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However, no matter what the regulations, there are always exceptions to exploit loopholes, just like Zhao Lei's Yamen of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, located outside Bianjing City, although it is only a dozen miles away from Bianjing, it is no longer in Bianjing City, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute is independent of the three provinces and six ministries, so it is not good to adopt hard rules for this matter in the court, and the result is that Zhao Lei is lazy.

In the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, I suddenly thought of Zhao Lei, who had not been to the early dynasty since the fourth day of the new year, and got up early in the morning on a whim, and rushed to the imperial city in a carriage to participate in the three-day regular dynasty.

Carriages are not allowed to enter the imperial city, so every time in the early dynasty, on both sides of the royal street outside the Xuande Building in the Imperial City of Bianjing, the carriages of the ministers of the imperial court are parked, and hundreds of carriages will be piled up on both sides of the entire Xuande Building.

Zhao Lei got out of the carriage and walked towards the Imperial Palace, and after greeting several officials he met along the way, Zhao Lei suddenly heard the piercing sound of bells, and the piercing bells in the silent dawn were so loud, coming from far and near in the direction of the imperial city.

"Get out of the way! Eight hundred miles were urgent, the battle of Xia Liao ended, and the Liao State was defeated. A stagecoach rushed into the imperial city in the silent dawn, and the information in his mouth made many people start to frown.

Zhao Lei hid aside, watching the post horse roar past, with a smile on his face, this post horse is the reason why he went to court today, and the victory or defeat of the battle of Xia Liao has been divided. The victorious Western Xia will definitely get a lot of benefits from the Liao State to subsidize the weakened national strength, and after the Western Xia recovers a little strength, will it turn its attention to the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that there will be a debate at the court meeting today.

Hundreds of court officials had gathered in the Imperial Palace, and after these people learned the results of the Xia Liao War, they all began to frown and think about how to restrain the growing strength of Western Xia.

At this time, the Great Song Emperor Zhao Zhen and the Great Song Prince Zhao finally arrived in the hope of the ministers, and with the shouts of the inner servant Gan Ling, the dynasty officially began.

"You all heard it just now! The Battle of Xia Liao had ended, and Yuanhao of Western Xia defeated the Liao army. Xiao Hui, the commander of the Liao army, fled with 50,000 defeated soldiers, and the Western Xia captured nearly 90,000 prisoners, so many prisoners are enough to exchange for a large number of war horses and various materials, with these things, the Western Xia already has the strength to invade our Great Song Dynasty again, Yuan Hao is ambitious, you Aiqing can have a way to deal with the Western Xia! The official Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair and asked aloud to the ministers of the Imperial Palace.

At this time, Gan Ling took out the specific information of the Battle of Xia Liao and read it out carefully, so that the hundred officials could clearly understand the specific process of the Battle of Xia Liao.

After learning about the specific process of the Battle of Xia Liao and counting the battle report. The privy envoy in charge of the military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Qi, immediately stood up and proposed loudly: "The official family does not need to pay attention to Western Xia. Although Yuan Hao relied on trickery to defeat the Liao State, but the elite cavalry of the Liao State did not suffer much loss, the loss was only the local soldiers and horses gathered in various places, the Liao State did not have much loss, and lost to Yuan Hao's tricks, and he would definitely not be willing to end up with such a result, so the Liao State would definitely send troops to the Western Xia again, and the Western Xia Yuan Hao also understood this matter, so the Western Xia would never send troops to the Great Song Dynasty in this situation. ”

"Lord Song is right, the battle of Helan Mountain in the summer of last October. The Western Xia were defeated in three battles, killed 35,000 soldiers, and were captured by the Liao State more than 50,000, and these captives were not rescued by the Western Xia. Instead, it was sent to the territory of the Liao State, and with this group of captives, the Liao State already had the conditions to negotiate with the Western Xia, and Yuan Hao wanted to rely on the Liao army of 90,000 prisoners of war in his hands to obtain a large number of materials from the Liao State. It's already impossible, so even if the Western Xia gets benefits from the Liao State, I'm afraid it won't be able to restore the strength of the Western Xia, for now, the Western Xia has already fallen on the West Mountain, I'm afraid there is no strength to threaten my Great Song Dynasty. Prime Minister Du Yan also stood up to support Song Yi's opinion at this time.

Wang Deyong, the privy deputy who held a different opinion, stood up at this time and retorted: "It's hard to say! As we all know, Yuan Hao is a madman, always doing some unbelievable things, just like this battle of Xia Liao, the peace treaty signed by the oath can be ignored, and the national credit of Western Xia is gone, this kind of person will not be surprised if he does anything, if Yuan Hao can ask for tens of thousands of war horses and some military supplies from the Liao State, with the riding skills of the party people, it will not be surprising to invade the Great Song Dynasty again. ”

"That's enough, I'm not asking you to analyze whether the Western Xia will go south, but I hope you can come up with a plan, what if the Western Xia army goes south, what will we do? Or how to avoid the southward movement of the Western Xia army? The official Zhao Zhen looked at Du Yan, Song Qi and Wang De with useless analysis, and said loudly with some anxiety.

"The imperial court can send reinforcements to garrison Yan'an Mansion to show the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty and cut off Yuan Hao's thoughts of going south." Song itch with a quick response

One of his suggestions said.

"The imperial court can send someone to contact the envoy of the Liao State to stop the Liao State from compensating the war horses and weapons in the Western Xia, without these things, the Western Xia will not have the strength to go south." Pang Ji, the waiter of the Shangshu Rite Department, also put forward his thoughts and said.

"Lord Song and the huge people have a good plan, deterring Western Xia militarily, isolating and weakening Western Xia diplomatically, and the two-pronged approach can definitely stop the southern invasion of Western Xia." Du Yan jumped out again and said.

Hearing Song Qi and Pang Ji's plan, the official Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction, military and diplomacy go hand in hand, this method is really good, it can indeed prevent the southern invasion of Western Xia, just thought of Zhao Zhen here, but saw the front of the hundred official team, Zhao Lei, who was standing with a smile, said in his heart that this guy came over, there must be something, maybe it is to deal with Western Xia.

"What does Zhao Yuan Zheng think about this?" The official Zhao Zhen knew that Zhao Lei had a lot of ideas, and he decided to squeeze Zhao Lei, and he asked Zhao Lei loudly.

"In fact, dealing with Western Xia is not as complicated as you think, Yuan Hao lost the national credit of the entire country of Western Xia while defeating the Liao State, a country without credit, do you think there is still a threat! Let the Bianjing newspaper hype up the untrustworthy and unrighteous things of Yuanhao of the Western Xia, and the imperial court used this as an excuse to expel all the Western Xia merchants, and strictly forbade the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to trade with the Western Xia, severely cracking down on the smugglers of the Western Xia, and at the same time negotiating with the surrounding countries of the Western Xia, and at the same time carrying out an economic blockade of the Western Xia, when a country has no international transactions and lacks various basic commodities, how long can a country support! Zhao Lei replied to Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Great Song Dynasty with a smile on his face.

Zhao Lei's proposal is definitely a desperate plan, this economic sanction is Zhao Lei's learning from the United States sanctions against Iraq in later generations, and Western Xia and Iraq are very similar, most of the land is desert, domestic resources are poor, and the country's leaders are hardliners, the difference is that the Great Song Dynasty does not have the strength to match, whether it can unite the countries around the Western Xia to sanction the Western Xia, it takes a lot of effort from the Great Song Dynasty.

"Lord Zhao's proposal is not a bit harmful to others and not to himself, my Great Song Dynasty silk, porcelain and other commodities can be exchanged for a lot of cattle, sheep and even war horses from Western Xia, once the trade road is closed, I am afraid that the people will lose a lot." Wailang Ren Zhongshi, a member of the household department, was responsible for most of the transactions with Xixia, and Zhao Lei's proposal made Ren Zhongshi lose all his rights, so Ren Zhongshi was the first to jump out and retort.

"Is the business road open now? Didn't the imperial court already order the closure of all the curtains against Western Xia, didn't Lord Ren know the news. Zhao Lei pretended to be surprised and asked Zhongshi Ren.

"The closure of the curtain is only temporary, the imperial court cannot never trade with the Western Xia, the loss is too great, once the Western Xia is sanctioned, the Great Song Dynasty will suffer huge losses, and many people will be displaced because of unemployment, causing new turmoil, I'm afraid Lord Zhao doesn't want to see this situation!" In order to protect the rights in his hands, Ren Zhongshi spared no effort to refute Zhao Lei.

Ren Zhongshi knew that what the Great Song Dynasty needed most now was peace, and several turmoil the year before last made the court angry, and now he is using the turmoil as an excuse to dispel the idea of the official family adopting Zhao Lei's proposal.

"As far as this official knows, whether it is the silk in the south or the porcelain kilns in the north, the production of overtime day and night cannot meet the needs of the southern seaports, and it is said that many seaports in the south have countless ocean-going ships waiting in the seaports, in order to be able to load some porcelain and silk that are very popular in the West, and we can't meet the sea market alone, why would Lord Ren say that sanctions against Western Xia will cause turmoil! Lord Ren is so reluctant to sanction the Western Xia, does it have anything to do with the Western Xia side! "Ren Zhongshi is an official of Wang Su's faction, originally Zhao Lei didn't want to offend this person, but seeing that Ren Zhongshi was scorching, Zhao Lei finally couldn't help but sneer and asked.

"Blood spews people, how can this official have a connection with Western Xia! The official just didn't want to sanction the Western Xia and implicate too many people of the Great Song Dynasty. When Master Ren heard Zhao Lei's words, his face turned red and pale with anger and said.

Looking at Ren Zhongshi, who was still arguing, Zhao Lei made a decision in his heart, letting Ren Zhongshi be in charge of Western Xia trade until the Great Song Dynasty no longer sanctioned Western Xia.

"Okay, I have decided, everything is as Song Aiqing, Pang Aiqing and Zhao Aiqing said, send a guard army to garrison Yan'an Mansion, and negotiate with Liao at the same time, try not to let Liao compensate Western Xia for military supplies such as war horses and weapons, and at the same time negotiate with all the surrounding countries of Western Xia to sanction Western Xia in terms of economy, so be it!" After careful consideration, the official Zhao Zhen still decided to adopt all three methods and said.

After the official Zhao Zhen made the decision, the two prime ministers Du Yan and Wang Su began to get busy, military threats, diplomatic weakening and economic sanctions, a three-pronged approach is a good way, but it is not so simple to do this thing well, it seems that at the beginning of the third year of Qingli, some officials in the imperial court were busy

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