Since the Hehuang army, Li Liangzuo has rarely lived a few days of leisure, but things have come before they have been leisure. Although the envoys of various countries have come to Xingqing Prefecture, there are fast and slow. The fastest one is the Song Dynasty. Now the 200,000 troops of the Song Dynasty have reached Longxi, and the Song envoys have come to Xingqing Prefecture again. Li Liangzuo cannot figure out what Song Yingzong wanted to do for a while?

Late at night in the imperial study.

Li Liangzuo called all five important officials in the cabinet. Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon throne and asked the five people: "Five dear ministers, tell me what Song Yingzong wants to do! Is it a war or a peace!"

Zhou Wentai first stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I foolishly believe that the Song army may have the intention of invading Hehuang. Now that our country has occupied Hehuang for less than two months, the people in the Hehuang land are still unstable. If the Song army attacked Hehuang at this time, it would probably be twice the result with half the effort! Furthermore, Hehuang is the place where the Song army comes from, and the Song army may not give up easily! Therefore, I suggest that Your Majesty send troops to attack Song and take action first."

Li Liangzuo frowned and asked Zhou Wentai: "If troops are sent to attack Song, how long can the national treasury money and grain last?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the money and grain of Hehuang have been filled into the national treasury, and it is enough to fight for more than a year." Zhou Wentai said to Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo nodded and asked Zhou Wentai again: "When the war lasts for a long time, what will be the tax I will lose?"

"This..." Zhou Wentai stuttered; "It's probably 20% or 30%."

Li Liangzuo sneered: "Twenty-three percent, Lord Zhou, your abacus is really jingling! Do you really think I don't know? Nowadays, most of the taxes of our Daxia Kingdom come from trade with the Song Dynasty. Once the war between the two countries is interrupted, our Daxia Kingdom will instantly waste the results of the three-year reform;

I don’t want to say more extra words, but I just want to tell Mr., that Mr. Xia is the first and second, the son of man. As long as Mr. sincerely assists me, I will realize Mr.’s dream one day, but now is not the time."

"Yes, I understand." Zhou Wentai said with a little chill.

Li Liangzuo glanced at the five ministers and said, "I know that you all have the intention to protect the country, but now the Great Xia Kingdom is still not an opponent of Song and Liao. No matter whether it is military power, civil power or national power, it cannot be compared with the two countries;

The Song and Liao countries have been established for a long time, with vast territory and numerous people. The Song army had more than 1.5 million soldiers at this time, and they could also recruit million soldiers during wartime. The Liao Kingdom even had all the soldiers, with a force of less than 1.3 million. And what about our Daxia Kingdom! The whole country has only about 400,000 soldiers, and even if one person spits a mouthful of water, he can drown us;

Although the Song army is not as powerful as our Xia army, once the war is delayed for a long time, it will be detrimental to our country. Therefore, no matter why the Song army comes this time, we must try our best to avoid the two countries' wars. Let's talk about it after our Daxia is truly rich in the country and strong in the future;

At this time, our gun must be hard, but our mouths must be soft. If you can fool the Song Dynasty, you will be fooled. I don’t care about fame and fortune. What I care about is interests. Hehuang has already eaten it, so I can’t spit it out. As long as the conditions of the Song Dynasty are not too excessive, try to agree to him as much as possible."

"Your Majesty, this may damage the prestige of the Great Xia Kingdom!" Vergung Ning Ling said to Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo smiled and said, "The country is gone, so the country is worthy of its prestige. Tomorrow, the Song envoys will enter the palace and all officials will come to the palace gate to welcome me to show their grandeur."

"Yes, I will obey the order." The five people retreated after receiving the imperial edict.

After the five people withdrew, Li Liangzuo's face changed and then sent someone to find Li Yi. After Li Yi came in, he saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "I will pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Let Li Yi get up!" Li Liangzuo said to Li Yi with a serious face. "When the Song envoy meets tomorrow, you can be arrogant in the hall. I forgive you for not guilty, but one thing is to let the Song envoy see the power of my Xia army. Do you understand?"

"The last general understands, please rest assured by Your Majesty." Li Yi took the order and said.

Then Li Liangzuo lay on his back on the dragon throne and waved to Li Yi. Li Liangzuo's move was to show others that they were weak first and then strong. He could neither offend Song envoys nor damage the prestige of the country. However, this would make the faces of the five cabinet ministers (mainly officials of the cabinet) feel a little uneasy!

The next morning, the early morning court not long after the Song envoy Fu Bi arrived. According to Li Liangzuo's wishes, the five cabinet ministers led all officials to welcome the palace gate, but looking around, most of them were civil officials, and there were very few military generals, especially the new army generals.

Seeing the officials of Xixia welcomed Fu Bi very arrogantly, thinking that Li Liangzuo was afraid of the Song army's attack on Hehuang, so Fu Bi's mind became active. Originally, Fu Bi just planned to let Li Liangzuo sell 40,000 war horses to the Song Dynasty as he was like that, but when he saw this scene, Fu Bi wanted to seize half of the Hehuang land from Li Liangzuo.

"Envoy Xuan Song went to the palace." Xiao Fuzi said loudly.

After Fu Bi came in, he bowed to Li Liangzuo and said, "Fu Bi, the envoy of the Song Dynasty, pays homage to the Lord of Xia."

Li Liangzuo looked at Li Yi inadvertently, and Li Yi immediately stood up and shouted angrily to Fu Bi: "Fu Bi, why don't you kowtow when you see my emperor?"

Fu Bi said toughly: "The kingdom of the Heavenly Kingdom will not worship the lord of a small country."

Li Liangzuo smiled and said, "Forget it, the Song envoy's words are reasonable. I don't know what the Song envoy is here in the remote areas of Xixia?"

Fu Bi said to Li Liangzuo: "I came here today to ask the Lord Xia why the unrighteous army attacked and punished Hehuang. Hehuang and Xixia are both vassals of the Song Dynasty. Today, the Lord Xia will not say that a Zi Chou and Yin Mao will come. Tomorrow, our 200,000 troops of the Song Dynasty will come to Xingqing."

"If you want to fight, you will fight. My Central Army is still afraid that you will not succeed." Li Yi drew his sword and pointed at Fu Bi and said.

"Fight, fight, fight..." the generals in the court shouted in unison, their voices like thunder that shook the sky.

Fu Bi was so scared that he was trembling all over. Li Liangzuo angrily scolded the generals and said, "A group of bastards can't stop talking."

Li Liangzuo walked off the dragon chaise and walked to Fu Bi's side and said, "Song envoy was frightened. Most of my generals are mountain village men. I hope you don't blame me!

As for why I attacked Hehuang, I was forced to do so! Hehuang and Xizhi were the places where our party’s ancestors made their fortunes. How could I let the land of my ancestors fall into the hands of others? Please rest assured that I have no intention of being an enemy of the Song Dynasty.”

"That's good, that's good..." Fu Bi said timidly; "In fact, Fu Bi entered Xia this time not to question the king, but because during the period when he occupied Hehuang, he traded 40,000 good horses with our Song Dynasty every year. Now the king possessed Hehuang, he dared to ask whether these 40,000 good horses could be the same as the yearning."

"Oh!" Li Liangzuo said, holding Fu Bi's hand, "This matter is probably difficult to deal with! I, Xixia, are also short of war horses! This matter may not work."

"Isn't this matter discussed?" Fu Bi continued to ask Li Liangzuo.

Li Liangzuo put down Fu Bi's hand and returned to the dragon chaise. A sharp light flashed across his eyes and said, "This matter is really undiscussed. If the Song envoy came for the sake of the alliance between the two countries, I would have all officials to welcome him. If it was for profit, I would have a large army to welcome him."

"Isn't Lord Xia afraid of my 200,000 Song army?" Fu Bi asked Li Liangzuo again.
Chapter completed!