In November, after a superstitious message was sent from Tamna, reporting that their navy had repeatedly harassed the coast of Goryeo, Goryeo had no choice but to send an envoy to Zhao'an. The two sides reached an agreement that the Goryeo court would allow the Song people to stay in Tamna, and allow Song ships to dock along the coast of Goryeo, and that Song ships would be allowed to pay taxes according to the regulations if they traded in the port, and the Goryeo court promised not to force Song maritime merchants to work for Goryeo. The Song people of Tamna only needed to pay a symbolic tribute every year.

Li Buqi didn't understand why there was a clause that "the Goryeo court must not force the Song people to stay in the maritime merchants". The messenger who sent the letter explained that the maritime merchants who came to Tamna from Myeongju complained that the Goryeo people had a habit of forcibly retaining the Song people and entrusting them with official positions, and that some of their relatives and friends were forcibly left in Goryeo Wangjing, so the maritime merchants were actually worried about trading with Goryeo. Therefore, these maritime merchants hoped that this requirement would be added to the negotiations between the Tamna side and Goryeo, and for this reason, the maritime merchants were willing to provide a lot of convenience to the Tamna side.

This is a great thing for both sides, as long as it does not affect the outcome of the agreement between Tamna and Goryeo, Li Buqi will not interfere.

This month, news came from the Liao State that the Liao State North Road marched to the capital of Yelu Enemy Lugu in October to lead the troops to Helan Mountain, and obtained Li Yuanhao's wife and his bureaucratic families. It seems that Western Xia has lost Li Yuanhao, and it is indeed no longer majestic. But the Liao State is not much better, the sixteen states of Yanyun have already appeared in a large area of famine, and at the same time, there are demons in Zhuozhou and Yizhou in the Liao State, and the local granaries are burned.

Li Buqi's first reaction was that he thought it was the Maitreya Sect of Liao that had started an incident? But there's no news from Zheng En's side?

Soon, news came from Bujie that the granary was burned by the nobles of the Liao State themselves.

Only by burning the granary will the deficit not be detected. The Liao State Nanjing stayed behind was the emperor's younger brother Yelu Chongyuan, although he also made a lot of profits from the business of making wine, but he still knew the measure, and when he saw the danger of lack of food, he ordered to reduce the amount of winemaking.

But the little nobles below need to exchange spirits and divination and the tribes of the Bohai Sea for cattle, sheep, and furs, and don't you have fun if you reduce the amount of wine? A few bold ones poured out the grain storage in the granaries of Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and then burned down the granaries with a fire.

The grain on the books was burned, and the Liao State was even more short of food, and in addition to Xiao Hui's defeat in this war, the other two armies were all smooth sailing, and the call for the Liao State to take the opportunity to attack the Song Dynasty became higher and higher. After the information passed by Bujie said that Xiao Ge, the privy envoy of Nanyuan of Liao, proposed to destroy the Song Dynasty, the nobles of Liao's military power responded one after another, hoping to go south to fight the grass valley. Under the strong call, the Liao Emperor has sent envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for guilt.

In order to show that the police department is not a dry meal, Li Buqi asked Lian Guangzhi to collect the information and hand it over to the Privy Council, and the Privy Council immediately blew up. Soon the emperor called Zaizhi and the chief and deputy privy envoys of the Privy Council and several straight scholars to discuss, and Li Buqi was also called as a source of intelligence.

The emperor sighed with a constipated expression: "This time, the Liao Emperor asked the Great Song Dynasty to give the Western Xia coins when the Liao State was attacking the summer, and did not close the field, which is a trip to betray the alliance of the enemy. This is really true. What do you think? ”

Although the emperor affirmed Li Buqi's foresight, Li Buqi knew that he should pretend to be forced at this time. He immediately said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the matter of the New Year's coin is just an excuse, and the Liao people just don't use this excuse, and they will find other excuses casually." The Liao people are actually provoking this time because they think that my Great Song Dynasty is weak and rich, and those Liao people want to bite off a piece of meat from the Great Song Dynasty. ”

When he said this, the faces of those who were originally opposed to the termination of the Western Xia coins looked slightly better. The privy envoy Pang Ji said: "The minister thinks that it is inevitable that the Liao people will covet my great Song Dynasty wealth, and only in Hebei and Hedong deep ditches and high bases, so that the Liao people know the difficulties and retreat is the best policy." ”

Everyone nodded, and the governor Gao Rune said, "Your Majesty." In the second year of Qingli, the Liao State was also on the territory of Chen Bing, but the Fuyan State was very strong to the Liao Emperor Chen Ming, and the Liao State also withdrew its troops. The lessons of the previous car are also. The minister thought that the Liao Emperor was bewitched by the traitorous ministers this time, and the imperial court should send a person who could speak well to Liao, and once again explained to the Liao Emperor that peaceful coexistence is beneficial to the king, and the reason that raising troops and fighting is beneficial to the ministers. As long as the Liao Emperor can distinguish the interests and disadvantages, the military disaster can be eliminated. ”

When he said this, the monarchs and ministers were all shocked, and Zhao Zhen also nodded: "Gao Qing is right, you should choose it personally." ”

Li Buqi looked at the relieved expression of a group of monarchs and ministers, and couldn't help but pout secretly, and stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty." The minister thought that the situation in Liao was not the same as last time. I'm afraid that I won't dispel the idea of committing a crime in the south of Liao because of one or two sentences. ”

"Why?"

Li Buqi said: "Your Majesty can read what was said in the information, what did Xiao Ge, the privy envoy of the Southern Court of Liao, say to Emperor Liao? He said that the last time the Great Song Dynasty increased the New Year's coins with just a little scare, it showed that the Great Song Dynasty was simply unable to cope with the war. Li Yuanhao's violent death was a good opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to regain the lost territory, but the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to enter the army, but did not even dare to stop the New Year's coin, which was the manifestation of the extreme weakness of the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty is now a strong foreign force in the middle, and as long as the Liao army is shaken by all its strength, it may fall apart. ”

Gao Ruone snorted: "Take the funeral to attack the country, and the benevolent monarch will not do it." How can Hu Lu know? ”

Li Buqi said with a smile: "Gao is right, Hu Lu does not understand my Chinese benevolence. But now that we're talking about it, people take our kindness as a sign of weakness, what should we do? People treat others with themselves, and I'm afraid that it can't be explained in one or two sentences. The problem now is that the Liao State thinks that the Great Song Dynasty is weak, and the people in power want to test the reality of the Great Song Dynasty. It can be said that the whole Liao country is thinking of this, even if the Liao Emperor doesn't want to fight, I'm afraid that the Liao Emperor can't help it. What's more, the spring famine in Liao next year is not small, and the Liao people have to find a way to survive the famine, and going south to rob is the easiest way. ”

The emperor asked Pang Ji: "Do you know what the situation of the Liao people is in the Privy Council?" ”

Pang Ji didn't dare to hide it, so he had to say: "Xizuo has indeed found out that the small people of the Liao State have also rumored that my Great Song Dynasty is weak and the army is unbearable, and I also heard that some people have encouraged the Liao people to go south to fight in the grass valley. ”

These rumors in the Liao State are all released without quitting, and they have already spread crazy in the Liao State, and it is strange that the Privy Council's fine work cannot be heard.

Li Buqi asked: "Privy, since the autumn, has there been dozens of incidents of the Liao people beating the grass valley?" ”

Pang Ji said, "Yes." It's just that there are more than a dozen people, dozens of people, and I haven't seen more than 100 people. ”

Li Buqi smiled: "How can scouts use more than 100 people?" This is the Liao people testing whether Hebei's defenses are tight. As far as I know, the Liao people basically come and go freely, right? The Hebei Border Army was able to intercept less than one-third, and almost none were captured. Liao people are wolves, and the more you feel weak, the more you will pounce and bite. Therefore, I expected that it would not be feasible to dispel the idea of the Liao Emperor's southern prisoner with words this time. ”

Pang Ji said: "What Li Junjian said has some truth. When sending people to persuade the Liao Emperor, a large army should also be mobilized to strengthen the defense of Hebei. ”

Li Buqi said: "The relocation of the army costs a lot of money and food. If you come once every few years, no matter how thick the Da Song family is, you won't be able to hold it. ”

The Emperor asked, "Then do you have a good idea?" ”

Li Buqi said: "Hebei has been peaceful for more than 40 years since the alliance of Lanyuan, why? It was because the first emperor resolutely resisted the war, so that the Liao State understood through the painful experience that it could not gnaw the hard bones of the Great Song Dynasty, so he completely rejected the idea of going south. The minister thought that since the Liao State had moved the mind of the southern invaders again this time, then we had to fight. Only when the Liao people understand again that the Great Song Dynasty is still the Great Song that they can't gnaw on, will the Liao people give up. Otherwise, after a year or two, the Liao people will want to test it again, and there will be no peace on the border. ”

Before the words landed, Pang Ji and Wen Yanbo said in unison: "Alarmist." This is just your guess. ”

Li Buqi said without concessions: "This is indeed speculation. But I'm sure eight or nine will not be far from ten. If the prince and the privy don't believe it, it's because you don't know the Liao people. ”

The following is the virtual to the virtual, and no one can convince anyone. The emperor looked at it here, and it was very difficult to look at it there. He was afraid of war, but Li Buqi was an existence like a prophetic emperor, and he was afraid of what if Li Buqi was right. Fortunately, Zai Zhi and the Privy Council still agreed on the same opinion, and they all advocated that stability should prevail, on the one hand, to strengthen the defense of Hebei, and on the other hand, not to stimulate the Liao people. Such an arrangement was acceptable to the emperor, so he nodded in approval.

Li Buqi knew that some things had to be rotten before he could clean them up, and he was not in a hurry. And this time the prelude was not without harvest for him. There are a large number of people present when the performance is right, and only a few words will never make people suspicious, and there will definitely be times when the people scold Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji in the future.