Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 220
In November, Tamna sent a superstitious letter, reporting that their navy had repeatedly harassed the coast of Goryeo. Goryeo had no choice but to send envoys to ask for peace.The two sides reached an agreement that the Goryeo court allowed the Song people to live in Tamna, and allowed the Song ships to dock along the coast of Goryeo. If the Song ships traded at the port, they could pay taxes according to the regulations, and the Goryeo court promised that they would no longer force the Song people's maritime merchants to work for Goryeo.The Song people in Tamna only need to pay a symbolic tribute every year.

Li Buqi didn't understand why there was a clause that "the Koryo court must not force the Song people to stay in the sea".The messenger who sent the letter explained that the maritime merchants who came to Tamna from Minju complained that the Koreans had the habit of forcing the Song people to stay in the Maritime Commission for official positions, and some of their relatives and friends were forced to stay in the Koryo Wangjing. Trembling.Therefore, these maritime merchants hoped that Tamna would add this requirement when negotiating with Goryeo. For this reason, the maritime merchants were willing to provide Tamna with a lot of convenience.

This is a great thing that benefits both parties. As long as it does not affect the result of the agreement between Tamra and Goryeo, Li Buqi will not interfere.

This month came news from the Liao Kingdom that Yeludi Lugu, the commander of the Liao Kingdom's northern march, led the blocking army to Helan Mountain in October, and captured Li Yuanhao's wife and his bureaucratic family.It seems that Xixia has lost Li Yuanhao, and it has indeed lost its former prestige.But the Liao Kingdom was not much better. There were signs of famine in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Li Buqi's first reaction was that the Maitreya sect in Liao Kingdom had started an incident?But there is no news from Zheng En?

Soon, news came from Bujie that the granary was burned by the nobles of the Liao Kingdom.

Only by burning the granary, the deficit in it will not be found out.Yelu Chongyuan, the eldest brother of the emperor who stayed behind in Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom, although he also profited a lot from the wine making business, he still knew how to measure it, and ordered to reduce wine making when he saw the danger of food shortage.

But the little nobles below need to exchange spirits, Zub, and tribes in Bohai Sea for cattle, sheep, and furs. Isn't it no fun to reduce wine making?A few brave ones emptied the grain stored in the granaries in Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and then burned the granaries to the death without proof.

This time the food on the books was burned, and the Liao Kingdom was even more short of food. In addition, except for Xiao Hui who suffered a defeat in this campaign against Xia, the other two armies went smoothly. Get high.According to the information passed on by Buji, Xiao Ge, the privy envoy of Nanyuan of Liao Kingdom, proposed to attack the Song Dynasty. After that, the nobles in Liao Kingdom who held the military power responded one after another, hoping to go south to attack Caogu.Under the strong voice, the Liao Emperor has sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to question the crime.

In order to show that the police department is not just for nothing, Li Buqi asked Lian Guangzhi to collect the information and hand it over to the Privy Council, and the Privy Council immediately exploded.Soon the emperor called the Zaizhi, the chief and deputy privy envoys of the Privy Council, and several direct scholars to discuss, and Li Buqi was also called as a source of information.

The emperor sighed with a constipated expression on his face: "This time, the Liao Emperor accused the Song Dynasty of still giving Xixia Sui coins when the Liao Kingdom attacked Xia, and did not close the discussion field. Don’t give up, it’s right. What do you think?”

Although the emperor affirmed Li Buqi's foresight, Li Buqi knew that he should pretend to be forceful at this time.He immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think the matter of the old coins is just an excuse. Even if the Liao people don't use this excuse, they will find other excuses at will. The Liao people's provocation this time is actually because they think that Song Dynasty is weak and rich. Flowing oil, those Liao people want to bite off a piece of meat from Song Dynasty."

When he said this, the faces of those who originally opposed the termination of giving Xixia Sui coins looked a little better.Pang Ji, the privy envoy, said: "I think it is inevitable that the Liao people covet the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty. It is the best policy to make the Liao people retreat in the face of difficulties."

Everyone nodded, Gao Ruona, the political adviser, said again: "Your Majesty. In the second year of Qingli, the Liao Kingdom was also in the territory of Chen Bing, but Fu Yanguo was very strong against the Liao Emperor Chen Ming, so the Liao Kingdom also gave up its troops. This is also a lesson from the past. I thought that the emperor of Liao was bewitched by treacherous ministers this time, and the court should send eloquent men to envoy Liao to explain to the emperor again that peace is beneficial to the emperor, and war is beneficial to the subordinates. As long as the Liao emperor can Distinguishing between profit and harm, then military disasters can be resolved."

These words shocked the monarchs and ministers, and Zhao Zhen also nodded: "Gao Qing is right, you choose someone at your own discretion."

Li Buqi couldn't help curling his lips secretly when he saw the relief of a group of monarchs and ministers who had made a decision, and stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I think the situation in Liao Kingdom this time is different from last time. I'm afraid it won't be because of one or two words." Just dispel the idea of ​​committing crimes in the south of Liao Kingdom."

"why?"

Li Buqi said: "Your Majesty, you can read the information. How did Xiao Ge, the privy envoy of the Southern Academy of Liao who insisted on southern crimes, tell the Emperor of Liao? Coins, indicating that the Great Song was unable to fight at all. The sudden death of Li Yuanhao was a good opportunity for the Great Song to recover the lost ground, but the Great Song did not dare to enter the army. Now it is a strong outside, and as long as the Liao army shakes it with all its strength, it may fall apart."

Gao Ruona snorted, "It's not like a benevolent king would take advantage of the mourning to attack the country. How would the Hulu know?"

Li Buqi smiled and said: "Gao Shenzheng is right. Hu Lu doesn't understand the benevolence and righteousness of China. But now we are saying that people regard our kindness as a sign of weakness. What should we do about this? Saving people, I'm afraid it can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences. The current problem is that everyone in the Liao Kingdom thinks that the Song Dynasty is weak, and those who hold military power want to test the reality of the Song Dynasty. It can be said that the whole Liao Kingdom is like this Thoughts, even if Emperor Liao doesn't want to fight, I'm afraid he can't help it. What's more, next year's spring famine in Liao Kingdom will be serious, Liao people have to find a way to survive the famine, and going south to rob is the easiest way."

The emperor asked Pang Ji, "Does the Privy Council know what the Liao people are like?"

Pang Ji didn't dare to hide anything, so he had to say: "Xiao Zuo did find out that the people of the Liao Kingdom have recently heard rumors that the Song Dynasty is weak and the army is unfit for battle. I also heard that some people encouraged the Liao people to go south to attack the grass valley."

These rumors in the Liao Kingdom are not refrained from being released, and the rumors in the Liao Kingdom have already spread like crazy, so it is no wonder that the secret work of the Privy Council cannot be heard.

Li Buqi asked: "Private, since the autumn, have there been dozens of incidents where the Liao people attacked Caogu?"

Pang Ji said: "Yes. It's just that there are more than a dozen people, dozens of people, and no one with more than a hundred people."

Li Buqi smiled: "How can scouts use more than a hundred people? This is the Liao people testing whether Hebei's defenses are tight. As far as I know, the Liao people basically come and go freely, right? The Hebei frontier army can intercept less than three points." One, there are almost no gains. Liao people are wolves, and the more they think you are weak, the more they will pounce on you and bite you. So I predict that this time, it is not feasible to use words to dispel the idea of ​​Liao Huangnan criminals."

Pang Ji said: "Li Junjian has some truths. When sending people to persuade the Liao emperor, he should also mobilize the army to strengthen the defense of Hebei."

Li Buqi said: "The movement of the army will cost a lot of money and food. If it comes every few years, the Song family will not be able to support it no matter how rich it is."

The emperor asked: "Then do you have a good idea?"

Li Buqi said: "Hebei has been peaceful for more than [-] years since the Chanyuan alliance. Why? It was because the first emperor resolutely resisted the war and let the Liao Kingdom understand through the painful experience that the hard bones of the Song Dynasty could not be gnawed, so they completely stopped going south. I think that since the Liao Kingdom has moved the mind of the southern criminals again this time, we have to fight. Only when the Liao people understand that the Song Dynasty is still the Song Dynasty that they can't chew, the Liao people will give up. Otherwise, the In a year or two, the people of Liao wanted to try again, and there would be no peace on the border."

Before the words fell to the ground, Pang Ji and Wen Yanbo said in unison: "It's alarmist. This is just your guess."

Li Buqi said without hesitation: "This is indeed a guess. But I can guarantee that it is almost inseparable. If Xianggong and Privy Councilors don't believe it, it's because you don't understand the Liao people."

The following is false versus false, and no one can convince anyone.The emperor looked at this side, but it was very difficult to look at that side.He is afraid of fighting, but Li Buqi is like the existence of the prophecy emperor, and he is afraid of what will happen if Li Buqi is right again.Fortunately, Zaizhi and the members of the Privy Council were still in the same opinion, and they all advocated prudence, on the one hand, strengthening the defense of Hebei, and on the other hand, not stimulating the Liao people.Such an arrangement was acceptable to the emperor, so he nodded in approval.

Li Buqi knew that some things had to be seen to rot before they could be cleaned up, so he was not in a hurry.And this time the imperial prelude is not without gains for him.There were a lot of people present at the time of the play, and there would be no doubts if a few words leaked out. In the future, there will definitely be times when the common people scold Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji together.

(End of this chapter)