Qian Song

Chapter 219 Tianzuo built a palace on the sea and waited for His Majesty for a long time (ask for a monthly ticket!)

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After the Dagan Dynasty defeated the joint attack of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom, Yue Fei, the general of the Dagan Dynasty, conquered Yanmen Pass and occupied Daizhou; , and pushed the front to the Baigou River area to confront the Changsheng Army.

Fortunately for the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Dagan Dynasty did not make further moves to attack the Song Dynasty.

The kings and ministers of Zhao and Song were very afraid that the Dagan Dynasty was preparing for a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty. Soon, the Zhao and Song Dynasty would face a stormy attack from the Dagan Dynasty.

After discussing with Cai Jing, Cai You, Bai Shizhong, and Li Bangyan, Zhao Ji believed that the Song Dynasty no longer had the ability to fight against the Dagan Dynasty, and could only cede territory to the Dagan Dynasty and add some other things. For example, Li Cun has always liked Zhao Fujin, the emperor of Maode, all of these can be discussed, as long as Li Cun does not come to attack the Song Dynasty.

Soon, Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and others, who were ordered in danger, came to Yanjing and wanted to ask to see Li Cun.

However, Li Cun did not see Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys. Instead, Han Fang and other officials from the Ministry of Rites of the Dagan Dynasty came forward to receive Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys.

As soon as the two sides met, Han Fang preemptively said: "Your court has already launched a large army and Jin Guo to attack me. Now that you and our two countries have armed forces, what is there to talk about? Your court will just focus on fighting. You and I settled our conflicts on the battlefield, isn't this fulfilling your dynasty's wishes?"

Zhao Liangsi hurriedly said: "This time, the Great Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of Jin joined forces to attack the Gui Dynasty. We were bewitched by the Jin State, and because the shogunate was not human, it misled me to become the emperor. It was not my dynasty's original intention. A chance to make up for my mistakes."

Ma Kuo then said: "This is the end of the matter, and it's not that our court has no responsibility at all. In the past, the two dynasties had a peace treaty, and our court took Huainan East Road, Huainan West Road, Jingnan South Road, Jinghu North Road and Jingxinan South Road. We exchanged the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the three prefectures of Pingluanying with the Gui Dynasty. Now we have listened to the slander of the Kingdom of Jin and raised a large army to join forces with the Kingdom of Jin to attack the Gui Dynasty. We made mistakes first, and the emperor of our Dynasty has already regretted it. Therefore, our court is willing to give the territory of Huainan East Road, Huainan West Road, Jingnan South Road, Jinghu North Road and Jingxinan Road to your court unconditionally, and will not ask your court for Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and Pingluanying Three prefectures, you and I have the old boundary of Song and Liao in the north, each enjoys peace and will never invade each other, I hope Han Xianggong will tell the emperor of your dynasty for our dynasty."

Han Fang laughed: "Your court's wishful thinking is really good, and you don't want to pay any benefits, so you want to end this catastrophe of destroying the country. If our dynasty loses in this battle, I'm afraid your dynasty will fight against Jin Guo." The territory of the dynasty, our dynasty will be reduced to the prisoners of the noble dynasty and the Jin kingdom from the emperor down, so how can there be any room for bargaining?"

What Song envoys such as Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo didn't know was that since the victory over the Song and Jin alliances, many ministers of the Dagan Dynasty, especially those of the former Liao Kingdom, had been encouraging Li Cun to attack the Song Dynasty.

Especially not long ago, the Yisheng Army stationed in Longqing Mansion rebelled, and three thousand Yisheng soldiers and horses ran straight to Daizhou and fled to the Longxiang Army.

In addition, Han Minyi, the leader of the Changsheng Army, also led 500 troops to escape through the Baigou River and join the Jinwu Army.

After these soldiers of the Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army voted for the Dagan Dynasty, they told Li Cunjun and his ministers all the truth about the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The key point is that the soldiers of the Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army also told Li Cunjun and his ministers two very important pieces of information.

The first information is about the Yisheng Army, um, to be precise, it is about Han'er.

At the beginning, when the Yisheng Army was formed, Zhao Ji and Tan Zhen gave the Yisheng Army extremely high treatment in order to make the Yisheng Army loyal and good at fighting. Specifically, not only all the treatment was double that of other Forbidden Army, but also they could eat every meal New food.

Later, Chang Shengjun also received such generous treatment.

However, the generous treatment of the Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army, especially the Yisheng Army, caused great dissatisfaction among other troops in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and even psychological imbalance.

In the eyes of Song people, the Han people in Yanyun area are different from them.

The Song people felt that they were the Han people, and the Han people in the Yanyun area were Han children, or even Fan people, not their own race.

The word "Han'er" was originally the name of the Hu people for the Han people.

There is a poem describing this in the Han Yuefu: "I am a prisoner, and I don't understand Han children's songs."

There is also a line in Tang poetry that "Han'er speaks Hu'er's language, but scolds Han'er at the top of the city".

At first, "Han'er" and "Han people" were actually synonymous, and there was no meaning of praise or criticism in it.

But after the Khitan obtained the Sixteen States of Yanyun from Shi Jingtang, especially after the Zhao and Song Dynasty could not recover the Sixteen States of Yanyun, they could only acquiesce that the Sixteen States of Yanyun were the territory of the Liao State, within the territory of the Liao State (mainly Yanyun State) There is a difference between the Han people in the territory of Yunliu Prefecture) and the Han people in the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

The most notable difference is that the titles of the Han people in the two countries have changed in Song and Liao.

The Liao people generally called the Han people in the Zhao and Song Dynasties Nanren, and called the Han people in their own country Han'er.

Song people also called the Han people in the Liao Kingdom Han'er, and sometimes called them Fanren.

The Liao, Song, and Jin who rose later, all unanimously called the Han people in the Yanyun area Han'er.

This shows that "Han'er" has actually evolved into a special term with a contemptuous tone, which also reflects that Liao, Song and Jin all had great distrust and even contempt for these Han people in the Yanyun area.

This makes Han'er an existence that grandma doesn't love and uncle doesn't love.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army were often looked down upon by other soldiers of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

However, Zhao Ji and Tan Zhen gave the Yisheng Army twice the monthly rations and clothing, and other soldiers of the Song Army could only eat old rations, but the soldiers of the Yisheng Army could eat new rations.

This made other soldiers of the Song Army, after meeting the soldiers of the Yisheng Army, often insult the soldiers of the Yisheng Army: "Rufan people eat the new, and my officers and soldiers also eat Chen. I am not as good as the Fanren? I am punished." Ye Ye!"

Not only were the soldiers of the Zhao and Song Dynasties very unfriendly to the Han people in the Yanyun area, they often insulted the Han people in the Yanyun area as "fan people" face to face, and they never regarded the Han people in the Yanyun area as their own race, even the common people of the Zhao and Song dynasty , also disrespects the Han people in the Yanyun area very much, and regards the Han people in the Yanyun area as "Fan people".

However, the attitudes of Zhao Songjun and ministers towards the Han people in the Yanyun area are actually very ambiguous. They are suspicious of the Han people in the Yanyun area, distrust the Han people in the Yanyun area, and want to win over the Han people in the Yanyun area and take advantage of the Han people in the Yanyun area. Han people.

Facing the distrust and contempt of the Zhao Song Dynasty from top to bottom, it is not like the soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army and the soldiers of the Yisheng Army covered by Guo Yaoshi. They can't find any sense of identity on the side of the Zhao Song Dynasty. They even hated the Zhao Song Dynasty extremely.

Gradually, all the soldiers of the Yisheng Army, and even all the Han people in the former Yanyun area in the territory of the Zhao Song Dynasty, all had second thoughts about the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Completely different from the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the Dagan Dynasty is here.

First of all, Li Cun is a Han, not a Song, and his identity can be recognized by the Han in the Yanyun area.

Secondly, Li Cun paid great attention to ethnic unity. He once issued a strict order prohibiting the use of discriminatory terms such as "Han'er" and "Fanren" to refer to the Han people in the Yanyun area, and even people of other races. The commander, for the first time, fight thirty; for the second time, cut off his tongue.

The point is, although half of the army of the Dagan Dynasty in the Yanyun area was brought by Li Cun from the south, the other half was recruited by Li Cun from the Yanyun area, and Li Cun recruited soldiers in the Yanyun area, although some They are from the Khitan, Xi, Zub, Jurchen, Shiwei and other clans, but most of them are actually Han people in the Yanyun area.

The key point is that there are a large number of Han Chinese in the Yanyun area among the officers in the army of the Dagan Dynasty and the ministers in the court.

In other words, the Han people in the Yanyun area are one of the real masters of the Dagan Dynasty, and they are no longer the existence that grandma does not love and uncle does not love.

Under such circumstances, those Han people in the Yanyun area who have been second-class citizens for more than 200 years are of course willing to integrate into the Daqian Dynasty and become the masters.

Therefore, now, the Han people in the former Yanyun area in the Zhao Song Dynasty are all looking forward to Li Cun's attack on the Song Dynasty. It can be said that as long as Li Cun's attack on the Song Dynasty, they will immediately rebel against the Song Dynasty and respond to Li Cun, and then help Li Cun Save and lay down the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In fact, not only the Yisheng Army waited for Han'er to surrender to Li Cun.

The Changsheng Army, which the Zhao Song Dynasty was not familiar with, is now alienated from the Zhao Song Dynasty because of the fact that the Zhao Song Dynasty handed over Zhang Jue and was afraid that the Zhao Song Dynasty would blame them for losing the battle. It can be said that as long as Li Cun sends someone to Instigate rebellion, Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun are likely to rebel against Song Dynasty.

There is another thing, that is, it is very puzzling that not long ago, Tong Guan even sent a letter to Zhao Ji, asking Zhao Ji to issue an edict to abolish the Ansu, Yongning, Baoding and other armies because these armies lacked training. , slack in armaments, and repetition of the defense zone with the ever-victorious army.

Zhao Ji, who was worried about the increasing military expenditure and the fact that the Zhao Song Dynasty had no money, quickly agreed to Tong Guan's request to abolish the Ansu, Yongning, Baoding and other armies.

This made the Zhao Song Dynasty's defense in Hebei more dominated by the Ever Victorious Army.

In this way, as long as the Dagan Dynasty can recruit the Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army, Hebei and Hedong, it can be said, are likely to collapse without attack.

After that, the Daqian Dynasty didn't even need to do it themselves, and the Zhao and Song Dynasty could be overthrown by relying on the Yisheng Army and the Changsheng Army.

Let me ask, under such circumstances, how could the courtiers of the Dagan Dynasty not encourage Li Cun to attack the Song Dynasty, especially the original Liao people who hated the Zhao and Song Dynasty for destroying their country?
But what the courtiers of the Dagan Dynasty did not expect was that Li Cun resolutely suppressed the matter, and only let Li Gang, Liu Yanzong and others manage the Yanyun area carefully, and must do a good job in the Yanyun area next year. Spring planting work.

Not only that, Li Cun also used Chen Kuutong as the left-behind minister of Yanyun area (Li Gang and Liu Yanzong's deputy), and he himself quietly returned to Yingtian Mansion where he had left for almost two years.

Many ministers of the Daqian Dynasty did not understand why Li Cun did not overthrow the Zhao Song Dynasty in one go.

Only Chen Kuutong, Li Gang, Liu Yanzong and other people with a real view of the overall situation understand that Li Cun's consideration is not about the small matter of overthrowing the Zhao and Song Dynasty, but about doing things after the overthrow of the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

You know, there are more than 2000 million people in the Central Plains.

Moreover, a large part of these more than 2000 million people are currently starving.

If the Dagan Dynasty wants to take over the Zhao Song Dynasty, it must first have the ability to receive refugees who may have reached tens of millions in the Central Plains, otherwise there will be endless rebellions.

And expecting such a small place in the Yanyun area to solve such a big problem is absolutely foolish.

Besides, Yundi still needs Yandi's relief. Yanyun area can reach a balance of income and expenditure in a short period of time.

At present, the only way to solve such a big problem is to rely on the fourteen roads in the south of the Dagan Dynasty.

For this point, before Li Cun officially went to the Song Dynasty, he must first go back to the south to find out. If there is no problem, he will make preparations to assist the Central Plains.

In addition, Li Cun, the emperor, has been a child for two years since he left the capital, which is not a good thing.

Therefore, Li Cun had to respond to Tianfu to make final preparations for Qian Song.

The courtiers of the Daqian Dynasty saw that Li Cun was so calm under such a good situation, not in a hurry or rash, and did not give the slightest chance of failure. They felt that Li Cun was a wise emperor through the ages, and they felt that Li Cun was able to complete the great unification. Convinced.

Before Li Cun left, he specifically explained that he could talk to the Zhao Song Dynasty first about the land cession and compensation, and temporarily stabilize the Zhao Song Dynasty, lest the Zhao Song Dynasty jump over the wall in a hurry.

Of course, it is definitely impossible to cede the land only to the Yanyun area.

Li Cun personally issued instructions, asking the Zhao and Song Dynasties to cede Hebei and Hedong to the Dagan Dynasty with the Yellow River as the boundary. As for the compensation, Chen Kuotong and others can watch and discuss it by themselves, anyway, this is just a formality.

According to Li Cun's highest instructions, Han Fang said: "If your dynasty wants to be forgiven by me, it's easy. You just need to cut off the land on the two roads of Hedong and Hebei, with the big river as the boundary, and then compensate us with 1000 million ingots of gold. 2000 million ingots of silver and 1000 million bolts of silk can be deposited and withdrawn from the temple of the Song Dynasty, but it can serve the country.”

When Ma Kuo heard Han Fang's lion speak loudly, he argued with reason: "Tianzuo lost his way, appointed treacherous evil, and heaven hates people's separation, so it was broken by the Jin Dynasty and the noble dynasty. Help each other, and fight against each other. But our emperor is benevolent, our dynasty has a territory of thousands of miles, the country is rich and the people are rich, and our heritage has not been lost. If your dynasty listens to Khitan's struggle, if you have to fight our dynasty, you will have to suffer losses. The cities of Hedong and Hebei are strong, and both the army and the people are accustomed to fighting. If there is a haste, the people will hold on to the city. How can it be easy to break it? It's just a matter of plundering some villagers' money. If you lose, you will harm the country. And if you kill a Song person, you will take revenge against the Khitan, and if you kill a dry person, you will also take revenge with the Khitan. Now that your dynasty has wiped out the Khitan, you will gain half of the territory of our dynasty, so you have to stop the army early. It is the best policy for everyone to enjoy peace, how can it be easy to talk about fighting! Kuojiu was ordered to serve as an envoy, and he dared not to speak faithfully for the two dynasties, begging Emperor Daqian to think about it."

Zhao Liangsi also said: "Your court asked me to tolerate the east of Hebei, and to have more gold, silver and silk. It is not sincere to resolve grievances. Why don't we hand over the old coins given to the Liao Kingdom to your court? You and I will stop fighting and enjoy peace, how about it?"

Zhao Liangsi also knew that the Dagan Dynasty now had a huge advantage in being able to overthrow the Zhao Song Dynasty. It was simply impossible for Li to pass through the Zhao Song Dynasty under this condition.

Therefore, Zhao Liangsi immediately said that if the Daqian Dynasty had any reasonable conditions, they could also put forward them, and everyone discussed them, and euphemistically expressed that his family Maode Di Ji admired Li Cun very much.

But Han Fang refused to enter, so he ceded Hebei and Hedong and demanded 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver, and 1000 million bolts of silk as war reparations.

Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys had no choice but to pass back the conditions of the Dagan Dynasty to Zhao Ji.

After Zhao Ji learned of the conditions demanded by the Dagan Dynasty, he naturally couldn't agree.

First of all, the Zhao and Song dynasties in Hebei and Hedong could not be ceded.

Once the Zhao Song Dynasty cedes Hebei and Hedong, the Zhao Song Dynasty will only have the Central Plains and Sichuan and Shaanxi regions, and will be completely reduced to a small country. The key point is that the Dagan Dynasty will definitely not allow the Central Plains to divide its territory. The two halves will have to continue to attack the Zhao Song Dynasty sooner or later.

Also, the war indemnity of 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver, and 1000 million bolts of silk is too outrageous—the Zhao and Song Dynasty could afford 1000 million bolts of silk, but the 1000 million ingots of gold, 2000 million ingots of silver are 50 million taels (one ingot is [-] taels). The key point is that the Daqian Dynasty only needs gold and silver. Where can the Zhao Song Dynasty go to get the Dagan Dynasty?

No way, Zhao Ji could only instruct Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and other Song envoys to join forces with Zhao Ding and Qin Hui to continue negotiating with the Dagan Dynasty.

Zhao Ji was very worried. When he woke up one day, he suddenly heard the news that the Dagan Dynasty had invaded the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhao Ji is really worried about the future of the Zhao Song Dynasty and himself.

Therefore, Zhao Ji issued an imperial decree, summoning the "Golden Gate Feather Guest" Zhang Xubai into the palace.

The so-called "Golden Gate Yuke" is actually a Taoist priest—a Taoist priest with superb Taoism.

Zhao Ji can be regarded as the most religious emperor, bar none.

in fact--

There is also a reason why Zhao Ji believed in Taoist priests.

First of all, before Zhao Ji ascended the throne, some Taoist priests successfully predicted that Zhao Ji would be the emperor.

Later, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, but he never had any children.

Maoshan Taoist Liu Hunkang told Zhao Ji that in the Eight Diagrams, Gen is located in the northeast, which represents mountains, but in the northeast of Kaifeng City, there are not only no mountains, but also the terrain is too low, which will lead to the lack of prosperity of the royal heirs. The children and grandchildren will prosper.

According to what Liu Hunkang said, Zhao Ji built a rockery in the northeast direction, and as expected, he continued to have children.

Later, some Taoist priests passed on some Taoist practice methods to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji will marry a first-time daughter every five or seven days, and if she wins the royal title once, she will be given a title, and she will advance to a higher rank every time she continues to be lucky.

This made Zhao Ji have sixty children, and at the same time, there were tens of thousands of women in Zhao Ji's palace for Zhao Ji's backup.

Zhao Ji, who had benefited from Taoism, gathered a large number of famous Taoist priests to his side, the most famous of which were Lin Lingsu, Wang Yuncheng, Xu Zhichang, Dong Nanyun, Li Derou, Wang Chongdao, Shao Ruoyu, Wang Wenqing and other nine people.

There are only three people who have won the title of Jinmen Feather Guest - Lin Lingsu, Wang Yuncheng and Zhang Xubai.

And Zhang Xubai, although not the most famous among them, is deeply trusted by Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji has always called Zhang Xubai "Zhang Hu" instead of Zhang Xubai's name.

Zhang Xubai especially likes to drink, every time after drinking, Zhang Xubai will say whatever he wants, without hiding anything.

——Zhang Xubai often talked about what happened in the future when he was drunk.

Zhang Xubai once fell asleep lying on Zhao Ji's lap after getting drunk.

Zhao Ji said to Zhang Xubai tolerantly, "Zhang Hu, you are drunk."

Summoned by Zhao Ji, Zhang Xubai came to the palace.

Zhao Ji told Zhang Xubai about the current predicament that the Zhao Song Dynasty was facing, and asked Zhang Xubai to speculate about good and bad fortune.

Zhang Xubai used the Taiyi spell to calculate for a while, then took the wine gourd, and drank a whole big gourd of wine one gulp after another.

Zhang Xubai didn't say until he was so drunk that his eyes were blurred, "Tian Zuo built a palace on the sea and waited for His Majesty for a long time."

When the people on the left and right heard Zhang Xubai's words, they all turned pale with shock.

Only Zhao Ji was not angry, but looked at Zhang Xubai and said slowly: "Zhang Hu, you are drunk again."

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(End of this chapter)