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On April 18th, Huang Jie arrived in Bianjing...

The debate in Bianjing over the entire Yanyun battle has been going on for a while. The debate became even more intense after the report of Li Hu and Li Gang, Tong Guan’s report, and Zhao Liangsi hurriedly returned from Huanglong Mansion and reported that the Jurchens were going to fight Xijing.

There is only one focus of the debate, whether to discuss peace with Yanjing.

To discuss peace with Yanjing, the Great Liao continues to exist as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. The Great Liao can control the borders for the Song Dynasty, and the two sides join forces to fight against the Jurchens. But the problem is that the Great Liao will be willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty and always be loyal to the Song Dynasty. Obviously it is impossible. This is the Great Liao's delayed military strategy. Their goal is to revive the Great Liao and revive the Great Liao. As far as the Khitans join forces with Li Hu and defeat the Jin army on the battlefield of Daibei, then the north will inevitably have a three-legged tripod. The north has three-legged tripod, and Li Hu and the Great Liao will surrender to the Song Dynasty? Even if they are willing to be vassals, the Great Song Dynasty only nominally recovered Yan Yun. Yan Yun is actually at the hands of the Khitans and Li Hu, and the Song Dynasty has nothing, which is absolutely unacceptable.

The goal of the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty was to recover Yan Yun, to re-incorporate Yan Yun into the territory of the Song Dynasty, to firmly control Yan Yun in his own hands, and to control his own destiny. Therefore, the pro-war faction firmly disagrees with the strategy of peace and protection of Liao.

If we do not discuss peace with Yanjing and eradicate the Great Liao, will we recover Yanyun? Will we ensure the security of the northern border of the Song Dynasty?

Li Hu, who was stationed in the mountains, had become a major concern of the Song Dynasty, which had formed a consensus in Bianjing. Therefore, the idea of ​​the pro-war faction was to recapture Youyan and immediately eliminate Li Hu. The strategy was to use the Jurchens and Xixia people to attack Li Hu first. When Li Hu was dying, the Song army used aid as an excuse to enter the mountain.

Li Hu was no longer able to do it, the wind stormed the clouds and swept it away. The Jurchens, the Xixia people and the Song Dynasty had all the alliances. If they abide by the alliances, then everyone would be at peace. If the alliances were violated, then the war would start. The Song people had already recovered Yan Yun and could completely defeat the Beilu and rebuild the barrier of the Central Plains with their geographical advantages.

The peace talks refuted this.

Looking back, the key to the reason why the Song Dynasty was pinned by Liao and Xia was that the North and South were opposed to the Chinese. The Northern Barbarians and the Chinese led to the Northern Barbarians joining forces, Liao and Xia formed an alliance, and East-West-East and East-West-East and East-West-East and East-West-East. If the Jurchens follow the approach of the pro-war faction, then it is obvious that the Jurchens will replace the Great Liao and become the mighty ruler in the north. The Liao and Xia alliance will evolve into the Jin and Xia alliance, and the Northern Barbarians will still join forces to fight the Great Song Dynasty. In this case, Datong will become the focus of the competition between the north and the south.

The Song Dynasty will definitely be able to recover Youyan. If Datong is taken down again, the Central Plains barrier will be rebuilt, and its strength will suddenly expand, and its strategic transformation will be from defense to offense, which will pose a huge threat to the Northern Legion. Therefore, it is inevitable that Jin and Xia will form an alliance, and it is inevitable that they will join forces to fight Datong.

This led to a terrible situation.

If the Great Liao asked for help from the Jurchens when he was desperate, the Jurchens went south to capture Youyan first. Can the Song army still capture Yanjing within the scheduled time, and then enter Datong according to your ideas. Will the Jin and Xia coalition forces be blocked? Once the Song army attacked on the Youyan battlefield, we refused to support Li Hu, which would force Li Hu to death again. If he was desperate and surrendered to the Jurchens, could the Song Dynasty recover Yan Yun?

The Song Dynasty could not recover Yan Yun, but was facing the Jin and Xia coalition forces. After replacing the Khitans, the Jurchens had a sharp increase in their strength and they would inevitably go south to attack the Central Plains. Looking back at history, as long as there was a heroic lord in the north, a war would inevitably break out between the north and the south. More than a hundred years ago, the Khitans who just emerged in the north went south and invaded the Central Plains. This bloody lesson is still vivid in my mind. Have we all forgotten it?

Therefore, the strategy of the peacekeepers is to join forces with the Great Liao and fight against the Jin Dynasty in Youyan; to assist Li Hu in Yunshuo, join forces with the Liaodong Rebel Army to fight against the Jin and Xia coalition forces. In this way, Yan Yun was first taken, first curb the expansion of Jurchens' strength, firmly suppress it in a corner of the northeast, and then, on the basis of destroying the Jin and Xia alliance, they joined forces with the Great Liao to attack the Jurchens and Li Hu to attack the Xixia people.

The larger the territory of the Song Dynasty, the weaker the strength of the Great Liao and Li Hu. In time, both the Great Liao and Li Hu will slowly disappear in the battle to expand the territory of the Song Dynasty.

Based on the main views of the two factions, the pro-war faction still maintained the alliance with the Jin people, eliminated the Daliao and Li Hu, and recovered Yan Yun, while the pro-war faction formed an alliance with the Daliao and Li Hu, gathered the strength of the three families to fight against the newly emerging Jurchens, first defeated the Jurchens, then recovered Yan Yun, and then eliminated the Daliao and Li Hu.

This strategic opposition directly led to the confrontation between whether to discuss with Yanjing, so the debate was very fierce.

After Zhao Liangsi took Huang She to the inn, he told the debate about Bian Jing in detail. The two were familiar with each other, and they were both from Youyan, and now they were both working for the Song Dynasty, so Zhao Liangsi did not hide too much and said everything they could say. As for those words that cannot be said, Huang She could guess even if she blinked her eyes.

"Among the prime ministers, Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Cai You, Li Bangyan and others are all in the war-oriented faction. Of course, eunuchs like Liang Shicheng and Tan Zhen are certainly obeying the emperor's advice and also in the war-oriented faction. However, Zhang Bangchang, the Minister of the Secretariat, Wang Anzhong, the Left Chief of the Secretariat, and Zheng Juzhong, the Minister of the Privy Council, are in the peace-oriented faction."

Logically, with the support of the emperor, the strategy of the pro-war faction should have the upper hand, but among the pro-peace faction, there is an old minister with great weight, that is, Duke Yan, Shao Shi, and Zheng Juzhong, the minister of the Privy Council. This old minister was the son-in-law of the famous minister of the Song Dynasty. Wang Li, Yingzong, Shenzong, and Zhezong, became famous for his articles. It was because of the king that Wang Anshi had reformed Wang Anshi. If Wang Anshi was a thousand-mile horse, then the king would be Bole. With his reputation and status as the king, he would consider his talent and knowledge. Cai Jing was reprimanded and Zheng Juzhong helped, but the two immediately fell out. Zheng Juzhong fought against Cai Jing everywhere, so he was very proud of the people in the capital. Zheng Juzhong had twice served as the Privy Council affairs and was in charge of the military and political affairs of the Song Dynasty. This was his third time as the Privy Council chief.

Zheng Juzhong was the first to oppose the Northern Expedition. He once wrote to the emperor that after the Chanyuan alliance, the two countries had been peaceful for a hundred years, with the border feasts, and the soldiers did not recognize swords, and farmers did not have extra military service. If they break the agreement and break the alliance, they should carefully consider the way of using troops, and the victory or defeat was impermanent. Even if they win, the treasury was lacking and rewards. Households were trapped in supplying services, which was also a destruction of the country and the people. If they failed, the consequences would be even more unimaginable. However, the Northern Expedition still began, and he could not stop the emperor and a group of war ministers from regaining Yan Yun. So under the current situation, he retreated and offered advice to the emperor to discuss peace and unite Liao to resist the Jin Dynasty.

Zheng Juzhong was very famous in the court and responded to it at once. Especially after Cai Jing retired, he was like Wang Fu and Li Bangyan, and he was no match for him at all. So now in the court, the strategy of the lord and the faction has achieved an overwhelming advantage, and even the emperor has begun to hesitate.

This is good news for Huang She. If the emperor adopted the Northern Expedition strategy of Zheng Juzhong and his gang of leaders and ministers, Yun Shuo would definitely receive assistance. The Song Dynasty's army and war materials would enter the back of the mountain one after another. He asked happily.

Zhao Liangsi's expression was very complicated. He hesitated for a long time and shook his head. "Ma Kuo rushed to Yanjing several times to negotiate, but they all ended in failure. Because the pro-war faction formulated a series of harsh conditions in order to prevent peace talks, the Khitans had to refuse." Zhao Liangsi sighed. "If nothing unexpected happens, the war will begin soon."

"Why is this happening? I think the strategy of peace talks is very clever." Huang She was immediately overjoyed and asked hurriedly. "The Jurchens are becoming more and more powerful and invincible. Don't you know that Bianjing? Today's Jurchens are completely different from those of the Jurchens three or four years ago. Didn't we say it very clearly in the memorial?"

"The officials and many ministers think that you deliberately exaggerate the strength of the Jurchens, and their motives are very complicated. They think that Li Hu intends to score Liaodong in three parts, which seriously threatens the safety of the northern border of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, they plan to attack. The officials plan to adopt the strategy of the war-oriented faction, continue to maintain the Song-Jin alliance, and recover Yan Yun in accordance with the agreement of the maritime alliance."

Huang She was anxious and said angrily: "Are the people of the Song Dynasty idiots? Will the Jurchens comply with the covenant? The Song Dynasty recaptured Yan Yun and would immediately pose a threat to the north. The Jurchens had just emerged and had not yet established a firm foothold. How could he let the Song Dynasty threaten the north? Of course, they had to seize Yan Yun and take the lead in establishing their attack advantage on the Central Plains, using attack instead of defense, so as to win time to consolidate the north. They don't understand such a simple truth?"

"In the past, the Jurchens were weak and they were very passive and wanted to fight for survival, so they were willing to attack the Great Liao with the Song Dynasty and use the power of the Song Dynasty to gain opportunities for development. But now the situation has changed. Before the Song Dynasty launched an attack, the Jurchens had already defeated the Great Liao alone. They turned passive into initiative and basically controlled the situation in the north. In this case, the Song Dynasty could still follow the maritime alliance? Can they still believe the promises of the Jurchens? Do these people have the brain? Have you ever studied? From ancient times to the present, it is a dead end to the tiger."

"You are in the north and you fight against the Jurchens. Of course, you know the Jurchens' strength, but the officials and these ministers are in Bianjing. When they are in love, their minds suddenly become hot and they want to make achievements. Then they talk about it on paper and formulate a strategy, and they start to implement it in a hurry. If they succeed, it is their credit. If they fail, it is the blame of the soldiers in the front line, and it has nothing to do with their strategies." Zhao Liangsi's words clearly showed a sense of resentment. It was obvious that he was very dissatisfied with the officials and the court.

The strategy of Pingyan has been in several years since its formulation to implementation. The army has not crossed Baigou. The monarchs and ministers are still competing in the court, and great opportunities are missed again and again. Until now, the Jurchens are strong and are about to replace the Khitans and become the heroic ruler in the north. A serious crisis is coming. The Song Dynasty is in extreme passivity. However, these people still turn a blind eye, and are still fantasizing about the pleasure of purging shamelessness in their fight for power and high talks.
Chapter completed!