Aliti knew in his heart that after obtaining the Xihe Jianing Military Office, the longer the time, the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty would increase at an unimaginable rate. At that time, it would appear on the northwest battlefield at a level of 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of cavalry as the level of cavalry. This scene has only happened when Liao and Xia attacked each other in two hundred years. In a few years, the Han people will reappear this spectacular scene!

Aliti didn't know that all this was just a trap. When the Song Dynasty put a rope on the head of the Dangxiang people, it was impossible to stop the Song Dynasty's monarch and ministers. Not to mention Wang Jinghui's obstacles, even the ambitious emperor Zhao Xu would rather sacrifice the country's short-term or even medium-term interests at this time and try his best to destroy the Western Xia. If you want to recover Yanyun and pacify the Liao Kingdom, you must first solve the problem of Xixia to obtain horse resources. In contrast, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi would not let go. One of them was concerned that the Western Xia invasion of Song would bring nearly ten million additional financial expenditures to the Song Dynasty every year, and the other was to use the results of this Pingxia to inject a shot of a heart-warming shot to the reformists. Although the Pingxia War was not led by the reformists, without the Wang Shao Kaixi River Battle, the Song Dynasty wanted to pacify Xixia to look at the moon in the water.

Although Xiao Youdan, who said goodbye to Wang Jinghui in the rain, was busy returning to Liao Kingdom, his itinerary was carefully selected in advance. He hoped that he would rather walk more roads northward and look at the border situation in Hebei in the Song Dynasty as much as possible. He tried to pass by some regional big cities. However, when he arrived in Xingzhou on the third day after leaving Biandu, he felt very uncomfortable. He was sick, to be precise, the chronic poison of the prince-consort began to slowly attack.

After simple treatment, Xiao Youdan did not take physical discomfort to heart. Although he was a scholar, most of the Khitan people started practicing archery and horse since childhood. He had great confidence in his body, and he did not take this little disease into his heart.

When Xiao Youdan entered the Liao Kingdom through the Hejian Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, his condition began to worsen. Fortunately, he was not far from Xijin Prefecture on Nanjing Road, Liao Kingdom. After his entourage rushed all the way to Xijin Prefecture, he immediately asked a doctor to treat Xiao Youdan. The doctor gave the conclusion that it was caused by a long journey and encountered wind and cold. He prescribed a few prescriptions and left.

Xiao Youdan's condition is obviously no longer suitable for continuing to rush forward. After taking the prescription prescribed by the doctor, Xiao Youdan's spirit has improved a lot - Wang Jinghui has never given up constantly improving his poison, in order to make the poisoned person more like a normal person. He relies on the collection of books in the Medical Bookstore to continuously absorb ancient medical knowledge. Now, taking the poison to Xiao Youdan has changed a lot compared to what Liang Yi took when he was buried. The most prominent feature is that the condition of the poisoned person is constantly changing repeatedly.

Xiao Youdan is an important figure in the rear tribe and an official who will play the role of the Liao emperor's internal affairs chief in the future. He paid great attention to his return. The King of Wei and the rear tribe, but this kind of attention sometimes comes with many other things. Xiao Youdan received the news that Xiao Hugu died at home more than a month ago, which made Xiao Youdan feel even more sad. Xiao Hugu died because of himself. It was the white-haired old man next to Wang Jinghui who suffered severe damage to Xiao Hugu, although he knew the truth that the winner was the king and the prince were the loser. Regarding the past, Wang Jinghui would not hurt Xiao Hugu severely, even if he killed him on the spot, Xiao Youdan had nothing to say. But the truth is that Xiao Hugu died early because of himself.

When Xiao Youdan fell ill in Xijin Mansion, his heart was already shrouded in despair. After hearing the news of Xiao Hugu's death, his physical condition became more and more uncontrollable, and he often fell into a coma on the hospital bed. His aide Xiao Bowen was waiting day and night next to his hospital bed. The doctor had already told Xiao Bowen that Xiao Youdan's physical condition could not be long. The cold caused by the long-distance travel and the sudden death of his friend, it was a lucky chance to be able to hold on for a few more days under heavy blows. If Xiao Youdan had any last wish, please tell him quickly.

Xiao Youdan was already sick on the hospital bed at this time. He knew that his deadline had come, so he called Xiao Bowen and Aslian to the bedside. It was originally a plan for him to annex the Xixia when he met the emperor, but now it seemed impossible. He could only hand over the written letter to Xiao Bowen and ask him to pass it to Empress Xiao so that the letter could be successfully reached the emperor without being blocked by King Yelu Yixin of Wei.

Xiao Youdan was like this. He passed away in a official residence in Xijin Prefecture. He had too many wishes in his heart. After receiving the exact news, Wang Jinghui had no trouble in his heart. In this era, there were many knowledgeable people between the Song and Liao countries who realized the problems that arose in their country. Just like East Asia in the late 18th century, China and Japan also had many visionary figures, and they had worked hard for their motherland. Unfortunately for the Chinese, the Japanese were ahead, but in this other time and space, with Wang Jinghui's unexpected factor, the Song Dynasty was ahead of the Liao Kingdom. Wang Jinghui hoped that this leadership would last forever - not only in these few years, but when he was alive, he hoped that it would last forever!

Empress Xiao attached great importance to Xiao Youdan's last letter and safely submitted the letter to Emperor Yelu Hongji. However, Xiao Youdan did not know that the news of the peace agreement between the Song Dynasty and Xixia had reached to the palace of Dading Prefecture. This letter seemed to be like waste paper in Yelu Hongji's view. In fact, Xiao Youdan's aide Xiao Bowen also learned the news when he was seriously ill, but looking at Xiao Youdan who was already ill, he really couldn't bear to tell Xiao Youdan the news.

A few years ago, it was easier for both the Liao and Xixia to obtain information from the Song Dynasty. Although the proportion of information contained in these information between the high-level officials of the Song Dynasty ruled was very small, it was still very certain to spy it. However, in recent years, it is difficult to obtain valuable intelligence. The Song Dynasty will not move the official organization of the Liao Dynasty and the Xixia region. However, private businesses or other intelligence networks developed by the Song Dynasty were basically caught by the Imperial City Department of the Song Dynasty. Because of the existence of the Intelligence Bureau, senior officials of the Liao Dynasty also had senior intelligence personnel around them. Although the Imperial City Department was nothing different in China, they could follow the clues to find the Liao Dynasty's intelligence network in the Song Dynasty based on the intelligence from the Liao Dynasty.

In Wang Jinghui's eyes, the official intelligence agencies of the Liao Kingdom were mainly established with Xiao Youdan at the Liao Kingdom Embassy in Biandu. The means were still at the level of a beautiful woman in money. If he was Xiao Youdan, the effort he spent would definitely not be on this - it would be easier to collect a person's privacy to control the person's behavior. At least he instructed the intelligence personnel of the Song Dynasty in the Liao Kingdom to do this, and the effect he received was very obvious.

The intelligence networks of the Liao Kingdom and Xixia in Biandu were destroyed in a disastrous manner, which was just conducive to protecting the mobilization of the Song Dynasty's army and military supplies. All the troops involved in the war to destroy Xia tried their best to gather from their own garages from their garrisons to the four routes in the northwest of Shaanxi. Military supplies were transported to the northwest through three main official roads built by Western Xia prisoners in recent years, using ox carts and horse carts to the northwest. It is worth mentioning that the shipping of the Song Dynasty played an important role in the process of South-to-North grain transfer - because the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou was the core.

The inland river transport system of the Song Dynasty could not meet this large-scale material mobilization. Although it had been continuously repaired by Emperors of the Song Dynasty in the past dynasties, the transportation volume of the Bian River could only meet the daily amount of materials transported to the Bian Capital. If it was strictly reviewed during the war, civil ships could be abandoned. The dredging project of the Bian River led by Shen Kuo once again improved the transportation capacity of the main river channel of the Bian River, but it was only a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge transport fleet, which made Wang Jinghui sigh at the power of the Song Dynasty's trade.

Obviously, if this is the case, let alone the officials of the Liao and Xixia who were remaining within the Song Dynasty would keenly realize that this was the Song Dynasty preparing for the war, and even the Song people themselves would know that the country was going to fight, which would obviously reveal the original intention of the Song Dynasty's senior officials to raid the Western Xia. At this time, the shipping industry was the first time to openly enter the Song Dynasty transportation stage.

The sea transportation route of the Song Dynasty was completely designed by Wang Jinghui - from south to north, from Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Haizhou to the last Mizhou. As long as the grain is transported to Chuzhou, Haizhou and Mizhou, there will naturally be major transportation routes for the next step of land transportation. The goal is to only want Kaifeng, Bian, or directly lead to Hebei.

The Song Dynasty had already used ten thousand stone ships in the previous inland river transportation. The load capacity of this ship was about 500 tons, which may not be considered a big deal in later generations, but in the Song Dynasty where Wang Jinghui was located, it was a huge thing. Unfortunately, due to the deep draft, this ship could only sail on the main road of the Yangtze River to take on transportation tasks from Sichuan to Hangzhou and Yangzhou, and also used this ship during navigation.

However, with the good shipbuilding foundation of the Song Dynasty, coupled with the overseas transportation advocated by Wang Jinghui, in Chuzhou and Hangzhou's manufacturing docks (the Song Dynasty had already started using docks, and it was the first time to repair a dragon ship tribute overseas. Unfortunately, this technology was promoted too long at that time. This book advanced the docks four or five years ago, and it was fully promoted from the beginning), giant navigation monsters of 20,000 or even 30,000 stones have appeared. It is precisely because of this era that it seems that it is not

Only by holding ships with a stunning ship, Wang Jinghui was able to reduce the cost a lot in the process of transporting grain to Hebei in advance. Although the cost of manufacturing such a ship is almost unbearable, in the eyes of Wang Jinghui, who was at all costs and firmly ranked as the richest man in the Song Dynasty, the price of making such a giant ship is very worthwhile. He was dissatisfied with the only dissatisfaction in his heart. He hoped to have a ship with a larger load capacity. Unfortunately, the shipbuilding level of this era has come to this point. He needs time to wait for a breakthrough in shipbuilding technology.

Wang Jinghui's action to transport grain from the countries of Southeast Asia has never stopped. He is not like other merchants from the Song Dynasty. He will only transport grain from abroad when the price of grain rises in the Song Dynasty. Food is the basis of everything, especially when he knows that there are constant disasters in the Song Dynasty, and he will be strong when he speaks with grain. The big-scale shipping is not eye-catching. After all, except for the obvious busyness of several important ports, there will be no big response in the outside world, but the grain is ashore from Mizhou as quickly as possible and transported to Shaanxi via Hedong Road and Hebei Road.

Northwest. Baichi City.

Fu Bi stood in front of Baichi City with Zhong Yan, Yang Chongyue, Wuxin, and Wang Shundi. In front of them were envoys of the Western Xia. Today was the day when they received compensation for the Western Xia war. This was part of Wang Jinghui's proposal to Emperor Zhao Xu. In the negotiations with Aliti, the Song Dynasty asked Xixia for a large amount of land property, horses, cattle, sheep, livestock, grain and other materials from Xixia as the price of not attacking Xixia. Every year, Xixia also had to pay 100,000 guan of money, 1,000 horses, and 5,000 cattle and sheep. There is no doubt that the "annual monies" of the Song Dynasty were extremely harsh. In the Song Dynasty, 100,000 guan of money might not be a big deal, but it was a very large expense for the Western Xia finances.

Although Aliti had argued for this and was willing to make certain concessions in war compensation, Wang Jinghui never let it go. In his opinion, even if the peace talks were just a trap against the Western Xia, he had to breathe. A few years ago, the finances of the Song Dynasty were not good. Although the "annual monies" of Liaoxia were nothing compared to the annual financial income of the Song Dynasty, the humiliation it brought made all Song people feel ashamed.

.Wang Jinghui was also puzzled by the behavior of the Song Dynasty when he was studying in later generations. Especially during the alliance of the Chingyuan, the bottom line of negotiations that Song Renzong asked for was 3 million guan per year. Fortunately, the envoy was threatened by the prime minister Kou Zhun at that time. If he exceeded 3 million guan, Kou Zhun would have to kill him at all costs, which would have maintained the annual guan for Liao at 300,000 guan. Wang Jinghui could not imagine that if he gave 3 million guan per year, would the Song Dynasty be destroyed by Liao within more than ten years?

Wang Jinghui also thought carefully that what is important is not how much the annual monies itself is. As long as the Song Dynasty does not deliberately waste it, the annual fiscal revenue surplus is extremely considerable, and millions of monies are normal. With the decline of the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty's finance can save an additional 30 million monies of special military expenditure in the northwest every two years. No matter where the Song Dynasty uses this money, it is much better than using it for useless military conquests.

The key to the annual monies is "confidence" - the Song Dynasty can erase this humiliating past with blood through war revenge. Since the enemy can use the iron and blood in his hands to add this humiliation to the Song Dynasty, why can't the Song Dynasty retaliate against the opponent in the same way?! Today, it only erased 170,000 monies of annual monies to Xixia, but instead gave Xixia 100,000 monies of annual monies to the Song Dynasty. Will it also erase 300,000 monies of annual monies from Liao by force tomorrow, and even return it to the person in the way of the other person?!

The two emperors and brothers Taizu and Emperor Taizong made the Song Dynasty avoid the real and the weak for a hundred years and were willing to be a turtle. This mentality was not only deeply planted in the hearts of the high-ranking ruling leaders of the Song Dynasty, but also deeply influenced the scholar class of the Song Dynasty. Wang Jinghui wanted to re-establish the confidence of the Song Dynasty through the iron and blood-like "Ban Simai" style of conducting iron and blood. This confidence not only comes from the "righteous" civilization, but also based on strong force. Use civilization to command force, so as to use force to open the way for the consolidation and spread of civilization!

Wang Jinghui's approach was unanimously agreed by the monarchs and ministers of the court. Although several core figures knew that the war to destroy Xia would soon ignite the beacon, the Song Dynasty might be able to enjoy the "year-old tribute" of the Xixia, but they still very much agreed with the results of the prince-consort's negotiation. Sima Guang also raised his hand high at this point. And more importantly, the news and results of the Songxia peace talks were published in the three national newspapers of the Song Dynasty after the peace talks. This was also what the Western Xia envoy Aliti asked. However, Wang Jinghui wanted to make the peace talks and agreements public in the newspapers more than Aliti. As for the future wars that violated morality, he did not care in his heart, because the two anti-episodes in the hands of Emperor Zhao Xu had given the Song Dynasty sufficient excuses to send troops to Xixia. He wanted the scholars of the Song Dynasty to realize the real war treaty for the first time, so as to encourage the arrogance of the war faction within the Song Dynasty.

"Dear sirs, the war expenses and annual monies compensated by Xixia have been carefully checked, and they are no different from what is written on the document!" The young man who bowed to report in front of South Korea's Gong Fu Bi was Yongren, who was the agent of Wang Jinghui. Wang Jinghui himself was responsible for coordinating the distribution of Northwest war money as a representative of the business group of the Song Dynasty, and Yongren was the actual person in charge for the specific operations.

Korean Gong Fu Bi nodded, and the generals around him exchanged their opinions with their eyes - they all understood that after Xixia delivered war compensation and annual tribute, it was their turn to officially make their debut! Wang Shun's Poxi Army was stationed at Tiemen Pass not far from here. Once Fu Bi rushed his army westward, his Poxi Army would be the first to rush out to conquer Xixia, and of course there were elite soldiers and generals from all walks of life. Wang Shao had already prepared on another front, the southern front, and Zhongzheng Army and Xiongxin Army were under his control. The troops were stationed in Bole City, Jingsai Army and Mingsha City, and would be divided into three routes to enter the 800-mile Hanhai and march towards the Xingqing Prefecture and Hexi Corridor.
Chapter completed!