In the Uighur court of Gaochang, Fugu Huai'en sat on it, looked at the courtiers below, and said in a deep voice: "Chen Ximing dedicated Yizhou and moved his family to live in Kaifeng City. Now, the Song army has entered Yizhou, and it is rumored that the army is extremely powerful. The Song army is near, but now in winter, they are dormant in Yizhou, and when they come to see the beginning of spring, will they still stay in Yizhou honestly? In the west of Yizhou, the first big city is Gaochang. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a time of life and death, and it is not possible to wait! What the hell should I do, I need to come up with an idea as soon as possible! ”

On the side, Gao Chang Yu Yue servant Guchen said: "Heavenly King, before the future of the Song army, the country has always been subservient to the Khitan, and the tribute is endless. The year before last, the Song army came north and killed the Khitan emperor in a battle, and now the two Khitan emperors stand side by side, and there is no agreement. Yelu Renxian, who guarded the Jingdao, was unending his kindness to his country, and he could not turn his back on the Khitan Emperor just because the Song army was near——"

On the other side, the general Long Luo Dusha said coldly: "The Khitan continues, so what about the Song Dynasty?" As before, he thought he was a nephew, but he was afraid that he would not be able to satisfy the army of the Song Dynasty. If it is a minister, it will lead the Khitan people to be suspicious, which is a dilemma. ”

The servant said: "What is the dilemma? The Song and Khitan are brothers, and there is nothing wrong with us paying tribute and recognizing ourselves as courtiers. Now that the Song army has entered Yizhou, it is rumored that the situation is great, so it can only be sent very early! ”

Fugu Huaien said in a deep voice: "There is nothing to send envoys to the Song Dynasty and voluntarily call them ministers. It's just that if the Song Dynasty has any undue requirements, then what? I heard that they built a railway from Hezhou, and you can take the train to Juyan and then to Yizhou, which is not far away. ”

Long Luo Dusha couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "What the hell is a train?" Merchants who have been to Shengzhou, all who have taken the train, are full of praise, saying that it is a weapon to change geography. It is said that without horses and camels, nor without grain and grass, you can travel thousands of miles a day and pull countless goods. I can't figure out what kind of thing it is. ”

The Gaochang monk sitting next to him said: "The Han people are skillful, who knows what kind of artifact is made." However, this thing is said to be able to travel thousands of miles in one day and night, and as long as there are a few stations on the road, you can travel tens of thousands of miles. If this is true, the Central Plains has only been here for a few days and nights, and it will be very different from before. The Song Dynasty had nearly a million forbidden troops, and with the train, wouldn't hundreds of thousands of troops arrive in a few days? ”

Fu Guchen said: "I heard that the current Song Dynasty army is very powerful. In the first battle of Hequ Road, the Khitan Emperor was killed, and several generals were defeated. He fought another battle with the party, captured tens of thousands of people, and was invincible. Now that the army has entered Yizhou, how many people can we use to resist? ”

"Don't be too afraid, I've heard that there are only a few thousand people in Yizhou. And the news that came back that the Song army fought all by artillery. Thousands of miles away from Yizhou, they naturally can't take it, and the battle here is not the same thing as the battle on the river meandering road. ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "It's not just artillery, I heard that they also use muskets. It's a pity that I asked the businessman to bring a rod back a few times, but I didn't know how to do things, and I haven't seen what it looks like now. The guns of the Song army are different from the knives and guns used before. ”

Fugu Huaien said: "If the Song army comes to attack, how many people can resist them with Gaochang soldiers and horses?" ”

Long Luo Dusha shook his head: "This is very difficult to say. No one knows what the current Song army is like at all, but I heard that neither the Khitan nor the party are their opponents. remembered that the Khitan entered Gaochang a hundred years ago, but the soldiers and horses of their country had no power to fight back. ”

Fugu Huaien's face was ugly, and he shook his hand and said: "From Yizhou to Gaochang, there is a ghost valley in the middle to be sad, even if it is the Song army, it can't fly to Gaochang from the sky." Now I don't talk about how to deal with the Song army, only how to deal with the Song Dynasty and how to deal with the Khitan! ”

"In my opinion, take advantage of the month or two before the end of the year to send an envoy to Yizhou, and listen to what their generals there have to say." If it is just that the two sides keep their duties and do not invade each other, then send an embassy to Kaifeng Mansion to pay tribute. ”

Fugu Huaien was silent for a while before shaking his head: "The Song Dynasty really has such a sacred thing as a railway, how can it be willing to do so!" ”

The servant said: "If you can't sit on one side, then you can only defend it!" The Western Regions stretch for thousands of miles, and the Song army can really defeat them one by one? If we can't beat us, we will escape, and there will always be a day when the Song army will run out. At that time, it is enough to return to the division and recover the lost ground. ”

Longluo Dusha sighed: "Yu Yue, many of these places in the Western Regions are indigenous and Han Chinese, and once we leave, we are afraid that it will be difficult to return." ”

Fu Guchen said: "Then how to do it?" You can't lose the place before you fight, and give the place to others. ”

Longluo Dusha said: "In my opinion, the two Khitan emperors stood side by side, and they fought for nearly two years, and there was no victory. If this continues, will the Khitan not be able to split? It is better to cut off the tribute to the Khitan and pay tribute to the Song Dynasty. ”

Fu Guchen said: "To the north of Beiting is the Khitan, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops there in Shangjing Dao Yelu Renxian, how dare you cut off the tribute!" ”

Longluo Dusha said: "The Khitan came to crusade, let the Song army deal with it." Now that the Song army is strong, how can you hold on to the Khitan! ”

Yuanzhi said: "The Song army came from Hezhou by rail. Although there are not many soldiers and horses in Yizhou, I heard that in Juyan, the Song army has tens of thousands, which should not be underestimated. If the Song army built the railway to Yizhou, tens of thousands of troops could easily enter the Western Regions. ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "Over the years, my country has fought against the Black Khan, and everything has not gone well. I lost the turtle last year, and there is not much left. Tens of thousands of troops, it's really hard to get together. If, as the master said, tens of thousands of Song troops entered the Western Regions, then everything would be over! ”

Fugu Huaien closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and said, "That train, is it really that powerful?" How much grain and grass does an army of tens of thousands use in a year? Can the train come? I always felt that this was a little unlikely! ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "But everyone who has been to Shengzhou says so." When the city lord of Yizhou arrived in the capital and took the train, he didn't want to go back to Yizhou at all. Heavenly King, according to his subordinates, the railway may really be so powerful. Wherever the cultivation goes, the power of the Song Dynasty will go. ”

Fu Guchen said: "If this is the case, wherever the Song Dynasty wants, as long as it builds roads there, which one can resist!" ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "Listening to the news that the Song Dynasty is building roads to Yizhou, isn't it exactly what you said?" After the railway arrives in Yizhou, it will inevitably be repaired to Gaochang, otherwise the road ahead will still be impassable. ”

Fugu Huaien sighed: "Now the hatred is this matter, the Song people will build the railway to Yizhou, and then they will repair it to Gaochang, how should we answer?" If you think you are a minister, you can't stop it. And not to block, when the railway arrived in Gaochang, wasn't it even more impossible to resist the Song army? Because of this, I have never been able to make up my mind to send envoys to the Song Dynasty. A faction of envoys, the Song Dynasty brought up this matter, and then let us help, how should it be? ”

Hearing this, several people did not speak.

The story of the Tang Dynasty that has been circulating in the Western Regions for many years, for the Central Plains, they do not doubt its strength. It's just that the distance is far away, the Central Plains is not appeased, and they don't believe that the Central Plains forces can get here. Now that the Song Dynasty has a railway, it has broken through common sense, and the party is still there, so it has come to the Western Regions, and the Uighur rulers of Xizhou such as Fugu Huaien did not know how to deal with it for a while.

Take the initiative to show goodwill, if the Song Dynasty wants Gaochang to help build the railway, it will be difficult. If you don't get in touch, the railway will arrive in Yizhou, and the army of the Song Dynasty will be even more irretrievable. As the khan of Gaochang, Fugu Huaien was a little at a loss.