On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Luoyang City, which has an increasingly popular population, is becoming more and more lively, with all kinds of lights, making it a prosperous age.

However, the atmosphere in the palace was a little nervous.

Li Huai gasped and walked quickly. The huge palace was too huge for him, and even if someone led the way, it was still difficult.

The stone bricks at feet are flat and neat, tightly matched, and the lights in the palace are brightly lit, and almost everyone is on guard against fire.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the most dangerous place.

"Have everyone else arrived?" Li Huai couldn't help asking.

"I don't know!" The eunuch who led the way did not expect to be asked, and could only whisper: "Everyone is scattered, you are not too late!"

"Yes!" Li Huai closed his clothes and the empty palace was so cold that the wind was howling, as if it was colder than outside. He nodded and stopped talking.

Soon, it took nearly a quarter of an hour before he arrived at the Ganlu Palace. At this time, among the prime ministers, only Deng Bin, Zhao Pu, and Wang Pu, came. Hu Binwang of the Transportation Commission was in sync with him.

The emperor sat high on the soft collapse, with the table covered with memorials. He looked quite tired, but he was excited. Obviously something was going to happen.

This is not the first time he has participated in the imperial meeting. Judging from his years of experience, this time it may be another war.

For the Military Affairs Office, coordinating war, especially logistics, was its main goal.

"Your Majesty—" Li Huai bent down and bowed and bowed.

"Sit!" The emperor raised his head and said with a smile.

Li Huai was also very tactful. He did not sit with several prime ministers, but found a seat next to Hu Binwang.

"Brother Hu, let's get together again." Li Huai bowed and smiled.

"I feel really happy with Brother Li." Hu Binwang also said with interest.

"Sit forward!" At this time, the emperor saw his position and couldn't help but say, and separated the two of them.

"No!" Li Huai was surprised, and the rest of the people were the same. Everyone immediately understood that the war was almost inseparable.

Under such circumstances, the eyes of several prime ministers fell into thinking.

Nowadays, for the Tang Dynasty, there is only one enemy that can truly threaten itself, that is, the Khitans.

And why the Khitan is a very direct but meaningless question?

In such a huge East Asia, there should only be one center - the Tang Dynasty.

The Khitan is even more threatening than Goguryeo during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After all, Beijing (Youzhou), one of the five capitals, is still in the hands of others.

Not to mention its threat to Hebei, even if it only considers its status to the Tang Dynasty, it is a huge challenge.

Originally, in the eyes of the Tang people, the Tang Dynasty was the most powerful country in the world, and the center of the world. Like Khitan, Goryeo, Japan, and other nomadic peoples, they should come to the Tang Dynasty to study and pay tribute and praise respectfully.

But now, the Khitans suddenly emerged, challenging the position of the Tang Dynasty and shaking the status of the "center of the world".

The thinking of people at that time was: I have been the boss for thousands of years, but I was overthrown by a mere barbarian and lost the leadership of the world.

Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty in history has been in a state of depression.

He was afraid of being beaten by the Khitans and gave him annual monies. In terms of face, he gave him annual monies verbally. By the time of Renzong, the Liao people were too sinicized and felt that the word "花" was too insulting, so he asked to change it to "励".

The degree of humiliation was just like Fu Bi's grief and anger in the negotiations: How could a brother offer his brother? But no matter how humiliated he was, it was useless. At the instruction of Emperor Renzong of Song, he gritted his teeth and made a appointment.

He was even more unyielding to the Western Xia. He would rather fight than make the Western Xia surrender. The so-called annual tribute was even given, and his seniority was a relationship between the monarch and the subject, which was equivalent to a vassal state.

Xixia only has the benefits and does not have face. He is like the Khitans who applaud me, and he can't control me anyway.

After all, Zhao Song was desperate to suffer and maintain his orthodox status as a decent person.

The humiliation of the Song people was that they were very orthodox, but they were actually plundered by the Khitans. The Khitans were the Northern Dynasties and themselves were the Southern Dynasties.

After joining the Zhao Kuangyin brothers, they fought for decades, but they were still the Northern and Southern Dynasties!

Therefore, in people's thinking today, fighting the Khitans is the most correct thing.

After a while, Zhao Cheng, Sun Zhao and other prime ministers also came in a hurry.

Facing the Prime Minister, several people quickly stood up to greet him, which was the minimum respect.

Seeing that everyone was here, feeling the coldness, I couldn't help but add a brazier. Seeing that they were wearing some white snow, the emperor said:

“It’s snowing outside?”

"Just soon!" Zhao Cheng whispered: "Now it seems that it is getting bigger and bigger. The auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. It seems that the north can meet a good harvest."

The Taiban sitting was all southerners. Such large-scale snowflakes really made them uncomfortable and they couldn't help but wrap their fur coats and wets.

"The Central Plains is so cold, I believe Youyun is even more uncomfortable!" Li Jia said softly.

It was only then that he remembered that it was the Little Ice Age now, and it was the third time in Chinese history. The weather was cold and abnormal. The Central Plains was so uncomfortable that the Khitans in the north must be even more uncomfortable.

This is also a good thing.

Since those present nodded.

"If it were in the past, these barbarians would have to go south and robbed."

Zhao Cheng sighed with emotion and sighed softly: "Now with Youyun, millions of Han people, they are provided as slaves and wars, so that the Khitans are not like Turkic people, and they suffer heavy losses because of a white disaster."

"That's right!" Li Jia nodded, his mind was quite gloomy. The nomadic peoples had farming, which not only maintained military strength, but also embraced stability.

In the later period, the problem of the natural genetic lifeline of the nomadic peoples, the heirs, was actually solved, and the inheritance system of the eldest son is more stable than that of the Central Plains.

If nomadic people don’t fight in the internal strife, how can they be considered nomadic?

Look at Mongolia in history, it split itself into the four major khanates. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang all fought in the north, Emperor Shun of Yuan and Wang Baobao were still fighting, and even Wang Baobao was sitting there watching the show.

Therefore, the Khitans almost eliminated the disadvantages of the nomadic people and could only destroy the outside world.

However, the Khitans have not evolved completely yet. From Abaoji to Yelu Jing, almost all those who succeeded to the throne have to fight.

This is a good thing for Li Jia.

"For a long time, climate problems have been a crisis that northern barbarians cannot escape. Now that the Khitans have provided Yanyun, they are no longer afraid."

The emperor looked at everyone and said in a heavy tone: "In other words, as long as he has this idea, the Khitans can go south at any time without worrying about the climate."

"Even, in terms of siege, there were a large number of Han people helping, and the city was not as stable as imagined."
Chapter completed!