Li Cong officially announced the news of Lu You's capture of the Jurchen capital in the court early the next morning, and the court immediately boiled, whether it was the main battle faction, the main peace faction or the conservative faction were infected by this good news.

Because everyone knows that this means that the Great Zhou has completely defeated the Jurchens, it means that the Great Zhou has become a real power, and it means that the Great Zhou will not experience war for a long time from now on.

Subsequently, Li Cong mentioned how to deal with the land of the Jurchens, which Lu You brought down with the soldiers of the Great Zhou, and naturally it should belong to the Great Zhou, and there was no disagreement in the court.

It's just that to Li Cong's surprise, when he proposed to send an envoy to Liao to discuss the exchange of land, several families led by Lu Duan stood up against it, they felt that if the Liao State was sandwiched in the middle, it would not take a few years for the Great Zhou to merge the territory of the Liao State into the Great Zhou, and at that time, the Great Zhou would become the real overlord, and it could also create a peaceful and prosperous era like the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, with sufficient national strength, a vast territory, and the people lived in peace and worshiped all over the world.

The opposition of Lu Duan and others disrupted Li Cong's plan, originally he was going to announce the candidate for envoy in the court, but according to the intention of Lu Duan and others, there was no need to send people to Liao, just send people directly to receive the land of the Jurchens.

However, this proposal was also opposed by most civil officials, because the acceptance of the Jurchen land not only required military generals, but also corresponding civil officials, but who of these civil officials wanted to leave their hometowns and go to that bitter cold place to be officials?

The lack of security in life is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that personal safety is not guaranteed, in case one day these Jurchens have another rebellion or assassination or something, can they still go home?

Furthermore, those bitter cold places are not suitable for farming, nor are they suitable for the survival of the Han people, so what is the use? It's better to change the area around Nanjing Road, this side is still close to the sixteen states of Yanyun, and Da Zhou can also deal with anything in time, unlike the Jurchen side of the Tiangao Emperor is far from it, and there is a Liao country in the middle.

In short, in the end, the court meeting of this day was not resolved and dispersed unhappily, the civil officials resolutely did not support the land stationed in the Jurchens, and the generals were strongly opposed to exchanging land with the Liao State, and the two sides discussed for an hour, no one persuaded anyone, Li Cong was annoyed, and ordered someone to announce the dissolution of the dynasty.

After the next dynasty, Li Cong was not idle, this time, he summoned Lu Duan, Yan Peng and other princes alone, but unfortunately it did not have much effect, this time, Yan Peng also agreed with Lu Duan's idea, and felt that the opportunity was rare, with the strength of the Great Zhou, he would definitely be able to annex the Liao State in a few years.

After these people left, Li Cong called Li Ji to go, and the father and son discussed for an afternoon, and finally decided to follow Yan Yan's advice and exchange land for three reasons:

First, this proposal was put forward by Yan Yan, presumably Yan Yan is not talking in generalities, but after careful consideration, these years of experience tell them that listening to Yan Yan is right.

Second, the civil officials' concerns are also right, those bitter cold places are indeed not suitable for the Han people to live in, there is no way to farm, not to mention, and personal safety is not guaranteed.

Third, Yan Yan and Lu You both have a good personal relationship with Yelu Honglu, especially Yan Yan, Li Cong always feels that there is an indescribable relationship between her and Yelu Honglu, Li Cong is worried that if Yan Yan does not agree to annex Liao, will he have an opinion on their father and son?

Although there is that layer of blood relatives and Lu Jin's relationship, they are not worried that Yan Yan will be treason and collaborate with the enemy, but if these two people don't do it at a critical time, it will be enough for their father and son to drink a pot.

Therefore, Li Cong and Li Ji decided to adopt Yan Yan's strategy first, exchange land with Liao, and a few years later, if the Great Zhou really had the strength to annex Liao, it would be impossible for Yan Yan and Yelu Honglu to do so.

Yan Yan learned about the court movements in the past few days from Yan Peng's mouth the next day, and Yan Peng also saw that the emperor was still insisting on his own ideas, and felt that he was blocked in his heart, so he came to Yan Yan and said.

He wanted Yan Yan to convince the emperor, the opportunity was rare, if Lu You took the Liao State again and merged the land of the Liao State, Lu You would be the first hero of the Great Zhou, maybe the emperor could raise his title.

The most important thing is that Lu You's move can be regarded as clearing a future trouble for the Great Zhou, don't look at the Liao State now surrendering, but the experience of these years tells him that this nation is also not credible, the Great Zhou has been established for a hundred years, and there will be a war with the Liao State almost every three or five times, the big ones are more than a dozen times, the small ones are countless times, and the wins and losses are basically half of the total, therefore, Yan Peng is afraid that the Liao State will come to provoke the Great Zhou again after a few years of recuperation, after all, the Liao State has researched gunpowder by itself, and there are 200 artillery pieces in his hands, If you can't keep it up, one day people will also research it out by themselves, and they can make it themselves.

"Yan'er, even if you don't think about the emperor, think about the emperor's grandson and Jinniang." Yan Peng saw that Yan Yan was still unmoved after saying it for a long time, so he had to come up with the last reason.

"Them?" After Yan Yan said these two words, he understood what Yan Peng meant.

Yan Peng was worried that if it was Li Xi who was sitting on the dragon chair at that time, if the Liao Kingdom was backlashed, would Li Xi and Lu Jin be able to live a peaceful life? Can Li Xi sit firmly on this throne?

Yan Yan was stopped by Yan Peng.

Yes, now Zhou Lu has some friendship with her, and the Liao State is indeed a minister, but Zhou Lu is gone? Can the newly succeeded emperor be willing to be crushed by the Great Zhou?

"Second uncle, the emperor has his own decision on these things, and I personally think that Da Zhou does not have the strength to annex these surrounding countries at present, which will offend the anger of the public." Yan Yan shook her head, she really didn't want to meddle in the court's affairs.

Besides, she didn't have much interest in that duke, and those who were high-ranking or pampered and arrogant in history didn't seem to end well.

But Yan Peng didn't want to give up yet, "What is the anger of the public, the Jurchens have already been moved, so why not have one more Liao country?" ”

"That's different, the Jurchens first turned around and formed an alliance with the Liao State without believing in their words, and then took advantage of the danger of Liao to invade the Liao State, and then tried to kidnap me several times, and secretly assassinated the husband during the peace talks. But the Liao Kingdom is different, if we do the same, what is the difference between us and the Jurchens? The second uncle should have heard a sentence, there is a lot of help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unjust, if they really offend these neighboring countries, they discussed and unanimously dealt with Da Zhou, and Da Zhou will come to an end. ”

Yan Yan was talking, there was a sudden movement in the courtyard, and when Yan Yan just got up to go out, he saw Li Cong's voice sounding outside, "Well said, there is a lot of help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unjust, in the end, it is Yan'er, and it is deeply heartfelt." ”

As soon as the words fell, the curtain was lifted, and Li Cong strode in, followed by the queen, Li Ji and Li Xi.