"Your Majesty, as soon as the matter is said, the words will be long, can you give the minister a seat and have a cup of tea?"

This is the benefit of meritorious fame, changing from a subject to a subject. Of course, there are many more benefits.

The little emperor is happy, the more bold Zheng Lang is, the more calm his attitude, the happier he is, this is the bearing of the pillars of the future. Do those romantic characters in the Wei and Jin dynasties have the talent of the Zheng family? Is there a testimony for him? I liked it very much, and ordered: "Come on, give Zheng Jieyuan tea." ”

Letting Zheng Lang sit down, Zheng Lang said: "The minister started from the alliance of Xian Yuanyuan, since the defeat of Taizong in the battle of Gaoliang River, my dynasty is very afraid of the Khitan. But isn't that the case? The minister made some comparisons with the previous battles of the Abyss Alliance. How many troops did the Khitan dispatch, more than 200,000, and how many troops did the Weilu army have, one or two thousand, but after the battle, the Khitan left a few thousand corpses and withdrew miserably. ”

The little emperor also knew about this, and praised: "Wei Neng, Zhang Ning is strong!" ”

"Yes, the two brave generals, the minister admires them very much. Then he went to Beiping Village, and as a result, let Tian Min kill people and kill the Empress Dowager of Liao and the emperor to death. Then he went to Baozhou, and asked Yang Liulang's junior colonel Sun Mi to lead ten scouts, killing hundreds of people and scaring off an entire vanguard army. and then to Hanguang Ridge, and let General Gao kill more than 10,000 people. Speaking of which, Zhengzhou Lang sighed, the Gaoliang River fighter is not right, just destroyed the Han Dynasty, the soldiers are tired of war, and they are not ready, improper cooperation, when retreating, the first "good general" of the Song Dynasty Cao Bin is greedy for life and afraid of death, regardless of the hundreds of thousands of troops, he crossed the river in a panic and fled first, and the three armies lost their commanders, which led to a fiasco.

Is there such a big disparity in strength between the Song army and the Khitan in combat effectiveness?

Without going into depth, he continued: "At this time, the first emperor made a mistake, and the battlefield fighters changed rapidly, but the first emperor gave the formation map, where are the hundreds of thousands of troops in formation." ”

It's also the benefit of doing a move, you can be like other ministers, as long as you say it reasonably, even if you spit in the emperor's face, it's fine!

The little emperor's face flushed, it was indeed a big mistake.

"But it's okay, the first emperor came to the city of Lanzhou, and the three armies were excited! Li Jilong and Shi Baoji, two brave generals, led a group of soldiers who had almost never been on the battlefield, and defeated the Khitan army again under the city of Lanzhou, killing the Khitan commander Xiao Tzu Rin and running for more than ten miles. Your Majesty, is my Song army very weak? ”

"No," hearing these things, the little emperor's face finally brightened.

"Then I asked my crossbowman Zhang Wei to shoot Xiao Tzu Rin to death with a bed crossbow. After the first emperor arrived in the city of Lanzhou, General Li Jilong commanded thousands of infantry and handed over thousands of Khitan cavalry. The result? Half of the thousands of cavalry of the opposing party were killed on the spot, and the remaining so-called invincible Khitan warriors, regardless of whether the Khitan Empress Dowager and the emperor would be angry, became rabbits and fled back to the camp. Not only that, but I besieged the army from all directions. In fact, at that time, the first emperor did not negotiate peace with the Khitan, and the Khitan probably also had the intention of seeking peace. Maybe if Kou Xianggong said, he will achieve a greater victory, but it is difficult to say, there are four possibilities. ”

"What are the four possibilities?"

At that time, Kou Zhun did not agree to negotiate peace, and he did not know that the Khitan coach was killed. and also discussed, this matter is only a dispute, so forget it. Since Zheng Lang mentioned it, the little emperor asked curiously.

"When the Khitan commander was killed, several battles were unfavorable, the Khitan army of more than 200,000, after several fierce battles of our army, only 100,000 troops remained. If the war continues, these hundreds of thousands of troops will undoubtedly die, including the Khitan Empress Dowager and the emperor, none of whom will be spared. "Anyway, it's a pity, just like Song Taizong's invasion of Liao, at that time, the right time, place and people were all in favor of the Song Dynasty, and the Khitan was too deep to retreat. However, Zheng Lang made an analysis very objectively, and continued: "The best result, under the city of Lanzhou, all the Khitan army was annihilated, and then the Khitan dragons were leaderless, and our dynasty took the opportunity to take the sixteen states of Youyun, and with the help of the strong national strength of our dynasty, the ancient Great Wall was built once and for all." The second is that the Khitan will immediately support a new emperor and pacify the various ministries, so it is unknown whether they can take the sixteen states of Youyun. But there is a great victory in Lanzhou. The third possibility is that the city of Shanzhou was not surrounded, so that the Khitans crossed the Yellow River, they were all cavalry, once they were pressed, the degree of harm was far worse than that of Huangchao. The Khitan vitality is greatly damaged, and the vitality of our dynasty is also greatly damaged. The first three possible surnames are both. The latter possibility is very small, that is, the Khitan crossed the Yellow River, and the capital happened to be empty, and the capital was broken by them and burned in one fell swoop, and the vitality of our dynasty was hurt even more, and the Khitan supported the new emperor in time, so the two sides had to compete for the speed of recovery. If the Khitan recovers faster than me, and wants to snow this hatred, I will be in danger. ”

That's a fair statement.

The little emperor nodded again and again.

Which one is only hypothetical, and only God can know.

"I am somewhat afraid of the Khitan, but are the Khitans really afraid of my dynasty? Let's talk about what happened this year, the contradiction between the Khitan Empress Dowager and the Khitan Emperor, Your Majesty should have heard about it. And the Khitan queen mother is really bad, she doesn't favor the Khitan emperor, but her imperial brother, Your Majesty, this time you know why the Khitan sent Xiao Shi, the envoy of the Fengxian Army, and Zhang Tuibao, the supervisor of the Shaofu, to congratulate the Empress Dowager Zhengdan, and then sent the generals Xiao Cha and Anton Jiedu to congratulate Xia Hengmi, right? Without him, at this time, whether it is the Khitan Empress Dowager or the Empress Dowager's ministers, or the emperor's ministers, they don't want our dynasty to take the opportunity to start a war with the Khitan. ”

"I see, why didn't you say it earlier?" The little emperor almost jumped.

It's a great empowerment. Poor Manchu courtiers, and then border generals, what has become of them, a change of yuan will be scared like this!

Zheng Lang didn't know about the process, he just analyzed the dynamics of the two countries and the psychology of the monarchs and ministers from the overall situation based on historical knowledge, and asked strangely: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" ”

"Don't say it, you should grow up quickly," the little emperor shook his head, so many ministers actually let a little child compare, and his heart was full of emotion.

"This has to grow slowly, it's useless to be in a hurry, and it's useless to be in a hurry."

"Yes......" The cold joke made the little emperor cry and laugh: "However, this is ......"

"Don't," Zheng Lang stopped in time, although the little emperor is not a belligerent, but he can't go to war at this time, don't think that the mother and son are not in harmony, and then the Song Dynasty was on this and suffered a big loss from the Western Xia people. I'm afraid that the little emperor will really be impulsive, after all, he is still very young, and there are always some problems with his vigor. said: "The crisis of the Song Dynasty is not in the Khitan, as long as the Khitan people take the money, they basically don't want to invade our dynasty." Crisis and in the West. ”

"The West?"

"The biggest mistake of my dynasty in the past few years is to watch the party members grow stronger. Good luck for the party members, good luck for Li Yuanhao. ”

"How so?" The little emperor made Zheng Lang headless and brainless, and was stunned by a word.

"They were lucky enough to take Lingzhou from our dynasty, and they happened to encounter the invasion of the Khitans, and both countries were injured, so they successfully occupied Lingzhou. I was lucky enough to get the two traitors Li Yuan and Wu Hao! Zheng Lang said almost with gritted teeth, Xia La, Wang Qinruo, and Lu Yijian are still controversial, but these two Han Anniversaries are the real national scum, without the advice of these two Han Anniversa, there would be no most painful wound in the Song Dynasty.

The little emperor thought hard for a long time, and finally came up with it: "There are these two Han people who are ministers in the party." ”

"Your Majesty, you can't underestimate these two Han people, the various expansions of the party in recent years are exactly their strategies. However, luck is not only this, it just so happened that General Cao Wei of our dynasty defeated Li Lizun of Tubo, so that the pro-Chinese Dynasty Luo came to power and became the Zampu of Tubo. If the party wants to expand, it must solve two worries, one is the Tibetans and the other is the Uighurs. Although Luo came to power, because of General Cao, Tubo was slightly injured. In this way, when the party expanded, Sunuer led 25,000 people to be annihilated in the Tubo Mao'er City. Then Li Yuanhao himself was defeated by the Zongge River. However, Tibet was divided again, allowing the party members to successfully seize a large amount of territory. The good luck is not over, Shazhou originally had the power of our Han people, the Cao family, which was very prestigious in Shazhou, but it was also constantly divided internally, and the external enemy was at odds with the Uighurs, and both sides were defeated, so that Li Yuanhao once again took the opportunity to conquer the descendants of the Guiyi army and the Uighurs. Your Majesty, the party at this time should not be underestimated. ”

"Won't ......"

"Your Majesty, Li Deming has just died, Li Yuanhao came to power, he is not Li Deming, this is a very ambitious person. What is General Cao Wei's ability? ”

said that Cao Bin was the first good general, and praised it, it is possible that the first obedient general is possible. The real good general, in front is Pan Mei, Pan Renmei! deserves to be the first good general of the Northern Song Dynasty. Yang Ye's death, he was helpless, the system of the Song Dynasty, the power of the supervising army was often greater than that of the commander, it was forced by Wang Yu to withdraw, and the responsibility was turned, at most he could only account for five percent, and Wang Yu really accounted for ninety-five percent. said that the black sky was wronged, and Pan Renmei was the biggest victim of the black sky wrongs in history.

Then came to this Cao Wei, who was much stronger than his father, fighting the party, fighting Tibet, and playing as if he was playing.

The little emperor nodded.

"In the past, General Cao Wei heard about Li Yuanhao's knowledge, habits and surname, which attracted great attention from the general, and heard that this son likes to take his entourage into and out of the field of our dynasty and the party members, and even for this son, he disguised himself and entered the field to see this son. But this son has not shown up, General Cao was unwilling, and sent someone to go deep into the party and draw an image of Li Yuanhao. After seeing the image, I said, "It's really a British thing!" I even judged that this son would be a curse for me. Now that he is in charge of the party, His Majesty must not be guarded against. ”

That's all I can say.

Could it be that there was something good about the water and the river later? Who believes?

And they didn't dare to say too much, otherwise they heard that they were instigating the little emperor to start a war against the party members for no reason, and all the civil officials in the capital would run to the inn and drown themselves alive with spit.

There's only so much more to say.

And he was afraid that it would be too bewitching, so he changed the topic and said, "So Your Majesty, don't be afraid of the Khitan." In fact, when the minister heard that they had stolen the minister's words, the minister was very happy. ”

"Why?"

"What the minister said just now, it is in our country, the real strength, the Khitan is above our dynasty, but the gap is not as big as we imagined. Throwing away the war horses, are the soldiers really braver than my soldiers? ”

After Zheng Lang's analysis, the little emperor nodded and said, "It should be about the same." ”

"yes. Although their territory is vast, do they have a large population in our dynasty? ”

"Nope."

"Is there a strong economy for me?"

"Nope."

"Not only that, I am united with the soldiers, and the Khitan is composed of many nationalities, do they have the same heart as the soldiers of our dynasty?"

"Not either."

"Exactly, none of them are there, because they have a bad environment and a tough surname, but once they like calligraphy and painting since the emperor, or like the people of the Central Plains, they like civilized and elegant things, and lose this kind of fierce surname, what else can they have? A pack of wolves has become a pack of sheep, even if there is a war horse, what can it do? ”