Due to various considerations, Su Yonglin had to make his own commitment on this matter.
"If Ren Dejing really has any thoughts about the position of the leader of Xia Kingdom and dares to do anything treasonous, I will never let him go."
Su Yonglin finally said what Li Lirong wanted to hear. Li Lirong was overjoyed and kowtowed to express his gratitude to Su Yonglin.
Su Yonglin didn't say anything more and sent someone to arrange for Li Lirong to go down and rest.
After Li Lirong went down to rest, Su Yonglin paced back and forth in the study alone, thinking for a while.
After a while, Su Yonglin made a decision, and then sent someone to send an order to Su Haisheng, who was guarding Guanzhong, asking him and the Qilu Corps to prepare.
This time, Su Yonglin decided to play a big game.
He doesn't want to continue to be controlled by changes, and he can't take the initiative to be approached by changes. He wants to take the initiative, turn changes into plans, execute his own will, and bring an end to all this.
You think I don’t have time to beat you up when I’m building the Yellow River, right?
But don't think of yourselves as too powerful.
Xixia is a small country!
Su Yonglin decided to completely solve the Xixia problem just this time.
Of course, in order to completely solve this matter, someone's help is necessary.
Lin Jingchun.
Su Yonglin did not ask anyone to call Lin Jingchun, but went to the Ministry of Finance to find Lin Jingchun himself.
When Lin Jingchun saw that Su Yonglin came to the Ministry of Finance in person, he was not as excited as the officials from outside. He was unhappy and worried. He even planned to escape to avoid Su Yonglin and not want to meet him.
However, Su Yonglin was so fast that he blocked Lin Jingchun in the office.
Lin Jingchun was quite helpless.
"Alang, what do you want to do?"
"Don't you know what I want to do?"
When Su Yonglin faced Lin Jingchun alone, he didn't have the airs of an emperor at all. He sat next to Lin Jingchun with a smile, which made Lin Jingchun immediately feel something bad.
"Alang, let me make a deal first. I don't need money, but my life. If you think my life is valuable, clean me, tie me up, drag me out and sell me, and see how much money you can get back."
Su Yonglin quickly shook his head.
"What are you talking about? I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not a bandit. How can I sell ministers to make money? The emperor must pay attention to the name when making money, he must have a famous teacher, and he cannot do mindless things."
"What name?"
"I want to fight Xixia."
"Fight Xixia?!"
Lin Jingchun's eyes widened and he jumped up like a cat with fried fur: "Alang, we just finished plowing the grassland and wiped out two tribes. Now there are a lot of things to spend money on, waiting for me to pay for them. What are you doing?" Want to fight against Xixia? Although the country is big and prone to war, you will always perish, but this is what you said!"
Su Yonglin quickly stood up to comfort him and asked him to sit down again.
"Why am I so belligerent? This is because I have no choice but to do so."
Then Su Yonglin told Lin Jingchun what happened in Xixia.
"That's what happened. Xixia has reached this point internally. Ren Dejing no longer wants to hide his ambitions. He has tested me many times to test my thoughts and determination. If I can't attack him head-on, the Xixia coup is right around the corner. .
Xixia is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty does not respond to, stop or interfere with the changes in Xixia, the surrounding enemies will know that we can't do anything because of the construction of the Yellow River. Next, they will intensify their efforts.
So this is why I have to attack the grassland no matter what, and why I have to send troops to Xixia no matter what. The Ming Dynasty must remain strong, so that the young people dare not move around, to prevent war from happening as much as possible, and to allow us to cultivate with peace of mind. Yellow River. "
Su Yonglin's explanation made Lin Jingchun silent for a while.
"But Alang, you are not clear about our financial situation. There are too many places where we have to spend money, and we even feel that we cannot make ends meet. If we continue, it will be very dangerous."
"So don't you always save some money for emergencies?"
"I already used it when clearing the grassland before!"
"Don't lie to me. Only half of it was used for hunting the grassland. I know that, and such a large amount of seizures can be made up sooner or later."
Su Yonglin blinked and showed a mysterious smile.
Lin Jingchun immediately put his hand on his forehead.
"I have worked so hard to save some money for my family, but why is it so difficult? Why are they all focusing on my little money... What can I do if I have the time?"
"I also work for state affairs. Do you think when I ask you for money for personal matters? Right?"
Su Yonglin smiled and stroked Lin Jingchun's back, comforting him.
In the end, Lin Jingchun couldn't resist Su Yonglin's request, so he could only nod in agreement. He took out the last bit of his family fortune and handed it to Su Yonglin, and then said seriously to him - there really is nothing left, not a drop is left. If anything happens, I will No matter.
That's natural.
However, if the troops sent to Xixia cannot make back the money, Su Yonglin will lose the battle.
This time the troops are sent to Xixia, no matter what, they must teach Ren Dejing a lesson, and if the plan goes well before this, Ren Dejing will also teach the Xixia ruling class a lesson.
When the time comes, all you have to do to make money will be soft.
On the fourth day after the order was sent out, and also the day after Li Lirong bid farewell to Su Yonglin and returned to resume his duties, Ren Dejing's envoy Ren Degong arrived.
Because they had met before, Ren Degong was quite familiar with things this time. After arriving, he not only asked to see Su Yonglin, but also went to visit senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Such as Zhao Zuoliang, such as Xin Qiji, such as Kong Zheng, such as Huo Jianbai, such as Lin Jingchun.
His plan seemed to be to visit these senior officials to inquire about the recent trends of the Ming Dynasty, and to vaguely mention Ren Dejing's plans to see if he could get the support of these senior officials.
If we can get the support of these senior officials and have them help with a few kind words, it should be a good thing to win Su Yonglin's support.
He thinks so.
He did meet the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty. These senior officials all received him, welcomed him into the mansion, accepted his gifts, and then laughed with him about the past and present.
Then he vaguely mentioned Ren Dejing's status in Xixia and his next plans, but these senior officials of the Ming Dynasty did not make any substantive statements.
They either ignored him or pretended not to understand, or the servants at home interrupted him and said there was something urgent for them to do.
Especially Lin Jingchun, who was expressionless and not very enthusiastic at first, but immediately became very enthusiastic after receiving his gift list, and even provided fruit to Ren Degong.
But when Ren Degong vaguely mentioned the purpose of his visit, Lin Jingchun's servant suddenly rushed in and told Lin Jingchun that his favorite dog had been stung by a wild bee and was dying.
Lin Jingchun was so shocked that he ran to the backyard without even having time to say anything to Ren Degong.
Ren Degong waited for an hour, when an old housekeeper came and said that Lin Jingchun was in a trance because of the loss of his beloved dog, and asked Ren Degong to come visit another day.
Ren Degong left Lin Jingchun's mansion in confusion.
In this way, Ren Degong visited seven senior officials, but no one gave him clear support. This made Ren Degong feel that it would be more difficult for him to succeed on this mission.
What does the Ming Dynasty mean?
With such uneasiness, Ren Degong was received by Su Yonglin.
In the study where Su Yonglin handled government affairs daily, Ren Degong met Su Yonglin again and presented Ren Dejing's gift to Su Yonglin.
It was still the same as before, the quantity of copper and cattle and sheep was given, which was more than before. Su Yonglin accepted it with a smile - just kidding, the Ming Dynasty is so short of money now, why don't you want it if you have money?
"Msg. Ren is still so polite, come as soon as you come, and he also gives you so many things. Oh, why am I so embarrassed?"
Su Yonglin said this with a smile, but he was not polite at all. He accepted the gift list and flipped through it happily, feeling that this gift list should help Lin Jingchun lose a few wrinkles on his face.
"A mere gift is not worth mentioning. How can His Majesty's kindness to the Xia Kingdom be repaid with such a trivial gift?"
Seeing Su Yonglin so happy, Ren Degong agreed.
Su Yonglin didn't understand why he had feelings for Xixia, but that didn't matter. What he got was the most real thing. If he was willing to give it, he would take it and he wouldn't lose any piece of meat.
"Then I'll accept it. Remember to tell Xianggong Ren when you go back. I'm very grateful to him."
"I don't deserve His Majesty's gratitude. This is what foreign ministers and others should do."
Ren Degong raised his head and looked at Su Yonglin's face, then felt a little relieved.
Su Yonglin read the gift list, put it aside, and looked at Ren Degong.
"Etiquette is a good thing, I'm very happy, but I've heard a lot about your Mr. Ren recently."
"What is your Majesty referring to?"
"I heard that your Xianggong Ren is building a palace in Lingzhou City?"
"Does Your Majesty know everything?"
"Every woman and child in the Xia Kingdom knows something, how can I not know it?"
Su Yonglin said with a serious face: "Building palaces has always been something that only emperors and princes can do. It is for the palace and the royal palace. Ren Dejing is only the Xixia Prime Minister, why should he build a palace for himself? I don't quite understand this. .”
Ren Degong's heart skipped a beat, feeling that something was wrong.
Although Li Renxiao professed himself to Su Yonglin and called himself king, he still called himself emperor in Xixia. He felt that Su Yonglin must know this and turn a blind eye to it in most cases.
Ren Dejing, the King of Chu, was conferred by Li Renxiao, but since Li Renxiao was canonized as the King of Xixia by Su Yonglin, he was legally a king and was not qualified to confer other kings. At most, he could be conferred a marquis.
Ren Dejing's title as King of Chu would definitely not be recognized in the Ming Dynasty.
Su Yonglin had never mentioned this matter before, why did he suddenly mention it now?
Ren Degong was a little surprised, but there was no way to deal with it.
"This matter is actually a long story, because Xianggong Ren's title is, he is the King of Chu..."
"That's ridiculous. When did I ever make Ren Dejing king?"
"This...this is canonized by the Lord of Xia Kingdom..."
"The leader of the Xia Kingdom is only a king. If you want to be granted the title, you can only be granted the title of marquis. How can you be granted the title of king?"
Su Yonglin's tone gradually became stern, which seemed quite ominous to Ren Degong.
"Your Majesty, this matter... This matter happened before Your Majesty ascended the throne. At that time, the king of our country was still the emperor, so..."
"emperor?"
Su Yonglin frowned: "I remember before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, your Xia Kingdom was a vassal state of the Jin Kingdom. It was also canonized by the Jin Kingdom and was not an official emperor. Where did you get the power to be a king?"
"This this……"
Ren Degong suddenly didn't know what to say.
This matter is something that everyone just turns a blind eye to and passes by. If you declare yourself a minister in public and become the emperor behind closed doors, no matter how you choose to seal it, the superior country will generally not care, as long as you If you don't understand the provocation, just do whatever you want.
This is how the Jin Kingdom treated other vassal states.
However, Su Yonglin's behavior directly broke the core spirit of the internal operation of the tribute system that is not humane to outsiders.
If you do this, do you, Su Yonglin, really want to interfere in Xia's internal affairs and enforce your suzerainty?
