After Zhao Zhen gave birth to a baby, he was actually still rebooting and maintaining health.
One is because except for Queen Cao and Zhang Meiren, the rest of the harem are not yet eighteen years old.
Even if they want to cause trouble, it is basically for the purpose of not having children and is just to meet needs.
Second, Zhao Zhen is still not satisfied with having only given birth to one son.
His father gave birth to six children. Although the first few died in infancy, he wanted to surpass his father and give birth to more healthy babies.
Therefore, he is usually quite restrained, which is a rare thing for an old pervert like him.
If it weren't for the great task of carrying on the family lineage, he would have let himself go and drafted talents everywhere.
But now the inventory in Zhao Jun's computer has obviously opened the door to a new world for him, and he is deeply attracted.
Although being an emperor was very happy in ancient times, it also depended on who became the emperor.
If she were like Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty or Emperor Yuan of the Wei Dynasty, she would be suppressed and out of breath, no different from an angry little daughter-in-law.
Although Zhao Zhen has not reached that point, he is actually not much better.
His wife was basically given to him during the period of Empress Dowager Liu, and he had no choice but to choose.
After taking charge, he thought he could do whatever he wanted, but the ministers came again.
Others presented him with several beauties, and all the remonstrating ministers wrote in succession, making Zhao Zhen so angry that he was forced to send the beauties back.
So in fact, Zhao Zhen is also very helpless. He is obviously an old pervert, but he is always frustrated and cannot do what he wants.
As for aesthetics.
Some people say that the aesthetics of the ancients was very perverted, but in fact Zhao Zhen had the same aesthetic from beginning to end - he likes good-looking people.
What Zhao Jun collects are all carefully selected by him. Not only are they high-quality beauties from various production areas, but they are also all put on beautiful makeup. This evil magic can instantly transform even ordinary girls into peerless beauties.
Naturally, there were ancient makeup techniques, but they certainly couldn't compare with modern ones. Therefore, in Zhao Zhen's eyes, the beauties on the computer were much prettier than the beauties in the harem.
Moreover, the figures were also bigger than the other, making Zhao Zhen look at him for a moment, crushing all his three views, and then he quickly became addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.
For a while, Zhao Zhen went to the harem to visit his concubine.
Moreover, he returned to his old ways and summoned his favorite Zhang Meiren, Master Yu and Master Miao, and Tong Mian began to act mischievously.
And while Zhao Zhen was obsessed with women, Fan Zhongyan and Li Yuanhao were fighting in the northwest.
Lao Fan began to prepare troops, horses and food, planning to go out to attack Xingqing Mansion in Xixia.
On the one hand, he remained calm and seemed to intend to negotiate peace with Li Yuanhao. He accepted Li Yuanhao's proposal to surrender, but at the same time he accused Yuan Hao of not being sincere enough to surrender.
How can there be anyone in this world who surrenders and surrenders, refuses to pay tribute to his subjects, and deprives himself of the throne?
After Li Yuanhao received Fan Zhongyan's reply, he was naturally happy to stall for time with the Song Dynasty, so he cut himself off from the throne, declared himself a minister and paid tribute, and the future status of the Song Dynasty and Xia Dynasty. The two sides continued to write letters and talk, and launched fierce negotiations.
From the initial request that the Song Dynasty recognize his status as emperor, the Song Dynasty refused to allow it, requiring Yuan Hao to restore the Xiazhou governor during his grandfather's time, the Dingnan Army Jiedushi, and then compensate the Song Dynasty for 30,000 horses and camels. Ten thousand head, five thousand cattle, forty thousand sheep, and some other gold, silver and Xixia specialties.
After the Song Dynasty had retreated to a certain extent, he could retain his title as king of Xixia. He was required to have 10,000 horses, 5,000 camels, 3,000 oxen, 20,000 sheep, some gold, silver, and special products, etc.
Of course Li Yuanhao quit.
He could accept temporarily reducing himself to the king. After all, he thought that as long as he dragged the Liao Kingdom into trouble, even if he failed to break through the Shaanxi Road of the Song Dynasty, he could at least force the Song Dynasty to negotiate peace and regain his status as emperor.
But now that Xixia has been cut off from trade, its economy is close to collapse and people's livelihood is declining. Although Li Yuanhao has won three out of three games in history, in fact, he is almost unable to support himself internally.
What's more, they haven't won the battle yet, but have suffered a miserable defeat.
Under this situation, if we continue to donate so many things, I am afraid that there will be no need to fight in the future, and the domestic economic collapse will plunge Xixia into civil strife.
Therefore, Li Yuanhao resolutely refused to agree and asked for a return to his father's period, where he only paid tribute 500 horses and 300 camels.
The Song Dynasty does not need to reward him, but it is hoped that the Song Dynasty will not exploit him too much.
Fan Zhongyan didn't do it either.
If it had been during the Zhenzong period of Song Dynasty, I would have agreed without any doubt.
After all, that Lord was the one who won the war and signed a treaty that was humiliating and humiliating the country and paid annual tribute to the enemy country.
But this is the period of Song Renzong. Oh, this Lord may also agree.
But it doesn't matter, he may not necessarily be able to call the shots in the country now. The one who calls the shots is the hard-line Zhiyuan master.
Therefore, with the support of Zhao Jun, Fan Zhongyan confidently and boldly opened his mouth, and learned how to intimidate Liao with force, threatening that if he did not agree, he would continue to fight until he was full of teeth.
It sounds like they have exposed their strategic intentions, but in fact Lao Fan also knows that if he says otherwise, Li Yuanhao is not a fool.
Since you have won the battle, it is the correct reaction to start showing off your power. If you hide it, you will be suspicious of the other party.
So just be generous.
Li Yuanhao's tone softened a lot, but he still disagreed. The two sides kept arguing over the issue of compensation.
By the end of May of the second year of Baoyuan, the Liao delegation had also appeared in Bianliang.
The envoy this time was composed of Xiao Ying, the envoy of the Southern Academy, Liu Liufu, the Hanlin scholar, and others. On the surface, it was to celebrate Zhao Zhen's birthday, but in fact, it was to find out the truth.
Zhao Zhen's birthday is May 30th, and he is twenty-nine years old.
What surprised the ministers was that the officials seemed to be a lot more lazy recently. Even when they went to court in the morning, they often yawned. Sometimes they even refused to come to court at all on the pretext of taking care of the prince.
But now the prince is the eldest child. At least until the second and third princes are born, the eldest prince cannot make any mistakes, so the ministers understand.
Anyway, government affairs are now coordinated by the Constitutional Yuan. Even without him as the emperor, the country's government affairs can still be handled without any trouble.
After the birthday, the Liao envoy told Zhao Zhen that he had heard that the Southern Dynasty had recently developed a new type of firearm and wanted to see it.
Zhao Zhen refused on the grounds that it involved military secrets.
The Liao Kingdom also expressed that even if they could not see it, they still wanted to visit the Song Dynasty's firearms manufacturing factory.
Zhao Zhen still refused on the grounds of military confidentiality.
The envoys of the Liao State were obviously a little angry and said that if they could not be shown the new firearms, they would ask the Song State to cede the ten counties in Guannan and marry Song Renzong's princess to the Liao State.
Zhao Zhen decisively refused again.
The envoys of the Liao State were shocked and threatened that if the Song State did not comply, the Liao State would march southward.
Zhao Zhen said it was casual.
Seeing that the Song emperor seemed to have changed his gender, he was quite confident, which made the Liao envoys a little unsure.
After all, it was the school field drill that day that shocked the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom.
From a national perspective, they certainly hope to resolve the matter peacefully.
After all, if the firearms developed by the Song State are indeed very powerful, and the Liao State invades southward in a large scale, without a fight, the Liao State will be very dangerous.
At that time, Yanyun may not be recaptured by the Song Dynasty, or he may even be driven out of the pass, and will have no choice but to return to the bitter cold northeastern region.
Therefore, if the Liao Kingdom also had such new weapons, then both sides would be back at the starting point.
Now that the Song Dynasty refuses to accept hard and soft policies, and has a completely tough attitude, it seems that for the Liao Kingdom, the only way left is to go to war.
The problem is that starting a war does not mean that it can be started.
First, the Liao Kingdom also needed to prepare food, grass, soldiers and horses, and it would definitely take time to make arrangements in advance.
Secondly, Song's new firearms still worried them.
At least the Song Dynasty has not threatened to cancel the annual tribute, nor has it announced that it will attack Yanyun in the north. The two sides still maintain a peaceful situation.
Once the Liao State takes the lead in tearing up the "Chanyuan Alliance", then the Liao State will be at fault, and the Song State will have an excuse to send troops.
It would be fine if the Liao Kingdom could withstand the baptism of grenades, but if it couldn't, it would be doomed.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Xiao Ying, Liu Liufu and others did not dare to act rashly. In the end, they stayed in Bianliang for more than 20 days for nothing before going back in despair.
The reason why they stayed in Bianliang was actually to personally command the Liao spies in Bianliang to see if they could find a way to sneak into the Firearms Department to find the formula.
As mentioned before, the three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Xixia all had internal spies for each other. Naturally, the Liao Kingdom also had many internal spies in the Song Dynasty. Among them, some Liao internal spies were lurking in Bianliang in various capacities.
But it is a pity that Zhao Jun kept the gunpowder formula extremely confidential. Apart from him, only Zeng Gongliang and the craftsman knew the entire secret formula.
The rest of the people have carried out the division of labor process. Even if the Liao people gather the craftsmen who have divided the labor, they don't know the specific proportions, how to make them, and the sequence.
Moreover, the Firearms Department is too dangerous now. To manufacture new weapons, such as researching red cannons based on the Tiger Crouching Cannon of the Song Dynasty, and researching flintlock muskets based on the sudden musket, both require space and open space.
Continuing to stay at the armory in the outer city would inevitably lead to problems, so he had already been transferred to the military camp outside the city.
There are hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops watching there. There are also three posts per post and one sentry per five steps. The craftsmen and their families all live inside, forming an internal kingdom with no entry or exit allowed at all.
In this case, unless the Liao State sends a large army to besiege.
Otherwise, if ordinary people want to sneak in and find the gunpowder formula, it can't be said to be easy, it can be regarded as extremely difficult.
After working hard for more than half a month and achieving nothing, the Liao mission could only return to Dadingfu in Zhongjing in July.
In the Zhongjing Imperial Palace, it is already early autumn, the weather has not turned cold yet in the north, and the weather is dry and pleasant.
But Yelvzong was really not in a good mood at this time.
After Yelu Zongzhen listened to the stories of Xiao Ying, Liu Liufu and others, he called Zhang Jian, Xiao Xiaomu, Yelv Renxian and other close ministers to ask for countermeasures.
Liu Liufu and Yelvren were first of all the leaders of the younger generation, with outstanding talents, and they were deeply valued by Yelvzong.
Xiao Ying, Zhang Jian and Xiao Xiaomu were all important ministers of the Liao Kingdom. They were respectively the envoy of the South Court of Xuanhui, the King of Han and the privy envoy of the North Court. They held high positions.
Among them, Zhang Jian is special. He has resigned from office and does not hold any position.
However, Xingzong of Liao respected him very much, so in the winter of the sixth year of Chongxi (1037), he named Zhang Jian the King of Han. He specially brought him to the capital and asked him about state affairs.
Now that he encountered such an important national event, Liao Xingzong naturally wanted to ask Zhang Jian for advice to see if he had any solutions.
In the political affairs hall of the palace, everyone took their seats. Yelu Zongzhen explained the situation, and then looked at Zhang Jian and said, "Father Shang, the Song Dynasty made such a powerful weapon, which is extremely deadly to the cavalry. What should we do?"
After hearing this, Zhang Jian pondered for a moment. After a while, he shook his head and said, "It's actually not fatal."
"oh?"
Yelu Zongzhen said quickly: "Father, please explain clearly."
"Crossbow!"
"Crossbow?"
"Yes, it's a crossbow!"
Zhang Jian pointed out the key issue and said: "Your Majesty said that the object can only be thrown, and the distance it can throw is only more than ten feet, which is much worse than a crossbow. Yuan Hao was defeated because he did not use a crossbow to meet the enemy. , but directly charge into the formation with cavalry, but when encountering Daliao cavalry archers, this item will be much less useful."
"Yes."
Yelu Zongzhen slapped his forehead and said, "I was too confused to notice this. Yuan Hao's Xixia cavalry is incompetent, but that doesn't mean that my Daliao cavalry is the same."
In fact, it was not that Li Yuanhao did not want to use crossbows to meet the enemy, but when he hurriedly gathered his troops, the Song Army cavalry had already occupied the surrounding hillside. If they used crossbows and others stood on high places and shot at each other, who would suffer the loss? ?
Anyway, the Song Army's cavalry was on a high slope of a few meters or more than ten meters, and their shooting range was naturally farther than that of the Xixia Army. It is estimated that the Xixia Army's arrows had already been shot into sieves by the Song Army's cavalry before they could reach the target.
So for Li Yuanhao at that time, there was nothing he could do. Taking advantage of the physical disadvantage of the Song Army's cavalry, the correct solution was to rush forward in one wave.
Unfortunately, I encountered a grenade.
But for Yelu Zongzhen, any excuse was just an excuse if he failed, so he naturally felt that it was all Li Yuanhao's fault.
In addition, if you really want to study it carefully, you can still think of using a crossbow to deal with this section.
But at that time, everyone's attention was shocked by the power of this new weapon, but they forgot that the Liao cavalry was not only highly maneuverable, but also very powerful in mounted shooting.
Later generations always thought that the Mongolian cavalry flew kites and was the best in mounted archery. However, in fact, since the invention of the stirrup, this tactic has been basically popularized. Especially during the Liao Dynasty, galloping on horseback while firing a bow was already a characteristic of the Liao Dynasty. Soldiers' daily training.
Decades later, at the end of the Liao Kingdom, the Liao soldiers at that time were basically corrupted and were brutally beaten by the Jurchen tribe. But at least at this time, the Liao Kingdom was still at its peak, and the craftsmanship passed down by the Khitan ancestors had not been lost yet.
Therefore, if they use cavalry and archery, the Liao people are not afraid of the new weapons of the Song Dynasty. When the two sides faced each other, the Liao State could fully utilize the mobility of the cavalry to attack the Song Army's military formation from a very long distance using bows and crossbows.
At that time, even if it is a grenade, there will be nothing you can do against the Liao cavalry.
Thinking of this, Yelv Zong really laughed and said: "It seems that I am overly worried. This thing has no threat to Daliao. Then the leader of the Song Dynasty dared to make such a mistake. He did not take me seriously at all and passed on the order. Gather the army, I will go south to attack Song Dynasty soon!"
"His Majesty!"
Zhang Jian smiled bitterly and said: "Although this thing has almost no effect on the Liao cavalry and archery. But with this thing, the Song State is already in an invincible position. It will be difficult to attack the Song State rashly."
"Why?"
Yelvzong is really puzzled.
It was Liu Liufu who explained: "There are many fortresses and cities on the border of the Song Dynasty. They are really useless in field battles. But in the siege battle, our crossbows not only have a shorter range than the Song Dynasty's crossbows, but they also have to climb the city. If the opponent throws them from high altitude, Get rid of this firearm"
Needless to say, what follows is a matter of course. In field battles, whether the Song Dynasty is a cavalry phalanx or an infantry phalanx, even if there are grenades, there is definitely nothing that can be done against the Liao cavalry.
But in a siege battle, other people's crossbows can shoot farther than you. Even if you rush to the city, grenades will hit you. How can you chew a turtle shell?
So the current situation is.
Because of the short range of grenades, the Song State would definitely not be able to take the initiative to attack the Liao State.
But the Liao Kingdom couldn't invade south when they encountered other people's grenades.
So when Yelv Zong heard Liu Liufu's words, he was stunned for a moment.
He found.
It doesn’t matter if you fight, it doesn’t matter if you don’t fight.
I seem to be in a dilemma, riding a tiger with difficulty.
(End of chapter)
