Chapter 763

Zhao Xu carefully read the letter word by word, without saying a word for it for a long time, and his brows were deeply locked. The Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, who was beside him, did not urge him, but asked Xu Degong to bring Zhao Xu a cup of dragon and phoenix troupe tea and put it in front of Zhao Xu's case.

The rosy tea fragrance finally made Zhao Xu wake up from his thoughts. Zhao Xu reluctantly smiled at the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, but that smile was really ugly.

"This news is really too...too unbelievable to me, but I also think the analysis is very reasonable."

"Can it be that the Liao Kingdom finally couldn't help but want to face my Song Dynasty?" Zhao Xu's mood was really hard to calm down at this moment.

Since Emperor Renzong, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have entered a period of peace. Since small-scale regional conflicts occur from time to time, such conflicts can be easily resolved.

Moreover, there has never been another declaration of war between the two countries, and it has been decades since then. This is why after receiving the information conveyed by the Imperial City Department, the Privy Council received it at the court meeting for discussion. In the end, all the civil and military officials and generals in the court felt that the Song Dynasty did not have to worry too much.

It was just that the Han Zhongyan and the husband Han who calmed down Hedong Road were not careful and did not do anything else. Zhao Xu felt that there would be no major problems, so the decision of the court was passed smoothly.

However, Zhao Xu never expected that he had promised Wang Yang, an old driver, that any information from outside the Song Dynasty would be handed over to the Privy Council, but also to a piece of information set up by Wang Yang in the three states.

As a result, Wang Dacaizi's imagination was indeed extraordinary. Through intelligence and combined with those clues, he constructed it in a new way, or guessed a possibility that was so cold that it was standing upside down.

This time, the Liao Kingdom's military mobilization was definitely not ordinary, and its motive was most likely to be directed at such a powerful Song Dynasty.

However, considering that the court had set the tone of responding to the Northern Liao Dynasty's behavior of dispatching troops.

Although Wang Yang and others investigated the information to make their own guesses about the enemy's movements, they also knew that without empirical evidence, it was clear that it was impossible for the court to reverse their ideas and ideas.

In view of this, Wang Yang decided to prepare in advance, so Wang Yang decided that the people of Dangxiang, who caused hidden dangers to the Song Dynasty, would migrate out of the city and move to the land of Youzhou when military conflicts occur in the future.

Secondly, we began to urge the states to process arrows, crossbows and arrows, and build spears, swords and shields to enrich our military equipment. Making paper armor was also a last resort.

"Why didn't Wang Wushan send me a letter? Doesn't he just distrust me?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but pat his thigh and said in anger.

"The official family doesn't have to be so annoyed. In fact, even the Ai family can think of it. How could you not think of it?" Gao Taotao smiled and raised his hand and gently stroked Zhao Xu's increasingly broad and powerful shoulders and comforted him.

"I know that he must feel that he cannot convince all the civil and military officials of the court without evidence, but I have always trusted him and believed in his judgment. He should at least tell me, otherwise, if something really happens to the Three States, then I..."

"It is precisely because Wang Wushan knew that he could not convince the civil and military officials of the court by just being guessed, and he also knew the trust of the officials. However, he was just guessing after all. If he knew you, Your Majesty, if this was not the case, wouldn't he believing the monarch?"

"..." Gao Taotao's slouching words made Zhao Xu unable to speak for a long time. Yes, what if the Liao army did not have the trouble of finding the three states as Wang Yang's guess?

If Wang Yang told the emperor that his guess was leaked, then it would inevitably be that countless memorials impeached Wang Yang to deceive the emperor, as well as various crimes such as false reports on military affairs, would inevitably make Zhao Xu breathless. At that time, even if Zhao Xu wanted to defend Wang Yang, he would have to make a fair attitude.

"Ai's family also heard that the ministers in the court are now like they have taken the big pills. Shengri is so excited that they jumped up and down, just because they have seized the opportunity. They are constantly impeaching Wang Wushan to cast armor without asking for instructions on the court, and they should be taken to the capital to question..."

"Yes, this is true. Now my grandson's desk is almost filled with impeachment memorials. It seems that Wang Wushan does not want to make me embarrassed. He intends to take the greatest risk and make the worst plans and make the most complete preparations for the safety of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the three states."

At this time, the young emperor Zhao Xu finally understood Wang Yang's painstaking efforts. He was really moved and regretful. "If I had known this, I would not have sent all the seized armor to the borders of each road, leaving more for Shaanxi Road, so as to avoid Wang Wushan now being able to bare the bullet and make such a big fuss."

"I believe that the important officials in the court are not considering this, but thinking that such a good opportunity must not be let go. After all, Wang Wushan and Su Shi have offended them so hard that they can defeat one, but they will defeat one."

Speaking of this, Zhao Xu's tone became colder. Compared with Wang Yang ignored his career prospects for the safety of the military and civilians in the three states, he thought that he only wanted to be prepared to deal with the most serious situation.

But the civil and military officials in the court were only considering how to retaliate against each other to relieve the hatred in their hearts. Such behaviors can be distinguished immediately.

Zhao Xu also felt very cold. The focus of the civil and military officials in the court was more on fighting for profit. Now, due to the case of smuggling merchants in Yanzhou, Zhao Xu has also returned some new party officials who were exiled from the capital in the past to the court.

But the problem is that when those people come back, they tell Zhao Xu all day long about the harm of the old party, and they must expel all the old party from the court, so that the new party will once again preside over the government affairs.

Zhao Xu became arrogant and asked these returning new party members about the pros and cons of the late emperor's reform. The result was that there were only some reform clauses that were good, but not bad, even those who disturbed the people and even Wang Anshi himself felt that there was something wrong with them.

When these people talk, they become the common people who are promoted to the fight. How can the country understand how good the country is to them? So what if there are difficulties and harm? In short, reforms are good, and those that remain unchanged are bad.

Such extreme words and deeds made Zhao Xu, who had already seemed to be mature in his mind and had his own considerations in his heart, finally woke up.

I was not influenced by these people's opinions, but followed my own ideas, and decided to go one by one. A lot of troubles have not been dealt with yet, and now I have encountered this one again.

However, this incident not only did not weaken Zhao Xu's trust in Wang Wushan at all, but instead felt that the Mr. Wushan whom he fully supported was indeed the real country's strongest support.

"Grandmother, what should the grandson do? How can we help Wangwushan without arousing strong opposition from all the ministers?" Zhao Xu took a deep breath and turned his eyes to the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao.
Chapter completed!