Liu Shan was quite dissatisfied: "General Zhou, since you have already discovered that the Eastern Roman Empire has planted a fine work in Xinjing, why don't you take action to wipe them out?" ”

Zhou Shan glanced at Zhao Ziliang and said: "Lord Liu may not know the situation in the intelligence industry, we once attacked the Eastern Roman Empire's detailed work in Xinjing, and it was all in one net, and we also took action against the detailed work of other countries in Xinjing, but does Lord Liu think they will stop there?" On the contrary, not only did they not stop, but continued to send them to go undercover, and they hid them even deeper, and even important people in the royal court officials were bribed by them, and it took a long time for the general and the internal guard yamen to spy on the tip of the iceberg, so in the intelligence industry, violence cannot solve the fundamental problem, but keeping them makes it easier for us to understand their movements, if we eradicate and arrest them all, we will be blind to them for a long time in the future! By keeping these people, we can effectively prevent them from stealing our important secrets, and at the same time, we can also release some news that is irrelevant to the overall situation or release false news from time to time to mislead them, so as to achieve our goals." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Shan was speechless.

Zhao Ziliang affirmed Zhou Shan's statement: "General Zhou has rich experience in this industry, and this king trusts his talent in this area!" As for those who pass on the news, the internal guard yamen can keep an eye on it, and they must not be alarmed, and they must find out the entire line or the entire network where they transmit the news, and if it is not necessary, do not take violent actions against them, unless they steal information that is related to the security of our country and may cause huge losses to our country! ”

Zhou Shan hugged his fists and said: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

"Okay, General Zhou said this question just now, and we already know it. Now you can tell you what you think about the Hajj of the Bolgar Khanate, where the Khan of the Bulgar Khanate, Terets, led an embassy to make a pilgrimage, to request annexation and to be canonized! ”

Huang Fuxian was the first to stand up and clench his fists and said, "Great King, if we take the current boundary as the boundary and no longer expand westward, Weichen thinks that we can consider accepting the request of the Bolgar Khanate for annexation and canonization. But if we still want to continue to expand westward, then accepting the Bolgar Khanate's request for annexation and canonization will undoubtedly tie our hands and feet, and it will become an obstacle to our westward expansion in the future! ”

Liu Shan stood up and objected to Huangfu Xian's words: "Great King, Weichen does not agree with what Huangfu said, no matter whether we want to continue westward expansion in the future, now we can accept the annexation of the Bolgar Khanate and give them canonization." When the time comes, if we really want to go west, we can find an excuse to break with the Bolgar Khanate, is it possible that we will still be loyal to this weak relationship forever? The king once said that there are only eternal interests between nations, and there are no eternal allies! Could it be that the Emperor Fu thinks that the Bolgar Khanate's request to be attached to my Western Qin this time is to sincerely admire my Western Qin culture and submit to the prestige of my Western Qin? If so, why didn't they join 10 years ago? Obviously, the purpose of their request for annexation this time is obvious, if it succeeds, first, our Western Qin's military containment and deterrence of them will be lifted, and they can free up their forces to attack other surrounding khanates or go south to attack the Eastern Roman Empire; second, he can use the power of my Western Qin to integrate the interior and purge the opposition; Third, he can buy a large amount of necessary materials from our country, including weapons and equipment, food and other necessary daily necessities, in order to alleviate their domestic predicament! ”

"Of course, the Bolgar Khan has their calculations, and although they are subordinate to our Western Qin, they can obtain very good benefits, and this is also good for our Western Qin to enhance its prestige, so that although our direct military power has not expanded to the west, our indirect influence and power have made a big step forward to the west and south! It's good for both of us! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Liu Dan's words, and couldn't help nodding secretly in his heart, Liu Shan is worthy of handling foreign affairs for more than 20 years, and has been a Hongluqing for nearly 10 years, and has quite a diplomatic skill and overall view.

Just thinking about it, Zhao Hu stood up and hugged his fists and said: "What Lord Liu said is quite reasonable, but Lord Liu is wrong, if we want to advance west, we need to face not the Bolgar Khanate, but the Pechenegs, Magyars and Eastern Slavs!" Wechen has been in the Khazar Protectorate for many years, and there are some eyeliners and channels there, and there is news that some people from various tribes within the Eastern Slavs have been walking around lately, lobbying the tribes to unite and establish a state against us. Weichen believes that since the Eastern Slavs want to build a country against our country, our country might as well simply strike first! Now that we have nothing else to do, and we have just completed the expansion of our army, we need a whetstone to sharpen our blades! ”

"Ahem!" Prime Minister Dugu asked: "General Zhao, this battle is not something that can be fought, nor is it that it can be fought. We first fought Kimak, then fought the Khazars, and then went south to attack Tianzhu, and then attacked Tibet in the east, each time only one or two years apart, the military expenditure was very huge, the wealth accumulated over the years has basically been exhausted, and now the Fifth Army is still fighting the Bolgars in the northwest, although the scale of the war is not large, but the cost of long-term garrison there is also very large! You soldiers have the heart to fight and are not afraid of death, of course those of us who are civilian officials are happy, after all, with people like you, Xiqin is safe, but fighting a war is not something you can fight if you want to, this involves all aspects, even if you can fight, but I don't have the money to take it out from the Government Council, what do you use to fight? It's not that we don't have money to take out, it's really that the treasury doesn't have money, the royal court's annual investment in all parts and aspects is huge, and now we are in the critical period of development, and we urgently need a lot of money to invest, on the one hand, we must speed up the construction of various places, on the other hand, we must improve the economic level, only by investing more can we have greater returns and income! ”

Zhao Hu wanted to say more, but was stopped by Zhao Ziliang raising his hand, "Compared with the Pechenegs, Magyars and Eastern Slavs, the Great Food Country that is close at hand is our biggest threat, so for a long time in the future, our main enemy is the Great Food Country, and it does not want to maintain friendship with the surrounding countries at all!" Well, today we are mainly talking about the request of the Bolgar Khanate for annexation and canonization, and we will not talk about other things for the time being! ”

Dugu Jun stood up and arched his hand: "Great King, if we agree to the request of the Bolgar Khanate for annexation and canonization, the Eastern Roman Empire will definitely raise a confrontation and protest against us, and we will inevitably have a bad relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire. ”

Li Siye stood up and hugged his fists at Zhao Ziliang and the others, and said: "The king, everyone, what Lord Dugu said is all reasonable, but the minister has a different opinion. Although there is now civil strife in the Eastern Roman Empire, the riots in Thrace are nothing more than ringworm for the Eastern Roman Empire, and those barbarians in Thrace will not be able to support it for long before they will be exterminated, and then the Eastern Roman Empire will usher in a period of steady development for a long time, which will give Constantine V time to integrate internally, they will reform the interior, so as to increase the national strength, before their reforms have achieved considerable results, if it were not for the invasion of the Bolgars and the Great Cannibals to stop their reforms, Their national strength will be greatly increased, and if we do not agree to the request of the Bolgars to annex and canonize and continue to contain them on the Western Front, then the Eastern Roman Empire will only be happy to see this situation, and their enemies on both sides will be pinned down, and they will definitely sit back and watch the tiger's head. We are fighting to the death with the big cannibals and the Bolgars, while they are watching the excitement from the sidelines, I am afraid that it is not in the interests of our country, right? ”

After listening to Li Siye's words, the ministers realized the seriousness of this problem, and they had to admit that Li Siye's point of view was reasonable and very likely to become a reality.

Liu Shan said: "What should I do?" Accepting the Bolgars offended the Eastern Roman Empire, but if they didn't accept it, it was not in the interests of our Western Qin, and finally let the Eastern Roman Empire take advantage!"

For a while, all the ministers fell into deep thought, thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of them.

Soon, Chu Ge stood up and hugged his fists and said, "King, Wei Chen thought of a way and didn't know if it was feasible!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand: "Let's talk about it!" ”

"No!" Chu Ge agreed, and immediately said: "If we don't want to offend the Eastern Roman Empire, we can't let the Eastern Roman Empire take advantage of it, so as to sit big." Wechen believed that he could not accept the Bolgars' requests for annexation and canonization, but that he could establish diplomatic relations with the Bolgars and conduct normal state exchanges, and the two sides were on an equal footing. In this way, the Eastern Roman Empire has nothing to say, we don't have to offend the Eastern Roman Empire, and we can appease the Bolgars, we will no longer send warships to attack the Bolgars on the Black Sea coast, and deploy the center of gravity of military power in the west to deter the Pechenegs, Magyars and Eastern Slavs, so that the Bolgars can rest assured that they will invade the Eastern Roman Empire from time to time and prevent it from becoming bigger! ”

I have to say that Chu Ge's method is a feasible method, but this method was not proposed by the civil officials, and the civil officials' faces were a little unbearable for a while.

Zhao Ziliang asked, "What do you think of what General Chu said?" ”

The ministers arched their hands and said in unison: "Everything is decided by the king!" ”

How could Zhao Ziliang not see the embarrassment of the ministers, he laughed secretly in his heart, and immediately said: "This king thinks that this method is feasible, so let's do it, there are still a few days before the court meeting on the first day of the next month, inform Tereutz, and this king will meet him in the palace at that time!" At the court meeting, the Zhuqing family must cooperate with me and not show flaws! ”

All the ministers shouted together: "The ministers obey the order!" ”