I am Da Song

Chapter 241 Northwest Shanxi has become a pot of porridge

"What's Honglu Temple's opinion on Xiliao's request?" Zhao Huan asked.

Tang Yi immediately replied: "Hongyu Temple has a strong will, and requests to complete the negotiation with Jin State first, and take back Zhuozhou, Youzhou, Shuozhou, Yunzhou and other places."

Zhao Huan nodded, it is reasonable for Honglu Temple to have such a wish.

After all, it is a great achievement for Honglu Temple to be able to recover six of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun through negotiations.

At this moment, Honglu Temple definitely didn't want to fight again with the Kingdom of Jin.

"However, the Three Kingdoms Alliance fought against the gold, and Xiliao was attacked. It is indeed inappropriate for me to ignore it. How did the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council respond?"

Tang Yi said: "The Privy Council advocates sending the Shenwu Youjun to go north to Yanyun, so that Jin Guo can understand the situation."

This is sending the eldest father of the Kingdom of Jin to the country!

Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing, as soon as Shenwu Youjun appeared in Yanyun, it was like putting a fist as big as a sandbag on Jin Guo's face.

Why, recently I heard that you want Da Song to bow his head and proclaim himself a vassal?
Are you floating?Or is my Shenwu Youjun unable to lift a knife?
Tang Yi went on to say: "But both the Zhengshitang and the third envoy objected, mainly because the logistics supply could not be maintained. The [-] army marched northward, adding to the supply pressure in the direction of Hebei and Yanyun, and they could not provide the logistics for the army to besiege Zhuozhou. On the battlefield The land that can be recovered is far less than the diplomatic effect that can be achieved by supporting Wanyan Zongpan."

We must know that after the ministers of the Song Dynasty unified their tough stance against the Kingdom of Jin, their intelligence was no worse than that of the ministers of the Kingdom of Jin. On the contrary, they were slightly superior in terms of strategy.

Jin Guo knew that Qin Hui was identified as the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, so he was willing to negotiate peace with the Southern Song Dynasty.

The ministers of the Song Dynasty also knew that pushing a traitor from the Kingdom of Jin to power could guarantee the interests of the Song Dynasty to the greatest extent.

Although the vast majority of people in the Kingdom of Jin have nothing to do with such things as strategic wisdom, Wanyan Zongpan is undoubtedly the most outstanding intelligence in the Kingdom of Jin.Not only did he no longer have strategic wisdom, but he was completely abducted by Confucianism.

I don't know why he, a Jurchen barbarian, is so superstitious about Confucianism.

More importantly, the whole Kingdom of Jin believed in the theories of Sima Guang's school of Confucianism.

When Tokyo was besieged, the Jin army not only asked for silver silk and beautiful women, but also asked for Confucian classics of the Song Dynasty, and personally sent officials to the Imperial College to collect books.

All the classics of Yuanyou were taken away, besides that, all kinds of other medical, artistic and cultural classics were also taken away, except the various books written by Wang Anshi's series were abandoned in one place.

Zhao Huan is still at a loss for this honey operation, and his face is full of doubts.

The prime minister of the enemy country is Sima Guang, how convenient is our own diplomacy!In this regard, Xixia and Song Dynasty should not have too much say.

In short, the "Jingkang Peace Conference" that Wanyan Zongpan was in charge of made the Song Dynasty more joyful than the "Shaoxing Peace Conference".

This "Jin Kingdom Sima Guang" was full of one thought, because of Yanyun's feud with the Song Dynasty, the Dajin country was in turmoil, exhausted, internal and external troubles.

If there is no peace with Da Song, Da Jin will not be able to rest easy.

Then simply "use all the land obtained by Master Xiangzhe, and give it back to Xia... cross it out, and give it back to Song".This can be said to point directly to the crux of the problem and solve it cleanly.

Therefore, ministers who superstitiously believe in Confucianism are really few talents who can benefit the country and help the world.The head is like a stubborn donkey, with no strategy for governing the country at all.

Zhao Huan said with emotion: "This time I support the prime ministers. In this rotten world, as long as I keep the bottom line of the Great Song Dynasty, other countries will definitely be worse, and there is no bottom line. Jin Guo is very likely to successfully take Yanyun Six Give me the state."

Tang Yi asked worriedly: "How should Honglu Temple respond to Xiliao? If it is ignored like this, will it hurt the hearts of allies?"

This is also a hassle.

It can't be that Da Song's mouth is full of greasy food here, and Xi Liao's silver teeth are shattered over there, struggling to support.

Once this happens, the situation of the Three Kingdoms Alliance against gold will immediately fall apart.

But for the benefit of his allies, Zhao Huan absolutely refused to agree to the Six States of Yanyun that Da Song would soon acquire.

Zhao Huan stared at the map, and couldn't help but wonder why the Kingdom of Jin didn't kill this opponent who had a blood feud in history.

Seeing that Zhao Huan was frowning, Tang Yi persuaded, "If it's difficult to answer, it's better to put it on hold for now. The Kingdom of Jin's attack on Xiliao will not be achieved immediately, and the Mongolian tribes are separated. It takes a long time to prepare just to send troops. The key is to give priority to ensuring the interests of the Song Dynasty. The current dispute between the Kingdom of Jin and the Western Liao Dynasty is undoubtedly the greatest benefit for our dynasty. Honglu Temple also reported this to the palace as good news."

The map in front of me is still the current Song Dynasty map, with general accuracy, and can only draw the approximate direction of mountains and rivers and the distribution of land in various countries.

But even so, the location of each country can be clearly seen.

This map draws the distribution of power in various countries with great precision, and it is not as foolish as the maps of later generations.Only by looking at the situation on this map can we understand more clearly why Jurchen is said to be a fishing and hunting people.

The Kingdom of Jin is a long and narrow country with a north-south orientation, rather than an east-west orientation in the impression of later generations.The territory that the Jurchens can control strongly is only north of Yanyun and east of the Mongolian Plateau.That is to say, the Nuergan Dusi of the Ming Dynasty went to Liaodong and the Great Wall.

After leaving Shuozhou and Yunzhou (Datong) to the west, there are two adjacent forces in the south and north in the due west direction.

On the Mongolian plateau in the north are the Mobei tribes, that is, the Mongolian people, and in the south in the direction of Shaanxi is Xixia.

Across Mongolia and Xixia, to the west is Xiliao.

The Mobei tribes nominally surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, so Dajin nominally has jurisdiction over this territory and will station troops in key areas.But this is the same as the Dahan nominally owning the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty even owning the Protectorate of Persia.Everyone knows that the big Han can't control the cities of the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty can't control Persia thousands of miles away.Once the Jimi tribe rebelled, Jin Kingdom's local rule would immediately collapse.

Tang Yi said: "In terms of the alliance against Jin, Xiliao is more active than our dynasty. Last year, Yelu Dashi, the lord of Xiliao, persuaded the White Tartars to fight against Jin and imposed an embargo on war horses. This year, they took Jin. The country has several important military towns in the west, the Second Party and the Second Battalion, which makes Jin's garrison in the west even weaker."

Zhao Huan looked at the map and said, "Yelu Dashi is a hero with great ambitions and a strong strategic vision. However, the rulers of the Kingdom of Jin are a bunch of pigs, and they haven't discovered the sharp knife hanging over their heads until now."

They are a fishing and hunting people who are embargoed by nomadic people. Shouldn't the most important thing be to rule Mongolia?

You must know that when the Liao Dynasty existed, no one had ever heard of what Mongolia was.

However, in just a few short years since the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes developed like wildfire under the eyes of the Jurchen, a fishing and hunting nation, and quickly filled the power vacuum after the fall of the Liao Dynasty.

So much so that Zhao Huan, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, looked at the map and had to think about how the Mongolian tribes would react in the war between Jin and Xiliao.

This shows that the Mongolian iron cavalry is strong enough to influence the war between the two great powers.

Suddenly, Zhao Huan's eyes lit up, and he came up with a good idea to benefit himself at the expense of others.

Anyway, Northwest Shanxi is already in chaos, so I might as well add more firewood to make the war worse, and remind Jin Guo.

(End of this chapter)