Mid August.

The intensive news was becoming increasingly unfavorable to the stability of the Song Dynasty. At this point, some people who were foresighted began to feel that something was wrong.

Two commercial ships carrying mining machinery and equipment from Dengzhou Port to Nagasaki were heard from the East China Sea. They were attacked on their way out of the Huanghai and passed the Korean Strait.

The two ships sank, and the expensive equipment was lost. More than 100 Song State crew members and technical workers were killed. This was the first time that a merchant ship had an accident since the situation was tense.

Because Chen Ergou's combat pressure was too great, the Nagasaki Naval Base did not have the ability to supply frigates for long-distance voyages before it was completed. Therefore, under the limitation of the range of the petrol version of the frigate, Chen Ergou had already done his best, but could only use one frigate to protect the Industrial Department's construction fleet.

But after leaving the Yellow Sea, everything depends on luck.

After this incident, the Jurchen pirates organization had expressed responsibility for it.

But in fact, no one knows who did it. At that time, the Jurchen warships were sunk seventeen ships in Suzhou Port, Liaoning. Although not all, they were already most of the Jurchens' wealth.

Later, Chen Ergou kept delivering the article to Wang Yun and said: The situation of pirates in the Bohai and Yellow Sea is grim and there are more and more trends. The Song army frigates have already driven at full speed, and they have sunk four Jurchen warships day and night during this period, killing more than 200 Jurchen pirates. But they still failed to drive the Jurchens back to Liaodong.

Therefore, Wang Yun judged that there was only one explanation: while Liao was openly compromised against the Song Dynasty, he had privately intervened in the East China Sea war. The personnel should indeed be Jurchens, but the warships were provided by the Liao Kingdom, or forced Goryeo to provide them.

This incident is a worse matter.

It was difficult as early as the early stage, and the small problems with gasoline warships were still relatively frequent. If the efficiency was not high enough, a frigate had to be distributed to escort the Industrial Bureau's merchant ships.

Now, the more pirates are suppressing, the more people are, and the Goryeo may take advantage of the troubled waters. Therefore, without the escort of naval warships, the Industrial Department's engineering ships cannot theoretically leave the Yellow Sea.

In the early days when the Nagasaki Naval Base was urgently needed to build the Naval Naval Base, the frequency of engineering ships departed from Dengzhou Port was relatively limited, and they had to queue up one by one to unify the Yellow Sea under the escort of the naval maintenance.

This has led to delays in the Nagasaki Naval Base.

Now the situation has deteriorated further, and the Jurchens counterattacked for the first time, and began to attack the merchant ships and non-combatants of the Song State.

The Jurchens were just cruel but not so smart. This was Xiao Hui trying her best to slow down the construction period of the first overseas base in Song State. Xiao Hui absolutely knew a fact: once the Nagasaki Naval Base was built, half of East Asia was occupied by Song State gangsters without any effort.

However, if you are not in his position, you cannot do your business. Chen Ergou sent a military newspaper to Wang Rong in private, there is a suspicion of "leakage of secrets", and Wang Rong doesn't want to harm him.

So Wang Rong was not only unable to point fingers, but could only simply reply to Chen Ergou: Remember the belief of Song Jun, as a soldier, continue to fight with due diligence before a new order. Don’t think about other things, don’t ask me again, don’t send me military newspapers again.

Despite this, the devil in his heart was decisive and anxious.

This was another signal, confirming that when Han Dawang declared war on Jiaozhi with a tough policy and began to mobilize troops and deploy troops, Lao Xiao also gradually followed the cards and bets behind the scenes.

Now it's just foreplay, it's an attraction. It's not yet time for Lao Xiao to be soared.

But Dalian believes that there will be a signal to increase the investment soon, and it is impossible to predict what Dalian is. But it is certainly related to the Zhao Zi incident in Jiehe. Lao Xiao would not be stupid enough to "the Liao people were sentenced to death by Song officials and only condemned the matter."

For this special incident, the prince Zhao Zongshi of the regent visits Wang Rong for inquiries.

When Xiao Zhao came, Wang Yun happened to be covered in shit and urine by Wang Xiaobai, but this is the life of the Great Demon King after he is idle now, which is a bit warm and funny. This also reminded Zhao Zongshi of the time when he was "bringing Zhao Xu when he was poor", so Xiao Zhao felt very happy and grateful that the Great Demon King did not blame the students with his reputation as a mentor at critical moments.

"Mr.," Zhao Zongshi asked, "Now the students are a little confused. The atmosphere is a little wrong. I don't know whether the issue of hunting and killing Liao people in Jiehe is really just condemning the matter? My husband said that I can ask any questions, will you give me all your gifts?"

"Your Highness the Prince, you are polite." Wang Rong said: "I don't know what the Liao people will do, but in the East China Sea, the attack on the merchant ship of our Industrial Department was actually done by the Liao people. The Jurchens may be able to kill and rob, but in theory they do not have the ability to quickly sink two Song merchant ships. Since the Liao people did this, they will no longer worry about face. Therefore, the Xiongzhou Jiehe dispute caused by Zhao Zi will soon be responded to by the Liao people. It will not be too serious, but it will definitely make Song State feel difficult to deal with. This is the trouble of Zhao Zi's creation."

Zhao Zongshi felt slightly disappointed. The Great Demon King estimated that there was a response, but he couldn't know what the method was. Then he would be uneasy if he didn't land on the ground.

After thinking about it, Zhao Zongshi said, "My husband, today Yudutang listened to the politics, and Mr. Han Qi commented on the attack on the industrial ship of the Korean Strait. He declared war on the Jurchen pirates at that time, saying that you, like Zhao Zi, are a troublemaker, that you annoyed the Jurchens and the Liao people."

Wang Rong asked with a smile: "Does Your Highness believe him to say anything?"

Zhao Zongshi said awkwardly: "Half-believing and half-doubting. Mr. Han Qi said something reasonable, but he felt a little biased when he was angry. So he wanted to hear his husband talk about this in person."

Wang Rong said: "Han Qi has Han Qi's idea, but I have my explanation. In fact, even if I don't provoke him, will the Liao Jurchens not be angry? Did Jiubingwei provoke the Jurchens? That little girl was executed like a beast, which is reality. In fact, everything does not require a reason to happen. Jiubingwei's experience proves that thieves are thieves, and he will be angry if they don't provoke him. I authorized the naval frigate to attack the Liao port for only one purpose: to fool them and delay the process of these incidents. Because at that time I judged: If I don't take action, they will take action, so I would rather do it in advance. Although I was not well equipped, it also disrupted their plans and prevented them from preparing normally."

After a pause, I said, "I am very glad. Of course there will be sacrifices in war, but it has been delayed until mid-August that these things will happen, which is equivalent to winning half a year for me, the Song Dynasty. Otherwise, I think that if I did not sink the Jurchen warship in February, then at most, my Song Dynasty's huge commercial fleet will be taken away by pirates, and the losses will be even heavier."

Hearing this, Zhao Zongshi was generally grateful to the great devil for not interfering as a teacher at critical moments, but he was also confused: doing these things is just one side of his words and personal judgment. It does not mean it is true, and now he can only say it with one mouth.

But no matter what, Mr. Han Qi also said that those things were under his authority as the devil, and he was in his position to govern. Even if it really caused problems, it was just a mistake rather than a crime. Han Qi admitted that he was also "poor employed people" at that time, which caused some trouble.

For this reason, the great devil has paid the price of being dismissed, so I can't say much more.

Finally, Zhao Zongshi stood up and said, "After listening to my husband's words, I felt a little more reliable in my heart. Now I can only wait."

He said goodbye. Wang Rong did not keep him because he heard that "the third young master was invited to his parents" again, so he had to deal with it...

The northern border is divided by a boundary river. The Song Dynasty looks like a dense forest on the south bank, while the Liao Dynasty on the north bank is bare.

This form means that the Liao Kingdom is a policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country. The Song Kingdom does not need such policy precautions.

Because the Song State was timid a long time ago, the way to guard against the Liao State was "annual monies" rather than military means. It would be useless to strengthen the walls and clear the fields in the military. Anyway, it could not withstand the Liao State's cluster, so I simply chose this.

This caused apart from the disputes in the border river, many Liao people also liked to go to the forests of Song State to hunt. Because the Liao people's own trees were cut down, the animals that survived by the forests of course came to the Song State.

Then the Liao people took the prey they caught in the forests of Song State for treatment, ate the meat, and then sold the fur to the Song people.

And now, a new situation has occurred in late August: more and more Liao people crossed the boundary river, went to the Song Dynasty's forest to cut trees, dragged the trees across the boundary river, and finally sold them.

This kind of thing will always happen, and it is normal for a small area. But now it is obviously abnormal for a large area.

The national politics is just this virtue, either left or right. Zhao Zi was dismissed for interfering with the Liao people in Jiehe. Now, Xiongzhou has no officials in charge, and Zhao Zi is dismissed. Now Xiongzhou bureaucrats have completely ignored the Liao people's cutting trees, which has led to a rapid and continuous expansion. Just like a group, nearly a thousand people cut trees in the forests of Song State.

The news reached Tokyo, and Han Qi and Zhao Zongshi felt very embarrassed. As expected, the Liao people would respond soon. Now it seems that it was a tree-cutting incident.

Even Han Qi and Zhao Zongshi felt that this was a temptation and response from the Liao court. Those people were obviously not the people, and the people were not so bold, so some people were sentenced to death. It was unreasonable for larger groups to come and fleece, so it was obvious that they were the Liao army, but they just took off their military uniforms.

Han Qi was a little confused about this.

So Zhao Zongshi came to meet Wang Yun again and asked for advice: "How do you think about the logging of Liao people on the Xiongzhou border? Is this the so-called response you predicted a few days ago?"

Wang Yun frowned and said, "It's a response, but the response method is more serious than I expected. This means that Xiao Hui is raising bets and cards. It is likely that he has already won the ace to bet, so you look like he is going to bets and cards, which is actually attracting you to bets and cards."

Zhao Zongshi was shocked and said, "It's just logging. Why did my husband say that this response is serious? My husband and I just felt embarrassed, but not serious."

Wang Rong raised his eyebrows and said, "It is precisely because of this that Lao Xiao is Lao Xiao, otherwise why did Han Qi defeat Haoshuichuan, and why did Lao Xiao capture Xixia Xingqing Prefecture?"

Zhao Zongshi didn't want to argue, and said anxiously: "Please give a detailed explanation."

Wang Rong said: "If the Liao Kingdom's response was: arresting a Song man from Yanjing for reasons and sentenced to death, this is a normal small response. It means that Lao Xiao was working with other politicians in Liao Kingdom to maintain stability, and was an explanation to the people of Liao Kingdom, but it was a compromise that he did not want to break up with Song Kingdom in his bones."

After a pause, Wang Yun continued: "But as a hegemonic country, he did not even make a reciprocal judicial response now, so fishermen in Liao Kingdom were sentenced to death, and more Liao people went to Song Kingdom to log wood. This means that Lao Xiao doesn't have face now, just like the inner world. It means that he doesn't want to explain to the people in the country, but wants to make a big news. So this is not only a response, but also his urgent need of wood."

"Why does the Liao Kingdom urgently need wood?" Zhao Zongshi was stunned.

Wang Rong said lightly: "1. Since the economic development has become increasingly lacking in wood, the price is getting higher and higher. The Liao Kingdom did not use it earlier, so it was cut off as a burden. Now it is too high. So I think the warships combined with the Jurchen pirates were provided by the Liao Kingdom. Now Lao Xiao urgently needs wood to build warships to meet the new situation of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea."

In this way, Zhao Zongshi really felt something was wrong.

The price of wood is indeed high now, and it is really like the behavior of "no face and no inner self" in Liao's way. The so-called plan is to bite people and not shout, so it really looks like the Liao's planning something, maybe it's really a big move.

No wonder the Great Demon King had seen these things earlier, and chose to surrender to the weak Jiaozhi, but went to slap the Liao Kingdom?

Despite thinking so, after all, after all, after being peaceful with the Liao Kingdom for so long, Zhao Zongshi still couldn't believe that the bondage was so deep that they didn't respond to the Suzhou Port incident, and the national war would have occurred like this?

So even though Zhao Zongshi was a little worried, he was limited and asked in a very practical manner: "Well, please ask me, how should I respond to specific issues on the border now?"

Wang Yun hesitated and sighed: "Everyone has his own style of ruling. If I were to do so, I wouldn't go crazy with fishermen like Zhao Zi, but when it comes to such practical problems, I must arrest them and arrest them as much as they come. No matter whether they are Liao troops or Liao people, they will arrest them for the reasons of destroying the water and soil environment of Song State and stealing high-value strategic materials, so that their families or the government will pay fines to redeem them until he can't stand it and start a war when he is not prepared."

Zhao Zongshi almost sprayed out a sip of tea.

By the way, this is indeed the style of a great devil. He will not be crazy about using the army to easily confront the people, but he will not be lenient when he really deserves it. This seems to be the legendary style of a strong man. He dares to slap the mouth of the Liao Kingdom but dares to compromise with the Jiaozhi Monkey. Now it seems that he is really the style of a strong man.

Unfortunately, Zhao Zongshi felt embarrassed. One wrong step made it difficult to correct it later.

Only then did Zhao Zi be dismissed from office and investigated by overcorrecting his reputation. Now the officers and soldiers of Xiongzhou are trembling about this matter and are in a good state of not doing anything. Even if the Song Dynasty court issued an order to arrest people, they would not be able to catch them with more experience. No officers and soldiers dared to enforce the law anymore. They would not work hard. They would even notify the Liao friendly troops in advance before they were dispatched and said, "You run away because we are coming soon, otherwise everyone will be in a dilemma if we encounter it. You will come again when we leave."

Unfortunately, Zhao Zongshi has no other experience but has rich experience at the grassroots level. Zhao Zongshi is very sure that in some minor illegal incidents in the capital, the police and gangs are mostly operated in this way. Bao Zheng is indeed a great honest official, but the people under Bao Zheng are not. When Bao Zheng ordered to arrest whom, those soldiers would operate in this way most of the time.

So now it is really difficult. This is the first time that Zhao Zongshi has experienced the difficulty of formulating policies. In many cases, it is not a problem of policy birth, but a problem of implementation.

When it comes to execution, the entire Song Dynasty Demon King was not as good as that. But this faced a conflict between him and Han Qi. Han Qi would not let him go at this time. Han Qi kept saying "Let that guy be calm and calm, think it through and do things, and he will not change his way."

So only sighed, Zhao Zongshi couldn't solve these problems, so he had to say goodbye and leave.

Fortunately, no matter what, I heard the interpretation of the Great Demon King: The logging incident is not face, but the inner world of the Liao Kingdom. They will use these wood to make warships and supply the Jurchens, causing more and more incidents to attack the merchant ships of the Song Dynasty Industrial Division, and continued to slow down the construction progress of the Nagasaki base.
Chapter completed!