On the fifth day of the lunar month, Zhao Yan, together with Chen Kangbo, Shi Hao and other important ministers of the main battle faction, summoned Li Xianzhong and Wu Gong, who had come from the east and west camps outside Bianjing City to pay homage to the emperor, and met for more than half an hour.

As for what they talked about, no one revealed it, and no one knew.

On the same day, Li Xianzhong and Wu Gong hurried back to the Northern Expedition camp.

On the same day, Yang Congyi, who was stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion, sent 50,000 troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack Lanzhou.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Lanzhou, and the Jin Army was defeated and retreated to Fengqiu on the north bank of the Yellow River.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, the Northern Expeditionary Army dispatched 70,000 men to advance from north to south taking advantage of the victory.

In a few days, Qixian, Changhuan, Yanjin and other places forced all the Jin troops north of the Yellow River to retreat to the bank of the Yellow River, and gathered in Zhangqiu, 40 miles north of Bianjing, ready to annihilate the remnants of nearly 50,000 Jin troops on the north bank of the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, the prime minister of the Jin State rushed to Guide Mansion as an envoy to negotiate peace with the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

After entering the palace, Jin Guozai immediately expressed his sincerity in negotiating peace, and told the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty that after careful consideration by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Kingdom invited him, after the peace, the Jin and Song countries were about to be brothers, and the New Year's coins could no longer be sacrificed, and the boundaries of the territory should be redivided, but not the Daimyofu, when the Yellow River was the boundary, the east of Luoyang and the south of the Yellow River belonged to the Song State, and after the peace was negotiated, the Song army north of the Yellow River should retreat to the south bank and should not invade Hebei again.

Tang Siwei and other officials of the Great Song Dynasty were very surprised when they heard that Jin Guo had agreed to Zhao Yan's previous conditions, and they said in their hearts that it was impossible, when did Jin people become timid and afraid, so cowardly, and so easy to speak? Is it true that they no longer have the ability to hit the Huai River and the Yangtze River?

Faced with this situation, the Lord and the faction could not believe it.

If the Jin people really agreed to the two conditions that were impossible and would not be considered before, except for the opening of the border, then the peace negotiation between the Song and Jin countries would become more than half, and the rest would be just the border, as long as they made compromises and concessions, they would soon be able to reach a consensus and complete the peace negotiation.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed when he saw that the Jin people had promised to cancel the New Year's coins and cancel the conditions for the Great Song Dynasty to be a vassal to Jin, and immediately instructed Chen Kangbo, Shi Hao and others to discuss the division of territory with the prime minister of Jin and how to receive Bianjing.

Negotiation and negotiation have always been bargaining, and the courtiers can just bargain together, Zhao Yan as the emperor, he naturally can't participate in the discussion of the details, otherwise Chrysostom will open, whether it is more or less, it will not be good for the negotiation and peace, and if it is reversed or repeated, it will also damage the emperor's prestige.

But the courtiers don't have such concerns, even if they point at each other's noses and scold each other, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, Chen Kangbo, Shi Hao and other seven or eight people were arguing with Prime Minister Jin and his party at this time, their faces were red and their necks were thick, so they almost turned their faces and started to move, but they were still in the same room, and no one left the place of negotiation and negotiation in a bad mood.

After two days of fierce quarrels and discussions, the courtiers of the two countries finally redrew the boundaries of the Song and Jin dynasties: Binzhou in the east, Handan County in the west, and Handan County, the capital of the Daimyo in the west.

The territory of the Song and Jin dynasties was demarcated, and after the approval of Emperor Zhao Yan, discussions immediately began on the delivery of Bianjing, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang.

The big thing has been decided, and the specific delivery is a small thing.

Within half a day, the Jin delegation and Chen Kangbo, Shi Hao, Tang Siwei and others agreed to hand over the matter of Bianjing: from this time on, the Song army north of the Yellow River must not launch an attack on the Jin army in Zhangqiu and other places, and must not prevent the Jin army from crossing the Yellow River to the south, before the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the Song army retreats to the east and west camps for a hundred miles, the east camp retreats to Qixian, and the west camp retreats to Tongxu, before the 25th day of the lunar month, the Song army north of the Yellow River is not allowed to go south, and the Song army south of Bianjing is not allowed to go north, and seven days later, the Song army can receive Bianjing, Zhengzhou and Luoyang.

At the same time, it was agreed that between the 18th and 25th of the lunar month, when the Jin State withdrew from Bianjing, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang, the Song State could send envoys and a small number of troops to supervise it in person to ensure that the Jin State would not take away the local people and destroy the city.

All matters were agreed, and Zhao Yan agreed, and immediately drafted the peace document between the Song and Jin countries.

On the 14th day of the lunar month, the prime minister of the Jin State and Chen Kangbo signed the agreement and document in front of the hundred civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty in the camp hall, and each of them stamped the letter with a seal, and the document and document were kept.

At this point, the Song and Jin countries hurriedly reached a peace agreement within half a month, the Great Song Dynasty recovered a large area of land, and the monarchs and ministers of the Jin State were able to calmly withdraw to Guanzhong under the siege of the army.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month, the news that the two countries had reached a peace agreement was personally delivered by Chen Kangbo to the Northern Expedition camp, and at the same time ordered Li Xianzhong of Dongying to retreat to Qixian County within three days, and Wu Gong of Xiying to retreat to Tongxu within three days.

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, Chen Kangbo, as a supervisory envoy, led 5,000 elite Northern Expeditionary Army into Bianjing City.

This is also the thirty-six years that the Great Song army has returned to Bianjing City again, looking at the street scene in the city that seems to be familiar, but it is not quite the same as the memory, Chen Kangbo can't help but moisten the corners of his eyes.

That night, Chen Kangbo, as the supervising envoy, was given a grand banquet, and Emperor Wan Yanliang of the Jin State personally attended.

At the banquet, Wan Yanliang didn't ask anything about Song Jin's state affairs, only mentioned a name and asked about his origin.

This name is Yang Congyi!

Chen Kangbo didn't know much about Yang Congyi himself, he seemed to appear suddenly in the Great Song Army, but if you look carefully and ask, you can still find some legends and traces of him in Lin'an.

Sixteen years ago, an article "On the Rich Country of Returning to Yi in the Ocean" changed his fate, allowing him to directly enter the official career from a martial arts student and embark on the road back to Yi, avoiding being on duty in the forbidden army of Lin'an City and wasting his life.

Chen Kangbo had read that debate article before, and although the writing was average, it was still surprising with the breadth of his vision and the miscellaneous things he had learned.

As for the later superintendent of the Hui Yi fleet and led the fleet across the ocean, the details of which are not examinable, but from the several major events he heard, it can be seen that what he learned in martial arts was indeed used in practice, and he did not forget what he learned in martial arts because he was busy returning to Yi, maybe from then on, someone should have noticed that he had the talent to lead troops to fight.

As soon as Yan Liang asked about Yang Congyi, Chen Kangbo immediately fell into deep thought, which made the Emperor of Jin Guo worry about it, there must be something special.

After a while, Chen Kangbo's heart couldn't help but be shocked.

Yang Cunzhong!

I heard that after Yang Congyi returned to the Great Song Dynasty from overseas for the first time, he led the Huiyi Guards to fight a battle in Guangnan and made outstanding achievements, but there was no detailed record in the Privy Council about the specific process, and then he was transferred to the core yamen of the palace front division by Yang Cunzhong, who was then the commander of the front division of the palace.

But in the next few years, Yang Congyi suddenly became obscure, almost no news of him in Lin'an, and no trace of him could be found, until the Battle of Taipingdu, his name was passed into Lin'an with Yu Yunwen, and then it was out of control, and it seemed that every victory had something to do with him.

Such a military general who is backed by Yang Cunzhong and is feared even by the Emperor of the Jin State is a curse or a blessing to the Great Song Dynasty?

He stayed away from Lin'an, and twice silently turned the tide of the Northern Expedition, and this time the Jin people were able to take the initiative to negotiate peace and return a large area of land, which had a lot to do with his sudden insertion of the Daimyo's Mansion from Jeju and the cutting off of the large passage between the Jinding Mansion and Bianjing, which was unexpected by everyone, and what he did completely exceeded the deployment arrangement of the Privy Council.

And the speed of action of his Northern Expeditionary Army is also much faster than the speed of grain and grass supply, judging from the grain and grass supply provided to him by the imperial court, any general did not dare to lead the army directly into the Daimyo's mansion, because the food supply is not enough, once it is attacked by the Jin army in the north and south, it will be defeated, but he led the Northern Expeditionary Army to firmly occupy the Daimyo's mansion, and even has the spare strength to send troops south to oppress the Jin army north of the Yellow River, forcing the Jin people to agree to quickly negotiate peace.

When Chen Kangbo summoned Li Xianzhong and Wu Gong with the emperor that day, he did tell the two of them that he wanted them to move troops and horses to put pressure on the emperor of Jin and force him to agree to the peace conditions as soon as possible, but he never expected Yang Congyi, who was four or five hundred miles away, nor did he give him any instructions, just hope that he can stick to the Daimyo's mansion.

It was the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Daimyo Mansion that did not want to be the first to act, and it went hundreds of miles south all the way to Liankezhou County, forcing the remnants of the Jin Army to retreat to Zhangqiu City on the north bank of the Yellow River, but they besieged it but did not attack.

Yang Congyi's unbelievable action was like having a face-to-face detailed plan with the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers who were far away in Guide Mansion, but Chen Kangbo knew that it was impossible for either the emperor or anyone to give any orders to Yang Congyi, who was hundreds of miles away.

Unless, all this was planned in advance, perhaps as early as the civil and military officials had just set off from Lin'an, Yang Congyi had already planned these actions with some people, otherwise it would be impossible for the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Daimyo Mansion to move south at the beginning of the peace negotiation, and the troops pointed directly at Bianjing, forcing the Emperor of Jin to agree to the peace conditions, and the move of besieging and not attacking the remnants of Zhangqiu was really a stroke of genius.

Chen Kangbo's brain teaser and after thinking about it quickly, he had to suspect that Yang Congyi should have a close relationship with some ministers in the DPRK and China, and they jointly planned all this.

So who in the court is related to Yang Congyi and has a close relationship with him?

Yang Cunzhong?

This time, he stayed in Lin'an and did not come to Guide Mansion together, Lin'an is thousands of miles away from the Daimyo's Mansion, and it is impossible to exchange information in time.

If it weren't for Yang Cunzhong, among the hundreds of civil and military officials who followed the emperor to Guide Mansion, who else had a close relationship with Yang Congyi and could deliver him news?

Chen Kangbo checked the civil and military officials who came with him, and found that no one seemed to have anything to do with Yang Congyi, or it was too deep and hidden!

Faced with Emperor Wanyanliang's inquiry, Chen Kangbo could only reply after thinking about it, Yang Congyi was just an ordinary general who commanded the army, and he had no special identity and background.

After saying this, Wan Yanliang ordered someone to put a pile of copywriting materials in front of Chen Kangbo, and then said a sentence: Yang Congyi, it's not simple!