Chapter 12: Revisiting Western Xia

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Hearing Lu Yijian's words, several children of the Lu family were all stunned, lowered their heads and pondered, and slowly digested the meaning and wisdom in Lu Yijian's words.

"Father's meaning is that we don't touch Zhao Lei." The eight-sided exquisite Lu Gongshu is the most able to figure out people's thoughts, and immediately figured out Lu Yijian's words, and asked cautiously.

"Not bad! That's what it means, cowpox vaccine is a very tricky project now, and it is related to the interests of the official family and all aspects, no matter who touches it, there will be no good results, so Zhao Huaigu, the old fox, didn't dare to do it, and wanted us to make a move! Lu Yijian looked at Lu Gongzhu approvingly and said.

"The problem of officialdom is solved by officialdom means, even if it succeeds or fails, it will not leave any troubles, and it will give people an excuse to settle accounts after the autumn, and my father's words are really incisive!" The second one to applaud is Lu Yijian's eldest son, Lu Gongxuan.

"Not bad! There is no impermeable wall in the world, you can't do the wrong thing anyway, use officialdom to solve the problem, no matter whether you win or lose, no one will say anything, but once you lose your principles, it is not a person's business, but a family's business, if you do something wrong for your father, then the entire Lu family will have no chance to turn over, and there are few lessons from the past in the first emperor's period! This is the reason why my father has failed several times, but no one has fallen into the well and can make a comeback. Lu Yijian said with a light smile.

Several boys of the Lu family, when they heard Lu Yijian's words, they all thought about it and had their own gains, only Lu Gongru couldn't understand why such a good opportunity to bring down Zhao Lei should be let go in vain.

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The hot May is an eventful season, and the scorching hot weather is easy to cause people to be irritable, and Zhao Zhen, a young official who had just been in a good mood because of Zhao Lei's cowpox incident, once again received a news that made him very angry, and this news changed the normal procedure of the Great Song Dynasty armament in the second half of the year.

In May of the second year of Xiandao (1o33 AD), Yuanhao of Western Xia fought back again in the face of the threat of the Great Song Dynasty to raise tariffs and commodity prices.

On 7 May, Yuanhao of Western Xia ordered the change of Xingzhou to Xingqing Prefecture (present-day Yinchuan, Ningxia) and began to establish a new bureaucratic system. According to the original customs and habits of the party members, the larger the tribal tent, the more the chief, but only the positions of the envoy, the defense envoy, and the commander of the capital are the commanders. Now, Yuan Hao began to set up civil and military official positions, and the yamen set up were Zhongshu, Privy Council, Sansi, Yushitai, Kaifeng Mansion, Yiwei Division, Guanji Division, Acceptance Division, Farmland Division, Qunmu Division, Feilongyuan, Mokan Division, Wensi Academy, most of these yamen had the same functions as the Song Dynasty. Zhongshu, Privy Councillor, Prime Minister, Imperial Historian, Shizhong, Taiwei and below the official positions were appointed to the Fan and Han respectively, but there were also some positions specially appointed by the emperor, and their names were Ning Ling, Mo Ning Ling, Ding Lu, Ding Xuan, Su Xun, Zu Ru, Lu Ze, and Shu Ming, and these official names were named after the titles of various ethnic minorities.

On May 16, Yuan Hao ordered the entire Xixia to distinguish the style of clothing in Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, the civil officials wore "heads, boots, wats, and purple clothes", and the military generals wore "gold threaded cloud crowns, silver threaded crowns, black lacquer crowns, purple clothes, gold-coated silver belts, hanging butterflies, untied knotted cones, short knives, bows and arrows, horses riding salamander saddles, hanging red tassels, and cross-cymbals, and civilian clothes were purple soapy embroidery balls and flower swirls, and belts". Ordinary people can only wear cyan and green clothes to distinguish between high and low.

All the changes in the Western Xia quickly spread to Bianjing, the political center of the Great Song Dynasty, and led to a storm about the position against the Western Xia.

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The Imperial Palace was already upward, and the hundred officials of the Great Song Dynasty were angry, so everyone pointed the finger at Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, who had already shown his fangs.

"Enlighten the official family! The ambition of the wolf son of Yuanhao in Xixia is not inferior, and now he has revealed his unsubordinate, established an official system, and does not wear clothes, the next step is probably to ascend the throne and become the emperor, the official family must not continue to indulge Yuan Hao's ambitions, and must use thunder means to give Yuan Hao a huge deterrent in order to stop Yuan Hao's ambitions from continuing to expand! "In the main hall, the privy envoy Wang Shu talked eloquently and spoke at length, and everything implied that the army of the Great Song Dynasty should move.

Wang Shu very much hopes that the Great Song Dynasty can have a big showdown with the Western Xia, after all, the Great Song Dynasty has not had a big war in the past few decades since the Alliance of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty military, which was not loved by the literati and was squeezed out and despised by the civilian officials, is now in a lower position, if it is not for the strong enemies around the Great Song Dynasty, it is estimated that the civil officials have the heart to disband the army, as the privy envoy in charge of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Shu of course wants to do a few big things when he is in office, make some political capital, and leave some family funds for future generations. Now the ambitious Xixia is in Wang Shu's arms, so Wang Shu is eager to have a tough dialogue with Xixia.

On the dragon chair, the official Zhao Zhen heard the words of the privy envoy Wang Shu, and began to weigh the consequences in his heart if he really started a full-scale war with Western Xia.

Zhao Zhen is not an emperor who doesn't know anything, he is not only a famous benevolent monarch in history, but also a very qualified emperor, who has made great achievements in all aspects of politics, military, economy and diplomacy, otherwise there can be a great Song Dynasty management in an orderly manner!

Zhao Zhen knew very well in his heart that the ambition of the wolf son of Yuanhao of the Western Xia, the anti-heart had been born, and it was a matter of time before he rebelled and called the emperor, but at this time, he felt that it was a little worthless to start a war with the Western Xia, and he felt that it was a little worthless, because the Great Song Dynasty was now at the peak of the exhibition, and if there was a full-scale war with the Western Xia, it would disrupt the good momentum of the exhibition, and more importantly, there were still Great Liao and other countries around the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen did not want to fight with the Western Xia Yuanhao, and then let others sit and reap the profits, besides, Taizu left a will to support the Western Xia to contain the Great Liao, If you fight to the death with Xixia, the happiest people must be the Liao, this kind of thing that can't take advantage of losses, Zhao Zhen is not a fool, how can he do it!

But Zhao Zhen looked at the eager look in the eyes of the privy envoy Wang Shu, the privy deputy envoy Wang Deyong, and the military attache in the main hall, and knew that he could not continue to attack the enthusiasm of these military officials, so he could only give a look to Lu Yijian, who was at the front of the hundred officials.

Prime Minister Lu Yijian has followed Zhao Zhen for more than ten years, and is good at figuring out the holy will, as soon as he saw the eyes of the official family, he immediately understood what Zhao Zhen meant, and hurriedly came out and said: "Qi Qi Guanjia!" Lord Wang's words are very inappropriate, now the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia and Great Liao are three-legged, if I start a full-scale war between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, wouldn't it be in the middle of the Great Liao, and the ministers oppose the use of troops against Western Xia! ā€

The military had already expected that there would be opposition, and when Lu Yijian's objections fell, the privy deputy envoy Wang Deyong immediately came out and said loudly: "Qiqi official's house!" Weichen also thinks that now we must give Xixia a lesson, over the years, my Great Song Dynasty has been tolerating Western Xia, resulting in the expansion of Yuanhao's ambition in Western Xia, if we continue to tolerate at this time, let the surrounding feudal states think that my Great Song Dynasty is weak and can be bullied, and compete to imitate Western Xia, when my Great Song Dynasty has no face, what is the face of the official family, what face do we have to see the ancestors and ancestors! ā€

Wang Deyong is worthy of being a famous wise general in the army, and his words directly hit the weakness of the official Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen is not afraid of anything, and he is afraid of no face, after all, the face of the Son of Heaven is more important than anything else in the Northern Song Dynasty!

Lu Yijian saw Wang Deyong's words, which made the official Zhao Zhen's face change, and his heart was not good, I am afraid that the official family will have to think carefully for the sake of face, thinking of this, he hurriedly came out and said: "The minister has objections!" ā€

"Say!" Zhao Zhen was really hesitant, and wanted to hear Prime Minister Lu Yijian's thoughts, so he said indifferently.

"The minister has a few questions I want to ask Wang Deyong, Lord Wang!" Lu Yijian said respectfully to the official Zhao Zhen.

Nodding to the official's house, Lu Yijian turned his head to Wang Deyong, the deputy privy envoy, and asked: "Dare to ask Lord Wang, if I start a full-scale war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, can the military be sure of defeating the Western Xia?" ā€

Wang Deyong heard Lu Yijian's question, and said with a disdainful expression: "Although Western Xia is strong, it is far worse than the Great Song Dynasty, and my Great Song Dynasty has millions of soldiers, how can I be defeated by Western Xia!" Now that the Great Song Dynasty is rich and strong, and the soldiers use their lives, the little Xixia is not a problem at all. ā€

"There are 400,000 soldiers in Western Xia, and most of them are cavalry, coming and going like the wind, my Great Song cavalry was originally insufficient, plus the close relationship between Yuanhao and the Tu Domain of Western Xia, if you want to defeat Western Xia, how many soldiers and horses does Lord Wang think we have to dispatch?" Lu Yijian sneered and looked at Wang Deyong, who had a disdainful expression, and asked.

Hearing Lu Yijian's question, Wang Deyong was slightly stunned, and then hesitated, because he knew that although the Western Xia only had 400,000 soldiers and horses, and it was necessary to guard against the Great Liao, Tufan and Hui Nuo, the troops that could be used were only 200,000, but for these 200,000 soldiers and horses, the Great Song Dynasty had to triple the strength to be sure to defeat the Western Xia, but the Great Song Dynasty had more enemies on all sides, and it was impossible to draw out 600,000 soldiers and horses to deal with the Western Xia, so after all, the Great Song Dynasty at this time, there were no conditions for a full-scale war with the Western Xia.

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