Kou Ji looked at Kou Zhun, who had a serious face, smiled lightly and said, "Grandpa was joking..."
Kou Zhun had a gloomy face and said in a deep voice: "Does this old man seem to be joking with you?"
Kou Ji slowly put away the smile on his face, stared at Kou Zhun and said seriously: "If my grandfather really planned to hand me over to the Liao people to vent his anger, he wouldn't have called me here for questioning. He would have definitely sent someone first.
Take it down and let me talk."
The gloomy look on Kou Zhun's face gradually dissipated, and he sighed: "I knew I couldn't scare you, kid."
Kou Ji was also happy when he heard this.
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji and asked, "It's great that you can stay at home without any problems. Why do you go out to tease the Liao people?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "I also happened to meet the Liao people going to Daxiangguo Temple. I didn't want to pay attention to them at first, but they sealed the gate of Daxiangguo Temple and didn't let people from Honglu Temple accompany them. I think there is something wrong with them.
There was probably something fishy about it, so I rushed in recklessly to test it out."
Hearing this, Kou Zhun nodded slowly and said, "What was the result of the test?"
Kou Ji pondered: "I found something out. I found not only Liao people but also Tubo people in Daxiangguo Temple?"
Kou Zhun was stunned and frowned: "Why did the Tubo people get involved with the Liao people..."
Kou Zhun muttered, looked at Kou Ji and asked: "The Tubo part?"
"Qingtang!"
"Qingtang?!"
Kou Zhun looked surprised and thought for a moment.
After a while, he stared at Kou Ji solemnly and asked: "What are the Qingtang people doing with the Liao people? Could it be that they want to abandon me, the Song Dynasty, and take refuge with the Liao people?"
Kou Ji slowly shook his head, "Xixia repeatedly invaded Qingtang. The Qingtang people came to the Liao people in order to join forces with the Liao people to deal with Xixia."
Hearing this, Kou Zhun frowned and muttered: "Xixia repeatedly invaded Qingtang, and I know that. The Qingtang people came to the Liao people and wanted to unite with the Liao people to deal with Xixia. I can also understand.
But Qingtang is a vassal of the Song Dynasty. Instead of looking for the Song Dynasty, he went to the Liao people. Why is this?"
Hearing this, Kou Ji hesitated and asked, "The Qingtang people are really looking for me, Song Dynasty. Will Song Dynasty help me?"
Kou Zhun was stunned and slowly shook his head.
Qingtang and Xixia were both vassals of the Song Dynasty.
In terms of status, Xixia is far above Qingtang.
The titles given to them by the Song Dynasty court alone are enough to explain everything.
Li Deming, the leader of Xixia, was granted the title of King of Xixia.
Qingtang Zanpujiao Siluo has not yet been canonized by the Song Dynasty.
In terms of strength, Li Deming is naturally stronger and Jiao Siluo is weaker.
If the Song Dynasty wanted to win over Xixia, it would naturally have to win over Xixia first.
However, Xixia is obviously an ignorant white-eyed wolf.
Kou Ji saw Kou Zhun shaking his head and said in a deep voice: "Even if you think that the court will not help the Qingtang people, then naturally other people in the court will not agree to help the Qingtang people.
The Qingtang people must also know this, so they went to the Liao people to discuss it."
Kou Zhun was one of the few war-fighting factions in the court. Even he felt that the court would not help the Qingtang people, so those war-fighting factions in the court would probably not even think about this matter.
Kou Zhun asked: "Did they come up with the result of their discussion?"
Kou Ji shook his head.
Kou Zhun nodded slowly, "That's good..."
Kou Ji looked confused.
Kou Zhun explained: "This may be a strategy of Xixia."
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "The Qingtang people asked the Liao people to borrow troops, what does it have to do with Xixia?"
Kou Zhun stared at Kou Ji for a while, and then said: "You should pay more attention to the situation in Qingtang, Xixia, and Liao. If my prediction is correct, the one who approached the Liao people should be the protagonist of Qingtang.
Are you from Luo?"
Kou Ji nodded.
Kou Zhun continued: "Although Jiao Siluo is the master of Qingtang, half of the power of Qingtang is in the hands of Qingtang Lunbu Wen Buqi, who secretly colluded with Xixia.
Jiao Siluo sent people to conspire with the Liao people, and there must be Wen Buqi's people watching behind him.
The Liao people were right in not agreeing to conspire with Jiao Si Luo.
If you really agree to conspire with Jiao Siluo, you will definitely fall into a big trap."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "Since Qingtang Lun Bu Wen Bu Qi has colluded with Xixia, why did Xixia continue to invade Qingtang? Logically speaking, they should wear the same pair of trousers."
Kou Zhun said quietly: "Perhaps Qingtang and Xixia were just acting. They worked together to dig a big hole, just to see if the wrongdoer would fall in. Then they took the opportunity to bring down the wrongdoer and eat all at once.
support."
Hearing this, Kou Ji muttered: "The key to the conspiracy between Qingtang and Xixia lies in Qingtang Lun Bu and Wen Buqi. If we support Jiao Siluo, we can overthrow Wen Buqi.
Then we will have one less opponent and one more friend."
Kou Zhun pondered for a moment, shook his head, and sighed: "That would offend Xixia. Although Xixia is a vassal of my Song Dynasty, it has already grown into a towering tree and has escaped the control of my Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty adopted a gentle and win-over strategy towards Xixia.
I don't want to anger Xixia, let alone start a war with Xixia.
If we, the Song Dynasty, start a war with Xixia, the Liao people will definitely not sit still and wait for death."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Huairou, there is a limit to wooing, right? Li Deming has violated the imperial system and established a palace in Xingqing, Lingzhou. He obviously wanted to betray the Song Dynasty and establish a country.
Can we tolerate this?"
Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Zhun and sighed, "I have known this for a long time. The Queen Mother means to turn a blind eye and let him go. As long as he does not invade our Song Dynasty, we will do whatever he wants."
No one stops it.
The Queen Mother also said that the late emperor had just passed away, the officials had just ascended the throne, and the court had suffered from Zhou Huaizheng's rebellion. Now the government's policy is unstable and it is not appropriate to use weapons."
When Kou Ji heard this, he said angrily: "When did my grandfather learn to listen to the Queen Mother?"
"Bang!"
Kou Zhun slapped Kou's car and said angrily: "I don't want to hear it, and I don't want to hear it. When I found out that Li Deming violated the imperial system and built a palace in Xingqing, Lingzhou, I wanted to send troops immediately to help him
A lesson.
But the military power is not in my hands, and the vast majority of civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty advocate peace as the most important thing.
What can I do?
Do you think I, the Grand Master who is in charge of regent of the country, can really cover the sky with one hand?
If I want to use any troops now, I need Liu E's approval.
I feel aggrieved too."
Kou Ji heard the helplessness in Kou Zhun's words, and the fire in his heart was gone. He said in a deep voice: "Are we going to watch Xixia become powerful?"
Kou Zhun gritted his teeth and said: "I don't want to just watch, but I have no choice. If we move, the Liao people will definitely move. Then it will be an earth-shaking war. The imperial court cannot withstand such an earth-shaking war now."
After a pause, Kou Zhun said in a heavy voice: "The Xixia people made a good calculation. They used the Liao people to contain us, and they also used us to contain the Liao people. Then while we were restraining each other, they became stronger step by step."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and said in deep thought: "Step by step, we are growing stronger in the cracks..."
Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Ji and sighed: "Your metaphor is very clever. This is how Xixia became powerful."
Kou Ji thought for a moment and said seriously: "Then we should support Jiao Si Luo and Qing Tang."
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji with a surprised look on his face and said thoughtfully: "You want to help Qingtang become bigger and break through the current three-party check and balance situation."
Kou Ji nodded heavily.
Kou Zhun sighed again and said: "The method is indeed a good one, but how can you be sure that after the Qingtang people become powerful, they will not join forces with Xixia to deal with me, the Song Dynasty?
In the past, the reason why our Song Dynasty allowed the Dangxiang people to establish a foothold in the northwest was to train them so that they could become a weapon for our Song Dynasty to deal with the Liao people.
But now?
Not only did they fail to help us hurt the Liao people, but they might hurt us at any time.
I watched the co-leader of Party Xiang rise from a tribal leader to the position of King of Xixia.
We have already raised a King of Xixia, and we cannot raise another King of Qingtang."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "Qingtang is different from Xixia..."
Kou Zhun frowned slightly, stared at Kou Ji and said, "Have you accepted the benefits of the Qingtang people?"
Kou Ji shook his head.
Kou Zhun asked: "Then why do you always say good things to the people of Qingtang?"
Kou Ji said seriously: "I just don't want to watch Xixia become powerful again. As you said just now, you watched the co-leader of Party Xiang change from a tribal leader to the king of Xixia.
I don’t want to see the King of Xixia transform from a vassal king to an emperor.”
Kou Zhun's face darkened and he shouted: "If Xixia really dares to establish a country, I, the Song Dynasty, will definitely fight with them."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment, clicked his lips, and sighed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat him then..."
Kou Zhun stared and said: "If you can't control the Liao people, you can't control a small Xixia."
Kou Ji shook his head and said: "If Xixia is allowed to be indulged like this, it will no longer be little Xixia."
Kou Zhun was stunned, narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Kou Ji, and asked: "Do you think Xixia will really establish a country, will really fight against the Song Dynasty, and will the Song Dynasty really be defeated?"
Kou Zhun asked three times in succession.
Kou Ji was stunned for a while when he asked.
Kou Zhun guessed that Kou Ji had probably received another revelation from God, so he repeatedly spoke out against Xixia.
So he needed to ask clearly.
Kou Ji thought that Kou Zhun was asking him to help analyze the situation. After being stunned for a while, he muttered: "The king of Xixia, Li Deming, established a palace in Xingqing, Lingzhou. His ambitions are clearly revealed.
If we, the Song Dynasty, did not take action, the founding of Xixia would be inevitable.
Once Xixia was established, it rebelled against the Song Dynasty.
In order to maintain our national prestige, the Song Dynasty must fight against Xixia.
Since the battle of Gaoliang River by Emperor Taizong in the Song Dynasty, we have not advanced an inch of land.
The soldiers have long forgotten what it is like to open up new territories.
The civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty had no intention of opening up new territories, and just wanted to live by clinging to the inheritance left by their ancestors.
If you really want to fight against the ambitious Xixia people, how can you remain undefeated?
How can a tiger that has been kept in captivity for many years become an enemy of a lone wolf that has been sleeping in the open for many years?”
Kou Zhun opened his mouth to refute, but heard Kou Ji say again: "There are many generals above the court, but the only one who can really help the court expand its territory is Cao Wei. But Cao Wei is already old..."
Kou Ji glanced at Kou Zhun and continued: "The remaining generals have either climbed up through adolescence, or have fought against the Liao people at the border for many years and relied on a little military merit.
If they fight defensively, that's fine.
But if you let them free their hands and feet to attack, they don't know how to fight.
More importantly, once Song, Xia, and Liao went to war, it would be a shocking war.
Millions of people move.
Leaving aside the civilians, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops.
Among the generals in the court, how many can command hundreds of thousands of people in battle? How many of them have commanded hundreds of thousands of people in battle?
Not many.
Even if you pick out a tall one among the dwarfs, he will lead the army to go to war.
The imperial court would not trust millions of people into his hands.
At the very least, three or four civil servants will be dispatched as supervisors.
A group of supervisors who have never been on the battlefield check and balance the leading generals, and have the right to intervene in the war command at will.
How can we not be defeated?"
After listening to Kou Ji's words, Kou Zhun sat there with a gloomy face and said nothing.
Basically what Kou Ji said will happen.
Because in the past, when encountering wars, the court always handled them this way.
Whenever a general goes on an expedition and has more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, the court will send an important minister with a high enough status to take charge.
After the expedition, the important ministers not only had the power to supervise the war, but also had the power to intervene in the command of the war, and even had the power to take over military power in an emergency.
Kou Zhun was silent for a long time, stared at Kou Ji and said: "Suppressing military force with culture is the national policy established by Taizu and Taizong."
Kou Ji questioned: "In order to protect Taizu, Taizong set a national policy that even ignored the country and the country? Taizu, Taizong set this national policy to prevent military generals from imitating Taizu's actions.
This national policy was originally intended to safeguard the imperial power of the Zhao family.
But now it has become a moth that endangers the imperial power of the Zhao family."
Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Ji and said coldly: "I am not a pedantic person, nor a corrupt scholar. I will not deliberately suppress military generals for the benefit of scholar-bureaucrats, regardless of the safety of the country.
What you said to me is useless."
After a pause, Kou Zhun said again: "What you said makes some sense. I will try every means to cause trouble for Xixia and prevent Xixia from establishing a country. But I can only help Xixia to cause trouble.
If we really want to fight Xixia, we have to wait for the moment when the officials take back the imperial power from Liu E.
Without pro-government officials, imperial power cannot be unified.
It is not that easy to use weapons against Xixia.
Even if I agree, Liu E will not agree."
Kou Ji sighed and nodded slowly, "I understand..."
Kou Zhun pondered for a moment and said quietly: "I don't know if I can wait until that time..."
He glanced at Kou Ji and warned: "If I really can't wait until that time, I will ask you to help the officials more."
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Kou Zhun stared at Kou Ji and said: "You beat the Liao people in Daxiangguo Temple. You don't need to worry about the Liao people making trouble in court. Every year when the Liao people arrive in Bianjing, they always make a fuss.
The civil and military officials are used to it."
Kou Ji whispered: "I'm not afraid of the Liao people, I'm afraid of my own people."
Kou Zhun was stunned and frowned: "You mean those people in the court who cater to the Liao people?"
Kou Ji nodded heavily.
Kou Zhun said solemnly: "I will not give them a chance to speak."