Zhao Huan cleared his throat and looked at the ministers below who were facing a great enemy. He shook his head repeatedly and told a story. Is it necessary to be on guard?

"A little donkey crossed the river with salt. It slipped and fell into the river. Some salt melted in the water. It felt much more relaxed when it got up. This made it very happy."

"One morning a few days later, the little donkey crossed the river with some cotton. It thought to himself that the last time it was carrying salt across the river, it fell down and it was very easy to get up, and it would definitely pass this time."

"At this time, he was complacent for his intelligence. At this time, it felt that the sky seemed to be bluer, the sun was leisurely walking, the trees were greener, the flowers were brighter, and the river was rushing like singing, full of joy everywhere. In this way, it became more and more excited as it thought about it, and it cheered loudly."

"Then the little donkey walked into the river, fell down on purpose, and fell into the water. When he got up, he found that the cotton on his body was heavy and heavy. He took two steps with great difficulty and was washed away by the river."

"The sky has become dark and dark, the sun has also hid in the clouds, the trees have become inactive, the flowers are drooping, the river flows rushing like crying, and the dead are everywhere."

After Zhao Huan told this story, several of the many ministers in the court laughed.

This is a story for children!

A story full of loopholes! It is not comparable to the two stories told by the official in the previous period!

A censor stood up with a smile on his face that he was determined to win and said, "Officials, I have a word..."

"No! You don't!" Unfortunately, before the famous slogan finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Yuwen Xuzhong.

Yuwen Xuzhong stood up instead and said, "Officials, I have no way to rule the emperor, please forgive me."

Zhao Huan signaled the censor to sit down and talk to Yuwen Xuzhong. He was not angry. He told this story to the children, and the children would ask, "Is the donkey so smart?"

Tell it to the ministers in the court that the ministers in the court can find ten thousand reasons to refute this naive story.

But is this story really telling the donkey?

"In the first year of Jingde, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom signed a Chronozoic alliance, and made an appointment with each other to be a brother country, and it was peaceful for a hundred years until the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the Jin Kingdom."

"At that time, the Liao Kingdom had been in the founding of the country for 88 years, and its military advance was not good. Even if it had the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it was still helpless against our Song Dynasty. It was like the salt on the back of a donkey. At that time, the country was in trouble and needed rest and recuperation."

"But now, in the first year of Jingkang, the Jin Kingdom had just been established for the eleventh year of its founding, and only one breath was left to the Liao Kingdom."

"At that time, the peace talks with the Liao Kingdom was based on the fact that the Liao Kingdom was unable to move south. At that time, Kou Xiang had already seen that the Liao Kingdom's successor was weak."

"But I dare to ask all the officials in the court! The Jin Kingdom was founded only ten years ago! The founding soldiers! The powerful generals who destroyed the country are all there! Is the Jin Kingdom unable to move south?"

"The Liao and Jin Kingdoms in the Chanyuan Alliance are like the salt and cotton on donkeys. Their harms are different. The Jin people's desire to destroy our Song Dynasty is already known to everyone. Only by dying between Song and Jin can this war end. This is a desperate battle."

Zhao Huan stood up from the imperial case, walked to the ministers under the imperial court, and said, "I know the suffering of the people. I have seen the destruction of the family on Hedong Road with my own eyes. The people live on the cliff to avoid the disaster of gold."

"But if the country is gone, can the people still be safe? Even the cliffs cannot be settled."

It’s not that the ministers cannot see the difference between the situation of the Chanyuan Alliance and today, but that Zhao Huan stands at the perspective of the emperor and the overall situation.

The court officials, such as Liu Chengqing, had their eyes on the Ministry of Revenue, and what they thought all day long was limited to the Ministry of Revenue.

And a very important point is that they were born in a prosperous era and experienced only the war when Wanyan Zongwang besieged Bianjing City.

But Zhao Huan knew very well that the Jin people would go south, and the Han people under the rule of the Jin people were much more painful than they are now!

The old and thin man called it "Rao Bu Fire", and the woman with little mugwort is called "not envious of sheep", and the child calls it "He bone rot", which is also collectively called "Two-legged sheep".

They had never seen that cruelty, so naturally they could not know that the cruelty of the Jin people was even more than they thought!

After peace talks, the sky will be bluer, the trees will be greener, and the flowers will be brighter. Will the river really be happy?

Zhao Huan sat in front of everyone, and the court officials were thinking about the deep meaning of Zhao Huan's story. The very childish story made the court officials extremely silent.

"Besides, even if we don't discuss peace, Hedong, Yanjing, and Hebei Road will not be a war zone. Only Yunzhong Road is a war zone. The Jin people have no wings, so he cannot fly over the Yanshan Mountains and enter Yanjing Road."

"Zhao Du Zhi, carry the sand table over!" Zhao Huan shouted loudly.

The sand table was stacked by Zhao Huan and Zhao Ying based on the "World Geography Map". Zhao Ying is a skillful person, and he pinched the sand table very intuitively based on the legend.

"When guarding Datong in Yunzhong, he guarded the gate of Hedong Road, guarding the Zhangjiakou Military Fort in Fengsheng Prefecture, he guarded the entrance to Yanjing Road from Juyong Pass. And here..." Zhao Huan held a wooden stick in his hand and pointed to the direction of Yunzhong.

The ministers under their command had never taken geography classes. This was the first time they had seen this sand table. They were civil officials and had little knowledge of the facts of military affairs. Their understanding of terrain and geographical advantages was even worse than that of Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan sincerely thanked the nine years of compulsory education, although he was far inferior to the ancients who studied hard in ancient Chinese classics.

However, my understanding of the world situation, especially the geographical advantage, surpassed the ancients.

"In other words, only Yunzhong Road will become a war zone?" Liu Chengqing asked blankly.

If this is true, then whether to discuss peace or not is following the wishes of the government? I am too lazy to talk about this.

What he was worried about was that most parts of the northern region would fall into the vicious cycle of Hebei Road and Hedong Road.

In order to prevent the Liao people from going south, there were three routes in Hebei and Hedong, and the people were living in poverty.

Li Gang nodded and said to Liu Chengqing, "That's true, otherwise why did my Song Dynasty regain Yan Yun?"

Li Gang had seen the extremely exquisite "Global Geography Map". In fact, only a few official confidants had seen such a confidential drawing.

This map of Zhao Huan has been placed in Wende Hall, and now, except for Shen Cong, Cheng Chu, and Zhao Ying, even Zhu Lian cannot enter Wende Hall.

Zhao Huan didn't even allow the palace servants to enter, so naturally the court officials had never seen this map. The sand table raised this time opened the eyes of the ministers.

The cognitive differences caused by information aberration.

Zhao Huan finally understood why the group of capable ministers under his command, who were very good at governing the country and ensuring peace, suddenly wanted to negotiate peace.

In the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty had lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for too long!

So much so that they all forgot that Yan Yun was truly invincible in the hands of the Central Plains dynasty.

"The official's literary and military strategy is respectable, and I thank the official's teachings." Liu Chengqing bowed his head and said.

Since it does not affect the people's livelihood in most parts of the northern region, it is to follow the wishes of the officials.

Liu Chengqing looked at the sand table and saw that the official family had many different things, which was eye-opening.

"The official Jin envoy arrived in Chenqiao. Do you want to see him today?" Li Gang saw that Liu Chengqing stopped talking about peace and knew that the matter was over, so he asked softly.
Chapter completed!