"I don't know if the two Highnesses are coming, Chen Lotte has lost the distance and hopes that the two Highnesses will forgive their sins!" The door of Yuefu was wide open, and when the prince Zhao Huan and King Zhao Kai got out of the car one after another, Lotte dressed up and went out.

Zhao Huan walked in front and held his hands weakly, and said, "Le Qing, please get up quickly, is your body okay?" ”

When Lotte wanted to answer, Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, came over and said: "Big brother, look at Lotte's appearance of being a dragon and a tiger, he should be unharmed, but he was just frightened!" ”

seems to be an ordinary conversation, the two brothers have completed a confrontation, Zhao Huanyan has the intention of wooing, but Zhao Kai is completely familiar with Lotte, so as to show his relationship with Lotte.

"Thank you two highnesses for your concern, the minister is fine!" Lotte was so busy that he bowed his hand and said, "I also cursed the two highnesses to go into the house to rest." ”

Although it angered Zhao Ji, but Lotte in the Great Song Dynasty is a great merit, plus it is said that it was assassinated by the Western Xia assassins, as the emperor Zhao Ji naturally wanted to send someone to visit, obviously Zhao Ji will not come in person, according to etiquette to send the prince Zhao Huan to the most appropriate, but the heart and love Zhao Kai, so the two of them were sent together to visit Lotte, one in order to show their mercy, do not blame Lotte for the crime of colliding; Second, he seems to have not forgotten Lotte's contribution to the Great Song Dynasty.

After entering the inner hall and sitting down, Zhao Huan naturally sat in the first place, and when Lotte finally sat down, Shakuchi came with a bowl of boiled medicinal soup: "Official, it's time to take medicine!" ”

The decoction was boiled thickly, and the thick medicinal gas filled the whole room.

Taking the decoction from Shakuchi, Lotte handed an apologetic look to Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai, took the medicinal soup with both hands and drank it, the strong bitter taste made Lotte involuntarily bitter.

The thick medicinal gas made Zhao Huan frown, obviously very uncomfortable, and asked, "Could it be that Leqing is in poor health?" ”

The servant next to him gargled with water, handed a handkerchief to Lotte to wipe his mouth, and replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the party assassin assassinated my family official, and was blocked by the guard Wu Song next to him, and my family official used his mouth as a guard to suck poison, which inevitably poisoned his body, and the imperial doctor prescribed some medicine to detoxify my family!" ”

After rinsing his mouth and wiping his mouth, Lotte reprimanded: "Shakuchi Mo wants to talk more, how can you speak here!" ”

"Loyal to the Lord, true benevolence and righteousness!" Zhao Huan couldn't help but praise, and then said to the eunuch who was waiting beside him: "Go back and get five hundred gold from the East Palace to leave this loyal servant, as a reward!" ”

"Wu Song of the Le generation has thanked His Royal Highness the Prince!" Lotte hurriedly thanked him, and then said again: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister is worried about the Northwest Military when he leaves the court, I don't know what is going on with the war in Pingxia of our army?" ”

"Le Qing is really worried about the people at the height of the temple, and worried about the king when he lives far away from the rivers and lakes." Zhao Huan praised Lotte, and then said: "Le Qing's good discord plan when he left the Xia Kingdom, the party item Yuxiang Jin King Chage and the crown prince Li Renbao each set up their own emperors, not only in the military affairs of each other, but also for the emperor's name and constant conflicts, at the end of last year, the heavy snow in the summer realm hindered the next march of our dynasty.

Now the road to spring is feasible, according to yesterday's military report, now the northern line of the division of the road, Yao Gu Department all the way to the north has defeated Li Renbao's department, occupied the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division is located in the city of Wuthorn, then Li Renbao has fled to the territory of Liao; Liu Fa and Liu Zhongwu of the West Road also went all the way west, not far from Guazhou, where the Xia Xiping Military Division was located, and the entire territory of Western Xia was just around the corner. ”

"Xia Keping!" Lotte nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked: "The minister heard yesterday that Zhao Liangji was ordered by His Majesty to send the Jurchen to buy a horse, is it true, please let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know?" ”

"Yes, there is such a thing!" Zhao Huan said.

Lotte continued to ask: "According to the minister, Zhao Lianghe's buying of horses is fake, and forming an alliance with the Jin people to defeat Liao is the real purpose of this trip?" ”

"National affairs are decided by their own father!" Zhao Huan was a little helpless, although he was the crown prince, he rarely participated in the affairs of the court.

Lotte looked at Zhao Kai again and asked, "Does His Royal Highness King Yun know?" ”

"Although this king is in charge of the Imperial City Division's guard, he doesn't dare to ask about the court!" Although Zhao Kai knew something, he wanted to avoid suspicion in front of Zhao Huan, and said that there were princes in this dynasty who were not allowed to ask about political affairs, so he had to say so, and then looked at Wang Dangdang, who was beside him, and said: "My Great Song Dynasty and Jin Tong envoy are secret things, and most of the detectives are sent from the Imperial City Division to follow the guards, you often walk around your father, do you know about this matter?" ”

Lianjin's destruction of Liao is the highest secret of the Great Song Dynasty, and when he heard Zhao Kai say this, Zhao Huan, as the crown prince, also wanted to know something, and his eyes were also inquiring about Wang Goudang.

"The slave knows a little bit about this!" Wang Gou said, and then hesitated: "It's just ......"

Seeing that Wang Goudang was speechless, Zhao Kai said: "You just have to say, my eldest brother is the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Marquis of Pingyu is well versed in military affairs, although he resigns from his official position now, if there is a move to attack Liao, the day of recovery is not far away, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, so that Le Qing's heart can be prepared!" ”

The crown prince and Zhao Kai both opened their mouths, and Wang Gou said: "The official family Yu Zhenghe sent Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing to make Jin in the seventh year, and last year the current dynasty took Zhao Youkai as the main envoy and Hu Yanqing as the deputy envoy to make Jin again, but after hearing that the Liao State canonized A Guda as the king of Donghuai, and the news that Liao and the Jurchens made peace, the official family canceled the matter of sending envoys again, and only let Hu Yanqing and Li Shanqing return to the Jin State.

Jin Guo once asked Hu Yanqing why the Great Song Dynasty stopped the negotiations, and Hu Yanqing replied: I heard that your country has been named Donghuai State by Liao and reconciled with Liao, so I did not send an envoy. Jin Guo Muhan said: Liao's canonization of Jin as Donghuai State is an insult to Dajin, and he did not accept it. If the Song Dynasty wants to continue to attack Liao with Jin, please bring the letter of state. Hu Yanqing was also detained by Kim.

Last year, Huqing made Jin return to the dynasty and informed the imperial court of the opinion of the emperor of the Jin State. Tong Shuai and the official family in the northwest around him advised that the Xia people were about to be wiped out, and they could use this opportunity to form an alliance with Jin to recover the land of Yanyun occupied by Liao, and suggested that they should send envoys to re-send envoys to make good contact with Jin, and ask Jin to attack Liao together, and Wang Huang and Liang Guan also agreed with this. According to Tong Shuai's advice, the official family sent Zhao Liangsi and other envoys to Jin, in the name of buying horses, but in fact they made an appointment to attack Liao. ”

Hearing this, Lotte couldn't help but sigh lightly: "The land of Lingxia has been occupied by the party for a long time, and most of them are of different races, it is really difficult to educate, it takes more than ten years or even decades for my Great Song Dynasty to digest and absorb it, and it is very difficult to attack the Western Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty consumes very much, and there is not much left in the treasury. ”

After blocking it for so long, Zhao Ji is still greedy, and he is simply looking for death.

"What Hou Ye said is very true, not only Hou Ye said this, but many adults in the court also hold Hou Ye's opinion!" After Lotte's words fell, Wang Goudang also said, and then said: "There are still many adults in the court: The Jurchens are uneducated and repeated barbarians, originally affiliated with the Liao State, and today they can rebel against Liao, and after the Liao is destroyed, they will dare to invade our Great Song River and Mountain!" ”

"Sure enough!" Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask: "Wang Goudang, I don't know who said this?" ”

Wang Gou said: "Privy envoy Deng Xunwu Deng Lao! ”

"Lord Deng is a very good person!" Lotte nodded, but said in his heart that although this old man Deng is Cai Jing's fellow party and usually does not agree with himself, his strategic vision of looking at things is still very accurate.

"But Wang Xianggong didn't think much of what Lord Deng said!" At this time, Wang Gou said again.

Hearing this, Lotte was slightly shocked: "You tell the words of the king and the two highnesses and Le!" ”

Wang Gou said: "After Lord Deng spoke, Wang Xianggong refuted in the court, saying that the Hanshu Chen Tang once said that the five Hun soldiers of the Han Dynasty, Li Tang of the previous dynasty was able to quell the Turks and expand the territory, all because the land of Youyun and Lingxia was controlled by our Han people, and the land of Lingxia and the land of Youyun were produced with iron tools, and there was no iron to be produced outside the plug, so the Han and Tang dynasties could threaten Beidi to dominate the world.

The reason why the Khitan and Dangxiang people have been able to deal with our dynasty for a hundred years is because they occupy the land of iron production, and now the land of Lingxia has been controlled by our dynasty. ”

Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai glanced at each other, their hearts were thinking, and they didn't say anything.

Lotte couldn't help sneering: "There is some truth in what I said, it's just that the Liao State has been based on Yanyun for a long time, and how can there ever be a shortage of ordnance!" ”

Wang Hao refuted Deng Xunwu's words, what he said was very reasonable, saying that the concept of iron riding of ancient nomads was wrong, and the nomads could not govern iron, so the nomads often had to ride but did not have iron, many times their arrows were ground out of stones or bones, iron tools were very precious in the grassland, and even the iron pot was one of the most valuable assets of every family, and even most nomadic families could only use cowhide to sew a box to boil water and boil meat.

Therefore, most of the time, the nomadic cavalry lacked suitable weapons, and could not defeat the original regular cavalry. This also means that the nomadic Ming is far from being a match for farming.

During the Song Dynasty, the Liao State controlled the sixteen states of Yanyun and Liaodong, which were all large-scale domestic farming areas, and the handicraft industry in these areas was very developed, so the cavalry had abundant weapons to use, and the combat effectiveness was strong.

Li Shimin said that why his army can fight, is nothing more than relying on the strength of the armor, Chen Tang said that a Han soldier to fight five Hun soldiers is also true, for the Huns with bone arrows and bronze knives and guns, the Han soldiers wearing black iron armor are monsters that cannot be killed, so they can be a Han as a five. Li Ling, the grandson of Han Fei's general Li Guang, was able to fight against tens of thousands of Xiongnu with 5,000 foot soldiers, and the exchange was also very high, and he couldn't hold it until he had no weapons to supply.

On the other hand, the Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, who were also nomadic peoples, occupied agricultural areas and were equipped with iron weapons, and their combat effectiveness was also stronger. The power of the Song Dynasty was obtained by Zhao Kuanyin by a coup d'état, and the army under his command was not like the army under Liu Bang, Li Shimin, and Zhu Yuanzhang, most of the Song army was born in the army and experienced the rebellion of the five generations.

The situation in which the Song Dynasty fought with these nomads was definitely not that the Song army was weak in all dynasties, but that the opponents were strong in the past.

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