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Chapter 912 As the saying goes, a son never complains about his father, and a son never thinks his family is poor (second update)

Chapter 921

"Emperor Grandmother also thinks what my grandson said makes sense?" Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows, his eyes were full of eagerness to find approval.

"It's natural. If the old woman can't understand such a simple truth, she will really lose her mind." Gao Tao said with a laugh.

"My Great Song Dynasty, since the Renzong Dynasty, has never had a day like today. The Xixia children, although they are clowns, with the support of the Liao Kingdom, they harass the northwest of our Great Song Dynasty day and night. ."

"It's hard for us to have peace in the Song Dynasty. Emperor Renzong's heart is kind, and he hopes to use the gift of the year to let Xixia and my Song Dynasty shake hands and make peace, and suspend the war. However, Xixia is ambitious, occupying my city and plundering my people. Wealth and wealth have made my Great Song Dynasty restless."

"The military expenditure in the Northwest every year ranges from tens of millions to tens of millions. How many people are displaced, and how many soldiers die for the country..."

"Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Shenzong all shed their hearts and blood for the Northwest, but the situation is always repeated..."

"To this day, my Great Song Dynasty has finally seized the opportunity to divide the territory of Xixia into two, first to take the three states, and now to win the land of Yinzhou and Longzhou. It can be described as an unprecedented victory."

"The most important thing is that we still have to face hundreds of thousands of Liao troops. Under such huge pressure, none of the soldiers of our Great Song frontier army flinched. Everyone fought bravely to be the first. It is really gratifying to the Ai family. The spirit of the spirit can also comfort..."

Zhao Xu silently looked at the imperial grandmother in front of him who began to recall the past, although he had heard these things no less than a hundred times.But listening to it now, it makes people feel more profound.

Because this is the first foreign war of the Great Song Dynasty after he came to the court and took charge of the government, and what he was facing was a battle involving more than one million troops.

However, the Great Song used its own strength to fight against Xixia and Liao, and was able to gain an advantage. This was definitely beyond the imagination of the Song Dynasty in the past.

But today's Da Song has done it. Under such circumstances, Da Song has already taken advantage, so it is natural to have a stalemate.

"Do the officials still remember the story of Emperor Zhenzong's personal conquest of the Liao Kingdom?" Gao Taotao suddenly asked after recalling it for a long time.

Zhao Xu was a little dazed, and it took him a long time to react. "Son'er naturally remembers that in the first year of Jingde, the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao and the Shengzong of Liao personally led an army to the south and violated our Song territory. For the sake of the peace of our Song Dynasty, Emperor Gao decided to go to Chanzhou to supervise the battle."

"That's right, then you know, then you know, although the Chanyuan alliance has brought long-term peace between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom. However, it is clear that the Song Dynasty has won a great victory, but after the peace talks, why is it like me? Song Guo lost this battle?"

"That's..." Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Zhao Xu's face. He kept talking for a long time, but he didn't dare to say it out loud.

"It's not that you don't dare to speak to the officials, but you can't. As the saying goes, if a son never speaks of his father's faults, a son will never dislike his family's poverty. Right..." Gao Taotao looked at Zhao Xu meaningfully and said.

"Grandson, grandson... what the imperial grandmother said is very true." Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel a little terrified in his heart. Could it be that the emperor's grandmother found out that he had been drinking and bragging with Zhao Ji and talking about this topic before, So she purposely took advantage of this matter to beat herself up?

"You, the Ai family is not blaming you, look at you like that." Gao Taotao was very satisfied, well... to scare this brat, it was like he didn't have a door to talk about, and he didn't pay attention to his left and right sides while drinking in the palace. What can be said, what can not be said.

"The Ai family wants to tell you that back then, your Emperor Gaozu had to negotiate peace with the Liao Kingdom, because the Great Song Dynasty was already too poor at that time. Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were emperors on horseback, and they opened up the territory for our Great Song Dynasty. , conquered Nuo Da's country, but the people's livelihood has always been..."

Empress Dowager Gao Taotao explained the reason why Emperor Zhenzong had to shake hands with the Liao State at that time. However, Emperor Zhenzong's character was too timid and cowardly to a certain extent.

After that, in the second year of Song Renzong Qingqing, the Liao Kingdom took the opportunity of the war between the Song Dynasty and Xixia to blackmail the land, money and food of the Song Dynasty.In desperation, Renzong agreed to add another 10 taels of silver and [-] pieces of silk to the Liao Dynasty.

Later, in the seventh year of Emperor Shenzong Xining, the Song Dynasty had constant domestic disputes due to the political reform. When the ministers of the DPRK and China attacked each other, the Liao Kingdom used the excuse that the Song Dynasty built a fortress on the border to destroy the border and demanded demarcation.In desperation, Shenzong had to allow the watershed to be the boundary, and gave up some land.

The Liao Kingdom has been aggressive several times, and each time it ended with Song's concession, even if the civil officials of Song Dynasty whitewashed these humiliating events of Song Dynasty as acts of peace and benevolence.

But in fact, whitewashing is just whitewashing after all, not real peace. Who would feel better when people force him to give in every time.

But now, the Song Dynasty is fighting against Liaoxia with its own strength, and has frequently seized large tracts of land, winning consecutive battles, such an opportunity to boost morale, it would be too stupid to make peace again .

"In fact, this battle has been stalemate until now. It's a meaningless competition of endurance. Let's see who can't bear the pressure first and steps forward. Then, who is the real loser." Gao Taotao looked very Looking at Zhao Xu in front of him seriously, he said every word.

"Don't pay attention to the thoughts of those ministers and workers. Today's Song Dynasty finally had such an opportunity. You must grit your teeth and resist it. If you want to restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, then think about it first." When I think about it, how can I not be influenced by others?"

Having said that, Gao Taotao's big wrinkled hand gently patted the back of Zhao Xu's hand, his eyes were filled with something called anticipation and anticipation.

"Grandson understands, thank you, Grandmother. Grandson knows what he wants, so grandson will definitely not give up on this goal."

"Aijia believes in you, you will definitely be able to do better than your father, because your will is stronger than his..." Speaking of this, the empress dowager Gao Taotao couldn't help showing a trace of sadness in her eyes color.

Perhaps, at the beginning, I could better understand my son's idea of ​​reform and progress, and there would not be so much estrangement between mother and child, and perhaps I would not have resentment due to anger. After the death of my son, almost Wipe out every change, good or bad.

After all, at that time, I was just an old woman in the deep palace, and when she first came to the court, how could she stand up to the clever words of these civil and military ministers.

As a result, the estrangement between himself and his grandson is getting deeper and deeper, which can be described as overwhelming.if not...

If it wasn't for the appearance of that guy Wang Wushan, I'm afraid that there would be no chance to reconcile, sit down and talk with my grandson.

(End of this chapter)