Early in the morning, Bianliang City.

In the Honglu Temple, envoys from Dongying and Goryeo were gathered, and now the Great Song Dynasty has taken back Youyan strongly, bordering Goryeo again, and the Goryeo monarchs and ministers who are threatened by the Jurchens have a sense of blessing.

For the Goryeo people, who were often plundered by the Jurchens and could not resist the enemy outside the country, the strong recovery of Youyan by the Great Song army was a life-saving straw.

Gao Li is like a left-behind child who is bullied every day, crying with tears in his eyes: "My father has finally returned." ”

This mentality was also expressed in the Goryeo envoys of Hongroji Temple, who were all dissatisfied with their faces and looked at the envoys of other countries with infinite pride in their eyes. seems to be showing off all the time, I was my own son when I was in the Tang Dynasty, what about you?

The Dongying envoy next to him was relatively low-key, sitting patiently on one side and waiting patiently for the ministers of the Song court, without saying a word or looking around.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Goguryeo was a powerful country in northern Liaoning, and its territory was not comparable to that of Korea and South Korea in later generations, and its territory covered some areas of Liaoning and Jilin in later generations, the whole territory of North Korea, and some parts of South Korea.

Goguryeo bullied its neighbor Silla, which was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. At this moment, the Tang Dynasty, which had already seen it unpleasantly, had a legitimate excuse, and you Goguryeo still dared to bully my little brother, so it officially declared war on Goguryeo, and it was more than 20 years after a fight.

In 668 AD, Xue Rengui, the general of the Tang Dynasty's right Weiwei, attacked Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and Goguryeo as a country completely disappeared in the long river of history, and the Tang Dynasty and Silla divided the territory of Goguryeo with the Daedong River as the boundary.

Later, Silla, together with the Tang Dynasty, fell into civil strife, and there were continuous uprisings in various places. After hundreds of years of fighting, the general Wang Jiancheng became the monarch of the Goryeo Dynasty, which is known in history as Wang's Goryeo.

In fact, this Goryeo has nothing to do with Goguryeo, but Goguryeo was powerful back then, and these people wanted to rub off some residual power, which gave rise to the name of Goryeo.

The traditional skill of Goryeo is that the knees are soft, the clothes are soft, and the grandson can be a grandson. This is very important for a small country surrounded by strong enemies, and it can be said to be the foundation of its existence. Externally, he successively declared himself a vassal to the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou, Northern Song Dynasty, and Khitan.

Moreover, he was particularly deep in Sinicization Chengdu in the Tang Dynasty, and he always thought that he was the first Han Chinese, the second in Goryeo, and the others were barbarians.

Now that he has rightfully returned to the embrace of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, he is happy, and it is almost not set as a national celebration day.

In the Honglu Temple, a servant sent a few cups of tea, and the Dongying envoy quickly stood up and bent down to thank him.

Li Ziqian, the Goryeo envoy on the side, shrugged and smiled, obviously despising these Dongying dwarfs, and saluting the officials who served tea and water, he really did not distinguish between dignity and inferiority, and did not understand etiquette.

Li Ziqian was a powerful minister of Goryeo and the uncle of Goryeo, and married both daughters to Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo.

The Dongying envoy on the side was furious, and just wanted to speak, but was held down by the people around him, sat back on the chair, closed his eyes and rested.

A sound of footsteps came from outside, dozens of guards opened the way, and an official came in in a cluster, and the Goryeo envoy Li Ziqian couldn't sit still, so he quickly got up and greeted him together.

Xu Mo, the secretary of Honglu Temple, said with a smile: "This is our Great Song Yang Shaozai, who is here to meet with the envoys of the two countries. ”

Li Ziqian's face was reverent, and he said: "Foreign Minister Li Ziqian, I have seen Yang Shaozai. ”

The Dongying people also saluted with him, they all knew Yang Lin's reputation, and they also knew that in this empire now, he was the one who had the final say.

Yang Lin sat down at the top and said with a smile: "You have come from afar, you have worked hard, please take a seat." ”

Dongying people are honest, and they sit down solidly, Li Ziqian smiled: "Shaozai is above, how dare the foreign ministers sit down, just stand and listen." ”

Yuan Yi Zhongsheng, the envoy of Dongying on the side, had a red face, and wanted to stand up, but he didn't know whether to stand or not. Seeing that he was uneasy, a trace of disdain and joy flashed between Li Ziqian's eyebrows, and Yang Lin hurriedly said: "It's okay, just sit down." ”

Li Ziqian sat down at this time, holding his knees with his hands, and sat very humbly.

Yang Lin said with a smile: "This southern expedition, outside of our country's soil, is not for the interests of the Great Song Dynasty. Rather, it is to maintain the legitimacy of the vassal state, which is actually a righteous war of our Great Song Dynasty as the suzerain! You have come with an edict to deliver money, food and materials, and we have received them. After the two envoys returned to China, they also asked each of them to inform the lord of the country that they should be diligent in their political affairs, love their people, preach to all directions, and not be arrogant and lascivious. ”

That's it? Both messengers froze.

In the relationship between the clans and vassals of the Great Song Dynasty, there was an important process in the tributary system, which was to return the gift.

The additional items of the Song Dynasty tribute were relatively rich, including clothes and belts, silver, silk, horses, military utensils, tea, medicine and other items. The Great Song Dynasty is rich, and every time it gives a lot of rewards, every time it pays tribute to these vassal states, it is like the New Year, how did you receive something this time, and you didn't say anything about the return?

In the Ming Dynasty of later generations, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming court went to the people, and they always looked above the top and did not put the small country of Fanyi in their eyes at all.

The Song Dynasty had a long-term threat from the Western Xia, and the Liaojin Mongols took turns to fight, and Jiaozhi often invaded, so the Song court's reward was more of a means of entrapment.

The Great Song Wenchen clique, which had always been willing to spend money to buy peace, used the rich rewards as an important political and economic means to win over the Uighurs, Tibetans and other tribes, and form military alliances with them to divide, disintegrate, and resist hostile forces.

Although this move was very effective, forming an anti-Western Xia alliance in the northwest, it also brought heavy financial pressure.

Now that the New Deal has long since abolished this item, the Uighurs, the Tibetans, and the Party are the three vicious dogs that Yang Lin is holding in his hands, and they will bite whoever they want to bite when they whistle.

From a bully who used to need bribes, he has become a domestic dog, a guardian of the Western Regions Trade Road and the Tea Horse Trade Road.

The envoys of Goryeo and Dongying, of course, were embarrassed to speak directly in front of their faces, but they were already anxious.

This time, in order to get together the materials for the Great Song Dynasty, but they made great efforts to search for it, according to past experience, the more you give, the more the Great Song Dynasty will give you, so they have the mentality of desperately investing and making more returns, and they are excited.

If he returns empty-handed, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction in the country, and he may not be able to save his life.

Yang Lin was full of spring breeze, and he kept praising them for understanding etiquette and general knowledge. These words are worse than scolding the mother in the ears of the envoys of the two countries, and the key is that he is not only ugly, but also very embarrassing.

None of them were taken out, they were all indisputably good, but unfortunately at this time, it sounded aggrieved.

Yang Lin stood up, changed his words, and scolded viciously: "The small country that occupies the city does not respect the edict of our emperor this time, and refuses to send troops to help the war. In this southern expedition, I will destroy it first, raze its royal family, behead all the ministers, and rescue the people of Zhancheng from the fire and water of the faint king and traitorous ministers. ”

Li Ziqian and Yuan Yi Zhongsheng trembled...

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