Chapter 1369 Negotiations

Zhang San continued: "So I think the first step is to let Liaoguo have machinery first, so that machinery can bring profits to Liao, let everyone see the benefits of machinery, let Liaoguo have factories and industries first, and then generate demand for machinery, and machinery manufacturing workshops can be successfully established, so that they can be improved step by step, these are all a process." ”

Mu Chun nodded: "That's true, but talents can be cultivated first, if my Da Liao sends his children to study at the Great Song Royal Institute of Technology, will the Great Song Dynasty agree?" ”

Zhang San leaned on the side of the boat and glanced at Xiao Xi and Chao Bu, who were talking happily on the other side: "Lao Shangshu, look at them, if this peace negotiation can be successfully reached and the relationship between the two countries is still good, I think there should be no problem." ”

"But if you can't talk, you'll probably be in trouble......"

The friendly and intimate atmosphere was only reflected on the Milk Lion, and when everyone sat down at the negotiation table in the capital hall of the Zhangzidao Customs Office, they immediately began to fight against each other.

Xiao Xi said to Su Song: "Shilang, Commander, Song State's annexation of Xia State is the biggest hostility and provocation to Liao State, and my Great Liao will never tolerate it." ”

Su Song helped his tortoiseshell glasses and took out a few documents from in front of him: "Xiao Shuxiang laughed, first of all, the Song State did not annex the Xia State, but entrusted the country to the Great Song Dynasty before he died. ”

After speaking, he handed the document to Xiao Xi: "Here, it is the usual edict, as well as the minutes of the discussion between the Duke of Shu and the ministers of the Xia State, as well as the thank you table from Qianshun, the military divisions of the former Xia State, and the state and county Taishou to my court. ”

Xiao Xi read the document and immediately found the loophole: "In the above table of the Duke of Shu, the Western Xia is divided into three roads, which is the substantive move to incorporate the Western Xia into the Song Dynasty, and I Daliao cannot tolerate such a move." ”

Su Song smiled: "This is not the decision of the Duke of Shu himself, the initiators of this proposal are Chaogu, Liang Yiduo, and Li Ji, the former ministers of the Xia Kingdom. The reason is that the Xia State decided to abolish the militaristic system and change to the Han system. In order to facilitate governance, the Duke of Shu suggested that the imperial court make such adjustments. ”

After deliberation with the imperial court, it was believed that this change was indeed beneficial to the development of the Xia Kingdom, so they agreed to their request. No blame! ”

Chao Buzhi immediately handed over the court documents prepared in advance to Xiao Xi.

After reading it, Xiao Xi threw the official document on the table: "Even so, what I want to tell Duke Su is that although the Xia Kingdom is a vassal state of the Southern Dynasty, it is also a vassal state of my Great Liao. ”

"If you want to put officials in management, then it should also be jointly dispatched by the two countries to manage it together!"

Su Song did not give in: "Duke Xi, the Great Song Dynasty is a country that stresses etiquette and observes etiquette, and the Liao State only sees that the Great Song Dynasty implements the management of the three roads in Ningxia, thinking that there will be some huge benefits, but as everyone knows, the Great Song Dynasty has paid the price in order to survive and complete the responsibility of the suzerain." ”

He also asked Chao Buzhi to send a few documents: "In order to let Xia Guo survive the chaos safely, the imperial court established three banks at the request of the Duke of Shu, and allocated five million yuan of gold, silver, and copper to enrich the treasury and let the economy of the three roads recover." ”

"At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty assisted three roads with a large amount of food and materials, with a total of no less than 400,000 stones."

"This is the case with the Great Song Dynasty, which is the same as the drought and locust plague in Youyun of the Gui Dynasty a year ago, and our dynasty immediately sent a charity relief group to help hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass free of charge to help the people of the Gui Dynasty overcome difficulties."

"You only see the benefits, but what we see is the responsibility of the suzerain, this is the magnanimity of my great country and the orthodoxy of China!"

"The officials are set up to lead the people of Xia to embark on the road of happiness and have a better life, not to extort and suck off."

"Otherwise, why would Da Song be tax-free on the three roads for ten years?!"

Xiao Xi did not follow: "Xia Guo Xingqing Mansion, Buddhism is prosperous, and many nobles in my dynasty have gone to worship Buddha, and now the Song Dynasty is in charge, so can our road to worship Buddha continue to be smooth?" ”

Su Song said with a smile: "There must be a coming, Xia is also a vassal to Liao, and every year the Liao lord has to send an envoy to congratulate him on his birthday." ”

"If the Liao State can ensure that the tributary road from Wuyuan City to Zhongjing continues to be smooth, then the Song State can ensure that the road from Wuyuan City to Xingqing Mansion is also smooth."

"By the way, the reason why Buddhism in Xingqing Mansion is prosperous is because there is a living Buddha in the red."

"The master has now moved to the Twin Pagoda Temple in the Great Trap Valley of Helan Mountain, and the nobles of the noble dynasty have saved a lot of distance if they want to worship the Buddha......

In fact, this is impossible, at the cost of letting the Song people figure out the road from Yinshan Mountain to Zhongjing of the Liao Dynasty, in exchange for the Liao State to find out the passage from Yinshan Mountain to Helan Mountain, for the Liao State, it is definitely more than worth the loss.

The length of the light path is several times different.

You come and go at the negotiation table, Xiao Xi can be regarded as having met a real opponent, Su Song and Chao Buzhi, and they can be said to know the internal situation of the Liao State very clearly.

Moreover, now the southern prefectures and counties of the Liao State are not willing to offend the Song Dynasty at all, and Xue Zhong can continue to receive internal intelligence from officials of the Liao Dynasty.

Xiao Xi felt as if he was stuck in a quagmire, pressure from all sides, a situation that had never been encountered in previous negotiations.

Moreover, after Su You's guidance, Xiao Xi has a lot of economic interests in Zhangzidao, and he is a first-class customer of Zhangzidao Huangsong Bank.

Yelu Hongji is actually blackmailing, asking Xiao Xi to get as much benefit as possible from this incident.

So Xiao Xi finally resorted to the old trick again, and if he couldn't say it, he would play tricks, almost saying that if you don't give me the benefits of Da Liao, we won't be able to get over this hurdle.

This is a diplomatic robbery, and when encountering such hob meat, Su Song and Chao Buzhi had no choice but to make major concessions.

In the end, the two sides agreed to a peace treaty with great restraint.

The Liao State recognized the Great Song Dynasty's right to administer the Western Xia, while relinquishing its own right to administer the Western Xia.

The Liao State agreed to work with the Great Song Dynasty to demote the previous Xia State lords to the level of Jiedu Envoy.

The princesses of the Liao Kingdom who stayed in the Xia Kingdom due to intermarriage, the Great Song Dynasty should maintain their treatment and should not be treated lightly.

In order to make the Liao State give up the right to administer, the Great Song also paid a heavy price.

Montenegro-Quye River was the border between the original Xia State and the Liao State, and the Xia State once garrisoned 70,000 troops.

The Great Song was willing to cut the military strength in half, with 35,000 as the upper limit, indicating that the Great Song regarded the Liao State as a brotherly state, not a threat.

The Great Song Dynasty needed to open the city of Rong in Wuyuan and Jiuyuan counties.

The annual silk banknotes given by the Great Song Dynasty to the Liao State were increased by 500,000 guan on the basis of 250,000 guan.

The Great Song Dynasty lifted the ban on some books of Liao, and allowed the Liao State to purchase at will on Zhangzi Island after the subset of the classics and Buddhist classics.

The Great Song Dynasty funded the Liao State to build the Sitiantai in Zhongjing, taught the astrological signs and calendars, and maintained the equal enemy status of the two countries in the ritual system.

The collation of Buddhism and the books compiled in the Dunhuang testament must be regularly reported to the Liao State and given away.

The Great Song Dynasty needed to assist the Liao State and set up a money village in Suzhou, the Liao State, to facilitate the merchants to conduct trade business.

The Great Song Dynasty promised that it would no longer conduct direct trade with the female straight in any way.

The Great Song Dynasty needed to fund the Liao State to build ports in Chenzhou and Baozhou.

The peace agreement was transmitted back to Bianjing, which immediately caused an uproar.

The Taiwan admonition was immediately launched, impeaching the peace talks for making too big concessions, and Su Songchao made up for the loss of power and humiliation of the country.

There are only a few people who really understand, and no one knows how big the production capacity of Xixia is, but Zhao Ji knows that the so-called five million guan of the Great Song Dynasty's support for the three roads in the negotiation was made by Su Mingrun himself in the three roads.

Hetian jade was finally sent to Bianjing City again after being cut off for decades, and the high prices of woolen and fine wool finally came down in July of the fifth year of Yuanfeng.

The most critical thing is military spending, and the military expenditure consumed by the Great Song Dynasty on the Western Army every year has finally been completely alleviated.

After the war, the regular army of the Fourth Route in Shaanxi has not been reduced, but the Xiang Army began to demobilize on a large scale, because the Ningxia Third Route Policy is extremely favorable, and most people choose to go to the local master of the Third Road.

In addition to the land, there are also women, where there are few men and many women, which is especially attractive to the old singles of the Xiang army.

Within half a year, Shaanxi's military spending needs will drop by half, and the local governments of Shaanxi and Ningxia can solve the rest on the spot.

The advantage of the separation of military and government is that these military expenditures are in the hands of civilian officials, with the money-making machine of Su You, and the figures of Yuanfeng Cang and Sealed Pile Depot in the account of the Huangsong Bank, after they stopped declining, they gradually began to grow slowly.

In order to confuse the Liao people, Zhao Ji issued an edict, since the peace agreement has been completed, in order not to irritate the Liao State and make things procrastinate, he agreed to use the seal for the peace talks.

However, in view of Su Song and Chao Buzhi's poor performance in the peace talks, Su Song resigned and was reappointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry; Chao Buzhi went to Ningxia to serve as Su You's deputy and as the judge of the Three Roads Transit Division.

Before leaving, Zhao Ji summoned Su Song and Chao Buzhi into the palace, and the three of them discussed secretly for two hours, and the courtiers did not know what the specific content was.