Lin Lan frowned, sat down and asked, "Why haven't you heard anyone talk about this?" ”

Ruan Ciwen said slowly: "Yongqingnian's incident, no more than three people know the truth, do you remember the Xining victory?" ”

Lin Lan thought about it, from the history books of the Dajing Dynasty, it seems that this sudden victory is recorded, according to the method of compiling the almanac, such a great victory, it must be described in thick ink and color, but Lin Lan was deeply impressed, it seems that it only took the spring of the third year of Yongqing, the victory in Xining, the capture of 30,000 horses in the summer, and 10,000 catties of leather goods, so there is no more to repeat. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning, Lin Lan asked the master of the academy, but the answer he got was only that the war was too fast, and there was no detailed information to study.

"Wasn't that a great victory?"

Ruan Ciwen smiled and said, "! How big a battle must it be to capture 10,000 good horses? At least more than 100,000 people participated, the entire Great Xia added up to only a few hundred thousand people, where did you go to start such a big battle, and it would be over in a few days? Unless it is a horse that Great Xia has no intention of fighting at all, and sends it to the door. ”

"Is that really the case?"

Ruan Ciwen nodded and said, "There was a great drought in Guanzhong, and tens of thousands of people starved to death that spring. This is not a thing, you know, the people in Guanzhong are fierce, if they are hungry and crazy, they can really do anything, all dynasties, there have been a lot of civil uprisings here, the court can not send grain and grass, 100,000 Xining troops heard that they are so hungry that people turn over on their backs, this is not the worst, even the people of Daxia are digging grass roots everywhere to eat tree bark, this sheep can't milk out, you think, what a terrible drought this is. ”

"Who are the three people who are planning this?"

Ruan Ciwen said with a smile: "I found you a little funny, others ask what is going on first, and then ask who is planning, you are good, ask people directly." ”

"Yongqingnian, you are already in Jiangnan, what happened in Xining, it's just your guess. If you can guess it, I can guess it too. There are few people in Daxia, and every midwinter they go south or east, invading our Dajing to burn and loot, the kind of drought that can drive people crazy, I think those barbarians are preparing to go south again. It's just that this is a battle against the water, and even if the Xining army can hold the border pass, I am afraid it will have to pay a heavy price. ”

Ruan Ciwen nodded, and then Lin Lan's words continued, "If you can think of this, the things after that will be very easy to figure out." At that time, the Gao family in Shanxi was a well-known landlord, and his family had thousands of acres of fertile land, but before he reached the point where he was rich enough to rival the country, Wu Zhongping used hundreds of thousands of catties of grain and grass funded by the Gao family to make a deal with Huyan Lieyang, who was in the limelight in the summer at that time. ”

Lin Lan smiled and said: "Wu Zhongping also made a scheming, deliberately withheld the forage, and gave the food that was just able to survive the people of Daxia, and the tens of thousands of horses in Huyan Lieyang have long been covered with skin and bones, and if they don't trade with Wu Zhongping, I'm afraid they will have to starve to death on the grassland, just like that, the Gao family also got tens of thousands of leather goods, and now he has become the richest man in Jinzhong in one fell swoop." ”

Ruan Ciwen's face changed and asked, "How do you know this matter so clearly?" ”

Lin Lan smiled: "I have another person here who is more familiar with this matter than you. Since this is the case, then I will understand the three people who planned this matter, one is Wu Zhongping, the other is Gao Sili, and the other is naturally Huyan Lieyang. ”

Ruan Ciwen was suspicious: "Is there anyone who is more familiar with this matter?" No way! I even asked Wu Zhongping about this matter in person, how could he tell you such a life-threatening matter? ”

You must know that such a practice is already secretly collaborating with the enemy country. This kind of ugly thing, Huyan Lieyang will not say, it was this mutiny in the third year of Yongqing that he successfully ascended to the throne, and was honored by the Heavenly Khan of all ethnic groups in Great Xia, such a belief is loved, once it is destroyed with his own hands, it will be difficult to establish it again.

Wu Zhongping naturally wouldn't say that the great victory in Yongqing directly made the Xining army have tens of thousands of iron cavalry at once, and now this army has become the most feared big trouble in Huyan Lieyang. As for Gao Sili, he will not reveal the slightest, even if this thing rots in the stomach, it is better than saying it.

Lin Lan said: "Why did Wu Zhongping dare to tell you this? ”

"At that time, Yongqing was victorious, and many people in the court also doubted it, and many people didn't believe it, even the saint was a little skeptical, and only two people stood up to speak for him, and the matter was calmed down. One is me, the Holy Messenger came to Jinling, to ask my opinion on this matter, the same Jiangmen, I have broken the Yumen Gate, Wu Zhongping can no longer be knocked down by his own people, so he told a lie, and the other one can see the situation clearly, naturally it is Hong Wenjie in the northwest. ”

"Maybe Overseer Hong's words carry more weight, right?"

Ruan Ciwen glanced at Lin Lan with disdain and said, "So what? You haven't said who this person is? ”

Lin Lan smiled and said: "The Huyan clan, the people of the royal family back then, although Huyan Lieyang was not the Xia Emperor at that time, the voice of the tribe was already rising, and hundreds of thousands of catties of grain were brought overnight, distributed to various tribes, and saved more than 100,000 people, and it was supported by all parties. However, this matter was discovered by the patriarch of the Huyan clan at that time, and he wanted to expose Huyan Lieyang, but the whole family was destroyed, but he didn't expect to escape a prince. ”

"Wu Zhongping is cunning and cunning, and then he has been letting the Li family secretly communicate with Daxia, and the horses in exchange for them will be owned by Xining, but Huyan Lieyang has always thought that the king of Xining is a rebel and wants to preserve his strength, and may compete with the Dajing Dynasty, so he has always acquiesced in such a transaction, but he may not understand the so-called conservation law more than Wu Zhongping. There are more rations to eat on the grassland, but there are fewer horses, and all the horse raisers have gone to raise sheep. Wu Zhongping's assassination of the embassy was like provoking this great war, because he knew the national strength of the two countries better than anyone else. ”

"What do you mean that it is wrong for us to go to peace now?"

Ruan Ciwen nodded, shook his head again, and said, "Who can predict the war?" If Wu Zhongping is completely sure, why wait a few more years? But in a few years, once the musket you make is mass-produced, the battle will be one-sided, and if you are also taking a risk, why take a bigger risk? ”

Lin Lan said: "In this case, I think letting Great Xia fall into civil strife is the best situation now. ”

"Are you going to ......?"

"Hehe, the three tribes that were driven to the northwest by Huyan Lieyang have now occupied the best trade arteries in the northwest, Huyan Lieyang can't regret it, and he can't even think of the Silk Road, but he gave away the best treasure land, and now he wants to drive them away, if this time, I will use the prince of the Huyan clan to make an article, what do you think?"