Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"It was sealed up at the Ministry of Household Affairs, but it was not destroyed due to the short time."

Li Gang is keenly aware that the problem may be more complicated than he imagined.

"Why did Wang Shilang come to me suddenly and tell me these things?"

"The lower official just thinks that the smuggling of the Dragon Guards is very involved. Now Li Xianggong is going to Liaodong to rectify it. The lower official will tell Li Xianggong what he knows, so that Li Xianggong can clean up Liaodong as soon as possible."

"It's your job."

"Don't dare, I have nothing else to do as an official, so I won't bother Li Xianggong. I wish Li Xianggong a smooth journey and leave."

The fact that Wang Boyan left so quickly allowed Li Gang to dispel his distaste for Wang Boyan.

On September [-], Qin Hui, who had been in Liaodong for a while, returned to the capital.

"Han Shizhong was granted the Duke of Qi?" Qin Hui was taken aback.

"Yes, Han Shizhong was granted the title of Duke Qi." Wang said, "but he has already voluntarily resigned from Liaodong Military Affairs."

"Where is King Liao?"

"King Liao didn't hear any movement."

"Li Gang was appointed as the Governor of Liaodong?"

"Not only Li Gang was appointed as the protector, but Wu Lin became the envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy."

Qin Hui sighed, frowned, and said, "Has Li Gang already taken up his post?"

"I heard that he left Beijing early yesterday morning, and Wu Lin also went to his post." Wang said, "Not only was Han Shizhong not punished, but he was also awarded a title. It seems that His Majesty will not punish Han Shizhong at all, let alone other people. up.

"No, no, Wu Lin was in Annan, but was transferred back suddenly, and was suddenly appointed as the envoy of Anton's economic strategy. The King of Liao didn't make any movement, and he was in Tokyo City. This is His Majesty's distrust of the border commander!" Qin Hui said, " This is a good start, at least the King of Liao and Han Shizhong are no longer in Liaodong, and the stumbling block of the King of Liao has been dug back by us!"

"what's next?"

Chapter 1180 The Dilemma of the Gaochang Envoy (Second Change)

Qin Hui said: "Since Han Shizhong was transferred back because of this, of course Yue Fei is too, but before moving Yue Fei, move another person first."

"who?"

"Wu Jie."

On September 25, the end of the Hexi Corridor was already covered by heavy snow.

On this day, Liu Qi's army was less than fifty miles away from Guazhou, which is a day's journey.

The scouts reported that Li Yanxian's army had also arrived in the north of Guazhou City, and it was only a day's journey away.

For this reason, both sides continued to march in unison.

On September 26th, Liu Kai and Li Yanxian arrived in Guazhou almost at the same time.

Li Yanxian ran to meet Liu Kai. After seeing Liu Kai, Li Yanxian laughed and said, "Liu Shuai, you and I arrived at the same time. I don't know how His Majesty will confer the title this time."

"Li Shuai and Bo Yuntian, this title must belong to Li Shuai." Liu Qi said solemnly.

Most people say this, more or less ironic.

But from Liu Kai's mouth, there must be no sarcasm.

As we all know, Liu Kai is a standard honest person.

Li Yanxian smiled awkwardly, and said: "Liu Shuai, the title of a certain person is of secondary importance when he comes here, the important thing is to win Guazhou and garrison Yumen Pass!"

"Li Shuai's thoughts are exactly the same as our Liu Shuai's." Liu Rui said aside, "Since the title is secondary to Li Shuai, then our Liu Shuai will not be polite."

Li Yanxian laughed loudly and said, "Just take it!"

At this moment, a report came from outside: "Report! Liu Shuai, someone outside claims to be the messenger of Gaochang!"

"Gaochang envoy?"

Liu Kai and Li Yanxian looked at each other, both a little surprised.

Liu Kai said: "The Uyghurs know that our army has arrived in Guazhou so quickly?"

"It may not be that they knew that our army had arrived in Guazhou. They probably wanted to go to Xingzhou to find us. I didn't expect to pass by Guazhou and found that our army had already arrived in Guazhou." Li Yanxian said, "They came just in time. Send someone to ask them, who gave them the courage to send troops to Hexi while we are suppressing Xixia!"

The Uighur envoy was quickly brought in.

"I am the envoy of Pilge Khan of Gaochang Kingdom, and my name is Xirihong."

Ashinabud once again acted as an interpreter.

Li Yanxian said to Liu Kai: "Unexpectedly, all the people in the Western Regions speak Turkic language."

Liu Kai said: "I heard that after the decline of Tubo, the Turks established many khanates and tribes in the Western Regions."

Ashina interrupted the chat between the two Jinglue envoys, and translated Xirihong's words in Chinese. He said: "This man is called Xirihong, and he is the envoy of Bi Lege, the Khan of Gaochang. Go to Xingzhou to meet the commander-in-chief of our Great Song Dynasty, and I have something important to say to the commander-in-chief."

"What's the important thing?" Li Yanxian asked, "Tell him that the two people in front of you are all economic envoys, let him speak up."

Ashinabud translated it again.

Xi Rihong was a little surprised. He said: "The previous wars between us were all misunderstandings. Our Gaochang Kingdom does not want to have a war with the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty."

Before Liu Kai could speak, Li Yanxian said unceremoniously to the emissary: ​​"You said it was a misunderstanding, is it just a misunderstanding?"

Xi Rihong said: "We received a request for help from the party members. The party members said that we had encountered an attack from the Naiman tribe from the north, so our country sent troops. We did not expect to encounter soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty. This was not our original intention. .”

"Then do you still have soldiers and horses stationed in the four towns of Hexi?"

"Our people have already left Guazhou."

"Are there still people in Dunhuang?" Li Yanxian asked again.

Xi Rihong said: "There are only a few merchants left in Dunhuang, and they have business contacts with the Han people, Tubo people and Dangxiang people who come and go."

"The armies also withdrew from Dunhuang?" Li Yanxian asked.

"There are still a few troops stationed in order to maintain the normal business."

Li Yanxian said: "Then please leave Dunhuang immediately."

Xi Rihong said: "The Great Song Dynasty has already taken back Guazhou, so why not put Dunhuang there and make it a transit trading place on the Silk Road, wouldn't it be better?"

Li Yanxian said unceremoniously: "My dynasty originally intended this, but this is a matter of my court, and has nothing to do with you. How to deal with Dunhuang, the emperor has his own decision. How can there be troops from other clans stationed in the land of the celestial dynasty? "

"The commander-in-chief, I, Gao Chang, have already retreated, so why be aggressive?" Xi Rihong's face darkened.

"Aggressive?" Li Yanxian took off the saber from his waist, put it heavily on the table, and said coldly, "I took back my homeland of the Celestial Dynasty, but it became aggressive? If you call this aggressive, then I would like to issue a The army will go to Gaochang, and the soldiers will come to Gaochang City, so that you can see what is really aggressive!"

"You..." Xi Rihong pointed at Li Yanxian and scolded angrily, "I, Gaochang, gave you a little bit of face in Song Dynasty, you really think you can talk here! I might as well tell you that I, Gaochang, are also strong in soldiers and horses. This distance from Dunhuang The Central Plains is thousands of miles away, I don't believe that your Central Plains country can continue to recruit troops to fight in Dunhuang!"

"Why do you need to continue recruiting troops? When the snow melts, this commander will fight all the way to the city of Gaochang!"

"It's so rampant! Not to mention that I, Gaochang, have hundreds of thousands of troops, but now that Daliao and I have good relations with Gaochang, you Song State has been defeated by Liao State many times in the past, how dare you be rampant here!"

"Liao Kingdom?" Liu Kai asked curiously.

"Of course it's the Daliao of Juerhan Dashilinya. Don't say I didn't warn you. You Song Jun wants to rule the roost in the Western Regions, I'm afraid you are still a little tender!" Xi Rihong snorted coldly, "I still want to be like the Tang Jun back then. The same? The Central Plains have been in decline for hundreds of years, and today’s Western Regions are no longer the Western Regions of the past. If your Song army dares to mess around, I, Gaochang, will never sit still!”

"Come on!" Li Yanxian yelled, "Push these people out and chop them up as sacrifices to our military flag!"

"Wait." Liu Kai said hastily, "Li Shuai, killing these people will not help the matter. Instead, it will anger Gao Chang and make Gao Chang send troops eastward in advance. There is no need for this. Our purpose is to take back all the territories east of Yumen Pass. The state has already been obtained, and Dunhuang is right in front of us, let them go back and spread a message, saying that peace is the most important thing in my heavenly dynasty, and as long as Gaochang does not go east, we will not interfere."

"Okay, I am quite convinced of what Liu Shuai said." Li Yanxian laughed and said, "Liu Shuai's serious appearance makes me unable to object, just follow what Liu Shuai said!"

Xi Rihong was kicked out, and when he left Guazhou, Xi Rihong was still cursing: "You wait! Today's shame will be reported tomorrow!"

On the same day, Li Yanxian and Liu Kai each sent [-] troops to Dunhuang.

Dunhuang is only a hundred miles away from Guazhou, a day's journey.

On the second day, [-] Song troops arrived in Dunhuang. When they heard that the Song army was coming, the [-] Gaochang troops in Dunhuang were forced to evacuate early in the morning.

At noon, the Song army entered the city and took over Dunhuang under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Since then, the Hexi Corridor has been incorporated into the territory of the Song Dynasty.

However, it is clear that Da Song and Gao Chang have formed a beam, and conflicts are accumulating.

Chapter 1181 Are you going to use force against Japan? (third change)

In Bianjing in October, the first snow fell.

Zhao Chen met Zhang Jun outside Wende Hall, accompanied by Wang Zonglian, Qian Yuqing, and even Zhao Ding.

Of course, there is another person: Han Shizhong.

"His Royal Highness King Liao." Everyone greeted Zhao Chen when they saw Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen returned the salutes one by one.

At this time, Zhao Guan's family walked to Wende Hall.

"See Your Majesty."

"Come in and tell me." Zhao Ning held a memorial letter in his hand, and his face was not very good-looking.

The heating in the Wende Hall was in full swing. After everyone entered, they took off their cloaks one after another.

Zhao Chen was puzzled. After he came back, Zhao Guan's family hadn't seen him. He didn't know why he was summoned suddenly today.

And the butlers were also present.

"Where's Zhu Shengfei?" Zhao Ning asked.

Wang Huaiji walked to the entrance of the main hall and looked outside, seeing Zhu Shengfei trotting over in a hurry, he quickly winked.

Zhu Shengfei ran into the hall with small steps, sweating profusely, and said quickly: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I have something to delay."

Zhao Ning said: "Take off the cloak first, and be careful to cover your sweat and catch a cold."

"Yes."

Zhu Shengfei came back and stood aside after taking off his cloak.

"Zhu Shengfei, this is a note you wrote. Tell me, what's going on?" Zhao Ning said with a sullen face.

"Yes."

Zhu Shengfei stood up and said: "Zhang Ji'an, the son of Zhang Zhengyan, the young minister of Honghe Temple, died suddenly. The result of the investigation was that he had excessive intercourse. Japan imports women."

Zhao Chen was a little surprised, so it was because of this incident.

Zhu Shengfei continued: "However, it is Japan's request to us to come to Duzhong. The exchange condition is that our merchant ships can trade independently along the coast of Japan and cooperate with us in mining silver mines in Japan."

"How is the current progress of silver mining?" Qian Yuqing asked.

"Yinshan has been finalized, but the progress..." Zhu Shengfei sighed and said, "According to the feedback from the officials sent out, there is no progress."

"Why is that? I remember that Japan agreed to cooperate with us very early on." Qian Yuqing said.

Zhu Shengfei said: "Cooperate in words, but keep causing trouble for our people in private."

"You mean, the Japanese don't want to?"

"It's a big mountain of silver, and the Japanese are definitely not willing." Zhu Shengfei said.

"I don't want to, then I should have said that I don't want to. I promised me that there is no problem, but now I'm hiding it!" Zhao Guan's tone has changed, and it's colder than the ice and snow outside. "I promised to be completely open to Japan. Shangmao, I am sorry for them! They dare to play tricks on me!"

"Your Majesty, I also met with the Japanese ambassador yesterday." Zhu Shengfei continued, "The other party said that Da Song is very repulsive to their arrangements for people to come to cross the race. I hope we can solve the trouble caused by Zhang Ji'an's death, otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?" Zhao Ning immediately interrupted Zhu Shengfei and said angrily, "Otherwise, drive my people out of his little Japanese kingdom?"

"They said otherwise the mining of the silver mine would be stopped!"

"A small foreign country, dare to play tricks on the Celestial Dynasty! I thought there was nothing I could do with them across the sea!"

Zhu Shengfei said: "Your Majesty, please calm down. I think this matter can be discussed with the Japanese. Recently, they have not only sent women to cross the race, but also sent a group of envoys. If you want to come to us to study, you can use this As a condition of negotiation..."

"I don't want to negotiate with them now!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." Zhao Ding stood up and said, "I have heard a little about Zhang Ji'an's incident. This incident is not the fault of the Japanese. The Japanese want a result. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, the government should indeed give a result."

"The result has already been given." Zhu Shengfei said, "The Japanese woman was found not guilty."

"Since this is the case, there is nothing to say. The Japanese sent women to cross the species. The Song Dynasty accepted them, and it was already done. As for whether they are welcomed, it is the voluntary of the people. This matter has nothing to do with the imperial court, but the Japanese promised us. Things must be done, and this cannot be used as an excuse to deliberately delay."

Zhu Shengfei said: "Now the Japanese are relying on their country across the sea, pretending to be a snake, and showing us a face in front of us and a face behind us!"

Qian Yuqing stood up and said: "Yinshan is related to our Great Song Reserve Bank. If we can expand the storage of silver taels, it will increase the confidence of the people in paying banknotes, and it will have a great effect on stabilizing the currency."

At this time, Zhao Chen stood up and said: "Copper coins can already stabilize the currency, why do we need to go to such lengths to find silver taels?"

Qian Yuqing said: "The cost of mining and manufacturing copper coins is much higher than that of silver of the same weight. This is not to give up copper coins to exchange for banknotes, but to prepare an additional exchange reserve. Japan has a large number of silver mines that many businessmen want. As mentioned, the imperial court has sent people to investigate carefully over the years, and it is indeed true, and there are many gold mines."