Renzong asked, "Oh? Let's hear it. ”

Song Qi said: "The minister thinks that it is the best policy to stop the Liao State and the party to peep at Waqiao Pass, but Chen Shimei advocates that our army take the initiative to retreat, and temporarily give up the disputed area in the form of borrowing the road, so that the Liao State and the party can fight there, so that their blood will flow more, so that they will be afraid of mentioning that place in the future." ”

Renzong's brows furrowed: "This is indeed a very bold strategy, if we quietly retreat the army a little, they will inevitably pounce." It's just,"

It's just that what he didn't say and doesn't have to say. Sanguan is not a particularly dangerous place, especially Waqiao Pass, which is almost impossible to defend, and all rely on those cities built by the Song Dynasty. Now that the army is retreating, it will take a lot of effort if you want to go back.

If there is any accident, Renzong can't afford this responsibility even if he is the emperor.

Renzong thought for a while and discussed with the general minister when he went to the court in the morning, and immediately waved his hand: "Okay, you can go back early, and you can sleep a little longer." Hehe, thank you guys. Fortunately, I didn't promise Mrs. Xia, if I let him stay up late, I'm afraid I would have to go to see him in person by now. ”

In general, Renzong was very satisfied with the efficiency of Chen Yuan and Song Qi. The two of them already have a detailed plan for supporting the batch of materials for the party, and they are waiting for how to make the most of that batch of materials.

Although they did not decide on the issue of Waqiaoguan, they also gave Renzong a suggestion, either to take Song Qi's method and not to give up an inch of land, or to adopt Chen Yuan's method, after all, they gave themselves two options to choose from.

The only thing that the two of them did not intervene in was Zhao Yi's matter. Renzong fully understands this, not to mention the two of them as outsiders, even Renzong himself doesn't know how to deal with Zhao Yi's problem.

Li Yuanhao Renzong has seen it, handsome and chic, all-round talent in civil and military affairs! But Renzong, who is a father, understood when Zhao Yi came back from Crescent Moon Villa to ask for an imperial doctor, this girl must have that Chen Shimei in her heart!

This question made Renzong even more distressed! If Zhao Yi falls in love with another scholar, it's easy to say, even if he falls in love with a poor boy, it's no problem, Renzong is not a person who doesn't open up, as long as Zhao Yi likes it, he, as a father, will not let Zhao Yi marry Li Yuanhao!

He has a way to deal with it, he can find a palace maid to recognize him as his goddaughter and give her the title of princess. Or choose which other prince's daughter from the imperial family, such a thing was done in the Song Dynasty, and every dynasty did it.

But the problem now is that Chen Shimei is a family man! This made Renzong feel that letting Zhao Yi continue to stay in the Great Song Dynasty might really be a boundless pain. Zhao Yi has been in a state of disobedience for the past few days since he came back, and Renzong didn't know what to say, let alone what he should do.

He thought for a while, and saw that there was still a period of time before it was time to go to the early dynasty, and decided to ask Zhao Yi himself. If she doesn't want to go, he won't let her go. But it is impossible to marry Chen Shimei, and he will let her stay in the palace until she forgets Chen Shimei.

"See Father." Zhao Yi immediately knelt down to greet Renzong when he saw him.

Renzong picked her up, looking at Zhao Yi's face that looked a little haggard, Renzong felt a little uncomfortable: "Yi'er, what did you eat in the morning?" ”

Even though Renzong's voice was already gentle, he asked as gently as he could.

Zhao Yi hadn't spoken yet, and Qianqiu was busy saying on the side: "Your Majesty, the princess didn't eat anything in the morning." ”

Renzong glared at Qianqiu angrily: "How did you do it?" In addition to teaching the princess to escape, you can't even serve breakfast, what use do you want! ”

Qianqiu knelt down busily, and his head slammed on the ground: "The servant knows that he is wrong, please forgive the emperor, please forgive the emperor!" ”

Zhao Yi pulled Renzong's sleeve: "Father, it's not about Qianqiu, it's the child himself who has no appetite." ”

Renzong didn't say anything more, and touched Zhao Yi's hair pityingly: "Child, Zhang Yuan wants you to go back to the party with him, my father wants to know, what do you think?" This matter was all the fault of my father before. I promised to marry a princess to Li Yuanhao, although in your name, but if you don't want to, I can let others go, it's all because my father didn't make it clear to you. All the documents of me and the party members only say that the princess of the Yue Kingdom is not mentioned, as long as you say no, I will immediately change the name and find a palace maid to be the princess of the Yue Kingdom, and the father will also play Laipi, really. ”

Zhao Yi didn't have the slightest surprise or sadness, but asked very calmly: "Father, has Chen Shimei started negotiating?" ”

Renzong nodded: "Well, it started yesterday." ”

When Renzong saw it, Zhao Yi's face smiled unconsciously, and his heart was even more uncomfortable.

Zhao Yi said: "What did he say? ”

Renzong took a deep breath: "He didn't say anything, the princess's affairs, it's not his turn to call the shots." ”

Zhao Yi lowered his head and whispered: "Father asked him to ask him and see what he said." ”

Renzong stared at Zhao Yi: "You, decided?" He said to go, you go? ”

Zhao Yi nodded. Renzong shook his head slightly, and said helplessly: "My idiot, I have the same touch as your mother." ”

The debate between the ministers above the early dynasty about Waqiaoguan was also quite intense, and some people were in favor of Chen Shimei's proposal to clean up the altars and jars and let a place for the party and the Khitans to fight for life and death!

Those who are in favor of it are reasonable, and those who oppose it are also righteous words. Renzong knew that all the ministers had good intentions, and they all wanted the Song Dynasty to avoid this war, or to become the final winner in this war.

Renzong never expected such a quarrel in the court to bring the ministers to a unanimous agreement. The matter of Waqiaoguan is a major matter of the country, and such a major matter must be decided by the emperor, and the wrong decision must not be made.

But Renzong is also a person, he knows that he doesn't have the ability of a god to know the result by pinching his fingers, so when facing this kind of problem, he always lets the ministers quarrel first, and as for what to do in the end, he listened to the opinion of a certain minister.

In the end, it came to pass, it was Renzong's wisdom and martial arts, if the matter was not done well in the end, the minister who said what Renzong thought in his heart would be unlucky!

Renzong's decision was to adopt Chen Yuan's ideas, and from the bottom of his heart, Renzong was unwilling to be a king. He also wanted to create the merits of the Qin Emperor Han Wu class, and he also wanted the Great Song Dynasty to usher in a prosperous situation. Moreover, the Song Dynasty not only looked around as a strong enemy, but its own contradictions became more and more acute, and it was no longer stable and stable to be stable!

Chen Yuan's approach was a bit risky, but Renzong wanted to give it a try.

The negotiations have been going on with great difficulty for more than 10 days, and although the talks have been difficult, they have progressed quite smoothly. The support given to Li Yuanhao was not something that Yelu Nghulu could stop, and after Zhang Yuan agreed to move the Xiangqing army of the party from Xiping Mansion to the north, the deal was immediately negotiated, and the weapons that were enough to arm 10,000 people were pulled out of the armory of the Song Dynasty and went all the way to the party.

Of course, Chen Yuan also used this to blackmail Zhang Yuan in private, asking him to relax on the matter of Tie Anli and others, and not to pursue too much, Zhang Yuan's statement about this is very vague. Chen Yuan understood what he meant, vaguely, it meant that Zhang Yuan was already willing to let go, but his conditions had not yet reached his satisfaction, and he wanted a princess.

The negotiations on the second issue were even smoother, and the Liao State and the party were quarreling inextricably, but with the Great Song army's sudden and unjustified retreat of forty miles, there was nothing to discuss on this issue.

Everything was as Chen Yuan estimated, the Dangxiang and the Khitans pounced on the vacuum area conceded by the Great Song Dynasty at the same time, and in order to fight for control of the uninhabited mountainous area within a radius of hundreds of miles, the war between the Dangxiang and the Liao State immediately began!

Once the war began, it meant that the only thing left in the negotiations was to deal with the aftermath, and the Liao [***] team pressed on it vigorously, while the party members went all out to resist. The 400,000 troops of the Liao State and the 200,000 horses of the party were all concentrated along the road of Helan Mountain. Even the Great Song Dynasty was in a hurry, and from Xizhou to Hejian Mansion, more than 500,000 troops were assembled in an instant.

Gollum would leave at any time, and negotiations would end at any time. As for whether the Liao State would launch a war against the Song Dynasty after his departure, no one can be sure. Even Jermane Gollum himself can't be sure!

Although the Liao State was extremely dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty's support for the party. However, the Song Dynasty also gave way to Waqiaoguan in accordance with the requirements of the Liao State. As for the Liao [***] team being blocked by the party members there, it seems that it has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty.

Although Yelu Gollum threatens war at every turn when he negotiates, but now that he really wants to fight, it is really not up to him to fight!

Strategically speaking, the Song Dynasty was very clever in ceding a road within a hundred miles in front of Waqiao Pass! The Liao people had to devote another part of their forces to this battlefield, which made the number of troops they were originally going to use against the Great Song Dynasty even more drastically reduced! Moreover, after a few days of fighting, the Liao [***] team did not get the slightest advantage in the hands of the party people, and the vanguard was forced to retreat by the party white horse army, which made all the people in Liao unexpected.

They suddenly found that Li Yuanhao, who originally thought it was a soft persimmon, was actually so piercing, at this time, did he still have the ability to start a war with the Great Song Dynasty at the same time?

None of the people in the Liao State could make this decision.

On the other hand, Zhang Yuan deeply understood how difficult it was for the party members to support the war, and how eager they were for help from the Song Dynasty!

"Brother Chen, it is estimated that Yelu Gollum is about to leave in the near future, I think we can change the policy of negotiation."

Zhang Yuan had a friendly smile on his face, and his title changed from Honorable Envoy to Brother Chen. Such a big change made Chen Yuan a little uncomfortable, he could call him a brother and brother with Yelu Ne, that was fake politeness. But not with Zhang Yuan.

People are principled, Chen Yuan can be friends with party members, Khitans and Jurchens, but he will never be friends with people like Zhang Yuan, this is his principle.

Both of them were going out of Gong, Chen Yuan looked at the big Song scholar who was squatting beside him and ran to the party to mix, and smiled slightly: "This place, it doesn't seem appropriate to talk about such a thing, right?" ”

(To be continued)