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"The Southern Song Dynasty is willing to pay tribute to our Dazhong. They asked the officials to enthrone King Kang of Song as the Song lord. On the birthday and New Year's Day of the official family, they are willing to send envoys to congratulate him. They hope that the two countries will take the current occupied land as the boundary, namely, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Huai River and Dasanguan as the area south of the Dashan Pass. They are willing to cede Tang, Dengzhou, Shang, and Qinzhou Dazhong, half of the unoccupied land to Dazhong. They are willing to pay 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 pieces of silk to Dazhong every year..."

After listening to the peace agreement proposed by the Southern Song Dynasty by Wang Jieru, Li Yan asked Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding, Xu Guanzhong, Zhu Wu, Tang Ke, Sun Jing, Chen Gongfu, Li Guang, Chen Zuotong, Bao Kang and other ministers: "What do you think of this peace agreement?"

Sun Jing sneered: "Imitation!"

Bao Kang also said: "Mr. Sun said it well. If they follow what the Southern Song Dynasty envisioned, they would have a chance to breathe. When they quell the civil strife, they would go north to invade my Dazhong border and map my Dazhong territory."

Zhu Wudao: "The southern line is easy to say. If it really doesn't work, just send troops to fight. At present, for our Dazhong, the biggest trouble and threat comes from the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line in the west. Shaanxi has always produced strong troops. The Northern Song Dynasty can have a 200-year-old country, mainly supported by Shaanxi and Hebei soldiers. According to the news found by the Zhe family in Baozhou, there should be nearly 300,000 Song-Shaanxi troops in Shaanxi. It is precisely because of these Song-Shaanxi troops that Xixia cannot advance eastward. Shu has always been rich and easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as the Southern Song Dynasty has these two places, it will not be considered dead, and there will be a chance to make a comeback. If our Dazhong can occupy these two places, we can destroy the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. Therefore, in the humble opinion, this peace talk should be aimed at breaking the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line in the Southern Song Dynasty as the negotiation goal."

Zhao Ding shook his head and said, "This is unrealistic. We know the importance of the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line. The Southern Song Dynasty naturally also knows the importance of the Sichuan-Shaanxi defense line. I dare to conclude that one of the bottom lines of the Southern Song Dynasty is to protect Shaanxi and Shu."

Zhu Wu and Zhao Ding are actually good.

And at this time, it is the time when the monarch Li Yan, the monarch, is needed to be the master.

Li Yan thought for a while and said, "The Southern Song Dynasty came to beg for surrender, and it is impossible to stick to the bottom line without giving up at all."

After thinking about it again, Li Yan said to Wang Jieru and Taoism: "I want Shaanxi with the Southern Song Dynasty. Now, the Southern Song Dynasty no longer has the Central Plains to guard. Shaanxi is not that important than the Southern Song Dynasty. If you gain profit in negotiations, the Southern Song Dynasty may give up Shaanxi, at least most of the areas of Shaanxi."

Zhao Ding stopped Li Yan and said: "The official family, Shaanxi is currently a waste of money and my grandfather. If you get it, you must send a large army to defend the Western Xia. You have gained a lot of burden out of thin air. It is better not to do so for the time being, so that the Southern Song and Xixia will continue to confront Shaanxi and restrain a large number of elite troops from the Western Xia and the Southern Song Dynasty."

To be honest, judging from the current situation alone, Zhao Ding's choices are more rational than Li Yan.

If Dazhong now takes back Shaanxi, at least 100,000 elite troops will be stationed in the west, and this is still a peaceful coexistence between Zhongxia. If Zhongxia starts war, it is hard to say that there will be many elite troops in the central army to be restrained.

To put it more vividly, if Dazhong takes back Shaanxi, Dazhong will likely change from a two-line battle to a three-line battle.

The difference between this is not a little bit, especially for the developing Dazhong.

But what Li Yan considered was

If Shaanxi is not taken back at this time, after the Southern Song Dynasty stabilizes the current situation, it may take ten or even a hundred times the effort to take back Shaanxi.

In addition, Shaanxi's geographical location is extremely important.

The Qinba Mountains in southern Shaanxi, which spans the Han River Basin, a tributary of the Yangtze River, and the upper reaches of the Jialing River, is opposite Shanxi Province from the east, adjacent to Inner Mongolia from the north, adjacent to Xixia from the west, bounded to Micang Mountain from the south, bounded to Shu from the main ridge of Daba Mountain, and bordered to Hubei Province from the south, and bordered to Henan from the southeast. Since ancient times, the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi has been an important channel for east-west transportation in China. The ancient Qinchi Road, the Silk Road and Chang'an-Luoyang Avenue are all famous channels connecting the east and west through Guanzhong. In short, Shaanxi plays an important role in economic and cultural exchanges between the east and west of China and economic and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe.

In addition, Shaanxi has a strategic position that is very important, both east and west, and is also very important.

In history, not only did the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang and other dynasties choose Shaanxi to build capital, making Shaanxi an important place in the capital and a national political, economic and transportation center. Even after the Song Dynasty, Kyoto moved eastward, Shaanxi's strategic position was still highly valued. Not only did it station heavy troops, but it also sent royal relatives or powerful generals to guard it.

The Northern Song Dynasty established the capital Kaifeng, and Shaanxi was regarded as the western gate of Kyoto. The Western Xia attacked eastward, and Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty thorned on its back.

In the third dynasty of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, although the capital was established in Beijing, it still paid great attention to the defense of Shaanxi.

There has always been a saying that "Shan Shaanxi is the backbone of the world and the leader of the capital. If there is something wrong with Shan Shaanxi, it should be more important than burning and saving the drowning. If you are not prepared, the disaster will be irreversible."

Another point is that Shaanxi has the best military source in the Southern Song Dynasty. If Dazhong can get Shaanxi, then this best military source will become Dazhong. As one rises and the other falls, the Southern Song Dynasty will be even less threatened.

Finally, if Dazhong can get Shaanxi, it will be better able to explore the defense line of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it will be easier to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.

Let’s say that, neither Li Yan nor Zhao Ding is wrong.

However, Zhao Ding values ​​the gains and losses in front of him more, while Li Yan sees them further.

To put it another way, Zhao Ding is more secure, while Li Yan is more adventurous.

This is also the difference between the founding emperor and the ministers who govern the world.

In the end, Zhao Ding failed to twist Li Yan, and Dazhong's foreign policy was set as: to strive for Shaanxi.

At this time, Zhao Ding's stronger side than Li Gang was reflected.

After Zhao Ding lost the battle, he did not choose to give up like Li Gang, but actively picked up the missing Li Yan and quickly proposed two remedies, one was to actively establish diplomatic relations with Xixia. The other was to have Chuzhou and Zhao Li.

The former is easy to understand. If you stabilize Xixia, you can greatly reduce the burden on Dazhong, so that Dazhong can free up his hands to concentrate on distinguishing the victory and defeat with Dajin, and win the crucial Yanyun.

In addition, it is time to have a good relationship with Xixia now.

Not long ago, Xixia sent a request for a communist to Dazhong.

Moreover, Li Qianshun also said that his queen Yelu Nanxian passed away two years ago and he hoped to marry one of Li Yan's daughters, with Li Yan's daughter as the Empress of Xixia.

If people from later generations heard such a request, they would probably jump up immediately and scold Li Qianshun for his delusions, thinking that the request of his colleague Li Qianshun was a very embarrassing thing.

But in fact, if this matter is really done, then Xixia would naturally become a vassal state. Just as Xixia became a vassal state of the Liao Kingdom, the relationship between Li Qianshun and Li Yan became the relationship between Li Qianshun and Yelu Yanxi.

In this era, it is a great thing to use a woman to exchange for a vassal state.

Moreover, this woman may not be Li Yan's biological daughter. Li Yan can recognize a daughter at will, just put Li Yan's daughter's name on her.

It’s a pity that Li Yan doesn’t like to use his daughter to marry her, even if it’s just a nominal daughter.

When Li Yan becomes erotic, no one can do anything about Li Yan.

Zhao Ding and others could only make some adjustments and plan to marry Li Ganshun to come and be a concubine for Li Yan.

However, this is all a matter of later, and it will be a matter of time.

In short, if Dazhong can recover Shaanxi through peace talks, it is imperative to improve relations with Xixia.

So, there is nothing to say about this.

The key is the latter, what happened to Chuzhou and Zhao Li?
Chapter completed!