Chapter 570: Playing (Last Part)
"Huang Zhong Envoy, do you know why I am so ashamed of these envoys?" Wang Ju turned to Eunuch Huang and asked.
Old Man Huang said he was speechless, and he was standing next to him.
"The reason is simple. With the national strength of Xixia, it dispatched 300,000 great labor, almost all the country's troops and financial resources. But now it is a big defeat, and the entire country is facing a rare crisis. So they are eager to ask for peace from our court. As long as our court agrees to peace, people's hearts will be stable immediately, otherwise there will be chaos in Xixia."
Wei Ming Kerong really wants to say something, so let’s go and see.
But that might be the best way for this little magistrate to do. Now isn't the time to be angry, and was Wang Ju wrong? So he held back his anger and sat there pretending that he hadn't heard it, and winked at Lu Ning and asked him to restrain him.
"Why did Xixia have this crisis? Why did Xixia people suddenly change their attitude and lower their attitudes. This is not bought, but made."
"The one in the middle." Eunuch Huang agreed.
Jiao Wengui sarcastically said: "I wonder if your emperor has agreed to your position?"
"I'm going to say it soon, but before that, I'll say something. You must think that I've been ashamed of you and lazy, but I'll ask you again, your envoys from Xixia came to our court, and the officials along the way were careful, and sent companions to accompany you, and sent you to the capital, and then let you enter the palace and meet the emperor. But as the supreme country, our envoys came to your Xixia. Have you ever been to Xingqing Prefecture? Not only that, like Yang Ding, who was lured and killed by you, you were envoys in Xixia, how many envoys were deceived, tempted and intimidated by your Xixia people in Youzhou?"
"I don't understand. You Xixia is more powerful and noble than the Liao Kingdom? Even if we are the Liao Kingdom, we are the envoys of the Song Dynasty. If the Liao Lord is near Zhongjing, we will meet our Song Dynasty envoys in Zhongjing. If the Liao Lord is near Zhongjing, we will meet our Song Dynasty envoys in Zhongjing. In Changchun, we will meet our Song Dynasty in Changchun... It's not right. When the Liao Kingdom envoys went to your Xixia, we met in Xingqing Prefecture. Why is it our Song Dynasty's turn to send so many silver and tea every year, and the best exquisite silk to you Xixia, but we can only be in Youzhou. Is our Song Dynasty so weak?"
Jiao Wengui was speechless.
In fact, later generations were able to overturn the verdict of the Liao Kingdom. No matter what, although the Liao Kingdom took the opportunity to blackmail the Song Dynasty twice, in general, it still abides by the alliance and treats the Han people at the same time, which is not as cruel as written by the great master of Jin. In fact, in the Liao Kingdom, the Han people and the Xi people were second-class citizens, and their status was far above the Jurchens and Tatars.
Although there is still a phenomenon of grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grass-grassing border since the Chanyuan Alliance, it is not large in scale, nor is it an official organization of the Liao Kingdom. Who made the Song Dynasty rich, and the officials and soldiers not compete for it?
But those who overturned the verdict for Xixia are all fools!
However, Wang Ju's words were not only for the three messengers.
"I understand." Wang Ju asked again: "This is called repaying kindness with virtue and repaying grievances with righteousness. I am very polite to you."
"What is straight?" asked Eunuch Huang.
"Still is not virtue, but fairness. If the enemy resents himself and they are right, they must work hard to correct it. If the enemy is purely malicious, then you must repay kindness with virtue and repay tooth with tooth!"
"So that's it, no wonder I couldn't understand this sentence."
"It's okay, the Master still focuses on benevolence and righteousness, so he used direct complaints instead of two words: repaying grievances with kindness and tits for tooth. He tried to repay grievances with virtue. If he really couldn't, he had to repay grievances with tooth. This is the true meaning of repaying grievances with straightness. Just like when I came to Yanzhou this time, I changed to Xixia to enter the town of our dynasty, and the burning, killing, and looting will come together. Otherwise, how could the Weiyuan thousands of miles become a dead place? But I repeatedly ordered the officers and soldiers not to disturb the people."
"Ming Gong is so kind."
Renai? The three summers all over their bodies.
Wang Ju turned around and spoke to the three of them: "Jiao Wengui, you are right. The official did not agree with my best and middle-level strategy. He only agreed with my worst strategy, which is to occupy a section of Hengshan. It is not for the production of Hengshan, which does not matter to our dynasty. Therefore, the purpose of occupying is that if you use the terrain advantage of Hengshan to plunder the people of our dynasty in the future, our dynasty can also use the advantages of Hengshan to plunder the Xixia. In this way, you can force you to reconcile with our dynasty and peace on the border."
The three messengers knew about Hengshan, and that was undoubtedly a mistake.
Of course, everyone felt a pity and knew its importance, but it could not be recaptured unless there was a major change in the Song Dynasty.
"But I don't like this strategy very much, so it is a bad strategy. But I also expected that the government would choose it because of the words of some literati and officials. Therefore, I made a few steps to plan, one was to quickly mine the green salt from Yanzhou and then sell it to merchants. If Your Majesty agreed to the best strategy, the income from selling salt would be turned into rewards, stimulate the soldiers of the three armies, and quickly sent troops to Lingzhou and your Xingqing Mansion. If Your Majesty agreed to the Zhongshou, because the broadening of Qingyan would not only make profits, but also reward the soldiers of the three armies, but also benefit the people of Huanqing, and make up for the losses caused by your invasion over the years. At the same time, the people of Yanzhou would also temporarily make profits, and the people would turn against us. With the people's hearts, we could rule here. If Your Majesty only agreed to the worst strategy, and also rewarded the soldiers of the three armies, the next time you went to war with you in Xixia, the three armies would be full of confidence, and then we would achieve greater victories."
In fact, I will destroy Xia and occupy Yanzhou and occupy a ghost!
This was what Wang Ju said on purpose, not only to the three envoys of Xixia, but also to some ministers in the country. Such a good opportunity will make you miss it.
It's safe and sound for the time being. After a long time, we will inevitably tie up the urine basins. Wang Ju is preparing to urinate...
"But I don't care. You can send me a mission to my court. With the virtues of some ministers of our court, you will be able to successfully achieve your wishes under their instigation. But I have also fulfilled my wishes. Although you Xixia will quickly enter stability, your Empress Dowager Liang's status has also been stabilized. Under her leadership, you Xixia will sooner or later die. So I am waiting for the imperial edict from the court. Once the edict comes, I will let you go to the capital."
The three messengers were mixed with feelings and thought, our Queen Mother is not what you think.
But no matter whether the Liang family was what Wang Ju said, their first priority was to find a way to get to Kaifeng City of the Song Dynasty and bring the letter of peace talks to the Song Dynasty. Otherwise, there would be turmoil in Xixia.
Therefore, the three of them listened as if they were angry and kept silent.
Liu Changzuo felt a little funny when he heard Wang Ju talk nonsense.
In fact, Liu Changzuo was very clear about the discussion since the beginning.
Still Wang Ju and Zhang Feng’s thoughts have decided from the beginning that the battle will be a shallow attack.
What is a shallow attack? It means that after defeating the Xixia army, it immediately occupied the Hengshan section.
This is not to destroy Xia, but the time to destroy Xia is not ripe. First of all, the soldiers of the three armies lack practical training. It was a little better at this time, especially during the Qingli period, why could Li Yuanhao succeed quickly? There are many reasons. First, it was unexpected that Li Yuanhao would take the lead, second, it was impossible to imagine that Li Yuanhao would take the lead, third, it was impossible for Li Yuanhao to be powerful, third, at that time, there was no preparation in the northwest, and there was no decent fortress. Even if there were, it was almost abandoned. Fourth, it was economic difficulties. First, it was severe drought, and then the Yellow River broke the dam. The national treasury was empty, so after the Qingli years, and the drought came, there were peasant uprisings in some areas.
Another reason is that the soldiers of the three armies have not been accustomed to actual combat for decades.
In addition to the command error of Liao Xingzong, there was also this reason for the failure of Liao Kingdom.
If you play in Qingzhou, you will have the advantage of home court and the advantage of terrain. However, after passing Qingzhou, it is mostly flat areas, and the terrain will be beneficial to the enemy. If you blindly want to attack further, it will cause the fate of Gaoliang River to be defeated by the disaster.
But I didn't expect that Wang Ju would misinterpret it like this.
But Liu Changzuo also did not expect that Wang Ju's play this time had a profound meaning.
Wang Ju continued: "But for you Xixia, there are two opportunities this time. The first opportunity is that if you go to the capital, identify the people, have a better attitude, and speak appropriately, maybe some important officials will take the initiative to speak for you, ask me to hand over the occupied Hengshan Mountain, and even propose to return it to Suizhou."
"This is unlikely." Eunuch Huang said in disbelief.
"It's really possible."
"Our family knows that when the war begins, the people will suffer."
"There may be a few ministers who do think so, but I will only say one thing. How many poor and lonely people in my dynasty are so big in the country, and that year will encounter disasters of all sizes. How many of these scholars and officials who have a living creature on their mouths are extremely poor? How many of their property in their families is immeasurable? But how many of their property will be taken out to support the country, or to help the disaster-stricken people and the poor and lonely people?"
Not to mention anything else, I only talk about Sima Guang. Sima Guang's father Sima Chi lost his father when he was young, and he gave all the hundreds of thousands of dollars of property in his family to his father and also distributed them to his uncles.
Wang Ju didn't know what happened later.
Whether there is "information" is even more suspicious.
It was only during the Zhenzong period that the economy of the Song Dynasty had just improved. The Sima family, the Sima Chi family, had hundreds of thousands of chunks of wealth. It is conceivable how much wealth the entire Sima family has accumulated.
It doesn't matter. Your own property is also accumulating. As long as a rich person obtains wealth through legitimate means, he is not wrong. But don't use the slogan of people's livelihood, even though he has accumulated countless property, he also hypocritically said that he is a living Bodhisattva, and even went to live in a tree house...
"Then why are they against the war?"
"China has been hospitality since ancient times. Even though our family is so poor that it is hard to lose its roots, the guests will even kill chickens and buy wine when they come. Because of this great tradition, it is better to give gifts to friendly countries than to slaves. Although there are many poor people in the country, in order to make the guests happy, they must squeeze out money and give gifts to satisfy the guests. The country is so big and the guests have a small territory, so it doesn't matter if they invade any of them. They should treat it as gifts to entertain guests. But don't make the guests feel wronged, so you should not be careless and you cannot take advantage of the guests."
What is the reason for this?
But the reason why Wang Ju said these words was for the future, not for the future, and it was used in a month...
Eunuch Huang was stunned when he heard this.
Wei Ming Kerong was stunned, and he even thought about it, right?
Otherwise, it cannot be explained how some scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty were so soft?
As for Lu Ning and Jiao Wengui, they even scratched their heads. Many Han people are traditionally hospitalized, but not like this. We are also Han people.
Liu Changzuo was amused again.
However, Wang Ju asked Liu Changzuo to listen, which also allowed Liu Changzuo to grow rapidly.
Wang Ju knocked the table with his finger and said, "There is another opportunity. Since the government has taken my worst strategy, there is no need for so many troops on the front line. Therefore, I will retreat many troops to the rear one after another. The first batch of retreats were the tens of thousands of Poche troops brought by General Liu and General Wang. But the remaining troops still held prisoners of war, continued to build forts, and continued to let the people transport salt. Therefore, this is also a great opportunity for you Xixia people. Dong Wen sent troops to Hexi, just to get the advantage, and would not choose to fight to the death with Renduolingding. I believe he will withdraw his troops soon. At that time, you Xixia can gather all the troops in the country and come to Yanzhou to avenge your previous shame."
"Don't miss this opportunity. That's all I want to say. You can go back to the post station and write a memorial."
It is no trivial for the two countries to immigrate each other.
If Wang Ju said he would agree, the three envoys took their servants and went to Kaifeng immediately.
This has to be sent to inform the rear.
Chapter completed!