Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 375 The official's geography class is about to start!

Zhao Huan cleared his throat, looked at the ministers below who were facing a formidable enemy, and shook his head again and again. He was just telling a story by himself, did he need to be prepared?
"There was a little donkey who was carrying salt across the river. It slipped and fell into the creek. Some of the salt melted in the water. When it got up, it felt much lighter. This made it very happy."

"One morning a few days later, the little donkey crossed the river again with some cotton on its back. It thought to itself that the last time it was carrying salt across the river, it fell down. It was easy to get up, and it will definitely pass this time."

"At this time, he is complacent about his cleverness. At this time, he feels that the sky seems to be bluer, the sun is strolling leisurely, the trees are greener, and the flowers are more colorful. It was singing, and there was joy everywhere. Just like that, the more it thought about it, the more vigorous it became, and it burst into cheers."

"Then the little donkey went into the river, tripped deliberately, and fell into the water. When he got up, he found that the cotton on his body was heavy and heavy. He walked two steps with great difficulty and was washed away by the river. .”

"The sky became dark and dark, the sun hid in the clouds, the trees became lifeless, the flowers were dejected, the small river was rushing like crying, and there was lifelessness everywhere."

After Zhao Huan finished telling the story, several of the ministers in the court laughed.

This is a story for children!
A story full of loopholes!There is no comparison with the two stories told by the previous officials!
A speech officer stood up with a determined smile on his face, and said, "Officer, I have a word..."

"No! You didn't!" It's a pity that Yu Wenxuzhong interrupted the famous speaker before he finished speaking.

Instead, Yu Wenxu stood up and said, "Officials, I have no way to control you, please forgive me."

Zhao Huan signaled the spokesman to sit down with Yu Wenxuzhong and talk. He was not angry. When he told this story to a child, the child would ask, is the donkey so smart?

Tell it to the ministers of the DPRK and China. The ministers of the DPRK and China can find 1 reasons to refute this naive story.

But is this story really about a donkey?
"In the first year of Jingde, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom signed the Chanyuan Covenant, and each other was a brotherly country. There was peace for a hundred years until the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by Jin."

"At that time, the Liao Kingdom had been established for 88 years, and its soldiers were at a disadvantage. Even though it was sitting on the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, it still had nothing to do with our Song Dynasty. It was like salt on a donkey's back. At that time, there was a lot of waste in the country, and it was necessary to recuperate. .”

"But now, in the first year of Jingkang, the Kingdom of Jin has just been established for 11 years, and the Liao Kingdom has been beaten to death."

"At that time, the peace negotiation with the Liao Kingdom was based on the fact that the Liao Kingdom was unable to go south. At that time, Prime Minister Kou had already seen the powerlessness of the Liao Kingdom."

"However, dare to ask the lords of the court! The Kingdom of Jin has only been established for ten years! The soldiers who founded the country! The warriors who destroy the country are all there! Is the Kingdom of Jin powerless to go south?"

"The Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom of the Chanyuan Alliance are like the salt and cotton on a donkey. Their harm is different. It is well known that the Jin people destroyed my heart in the Song Dynasty. Only one death between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty can end this war. , This is a battle to the death."

Zhao Huan stood up from the imperial case, walked to the side of the imperial officials, and said: "I know that the people are suffering. I have seen with my own eyes that the families on the East River Road were destroyed. The people lived on the cliffs to avoid financial disasters."

"But the country is gone, can the people be safe? Even the cliffs can't live."

It's not that the ministers can't see the difference between the situation of the Chanyuan Alliance and today's situation, but that Zhao Huan's perspective is the emperor and the overall situation.

And the courtiers, such as Liu Chengqing, his eyes fell on the household department, and his thoughts and thoughts all day long were limited to the household department.

And a very important point is that they were born in a prosperous age, and the war they experienced was only the battle of Wanyan Zongwang's siege of Bianjing City.

But Zhao Huan knew very well that the Jin people would still go south, and the Han people under the rule of the Jin people would suffer a thousand times more than they are now!
Old and thin men call it "rao put the fire", women with less love are called "buxian sheep", and children call it "hegu rotten", and they are collectively called "two-legged sheep".

They had never seen that kind of cruelty, so they naturally couldn't know that the golden man was more cruel than they imagined!
After the peace talks, the sky will be bluer, the trees will be greener, and the flowers will be more colorful. Will Xiaohe really be happy?
Zhao Huan was sitting in front of everyone, and the courtiers were thinking about the deep meaning of Zhao Huan's story. It was a childish story, but the courtiers were extremely silent.

"Besides, even if there is no peace negotiation, Hedong, Yanjing, and Hebei Road will not be war zones. Only Yunzhong Road is a war zone, and Jinren has no wings. He cannot fly over the Yanshan Mountains and enter Yanjing Road."

"Zhao Duzhi, bring the sand table!" Zhao Huan shouted loudly.

Zhao Huan asked Zhao Ying to stack the sand table according to the "Map of Maps of the World". Zhao Ying is a man of ingenuity, and he made the sand table intuitively according to the legend.

"If you keep Datong in Yunzhong, you will keep the gate of Hedong Road, you will keep the Zhangjiakou Military Fort in Fengsheng Prefecture, and you will keep the entrance from Juyongguan to Yanjing Road. And here..." Zhao Huan held a round wooden stick in his hand , pointing in the direction of the cloud and said.

The ministers under him, they have never taken a geography class, and this is the first time they have seen this sand table. They are civil servants, and they really don't know much about soldiers. Their understanding of terrain and geographical advantages is not even as good as Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan sincerely thanked the nine-year compulsory education, although he was far inferior to the ancients who studied hard in the cold window in terms of ancient prose and classics.

But my understanding of the situation in the world, especially the understanding of geography, surpassed that of the ancients.

"In other words, only Yunzhong Road will become a war zone?" Liu Chengqing asked in a daze.

If this is the case, isn't it following the official's intention to negotiate a peace or not?I don't even bother to talk about it myself.

He is worried that if there is no peace negotiation, most of the Northland will fall into the dead cycle of Hebei Road and East Road in the past.

In order to prevent the Liao people from going south, there are three roads in Hebei and Hedong, and the people are in dire straits.

Li Gang nodded, and said to Liu Chengqing: "That's exactly the case, otherwise, why would I, Da Song, be so obsessed with taking back Yan Yun?"

Li Gang had seen the incomparably detailed "Tianxia Kanyu Map". In fact, only a few real confidantes of officials had seen this kind of confidential blueprint.

Zhao Huan's map has been kept in the Wende Hall, and now only Shen Cong, Cheng Chu, Zhao Ying, and even Zhu Lian are not allowed to enter the Wende Hall.

Zhao Huan didn't even allow the palace people to enter, so the courtiers had never seen this map before, and the sand table brought out this time opened the eyes of all the courtiers.

Cognitive differences brought about by information asymmetry.

Zhao Huan finally understood why his group of capable ministers, who were clearly good at governing the country and the country, suddenly joined forces to negotiate a peace.

The Song and Central Plains dynasties lost the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun for too long!

So much so that they all forgot that Yanyun was truly invincible in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty.

"The official's literary and military strategy is admirable, thank you for your teaching." Liu Chengqing bowed his head and said.

Since it does not affect the people's livelihood in most areas of the Northland, it follows the wishes of the officials.

Liu Chengqing looked at the sand table, there were so many different things in the hands of the officials, it was eye-opening.

"The official gold envoy has arrived at Chenqiao, do you want to see him today?" Li Gang saw that Liu Chengqing was no longer talking about peace talks, and knew that the matter was over, so he asked softly.

(End of this chapter)