Chapter 1126: Smashing the Dinner Table
Hengshan's victory not only stimulated the emotions of the people of the Great Song Dynasty and set off a controversy among the people, but also obviously affected the peace talks presided over by King Kang and Zhao Gou. Even the most sluggish Qian Gai can see that the Jin State is currently dragging its feet, and once the Western Xia asks the Jin State for reinforcements, the peace talks are likely to be a dead letter, and the Jin State's army will fight to the east of Henan for the sake of interests. But at this moment, no one can dissuade the Dingbei Army from a truce, as long as they dare to speak, they will spit and drown.
However, if you don't open your mouth, it doesn't mean that you don't do anything secretly, and Gyeonggi Road has added 20 percent of the gold to the goods going to Hedong and Shaanxi, causing many merchants to give up the idea of going to Shaanxi; the addition of the Taiping Firm is to change the direction of the wind, and the surprised mouths of the ministers have not yet been closed, and Song Huizong has asked the Hubu and Honglu Temple to issue an official document to the Tokyo Left-behind Division and the Gyeonggi Road Transit Division, and the goods of the Taiping Firm are exempted from taxes and cents.
Zhao Lingxun was very surprised that such a good thing fell on his head, he has been presiding over the Taiping Firm, very clear about the real situation of the markets in the Great Song Dynasty, the current Shaanxi, Hedong is not the time when Tong Guan was in charge, there is no anything valuable; now the Dingbei Army controls a lot of glass, salt, war horses, soap and other scarce materials, what is lacking is the iron, grain, cloth used in the war, the key is that Jiangnan is not short of these things, if the Taiping Firm really does it, the difference between the two ends is amazing.
Zhao Lingxun was still dizzy when he left the hall, as a clan, most people subconsciously valued King Kang Zhao Gou more, after all, Zhao Gou had a secret edict entrusted by Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong, if it were not for the restoration of Song Huizong, Zhao Gou was undoubtedly the most hopeful. But with the comeback of Song Huizong, King Jing Zhao Qi is the son-in-law, even if King Yun Zhao Kai has a very high voice among the people, but in the choice of the powerful, Zhao Kai is not the best choice, but Yang Zhi and the others have changed everything.
The Dingbei Army took advantage of the Song-Jin War, and was an independent feudal town almost from the beginning, which was also undesirable in the minds of the scholars, and even suppressed the Dingbei Army; but Yang Zhi and others were all amazing, and with the successive battles of the Dingbei Army, they controlled Hedong, Hetao, Shaanxi and other places in one fell swoop, with 300,000 troops, and suddenly suppressed the limelight of King Kang, even if the magnates have always intended to support King Kang, the strong rise of King Yun is unstoppable.
With Yang Zhi's defeat of Weizhou this time, even the Western Army, which had always been unexpected, could only bow its head and hold its head high; Zhao Lingxuan heard some rumors that many ministers of the DPRK and China had taken a step back from their original positions, and Fan Zhixu, who had gone to Shaanxi to supervise the war, was said to have simply lived in Qinzhou. Regarding the dispute between the DPRK and China, Zhao Lingxun didn't care at all, but this time Zhao Kai and the three recommended him, Zhao Lingxun knew that he was pushed to the forefront.
When the officials along the way saw Zhao Lingyun, many people said hello rarely, and Zhao Lingyun responded one by one with a smile; as a capable person in the clan, Zhao Lingyun knew very well that the abnormality was a demon, since he couldn't figure it out, it was better to ask Song Huizong directly. Zhao Lingxun turned to the imperial study, no matter whether Song Huizong was there or not, he would definitely be able to meet the great eunuch He Sue, the roundworm in Song Huizong's stomach, he must know Song Huizong's true intentions.
He Su was not surprised to see Zhao Lingxuan, and said with a smile: "Guogong has worked hard, and the saint is waiting for you in the house." ”
After following He Su into the imperial study, Zhao Lingxun found that Song Huizong, Li Bing, and Tang Zhong were waiting for him, and there was a map of Western Xia and a map of Shaanxi Sixth Road hanging on the wall, outlining the direction of the use of troops by both Song and Xia; Song Huizong was a merry man, and he rarely saw such a appearance in the imperial study, Zhao Lingxuan suddenly became enlightened, Song Huizong was determined to win the battle situation in Western Xia, even if King Kang and others did tricks, Song Huizong still had to solve the problem of the supply of the Dingbei Army, and he was the one who solved the problem.
Song Huizong smiled and said: "Ling Xun, you didn't disappoint me, Li Bing, you can tell me about the battle situation in Western Xia." ”
Li Bing, the deputy privy envoy, nodded, walked to the map quite easily, and said: "With the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty, we don't want to start a large-scale war with the Western Xia. At present, the Dingbei Army has solved the whole problem for us, because the losses of the Dingbei Army do not require us to replenish our troops.
Yang Zhi's two attacks were unexpected, but they were both carefully planned; Yang Zhi's ideas were different from the original imperial court's thinking, and he took the initiative to avoid Hengshan, where the two sides fought bloodily, hoping to form a line of defense against the Western Xia with Lanzhou, Xi'an, Weizhou, and Dingbian armies. Now that Yang Zhi's goal has been achieved, due to the excessive loss of population, Western Xia also chose to take a step back.
According to our speculation, if Yang Zhi is still ready to continue fighting, Shaanxi's next battle zone will be the Dingbian Army, the Baotai Army, and Tiandu Mountain, if the Western Xia loses another 100,000 people, not to mention Wuyuan County, that is, Youzhou Road, it is equivalent to being disabled by Yang Zhi, which will be a fatal blow to the economy of Western Xia. But Yang Zhi shouldn't want to fight, the loss of veterans and the loss of materials are all things that Yang Zhi can't recover.
Guogong, your task is to replenish supplies and let Yang Zhi continue to fight. First, the supplies supplied by the Dingbei Army were bought with their money; second, now that the Song-Jin negotiations are wavering, we need to use victory to appease the people and bargain with the Jin people at the negotiating table. ”
Zhao Lingxun flashed the idiom of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf in his mind, if the Dingbei army was defeated and the Western Xia army was dying, it was undoubtedly a good result that Runzhou was most willing to see. Even with Yang Zhi's ability, defeating the Western Xia Yihe and building a powerful Dingbei army again would not happen overnight, it would take at least a year or two; he understood that Li Bing was a supporter of King Jing, and his strategy was inevitably mixed with private goods.
Zhao Ji of Song Huizong gently blew the foam on the tea and did not speak; Tang Zhong said solemnly: "Guogong, although Lord Li's idea is good, but the grandmaster of Yang Zhi's generation, with countless subordinates, may not be able to follow Master Li's script; you don't need to worry about anything else in Shaanxi, just replenish supplies and do business, and don't even inquire about military affairs." ”
Zhao Lingxun breathed a sigh of relief, Tang Zhong said such a thing in front of Song Huizong, it must have been agreed by Song Huizong, as long as he could not get involved in those messy things. Zhao Lingxun has always been disdainful of infighting, the battle in the court is inevitable, but it must be fought without breaking, like Liu Guangshi, a subordinate of King Kang, and others went to grab the grain and grass of Caoyun and the government, that is, they were smashing the table where the Song monarchs and ministers were eating.