Five days later, the emperor's letter was delivered to the Confucian students, who were actually nervous these days, and were under pressure from their teachers and classmates. What kind of person is the emperor, he can destroy a country with a casual word, and slaughtering a few of them is not like twisting an ant to death. Moreover, even if the emperor spared them, the crime of disrespect was inevitable, and his cold window was ruined for ten years, and there was no future after that.

Now the Emperor himself wrote back to refute their views, wrote down his understanding, and very pertinently invited them to continue the discussion and argument together. Let's not talk about whether the emperor is reasonable, but this kind of mind immediately conquered the hearts of the majority of Confucian students, think about the emperor is a busy man with every opportunity, and there are thousands of Confucian scholars like them, but he not only personally reviewed their book, but also personally returned the book, which shows that Corporal Lixian is the real king of benevolence and righteousness!

And the emperor's reply book also quickly spread in Shilin, if it is said that its literary style is really not flattering, the whole vernacular, but there are also benefits, even if people who know some words can also understand it when they read it, what is even more surprising is that the emperor also uses a variety of symbols to break sentences, so that the whole article is more convenient and smooth to read, without judging word by word, if you are not careful, you will be wrong, so that everyone can not help but sigh the emperor's cleverness.

Zhao Ta is now the emperor, and he is also noble, not only is no one mentioning the things that he was tired of learning in his early years, but the matter of being angry with countless tutors has been processed into the emperor's intelligence since he was a child, far beyond ordinary people, so that the hired tutors are consciously shallow in learning, have no face to teach, and resign in shame. But Zhao Ta and the ministers who are close to him all know the level of their half bottle of vinegar, and when they review the table, they are also concise and to the point, and the numbers are just numbers. In order to avoid showing timidity in front of the majority of scholars. He had been thinking hard for many days, but he could not write a paper that shook the past and the present. I simply finished this article in the vernacular that I am best at.

Zhao Ta first refuted the theory of the sages Confucius and Mencius as 'no war'. He said that the study of Confucianism so far has been based on the assumption that it is peaceful in nature, and does not advocate starting a war for any reason. This assumption is incorrect. Confucianism's high emphasis on morality did not in fact exclude the use of war as a tool for governing the country, but the sages believed that they advocated waging 'righteous wars', that is, only opposing unjust wars and supporting just wars.

In the long history of China, wars have not stopped, and whenever possible, successive dynasties have waged wars against their neighbors for the purpose of punishing and expanding their borders. It has always been regarded as the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains, the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. The Han Dynasty's attack on the Xiongnu and the Tang Dynasty's drive to the Que, all of which were regarded as classic wars by the Confucian scholars of all dynasties to strengthen me and promote the prestige of China, even in the Great Song Dynasty, they worked hard for more than 100 years to recover Yanyun, and it has always been the wish of the scholars, and it cannot also be regarded as belligerent.

Regarding the understanding of "benevolence", Zhao Ta believes that benevolence should be divided into "big benevolence" and "small benevolence". To wage war for the benefit of the country and to save the people from poison, to eradicate the evil forces, even if it is a thousand miles of bloodshed and slaughtered all over the wilderness, it should be regarded as justice, and it is the benevolence of a gentleman; Contrarily. He turns a blind eye to the wicked people who infringe on our land and interests and kill our people, but only wants to influence them by doing righteous deeds by doing their own righteous deeds. It is tantamount to raising a tiger for trouble, which is the kindness of a woman......

In fact, Zhao Ta knows very well that the history of China is a history of war, with constant military conflicts. Even the establishment of the various Central Plains dynasties, which regarded themselves as orthodox, was inseparable from the war, and their behavior in the war was no different from that of other countries. Just as brutal and arrogant, in fact, dynasties that claim to rule the country with benevolence do not reject war. In the long-term foreign policy implementation, it is also the principle that "violence takes precedence over benevolent governance." In the reply, Zhao Ta had already spoken very tactfully in order not to irritate them.

And the distinction between justice and injustice is so blurred, it is well known that when all those in power wage war, even if it is a war of aggression, they have to make a name for themselves and find a justification. This is not difficult for politicians who are skilled in political manipulation, who have always found clever ways to define the actions of the enemy as unjust or unethical.

Therefore, with the proper guidance of public opinion, Confucian rhetoric can be used to justify defensive acts and can also be used to justify aggressive acts, which is not a difficult thing for Zhao Ta. Let's take the Jurchen people's 'brother dies and brother and', when the father and brother die, the brother can take the little mother and sister-in-law into his arms in a grand manner. And this kind of behavior is incest in Central Plains Confucianism, which is not tolerated by morality and worldliness. Only this can be regarded as a model of moral decay for the Jurchens, and it is completely reasonable and difficult to send troops to conscript these 'beasts'.

Zhao Ta greatly appreciated the assumption of offensive realism by a theorist in a previous life, that all countries in the world would list survival as the most important goal, although not the only goal. But in a pinch, survival triumphs over all other goals, and survival means beyond merely preserving the territorial integrity of a State, which, despite its fundamental importance, also means preserving the autonomy of a State's decision-making process, not being dictated by other States or others.

Now Zhao Ta's crusade to the west is actually to maintain the survival of the Great Song Dynasty, and he knows that the stronger a country is relative to its competitors, the less vulnerable its survival will be. The primary goal that a great power can achieve is regional hegemony, and once it achieves regional hegemony, it has a further purpose: to prevent other powers from controlling its own geographical area, and the best way to do that is to become the sole regional hegemon. East and Central Asia now have the potential to become the hegemon, and now there is only the Jin country, so he must be conquered. What he has done is to remove all obstacles, both internal and external, to the realization of this strategy......

After Zhao Ta sent out his reply, he was still a little uneasy at first, after all, his 'theory' violated the understanding and cognition of scholars for many years of 'no war', broke the inherent thesis, and maybe it would cause a big debate in which he was one against ten thousand. Thinking of facing a group of Confucians and scholars from all walks of life who quote scriptures, talk endlessly, are impassioned, and spittle, he has a headache, but all this is his 'self-inflicted', who made him not take decisive measures in order to stand on the commanding heights of public opinion!

In order to prepare for the possible debate, Zhao Ta really put away his heart and studied in retreat in the palace for a few days, which surprised everyone. But this controversy did not happen until he returned to Tokyo, but those Confucian scholars once again wrote to admit their recklessness and short-sightedness, and distorted the thoughts of the sages, which made Zhao Ta, who had been worried for a long time, relieved his heart, and no one mentioned the matter of 'no war'. And Zhao Ta's good performance in the incident made him win the respect and support of Shilin again, and public opinion began to overwhelmingly support the emperor's Yanjing speech......

At this time, the condolence envoy who went to Xiliao returned to report one thing to Zhao Tayu, because after the death of Yelu Dashi, his son Yelu Yilie was young, and according to the Khitan tradition, he 'bequeathed the empress to power the country', and the queen Xiao Ta Buyan was regent. But this woman is not simple, not only changed the yuan to Xianqing, but also called the system, known as the queen of Gantian. Zhao Ta didn't think there was anything, and there was also a tradition in the Central Plains that the emperor was young and the queen hung the curtain to listen to the government, but Xiao Ta's 'steps' were a little bigger.

Besides, Zhao Tacai doesn't care who governs Western Liao, as long as he can defend the country for the Great Song Dynasty and resist the invasion of the West, and as far as he knows, Xiao Ta Buyan himself also has considerable ruling ability, during her governance, Western Liao society was stable, the economy continued to develop, and it did not go downhill because of Dashi's death. But he knew that Xiliao, who had lost Yelu Dashi, no longer had the ambition to continue to conquer the Quartet, and returning to his homeland would eventually become a dream.

And what interested Zhao Ta was another interesting thing that the condolence envoy brought back. When Emperor Wanyan Kang learned of the death of Yelu Dashi from the Uighur merchants, he suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity and immediately sent an envoy to Western Liao, but not to offer condolences, but to persuade him to surrender. Not to mention that mentally ill people like to be whimsical, Western Liao had just defeated the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire last year and conquered Khorezm, and he was also a very powerful overlord of Central Asia, and he was by no means a lost dog when Liao died, but he wanted to recruit him to reduce the threat of the Great Song Dynasty.

But the envoy chosen by Yan Kang is also a joke, this person is called Sticky Cut Han Nu, arrived in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Western Liao, just when the Queen of Heaven Xiao Ta did not smoke to the wild and rode a horse, Sticky Cut Han Nu said: "I am the envoy of the country, and I am ordered by the Son of Heaven to recruit you to surrender, and you will get off the horse to listen to the edict." He had previously been engaged in missionary activities, and because he had successfully sent many missions to the Uighur kingdom, he was entrusted with the task of persuading the Western Liao to surrender to the Western Liao.

However, this time, Han Nu's luck was very bad, because although the other party was a woman, she was a very strong woman. Xiao Ta was furious, and ordered someone to tear him off his horse and order him to kneel. And the sticky cut Han Nu didn't know whether he was alive or dead at the moment, and scolded Xiao Ta for not smoking and being a thief, saying that 'he is the envoy of the Son of Heaven, and humiliating himself will lead to a crusade', he didn't want to think that the Jin Kingdom and Xiliao were thousands of miles apart, and they also had to pass through Gaochang and Mobei occupied by the Song Dynasty, and the crusade was only a joke. Xiao Ta didn't smoke and giggled, and then cut off Han Nu's head.

Zhao Ta thought that Xiao Ta was still inconsiderate about what he did to kill the Jin envoy in anger, she didn't see the international situation clearly, if she handled the matter by herself, she would never kill Han Nu, at most beat him up and drive him away. Now killing the Jin envoy is tantamount to issuing a war letter to the Jin State, and the two countries are completely opposed, without considering that Western Liao is also facing the threat of Song, and breaking off diplomatic relations with Jin will lose a force that can contain Song.

Zhao Ta got cheap and behaved, so he launched a public opinion war, which completely left the relationship between the two countries with no room for maneuver...... (To be continued......)