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Chapter 330 Pressure

When Li Qing faced paper and pen, he was seriously ill and rested. The emperor of the Song Dynasty had not yet received any rewards for him. However, according to the Song Dynasty's convention, after the surrender of small countries or important generals of enemy countries, he would generally be granted the position of sanitation general, which was like the son-in-law of the Song Dynasty and the retired prime minister.

Li Qing had a special identity. Even if he was granted the sanitation general, since he was founded by him and his internal strength was as solid as a rock, it was impossible to deprive him of military power in a short period of time. He could only slowly weaken his military power for a considerable period of time. However, there would be exceptions - the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was full of confidence and felt that if he could control him, he would still hold military power. However, this possibility was very small. Not to mention the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, even his old opponent, Han Qi, Fu Bi would also strongly advise him.

After the surrender of the Poxi Army, the two soldiers were scattered in the major cities in the northwest and Li Qing, and there were still more than 80,000. Although the most valuable part was the remaining 30,000 soldiers around Li Qing and the 25,000 soldiers under the command of Wang Shun of the Tielin Army, the rest of the troops were stationed at a critical location, and Zhong Yan only stepped up the dispatch of troops to accept these cities. The surrendered Poxi Army was concentrated in the camp between the Jianing Army and the Guwuyan City.

Because Wang Shun was very brave in fighting and made great contributions in Yanzhou, Li Qing gave him a very generous reward. After surrendering to the Song army, the generals of the Song army did not make things difficult for him, and their property was returned to him. However, Wang Shun exchanged all his rewards with the Song army and turned them into wine and meat. Zhong Yan also agreed to him - the most important thing is that Wang Shun was Bingfeng. He now plays a very important role, which is to win over the hearts of the people of the Thunder Xi Army and firmly grasp part of the military power. In the future, even if Li Qing is rebellious, he will be subject to checks and balances.

In the eyes of the captives, nothing could attract them more than wine and meat. Wang Shun's practice was unanimously praised by the soldiers of the Poxi Army. Compared with Wang Shun, the Song army, who had a stronger net worth, did not confiscate their property, but they refused to take it out to improve the food of the soldiers, which formed two sharp contrasts--the original Poxi Army generals had a very thorough understanding and became prisoners of the Song army. They did not sell them to their son-in-law as slaves because they were all Han people. They would bid farewell to their military careers in the future and just go home to be a rich man. Their property was used in the future. How could they be as generous as Wang Shun?!

Although he became a prisoner of the Song army, Wang Shun still went to see Li Qing with generous gifts. Li Qing did not blame him for surrendering the Song army and losing the Jianing Military Office. He just kept blaming his unscrupulous eldest son Li Quan. Bingfeng did not say anything about this, but he knew in his heart that Li Qing had already cruelly put him into his bones. Li Quan was Li Qing's greatest hope, but it was completely destroyed in Wang Shun's hands. Moreover, the Jianing Military Office is so important. With Wang Shun's ability to defend the city in Yanzhou, he could have been able to hold on until he returned to help. But it was too late to say anything now.

Bingfeng slapped the jar of poisoned wine without hesitation and opened the mud seal, just like he poisoned Li Quan. The two of them drank the poisoned wine in one bowl. Li Qing was absolutely unable to live. As long as he was normal to die, there would be no big problem. Among the remaining generals of the Poxi Army, except for a few old guys who were greedy for money, none of them could have a higher reputation than their own. With his own assistance in the future, these more than 80,000 Poxi Army prisoners could be transformed into their own powerful army by the Song Dynasty. With the excellent equipment of the Han people and the same riding and shooting skills as nomadic peoples, once such an army reappears on the grassland, who can not be afraid of it?!

The poison was very effective. Li Qing fell ill from the next day, and his physical condition was sometimes good and sometimes bad. The Song army also sent a doctor to treat Li Qing, but this was a poison prepared by Wang Jinghui specifically to poison his opponents. He had considered the possibility of being discovered for post-mortem. Unless it was a poison master who came out of the palace, it was difficult for ordinary doctors to see it, let alone where to find such a clever doctor in this northwest battlefield? However, after receiving Wang Jinghui's letter, Bingfeng was also scared and sweated. Fortunately, he had not been poisoned for a long time. If he waited for another month, Li Qing would definitely be finished.

Now Li Qing is the fish on the cutting board and has no bargaining ability at all. Not to mention anything else, if Queen Mother Liang had not mobilized a large army to flatten him, how could he mobilize so many troops and horses to run thousands of miles to stabilize the Western front when the Eastern Front War had just gained the advantage. This made the Song army beat the slap and reap the benefits of the fisherman. So after hearing Zhong Yan's request, he had no nonsense and directly ordered people to help him up and write on the desk. A manifesto to attack Queen Mother Liang fell into Zhong Yan's hands.

After Zhong Yan received the proclamation of Li Qing's attack, what was left was the statement of the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern region. This was a bit difficult. However, the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern region had been cleaned up by Li Qing and were hiding in Shizhou and Xiangyou Army Division and did not dare to come out. Even so, without the firearms and various weapons and equipment sold to them at high prices in the Song Dynasty, they could not stop Li Qing's attack on the eastern front of the Poxi Army. After half a year of tossing, the strength of the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern region had been

After the oil was exhausted, Zhong Yan gave the order, the Song Dynasty changed its face to these "business partners". In half a month, the Song army launched an attack from Yinzhou, Xiazhou, Niu Xinting, Zuoxiang Shenwang Army Office and Yulin to Shizhou and Xiangyou Army Office. Under the offensive of the Song army, except for a few Dangxiang nobles who were desperate to the end, along Dejing Town, Mingtangchuan retreated to the Iron Hall in the northern desert, the rest of the weapons they put down were surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

The Song army solved the Dangxiang nobles in the eastern region without any blood. In addition to some of the cavalry continuing to pursue the remnants of the Dangxiang nobles, they disarmed all their troops and took out more than 10,000 strong men to Biandu to offer prisoners. The remaining troops were dispersed and organized into the army to act as the vanguard cannon fodder troops for the Song army to attack Xia. A small number of them also entered the Song army's logistics system to transport food and grass for the Song army. Of course, those who were good at herding horses or raising cattle and sheep were bought by Hebei merchants who followed him at a high price and acted as their slaves.

With the subway hoof of the Song army, Wang Jinghui and his businessmen gained great benefits. Although they were located a little remote, there were cheap slaves and fertile pastures, coupled with the enviable price difference of livestock within the Song Dynasty, which was enough to make all merchants investing in the Northwest War crazy. As for security, the Song Dynasty military provided guarantees. The military of the military was close at hand and was very safe. The Song Dynasty government gave merchants great discounts and exchanged them for sufficient funds, food and other materials necessary to start the war from the merchants, which also made up for the shortcomings of the country's financial shortcomings.

After all, the land obtained by force must be developed to show its value. Many officials among the conservatives and reformists have questioned such a war model. However, compared with Sima Guang, who remained silent on this issue, Wang Anshi seemed more casual. At least Wang Anshi was a true figure within the reformists and a close minister of the emperor, so this question had just been issued and had disappeared in front of Wang Anshi's huge personal influence.

The modern war model made the Song army have a height that its opponents could not reach in reserve resources. Once the war machines of the Song Dynasty were running, as long as they did not make strategic mistakes, Xixia, which had been against the Song Dynasty for decades, could not resist it. The Song army passed by, except for the rich grasslands and the Xihe River and the Jianing Military Office area, almost all the places outside were destructively advanced - livestock were plundered and the population was captured. Livestock could still be raised if they were lost. However, the lack of population was the biggest weakness of the Dangxiang - the power of the Xixia nationwide was not as large as the four routes in Shaanxi, and the Songxia War began in the second year of the Autonomous Pin, and almost every war was the same for Xixia.

Sub-major bleeding - qualified soldiers either died on the battlefield or became prisoners of the Song army. The damn Prince Consort of the Little Prince Consort almost became a permanent nightmare for the top leaders of the Western Xia rule. This world's largest human trafficker cruelly abused Dangxiang prisoners, and the heavy labor made only two or three Dangxiang people survived, which not only made Dangxiang people angry. Even the Song Dynasty was a little unbearable, but the benefits of using Dangxiang slaves were obvious, and no one could give up this benefit - even Sima Guang - Dangxiang prisoners saved millions of yuan in construction investment for the Song Dynasty, and later developed the South and the South Ocean were inseparable from Dangxiang prisoners.

When Aliti finally arrived at Kaifeng, Biandu after a month of itinerary, in the queue to welcome the Korean Duke, Aliti saw a figure he least wanted to see in his life - the prince-consort of the Song Dynasty was on the list! The prince-consort of the little prince is nearly thirty years old, but the years have not left him much changes. Compared with Aliti's eyes, the prince-consort of the little prince appears more mature and steady. His clear eyes flashed like a lake of autumn water, which was friendly and hard to see through and can't figure it out.

The reason why Aliti walked so slowly was that in addition to the emperor's instructions that Fu Bi, who was traveling with him, tried to delay his trip to Beijing as much as possible, was that Aliti carried a large amount of wealth. Empress Dowager Liang saw the current posture of the Song army and felt that the Song army would never miss such an opportunity this time. The founding of the Western Xia Kingdom has never been as dangerous as today. Even more than ten years ago, Di Wuxiang sent troops to the army with a spirit of martial arts without reaching the same danger today. Now only the Song people can save Xixia.

Aliti knew that this visit to the Song Dynasty had very little hope to save Xixia. This was all due to the evil consequences caused by the continuous invasion of the Song Dynasty for decades. The king and ministers of the Song Dynasty had been resentful for a long time, especially the young Emperor of the Song Dynasty. According to Aliti, the emperors of the Song Dynasty wanted to imitate Emperor Wu of Han, which was really not good for Xixia.

The wealth of Empress Dowager Liang bribed Ali to the ministers of the Song Dynasty was abundant. The gold and silver were loaded with more than a dozen large trucks. The highlight was the Western Xia, the Western Regions, and even the far West. The geographical location of the Western Xia was extremely important. It was precisely because of the Western Xia that the Silk Road connecting the exchanges between the East and the West was cut off. This also made the Song Dynasty lack an important income, and in desperation, it opened a maritime trade route. In Wang Jinghui's strategy, he killed Xixia first, not only because the Western Xia continued to invade Song and provoke wars, but also an important accomplice of the Khitan put pressure on the Song Dynasty. Even from the economic perspective alone, Xixia must be destroyed to reopen the Silk Road. In this era, no one can understand the power of cultural communication better than Wang Jinghui.

What Aliti was most worried about was that the prince-consort of Xiao Wang would interfere and destroy his plan. Although the effect of using bribes to save Xixia was very little. But there was a high possibility. However, if there was a hard opponent, the consequences would naturally become. Before Aliti came to Biandu, he mentioned Wang Jinghui's affairs to Empress Dowager Liang, but Empress Dowager Liang did not pay much attention. He just thought that a prince-consort from a businessman was just greedy for money. As long as greed for money was easy to satisfy, Aliti didn't think so. He also knew that the prince-consort of Xiao Wang was rich in the world and it was impossible to bribe him with yellow and white things, so he specially prepared a large number of novel items and antiques.

When he saw Aliti again, Wang Jinghui had a smile on his face, but in Aliti's eyes, the look of the little prince-consort looking at him was more like looking at a dish, and his cold eyes made him feel uncomfortable all over. But these were not what Aliti was worried about. He was even more worried that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty would still ask the little prince-consort to preside over the peace talks between Song Xia. If there was such a person obstructing it, the result of the peace talks could only be considered in the worst direction. The little prince-consort is standing here to welcome Fu Bi and him, and this possibility is still very high.

When Aliti entered the house arranged by the Song Dynasty for the envoy of the Western Xia, he immediately ordered his servants to collect all the newspapers of the Song Dynasty in the recent period. When Aliti came to Biandu for peace talks last time, he already knew that the Song Dynasty had a novelty of newspapers. He also bought a few copies to read, and he was very envious. However, this also saved him a lot of time to further understand the current situation of the Song Dynasty. The newspapers were very rich, and although the political secrets of the senior officials of the Song Dynasty were unaware of. However, newspapers were always a vane, and he could find what he needed. However, when he learned that the "Mirror of the Song Dynasty" was also the property of Xiao Wang's prince-consort, it was as disgusting as eating a fly.

Aliti didn't expect that the servant went out for a while and brought him a thick stack of newspapers back. He thought that the servant had bought a few more newspapers, but he didn't expect that there were actually three in this stack of newspapers. However, after Aliti roughly flipped through the newspapers, he realized that at least two of the three newspapers were controlled by Wang Jinghui, and the remaining "Xinhua News Agency of the Great Song Dynasty" was greatly affected by him even if it was not controlled by Xiao Wang's son-in-law.

After reading the newspaper, Aliti did not look down on the "Da Song Business Daily" as much as the people in the Great Song Dynasty. On the contrary, it was because of the front page Wang Jinghui's economic comments that caused a great change in the essence of this newspaper - Xiao Wang's prince consort was throwing bricks and causing jade to influence the entire Great Song Dynasty classic! There were many objections on the above, but if he had not carefully read the economic comments of Xiao Wang's prince consort, he could not write an objection in any case. The two seem to be contrary to the two, but this is exactly what Xiao Wang's prince consort wanted to see. If the articles posted cannot cause widespread controversy, it would be a big failure!

However, in addition to most of the contents of the newspaper itself that have nothing to do with his mission, what shocked Aliti was that many people on it published a summary of the war process and lessons of gains and losses between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia. Aliti could see at a glance that this was the prince consort of Xiao Wang who was making trouble behind the scenes. He was using these articles to influence readers of the newspapers and let them remember what kind of pain the Western Xia brought to the Song Dynasty, and more importantly, what kind of benefits the Song Dynasty would bring to the Song Dynasty - horses, a large number of horses,

If the Song Dynasty wants to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it must go to war with the Liao Kingdom. It is impossible to achieve this goal without enough horses to form a cavalry. However, Xixia has this important strategic resource. To eliminate the Xixia and obtain precious strategic resources for horses, reduce the additional fiscal expenditure caused by the war with Xixia. Just these two are enough to encourage all the Song people to come together to destroy Xia. You must know that even if the Shilin of the Song Dynasty looked down on the warriors, the recapture of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was the dream of countless Song people since the founding of the Song Dynasty!

Looking at the newspaper that had been transformed by himself, Aliti smiled helplessly. The figure of the young man who had only met once gradually appeared in front of him. The young man was entangled with him like a nightmare. The cold eyes and the sneer on the corner of his mouth made him feel heartbroken. Aliti knew very well what Xiao Wang's son-in-law meant--If the Song Dynasty wanted to be strong and break the even-match between Song and Liao, he had to step on the body of Xixia. In this regard, even he himself had to admire Xiao Wang's son-in-law's son-in-law's judgment.

"Sir, Xiao Youdan, the envoy of the Liao Kingdom to the Song Dynasty, asked for a meeting!" A servant said loudly outside the door.
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