Seeing Ye Qing turning his head to look at him, Wu Jue was also a little afraid of Old Liu's existence, but looking at Ye Qing's easy-going and indifferent smile, he nodded silently, then paused and said, "A minister of Xia State, similar to the Maritime Bureau."

Ye Qing nodded without saying a word. In fact, he should have thought that the only people who could trade in Xia now were the Tatars and Song, but Song and Xia were both afraid to trade openly because of the threat from the Jin people, so they could only trade secretly.

Just as the Western Xia once asked the Southern Song Dynasty court not to stop vendors from purchasing Western Xia green salt to protect the Southern Song Dynasty salt tax, Xia bowed to Jin and would be suppressed by Jin in all aspects.

"By the way, the general just mentioned the cake... I don't understand very well. I hope the general can give me advice." Wu Jue kept analyzing Ye Qing's purpose of coming here and his situation, and then asked.

"Cake? Oh, it's just a benefit. I just changed my name, it's meaningless." Ye Qing smiled and listened to the sounds in the rooms opposite him gradually weakened.

Old Liu's head, who had squatted for a while, was approaching the not very tight crack in the door, and glanced inside with a despicable expression. From time to time, he looked back and shook his head like Ye Qing, indicating that he was not the leader of the Tatar.

Ye Qing glanced at Old Liu's vulgar appearance that peeped into other people's privacy, and continued to smile and said to Wu Pin: "Are you curious about why I came here and why I wanted to find Tatars, right?"

"...a little." Wu Punishment could not grasp Ye Qing's personality, so he had to smile implicitly and said.

"Maybe it can't be seen yet, but if the Jin people moved the capital to Yanjing, and the Jin people's attention was not focused further north, but continued to focus on how to make huge profits from our Song Dynasty, this Tatar tribe, which now surrendered to the Jin people, would begin to rise..." Ye Qing squatted on the ground, drawing a rough map of the north on the ground.

With the faint light, when he watched Ye Qing mark Yanjing, the Jin people's Shangjing Huining Prefecture and other places, including the huge territory where grasslands and deserts coexist, Wu Jue couldn't help but speak out: "If this is a good thing for me, the Song Dynasty, right? The rise of the Tatars, the Jin Kingdom will inevitably be weak. If they have a conflict, will our Song Dynasty be able to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight?"

"That's true, but if the Jin people fought with the Tatars and caused them to suffer heavy losses, where would he get benefits from to compensate for their losses?" Ye Qing threw away the small wooden stick he picked up in his hand and said to the thoughtful Wu Pian.

In the rooms opposite, the woman's cry, the man's heavy breathing sound, and even the sound of physical collision, made Lao Liu feel panting and hatred on his face.

"From my Song Dynasty? But if so, we..." Wu Punishment picked up the small branch, looked at the grassland where the Tatars were, then looked at the open space in the south, connected the two places and said, "What if we fight against the Jin Dynasty with the Tatars? Isn't it profitable for me to be attacked by the north and the south?"

Ye Qing did not speak immediately, but looked at Wu Jue with deep meaning. Until Wu Jue was a little nervous when he saw him, he quickly asked Ye Qing if he had said the wrong thing, and then sighed.

Ye Qing said helplessly: "Don't we Song people or the court have a good memory? What was the consequence of even the Jin fight against Liao? I lost half of my country in the Song Dynasty. What do you think the final consequence of my Song Dynasty fighting against the Tatars once again?"

Wu Punishment was stunned for a moment, then smiled relievedly, "The Jin man and wolf ambitions. The court misread it back then and lost half of the country, but... relatively speaking, the savages who are still not full and don't wear or warm in the grassland, live in water, eat raw meat and drink blood, will they also want to devour half of the country in the Song Dynasty after resisting the Jin Dynasty? Besides, the Huai River and the Yangtze River are like natural chasms, and the Jin people cannot break through the grassland. Can the savages who only know how to ride horses cross the Yangtze River?"

"I really hope that I, the subjects of the Song Dynasty, don't have too many people who hold your views." Ye Qing looked at Wu Jue quietly without refuting.

If I hadn't known the trajectory of history, would I have been like them, fearing the Jin people, despising the words on the grassland that did not have their own words, and did not have all the legal provisions, and just lived in turmoil and uneasy, and could die hundreds of people for cattle and sheep as a threat to the Song Dynasty?

But history is history. The generation of geniuses on the grassland will sooner or later shock the world and become a powerful existence that makes the Eurasian continent tremble. Although the Southern Song Dynasty was conquered by the Mongols the latest, it does not mean that the Song Dynasty was powerful, but that the natural barrier played its full strategic position.

"Don't the general think so?" Wu Punishment looked at the sneer on the corner of Ye Qing's mouth gradually disappeared, and then asked carefully.

"If we can take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun before the Tatars become stronger, before posing a real threat to the Jin Kingdom, or when the Tatars challenged the authority of the Jin Kingdom, and then take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, maybe I would think that we can try to see the two of them fighting each other and we will keep our own doors." Ye Qing smiled. No matter what, it is a good thing to plan ahead, but it is not a good thing to plan ahead.

"Isn't even Tatars fighting against the Jin Dynasty?" Wu Zong shook his head. Obviously he had his own opinion. He looked at the wooden door where the woman's voice was gradually weakening, but the man was still fighting with high spirits, and thought for a while and said, "If the court could take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it would be equivalent to being invincible. At that time, the general would not say that he would sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, but the entire Song Dynasty would probably be ambitious and would think about the shame that the Jingkang shame had brought to me!"

Looking at Ye Qing who was silent, Wu Jue continued to say as if he was talking, "So, when talking about war on paper, there were one and another. When Yue Wumu was going to welcome the Two Saints back, he was wronged, so he was killed by the court for false unjustly. If I had taken back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the Song Dynasty, if you still choose to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, watch the Jin and the Tatar fight to the death, and do not want to wash away the Jingkang disaster, you may have been defeated by the false second Yue Wumu."

Ye Qing did not think that what Wu Jue said was wrong. He gave Jue Wu a thumbs up, and then nodded in agreement and said, "If that day really happened, it might be true. Everyone wanted to beat the dog in the water, but I was afraid that our Song Dynasty would not be able to bear the consequences... I was afraid that a tiger would be sent away and a more treacherous, sinister, cunning, united and fierce wolf would come!"

"Maybe the day that the general imagined would never be... General, what you mean..." Wu Jue sat on the ground in shock, looking at Ye Qing with an easy-going smile on his face in disbelief.

"Yes, I came to the Tatars just for this matter. Although it is not yet time, I plan ahead..."

"But how can the general be sure that the Tatars will definitely become a potential threat to the Jin Kingdom? What if it won't happen in the future?" Wu Jue suddenly felt a little unreal. After a discussion on paper, he didn't expect to be taken seriously by the young man in front of him!

No, it should be said that Ye Qing had taken it seriously. After he entered Sizhou or knew that there were Tatars in Sizhou, it was obvious that Ye Qing had such a bold and naive idea, otherwise he would not have brought him here to find the Tatars.

Ye Qing looked at the shocked Wu Jue, stretched out his hand to pull up Wu Jue sitting on the ground, and then continued to say lightly: "Do you know the word "prediction"? The duty of the Imperial City Department is to predict the coming of danger, predict in advance, predict in advance what potential threats and potential enemies of our Song Dynasty, and then strangle him in the bud. The Imperial City Department will monitor ministers, merchants, and monitor everything that is not conducive to the rule of the imperial court, and then destroy them. So why can't we take a step forward and become a real sharp blade for escorting the country and the people?"

"But... this is too incredible, right? No one will believe what you said today by General. I'm afraid... I'm afraid..." Wu Jue pointed to the room opposite. After he was venting his desire, the man said in a satisfying voice: "I'm afraid even the Tatars will not believe that one day they will be strong enough to fight against the Jin people, or even destroy the Jin Kingdom."

"Don't underestimate any enemy." Ye Qing murmured and sighed. He himself knew that no one would believe such things when they said them. Unless he could have absolute influence and popularity like monks, Taoism and Confucianism, perhaps someone would believe them after saying these words.

After looking at the Wu Jue who had not recovered from his shock, Ye Qing continued: "Don't underestimate any enemy, nor underestimate a horse-backed nation that eats raw meat and drinks blood. It is called the barbaric tribe by my Song Dynasty, because... Once they become stronger, the whole world cannot stop them from fighting against the rolling iron cavalry in all directions!"

"Today they can enter the Central Plains and start to trade with Jin and Xia. Then tomorrow, they may use the conflicts between Jin and Xia to strengthen themselves. Or after seeing the prosperity and prosperity of my Song Dynasty, they will become more ambitious and will begin to covet my Song Dynasty, with more colorful materials and humanities. We regard ourselves as civilization but stop moving forward. They are despised for barbarism, but are constantly learning and evolving. Jin, Xia and Liao, which one is not the nation that was regarded as barbaric by our Song people at the time, but what about? They have all drawn a deep hole in my Song Dynasty, a bleeding hole! They have started learning without words, and then created their own words, laws, handicrafts, agriculture imitating me, and created their own words, laws, handicrafts, agriculture, etc.

Farming culture, etc., have been learning until now that the three provinces, six ministries, nine temples and five supervisors have come to govern the country and ensure stability. But what did I learn from them in the Song Dynasty? We look down on those nations that we call barbaric and backward, but we have to hide in a corner, and then comfort ourselves that we have the most orthodox culture and the most authentic bloodline, but we are beaten and bullied everywhere. We govern the country with literati, and they use their strength to spread the border. So in the end, will they destroy our civilization, or will we conquer them, or integrate into a powerful civilization? No one knows! But we also need to learn their strength and barbarity, so as to integrate into the blood of our Han people, in the bones!"

Ye Qing said in the end, he was even a little excited and generous, and even a little unsatisfied, and even seemed to be dissatisfied with the court. Then he looked ferocious and spat on the ground.
Chapter completed!