The Xixia people had fewer territory. Even fools knew that the Xixia people could not resist the Song Dynasty for a long time. This was a vicious cycle. The less land, the fewer soldiers were recruited and the less food they obtained, the less hope of fighting against the Song Dynasty.

Mozang Epang originally planned to consume the national strength of the Song Dynasty with a protracted war. The hundreds of thousands of troops were so expensive that even the Song Dynasty could not afford it. However, he did not expect that Zhao Zhen would let the soldiers farm and even raise military funds by selling bonds in the country. This greatly reduced the financial burden of the court. In addition, the Song Dynasty's commerce and trade flourished, and the money earned from abroad every year gathered in the Song Dynasty like flowing water, which made the Western Xia already desperate.

Zhao Zhen even expelled the Xixia envoys in Beijing, which made the Xixia worse.

Regarding Xixia, Zhao Zhen gave a very clear answer. Those who follow will prosper and those who refuse will perish. The result is that simple, but it is a huge challenge to test Xixia.

The people of Xixia have established a country and enjoyed the pleasure and pride brought by invasion. The national self-esteem is not comparable to that of the small foreign countries. Letting them give up the pride of the Dabai Gaoguo, surrender to the Song Dynasty, and move their families into the country, which is almost as uncomfortable as killing them.

But that's the fact that the people of Xixia had no choice, and Zhao Zhen would not give them a choice. A letter of nationality with the imperial seal was discharged from the Secretariat of Zhongshu. This is an extremely honest nationality letter. Not only does the imperial seal of nationality that is not shown to people in the Song Dynasty, but also Zhao Zhen's emperor treasure and prime minister Pang Ji's seal, which is as heavy as a tremendous amount!

The officials on the mission were not ordinary people, but Ouyang Xiu, who was the deputy prime minister and the political affairs. If Bao Zheng had not been older, Zhao Zhen would have sent him to serve as an envoy to make the people of Xixia pay attention to this warning.

Of course, the content of the letter of the country is also extremely strong. Zhao Zhen’s writing is sharp, strong and powerful, and the aura of a great power is exaggerated and above. Every sentence and every word is a convincing word. He wants to let Wuzang Epang see the situation clearly, rather than be blinded by anger.

What kind of person is Mozang Epang? Zhao Zhen has a pretty good understanding of him. Although he has not seen him, he has made all kinds of things know. Mozang Epang is very rational and wise, of course, cunning and fickle. Otherwise, Ning Ling would not be easily used by him, Li Yuanhao would not be killed by his poisonous scheme, the Mozang clan would not have successfully taken over, and the power of Xixia would not have fallen into his hands.

It’s a pity that this regime did not last long before it had to confront the powerful Song Dynasty. Simply put, it was a stumbling block to the Song Dynasty. In Zhao Zhen’s heart, Xixia was never a Dangxiang person. The land of Xixia belonged to China, and the Dangxiang person of Xixia belonged to China.

In Zhao Zhen's mind, the land of Xixia was the Ningxia Plain, and the Dangxiang people in Xixia were just ethnic minorities. At this point, his habit made him one step higher than Xixia, which was a habit brought by later generations.

The content of the letter of the country is also full of exhortations, and the words of both kindness and power. In the letter of the country, Zhao Zhen conducted a detailed comparison of the power of the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, and used this fact to speak, and finally added his own threat: "The Song Dynasty in the glorious Heavenly Dynasty had very few people, and the number of millions was no problem. If he surrendered to the Song Dynasty, he would turn swords into jade and silk to obey the people. I pardon him! If he was stubborn and defended Xingqing Prefecture, I would carry the army of Tiger Ben to carry the power of thunder, destroy your country, and destroy your seeds, either! Wu Zang Epang was killed."

This is the true words written by Zhao Zhen himself, and the two palaces did not add any modifications. This is the emperor's words. The power of the Song Dynasty can be seen from the lines.

In fact, Zhao Zhen is already considered good. The manifesto of the dynasties of China is much more unpleasant than what he said! Of course, when the letter of the country was published, there was another manifesto written by Ouyang Xiu himself. This manifesto was prepared by Ouyang Xiu after Zhao Zhen's consent. If Wu Zang Epang did not accept the letter of the Song Dynasty and the exhortation, then this "Emperoration to Defend the Defence of the Western Xia" would be handed over to him.

The war against the Western Xia in the Song Dynasty had been delayed for too long, but fortunately, the longer it delayed, the more beneficial it would be to the Song Dynasty. Anyway, the Gansu military city had been taken down, and the construction of the Shandan military horse farm in the Song Dynasty had begun, restoring the number of horses there, planting grass and breeding military horses there.

For previous offensive and defensive wars, the longer the delay, the more beneficial it is to the defense. However, the tactic of the Song Dynasty's border wars was really unbearable for the Xixia people. Not only that, the Song Dynasty's army also had the tendency to become more courageous as it fights. Every time a piece of land was seized, it would quickly open up land, which was more active than the Xixia people.

It is absolutely safe to raise war. The Song Dynasty was willing to spend money with the Western Xia. One day, the Western Xia would not be able to spend money because its land was getting less and less. Not only did the Song Dynasty take down a large area of ​​land, but the Liao people were not idle either. The Liao people who seized the front trap were not satisfied and began to invade the land in the south, which looked like they were beaten into the water.

But he forgot that if the Liao Dynasty continued to go south, it would be very likely to touch the interests of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song Dynasty would attack him and would never sit idly by.

This was a war started by the Song Dynasty, and it was also a war that had to be won. The Liao people sent troops to aroused the anger of the people, officials and even officials of the Song Dynasty. The reason why Zhao Zhen did not attack the Liao Dynasty was because this anger was not enough. He deliberately used his invisible hands to guide the direction of public opinion in the country.

The Song Dynasty is not the way she used to be submissive. The hearts of the people were trained by him and had dignity. This dignity is different from the self-comfort of Ah Q. This is a kind of strong national confidence.

Public opinion that guides war is too important for a country. It is the premise of war and one of the forces to defeat the enemy. If a country does not even support war, how can it win the war?

In this era, not many people know these seemingly insignificant but sufficiently to influence the outcome of the war. However, Zhao Zhen had already begun to use the perfection. He deliberately let the people's dissatisfaction with the Liao Dynasty taking advantage of the situation and robbery in his heart. He deliberately ignored the remarks that punished the Liao Dynasty, and even regarded it as if he was completely unaware of it, which was just accumulating the people's dissatisfaction with the Liao Dynasty.

In the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, the Western Xia could no longer pose a threat to the Song Dynasty. The originally arrogant Xixia deserves to be like this now. Unlike the Liao Dynasty, the Western Xia is not the righteous dynasty recognized by the Song Dynasty. It has no long history and deep cultural heritage. It is just a foreign country that surrenders to the Han Dynasty. It is just a rebellion and established itself and became an emperor.

The Liao Dynasty was different. It was founded before the Song Dynasty. It had a complete social system and etiquette culture recognized by the Han people. It could not be done by dealing with it with the Western Xia. Zhao Zhen always used the method of erosion and gradually threatened it.

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