I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 563 tit for tat
The signing of the covenant, one is a clear winner, and the other is an even match.There are very few cases like Song Liao now.

Fu Bi knew very well that the reason why Guochao signed this seemingly fair covenant with Beiliao was because Guochao still needed time.

Regarding the frontier defense in the northwest, the imperial court had discussed... Before they were ready to fully recover Fuqing and Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, Guochao did not think about fighting a big war, and did not want to expose its strength prematurely.

As a result, the battle still came.The powerful offensive of the new army of the Song Dynasty will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Beiliao, which will increase the difficulty of recovering the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Facts have proved that Da Song is indeed not ready.After regaining the four states of Yunying, it is indeed stretched to use troops.

Regardless of whether it is arranging troops against each other or confronting each other, both sides know that this covenant is different from the Tanyuan Alliance. Regardless of such a big fanfare, it is impossible for Song Dynasty to be like the Tanyuan Alliance. The Liao has a hundred years of peace... The signing this time is likely to be a covenant that can be torn up unilaterally at any time.

Still have to sign...
This is a play, performed for the soldiers, for the ministers, for the people of the world, and even for Xixia...

"I heard that you personally trained your guards?"

This is the first meeting between the kings of the two sides, which can be called initial contact.

But Yelu Hongji didn't know how to address the Song Emperor opposite him who was a generation younger than himself.Just don't call it.

"Yes!"

Zhao Xi was also awkward.The emperor does not need to intervene in trivial matters, this initial contact is more like a meeting, a very embarrassing meeting, nothing to say.

If you talk about hatred...~no, if you talk about good feelings, there is no such thing.The positions of the two sides determine the eternal antagonistic relationship, and they know each other well, and they have to pretend to be false.

"When I first heard the news of Emperor Renzong's death, I was also distraught..."

"Countries and countries are not rivers and lakes, and signing an alliance is not sworn brotherhood, and we can't talk about brothers. I am very grateful to Emperor Liao for remembering my father. However, it is not suitable to say these things at this time."

Zhao Xi didn't give Yelu Hongji a chance to continue talking...~ Playing this kind of trick again?But in the name of remembering his father, it is not true to refute it, nor is it true to accept it.

Therefore, Zhao Xi simply made him speechless.

What are you talking about?Is it possible to really talk about feelings?
"You trained your guards, and I personally selected my palace guards. I don't know who is stronger?"

Zhao Xi was a little uncomfortable with Yelu Hongji's way of chatting with a hammer here and there with a stick. It was boundless and irrelevant, so it was useless for him to make some preparations in his heart.

There are many cases of negotiations between the two heads of state in later generations. Even if it is different from news reports, it shouldn’t be like this, right?

Zhao Xi was prepared for tit-for-tat confrontation between the two sides, but he didn't expect that Emperor Liao didn't follow the routine at all... Who knows if this is his routine.

Zhao Xi was stunned for a moment, and thought about it seriously... Emperor Liao's question still needs to be answered.

"If it's about riding and shooting, my guards can't do it. If it's about team battles, your palace guards will be wiped out!"

Even if Emperor Liao wanted to talk nonsense, Zhao Xi never thought of being polite.

He told Emperor Liao objectively...you can't do it!

Don't you mean the Han people are modest?The emperor of the Song Dynasty was really rude.Yelu Hongji looked at Zhao Xi...it didn't feel like a fake.

Although Yunying's four prefectures were defeated, Yelu Hongji didn't think Song was really stronger than Daliao.

Because of the rebellion of Emperor Taishu Yelu Chongyuan, he no longer dared to disperse the elite palace guards. He would rather spend money and food to train the elite palace guards with four seasons.

The reason why they agreed to this negotiation was because the Jurchens in the north had some bad signs and were betrayed by Xixia, and Daliao also needed to respond.

As for the Yunying four prefectures, as long as Daliao pacifies Jurchen and teaches Xixia a lesson, Daliao can take back the Yunying four prefectures at any time.

As for the covenant, it can be torn up at any time.

Unexpectedly, the emperor of the Song Dynasty would say that the team battle would wipe out all the warriors of the Northern Liao Dynasty!
"Then let the 500 guards fight a game, and it's also a game for the two of us!"

This... Zhao Xi froze for a moment.It seems that the reason for the decline of the Northern Liao Dynasty has been found.

The king regards his ministers as brothers and feet, and the ministers regard the emperor as his heart; In Beiliao, Zhao Xi didn't believe that Yelu Hongji didn't know these words.

He had already clearly stated that he would be wiped out, but he still let the battle go, and said that it was a game before the king.

Zhao Xi didn't believe that Yelu Hongji didn't have a report on the Yanmen decisive battle, let alone an evaluation of firearms.Even if you don't believe in total annihilation, an overwhelming victory is really not difficult for the Song Dynasty's new army.

Just let his personal guards go to die like this...~ Yelu Hongji did the same.

Zhao Xi also knew that his three views were different from this era, but he didn't think that people spared their lives, and he didn't think that Beiliao's ideological education for soldiers was better than his new army.

"The mission of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty is to defend the country and expand the territory. They have no lack of courage, let alone the feeling of dying in battle. The only thing they can't do is play!"

What Zhao Xi said was very flat, without an impassioned tone, as if he was talking about something very common.

But these few words set off a huge wave in the hearts of the accompanying generals such as Di Qing, Zhong E, and Guo Kui, as well as the hearts of the guards around them.

Even though Han Qi and his group of civil servants didn't mind letting the two sides fight, they had to say what the officials said was reasonable.

"Oh, that's because I'm afraid!"

"Emperor Liao, it's not that you're afraid! If Beiliao wants to go to war, don't say five hundred, it will be fifty thousand and a half million. The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty will not hesitate."

"But what's going on? Soldiers who should have died in the battle, but died because they were watched by others. Even if they left it to the descendants to tell the story, they would be ashamed to say it."

"I am their father, and they are my people. I have the responsibility to let them live with purpose and die with meaning."

Zhao Xi said this with awe-inspiring righteousness, maybe he really had such an idea. After all, his Three Views came from later generations, but whether it was intentional or unintentional to run on Yelu Hongji, it depends on what the accompanying officials of Beiliao think.

"Emperor Song, the performance of martial arts before the king has existed since ancient times, otherwise there would be no saying that Xiangzhuang danced swords. Our Daliao soldiers were not designed to please the king, but our Daliao inherited the orthodox dynasty, so it inherited the ancient Dynasty etiquette!"

Yelu Hongji is not a vegetarian either, although he is not good at debating, he also knows how to confront each other.

"Emperor Liao, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is a confrontation with the establishment? Today's signing of the covenant is a grand feast? If not, then since the truce was negotiated, why did the soldiers increase their casualties?"

"Whether to inherit the orthodox dynasty is not decided by stealing rhetoric, but by the comprehensive inheritance of etiquette, culture, and even clothing, diet, living habits, etc."

"Besides, inheritance should be selective inheritance, not swallowing jujubes. The ancestors drank blood, ate wind and rain, and lived in the wild. Could it be a proof of inheritance, and the people of the world also need the same?"

"Removing the chaff and keeping the essence, inheriting and developing, is the most correct inheritance!"

(End of this chapter)