The day after Zhao Gu's recital was sent, Zhao Guangyi replied and agreed to Zhao Gu's request to retire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time, Zhao Guangyi ordered that Zhao Gu be given 100 acres of fertile land, 10 carts of gold and silver, and 1,000 pieces of cloth, so that he could recuperate with peace of mind.

These things were personally sent by Zhao Ling'er, Zhao Gu was already able to get up at this time, but his face was still pale, and he arrived at the gate of Xianyun Villa in a carriage, and Zhao Gu welcomed Zhao Ling'er in.

After reading the will, Zhao Ling'er asked Zhao Gu to give the reward, but she didn't mean to leave, saying that she wanted to taste the hot dry noodles that Xianyun Villa had to offer.

Zhao Gu asked people to do it for him, but he began to wonder in his heart, Zhao Ling'er has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, he must have something to ask for here.

Sure enough, after eating hot dry noodles, Zhao Linger seemed to be chatting and invited Zhao Gu to visit the lake.

Zhao Gu frowned in his heart, the retirement of labor and management has been approved, what does this court have to do with labor and management?

Zhao Gu didn't think that Zhao Ling'er was looking for him to talk about something other than the court, he wanted to ask about the Western Expedition.

Sure enough, when Zhao Ling'er rowed to the center of the lake in the boat, she finally ended her idle talk and began to ask what she was thinking.

"Marquis Zhao, I don't know if you have heard of the situation in Western Xia? Now that the Great Song Dynasty can't advance or retreat, the miscellaneous family is really worried when they see that the emperor can't sleep every night, so they think about whether they can find a way to untie the knot in the emperor's heart, and ask the Hou Ye to teach me! ”

Since Zhao Gu had already decided to retire, he naturally wouldn't pay any attention to him, and shook his head when he heard the words: "I'm in a mess in my head now, where do I have any good ideas." ”

When Zhao Ling'er heard this, she changed her normal smile and suddenly smiled suspiciously: "Master Hou, I don't know if you want to stay with the Lord of Cheshire for life?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Gu's face changed and asked.

"What do you mean? Zhao Hou Ye, we don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, the emperor ordered me to come this time, just to let Hou Ye you come up with a way to solve the matter of Xixia, if you can't solve it, then naturally no one blames you, but the emperor said that as long as you can solve the matter of Xixia, and will not say to the outside world that the solution is what you came up with, he will never ask about you and the Lord of Cheshire again, let you choose. ”

After Zhao Ling'er said this, she glanced at Zhao Gu slightly, and then seemed to be uninterested in continuing, and waved her hand to let the attendant row the boat to the shore.

He stepped ashore in one step, turned back to Zhao Gu and said: "Master Hou, the miscellaneous family is all about it, whether you can help the emperor or not depends on your own meaning, farewell." ”

After speaking, Zhao Ling'er strode away, Zhao Gu looked at his back, and sighed faintly: "This is very Zhao Guangyi." ”

That night, the lights in Zhao Gu's study were on overnight.

On the second day, a black carriage drove out of Xianyun Villa and quietly entered Kaifeng City without attracting anyone's attention.

The carriage stopped and went, seemingly with no fixed goal, but kept approaching the palace.

Until the carriage reached a small gate farthest from the palace, a pair of hands stretched out from the carriage and handed the guards a bag.

Then, the man in the carriage whispered something, and the Praetorian soldiers immediately took the bag cautiously, and then trotted into the palace.

After a while, the bag was in Zhao Guangyi's hands, and after he saw it, he smiled: "Okay, good, the crisis in Western Xia can be solved." ”

After this day, three days later, at the ferry port on the west side of Xianyun Villa, a big boat came, Zhao Gu took Su Xiaocheng, Liu Qiaoqiao, Shangguan Sisi, the Lord of Cheshire, Mrs. Fan, Fan Zhongyan, Ergouzi and others, got on the big boat, and the big boat then went all the way to the east and merged into the vast Bianhe River without making the slightest stop.

Seeing the big ship leave, Li Danran and Hao Baibai, who saw it off, glanced at each other and sighed in unison.

"The emperor is sorry for Brother Zhao!" Li sighed indifferently.

Hao blank nodded: "That's it, the solution to the Western Xia has been sent to the palace, as long as the emperor doesn't bother Brother Zhao anymore, although he has returned to the Great Song Dynasty for less than a year, but he has done what others can't do for decades, and the position of the founding county is also extremely glorious, and now he is determined to really go into hiding, we should be happy for him." ”

"That's all I can think about now."

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The phrase "time rushes like flowing water" is actually very connotative, and the flow speed of different rivers is different, just as different people's time passes quickly and slowly.

For history, a year is nothing, and in the history books, if nothing major happened in a certain year, almost no one will remember that year.

The second year of Chunhua of the Great Song Dynasty was destined to be recorded in history, because in this year the entire territory of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures was recovered, and because the Great Song Dynasty launched a westward expedition again, trying to take the Western Xia Kingdom.

However, because of Yi Dechao's quick success, 100,000 of the 150,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty's Western Expedition were killed, and the other 50,000 were also facing the situation of dying at any time.

Folk rumors say that Mi Dechao actually has no handsome talent, or even no generals, the reason why he will be reused is only because in the camp of military generals in the court, nine times out of ten are the team of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, after the emperor succeeds to the throne, he naturally wants to organize his own team, but looking at the court, he has almost no talents to choose, so the short man is taller and picks Mi Dechao.

Some people even say that the ability of the emperor today is actually mediocre, and the reason why he was able to set the Central Plains after succeeding to the throne was that Taizu established a strong army during his reign, and although the Northern Expedition was successful, it was because Zhao Gu of the Han people in Liaodi returned to the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, Zhao Guangyi only stamped a seal on the Northern Expedition military order, and the success of the Northern Expedition had nothing to do with him.

Perhaps in order to prove his ability, Zhao Guangyi was like a roof of Daigo, on the fourth day when the Western Xia army was sent to the palace, he thought of an idea to recover Western Xia, and in the following time, appointed Yi Dechao to go all out to recover Western Xia within two years.

After Mi Dechao sent the report of the Western Expeditionary Army, he was actually very treading on thin ice, because the casualties of the Western Expeditionary Army were his responsibility, and he was afraid that Zhao Guangyi would be angry and ask for his head.

It wasn't until Zhao Guangyi's military order was delivered to him that he relieved himself and began to fully implement Zhao Guangyi's plan, intending to recover Western Xia.

Half a year passed in a hurry, and the time came to Chunhua for three years, and Zhao Guangyi's plan was implemented very smoothly.

In the territory of Western Xia, Mi Dechao changed his usual style of attacking cities and conquering land, and began to promote a large number of officials in Western Xia to help him manage the captured land.

These officials were all native scholars and wealthy merchants of Western Xia, in other words, they were not officials before the Great Song Dynasty invaded Western Xia.

These people became officials for a while, and they had a good impression of the Great Song Dynasty, and invisibly, one-fifth of the one-third of the Western Xia territory captured by Yi Dechao was actually controlled by him.