Walking out of the queue, Yue turned to Zhao Huan and saluted: "Your Majesty, this matter, the minister is also very difficult, if you don't fight, it will definitely not work, if you fight, the minister will roughly count, it is estimated that it can only ensure the food and salary of 100,000 troops for two months, and two months is estimated to be not enough for the army to gather on the battlefield, let alone march into the army." ”

As soon as Yue Tuo's words came out, Zhao Huan sighed, the resourceful and intelligent Yue Tuo couldn't do anything, it seemed that such a great opportunity was about to be missed in vain, and the courtiers were also greatly disappointed, even Yue Tuo couldn't solve the problem, they really had no choice, for a while, the atmosphere in the court was extremely dull, especially the military generals, who were even more lifeless.

In fact, if you really have to fight, Yue Tuo is not out of the question, such as forcibly requisitioning food, such as feeding the war with war, but these methods hurt the peace of the heavens, if you can not use it, try not to use it, if you use it, the former will hurt the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the future will be endless, and the latter will offend the party members to death, even if they destroy their government, the guerrillas are indispensable.

The Jurchens and later Mongols had a deep understanding of the characteristics of the kraft candy of the party members, so the Western Xia government could exist for so long, and it was not unrelated to their own poverty and the characteristics of the kraft candy.

Later, the Mongols killed all the Dangxiang people for convenience, which is enough to show how annoying the Dangxiang people are, so that the Mongols, who are good at ruling the conquered peoples, decided to exterminate the Dangxiang people once and for all.

It was not that Yue Chuan did not consider completely destroying Western Xia, and it was not that the Great Song Dynasty did not consider completely destroying Western Xia. This was the idea of the Wulu Vaxia in the era of Emperor Shenzong, and it was also tacitly approved by the Liao State at that time. The demise of Western Xia seemed to be reasonable, but the situation changed abruptly. The Song army was defeated, and the Western Xia was able to survive.

The glorious era of the Western Army once beat the Western Xia to the brink of extinction, but it was not successful, as if there was a force in the underworld to help the Western Xia survive, until the era of the so-called God's whip, even God was beaten, and the Western Xia naturally had no need to exist.

Now, it is the beginning of the rebirth of the Great Song Dynasty and the road of prosperity again. It is impossible for the Western Xia not to be aware, or rather, it is precisely because the Western Xia people are aware of the current state of extreme emptiness on the surface of the Great Song Dynasty that they dare to attack so blatantly.

This is the most hated place in the Western Xia, or the most hated place for the traitors in the Western Xia government, the Western Xia government has many people from Shaanxi and Shu who have fallen to the Han Dynasty, they are the real opponents of the Great Song Dynasty, born and raised, familiar with the geographical environment. Thoughtful, and often some people really have considerable military and political talent, which makes the Song government tired of it.

In recent years, with the Song-Jin War and the rebirth of the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Army blocking the border has not heard of any scholars defecting into Western Xia for a long time. As soon as Zhao Huan's new government established itself in Beijing, it convened the imperial examination and called on all the scholars from all over the world to take the examination, and the new government, which had just abolished a large number of old bureaucrats, was very much in need of enthusiastic young people to join. It's also an opportunity, to put it bluntly. If it weren't for the fact that there was no future in the Great Song Dynasty, no scholar would be willing to defect to Western Xia.

Fierce competition is accompanied by a high elimination rate. Not every scholar can be an official, a high literacy rate is a good thing for the government, but for the folk scholars, it can only represent the fierce competition, some unlucky and talented scholars can not be officials, but in addition to reading, they can't do anything, they can't make a living, it's difficult to live, the government doesn't care, under the strong anger, it is inevitable to defect to the enemy country.

This group of traitors has considerable quality, and their long-term dealings with the government also give them insight into the nature of the Song government, and the Song Dynasty suffered repeated losses in the Song-Xia War in the era of Renzong Yingzong and Shenzong Zhezong, and they are inseparable from this group of people, and there are no scholars who have entered the Western Xia as officials, that is to say, those who have insight into the current nature of the Great Song Dynasty are some scholars who defected to the Western Xia a long time ago.

This time, it may be just a temptation, or a gamble, they are betting that the Great Song Dynasty is unable to send a large army to deal with them, and can only make a small fuss, in that case, they can rest assured that they can plunder and return to the beautiful daily life before, because they were beaten too badly by the Western Army before, and the losses were too heavy, and the Western Xia could not recover their strength by their own strength at all, and without the access of external blood, they would not live long.

This is also a desperate and desperate means of survival.

During and after the Song-Jin War, Zhao Huan completely abolished all treaties with the Western Xia, and ordered the Western Army to block the border and not give the Western Xia anything.

At this moment, they are really desperate, but even a few months ago, the Western Army during the general mobilization period could put together a group of troops to conquer the Western Xia, but now it is really not possible, the army has no money and food, and it can't fight at all.

Looking at Yue Fei and their unwilling looks, Yue Chuan suddenly thought of the Eastern Liaodong Clan Alliance that came to Beijing to surrender to Chengcheng before, it stands to reason that after killing the Jurchens in Liaodong, they have no natural enemies, and the hegemony of the Jurchens no longer exists, but the Great Song Dynasty will not directly send troops to occupy those places, and the occupation will be a few years later, at the moment, they occupy all the Jurchen heritage.

It may be a bit early to say that the inheritance, but it is certain to have robbed most of the wealth of the Jurchens, all the thousand soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty died in battle, and no loot was sent back, there is no doubt that they were all taken away by the people of these tribes, just a Wanyan Zongfu, where is enough compensation? Wanyan Zongfu's verdict has been handed down, Ling Chi, an ancient and cruel punishment.

This punishment did not exist in the Great Song Dynasty, and the cruel punishments of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were abolished by Zhao Kuangyin earlier, showing the new atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Huan decided to inflict Ling Chi on those who committed the most heinous crimes, and he also made a great determination, and the current decision is that Ling Chi is only used for war criminals who have caused great harm to the country, and does not apply to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to provide them with shelter, they must show the most direct sincerity, and a Wanyan Zongfu is not enough.

Thinking of this, Yue Chuan immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, if it is a national war, no matter how capable the minister is, he will not be able to provide enough food and grass for the Western Army, this is unrealistic, the Great Song Dynasty can't afford it at all, and if he forcibly fights, it will inevitably hurt his muscles and bones, and the wise man will not do it, but if it is a medium-sized counterattack battle, it will take three or five months, and teach the party thieves a hard lesson, maybe the minister still has a way." ”

The spirit of the ministers was shocked, Zhao Huan's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said: "Yue Qing has any good plan, come quickly!" ”

Yue opened his mouth and said: "The party thief's move this time is nothing more than that he was beaten too badly by the Western Army before, and he has been unable to recover his own strength, and there are still some shameless traitors who defected from the Great Song Dynasty in China, knowing the true situation of the current weakness of the Great Song Dynasty, so they plan to take advantage of it, they are also gambling, that is, gambling that the Great Song Dynasty is unable to crusade against them, even if they have strength, they must be focused on dealing with the Jurchens, and they will definitely not be able to spare energy against them."

Therefore, they are gambling, and once they bet right, we will never have peace, they will think that they have seen through the weakness of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will intensify it, and we still have to fight in the end, this is a battle that must be fought, and we must beat Xixia to the point that I don't even know his mother! in order to buy enough time.

At present, the only problem is the money and food required for the army to be dispatched, considering the scale of this battle, there is no need to dispatch the absolute elite of the frontier, only need to transfer troops from Guanzhong, and the scale does not need to be too large, if there is a good general to command, twenty or thirty thousand soldiers and horses are enough, in this way, the food needed for the assembly of the army can be saved, and the remaining part does not need to be sent out by the Great Song Dynasty itself, we just have a group of "wise and loyal" courtiers, how can we ignore it? ”

Yue Tuo's face showed a confident smile, and after listening to Yue Tuo's words, the ministers instantly understood something, Zhao Huan immediately set his eyes on Zhao Ding's face, Zhao Ding also realized, and then showed a wry smile: "Peng Zhan, people have just surrendered, let's hit their minds on others, isn't it good?" ”

Yue turned the right color and said: "Xianggong is wrong, these tribes understand the theory of natural selection best, and they also understand that there are gains and losses, they accept the protection of the Great Song Dynasty and enjoy the blessings of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, what must they pay, King Wuwei swept away the threat of the Jurchens for them with his life, are they not even willing to pay some cattle, sheep and horses?" So many trophies should have belonged to the Great Song Dynasty and to King Wuwei, but we didn't see it at all, just a complete face Zongfu, but I can't get into my eyes! ”

That's right! Ruda is in the spirit of heaven, watch them too!

Zhao Huan praised Yue Xuan's words, and immediately set the tone: "What Yue Qing said is reasonable, Zhao Qing, in this matter, you should go and discuss with those tribal leaders, if you want to join the Great Song Dynasty, get the official position of the Great Song Dynasty, and become the people of the Great Song Dynasty, taxes are indispensable, not to mention that King Wuwei has made such a great achievement, naturally there are countless spoils, and the Great Song Dynasty has rewarded them all, so they shouldn't say one or two?" ”

Yes, Zhao Huan has already obtained the essence of the emperor's thick black arts!

Zhao Ding, who was honest and responsible, looked at the shrewd Yue Fan and the rapid Zhao Huan, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, Zhao Ding, who was about to fight for it, turned his head and saw the red eyes of the military generals, and the unkind looks of the subordinate officials of the Privy Council, trembling all over, and he didn't dare to say half a word, so he had to promise: "The minister will not live up to his mission, the battle of twenty or thirty thousand people, the minister, must let the eastern Liaodong clan contribute!" ”

Well, this is the real prime minister, Yue Flip praises!

Bathed in the glory of the Great Song Dynasty civilization, how can you not pay some price? These guys have swallowed almost all the wealth of the Jurchens, they must be in a state of brain fat, and if they don't have some blood, how can they soothe the hungry stomachs of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty? Therefore, extorting some cattle, sheep and horses, extorting some money as military supplies for this operation, and providing some food for themselves, the war of 20,000 or 30,000 people is actually just like that.

Yue Fei immediately presented his folding: "Your Majesty, this battle is the responsibility of the Western Army, the minister is the commander-in-chief of the Western Army, the responsibility is unshirkable, the minister has prepared a battle plan, originally prepared for 100,000 people, although now there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the follow-up battle to destroy the country is not necessary, but the battle of the front counterattack, please read it, please go to Chang'an, sit in command, and the party thief army must not be returned!" (To be continued.) )