I am Da Song

Chapter 274 A key step in assimilating Xixia

After Da Song solemnly announced the convening of talks among the five nations.

The first to respond to the geography is of course Xixia, the place near Jingzhao Mansion.The monarchs and ministers of Xixia really couldn't find any reason to refuse.

Song Jun's 10,000+ knives were placed in front of his neck. At this time, he could not stand up for any reason.

Fight if you can beat it, and be reasonable if you can't beat it.If it doesn't make sense, there is only one option left, to join them.

So Xixia decided to take the initiative to participate in this meeting, and take advantage of the momentum of the Great Song Dynasty to get a share of the pie.

The Silk Road will inevitably pass through the territory of Xixia. With this geographical advantage, Xixia can not only set up cards to collect taxes, but also participate in trade routes.

For Xixia, which relies on trade to maintain financial stability, reopening the Silk Road itself is also a matter of great benefit.

While the other envoys had not arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, the Xixia envoys also launched a series of intensive negotiations with the officials of Honglu Temple of the Great Song Dynasty.

The focus is on the diplomatic relations between the two countries.

This is the most difficult problem faced by Xixia after the peace talks between Song and Jin.

In the Jingkang peace talks, Jin State returned the ten prefectures of Yanyun to Song Dynasty, and Song Dynasty also respected Jin State as a big country today.Probably similar to Han and Xiongnu, Tang and Turks.

But this led to Xixia having to make a national policy, how to serve Song Dynasty?
During the Zhenghe period, Xixia was beaten to almost destroy the country, so he chose to "serve the Song Dynasty like his father".

With the rise of the Kingdom of Jin, they abandoned the Song Dynasty and recognized the Kingdom of Jin as the suzerain.

After the Jingkang peace talks, Song Dynasty has been dealing with floods and sorting out internal affairs, and has no time to manage Xixia.

However, it is impossible for Song Dynasty to let Xixia be carefree all the time. Sooner or later, he will free up his hands and clean up the four directions.

During this meeting, as soon as Xixia saw that Song Dynasty had signs of handling diplomatic matters, he immediately took the initiative to send people to negotiate this issue.

It has just been more than ten years since the war between Xixia and Song Dynasty stopped, and a generation has not grown up, and they are still a bunch of big brats.The upper and lower levels of Xixia really don't want to see the Song Army's hundreds of thousands of troops rushing into the country again and turning the world upside down.

This was originally a relatively easy diplomatic matter to resolve.It's a big deal to kneel again, after all, Xixia has gotten used to kneeling after kneeling so many times.

Xixia believes that Da Song has no internal and external troubles now, like a tiger ready to go.But Jin Guo was entangled in Mobei.Once the Song army attacked Xia, the Jin army would never take the risk of starting another war, tear up the peace treaty, and help Xixia.

Under such circumstances, under military pressure, Xixia had no choice but to re-recognize Song as the suzerain.After explaining to the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, the Kingdom of Jin must be able to understand.

Tang Yi, Minister of Honglu Temple, talked with Xixia for nearly half a month, and all matters were settled, but after the content of the negotiation was sent back to Tokyo, it was personally rejected by the current officials.

The key lies in the details of court etiquette.

Every year at the Great Court Meeting on the first day of the first month of the first lunar month, envoys from various countries will pay homage to the Great Song Emperor in the Daqing Hall.

But the etiquette is different.The envoys of Chenla, Dali, and Dashi paid tribute irregularly, their etiquette was uncertain, and special matters were discussed.

However, Xixia and the Liao Kingdom, Huihe, Khotan, Koryo, the Great Quyue Kingdom, and the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom all paid tribute every year, and there were strict etiquette regulations.

They are roughly divided into three classes. Among them, Goryeo and the Great Quyue Kingdom are both Chinese vassal states, and the etiquette of envoys worshiping in the hall is strictly in accordance with Han etiquette.

Uighur, Khotan, and the Three Buddhas Qi State are the distant Hu tribes in Jimi, and they need to be influenced.They all wear their own costumes and perform their own national etiquette.For example, in the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom, how to worship the Buddha is how to worship the Emperor of Song Dynasty.Then the Song Dynasty bestowed the original costumes and clothes on it.

The most special ones are Liao and Xixia.The Liao State respected the Song Dynasty as the country of the eldest brother, so the envoys and deputy envoys all bowed down.It's just that the Khitan's kneeling ceremony is being performed, and the deputy envoy wears Han clothes and strictly implements Han rituals.

However, the principal and deputy envoys of Xixia all wore national costumes and short golden crowns on their heads.

When you see the emperor, you just bow your hands?Since Zhao Huan crossed over, anyone who dared to drag him like this, the grass on the grave was already three feet high.

Tang Yi, the Minister of Honglu Temple who presided over diplomatic affairs in Jingzhao Mansion, received the exact news from her daughter Tang Yi that she was in the palace, and immediately changed her previous image of a good man, with an extremely tough attitude.

In the future, when Xixia worships the Central Plains, it must be like Goryeo, the story of Yue, and the costumes and etiquette must be like Hanchen.

This aroused strong resistance from the Xixia Mission, and the Xixia Deputy Envoy begged hard, asking both parties to maintain the same etiquette.

People of insight can know that once Xixia accepts this agreement, its cultural identity and national characteristics will quickly disappear. Once it declines, the Song Dynasty will reset the prefectures and counties here without hindrance, and then restore the Hexi Corridor, Jiuquan, Wuwei , Zhangye, Dunhuang, Guazhou, Shazhou and other former places of the Han family.

Although the Xixia family promotes the Han style and admires Confucian scholars, everyone knows that they must firmly maintain their independence in the external world, and must not be controlled and declared by the Song Dynasty.

How can Ren Xixia's deputy envoy be able to speak eloquently, and dredge up relationships everywhere, and contact officials at Honglu Temple in Jingzhao Prefecture.Da Song's negotiating attitude did not waver at all.

The situation once again reproduced the classics, and Zhao Huan held the bottom line for the Song Dynasty, so this powerful country will not perform too badly.Enough to crush the Quartet.

Negotiations between the two sides did not make any progress until the arrival of the envoys from the Kingdom of Jin.

But the negotiations could not be delayed any longer. Once the Song and Jin envoys negotiated, the two sides reiterated to abide by the peace treaty.For Xixia, there is no room for maneuver.Either unconditionally agree to all the demands of Da Song, or the two countries will use hundreds of thousands of troops to fight another battle.

In the end, the bitter persistence of the Deputy Envoy of Xixia was defeated by the selfish desires of the Lord of Xixia.

The Song Dynasty promised that Xixia will practice Hanchen etiquette and wear Central Plains costumes on any diplomatic occasions in the future.The Lord of Xixia doesn't need to recognize Zhao Huan as his father, and the Lord of Xixia doesn't need to be named Zhao anymore, he can take back the name of Li Qianshun.

So Zhao Huan's good eldest son Li Qianshun performed his filial piety for the last time and signed this suzerain-vassal agreement.

Xixia is a vassal of the Song Dynasty, and every year they pay tribute to Hanchen, and they need to pay tribute of [-] horses, [-] stones of green salt, [-] pieces of felt blankets, and [-] catties of rhubarb.

These are the most famous special products of Xixia, and they are the best-selling items in the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Kingdom, and Liao Kingdom. For the Great Song Dynasty, especially for Zhao Huan, the emperor of Zhao Song Dynasty, this is an excellent tribute.

The royal consortium even set up a special enterprise, which is responsible for managing and selling tributes from various countries to the emperor.

The things bestowed to Xixia by the Song Dynasty included [-] pieces of royal costumes, [-] sets of royal porcelain, and [-] pieces of crystal glazed cups.

It seems that the reputation is naturally incomparable, as if it is priceless, of course, it is actually priceless.

But the real situation is the same as in the "Daming Tongdian", the suzerain country that has the pricing power has increased the price of reward items by more than ten times.

These rewards are actually [-] sets of clothing, [-] sets of porcelain, and [-] pieces of new technology glasses produced by the Great Song Consortium.

In terms of value, it must be worth a lot if sold to Xixia.But it is definitely not worth these tributes from Xixia.

But there is no way, the national power of both sides is there, and Xixia has to pay tribute to Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)