"Prime Minister Wang, I don't know what makes Your Majesty so worried?" The emperor left, and Wang Anshi didn't seem to have any intention of following.

"The beggars captured Rongzhou in early April, and the local commander declared war on Wang. The envoys of the imperial court have already set out, and if they can't talk, they will have to send troops. This is still a trivial matter, there are also changes in the country of the Northern Dynasties, Liao Emperor Hongji out of the emperor's nephew Chun outside, and the emperor Sun Yanxi is the king of Liang, when he was six years old. With the Zhongshun military festival to make Yelu Pode the king of the Southern Yuan, the Guang military festival to make Yelu Zhongxi the privy council of the Southern Yuan, and the first household envoy Chen Yi to participate in political affairs, eventful autumn ah......"

Why is the emperor unhappy, the prime minister must know, Wang Anshi has no intention of hiding it, this is not a secret, but it is indeed not a good thing.

If there is a big change in the internal affairs and personnel of the neighboring countries, the Song State will have to be nervous, who knows whether it is a hawk or a dove, and it is unknown how the relationship between the two countries will go in the future, and it is really a headache.

"Is the Liao Emperor called Yelu Hongji as the king said?" To be honest, Hong Tao knows very little about the situation in the Liao Kingdom, only knowing a Empress Dowager Xiao and a Yelu Hongji, which they still see from later martial arts novels.

If it were someone else, he wouldn't have interjected at all, but he still knew something about this Yelu Hongji, provided that half of the history books of later generations were true.

Who is Yelu Hongji? He was known as the Liao Dao Sect. Most people may not have an intuitive impression of who is the Liao Dao Sect, so to put it another way, he is the Liao Emperor who is the brother and brother of Xiao Feng in the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon. In the book, he once raised his sword and swore to the sky that he would not let the Liao army invade the south for the rest of his life.

In fact, during his tenure as emperor of Liao, there were basically no large-scale wars between the two countries, and there were very few small fights on the border. But this has nothing to do with Xiao Feng, and the emperor of a country will not make such a childish oath, and even if he does, he will not abide by it.

The reason for this is simple: the two countries have signed a peace treaty, and neither wants to fight anymore, and neither can fight the other. There is also a Xia country on the side, and any large-scale conflict between two countries in this situation will be taken advantage of by a third country.

If you have to find the reason from Liao Daozong personally, there is also one, that is, he likes the culture of the Song Kingdom very much, he is proficient in poetry and songs, and his calligraphy is no worse than any Song Guoshi.

He was friends with Song Renzong when he was the crown prince, and he had a good personal relationship, and he also agreed with Song Renzong's concept of governing the country. To put it bluntly, he is a big dove of the Liao State, advocating peace with the Song Dynasty, and it is best to exchange more cultures, and he does not like to fight. In this regard, he is very similar to Song Huizong, who is particularly qualified as a scholar and artist, but is not suitable to be an emperor.

He reigned for nearly 50 years, and the relations between the two countries were indeed good, calling each other the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that this person is also keen on Buddhism, and he has built temples everywhere in the territory of Liao, and has written an inscription on the back of the Buddha statue: May he be a Song man in the next life!

With such an emperor of the Northern Dynasty and a long-lived emperor, the pressure on the Song State would be much less, and there would be no need to enter a state of combat readiness all day long. You must know that the agrarian people are very delayed in production and life in the state of war readiness, which is a natural disadvantage in this regard, and relatively speaking, the nomads are much more comfortable.

Of course, Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi did not know the direction of history, and several important positions in the country of the Northern Dynasties suddenly changed. It is necessary to be highly vigilant, and it is estimated that it is not only vigilant, the order to enter combat readiness at the border has definitely been issued. Before I figured out what kind of people these people were, even the emperor and the prime minister would not be able to eat and sleep well.

"Exactly...... The horse has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say, if you don't believe what you say, you won't try it with ointment. ”

The horse's thoughtful expression couldn't escape Wang Anshi's triangular eyes, and he brought up the past again in order to hear the truth. Not to mention that politicians have a strong purpose in everything they do, and everything will be used by them to the extreme.

"The Liao Emperor is benevolent by nature and likes Buddhism, war should be his last resort, if there is no major change, he will not easily use force to deal with him, this matter can be slightly vigilant. Relations between our DPRK and the DPRK are stable, and the two sides do not seem to have the desire to go to war, so there is no need to be anxious. There is something unknown below, can Wang Xiang solve his doubts? ”

Hong Tao has a fart opinion, he doesn't even know the general direction of the political situation in Liao, and he has no material to make it up. But as long as you know the trend of history, you can find a basis for what you say.

"Duwei, but it doesn't hurt to speak, this is not the court, you are my guest, and you will enter my ears from your mouth." Whoever said that Wang Anshi can't be a person with low emotional intelligence is blind, this is not low emotional intelligence, but too high vision.

If he doesn't speculate, he doesn't bother to take care of it, and there is a sense of arrogance that you can't understand when I say it. But when I meet someone who can explain it, he has a lot of words at all, and he is also very understanding.

"Which is better or worse for the Northern Dynasty to fight against our Dynasty?" Since Wang Anshi didn't even disappoint himself about the ointment, Hong Tao also had a little bottom in his heart. This prime minister is not a grandson yet, and there are things to say.

“…… The North Dynasty is good at riding and attacking, and I am good at defending. "This question is really not high-level, the assessment of the military advantages and disadvantages of the two sides is estimated to be rotten, not to mention the prime minister, I am afraid that the forbidden army guarding the palace can answer it accurately.

"If the benefits of my dynasty are exchanged for the benefits of the Northern Dynasty, what does the king think?" This is what Hong Tao wants to say, the cavalry of the Liao State is powerful, and the weapons and equipment of the Song Dynasty are superior, can they be exchanged?

"Swap! How to make the Liao army's elite cavalry and then pretend to be a sharp weapon? Wang Anshi listened to the assumption of the horse, and his head shook like a rattle.

Unlike cavalry, weapons also require a long period of training, and they basically don't need to be familiar with the time to pick them up and use them. Even if the Liao State was willing to exchange the smelting and casting technology with the Song Dynasty with the war horse, the speed at which the opponent formed combat power would be much higher than its own. This kind of trading is not only not cost-effective, but also risky.

"If there is a better, faster, and cheaper way of smelting in our court, is it feasible to exchange them?" Hong Tao did ask for advice this time, he didn't know how to march and fight, especially the army, some problems could not be thought of, and experts were needed to demonstrate.

“…… Jin Qing has a stroke of genius? Wang Anshi and Hong Tao do have something in common, the specific performance is that they are relatively smooth when chatting, and they don't need to explain some basic issues.

"I can't talk about the stroke of genius, I got an iron-making furnace on the edge of the Wujin Xing workshop, if nothing else, I can produce a thousand catties of good iron per day, and the same amount of steel. I just have this idea, if our dynasty can use the original iron-making and casting technology to exchange a large number of horses with the northern dynasty, even if the strength of the northern army is improved, it will not necessarily be a bad thing for my dynasty. On the issue of horses, our DPRK has not yet been able to gain an advantage, so why not make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses to make up for our shortcomings. As for the issue of weapons, as long as my iron-making furnace is produced normally, neither the Northern Dynasty nor the Xia Kingdom can reach it. Think about it, if our dynasty has enough war horses, the soldiers can not hesitate to shoot arrows when they go out on the expedition, and use the rain-dense long-range attacks in each battle to offset the opponent's superiority in cavalry, and I dare not say that winning again and again can also greatly weaken the enemy's national strength. People and horses need to eat and drink to grow up, and it is not easy to cultivate, but there is no need to wait for steel weapons and arrows, and there are enough coal, ore, and craftsmen, and thousands of products can be produced every day. In the future, our army will be a strong army made of steel, and as long as the logistical problems are properly solved, any enemy will be overwhelmed by this torrent of steel. ”

With a bosom friend, Hong Tao's broken mouth found an opportunity to enjoy himself. Spray it, whether it is reasonable or not, whether it is successful or not is the work of politicians and experts, you just have to kill it or bury it, and you can still enjoy the taste of standing and talking without back pain.