As soon as the first lunar month passed, Zhao Chongyang mobilized both land and water armies and was preparing to go south, but who knew that he received a message from the beggar gang:

Years ago, the imperial court received the rescue emergency document of Dali, the document said, Li Liangcai, the king of Annam, raised the army of the country to invade Dali, because several princes of Dali fought for the position of prince in the past few years, killed each other, several generals with heavy troops also supported one side, causing civil strife, so that the vitality of Dali was greatly damaged.

Therefore, Li Liangcai has broken through the barriers for more than a year and has gone deep into Dali for thousands of miles. If the Song Dynasty did not send troops to support, Dali would be destroyed in half a year.

At that time, Li Liangcai, the king of Annam, with the victorious army and the manpower and financial resources of Annam and Dali, will inevitably invade the Great Song Dynasty and point at the Central Plains!

When receiving the urgent document from Dali, the official family asked the civil and military officials in the court what their plan was, whether to save it or not.

Cai Jing and others are now accustomed to fighting for Qin Hui's opinion on military affairs. Therefore, Cai Jing immediately replied: "This is a major military matter, and after discussing a safe method with relevant people, His Majesty Rong will tell the emperor, and the emperor will make the final decision."

Qin Hui is now the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and he can already be ranked in the court. When he came out of the palace, he got together with Cai Jing, Yang Jian and others and set a place for discussion first.

Everyone said that according to the practice of the previous times, everyone went home and had lunch, and then gathered at Cai Jing's mansion, and then discussed the long term and discussed a good plan.

Qin Hui returned home, hurried to the secret room, and knocked for a while before seeing the door of the secret room open. In the secret room, there was Dajin's think tank Wanyan Xiyin, and Qin Hui's wife Wang was making tea for Wanyan Xiyin on the side.

There are still a lot of Lord Qin Hui, but seeing that the two of them are also messing around in the secret room during the day, they are still a little confused.

Wanyan Xiyin saw that Qin Hui's face was a little unsightly, and hurriedly smiled: "Lord Qin has come back early today?" ”

Of course, Qin Hui wouldn't really show his face to Wanyan Xiyin, so he had to hide his dissatisfaction, and reluctantly smiled: "Today, the court officials want the civil and military officials to discuss sending troops to Annan to solve the problem of encirclement. In a while, we will go to Cai Jing's Mansion to finalize this matter. ”

"Do you already have a preliminary candidate? Say it and let's improve it together. ”

Qin Hui said: "I think this is a good opportunity to eliminate the Northwest Governor's Mansion. Cai Jing and others can ask the official family to re-enshrine Zhou Dong as the Marquis of Zhennan, and the specific official position is the Metropolitan Governor of Lingnan, and after the year he led his troops to Annan, after repelling Annan, he chose a place in the south to establish the Governor's Mansion and guard the southern Xinjiang. ”

Wanyan Xiyin said: "This plan is feasible, so that the strongest military force left by Zhao Chongyang in the north will be transferred to the south, and when our Dajin Iron Cavalry goes south, it will reduce a lot of trouble." ”

Qin Hui said: "The prime minister asked me yesterday if there is any way to make Dajin's troops reach 500,000 in three or five years. said that if it is obtained, then it will be possible to destroy the Great Liao first and send troops to the Central Plains. ”

"But I considered several options, none of which were realistic. Because the source of soldiers is not as good as others, there is no money, food, and horses, so you can rob them, and you can use them immediately after grabbing them. However, the supply of troops will not be able to do so in a short period of time, and it will be impossible to draw out a large number of high-quality soldiers without more than 10 years of development of the stolen population. ”

"But I have another plan, after the prime minister is supplemented and improved, the ultimate goal can still be achieved. The empress of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao was not in good health, and she appeared to have died several times. If she dies, she will be re-elected. ”

"Lord Hongyun is your emperor's little beloved daughter, beautiful, smart, and cute, and can be named a princess. If you send an envoy to say that you are together, give him the red cloud, and the two families will become good in-laws and form an alliance to jointly protect the Great Song Dynasty. Then, Emperor Tianzuo will break the ancestral precept that the Xiao family cannot be established, and set up Hongyun as the queen. ”

"When the old husband and young wife are a little coquettish, Emperor Tianzuo will obey his words. In this way, without much effort, the Dajin State could control the government of Daliao, and after three years, it could raise troops to the south. ”

"How to arrange it, and how to get rid of Emperor Tianzuo in the end, and merge the land of Liao into Dajin, Cheng is better at it than me, so I won't get an axe."

Wanyan Xiyin nodded and said, "Mr. Qin is worthy of being a great talent, and he actually came up with such a clever plan. After I go back and complete it with the fourth prince, Emperor Ming will implement it immediately. In order to express my gratitude, I will first reward you with a thousand taels of gold on behalf of the fourth prince, and when the plan works and the Central Plains are captured, there will definitely be another heavy reward and great use. ”

After Qin Hui finished planning for Yan Xiyin, he resigned and went to Cai's mansion to discuss the matter of sending troops to Annan.

Because he and Wanyan Xiyin discussed in the secret room for a while. So when he arrived, all the others would be there.

Qin Hui said to the participants: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting." ”

Cai Jing said: "If you are late to retreat, there must be a good way, let's talk about it quickly, let's refer to it together." ”

Qin Hui told him the strategy he had discussed with Wanyan Xiyin. Yang Jian was the first to agree, Cai Jing also thought it was a good plan, and Wang Hao raised his hands in favor.

Only Gao Yu expressed concern: "Zhou Hou is gone, who is going to be stationed there?" At that time, there will be no unified command, and once something happens in the Central Plains, the Western Army will not be able to play much role. ”

Wang Hao said: "There is no need to worry about the captain, at that time, he will still be the privy envoy and the commander of the Western Army." Adjustable Zhang Suo led 10,000 soldiers and horses to temporarily station there as a town guard, anyway, the existing Zhong Division is sitting in Taiyuan, and he doesn't want to stay behind. ”

Gao Yu didn't have as many twists and turns as those few people, and when he saw that the vacancy left by Zhou Dong was filled, he didn't say anything. In this way, Zhou Tong's southward journey became a foregone conclusion.

The next morning, Cai Jing said on behalf of everyone, and as soon as several important ministers agreed, Zhao Ji immediately asked people to draft a decree and sent angels to Zhang Suo and Zhou Tong respectively.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the inside line of the Eight Kings in the court immediately spread the news to the Eight Princes' Mansion. The Eight Princes' Mansion also forwarded the news to Wang Dakuan, Yan Qing, Shi Qian and others, and Shi Qian immediately asked the beggars to pass the news to Zhao Chongyang and Zhou Tong respectively with flying pigeons.