Although among the several high-ranking officials who presided over the Northern Expedition, Tong Guan and Cai You were both very pacifist appeasers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoBut whether it is Tong Xuanfu or Xiao Cai, they chose to appease the Khitan nobles and Han officials in the south of the Liao State, and their intentions are different from Zhao Liangsi, the advocate of the appeasement theory.

The reason why Tong Guan chose to appease instead of directly pulling the military horse to kill the already dilapidated Yandi border army was because he understood that his task from beginning to end was to balance the western army generals, so that the only field army in the Great Song Dynasty that could fight and dared to fight would not become a feudal town in the Tang Dynasty.

So before the sky fell apart, this eunuch with such a personality as a long beard would never let the Western Army generals led by the old and small breeds go to the battlefield to mix military exploits.

And Cai You's motive is very simple, since he gave his son Cai Jing a backstab and stabbed Wang Huang in the face, this elegant little Cai bachelor can only move out of Cai's mansion and live a life of self-reliance, and the huge wealth that Cai Jing has accumulated all his life has nothing to do with him. In the Xuanhe Dynasty under the rule of Zhao Ji, whether it was to be a high-ranking official in Bianliang or to maintain the exquisite enjoyment of the gods, wealth was always an inescapable problem. And as long as the Western Army does not open to the territory of Liao, then most of the grain, grass and canes that are constantly supplied in the rear will go into the purse of Xiao Cai's Bachelor - no way, in the past two years, Xiao Cai's Bachelor has left Cai's Mansion and lived separately, and he has always been used to being lavish, and he has been so poor in the past two years that he is so shameless that he can make money like Zhu Mian in the southeast who should serve the bureau.

And the reason why Zhao Liangsi sang "As soon as the edict of the Emperor Song Dynasty to appease Yanmin arrived, he went up to the lord of the country, Ye Luchun, and down to the old man of Limin Village, and he ate pot pulp to welcome the king", compared with Tong Guan and Cai You, it was a different belly.

Dividing and disintegrating the Western Army, that is a major matter for Zhao Ji's henchmen like Tong Guan to plan, and he Zhao Liangsi is not qualified to break his wrists with the old man.

As for the whale swallowing and encroaching on the military expenditure of Liao, that is not to mention. Who would put a man who had returned from the south to such an important task as transporting ordnance, grain, and grass in the rear? Although Zhao Ji was absurd and easy to employ people, he had not yet lost his basic common sense.

Although Zhao Ji has always had a high interest in the matter of "Ma Zhi, the Qing of Guanglu Temple in Liao, would rather change his name and surname to Li Liangsi, but also Nantou Great Song Dynasty", Zhao Ji has always had a very high interest, and he felt that he had decorated the peaceful and prosperous era of Emperor Daojun, and even gave the surname Zhao to this person who returned to the south. However, the official positions given by Zhao Ji to Zhao Liangsi are still only some noble and idle positions such as the direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion and the promotion of the envoy of the Wanshou Palace.

In the final analysis, the reason why Zhao Liangsi advocated "appeasement" was because his ass was still sitting on the side of the Han wealthy clan in Liao.

In terms of family history, Zhao Liangsi and Li Chuwen, the hot prime minister of Northern Liao, are cousins and nephews, and his family has lived in Liao for more than 100 years, and the relationship network has stretched to all aspects like a spider. Whether it is the high-ranking families of the Han officials in the south in Yanjing, or the famous Wubao wealthy families in Yandi, which one does not have a distant relative with Zhao Liangsi?

Such a character, where is he willing to let the Western Army fight all the way into the Liao State, so that the old family property, officials and even lives of relatives and friends for many years will be burned down with the demise of the Yelu family?

The best, as he planned from the moment he absconded to the Song Kingdom, he Zhao Lianghe, the Khitan Tong, colluded with his cousin Li Chuwen, and gently did not move a knife or a soldier, and only wrote a table, even if it was a great success. At most, ask Ye Luchun, who has long been sick to the point of dying, to wear a prison uniform, tie his hands behind his back, hold a piece of jade in his mouth, and let the queen Xiao Puxian, who is wearing filial piety clothes, lead a sheep on the side, which can be regarded as satisfying Zhao Ji's retro aesthetic taste in etiquette......

If the war against Liao follows Zhao Liangsi's script completely, then it should be regarded as a happy ending:

The Great Song Dynasty did not spend a single soldier, and formally obtained the land of Yanyun that Yizu and Taizong longed for but could not set foot in; Tong Guan, Cai You, and now Dazai Wang Huang all relied on the great merit of the Liao to confer the title of king and duke, and completely cut off the opportunity for her husband Cai Jing to re-employ things by the way; the Western Army could return to Guanxi with all the beards and tails, and continue their century-old enmity with the Xixia people; while the southern officials and wealthy clans of the Liao State were just changing an emperor on their heads, and they could preserve the fame and wealth they had won under the rule of the Khitans......

And Zhao Liangsi, the No. 1 "Khitan Tong" in the Great Song Dynasty, can also rely on this great achievement to get rid of his idle positions such as straight bachelors and palace envoys in one fell swoop, go straight to the center, and leave his name in history. And his family, like the Xiangzhou Han family who had the famous Han Qi, will become another century-old wealthy family in the Great Song Dynasty.

The big husband has made great achievements, isn't this just for this?

But his dreams and plans, at the beginning of the Song Army's Northern Expedition, encountered a big blow-

Zhuozhou and Yizhou, these two states are the gateways of Yanjing, and the location is self-evident. Unexpectedly, from the very beginning, these two states announced their vote for Song Yizhi, and they didn't even have the slightest intention of communicating with him Zhao Liangsi!

If the Liao State guards of the two states took the initiative to change their banners, then Zhao Lianghei, who had the most say in Liao affairs in the Northern Expedition Xuanfu Division, had a hundred ways to attribute this matter to his clever calculations and Tong Xuanfu's wise leadership. And as the two state guards who returned to the south, as long as they still planned to make a living under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, they had to tie up with him Zhao Lianghe.

However, if it is said that the great merit of lowering the two states was done by Xu Xuanling, a Taoist official who is deeply trusted by the officials, then don't say that he Zhao Lianghei, even if Tong Guan and Cai You want to share some credit, they must also come up with enough price to exchange.

From the moment he received this news, until he followed Ma Kuo to the way to receive the surrender of the two states, jealousy and unwillingness gnawed at Zhao Liangsi's heart like a poisonous snake.

All kinds of pain in this are naturally not enough for outsiders, and as the former Great Liao Guanglu Temple, Zhao Liangsi also has enough city government to hide his entire mind.

Zhao Liangsi's mood, as the first brother of officialdom and more familiar with the laws of the army than the rules of officialdom, Ma Kuo did not experience it at all. He is now inspired by a pride that he is about to establish immortal achievements and emulate the famous generals of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and he has not considered how to take into account his personal interests and honor and disgrace in this war.

He just greeted Zhao Liangsi in a consistent military tone: "Zhao Longzhi, the front is Zhuozhou City, and the soldiers we brought out are all Shengjie soldiers, who are not familiar with the land, and will enter the city in a while, and I hope that Zhao Longzhi will promote the benevolence of the Great Song Dynasty for the official family." ”

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