In the political affairs hall, Zhang Dian, who had had some lunch, was talking with Vice Minister Cai Bian, his cousin Zhang Qi, and Lu Huiqing, who had just been alone with the emperor.

"Jifu, you, you can think of it, you want to use the generals of the Western Army to train 50,000 soldiers, and give full power to ......"

"How?" Lu Huiqing, who was holding the tea bowl, glanced at Zhang Dan and said lightly, "If you want to destroy Liao in Pingxia, don't you have to have elite soldiers like Wei Wushu?" If you want to train such soldiers, how can you do it without giving the training officers full authority? Without full power, that is, all parties are hindered, pass the buck to each other, and no one can be held accountable if they do not practice well. In the end, everyone will be promoted and get rich, but there will not be a few elite soldiers. ”

Cai Jing's younger brother Cai Bian is Wang Anshi's son-in-law, and his status in the new party is transcendent, so he is more comfortable to speak, and he laughed when he heard Lu Huiqing's words, "Jifu, aren't you carrying it?" My dynasty has always emphasized literature over martial arts, and the imperial examination is the right way, how can it be possible to train a soldier like Wei Wushu? When the Warring States can do it, you can do military merit, and if you want to be an official, you have to kill people and set fires! ”

"But if you want to defeat a strong enemy like Liao, can you rely on those generals who do business and us scholars who make fuss?" Lu Huiqing replied to Cai Bian angrily.

He was put on the spot by Zhang Dian this time, and he almost became a "military training minister", and now he is on fire. But he is not good at facing Zhang Xuan head-on, after all, he was able to recover after the official Zhao Xu took office, and it was all Zhang Xuan's support.

"Ji Fu," Zhang Dian couldn't hear, "the scholar is in charge of the army, why not?" Didn't you and your husband do well in Shaanxi? ”

"Is that good?" Lu Huiqing shook his head again and again, "It's just that I used the method of building a fortress to take the first line of Hengshan...... It's just a stupid way! Can we still build the fortress across the Hanhai Desert? ”

Although the fortress tactics are effective, the number of people and materials required is very scary. Fighting on the front line of Hengshan-Tiandu Mountain alone, there were more than 300,000 people behind the 100,000 Northwest Forbidden Army who were transporting and building cities.

The amount of food and supplies spent is astronomical! If this kind of fortress tactic is to be pushed to the city of Xingqing Mansion, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources consumed may be so much that the Great Song Dynasty cannot bear it.

Lu Huiqing snorted a few times, and then came to a conclusion: "In my opinion, only by practicing tens of thousands of Song warriors can we think about calming Liao Fuyan." Otherwise, it's better to die as soon as possible! ”

This Lu Huiqing is a relatively treacherous official, but he is still an official who does things, and most of the things he does are related to training soldiers and fighting wars.

So he knew that it was impossible for the tactics of the Western Army to defeat the Western Xia militarily, and he also knew that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army was actually not very strong, otherwise the second battle of Pingxia City last time would not have to defend the city and consume the food of the Western Xia, and just directly launch a strategic decisive battle. The current Western Army is not without cavalry, and it can still be pursued if it wins...... As long as the 500,000 army of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was defeated in a war, now the Western Xia has already perished!

And with a strong army like 50,000 Wei warriors, it was enough to defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops in Western Xia.

How could the masters of the New Party, who can toss it, not understand this truth, but everyone knows it and does not break it. The reason why Lu Huiqing took the initiative to poke the hornet's nest today was really annoyed by Zhang Dan's calculations.

"Now it's the Liao Kingdom that is about to fall apart!" Zhang Dian said coldly, "Only by recovering Yanyun and taking the risk of Yanshan can people rest assured, otherwise...... If there is a tiger and wolf clan rising on behalf of the Khitan, how will I deal with myself? ”

People like Zhang Dun, of course, have really read history, and naturally know that the country of the beginning of the rise is often more powerful militarily than the country after more than a hundred years of peace. If he couldn't take advantage of the collapse of the Liao State to take the Fourteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Great Song Dynasty would be very likely to face an enemy that was even more powerful than the current Great Liao State.

However, the Great Song Dynasty could not train real elite soldiers, and the only way was to take down Yanyun and then build a city along the Yanshan Mountain Range to fight fortress battles......

If the new barbarians, whether it is Zhubu, Jurchen or Bohai Dynasty Khitan, rise and occupy the sixteen states of Yanyun, then Kaifeng Mansion will be suspended.

"No, no," Lu Huiqing shook his head again and again, "If you want to take down the Fourteen Prefectures of Yanyun, how can you not have elite soldiers?" ”

As soon as his words fell, a panting Xuanzan Sheren ran in outside the door, and saluted Zhang Dan: "Xianggong, the official family announced that you will go to the Chongzheng Palace." ”

"Go to the Chongzheng Palace?" Zhang Dian was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you just come from there?" What's going on? ”

"If you go back to Xiangye, it is Wu Haogu who has entered the palace."

"Oh? He's back? ”

Zhang Dian immediately got up, bowed his hand to the people in the political hall, and then followed the Xuanzan Sheren to the political hall.

Lu Huiqing, who had just returned from Shaanxi, was a little strange and asked Cai Bian: "Yuandu, who is Wu Haogu?" ”

"He's an artist." Cai Bian replied.

"Painter?"

"Waiting for the edict to be straight," Cai Bian said, "the "Photo Picture of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang" that coaxed the old emperor of the Liao State was painted by him. A while ago, I went to Liaoguo to paint spy paintings, but I ran into the Bohai Sea rebellion, and was pushed out by Li Zhong to contact the Bohai Great Light...... It seems to have turned out a bit. ”

"Bohai people?" Lu Huiqing asked, "The official family wants to use the Bohai people to oppose Liao?" ”

"Probably so."

Lu Huiqing shook his head, "It's better to train a soldier by yourself than to rely on anyone!" Yuandu, you said yes? There are no elite soldiers, so it's better to die as soon as possible. ”

Cai Bian just smiled bitterly and shook his head, and did not answer Lu Huiqing's words, and he had nothing to say. This kind of thing of full-power military training is the most dangerous in the Great Song Dynasty, who dares to touch it!

……

"Zhang Qing, take a look at this, Ping Yan Jiuce! It was offered by Yanyun Daru Murong Forget Worries! With these nine strategies, Fuyan Pingliao is really promising! ”

In the Chongzheng Palace, Zhang Dian saw Zhao Xu, who was overjoyed. Although Pingliao Fuyan has been Zhao Xu's dream for many years, it is not until today that he feels that he has really found a way.

The little yellow door in the hall handed the "Pingyan Jiu Ceshu" that was actually written by Wu Haogu and Murong Wangwu together to Zhang Dun. Zhang Duan opened the piece, first read it at a glance and ten lines, and then read it carefully. A pair of white eyebrows were twisted unconsciously.

Of course, he sensed that something was wrong, how could the core of the "Pingyan Nine Strategies" be to establish a city that was not under the control of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty? An army that is not under the control of the imperial court is a scourge, and a city that is not governed by officials is not a scourge if it also implements a law different from that of the Great Song Dynasty?

Moreover, the "Pingyan Nine Strategies" also proposed to vigorously develop maritime trade between the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Great Liao and Japan. Zhang Dun is a native of Fujian and understands maritime trade...... Merchant ships at sea were usually larger, faster, and stronger than the imperial court's sailor warships! As long as it is equipped with a crossbow and a warrior, it is a sailor warship.

In other words, this merchant market actually has force!

If you use the power of a merchant market and a maritime warfleet to restore Yan, wouldn't it mean that the merchants at the end of the four people have become the biggest contributors to Fuyan, and they also have their own army and territory?

This "Pingyan Nine Strategies" is not very proper!

Zhang Dian was just about to raise an objection, but suddenly remembered that he was helpless now. Yanyun wants to recover, and the soldiers cannot be trained in a big way, and the east and west roads of Hebei cannot be drastically rectified. How do you do this job?

The "Pingyan Nine Strategies" proposed by Murong Wangwu is also a way to do it, and there is no need to rectify Hebei, so you can probably not have too many elite soldiers......

When the traitor Zhang Dun fell into deep thought, Wu Haogu raised his heart again, and he was now standing in the corner of the Chongzheng Palace, looking at his nose, nose and mouth, and asking his heart, so he looked so well-behaved and exquisite.

However, he has a big ghost in his heart - he has made up his mind that he would rather release the flood beast of capitalism than let the northern minorities go south to sweep the world.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Dian finally spoke, "If these nine strategies are implemented successfully, Yanyun will definitely be restored!" Congratulations to Your Majesty! ”

Ha ha! Wu Haogu thought to himself: Even Zhang Dun, a big traitor, has been deceived, and it seems that the "Pingyan Nine Strategies" will definitely be implemented.

"Hmm." Zhao Xu smiled and nodded, pointing to Wu Haogu in the corner, "Wu Dalang not only invited Mr. Murong this time, but also contacted the Sword King of the Bohai people!" Wu Qing, tell me how the Bohai people are. ”

"Your Majesty, according to the minister's observation, the Bohai people in the Liao State are the most bitter." Wu Haogu said, "Therefore, their anti-Liao ambition is the strongest, but it is only ......"

Seeing that Wu Haogu wanted to speak and stopped, Zhao Xu said: "It's just that the strength of the Bohai people is too weak to be useful?" ”

"No," Wu Haogu said, "the Bohai and the female are really the same people, and the so-called Bohai people are similar to the Han people, settled and cultivated, proficient in handicraft, good at iron smelting, and are actually the people of production." The so-called female straight, the people of fishing and hunting, the tiger standing in the forest sea, and the eagle roaring in the snowfield, are the people of battle. Bohai has production but no soldiers, so it is difficult to become a big weapon in many actions. The female straight has warriors but no production, and it is scattered in the sand, which is difficult to gather, so it is not a matter of concern for the Khitan.

But now the Khitan is trapped in the grassland and forced to withdraw from the direct subordinate area of the daughter, and the daughter is rising day by day, and there is a great tendency to unify the daughter and the daughter. If the Yan tribe is unified and the daughters are directly subordinated, and then get the help of the Bohai wealthy clan, the Khitan country will be in danger. ”

"That's all that Mr. Murong told you?" Zhao Xu didn't believe that Wu Haogu would have such insight as a painter, so he took it for granted that Wu Haogu's opinion was attributed to Murong Wang's worries.

"Not only Mr. Murong," Wu Haogu said, "Chen also heard a lot of things from Guangmingjun of the Bohai people and Guo Yaoshi, the son-in-law of Guangmingjun, and they were all written on the chapter.

In addition, the minister also brought Guo Yaoshi back to Kaifeng Mansion this time, he was the messenger of the Bohai Guangming Monarch, and came to ask His Majesty for help. ”

"Well done!" Zhao Xu nodded, and then said to Zhang Xuan, "Zhang Qing, it's inconvenient for me to summon that Guo Pharmacist, so why don't you go and see it first...... Mr. Murong, you can also go and meet him. ”

"Commandment."