None of them are simple to let Yuan Hao push out as a messenger, Lu Ni Ruding Yushe stood up and said calmly: "Zheng Xianggong, the three things you said, the vultures can renegotiate. ”

Zheng Lang sneered.

This further proves his judgment, but it is false to say that disgusting, and it also plays some role when messing around, if Yuan Hao really became Zhao Zhen's ancestor, then even if he is nominally Zhao Zhen's son, his morale and popular will have not been lost, because he has grown up a generation.

So it was changed to a vulture.

But if you want the Tangut people to give up this title, as long as the court has soft bones, it is estimated that it will be difficult, at most from my ancestors to vultures again.

Ruding continued: "Zheng Xianggong said that Wu Hao's variety, I don't agree, most of them are Wu Hao's false words, saying that my lord sent envoys out of the Khitan, maybe there are, my lord often sends envoys out of the Khitan, but I don't believe that my lord invited the Khitan to attack the Song Dynasty." As for the treatment of the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, my lord has said something similar, and the peace agreement has not been concluded, so how can my lord get up from the cloud bed and ask St. Ann? The Khitan is a kingdom, a big country, whether to attack the Great Song Dynasty or not, how can we be the masters of Western Xia? Moreover, the peace talks have not been reached, even if the war in the northwest resumes, it is reasonable. If a peace agreement is reached, and our Western Xia sends troops to invade the border again, it will be our Western Xia's fault. ”

Zheng Lang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ruding, can I regard your Western Xia as continuing to declare war on our dynasty?" ”

"Zheng Xianggong, if you give in, I have nothing to do." Ruding said calmly.

The threat is quite strong, and discord, discord, not only will our Western Xia continue to fight, but also invite the Khitan to attack your Song Dynasty.

"If you Western Xia want to fight, then fight, but the stakes are very high, you have to think clearly," Zheng Lang threatened in turn, and said to Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty, please take them down." ”

Talk about other things, and not let these people hear.

After bringing the Western Xia envoy down, Zheng Langcai said slowly: "Your Majesty, after the ministers and ministers returned to the capital, they heard many controversies. Some controversies are mostly empty and general, and ministers use facts to speak, whether it is war or peace, and whether it is internal affairs and external pressure. External pressures must start with the Khitan and Western Xia countries. ”

"Say." Zhao Zhen said. He wanted to make peace, but he didn't want to make peace like this, but the situation had developed to this point, and he was at a loss. In fact, there was no Zheng Lang, and Zhao Zhen finally did not agree to Yuan Hao's unreasonable eleven articles, but under the auspices of Yan Shu, all kinds of things happened that led to Yuan Hao's further contempt. Even when Yuan Hao was at the end of his rope, he still made many unreasonable demands. Peace is very beneficial to the Song Dynasty, but the price of peace is too great! It's too humiliating!

"Let's talk about the Khitan first, the new alliance was born, and 300,000 silk and 200,000 silver were given every year. Silk is not the best silk worth two times, and the court does not dare to slack off the Khitan, giving it is a medium silk, each horse is worth about half a month, and silver is worth two times per two. It was escorted to Xiongzhou, and with the loss of freight, it approached one million. When I arrived in the Khitan, the price of silver was similar, and even because of the tribute paid year after year, the Khitan had a lot of silver, and some of it was recirculated to our dynasty through trade. But the price of silk is very high, the middle silk is more than two runs, and the distance reaches three runs. In fact, the Khitan earns 1 million per year, not 500,000. ”

You have to tell a sermon, you can and can't make peace, and you can't say it very arbitrarily, or you can't talk about it, and it's not convincing. That's what it means to be honest.

"The Khitan is not our dynasty, and these revenues are equivalent to one-tenth of their financial revenue, which must be heavy. Therefore, after the birth of the new league, the Khitan celebrated the whole country and carved a monument. Second, our dynasty began to fall, many scholars and heroes were greedy for life and afraid of death, only seeking peace, greedy for enjoyment, and harsh on the people, the Khitan was established for a longer time, but the depravity was more powerful than our dynasty, so the tribes such as Bu rebelled from time to time, these tribes had many warriors, they were far more powerful than some of the barbarians in my south, coupled with the repeated Goryeo, the internal rebellion dragged them back. The third is the result of the two southern expeditions, Liao Taizong Yelude took a lot of effort to conquer a small Later Jin, but he lost his surname in the Central Plains, and finally the Khitan had to withdraw from the Central Plains. The second time was the battle of Lanyuan, although we were forced to form an alliance under the city, but at that time the Khitan was very dangerous, if our army was outflanked from the rear, Liao Shengzong and Empress Dowager Xiao were likely to not be able to go back. This will make the Khitan psychologically afraid of the Southern Expedition. Your Majesty, why did the Khitan Emperor swear a poisonous oath in the covenant, swearing by his descendants to the country? It is they who are also afraid that since they can tear up the covenant, our Great Song can also tear up the covenant. Hence such a vicious oath. The minister thought that the north was necessary, and if it was lax and the troops were weak, the Khitan would sooner or later covet it. As long as the Khitan is strictly guarded, the Khitan will not invade, at least for a few decades. ”

"Zheng Qing, you just said that Hao thief sent an envoy to Khitan......"

"Your Majesty, this is exactly what the minister wants to say, what Yuan Hao did was not to unite the Khitan invasion, he still wanted to make peace, but he saw that the two countries were at war, and the Khitan got huge benefits without spending a single soldier, he was not convinced, see if he could trick the Khitan into sending troops, as long as the Khitan sent troops, I was pressed on both sides, and I must make peace with the Western Xia, and the Western Xia could also get huge benefits from the peace negotiation. But although the Khitan is degenerate, it will not be stupid enough to be able to fall for this stupid trick, as long as the army is forced again, the new alliance will become a piece of waste paper, and it will have a bad relationship with our dynasty, and in turn the Western Xia will become a fisherman, will they agree to the change of this role? ”

"No, it won't."

"Exactly, the minister will talk about Western Xia and my dynasty again. Let's start with our dynasty, after several years of fierce war, the country is in hardship, the treasury is empty, and even the grain prepared for disaster relief is still borrowed to buy. forced Fan Xianggong to propose to sell his official position for money. When a drought broke out, it broke out everywhere, so many ministers wanted to negotiate peace quickly and succeed, so as not to change in the northwest, and focus their attention on the country. The minister also thinks that the country is fundamental, but he disagrees with this idea. Peace with Western Xia was not peace with the Khitan. Although the Khitans also reneged on the alliance, relatively speaking, they would abide by some credits. Western Xia is different, they are wolf ambitions, and their desires are insatiable, and the more they give, the faster they recover. Sooner or later, war will break out, and now the two countries are just competing for speed. Once our DPRK first recovers and then carries out some adjustment and reforms, the state finances are healthy, and the people are prosperous and secure, then this huge financial situation can be quickly converted into combat strength and weapons, and it will be up to our DPRK to decide whether to fight or make peace. But let the Western Xia recover first and invade the border again, I will make matters worse and collapse inevitably. ”

"Zheng Lang, you're talking too much." Yan Shu said very unhappily.

Zheng Lang ignored him, and said to Zhao Zhen: "The minister returned to the capital and received two pieces of news, one is a piece of information sent by the minister's secret agent in the northwest, and the other is that the minister's mother is seriously ill. The minister was in a very bad mood at this time, loyalty and filial piety were difficult to achieve, and he didn't know what to do, so he wanted to resign and return home. ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned, how could he say this well. And this is what makes him have a headache, if there is a mother who is easy to do, but Zheng Lang has seven mothers, one by one, they will run to old age, it is normal to get sick or die, Zheng Lang is a Confucian student, he wants to be filial, and he is not very eager for power, what should he do when the time comes?

He frowned and said to the eunuchs beside him: "Pass the decree, let the imperial medicine choose two imperial doctors to go to Zhengzhou to treat Zheng Lang Niangniang." ”

"Your Majesty, don't use it, Your Majesty, the ministers don't understand, if there is a dispute in the early court and destroys the court, will the two of them all be demoted?"

Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi all lowered their heads and snickered.

Yan Shu's old face couldn't hang up, and he would be green and white for a while. With Zheng Lang's status, it is enough to fight Yan Shu.

Gotta silence this old boy. Not only this peace negotiation, but also when the big plan was implemented immediately, there was this person who was sabotaging it, and the consequences were even more serious.

Only then did he return to the main topic and continued: "There are many reasons for the rise on all sides, and the country has been embarrassed by several years of war, the people have suffered, and the drought has worsened, but it has not been stretched to this point. There are other reasons, a few tribes go back and forth, it is for reason, and the Meishan barbarians are like the kingdom of reading, and they also play a leading role in the southern barbarians. Originally, the people were miserable, and the inaction of the officials, and even at this time, the people were the second. The shortcomings of the army, which will be discussed in detail one by one in a few days, have just been investigated. But there is one thing, the king is benevolent, and there is no shortage of conscientious and capable ministers in the court, which is the foundation of the country. As long as these two items are still in place, the country will be determined to tide over this crisis safely. Even if there is a disaster next year, will there be another year after? When the five grains are abundant, it is the time for us to recover. Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about internal affairs, even if there are some bandits, there will be no climate. For example, Wang Lun, the minister only led more than 200 people, and defeated them in an hour. But peace is good for the country for the time being, and it must be recuperated. But harmony or discord is not something that our dynasty can decide, but Western Xia. Unless I can give 500,000 years of coins to Western Xia a year, strengthen the enemy, suffer the common people, and make the country's finances even more difficult, what is the difference between waiting for death? ”

"Zheng Qing, say Xixia."

"The Western Xia will be peaceful now, and after a few years of hard fighting, there is a crisis in the huge finances of our dynasty, not to mention the Western Xia. Don't talk about Western Xia, even after several years of hard fighting in the Khitan, the country will also be in crisis. When the minister came from Weizhou, he heard from the scouts that there were people everywhere in the Western Xia who ate leaves, dug grass roots, and even ate them. If Yuan Hao hadn't sent troops to guard the border, at least half of the people would have fled to our court. There are many tribes and many races in Western Xia, and many tribes are not convinced, and the crisis is more serious than that of our dynasty at this time. Don't say that the Khitans don't send troops, even if they do, Yuan Hao can't afford to send troops. is to send troops, look at the border, Fuzhou has Wang Kai and Zhi Jimin, both of whom are first-class generals. There is Wang Xin in Yanzhou, there is a kind of Shiheng in Huanzhou, and there are Zhang Kang, Di Qing, Zhang Qi, and Wang Ji in Jingyuan Road, and their military capabilities are far from the ministers. Our dynasty has built walled forts all over the front line, and the most cutting-edge place is paved to Xiaoguan, and the three roads are almost connected as one, echoing each other. Yuan Hao sent troops in this situation, and he may not be able to win. Even if there is a victory, it will not achieve a great victory, but will only increase the burden on the country. If it is defeated, Western Xia will automatically collapse, and there is no need for our dynasty to send troops. Does Yuan Hao dare to be Kou Northwest at this time? Dare, at least in five or ten years, after all the vitality is restored, he will inevitably wait for the opportunity to move. Therefore, the minister thought that the Khitan did not need to worry too much, and it was enough to carefully befriend them for the time being, and strictly guard against the north. The generals in the northwest do not need to be transferred back for the time being, and even if they are transferred back, they cannot all be transferred back, at most they will rotate with each other. As for the peace talks, the original nine articles are sufficient to express sincerity, and no additional article is allowed. For the envoys, I can treat them without being rude, and I don't have to be too stammering, so as not to be despised by the Tangut people. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Shao Liangzuo and said: "Your Majesty, the minister sent two staff, who were very rampant in the Qingzhou Mansion, and took the two Khitan envoys to Weizhou in a big way, and Yuan Hao was helpless. Then there is Wang Song, Yuan Hao released Wang Song back, which is also a grand courtesy, why did Shao Liangzuo go to negotiate with great sincerity, only to avoid humiliation? Your Majesty, you are too weak, and if you are weak, you will be deceived. ”

Han Qi was in a flurry mood when he heard this, stood up, and said, "Your Majesty, in Zheng Lang's words, please think twice." ”

Zhao Zhen's forehead.

and must be reconciled, but he also feels that the court is making a mistake.

Zheng Lang said again: "Please ask Your Majesty to see another piece of information." ”

It was the news brought by the northwest, not many people knew about it, and even if they knew, they would almost forget it after so long, but the chess pieces arranged by Zheng Lang played a role bit by bit.

Wang Yong and the others withdrew, but Lu Ling did not withdraw, and he had no way to withdraw, and he had been smuggling merchants in the northwest. So the information of Jiashan was sent. Under the persecution of the Khitan, Yuan Hao had no choice but to send troops to Jiashan, the Khitan army in Jiashan was small, and it fell again, and the combat effectiveness was not strong, and it could not quell the uprising of the Duer tribe, but Yuan Hao's army still had some combat effectiveness, and soon assisted Luo Hannu to quell the rebellion in Jiashan. After the pacification, there were many booty trophies, such as cattle, horses, sheep, tents, carts, slaves, and so on.

Luohan Nu despised the Tangut people, and did not give a single hair to Yuan Hao. Yuan Hao was furious, and left more than 800 accounts of the nerd clan and took them back to China. It's not a big deal, but Lu Ling was instructed by Zheng Lang to come up with an idea in Luo Hannu's ear.

This matter made a big fuss, first Qu Lie led his troops to defect, and then the Du'er and other tribes revolted, and recruited Xiao Puda and the Sijie army to stabilize Zhang Fonu and died one after another, until Yuan Hao made a move to exterminate the uprising, where did Luo Hannu's face go.

Lu Ling said a plan, let the Luohan slave blame, carry the stolen Yuan Hao, said that the reason for the endless rebellion was that Yuan Hao wanted to invade the population of Xishan, deliberately sent people to authorize, and secretly helped armor and weapons, so that it was difficult to conquer and suppress. So as soon as Yuan Hao's army came, the rebels were immediately destroyed, not destroyed, but rolled up, and took the opportunity of exterminating the rebels to Western Xia. Liao Xingzong was furious after receiving the report, and ordered all the soldiers to meet the southwest to win against Yuan Hao.

In June, the chief of Zhubu Wuba sent his son to escort Yuan Hao's envoy to see Liao Xingzong. Why did Yuan Hao send an envoy to block the divination, Lu Ling didn't find out the reason, I'm afraid that Yuan Hao didn't have a lot of good intentions, otherwise Wuba would not have escorted the envoy to Liao Xingzong. Then he said that the Khitan sent troops to Western Xia, and the Hindu would use soldiers to help the war, and Liao Xingzong would follow it. Then he sent Yanchang Palace to make Yelu Gaojianu come to the Song Dynasty to tell him that Gaojianu had rushed to the border of the Song Dynasty, but what the envoy was doing, the Song Dynasty still did not know.

Lu Ling sent a lot of money to Luo Han Nu, and the two have now become iron buddies, saying everything, and sometimes Luo Han Nu will treat Lu Ling as a confidant, so this information continues to leak out of Luo Hannu's mouth.

But Yuan Hao still didn't know anything. He sent an envoy to ask the Khitan to send troops, passed through the Luohan Nu, and said some news. If you want the Khitan to send troops, you can't say it directly, but say that the Song Dynasty was domineering and wanted land, and didn't let Yuan Hao claim to be the lord of the country, and didn't want to negotiate peace, so he asked for the support of the kingdom, and it was best to send troops to help and pressure the Song Dynasty to negotiate peace.

Lu Ling was stunned when he heard this, the court was so soft that he, a small businessman, couldn't stand it, and what else was domineering, so he spoke in front of Luo Hannu and said, you Khitan don't fall for this. The Song Dynasty was so powerful that it could not give the east to the west. Once the Khitan sent troops, it meant that the alliance between the two countries was invalid. The Song Dynasty could only win over the Western Xia, give these thick coins to the Western Xia, open up the discussion, let the Western Xia send troops to the Western Mountain, and the Song Dynasty dealt with the north. The Khitan did not benefit from it, but suffered from it. This person is ambitious, disloyal to the Song Dynasty, and will not be loyal to the Khitan.

Luo Hannu knew that Lu Ling's words were helping the Song Dynasty, but he had a bad relationship with Yuan Hao, and after listening to it, he wrote a report to Liao Xingzong. Lu Ling also wrote information, took Fuzhou, and Ji Min was at a loss, he thought about it, and finally reached Zheng Lang with the news. It's not safe to give it to the rest of the court.

"Real war?" Zhao Zhen put down this information.

"Not necessarily, at this time the Khitan hesitated, in their thoughts, it is best not to send a single soldier, most of them are to blame, one is to bluff, but as long as our dynasty and the Xixia people negotiate peace, Yuan Hao's unruliness will anger the Khitan sooner or later, then it is the time for a real war, and it will be next year at the earliest."

"I still want to make peace."

"Yes, the minister did not oppose the peace, and soon the Khitan's intentions Yuan Hao will be able to detect it, and the form will force him to be more anxious than my dynasty, and the main battle is in me."

"What is it?" Zhang De looked at the piece of paper with blank eyes, not understanding what the two monarchs and ministers were talking about.

Zheng Lang said: "You can see it, but whoever leaks it out, I will regard him as an enemy for life, not only fight with him, but also suppress his family and grandchildren as long as I am alive." ”

It's vicious, but it's not true, these guys can do anything for the sake of fighting.

And Zhao Zhen did not object, which is tantamount to acquiescence, with Zheng Lang's future, once he really suppresses someone or someone's family, it will be terrible.

Zhao Zhen patted his head and smiled bitterly. He is a smart man, he knows why Zheng Lang said this, and he also knows that some of the palace people he let out buy Yuan Hao. Although he smiled bitterly, he also looked silently. Passing on this information, the handwriting is a little ugly, but it doesn't matter, he can recognize it, and he said: "This little businessman has some courage. ”

Smugglers, there is no one who is not bold. But Zheng Langwei said that there will be controversy, and it is a controversy over the use of talents. All for harmony, for the next plan to pass smoothly. On the way, he gritted his teeth with hatred for Yan Shu, and was ready to fight Yan Shu, but finally thought about it, changed it to the way it is now, and fought for a while, but there was no fight.

Several prime ministers were looking at this information, looking at each other.

didn't expect that there were only three secret agents who would turn over the rivers and seas in the north.

Zheng Lang said again: "The other is to send envoys, it is very important for the imperial court to send envoys, if it is not for good officials to go to Western Xia, they will inevitably be despised by Xia thieves." ”

Shao Liangzuo was a little uncomfortable.

He was still good, he didn't lose much face in the country, the latter one was bad, the Khitan sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty to declare war on the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty was not stupid, and also wanted to make the fisherman profit, and sent Yuan Hao to surrender, so he sent Zhang Zizheng and Wang Zhenglun, Yuan Hao wanted to make peace and wanted to get a lot of benefits from the Song Dynasty, and the situation was urgent, so he gave the two people a golden festival crown, Hu Xuan, the two for small profits, regardless of the country's righteousness, promised the Western Xia to increase the currency, the city is easy, and the ban on green salt. The increase in coins has made Zheng Lang unbearable, and the green salt is even worse, especially the green salt, which was sold for one catty and one hundred wen yuan in the Song Dynasty, and more than twenty yuan per stone. However, the cost of salt production is very low, only two or three pennies per catty. That is to say, a stone of salt throws away the transportation costs and mining costs, the profits of the traders and taxes, and at least makes the Western Xia profit of nearly ten times. This is even more unbearable for Zheng Lang.

Therefore, this envoy was very concerned, and said, "If you go on an envoy next time, the minister will recommend one." ”

"Who?"

This candidate is not very easy to handle, not only must he have wisdom, he must be selfless, and he must have courage, even Liang Shi, who is urging peace in Yanzhou, may not be suitable. The most suitable is Fu Bi, but Fu Bi, as the deputy minister of Xifu, is obviously impossible to send to Western Xia.

Zheng Lang said slowly: "Supervise the imperial history Bao Zheng." ”