Huangtou Huifu, Qingtang Tubo, at this time seems to be a country, but in fact, there are many clans in the country, and the orders are different. I didn't expect a thirteen-year-old child to decide the fate of their country with a casual word.

Dong Yu, the king of Tubo in the Qingtang Dynasty, and Yao Luoge Guiren, the king of Huangtou Hui, were speechless at this time. They had come not far to join the alliance, and now it was the result. In fact, they are also mentally prepared, this time, the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty reconciled, and they had no way to survive in the gap between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty.

Before they came to join the alliance, the voices of their tribes came from somewhere that they were going to merge into the Great Song Dynasty. The generation of this voice is naturally the means of Liu Qi, the leader of the Ming Sect. Even if there was no alliance this time, both the Qingtang and the Hui would be merged into the Great Song Dynasty.

For the Western Xia, if the Qing Tang and Hui surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, geostrategically, the Western Xia was in danger of losing the country. Historically, this has been the case. After Zhang Qi defeated the Western Xia and annexed the Qingtang and Hui Hui, the Great Song Dynasty had always been in the strategic initiative against the Western Xia.

However, the Great Song Dynasty in history did not destroy the Western Xia in the end, and later made a strategic mistake and even destroyed the Liao with Jin. If the Great Song Dynasty could ally with the Liao State, the Great Liao, which was under the threat of the Jin State, would definitely acquiesce in the annexation of Western Xia by the Great Song Dynasty. However, Da Song missed this opportunity. In the end, after three generations of Xihe River, the Jin country was cheapened.

In exchange for Gaochang and Hei Khan for Qingtang and Hui, this deal was very cost-effective for Western Xia. For the Liao State, it is also a good deal to be able to obtain the important towns of Gaochang and Heihan in the north, and from then on, the Sticky Bage Department north of Jinshan no longer has the capital to betray Liao. The western territory of the Great Liao will be consolidated.

Seeing that Li Bingchang was so decisive, Yelu Hongji seemed to see his appearance when he was a teenager, and laughed: "Since this is the case." How many troops is Xia Guo going to send to the west this time? I have 50,000 troops in the leather room and 100,000 soldiers in the lower army, with a total strength of 150,000. ”

"This time, I don't have to worry about the eastern frontier of Daxia anymore. I decided to march west and send 400,000 troops. Li Bingchang said decisively.

The 400,000 army went on the expedition, which meant that the entire Western Xia had no troops on the Song-Liao border, and not only that, but there would be no more troops in the Western Xia, and there would not even be adult men. The reason why Li Bingchang has this courage is naturally the result of some analysis by the Western Xia court. The more troops sent by the Western Xia, the more it met the expectations of the Liao and Song dynasties, and the more it added weight to this alliance.

The population of Gaochang is only 500,000, and the population of Black Khan is only 2 million, and the total strength of the two countries will not exceed 200,000. Even if the Western Xia conquered the west, it was enough to pacify the two countries.

"My Great Song Dynasty sent 20,000 elite cavalry. In addition, it subsidized weapons and grain and grass worth 3 million guan in Western Xia. At the end of this western expedition, Western Xia had to build galloping roads along the Silk Road. After the Tangut took control of the Silk Road, the commercial tax on the entire Silk Road was not allowed to exceed 10%, and the Tangut had to order the tribes not to harass passing caravans. Zhao Ji made a request.

"This is natural. The New Covenant is still in effect. My Western Xia sent 400,000 troops, and the Great Song Dynasty only sent 20,000 troops, so how could the 300,000 border guards of the Great Song Dynasty be deployed? Li Bingchang replied without hesitation.

"Since there are no heavy troops on the borders of the countries, and the Western Xia forces are exhausted, my Great Song Dynasty should not lag behind. Our Great Song Dynasty sent 500,000 troops, 300,000 border guards, and 100,000 sea guards, a total of 400,000, to attack India by sea. In addition, 100,000 Dragon Guards were sent to attack Tibet. From then on, Tibet and India were incorporated into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji said proudly.

The total strength of the Great Song Dynasty is 600,000, except for the 100,000 joint defense forces, all other troops have been dispatched.

"I am Da Liao, with 50,000 Pi Room troops and 800,000 military state soldiers under my head, and I will successively transfer Xijin Mansion and Datong Mansion to the north, and go north to pacify the Jurchens, Menggu, Huanggasi, and Langcai. However, the Great Song Dynasty has 15 million armor troops, and such a huge army is not reassuring. The Great Song Dynasty should lift the armor protection system. Yelu Hongji also withdrew his troops from the confrontation with Song Xia.

In the Great Song Dynasty Baojia Army system, a family must have a young man to join the Baojia Army. The armor protection army does not train in peacetime, nor does it have military tasks, but only trains for half a month when it enlists. In addition to this half a month, the soldiers of the armor army are still ordinary people, which must be on the roster at any time to be dispatched, if there is an emergency war, the Great Song Dynasty can be dispatched at any time. There were 16 million households in the Great Song Dynasty, and there were almost 15 million soldiers in the armor army. The Baojia Army is not a formal army establishment, and the soldiers of the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty are all graduates of the four universities.

Ordinary people are still willing to send a Ding Zhuang into the armor protection army, because in the eyes of ordinary people, as long as they go to report, they can get a set of weapons and armor for free, and the rest is to wear a good battle armor and weapons to the county seat every month to receive the same salary. This amounts to a great benefit.

"My Great Song Dynasty does not prohibit martial arts, and ordinary people can purchase weapons and armor on their own in addition to specific weapons. The armor protection military system did not belong to the military system in the Great Song Dynasty, but to the household registration system. I also want to think about it, how can the Great Song Dynasty afford an army of 15 million? It is the same whether the armor protection system is lifted or not, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty, in case of invasion, the whole country will be soldiers. Zhao Ji responded.

At this point, Yelu Hongji had nothing to say. The population of the Great Song Dynasty is 80 million, while the population of the Great Liao is less than 10 million. Even if everyone in Daliao is a soldier, it is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty. With an army of fifteen million people, it is impossible to fight out, but if someone does, then they will fall into the vast sea of people's war.

After all, fighting a war is not just about having a large number of people, but also a large number of soldiers. Yelu Hongji had nothing to worry about. If the war relied on a large number of people and a large number of soldiers, then the Northern Liaoxi Xia would have been gone long ago.

The monarchs of other countries couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when they saw such a huge military action by the monarchs of the Xia, Song and Liao Kingdoms. This time, it can be said that they are just a foil.

Wang Yun, the king of Goryeo, was completely hanging in his heart at this time, and he was very afraid that the Liao State would propose to annex Goryeo. The memory of Goryeo being attacked by Northern Liao and the national capital jumped out of the depths of Wang Yun's memory, constantly flashing in his mind, filling him with fear.

"The Great Song Dynasty can not ban the armor of its own people, but it can't treat the people of other countries like this, right? The Northeast Jurchens have become more and more disobedient to control recently, and it can't have anything to do with the fact that the Great Song Dynasty continued to sell weapons and armor to the Jurchens by sea, right? Of course, freedom of trade should not be interfered with, but the trade of copper and iron weapons should be presided over by the governments of various countries, and private trade should not be allowed to be carried out. Yelu Hongji said.

Northern Liao, Western Xia, Dali, and Jiaozhi, their countries are full of tribes and are basically in a state of autonomy. What they were most worried about was that the Great Song Dynasty sold weapons to various tribes, causing an imbalance in their military power. What Yelu Hongji said can be said to represent their hearts.

Historically, the Great Song Dynasty had very strict control over weapons, not only prohibiting the common people from possessing weapons, but even restricting the use of woodcutters by the people, not to mention the sale of weapons to other countries and tribes. The scholars of the Great Song Dynasty thought that selling weapons to them would only make them stronger, but invaded the Great Song Dynasty. This is a sign of a great lack of self-confidence.

The current Great Song Dynasty is not taking the line of weakening the strength of the people, but taking the line of constantly strengthening the building of the army. When the people are strong, the army must be stronger. The Great Song Dynasty now has fifteen million armor guards, which one can enter? Moreover, ordinary people generally have weapons, and they are not afraid of who bullies whom. Which landlord and wealthy family has the courage to oppress the people with the help of private armed forces? Without privileges, nature becomes equal. The SPA is independent of the local administrative system and belongs to the joint defense force system. The generals of the armor army do not care about the army in peacetime, and they are also ordinary people, as long as there is a call-up, they will temporarily lead the soldiers to carry out tasks.

"Isn't it true that the government directly buys the weapons sold by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty now? As long as the countries no longer restrict the Song merchants from opening mines in various countries, they will no longer restrict the export of copper and iron ore to the Great Song Dynasty. Countries did not impose restrictions, and Song merchants naturally did not trade privately with various tribes. Zhao Ji responded.

Tribal has always been the most troublesome existence in various countries, and tribal autonomy is similar to that of the Southwest Yi of the Song Dynasty. However, they did not have the courage of the Great Song Dynasty, and solved the Southwest Yi in one fell swoop, scattered the various tribes of the Southwest Yi, and incorporated them into the Great Song Dynasty's household Qi people.

However, the policies of the Great Song Dynasty gave them inspiration. Yelu Hongji is now pondering, taking advantage of this alliance to concentrate his forces and completely solve the problem of acute national contradictions in Liao.

The main ethnic groups of Liao are: Menggu, Zubu, Wugu, Dilie, Jurchen, Bohai, Khitan, and Han nationality. Of these eight ethnic groups, only the Bohai, Han and Khitan ethnic groups are directly under the rule of the Liao regime, while the other ethnic groups are autonomous and are states within a state. They simply submitted to the Khitan, however, to pay tribute, to provide soldiers.

In this state, the national contradictions in Liao are acute. The Khitan tribe is **, in order to enjoy themselves, not only is the infighting fierce, but they are also more and more demanding of other ethnic groups. If this continues, the Liao State will be destroyed by them. Yelu Hongji preferred to believe at this time that the Han people accounted for thirty percent of the population of the Liao State, and the Han people were many in number and much more faithful and reliable.

The political system of the Liao State is divided into the southern officials and the northern officials, and the status of the northern officials is higher than that of the southern officials, and they are generally held by Khitan nobles. However, when Yelu Hongji, an emperor who loved Han culture and said that he was originally a commoner of the Great Song Dynasty in the next life, the prime minister of Beifu was no longer served by a Khitan nobleman, but by Zhang Xiaojie, a Han man.

The election system of the Khitan tribal alliance still exists, and Yelu Hongji says that he is the emperor, but in fact he is just the leader of a tribal alliance. Yelu Hongji's throne was threatened by the Khitan nobles, and he had to appoint Han Chinese.

Yelu Hongji has not made a move, because he is afraid of the civil strife in Liao and the Song Dynasty's achievements. Now the Song Dynasty not only has no possibility of attacking, but with the mutual support of the monarchs of various countries, Yelu Hongji has the support of the Great Song Dynasty to consolidate the throne.

Yelu Hongji's method is similar to that of the Great Song Dynasty to pacify the southwest. That is to say, with the help of the two forces of the leather room army under his control and the state soldiers of the military state under his control, he will gather the people of all ethnic groups, and then break up with the state soldiers of the head and the state, ban the autonomy of the tribes, and mix the various tribes, and divide the administrative regions according to geographical location rather than tribal blood. This is the process of feudalization of tribal alliances, which is conducive to eliminating the estrangement of various nationalities and promoting ethnic integration.

Careful analysis shows that this is how Genghis Khan of Mongolia treated the tribes of the Mongolian steppe. The tribes were scattered and reorganized according to the military system. Through this system, Genghis Khan turned all the other ethnic groups of the Mongolian steppe into Mongols. Breaking the tribal system formed by blood kinship is the process of feudalization.

"The Western Expedition, the attack on Tibet, and the attack on India, should the Great Song Dynasty be carried out at the same time? When will this expedition to the west begin? Yelu Hongji asked.

"It's going to take at least a year to prepare. Attack India first, and then march into Tibet. The war of annihilation is not something that can be done in one or two years. Zhao Ji responded.

"No, I can't. Prepare for at least three years first. Let's stock up on grain and grass first. Yelu Hongji's idea was very simple, that is, to unite the various ethnic groups of the Liao State in three years, and then unify the interests of the various ethnic groups through foreign conquests