The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1631 The reason why the Uighurs sent it

"What, the businessman we sent to the Western Regions was killed on the way. That country is so courageous that it dares to be an enemy of my Song Dynasty. Have you checked it out?"

Miao Xun is now the Prime Minister of the Right. The original Prime Minister of the Right, Dou Yi, retired and returned to his hometown because of his age. Zhao Kuangyin directly appointed Miao Xun as the Prime Minister of the Right without saying anything. That is to say, from now on, the political affairs of the Great Song Dynasty can be set up or not, mainly depending on the emperor's mood.

The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War sent an intensified memorial. Originally, this memorial was intended to be sent to an emperor, but Zhao Kuangyin has reformed in recent years. There is no need to do everything personally. Power is distributed to the people below, and then he is centralizing power. This is Zhao Kuangyin want to see.

So the two prime ministers will deal with it first, and the emperor who can't deal with it will deal with it, but this doesn't mean that the emperor just doesn't care about political affairs, but the control is stronger than before, and there is no way around it.

"Master Zhao, what do you think?" In fact, Zhao Pu is the biggest among the prime ministers, but Zhao Pu has been very unhappy recently. He returned to his post, but Zhao Pu was more careful, he knew that the emperor was warning him on time.

Because the emperor took out all the evidence of his embezzlement and bribery in private, Zhao Pu was frightened into a cold sweat.

It's just that Zhao Kuangyin just reprimanded him, and then said earnestly, you are an old courtier with me, how can you take money and pervert the law? Although I am the emperor, if you don't stop, I can't keep you. You are at home Take a good few months of self-cultivation.

Zhao Pu was frightened into a cold sweat at the time, but he knew that the emperor was giving him a chance, otherwise he would not be enough to die a thousand times with the things the emperor gave him.

It is said that a subject deserves ten thousand deaths. In fact, it is enough to die once.It was at that time that Zhao Pu was cautious about everything he did. In front of his senior brother, the current Prime Minister You, he did his best and did not dare to say anything else.

"Presumably the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War have some clues, otherwise they wouldn't have made the memorial. Master Miao hadn't waited to see."

Zhao Pu suggested that he has been a politician for many years, and he knows some things the most clearly, and he must follow the footsteps of the emperor. He is now doing his best.

The murder of a caravan involved both the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of War. There is a reason for this. The caravan was sent to reopen the Silk Road.

There are also some soldiers protecting the caravan, which is naturally related to the Ministry of War. Now that something happened here, of course these two departments have to report it.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before the memorial from Xiazhou's magistrates and army commanders also arrived, which stated that the Uighurs in the northwest had attacked the Song Dynasty, and now it is clear that it was the Uighurs.

"The Uighurs are those minority nationalities, how dare they attack my Great Song's army so boldly? Haven't they heard of our Great Song's Tianwei?"

It's not the time to go to court, but the two prime ministers hurried to see Zhao Kuangyin.

"Father, I have heard of Uighurs before. Is their predecessor Uighurs?"

Zhao Xu really didn't have much impression of this Uighur. It wasn't that his history was bad, but that this nation was only famous in the Tang Dynasty in the history of China.

"Your Highness is talking about Uighurs. Uighurs are Uighurs. They were renamed from Uighurs. They used to be just a small tribe. They were renamed Uighurs in about 770 AD, which means that Uighurs are as light and swift as Uighurs. They belong to Tiele. One."

Zhao Pu still knew about these things. Whoever said that only half of the Analects ruled the world, he also knew a lot. After Zhao Xu asked, he answered directly and quickly.

Tiele is the name of an ancient tribe in northern China.Ancient Chinese northern and northwestern nationalities.Also known as Di Li, Ding Ling, Chi Le, Gao Che.Among the many tribes in Tiele, both Huihe and Xue Yantuo established a khanate that unified the Mobei region.According to historical records, the Turks were a Serbian tribe transformed by Tiel.After the rise of the Uyghur Khanate, the appearance of "Tie Le" in official history books gradually decreased. Later, Uyghur or Turkic people were often used to refer to Ti Le.Later, the Khitan people unified the north and south of the desert, and the name Tiele gradually disappeared.

"Zhao Aiqing is right. Now there are three relatively powerful forces in the Western Regions. They are all Uighurs. They are divided into Xizhou Uighurs, Yellow-headed Uyghurs, and Zhou Khanate. These are the biggest overlords in the Western Regions. Yellow-headed Uyghurs They are the least powerful, bordering Tubo and Song Dynasty, so they must be the ones."

Zhao Kuangyin also cared about some things in the Western Regions. At this time, he quickly concluded that he also knew about it, otherwise he would not have said so.

"Father, I think now is an opportunity. If we want to reopen the Silk Road, we must let them know how powerful I am, otherwise, if they come to us for a while, we really have no way to deal with them. , Those countries in the Western Regions were conquered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty by force, now we have an excuse to send out large troops to intimidate them."

Zhao Xu waited for Zhao Kuangyin to breathe a sigh of relief, and directly said that he would send out an army, but the two prime ministers did not object at this time. After ten years of accumulation, Song Dynasty is now very rich.

Borrowing the description of Wenjing Zhizhi, the warehouses are full of grain.The grain in Taicang was rotten and inedible due to old age, the government treasury had surplus money, and the capital had tens of millions of money.

This is the situation in the Song Dynasty now, and I don’t know how many troops the Song Dynasty has trained in the past ten years. The current generals are all in their prime, and the rising generals are also growing. There was no objection.

In the past, if you sent troops, there would always be people who would say that it was a waste of money. Who would say this now? There are scholars in the court, but they are not pedantic people. They have been indoctrinated for so many years. is the best.

In addition, Da Song has never sent troops except to suppress bandits for so many years, and now Da Song needs to show his teeth to the outside world.

This time is also a good opportunity. Didn’t you Uighur kill our caravan? Then this is a provocation to us. If you dare to provoke us, then don’t blame us for being rude.

So when Zhao Xu proposed this suggestion, neither Miao Xun nor Zhao Pu objected, and Zhao Kuangyin nodded in agreement. It seemed that he also agreed to send troops. Training is also good!

Now there is an excuse not to use it, otherwise it would be a waste of opportunity, plus our emperor is also suffocated, and the Taiping emperor who has been the emperor of Taiping for ten years is a bit annoyed, so we can take advantage of this opportunity to expand the territory.

(End of this chapter)