Xu Ping's letter spread in the court, and the officials who advocated peace talks were over. The key is not the example of Qin's demise of Zhou, but the fact that the three generations of Dangxiang's ancestors and grandchildren were not constantly rebelling. Facts have proved that their seeking peace was just a temporary dormant, and they were suppressed rather than obedience. Seeking temporary stability in the northwest will only usher in greater turmoil.

Zhao Jiqian rebelled, Deming reconciled for decades, and Yuan Hao rebelled again, and Dangxiang no longer had the credit for peace talks. After the battle in Tiandu Mountain, Dangxiang's elite troops were all lost, and Yuanhao lost the capital for peace talks. Without credit or capital, how could such a business be continued? Dangxiang's seeking peace talks were not acceptable to the Song Dynasty today.

In the past two years, Xu Ping was far away from the northwest and basically did not interfere with the affairs of the court. In the eyes of many officials, he was still the leader of the three officials in charge of the three departments and the young officials under the priests and old ministers. At this time, he suddenly realized that Xu Ping had already jumped out of his original identity in the court and became one of the top decision-makers in the entire country.

Li Di and Lu Yijian have been fighting and reciprocating their attitudes. Rather than waiting for the controversy between officials in the court, they are waiting for Xu Ping's statement in the northwest. Whether it is a war or reciprocity, it depends on whether Xu Ping stops under Tiandu Mountain, or leads his troops northward to take the Xingling and Xingling states. If Li Di and Lu Yijian agree with reciprocity, Xu Ping's army will advance northward and drive Yuan Hao further away in just a few days, and he will not be able to reciprocity. If he wants to fight, Xu Ping disagrees with the current situation. How can this battle be fought?

Ge Huaimin has proved that the generals of the Three Yamen are unreliable in war. Ren Fu used his own death to show that even if the generals of the Three Yamen are reliable in war, they will be cheated by their teammates. Looking around, no other generals of the Three Yamen can stand alone. Who can guarantee that Xu Ping can be replaced now?

Bianshou had a large degree of decision-making power over foreign affairs. First of all, we have to ask Xu Ping's opinion on the war and harmony between Dangxiang. This is his scope of authority. Not to mention Li Di and Lu Yijian, Zhao Zhen would not easily express his ideas before Xu Ping made a statement. Politics have political rules, and officialdoms have common rules. When you reach a certain position, others dare not take over the matters within your scope of authority. Even the emperor must abide by this rule, otherwise he will face the risk of no one available to his subordinates. The use of flattery villains is not in line with Zhao Zhen's nature. In history, officials of the Song Dynasty often used the law of ancestors to restrain the emperor, and the law of ancestors was formed when Zhao Zhen was in power. He was originally a person who actively abides by the rules. As an emperor, he was willing to use tangible and intangible rules to restrict the government.

If Zhao Zhen rashly made a decision to fight or reconcile before Xu Ping's letter arrived in the capital, no matter what Xu Ping thought, he would disagree with Xu Ping's previous actions and his abilities. Once he got the news, Xu Ping might resign. Li Di and Lu Yijian were more serious, and he had different opinions from Xu Ping, and he might encounter a problem of whether to resign or remove Xu Ping. At this time, Zhao Zhen's choice was obvious.

This is the political rules of the Song Dynasty. Others can express their opinions to the fullest, but in those small circles of decision makers, they cannot speak nonsense. The emperor and the prime minister could disagree after Xu Ping made a statement, but they could not interfere in their affairs.

The sentence Xu Ping gave to the Privy Council was after getting Wang Yan's transfer, and he wrote a sentence with a quick horse, which was not his complete opinion. This sentence set the tone, but the specific negotiations still require detailed content. The Imperial Prison and the Prime Minister, and the Privy Council required Xu Ping to analyze the military strength, war and future results on the front line. With these, we can meet the Khitan envoys.

Li Di asked Fu Bi to drag Liu Liufu north of Daming Prefecture, while Lu Yijian used a fast horse to send Yuanhao and the movements of Khitan, as well as the disputes between officials in the court to the Zhenrong Army, and Xu Ping asked him to submit a memorial as soon as possible in the name of the Longyou Protectorate. He also used a fast horse to send horse shops along the way to the capital as the most priority document, and did not delay the time. The horse was delivered to 500 miles a day and night, and the Zhenrong Army was more than 2,000 miles a day and a little, and the time Lu Yijian gave Xu Ping was limited to ten days.

In the past ten days, no official dared to advocate peace talks. He wanted to fight to the end and completely eliminated Dangxiang's remarks had the absolute advantage. Cai Xiang took the lead and shouted that anyone who dared to speak up could be killed. The middle and lower-level officials sang peace talks, which made Yan Shu very passive. In the end, there was no choice but to resign. However, Zhao Zhen gently persuaded him to stay and still asked him to be the deputy prime minister.

In the end, the debate was no longer limited to the war and harmony against Dangxiang. The officials who were mobilized for enthusiasm began to recount and developed into a big debate about whether to move the Xiongnu in the border areas or prisoners. In the end, almost all the civil and military officials participated, which was quite a scene of the Tang Dynasty discussing whether to allow the Huns to move inward in the fourth year of Zhenguan.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin accepted the "Tiankhan" who joined the Fanhu tribes in the north. The Fanhu tribes who agreed to surrender moved inward and joined the army as a barrier of the Tang Dynasty. Wei Zheng, who opposed the Xiongnu's migration, was eventually defeated. His last sentence of the year, "The Huns faced and were not from our race. The strong will be bandits, and the weak will be humble and ignorant. They are of nature." Although the Anshi Rebellion was decades later, it started in the fourth year of Zhenguan. The debate had a profound impact on Chinese history.

Wei Zheng's words are particularly suitable for Dangxiang now, and they have been cited by many officials in the past. Now it is not just a Dangxiang problem, but other banished places under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty are facing the need to be subjected to counties and places. Xu Ping was in Lingnan, and the land of Qinfeng Road was a tent, and the tent was a village, and the county was a quotation, and the customs were changed.

Xu Ping did this, and those places are now developing well. In the past, the Han people were considered to be weak and weak, and they were not as good as those who had more contact with the Hu people in the frontiers and had more contact with the Hu people. Xu Ping recruited soldiers from Sichuan and Shu to form the Longyou Army. The battle in Tiandu Mountain has proved that this is the most capable army. All this shows that border policies no longer require concessions to the Hu people. All the territory of the Song Dynasty can be like the mainland, with prefectures and counties, dispatched officials, and educated. The more concessions, the more harm it will be to the future.

The debate even developed into the reform of the imperial guards, and the current military system was widely questioned. Since the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the imperial guards, especially the three yamen imperial guards, had retained a large number of Hu Fengs. Under the culture that believed that this could strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, the imperial guards were deliberately isolated from the entire society. The worldly soldiers and generals are related to the atmosphere of society that values ​​culture over military affairs, and there is also this intentional isolation. It is difficult for ordinary people to integrate into the military culture, and soldiers are also not easy to integrate into society.

Xu Ping did not expect that his words would cause such a big storm in the end. This storm continued to spread, and I am afraid that it would not be able to calm down in a few years. This big debate in the court not only affected the Song Dynasty, but also the small countries in the border areas were affected. Their future destiny will be determined by the result of this debate, and the Song Dynasty is emerging from the influence of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!