Fu Bi also spoke, obviously he had no idea this time.

Su Shi sat there and listened silently, and did not rush to interject, until the eyes of both of them looked at him, Su Shi smiled and said, "What's the matter, I don't have flowers on my face." ”

"Alright, this is not the time for jokes, God bless, tell me what to do?" Bao Heizi pretended to be angry and pretended to reprimand.

"Okay." Bao Heizi's face Su Shi couldn't help but give it, so he put down the teacup in his hand and said: "Actually, this matter is for me to see, it's not something we should worry about at all, the most important thing is to see what the official thinks." ”

"What does that mean?" Bao Heizi looked puzzled.

"It's literal." Su Shi coughed lightly and continued, "This is an opportunity for our Great Song Dynasty, didn't the Liao people ask us for help?" That means that the initiative is in our hands, whether we can help or not. ”

"Help, then you can't help in vain, if you want me to work for you, you have to pay something. In this way, it will be good for the sixteen states of Yanyun. ”

"No help, no problem. After all, we have had a border confrontation with Liao before. This time, with the help of the barbarians, they will clean up the Liao State and deal a heavy blow to their strength. Since then, we will not be weak in military affairs with the Liao State, which is equivalent to the benefits brought by sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. ”

"As for the Meng cavalry coming to our Great Song Dynasty, unless they conquer the Liao State first, or the Liao State agrees to them to do so, it is basically impossible."

Su Shi had been to Mengdi, where the population was very small and was a hard wound, and they did not have the strength to destroy Liao Zai to the Song Dynasty.

At least not for a short time.

As soon as Su Shi said this, Fu Bi's eyes lit up and said: "What Su Shaofu means is that when the Liao State is weakened, it will be better for us to be strong, or send troops to seize it, and it is possible to get back the sixteen states of Yanyun, right?" ”

"That's right, it's still rich and powerful." Su Shi said admiringly.

Thinking in his heart, he is worthy of being a famous wise minister in history, and Fu Bi's reaction ability is strong. was looking at Bao Heizi, still frowning and thinking about things there, Su Shi just looked disgusted.

Of course, Su Shi didn't dare to show it, who made him the junior of Bao Heizi.

Just like just now, Bao Heizi can call Su Shi Tianyou, but Fu Bi can only call Su Shi Su Shaofu, which is the difference between distance and proximity.

After receiving Su Shi's praise, Fu Bi smiled, and then remembered something and said, "In this way, the initiative is ours, whether it is aid or not, it is beneficial, right." ”

"Of course, this is originally a matter of Liao and Mongolia, what do we have to do with it." Su Shi smiled and nodded.

"Well, in this way, it really depends on what the official family thinks, whether they want benefits now, or go back and wait for them to finish fighting, and take the benefits themselves, haha, okay, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, finally returned with the efforts of our generation, haha, okay."

Fu Bi was in a good mood and clapped his hands again and again, I didn't know, I thought that the sixteen states of Yanyun had been caught by him now.

Su Shi also laughed on the side, and then added, "But no matter what choice we make, there are some things that we must be prepared for, that is, we must defend the border area and not give anyone a chance." ”

"Increasing the defense of the border? Is this a fear that the Mongols will hit us? Bao Heizi finally interjected.

"They must be guarded against, but Xixia must also guard against them." Su Shi said as he spoke, and his face became upright.

False Path.

Su Shi just reminded him, and Bao Heizi and Fu Bi understood.

With the warlike habits of Western Xia and always willing to plunder on the Great Song Dynasty, no one dared to guarantee that they would suddenly give the Great Song such a sudden blow in the name of aiding the Liao State.

It is better for those who are not of my race to have different hearts.

It's okay to be blinded by benefits.

The Great Song Dynasty must be on guard, and the ancients also said that the heart of guarding against people is indispensable.

Regarding Su Shi's worries, Bao Heizi and Fu Bi both nodded, "Yes, we must be on guard, and we will explain this to the officials." ”

"Well, if that's the case, then there's nothing to worry about. This time it was Liao begging for Song, and the urgency was that they were not us, so we couldn't promise others if they gave a little benefit, and we wanted to give the Liao army a chance to take revenge. Su Shi smiled very relaxedly.

"Fart's chance for revenge."

At this moment, Bao Heizi and Fu Bi both despised Su Shi in their hearts, which was obviously just to watch Liao and Meng fight more fiercely and consume the strength of both sides more.

It's just that they know this, why are the two still so happy.

Fu Bi and Bao Zheng quickly left Tianyou Hutong, even if Su Shi said that it was delicious, he didn't keep them. They want to enter the palace, they want to go to the official family, and tell their thoughts, this is a rare opportunity to suppress the Liao State, and it must not be easily forgotten.

What the two of them thought about was how to take the opportunity to take advantage of more benefits, and it was of course the best to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun.

But not everyone thinks like this, it's not that they don't want Da Song to be strong, but they are not confident at all.

They don't think it's a really good opportunity, they're so used to kneeling that they've forgotten what it's like to stand up. They even think that the Mongolian people are so brave that even the Liao people are not opponents, so they are not even as good as the Liao people, let alone opponents.

Now there are Liao people in front of them, of course this is a good thing, if you can give help to the Liao people, you must give it, as long as you don't let the Mongolian people appear in the Song Realm.

As for taking the opportunity to make some demands, or even reconquest of lost territory, then forget it, this is simply a pipe dream.

There are many people with this kind of thinking in the court, and its leader is the privy envoy Wang Deyong.

In addition, there is also Wen Yanbo, a representative of the compromise faction and coexistence faction.

In the face of the Western Xia, whether it is the Liao people, Wen Yanbo never advocates fighting to stop fighting, but habitually loses money, and even if the other party needs, he can also cede land to the other party, and then it is to assimilate the opponent and let them go from strong to weak, so that the second child does not say that the boss is not good, everyone has no combat effectiveness, and the threat will naturally not exist.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this set of policies may be completely wrong, and if it is more serious, they should be punished.

But in terms of the court, this set of statements really has a lot of supporters. Without it, wouldn't the Liao State be a model of assimilation?

In the past, the Liao State was like the current Western Xia, warlike, and used to move first and then mouth when encountering problems, so the Great Song Dynasty was defeated by it and suffered a lot of losses.

However, the current Liao State, especially the high-level of the Liao State, after coming into contact with the culture and some customs of the Song people, has also lived a luxurious life and has begun to move towards the way of contentment.

The relationship between Song and Liao was once very harmonious, which is proof of this.

This is also evident that the Liao army is inferior to the Mongolian cavalry.

That is, Liao can be assimilated, why can't Western Xia, why can't Mengqi.

Being able to use no swords, no big battles, no casualties is also a blessing for the people.

Otherwise, if there is a bloody battle every day, it will lead to the life and death of many families, and how many families will raise their eyes and wail.

Mankind loves peace and aspires to it. Surrendering without a fight is the best strategy in the art of war.

Wen Yanbo believes that there is no need to fight life and death with Meng Qi, people have nothing, and they will die if they die, which is called barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes.

The Great Song is not good, they have the most wealth in the world, and they have a lot of technology and industries that are ahead of the world, and even the population. So why fight you to the death?

Lose, then needless to say, there is no good fruit.

Won, after paying a huge price, simply do not get the return it deserves. What is the point of fighting this battle if they are given to them in the bitter cold land?

And this view was also supported by many courtiers.

But they forget that peace is never prayed for, but fought.

If you want peace, then you must have enough strength to deter the other party, and only when the other party is afraid will you not dare to come to you for trouble, and you will have a general environment for peaceful development.

Otherwise, everyone wants to fight your idea, but you don't have enough strength to protect everything, so no matter how clever your tongue is, what you pursue in the end is just nothing.

In addition, the third type is the young Zhuang faction like Fu Bi and Bao Zheng.

This does not refer to the age of the people, but to the fact that they are more energetic, more thoughtful, and want to make the Great Song Dynasty stronger.

They wanted to take advantage of every opportunity they could to weaken the enemy and make the Great Song Dynasty stand again in the east and become the greatest power.

Speaking of which, there are the most people who think this way.

It's a pity that most of the people who think like this are still young people, the kind of young people who don't have any real power.

No matter how many such people are, there is no power above the court.

It's like when Fu Bi and Bao Zheng went to see the official family and put forward their ideas, Zhao Zhen didn't agree to it at the first time, but just smiled and said that you have a lot of ideas, and I am very pleased.

Zhao Zhen's attitude made Fu Bi and Bao Zheng feel cold, and they knew that they were afraid that this time the official family would not be on their side.

Zhao Zhen does have his own ideas.

At the earliest, he also had the idea of taking advantage of the bastard, thinking of taking the opportunity to let the Liao people have some blood and take advantage of it.

But when Wang Deyong came with some courtiers, and when Wen Yanbo came up with some people and stated the relationship, Zhao Zhen's attitude also changed.

It is a good thing for a king who can listen to counsel, and it can be a matter of brainstorming.

But a king who can listen to opinions too well and is always swayed by others will not work.

A king may not have wisdom, but he must have his own judgments.

Decisive, decisive.

When there is no continuation, it will be disturbed.

Some people died, but not completely......