common people. ”

PS: Thank you Ye Shuhua for giving such a high evaluation, and I will do my best to live up to everyone's expectations.