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Because he participated in the whole process of the Song and Jin maritime alliances and the subsequent delivery of Yanjing and other diplomatic matters, and in the process of negotiations with Liangshan, Jin, and Liao, he was able to be neither humble nor arrogant, and finally the Song State was able to get Yanyun when the Song army was extremely clumsy, and Ma Kuo should be said to have contributed a lot.

It is precisely because of this that after the delivery of the sixteen states of Yanyun was completed, Ma Kuo was promoted from Chengjielang to the defense envoy of Yaojun County, and became the middle-level military attache of the Northern Song Dynasty.

But since then, Ma Kuo can be said to have gone through ups and downs.

He was first framed by his colleagues as a collusion with Jinren and was imprisoned by his own people.

Later, he took advantage of the chaos of the Jin army to the south to escape, and then established al-Qaeda in Xishan and Sangdong to resist Jin.

But soon after, the group of rebels he organized was attacked by the Jin, he was defeated and captured, and was placed under house arrest by the Jin.

Later, the Chinese army went north to recover Taiyuan, and Liu Qi rescued him.

After that, he was sent by Liu Qi to Bianliang, Tokyo.

At that time, the trend of Dazhong winning the Central Plains had already appeared, and the Southern Song Dynasty was at most the fate of a couple.

In this case, Li Yan personally talked with Ma Kuo once, and then promised to be a high-ranking official of the Sipin Honglu Temple.

There are Ma Zheng and others who have already voted for the middle school to persuade them.

Ma Kuo, who has a lot of experience and has matured a lot compared to a few years ago, soon took office.

The first task that Ma Kuo received was to establish diplomatic relations with Western Xia.

This was the first mission after the establishment of Honglu Temple.

Therefore, Ma Kuo is very attentive to this task and wants to use this task to open up the situation for Honglu Temple.

After considering many aspects, Ma Kuo asked the imperial court to send two people from the Fuzhou family to be his deputy.

Soon after, Orihiko and Zhichang came to Bianliang, Tokyo.

The reason why Ma Kuo asked the people of the Zhe family in Fuzhou to come is, first, that the Zhe family knows the Xixia best, and second, he can use the Zhe family to test the attitude of the Western Xia towards the establishment of diplomatic relations.

That's why the previous scene happened.

Li Yan's task for Ma Kuo was to establish diplomatic relations with Western Xia and temporarily stabilize Western Xia, not to let Ma Kuo play the prestige of Dazhong.

Therefore, it is okay to test the attitude of the summer envoy, but this matter is one but the other.

Therefore, Ma Kuo personally went to Duting Xiyi to pick up Li Zhizhong and others, and then personally arranged for Li Zhizhong and others to stay and drink.

The whole process, although not luxurious, can be called decent, the key is that Ma Kuo's attitude, although not enthusiastic, but polite enough.

This made Li Zhizhong and others, who had been worried all the way, secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and said in their hearts: "Dazhong still has the intention of talking." ”

After a brief exchange between the two sides, they finally sat down for the first tentative negotiations.

Li Zhizhong took the lead in throwing out the topic and said: "Before I came, your country's army often invaded my summer realm, and on several occasions caused casualties on our side, you and I have no great grudges, we should avoid such incidents, so as not to have grudges in vain and affect the peaceful coexistence of you and me." ”

Ma Kuo said: "Is there such a thing? But it shouldn't be, I haven't heard of any of our troops going out to fight...... May I ask the ambassador, I wonder where our troops have injured your personnel? ”

Li Zhizhong said: "In Huanzhou and Dingbian Army. ”

Ma Kuo listened, smiled, and said, "When did northern Shaanxi become your summer realm?" In fact, northern Shaanxi is currently divided between China, Song, and Jin, and has nothing to do with Western Xia?

Hearing this, Li Zhizhong unhurriedly took out a copy of the document and handed it to Ma Kuo, saying: "This is Dajin's letter to my country, and Master Ma will know it at a glance." ”

Ma Kuo did not accept the letter of state handed over by Li Zhizhong, but said: "My Dazhong and Jin Guo are currently in a state of hostility, so I Dazhong does not recognize everything promised by Jin Guo. ”

Li Zhizhong's eyelids were slightly raised, and he said in his heart: "It is said that this Ma Kuan is powerful in diplomacy, and now it seems that it really deserves its reputation!" ”

You say, Li Zhizhong doesn't know, what Jin Guo promised doesn't work in China?

Li Zhizhong knows this too well.

Clearly, Li Zhizhong also took out the credentials signed by Jin Guo and showed it to Ma Kuo, in fact, he wanted to tell Ma Kuo: "Dajin gave such generous conditions in order to envelop us in Daxia, and now we abandon Dajin and defect to your Dazhong, do you also give us such conditions?" ”

And it was precisely because Ma Kuo saw Li Zhizhong's plan that he did not accept the letter of state handed over by Li Zhizhong, and clearly told Li Zhizhong: Jin is a Jin country, and my big middle school is my big middle school, talk to my big middle school, it's useless to take the conditions given by Jin Guo.

Although Li Zhizhong was like a mirror in his heart about Ma Kuo's meaning, Li Zhizhong still pretended not to know and said: "Since Master Ma doesn't want to see it, then I'll tell Master Ma to listen, there is a certificate that Dajin assigned about thousands of miles of land in northern Shaanxi to me in Great Xia, so northern Shaanxi can be my territory in Great Xia." ”

Li Qianshun took the opportunity of the Jin soldiers to attack the Song Dynasty, and sent troops to capture the castles built by the Song Dynasty on the border of the Western Xia, and then he entered and occupied Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou and Hedong Baguan area according to the promise of the Jin Dynasty to the Western Xia, as well as the Zhenwu City on the Song border, and then captured the Xi'an Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, Linzhou Jianning, and Huaide Army, and took advantage of the victory to conquer Tiandu Village and besiege Lanzhou.

Soon after, Jin sent troops to recapture Tiande, Yunnei and other prefectures.

Li Qianshun questioned Jin Guo.

At that time, the situation of the Jin army on the battlefield had taken a sharp turn for the worse.

The Jin people considered that they could not make evil to the Xia people at this time, so as not to force the Xia people to the side of Dazhong, and it was best to bring the Western Xia into this whirlpool and stir the water even more muddy, so that they could fish in the troubled waters of the Great Jin, so they assigned about thousands of miles of land in the north of Shaanxi to the Western Xia as compensation for Tiande, Yunnei and other places.

Although Ma Kuo didn't read the letter of state handed over by Li Zhizhong, he actually knew about the matter well, because the Zhe family had already found out the ins and outs of it clearly and reported it to the imperial court.

Ma Kuo said: "This Shaanxi is originally the land of the Song Dynasty, when will the Jin Kingdom borrow flowers to offer Buddha, with the consent of my middle school, joke!" ”

Li Zhizhong said: "It was originally Song soil, but the Great Song Dynasty has died, and most of northern Shaanxi is occupied by the Jin people, and the Jin people are willing to give me Northern Shaanxi to Great Xia, if your country is also willing to give Northern Shaanxi to me Great Xia, then Northern Shaanxi is not my Great Xia?" ”

Ma Kuo said without hesitation or ambiguity: "I am unwilling, and it is impossible for you to occupy northern Shaanxi in Western Xia." ”

Li Zhizhong asked quietly, "Why?" ”

Ma Kuo said: "Because the Song State has already given Shaanzhong and Northern Shaanxi to me Dazhong as a congratulatory gift for the establishment of Dazhong by the emperor of Dazhong, so Central Shaanxi and Northern Shaanxi are already the inseparable territory of my Dazhong. ”

After Li Zhizhong heard this, his pupils shrank sharply, and he asked, "Your country has made peace with the Southern Song Dynasty?" ”

Ma Kuo straightened up and said: "Officially inform your country, from now on our two countries will be neighbors, so we have to talk about the demarcation of national borders......

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