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Whenever Lin'an is mentioned, it can't help but remind people of the hazy smoke and rain, poetry and painting of the Jiangnan picture, but for Li Tingzhi, he feels that his eyes are too empty, and it seems that if he touches it lightly, it will be like the thin paper, which will break instantly.

"Didn't the other party accept it?"

Directly opposite, Zheng Qingzhi listened to what Li Tingzhi said, and couldn't help but be so stunned that he even forgot to put down the teacup in his hand.

Since the original Chengtian Palace, Qiao Xingjian was attacked by the ancestral dragon's resentment, which caused his entire body to be severely damaged, and he died of illness a few days later, while Shi Songzhi was reprimanded by Zhao Yun because of his poor protection, and he was directly demoted from Lin'an.

After the departure of these two important ministers of the court, Zheng Qingzhi deserved to ascend to the throne smoothly and became the current prime minister of the Song Dynasty.

"Yes!" Li Tingzhi bowed slightly, with some shame.

Zheng Qingzhi put down the teacup and asked, "Why?"

"According to what Xiao Feng said, he should be dissatisfied with the conditions, so he refused our offer. Li Tingzhi frowned and thought about it for a while, but he didn't know whether he should tell or not.

"Oh, are you saying that the other party is asking for the title of king?"

Zheng Qingzhi couldn't help laughing, and said: "You must know that Li Ke once sent someone over pitifully, just begging us to send troops to help him, but I didn't expect this woman to refuse in one bite?

Li Tingzhi was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and replied apologetically: "It's because of the incompetence of his subordinates, and he hasn't persuaded the other party well." ”

"It doesn't matter. Zheng Qingzhi shook his head lightly, and said: "Although the commander of the Red Phoenix Army is a woman, since he dares to rebel in Mongolia, he has brought out an entire army from the encirclement and suppression of Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou and others. He sighed in a low voice, and said: "In my opinion, this is just a method of blackmail by the other party, and its purpose is to unite with our Song Dynasty after all." ”

"Since we want to unite, why did that woman refuse? and even did not hesitate to instigate her subordinates to drive us out of the city?" Whenever he remembered the scene at that time, Li Tingzhi felt full of doubts, and he couldn't figure out what the other party was planning to do.

Zheng Qingzhi laughed and explained: "It's very simple. She's just expressing her displeasure. ”

"Dissatisfied?" Li Tingzhi asked again.

"That's right. Relying only on a few officials, he intended to bring this Red Phoenix Army under his command, and anyone would be annoyed. If she accepted it easily, then at best it would be just a Li, and there was nothing to be afraid of at all. But if she doesn't accept it, it means that this woman is very ambitious, and if so, she may be able to use it as a barrier to the southwest, and it can also be used as the best tool to defend against Mongolia. Zheng Qingzhi explained in a slow voice.

Li's defeat was due to his unstable foundation and lack of ability, so he was killed by the Mongols.

But the Chifeng Army is different, under the leadership of Xiao Feng, not to mention its strict military discipline, everywhere it goes, it is to exterminate bandits, its reputation has long been broadcast in the world, and ordinary fools have also heard of it.

Otherwise, how could the Red Phoenix Army be able to gain a firm foothold in the Guanzhong generation in just a few years?

Only the Chifeng Army has a deep foundation and can replace the Song Dynasty and resist the Mongol army, which Zheng Qingzhi knows quite well.

Li Tingzhi suddenly realized and complained: "So, Mr. asked me to go just to find out the details of the Chifeng Army?"

"That's right. The Red Phoenix Army has now occupied the Hanzhong region, and there are more than two million people under its command, and the territory under its command is also thousands of miles away. With such a terrain, even if it is powerless to develop, if you keep yourself, it is more than enough. It is precisely for this reason that if I can get the power of the Red Phoenix Army, then I will face the southwest and feel at ease. Zheng Qingzhi said loudly.

Although Li Tingzhi understood, he felt a little annoyed, but there were too few combatable troops in the Song army, and he was unable to resist the Mongolian army, so he asked: "But I look at Xiao Feng, the commander of the Red Phoenix Army, this woman is not comparable to ordinary people, her heart is strong and heavy, and she has the ambition to conquer the world, if you sit back and watch this person grow up, I am afraid that she will threaten us in the future." ”

"You're still thinking too much. ”

Zheng Qingzhi was unimpressed, and continued to complain: "Although the land of Hanzhong is surrounded by natural dangers, it is known as the 'country of abundance', and the Qin Dynasty also used this to establish a country, and because of the Shang Dynasty changed the law, it changed from weak to strong, and there was a foundation for swallowing six kingdoms behind it. But after more than a thousand years of Hanzhong, its land has long been fertile and not as usual, so that the food has decreased a lot, and then after decades of turmoil, the people of the land have already been displaced from all over the place, it is difficult to recall all of them, many water conservancy fortifications and pavilions and palaces are burned, and they can be said to be a great loss of vitality. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Qingzhi laughed again: "In my opinion, the Chifeng Army has been operating in Hanzhong for twenty years, and it is categorically difficult to pose a threat to our dynasty. After all, I have a population of tens of millions of people under my command, and the annual production of rice millet is as high as tens of millions of stones. And even if that woman has the ability to defy the sky, the army under her command is no more than 100,000 people, and the rice millet is only more than 100, which is only equivalent to one-tenth of our dynasty. In this case, how can the Red Phoenix Army make a retrograde move and threaten the foundation of our dynasty. You're still too sensitive, so there's nothing to worry about. ”

"That's just as well. ”

Li Tingzhi felt that this might not be the case, but seeing that Zheng Qingzhi was full of confidence, he didn't continue to entangle, but asked: "If that's the case, then how should we deal with the Red Phoenix Army? Let them continue to grow in the frontier, or send troops to attack?"

"It depends on the situation for the time being. If the other party really sits firmly in Hanzhong, then what if the other party is given a king? If the other party is defeated and retreats under the Mongol army, there is no need for us to do anything, and they will naturally come to the door in person. Zheng Qingzhi frowned, and said: "At present, the most critical thing is Mongolia. ”

"Mongolia, could it be that they have been moving again recently?" Li Tingzhi was shocked, only to feel as if his whole body was being electrified, and his whole body was propped up.

Compared with the Red Phoenix Army, this Mongolia is a strong enemy, not to mention the cavalry with hundreds of thousands of people, its territory alone far exceeds that of any country in history, and it is the culprit of the destruction of the Jin Dynasty and the control of the Central Plains.

Only such a behemoth is what the Song Dynasty needs to be cautious about.

Zheng Qingzhi replied, "That's right." Since three years ago, Ogedai fell due to the ancestral dragon, and after half a year of fighting, the throne was inherited by Guiyou. You should know that!"

"I once heard General Meng mention this. However, Gui You was sick and weak, and it was difficult to deal with the government at all. His younger brother Kuoduan is difficult to get out because he needs to be stationed in Ningxia for a generation to deal with the Red Phoenix Army and me, so the current government is controlled by Naima Zhen, the mother of Guiyou. Regarding this matter, Li Tingzhi has always been extremely concerned, and he has long told the news he got from the mouth of the northern spy personnel.

Zheng Qingzhi was even more appreciative, and said: "But you should know." Although this Nai Ma Zhen is the wife of Wokotai, she is just a woman after all. Since ancient times, it has been taboo for women's temples to interfere in politics, even if it can be suppressed for a while, but it is difficult to last long. If I deduce from this, I am afraid that Mongolia must have begun to have internal disorder by now. Otherwise, the other side should have raised troops to the south long ago, instead of postponing the military affairs. ”

In fact, since the death of Ögedei, the territory of Mongolia has been strangely quiet, not only the army that was fighting with the Song Dynasty quickly retreated, but even those cities that had just been captured did not hesitate to throw them down and let the other side occupy them.

It was also during this period that the Chifeng military developed rapidly and occupied the entire Hanzhong area.

As the opponent of the Mongol Empire, the prime ministers of the Song Dynasty also obviously felt the corresponding changes.

"What does Zheng Gong mean?" Li Tingzhi's eyes were a little different, obviously guessing something.

Zheng Qingzhi replied slowly: "You should know. Now Mongolia is busy with civil strife, and it should be unintentional. It is precisely for this reason that this is the time for us to make meritorious contributions, if we can recapture the Jianghuai generation at this time, and even include the entire Central Plains, it is also possible to rejuvenate the style of the Han family in the past. So at this time, the affairs of the army are still more laborious and laborious. ”

"What the minister said, his subordinates will definitely take it to heart. Li Tingzhi bowed, got up and left, ready to deal with the things Zheng Qingzhi ordered.

After Li Tingzhi left, another person walked into it, but it was Najia.

Na Jia seemed to glance at Li Tingzhi's back, his eyebrows immediately furrowed, revealing a little displeasure, and seeing Zheng Qingzhi sitting on the chair, he couldn't help but be a little scared, so he dared to sit down under the other party's orders.

"Alas!"

With another long sigh, Zheng Qingzhi shook his head again and again, and then asked, "Have you done what I told you?"

Jia Rudao was stunned, couldn't help lowering his head, and muttered, "No!"

"You, you, if it weren't for the fact that I had a relationship with your father, Jia She, and even had the Holy God ask me to take more care of you, do you think you would be treated like you today? It's good for you, as soon as you arrive at the land of the Red Phoenix Army, you will start to show off your might, do you really think that Chang'an City is our Lin'an?" Zheng Qingzhi reprimanded with some dissatisfaction.

He naturally knew that Jia Nidao lacked talent and morality and had a bad character, but he was an official in the same dynasty as Jia She, and Jia Rudao's sister was also Zhao Yun's favored Jia Guifei, Jia Guifei mentioned her father and the only remaining young son in Zhao Yun's ear every day, so Jia Nidao stepped into the official career and became a member of the great bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty.

In order to consolidate his own strength, Zheng Qingzhi brought Jia Yidao up, and even arranged an alliance with the Red Phoenix Army for him.

It's a pity that Jia seems to be arrogant and arrogant, and he still didn't do it after all.

Knowing this, Jia Rudao looked stupid, and his eyebrows were a little gloomy, so he raised his head and said, "That Red Phoenix Army is just a group of hooligans. It's just that after occupying Chang'an City by luck, he began to act as a prestige and self-righteousness, and even the Confucian classics and Han customs were discarded and ignored, so what if I reprimanded him?"

"Confused!"

Zheng Qingzhi looked angry, and opened his mouth to scold: "I want you to form an alliance, when do you want to promote sinicization? ”

He wanted to admonish him, but the other party was the brother-in-law of the current saint, and he was also a loyal and good man, if he did such an act, he was afraid that he would be ridiculed and even used as a handle to drive him down from this prime minister's position.

Zheng Qingzhi easily picked up this bargain, how could he throw it away?

"I'll just leave, what are you scolding?"

Jia Rudao was also arrogant, so he got up and left immediately, without apologizing to Zheng Qingzhi at all, and scolded and scolded as he walked: "It's just an old man, why should you discipline me? If so, why don't you ask my sister to tell the saint about it, how about changing places?"

Saying this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted: "If this is the case, it is none other than where General Meng Heng Meng is." You must know that Meng Heng is known as the victorious general, if he enters his command, he will definitely protect me when he thinks of my identity, and I can also take this opportunity to make great contributions, and then enter the court, see what other means do you have to control me?"

"And that Red Phoenix Army is also very hateful, and I will teach it a lesson when the time comes, so that that slut knows my methods. "Confused!"

Zheng Qingzhi looked angry, and opened his mouth to scold: "I want you to form an alliance, when do you want to promote sinicization? ”

He wanted to admonish him, but the other party was the brother-in-law of the current saint, and he was also a loyal and good man, if he did such an act, he was afraid that he would be ridiculed and even used as a handle to drive him down from this prime minister's position.

Zheng Qingzhi easily picked up this bargain, how could he throw it away?

"I'll just leave, what are you scolding?"

Jia Rudao was also arrogant, so he got up and left immediately, without apologizing to Zheng Qingzhi at all, and scolded and scolded as he walked: "It's just an old man, why should you discipline me? If so, why don't you ask my sister to tell the saint about it, how about changing places?"

Saying this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted: "If this is the case, it is none other than where General Meng Heng Meng is." You must know that Meng Heng is known as the victorious general, if he enters his command, he will definitely protect me when he thinks of my identity, and I can also take this opportunity to make great contributions, and then enter the court, see what other means do you have to control me?"

"And that Red Phoenix Army is also very hateful, and I will teach it a lesson when the time comes, so that that slut knows my methods. ”