Wanyan Liang's determination to use troops against the Song Dynasty soon reached Chai Rong's ears.

"My lord, Wan Yanliang is bent on using troops against our court, I am afraid that this peace talks have broken down, in the opinion of the lower officials, my lord should go out of the city in advance, lest the peace talks break down, which will be detrimental to the safety of my lord." Agents from the Song Dynasty in Shangjing City came to see Chai Rong and passed the latest information to Chai Rong.

"Is the information reliable?" Chai Rong heard the news from the secret agent, frowned and said: "Now that the Jin Kingdom is empty, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, does Wan Yanliang still insist on using troops against the DPRK?" ”

The secret agent nodded, and said to Chai Rong: "My lord doesn't know, the current Emperor Wan Yanliang of the Jin Kingdom can't think according to common sense at all, and his three ambitions have already heard that when he didn't ascend the throne, he still had some restraint, and now that he finally ascended the throne, the wolf's ambition can no longer be controlled, as long as it is the woman he fancies, even if it is the daughter of Wanyan Zongbi, he has not let go, for such a person, we can't use common sense to infer at all." ”

Chai Rong also heard about Wan Yanliang's news, and at this time he couldn't help but shake his head, and said with a wry smile: "Such a person became the emperor, for my dynasty, I don't know if it's a blessing or a misfortune." ”

The spy said to Chai Rong: "My lord, for the sake of safety, I will secretly escort you out of the city tonight." ”

Chai Rong shook his head and said: "The two armies are fighting, if you don't kill them, now that the two sides have not started a war, it should be unlikely that they will do anything to me, so in my opinion, we should be safe." ”

The secret agent smiled bitterly and said to Chai Rong: "Although the words are so, for Wan Yanliang, it cannot be inferred according to common sense. "The secret agent has a worry, afraid that since Yan Liang has decided to carry out the war with the Song Dynasty, he will behead Chai Rong to sacrifice the flag at this time.

Chai Rong nodded and said to the secret agent: "In this way, I will negotiate with them tomorrow and make a final effort, if I can persuade them to give up the use of troops, it will definitely be a blessing for the people of the two countries." ”

When the secret agent heard what Chai Rong said, he was deeply moved by his noble sentiments, he saluted Chai Rong and said, "Well, my subordinates will do their best to ensure the safety of my lord." ”

After a night of nothingness, early the next morning, Chai Rong, who had been idle in Shangjing for three days, finally started the first round of negotiations with Jin Guo.

This time, it was the civilian representative Taiqi who negotiated on behalf of the Kim country.

Taiqi is a civil official, and he is a figure of the main and faction, although now Wan Yanliang has made a plan to use troops against the Song Dynasty, but at this time, he still doesn't want to make the relationship with the envoys of the Song Dynasty too stiff, and the conversation between the two sides is quite polite.

"Lord Taiqi, this Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun itself is the inherent territory of my Great Song Dynasty, and now it is returned to my dynasty, which can be regarded as returning to its original owner." Chai Rong said to Taiqi.

Taiqi heard what Chai Rong said, and said: "You can't say that, this Youyun Sixteen Prefectures was sent out by Shi Jingjiao, the Emperor of Later Liang, how did it become the inherent territory of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Chai Rong shook his head when he heard what Taiqi said, and said: "If Lord Taiqi said this, it would be far back, at that time, Shi Jingjiao was the sixteen states of Youyun occupied by the army of the Liao State, but it was not your Jin Kingdom." ”

Taiqi continued: "But this Liao Kingdom was destroyed by our Dajin Kingdom, and the territory that originally belonged to the Liao State should also belong to our Dajin Kingdom. ”

"Lord Taiqi, this is not true, even if it is the sixteen states of Youyun captured by the Jin Kingdom, but later during the period of Emperor Taishang, he also spent a lot of money to buy the sixteen states of Youyun from your country, so in this way, the sixteen states of Youyun were originally our territory." Chai Rong said-for-tat.

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The arguments between civil servants and officials have always been like this, like a debate competition in later generations, each grasping a little bit of the other's key point and starting to attack on a large scale, trying to achieve the corresponding goal through real negotiations, to be honest, it is still very difficult.

In the end, what determines the outcome of the negotiations is the great competition of national strength and military strength.

On the first day of negotiations, little substantive progress was made.

The next day, the person sent by the Jin State to negotiate turned into Wan Yanchang, the protector general of the Jin State.

In fact, Wan Yanliang's meaning is very clear, since a civil official like Taiqi has not had any effect, then it is better to change to a tougher military attaché, thinking that the military attache is more direct, and his temper is also more urgent, and he will definitely be able to severely suppress the morale of the envoys of the Song Dynasty.

But it turned out to be the opposite.

"Chai Rong, right? You are so bold, do you really dare to come? As soon as Yan Chang spoke, he sneered and said to Chai Rong.

Chai Rong looked at Wan Yan Chang in front of him, and was not intimidated, but said with a smile: "It turned out to be General Wan Yan, I don't know why I didn't dare to come?" ”

This sentence asked Wan Yanchang rhetorically, could it be that he defeated the army of the Song Dynasty, and your army is gone, so you dare to come? But the actual situation is not like this at all, but his army was defeated by the army of the Song Dynasty.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you?" Wan Yanchang sneered.

"Is your country still a barbarian state?" Chai Rong did not answer, but asked rhetorically.

In fact, if this civil official and the military general really fight, the civil official is not an opponent at all, maybe the military general only needs one hand to destroy the civil official, but if it really talks about bickering, even ten military generals are estimated to have no way to deal with a civilian official.

So at this time, Wan Yanchang originally wanted to be strong and scare Chai Rong, but he didn't expect to be pushed back by Chai Rong's three or two sentences, so the negotiation on the second day ended in nothing.

In this way, the negotiations reached the third day.

In the evening, the spy quietly came to Chai Rong's residence again.

"My lord, the situation is already very critical, in the opinion of the lower officials, it is better to send you out of the city first." The spy said to Chai Rong.

Chai Rong felt that the results of the negotiations in the past two days were quite good, and after he heard what the secret agent said, he asked suspiciously: "I think the results of the two-day negotiations are quite good, I think that the people of the Jin Kingdom have a unified opinion on whether to fight or peace, give me a few more days, maybe I can save a big war." ”

The spy shook his head at this time and said, "My lord, we have received news that the Jin Kingdom is recruiting troops on a large scale, and the army is gathering in the capital, and it is impossible for them to continue peace talks. ”