Qian Song

Chapter 212 Completely Tear Your Face (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

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At the beginning, not long after Li Cun conquered Yandi, the Zhao Song Dynasty sent envoys such as Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo to Yandi, requesting the Dagan Dynasty to follow the agreement signed by the two parties with Huainan East Road, Huainan West Road, Jinghu South Road, and Jingnan Road. The treaty of exchanging Yanyun sixteen prefectures and Ping Luanying three prefectures on Hubei Road and Jingxi South Road handed over Yandi to the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Liu Yanzong, Kang Gongbi, Han Fang and other former Liao ministers in the city of Yanjing heard that there was such a treaty between the Qian and Song Dynasties, and they came to see Li Cun one after another, and persuaded them: "The Song Dynasty has always been timid. How can the people of Yanjing be protected, so Yanjing must not be given to the Great Song Dynasty? To take a step back, His Majesty will give Yanjing to the Great Song Dynasty. If the people of Yandi were destroyed, and even the people of other parts of China were harmed, Yanjing should not be occupied by an emperor as powerful as His Majesty, Your Majesty should think twice."

Zuo Qigong, a descendant of the Liao Kingdom, even presented a poem to Li Cun: "Let's attack the Liao League and find it together. The success is both shallow and deep. The king should not listen to the suggestion of donating swallows, an inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of gold."

Xiao Puxian and other Liao women tried their best to blow Li Cun's pillow, and begged Li Cun not to hand over Yandi to Zhao Song Dynasty.

Not only the people of the original Liao Kingdom were like this, but even the civil and military officials of the Dagan Dynasty headed by Chen Kuutong did not want Li Cun to hand over the land of Yan to the Zhao Song Dynasty.

You must know that after obtaining the Yanyun area, Li Cunke has the background and opportunity to unify.

Let me ask, as subjects, how can they not want the emperor they serve to complete the unification and make them the subjects of the unified empire when the emperor they serve has the power of unification?

At the same time, Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys were also lobbying Li Cun to hand over the land of Yan to the Zhao Song Dynasty through various means.

First of all, Song Dynasty such as Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo used moral kidnapping.

They seized every opportunity to tell Li Cun the quality of being honest and keeping promises. Ma Kuo also told Li Cun the story of Fengdi Tongye.

That is to say, when King Cheng of Zhou was still young and the Duke of Zhou was assisting the government, one day King Cheng and his younger brother Shuyu were playing in the back garden. King Cheng picked up a tung tree leaf that had fallen on the ground and said with it: "I seal it with this." you."

The historian next to him hurriedly recorded: King Cheng granted Shuyu the title.

When Duke Zhou saw it, he said: "Your Majesty, I will entrust my younger brother, so I will hold a ceremony tomorrow."

King Cheng said, "I'm just joking."

The Duke of Zhou said: "As a monarch, there is no reasonless action. There should be no joking words. Once said, it must be done."

So King Cheng enfeoffed Ying County to Shuyu. After that, King Cheng dared not joke anymore all his life, and he would definitely do what he said. Later emperors also took this as a lesson. It's called Jinkouyuyan.

Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys were all eloquent people, and their eloquence was really good.

The key point is that Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo are indeed right.

But the problem is that Li Cun is not a very moral person.

Also, compared with personal integrity, Li Cun is more reluctant to see it, because he is old-fashioned, and he doesn't know how many soldiers will be killed or injured in the Daqian Dynasty. Only by himself can he complete the great unification. After this opportunity to unify, I will never have the opportunity to complete the unification again in this life.

In addition, if he is not changed from ancient times and gives the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun to the Zhao Song Dynasty, because the Zhao family father and son are incompetent and reconciled with great success, the Zhao Song Dynasty will most likely not be able to defend the Yanyun area, then the greedy and fierce Jin people will Entering the Central Plains area to burn, kill, and loot like in history, the tens of millions of people in the Central Plains area will definitely be the same as in history, starved to death, bones exposed in the wild, no chickens crowing for thousands of miles, and more than a hundred people live [-]. Ten rooms and nine empty spaces, thousands of miles of red land.

Which is more and which is less, which is light and which is heavy, Li Cun can distinguish clearly.

Furthermore, those who make big things don't stick to small details.

Qin Huang Han Wu, Tang Zong, including Song Zu Zhao Kuangyin, can even add Lao Zhu together, which one is a person who is not transformed from the past, and which one has not done something that has been scolded for hundreds or even thousands of years.

This is fighting the world, not a child's play house. If you go all out, whether you can succeed or not depends on whether God will help you, not to mention that you are merciful and let the opportunity pass by?

If Li Cun didn't explain, I broke the contract, and my words didn't count. I didn't give the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to Zhao and Song Dynasty. You bit me? !
Li Cun just appointed Han Fang, who firmly opposed Li Cun's handover of Yandi to the Zhao Song Dynasty, as the minister of rites, and was fully responsible for communicating with the Zhao Song Dynasty. The guy who performed the contract was demoted to a remote and bitterly cold area for self-reflection, and the civil and military officials of the Dagan Dynasty immediately understood their emperor's attitude.

Afterwards, Han Fang came forward and criticized Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys for their unreasonable troubles.

He said: "I am going to have millions of military officials in the land of Yan today. I will cede the land of Yan to you, Song Dynasty, and let me go and live temporarily with these millions of military officials. You and I have already explained that Huainan East Road, Huainan West Road, Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, and Jingxinan Road are exchanged for Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and Pingluanying Three Prefectures. Today, I only took down Yandi, which is not enough for the delivery conditions. Delivery?"

In other words, at that time Han Fang used a dragging tactic.

As a result, procrastinating and procrastinating, Zhao Song Dynasty made a mistake.

Of course, you can also think that the Zhao Song Dynasty saw the essence of the Dagan Dynasty not wanting to hand over the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In short, seeing that the Daqian Dynasty did not have the sincerity to deliver the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying, the Zhao and Song Dynasty began to contact the Kingdom of Jin to discuss the joint attack of the Dagan Dynasty.

At that time, the Daqian Dynasty actually had an excuse for non-compliance.

——I can’t, you’re going to join forces with others to beat me up, so I’ll keep my agreement with you, right?Since you want to go to war, let's resolve our conflicts through war.

However, even in that case, the Dagan Dynasty did not make any noise. It just continued to collect evidence of the Zhao Song Dynasty's death, while continuing to make false claims with the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The Zhao Song Dynasty thought that the Daqian Dynasty knew nothing about their plan.

As everyone knows, since Wu Min presented Zhao Ji with a plan to drive away wolves and tigers, the Daqian Dynasty has completely controlled every move of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Later, when Wu Jie captured Pingzhou, Zhang Jun dedicated all the documents such as the imperial pen, golden flower paper, hand edict and imperial edict that Zhao Ji had given to Zhang Jue to Wu Jie in exchange for his mother's life.

In Zhao Ji's imperial pen, there is a paragraph that Song and Jin will jointly attack the Dagan Dynasty, and Zhang Jue will borrow the passage to the Dajin Kingdom in the future.

This is hard evidence.

With such evidence, the Dagan Dynasty and the Zhao Song Dynasty are eternal enemies, so what agreement should they fulfill?
If you think this is not enough?

That's okay too.

When Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing captured Yelu Yanxi, they also got the imperial pen written by Zhao Ji to Yelu Yanxi.

In Zhao Ji's imperial pen, there is even a paragraph about the four families of Song Dynasty, Dajin, Daliao, and Xixia jointly attacking Dagan, and there is also the witness of Yelu Yanxi.

in fact--

None of this matters.

What matters is Li Cun's attitude.

If Li Cun made up his mind to go to the Song Dynasty, he would have no excuse at all, and the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty would definitely be able to find a suitable excuse for Li Cun.

Moreover, Li Cun didn't need the civil and military officials of the Dagan Dynasty to make excuses. He himself had two excuses that no one could find fault with.

The first one is Zhao Kuangyin's excuse for attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, how could others snore on the side of the couch.

It can be said that as long as Li Cun uses this excuse to attack the Zhao Song Dynasty, no one can tell that Li Cun is wrong.

After all, you can't just allow the Zhao Song Dynasty to use such an excuse to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, and my Daqian Dynasty should not be allowed to use such an excuse to attack your Zhao and Song Dynasty. reason?
Furthermore, China has a characteristic, that is, all dynasties are persistently pursuing great unification.

Needless to say, Qin Shihuang, since Qin Shihuang unified China, the highest dream of the Chinese civilization circle, whether it is the Central Plains Dynasty or the Grassland Dynasty, is to realize the unification of China.

After the Qin Dynasty came the Han Dynasty. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei, Shu and Wu fought against each other. The three countries all wanted to unify the world, but in the end they belonged to the Western Jin Dynasty.After the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed the South, it was not content with the status quo, but repeated northern expeditions in an attempt to restore the Central Plains.Even the grassland heroes in the north took it upon themselves to unify China.Emperor Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty planned to eliminate the Eastern Jin Dynasty and unify China after unifying the north, but Fu Jian failed.Even the Liao Kingdom, the later grassland regime, was striving to complete the unification.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to Qin Shihuang's unification of China and the establishment of a unified dynasty, it is very meaningful.

First of all, only when there is great unification can war be truly eliminated.

Governing the floods of the Yellow River is also beyond the capabilities of a single local government, and requires a unified government to coordinate in the middle.

To fight against a large-scale local drought, we must rely on forces outside the disaster area to solve it.

Since Dong Zhongshu mixed the concepts of the Legalist Yin-Yang School into Confucianism and made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respect Confucianism alone, Confucian scholars have become the main members of the country's bureaucratic group.

From then on, the interests of the Confucian class were directly linked with the emperor.

And Confucianism has a characteristic, that is, "capable ministers who govern the world, and idiots in troubled times." Once there are multiple regimes competing for supremacy, Confucianism has nothing to do with politics.

Therefore, Confucianism actively advocates the concept of great unity.

Because only when there is great unification, the ruling class will pay attention to Confucianism, and cultural undertakings will arise, so that Confucianism can realize its best interests.

In addition, China is a whole surrounded by mountains and seas, and it must be unified to achieve stability.

Let's put it this way, all Chinese dynasties have been obsessed with great unification. This is not only influenced by culture, but also restricted by many objective conditions.

The problems caused by the political division during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were finally resolved after Qin achieved great unification.A series of cultural, economic, political and military measures adopted by the Qin Dynasty further established and consolidated the concept of great unification.Confucianism in the Han Dynasty had a dominant position and contributed to the concept of great unification. Since then, the Chinese have formed a spiritual dependence on the great unification.

The great unification has made China politically uniform, highly unified in terms of economic system and ideology and culture, and also allowed China to have a huge geographically complementary advantage in politics, military affairs, and economy.

Lu You was still thinking about the unification of the country until his death: "When he died, he knew that everything was empty, but he was sad that Kyushu was not the same. Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and family sacrifices were never forgotten to tell Nai Weng."

It is not difficult to see from this that the pursuit of great unification is a belief of the Chinese people.

Therefore, as long as Li Cun plays the banner of great unification, everything else must make way for it. Even if Li Cun has some moral problems, those literati will definitely find a reasonable explanation for Li Cun.

What's more, Li Cun has a second excuse, which is to hang people and punish crimes.

In the current Zhao Song Dynasty, the people live in dire straits, there are starving people everywhere, and there are disaster victims everywhere.

And all of this is largely caused by Zhao Ji's extravagance, Daxing Huashigang, Daxing Western Regions, etc.

Under such circumstances, Li Cun played the banner of "Hanging the People and Cracking down on Crimes" to Qian Song Dynasty. There must be no problem, and he would get the support of many people who were persecuted by the Zhao Song Dynasty.

All in all, Li Cun already has an excuse for the Qian Song Dynasty, and he can start preparing for the Qian Song Dynasty.

Of course, Yundi has not been fully recovered yet, and if it is recovered, it must be governed carefully for a year or two. Otherwise, with the heavy burden of Yundi and the even heavier burden of the Central Plains, the Daqian Dynasty may have worn out.

Based on the current situation, Li Cun is still planning to delay the last one or two years, let the Daqian Dynasty and the Zhao Song Dynasty ebb and flow again, so that the strength gap between each other will become larger, and then the Zhao Song Dynasty Launch a general offensive, and then destroy the Zhao and Song Dynasty in one fell swoop with the momentum of Mount Tai.

As for the Zhao and Song Dynasties, sometimes they are really naive.

Knowing that it was impossible for the Dagan dynasty to give the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to the Zhao Song Dynasty, and the Zhao and Song dynasty had already made preparations to seize the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying by force, but Zhao The Song Dynasty still insisted on sending envoys to discuss with the Dagan Dynasty the delivery of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Pingying.

At the beginning, when the Dagan Dynasty recovered the three states of Pingluanying, the Zhao Song Dynasty sent envoys such as Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo once.

Now, the Dagan Dynasty is about to regain Yundi, and the Zhao Song Dynasty sent Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other envoys to discuss the delivery of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and Pingying Three Prefectures.

Could it be that the Zhao Song Dynasty really didn't understand the simple truth that "what can't be obtained on the battlefield can't be obtained on the negotiating table"?
In this regard, Li Cun's understanding is that the Zhao and Song Dynasty may want to numb themselves and keep them from paying attention. Wanyan Zonghan has already arrived in Swallow City, Wanyan Zongwang has arrived in Qinglong City, and Changsheng Army and Yisheng Army have also arrived. Ready to fight.

Of course, this can also be understood as the Zhao Song Dynasty giving Li Cun another chance.

If Li Cunken obediently handed over the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to the Zhao Song Dynasty, then their Zhao Song Dynasty would not unite with the Dajin Kingdom to attack the Dagan Dynasty.

Li Cun is not sure whether this is the case or not.

But the current situation is indeed that while the Zhao Song Dynasty was ready to send troops, it sent envoys such as Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo to Yanjing.

After Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other envoys from the Song Dynasty came, they asked the Dagan Dynasty to hand over the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Luanying to the Zhao and Song Dynasty according to the treaty signed by both parties. The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Pingying and Luanying should have no excuse not to deliver, right?
In this regard, Li Cun didn't bother to argue with the Zhao Song Dynasty anymore, and ordered Han Fang to clarify the matter.

After Han Fang took the order, he showed all the evidence held by the Daqian Dynasty to Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys to watch, leaving Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and others who were very good at eloquence speechless.

Han Fang made a concluding speech: "Your family has been scheming against my family for a long time. It is hard to tell right from wrong. If the affairs of the two dynasties do not accommodate each other, they will have to fight, and your family is already dead. Be prepared to join forces with the Kingdom of Jin to attack me. Let’s talk more about no intention. Please send troops to fight against your family and the Kingdom of Jin. If your family wins the battle with the Kingdom of Jin, let alone Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and Pingluanying The three prefectures belong to your family, even if I am going to fight for the other fourteen lands, your family can take them away. If your family and the Kingdom of Jin lose to my family, then needless to say, how to deal with your family depends on the mood of my emperor. "

So far, the Qian and Song Dynasties have completely torn faces.

War is coming...

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