Zong Wang's guess was right.

Zhao Ning had no intention of starting a war at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of July. Zhao Ning sent people to collect intelligence every day, and Li Que also led people to wander around Zhending Mansion every day.

The Song army was wandering around, but the Jin army stood still.

For a whole month, both sides seemed to be fulfilling their commitments at the last negotiation table.

Suddenly everyone became more peace-loving.

On this day, Hu Quan said: "Your Majesty, the Jin army has been standing still, but it is very strange."

Zhao Ning is reading the newspapers from Qingyuan Prefecture for the past two days.

"It's not surprising," he said as he read.

"I am stupid."

"The Jin Army may have really concentrated a large number of troops on Shangjing."

"Pressure to go to Beijing?"

"Maybe go to the Western Expedition."

"Who is the Jin man marching to the west?" Hu Quan looked confused.

"Mongol."

"Ughurs?"

The Mongol people were very unfamiliar to the people of the Song Dynasty. The people of the Song Dynasty did not know much about the internal conflicts of the Jin Kingdom, and they were even less likely to know that the Jin Kingdom actually had very troublesome enemies.

"Mengwu Shiwei."

Now Hu Quan remembered that Shiwei was a branch of the Xianbei people. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, they were also called "Tatars" in historical documents.

They are active in the grasslands outside the pass, mainly in the remote Mobei.

The Khitans are also descendants of the Xianbei people, and later Shiwei surrendered to the Khitan Liao Kingdom.

"How could Your Majesty know?"

"I am also speculating. I heard from the scouts that the relationship between the Jin Kingdom and the Mongol Khan is at loggerheads. The Mongol people are not convinced by the Jin people. There will definitely be a fierce battle between the two sides."

Yang Cunzhong, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Even if the Jin Kingdom marches westward, they will not stand still. The Jin army is strong in combat and will never retreat."

Zhao Ning sighed and said, "There is another reason."

"what reason?"

"The situation in Yanyun Land may be worse than we imagined."

The two of them looked at each other and didn't quite understand what Zhao Guanjia meant.

"When the Sixteen States of Yanyun were destroyed by the Liao Dynasty, they were looted by the Jin Kingdom and sold to Tongguan as a few empty cities. Most of the population was taken captive to the northeastern region."

Yang Cunzhong said: "I have heard about this, but I don't know how many people were kidnapped."

No one knows, no one is sure, not even the time traveler Zhao Ning is sure.

Migrating a large number of people was a national policy implemented by the Jin Kingdom in its early days.

The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom attach great importance to Shangjing, the place where Jinyuan was founded, and they call the Shangjing area "Inland".

The Shangjing area is located on the bank of the Huntong River (the name of the Songhua River in the Liao Dynasty). It is already very far to the north and is underdeveloped.

After Jin Taizu Wanyan Agu defeated the Liao Dynasty, he began to build the "inland".

After the destruction of the Liao Dynasty, the Jin State forcibly moved a large number of people to the "inland", including countless Khitan nobles, Bohai people, and Han craftsmen.

The ancestors of these Han craftsmen can be traced back to the late Tang Dynasty, when the Central Plains was in chaos and a large number of Han people moved north to seek refuge.

Later, Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun to the Khitan. The Khitan grew rapidly and relied mostly on internal governance by the Han people.

Now, under the "internal rejuvenation" strategy of the Jin Kingdom, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are weak and powerless.

If the Jin army continued to maintain military superiority over the Song Dynasty, they could use war to support war. Unfortunately, the Third Song-Jin War and the Fourth Song-Jin War both shattered the Jin's idea of ​​using war to support war.

Wanyan Zongwang proposed a strategy to stabilize and develop Yanyun last year.

If Yanyun cannot be stabilized, a large number of vacuum zones will appear from the Northeast to North China. Coupled with domestic ethnic conflicts, if the Jin Kingdom wants to use troops against the Song Dynasty, its logistics will be dragged down to death.

But now, places like Zhending, Zhongshan, and Hejian in the southernmost part of the Jin Kingdom maintained a large population at fixed points, which formed a coercive force on the border defenses of the Song Dynasty.

Now he went to Beijing and mobilized a large army to prepare for the western expedition.

Assuming that the Song and Jin Dynasties suddenly went to war, in case of a stalemate, the Jin army wanted to continuously mobilize troops, food and grass from the northeast, which might lead to a desperate situation in a two-front battle.

Unless it is absolutely necessary to fight a war, no one will put all their efforts into it?

That would be very dangerous.

In view of the current situation, Zong Wang still gave Wanyan Yinshu an order not to act rashly unless the Song Army took the initiative to open it.

That's why there was this magical situation in which both sides were "peace-loving" during this month.

Hu Quan said: "If the land of Yanyun is empty, can our army seize this opportunity?"

Zhao Ning said: "It's not the time yet. There are still a large number of Jin army reserves in Zhending Mansion, Zhongshan Mansion and Hejian Mansion."

Zhao Ning naturally didn't know the exact number, but it would definitely be even more stupid to start a war rashly now.

The logistics of the Jin Kingdom are not very good. Compared with large-scale battles and protracted wars, if they want to fight a short-term war, the Jin army can definitely fight it.

For a protracted war, the Song Dynasty's logistics was worse than that of the Jin Kingdom.

The Song Dynasty was now in Hebei, and the land east of Hebei was thousands of miles away. The administration was corrupt and the people were in dire straits.

If a war really breaks out, who can control it if it expands?

Once a war expands, no one can stop it with a single order.

During World War II, Japan launched a war against China. As a result, the war became more and more difficult, until the country's finances collapsed and the domestic economy collapsed.

But still don't stop?

Why?

Because when the situation reaches that point, one or two people cannot control it.

Neither can the emperor.

At that time, Pearl Harbor had not yet been bombed, and there were a lot of calls for an armistice in Japan, and they were from high-level officials.

But the middle and lower-level soldiers refused to agree and had no choice but to continue fighting.

Therefore, the collective has no independent consciousness.

Even though Takajiang said at the time that he would use force against Little Japan, the top brass of Little Japan thought it was time to surrender, but the middle and lower-level officers still refused.

Finally the atomic bomb fell and everyone became quiet.

The same goes for attacking China. It cannot be stopped unless all the last resources are used up.

In this world, no one person can truly control the overall situation, not the emperor, nor the emperor.

If Yang Guang understood this, there might be nothing wrong with Datang.

Having said that, Wanyan Zongwang is not willing to take action. After all, from a political and fighter perspective, it is a bad idea to take action hastily.

Zhao Ning was unwilling to take action, after all, the internal affairs were still in a mess.

The two parties just performed in tacit understanding with each other.

Neither side knows the other side's true strength, food and intentions.

It was not until August that Zhao Ning finally confirmed that the Jin Army would really not go to war in a short time.

Even Zhao Guan's family was on the northern front, so this battle couldn't be fought, which showed that the Jin army really had great concerns.

This is exactly the result he wanted.

In this way, he can really go back and let go and tidy up the interior.

On the first day of August, Zhao Ning quietly left Qingyuan Mansion and headed south at lightning speed.

"Zhengfu!"

Yang Cunzhong said: "I'm here!"

"How did you feel when you went to Qingyuan Prefecture this time and saw the border troops of Qingyuan Prefecture?"

"Today's border troops are more disciplined than in the past!"

Yang Cunzhong is a very sincere person and a very down-to-earth person. He and Zhang Jun are almost opposites.

He said that military discipline is strict, so it must be that military discipline is strict.

Zhao Ning sighed with emotion: "Commander Zong manages the army well!"

He suddenly said: "But it is not enough for the Hebei Forbidden Army to have strict military discipline. Shaanxi, Hedong, Jingdong East Road, and the entire Song Dynasty's military and political affairs are the same as Hebei. Why can't we go to the Northern Expedition?"

"What your Majesty said is absolutely true."

"Zhengfu, do you know why I want to take you with me?"

"I don't know, please make it clear, Your Majesty."

"There is still one person missing from the Military Governor's Office."

Yang Cunzhong was shocked and said quickly: "I am still relatively young."

"My Military Governor's Mansion is not a place to discuss qualifications!"

Don’t you want to kill Liu Guangshi?

I will let you kill it yourself!
Chapter completed!