Chapter XXVIII
Xiao Ying's words were quite sincere, Wang Bian nodded and smiled, Xiao Ying thought that he was going to start talking about the conditions for withdrawing troops, but he heard Wang Bian say: "Don't worry, let's talk about it after we get to Zhenrong." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
After the banquet, Xiao Ying was sent back to the sleeping tent, and Yue Li asked the king curiously, what is the holy handwritten edict? In the end, whether the prince wants to withdraw his troops or not, the king took out the edict and showed it to Yue Li, Yue Li shook his head, and didn't seem to understand Zhao Ji's intentions.
Wang next to him took the oracle and said, "Song Liao Alliance, Song people are responsible. The dispute between Song and Xia, Brother Wang decides! What the emperor means is that although Song Liao has a covenant, my Great Song has a Song debt, and this debt has been opened by the saint. The latter sentence is to let the decision to withdraw the troops, I think the emperor knows that I will talk about the conditions before withdrawing the troops. Otherwise, who are we going to go to with those Song debts? ”
Yue Li gave a thumbs up when he listened, and said with admiration: "High! Or the prince, you know the holy will! ”
Wang Fang thought to himself, what is this? Zhao Ji loves to dismantle words, and when he went to Yongzhou, he changed his name to Wang Page. According to the habit of the ancients to read vertically, it is really hard to think that it is a hint of Zhao Xu's characters. Now Zhao Ji is just repeating the old trick, it seems that he agreed to the intention of the Liao State, but in fact he is reminding the king not to forget that the royal family still owes foreign debts. Thinking of this, he smiled slightly, and said to Yue Li: "This is called tacit understanding. ”
Yue Li smiled heartily: "Although the prince always has fresh words, I know the origin of the word tacit understanding." In that year, Su Shunqin's "Records of Zhaoshuitang in Chuzhou" wrote: "The tacit understanding between the two gentlemen, and the strange taste of death, is the origin of the government, so it has its own order." It is the secret fit of the mind. I think I also have a tacit understanding with the prince, let's do whatever you say. ”
The two were talking and laughing, and a guard came in to report that Qin Fenglu had sent the grain and grass raised by Xue Xiang to have been delivered, and at the same time sent someone to send a letter to the king of Zhennan. When the king opened the letter, he saw two things: the first was that the food and grass needed for the army had been prepared and were being sent to the barracks. The second is to remind the king of the trip to Zhenrong.
It turned out that Zhang Cheng passed through Fengzhou before going to the capital, and Xue Xiang was mobilizing military grain and grass in Fengzhou at that time. Zhang Cheng seemed to mention in his words that it wouldn't take long for the army next to Wang to return. Xue Xiang was curious, and specially set up a banquet to invite Zhang Cheng to drink, and Zhang Cheng drank beautifully, so he told the Zhenrong Zhijun Cao Tian to invite merit to the imperial court, and the impeachment of the king and let go of the enemy army.
The relationship between Xue Xiang and Wang Pan is not ordinary, once Xue Xiang served under Bao Zheng of Kaifeng Mansion, and later Wang Pan went to Western Xia to pass through Jucheng, and met Xue Xiang again, and assisted Xue Xiang in relocating the victims who were affected by the flood. Xue Xiang heard that Cao Tian impeached Wang Bian, and knew that Wang Bian was going to Zhenrong, so he hurriedly asked people to bring a letter to Wang Bian.
Wang handed the letter to Yue Li: "I said the word tacit understanding, then you will say a string of sources, come, show you a tacit understanding!" ”
Yue Li looked at the letter and said angrily: "This Cao Tian, who doesn't know what to do, hasn't settled accounts with him about disobeying military orders, but he has beaten him up!" ”
Wang was not as indignant as Yue Li, he snorted coldly and said, "When I saw Li Liangzuo's coffin on the mountain today, I guessed that this Cao Tian is not a thing. ”
The letter reached the hands of Zhe Kejun and Zhang Ping, and Zhe Kejun said: "Lord, I think he is relying on the merits of his ancestors, and he is stained with his relatives, so it is okay to invite merit and reward, how can he still slander the prince." This person is not easy to do! ”
Wang next to him smiled: "What's so bad about it?" Could it be that my dignified prince is still afraid that he will not be able to know the army? ”
Zhe Kejun said, "But? He has been here for a long time, and some lieutenants and soldiers around him follow, but I am afraid that it will be easy to punish him, but the rest of the people may not be convinced! ”
The king snorted contemptuously, "Now that the new emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, if the border is divided into separate camps, I am afraid that there will be more chaos in the future." It's best to be dissatisfied, just to make an example. ”
"Good! We'll wait for the king's orders! "Fold Kejun,Zhang Ping said in unison.
The king easily didn't say anything like murder, but when he did, he was sure that he would do it. In addition to the two armies facing each other and demanding military discipline, Zhao Ji is now going to implement a new policy, in the history that Wang Pan knows, Wang Anshi's Xining reform is because there are too many people who are not satisfied, and in the end, so many solutions to the evils of the Song Dynasty cannot be implemented.
In the past, Wang was just a businessman, but later he became a petty official, although he was loved by Renzong, but it was difficult to make a difference. In addition, Wang Anshi's officialdom was not very good before, and in the years when Yingzong had just ascended the throne, Wang Stumbled and experienced a lot of ups and downs. And now, whether it is experience or official position, Wang Bianlai has slowly formed an attitude that everything can be tough must be tough. Otherwise, the prince himself will be a shelf, and what he will do in the future will not be able to be carried out smoothly.
What is a Zhenrong intellectual, he just wants to let the world know, even if you are a relative of the emperor and the country, if you don't do what I want, there is only a dead end.
The king made up his mind, and on the second day he led his army to Zhenrong. Manchang and others also followed the team, and Xiao Ying found out that the troops next to the king were still followed by the Western Xia people, and they were even carrying Li Liangzuo's coffin, which made Xiao Ying very curious.
When he was resting on the way, Xiao Ying asked the king: "Lord Wang, what are you going to do with Li Liangzuo's body?" ”
Wang said lightly: "This kid and I have a little friendship, although the two countries are fighting each other, but I can't see him abandon the corpse in the Great Song Dynasty, you see, my 30,000 troops sent Li Liangzuo back to Xingqing Mansion, as the emperor of Western Xia, his face will not be very big." ”
Xiao Ying grinned when she heard this, this is to send a corpse, this is obviously to be killed in Xingqing Mansion. "Then my peace talk this time has been in vain."
"Not necessarily, if the queen of his family is willing to come and retrieve the body herself, maybe we will walk less." ”
Xiao Ying thought about it, this should be one of the conditions for Wang Bei's withdrawal of troops, but it is definitely not all the conditions for Wang Bei, he really didn't know Wang Bei's thoughts, so he said: "This must be done by Xixia, as for the conditions for peace talks, I'm afraid it's not so simple." ”
The king pointed to a mountain city not far away: "There is Zhenrong, I want to do something there, just a few days to stay." Therefore, if King Xiao really has the heart to talk about the matter with Song Liao, he will take advantage of the past few days to quickly let Xixia show sincerity. My request is very simple, since the Qingli Peace Conference, the annual gift to the Western Xia is equivalent to almost two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, counting the inflation of prices and the interest for so many years, I will let him return to me in the past twenty years, which is 60 million taels of silver; In addition, this dispatch was caused by the Western Xia, and I converted the military expenses and grain and grass required by my Great Song Dynasty to him for 60 million taels. King Xiao, I don't ask for many conditions, right? ”
Xiao Ying's head is big when he listens, it's not much? He scratched his head and said, "How can such a small country as Western Xia have so many silver taels? If he has it, then I will have more than enough to agree, so let's just divide up Xixia together. ”
The king nodded approvingly and said, "Okay! If King Xiao is willing, he can go back and move troops immediately. When the time comes, we can divide Western Xia on the spot. ”
Xiao Ying hurriedly waved his hand, and said in his heart that he couldn't fully believe what the king said, and besides, he came this time because he was afraid that Xixia would forget, and when he went back, he would not be scolded by the emperor when he said this idea, and the lord himself couldn't do it.
"Good! I will go to Zhenrong with you, and when I pass the customs, I will immediately go to talk to the Queen of Western Xia. If she can agree, you can ask all the armies attacking Western Xia to withdraw. ”
"King Xiao don't worry, I will do what I say!"
How can Xiao Ying rest assured, two sixty million taels of silver is not a small number, he is afraid that he will not be able to take it out with all his strength in Western Xia. Wang Fang knew in his heart that after so many years of Western Xia's expedition to the east and west, there was a lot of income from the plundering alone. The green salt of Western Xia, the party and the horse were sold to Tubo, and the Great Liao and Song also made a lot of money. Especially in recent years, Wang Bi has experience in the salt field and medicine field in Western Xia, and knows that salt is useless. Qinghai Lake water drying is the silver of white flowers, others think that Xixia is poor, but Wang Fang does not think so.
Wang Bei's requirements were indeed quite high, but he knew that Xixia would definitely take it out, and it was just enough to take it out. This time, even if Wang Fang can't attack Western Xia, it is enough to make Western Xia unable to turn over for a while, and even let Zhao Ji's thirty-two warehouses be filled with three or five.
Xiao Ying thought that Wang was crazy, and Yue Li and the others also muttered, don't make a mistake this time, right? Can Xixia come up with so many silver taels?
The brigade walked for more than half a day, and when it was almost dusk, the team came to the foot of Zhenrong City. Zhi Kejun and the others became more and more angry, and they were holding back a fire in their hearts, and the Zhijun of Zhenrong was too arrogant, and they didn't even line up to meet the army next to the king. Only Wang Pan and Xiao Ying talked and laughed, and they didn't seem to take Cao Tian as the same thing at all.
The Song army stopped in front of Zhenrong City, the soldiers on Zhenrong City had already looked stupid, and the army all over the mountains was densely spread outside Zhenrong City, obviously seeing that it was the military flag of the Song army, but without Cao Tian's order, no one dared to open the city gate. But the formation in front of them was enough to make them feel a sense of oppression.
The king's army was in a procession, and the king was not in a hurry to call the city, but he ordered his soldiers to set up a big tent. After a while, the army set up camp outside Zhenrong City, and Wang Pan ordered the Chinese army tent to be set up at the front of the team's camp tent, and then, Wang Bian, Yue Li and others walked into the Chinese army tent, which made a pioneer battalion adjutant ride to the city and shouted: "The army of the king of Zhennan is here, and the Zhenrong Zhijun hurry up and open the city gate to greet him." ”
The gates of Zhenrong creaked open, and a team of men came out of it. One of the generals was Cao Tian, the commander of Zhenrong, who was followed by two generals and four or five lieutenants under his account, and he was accompanied by Zhenrong's general judge and Zhenrong's officials.
Cao Tian led these people out of the city gate, he did not dismount, and asked the deputy general of the vanguard camp next to Wang with arrogance: "Where are Commander Yue and Wang Jian Jun?" ”
The adjutant general was angry when he saw Cao Tian's appearance, but Wang Bian had already ordered, and he pointed to the Chinese army tent behind him with his hand: "King Zhennan and Ma Bu are both commanding the Chinese army tent, waiting for Cao Zhijun to participate." ”
Cao Tian noticed that Wang Bi and the others were not waiting under the city gate at all, and the tens of thousands of troops in front of them were lined up in company camps, with a big tent in front, and two rows of guards outside the big tent stood straight, leaving a road leading to the big tent of the Chinese army.
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