After paying homage to the Taimiao, Zhao Chen immediately issued an order, according to the promise made when Li Chunyou was recruited, and named him the Duke of Shunguo, the doctor of Guanglu, and the pillar. Reading artifact. Read please lock. And in the city of Jiankang Mansion, Li Chunyou's mansion was given one, and all the maids were available. Moreover, the other officials of the Western Xia also have their own titles, and the ministers of the Western Xia have an official rank according to the size of their official positions, and they can receive a Fenglu every month, which can basically ensure their life in Jiankang.

Those children of the party nobles who came to Jiankang to study were also given a small official rank of Fengyilang, and they were arranged by the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple to live for them, and they were organized to enter the Guozijian to learn the cultural knowledge of the Great Song Dynasty, and regularly went to Zhongshan Academy to listen to lectures.

At the same time, Ren Dejing's thank you table to the imperial court was also sent to Jiankang with the army, and Ren Dejing said in the seal that he was old and frail, and he did not want to travel far, and he did not seek to get high-ranking officials, but only wanted to stay in Lingzhou to be a common man.

Seeing the situation, Zhao Chen was also strong, and according to his previous promise, he was appointed as the hereditary king of Pingxi County, the doctor of Zijin Guanglu, and the envoy of the Taining Army. And changed Lingzhou to Pingxi Mansion, together with the surrounding Jingzhou, Huaizhou, Yanzhe, Youzhou, Xiazhou, a total of six state capitals, all as Ren Dejing's fiefdoms, and other leaders in the Ren family also have their own rewards, but they are all officials in the fiefdom.

The Xixia area is also trying to be renamed Anxi Road, and the former division of the prefecture in Xixia is basically retained, but Xingqing Mansion is changed to Anxi Mansion, and the pacification envoy is set up, and Xin Qiji is appointed as the pacification envoy of Anxi Road. Among the twelve military divisions originally set up in Western Xia, only six remained, changing the Yan Military Division of Heishui Town to the Heishui Army, the Black Mountain Weifu Military Division to the Black Mountain Army, the Baima Qiang Town Military Division to the White Horse Army, the Xishou Baotai Military Division to the Baotai Army, the Right Wing Chaoshun Military Division to the Chaoshun Army, and the Left Wing Shenyong Army Division to the Shenyong Army. The other six were all canceled. and exempted Anxi Road from taxes for one year and forced labor for three years.

Anxi Road is divided into Anxi East Road and Anxi West Road, Anxi East Road includes Anxi Fu, Dingzhou, Weizhou, Longzhou, Shizhou, Yinzhou, Shunzhou, Montenegrin Army, White Horse Army, Baotai Army, Chaoshun Army, Shenyong Army; Anxi East Road is Xuanhuafu, Suzhou, Liangzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou, and Heishuijun.

And set up a royal garrison in Yinzhou and Weizhou, with Yang Changpeng in charge of the Weizhou imperial garrison, and Li Haoyi as the commander of the Yinzhou imperial garrison, with a strength of 30,000 each. Yang Changpeng and Li Haoyi were originally under the control of the imperial garrison in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and after being transferred to Anxi Road, the imperial garrisons of Lanzhou and Chengzhou, which originally belonged to the two of them, were also canceled, so that only three imperial garrisons were retained in Sichuan

In order to strengthen the control of Anxi Road, 20,000 garrisons were left in Anxi Province and 10,000 garrisons in Xuanhua Province, so that the strength of the Great Song Dynasty garrison on Anxi Road reached 90,000. At the same time, 30,000 troops from the original Western Xia were incorporated as the local army of Anxi Road.

And now that the war in Western Xia is over, Shangshu Youpu and Zhao Ruyu, who were sent to Lizhou to command and dispatch the war in Western Xia, have also been transferred back to Jiankang and are still serving in Zhongshu Province.

At this point, the war in the entire Western Xia was completely over, the 145-year rule of the Li clan in the Western Xia became history forever, and the area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River returned to the hands of the Han dynasty. Moreover, the harvest of the Great Song Dynasty in this war was also very rich, not only expanding the land for nearly thousands of miles, but also obtaining the Hetao area where horses were produced, and 20,000 to 30,000 high-quality horses could be obtained every year. In time, there is no need to worry about the lack of war horses.

In addition, the Great Song Dynasty directly collected more than 37,000 war horses from Western Xia. These war horses left 10,000 in the Anxi region, Sichuan, Jinghu, and Jianghuai regions each received 5,000 horses, and the remaining more than 12,000 war horses were all pulled into the Sanya Forbidden Army. You must know that the current cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty can only maintain about 70,000 on the right, which also makes the number of cavalry of the Song army soar to more than 100,000 at once, and the combat effectiveness will also be greatly improved.

After dealing with these things, the next thing is to reward the meritorious personnel in the Pingxia War and the Counterinsurgency War, Yang Yan is the commander-in-chief of Pingxia this time, and the Great Song Dynasty received the land of Western Xia, he is naturally meritorious, so the title was promoted from the founding prince of Wuchang County to the founding prince of Wuchang County. and officially assumed the position of Privy Councillor.

If it was at the beginning of Zhao Chen's succession, such an appointment would inevitably cause an uproar, but this time it did not cause much reaction. First, it is because Yang Yan's contribution this time is too great, not only to collect the country and land, expand the territory, but also return to the DPRK on the way to save the driver, any one of which is a great merit that will be rewarded directly, if it is idle again, it is really impossible to say. On the other hand, although Zhao Chen is not yet an independent and powerful emperor, since he succeeded to the throne, he has been quite effective in repairing the system and reforming the law in the internal service, and has won successive battles with foreign troops. Even a few veteran ministers did not dare to easily oppose Zhao Chen's resolution.

Except for a few officials with stubborn heads who wrote against it, the vast majority of officials, including all the ruling ministers, did not raise objections. Therefore, this appointment was successfully passed.

Among the other generals, Bi Zaiyu was promoted from Chengxuan to Ningjun's envoy to Ninghai's festival envoy in order to capture Tang, Cai, Ying, Shou Sizhou and Pingding Li Quan's military exploits. He also became another new generation of generals who received the status of Jiedu envoy after Yang Yan.

Gao Zhen accompanied Yang Yan on the expedition to Western Xia, and after Yang Yan returned to Jiankang, he succeeded Yang Yan and commanded the battle to capture Xingqing Mansion and sweep away the remnants of Western Xia; Cao Xun sent troops to Jianghuai to contain the Jin army, and then swept away the rebels in Taihu Lake, all of which made great achievements. However, both of them now think that they are the envoys of Chengxuan, and the military exploits they have made this time are not enough to be promoted to the envoys of the festival, so the imperial court only added the titles of the two people, Feng Gaozhen as the Shanghu Army, Xinchang County Founding Candidate, Cao Xun as the Shanghu Army, Yixing County Founding Candidate.

Yang Changpeng and Li Haoyi both made great contributions in the Pingxia Campaign, and they were both promoted to Chengxuan envoys. Other meritorious personnel have also been promoted. The officials of the court and the central government also had their own rewards.

After Li Quan's death, his previous position in charge of the imperial garrison of Ande Mansion was also vacant, and another person needed to be selected to replace him. Therefore, Yang Yan recommended to the imperial court to use Liu Renxian, the doctor of Zhongwei.

Liu Ren was the general of Dali, in the early years also studied military affairs in the Shangwu Academy of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru, Cao Xun, Gao Zhen and others were the same batch of students, after the death of Dali, Liu Renxian returned to the Song Dynasty, in the restoration war of that year, he also made a lot of contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, and was also a young general who was proficient in the art of war. After Dali was incorporated into the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court once wanted to appoint Liu Renxian as the administrative official of the Dali region. However, Liu Renxian said that if he surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, he would always be a Song minister and would never return to his hometown. When the court saw him make such a decision, it couldn't help but be strong.

Over the years, although Liu Renxian's official rank is not low, he is a fifth-rank martial arts official, but he has not been reused, and he is just hanging an idle position in the front of the palace. But Yang Yanzhi didn't forget him, but he never had the opportunity, this time he took advantage of Li Quan's vacancy to recommend Liu Renxian to the imperial court.

At this time, Dali had already changed to Annan Road, and it had been incorporated into the Great Song Dynasty for more than six years, and the situation was quite stable, and Liu Renxian had made many contributions to the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yang Yan recommended it, so the Privy Council deliberated a little and agreed.

After entering June, the Jin State suddenly sent envoys, based on the terms of the peace between the two countries, to request that relations with the Great Song Dynasty be restored, and the "mutual gifts" should be resumed, and the field should be opened again for trade exchanges.

After Zhao Chen received the report, he first ordered Zhang Gongdan, the Zhengqing of Honglu Temple, to receive the envoys of the Jin State, and then gathered the ruling ministers to discuss what the intention of the Jin State was and how the Great Song Dynasty would respond.

During the Great Song Dynasty's attack on Western Xia, apart from the chaotic time of the Jiankanggui Rebellion, the Song Dynasty never gave up its attention to the Jin State. The entire process of Wanyan Changzhi and Wanyan Yungong's struggle for the throne was reported back to the Great Song Dynasty in detail by the spy personnel. So that Zhao Chenjun and his ministers were very clear about the movements of the Jin Kingdom. Therefore, everyone discussed it, and they all thought that the Jin State was showing weakness to the Great Song Dynasty.

Han Yan said straightly: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of Yichen, Jin Guo is trying to make peace with my Great Song Dynasty. This time, the Jin State sent troops to aid Western Xia, but returned with a great defeat and nearly 200,000 troops dismantled. Only then did Wan Yan Changzhi take advantage of the opportunity to seize the throne of the Jin Kingdom. But now the Jin Kingdom is also greatly injured, and Wanyan Changzhi has just seized the throne, and the foundation is also unstable, so he wants to reunite with my Great Song Dynasty to gain a period of respite. ”

Zhao Chen nodded, and he could basically think of what Han Yanzhi said. So he asked: "So what do you think our Great Song should do about this?" Will you agree to reconcile with Jinguo, or will you refuse? ”

Zhou Kui came out and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that he should still promise the Jin State and reconcile with the Jin State again." ”

Zhao Chen said: "Zhou Qing suggested reconciling with Jin Guo, why did he do it? ”

Zhou Kui said: "Back to Your Majesty, this is because my Great Song Dynasty also needs time to recover its national strength. Only after reconciling with the Jin State can our Great Song Dynasty have enough time and environment to recuperate and accumulate strength for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains in the future. ”

What Zhou Kui said was not unreasonable, after receiving the Western Xia, although the Great Song Dynasty made a lot of profits, it also paid a considerable price. In the later period, the Great Song Dynasty fought on two fronts, not only almost exhausting the money and materials accumulated in the past few years, but even forcing the emperor to pay out his private money. Although Jin Guosheng later had civil strife and the scale of the war did not expand, the consumption of the Great Song Dynasty was less than expected, and this year's spring tax was also collected, plus the income of the coastal city, so that there was still a little foundation left in the treasury, and Zhao Chen's private money was also preserved. However, the current financial situation of the Great Song Dynasty is not enough to support another war.

Although the Anxi area was pacified, due to the war, many Tahara cities were deserted, and the places that had been plundered by the Mongol army were almost empty, and these places needed to be rebuilt. Therefore, the imperial court had to exempt Anxi Road from one year's tax and three years of forced labor, it can be said that in the past two or three years, in addition to being able to provide a certain number of horses for the Great Song Dynasty, the Anxi region not only could not produce other benefits, but also required the imperial court to invest a certain amount of financial and material resources to ensure the stability and recovery and reconstruction of the Anxi region.

In this case, the reconciling between the Song and Jin countries and striving for a certain amount of time to recover is certainly the need of the Jin State, and it is also indispensable for the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, Zhao Ruyu also said: "Your Majesty, Weichen also thinks that what Lord Zhou said is reasonable, and the peace agreement made with the Jin State back then, except for the determination of the border between the two countries, there is nothing unacceptable to my Great Song Dynasty. The border between the two countries can also be reformulated, so it is not impossible to restore the peace between the two countries in the past. ”

Zhao Chen nodded slightly, and asked again, "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

Wang Yan said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate, this time Zuo Xixia and Jianghuai clashed, and it was still the Jin State that took the lead in betraying the alliance." Moreover, over the years, whenever my Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State have negotiated that it will end with the Jin State betraying the alliance, it can be seen that the Jin State cannot be trusted, so how can it negotiate peace with the Jin State again. ”

Zhou Kui said: "Wang Shumi, the person who betrayed the alliance this time is still Wanyan Yungong, not the current monarch of the Jin Kingdom." ”

Wang Yan said: "So what, who can guarantee that Wanyan Changzhi will not betray the alliance again." ”

Zhao Ruyu said: "We don't really want to negotiate peace with the Jin State, but just to fight for a few years to recuperate, as long as we wait until the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty recovers, even if the Jin State betrays the alliance, what is there to fear." ”

Ye Yu also came out and said: "Even if my Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State have no strength to fight again, then it is inevitable to strike the army twice, even if this is the case, why do we need to renegotiate peace, not to mention that we have an alliance with Mongolia to destroy the Jin, if we renegotiate peace with the Jin State at this time, where will the Song and Mongolian alliances be?" Therefore, the minister also hopes that His Majesty will think twice. ”

For a while, the four of them had their own opinions, and they couldn't explain each other, and Zhao Chen couldn't make a decision for a while. Only then did he look at Yang Yan, who had been silent.

Although Yang Yan is now officially appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, strictly speaking, he is not considered a ruling minister, but only discusses the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State, which is generally inseparable from the military, so as the second chief of the Privy Council, Yang Yan is also qualified to participate in the discussion. Moreover, when the Jin Kingdom was in turmoil, the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty all thought that a long-term civil war would be formed, and even Wang Yan, who was proficient in military affairs, believed that if Wanyan Changzhi wanted to achieve a comprehensive victory, it would take at least a year, and only Yang Yan insisted that Wanyan Changzhi would win within a month. And the final result also proved that Yang Yan's eyes were as noteworthy, as long as it involved the affairs of Jin Guo, no one dared to despise Yang Yan's opinion.

Seeing Zhao Chen looking at him, Yang Yan also came out of the queue and said: "Have you ever thought about it, as Ye Xiang said, my Great Song Dynasty and Jin Guo have no strength to fight again, and it is inevitable to strike twice." As Zhao Xiang said, it is not really to negotiate peace, but to fight for a few years of recuperation, which Jin Guo may not be unaware of, even if this is the case, then why does Jin mainly send envoys to renegotiate peace with us? ”

This point was something that all the ministers had not thought about, so no one answered for a while, Zhao Chen said: "What Yang Qing asked is very true, so why does Qing think it is?" ”

Yang Yan said: "In Yichen's opinion, the Jin State just wants to stabilize my Great Song Dynasty, so as to use troops against Mongolia, so as not to fight on two fronts, and after defeating Mongolia, then deal with my Great Song Dynasty." ”