"Hehe, naturally it has a relationship, Your Majesty, it's a big deal. Hey! ”

In a word, Cai Dao laughed twice in a row, obviously holding back some bad tricks for a long time to rectify his enemy, Zheng Xia.

"Your Majesty, don't forget, this idea was first proposed by that old thief. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, according to the observation of Poor Dao, even if there was no three-day riot in Bianliang City, this old guy would not survive the second year.

His luck was just too good.

In order to appease the Western Xia Kingdom and achieve the goal of border stability, the Empress Dowager still gave up the homeland that the four countless generals and soldiers had fought hard to regain in accordance with his last wishes. Cai Dao's words were full of resentment towards Sima Guang.

Zhao Xu gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, in the fourth year of Yuanyou, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu did this major event before they stepped down. At that time, although Zhao Xu was not yet in power, he still did it after he succeeded to the throne.

It is a great shame for Zhao Xu himself, for the generals and soldiers who are still alive after the war on the border, and for the souls of those who died in battle and their relatives who are still grieving.

This is also a stain that Zhao Xu can't wash off in his life.

Who made him emperor?

The neighboring countries of the Great Song Kingdom don't care whether you Zhao Xu is pro-government or not, this black pot has to be borne by him.

"They chose this node well! Lu Gongzhu retired from illness early, and Wen Yanbo also became a priest in this year, and Lu Dafang had just taken office. But who can say clearly on whose head the black cauldron of selling territory should rest? In this regard, Cai Dao also spit out.

"Your Majesty, Poor Dao will analyze the situation around the Great Song Kingdom with you again. Among the neighbors, Dali is not a monarch, a minister is not a minister, and the Duan family has long been hollowed out by the Gao family. Dali Guo is still too busy to take care of himself, so he naturally has less of a threat to my Great Song Dynasty. However, when the Renzong Dynasty and Nong Zhigao rebelled, there were Dali and Dayue behind him.

Now the countries that have a direct threat to our Great Song Dynasty, the Great Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia Kingdom.

The Great Liao State is the head of the sick tiger, and the faint monarch Yelu Hongji has been in power for nearly fifty years. Naturally, it was not very stable internally, with Yelu Chongyuan, the king of the Southern Courtyard, who was suspicious, and the Jurchen and Mongols who continued to resist the tyrannical rule of the Khitans in the north.

However, although the tiger is sick, it is not something that anyone can bully casually. Therefore, if Your Majesty has the ambition to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun in the future, he still needs to be cautious.

And the Western Xia Kingdom is a hungry wolf that is not well fed and often eats the lord.

From the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the party members have been invading the inherent territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the Renzong Dynasty, Li Yuanhao privately established the country, and the three major defeats made Emperor Renzong have to admit that Western Xia had become an independent country.

Fortunately, at that time, Li Yuanhao was dizzy, and he actually clashed with the Liao State, and defeated the Liao State twice. In this way, Song Xia signed a peace treaty, and in the last years of Renzong, a period of rare peace was obtained.

Didn't those Confucian scholars say anything about etiquette and mourning?

However, your grandfather, as soon as Emperor Yingzong succeeded to the throne, what did the Western Xia people do, Li Liangzuo personally led a large army to attack Gyeongju, fortunately, the Gyeongju soldiers were killed, and Li Liangzuo was injured. Your Majesty, at that time, why didn't the ministers of the Lord and the ministers dare to question the Western Xia Kingdom, why didn't they follow the etiquette? In fact, Poor Dao can answer this question on behalf of the Western Xia Kingdom. They were never Song people, but alien party members.

Last year, Poor Dao heard that after receiving the great gifts sent to them by Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu, the Western Xia Kingdom had not sent a large army to attack Hongde City.

Moreover, our good neighbor Da Liao has not done treacherous things. After the three major defeats in the Song and Xia Wars of the Renzong Dynasty, didn't the lord of the Liao State take advantage of the fire to rob, didn't the virtuous minister of Fubi pay 100,000 coins again in exchange for peace?

Therefore, peace has always been fought for, not begged for by servile people. The reason why the Liao State was able to maintain peace with our Great Song Dynasty was that Emperor Zhenzong personally defeated the invasion of the Liao State, which created decades of peace on the Song-Liao border. This actually has nothing to do with Renzong. If, at that time, the monarch of the Liao State Dan Fan had some ability, my Great Song would be in danger.

As for the Great Yue Kingdom, Poor Dao didn't bother to talk about this despicable mouse. ”

"Your Majesty, the best way to deal with a political enemy is to attack the shield of the son with the spear of the son.

The way to deal with Zheng Xia and his ilk is very simple.

Don't they always want to trade their territory for peace with their enemies? And didn't the Empress Dowager Liang also want Hong Decheng last year? Your Majesty, you might as well satisfy their demands at once.

First, send Liu Zhi to negotiate with the Western Xia Kingdom in person, as long as the two countries no longer continue to fight on the border, what harm will it do to cede Hongdecheng to the queen mother.

The reason why he wanted to send this Liu Zhi was that although he was squeezed out of the capital by Lu Dafang, he was still the leader of the Shuo Party. And Sima Guang was the biggest backstage of this Shuo Party at the beginning.

Second, Hongde City.

It is said to be a city, but in fact it is just a castle.

This place is located in the northwest of Huanzhou City forty miles away, next to it there are Wulan, Suyuan, and Yonghe and other villages.

His Majesty could immediately order the pacification envoy to Huanqinglu, and once the peace treaty between Song and Xia was signed, he should immediately evacuate all the important materials in and around these places, and all the people of these places should quickly move to Huanju and Gyeongju. As for the vacant bunkers, they were filled by all the civil officials and all their families who had agreed to the cession of Sizhai.

These people would rather trust the hungry wolf of Western Xia than pity the blood of their own people, so let their flesh and blood fill the Songxia border! Let them feel for themselves how merciful the Tangut people were!

In particular, the Sima family, the Wen family, and the Lu family all did not let go. However, before punishing the Lu family, you and Poor Dao still have to meet Lu Jia first and ask his opinion. Also, the so-called Luoyang Senior Citizens Association, who thought Fu Bi was the leader, they were so openly formed a party and rebelled, and they should be punished severely.

Also, Your Majesty, you will urgently bring back Lord Zhang and them, and you will definitely make the conservative ministers become self-endangered, and they all think that you will be like Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu, and you will all be relegated to Lingnan, and you will definitely not think that Your Majesty will arrange for them to go to such a wonderful place. ”

After listening to Cai Dao's tirade, Zhao Xu shook his head and pointed out two key points, obviously not agreeing with his opinion: "Cai Dao, I'm afraid your method is inappropriate!" What should I do if the Western Xia Kingdom quits its army? If these ministers all choose to take refuge in the Western Xia Kingdom, what will I do? ”

"If the Western Xia Kingdom is in control, Your Majesty can also take this opportunity to recuperate and accumulate strength. After all, the Western Xia Kingdom was still suffering from scabies. The Great Liao Kingdom, Youzhou Region and Yuguan are your primary targets. As for whether these three families will all defect to the Western Xia Kingdom, or be taken captive by the Western Xia Kingdom like the poor road, Your Majesty, you are completely blind to worry about. Poor Dao only asks you one thing, in addition to the Lu family, do the descendants of the Wen family and the Sima family have more outstanding talents? Moreover, regardless of Yan Bo's age, does he have any military strategy at all except for power? Speaking of which, he might as well be Han Qi and Xia Song who were humiliated by Zhang Yuan? Hahaha! After saying that, Cai Dao couldn't help laughing.

After saying that, Zhao Xu thought about it carefully, Cai Dao's words were indeed extremely unkind, and even Han Qi and Xia Song ridiculed him, but he was telling the truth. Wen Yanbo is dying of old age, and he is not good at martial arts. In the final analysis, he is not Wang Shao, just a scholar.

In this matter, although Cai Dao did not mention Zheng Xia's name, and Zheng Xia did not participate in the cession of Sizhai back then, Zhao Xu would not let go of this anti-bone boy.

When Zheng Xia was in Hebei for disaster relief, he sat back and watched local officials, gentry and wealthy families embezzle the food for disaster relief, which later led to the Hebei Zhulu Baojia Rebellion, which eventually led to Song Shenzong, who was in his prime, becoming ill. It can be said that Zheng Xia is the culprit of Song Shenzong's sudden death.

Although in the history of later generations, Song Shenzong also died in that year, but Zhao Xu was not a traversal like Cai Dao, he had already recognized this in the depths of his soul. And the most direct consequence of Song Shenzong's premature immortal death was that Zhao Xu endured more than eight years of anger.

Can Zhao Xu not hate Zheng Xia?

I'm afraid that if there was no ancestral restraint of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty not killing civil officials, the first thing Zhao Xu used to open the knife was this Zheng Xia. Moreover, Zheng Xia is different from other conservative officials. He himself is a native of Fujian, and if he is relegated to Lingnan or even Qiongzhou Island, it is tantamount to returning to the mountains like a fish in water. And it was precisely sending him to the northwest to eat wind and sand that was the biggest punishment for him.

Zhao Xu sat on the imperial collapse in the Qinzheng Palace, thinking about what Cai Dao said today, but he had already made a decision in his heart.