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Chapter 390 Friction

Before Mogus' peace talks were entered into Bian Capital, the Song Dynasty also sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom. Because Mogus was intolerable in the Song Dynasty, the three major newspapers of the Song Dynasty have made comprehensive reports on this in the past few days. Even the revenge of Wang Shun, general of Dingxi Army, also mentioned it, but it only showed that the Song army's counterattack was to launch an attack on the Bu people of the Liao Kingdom's Shangjing Road, and did not mention the fact that the Baidadan tribe in the northern part of Xijing Road in Liao Kingdom was flattened by the Song Dynasty.

The report of the Northwest of the Song Dynasty was obviously very one-sided. The report only emphasized that Mogus was the leader of Mogus on Shangjing Road of the Liao Kingdom, but did not say that Mogus had already opposed the Liao Kingdom last year; and in terms of the scale of the attack, several different numbers of the Bu cavalry attacked the Hetao Plain of the Song Dynasty and was chased by the Song army to Shangjing Road of the Liao Kingdom.











The newspapers of the Song Dynasty reported the Northwest incident completely unfavorable to the Liao Kingdom, and they described the Song Dynasty as a completely authentic victim. Mogus easily imagined that the Khitans in the Liao Kingdom were behind them.











"The whole article is full of lies! I'm sorry, this lie was written by my commander!" Wang Jinghui shook his head with a wry smile and thought to himself.

"Shameless!" The knowledgeable people of the Liao Kingdom were all angry after seeing the newspapers of the Song Dynasty.

"It doesn't matter whether it is shameless or shameless. What matters is the position of my Song Dynasty court, because we need excuses!" Wang Jinghui said in an explanation to Emperor Zhao Xu and Sima Guang.

"The entire army is immediately alert and search for the rebellious forces of the Dangxiang people! Send 10,000 elite troops to station in Huhuadu, and raise food and grass from the rear to stock up here. From now on, we must be ready to go north to fight at any time!" Zhong Yan put down the newspaper and immediately summoned all important generals of the Western Army except Dingxi Army. Yang Chongyue led 10,000 troops to station in Huhuadu for the vanguard. In addition to protecting food, he was also ready to cross the Yellow River north to enter the Hetao Plain to assist the Dingxi Army in combat; and Wang Shao was responsible for the rapid-talking method to completely attack the original Western Xia restoration forces.

However, for the senior leaders of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty envoys were almost laughing in their hearts. Mogus, who had not been able to solve the problem, went south to attack the Song Dynasty, which was undoubtedly good news. However, this was not the time to mock the Song Dynasty. They had to treat the Song Dynasty envoys well, but as for the compensation requested by the Song Dynasty world, they were all very serious.

Although the Khitans were in the Song Dynasty, Han Qi from Daming Prefecture, Hebei Province received a secret order from Emperor Zhao Xu. He was unceremonious and actively mobilized troops in various Hebei routes and made a threat, Fengzhou.

Daizhou.

Xiongzhou.

Guangxin Army and other continents bordering the Liao Kingdom immediately had many more camps. These were empty camps, and only a small number of people were used to confuse the enemy from the camp. However, by calculating the number of camps, we can tell that these camps are enough for 200,000 people to use!

"The Song army mobilized 200,000 troops to station on the border of Song and Liao in five days, and the number was still increasing!" This was an expedited Qin Zhang sent to Dading Prefecture. For a moment, the air over the border of Song and Liao suddenly became tense, and Liao Guo was very shocked by the Song and Liao troops' movement. Then he dispatched 50,000 troops to the border of Song and Liao to prevent the Song and the Song and Liao areas from launching a sudden attack on Yanyun District, and Yelu Hongji.

Yelu Yixing and others urgently summoned the Song envoy and asked why the Song Dynasty suddenly increased its troops on the border to provoke a war.

However, it can be imagined that this kind of quarrel was of no use to the envoys of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty's answer was to continue to increase its troops until August of the fifth year of Xining. During the three consecutive months of military mobilization, the Song Dynasty increased its troops by 130,000 to the various continents of the Song-Liao border, and in the eyes of the Liao spies, the 130,000 became 400,000!

When the detailed brief was passed to the hands of the Liao emperor Yelu Hongji, he was really anxious and even more angry. He immediately summoned ministers to discuss the fight against the Song Dynasty. He also transferred 200,000 troops to the southern border of Song and Liao, and launched a conscription order within the Liao Dynasty. All men over 16 years old have military citizenship!

Unfortunately, Yelu Hongji's idea is good. If he could really turn the twenty-final army into reality or the conscription order was realized, then it would be a headache for the Song Dynasty. However, at this critical moment, something that made the Liao Dynasty's monarch and ministers very embarrassed happened. The Liao Dynasty's finances had been in losses for eight consecutive years, and because of the huge expenses of maintaining the royal family, the deficit amounted to an astonishing five million guan last year! Perhaps five million guan was not a big deal in the Song Dynasty, but even during the powerful Empress Dowager Xiao's rule, the annual fiscal revenue was only more than 20 million guan. Now the country's business has shrunk and has been continuously attacked by drought and locust plagues. The annual fiscal revenue was only more than 10 million guan. During the heyday, the Liao Dynasty's fiscal revenue was reduced by more than half!

The Liao Kingdom had no money. At this time, at the Liao Dynasty, the deputy envoy of the salt and iron, Ma Renhua, stood up to make a memorial. With the current strength of the Liao Kingdom, the huge amount of funds needed to transfer the army, the 200,000 army had exceeded the burden of the Liao Kingdom. Even in order to maintain the conventional garrison on the border of Song and Liao in recent years, it was very difficult. The 50,000 troops transferred in advance was already the limit that the Liao Kingdom could bear. Even if these 50,000 troops did not need to be stationed for a long time in the first half of the year, it would have a huge impact on the existing finances of the Liao Kingdom!

The financial situation of the Liao Kingdom was so deteriorating. In addition to the fact that Emperor Yelu Hong was keen on hunting and building palaces on a large scale, corrupt officials of the Liao Kingdom also accounted for a large part. The most important thing was that the Liao Kingdom's economy was tortured by the Song Dynasty. Wang Jinghui used his relationship with the Xu family on the sea to smuggle the cloth of the Song Dynasty.

The edible oil and other goods caused a large number of related workshops in the Liao Kingdom to go bankrupt; the Song Dynasty's copper coins recycling plan also greatly stimulated the Liao Kingdom's fragile economic system. The Liao Kingdom's own currency was only a symbolic issuance, and its economic system was entirely derived from the Song Dynasty's copper coins. In the past, the Song Dynasty copper coins were obtained to meet their needs in the field of currency circulation, but there were only a few ways to obtain the Dashen copper coins, and they were also scattered by Wang Jinghui's smuggling trade. Now the Liao Kingdom's monetary system is on the verge of collapse.

Before the army was moved, food and grass would go first. Not only did the military generals understand this truth, but even ordinary people knew that there was no big battle without money. Of course, if people were driven crazy, the Liao Kingdom might have all the strength to force the war to fight the Songkan. The reason why the Mogus rebellion was not quickly suppressed by the Liao Kingdom. On the one hand, the internal struggle of the Liao Kingdom's court was too fierce, and on the other hand, Lian Kingdom did not mobilize its troops due to economic problems.

However, Mogus destroyed the place. The damage to the Liao Kingdom's vitality was also very small, but the Song Dynasty was different. The Khitans knew that the Song people wanted to regain the former land of the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun in their dreams, but the reason why the Liao Kingdom was able to become a big mistake and could stand still was that the Sixteenth Zhou of Yanyun was the grain of Liao Kingdom.

An important taxation place is that the Khitans can advance and retreat in the Song and Liao war with evidence. If the Song people were able to consolidate the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun, the Khitans would lose the opportunity to invade the south forever. Therefore, losing the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun is equivalent to destroying half of the life of the Liao Kingdom. Originally, the Song Dynasty made the Liao Kingdom feel as if it was sarcastic. What else would you use to fight against the Song Dynasty in the future? This is something that the Khitans cannot tolerate!

Nirhin, who was in the Dading Prefecture of Liao Kingdom, began to use all the resources he could at hand to command the Song Dynasty to operate in the Liao Kingdom's intelligence system, and strive to intensify the opinions of the Liao court within the Liao Kingdom's court to undermine the Liao Kingdom's determination to resist the Song Dynasty. He had received orders from Biandu. This time the increase of troops was not the Song Dynasty's bluffing on the border. In fact, the Song Dynasty was not fully prepared to go to a full-scale war with the Liao Kingdom. It was just that if it wanted to get some benefits, the worst thing was to let the Liao Kingdom bear to give the Song Dynasty a sigh of relief.

Although Nirvana was working hard, he was not very satisfied with such actions in his heart. The Song Dynasty's - Piaotianwen - was too low. This kind of nervousness in the Liao Kingdom without any pain and itchyness would not help the overall situation. Instead, it would make the Khitans more hostile to the Song Dynasty and prepare for war.

Some of the senior ruling leaders of the Kaifeng Song Dynasty in the Bian capital had similar views on this action as Nirvana, but Wang Anshi.

Wen Yanbo.

Guo Kui and Wang Jinghui were the leaders of the army to make a strong argument, and Wang Jinghui's reasons were very sufficient - "Wars always require excuses! Now the Song Dynasty has begun to secretly prepare for combat against the Liao Kingdom. At the latest, the cross-sea landing combat troops will be trained to mature. It is only possible to destroy the cross-sea landing combat plan by relying solely on the power of the army to destroy the Khitan forces in the 16 continents of Yanyun. The war preparations made now are nothing more than to let the big gifts at the minimum price. Do you have to wait two years later before the Song Dynasty is ready to fight with the Liao Kingdom? Now that the atmosphere of war is accumulated, it is also expected that the sudden attack will be expected by the people of the world. In this way, the reaction between the people and other vassal states of the Song Dynasty will not be so fierce!"

No matter how Nie Xin thought about it, Wang Jinghui gave him a dead order to speed up the division of Liao's domestic opinions, especially on the party of Yelu Hongji and Zhang Xiaojie, he put in a lot of effort to make him retreat. As long as Yelu Hongji and Zhang Xiaojie take conservative measures, the Liao Kingdom's future response measures will undoubtedly be conservative.

Although the Song Dynasty was bluffing on the border of Song and Liao, even if the Song Dynasty added 130,000 troops in Hebei, it changed the military power comparison between the two countries on the border of Song and Liao. Even if the Liao Kingdom subsequently increased 50,000 troops, it would not help, and it could not change the fact that the Song Dynasty was dominant on paper. The most serious thing is that among the 130,000 troops in the Song Dynasty, all of them were cavalry. Although the report of the Liao spies was not very accurate, it was enough to make the military generals of the Liao Kingdom opposite to feel a headache.

The terrain of the Sixteen Continents of Yanyun was not suitable for cavalry combat. The Song Dynasty sent 100,000 cavalry to fight to the death with the Liao Kingdom. However, the mainstream view of the Liao generals was that these cavalry were used as raid forces in combat, and used to cooperate with the Song Dynasty infantry to use firearms to conquer the various military strongholds set up in the hills of the Liao Kingdom. If the Song army did not act when it was in the infantry of the Song army, the military strongholds would undoubtedly be hit hard; if it attacked, the other side's cavalry would not be placed next to you. Especially for the Song Dynasty cavalry, they were not cavalry in the traditional sense of the Liao Kingdom. Since the Song Dynasty's army had not yet been formed, some of the Song Dynasty's infantry also had horses. Maybe the Song army riding horses on the opposite side were of this type. When the war was in the middle of the war, the workers would be in danger!

Negotiations between the Song and Liao countries are still in progress. However, there are too many verbal battles. The envoy of the Song Dynasty simply listed a list at the suggestion of Wang Jinghui. The Liao Kingdom must compensate the Song Dynasty for the losses attacked by Mogus in the Hetao Plain; the Liao Kingdom must suppress Mogus' rebellion; if the Liao Kingdom cannot suppress Mogus' rebels, the Song Dynasty will order the Dingxi Army of the Hetao Plain to march northward into the Shangjing Road of the Liao Kingdom, but at that time, the Song army will own the Song Dynasty and will not interfere.











When Wang Jinghui was drafting a negotiation treaty for Su Song, he couldn't help but write a funny thing in his heart. This "Minute of Peace Talk" uses at least twenty "musts".

Dozens of "desirable", the full text looks like the diplomatic words of the United States in later generations that pressured weak countries, and was full of "Horse Death" and thought that he had a good time and space first. However, Su Song was not Wang Jinghui. I was very dissatisfied with the provision of the emperor's jade seal on it - too many vernacular Chinese! It was obvious that it was the handwriting of the prince-consort, and the words were quite beautiful, but no matter how you look at it, it was written by a woman. There was no doubt that this was definitely a princess's pen. Such documents could not be passed in front of Su Song, a scholar. He didn't understand why Wang Anshi and the others could ask the prince-consort to send something like the national letter written in vernacular to the Liao Kingdom. This was really too disgraceful to the Song Dynasty. You must know that his negotiating opponent Zhang Xiaojie was still talking!

Su Song was not satisfied, but he carefully revised the issue of face in order to take care of the Song Dynasty. He re-revised this letter that was not very consistent with the "rules" into a document with beautiful words and handed it over to his opponent Zhang Xiaojie in the negotiations. Su Song was also quite talented. Although his literary voice in the Song Dynasty was not as good as Sima Guang and Wang Anshi, even the younger brothers Su Shi were far inferior to those of the younger generations, but the whole article was beautiful, but in Zhang Xiaojie's eyes, every word was bloody. It revealed the determination of the Song Dynasty without any concealment.

The top leaders of the Liao Dynasty naturally would never agree to such a negotiation and peace agreement. The Dingxi Army stationed in the Hetao Plain of the Song Dynasty was also very familiar with the Liao Kingdom. In the battle of the Tiande Army, the Liao Kingdom suffered losses of soldiers and generals. The 50,000 elite Khitan troops who went to intimidate the Song Dynasty were wiped out and the commander was captured. This is a very rare history of Liao Kingdom's war. The Khitans had such an emotional understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Dingxi Army. Naturally, they were unwilling to enter Shangjing Road. Moreover, the news feedback from the news some time ago was that the Dingxi Army had only one unit uprooted all the Baidadan troops who defected to Mogus. The Baidadan troops completely disappeared on the Xijing Road of Liao Kingdom, and only a few remnants escaped. This made the Liao Kingdom learn that the military nature of the Song army had already begun.

This is also unreasonable for the Liao Kingdom to reflect the wars on its territory. Although Mogus did not continue to advance eastward, after obtaining trade from the Song Dynasty, he expanded his power sharply. Before he turned against the Song Dynasty, he easily unified the Northern Shubu tribe through trade relations with the Song Dynasty. Even the Baidadan tribe, who lived in the north of Xijing Road, who also defected to him. At this point, the Liao Kingdom completely lost control of Shangjing Road and the northern Xijing Road. Because the Song Dynasty destroyed Xixia, the Liao Kingdom also faced this great military pressure. When Xixia was present, although Xijing Road in Liao Kingdom bordered the Hebei road of the Song Dynasty, it did not station heavy troops because there were

The support of Xixia made the rulers of Liao Kingdom happy to sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. After the Western Xia was destroyed, the economic situation of Liao Kingdom was so poor that the Song army, which had lost the restraint of Xixia, had very frequent military activities on Xijing Road. Although many knowledgeable people in Liao Kingdom kept writing to the court to request the increase of the military power of Xijing Road, the Song Dynasty continued to strengthen the military power of the Hebei and Nanjing Road. It was like the Liao Kingdom that it was already very difficult to deal with the border of Nanjing Road. How could it be with Xijing Road? Therefore, the military power of Xijing Road in the past two years was huge because of the loss of huge amounts in the Tiande military time, but it did not receive the supplements it should later. It was not as good as the Liao Kingdom's control over Xijing Road before destroying Xia.

Although Zhang Xiaojie was a corrupt official in the Liao Kingdom, he was very wise. Before Su Song gave his order, he received Wang Jinghui's full strength. He had detailed files on Su Song's possible contact with important figures in the Liao Kingdom, among which Zhang Xiaojie was the second. Zhang Xiaojie was able to sit in the position of prime minister of the Liao Kingdom for so long, and it was not only obtained by relying on Yelu Yixin. If this person had no real skills, Yelu Yixin might not be able to like him.
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