Wang Jinghui hesitated for a while and bowed and said, "Master, the Liao Kingdom is actually facing natural disasters. Even if we don't do anything, the Khitans will not escape this disaster. However, I think that the next step of the Song Dynasty will do to deal with the drought in the Liao Kingdom is exactly the opposite of putting in the wrong way. We need to help the Khitans!"

Wang Jinghui's words made everyone stunned for a long time. The king and his ministers all wondered if there was something wrong with their ears just now. Xiao Wang said he wanted to help the Khitans? This is a big joke! Who among the people here knows that Xiao Wang's prince consort used the ruthless tricks to deal with the nomadic peoples one by one, fearing that the other party would not die fast enough. Even if the other party was beaten down, he still wanted to make human meat buns and sell some money to come back! Such a person actually said he wanted to help the Khitans now. How could this not surprise the king and ministers of the Song Dynasty?!

"As long as there are people's land, there will be a country to rule, the emperor and all ministers should recognize the importance of the Liao Kingdom in stabilizing the situation in the north. Since the strength of our Song Dynasty is not enough to effectively accept its ruling territory after destroying the Liao Kingdom, why not help the Liao Kingdom maintain its rule and stabilize the security of the northern border of our Song Dynasty?!" Wang Jinghui said.

"The Khitan wolf ambitions, its existence is the greatest threat to our Song Dynasty!" Guo Kui said.

Wang Jinghui shook his head and said, "Mr. Guo is just a mistake! What is the difference between the Song Dynasty, Khitans, Dangxiang people, and Shubu people or the female Zhi people? The Song Dynasty is a true model of agricultural civilization, with a strong national strength and manpower advantages. If a war breaks out, you can fully mobilize this advantage to fight foreign humiliation. As long as the court employs people properly, there will be no problem; the Khitans are second, the Liao Kingdom has a certain agricultural foundation, and the political system has also been developed for hundreds of years, combining the political system of the Han people and the grassland tribal system; and the Dangxiang people are second. Their local political system is only in the stage of improvement. The agricultural foundation is also very weak, and the social composition is largely still on the basis of nomadic peoples; while the Shubu people and the female Zhi people are pure grassland nomadic civilization."

"What does this have to do with the threat to my Song Dynasty?"

"'Over the brute, the destructive power is greater!'" Wang Jinghui said: "If the Liao Kingdom and Xixia were in a war that they could not afford, they would negotiate in order to ensure their integrity, so they would accept the prisoners to become slaves of our Song Dynasty, and even cede land and pay compensation. Even if they wanted to start a war again after they recovered their vitality, they would also carefully measure whether it was worth it to thank the members of the Lights. However, nomadic peoples like the Shubu people and the Female Nao people. They had nothing but a small amount of living supplies such as livestock and tents. As long as the war was not conducive to the migration of the entire tribe. When the vitality was restored, they would come back to plunder. For them, they could rob a little. Lord Guo, you have been fighting for your whole life, do you think which one is easier to deal with?!"

"The more barbaric, the more destructive it is!" Everyone in Funing Hall is familiar with this sentence. This is exactly what Wang Jinghui mentioned a few years ago. Judging from the development trends in recent years, the correctness of this sentence is almost met. It is precisely because of the siege of the Bu people against the Liao Kingdom that the Liao Kingdom was greatly damaged. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Song Dynasty to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to be greatly increased. And the Song Dynasty's important trading partner, Goryeo, was also a woman.

Nao Ren hit the head-on. Not only did the land on the east bank of the Yalu River not get, but even the Xijing was under the threat of Nao Ren. There were small groups of cavalry active in the mountains in the northern part of Goryeo. As long as the Goryeo caravan dared to come out, they would be robbed. The connection between Goryeo and Liao Kingdom was completely cut off by Nao Ren. They even asked the Song Dynasty that the Goryeo envoy took the Song Dynasty ship or went to Liao Kingdom by land to negotiate the issue of Nao Ren in the northern part of the women.

The Song Dynasty was not without direct attacks by nomadic people, but fortunately, the only time that the Bu people blocked the territory was blocked, and they encountered the Dingxi Army stationed in the Hetao Plain. Those who were beaten would never dare to invade the territory again. The Dingxi Army was recognized as the most fierce army in the Song army. Perhaps after the birth of the "Golden Force", the combat effectiveness of this "Horse Bandit" unit may not be the strongest among the Song army, but its combat style is the most feared for the opponent | - Just look at the current situation within 500 miles of the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom and Shangjing Road bordering the Hetao Plain. That is the real thing that there is no grass left. Under the attack of the Dingxi Army, the Bu people dare not have any hope for the Hetao Plain. In the Pu people tribe, Wang Shun, the general of the Dingxi Army, was like a spokesperson for the human-eating demon in the world.

Although the Song Dynasty defeated the greed of the Bu people for the Hetao Plain in the Battle of the Song Dynasty, do all the troops of the Song Dynasty have such high combat effectiveness as Dingxi Army? Obviously, the bosses of the Privy Council and the Secretariat Province are very clear about the actual combat effectiveness of the Song army. The Dingxi Army was basically controlled by Xiao Wang's disciples. The entire military management idea and training method reflect Xiao Wang's will to attach to the horse. Just look at the Song army after "rotating training" from the Dingxi Army, you can know that this army is almost invincible on the grassland.

The senior ruling leaders of the Song Dynasty had many ideas about the Dingxi Army before, and Wang Jinghui dispelled the court's concerns about the Dingxi Army with practical actions. The current Dingxi Army is more like the "grassland combat force training school" in Wang Jinghui's mind. Through the method of "rotation", the team of the "Puxi Army" in the Li Qing era was diluted, and the combat style and tradition of this army were also well preserved.

In the past three or four years, nearly 100,000 imperial guards drawn from various places have served in the Dingxi Army sequence. After a period of time, these troops have not only retained the team in the Dingxi Army's era when replacing the Poxi Army, but also returned to the Central Imperial Army. In this Song-Liao War, a large part of the central army led by Yang Chongyue was composed of these troops "trained" from the Dingxi Army, and they reflected their combat effectiveness in the battle.

Guo Kui could not answer Wang Jinghui's question directly. To be honest, he had fought many wars on the front line of the army. In addition to suppressing small-scale uprisings in China, the rest were all in the northwest. In the past decade, he has served in the Kaifeng Privy Council of Biandu and has been out of the army for a long time. However, this does not prevent Guo Kui from making a judgment on the issues raised by Wang Jinghui. According to his experience, Western Xia may be more difficult to deal with than Liao - after the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty reached the Danyuan Alliance. Except for small actions, they kept doing so.

, and still generally abide by the local agreement between the two sides, there was no major conflict in the earth. On the other hand, the Western Xia entangled the Song Dynasty like ketchup. Regardless of the outcome of the war, at most, there would be wars in the northwest for a year, and it had never stopped for decades. Even if he was a general, it could easily calculate that the Song Dynasty spent on the Xixia from the time of Emperor Renzong of Song to the destruction of Xia during the Yining period. The Song Dynasty spent at least one billion yuan on the battlefield in the northwest! The destructive power of the Western Xia to the Liao Kingdom was indeed above the Liao Kingdom!

The Song Dynasty's combat costs against the Western Xia could reach more than one billion guan, which is definitely not an exaggeration. Guo Kui once remembered that Wang Jinghui had a memorial three or four years ago, which should be a memorial presented after the demise of the Western Xia. In this memorial, the little Wang Fuma had roughly estimated the amount of military spending accumulated by the Song Dynasty over the past decades. During the period when the Song Dynasty was entangled with the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty held that the Song Dynasty had to add another 30 million guan of special military spending in the original basic area every year in the year of war. After so many years, it was already a very conservative estimate of 1 billion guan, and the Song Dynasty would definitely not have so much military spending on the Liao Kingdom! "Maybe "

It is because of geographical reasons that our Song Dynasty has basically never fought any war with nomadic people since its founding. So it is impossible to estimate that the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitans is more powerful or the combat effectiveness of the simple grassland nomadic people. However, it is certain that the social life structure of the nomadic people is very simple, and the entire tribe can basically be said to be the whole nation. If it cannot be defeated, the clan can be moved to other places and come back to plunder when it is strong. This characteristic determines that its harm is much more dangerous than the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitans!" Wang Jinghui didn't want to see Guo Kui in a dilemma. In any case, Guo Kui's relationship with other places can be considered very close, and there is no need to force Guo Kui to be too embarrassed.

"The existence of the Liao Kingdom can at least have a unity in the grassland territory around the Song Dynasty. Although the Khitans had very limited control scope, they had a great battle with the Shubu people and were unable to pose a threat to the Shubu people. However, leaving the Liao Kingdom can restrain the Shubu people and the female Shizhi people, making it the shield of the Song Dynasty to withstand the attack and plunder of the grassland people. Our Song Dynasty only needs to manage its own defensive front in the north, and having the strength to directly threaten the security of the Liao Kingdom is enough to prevent the Khitans from attacking me. When our Song Dynasty completely digested the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the north and had the ability to eliminate the Khitans in one fell swoop and suppress all grassland tribes, it would not be too late for our Song Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty!" Wang Jinghui said his ideas in full.

"It is certain to destroy Liao, but it is not now!" Wang Jinghui had long thought about this. After all, the power of the Song Dynasty is far from being able to inherit the legacy left by the Liao Kingdom while defeating Liao Kingdom. After all, the ruling territory of the Liao Kingdom is too large. With the level of the Song Dynasty, even if it develops for another ten years, it may not be able to achieve this in twenty years - defeating or even destroying Liao Kingdom is very simple for the Song Dynasty, but it is basically impossible for the Song Dynasty to inherit the legacy of Liao Kingdom!

To put it bluntly, no one in the Song Dynasty had a stronger desire for territory than Wang Xuhui. Even Emperor Zhao Xu could not compare to him. Look at the current territory of the Song Dynasty, which is too far inferior to that of later China, but what he knew more clearly was that how to digest the existing territory, - Piaotianwen - into a territory that the Song Dynasty would never be divided. If some places are very important to the Song Dynasty due to their status and resources, he would also start operating in advance - Mayi Island is an example. However, not many people like Mayi Island can make Wang Jinghui and the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty ruling, and the cost of such forced operation is also extremely high. If the Song Dynasty had not had hundreds of thousands of slaves, Wang Jinghui would not dare to use the lives of the Song Dynasty to forcibly develop Mayi Island and Nanyang.

"Sir, my great masters, I have been peaceful for a hundred years. For some needs, I must embellish peace for some years. However, this will also cause the people to be war-weary. From the second year of peace to more than ten years, the Song Dynasty has taken the initiative to launch several wars on the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms, with a scale of more than 100,000. This Northern Expedition of Liao Kingdom even used as many as 600,000 soldiers and generals to fight quickly. The people will not have any complaints under the stimulation of victory. If it were so long, the people would not have any complaints.

The war in time and place is extremely unfavorable for the stability of the Song Dynasty. War is a major event for the country. Anyone who actively launches war must have a foothold in the court-destroying Xia is to quell the rebellion in the northwest and save the court's financial income to stabilize our Song Dynasty's reform needs; in addition to completing the legacy of Taizu Taizong, Yanyun, the northern expedition, was more important to obtain the defensive terrain, so that the north of our Song Dynasty was not under the threat of war by the Khitans."

Wang Jinghui stopped and continued, "These wars against the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms are something that our Song Dynasty had to do, otherwise our Song Dynasty would be under the threat of the enemy's force. How can we provide a stable environment for reform at home? In the past ten years, the territory obtained by our Song Dynasty through war is almost one-third of the original territory of our Song Dynasty. Foreign enemies have basically been cleared, and have achieved our original goal of launching the war. What is placed before the Song Dynasty is how to completely digest these lands so that they can truly use them for our Song Dynasty. The purpose of launching the war is to obtain land and resources, and to use these lands and resources in the future to strengthen the national strength of our Song Dynasty. The people of our Song Dynasty benefited the people. If we just want to vent their anger, there is no need to launch a war!"

In Wang Jinghui's view, the rulers and ministers of the Song Dynasty launched wars to destroy Liao mainly to vent their anger and wash away the shame. The Song Dynasty's current ability to occupy so much land is already the limit. Going northward is of no benefit to the Song Dynasty. The resources there are not available to the Song Dynasty, and they may not be able to gain a smooth foothold in the cracks between the many nomadic peoples there. By then, wars of all sizes will continue to become another northwest? With the actual control ability of the Song Dynasty, the front line of the Great Wall is already at its limit. The seized of the Western Xia has caused a significant shortage of population density in the northwest. Although the population of the Song Dynasty is likely to exceed 100 million, it is relatively

In this era, the transportation level and communication means. The population has a certain contradiction with the land area. Wang Jinghui remembers that one of the major reasons for the collapse of Yuanmeng was that the population of millions wanted to control such a large area of ​​territory across the Eurasian continent with millions of people, which caused the foundation of its ruling. Even if the population of the Song Dynasty today wanted to rule such a large area, it would still collapse. It can be seen that the population has a deep connection with the land area, especially in this era of underdeveloped communication and transportation. It would be fine if it was in the future of a thousand years later, but it would be extremely reluctant now.

"Then my dear thought we should help the Khitans through the difficulties?" Obviously, Wang Jinghui's words had basically convinced the war ministers in the Funing Hall. Emperor Zhao Xu also highly recognized Wang Jinghui's judgment. If Wang Jinghui takes another move to suppress the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom might be over. Aiding Liao Kingdom can temporarily stabilize the Liao Kingdom, create a deterrence to the nomadic peoples in the north, and act as a barrier to the northern Song Dynasty.

"Trade! The Liao Kingdom was founded for 170 years, and its family background should not be so weak. The Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji's official treasury should have a large amount of gold and silver. The Song Dynasty's intelligence network in the Dading Prefecture also had similar doubts, but it could not be accurately confirmed. The Song Dynasty can open up trade, restore normal trade relations, and allow the export of grain to the Liao Kingdom to help them suppress the impact of disasters on the Liao Kingdom. Of course, the amount of food exported must also be paid attention to. First, we must ensure that our Song Dynasty has sufficient grain reserves, and we cannot export too much to the Liao Kingdom. We must neither let the Khitans starve to death or let them eat enough. We must tightly tie our necks and thank the members of the Light for providing them that they cannot restore their national strength. As long as we ensure that their existence in the north is enough! The gold extracted from trade, silver can enrich the Song Dynasty's official treasury reserves and make full preparations for the next financial reform of the Song Dynasty!" Wang Jinghui said.

"Although disasters have occurred frequently in the Song Dynasty in recent years, due to the intact road repairs and the assistance of sea transportation, there is no obvious shortage of food in various places. In addition, the large amount of food in Nanyang entered the Song Dynasty, and there was sufficient grain reserves. The only thing that is worrying is that the amount of grain exports is really difficult to grasp. How much is the export value? "Sima Guang asked.
Chapter completed!