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Pak An State, in the tent where the envoys of the Song Kingdom rested.

Ma Kuo looked at the map of the Yanyun region, and infinite sadness welled up in his heart, "What will the future of the Great Song Dynasty be?" This time to go north to recover Yanjing, it should be regarded as a complete failure, right? ”

There is a reason why you said that the Song, Jin, Western Xia, Goryeo, Taifeng, and Japan would unite to crusade against Shuibo Liangshan.

First of all, it is a coincidence, it can also be said that Li Yan should have such a catastrophe in his fate.

Just when the envoys of the Song Kingdom came to Bei'anju, the envoys of Western Xia, Goryeo, and Taifeng also came to Bei'anju.

Although the Song Kingdom, Western Xia, Goryeo, and Taifeng came to the Jin Kingdom to seek different things, the reasons were the same.

And this reason is that Shuibo Liangshan has developed too rapidly, and the combat power it has shown has made several countries deeply jealous.

Among them, Goryeo and Taephon are the most.

It has been six or seven years since Shuibo Yangsan forcibly occupied the three counties of Lelang, Jinban and Jeju.

In the past six or seven years, the three counties of Lelang, Jinban and Jeju have become richer and richer, and the cohesion of the people has also become higher and higher.

On the other hand, Goryeo and Taephon, especially the latter, can be said to be destitute in the country, most of the people do not have enough food and clothing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their people live in misery, so that their people are even willing to risk their lives to flee to Lelang County and Zhenfan County.

In order to prevent the people under his rule from escaping, Gongfu set up all kinds of torture and all kinds of joint sitting.

But it didn't work at all.

In recent years, there have been continuous uprisings in Taifeng, even if the bow has been relentless and bloody suppression.

If this goes on for a long time, if they don't attack with Shuibo Liangshan, their country will also perish.

The situation in Goryeo was a little better than that of Taebong.

But it's only a little better.

In the past few years, Goryeo has been completely dragged down by the arms race with Shuibo Yangsan, the economy is depressed, and the people are full of complaints.

In addition, at the beginning of this year, a major event happened in Goryeo.

In March this year, Wang Yu was at a banquet with the minister of Zai Shu in the Xianglin Pavilion, and suddenly found that he had a slight crease on his back, so he hurried back to the palace.

However, due to the misdiagnosis of internal medicine doctor Cui Siquan, Wang Yu's condition suddenly deteriorated.

By April, Wang had become seriously ill.

Under the auspices of Li Ziqian, Wang Mata's edict was passed on to the crown prince Wang Kai.

On the eighth day of the first month of April, Wang Yuxue, after his death, the temple name Ruizong, the nickname Wenxiao, was buried in Yuling.

After Wang Mata's death, the fourteen-year-old Wang Kai succeeded to the throne.

Taishi Li Ziqian inherited two daughters from the same clan to marry Wang Kai, one as the queen and the other as a concubine, and then ruled as his grandfather, father-in-law, Shaocheng Junbo, Shaocheng Marquis, Hanyang Gong, Korean Guogong, and Gu Ming minister.

But—

It is rumored that Wang Ma was killed by Li Ziqian, and it was he who bribed the internal medicine doctor Cui Siquan to make Wang Mata's condition worse, and it was Li Ziqian who forced Wang Mata to pass the throne to Wang Kai.

If that's all there is to it, the point is that Li Ziqian is no longer willing to be the nameless king of Goryeo, he wants to take the throne of his grandson and son-in-law, and then become the king of Goryeo himself.

This is not to slander Li Ziqian.

In fact, Zheng Keyong, a scholar of Baowen Pavilion, has already led a group of ministers of civil and military affairs to propose that Li Ziqian should not be a minister, on the grounds that "those who are not ministers are three, and the parents of the future are one of them", and there are many who echo it.

Because Jin Fushi was plundered by Li Yan as his courtier, Li Ziqian had no strong opponents in the ruling group of Goryeo, so that the proposal of Zheng Keyong and others was easily approved.

Now, Li Ziqian no longer has to be a minister in the face of Wang Kai, and Wang Kai has completely become an ornament and a puppet.

Because of the ambition of Yi Ziqian and the grim situation facing Goryeo, the ruling group of Goryeo frequently fought among themselves, which in turn led to turmoil in the country.

Li Ziqian believed that only by transforming internal contradictions into external contradictions could the matter be completely resolved, in other words, Li Ziqian tried to use the victory in foreign wars to silence all the people in the country, and by the way, to accumulate enough prestige to ascend the throne as king.

In addition, there are several main reasons why Li Ziqian moved this thought:

The first reason, and the most important reason, Li Ziqian heard that Li Yan swept the Liao, Western Xia and Mongolian alliances in the Yanyun region and destroyed their former suzerainty of Goryeo, Liao, which made Li Ziqian shocked at the same time, but also felt deeply afraid, he realized that as long as Li Yan came back, it would be the time when their Goryeo country would fall, and at that time, he would not be a king, it would be good to be able to save his life.

The second reason, after years of diplomatic negotiations, is also because Taifeng really can't live anymore, the two sides reached an offensive and defensive alliance, and agreed that after the two families cut down Shuibo Liangshan, the hometown of the Gong family, which is the land of the original Silla, will be owned by Taifeng.

(Although the land of the original Silla is not much bigger than the existing land of Taifeng, the existing land of Taifeng is now impoverished, and the land of the original Silla, under the vigorous development of Shuibo Liangshan, is now extremely rich, and there are nearly one million people in Hanxia alone. ）

The third reason is that Li Ziqian has already won the support of Japan.

In fact, over the years, Goryeo and Japan have been communicating with each other and establishing a very good diplomacy, and through Goryeo, Japan also knows about Li Yan's strength and Li Yan's aggressiveness.

In addition, Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba already knew that Tamamo had fled to Li Yan and became Li Yan's concubine.

Back then, Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba fought for power, and Emperor Toba's beloved Tamamo became a victim.

Legend has it that Tamamo will return to Japan one day and take over Japan.

This legend was originally fabricated by Emperor Shirakawa's people in order to suppress Emperor Toba.

But this legend is getting stronger and stronger, especially after the sudden disappearance of Tamamo.

Now, Emperor Shirakawa is a bit cocooned.

Because Li Yan behind Tamamo really has the ability to subvert Japan.

Coupled with the oppression of public opinion caused by this legend, the reign of Emperor Shirakawa began to show signs of instability.

Of course, the instability of Emperor Shirakawa's rule came mainly from within.

Because Emperor Toba was becoming more and more disobedient, Emperor Shirakawa decided to depose Emperor Toba, that is, to make Emperor Toba an emperor with no real power, and to replace it with Prince Hidehito, who was born to Emperor Toba and Fujiwara Akiko (the ancient book "Kojitan" believes that it was born to Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara Akiko) to succeed to the throne.

Emperor Toba couldn't resist the pressure of Emperor Shirakawa, so he could only give up the throne of Emperor Zen to Prince Xianhito, who was only three years old at the time, under the auspices of Emperor Shirakawa.

After Prince Hidehito ascended the throne, he became the new emperor of Japan, Emperor Shotoku.

However, Emperor Toba, no, it should be Emperor Toba now, is not willing to fail, so he let out the wind and said that he would take revenge for the poisoning of the year.

Emperor Shirakawa knew very well that Emperor Toba wanted to use this to gain military power.

How could Emperor Shirakawa let Emperor Toba get his wish?

Coincidentally, Goryeo sent an envoy to discuss the matter of sending troops to attack Shuipo Yangsan.

Emperor Shirakawa thought twice and ordered the formation of a crusade army, appointing Yoshiaki Miura, Chiba Sutsune and Kamisuke Hirotsune as generals, and Onmyoji Abe Yasui became a military advisor, sending 80,000 soldiers to participate in the crusade against Shuibo Liangshan, and it was bound to capture Tamamo.

Of course, there are tangible benefits to this.

Lee Ziqian promised to give the rich Jeju Island to Japan afterwards.

The richness of Jeju Island is now famous, especially not far from Japan, which is not far from it, knows its richness, many Japanese businessmen who smuggled to Jeju Island to trade, described Jeju Island as a paradise island, therefore, the Japanese have long coveted it, and what particularly makes Japan excited is that there are hundreds of big ships and tens of thousands of good horses on Jeju Island, if they get these, their Japanese military strength will inevitably be greatly improved.

In addition, through Goryeo, Emperor Baekhe also learned that there were only 100,000 horses in the three counties of Lelang, Jinban, and Jeju, and that Goryeo had dispatched 200,000 troops, claiming to be 500,000, and Taebong had dispatched 100,000 troops, claiming to be 300,000, and the total strength of the three parties was four times that of Shuipo Yangsan.

Therefore, after considering it all, Emperor Shirakawa decided to participate in this partition.

But—

A carve-up is a carve-up.

But Emperor Shirakawa was completely playing his own petty calculations.

He only sent 10,000 samurai to land in Jinban-gun, and only burned and looted in the coastal areas, and these people would evacuate Jinban-gun whenever the wind broke down, and his target was only Jeju Island.

All in all, with Taifeng and Japan as allies, Li Ziqian finally made up his mind to drive Shuibo Liangshan off the peninsula.

But—

Li Ziqian was also afraid that Li Yan would suddenly bring a large army back to help.

You must know that the hundreds of thousands of troops in Li Yan's hands swept through the Liao, Western Xia, and Mongolian tribes in the Central Plains, once they are allowed to come back, let alone drive Li Yan out of the peninsula, it would be good if they were not exterminated.

Three years ago, Wanyan Aguta had sent a letter of state to Goryeo, meaning to make Goryeo a minister.

The first sentence of the national letter is "Edict to the King of Goryeo", which is full of the tone of the king.

At that time, in Wang Yu's mind, the Jin State was still the Jurchen who had a tie with them back then, so there was the phrase "the source of the situation originated from my land" in the national letter of Hui Jin, that is, it pointed out that the Jin State originated in the land of Goryeo, and Goryeo was still the parent state of the Jin State, how dare you Jin Kingdom make us Goryeo vassals.

As a result, the whole country of Jin was furious, claiming to attack Goryeo.

Later, due to the situation at that time, it was temporarily stopped.

Now, Wang Mata is dead.

And the Kingdom of Jin has also shown its invincible strength.

The most important thing is that Li Ziqian hopes that the Jin State can send troops to contain Li Yan's army and prevent Li Yan's army from coming back.

Therefore, Li Ziqian took the initiative to send an envoy to the Jin State to congratulate the Jin State on attacking Shangjing, Tokyo, and Zhongjing under the Liao State and destroying the Great Liao Empire, and declared himself a vassal, and at the same time asked the Jin State to send troops to contain Li Yan's army and buy them some time to recover their homeland.

In order to get Jin Guo to agree to this, Li Ziqian paid a lot of gifts to Jin Guo, and the beauties alone paid a tribute of 500.

In other words, the joint crusade of the six countries against Shuibo Yangsan was actually initiated by Goryeo.

And the Western Xia sent envoys to the Jin Kingdom purely to find a backer.

In the battle of Qingshuihe, Shuibo Liangshan really scared the Western Xia, and the 30,000 elites of the Western Xia, including the 3,000 most elite iron harriers, only a few dozen people fled back to China in the end, which was something that had never happened before.

This made Li Qianshun regret that he had the courage to send troops, and at the same time, it also made Li Qianshun extremely vigilant.

Li Qianshun sent an envoy to Li Yan at the first time to apologize, admit his mistake, and ask for an alliance.

At the same time, Li Qianshun sought Jin Guo as a backer to avoid Li Yan's retaliation.

For this reason, Li Qianshun did not hesitate to pay tribute to the Jin State.

I have to say that Li Qianshun's reaction was very fast, and he also chose a path that was most beneficial to Western Xia.

The level of diplomacy in the Western Xia was so high, it is no wonder that although the strength of the Western Xia was not strong, it was able to hold out for a hundred years longer than the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, the Song State asked the Jin army to go south to attack Shuibo Liangshan.

And Shuibo Liangshan behaved very toughly.

After considering it, he boldly proposed this plan for the six countries to jointly crusade against Shuibo Liangshan, and used his own strength and status to dominate this matter.

In fact, it is not easy to bring about this, because each force has its own pursuits, and none of them is willing to pay too much price.

Let's talk about Song Guo first.

Song Guo not only wanted to get the whole territory of Yanyun, but also didn't want to do it with real swords and guns, of course, mainly because they really didn't have the strength to do it with real swords and guns.

Let's talk about Western Xia.

The Western Xia mainly wanted to keep their inherent territory, and it was best to expand it again.

Goryeo and Taefeng are now only interested in the territory and affairs of the peninsula, and do not care about Yanyun.

Japan only wants Jeju Island and nothing else.

And most importantly, the interests of the Daikin State.

Eventually, he used his excellent diplomatic skills to convince the various forces.

The Japanese were mainly responsible for attacking Jeju Island, but they were to harass the border of Jinban County and contain a part of the forces of Supo Yangsan.

Goryeo and Taebong wanted to take Li Yan's capital Hancheng with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and sweep away Li Yan's forces on the peninsula as soon as possible.

In fact, the above is just a big cake painted by Wanyan Agu to Goryeo, Taifeng, and Japan, in fact, he just used Goryeo, Taifeng, and Japan to protect themselves and carve up the three counties of Lelang, Zhenban, and Jeju, so that they could attack Li Yan and save them from all sides, and then force Li Yan to withdraw from the Yanyun area.

In Wanyan Aguta's view, letting Li Yan occupy Yanyun was too dangerous for Dajin Kingdom.

Wanyan Agu hopes that the neighbor of their Dajin Kingdom is the Song State, which seems to be strong but is actually extremely weak, not Shuibo Liangshan, which he is a little afraid of, so that their Dajin Kingdom can last for a long time.

And in order for Li Yan to withdraw from the Yanyun area, it is not enough for Goryeo, Taifeng, and Japan to attack the three counties of Lelang, Zhenban, and Jeju, because Li Yan can completely allocate part of his forces to rescue these three counties.

Therefore, in order for Li Yan to withdraw from the Yanyun region, he also needs the cooperation of the Song State and the Western Xia.

It was easy to persuade Song Guo, and it was even possible to force Song Guo to agree to some excessive conditions, because Song Guo was desperate.

After the discussion of the strategists of the Jin State, after driving away Shuibo Liangshan in the future, they could grant the Song State permission to get Yanjing and the Han people in the twenty-four counties of the six prefectures to which they belonged, and they had to give the Song State a little sweetness, otherwise how could the Song State fully cooperate with them to drive out Li Yan? However, the money and goods of the officials of Yandi, as well as the Xi, Khitan, Bohai and other tribesmen, as well as the three prefectures of Ping, Ying, and Luan, are not within the scope of the concession, and these are all owned by their Dajin State, and the taxes of Yandi must also belong to their Dajin State.

As expected by the strategists of the Jin State, the Song State finally accepted almost all of their conditions proposed by the Great Jin State, but only discounted the taxes of Yandi into the New Year's coins, and did not let the Jin State collect it himself.

It was easy to persuade the Song Kingdom, but it was much more difficult to persuade the Western Xia.

Li Qianshun of Western Xia was not as easy to fool as Zhao Ji of the Song State, and Li Qianshun did not face the grim situation that Zhao Ji faced.

This time, Wanyan Aguda really threw out some dry goods - Wanyan Aguda promised that as long as the Western Xia sent a large army to participate in this operation, not only the large area of land north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan, and west of Yishi Yilatu Luluo would be given to the Western Xia, but also the cloud land would be given to the Western Xia.

This temptation was something that Western Xia could not refuse at all, because as long as the matter was done, the territory of Western Xia would double at once, and the national strength might more than double.

Therefore, Western Xia also agreed to this plan and soon sent an army of 100,000.

Ma Kuo looked at the map of the Yanyun region and thought: "If Shuibo Liangshan withdraws from Yanyun, then the Yundi, including the large area of land to the west, will all belong to the Western Xia, and the national strength of the Western Xia will definitely flourish, and then it will definitely become a strong enemy of our Great Song Dynasty." And the three states of Pingluanying will be occupied by the Jin State, and the Jin State can not only threaten Yanjing at any time, but also go south at any time. When we were in the land, our Great Song Dynasty opened the door to the Jin Kingdom. So what will we get in the Great Song? It's just a few empty cities with few people and no taxes. This time, our Da Song is likely to be the biggest loser......"

In fact, Zhao Ji also has his own plans.

Zhao Ji planned to take Li Yan away first, and then use the money to buy back to Yundi and Pingluanying Sanzhou.

This is also in line with Zhao Ji, and it can also be said to be in line with the style of the emperors of the Song Dynasty - because the Song Kingdom is rich, they like to use money to solve problems, and they feel that any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

Ma Kuo felt that Zhao Ji's plan was not very successful.

Anyway, if he was a courtier of the Jin State or Western Xia, he would definitely try his best to persuade him not to sell the Yundi and the three states of Pingluanying, because the value of these two pieces of land could not be measured by money and silk at all.

Then don't you agree to a joint crusade against Shuibo Liangshan?

No, it doesn't.

Li Yan's harm cannot be ignored either.

Ma Kuo can only hope that things can develop in the direction that Zhao Ji expects.

Unlike Ma Kuo, who was worried, Zhao Liangsi's mood was much better.

Zhao Liangsi felt that he had fulfilled what Zhao Ji and Tong Guan had requested, solved the scourge of Li Yan and recovered Yanjing, and made a great contribution to the Great Song Dynasty.

To this end, Zhao Liangsi also made a poem:

The north wind blows the snow under Fengshan, and the candle is dark and the night is cold. Hearing the good news of Yan Ran, Xiaolai rode to keep safe.

Zhao Liangsi read the poem to Ma Kuo.

Ma Kuo felt that Zhao Liangsi was a little petty, and he didn't know what kind of safety the Great Song Dynasty would face in the future, so he wrote a poem:

I didn't see Yan Mingle's hometown, and I heard that Shuyi's bones were cold. May you work together and cook your language, and it is easy to win the royal Wanshi'an.

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These chapters are a bit difficult to write, but I think about it more, this chapter is a big chapter of 5,000 words, and it can be regarded as completing today's task, so this chapter is for today.