I am Da Song

Chapter 244

Yeluyujian's rebellion brought the negotiations between Song and Jin into a tense and urgent situation in an instant.

Tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry surrounded by tens of thousands of strong men separatist in Jizhou, like a bright flag attracting the attention of the entire Yanyun area.

The Song army on the southern front almost immediately entered a wartime state. Tens of thousands of soldiers were fully armed, ready to fight, and their blades and armor had been polished to a bright spot.Just waiting for an order, tens of thousands of people spread their banners and marched northward.

If the Jin army in the Yanyun area went north to besiege Jizhou, the Song army would immediately attack Zhuozhou and Youzhou.

The war between the two countries is on the verge of breaking out.

In fact, neither the Song Dynasty nor the Jin Dynasty wanted to come to this situation.

Together, no one knows which direction it will go and how long the fierce battle will last.

The tense confrontation lasted until September [-]th, when a news came that made Yanyun wailing everywhere. The Jin Kingdom imperial court ordered all the people in the six prefectures in front of the mountain to move to the northeast.

As soon as the news came out, every family in the land of Yanyun was crying, the wilderness was in chaos, and countless people fled their homeland and fled south.

The golden cavalry burned, killed and looted wildly everywhere, hacked to death all pedestrians on the road, and drove all the people northward.

Da Song immediately guessed that Jin Guo had made a decision to "take all the treasures of Yan to the north, intending to donate Yan to the south and discard it."

Sure enough, on September [-]th, Wanyan Wusai, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, formally submitted the letter of credence to Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan received the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin for the last time in the Chui Gong Hall where he usually handles government affairs.

Wanyan Wosai saluted Zhao Huan very formally, and then handed in the letter of credence, saying: "My Dajin is willing to abide by the alliance at sea, and make good friends with the Song Dynasty through righteousness and reason."

"In order to express my intention of Dajin's harmony and repair, my court is willing to return the 24 counties of You, Ji, Jing, Tan, Shun, Zhuo, and Yi six prefectures agreed upon in the Sea Alliance to Da Song. Shuozhou, Huanzhou, Yingzhou and Yunzhou."

Zhao Huan interrupted unceremoniously: "Yizhou and Jizhou are the territories I regained towards myself, and have nothing to do with your Jin Kingdom. And you have to be clear, all the land you talk about is on the sea. At the time of the alliance, it was already agreed that all the land would be for us. It was the Kingdom of Jin who broke our oath to provoke and fight, and only occupied it for two years! What the Kingdom of Jin has done now is only to restore the frontiers of our two dynasties to the situation before the war. .”

Wanyan Wosai couldn't even refute that the reason why Jin Guo agreed to cede land for peace was because Jin Guo knew that these lands were taken from the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, it took less than two years to seize it, and most of the time was spent fighting endlessly, and the situation has not stabilized until now.Not to mention taxes, food and other harvests.

Using the land of the Song State to seek the peace of the Song State, this is the reason why the Yihe faction has the upper hand in the Jin State.

Zhao Huan's dominance made Wanyan Wusai dare not argue with him at all, the hall was quiet for a moment, Zhao Huan said: "I especially remember when our envoys went to the Kingdom of Jin during the Sea Alliance, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin was arrogant and willful, Negotiations are one-sided. Rely on only the strength of soldiers and horses."

"Now the situation is changing. I have a strong army of millions, and my famous teachers are famous all over the world. If I am like the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, you don't even have the qualifications to stand here and talk to me."

Wanyan Wosai had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know whether to be angry or sad for a moment, so he could only quietly listen to every word Emperor Zhao Song said, just like the fate of Dajin today is not in the hands of Jurchen, but It is in the hands of the young Zhao Song Emperor in front of him.

Zhao Huan leaned on the soft couch, glanced at Wanyan Wusai who had a low brow and was compliant, and said calmly: "Although the Jurchen's so-called peace talks are all about pretentious tricks, stealing and cheating. But I sympathize with the hardships of the people in the world, and I don't want to Let’s fight again, that’s why we have the real intention to negotiate a peace with the Kingdom of Jin. Tell me, what is the Kingdom of Jin’s request?”

Wanyan Wosai immediately said: "Our dynasty has three main propositions. One is to restore the status of Song and Jin in the maritime alliance, and the status of the two countries is equal. The Song Dynasty should not regard our dynasty as a vassal state at the level of Jiedushi. "

"Secondly, release the Jurchen prisoners who were captured twice in my dynasty."

"The third is to open markets in Weizhou, Guizhou, and Ruzhou, and the two dynasties have trade and mutual markets."

Of these three points, the Jurchens are most concerned about the first point.

Just like the communication between the Xiongnu and the great Han, the emperor and the Chanyu always care about titles and credentials.

Since the beginning of the maritime alliance between Song and Jin, there have been constant disputes over the status of the two countries.From the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty, he looked down on the Kingdom of Jin and regarded it as a small foreign country at the level of Jiedushi.In the later period, the status of the two countries is equal, regardless of brothers, the status is equal.By the time of Jingkang's disaster, Jin Guo's status had overtaken.

Now everything has returned to the starting point, Jurchen must ensure that the status of the two countries is equal, and must not become a vassal state of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Huan said calmly: "Equal status does not depend on a paper agreement, but on the real national strength and background of the two countries. Since you Jurchens admire this false name, I can satisfy your vanity."

For verbal disputes, Zhao Huan almost never took them to heart.At the beginning Fan Na, the envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong and Hebei, yelled and scolded him in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, but Zhao Huan didn't take it seriously, but resolutely executed him Ling Chi.

Even if the Kingdom of Jin has achieved a verbal equal status to Song, how many years can he actually maintain it?So Zhao Huan chose to agree without paying much attention.

But Zhao Huan was very serious about the content that was really related to the strength of the two countries, and said: "You Jurchens moved the people out of the Great Wall in Yanyun, and every time you handed over Yanyun to our dynasty, you burned, killed, looted, Give me a piece of ghosts and creatures, but you want me to return the Jurchen captives to you for nothing?"

Wanyan Wosai spoke immediately and said: "The Jurchens are all members of our Dajin clan, but the people in Yanyun are mixed with Han and Chinese, it is difficult to distinguish them. Our court only drove the Khitan and Bohai people to Shangjing, but there will inevitably be accidental injuries. "

"Accidental injury and massacre, I can still tell the difference! Killing Yanyun thousands of miles away, surrounded by ghosts, can also be called accidental injury? No need to make sophistry. If you want me to release the Jurchen captives, unless Jin Guo immediately stops the attack on Yanyun Atrocities, return Yan Yun to our dynasty completely!"

The significance of tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers to the Kingdom of Jin is obviously far more than the hundreds of thousands of people in the Yanyun area. These people are just embellishments of Jurchen wealth.And tens of thousands of Jurchen elite soldiers of the most direct line are the support for maintaining the rule of the Jin Kingdom.

The Song Dynasty had a strong army of one million, perhaps not less than [-] Jurchen soldiers.But in the Mobei battlefield, in the battle between Jurchen and Mongolia, [-] to [-] elite soldiers can determine the direction of a battle.

Wanyan Wosai could decide this content by himself without asking for instructions from the rear, and agreed to the request of Emperor Zhao Song.

(End of this chapter)