The Xixia envoy went to Chang'an City and met Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun asked: "The Xia envoy suddenly came to Chang'an. What's the matter?"

Li Renli said: "It's nothing serious. The two countries have been in peace these past two years, thanks to Mr. Zhang. Your Majesty ordered me to come and give you a gift to express my gratitude."

With that said, Li Renli ordered people to bring the gifts up and open them.

It is an incense burner made of pure gold. It is extremely exquisite in workmanship, sparkling and lifelike.

Although the Xixia people were regarded as barbarians by the Song Dynasty, after all, they had been Chineseized for a long time. This incense burner was a tribute from the Xixia royal family, so the workmanship was naturally extremely exquisite.

"A small tribute to express my gratitude."

Zhang Jun took a look and said: "I understand Lord Xia's intention. I will not receive any reward for my efforts. If the envoy has something to do, he may as well speak up."

Seeing that Zhang Jun refused to accept the gift, Li Renli did not dare to force him.

"The weather has turned cold recently, and our country is short of some cloth. We hope that our country can sell us more cloth to keep out the cold."

"It's easy to say, since we have sincerely traded with each other, some cloth will not be a big deal."

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang."

After the two sides discussed politely for a while, Zhang Jun ordered someone to take Li Renli down to rest.

Wu Lin said: "Mr. Zhang, this Xia envoy speaks very well in Mandarin! Better than me!"

"This person is no ordinary person. He is Li Renli, King of Shu, the land of the Xixia clan."

"He's actually a member of the clan!" Wu Lin was shocked.

Zhang Jun fell into deep thought. After a moment, he said: "Xixia suddenly sent an envoy at this time. What do you think?"

Counselor Lu Zhi said: "Xianggong Zhang, according to my official information, the amount of cloth sales between our dynasty and Xixia is huge. There are many merchants among the people who trade with Xixia privately. Xixia's domestic household registration is limited. How could cloth be suddenly sold out? This is doubtful.

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"What do you mean?"

"According to my opinion, Xixia may have come to investigate the situation of our Shaanxi Sixth Route Army."

"Do you have any basis for what you say?"

Lu Zhi continued: "Not to mention that the cloth trade has been satisfied, even if there is a real demand, there is absolutely no need to send a prince here, unless there are secrets that cannot be told outside, involving the Xixia high-level officials."

When he said this, others couldn't help but nod.

Zhang Jun's expression became serious: "You mean, Xixia may want to use troops against us?"

"Xixia has made a lot of money in the mutual market in the past two years, and has sent people to open iron mines in the Hengshan area. It is nominally to deal with the Uighurs in the northwest. According to my official opinion..."

Everyone fell silent.

If Xixia takes action at this time, it will be serious.

Shaanxi is undergoing a rotation. During the rotation, the military defense is the weakest. A general is transferred from the original unit to a new unit. He is not familiar with his subordinates yet and needs time to adjust.

Moreover, this rotation is not a simple rotation, it is a prelude to the court's investigation of the northwest corruption case.

Once the rotation is over, the Military Governor's Office will step in.

Once a thorough investigation begins, a large number of people will inevitably be arrested. At that time, the key to personnel replacement is that the military defense will be even weaker.

If something goes wrong at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Zhang Jun asked: "How is the rotation going?"

"The people sent out have just replied. The government's official orders have arrived at various locations, and the rotation has begun."

Once you have started, there is no possibility of taking it back.

"How are the border defense arrangements going?"

"Border defense has not been rotated and everything is business as usual."

Zhang Jun sighed in his heart, and this matter was of great importance, so he had no choice but to go ahead with it.

If something happens, only Zhang Jun can take full responsibility.

Anyway, a lot of people inside and outside the court scolded him for giving up his life in the battle of Chang'an.

He also admitted it.

So, many times, when looking at history books, one will be very confused. Some people always lose battles or always mess up things. Why does the emperor keep using this person?

Anyone who has really participated in major decision-making knows that the overall situation is not as intricate as the calculations of some Jiangzuo talents.

In the real world, the situation is changing at any time. The world is composed of countless accidents and coincidences. No one can count everyone in the game to death.

Everything is full of variables.

Without God's vision, facing the reform of the real world, no matter how wise the reformers are at home and abroad, they will not be able to determine the future pattern.

Therefore, those who plan for the overall situation must hire people who dare to take responsibility to work in key positions.

If you were an ordinary person, facing the current situation of internal and external troubles and sitting in the position of the general envoy of Shaanxi, I am afraid that your mentality will have collapsed, or in order to protect yourself, you will slow down the rotation and delay the progress.

From the highest level, the military and political affairs in the northwest are committing suicide.

In another year, when Xixia is fully armed, a full-scale war will begin.

How can the Northwest Forbidden Army, which has not undergone restructuring, face Xixia's increased strength after suffering heavy losses in the Song-Jin War?

Looking at Zhang Jun's history in history, he lost a lot of battles and was labeled by people at the time as a man of great ambition and talent. When future generations look at history books and look at his resume, they can only say: A bad chicken, he can't fight, he's blind.

Do it.

But they don't know that in such a situation of internal chaos, disunity of people, and strong external forces, it will be useless for anyone to come.

On the contrary, it is crucial to have someone who dares to push things forward.

It is not difficult to understand that Zhang Jun caused big troubles many times in history, and Zhao Gou still liked to use him.

Zhao Gou may be controversial, but Song Xiaozong Zhao Min, who was behind Zhao Gou, also had high hopes for him.

At the critical moment, this person dares to make resolute and underground decisions to avert the situation!

"Wu Lin."

"The general is here, you go to Huanzhou as soon as possible and take over as the governor of Huanzhou. If Xixia invades, you can respond at any time!"

"The last general takes command!"

Li Renli did not stay in Chang'an for long. After leaving Chang'an, he went all the way to Huizhou.

Huizhou was the place where the Song and Xia countries opened mutual trade. Li Renli wanted to go there to inspect the situation, and then returned to Xingqing Mansion to make plans for the interests of the people.

On November 25, Li Renli passed by Xi'an Prefecture.

Hearing that Xixia envoys were passing by on their way back to China, Ren Dejing, the general magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture, came to visit him specially.

Ren Dejing asked: "Your envoy came to our Song Dynasty this time. What do you want to do?"

"The envoy came to see Mr. Zhang Jun and wanted to expand the cloth trade between the two sides."

"That's it. Come on, let me toast the envoy."

After three rounds of drinking, Ren Dejing revealed his purpose. He asked his youngest daughter to come out and deliberately seduced Li Renli.

Ren Dejing's little daughter was born with an extraordinarily graceful appearance, and Li Renli couldn't take his eyes away when he saw her.

The next day, Ren Dejing found Li Renli again and said, "The envoy would like to take my little girl as his concubine?"

Li Renli smiled and said: "Your Excellency is an official of the Song Dynasty, and I am the prince of the Xia Dynasty. I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

"Emissary, I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter?"

"As long as I tell you this matter, please ask the envoy to speak kindly to me to the leader of Xia Kingdom."

"oh?"

"To be honest with the envoy, I have long been interested in joining Daxia."

"Why is this?"

Why?

Ren Dejing has already figured out the reason for this rotation.

Ren Dejing was a ruthless and cunning person in history.

After the rotation, the court will probably send someone down to check the accounts.

He is insatiably greedy, and if he is investigated, he will definitely die!
Chapter completed!