"Did that Liu Linya accept all the gifts?" Zhao Xin asked Liu Yongnian who came back to resume his duties. "Your Highness, you have accepted them all!" Liu Yongnian bowed and replied. He is still shocked to this day.
You must know that this time he was ordered to deliver gifts, but he blatantly stuffed gold, treasures and silverware into the Liao envoy!
And the other party actually came forward!
I really dare to take the next step!
The courage of this Liao envoy is really great!
Isn't he afraid of being reckoned with by the Queen after he returns?
"Good!" Zhao Xin laughed.
As long as Lin Ya accepts the gift, this matter will be easy to handle.
"Lin Ya, do you have any tips?" Zhao Xin asked.
Liu Yongnian nodded and replied: "I talked secretly with the Liao envoy for almost a quarter of an hour. From his mouth, I learned the decision-making strategy of the Liao Kingdom..."
"It's eight characters..."
"Intimidation and inducement can make a difference..."
"They want to take advantage of the Western bandits to force our court to teach them the method of vaccination, and even force our court to increase their annual coins... The best case scenario is to force our court to negotiate peace with the Western bandits..."
Liu Yongnian raised his head and looked at Zhao Xin, not quite understanding: "Your Highness, I always feel that there may be fraud in this..."
"This Khitan has always been treacherous..."
This is a typical case where information comes too easily and makes people suspicious.
Zhao Xin laughed and said: "Liu Qing thinks too much..."
In politics, especially in international relations, in fact, most of the time, there is not necessarily any conspiracy.
After all, everyone is Zhuge Liang. If Sima Yi had spoken, the world would have been in chaos.
Moreover, even if everyone is Zhuge Liang or Sima Yi, this conspiracy cannot be easily thought of.
This is not the era of think tanks in later generations, where institutions were everywhere and consultants were inferior to dogs.
A person's energy is always limited.
In the novel, Sima Yi was not only frightened away by Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, but even Zhuge Liang, who had no plan left, sometimes killed Ma Su with tears in his eyes.
In politics, it is a big taboo to think of people as too complex and too simple.
The former will make people timid and afraid of making decisions, while the latter will make people reckless.
"Besides..." A smile overflowed from the corner of Zhao Xin's mouth: "Although this Lin Ya is a minister of the Liao Dynasty, he does not necessarily consider the interests of the Liao Kingdom!"
In Zhao Xin's previous life, he was once confused about the distinction between national interests, family interests and personal interests.
He always naively thought that the scholar-bureaucrats who had read books and understood the truth would not be able to tell the difference. If the ship of the country sank, everyone would swim naked in the wind and waves, and no one would be able to escape.
!
But it turned out that he was wrong.
For most scholar-bureaucrats, when the sky falls, there is someone tall to hold them up.
Even if Zhao Guan's family is GG, they still have a way to tide over the difficulties.
What's more, isn't this world a good place?
Therefore, it is only natural to undermine the country a little, hold the country back a little, and seek more benefits and privileges for one's own family.
Anyone who tries to stop them from dominating others will dare to cause trouble and cause destruction.
Not only the conservatives think this way, but also the upstarts of the new law who gained a lot of benefits from the reform and should have advanced and retreated with the emperor.
Anyway, national interests are not equal to family interests, and family interests are different from personal interests.
The scholar-bureaucrats always clamored for the importance of the family, the country, and the world, and asked the emperor to leave his small family to take care of everyone.
But when it's your turn, whoever touches their cake will compete with the people for profit.
I can say anything.
This was true for the Song Dynasty, so how could the Liao Kingdom be an exception?
"He was born as an attendant to King Liang of the Liao Kingdom..." Zhao Xin said with a chuckle: "In Lin Ya's heart, his master's interests are above all else!"
If Yelu Hongji could not ascend the throne, would everything in the Liao Kingdom have anything to do with Lin Ya?
No!
Therefore, between the country and an individual, Liu Linya would definitely choose an individual.
Not to mention, there are profits to be made.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Liu Linya summed up the strategy of the Liao Kingdom.
Harming the public and enriching one's private life is the traditional skill of scholar-bureaucrats.
Liu Yongnian listened and bowed his head deeply: "Your Highness Shengming!"
"Let's go..." Zhao Xin waved his hand and said, "Go and tell Aye about this..."
So, he and Liu Yongnian went to the back hall of Yanhe Hall to pay homage to Zhao Zhen.
At this time, Zhao Zhen also received the letter of credence delivered by the Liao envoy through the Zhengshi Hall.
Just looking at this letter of credence, which was cleverly worded and filled with threats and intimidation, Zhao Zhen was already a little unsure.
Especially the sentence: "We have attacked the remnants of the people, and we have no suspicion of weapons. We have built long embankments, filled up defiles, dug out ponds, and recruited frontier troops. It is hidden in suspicion and suspicion, and it is difficult to be honest and trustworthy."
', which made this official, who had just recovered from a serious illness, extremely fearful.
After all, who doesn’t know how powerful the Liao cavalry is?
At the time of Taizong, even the elite of the Song Dynasty could not defeat him.
What's more, nowadays, even to defeat a Western bandit, they need to fortify the walls and clear the country in order to take the initiative, what about the Song Dynasty's Imperial Army?
Once the Liao Kingdom moved south, the hundreds of thousands of cavalry were overwhelming and densely packed, heading straight for Bianjing.
Just thinking about it makes Zhao Zhen's hair stand on end.
My mind was immediately occupied by words such as the weapon of a soldier, which the saint had to use as a last resort...the bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for a thousand miles...
"My dear friends, what do you think of this letter of credence from the Lord of Liao?" Zhao Zhen asked his ministers, but his tone was already very low.
Ministers, you look at me, and I look at you.
Everyone could see Zhao Zhen's fear and retreat.
I have long been accustomed to the officials being timid in dealing with Liao affairs.
After all, there are still witnesses in the court today from the Chanyuan Alliance.
It is almost an open secret that the Zhao officials' knees weakened when they saw the Liao people.
This was true for Zhenzong, and it is true today as well.
If they want to strengthen the bones of an official, many people think that they can only hope that when the king of Tang grows up, his spine will be straighter.
Otherwise, I don’t know how long it will take to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
Now that the king has no confidence, there is not much that the ministers can hold on to.
Even everyone in the court knew that the Liao people were blackmailing!
He also made a decision to sell Korea to save himself from the siege.
only……
Do you want to persist?
Should you persist?
Nobody knows.
But everyone knows that Kou Zhun, who persisted in Chanzhou, later traveled to Leizhou and died there. After his death, he wanted to be transported back to his hometown for burial, but was unable to do so. In the end, he had to be hastily buried in Gong, Henan Prefecture.
County, its reputation has not been rehabilitated to this day, so that the tombstone can only be engraved with the title of Sihu of Leizhou in the Song Dynasty, who joined the army and Kou Zhun.
Cao Yongli, who was also in Chanzhou and had no principles or stance at all, was also stripped of his property. However, after his death, the current officials restored his reputation and returned his mansion and seized property.
While hesitating, Zhang Weiji walked in and reported softly: "Your Majesty, the King of Tang is here..."
As a result, all the ministers looked sideways as if they had found a backbone and a life-saving straw.