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The Song Dynasty was constantly at war, and Zhao Kuangyin felt that ten thousand years was too long. Only by seizing the time to establish the Song Dynasty on its feet could the Song Dynasty's national destiny be stabilized!

He doesn't want the people to suffer the pain of having their mountains and rivers trampled by iron hooves!

The Song Dynasty's arsenal is now operating at full capacity, producing weapons and ammunition every day! This time, the arsenal has made a bad move. I heard that the Xixia Iron Harriers are very powerful.

The people at the Arsenal have developed a mine that can actually bloom! Hey, this thing has a thin crust and a big filling. Let the Iron Harrier have a good taste of it!

The Song Dynasty was like a war beast. Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Gao Huaide, and Yang Ye! With a hundred thousand imperial guards, they charged towards Xixia with murderous intent! Furthermore, the Longyou Protectorate sent two hundred thousand civilians to provide logistical support.

Li Yuanhao, the ruler of Western Xia, had just founded his country and had barely sat down when he was met with a critical attack from the Song Dynasty!

Zhao Kuangyin sat firmly in Youzhou City, his soldiers went out to fight, and the emperor was trying to find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure!

Zhao Kuangyin started to work on glass. It was not difficult to make glass, and he could make a lot of money. Zhao Kuangyin was really fed up with the paper-pasted windows. The winter in Youzhou was very cold.

Even the emperor couldn't bear it! The queen's factory produced exquisite glass products in just one month.

Zhao Kuangyin first installed glass in his and the queen's bedrooms, and the room was as dark as a cave every day.

The kang, a magical heating device, must also be arranged. After becoming emperor, Zhao Kuangyin was busy every day and had no time to enjoy life.

Now that his generals are busy wielding swords, the emperor finally has the mood to arrange his own life.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty was indeed very frustrated. If he ate more mutton in the palace, officials would advise him to be frugal!

The war between the Song Dynasty and Western Xia lasted for a full year and a half, and the Western Xia leader Li Yuanhao was captured alive by Yang Ye!

The remaining Xixia people abandoned the city and fled westward!

The Song Dynasty has finally gained a firm foothold! The whole nation celebrates!

Li Yuanhao was taken to Youzhou, which should now be called Beidu! The Song Dynasty subjects in Beidu looked at the emperor sitting in a prison car as if they were watching a foreign spectacle!

According to Zhao Kuangyin's plan, just drag him out and chop him off!

But all the civil and military officials refused to agree. This soul-destroying battle must leave a vivid mark in the history books!

Intellectuals are just bad. Li Yuanhao was dragged to the Taimiao as a sacrifice and then paraded through the whole city!

Li Yuanhao was so ashamed and angry that he covered his face with his sleeves. Zhao Pu arranged Li Yuanhao to live in a house next to Li Yu, the last emperor of Southern Tang.

The civil officials had great use for these kings. On the days of sacrifice, these kings would put on colorful clothes and go to the Taimiao and the Martyrs' Shrine to dance!

It took Zhao Kuangyin ten years to recover Yanyun and Xixia, and now only the tough Liao remained.

Zhao Kuangyin had a rare good New Year. Sixty years old, he finally had a few days of peace and quiet after ten years in the Song Dynasty. Beidu was a city without a curfew, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the most famous festival in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin, accompanied by Queen Song Huizhen and Crown Prince Zhao Defang, climbed to the highest point of the imperial city and looked at the brilliant lights of the Northern Capital.

Zhao Kuangyin had not been happy for long when thick smoke began to billow from the beacon towers on the Great Wall.

The Liao army, in an urgent move of eight hundred miles, joined forces with the Goryeo Uighurs to launch a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty.

For a time, smoke of war rose everywhere. The Song Dynasty had to resist the enemies from the north, but to make matters worse, the Dali Tubo in the south also organized troops to launch a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was truly surrounded by enemies. At this time, there was an unusual movement in the court. Zhao Dezhao jumped out with a group of his followers and accused Zhao Kuangyin of excessive killing, which led to the army attacking the Song Dynasty from all sides.

Thousands of people actually dared to force the emperor to abdicate. Zhao Kuangyin touched his forehead and said, "Are you curious why the emperor chose Defang instead of you, the eldest son?"

Zhao Dezhao was filled with indignation: "It's because Song likes Zhao Defang! How am I inferior to Zhao Defang? I should be the heir and the eldest son! Father, you just listened to the slanderous words of this bitch!"

You've never considered me, your eldest son! You don't need to say anything now! As long as you hand over the throne, your son can give you a way out! "

Zhao Kuangyin looked at his idiot son and said, "Today I will tell you why. You study at home every day and hang out with a bunch of pedantic Confucian scholars. I have a job for you!

What do you think of this national policy of equalizing the land tax and corvée labor? You say that ten years of hard study cannot chill the heart of a scholar! Your heart is crooked! In the face of internal and external troubles, you still want to rule the country with ease and rule the world with benevolence!

Apart from a good reputation among the sour Confucian scholars, what else do you have?

How did your brother do it? If you were not blind, you could see it! Defang was able to stabilize the court when retaking Yanyun. Can you?

Do you really think I don't know what you've done? Do you really think I'm the principal for nothing?

Look at the soldiers around you, they are looking at you like a fool!

Ask them if anyone is willing to fight for you?

If you don't even understand what rebellion is, you're hopeless!"

Zhao Kuangyin roared: "Prince Wugong has no father and no king. From now on, he will be demoted to a commoner and go to the imperial tomb to guard the casket and repent! His accomplices will be beheaded and displayed to the public! His family will be exiled to Yunzhou to dig coal!"

Zhao Dezhao hurriedly ordered the people behind him to take action, but none of the soldiers behind him listened to his command. Zhao Dezhao knew that the situation was hopeless and quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy:

"Your Majesty, I have been possessed by a demon. Please have mercy on me, for my mother's sake! Please show some mercy! I will never do it again!"

Zhao Dezhao was dragged out of Yong'an Palace by the guards!

After this farce ended, Zhao Kuangyin concentrated his forces to deal with the enemies in the north.

Zhao Kuangyin sent Gao Huaide with 50,000 elite troops to support Dali and Tubo. Zhao Kuangyin's order was: "Don't take the initiative to meet the enemy on the southern front. Hold the city and try to delay until the court has dealt with the northern enemy!

As long as there's no chaos in the south, you, Lord Gao, have done a great service! Don't worry about food and ammunition; I've assigned someone to take care of it!"

Gao Huaide knelt on the ground: "I will obey the decree of Your Majesty! I will not refuse even if it means death! As long as I am in the South Barbarians, you will never set foot in our Great Song Dynasty!"

The soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty bid farewell to Gao Huaide, the leader of the army, and also bid farewell to the emperor's 500,000 imperial troops who were leading the army in person and rushed to the front line in a cloud of dust!

Zhao Kuangyin was still very relieved with the Crown Prince acting as regent in the court. Now, as long as he could eliminate this group of people, the good days of the Song Dynasty would finally come!

Nomadic people live by following water and grass. If we launch a large-scale attack, we will have to wait and see when to attack the vast and sparsely populated north!

Just when I was worrying about how to catch them, these idiots just showed up! This time, I can just destroy them with one spoonful and put an end to their troubles forever!

The prince was very decisive. He announced that everyone in the Song Dynasty would use iron coins instead. The court would remake silver coins, and people could exchange copper coins for silver coins!

Anyone who possessed copperware could exchange it for silver at the imperial court. Anyone who secretly kept copperware would be subject to three years of forced labor.