The New Year's bell has passed, and Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Song Dynasty once again dragged his sick body to the court.

The battle of the Hehuang battlefield has become a heartache and embarrassment. At the festive time of the year, no one mentioned Wang Rong's amazing record. This requires political correctness, because this court meeting was held by Xiao Hui, the political affairs officer of the Northern Prefecture who represented the Great Liao Kingdom, participated in the negotiations.

Xiao Hui represents the Liao Kingdom here. No matter what his or Yelu Hongji is in the state, we should try not to mention the military problems of the Song Dynasty in Hehuang, and we should not mention the more sensitive Wang Yun.

The annual summary is a secret of the Song Dynasty and will not be carried out in front of outsiders.

So the next step is not the speech of Prime Minister Fu Bi, but Lao Zhao used this most festive day of the year to represent the entire Song Dynasty. He thanked his ministers for their hard work, self-discipline and dedication to the public for the past year, commending Zhang Fangping, Lu Huiqing, Shen Kuo and others for their achievements this year, as well as their contributions to the Song Dynasty.

Yes, you can't mention Wang Rong, it's too sensitive.

In his heart, this made Lao Zhao very sad, and he felt that Wang Rong was not worth it, but he always lived in compromise in his life, so he had to accept his fate.

Even though the Song Dynasty is no longer the weak Song Dynasty that it was back then, I was still a little guilty when facing hegemony...

The Liao people don’t like the mode of meetings. Every time they experience Xiao Hui, they will get sleepy, so they are sloppy and listen to Emperor Zhao Zhen for a long time.

At some point, Xiao Hui looked at Sima Guang in the front three rows.

Khan, as a tycoon of the Ministry of Rites, Sima Guang's position happened to be in the third row, which is true.

Xiao Hui seemed to be asking, "Why did the Song Dynasty delay withdrawing troops from Hehuang for a long time, causing the true minister to come here in a cold weather." Sima Guang was also embarrassed about this, so he chose to avoid it and staggered his eyes.

As a result, Xiao Hui couldn't help it, interrupted Zhao Zhen's speech, and cut in unhappily: "Your Majesty Song, should you please tell me appropriately about the instability caused by the Song Dynasty Volunteer Army in Hehuang?"

Han Qi couldn't help but be furious and wanted to have an attack, but was stopped by Zhao Zhen, who was in a bad mood.

Zhao Zhen said: "Why did the Liao envoy feel that the volunteer army caused the instability of Hehuang?"

Xiao Hui talked happily: "The Western Xia sent troops to Tubo because Tubo harassed Xixia in the border areas earlier. This was originally their problem. The Great Liao believed that the Song State sent troops to Hehuang under ulterior motives, which caused some unrealistic fantasies of the Lisilo regime. As a wrong side, after obtaining the assistance and support of the Song State, Lisilo gave up the idea of ​​admitting mistakes and correcting mistakes and choosing to resist, which led to the deepening and complicating military conflicts in the region. Then, more and more bloody incidents occurred."

"Including the "Xiningzhou Massacre" caused by Xixia Manme a while ago, it was also because of the misunderstanding. It was because he was forced by the powerful Wang Yun volunteer army and had to obtain a winter base in order to protect himself. Regarding all this, I, Daliao, do not think it was the fault of Song State, but your intervention has contributed to the fire. The Song State will be blamed for the Xiningzhou bloody case."

Xiao Hui said this at the end.

Sima Guang was also angry and said uncontrollably, "Bloody blowjob".

In private, Sima Guang's party really had this thinking, and described the "Xiningzhou Massacre" in the Hehuang area as "Wang Yun can't refuse to withdraw his troops." Because the people led by Sima Guang believed that it was Wang Yun who was so imposing that the momentum of Wang Yun refused to withdraw his troops, which made Man Mi too excited, which caused the dog to jump over the wall.

This view has been supported by some people in the Song Dynasty, at least the queen was publicly supported. However, these are just affairs in the Song Dynasty. Foreign envoys came to the dynasty to humiliate people, so Sima Guang couldn't help it.

This made the entire court feel a little embarrassed. I felt that Sima Guang was too impatient. Is it useful to show off his words and talk?

It is obvious that Xiao Hui is here to show her superiority and will not carry the diplomatic purpose of "wanting to negotiate". This is commonly known as "taking a procedure, first being polite and then being soldier."

In fact, in Zhao Zhen's opinion, Xiao Hui's remarks have been personally modified by him, so he is more polite.

It is completely conceivable that this is because Xiao Hui and the newly ascended Liao Emperor did not deal with each other, so he deliberately did not speak too rigidly.

The current view within Liao is that the Xining Prefecture Massacre occurred because of the King of Song. But Xiao Hui was just willing to embellish the rhetoric as "It's not all the fault of Song, but you played a role in fueling the fire."

To Zhao Zhen, who was used to being cowardly, it was indeed Xiao Hui who deliberately let the water go and eased his tone.

While Zhao Zhen was thinking, Xiao Hui said again: "Your Majesty Song Emperor, the situation is like this. The Liao Dynasty does not recommend that the Song army continue to cause trouble in the Hehuang area. We also need to consider quickly evacuating the Song army as appropriate to safeguard the interests of the four parties and fulfill the purpose of the Song State participating in the tripartite talks when they went to Beijing."

Han Qi intervened and said, "It is of course simple to say that withdrawing troops is simple. But now, let's not talk about diplomatic word templates. Everyone knows that there must be a reason for the war. If the success or defeat is a bandit, it is impossible to say that if the victory is a king or defeat is a bandit. If the victory is a king or defeat, it is impossible to say that if the victory is a king or defeat is a bandit. As of now, the result is the hard work of my Song Dynasty Volunteer Army. If the Song Dynasty believes you and withdraws troops from the Hehuang battlefield, what does it mean to deploy the main force of the Xiao clan army in the Nanjing area of ​​Liao Kingdom during a sensitive period? If the Song Dynasty withdraws its troops, what should you say about Liao Kingdom?"

Xiao Hui was also embarrassed about this issue. It was not his decision, so he could only answer vaguely: "Secret Han, don't worry, we have our reasons for the deployment of the Shan army in the territory of the Great Liao. It is our internal affairs of the Great Liao. The State of Song does not need to over-interpret it."

"Oh, so that's it. I've received your opinion." Han Qi nodded with a strange expression and stopped talking since then.

This basically means nothing to talk about. So many people originally had something to say, but now they know that it is time to save some saliva.

In this way, the fourth year of Jiayou was just beginning, and the Hehuang battlefield was delayed. The Song Dynasty and the country were shrouded in fear of Liao. Xiao Hui, the political affairs officer of the Northern Prefecture of Liao, ended in the first consultation with the Song Dynasty.

The snow was falling, and the people were talking:

"No matter when the Song Dynasty arrived, I could never avoid the threat of Liao and would always be blackmailed."

"Yes, now I pay attention to these news every day. My brother is fleeing to life on the ground in Hebei. At this time, the Liao army is close to the border of the Song Dynasty. I don't know if it is really going to fight."

"Don't worry, this uncle, I promise not to fight. Even if I want to fight, the Song Kingdom is not the same as before. As long as the great devil takes action, I will definitely lead the Song Dynasty out of the darkness and win the war."

"Don't be too optimistic, the Liao Kingdom is not Xixia. And the Great Demon King is now trapped in the quagmire of Hehuang battlefield. According to the principle, it is unlikely that there will be a result before April. At this critical moment, there are many unstable factors within the Song Dynasty. I don't know what the food and financial situation will be next year. What's wrong, the Song Dynasty cannot accept fighting a full-scale war with the superpowers at this time."

"Yes, although the Great Demon King is warlike, objectively speaking, he has always avoided a full-scale war with the great powers and wanted to win a buffer time for the rise of Song State."

"The rise is still far away. Now the Beijing Industrial Base has just had a preliminary form. Just fighting the Hehuang War has consumed a lot of strength in the northwest and how many military and civilians have been mobilized? Don't just look at the deployment of the Song army on the Hehuang battlefield. In fact, it started from Funing County and continued to the entire northwest logistics supply line. So far, more than 450,000 military and civilians have been mobilized to participate. In order to supply the logistics of the volunteer army, we must also feed the Tubo people in the war-torn areas."

"Yes, don't just see the early good news from the Volunteer Army. If you don't retreat and end the Hehuang Battle, even if you don't consider the blackmail at the critical moment of the Liao Kingdom, it will bring fatal pressure to the Song Dynasty. In short, the Song Dynasty may become the biggest loser!"

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By January 9, the Liao Dynasty's Northern Prefecture General Secretary had joined hands with the Song Dynasty court to hold many consultations. In addition to requesting to continue to purchase more flintlock guns, he also requested to purchase machine tools and steam engines produced by Funing County Machinery Factory.

In addition, it was proposed that the new Liao emperor had aspirations to farm and animal husbandry, and asked the Song State to sell the rice, wheat and soybean seeds improved by Wang Rong's business to the Liao State to improve the agricultural environment of Liao State. In addition, it proposed to introduce the rare "winter greenhouse greenhouse green vegetable technology".

In addition, Yelu Hongji believed in Buddhism and asked the Song State to strengthen communication between the Liao Dynasty monks and the Song State Daxiang State Temple from the religious level, and to ensure that there is enough Buddhist temples in the Song State, and that "Wang Yun's bad deeds in demolishing temples in Funing County" will never appear again.

As the Minister of Rites of the State of Song Dynasty, Sima Guang did not respond to other requests, but strongly agreed with Xiao Hui's view on protecting religion.

This made Fu Bi look so naughty that he left the negotiation site with a slim face. At that time, Fu Bi said: This negotiation will not be recognized by the subordinates of the Song Dynasty. This is the personal behavior of individual officials of the Ministry of Rites.

I never thought that Fu Bi would do this, which made Sima Guang and Xiao Hui dumbfounded.

Of course they don’t know how much Fu Bi loves to maintain stability. Zhang Congxun, the authorized ruthless person, was so shameless that Fu Bi did many things, and it was mostly related to religion. It just said that Fu Bi has always said that "I know my sins and I only know the spring and autumn", and many events have not been deciphered and others don’t know it.

Unless Tian Fubi is completely denied, those bad things will be revealed. Otherwise, now he is the prime minister, and even Han Qi has no authority to decrypt the "secret level" he has set...

Until January 13th.

During the fifth negotiations between the Song and Liao dynasties, Xiao Hui was very tactful and did not mention religious matters.

However, Xiao Hui also asked: to increase the annual monies given to Liao by Song to 400,000 taels of silver every year. Moreover, Xiao Hui did not mention the Shan army stationed in Nanjing at all, but instead urged the Song army to withdraw from the Hehuang area again.

This time when Fu Bi and Han Qi were changed, he was stunned.

This is not a difficult issue, it is completely undiscussed. They also have to blackmail the troops on the border, buy flintlock guns, grain seeds, greenhouse vegetable technology, breeding technology, and buy the latest generation of boring machines and steam engines at a cheap price. They also demand an increase in annual monies, and then the Song State withdraws troops from Hehuang when there is no defeat, but they do not mention whether they withdraw troops from Liao Nanjing?

If you don’t mention Buddhist issues in your relationship, even if the father country gives the Song country this time, will it be the conditions?

Speaking of which, even if you give back to the only "Buddhist conditions", it is not that Xiao Hui is kind, nor that Sima Guang is not stubborn. It is because in the last negotiation, Sima Guang almost lost power and humiliated the country to respond to religious remarks, he angered Li Wei to death. Yes, Li Wei had just passed away a few days ago.

Speaking of Li Wei, like Sun Fu, he was one of the Confucian masters of this period. In the early days, he was highly recommended by Fan Zhongyan and became an assistant teacher in the Imperial College. Later, he was promoted to direct lecturer (professor). His position before his death a few days ago was approximately equivalent to "******".

Li Wei was also a friend of Wang Anshi and a literary friend. A while ago, he also recommended many of Lao Wang's reform ideas. In addition, he was a famous atheist and great thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the early stage, he also praised many works by Dalian, which is why ordinary people can't do anything about Dalian. Otherwise, many of Wang Lian's articles would have been harmonious long ago.

Then, Li Wei had a characteristic: anti-religious.

Atheist, he respects Confucianism alone, rejects all sects including Buddhism, Taoism, Manichaeism, and Bird-Feed Buddhism, and says that they are all heretics.

By the way, just because Fan Zhongyan was almost denied and died early, otherwise Fan Zhongyan would have used Li Wei again in power, I am afraid that their means of fighting religion would be more vulgar than Fu Bi Wang Rong.

In Wang Anshi's view, the master of Confucianism, pioneer of atheism, and vice principal of the Imperial Academy died of illness, which was caused by Sima Guang and Xiao Hui. After this respectable gentleman died, many bad thinking would rebound in the future, at least in the Imperial Academy. The Imperial Academy is the base for the reserve officials of the National Dynasties. If influenced by the Sima Guang party, it may gradually become a lingering disaster for the National Dynasties in the future.

Therefore, although Wang Anshi did not participate in the negotiations between Sima Guang and Xiao Hui, he decisively broke into the Shangqing Palace and helped Lao Zhao to "The Positive Influence and Merits of Li Wei on the Song Dynasty".

Khan, Zhao Zhen knew who Li Wei was, but he was a disciple of the sensitive figure Fan Zhongyan. In addition, he was not favored by the queen, so Lao Zhao had always been low-key in his appointment with Li Wei. However, now he heard Wang Anshi's slander saying, "Li Wei was only in his early fifties and was pissed to death by the remarks of Sima Guang and Xiao Hui when he was sick."

So Lao Zhao strongly supported Wang Anshi. Although it was inconvenient to scold Sima Guang due to Xiao Hui's reasons, Zhao Zhen immediately gave Li Wei enough posthumous title and ordered the "Li Wei Ji" which had more than 300,000 words to be included in the Pavilion.

There are really too many volumes. Except for Wang Rong, a big sub-product, it is generally difficult for the literati of the Song Dynasty to produce so many words, but no matter whether it is water or not, it is all affirmed by Lao Zhao.

The folk scholars were excited about this and scolded Li Wei as a parallel person like Wang Rong. Why didn’t he also include the Xiaobai article of "Iron Head Light" in the Pavilion, or used to make textbooks in the Imperial College? Should he take Wang Rong to the Imperial College as a doctoral supervisor? See what kind of Jinshan students he can teach?

But the fact that scholars dared to scold them did not mean that officials dared to speak out. In short, Sima Guang was not scolded this time, but the emperor included Li Wei's hydrology in the cabinet and posthumously posthumously. This is a very rare slap in the face on the propaganda of the Ministry of Rites in politics.

Xiao Hui didn't want to really anger the Emperor of Song and cause trouble, so she reached a tacit understanding with Sima Guang and never talked about the "Cultural Exchange of Liao and Daxiangguo Temple" in the fifth negotiation.

But even so, there is still nothing to talk about.

In private, Wang Anshi may be able to accept the helpless choice to withdraw his son, but he must not accept the act of signing an unequal treaty under the pressure of the Liao army."

Wang Anshi has already spoken about the current situation. There is a need to talk about the withdrawal of the volunteer army, but the prerequisite is that the Liao Dynasty's Shanxi army immediately evacuated Nanjing, and at least one move to move north 300 miles to be discussed.

As for the other conditions proposed by Xiao Hui, Wang Anshi didn't say much, and only used the word "tsk tsk" in the short article, and the following text was gone.

In view of this, both the court and the people are more careful. As the differences in negotiations between the Song and Liao dynasties gradually increase, and even excessive frictions are interrupted, perhaps the Song and Liao war is really possible, and it will not be too far away, so it may be in March.

The fear of the Liao people from top to bottom of the Song Dynasty was deeply rooted. Some folk critics believed that there were also people who had to withstand it, because there were still people like Kou Laoxier in the Song Dynasty. At worst, there were more Chanyuan 2.0, which was nothing more than tightening the belt for a few years.

When people encounter crisis, they always think of that person again. Even if he has many infamous reputations, it undoubtedly shows that even if the great devil is young, the leader's aura has been initially formed. Although the devil's realm is not yet in a climate, it has begun to spread...
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