Chapter 1368: The Treaty of Qin, Yuan, Jinyang (Chinese)

As soon as he heard Tuo Lei say this, Kublai Khan suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly said: "Father, I believe in my sons, this battle can't be fought at all, whether it is slaughtering prisoners or sending grain and grass to Zhenbei Pass, it is just a means for Qin Hao to force my Dayuan to compromise, Qin Hao is just bluffing, and he has no power to send troops to attack Dragon City,"

Tuo Lei shook his head: "Child, it's not that I don't believe you, but the entire Yuanmeng is scared by Qin Hao, compared to your analysis, they believe that Qin Hao has the strength to do this."

You also know that no matter whether Qin Hao has the strength to send troops or not, the current Yuanmeng can no longer gamble, let alone continue to gamble, so child, do you understand what I mean? ”

As soon as he heard this, Kublai Khan was suddenly struck by lightning and sat down directly on the ground.

After the father and son were silent for a long time, Kublai Khan stood up, let out a long breath of turbidity, and said in a deep voice: "In this case, for the sake of my great yuan, my son is willing to go to Jinyang as a proton." ”

Tuo Lei's eyes were full of relief, and he forced a smile: "Kublai Khan Wu'er, I have wronged you this time, and I don't want you to be hostage, but now that Yuanmeng is no longer in turmoil, you can rest assured, I will crown you the crown prince before you leave, and after you return with honor, you will definitely be the future emperor of my Great Yuan." ”

Tuo Lei also felt ashamed of his son, so he decided to crown Kublai Khan as the crown prince to compensate for his debt to Kublai Khan.

If this had been before, Kublai Khan would have been extremely happy, but now Kublai Khan is not happy at all.

This position of the crown prince needs to go to Jinyang as a proton in exchange, and once he really goes to Jinyang, humiliation is secondary, and whether he can come back alive is the biggest problem.

Protons, protons, to put it bluntly, are hostages.

In the future, if there is any turmoil between the two countries of Qin and Yuan, he will definitely be the first to suffer.

In addition, before leading the army to encircle and suppress Huo Quai, Kublai Khan twice forced Huo Qubing into a desperate situation, and the Saihan army under his command suffered heavy casualties, God knows if Huo Qubing will retaliate against him for this?

In case Huo Qu was careful and assassinated him in private, Yuan Meng's naturalization would be so weak, and it would be impossible to seek justice for him, and once he died, he would die in vain.

Kublai Khan is not afraid of humiliation, nor is he afraid of death, but he is afraid of a meaningless death, but he seems to have no other choice, and now the entire Yuanmeng is on the verge of destroying the country, and he must shoulder the heavy responsibility of sharing worries for the country as the crown prince.

Regarding the peace talks with Qin, Yuan and Mongolia were also divided into two factions, the opposition and the approving faction.

The fiasco in the Battle of Hetao made the whole country of Yuan and Mongolia fear Qin like a tiger, from the top to the civilians, they were unwilling and did not dare to fight with Qin, so the approving faction in favor of the peace talks was the mainstream, and the opposition was just a small hand, which could not affect the overall situation at all.

Soon after Boyan's Flying Eagle Biography was returned, there was news that Prince Kublai Khan had voluntarily gone to Jinyang as a hostage for the sake of peace, and all of a sudden the whole country praised Kublai Khan's deep understanding of righteousness.

At this point, the biggest difference between the Qin and Yuan negotiations disappeared.

Sending the prince as a hostage can be said to be the biggest difference in the peace talks between the two countries, which has nothing to do with interests, but about the face of the Yuanmeng Empire, but the last fig leaf of the Yuanmeng.

Now that Yuan Meng doesn't even want this last fig leaf, it can be seen how much Yuan Meng is afraid of the Qin army, which is the impact of a hearty victory.

There are many regulations in the Qin Yuan peace talks, and compared with the article of sending the prince as a hostage, such as what is not allowed to graze, the release of Han slaves, etc., this is not a matter, everything can be sat down and discussed.

After Boyan, who was far away in Jinyang, got the news, he also roughly understood the bottom line of the peace talks, so he immediately started a new round of negotiations.

Since the biggest differences have disappeared, the negotiations that have gone on a very smooth way have gone on the whole, but there are still considerable differences between the two sides on some interests, and the arguments are very serious.

"Mr. Berwyn, your country's asking price is too ruthless, my Dayuan is now resisting the Manchu invasion, and I still need a large number of horses to arm the army, I really can't compensate your country with 500,000 war horses, do you think 300,000 horses are good?"

Boyan said pleadingly, but Liu Bowen pretended not to see it.

"Envoy Boyan, this is a sacred and solemn negotiation between the two countries, you should buy vegetables in the market, can you still bargain? The difficulties you mentioned, those are your business, you have to solve it yourself, 500,000 war horses, not a single one is missing. ”

"I really can't make it up, or you think it's good, the war horses will only be compensated for 300,000 horses, and the rest of the 200,000 horses will be filled with cattle, sheep and other treasures?"

“……”

Liu Bowen also saw that Boyan was not pretending to be poor, but really exceeded the limit that Yuanmeng could bear, and he seemed to overestimate Yuanmeng's heritage.

"It's not impossible, but the war horses still need 400,000 horses, and another 100,000 to offset with other things."

"There really aren't 400,000 war horses, do you think 320,000 is good? Another 180,000 were paid with cattle and sheep. ”

"No, at least 480,000 ......"

After a dry argument, the two sides finally set the total amount of compensation for the war horses at 350,000, and the other 150,000 were offset by cattle, sheep or treasures.

At this point, there is no disagreement at all on this article on compensation.

But immediately afterwards, the two sides started a new round of controversy over how many cattle and sheep can be worth a war horse.

Liu Bowen thought that the value of war horses in wartime was high, at least ten sheep could be worth one horse, and cattle were five worth one horse, while Boyan felt that this was too outrageous, and the two sides quarreled for a whole hour before negotiating this issue.

In this way, the Qin and Yuan peace talks stumbled into half a month, and reached a consensus of 21 articles with great difficulty, and finally Boyan, the envoy on behalf of the Yuanmeng Empire, signed the first treaty in the late Han Dynasty with the Qin army in Jinyang, which later historians called the "Han-Yuan Jinyang Treaty".

The Treaty of Jinyang of the Han Yuan Dynasty has a total of 21 regulations:

Article 1 A total of 350,000 horses, 450,000 ploughing cattle, 1,300,000 sheep, and a number of treasures of gold, silver, silk, grain, and grass were compensated.

This is the one that contains the greatest benefits of all the regulations.

With a total of 350,000 horses, plus the 450,000 captured after the Battle of Hetao, as well as the horses raised in the Jin army's horse farm, the total number of horses owned by the Qin army has reached nearly one million, which is definitely a very terrifying number.

With so many war horses, no matter how Qin Hao wastes them, it is enough to support the unification of the whole country.