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Li Cun's conditions for sending troops were transmitted back to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

At first glance, Zhao Ji was extremely angry!

Cut the ground!

Reparations!

And pro!

It's simply a loss of power and humiliation of the country!

But thinking about it carefully, Zhao Ji felt that this was not unacceptable.

First of all, the land is not really a land cut, it is just used to exchange for the sixteen states of Yanyun.

As for the indemnity, it can't be said to be an indemnity, who doesn't need money to fight, doesn't the Great Song Dynasty need money to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun by itself?

The Great Song Dynasty currently had an army of millions on the Song-Liao border.

The daily consumption of grain and grass alone is an astronomical amount.

What's more, Hebei is too much of a deficit.

As a result, the millions of troops had to be transported from other places, and the cost was too high.

Let's put it this way, since Tong Guan led his troops to patrol the north until now, the cost has exceeded 20 million.

Don't believe in yourself.

According to Cai Xiang, who was the third envoy at the time, at the beginning of the reign of Yingzong, there were more than 1.18 million forbidden troops and soldiers in the country, and the cost of raising soldiers was 48 million taels per year, which was about 40 taels per person per year, and the average was about 3.3 taels per person per month.

An army of one million (the real number may not be so much, but on Zhao Ji's paper, this number must be only a lot more), and in the four months of patrolling the border in the north, the military salary alone is almost 15 million.

The point is, it's wartime now, and it doesn't matter if the front line is won or lost, the cost is very large.

Take the last defeat as an example, just the pension, funeral expenses or something, Zhao Ji took out millions of dollars.

This is also normal, just ask, what is more expensive than fighting?

After the two years of war in the Great Song Dynasty, the little money that Cai Jing saved for the Great Song Dynasty was really empty.

In comparison, Li Thief only asked him Zhao Ji for 10 million, and he also prepared his own armor, war horses, ships, grain and grass, and he Zhao Ji was not responsible for the death or injury, which was really conscientious.

The only problem is that Li Thief only needs gold and silver.

It's a little bit of a hassle.

Of course, this trouble refers to the fact that if Zhao Ji does not use the sealing library, if Zhao Ji is willing to use the sealing library, this matter will become simple.

It is said that this can be regarded as the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun for the Great Song Dynasty, which is in line with the conditions for starting the Fengchun Library.

But Zhao Ji was unwilling to use the sealing library for this.

This is not only because Zhao Ji's personal psychology is very awkward, but also because the Fengchun Library is actually no longer specially set up for the recovery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, it has evolved into the last emergency fund of the Great Song Dynasty, once it is used, it means that the Great Song Dynasty will not have any emergency capabilities.

As for the matter of harmony, it was similar to Zhao Ji's expectation, and Li Thief was not active.

Therefore, this can be considered without haste or even consideration.

And first give Li Thief Qinling-Huai River South Five Roads and temporarily lend the Jiaodong Peninsula to Li Thief?

If he could, Zhao Ji would definitely not be willing to give this five roads first and temporarily lend the Jiaodong Peninsula to Li Thief.

But just like what Li Thief himself said and what Wu Min imagined, if Zhao Ji didn't give Li Thief these five ways first, wouldn't Li Thief be able to take it for himself?

The final difference is probably that Li Thief can get a complete Qinling-Huaihe River South Five Roads, or can he get a broken Qinling-Huai River South Five Roads.

There is a difference between Li and the thief, but is it a big difference between the Great Song Dynasty?

Be.

Causing some trouble to Li Thief in this five ways will definitely affect the development of Li Thief.

But in doing so, wouldn't there be no cost to the Great Song Dynasty?

Again, it takes money to fight a war.

And the Great Song Dynasty is really out of money now.

Let's talk about Li Thief borrowing the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Zhao Ji didn't want to borrow.

But if you agree to other conditions, can you still lend the Jiaodong Peninsula to Li Thief?

Now, all Zhao Ji's expectations are that Li Thief can go north to consume each other with the Liao State and the Jin State, so that the fishermen of the Great Song Dynasty can benefit.

Otherwise, if the Li thief develops steadily for a few more years, the Great Song Dynasty will definitely be destroyed by the Li thief.

For the sake of the glimmer of life of the Great Song Dynasty, whatever Li Thief wants, he Zhao Ji will give him, as long as Li Thief is willing to go north to bleed each other with Liao and Jin.

endured this wave, and waited for Li Thief, Liao State, and Jin State to fight for three defeats, this world is still his Zhao Ji's, eat his Zhao Ji's, give him Zhao Ji to spit it out, take his Zhao Ji's, give him Zhao Ji back.

Speaking of which, for Zhao Ji, the biggest problem at present is still lack of money, and it is easy to say anything else.

Zhao Ji brought Wang Hao over and asked Wang Hao: "Li Bangyan and Wu Min negotiated the conditions with Li Thief, what does Aiqing think?"

Wang Hao had already learned from Liang Shicheng that Zhao Ji was ready to agree to all the conditions put forward by Li Cun.

Therefore, Wang Hao followed Zhao Ji's meaning and said: "The confrontation between great powers, we should not look at the gains and losses of one place at a time, and the plan should be far-reaching, and the minister thinks that as long as Li Thief can lead the army north to fight with the Khitan and Jurchen Sandpipers, it is not wise for my Great Song Dynasty to make some concessions, and to temporarily lose part of the territory in exchange for the final victory."

Seeing that Wang Hao also agreed, Zhao Ji decided to turn around and issue a stern edict: Those who discuss the court's plan to drive wolves and tigers in vain will be punished without forgiveness!

In the past two days, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty had a heated discussion on whether or not to exchange the territory of the Qinling-Huai River south of the Five Routes in exchange for Li Cun's troops to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Some people support this plan to drive away wolves and tigers, thinking that it is a good way to save the country.

Some people oppose this plan to drive wolves and tigers, thinking that it is a plot with tigers.

There are also those who advocate that the million-strong army on the Song-Liao border be withdrawn and fight to the death against the Li thief.

There are even more radicals, who believe that the Great Song Dynasty can borrow troops from Liaojin to fight the Li thief, and the Li thief will never die.

Wang Hao felt that such a chaotic and heated debate might startle the grass and snakes, and it was even more likely to disturb the morale of the army and the people, and that a decision should be made as soon as possible, and then a strict order should be issued to unify thinking.

Zhao Ji felt that what Wang Hao said was very reasonable, and now that he had made a decision, then this strict order must be given, in case the four words "driving wolves and chasing tigers" reached Li Thief's ears, and ruined the only chance of the Great Song Dynasty, then the Great Song Dynasty may not have a chance.

Zhao Ji also said what he was most worried about: "The cost of the war has been quite large for many years, and now Li Thief has asked for 10 million gold and silver, I am worried that my Great Song Dynasty finances will be dragged down, does Aiqing have a good plan?"

Of course, Wang Hao knew that the finances of the Great Song Dynasty had already had very serious problems.

In fact, Wang Hao has already made some coping facilities, such as streamlining some institutions, such as eliminating a number of redundant personnel, and so on......

But this drop in the bucket can't solve the financial problems of the Great Song Dynasty at all.

There is no way, without the financial revenue of Jiangnan Sixth Road, it has already broken off an arm of the financial revenue of the Great Song Dynasty.

After two years of fighting, the money was spent like water.

Now, the Great Song Dynasty not only has to pay its own military expenses of hundreds of thousands of troops, but also has to pay 10 million yuan to the Tiger Ben army.

In addition, the Great Song Dynasty was used to extravagance and waste from top to bottom.

How could the Great Song Dynasty still be rich?

In fact, the finances of the Great Song Dynasty had already suffered an extremely serious deficit.

Let's put it this way, in order to solve the financial problems of the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Hao racked his brains every day to find a good solution, and he hadn't even slept well for months.

Even, Wang Hao finally understood why Cai Jing did not agree to the plan of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Fortunately, the emperor lived up to his hard work, and a staff member named "Zhang Shili" of Wang Hao gave Wang Hao a "good idea" that seemed to solve the financial problems of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, Zhao Ji asked, and Wang Hao said according to this plan: "Whether it is to recover Yanjing, or to seek to defeat Li Thief and recover the lost territory in the south, these are all major events of my Great Song Dynasty, and the court itself can support it alone.

The whole Song Dynasty should contribute, if they can't, then they should pay for the court's worries, and the minister proposed that it should be appropriate to collect free money from the whole country according to the capitation."

The so-called husband-free money advocated by Wang Hao is actually asking for money from all the people in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

If one person gives one yuan, even if the Great Song Dynasty only has half of the territory left, it can still collect fifty or sixty million yuan of free money.

After listening to Wang Hao's idea, Zhao Ji hesitated a little: "Aiqing is going to collect donations from the people of the whole country?"

Wang Hao said: "This is not a donation, but a tax, in order to ensure the implementation of this policy and effective use, the minister proposed to set up a financial house, headed by the minister-general, and was fully responsible for solving the problem of military expenses needed to recover Yanjing and the south."

Zhao Ji instinctively felt that Wang Hao's method might be a little inappropriate, but he didn't have a better way to solve the financial problem, so Zhao Ji, who was eager to give Li Cun the money to send troops, finally agreed to Wang Hao's invitation.

After convincing Zhao Ji, Wang Hao immediately issued orders to officials at all levels of the Zhao and Song dynasties, asking all prefectures and prefectures across the country to complete the collection of free money within a time limit.

In order to ensure that the money could be collected quickly, Wang Hao also sent inspectors to conduct a strict assessment of the progress of the collection of money by officials in various prefectures and prefectures, and clearly pointed out that this was linked to the officials' political performance and promotion.

Soon, tens of millions of free money were sent to the Jingfu room one after another, and Zhao Ji and Wang Hao finally had money.

Zhao Ji waved his pen and asked Wang Hao to send the 10 million gold and silver demanded by Li Thief over as soon as possible, and told Li Thief to send troops quickly.

Now Wang Huang, who is rich and wealthy, quickly sent someone to send this 10 million taels of gold and silver to Li Cun, and said that the military expenses have arrived, the army of the Great Song Dynasty has been withdrawn from Huainan and Xiangyang, and the gentry and nobles have begun to withdraw from Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, Jingnan South Road, Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road, and the Jiaodong Peninsula can also be handed over to Wang Shizhong of Dengzhou Zhizhou at any time.

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Let's talk about the Tiger Army.

Seeing that the Zhao and Song dynasties were so happy, the civil and military officials of the Tiger Ben Army were mixed.

Happily, the Huben army obtained all the territory south of the Qinling-Huai River without bloodshed.

Moreover, the territory of the five roads, including Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, Jingnan South Road, Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road, which was later recovered, has not been greatly damaged, and will not bring too much financial pressure to the Tiger Ben army.

The most important thing is that since then, the Tiger Ben Army is a new dynasty that can truly compete with the Zhao and Song Dynasty, Li Cunjiang is a veritable emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and they, the civil and military officials of the Tiger Army, can all be turned into regulars, and a new great country is about to be born.

Undoubtedly, for the Tiger Army, this is definitely an exciting and joyful event, which is worth celebrating.

But the bloodless and intact acquisition of the territory of the five roads, such as Jinghu South Road, came at a price.

This price is that the emperor Li Cun, who has not yet ascended the throne, is going to go on an expedition again.

Many ministers have expressed opposition to this.

Some ministers believe that the sixteen states of Yanyun are too far away to be requisitioned, so they should not agree to the deal proposed by the Zhao Song Dynasty, and the Zhao Song Dynasty This is an obvious plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and it is better to return the territory of the five roads such as Jinghu South Road to the Zhao Song Dynasty, and then the Tiger Ben army will fight it down by itself.

Some ministers believe that even if they want to conquer the sixteen states of Yanyun, they do not necessarily need Li Cun to drive the expedition in person, and it is enough to send a general.

Some ministers believe that even if Li Cun wants to conquer in person, he will ascend the throne first before leaving.

For the first part of the people, Li Cun directly ignored it.

These people are simply taking national affairs as a child's play.

The key is that Li Cun has already eaten the fat in his mouth, and then wants Li Cun to spit it out, is this possible?

More importantly, Li Cun had a reason to go north.

Li Cun, who is familiar with the history of the two Song dynasties, knows very well that Northern Liao can't hold on.

Be.

Due to the appearance of Li Cun, the Zhao and Song dynasties were unable to carry out the second Northern Expedition, and the Northern Liao may support it for an additional month or two.

But Li Cun dared to conclude that if he didn't go north, he would go north

Liao will definitely not survive this year.

Wanyan Aguta is definitely the most outstanding politician and military strategist of this era, and he will never let go of the annexation of Northern Liao, forever eliminate future troubles and let the Jin State further grow.

If Wanyan Aguda annexes Northern Liao, then Jin Guo will grow into an opponent that Li Cun does not dare to fight hard.

Some people may ask, isn't Li Cun's military strength very strong? Didn't they destroy the Li Dynasty and Zhancheng in a single battle? How can you be so afraid of the Kingdom of Jin?

Li Cun's military strength today is very strong.

But this kind of strength has limitations, that is, Li Cun can only rely on the terrain in the south to fight a defensive counterattack.

And if you cross the line of the Qinling Huai River, it is the Central Plains of Pingchuan.

On the plains, it would be extremely difficult for Li Cun to defeat the Jin State, which had at least a large number of elite cavalry.

Firearms are powerful, but they also have range.

Exceeding the range of firearms, isn't the Tiger Army also staring?

Some ministers suggested to Li Cun that they should develop slowly for a few years, and then destroy the Zhao and Song dynasties, and then fight a decisive battle with the Hu people in the north.

How to develop slowly?

Do you have a good war horse in the south? Or are there cavalrymen on horseback?

Li Cun's current power is a pure and pure southern force, and in this acre and three points of land at home, relying on a powerful naval army and a reasonably reasonable infantry army, he can fight no matter what.

But once the Tiger Ben army crossed the Qinling-Huai River line, Li Cun's military strength would be greatly reduced.

To put it mildly, after crossing the Qinling-Huai River, on the land of the Central Plains with a flat river, it is difficult to say whether the Tiger Ben army can defeat the Song army.

Don't think that Li Cun is underestimating the combat effectiveness of his own army and raising the combat effectiveness of the Song army.

Do you really think that the Song army has no combat effectiveness at all?

Let's just say that in the last battle when the Song army was defeated by the Liao army, didn't the Song army have anything remarkable?

How did the 50,000 horses of the Liao army become less than 30,000 horses now?

Also, where did the Song army in the Southern Song Dynasty in history come from?

thought that the Song army did not have a horse army, and thought too much.

Not to mention, at this time, there were at least 30,000 or 40,000 war horses in Bianliang City, Tokyo—there were at least 20,000 war horses in Mu Huogang alone.

The Zhao and Song dynasties did not suffer repeated defeats because they had no horses, but the real reason was the mistakes in command decisions and tactical failures.

And Li Cun really doesn't have a war horse, let alone a powerful horse army.

Let's put it this way, it's been almost two years, and Li Cun is about to defeat half of the Zhao and Song dynasties, but Li Cun still only has two horse armies of 3,000 men each, which are between the first and second ranks.

If Li Cun didn't take advantage of the imminent demise of Northern Liao, he would go north to get some elite cavalry.

Then the general trend after that will be that either Li Cun will be in the south all his life, sitting back and watching the Jin State destroy the Liao State, and then destroy the Zhao and Song Dynasty; Or, when the Zhao Song Dynasty really reached the point where it was almost over, Li Cun and the Jin Kingdom would destroy the Zhao Song Dynasty in the north and south, and then the two sides would compete for supremacy in the Central Plains.

Needless to say, Li Cun is basically equivalent to another Zhao Gou, just a corner of peace.

Let's just say the latter -

At that time, it had digested the entire Great Liao Empire, subdued the Tatars and other steppe tribes, and annexed half of the Dajin Kingdom of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and may already have 200,000 or even more elite cavalry, plus the Liao people, the grassland tribes, and the Han people of the Liao and Song dynasties, I am afraid that there will be millions of elite troops.

In the land of the Central Plains, Li Cundon said that he may not be able to win such a strong Dajin country, even if he wins, it may be ten or eight years later.

After ten years and eight years of war, the Central Plains is bound to be in ruins, full of refugees in need of relief.

At that time, the land of the Central Plains was no longer a good land, but a heavy burden.

Li Cun may have to work hard for 20 years before the Central Plains can be restored to its original state.

Rather than this, of course, Li Cun has to take advantage of the fact that Liao still has his last breath

, the Jin State has not yet metamorphosed to the strongest point, going north to the Yanyun region, annexing the Northern Liao, and getting tens of thousands of elite cavalry that can confront the elite cavalry of the Jin State.

Of course, it would be even more perfect if the greedy and fierce Jin Man could be completely blocked out.

In addition, there is one of the most troublesome possibilities, that is, the Zhao Song Dynasty can't beat the Jin State and then falls to the Jin State (as far as Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, and Zhao Gou are the three soft bones, when they reach a desperate situation, it is absolutely possible to do this kind of thing), and then Li Cun will fight two, so it may not be known who will kill the deer.

All in all, if Li Cun didn't lead his army north, in this battle for the sixteen states of Yanyun, it would definitely be the Jin State that won, and Li Cun might have to spend twenty or thirty years, or even a lifetime, to make up for this huge strategic mistake.

Therefore, Li Cun must go to the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Then can Li Cun send someone to go to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for him?

Who to send?

Han Shizhong and Wu Jue, who just became the commanders of the previous generation? Or Zhao Han'er, Kong Stunned, Su Dong?

Can these people be able to beat the most outstanding military strategists in the world, such as Wanyan Aguta and Yelu Dashi, or can they be able to calculate the most outstanding politicians in the world, such as Wanyan Aguta and Yelu Dashi?

It can only be that Li Cun personally go to meet Yan Aguta, Yelu Dashi and others for a while.

As for ascending the throne and becoming emperor?

To be honest, the current conditions are really not available.

The first is that it was too rushed.

The second is that Li Cun's palace has really not been repaired, and even the Daqing Palace, which Li Cun is preparing to use to ascend the throne, has not been completely built.

But Li Cun considered that he didn't know how long it would take to come back if he left, and if he didn't ascend the throne and become emperor, these people left behind in his family were really not easy to manage this country that was already quite large.

"Forget it, let's take the throne and become an emperor."

"No matter how urgent you are, you can't miss this time, save trouble, or be taken advantage of by someone."

"As for what is so much unsatisfactory? Alas, how can life be perfect everywhere, but if you can't find an opportunity to make up for a more solemn ceremony in the future."

"Those who achieve great things are not informal."

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