Chapter 508: Serving the People
Mingjin wanted peace talks, and the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji asked Gan Qi to send people out of the city for peace talks.
Gan Qi sent a person to Li Ding, the prefect of Xijin who had just arrived in Yanjing to take office, which was probably also a test, not only a test, but also a long insight. Xijin Mansion is the place where Yanjing is located, just like Bianliang in Kaifeng Mansion, this mansion is very large, although it is not as big as Kaifeng, but in comparison, it is also the level of a second-tier city.
This position is Gan Qi is coming, when the big victory was coming, the whole dynasty was happy, Gan Qi asked for a few official positions, this is a seed, whether it can blossom and bear fruit in the future depends on Gan Qi's future management.
Li Ding's speed of promotion, is also in the rocket, Jinshi soon took over the commercial tax supervisor, has been doing very well, commercial tax for three consecutive years of steady growth, during the commercial tax supervisor Yamen also expanded once, the grade was also raised, Li Ding also followed the six grades, and now to Xijin, that is, the six grades, and then one level, you can wear a red robe.
The official uniforms of the Song Dynasty were basically four kinds, the seventh rank wore cyan, the seventh rank and below the fifth rank wore green, the fifth rank and above could wear red, and the third rank and above could wear purple. This is the system, but generally speaking, when you wear it regularly, there are very few people who can really wear purple to go out and show off in the market, even if you are above the third grade, you also wear red.
This has to say the emperor, there may be the reason for the emperor, even the emperor usually wears red, which causes others to be more embarrassed to wear purple, during the Huizong period, even the privy envoy, the great eunuch Tong Guan of Guangyang County, saw the emperor and still wore turquoise.
Li Ding sent an envoy to the Liao army camp, Gan Qi naturally explained, since he wants to negotiate peace, then there is nothing to say, the money can be given, give tens of thousands of guan to express it, this thing is face, the face of the Liao country, sometimes you have to sell a little bit if you get cheap.
If this battle continues to be fought like this, the outcome is really unpredictable, Gan Qi is not 100% sure that he will really be able to hold the pass, the Liao people are becoming more and more crazy, and there are more and more ordnance, if it really does not hold it, then it will really be wasted.
With Riko, you can give up face a little.
Gan Qi is also confident that time will definitely be on his side, and the longer the dispute between the Liao and Song Dynasty drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for the Liao State.
Another point is that Ganqi will not make the Liao people feel better, they want to turn around and march into the grassland, Ganqi has to fund the grassland tribes, for example, the Turkic barbarians, are Ganqi's main funding objects.
Swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows, crossbows, armor, sell!
Just this one is enough to make the Liao people full of bags.
There are also Jurchens further north, who should be funded a little, and they have to continue.
With these two things, Yan Yun was basically completely at peace for the time being.
Li Ding took Gan Qi's order and walked out of the customs, nervous in his heart, but he still had to pretend to be calm on the surface, this may be a test, and it will also be his promotion in the future. On the occasion of the war between the two armies, taking the risk of sending an envoy, if this kind of thing is said in Bianliang, it will naturally be a great achievement, as if he sacrificed his life for the country. Although the real truth is not the case, if this kind of experience is taken to Bianliang, it is a person who has died for the country.
This is also something that Gan Qi considers, and when there is any situation in the future to recommend Li Ding to take on important responsibilities, this is the most important reason for Gan Qi to recommend Li Ding, and no one can compare.
Gan Qi is also planning far-reaching.
Li Ding obviously understands this, in the face of the Liao iron armor, his face does not change, his steps are calm, and he sees the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji in the Chinese army's big tent, and he is neither humble nor arrogant.
There are many things to negotiate when it comes to making an alliance, and both sides naturally want to get more benefits. But Gan Qi has already had a bottom line, that is, he can give a little money.
As for what the name of this money is, both sides can say their own words, and Gan Qi's intention is to give Liao some compensation for the lost land. The Liao State naturally wanted to say that this was the New Year's coin that the Great Song Dynasty begged for.
Gan Qi is a pragmatic person, all right. Anyway, their official documents were shown to their respective people.
However, this negotiation is obviously also a tug-of-war, with many back and forth, and it is normal for people to accuse each other at the negotiation table, and even draw knives against each other.
The Liao people wanted to scare Li Ding, but Li Ding was mentally prepared. Everyone knows that the Liao people obviously will not really kill the envoy.
This thing, I have to say that the sage book is useful, and the Liao people who have read a lot of sage books have long been no different from the Song people in terms of morality.
While the negotiations were talking, Gan Qi also began to arrange many things.
In the evening, prepare a little wine and invite the Di family father and son to have a long talk.
After three rounds of drinking, he began to talk about business, Gan Qi was very straightforward: "Di Xianggong, I want Di Yong to go back to Yanzhou, I think you know about this matter." ”
Di Qing looked at Di Yong and replied: "Well, Yong'er said to the old man, but it is also a good place to go, the old man also knows what Dao Jian thinks, and now the Great Song Dynasty, there are many generals, but there are not a few useful troops, Yong'er returned to Yanzhou, and will inevitably train an elite army for the imperial court, so that the war on both sides of the east and west has also been relied on, and now that the matter of the Liao State is over, the old man knows that what you have in your heart is very big, if it is really a shame of snow and water in the future, the old man will die and be blind." ”
Gan Qi nodded: "In the past, I wanted Di Yong to stay in Yanjing, take charge of the overall situation of Yanjing, and guard against the Liao people. Later, I thought about it, I still felt that he was inexperienced, and the important military and political affairs of one party were also cumbersome to say, and this land of Yanyun was first obtained, and the undercurrents were surging, and there were many people with bad intentions, thinking about it, I still wanted to let you preside over it for a while. ”
"Me?" Di Qing was suspicious, and said again: "Yanyun is now a border town, and the place where hundreds of thousands of troops gather, I am afraid that the imperial court will ......."
"It's all up to me, and it's not as good now as it was then. At the beginning, you were always the first fierce general of the Great Song Dynasty, and no one could compare with you, so the spearhead was all on you, but now it is different. Gankey smiled.
Di Yong subconsciously asked, "What's different?"
Di Qing reacted, haha, and said, "Haha...... Also, now that the Great Song Dynasty has a Gan Daojian, he has won a hundred battles, even the Liao State is not a problem, and even Yanyun can be recovered, so the old man will not talk about any prestige for this bit of military exploits. With Dao Jian in the court, who would be afraid that my old bones would rebel? ”
"Oh, that's what the original way means......" Di Yong immediately understood.
"It's better to read, read the books of the sages and receive the teachings of the sages, and you won't rebel." Di Yong laughed at himself, but he was not sad, he was just joking.
Gan Qi's smile slowly stopped, and he suddenly thought a little more at this time, and thought of a deep question.
Is it true that if you really read the books of the sages, you will not be guarded against?
This question, in Di Qing's understanding, is certain, those ministers who were born in Jinshi have heavy troops, and no one has ever thought that they will rebel. This is Di Qing's experience in this life.
But Gan Qi himself is the party, so he can't think too much about it. Now that he is so powerful, with great power in his hands, heavy troops in his hands, and his power in the army is unmatched, it can be said that he has really achieved a hundred responses, and there is really no one to guard against him?
Gan Qi fell into deep thought, now as long as Gan Qi returns to Bianliang, it is almost the peak of his life, the more time like this, the more cautious he should be.
Gan Qi is reflecting, reflecting on whether his actions of buying people's hearts along the way have already fallen into the eyes of many well-intentioned people?
When he was fighting, he was bent on winning, but now that the war is over for the time being, he has to face political problems, and Ganqi's mind is a little heavy.
"Dao Jian, aren't you thinking about ......" Di Qing is very sensitive to this kind of problem, he may be the only person in the Great Song Dynasty who can talk to Gan Qi about this kind of thing, because Di Qing has personal experience that no one else has.
Gan Qi nodded, "Hmm." ”
"Dao Jian doesn't have to think about it, you are different from me, you are the champion, and you are Your Majesty's brother-in-law, no better than me, you are still a famous man in the world, you will not end up like me." Di Qing said so.
"Your Majesty's brother-in-law......" Gan Qi muttered for a moment, as if thoughtful, and then raised his glass: "Let's eat wine." ”
After several days of tug-of-war, the negotiations finally reached a result. The two sides made the "Gubei Alliance", which is still commensurate with the country of brothers, as for who is the brother and who is the brother, there is no dispute, Gan Qide continues to send 80,000 yuan to the Liao State every year as a compensation for the loss of land, and the Liao State receives the money, which is naturally used as a New Year's coin.
Li Ding made great contributions, and he personally drafted the covenant.
The Liao people began to retreat, and they were probably waiting for Ganqi to send troops to follow and cover the killing, and they were also ready to do so.
Of course, Gan Qi is not stupid enough to really chase and kill, and the comparison of Liao and Song's military capabilities is actually still similar to the original. As long as Gan Qi dares to send troops out of the city to chase after him, the Liao army will inevitably give Gan Qi a field lesson.
The city pass is really a good thing. I have to thank the ancestors, Yanyun here, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Great Wall has been built, and the Great Wall of Guyan has stretched for hundreds of miles. The section used by Gan Qi today is basically the prototype of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and it was later repaired by the Later Tang Dynasty and the like. Even in later generations, the ruins can still be seen faintly.
I have to thank the ancestors for this pass, if it weren't for this pass, there would be no Gan Qi's victory today.
Gan Qi was extremely sober that if he really wanted to defeat the Liao State, he would need a large number of cavalry.
Therefore, training cavalry is the top priority, and this top priority will be handed over to Di Qing for the time being, and Di Yong's Gan Qi will also let him bring more horses, without cavalry, he will always be passive.
The Wansheng army garrisoned the pass city along the line, and the mighty army garrisoned in the south of Yanjing City. It also recruited soldiers, and now the mighty army has more than 20,000 soldiers, first selected from the Wansheng Army and the forbidden army, and also continued to recruit good sons from the northwest to enlist. Wan Shengjun also selected a part from the forbidden army and recruited another part. There are 100,000 victorious troops and 50,000 mighty troops, which must be replenished.
On the Datong side, the matter of collecting sheep and releasing people has ended, and Chen Han has already begun to communicate about the sale of grain. Gan Qi also sent a long letter of tens of thousands of words to Chen Han, asking him to continue to talk to Mo Ge about selling grain.
But these are all small things, and there is one more secret thing, that is, to let the Moge lost people help contact the barbarians, this is the point, the barbarians are in the westernmost part of the steppe, they are a relatively wealthy tribe, Ganqi wants to sell them armaments, this thing must be done as soon as possible.
In fact, the barbarians were also put together, they dared to go to the battle, that is, they calculated that the Liao and Song Dynasty would not die, in what they saw with their own eyes, the Song people could fight, and they also knew that the Liao people could also fight, and one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, and they would definitely fight to the death.
The Nai barbarians wanted to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and they even wanted to replace the Khitan people's dominance on the grassland, so the Nai barbarians would never have thought that Song Liao would stop fighting and making peace. If the war is settled, the barbarians will be tragic, and the people who really take advantage of the fishermen cannot be the barbarians, but Gan Qi and the Great Song Dynasty.
At this point in history, it should have been the chaos of the Nine Divisions of Dadan, and Yelu Renxian would personally lead the soldiers of the Northern Courtyard to Ping the Rebellion of the Nine Divisions of Dadan.
Now everything has turned a corner, the Dadan people have no ability to make chaos, and the barbarians want to rise, but they have to face hundreds of thousands of Liao troops.
Gan Qi may become the biggest winner.
After arranging a number of affairs, Gan Qi had already gotten up and headed south, homesick, with 7,000 cavalry around him, Gan Qi also knew that when the time came, these 7,000 cavalry would have to have a triumphant ceremony, and they would have to be a guard of honor to make the people of Bianliang cheer.
Along the road, Gan Qi met several more people, Su Shi and Su Zhe, who came belatedly, one knew Luanzhou, one knew Tanzhou, and Feng Ziyu and Confucius Xiang, one knew Zhuozhou, and one knew Yizhou. I also met Cai Qu in Yanjing City, and Cai Qu was a judge.
But it's just a hurried side and a small drink. Life is like this, the older you get, the more so-called serious things you do, and naturally it becomes more and more difficult for family and friends to get together.
Only when they are all promoted to the various government offices in Bianliang will they be reunited.
Since Gan Qi crossed the Juma River again, he has changed the world, only to hear that the army is about to triumph, and the road is full of people, all waiting to see Gan Xianggong.
The people in Xiongzhou City poured out of the nest and gathered outside the city to see the mighty victory of Gan Xianggong.
"What does Gan Xianggong look like? Isn't it really as the green-faced fangs with three heads and six arms as said in the teahouse? ”
"That's all nonsense, you also believe it, Gan Xianggong is a champion and a white-faced scholar, and I heard that he is very handsome."
"No, no, I heard from a friend of my eldest brother-in-law's cousin's nephew that Gan Xianggong was dressed in gold armor, with a copper face on his face, like a yaksha, and was mighty."
"Can you believe what your nephew's friend says?"
"Naturally, I can believe that he is a military man, he was stationed in Xiongzhou in the past, he saw Gan Xianggong in the army, and now he went to Yanjing with General Zhao Zi to garrison, he saw it with his own eyes."
"That seems to be true, depending on who wears gold armor, it will be Gan Xianggong."
"It's coming, it's coming, look at it, there are a lot of horses, all of them are ironclad riders."
"It's so powerful."
"Where's the Golden Armor? See the Golden Armor? ”
"I didn't see it!"
"In front of me is a scholar in a Confucian shirt, look at it."
"Really, I'll just say it, Gan Xianggong is a white-faced scholar, you still don't believe it."
"Gan Xianggong, Gan Xianggong, Gan Xianggong is mighty, mighty!"
"Gan Xianggong is triumphant and mighty, invincible in the world!"
……
Gan Qi shook his head while riding a horse, and waved his hand from side to side, this world is so big, I think no one will hear Gan Qi Gan Daojian anymore.
"Okay, good folks, folks work hard."
"Gan Xianggong works hard."
"Serve the people, serve the people......" Gan Qi blurted out, but he felt that something was wrong, what was wrong?
Gan Qi has to take it a look, and maybe he has to do it again when he returns to Bianliang, and he has to make it smooth. Gan Qi just thinks that he is not the one who says to serve the people.