Seeing that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were divided into two factions and each insisted on their own opinions and quarreled, Zhao Ziliang was extremely annoyed, slapped the imperial case with a cold face, and said angrily: "Enough! ”

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Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly and pointed at the ministers and reprimanded angrily: "Whether you fight or not, the first thing you have to do is to fight with the enemy, not to fight with each other here!"

The ministers were reprimanded so that no one dared to speak out, and at this time they were all like quails drenched in the rain.

Zhao Ziliang turned his head to look at every civil and military minister on the left and right, knocked on the imperial case and said: "I don't know if the big cannibals think that we dare not really fight them, or that the big cannibals have no intention of returning these ten sea ships and warships and 300,000 catties of ore at all, and deliberately put forward a condition that we cannot accept in order to bully our country?" If it's the former, then the big cannibal is very wrong, I, Xiqin, have never been afraid of any enemy, and I have never been afraid of any war! If it's the latter, then we can't tolerate someone bullying us on top of our heads! We need to make the big cannibals understand that if we want to be humiliated, we must be prepared to accept the miserable defeat! ”

"If the Great Cannibals are able to detain our goods and merchants, why can't we detain their goods and merchants? Why can't they be sanctioned? ”

After a series of rhetorical questions, Zhao Ziliang immediately asked Dugu and said: "Prime Minister Dugu, now is the time for your Government Council to argue with the Great Food Country!" ”

Dugu Wenshu stood up and arched his hand: "King, judging from the current situation, we are only afraid that we will not be able to wait for next year to start a war with the Great Food Country, and the Great Food Country has repeatedly challenged our bottom line so that we have to advance the war." Weichen believes that our country can plan to take two steps: the first step is to impose economic sanctions on the big food country, detain all the big food merchants and their goods in our country, do not allow the big food country ** merchants to enter our country to do business, and do not allow any materials to flow into the territory of the big food country from our country! The east of the Great Food Country is our country, the northwest direction is the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the Iberian Peninsula there is the Caliphate of Córdoba established by the descendants of the Umayyad Dynasty, whether it is the Eastern Roman Empire or the post-Umayyad Dynasty is the sworn enemy of the Great Food Country, if our country carries out economic sanctions on the Big Food Country, then the Big Food Country will no longer be able to conduct economic exchanges with the outside world, which will cause a devastating blow to their economy. ”

"After the first step is carried out, if the Great Food Country is soft and releases our warships and ores, we can temporarily let them go, and wait for all our deployments over the years to be completed and show initial results before taking action against the Great Food Country, because if we carry out this step, our own economy will also suffer great losses!"

"If our country imposes economic sanctions on the big food country, they still don't give us back, don't give us back the warships and ores, and when our losses reach a certain level, they will immediately send troops, and they must send troops, otherwise if we drag on any longer, all the efforts we have made to develop the economy over the years will be in vain, and only through war can we make up for this loss!"

After Dugu finished speaking, Zhao Ziliang looked at the ministers and asked, "What do you think of the two-step plan that the prime minister said?" ”

Some people believe that the use of economic sanctions is a trick to kill the enemy and lose 800 of themselves, and it is not recommended to use them; However, there are many people who believe that if the problem can be solved by economic sanctions, it is better not to use force, and the use of force to solve the problem can only be carried out when there is no other way.

The ministers have their own views and opinions, and they have never been able to form a unity, Dugu has no choice but to ask Zhao Ziliang to make a decision, he said: "The king, on the issue of how to sanction the Great Food Country, the ministers and other ministers are not unanimous, and the differences are large, in this case, please ask the king to make a decision!" ”

Zhao Ziliang weighed in his heart and said: "Then take the first step according to the prime minister's method, if our losses reach a greater impact on our existing economic scale when the first step is carried out, we will immediately send troops to attack the big food country, stimulate domestic demand through war, maintain the current level of economic development, and protect the results of our efforts to develop the economy over the years!" ”

Dugu asked: "Weichen obeyed the order, and immediately after he returned, he began to issue a decree to impose sanctions on the Great Food Country!" ”

After the court meeting, Dugu Wenshu and Liu Shan returned to the government affairs and immediately convened the officials of various ministries to announce the decision to impose economic sanctions on the Great Food Country, and explained to the officials of the ministries that it was the result of the deliberations of the court meeting, and the king Zhao Ziliang had agreed to pass it, and the government affairs yuan immediately issued relevant decrees to implement it.

Within two days, the Government Council issued an official announcement of economic sanctions against Da Shiguo, which was copied hundreds of copies and then sent by fast horses to various states and counties in Western Qin.

At the same time, Honglu Temple's Qing Hong Xu also sent someone to find Nasser, the envoy of the Great Food Country, and announced the decision of the royal court to him.

Nasser was shocked when he heard this, and said with a pale face: "Lord Hong, do you know what it means for your country to do this? This is a practice that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself, and loses both! ”

Hong Xu spread his hands: "Your Excellency Nasser, of course our king and the ministers of the imperial court know that this is a lose-lose approach, and this is all caused by your country's detention of ten sea ships and warships and 300,000 catties of metal ore purchased by our country from the Papal States for no reason, unless your country immediately releases our ships and ores, our royal court can retract this decree!" ”

Nasser said: "Lord Hong, my country is not detaining your ships and ores for no reason, this is also based on our country's security factors, but if your country is willing to pay a deposit and lend money to our country, our country will definitely let it go!" ”

Hong Xu sneered: "Your Excellency, the price of our ten warships and 300,000 catties of ore will not exceed 800,000 guan at most, and your country will need two million guan to detain them just as a deposit, and you have to borrow two million guan from us!" Everyone is not a child, you actually asked us to pay five times the price to redeem what originally belonged to us, do you think that all of us in Xiqin are stupid, or do you think that we in Xiqin are easy to bully? ”

Nasser was a little embarrassed: "This Lord ・・・・・・ Hong, the deposit and loan will be repaid to you, and as for the berthing fee, you Xiqin won't care about this money, right?" ”

"Hahaha・・・・・・・" Hong Xu laughed, "will it be returned to us?" Nasser, why don't you blush when you say that? Do you believe this? Now that our country's sanctions against your country have been promulgated, unless your country immediately releases our warships and ores, we will lose both, and see who can't hold out first! ”

Nasser had no choice but to send someone to report to Baghdad quickly on the sanctions order of Western Qin against the Great Food Country.

A month later, Baghdad received the news, and within a few days the effect of the sanctions order was highlighted, the border passes began to close, and no caravans from the direction of Western Qin came again, nor did any caravans from the direction of Western Qin, nor did any caravans from the Great Food Country return from the direction of Western Qin, and the connection between the Great Food Country and other countries was completely cut off.

After the economic blockade of the Great Food Country by the Western Qin, the Great Food Country may be economically self-sufficient, but its economic activity is greatly reduced, far less than that of the Western Qin, and even lower than that of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The sluggish economic situation made the financial revenue of the big food country begin to stretch, and the opposition forces on all sides began to raise their heads again, expressing great doubts about Mansour's rule, and Mansour's dominance showed signs of instability, but Mansur was worthy of being a capable politician, and with his efforts, he forcibly suppressed the internal contradictions temporarily, and encouraged all domestic forces to work together to resist the blockade of Western Qin.

Mansour knew that it was absolutely impossible to win an economic war with Western Qin, and the Great Food Country was surrounded by enemies, and it would not be the opponent of Western Qin at all in the economic war, even if the goods of Western Qin were not sold to the Great Food Country, they could still be sold to other countries, but the goods of the Great Food Country could not be sold.

Knowing that he would undoubtedly lose in an economic war, Mansour had to decide to take military action, which was also a last resort, and that military action against Western Qin was the only way to alleviate the crisis at present, and this decision could still succeed. Mansour persuaded all domestic forces with his superb political skills, and successfully transferred the internal contradictions to Western Qin.

At the beginning of August, the Great Food Country began to draw troops and horses from Syria, Jordan and other places on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea to gather in the eastern Khorasan Province, and the number of troops who went to the eastern Khorasan Province was about 200,000 people, although these people were not very elite, but the victory was in the number of troops, the momentum was huge, these news were soon sent to Xinjing by the spies of the East Factory, both sides knew that they were going to do it, and they both recalled the envoys.

Zhao Ziliang heard Wang Can's report, "200,000 troops? How is the combat power? ”

Wang Can said: "According to the analysis of intelligence, these 200,000 horses account for thirty percent of the total strength of the Great Food Country, and their combat effectiveness is uneven, and there are many old and weak. ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded: "The soldiers are expensive but not too expensive, the combat effectiveness of the 200,000 horses of the Great Food Country is definitely not as good as the 100,000 elites of our Western Qin Army, and my three legions are more than enough to deal with these 200,000 Great Food Army!" ”

"Yes, but according to reliable sources, this time it was Mansur's personal expedition, and the morale is completely different!"

Zhao Ziliang was taken aback: "Oh? Mansour wants to take the helm? Are you sure? ”

"This news is coming from the Baghdad Palace, it shouldn't be wrong!"

"How old is Mansour?"

Wang Can thought for a while and said, "There should be sixty-three!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's eyes froze, and he suddenly smiled: "In this case, let's have a king against a king and a general with the Great Food Army!" Summoned, this king will personally drive to conquer the Great Food Country! ”