In Yunnei Prefecture Courtyard, Xu Ping listened to Liu Hu's report on seeing Khitan reinforcements entering Fengzhou during the day.

After Liu Hu finished speaking, Xu Ping asked: "Have you ever seen clearly how many people came? What is the identity of the leader's appointment?"

"The leader should be the governor or above, with a total of two or three thousand soldiers coming. The soldiers and horses of the Khitan royal court were the soldiers."

After hearing this, Xu Ping nodded and said, "There are not many soldiers and noble identities. Most of the people who come here are not reinforcements, but the envoys of the Khitan and our theory. Yelu Zongzhen led a large army to station in Baishuilu. I think it was because he saw that this battle was not easy to fight, so he sent someone to argue first."

Zhenwu County, southwest of Fengzhou, is now just an inconspicuous small place. In history, it was once the capital of the Xianbei Northern Wei Dynasty, the Great Protectorate of the Shanyu during the Tang Dynasty, and the Jiedushi of the Zhenwu Army. The geographical location is very important. The roads from the south are basically at the intersection of Zhenwu County, where there are many ancient roads that can reach many important places.

Originally, it was the most convenient way to travel from Yunzhou to Fengzhou. Now that Cao Keming has occupied it, Yelu Zongzhen has no choice but to go to Baishuili on the northern line, cross ninety-nine springs, and go to Fengzhou along the Jin River. There is a fatal weakness in walking the northern line. The Song army can attack Dezhou from Zhenwu County, have an ancient road to Baishuili, and invite the Khitan army to the rear. The retreat was cut off, and Yelu Zongzhen could only take hundreds of thousands of troops to the grassland. Although he was used to nomadic, it was difficult to accept that he would take hundreds of thousands of people to chase rabbits on the grassland.

Yelu Zongzhen could only send envoys to meet Xu Ping with the last bit of luck. He could use negotiations to get the Song army to give up the territory occupied. Even if he suffered a little loss, it would be an ideal result for the Khitan.

After thinking about it, Xu Ping called Tan Hu and said to him: "Send someone to Tanglong Town as soon as possible and ask Zhengluo Fan to come here to discuss matters!"

Tan Hu agreed with his hands and turned around and went out.

Fan Zhongyan led his troops to capture Tanglong Town, and killed Lai Shoushun, who rebels from Song. His tribe moved to the mainland and stationed there. His tens of thousands of troops were looking for a key place to build a city, preparing to station for a long time, threatening the Khitan Shuozhou from the northwest. After this battle, Fan Zhongyan wanted to come to Jiuyuan, and the Shuofang area was the strategic envoy, so he should participate in the negotiations with the Khitan.

Liu Hu said goodbye and left, and Xu Ping went to the courtyard alone, looking at a bright moon in the sky.

It is already autumn, and it is the time when the autumn is clear and cool. The moon in the sky looks particularly bright. The moonlight shines on the ground through the bare branches, mottled, as if it is covered with a layer of frost on the ground.

It is estimated that there will be a war in the end, but Xu Ping did not know whether Yelu Zongzhen dared to bring all 300,000 to Fengzhou with all 300,000 to 400,000 troops. Once defeated, the more than 300,000 troops lost their combat power, and Xu Ping would go from the northwest to the Hedong Road from the southeast of Daizhou, and attacked Yun and Shuo prefectures at the same time, and the situation would be impossible to deal with.

The Khitan was a real empire. He would not do things like Yuan Hao's tribal leader. He did everything based on his own preferences. I think Yelu Zong really dared to take such a risk. He might have divided his troops into two groups, one by one through Dezhou soldiers and one by one to Fengzhou to fight.

If this happens, there will be some considerations in the battle, and Dangxiang's army of more than 100,000 will have a place to use its strength.

To this extent, it would be impossible for Xu Ping to not go straight to Yun and Shuozhou to threaten Youzhou. However, he could control his impulse and insist on putting the front line here.

War is not just about siege cities and territories, but also about fighting passionately. In the end, it is a competition between the two empires. It is nothing more than a competition between two countries. It is manifested in a war situation at a specific time. Although it is a great achievement to capture Yun and Shuo, it can increase his ambition, but the Khitan defense line that has finally been torn apart from both east and west, has gathered together again.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun greatly increased the strength of the Khitan, but the Khitan was not at all in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Taking Yun and Shuo prefectures were not fatal to the Khitan. The benefits obtained by shortening the confrontational front were enough to make up for the losses lost by these prefectures.

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, Xu Ping sighed. When he reached his current position, the most important thing was no longer the process, but the result. The important thing was not how to fight, but where to stop. If you don’t know how to stop when you see it, you will stop and make the front line grow longer and longer, and eventually countless conflicts will erupt and become uncontrollable.

What did the Khitan send envoys to talk about? Of course, it is not the purpose of talking, but to understand each other's bottom line. Where will the subsequent war begin and end. No one can destroy the other party at once, so they can only fight and talk like this, talk and fight.

Three days later, Ye Zongzhen and Liu Liufu received Xu Ping's reply, and the two sides met in the middle Qingzhong in Yunneizhou and Fengzhou.

The autumn wind has risen, and the grass and trees wither. From a distance, there is a huge mound of soil in front, which seems to be green on it.

Fan Zhongyan stopped his horse, looked at the green tomb in the distance, and chanted: "As soon as he went to Zitai and Shuomo, he left the green tomb alone towards dusk. After more than a thousand years of confrontation, Emperor Xuan still had to rely on this woman to pacify the barbarians. How could the commander of the army be so as to be solemn?

Xu Ping said: "There are no certain rules for barbarians to be conquered or appeased, so choose those who use them together. It is just that the court's major policies are treated as weak women, which is a bit disgusting. Those who command military forces are ashamed, and those who live in the temple to manage the government can be at ease? The court's major policies are used with both civil and military affairs, and if the civil affairs are not cultivated, military affairs will naturally be corrupt. The civil affairs are used inside and military affairs are used outside, and the internal affairs are the foundation, and military affairs are just distinguished from the internal and external affairs. Therefore, Emperor Xuan said that the Han family has its own system and is originally mixed with the way of overlords."

Fan Zhongyan nodded and said no more. This involves the difference between the two deep-seated ways of governing the country, which cannot be convinced by Xu Ping in just one or two words. In recent years, Xu Ping has become increasingly systematic about his entire theory of governing the country and has begun to form a school of its own. The dispute over the theory of governing the country within the Confucian system is not separated from the classics of "Spring and Autumn", "Shangshu", and "Yi", and the rest do not have such serious principle debates. "Spring and Autumn" talks about the distinction between China and the barbarians and the difference between inside and outside. In this regard, Xu Ping slowly walked on the path of Confucian scholars in the "Spring and Autumn". When talking about civil and military affairs, it has become Xu Ping's habit.

Civilization has been continuing. It is not necessarily true that one thinks that one has knowledge from a thousand years later than that of the people of this era. An era has the characteristics of an era and the foundation of civilization in an era. It is not possible to be a prophet by relying on a few words from later generations. Only by taking root in this era can one truly lead the progress of this era.

It is normal to have a different understanding from the scholars of this era, because the two have different facts.

Xu Ping was educated in his previous life. Han civilization was the only civilization that has lasted for thousands of years. It has endless and has extremely powerful integration capabilities. Even if there is a temporary setback, there is no need to worry. Even if the country is destroyed, the Han civilization will not be destroyed.

Scholars in this era were not so optimistic. The dangers of Han civilization were always in their hearts. Revitalizing the Han family was a heavy burden for them. Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, after the short Wei and Jin Dynasties, Yongjia crossed south, the Five Barbarians invaded China, the establishment of the Xianbei Northern Wei, and the later Central Plains dynasties were all in line with the Xianbei lineage. Including the Sui and Tang dynasties, neither of them could escape the relationship with the Xianbei Northern Wei. I originally thought that the Tang Dynasty revived the Han Dynasty, but in the end it was the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties, and Shatu and Sogdians who controlled the world were still the Shatuo and Sogdians. Now in the Khitan in the north, that system was not explored by themselves, but in fact it was the tradition of the Xianbei Northern Wei. Fan Zhongyan and others faced this situation, it was conceivable that it was heavy.

In fact, it is not just this era, after the Khitan, after the Jurchens, after the Jurchens, after the Mongols, after the Ming Dynasty, and after the Jurchens. Except for the Song and Ming in the middle, the rest are all inherited from the Xianbei of the Northern Wei Dynasty. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the tradition of the Korean kings was at its peak. After calculating the inheritance of these dynasties, they still have the upper hand over the Song and Ming dynasties.

In Xu Ping's previous life, there was a kind of thought in studying history, connecting the inheritance of the northern ethnic groups after the Xianbei. From the perspective of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sui and Tang dynasties, which were inherited from each other, were added, and then the Liao, Jin, Yuan and Qing dynasties, were inherited far longer than the Han-centered dynasties. It was believed that the Song Dynasty was not a unified dynasty, but just another Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Khitan and Jurchens must be called the Liao and Jin dynasties, which are all manifestations of this idea.

Emperor Wu of Han respected Confucianism alone, but adopted the Yin-Yang family's set of the destiny of heaven, namely the end and end of the five virtues. Later, Liu Xiang and his son proposed a set of five elements to be born, and the leap dynasty appeared. Originally, Liu Xiang and his son's original intention was to regard the short-lived Qin Dynasty as the leap dynasty, but in later generations, when looking at history, some people regarded the Yuan and Qing dynasty as the leap dynasty with the Han people as the center. But to be honest, in terms of the continuous connection of inheritance, the Song and Ming dynasty compared to the northern ethnic groups, were more like the leap dynasty.

Xu Ping's historical education in his previous life was under the attack of these two thoughts. On the one hand, he emphasized the endless Han civilization, and on the other hand, he particularly praised the inheritance of the Xianbei and Northern Wei. The Song and Ming dynasties intersected in this inheritance were ridiculed and abused the most. There is always a question of who is the main focus of cultural exchanges and integration. Which side is biased towards, and this attitude will inevitably affect the interpretation of history.

When talking about governing the country and governing the government, we must learn from history. If we learn from history, we will naturally have an attitude of reading history, which will inevitably be reflected in political behavior.

Compared with scholars of this era, Xu Ping did not have to pull the Xianbei tradition into the cultural system, so he naturally became another faction. This faction was actually the mainstream in the next hundred and decades, because he had been peaceful with the Khitan and had the upper hand in the war against Dangxiang, and his cultural psychology had changed. Xu Ping's great victory in recent years, but this process has been advanced and greatly increased the confidence of newly grown scholars.

Fan Zhongyan's position in the hearts of Confucian scholars is much higher than that of Xu Ping, but in terms of the future of thought, Xu Ping has the upper hand.

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