No shortage of walls

The main thing now is the Song Dynasty, which wants to contain other countries. It wants to use Northern Xia and Western Hu to contain Southern Xia and Donghu. They also wanted to use Donghu to contain Qi, and even more wanted to use Qi to contain Donghu. If they make a wrong step, everything will come to nothing. The manpower and material resources previously spent on it, and even the heroes who died in the Ministry of National Security, will all be reduced to nothing. not worth.

If a hero sacrifices his life for the country and dies, let the hero die with value. The elites of the Song Dynasty did not die in a foreign country.

Song Xing's tour to the south was a political consideration, and his visit to the north to worship at the temple was also a political consideration. The first purpose is to continuously relax the nerves of various countries and allow the Ministry of Rites and Workshops to cooperate with the Ministry of National Security. All transactions are done openly, and the Ministry of National Security uses financial resources to control things that others cannot see. Secondly, news of Liu Gongquan's return said that the emperor went to the south to inspect the north and not to the north. The people in the north felt disappointed. In their words, the people were afraid that the north had lost its sacred heart and the emperor did not like the north. Therefore, God went north to the north. The temple matter was a proper political consideration, and it was entirely for the sake of the people in the north. If it weren't for the news of Liu Gongquan's return, Song Xing would have been too lazy to leave the palace. As for bringing the queen this time, it was still the rule. The emperor personally paid homage to the temple, to Lord Pan Gu and to the Empress Nuwa. It is impossible for a ninety-five-year-old emperor to be alone. Since the emperor has grown up, one emperor must have a queen. What is high must be low, so it must be matched with two beautiful girls of low taste.

The temple is located in the south of Heishan and the west of Yuzhou. Starting from the imperial palace, it would take more than 20 days to get there without walking around according to the emperor's normal itinerary. It can only be done if the road is almost repaired. In the past, it was not necessarily thirty days. Fasting was also required. The emperor and empress could not live together for three days. The time should be twenty-five days. A few days should be spared in case the time was not enough.

Therefore, we should set off on the first day of February at the latest. The Ministry of Rites looked at the dates and found that the 26th day of February was a good day to go out. The 26th day of the first lunar month was very good, so we decided to set off on the 26th. As for the two low-grade people Beautiful girl, that's the emperor's business.

This time, the emperor is pretending to be the protagonist. It is purely political considerations. The Ministry of National Security is secretly the real protagonist. After discussions with Liu Gongquan, Liu Guo, and Cui Zheng, Liu Guo can no longer follow the emperor and must stay in the capital to control the overall situation. Liu Gongquan has acted accordingly. Regarding the matter, Cui Zhengze cooperated with the Ministry of National Security to deliver and receive the goods, and at the same time suppressed the prestige of Liu Chengwen, an old greedy man. This is not the time for everything to go smoothly. I hope he will retract his hand from the national treasury. Otherwise, the only way is to die with his hands cut off, and what was taken out from the treasury must be returned to the treasury. In addition, Huang Quan is called in and asked to pay attention to him in the court. Whoever finds out about Liu Chengwen, just remember it. Don't do it. move. No one can take Liu Chengwen's place for the time being. As for the small official who was promoted from the third rank to the third rank, let him handle matters by himself without providing additional help. Test his ability. Without damaging the foundation of the country, he must To restrain him, Xiaoxiao deliberately made things difficult for him to see how capable he is. He asked his brothers in Dali Temple to watch the person who confessed Liu Chengwen to death, so that no one would let the news out; if Liu Chengwen knew about it, it would easily damage the national system. In addition, He told Liu Guo that if Liu Chengwen did something extraordinary and intended to harm the state, he should be captured first and kept quietly until I come back. Then he would report a missing person case to the governor of Jingzhao and let him investigate as he should.

Things have to be kept secret and things have to be done quickly, this time it’s a temple visit. Once you go, you must come back. You can't delay. It's still a rule. After coming back, I couldn't leave the palace again. I left the palace too frequently without any legitimate reasons, and I was afraid that spies from neighboring countries would guess what was going on.

Song Xing summoned the ministers from each department and had a private conversation. He could only praise Liu Chengwen more, hoping that he would understand.

But it is a pity that Liu Chengwen really did a good job and thought the emperor really praised him. The question is, did he understand it?

Regarding the Emperor of the Song Dynasty going to the temple to worship Master Pan Gu and Empress Nuwa, the response from various countries was no longer so strong.

After all, Pan Gu and Nu Wa are found in all countries, and they are all supreme gods. It is really not good that the Song Emperor did not pay homage to him before he came to the throne. In the old days, Emperor Qingyuan wanted to visit him but couldn't. He refused to let him go to the north and even wanted to kill him. It is right for the orthodox emperor to worship the gods today.

Nan Xia now has many supporters and has great momentum to unify Xia. It's just that counselor Xia Tian, ​​a loyal and extremely smart confidant, was forced to commit suicide by Bei Xia, and the strength of the secret counselor was immediately reduced by half. The anger in my heart became more intense. Xia Tian was not a bird. He flew out to poison his father in the middle of the night and then flew back. How dare this rebellious son kill his father to wrong him?

It happened that Bei Xia thought the same way, so Bei Xia had no problem.

The place where Xihu and Song Dynasty meet is on the top of a high mountain. No matter who is attacking, there is no way to come directly. They have to go through Beixia or Donghu. Therefore, whether the Song Emperor travels has nothing to do with Xihu.

The Donghu people are too united and have different racial profiles. It is too difficult to dispatch spies, and it is too risky to bribe foreigners. You can only rely on guessing, but no matter how you guess, it is not true.

The Qi State had long wanted to swallow up the Song Dynasty. Unexpectedly, the Song Dynasty was half a step ahead and took revenge on Liao and then Chen. It had no choice but to rush to capture Wu and Yue. In terms of strength, there won't be much difference between the two sides, but the difference is also huge.

First, although the Song Dynasty was not sure of the intentions of the soldiers of the old Liao Dynasty, it was exempted from taxes for five years, which was a gentle policy towards the people. The sergeants should be killed, but Qi could only drive the Wu and Yue young men to death in order to threaten their whole family. The combat effectiveness was very terrifying; but there was a risk of defection in the face of battle.

The key to this is how powerful the Song State is. If it sweeps through thousands of troops and captures Wu and Yue in one fell swoop, the people of Wu and Yue will naturally not have to sacrifice their lives for Qi.

At this point, Qi feels very confident, which is impossible.

Secondly, Qi State had newly conquered two countries and had more people than Song Dynasty. However, Song people had more food. They already had three meals a day. It would be difficult to supply food after a long war. It’s not that Qi didn’t have enough food, it was Qi that sold all the food from Wu and Yue to Song.

Third, does the Song State really believe that Qi and Hu do not want each other to coax the other to influence the Song State? spy!

It’s not unique to the Song Dynasty! between countries. Just like the Song Dynasty, they obviously wanted to use Northern Xia Xihu to contain Donghu; but they wanted Donghu to contain Qi, and Qi to contain Donghu.

Don’t neighboring countries think so? No spies were sent to do this? between countries. Only the etiquette ministers of both sides smiled like real brothers when they met, but in the dark, both sides held up their bloody knives, trying their best to see if they could stab them in without the other party noticing.

Benefits are eternal.

Emotional etiquette is just a means to discuss interests.

But there is always use.

Who takes advantage of whom is also a question.

There will always be trouble.

In the world, there is no eternal love, but there are eternal interests. Countries care more about each other than people do. People also say, how about a trivial matter that makes you stand tall? But between countries, when it comes to national institutions, the party that really gives in is forced to do so.

When there is enough power to compete, no one will give in to anyone. It is normal to use open swords and open guns, but hidden arrows often receive unimaginable benefits at the smallest cost.