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While the Protectorate Army was fighting the Jurchens, the Song Dynasty on the south bank of the Yellow River was not idle either. In April, Zhao Ji mainly did two things. First, he finally changed the year name and chose one that he thought should be very special. The auspicious year name - Jingkang.

Because there are protective troops in the north to block him, the Song Dynasty is not as precarious as Sun Xin's previous life in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Since Zhao Ji did not think that there was a high probability that he would become the king of the country, he was not in a hurry to pass the throne, but In April, he finally decided to leave Kaifeng.

This guy took Cai Jing, Wang Fu, Tong Guan and a group of others and ran south, saying they were going to Bozhou to offer incense. In fact, a large group of holy men, escorted by tens of thousands of soldiers, abandoned the capital and fled south.

When Zhao Ji left the city, the people in the city were panicked. It was even said that the Jurchens had been driven into the dust, so they caused a stampede directly on the South Bridge of Kaifeng City. Many people risked their lives to drag their families and families to flee south with Zhao Ji.

Even Zhao Ji's honor guard was blocked in the south of the city. During the chaos, Tong Guan ordered his sergeants to fire crossbows on the bridge, killing dozens of fleeing civilians and soldiers before finally suppressing the situation.Zhao Ji relied on Fengfengguangguang to leave Bianliang City, stepping on the corpses of civilians and soldiers.

Then Zhao Ji wandered around in the south, and Cai Jing died of illness in the process. At the same time, shocking news came from the north that the protective army had actually defeated the Jurchens.

Zhao Ji was stunned when he heard the news. It was said that he was sometimes sad and sometimes laughed to tears. It was probably because the fact that the protective army was able to defeat the Jurchens was too exciting for him.

Everyone in the palace was talking about it. Zhao Ji and Wang Fu discussed it and came to a unified opinion: Sun Xin had already beaten the Jurchens away, and they should go back to pick peaches as soon as possible.

Take out the map again and look at it: Wanyan Zongwang's army moving south from Yanshan is resisted by the protective army of Sun Xinqi Supervisory Committee. Wanyan Zonghan's army moving south from Shanxi is resisted by the supervisory committee of North China Base Area. Following closely.

Everyone suddenly realized that even if the Jurchens were beaten away, the Supervisory Committee would inevitably expand in the north, and many cities conquered by the Supervisory Committee would probably leave the control of the Song Dynasty in the future.

How can this work?
Return to Kaifeng quickly!
So when Sun Xin's supervisory committee finally captured Liyang, Zhao Ji also returned to Kaifeng Mansion.

After some discussion, this group of guys realized that even in Kaifeng, they had no way to argue with the Supervisory Committee. Li Gang, who was in charge of the defense of Kaifeng Mansion, had no chance to report to Zhao Ji the situation of Kaifeng's city defense at this time. Zhao Ji was already in a hurry Busy making decisions.

Since the Jurchens have been beaten away by the Supervisory Committee (actually they have not), the Supervisory Committee has now become a serious problem for the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty must quickly compete with the Supervisory Committee for land control.

In fact, Zhao Ji still has many troops and horses in Bianliang. The Jurchens began to go south in November. Now in April and five months, reinforcements from all over the country have arrived one after another. At this time, Bianliang has at least 20 soldiers and horses. There are [-].

But these 20 soldiers are no match for the Jurchens or the Supervisory Council when put on a frontal battlefield.

Just kidding, the Song Dynasty lost more than 20 people when it attacked the Liao Kingdom, and the Supervisory Committee also had 10 people to fill it in. Even Zhao Ji knew that with the Song Dynasty’s current combat effectiveness, his 20 people were not enough for the two armies north of the Yellow River. Food for the army.

After some thinking, Zhao Ji finally came up with a plan that could protect his territory - on April [-], the first year of Jingkang, an edict from Zhao Ji was suddenly issued from Bianliang, and the Song Dynasty sent Zheng Wangzhi to Jinying to seek peace.

Li Gang, who had been preparing to defend Bianliang for a long time, wrote to persuade Zhao Ji, but he could not suspend Zhao Ji's intention.

And when the Jurchens cruising along the Yellow River received this letter from Zhao Ji, they were also confused.They had just suffered a huge defeat and were now in a dilemma. Why did Zhao Ji suddenly come to them to ask for peace?By the way, hasn’t Zhao Ji already escaped from Kaifeng?When did you come back?
When the Supervisory Committee learned the news, the crowd was even more indignant.

Good guy, we fought without you before, and now that we just won, you came out to sue for peace with the Jurchens on behalf of the Han people?

After the content of Zhao Ji's peace proposal came out, the world was even more shocked.

Zhao Ji's conditions were very simple. Let the Jurchens retreat slowly and return the cities they occupied to the Song Dynasty. In order to compensate for the Jurchens' losses, the Song Dynasty was willing to export 1000 million pieces of silk, 50 taels of gold ingots, 100 million ingots, and 50 taels of gold ingots. Two silver ingots, 1000 million ingots.

This is not an agreement to withdraw troops. It is simply to prevent the Supervisory Committee from occupying the land, so it would rather give all the money of the Song Dynasty to the Jurchens.

As soon as this news came out, not only the people in the Supervisory Committee were scolding, but also the people across North China who were still falling under the Jurchens' iron heel at this time were shocked when they heard the news, and then the sounds of disdain continued.

What kind of emperor could be so wretched?
This completely does not treat them, the people in the occupied areas, as human beings.

But at this time, Zhao Ji could no longer care about so much. For his own rights, he had to carry out his edict even if the world hated him.

The Jurchens were extremely happy. When they arrived at Kaifeng Mansion and saw more than 20 Song troops gathered in Kaifeng Mansion, they were already a little unable to attack them, so they kept patrolling along the Yellow River and refused to advance.

Later, the Board of Supervisors took a look at their heart. They originally thought that the transaction had been a loss, but they didn't expect that a big guy like Zhao Ji would take the initiative to give money, and even the amount of money given was far more than they imagined.

The price offered by Zhao Ji is almost equivalent to one-third of the annual tax revenue of the entire Song Dynasty. The population of the Song Dynasty is hundreds of millions, while the combined population of the entire Liao and Jin Kingdom is only tens of millions. In addition, the land of the Song Dynasty is rich in commerce. Prosperous, one-third of the tax revenue during the Song Dynasty was enough for the previous Liao Kingdom to earn money for more than ten years.

Even if the Jurchens occupied the entire Liao Dynasty, they could not grab the money so quickly. Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang couldn't help but sigh: The business of going south to the Song Dynasty is really easy!

The contract between Song and Jin was drawn up at an unimaginable speed. At the end of April, the Jurchens began to slowly withdraw from the territory of the Song Dynasty. The Song army followed them. If the Jurchens retreated a little, they would follow and occupy a little.

Even these Song troops turned a blind eye to the Jurchens' massive looting when they exited the city. They only stood at the door and waited for the Jurchens to quickly enter the city and occupy the land after they burned, killed, and looted.

The Jurchens also joined forces with the Song army to fight against the Supervisory Committee armed forces in various places.

In many places along the Shanxi Province that were still resisting the Jurchens, the Song Army and the Supervisory Committee, who had originally fought together, turned against each other.

Because the situation north of the Yellow River, which had just seen a glimmer of hope for the Supervisory Committee's victory in the Battle of Liyang, immediately fell into chaos following Zhao Ji's order.

(End of this chapter)