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Chapter 575 The Emperor's Difficult Decision

As a student of the Great Demon King, Zhuo Luolan, a new generation general of Xixia, is now emerging.

She had the record of hanging up the Great Demon King at Suiyuan Pass, and had the record of rescuing the Qingtang battlefield.

Later, we gained understanding with the Great Demon King and quickly started trade, exchanging iron ore and coal for soybean feed. Now, after a period of rest and recuperation, the grassland has become truly rich, with fat cattle, sheep and horses everywhere.

As a fan of the Great Demon King, only she truly understands the Great Demon King's political intentions.

Seeing that the Song Dynasty is booming now, there are actually hidden dangers. Wang Rong is a very amazing strategic expert. Zhuo Luolan believes that his purpose in fighting the Suzhou Port of Liao Kingdom is not to avoid war, but to win the final strategic buffer for the Song Dynasty.

This must be a tightrope walking act, but the Great Demon King is almost successful. But even if the Great Demon King's diplomatic power is temporarily deprived of the Great Demon King of diplomacy by the Song court, relying on the politician mentality of Lao Xiao of Liao, if this matter does not respond for a day, the Great Demon King will not be dissatisfied by the Song court.

The further time goes by, Wang Rong can make more arrangements and prepare for the war of moving more industries.

Based on these, Xixia, who had been lurking and licking the wound for several years, wanted to intervene again. In order to avoid the anti-war Queen Mother Wu and Pang Lijing, Wu Zetian specially launched a meeting of Xiping Prefecture. After discussion, he wanted to appoint Zhuo Luolan to go to Beijing to deal with the interests of this, and planned to divide the depth of Song State.

But Zhuo Luolan refused. The reason was that they were planning a world war that they could not win in the end. As the commander, Zhuo Luolan refused to command such a war that had problems at the beginning.

This made Wu Zi Epang very unhappy. So he appointed Duo Chi Ji as the special envoy of Xixia and rushed to his father's country to go to Beijing. Wu Zipang instructed: Lao Xiao must be persuaded to respond to the Suzhou Port incident.

You cannot just delay it. If the war is inevitable, you cannot hesitate. Start this process as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will definitely not be a good thing to wait until the great devil is ready.

This was Zhuo Luolan's last suggestion. Yes, as a general, after the anti-war failed, when Xixia had decided to get involved, although Zhuo Luolan refused to go to Beijing, he still gave the most favorable suggestions for this.

So as the special envoy of Xixia, his mission to persuade Lao Xiao to compromise with Song as soon as possible, and treat the Suzhou Port incident as an accident rather than a provocation.

"Do you really have this idea?" In the mansion, Xiao Hui looked at Duo Chi Ji with interest.

He said: "Xiao Xiang, this is retreating to advance. If you can withstand the political pressure in Liao and call the Suzhou Port incident an accident, and only let Song lose money, it is a delaying strategy. Our Xixia Yipintang always monitors the situation in Bianjing. Wang Yun is now breaking apart with the Song court in politics, and because of the heart-wrenching incident in Suzhou Port, Wang Yun temporarily retains his position. If this boot falls to the ground, I think Wang Yun will soon withdraw from the administrative echelon."

"That was an opportunity. Without a unified centralized coordination policy, it would unlimitedly slow down the progress of the Dengzhou shipyard in Song State. The entire Daming Mansion industrial system would greatly reduce the efficiency of the Song State Navy, the aid plan for the Japanese island, etc., which is currently fighting in the East China Sea."

"At the same time, after the Liao Kingdom makes concessions, Han Qi and Wang Anshi will further relieve themselves and speed up the mobilization of resources to respond to the Jiaozhi people incident in the southwest of the Song Kingdom. This is the fuse for the entire world."

"Actually, the people of Jiaozhi have been tempted and do not really trust the Liao Kingdom. Once the Song Dynasty really responds toughly now, if there are more people dead, Jiaozhi will be forced to be involved in the war against Song, and that will be the time for me, Xixia, to send troops again and redefine the outcome of the Qingtang War. Once this result occurs, the fence-bearing Goryeo will truly intervene in the Bohai War and seize greater benefits when the Song Dynasty's navy is immature."

These are the suggestions that Zhuo Luolan had no choice. Now, Duochiji is transferred to Xiao Hui as a special envoy.

Xiao Hui, a popular political star in the Liao Kingdom, considered this for two days and responded to the Xixia special envoy: He could accept Xixia's suggestions, but he needed to vote for a letter of fame before our Liao Kingdom would "lost his power and humiliate the country" and admit that Suzhou Port was an accident.

Content of the letter of the vocabulary: Once the great devil was refrigerated, the Song State entered a period of no backbone and shifted its strategy to the southwest to deal with the Jiaozhi people, Xixia needed to immediately send troops to Qingtang to show its loyalty. This was equivalent to challenging the core interests of the Song State, and Xixia had no way out. Then the Liao State would follow up after confirming these signals.

Xiao Hui’s request cannot be said to be too excessive.

In fact, the internal situation of Xixia is also like a pill. The Liao Kingdom's eating habits are indeed powerful and not good-looking, but the Liao Kingdom doesn't care about Xixia. The land of Xixia is useless to the territory of Liao Kingdom.

But the State of Song was not the case. Everyone knew that the ultimate goal of the State of Song was to take away all the minerals and labor on the land of Xixia. In comparison, the people of Liao even broke the Xingqing Prefecture at that time, but in the end they returned all the land to Xixia.

The situation this time is not as good as the situation in Epang. The state of Song may not like to kill people, but eating is even worse than that of the Liao state. Referring to Qingtang's current policies, it was garrisoned again. Now is the last opportunity to break the hegemony strategy of Song. If it cannot be achieved, then in eight to ten years, the whole world will probably be in the fate of Qingtang now. This is naked imperialism.

Although the Great Demon King set up a strategic deception bureau to suppress the "*** circle statement" of the Angry Young People's Party, he did not know that the Angry Young People's Party was just shouting, and the Great Demon King's heart was such a purpose. The Great Demon King is the worst and hateful person in the world...

May 1st is the "Industrial Party Labor Day" personally set by Dalian, but the Song Dynasty was not festive when this day came.

Emperor Zhao Zhen dragged his sick body and walked out of Shangqing Palace, allowing the bright sunshine of Mayday to shine on his body, while breathing fresh air. But this did not warm the emperor's heart.

In the early morning, I heard the report: Bao Zheng is dead.

Bao Zheng's housekeeper said that Bao Zheng left a letter to the emperor before his death, and as the envoy of the Three Sessions, he described the current financial situation facing the Song Dynasty.

Just look at those things, Lao Bao is known for not understanding the economy. When Zhao Zhen appointed him as the commander of the Sansi, he did not plan to carry out good economic reforms. He only hoped that he could turn the Sansi into neutrality and break the mutual infighting policy of the previous few people.

Bao Zheng also worked hard, but he didn't seem to do well in this job alone. In addition, the time was too short, and it did not play a big role except for giving some green lights to Wang Rong.

It happened that Bao Zheng gave the green light that greatly indulged Wang Rong's policy to the extreme and even arrogant. Now, Wang Rong has caused dissatisfaction among many husbands, including his father.

But Zhao Zhen no longer has the energy to think about these destructive things. Perhaps Ouyang Xiu commented on some issues that Bao Zheng said was right.

However, it was such an old man who had followed Zhao Zhen all his life. This made Zhao Zhen the most unhappy and twisted everywhere, but also made Zhao Zhen trust his whole life. The housekeeper said that he was trembling an hour before his death and wrote the economic outlook for the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He said all nonsense, but Zhao Zhen was very moved.

At this time, the old man who followed Zhao Zhen's life and trusted most passed away first, which made Zhao Zhen feel older and his mentality more affected.

The dad, General Manager Chen, is also very old, and he looks gray and gray. He doesn't know what to say. He just quietly watches the emperor's state of being shivering in the sun but is trembling with coldness. He also finds that the emperor's eyes are slightly red...

Bao Zheng did not make much achievements, but he had a good reputation. He was synonymous with the sky in this era, and others were not.

The news of his death spread, and while the emperor gave a roar to chase the title, the world was shocked and the whole country was mourning.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the way to the funeral of Mr. Bao, but it was extremely quiet.

When this situation arises, even Bao Zheng’s political enemy Ouyang Xiu had to admit that Lao Bao’s life was very perfect...

In late May, the Liao Dynasty's special envoy Xiao Hui entered Bianjing.

This inevitably makes people feel that Xiao Hui is now the most popular political figure in Liao Dynasty. This time the mission is so high that Xiao Hui came in person, which probably means that the Song Navy has done something in the Suzhou Port of Liao Dynasty. No one knows whether it is a war or a peace.

Whether it is the people or the court, Wang Rong was responsible for causing trouble, and he once again entered a climate of fear of Liao.

This is indeed a rare big problem. Xiao Hui came here in person again, so Zhao Zhen cheered up and personally presided over the negotiations with his sick body, and conducted many "sincere exchanges".

During the negotiations, Han Qi and Zhao Zhen tried their best to state that "the Song Navy was going to capture pirates, not targeting the Liao Kingdom, did not attack the Liao Kingdom's territory, and did not fire artillery on the Liao Kingdom warships. The impact was an accident, and the responsible Song Navy made remedials and gave life jackets."

On June 1st, Xiao Hui generously gave the bottom line answer: she promised that the Suzhou Port incident could be regarded as an accident, not an invasion.

The Liao Kingdom, which claimed to be ugly in appearance, actually gave this answer. This made Han Qi and Zhao Zhen a little proud.

Xiao Hui pretended to be difficult to ask the Song State to compensate two Liao warships, additionally with various losses of 50,000 taels of silver, and to open the export of steam engines to Liao.

These conditions are not only not excessive, but the situation is very good.

The only thing was that the steam engine export made Han Qi a little dissatisfied with the negotiation team headed by Han Qi, but after all, the Liao Kingdom was the Liao Kingdom. When the conditions were not too excessive, no one wanted to fight with them. In the end, in order to prevent Guangnan from being dragged down, the negotiation team headed by Han Qi agreed to Xiao Shumi's conditions.

However, after all the intentions were reached, Xiao Hui finally mentioned the additional requirement: The Song Dynasty must severely punish Wang Yun, the person in charge of the Suzhou Port incident, otherwise it will not be possible to explain to the Liao Dynasty.

This makes it a little sensitive.

But Xiao Hui's attitude makes people feel that this negotiation of Liao is sincere.

This requirement is a bit too much for Song State. Even if Han Qi wants to keep Wang Yun's guy who committed crimes against the wind, he is still resistant. It is okay to deal with Wang Yun, but he has indeed caused trouble. He randomly authorized the navy to enter the port of Liao State to almost provoke a dispute among superpowers. It is not an exaggeration for Song State to lock him up.

But this can only be an internal act. If you knock down your heroes under the oppression of hegemony, it will make Han Qi feel a bit like losing power and humiliating the country and cutting off his arm.

Wang Anshi and Han Qi did not respond to this, and the negotiations were delayed until June 10th, and no consensus could be reached.

But on the other hand, the major blow from Bao Zheng's death just now made the emperor's emotions very unstable, and he happened to encounter the pressure of hegemony under the fear of Liao. After Zhao Zhen carefully thought about the Suzhou Port incident, he also believed that Wang Yun did too much and was too inappropriate.

Zhao Zhen knew a long time ago that kid could use his power and could suddenly cause trouble. Now he is really inflamed. In addition to getting Han Qi and Wang Anshi, he cannot tolerate him, Liao Kingdom also wants him to be responsible for the Suzhou Port incident.

Based on the mentality of maintaining stability and the need to protect children politically, Zhao Zhen finally agreed to Xiao Hui's all conditions in late June and made the difficult decision to refrigerate Wang Rong.

This is the second major blow that Zhao Zhen encountered in his later years. Bao Zheng's death made Zhao Zhen cherish his capable ministers more than ever. It is really not easy for a minister to do better and to completely gain the trust of the emperor.

In the past ten years, Zhao Zhen basically watched the little kid grow up step by step with his uncle's mentality and led the Song Dynasty to solve the problem.

But now he is in trouble and is arrogant. When the reason is insufficient, he provoked the Liao people. His biggest problem is that he began to rebel against his father and began to fight with Zhao Zhen’s other loyal minister Han Qi. This is commonly known as committing crimes against the wind.

The palms and backs of hands are all flesh, Han Qi is a tiger, and his qualifications and prestige is obvious. When Han Qi refused to make a major mistake, on the contrary, when the prodigy began to be politically incorrect, Zhao Zhen felt that he could only temporarily keep the child cold so as not to let him go and lead to political chaos in the Song Dynasty. He was denied in all aspects by the entire court and never reborn.

So just like Wang Yun refrigerates the clear streams in Beijing, Zhao Zhen has now made a decision that makes him heartbroken: refrigerate Wang Yun...
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