Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 781: Storm (Additional chapter for the leader who speaks frankly)
Yuzhen had never thought that her younger sister, who had vowed so firmly not to marry Yang Yuan and even showed great disdain for him, would have such an attitude.

If you want it, you don’t want it. If you don’t want it, you want it?
Jin Yuzhen was an extremely intelligent woman, but she really made a mistake this time.

For a while, she was in a difficult situation.

After Jin Yuzhen stammered and agreed to let her younger sister marry Yang Yuan and arranged a date for her, Taixi only told her:
After the wedding, the younger sister will go with her husband to give a farewell party to her elder sister and brother-in-law.

After Tae Hee left, Kim Ok Jung couldn't help but smile bitterly.

How could she know what the little girl was thinking?

This time, my younger sister has a deep prejudice against me and thinks I am a vicious, shameless bad woman. I am afraid it will be difficult to get her to trust me again.

For a moment, Yuzhen felt very uncomfortable.

"Okay, don't worry about it. I will help you explain it to her."

Seeing that Yuzhen was full of sorrow, Yang Yuan pulled her into his arms and comforted her softly.

Yuzhen thought that her younger sister was full of hostility towards her, but had never said a bad word to Yang Yuan from beginning to end. She thought that Yang Yuan would listen to her, and she felt relieved.

"Bad guy, I don't know what kind of magic potion you gave her. That little girl already likes you so much, but I'm blind and didn't see it."

Yuzhen bit her lip and lightly punched Yang Yuan on his strong chest.

Because Tae Hee expressed her feelings, Kim Ok-jeong, who had originally planned to return to Goryeo, had to postpone her return date.

……

The total mobilization of the Song Empire for war was like an undercurrent beneath the abyss. Its power was far more intense than the surging waves above the water, but not so obvious and intense.

Therefore, ordinary people can only realize that everything they are dealing with is quietly changing and accelerating, but they cannot have a panoramic perspective.

However, Kou Heiyi, who was lurking in the abyss, could sense it.

He believed that Daxia's secret spies in the Song Dynasty had also discovered many clues and reported them to the court.

However, he still reported what he saw and heard, as well as his own analysis, to the Emperor of Daxia through his secret channels.

Li Renxiao has indeed received secret reports from multiple channels recently.

All these news ultimately pointed to one result: the Song Dynasty was going to take action against the Xia Dynasty.

The Jin Kingdom transferred Lintao to Western Xia, and eventually brought the war to Western Xia.

In fact, when Wanyan Liang initially played this trick, it was to increase the pressure on the Song State on the western front.

Because of the existence of the powerful Jin Kingdom on the front battlefield, the re-establishment of borders between Western Xia and the Song Dynasty would only cause more troubles for the Song Dynasty and prevent it from dealing with the Jin Kingdom with all its strength.

The Battle of Lingbi was an accident.

This battle consumed too many elite troops of the Jin Dynasty.

After losing the entire Northeast region, the Jin Dynasty was left with only 500,000 elite soldiers.

Among these 500,000 soldiers, there were about 350,000 elite infantry and 150,000 cavalry.

However, after entering the Central Plains, the Jin Kingdom expanded its territory and dispersed its troops, with only a few thousand soldiers stationed in each city. Whether attacking or defending, it lost the mobilization efficiency and mobility it had before entering the Central Plains.

To make matters worse, the cavalry began to lack replenishment of war horses.

Due to the loss of the Northeast region, and the fact that Wanyan Luti kept sucking blood from the Mongolian Tatar region and extorting soldiers, women and war horses, the Jin Dynasty's control over the Mongolian region was increasingly weakened, and its war horse system collapsed.

A large number of cavalry began to become infantry under cavalry flags.

This is similar to the Song Dynasty, which was seriously short of war horses.

Wanyan Liang's Great Jin Dynasty was rapidly becoming like the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Liang could only purchase a large number of horses from Western Xia.

Although they were allies, Western Xia had always strictly controlled the export of war horses to the Jin Dynasty.

Until a large amount of intelligence showed that the Song Dynasty was going to take action against Western Xia.

Li Renxiao decided to fully open up the export of war horses to the Jin Kingdom.

However, the Western Xia army was mainly composed of cavalry, so of course they had to satisfy their own needs first.

Therefore, he needed to act as a middleman to purchase horses from Tubo.

Tubo no longer has a unified regime and cannot even be called a unified country.

Therefore, it was very difficult for Xixia to communicate with Tubo, and their envoys had to contact and communicate with each tribe one by one.

But before this, Xixia soldiers often plundered Tibetan tribes, and these Tibetan tribes now had the cooperation of the wealthy Wu family chaebol in central Sichuan, so Xixia's contacts with the Tibetan tribes had little effect.

Whether it was increasing the export of war horses to the Jin Dynasty, or using the national treasury to purchase horses from Tubo, especially starting war mobilization and preparation, it was inseparable from Prime Minister Ren Dejing.

This is a matter of life and death for Western Xia. Although the emperor and prime minister of Western Xia have been fighting openly and secretly, where can the hair be attached if the skin is gone?
If Western Xia was destroyed, what would be the emperor and prime minister?
Therefore, Li Renxiao believed that he could convince Ren Dejing.

This was indeed the case. Li Renxiao invited Ren Dejing into the palace and told him about the matter. Ren Dejing readily agreed and had no objection to Li Renxiao's arrangements.

However, Ren Dejing agreed so readily and did not care about some of Ren Dejing's tricks in the appointment of generals, which made Li Renxiao a little uneasy.

He and Prime Minister Ren Dejing had not seen each other for a long time.

Therefore, he could feel even the slightest changes.

During this meeting, he felt that the prime minister's temperament was becoming more and more different from the past. Ren Dejing's temperament was becoming more feminine.

But his eyes began to become younger.

His control over state affairs is still somewhat careless, just as the sudden changes in recent years.

However, before he changed, the situation of Western Xia had already been determined.

For example, Ren Dejing's brother Ren Decong was the Grand Commandant of Xixia, and another brother Ren Degong was the prefect of Xingqing Prefecture. His cousin Ren Deren was the Xuanhui Envoy of the Southern Court, and his nephew Ren Chunzhong was the Deputy Chief Secretary of the Privy Council, firmly holding the military and political power.

Therefore, even though Ren Dejing had relaxed his control over state affairs and was even somewhat careless, Li Renxiao did not dare to provoke Ren Dejing for a while.

In fact, if it were not for the support of the Jin Kingdom, Ren Dejing would have been able to control him at will, or even depose him with a single word.

Therefore, Li Renxiao always felt uneasy about Ren Dejing's changes.

He was worried that Ren Dejing was hiding his intentions and had other agendas.

But the problem is that he is the passive party. Ren Dejing has not taken any action, and he does not have the courage to break the current harmonious situation.

For a while, Xixia fell into a strange harmony.

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Kou Heiyi reported his perception of the Song Dynasty's intentions back to Xixia, and again requested Emperor Li Renxiao to return to the court.

He wanted to lead troops, he wanted to fight on the battlefield, he was really tired of being a mouse that didn't see the light of day.

His layout on Lizhou East Road was not going well.

After escaping from Lizhou Middle Road to Lizhou East Road, he wanted to repeat his old tricks and take advantage of the conflict between the Wen family and the Guo family to stir up chaos in Lidong.

However, the Wen family has ruled Li Zhong for more than ten years, and in these ten years, the effect of "people leaving and tea getting cold" has long been achieved.

Some people in the Guo family are still immersed in the glorious past when the Guo family was the owner of this land, dreaming that as long as they stand up and raise their arms, everyone will respond.

But in fact, even Wen Xuanchen, the commander of Li Zhong, did not have as much control over Li Zhong as Wu Lin and Yang Zheng, let alone the descendants of Guo Hao.

As a result, Kou Heiyi went to great lengths to gain the trust of some people in the Guo family, but before he could take any further action, the ownership of Kuizhou Road changed.

Liu Qi, a veteran general with a deep Western Army background who once frightened many famous Xixia generals, was stationed in Kuizhou Road.

He and Yang Yuan, the King of Sichuan who was the lord of Tongchuan Road and Lizhou Central Road, stood side by side, like two fierce tigers circling the side of Lizhou East Road.

In this situation, the emperor only issued an imperial decree, and the Guo family was uprooted from Lidong and sent to Lizhong, where they were supervised by Yang Yuan.

In the face of absolute power and strength, Kou Heiyi felt that his many tricks were simply ridiculous.

Fortunately, this time, Li Renxiao finally changed his mind.

Perhaps, it was because Ren Dejing's increasingly strange changes made him increasingly uneasy.

Maybe it’s because there are not so many talented people around us.

Or maybe it was because although Tuoba Heiyi had royal blood, he was one of the targets he did not want to give military power to. He had been away from the court and even away from the country for so many years. Li Renxiao believed that he was no longer a threat to him.

He finally relented and ordered Tuoba Heiyi to return to the country and gave him an important position.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty's intensive war preparations and the tense responses of Western Xia and Jin were also noticed by the New Jin Empire far in the north.

The "Yiluansi" of the New Jin Empire immediately dispatched Wanyan Ping from the "Huzitang" and Li Qinglu from the "Hedgehogzitang", along with a group of capable men from the "Yiluansi", to leave Shangjing City along with Baili Bing.

Baili Bing returned to Chengdu Prefecture, and the two little princesses and the little princess moved into "Daxing" (Chang'an) to establish a frontier intelligence organization to monitor the three countries of Jin, Xia and Song.

The New Jin planned that when the Jin Kingdom was deeply mired in war, they would also join the war and get a piece of the pie.

……

In early April, Wang Shuai and Jin Yuzhen finally returned to China.

The first three months of Jin Yuzhen's pregnancy had passed, and it was the right time for her to return home.

If it is later, it would not be suitable for you to travel far if you are pregnant.

This time when she returned, Jin Yuzhen also brought with her two secret letters and a letter from the country.

The secret letter was addressed to the heads of the Jin and Wang families.

The letter was from the Song Dynasty to the Goryeo Dynasty.

Once the Song Dynasty declared war on Western Xia, the world would be shaken and the military aid to the New Jin would have to be adjusted.

As vassal states of the Song Dynasty, Japan and Goryeo could not just wave flags and shout slogans.

Yang Yuan was never satisfied with just the title of a vassal state. He gained a lot of benefits but never took the lead when something happened.

Under his advice, the Song Dynasty demanded that the two countries provide assistance.

Either send troops or pay money. This is a national war, and vassal states naturally cannot stay out of it.

Outside Jianzhou City, there was a long convoy.

Tae Hee, who had just become a wife, changed into the traditional Goryeo costume, a milky white dress, and held hands with her sister Yuzhen, while her brother-in-law stood beside them.

The two women's expressions and expressions were about 60% similar...

(End of this chapter)