Qiming 1158

Chapter 614 Song and Ming are allies, no need for one more

The state of the Southern Song court during this period was quite conservative.

After Zhang Jun and Chen Kangbo left the court, the original lord and faction of the court had the absolute upper hand.

They gradually expelled the original fighters to serve as idle officials, and completely controlled the central government.

They continued the traditional politics of the Song Dynasty, i.e., exercising coercive rule internally and pacifism externally, in exchange for Zhao Gou's recognition and indulgence.

Because this is also Zhao Gou's hope.

Since the death of Jin Guo was determined, Zhao Gou was really comfortable, his mood was relaxed, and he felt that a big rock had been removed from his heart for a long time. He was very happy, singing and dancing.

What made him even more gratified was that his head, which had not been raised for more than 20 years, seemed to have a tendency to raise it again.

When he got along with women recently, he obviously had a similar impulse. Although he didn't succeed in the end, Zhao Gou found such an opportunity, and this opportunity made him ecstatic.

So he went to the imperial doctor to ask the reason for this, and asked them if such an opportunity was meaningful, and then took various medicines to recuperate. Although the effect was not fast, according to the imperial doctor, his small head is really expected to come back.

With enough time, he can revive his manhood!
Zhao Gou burst into tears with excitement!
So he put all his thoughts on the matter of Xiaotou's rehabilitation. He was not interested in other things, and he didn't care much about it. Even the government and politics were left to Tang Situi and others to take care of it.

There was nothing he needed to intervene in person anyway.

At this stall, Su Yonglin became emperor.

This kind of thing is a big deal, and Zhao Gou must make arrangements for it.

After the arrangement was made, the little disturbance when Su Yonglin became emperor was very noticeable, and Zhao Gou couldn't ignore it completely, so he asked someone to discuss it and see what Su Yonglin's actions and what he wanted to do instead of being the emperor and only being the emperor.

What you say to me, Saisuke, is nothing more than saying that Su Yonglin is an offbeat who doesn't follow the rules. It's normal to be a bit rude when it comes to building a new country. foreign.

Moreover, he has just established a country, and he is very busy. There are many things that he needs to do. One Yellow River alone is enough for him to have a headache for more than ten years. Why should he worry about his external intentions?
These words came to Zhao Gou's heart.

Zhao Gou was worried that Su Yonglin's actions had some external intentions, worried about what he wanted to do externally, and focused on the Southern Song Dynasty. As long as he had no external intentions, everything would be fine.

"Although it shows that the emperor will not have any intentions, but before, Your Majesty, Xia Guo sent someone to contact the court, we should also give an explanation."

The privy council speaker Wang Lun changed the topic and brought the topic to the previous matter of Xixia secretly sending envoys to Sichuan to visit the Southern Song Dynasty, hoping to achieve the goal of the alliance.

At the time, the Saisukes had to discuss this matter. Some supported it, some opposed it, some thought it was a good idea, and some thought it was too risky.

And Zhao Gou obviously lacked interest in this.

"It's hard for them to be able to send people to our place through a pass."

Zhao Gou waved his hand helplessly: "It doesn't matter, what ideas are they thinking, do you really think we don't know? I don't want to get involved in this kind of thing. They go back first, let's discuss more."

Zhao Gou's remarks are very obvious and muddy, and it is obvious that he does not want to form an alliance with Xixia, which makes Wang Lun not satisfied.

Wang Lun frowned and said: "Your Majesty, although the Xia Kingdom has bad intentions, their considerations are not unreasonable. Now the Ming Kingdom is like the Jin Kingdom in the past, and it is stronger than the Jin Kingdom. It’s a must, in the face of such a strong neighbor, shouldn’t we be more prepared?”

Listening to Wang Lun's words, Zhao Gou felt that it made sense.

"It's not unreasonable for you to say that, then...Is it allowed?"

When Shen Gai next to him heard it, he immediately discouraged him.

"Your Majesty, the Xia country is a despicable and small country, and it has never been trustworthy. We are afraid that it is slightly inappropriate to make an alliance with it."

"It's...it's true."

Hearing what Shen Gai said, Zhao conceived of the various hatreds between Song and Xia, as well as the past experience of backstabbing each other, and said, "The Xia people are really not credible?"

Shen Gai nodded immediately.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Now the prime minister of the Xia Kingdom is Ren Dejing, but he was a traitor of our Song Dynasty."

Speaking of this matter, Zhao Gou really had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart.

At the time of Emperor Renzong, Wang Yuan's fallen scholar had no way to beat the Northern Song Dynasty court. Since then, he has created the rule of not defeating the fallen scholar in the palace test, so as to avoid people who fight against the imperial court in order to retaliate against the imperial court, which will lead to more trouble.

However, even the scholars of the jinshi and the first grades may not be reliable, and they still fight against the court.

As the leader and actual master of the border state at that time, Ren Dejing directly raised the state to surrender to Xixia. When the court was in crisis, he betrayed the court and turned to Xixia to save his life, which was shameless.

How could it be possible to make a good alliance by cooperating with such a despicable and shameless traitor?

If he betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty once, he could betray the Southern Song Dynasty a second time.

Can't believe it!

Zhao Gou's dissatisfaction prevailed and he waved his hand decisively.

"Let them go back where they came from! The Song Dynasty is now an ally with the Ming Kingdom, and the Xia Kingdom is a vassal state of the Ming Kingdom. If the Ming Kingdom knows about it, I still don't know what trouble will happen. , what kind of turbulence, once something happens, we will be at a loss, and we don't know how to justify it!"

Wang Lun did not agree with this decision.

"Your Majesty, it's better to take precautions than no precautions. No one knows what disasters will come in the future, but at least at the moment, Song and Xia are the same, the truth is that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. Your Majesty is so wise, how can you not understand?"

Seeing that Zhao Gou was a little shaken again, Shen Ging was very unhappy, and he did not agree with Wang Lun's words.

"The Xia country is no longer the Xia country of Li Yuanhao's time! He is a small country, a weak country, and cannot be beaten at all, and an alliance with it will only make the Song Dynasty mired in the quagmire, meaningless! And if the Ming country finds out, send People come to ask, what should I do?"

Zhao Gou suddenly remembered that Xixia was no longer in the state of martial arts that was in Li Yuanhao's time. The current Xixia military is weak and not enough to be a strong aid.

So he was very angry, got up and walked away.

"Let them go back where they come from. The Song Dynasty and the Ming Kingdom are allies, and there is no need for one more!"

After Zhao Gou left, he left several courtiers to look at each other in dismay.

After a while, Shen Gai mocked Wang Lun.

"Wang Shumi, is it worth the Song Dynasty to join the alliance with such despicable small countries as Xia Guo?"

"Why not? One more friend is better than one more enemy! Don't Xianggong Shen understand this?"

Wang Lun was very angry.

Shen Gai sneered.

"One more useless friend, turning a powerful friend into an enemy for nothing, is this a good thing or a bad thing for Da Song, Wang Shumi, don't you understand?"

"Why did the Song Dynasty refuse to ally with the Xia Kingdom because of the Ming Kingdom? In this way, what is the difference between the previous Jin Kingdom and the current Ming Kingdom?!"

Wang Lun spoke loudly.

Shen Jing was stunned for a moment.

"Of course there is a difference!"

"What's the difference?"

"The difference is..."

Shen Gai thought about it seriously, and suddenly felt that the difference between the two was not very big, so he didn't know what to say, so he could only blushed and waved his hands away without speaking.

Wang Lun won the debate, but he couldn't change the outcome. He could only send the Xixia emissary sent from Sichuan away. Regarding the emissary's hard persuasion, Wang Lun could only tell the truth, saying that this aspect was really not something he could decide. .

The secret envoy of Xixia could only leave in disappointment.

Looking at the back of Xixia's emissary leaving in disappointment, Wang Lun somehow felt as if he had seen the future.

Involuntarily, he said to his trusted subordinates: "Because of fear of strong neighbors from the north, I dare not strengthen my own strength. What is the difference between killing Yue Fei and killing Yue Fei? In this way, I am afraid that even if the Ming Kingdom does not have the heart to go south, it will last for a long time. After coming down, similar thoughts will arise, and then, how should Da Song handle himself?"

The subordinates did not dare to express any opinions on this topic, so they could only keep their mouths shut, as if they had not heard such words.

(End of this chapter)