The inexplicable visit of the Khitan made the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty stare at each other, but what followed was the real ridicule.

It's still early, and it won't happen until the Khitan envoy arrives in Xingqing Mansion.

First of all, Pang Ji played.

He put Li Wengui under house arrest after he was brought to Yanzhou, and then played, Li Wengui granted Yuan Haoyi, the lord of Western Xia, and wanted to negotiate peace with our court.

On the performance, many bigwigs know that there are tricks in the middle, even if Li Yuanhao wants to negotiate peace, most of them will not negotiate peace at this time, under the new defeat, will it be beneficial to them to negotiate peace? Moreover, Li Wengui, who is stranded in Huanzhou, will not be sent, but will choose another candidate.

However, one by one, they did not know, and tacitly agreed to Pang Ji and Li Wengui to discuss peace matters.

Only then did Pang Ji ask Li Wengui to bring him up and say to him: "Your ancestors and the current lord served this dynasty at the beginning, and they did not lose their courtiers. You courtiers, who have deceived people's hearts, and put on undue names without reason, so that your lord cannot be a minister, have come to this day. You and my people, fighting for more than three years, are all your mistakes. ”

When Li Wengui heard this, his heart blossomed.

The Western Xia was defeated, and he was worried in Huanzhou, and he was afraid that the Song Dynasty's army would go on a northern expedition and destroy the Western Xia.

Pang Ji brought him to Yanzhou, and he didn't know why. Under house arrest for several days, a heart is like fifteen buckets, seven up and eight down, I didn't expect to hear this good news, I forced the ecstasy in my heart, and said respectfully: "Yes, yes." ”

A weak country has no diplomacy, and Western Xia is a defeated country and has no capital to be strong.

Pang Ji also said: "At the beginning of your Western Xia invasion, our Great Song Dynasty country has been peaceful for a long time, and the people are not accustomed to war, so they have repeatedly benefited you. Today, the border people benefit from the war, can you still win? After every battle, you Xixia can only be like Dingchuan Village, will be defeated, since last year's Linfu battle, World War II Shimen Chuan, three battles Dingchuan Village, each time more than one defeat miserable. Our country is rich in the world, and even if there is a small defeat, there will be no big loss. If your country is defeated, the society will be worried. What if I disregard the general situation and the people now, and raise an army to conquer your Western Xia again? ”

"Yes, yes, the Son of Heaven is benevolent, and no one in the world can match it."

"So I am the Son of Heaven. The one who establishes the Son of Heaven will love the people of the four seas and stabilize them, and he will not want to destroy them and get pleasure. Go back and say to your lord, If you can repent sincerely and do good, and return the money to your courtiers, so that you can appease each other's people, the court will treat your lord with more courtesy than before. ”

Li Wengui was ecstatic, kowtowed like pounding rice, and knelt down while saying: "This is what the Westerners wish at night, and Master Longtu can report to the court for it, so that each other can truce, who dares not to give it?" ”

Pang Ji was generously gifted and sent to the Western Xia border.

Li Wengui rushed to Xingqing Mansion, Yuan Hao was also stunned in Xingqing Mansion at this time, and he was miserable, and he had not come back to his senses for more than a month. Before the war, he wanted peace, and at this time he wanted peace even more, but because of the defeat, he couldn't wipe it off if he wanted peace. Hearing that Li Wengui was still there, he hurriedly summoned him, and after hearing Pang Ji's words, he was overjoyed. did one thing, released Wang Song, that is, the great monk Guangxin, from the dungeon, and treated him with the same courtesy, and asked him to go to Yanzhou with Li Wengui with the national letter.

The letter of state was written by Wei Minghuan, and the peace meeting was also handed over to Wei Minghuan to preside. In history, Yeli Wangrong presided over this matter, but because under the promotion of Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang, the Yeli brothers were killed months in advance, so they were handed over to Wei Minghuan. It seems to be good, although defeated, but in the siege of hundreds of thousands of Song troops, he miraculously fled back to China from the rear of Weizhou with a group of men and horses.

But this letter is very problematic, and it says that if it is said that in the middle of the prescription, it can go west with the sky, and it can go down from the east against the sky.

The sun rises from the east, and your Song Dynasty has also been beautiful for a while, and it has gradually gone downhill, this time it will be our turn to be the scenery of the Xixia people, how can we push the sun back and go east against the sky?

Li Yuanhao is happy, but he is very scheming.

As soon as Pang Ji discussed peace, he immediately judged many things. It has nothing to do with the war, I said that I was not very happy, and the Song Dynasty was not happy, don't look at Pang Ji and said that my country is rich in the world, the more I say this, the more it proves that the Song Dynasty's finances are also tight.

So make this face, we are poor, we don't want to die, it's a big deal to fight again, we will perish, and your Song Dynasty is almost over. Bluff, so that you can have the right to speak in the next negotiations.

After Pang Ji read this line of text, he almost raised his fist and was about to smash it on the table, but as Cui Xian said, he was not the hot-blooded young man a few years ago, who had been up and down in the officialdom in the past few years, and the city government had become very deep. I didn't show it, and I didn't dare to reply.

Not to mention anything else, Fan Zhongyan has a precedent, and he is also afraid of being wordy. The book said this, the Xixia people were a little troublesome, and the national letter was not inferior, so we wrote this sentence, we did not deceive the court. But it's not just this sentence, the entire national book is full of disrespectful words.

This trick is called a beautiful name, stealing beams and changing pillars.

But after saying that the Xixia people definitely want to make peace, otherwise they will not let Wang Song back.

Zhao Zhen made an order, asked him to preside over the peace meeting, and allowed Qiwei Minghuan to be the captain and win over. He also issued an edict to let Wang Song go to Beijing, and this great monk made Zhao Zhen full of curiosity.

Pang Ji was coy, and went to the book again, Taiwei, the son of heaven, and the non-jurors should be called, so that the ring deserves it, then Yuan Hao cannot be reinstated. Today, his book is from Ning Ling Mo Ning, all of them are captured officials, and China cannot know its meaning, and it is not suspicious to call it.

A thief went to steal the bell, afraid that the bell would ring and be heard, so he covered his ears.

This is what Pang Ji did.

It's not that Pang Ji doesn't know, it's that he is afraid of impeachment by the official, so he covers it up, even if it's a wisp of tulle, he is still wearing clothes.

Pang Ji was so busy that Zheng Lang didn't know. He is also busy, tuntian, closed roads, building camps and training the army, caring for family members, and rewarding meritorious deeds.

But I received an unexpected message.

Or is it caused by horses.

But let's start with salt.

The actual cost of salt is not high, that is, the boiled salt and the price of boiling salt in the Song Dynasty are expensive, and the cost of boiling a pound of salt is only two or three cents. The reason why salt was expensive in the Song Dynasty was caused by monopoly. It is not the Song Dynasty to collect money, this is the old system after the Middle and Tang Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin said that he would never increase the endowment, which is not realistic, but at least to make an appearance, the state expenditure is large, so he has to find some so-called open source methods. The salt, wine, tea, and alum incense franchise is a product of this system.

Western Xia and Khitan couldn't learn if they wanted to, and there were countless drawbacks in the Song Dynasty franchise. As a result, the salt of the Song Dynasty was expensive, and the salt of the Western Xia and Khitan flowed backwards to the Song Dynasty.

However, there is no salt production in the Jiashan area. And the road is difficult to walk, the road is long, and the salt is also very expensive.

Zheng Lang was selling horses, cattle and mules, and I was not interested in furs, as long as these large livestock that could cultivate land were alive, and they were all given preferential policies to Jingyuan Road, so many livestock in Western Xia flowed backwards to the Song Dynasty. Then it was transported from Weizhou to the rear of Guanzhong.

The price is so cheap that the monarchs and ministers of the DPRK and China are staggered.

This also made some ministers reflect on the fact that Han Qi could not say that many pastoral supervisors had been encroached upon by the powerful and existed in name only. However, the steps were very small, one-third of the pastoral supervisors were abolished, and the other pastoral supervisors with little damage were retained, and the number of horses purchased by the imperial court was also gradually reduced. What is in the end, it depends on whether the number of horses in the northwest will increase, what the mortality rate is, and whether they are robust, so that Han Qi and Zheng Lang can really be considered.

Yuan Hao looked a little flustered and ordered a ban.

But he was recently defeated, and he didn't dare to offend the powerful too much, so in desperation, he accelerated the pace of buying horses in the Jiashan area.

Like salt, in terms of meat supply alone, horses and cattle are almost the same, why the price of horses is nearly ten times higher than the price of cattle, it is also caused by the joint suppression of Western Xia and Khitan. Do not let the Song Dynasty have more cavalry. The idea is a little wrong, even if the horse trade is released, the Song Dynasty can not get hundreds of thousands of fine horses, without him, there is a lack of excellent pastures, can not raise good horses, at most like now, in the edge of the four places to choose some pastures, and then squeezed, the number is limited, 100,000 horses is the limit. But to play a part of the role, more than ninety out of five in the Song Dynasty were infantry troops, so the war came, the victory could not be a big victory, and the defeat would be annihilated.

But at this time, Yuan Hao is about to die, who cares about whom, even if it is a cup of poisonous wine, he has to drink it. In order to ensure that there is no shortage of horses in the country, they thought that the Khitans would tolerate themselves, and wantonly exported the backlog of green salt to Jiashan and brought back war horses.

But many war horses flocked to the Song Dynasty again, and Liao Xingzong was angry when he heard it, you kid was dizzy. personally issued an edict that the Western Xia people were not allowed to come to Jiashan to buy horses.

Zheng Lang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and sent an order to Wang Yong and Lu Ling.

First, let Wang Yong hook the merchants of Western Xia to instigate the Du'er and other party items and the Tuyuhun tribe. Horses are worthless to us, and if you don't let us sell them to the Song people, why don't you let us sell them to the Tangut people?

He also asked Lu Ling to tell Luohan Nu secretly, saying that the Du'er and other tribes were preparing to defect to Western Xia again.

Luo Hannu was shocked when he heard this, the last time Qu Lie defected, he was still covering up, for fear that the emperor would know and punish himself, this Yuan Hao was so bold that he actually came to collude with the nerd clan again. I believe that there has been a case, and Yuan Hao was hit hard, and the army was lost, and the population needs to be enriched in the country. Immediately send troops to suppress it.

Then let Wang Yong provoke the indignant merchants of Western Xia, and bewitch the tribes such as Du'er to resist. After the riot began, Wang Yong and the others were to return to China immediately. The rest will be handed over to Lu Ling.

At this moment, the Khitan envoys finally rushed to Western Xia, and the Liaoxing Sect sent Zhixi Jinfu Shi Yelu Enemy Lie and the Privy Council to promise Wang Weiji to send an edict to Xia and Song.

Yuan Hao's face turned blue with anger.

Grandma's, we fought so hard, you Khitans are good, regardless of the overall situation, you got a small advantage. Now you are talking about peace, who am I, a slave of your family? But Xixia is not having a good time now, and after Zheng Lang got it, the coarse silk rose from five to nearly ten dollars. The hearts of the people were shaken, and they did not dare to offend the Khitan envoys.

Where did Yelu Dilie and Wang Weiji feel Yuan Hao's mood, it would be good if you didn't need a whip, and after finishing speaking, he reprimanded Li Yuanhao arrogantly: "I heard that you bought horses from Jiashan and sold these horses to the Song Dynasty, what is this move!" ”

"Our country has never sold horses to the Song Dynasty, unless it is sold privately, our country is newly defeated, the army and the people are frustrated, and there may be private sales. Isn't it true that Shangguo also sold private horses to the Song Dynasty? Yuan Hao asked rhetorically. I said in my heart, I endure, I endure.

Jerod continued to reprimand.

The more Yuan Hao listened, the more he wanted to turn his head and leave, so angry that his whole body was about to smoke. At this time, Chang Mingde and Liu Xuanrui rushed to Xingqing Mansion from Weizhou. They were Zheng Lang's advisors, and now Yuan Hao was bent on seeking peace, and after hearing about it, he didn't dare not let them go, so they arrived at Xingqing Mansion.

But the two of them named and wanted to see the Khitan envoy.

Yuan Hao didn't know what was going on, he was actually very afraid of Zheng Lang in his heart, he was really afraid, he could slack off Pang Ji, he could hit Fan Zhongyan's sloppy eyes, and he didn't dare to fight Zheng Lang with any ideas. I don't know what Zheng Lang's intentions are for this move, if I want to say it in person, I don't have to worry about any conspiracy behind my back, and I just let it in.

When Liu Chang and the others saw Yelu Enemy Lie and Wang Weiji, they calmly said after giving a salute: "My family minister heard that the two envoys had come to Xingqing Mansion, and specially ordered me to invite the two envoys to go to Weizhou after the mission was completed. ”

The expression on Yelu Enemy's face was very exciting, he choked on his saliva, and said, "Two, no, it's not in line with the etiquette system." ”

As a mediator, he went to Western Xia, if he went to Weizhou to talk to Zheng Lang about wine, and the smell of eccentricity was very strong, Yuan Hao would not be convinced.

"Really?" Chang Mingde opened the folding fan and shook it gently, there was nothing on the folding fan, only four big characters, Yelu Hugu!

At first, Yelu Dilie and Wang Weiji didn't pay attention, but Chang Mingde shook and shook, and his face was almost shaken under their noses, how could he not see it? Then the two stared at these four words, Chang Mingde shook it once, and beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads. Shaken to the end, the expressions on the faces of the two were terrifying, their eyes were glazed, and sweat was like rain.