Chapter 921

"The emperor's grandmother also thinks that grandson's words make sense?" Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of enthusiasm for finding recognition.

"This is natural. If the old woman can't see such a simple truth clearly, then she will be confused even if she is confused." Gao Taotao laughed.

"I have never had such a proud day since the Renzong Dynasty. Although the Xixia children, although they jumped into the clown, were supported by the Liao Kingdom, they kept harassing the northwest of the Song Dynasty day and night."

"It makes it difficult for me to have peace in the Song Dynasty. Emperor Renzong is kind-hearted and hopes to use the gifts to make the Xixia and our Song Dynasty shake hands and make peace and temporarily stop the war. However, Xixia is ambition to occupy my city and plunder my people's wealth, so that my Song Dynasty will not be peaceful."

"Every year, the military expenditure in the northwest is as small as millions of stakes, and the most tens of millions of stakes. How many people are displaced, and how many soldiers sacrifice their lives for the country..."

"Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Shenzong all cried for the northwest, but the situation was always repeated..."

"Today, our Song Dynasty finally took the lead and divided the territory of Xixia into two, first took three states, and now we seized the land of Yinzhou Longzhou. This is an unprecedented victory."

"What is important is that we still need to face hundreds of thousands of Liao troops. Under such huge pressure, no one retreated, and everyone fought for the first place. This really made the Ai family happy. The spirits of the late emperors can also be comforted..."

Zhao Xu looked silently at the emperor's grandmother who began to recall the past. Although he had heard of these things less than a hundred times. However, listening to them again at this moment makes people feel more meaningful.

Because this was the first foreign war between the Song Dynasty after he came to power, and what he faced was a war involving more than one million troops.

However, the Song Dynasty could still gain an advantage with its own strength against the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms, which was definitely something that the Song Dynasty in the past could not have imagined.

But now the Song Dynasty has done so. Under such circumstances, the Song Dynasty has already gained an advantage, so it is naturally necessary to continue a stalemate.

"Does the official family still remember the deeds of Emperor Zhenzong's personal conquest of the Liao Kingdom?" Gao Taotao suddenly asked this question after recalling for a long time.

Zhao Xu was a little stunned and took a long time to react. "Sun's grandson naturally remembered that in the first year of Jingde, Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao and the Emperor of Liao personally led a large army to the south and invaded our Song Dynasty. For the peace of our Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu decided to lead the imperial army to personally go to Chanzhou to supervise the war."

"Yes, then do you know, then do you know, although the Chanyuan Alliance brought long-term peace between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom. However, it was clear that the Song Dynasty won the great victory, but why did the peace talks like the Song Kingdom lost this battle after the peace talks?"

"That's..." Zhao Xu's face suddenly felt cold sweat flowing. He moved for a long time, but he didn't dare to say it.

"It's not that you dare not say it, but that you can't say it. As the saying goes, the son does not say that his father's faults, and the son does not think that his family is poor. Right..." Gao Taotao looked at Zhao Xu meaningfully and said.

"Grandson, grandson... what the emperor's grandmother said was very true." Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel a little frightened. Could it be that she had drunk, bragging, spanking and talking about this topic with the Eleventh Lang Zhao Ji, and the emperor's grandmother learned about it, so she specially wanted to use this matter to hit herself?

"You, the Ai family is not blaming you, look at you like that." Gao Taotao was very satisfied. Um... scared this brat, so he didn't even say anything. He drank in the palace and didn't pay attention to what he could say or what he couldn't say.

"The Ai family wants to tell you that back then, your emperor, Gaozu, had to negotiate peace with the Liao Kingdom, because the Song Dynasty was too poor at that time. Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were the emperor of the Mahjong. They expanded the territory for our Song Dynasty and built a huge country, but the people's livelihood has always been..."

The Empress Dowager Gao Taotao explained the reason why Emperor Zhenzong had to shake hands with the Liao Kingdom at that time, but the personality of Emperor Zhenzong himself was too timid and cowardly, which was also related to it.

After that, in the second year of Qingqing in the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom took advantage of the opportunity of the Song Dynasty's war with the Western Xia to blackmail the Song Dynasty's land, money and grain. In desperation, Renzong agreed to increase the annual monies of 100,000 taels of silver and 100,000 pieces of silk to Liao.

Later, in the seventh year of Emperor Shenzong's Xining, the Song Dynasty had constant domestic disputes over reforms. When the ministers in the court attacked each other, the Liao Kingdom also used the excuse of the Song Dynasty's construction of fortresses on the border to destroy the border and demanded a demarcation. In desperation, the Shenzong had to allow the watershed as the boundary and gave up some land.

The Liao Dynasty's several aggressive actions ended with the concessions of the Song Dynasty. Even the civil servants of the Song Dynasty whitewashed these humiliating things into acts of peace and benevolence and righteousness.

But in fact, whitewashing is just whitewashing after all, not real peace. Every time someone is forced to give in, who will feel better?

Now, the Song Dynasty has fought against Liao and Xia with all its strength, and has frequently seized large tracts of land and won consecutive victories. This opportunity to boost people's morale will be too stupid if we go to peace again.

"This battle is actually stalemate until now, and it is meaningless to compete for endurance. Seeing who can't stand the pressure first and move to stand out, then who is the real loser." Gao Taotao looked at Zhao Xu in front of him with a serious look, and said word by word.

"Don't pay attention to the ideas of those ministers. Today, the Song Dynasty finally had such an opportunity. You must grit your teeth and hold on and don't let go. If you want to restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties, then think about it first, how can you not be influenced by the ministers."

Speaking of this, Gao Taotao's wrinkled big hand gently patted Zhao Xu's back of his hand, and his eyes were filled with something called expectation and expectation.

"The grandson understands, thank you, the emperor and grandmother. The grandson knows what he wants to get, so the grandson will definitely not give up on this goal."

"Ai family believes in you, you can do better than your father, because your will is stronger than him..." Speaking of this, a trace of sadness appeared in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao.

Perhaps, when I was able to understand my son's idea of ​​reform and progress, there would be no such gap between mother and son, and I might not have resentment due to anger. After my son died, I would almost respond to the changes, regardless of good or bad.

After all, at that time, I was just an old woman in the deep palace. When I first came to the government, I could not withstand the clever words of these civil and military ministers.

The result is that the gap between oneself and his grandson is getting deeper and deeper, and it can be described as if it were like water and fire. If it weren't...
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