Lu You listened to Wu Shizi's questioning, and suddenly remembered a past incident, when he and Yan Yan had just become married, he went to Songlu Academy to listen to Mr. Ji's lecture within two months, and the last link was the debate, there was no war at that time, and the debate topic was whether the Great Zhou should join forces with the Jurchens to destroy the Liao or join forces with the Liao to expel the Jurchens, or the two would not help each other.

At that time, Lu Ming's point of view was to unite with the Jurchens to destroy Liao, which happened to be contrary to Yan Yan's point of view, and Lu You didn't plan to talk too much, but after hearing Lu Ming belittle Yan Yan, he couldn't help but open his mouth, but he fell into an embarrassing situation, because he didn't know how to speak at all, and in the end, Yan Yan stood up to relieve him.

Now, five years later, he encountered almost the same situation again, only this time he did not have a wife by his side, and the place where he stood was not a academy, but a court.

Seeing that Lu You was in a daze, Zhu Jin, who had just been despised by Lu You, thought that he was stumped by Wu Zhe, so he hooked the corners of his mouth, "General Lu, Lu Shizi and Wu Shizi are asking you." ”

Lu You, who came back to his senses, did not pay attention to Zhu Jin, but looked at Wu Zhe, "Dare to ask Wu Shizi, how long will it take to take Western Xia, how many men and horses, how many financial resources, how many casualties, have you calculated these accounts?" Again, what about after taking it? ”

"It took us less than five years to win the Western Xia, Jurchen and Khitan alliances, and now there is only one Western Xia left, how long do you think it will take?" Wu Zhe replied.

"That's different, first, the Jurchens didn't exert all their strength at the beginning, and later saw that my Da Zhou's artillery decisively withdrew from the alliance; Second, the Khitan is because of the national mourning, and the new lord needs to be mourned; Third, more than four years of war, the national power consumption is too great, whether it is the Great Zhou or the Liao State, it is difficult to continue, continue to consume, in the end only the Jurchen and Mongolia will benefit, the new lord of the Liao State is aware of this, so he decisively announced an armistice. It can be seen that the Jurchens are not an ally worth befriending, and fortunately we did not form an alliance with them to conquer Liao. Lu You said Kankan.

That's right, he deliberately mentioned the Jurchen's breach of contract, in order to remind the officials who were bent on forming an alliance with the Jurchens back then.

"But it turns out that it is not advisable to form an alliance with Liao, this war was provoked by Liao first, and it was also Liao that gave up the Jurchen we chose on our own initiative." Lu Ming retorted.

"Yes, this shows that the Jurchen is not desirable and credible, it obviously sent an envoy to negotiate with us, and we also showed sincerity to go to the Jurchen realm to investigate on the spot, but in the end, without waiting for our reply, the Jurchen formed an alliance with the Liao State." Lu You replied.

"Stop, now it's about whether to fight Xixia or not, you two are off topic." Zhao Liao stood up.

Wu Zhe, who came back to his senses, hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, back to the topic, we didn't have artillery in the past few years, and the war with Liao and Western Xia was more than one win or loser, but since the artillery came in handy in the first month of this year, it took us less than a year to make Liao and Western Xia bow down at the same time." ”

"Have you ever been on the front line? Do you know the specific situation of the war in the past few years? Do you know what kind of life the people on the border live? Do you know what kind of life the people living in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun live? Wu Zhe said.

"Wu Shizi, General Lu recovered the three cities of Jinzhou, Dingzhou, and Baozhou before the artillery came out, and also captured the two cities of Jizhou and Youzhou, and later Shunzhou, Nanjing, Danzhou and other places were brought down by artillery." Zhao Ping, the secretary of the military department, stood up.

"That's right, it is precisely because General Lu is so powerful that he should make the best use of his talents, so General Lu should make a good effort to take down Western Xia and expand the territory of my Great Zhou." Zhu Jin, who had no eyesight, stood up again.

"Emperor Qi, the ministers do not approve of fighting the Western Xia again, because if the Great Zhou insists on taking the Western Xia, the Liao State will not stand idly by, and this war may not be fought for many years, and it is very likely that the final benefit will be Mongolia and Jurchen. In addition, most of the land in Western Xia is a wild land, only suitable for nomadic herding, not suitable for farming, and it is very likely that the land we have worked so hard to fight will not be able to hold it in the end, and we will have to give it to others. For this reason, the minister thinks that the current focus of the Great Zhou is not to expand the territory and invade other countries, but to take advantage of the truce in the past few years to restore our production, so that the people's lives can be really better, and our treasury can be filled, and create a peaceful and prosperous era that belongs to our Great Zhou. Besides, it is still the same sentence, keeping the Liao State and Western Xia can also be used as a barrier for us to stop the southward footsteps of Mongolia and Jurchen. Lu You turned to Li Cong, bowed down and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister does not agree with General Lu's words." Xu Liangxing, the left minister, stood up, "General Lu mentioned the land of Western Xia, although the land of Western Xia is not suitable for farming, it is suitable for grazing, which just solves the problem that we have no pasture in Dazhou." Moreover, the production of green salt in the Western Xia was extremely high, and if we occupied the salt mines of the Western Xia, it would mean that we could choke the throats of several khanates or tribes around the Liao, Mongols, and Uighurs, and it would also mean that we would have a large amount of silver to fill the treasury. ”

"Back to the emperor, the minister does not agree with Xu Zuoxiang's statement, yes, there will be many benefits to taking Western Xia, but first we should ask, what is the price of taking Western Xia." Wang Shixiu stepped forward.

"As long as it is a war, it is inevitable to sacrifice, and the so-called price of Wang Youxiang is just a little more time and more casualties, but in exchange for no future trouble." Xu Liangxing retorted.

"Xu Xiang's words are wrong, without the aftermath of Western Xia, we will also have other troubles such as Mongolia and Uighurs, who dares to guarantee that these two troubles will not be more troublesome than Western Xia?" Lu You's exit barge.

"If you don't try it, how do you know it won't work? If you are afraid of wolves and tigers no matter what you do, how can you achieve a great cause? You must know that our Emperor Taizu fought the world with a lonely courage. "The one who said this was Wu Qi, the protector of the country, that is, Wu Zhe's father.

Seeing this, Meng Nuo also stood up, and was about to speak, only to see Lu You ask rhetorically: "Dare to ask the Protector, this war has been fought for four years, how else do we try?" Even the Khitan saw it, and if they continued to fight, it would be the Jurchens and the Mongols who would benefit, so they took the initiative to make peace and took the initiative to return the sixteen states of Yanyun, in order to make a promise to the Great Zhou that they could send troops to help them drive away foreign enemies at a critical time, and the reason why the Western Xia promised the Great Zhou to pay tribute every year was to exchange for our artillery, and also to resist the Mongols. ”

These words stopped Wu Qi.

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