Li Dingbian and his party warriors escaped from death like frightened birds. They ran wildly for a day and a night, and then stopped to take a breath. [ads: This site has a new URL, shorthand: strawberry,]
"General, what happened yesterday and why did the Jin army suddenly let us go?"
After stopping, the soldiers recalled the fright in the valley yesterday. They were frightened and even more curious, so they asked Li Dingbian.
"This old man has always been puzzled."
Li Ding frowned and shook his head. Yesterday they were clearly in a desperate situation. If the Jin army had not suddenly given up the attack and instead made a passage, their entire army would have been annihilated. But why did the Jin army suddenly withdraw?
What exactly happened?
Li Dingbian tried his best but couldn't figure it out.
Just when everyone was suspicious, a sentry suddenly came over and said, "To the general, someone wants to see the general."
"who?"
"He said he came to see the general on orders from Wanyan Zongwang."
"Wanyan Zongwang?" Li Ding frowned and said, "Bring him here."
"yes."
After a while, a man wearing a Jurchen military uniform came over. He nodded slightly to Li Dingbian, then took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Li Dingbian, and said in Chinese: "General Li.
, this is what we all asked me to pass on to you."
Li Dingbian was stunned and took the letter.
After the man handed the letter to Li Dingbian, he clasped his fists and said, "Farewell."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Li Ding held the letter, but did not read it in a hurry. Instead, he looked at the man's leaving figure. He always felt a little strange. Little did he know that this man was originally a slave in the Bohai area. Wanyan Zongwang led the army to conquer the Bohai Sea.
When he was in the area, he didn't know what kind of kindness he had. Seeing how pitiful this man was, he took him in and stayed with him all the time, carrying weapons for himself. Now that Wanyan Zongwang is dead, he sent this letter to
After arriving, he planned to follow his master.
After a while, Li Dingbian came back to his senses. When he opened the letter, his eyebrows suddenly opened, and then he fell into deep thought again, muttering to himself: "I see, that's it."
A general beside him asked curiously: "General, what is written in this letter?"
Li Dingbian closed the letter and didn't say much. He just said: "I am far inferior to Wanyan Zongwang!"
Yunzhou.
Originally, Zongze, Zhong Shi and others thought that the war was over, because Zhao Kai had personally stated that he would not leave the Great Wall to continue the expedition against the Kingdom of Jin. However, at this time, Zhao Kai suddenly convened the second general staff meeting.
This left the commanders a little confused.
Fortunately, Zhao Kai was not Li Qi, so he did not sell out the details and directly explained the content of the meeting.
It is the issue of the ownership of Sha and Gua states.
After hearing this, the staff members had all kinds of sad faces.
This issue is really too sensitive, because these sandbanks and Guazhou belong to Xixia. And Xixia is an ally of the Song Dynasty, but the Gaochang Uighurs paid a huge price for these two states. If there is no benefit at all, then the Gaochang Uighurs
How could you still be willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty? What you, a big brother, did is so unethical.
Therefore, no matter what choice you make, you will always hurt one side. The problem is that it is not good to hurt either side.
After a while, Zongze said: "Since the Gaochang Uighurs have surrendered to our Song Dynasty, they are our own people. This is easier to talk about. I guess Xixia will definitely not be willing to hand over the two states of Sha and Gua. If they don't return them,
If we give it to Xixia, we will definitely be at odds with Xixia. Therefore, I think it is better to return Sha and Gua states to Xixia, and then compensate the Gaochang Uighurs in other ways."
Upon hearing this, the boss among the cultivators was dissatisfied and said: "The Zongzhifu's words are wrong. These Sha and Gua prefectures were captured by the Gaochang Uighurs before they surrendered to us. We have no reason at all to ask the Gaochang Uighurs to hand over Sha.
Gua Erzhou."
Zongze said: "Since they have surrendered to us, they are our vassal state. We can let them hand over the two states unconditionally."
Zhe Ke, who had just recovered from his injury, begged: "But what if the Gaochang Uighurs are unwilling to hand it over?"
"this---."
Zongze was speechless for a moment.
Liu Kai suddenly said: "Otherwise, our Song Dynasty will stay out of the matter. If Xixia wants to do it, let them go to Gaochang Uighurs on their own."
Some of the soldiers nodded.
Zhang Jun shook his head and said: "We can't stay out of the matter at all. The Gaochang Uighurs will definitely not agree, and Xixia will never give up. The result is that Xixia and the Gaochang Uighurs will go to war, and the Gaochang Uighurs are already our vassal state. It is easy to say that we can win.
, if the battle is defeated, then do we really sit back and do nothing?"
"That's true."
Zongze nodded and said, "Is this really a difficult thing?"
Zhao Kai glanced around and smiled bitterly: "If it were simpler, I wouldn't have held such an urgent meeting. If we, the Song Dynasty, can't mediate this matter, it will have a very significant influence on our Song Dynasty."
damage, so it must be handled with caution.”
Now the Song Dynasty has regained the right to speak in the whole of Asia, and this incident happened to happen nearby. One is its own ally, and the other is its own vassal state. If this matter is not handled well, then who will be responsible for the Song Dynasty in the future?
Believe me, this is no small problem.
However, the opinions of the staff members did not seem to be unified. Zongze, Liu Kai and others felt that moral principles should be followed and the two states should be returned to Xixia.
But people from the Zhong family and Zhe family think that it should not be returned to Xixia. This is actually very simple, because they are the enemies of the Dangxiang people. How could they do anything to benefit the Dangxiang people?
The meeting fell into a stalemate, and no one could convince anyone. In fact, no matter what you say, this matter makes sense.
Zongze suddenly looked at a person, stroked his beard and laughed, "With the Privy Council here, how can we talk too much about such things?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone reacted and looked at Li Qi.
Li Qi is the best at dealing with this kind of thing. It can be said that at least 80% of the credit for the Song Dynasty to be what it is today is Li Qi's diplomatic strategy. Without his excellent diplomacy, how could the Song Dynasty survive these ten years safely.
"This is too difficult."
Li Qi shook his head and said distressedly: "What you all said makes sense, but I can't do anything about it."
Master Zhong chuckled and said: "The Privy Councilor is too humble. If you can't do anything, then we will be even more helpless."
Sweat! You old guys, you push things that you can't handle on me. If you dare, I will be a nanny. I will wipe your butts specially! Li Qiwu shook his head and said: "The old general is really flattering. Everyone knows that I
I really haven’t read any books, so you ask me to explain it. I really don’t know how to explain it. I can’t even recite the table of contents of these four books and five classics.”
Zongze frowned and said, "You really have nothing to do?"
"No, no. I told you so."
Li Qi shook his head.
"this---."
Zongze and others saw that Li Qi said so resolutely, "You look at me, I look at him." They didn't know what to do.
Zhao Kai suddenly glanced at Li Qi, as if to say, that's enough. He is so old, but you are so cruel.
Li Qi glanced back, as if replying, "Are you kidding me? You know why you don't tell me, I won't do this. Then what will they think of me in the future? Can I still make friends?"
But the emperor is the emperor after all. Li Qi glanced at Zongze and the others, scratched his forehead, and said in a medium voice: "I really don't know how to be reasonable, but----."
Zongze and others hurriedly asked: "But what?"
Zhao Kai saw that their expressions were like children looking forward to candy, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
Li Qidao: "It would be great if I could not be unreasonable."
"Unreasonable?"
Everyone was stunned.
Zongze asked: "Privy Councilor, why do you start talking about this being unreasonable?"
Li Qi said sarcastically: "Prefect Zong. This is unreasonable. How can we start talking about it?"
"!"
Zongze looked embarrassed, that's right, this doesn't make sense, there's no reason to follow.
Zhong Shizhong simply said: "If you can be unreasonable, I wonder how the Privy Council plans to solve this problem?"
Li Qi chuckled and said: "If we can be unreasonable, then the matter will be simple. We can just send troops to destroy Xixia and it will be over."
Except for Li Qi and Zhao Kai, everyone sitting here took a sharp breath of air-conditioning, and the amount of air-conditioning was very sufficient.
"No, no. How can this be possible?"
Zongze shook his head like a rattle, "Not long ago, we formed an alliance with Xixia and shared adversities together, and then defeated the Jin Kingdom. Now the war is not over yet, we have turned around.
Attacking Xixia, this---this is completely unreasonable. If we do this, how will the surrounding neighbors treat me, the Song Dynasty in the future."
Li Qi smiled and said: "Prefect Zong, please calm down first. Only then did Old General Zhong say how to solve this problem without being reasonable. That's why I said this."
Zongze said: "This is not just a matter of reason, but the reputation of a country and a nation. I am not disapproving of using force against Xixia, but this is definitely not the time. Not only have we betrayed our allies, but we have also
Adding insult to injury has caused great harm to the reputation of our Song Dynasty, and the gain outweighs the loss."
Zhang Jun, Liu Kai and others also nodded, feeling that Li Qi's behavior was a bit unethical.
They are all people who have read the books of sages. They really can't do such treacherous and despicable things. If everyone does this, then what rules are there in this world? Everyone is jealous.
If you look at the other side with a different mentality, who will dare to form an alliance with the Song Dynasty in the future?
"Yes, what Zong Zongzhi said makes sense, so just pretend that I didn't say anything." Li Qi didn't force it.
Zhe Keqiu said: "But this seems to be the only way, and I believe that the Privy Councilor must have his reasons for saying this. The Privy Councilor has never made any mistakes in this regard."
As soon as he said this, Zongze and the others showed a somewhat relieved look on their faces, and they couldn't help but look at Li Qi.
Li Qi smiled and said: "Thanks to General Zhe's love, Li Qi is really flattered. Actually, I don't think this is something despicable and shameless. The reason is actually the same as when we regained Jiaozhi. Xixia was originally the leader during the Tang Dynasty.
Those who belong to our great country in the Central Plains also submitted to the Song Dynasty in the beginning. They betrayed us first, so I think this cannot be said to be an invasion, but a reunification, just like Taizu destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty.
A truth."
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