232 Hongmen Feast
Wang Zhong met Xiao Feng again, this time the two were closer and saw each other more clearly.
Xiao Feng found that as Wang Zhong's cultivation became higher, his appearance became younger and younger.
On the contrary, Xiao Feng, who is in his early thirties, is quite old, and it seems that because of his work on state affairs, white threads appear on his head.
The two originally agreed to use their greatest strength to promote peace between Song and Liao, but now they both know in their hearts that after this war, there will be no peace between the two countries, and it can even be said that they will never die.
The Song army was brutally killed by Xiao Dingguo too many soldiers, plus destroyed a Yanmen Pass, such a deep hatred, the Great Song Dynasty will not give up.
The Liao State actually suffered heavier losses, he lost Xiao Dingguo, the divine pillar of Dingguo, and there was no master of the Heaven and Man Realm to suppress the formation.
Xiao Feng was very bitter about Xiao Dingguo's death, although he had different political views with Xiao Dingguo, he admired Xiao Dingguo's patriotism very much, and respected his spirit of dying for the country.
This pillar of the Great Liao, who has supported the Liao State for more than 100 years, worked hard for the country, and even paid for his life, and his death is the biggest loss of the Great Liao.
Xiao Feng understands that after Xiao Dingguo's death, all the burdens of the Liao Kingdom will be fought by him alone!
"Wang Guoshi, do you still want to fight again?" Xiao Feng put aside his grief and said to Wang Zhong.
The Song army lost too much, and lost the Yanmen Pass, there is no natural danger to defend, if Song Liao continues to fight, even if Wang Zhong uses the strength of heaven and man to deal with the Liao army, the Song army will have to pay a great price!
Wang Zhong knew that he couldn't fight any more, but he couldn't show weakness.
"If the Liao State wants to fight, I will accompany the Song Dynasty to the end, even if I fight to the death, I will never let the Liao people cross the border!" Wang Zhong said loudly.
"There are enough people who died today!" Xiao Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Let's make peace!"
Wang Zhong calmed his face, looked at Shi Tai, and found that he nodded secretly, and seemed to agree to the peace talks, and the two sides quit.
"It's okay to negotiate peace, we have to re-sign the covenant, and the Great Song Dynasty will not pay Liao a penny in the future!" Wang Zhong said.
"You want to tear up the Tanyuan Alliance?!" Xiao Feng said in surprise.
"Yes, the Tanyuan Alliance has been signed for a hundred years, and it should also change, in the future, the Song and Liao countries will coexist peacefully and establish diplomatic relations on the principle of fairness and justice, and the Song State does not need to pay anything to the Liao State!"
Now that Wang Zhong has the upper hand, he naturally has to fight for strong conditions.
Xiao Feng also knew that the Liao Kingdom had lost the only master of the Heavenly and Human Realm, and if he forced the Great Song Dynasty too quickly, I am afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk around!
"This matter is not trivial, I need to discuss it with the ministers of the DPRK and China!" Xiao Feng said.
"Yes!" Wang Zhong said, "As long as you send the news of Xiao Dingguo's death back to China, those ministers will definitely agree to my request!" Wang Zhong said with a sneer.
Xiao Feng was silent for a moment, and then said, "Did you calculate all this?"
Wang Zhong didn't answer, and Xiao Feng asked again: "Does the death of my Great Liao Emperor have anything to do with you?"
Wang Zhong replied to Xiao Feng this time: "It was I who arranged for the beggar gang to poison Yelu Hongji!"
Xiao Feng seemed to have guessed the answer a long time ago, and he didn't show too much surprise!
"Aren't you afraid that after I strengthen the Liao Kingdom, I will fight back against the Great Song Dynasty?" Xiao Feng asked.
Wang Zhong took a deep look at Xiao Feng and said: "What happened outside Yanmen Pass back then, the mastermind behind the scenes was Murong Bo, he also faked his death back then, and now Murong and his son have entered Western Xia!"
Xiao Feng and Xiao Yuanshan's eyes widened suddenly, Xiao Yuanshan was excited because he knew who the enemy who killed his wife was!
Xiao Feng felt Wang Zhong's horror for the first time.
Why did Wang Zhong tell him at this time who was behind the scenes, and also told him and Xiao Yuanshan about Murong and his son's entry into Western Xia.
After Xiao Yuanshan knew about the murderer, how could he sit still, and he would inevitably go to Xixia to seek revenge on Murong and his son, if he Xiao Feng didn't help as a son, how could he help?
With Xiao Yuanshan and Xiao Feng's people, they would never use the power of the Great Liao to force the Western Xia State to make friends at this time, so they could only choose to go to the Western Xia alone to find Murong and his son to take revenge.
However, with the martial arts of Murong and his son, Xiao Yuanshan alone has no chance of winning, but Xiao Feng is also the national fortune of the Liao State, so he can't take risks alone, so what is in front of him is a dilemma.
The first is to help Xiao Yuanshan take revenge, but the Liao country will be chaotic. The second is to give up revenge, or let Xiao Yuanshan take revenge alone.
Xiao's father and son have only known each other for a short time, so why did Xiao Feng watch his old father die.
The problem in front of Xiao Feng is that loyalty and filial piety cannot be both! Wang Zhong's move is simply condemnable!
Xiao Feng didn't have any choice! For the country or for selfishness, Xiao Feng didn't know how to choose!
Wang Zhong didn't give Xiao Feng a choice, let him go back and think about it, anyway, the current situation is favorable to the Great Song Dynasty.
Let go of Xiao Yuanshan's father and son, Wang Zhong thanked the sweeping monk again, although he didn't make a move when he came to Yanmen Pass this time, but he could come, he had already done Wang Zhong a great favor.
Of course, the sweeping monk is not in vain, the imperial court will vigorously support the Shaolin Temple in the future, so that it will become the head of Buddhism, the world's Zen!
In the end, Wang Zhong handed over the matter of the peace talks to the seed master Dao, and let Shi Tai sit in the army, and he returned to Bianliang.
There is this arrangement, on the one hand, because Wang Zhong fought with Xiao Dingguo, was seriously injured and needed to recuperate, and the other reason is that Wang Zhong is not good at handling the affairs of the court, so he handed it over to a special person and retired by himself.
When Wang Zhong returned to Bianliang, he immediately received a warm reception from Zhao Ji of Song Huizong.
Although the Song and Liao wars and the Great Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses, the death of Xiao Dingguo is definitely a happy event for the Great Song Dynasty, and the re-revision of the Tanyuan Alliance is a great increase in the prestige of the country, even if Zhao Ji does not want to see Wang Zhong, he can't help but admit that if there is no Wang Zhong, the Great Song Dynasty is definitely not in this situation.
Wang Zhong has the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty National Teacher, because of this battle, he completely praised all countries, and the Great Song Dynasty was full of praise for it!
The martial forces in the court admired Wang Zhong even more, and faintly led him.
This time, Zhao Ji set up a banquet for Wang Zhong to catch the wind and wash the dust, and the venue of the banquet was in the side hall of the palace, which was the place where the state banquet was set up to entertain foreign ministers in the past, and Zhao Ji only recruited a few important ministers of the court to accompany him, and he personally entertained Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong walked into the side hall of the palace, slowly walked to the center of the hall, and Zhao Ji was not far in front of him, and he suddenly stopped.
"Your Majesty, it seems that you are setting up a Hongmen banquet!" Wang Zhong found that there were many faces in the hall, and some of the inner guards were even more first-time witnesses, but without exception, these people were all masters of the "True Gang Realm".
Even the eunuchs serving in the side hall are masters, and Wang Zhong is not blind, so he can naturally see clearly.
At this time, Prime Minister Cai Jing suddenly stood up from his seat, pointed at Wang Zhong and scolded: "Wang Zhong, you chaotic minister and thief, today the old minister wants to clear the side of His Majesty!"
One by one, the palace guards and the palace eunuchs slowly approached Wang Zhong, everyone had malicious eyes, and everyone was a master of the "True Gang Realm".
Wang Zhong gradually found that the acquaintance in the crowd turned out to be the old immortal Ding Chunqiu, he looked carefully, it turned out that the surrounding palace guards and palace eunuchs were all masters of the rivers and lakes pretending, most of these people were masters of the evil sect, and Zhao Ji might have spent a lot of effort to get them together!
"Zhao Ji, do you think you can deal with me with these people?" Wang Zhong said contemptuously to Zhao Ji at the top.
"Don't pretend, we already know that you will be seriously injured in the decisive battle against Xiao Dingguo!" Cai Jing said with a smug smile.
"It turns out that Your Majesty is going to unload the mill and kill the donkey!" Wang Zhong said calmly.
From beginning to end, Zhao Ji didn't say a word, like a puppet.
Wang Zhong didn't bother to talk nonsense, he wanted to tell everyone that even if it was an injured Heaven and Man Realm master, not everyone could deal with it!
It's night, and the palace is bloody!