"Then tell me, what should we do if the Liao people come?"
Lu Yijian said angrily.
"Let him come. At worst, we can destroy the Liao and Xixia first. Even if our Song Dynasty is severely weakened, it's better than continuing to kneel down!"
Zhao Jun looked around and said in a high voice, "You've already lost your momentum before the fight even begins. The Liao people will only become more reckless. Let's not talk about them just threatening. Are things really going as they wish?"
"The allied forces of the Liao Kingdom's vassal states and tribes suffered heavy losses this time. Will they really be willing to follow the Liao Kingdom southward?"
"The Liao Kingdom wasn't a completely unified country or regime, and there were certainly disagreements within it. If all 500,000 of them were fearless, I would agree to this peace negotiation, treating it like Liu Bang's siege of Baideng and Li Shimin's surrender. We'll fight back when we're stronger."
"But I don't believe that the Liao Kingdom's so-called 500,000-strong army is all made up of tough guys. After seeing the power of grenades and artillery, they still have the guts to come and die."
"Do you think what they say is true?"
"You're wrong. The Liao people are just used to bluffing, and every time you believe them and get scared, they think any threat will work. They've repeatedly made you think you can keep compromising, but they've forgotten that they were badly defeated this time. If they keep fighting, they'll definitely lose!"
"So I absolutely do not believe that compromise can bring lasting peace. Only by persevering to the end can we truly make them feel fear. Tell Fan Zhongyan that if they want to fight, we will fight to the end."
"I can allow the existence of a Liao Kingdom, but I cannot allow a Liao Kingdom that oppresses us for a long time. If they want to recover their economic losses, they can exchange them for horses, iron, and copper. We can open a border market and trade with them, but we will never give them gifts again."
"All annual tributes are cancelled, as are all birthday gifts for the enemy emperor and empress dowager. I can only tell the Liao Kingdom that they have no money, but only lives. Our lives depend on whether they have the energy to take them."
At the end, Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Zhen and said seriously, "Your Majesty, broken bones can be connected, but a broken spine can never be mended. I hope you can stand up straight, use Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Taizong of Tang as your role models, listen less to those bastards, and don't think of yourself as Shi Jingtang!"
“Dignity is never given by others, but comes from your own strength!”
The last sentence is very powerful!
I admit I fudged the comments, but facts aside, are you right? Uh, just kidding. I was just fudged the comments, hoping everyone would analyze them and offer some advice. But I found no real discussion, only verbal abuse. Many disciples were actually quite harsh, threatening to have the book deleted. I can understand that, since I fudged the comments first.
But many trainees and apprentices would directly attack my life, and I couldn't hold it in any longer.
It's not that I'm sensitive. What Chunchun wrote was the real situation of the emperor and his ministers in the Song Dynasty. If I wrote about these tough guys, it wouldn't be a historical article, but a science fiction article.
The protagonist really wants to help the rulers and ministers of the Song Dynasty connect their backbones, but this cannot be achieved by winning one or two major battles. What is needed is to send troops to the grasslands like Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Taizong of Tang did, and sweep across the north in one fell swoop.
So this is reality and truth.
What I wrote was definitely authentic, but before the protagonist even appeared, everyone started attacking him personally. I think that was excessive and outrageous.
(End of this chapter)
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