The closer we get to the end of the year, the weather is not so cold, perhaps because it is close to spring, the snow has not fallen, and there are a few fewer snow traces on the street except for the frozen ice.

The Bianliang canal is long, the flow of water on the river is reduced, and the boats are gone, which is particularly soothing and not as lively as in the past.

Only the towering treetops in the city and the seven-story iron tower on the edge of the spring dawn in Fantai still retain a touch of snow whiteness that catches the eye.

There are many fewer pedestrians on the streets, but it is very lively near the evening, especially outside the Tung Wah Gate, where officials and people celebrate together, giving out porridge and charcoal every day, and by the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are fireworks bonfires.

It was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the early morning, many of the deacons had a meal at home, and then went out at about the hour and swayed all the way into the palace.

At this moment, the palace is already full of lights, the Bianliang Palace is a little small, the area is not large, and there are not many eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, there are only a few hundred people in total, mainly the palace gate guards, so there are not many people walking in the palace.

But today, the crowds of people who come and go have entered the palace, in addition to the deacons, are the families of many ministers, all kinds of princes and princesses, carrying the young children and grandchildren of the family, to the palace.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, many princes and nobles also have to enter the palace to celebrate, especially this year, the harem is pregnant with the dragon species, the official family is happy, and a big banquet is held in the palace, inviting everyone to celebrate.

However, when everyone officially enters the palace, it is generally noon, and now Lu Yijian and others enter the palace, firstly, to deal with a little bit of government affairs, and secondly, there are also some celebrations to participate, such as every year during the New Year, the emperor has to hold celebrations in the Daqing Palace.

At three o'clock in the morning, everyone has gathered in the Chongde Palace, here is Zhao Zhen's study, in the morning many attendants inside and outside the palace are arranging the venue, to the end of the hour, that is, at nine o'clock, to hold a grand sacrifice ceremony.

While there was still some time, many prime ministers of the Constitutional Yuan and Zhao Zhen got together to chat.

In the Chongde Hall, Zhao Zhen sat behind the desk, with an incense burner and a charcoal basin in the center below, and many prime ministers on the left and right sides sat in columns.

Yan Shu was not there, he was invited by Wang Luo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to help plan the process of the celebration ceremony, because Wang Shu was transferred back from other places, and Yan Shu had been a secretary of the Ministry of Rites before and had experience in this area.

"Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and a new year has arrived."

Zhao Zhen's face was full of joy, not only did the two in the harem become pregnant with the dragon seed this year, but Bianliang's situation was also much better, at least the current treasury was quite abundant.

In addition to the smooth collection of autumn taxes, Zhao Jun cut off a lot of heads at the end of the year, copied a lot of homes, and contributed more than 10 million yuan to the national treasury, which can almost guarantee the expenditure at the beginning of next year.

"Yes, this year, the wind and rain are quite smooth in various places, although there is some civil strife, but nothing has gone wrong, this is all the official family Hongfu Qitian, with the blessing of God."

"And the queen and Zhang Meiren are both pregnant with dragon seeds, and the possibility of giving birth to heirs in the future is very high, the country is stable, and the country is peaceful and peaceful, which is indeed a happy event for the official family."

"I wish the official family a healthy body, I wish the dragon seed a smooth birth, and I wish my Great Song Dynasty a prosperous and higher level next year."

Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Song Shou, Sheng Du and others offered their sycophants.

These guys have always been like this, blowing wildly in front of Zhao Zhen, and then fighting inwardly, while touting Zhao Zhen, while making small reports to belittle the opponent, it is really a bit outrageous.

Zhao Zhen was really blown up by everyone, and he was overjoyed.

But after being proud, he saw Zhao Jun's calm face, so he wondered: "Eldest grandson, aren't you happy that the new year is coming?" ”

"Of course I'm happy."

Zhao Jun sighed and said, "It's just a little homesick, I don't know how my parents are doing now." ”

Seeing that his mood seemed to be a little low, Zhao Zhen hurriedly relieved: "Eldest grandson, since the affairs of the future are still in the future, why should you worry?" Even if their world is still there, I want your siblings to be by their side. ”

"I am an only child, and in response to the call of the country's family planning, I can only have one child."

Zhao Jun said expressionlessly.

"Huh?"

Zhao Zhen stepped on the thunder accurately and looked at everyone.

They really didn't know that Zhao Jun was an only child, because they hadn't asked before, so they always took it for granted that Zhao Jun must have brothers and sisters.

The main reason is that there was no concept of family planning in ancient times, and having more children and more blessings has always been the tradition of the ancients, so they really haven't thought about it in this regard.

Now that I know that Zhao Jun is an only child, and the parents of the later generations are lost, it is estimated that Zhao Jun is unhappy, and the parents of the later generations are not happy.

After hesitating for a moment, Fan Zhongyan was relieved: "Even if the heavens are separated, after all, you and they are still alive, getting married and having children as soon as possible, leaving the bloodline is the greatest relief to your parents." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and did not speak.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Zhao Zhen said: "There is still some time before the sacrifice, the eldest grandson will leave Beijing soon after the New Year, and Fan Qing is also about to leave, so it is better to talk about something serious." ”

"What do you want to say today?"

Fan Zhongyan also changed the topic, looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Why don't you say something about Western Xia?" I've done a lot of preparation, but it's good to talk a little more. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment and said: "This is indeed a core contradiction, only by solving this problem first can we really do something else." ”

"The core contradiction?"

Zhao Zhen was confused and said: "Eldest grandson, you have said before that the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction, what is this core contradiction?" ”

"According to the theory of international relations, a certain party to the international game has a problem that must be solved, and if this problem is not solved, it will affect the development of the country, and may even backfire on itself and cause the country to perish, and this problem often needs to be solved by war."

Zhao Jun explained: "For example, in World War II, in order to solve serious domestic socio-economic and political problems, Japan's military began to seize power and use aggression to alleviate domestic contradictions. However, Japan does not produce rubber and oil, and the United States has cut off its oil, and if it cannot continue its aggression, then overseas problems will come against Japan, so Japan and the United States must go to war, and this is called the core contradiction. ”

"Hmm"

Although Zhao Jun had talked about petroleum and rubber before, and had also talked about Japan's crimes of aggression against China, they did not have much of an idea of the specific situation and the importance of rubber, oil, and other items to Japan, so they still did not understand it.

"You all know the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu and Wu divide the world. After Liu Bei and Sun Quan squared the south, for them, the other party became the core contradiction between each other, a problem that must be solved. ”

Seeing that they didn't understand, Zhao Jun had to patiently explain: "It's just that Liu Bei didn't attack Sun Quan because of benevolence, righteousness and affection, but Sun Quan didn't pay attention to morality, and launched a war to solve this core contradiction. ”

"I see."

Only then did everyone understand why.

"For the Great Song Dynasty, the deterrence of Western Xia and Liao became the core contradiction."

Zhao Jun continued: "As long as they continue to threaten the security of the Great Song Dynasty, then the Great Song Dynasty will tremble whether it is internal reform or external development, so it is necessary to solve this core contradiction through foreign wars, so that the Great Song Dynasty can make a smooth transition and stable development in China." ”

It is said that the outside must be safe, but this sentence is not necessarily true, at least the current Da Song Dynasty is not suitable to be interpreted by this sentence.

Because the current internal peace of the Great Song Dynasty is very unpeaceful, the rebels are no less than the Qing Dynasty, political chaos, natural disasters are continuous, and the people are not happy. In this case, please Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's reform of the law was born, and wanted to solve the civil strife.

The problem was that external pressure affected the security of the Great Song Dynasty border all the time, the emperor had no sense of security, and the ministers did not have the courage to carry out the reform to the end, which led to the change walking on thin ice and finally failed.

If the external problems are completely solved and the Western Xia and Liao are subdued, there is no need to worry that the change will lead to internal strife, and if the external forces are in the grip of the Great Song Dynasty, the determination of the emperor and his ministers to reform will be much stronger, and the emperor will not waver like in history, making it difficult to maintain the change.

This is also the reason why Zhao Jun did not make drastic reforms at present, but first supported Fan Zhongyan to go to the northwest to fight!

"Hmm."

Zhao Zhen listened to Zhao Jun's words, felt that it made sense, nodded and said, "This is indeed our top priority. ”

"As long as the attacks of Western Xia and Liao are repulsed, then the internal system can be calmly reformed."

Zhao Jun looked around and said: "There are still eleven years before the diversion of the Yellow River, and there is still plenty of time left for us, but we can't take it lightly because it is still a long time. ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "I personally feel that it is not difficult to defeat the Western Xia now. The Western Xia Kingdom is small, poor, and weak, and the troops are insufficient, if we can defeat them, should we take the opportunity to attack Xiazhou? ”

Zhao Zhen's eyes widened after hearing this, and said, "Fan Qing actually wants to directly capture Western Xia?" ”

"Huh."

Fan Zhongyan smiled and said, "Han Long said that it is necessary to despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically. Therefore, when the ministers were thinking about how to fight at home, they simply set a strategy and directly sought to capture Western Xia, isn't this kind of strategy just despising them? ”

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "The strength of Western Xia is only more than 100,000, and it is not impossible to annex them before the enemy. But I don't think it's advisable to put it aside for the time being, and focus on defeating and killing their living forces. ”

"Why?"

Fan Zhongyan was puzzled, he felt that he was at least eighty percent sure of annexing Western Xia.

Don't look at the continuous defeat of the Great Song Dynasty in history, but the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty is not known how many times that of the Western Xia, even if it is defeated in three battles, it will cost the Western Xia to take the initiative to withdraw and sue for peace in the case of victory.

This shows that the national strength of Western Xia really can't be delayed, except for sneak attacks and tactical perfection, it is almost impossible to completely defeat the Great Song Dynasty.

Now that Zhao Jun has appeared, even sneak attacks and clever tactical play will not work.

Because Zhao Jun had already told the Song army all the tactics of Western Xia, this was equivalent to opening the whole map, but the Song army was anticipating the enemy's opportunity, and it was completely possible to arrange traps and wait for Li Yuanhao to go inside.

Once Li Yuanhao was defeated, with the national strength of Western Xia and Li Yuanhao's expedition to the east and west over the years, the ethnic minorities around Western Xia who had offended, I am afraid that when the Song army defeated them, it would be the time when the surrounding Xizhou Uighurs, Huangtou Uighurs and Tubo tribes rose up to attack.

It was very difficult to fight the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention being beaten by the group, and the possibility of destroying the country when the Western Xia opened the country is very high.

However, Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "How do you defend it?" How to govern? The Liao State is still watching from the side, although the Liao State also wants to annex the Western Xia, but for them, the existence of the Western Xia is the most in their interests, so once we really defeat Li Yuanhao, the Liao army will immediately go south. ”

"Alas"

Fan Zhongyan sighed and said, "Yes, this is also where I am worried. ”

"Therefore, if you want to completely solve the trouble, you must beat the Liao State and cut off their hands that went south."

Zhao Jun looked at everyone and said: "Then in terms of grand strategy, I think we should re-arrange, in the northwest and Li Yuanhao confrontation stage, set up a good defense line, prevent Li Yuanhao from breaking through one by one, as long as you set a trap, defeat him once, behead him tens of thousands of people, and let him flee back to Xiazhou, then it will be the first stage of victory." ”

"First stage victory? Is there still a second stage victory? ”

Zhao Zhen was curious.

Zhao Jun nodded: "The second stage is that Lao Fan can send people to pretend to prepare a large-scale attack on Xiazhou, Li Yuanhao is defeated, and the internal instability is unstable, you can contact the Xizhou Uighurs, Huangtou Huifu and Qingtang Tubo, and attack the Western Xia, so that the Western Xia will fall into panic." ”

Fan Zhongyan groaned and said: "At this time, Zhao Yuanhao listened, and it is estimated that he will immediately send someone to Liao to ask for help. ”

"Yes."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "Liao Xingzong listened, he will definitely lead people south to attack Hebei non-stop, at this time, Lao Fan will shoot back and defeat the Liao army, then there will be nothing." ”

"Defeat Western Xia first, and then defeat Liao. This World War II will definitely help my Great Song Dynasty to stabilize the country, and the rivers will be unharmed. ”

Lu Yi Jian Lehe said.

"Don't be too happy, this battle will definitely hurt the vitality of Western Xia, and there is no ability to invade again, but after all, the country on the Liao side is strong and has sufficient troops."

Zhao Jun poured a basin of cold water and said: "Liao Xingzong is in need of a big war to establish power, and the Liaoxia War was also fought twice in history, Li Yuanhao defeated the Liao State one after another, beat the Liao State painfully, and quickly sued for peace to end the war." If the Great Song Dynasty did not hurt the Liao State, Liao Xingzong would inevitably make a comeback and be ashamed. ”

"In other words, we may have to fight at least two wars with Liao?"

Zhao Zhen's face was embarrassed.

For the Liao State, they are still quite afraid of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs.

"Yes."

Zhao Jun said: "So we must be prepared to fight a tough battle, and we must not take it lightly." Old Fan. ”

"Huh?"

Fan Zhongyan responded.

Zhao Jun looked at him and said: "You go to the northwest after the year, remember what I said, accumulate grain, build high walls, build more forts, the Western Xia cavalry come and go like the wind, and the Song army will definitely suffer a loss in a sports war, so fight a positional war, and be sure to restrict the cavalry's movement through terrain, build trenches, bunkers, etc., in order to achieve victory." ”

"Don't worry."

Fan Zhongyan said in a deep voice: "You told me that I did this in history, and I would not be stupid enough to send infantry out to fight Zhao Yuanhao to the death without cavalry." ”

"You have a bit of a connotation of Han Qi."

Zhao Jun smiled.

Everyone laughed.

Han Qi was so outrageous in history, he took the initiative to send infantry out of the city to fight, and was completely annihilated by Li Yuanhao.

Now it's been entertained by everyone.

Anyway, it is impossible for Zhao Zhen to send him anymore, and in the future, the northwest will be governed by Fan Zhongyan alone, military and civilian, and full power, which is also Zhao Zhen's trust in him.

Everyone talked about the strategy and method when facing Li Yuanhao for a while, and at the end of the hour, Wang Shouzhong came in and told everyone that the sacrifice had begun.

It's a chapter today.,Watch the game.。。。

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