As the war in the Hehuang area is filled with clouds, in the distant northeast, in the Liao Kingdom, the center of the world's power, Yelu Hongji has officially ascended the throne.

At this time, envoys from various countries gathered to congratulate, including Sima Guang, the Minister of Rites of the State of Song Dynasty, who also came with Zhao Zhen's personal congratulations.

The Minister of Rites of the Western Xia came to represent Emperor Li Liangzuo.

Although the Chineseization of the Liao Kingdom was very serious during this period, it was related to the tradition of the Liao Kingdom's royal family and did not receive visitors from Shangjing Imperial City. Instead, they chose to go up to the tent in the skin room of the grassland outside the city.

At that time, the clouds in all directions were moving, and armies from all sides and tribes continued to gather in the large tents of the tent and held a grand military parade of millions of troops. This was the tradition of the Liao Kingdom.

Riding the best famous horse, looking down at the scene of various countries coming to pay homage to the high hills, and watching millions of soldiers running and shouting on the grassland, now, the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji, who is only in his twenties, is very comfortable. This is what he always wants. This is the peak of life and the supreme right.

The grand military parade lasted until dusk, and the seemingly harmonious guests gathered in the tent for dinner.

Then, in order, each envoy presented congratulations in turn and sent congratulations to Yelu Hongji.

After the slow and long process, Sima Guang first got to the point: "His Majesty Liao Emperor, I have something to discuss in our court."

After someone translated it, Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao said: "Let the allies come and tell me."

Sima Guangdao: "Can the Liao Kingdom intervene and let the Xixia stop the bloody actions in the Hehuang area. Now the war is getting bigger and bigger and gradually uncontrolled. Our country has heard that in addition to a large number of soldiers, countless civilians have suffered bloody tears and insults and are displaced. The abundant grain and grass in the Hehuang area should have become a blessing for the people's livelihood in the world, but excessive conquests have caused many grains to be burned and rotten in the ground. This is because of the bloody policy of robbing Xixia, which is not conducive to His Majesty the Liao emperor's name of kindness and love for farmers."

Sima Guang was somewhat of a good point, and some things were said to Yelu Hongji's heart. During this period, Yelu Hongji first ascended the throne and was ambitious. He focused on the views of some Han officials and attached great importance to agricultural production. He heard that most of the food in the wealthy Hehuang area was wasted, so he frowned.

However, given that the Western Xia had received tacit approval from the Liao Kingdom before sending troops, there was nothing to do about this. Although Yelu Hongji was more loyal, he temporarily held the idea of ​​pro-Song because of Xiao Yanshan, and he still had a good relationship with Wang Rong.

But the key is that Xixia is not a good deal of food. She has a very strong connection in Shangjing. She took advantage of the opportunity to deal with it and achieved the current result.

These troubles will be reported to the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the war between Song Xia was tense, and two powerful officials of Emperor Xingzong of Liao: Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan. They tried their best to form an alliance with Xixia and took the opportunity to send troops to the border of Song State for blackmail, hoping to cooperate with Li Yuanhao's strategy of attacking Song.

In other words, Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan and Yelu Hongji were opposed to the pro-Xia faction and wanted to stab the Song State in the back.

However, Xiao Xiaomu, the Prime Minister of Liao, who was the Privy Councilor of the Northern Prefecture, strongly opposed the pro-Xia. Xiao Xiaomu was Xiao Yanshan's uncle and supported Yelu Hongji. Xiao Xiaomu's reason was also very simple: the Song people would not threaten the Liao Kingdom without combat power, but although the Western Xia was not big, they were a wolf, so they should be prepared at all times.

So under such a situation, the domestic politics of Liao began to fight. The two factions were in a tug-of-war. During the critical period of the Song-Xia War, the Liao army, which had been in the border, was reluctant to receive orders to fight the Song State?

Even if it was not fought in the end, it really formed a blackmail with force. At that time, someone proposed that the Song State ceded more than a dozen counties in the border area in exchange for the Liao State "not to spread salt on the wounds of the Song State at critical moments."

The person who resolved this situation was the famous Wang Gongchen who is now the envoy of the Three Sessions.

Wang Gongchen had problems, but he really had contributions and hard work to the Song Dynasty. This is why he had many problems and Zhao Zhen still kept him in office. In Zhao Zhen's eyes, his hands and feet were not considered a big mistake. On the contrary, almost every honest official who had no problems gave Zhao Zhen a headache, and everyone dared to go against Zhao Zhen.

This is the "imperial art" discussed by Sun Fu.

Speaking of the situation that was almost destroyed at that time, Wang Gongchen took advantage of the conflict between Liao Prime Minister Xiao Xiaomu and anti-Song faction Yelu Chongyuan to conduct a diplomatic tug-of-war for half a year, and finally convinced Liao to withdraw its troops. In theory, it did not cede the territory, but only gave Liao a protection fee of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Although he did not really sign the letter of state to ced the "more than a dozen counties", Xiao Xiaomu Xiangye also asked Wang Gongchen to promise: Liao Kingdom can do not have those lands, but Song Kingdom must also evacuate those lands and turn them into buffer zones for the two countries.

Wang Gongchen agreed to Xiao Xiaomu Xiangye. After all, he did not write a letter of nationality for "transfer", so he officially became a disputed area. Zhao Zhen and Wang Gongchen planned to shelve the dispute and leave it to people with ability in the future to solve this problem. At that time, Fu Bi generally supported Wang Gongchen's negotiation results in principle.

However, some people believe that Wang Gongchen had "lost his power and humiliated the country" and had a deal with Xiao Xiaomu, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Prefecture of Liao Kingdom. The holder of this opinion is the famous Han Qi, which is the fundamental reason why Han Qi did not recognize the results of Wang Gongchen's diplomatic achievements. Later, after the limelight came, he still sent wild farmers to farm on the border.

Yes, part of the fields that Han Da Naoke sent farmers to plant was the buffer zone that Wang Gongchen and Xiao Xiaomu traded and asked the Song people to evacuate after the transaction. Han Da Naoke was so stubborn that scared Zhao Zhen to death. He couldn't sleep all night, but he was really embarrassed to scold Han Qi.

So at that time, what was the result of the transaction between Prime Minister Wang Gongchen and Prime Minister Xiao Xiaomu?

The powerful and iron-blooded Western Xia Li Yuanhao was furious, and Lao Li accused the Liao Kingdom of "betrayal": Damn it would be better to divide the Song Kingdom together. You old turtleman took only hundreds of thousands of silver and had a little profit, and then he retracted the army?

Given that Li Yuanhao's attitude was not right, Xiao Xiaomu's prime minister disliked Li Yuanhao's words and was immediately furious: Damn, he is a second-rate bandit, dare to question the foreign policy of my father's country? How dare you criticize the political and diplomatic achievements of the Privy Councilor of the Northern Prefecture of the Great Liao Dynasty at will?

So Lao Xiao decisively asked Emperor Liao for some slander. Emperor Xingzong was furious and threatened to teach Li Yuanhao to be a human being!

The result was of course that the father country sent troops to Xixia and the war officially started.

Under Xiao Xiaomu's tactic policy, he forcibly sent two pro-Xia factions Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan to the front line. There is no record of history, but the politician Xiaomu's purpose should be to send Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan's direct lineage to consume it. By the way, Li Yuanhao is brave and good at fighting. If they are defeated by Li Yuanhao, it will be an opportunity to deny Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan politically.

This is also a link in the transaction between King Gongchen of Song and Xiao Xiaomu of Liao.

It is foreseeable that if Xiao Xiaomu continues to rule and controls Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan's expeditionary forces from a political perspective, it will be difficult for them to win and will eventually become victims of political struggles.

Unfortunately, the weather was not good, so Xiao Xiaomu Xiangye died of illness at this critical period.

The person who succeeded the Privy Councilor of the Northern Prefecture was Yelu Hongji. Yelu Hongji was not a pure politician, but a person with revenge and ambition. He could not allow him to drag his own people down, so Xiao Xiaomu's policies were naturally gradually restrained.

Since this is the case, Wang Gongchen during this period seemed to be of little use, so Wang Gongchen also retreated to the second line and entered the Zhang Fangping period.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Hui and Yelu Chongyuan were not wasteful people. They had mistakes in the early stage but were not serious. Later, they became more and more brave and even fought to Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia.

Wu Zi Heiyun quickly sent someone to go to Beijing to find his father country to admit his mistakes and negotiate peace. The person who carried this important task to go to Beijing to deal with him was famous, the one who had been flintlocked by Wang Rong.

Take advantage of the ambiguous situation in Liao, so that Prime Minister Yelu Hongji will lead to a ceasefire. The reason is: If the Western Xia is really destroyed by Yelu Chongyuan, and the peerless military achievements and prestige brings the elite troops back, your Yelu Hongji's inheritance will be suspended.

It's done with one beat.

Yelu Hongji facilitated the withdrawal of troops, and the country lost power and humiliated the country and returned most of the occupied land to Xixia. In order to deny Yelu Chongyuan and the others, they also fought. In the end, Yelu Chongyuan, who almost destroyed the Western Xia country, had to return to Shangjing in shame with the remaining troops.

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But seeing that the people of Xixia were too fierce and occupied the magical flintlock rifle, Huangzhou soon fell, which was beyond the expectations of Xiao Yanshan and Yelu Hongji. No matter what, although Yelu Hongji acquiesced to the Western Xia conquest, Xixia was a wolf. No one wanted to see them grow bigger, and no one wanted them to go too smoothly.

Unfortunately, Yelu Hongji is loyal and now that the throne is unstable, he is embarrassed to intervene. Later, the Song State, which was always cowardly, suddenly became bloody. In the case of the flood in China and the most unfavorable war, he still joined the volunteer army to enter the Hehuang area.

This situation made Xiao Yanshan wake up in a dream. It would be best if the Song and Xia countries were unable to stalemate. If they fought for five or eight years, it would be the most beneficial to the Liao Kingdom. Because whether it is the Great Song or the Western Xia, whether it is too powerful on either side, it is not conducive to the expansion of the hegemony of the Liao Kingdom.

So this is the origin of this situation. In order to make the Song and Xia tug-of-war in Hehuang without losing control, Yelu Hongji warned Xixia before: Unless the Song State declares war, it is not allowed to attack the Song State border and trigger a full-scale war.

The Song State today is different from the past. In addition, the Liao State warned him, how dare Xixia attack the Song State? At that time, he was accidentally ambushed on all sides, not only to fight against Tubo and Song State. If Daddy State infringes on his troops, it will be the end of the destruction of the country.

Therefore, Wuzhe Epang and Wuzhe Empress Dowager were also suppressing the internal emotions of Xixia and strictly prohibiting any provocation against Song State. Unless the Song State Volunteer Army was truly defeated and the Hehuang region was completely captured, Xixia would definitely not provoke Liao and Song State after it was expanded in strength and had a greater strategic depth.

So at this time, Sima Guang spoke suddenly, and in the hilarious tent of the leather room, the atmosphere instantly frozen in this place where the powerful and powerful people in the world took root and concentrated, and they all looked at Sima Guang with a strange expression.

Sima Guang was a good man and didn't want to fight. But he was a scholar. He didn't even sort out the grudges and hatreds of all parties before. He didn't even know that Wang Gongchen, Xiao Xiaomu, Yelu Chongyuan, had more food, no interweaving and fart trading between Empress Dowager Chi and other parties. However, in this hall of the Liao Emperor ascended the throne, he was eating more food in front of Xixia in front of Xixia, and mentioned "the inhumane behavior of Xixia destroying agriculture in the Hehuang area."

"The world is the world of the world. People regard food as the heaven. I heard that His Majesty the Emperor of Liao values ​​mercy and righteousness, and the agriculture and Buddhism. Why don't he respond to our country's request?" Sima Guang asked again in a slight manner.

Yelu Hongji really attaches importance to agriculture and believes in Buddhism, and is really loyal and has some good relationships with Wang Rong. Now the Hehuang area is commanded by Wang Rong, so he is embarrassed to respond, just looking at Sima Guang with a dark face, meaning not to say anything.

I didn't want to speak at first, and didn't want this person who opposed Wang Rong to lose face, but I had to go out helplessly and said: "Song envoy is arrogant, who gave you the courage to make you speak out at the respected Emperor Liao army ceremony?"

"In extraordinary times, we should discuss things with the facts. The Western Xia has caused excessive bloodshed so far, and we cannot see the blessings and interests of the world." Sima Guangdao.

Duo Chi Ji turned around and fisted, saying, "Respect Your Majesty Liao. As early as when Emperor Xingzong of the Great Liao Kingdom passed away, the situation in the world suddenly changed. Tubo took advantage of the current situation and first harassed me on my border, which made me miserable. So Xixia responded this time, and asked me about it, not to occupy and kill. The battlefield situation was difficult to control. After the Xixia army encountered too strong resistance, it caused the current situation. This originated from Tubo's refusal to admit his mistakes and from Song's ulterior motives."

"Is this a matter?"

"Did your Song State have ulterior motives and incite Tubo to rob and harass the border of Xixia?"

"It must be true, the Song people have always been like this, insidious and cunning."

"This war was caused by the Song people and Tubo, and the blood flow and losses must be counted on the Song State."

Khan suddenly felt like a forum cursing, and in an instant, Sima Guang was besieged by envoys from various countries and tribes.

Sima Guang tried to quote classics and talk about the scholars, but unfortunately these people were not Confucians, they were basically warlike barbarians, and most of them didn't even understand Chinese. They talked in their own words, making the atmosphere of the dinner a mess.

"Enough! Stop it!"

Yelu Hongji raised his hand and his voice slowly fell.

After all, Song State is an ally, and it is too ties with Liao State in agriculture and trade. Yelu Hongji, who is ambitious to develop, really wants to give Song State some face, so he said: "Now it is the military review ceremony of our Great Liao State. If you don't talk about other matters, please stop."

There was no complete calmness at this point. The Goryeo envoy, who was like a human demon, stood up and said, "The barbarians of the Song Kingdom do not understand etiquette and are inappropriate. I suggest that the respected His Majesty of the Liao Kingdom drive him out of the banquet."

The chief of the enemy lieutenant tribe laughed and said, "I'm so proud, can they call them barbarians?"

Yelu Hongji couldn't help but frowned greatly, narrowed his eyes and looked at the people of the enemy Lie tribe. The barbarians of the enemy Lie tribe stopped awkwardly.

But Sima Guang had a very strong temper and stood up and shook his sleeves and said, "There is no match for each other. Sima Guang was not fit and could not drink alcohol, so he left." He took the initiative to lead several entourage members of the Ministry of Rites of Song State left.

“It’s hopeless.”

"I don't overestimate myself... I don't know how to be proud."

"Forget it, let him go."

"So that's how the people of Song are diplomatic?"

"Yes, the Song Kingdom may become the biggest loser this time."

"Wait and watch the show to see how they ended in the Hehuang area? I tried to dare to confront the policies of the Great Liao Kingdom and launch specific military conflicts with the Western Xia in the dire straits, food crisis, and strong anti-war sentiment in their country. Let's see what his Song Kingdom looks like in three years!"

There was no surprise. In fact, the famous Liao Dynasty leather room banquet was basically a gathering of uneducated mocking faces. This was Sima Guang's diplomacy.

The old Sima opposes the Volunteer Army policy from beginning to end, and even more opposed internal and external troubles, food is in urgent need, and the famous generals continue to fight when they die of illness.

After Sima Guang left, Yelu Hongji was a little disliked here, and frowned slightly, but he could only continue...
Chapter completed!