Yang Huairen said happily, "Do the Khitans still have such good rules? ”

Wang Zhan said, "Yes, the new rules and etiquette of the old Khitan emperor are not all bad. It's just that the grandfather sent silk and other goods of the Great Song Dynasty to Yelu Bawotai, and the dowry he sent to Princess Anguo was mainly cattle and sheep.

Grandpa must also realize that the Khitan people are slamming the door and asking them to spend cash, most of them are unwilling, especially for large transactions, they prefer to use their own cattle and sheep to calculate.

However, the grandfather does not have to worry about the loss, just like the silk that the grandfather wants to send to Yelu Bawotai, it is a price in the Great Song Dynasty, and the price will naturally double when it is shipped to the Liao Kingdom.

And those cattle and sheep are the same thing, there is no shortage of cattle and sheep in Liao, so the price of cattle and sheep is scary, only half or even one-third of our Great Song Dynasty, so these cattle and sheep are transported back to the Great Song Dynasty, and the grandfather can make a lot of money whether he uses it for his own use or sells it. ”

Yang Huairen suddenly felt that he and Wang Zhan had a common language in doing business, and couldn't help but laugh and said, "We two profiteers are here to calculate the Khitans, what do I think...... So cool, haha! ”

Wang Zhan also laughed, "The Khitan people are used to being arrogant and ignorant, they think they are very shrewd, but in terms of trading, they are still a little lacking in heart compared with our merchants in the Great Song Dynasty.

Such a business opponent is also what the lowly is willing to face, pat their ass, a few words of things, coax them to be obedient, we should make more money, why not? ”

While the two were having fun, a guy knocked on the door and whispered, "Tell you, there's news from the west." ”

Yang Huairen immediately replied, "Come in." ”

The fellow walked in with a nervous face, turned around and closed the door, and then took out a letter from his bosom and handed it respectfully.

Wang Zhan got up and took the letter, and handed it to Yang Huairen. Yang Huairen knew that this was the first letter he had received from the west after coming to Liaojing, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

When I opened the letter, I saw that it was sent by Qin Fenglu's Fengshenwei, and the letter said that Zhang Dian had led a large army to assemble, and he would declare war on Western Xia in a few days, and the last date written on the letter was 14 days ago.

Yang Huairen handed the letter to Wang Zhan after reading it, Wang Zhan carefully bowed down and took the letter with both hands, turned around and waved his hand at Fanzi who sent the letter, and waited for Fanzi to go out and close the door from the outside before opening the letter to read.

After Wang Zhan finished reading the letter, Yang Huairen spoke, "The letter said that Zhang Dian had assembled a large army and was ready to march, but the time when this letter was written was 14 days ago. ”

Wang Zhan said, "What Grandpa said is good, things thousands of miles away, it takes at least ten days to travel such a long distance to Dading Mansion, and if some weather or other reasons delay for a few days, it is normal."

According to the time calculation, Song Xia should indeed have started the war, but the specific situation of the battle may not be known until a few days after receiving a new report. ”

Yang Huairen nodded, in fact, he knew something from the account of this war in history, although he only knew the specific process, but the result was that the Song army won, he had known it for a long time, so he didn't panic now.

As soon as the war broke out between Song and Xia, Yang Huairen thought that it was impossible for Western Xia not to know the movements of the Song army, and it must have been prepared for a long time, so in the early stage of the war, the Song army did not make much money, and the two armies should now be in a state of strategic confrontation.

The two sides were at least stalemate and repeatedly entangled for more than a month, and the Song army had a slight upper hand in several battles, which had something to do with Yang Huairen.

It is also interesting to say, the old general You Shixiong You led the army to the battle, and every time he boosted the morale of the soldiers before the battle, he always had to take out Yang Huairen to talk about things.

Saying that Yang Huairen is just a cook, he can defeat the elite of Western Xia in Huanzhou, and it is impossible for the soldiers of Qinfeng's roadside army to do it.

Although this is a bit disdainful of Yang Huairen's tone, in fact, every time You Shixiong talks about Yang Huairen, it also plays a very good role in boosting morale.

On the one hand, although Yang Huairen now has the title of General Long Wuwei, he is not a professional soldier after all, and he relies more on coming up with some unreasonable ghost ideas to win by surprise.

The soldiers of the border army also know this, so they will not look down on Yang Huairen and his victory in Huanzhou, whether it is by bravery or wisdom, as long as they can win the Western Xia army that has not been defeated for many years, they can only be admired.

On the other hand, the soldiers will also think that Yang Huairen can win a battle as a cook, and their professional soldiers can't win a battle without a reason, and Yang Huairen has received a knighthood and reward for his military exploits, which inspires the soldiers to fight bravely.

In fact, the Song army has not won a battle for many years, and it is not that the Song army is really that weak, at least compared to the Western Xia army, it is not a complete opponent.

It's more because the previous policy was to only defend and not attack, so everyone had no chance to distinguish between high and low on the battlefield with the Western Xia army.

Most of the generals of the border army in the border areas have relied on real skills to ascend to the post, and they have never been abandoned in terms of training soldiers or strategic combat readiness, so the combat effectiveness of the border army is not bad in the first place.

Although the forbidden army has been decadent for a while, the forbidden army itself is the elite selected from the border army and the army in various places, and many of the officers at the grassroots level are still famous generals in the DPRK and China, at least in terms of personal strength and military art.

Later, after half a year of promoting Yang Huairen's training methods, the combat capability of the forbidden army has also been improved to a certain extent, so compared with the Western Xia army, the Song army is not at a disadvantage, and the Song army still has an advantage in terms of numbers and logistical support.

It is very strange that before a soldier with no combat experience goes to the battlefield, he will always have some worries and doubts in his heart, which is reflected in his lack of self-confidence.

But after really fighting a battle, they will find that the Western Xia Army is not as terrible as rumored, they are also a body with a head, and they can't live if they cut off their heads, and they are not monsters and beasts.

On the other hand, the Western Xia army usually attacked the northwest frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, and saw that the Song army refused to go out of the border to fight and was just self-contained, so it despised the Song army in the early stage of the war, so it led to the stalemate stage of the war, and the Song army still had a slight upper hand.

Thinking of this, Yang Huairen was even less worried about the war in the west, and he should be more worried about how to keep the Khitans from interfering in this Song-Xia war.

"Now that we've got the news, it won't be long before Yelu Hongji gets the news from the west, maybe when it's about the same time as us, Yelu Hongji should also receive the news from the west......"