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This turmoil also affected the harem that never interfered in the politics of the Great Song Dynasty. In the harem, the www.biquge.info struggle has also entered a white heat. Now Su Xiaoyou and the princess of the Xilan Kingdom are both imperial concubines, and the position of Queen Cao is unshakable, and the competition for which of them is the one below Queen Cao is very fierce.

Su Xiaoyou's reliance is that there is a little bit of a story between Renzong and her, at least in terms of feelings, she has Renzong's favor more than other concubines, but her birth is unacceptable to many ministers.

And Princess Xilan has a noble status, if Xilan dies, then Princess Xilan will lose her noble identity. The politeness between Su Xiaoyou and Princess Na Xilan, which was still a little disguised, was also completely torn apart by this incident.

Both of them chattered in front of Empress Cao, which made Empress Cao unable to make up her mind which minister to support, and finally everyone passed the ball together, so that the king of Na Peng Dan and the prince of Xilan came to the front line to find Renzong and ask Renzong to take the idea.

The generals on the front line and the ministers who came with Renzong were not much better than Fan Zhongyan and Xia Zhu, and their opinions were not unified, and the arguments were even more fierce than in the court.

The prince of Nashilan and the king of Pengdan have a very unified attitude, one of them is eager for revenge, the other is anxious to restore the country, and they come to Renzong eight times a day, which makes Renzong very annoying, and he is annoyed when he hears their names.

"Hooray, it's better to meet them."

Chen Yuan supported sending troops, not the kind of asking the Zhu Luo State to send troops, or waiting for the Song Dynasty to win the Liao State before sending troops. Chen Yuan was the fourth opinion, and he suggested that now, immediately, immediately send troops to help the two vassal states.

Largely no one echoed this view.

But Chen Yuan insisted, and he tried to convince Renzong again: "Long live, the longer those pirates stay in Pengdan and Xilan, the more heavy the losses of the two countries will be." Moreover, the minister knows the style of those pirates, once they settle down, they will inevitably let other pirates come, and the more difficult it is to fight in the end. ”

Renzong shook his head: "Shimei, after all, it is too far away from us, much farther than the road from Tsushima to us, if something happens here, things will not be easy to handle." ”

Chen Yuan hugged his fists: "Because it is far away, we have to go more." The words that the king of Shiran shouted before he died were the reason why we had to fight. 'I am the king of the Great Song vassal state', long live, we want all the vassal states to know that even if they are far away, this sentence is their most effective talisman. ”

Renzong was stunned for a moment, and then nodded slightly: "That's it, you come up with a plan, and I will consider it." ”

Chen Yuan already had a plan in his heart, this time the battle must be fought by the Song army, but like military expenses or something, you can ask those vassal states to share it equally, and each country symbolizes the surname to receive a little. It's not that the two of them are sent for money, the key is to tell them very directly in this form what the Song Dynasty did for the vassal state.

This is only a preliminary plan, in order to really complete this ocean campaign, the Song army must do a lot of work, must have a detailed plan, in order to convince Renzong, but also in order to fight this battle well.

"Yes, I obey."

For the Great Song Dynasty, the matter of Peng Dan and Xilan was just an episode, and the war of the Liao State was the main melody at this stage. Renzong's conversation quickly turned back to the affairs of the Liao State.

Now although the entire Liao State is said to have mobilized a million troops, only the 400,000 troops in the hands of Yelu Nigulu are still considered elite, and there is still a threat to the Song Dynasty, as long as they can eat these 400,000 iron horses, the Liao people will no longer have a chance.

The congenital defect of the Song army was the lack of speed, although the cavalry unit was formed after getting the western frontier, but the cavalry in Yang Wenguang's hand suffered a great loss in the battle with Yelu Hongji, and Li Shibin's team was almost killed by Yelu Negrune.

Only more than 100,000 Qiang soldiers in the western frontier led by Yeli Yuqi are now being pressed and beaten by Yelu Neghulu.

Ye Li Yu's ability to fight is still good, he can use more than 100,000 people to drag the army of Yelu Nie Gulu and buy some reaction time for the Song Dynasty, which can be said to be very good.

The problem now is that if Renzong moves all his troops westward, Yelu Gollum will definitely run away, and his attitude in this battle is to drag the Song Dynasty army back.

It is almost impossible to surround him like Jeluhongki. Nearly 200,000 infantry were at his side, but Yelu Goulu did not. As long as the hundreds of thousands of Liao cavalry in his hands still exist, they are the biggest obstacle to the Song Dynasty's destruction of Liao.

Renzong turned around and sat down: "The people of the Liao Kingdom have already sent people to negotiate, I really want to agree to them, after all, the current situation in the western frontier is not good for us, if I am ten years younger, I will definitely agree." But this time, I must drive the Liao people out of the Central Plains, and at least let the hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves of Yelu Gollum go and never return. ”

Chen Yuan smiled: "Long live is exactly what he said, the territory of Liao is too big, we can't eat one bite, we can only come step by step, so we must make sure that he is always under our control, and he can do it at any time when he wants to eat." Those hundreds of thousands of elites of the Liao Kingdom categorically cannot be kept. ”

Renzong's eyes looked at Chen Yuan: "You, you have dealt with Yelu Gollum for a long time, how about it, if I let you lead the army to fight him, are you sure to defeat him?" Or do you want to leave him behind and wait until our army passes? ”

Chen Yuan shook his head: "You can give it a try." ”

The current Chen Yuan is no longer the Chen Yuan of the past, the current Chen Yuan has everything, but he has become much calmer. Maybe it's because he's old, he no longer likes to pat his chest and pack tickets with people, no matter what it is.

It may not be easy to defeat Yerine Gollum, but if he wants to keep him, Chen Yuan still has a certain certainty. After arranging for so long, how could the whole chess game fall into passivity because of the accident of one or two hands?

During this period of time, because the Liao people had no time to take care of the north, the development of Wang Lun in Mongolia was very smooth. Wang Lun was a natural organizer, Li Tiegun and Guo Miaoshan were brave and good at fighting, plus those Mongols were originally the best warriors in the world at this time, Mu Lihe's men had gathered 12,000 Mongol cavalry.

If necessary, he can also summon nearby Mongol tribes to help him in the war, as he is now the Immortal of Mongolia.

Chen Yuan had already made contact with Mu Lihe through Wang Lun, and offered to ask the Mongols to fight for the Song army if necessary.

The price he offered was a merchandise of one or two pieces of silver for the head of an enemy. According to the current market price of the Song Dynasty, it was converted into payment in kind. This price is sky-high for Mongolia.

Now the Great Song Dynasty can buy two sackcloth for one tael of silver, and two sackcloth can be exchanged for two male slaves, or three female slaves, or two foals. Not to mention the luxury goods such as porcelain and tea that people need.

Whether it is for the sake of money or Wang Lun's face, Mu Lihe agreed very simply. The two sides agreed that if Chen Yuan needed the Mongols to fight for him, he would pay the Mongols a deposit of 10% according to the number of enemies, and as for whether the Mongols would take the business, or how many people they would use to pick it up, it was their business. The casualties of the troops were also the business of the Mongols themselves.

These Mongols were just able to add some trouble to Yelu Negol, and what Chen Yuan really relied on was that the 20,000 soldiers who had arrived from the Chola Kingdom had already arrived in the western frontier.

The combat effectiveness of the Asans has not been high since ancient times, but the troops fighting with them in the ancient cold weapon era will always be defeated by the Asans for the first time. The reason is very simple, although their combat effectiveness and will to fight are not good, their war elephants are quite powerful. It looks like a behemoth, and it's scary.

Even if people are not afraid, the war horse under the crotch does not dare to hedge with the war elephant.

Chen Yuan felt that the Ah San were so enthusiastic, they didn't want military expenses or pensions, they came all the way to help fight, and now they were in need of someone to help them fight, so they naturally took out those who died in battle and didn't have to lose money.

With these two foreign aids, you can at least give Yelune a surprise surprise.

Chen Yuan asked Renzong for his life: "Your Majesty, let Weichen try it." ”

Just as Renzong was about to nod, the guards outside suddenly came in and sent a secret message to Renzong. Looking at the secret report, the expression on Renzong's face suddenly became very solemn.

Chen Yuan raised his head and asked, "Long live, what's going on?" ”

Renzong handed over the secret report to Chen Yuan: "Look at it, Yelu Zongyuan has not appeared on any occasion for a few days, Xiao Tali said that he went to the army, but none of the ministers of the Liao country know about this matter. ”

After Chen Yuan read it, he read it carefully, afraid that he would miss a word. Until he was able to memorize the contents of this secret report, Chen Yuan sighed: "Long live, the minister is sure that something must have happened in Liao." ”

Renzong nodded: "I know too, but we don't know what happened in Liao. ”

"Long live, do you remember when Liao Xingzong died? We had already missed an opportunity that time, and now we thought we should go and find out what was going on in Liao. ”

This matter is not easy to inquire about, Xiao Tali blocked all news channels, even those ministers in the court, she did the necessary concealment.

Now everyone wants to know where Yelu Zongyuan went, or some people with a heart directly asked the question of whether Yelu Zongyuan is still alive.

But Xiao Tarli bit his mouth to death.

If you say it, you are a dead word, not to mention Yelu Nie Gulu, who has an army of more than 400,000 people, all the people of Liao will not let go of themselves.

As long as she can hold out until an armistice is reached with the Song Dynasty, then take back Yelu Hongji and kill Yelu Gollum. At that time, she was still the queen mother, and Yelu Hongji was still the emperor. Yelu Zongyuan's father and son were destined to be written into the annals of Liao, Yelu Zongyuan died violently, and Yelu Nianglu was killed in battle.

She counted all the organs, and even figured out the attitude that every minister of Liao State might have towards this matter, and found a way to solve it. To this day, when Yelu Neghulu's army pressed to the western frontier, the Song Dynasty also appeared to sue for peace, Xiao Tali believed that as long as his price was higher, he believed that he could reach this deal with the Song people.

Everything seemed to be developing according to her plan, but Xiao Tatar was missing one person.

Sometimes that's the case, the more confidential things are, the more likely they are to be ruined by irrelevant characters!

Fujiwara Kunzaburo waited for four days and did not wait for Yelu Zongyuan, and there are various versions of Yelu Zongyuan's whereabouts in Liao State. Fujiwara Kunzaburo found that the former follower of Yelu Zongyuan seemed to be a little abnormal.

He immediately realized that something might really have happened to the Liao State, Yelu Zongyuan......

(To be continued)