On the fifth day of August, Zhao Junsheng inspected the construction of the water village on the south bank of the Huai River, and the purpose of building the water village was to build warships and prevent the counteroffensive of the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasties.

There are many sentry posts on the arrow towers and walls of the water village, the patrol team walks back and forth frequently, and the guards are heavily guarded, and in the dock, craftsmen are working to make various parts and components for the construction of warships.

Li Yuande was a little nervous when he followed Zhao Junsheng, he couldn't figure out Zhao Junsheng's true thoughts, was he just acting like a show, or was he really going to cross the river?

"King, building a warship is not an overnight thing, it will take a month or two to complete the construction of a warship, which has simplified many construction processes, even so, it will take at least two years to build a warship that can fully load 100,000 troops!"

Zhao Junsheng listened to Li Yuande's words, and said with a smile: "Lone knows, you just have to build, we already have a water division in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but the scale is not large, because there are no generals who are familiar with water warfare, so the construction of the water division has been stagnant, there are many craftsmen who can build ships in the south, this time they can exercise their ability to build large generals!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, Zhou Qiu hurriedly walked over to report: "King, the envoys sent by the Southern Dynasty want to negotiate peace with us, and the envoys they sent are Liu Yixuan, the king of Nanjun, and Shen Yanzhi, Fan Ye, Zhu Yan and other ministers are accompanying him!" ”

"Oh? It's coming pretty fast, it seems that the Southern Dynasties can't wait to ask for peace, are they there? ”

Zhou Qiu said: "The people are still on the south bank, first send a small official to come over in a small boat, and if they are allowed, they will come by boat to meet the king!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and ordered: "That's okay, just tell the little official that Lone agrees to let them negotiate peace!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Zhao Junsheng instructed again: "Come here, inform the generals of all armies and the ministers of the army to go to the palace to meet the envoys of the Southern Dynasty together!" ”

Zhao Junsheng and the others returned to the palace, and the generals and ministers of the various armies who were notified had already arrived, and Hua Mulan greeted him and asked, "I heard that the Southern Dynasty sent someone to negotiate peace?" ”

"yes, I should have gone ashore by now!" Zhao Junsheng said as he took the sweat towel handed over by Mulan to wipe his sweat.

Mulan asked, "Who is here?" ”

"The envoy is Liu Yixuan, the king of Nanjun in the Southern Dynasty, and several other ministers, and their official positions are not small!"

Hua Mulan was surprised: "The prince is the chief envoy, and there are a few ministers, the specifications of this mission are not low!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "They actually sent a high-level mission, we can't ignore the etiquette, so we will receive it as a prince's courtesy, but we can't let any of the benefits we should fight for when negotiating peace!" ”

Mulan nodded: "That's the truth!" ”

Before receiving the Southern Dynasty mission, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan both changed their royal robes and phoenix robes, although they were the commanders of the army, they could not always wear armor when they met with foreign envoys.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan sat on a high platform, and the carpet at the camp gate was spread all the way to the bottom of the high platform, and the carpet on both sides of the carpet was full of infantry and cavalry, and the flags fluttered in the majestic wind.

"The envoys of the Southern Dynasty are coming—" With a shout, drums and horns sounded in unison.

In the sound of drums and horns, Liu Yixuan, Zhu Bian, Xu Zhanzhi, Jiang Zhan, Pei Songzhi and others walked into the barracks.

On both sides, there were many armor soldiers and cavalry, and Liu Yixuan and others walked on the carpet in fear.

Although he was half frightened to death, when he walked to the high platform, Liu Yixuan stopped and forced himself to calm down, and bowed: "Liu Yixuan, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and the king of Nanjun, has seen King Qian and the princess!" ”

Even in this humiliating situation of seeking peace, Liu Yixuan also thinks very highly of himself, he is a prince, and Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan are only kings and princesses, not emperors, he thinks that the other party is not higher than him in status.

In fact, as the lord of a country, its name is not important, whether it is the emperor or the king, as long as he wants, Zhao Junsheng can be called the emperor at any time, and what if the emperor of the Southern Dynasty is the emperor, he doesn't only own half of the country?

Zhao Junsheng didn't care about the other party's attitude, he only had actual interests, but the civil and military ministers next to him didn't do it, Li Yuande jumped out and pointed at Liu Yixuan: "Bold, I was just casually perfunctory when I saw the king, did the envoy of the Southern Dynasty look down on my king?" ”

Liu Yixuan was so frightened that his heart trembled, and on the surface, he was well disguised, and he asked indifferently: "Oh, it turned out to be Li Yuande Taishou, how does Lord Li think this king wants to give a gift to King Qian?" King Qian, the king of the country of Qian, is your king, not the king of this king, and this king only bows to the emperor of my dynasty. Back then, Li Taishou first voted for the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then voted for the Qianguo a few years later, no wonder he didn't know etiquette! ”

"You ······" When Li Yuande saw Liu Yixuan's sarcasm of his apostasy, he immediately became annoyed and angry, turned to Zhao Junsheng and hugged his fists and said: "King, the envoys of the Southern Dynasty did not regard the king as the lord of a country at all, and they were still so arrogant and domineering in front of the king. It's better to kill the envoy and send troops to attack Huainan, only by knocking out the pitiful self-esteem of the Southern Dynasty will they lower their arrogant heads!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at Liu Yixuan, "Envoy of the Song Kingdom, although Lone is not called the emperor, he is equivalent to the emperor of the Southern Dynasty in terms of status and status, you look arrogant and rude in front of Lone, Lone wants to discipline you on behalf of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, let you know what is called etiquette, come on!" ”

A few soldiers stood up, so that the other officials in the courtiers were scared half to death, only one sixty-year-old minister saw that the situation was not good, and immediately stood up and made a gesture to the ground: "The king is angry, my prince did not mean to collide with the king, just because the king is powerful, my prince ate a few more glasses of wine to strengthen his courage when he came, and he didn't want to drink more, and I ask the king to forgive his sins!" ”

Hey, this fart is a good shot! Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but look at this old man with admiration, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

This Liu Song Lao Chen replied: "The old minister is Pei Songzhi, the doctor of the Great Song Dynasty Zhongsan and the doctor of the country!" ”

"Pei Songzhi? Wait, you are the Pei Songzhi who annotated "Three Kingdoms"? Zhao Junsheng looked at the inconspicuous old man in front of him in surprise and asked.

Pei Songzhi shook the ground again: "I don't want the king to have heard of the old decay and the cheap name, and the old decay has not lived in vain in this life!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand and said, "Mr. is talented, hurry up and excuse me!" ”

"Thank you, the king, it's just a matter of ······"

Zhao Junsheng said to Liu Yixuan seriously: "King Nanjun, today I will give Mr. Pei face alone, I don't care about you, if there is a next time, I will not spare you!" ”

Liu Yixuan just saw the soldiers holding knives and standing up with knives so frightened that their souls were almost gone, where did they dare to be tough at this time, so they had to admit it, "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

"Lone asks you, why are you waiting to see Lonely?"

Liu Yixuan saluted and said: "The ministers have come to negotiate peace with your country on the order of my Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Peace?"

The ministers and generals of the Qianguo who had long been in their hearts immediately cooperated with Zhao Junsheng and jumped out one by one to oppose it.

"King, there is only one breath left in the Southern Dynasty, as long as our army crosses the river, it will definitely be able to capture Jiankang in one go and kill the Southern Dynasty!"

"King, peace cannot be negotiated, the Song State does not pay attention to the rules, openly tears up the peace treaty and raises troops to attack our country, what is the point of negotiating peace? Such a treacherous kingdom is simply incorruptible, and when it comes to such a kingdom, you don't reason with them at all, you just kill them! ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand, and the discussion stopped.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Since the Southern Dynasty sent the prince as an envoy, it can be seen that it also attaches great importance to this peace negotiation, so I will give them a chance to talk about it first, talk about it if it is good, and fight if it is not good!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Junsheng said to Liu Yixuan: "King Nanjun, Lone gives you this opportunity, I hope you cherish it!" ”

Liu Yixuan arched his hand: "The ministers are here with sincerity!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and said to Dongfang Chen: "Dongfang Chen, on behalf of the Qianguo, you can negotiate peace with the envoys of the Southern Dynasty, among the ministers of the army, you can choose three people to assist at will!" ”

Dongfang Chen stood up and agreed: "The minister's decree!" ”

Subsequently, Dongfang Chen named the names of the three ministers who accompanied the army, and Zhao Jun and the three of them assisted Dongfang Chen.

After deciding on the person to negotiate peace on the spot, Zhao Junsheng said: "Today, the envoys of the Southern Dynasty will rest for two days first, and the peace negotiations will officially start the morning after tomorrow!" Come and prepare camp tents and living utensils for the envoys of the Southern Dynasty, and provide firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, wine, and meat! Zhou Qiu in the matter, this matter is up to you! ”

"Command!" Zhou Qiu stood up and agreed, and said to Liu Yixuan, Pei Songzhi, Zhu Bian and others: "Several envoys, please come with me!" ”

Liu Yixuan and others saluted Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan: "The ministers are now retiring!" ”

After Liu Yixuan and the others left, Zhao Junsheng got up and said to the ministers: "Go to the Shuai tent to discuss matters!" ”

Everyone followed Zhao Junsheng to the Shuai tent, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan sat down and waited for all the ministers to come in, and said, "All the secretaries have told me how to discuss this peace plan?" What conditions does our country have to offer? ”

In order to make his presence felt, every minister of the military actively stood up and expressed his thoughts and suggestions.

After discussing for more than an hour, they did not come up with a plan that satisfied Zhao Junsheng, and in the end, Zhao Junsheng had no choice but to order Dongfang Chen and several other officials who were actually in charge of the negotiation and negotiation to stay, and let the others disperse.

"Okay, now there are only a few people left here, and we don't have to worry about our bottom line leaking out, I've been thinking about it for a long time, the conditions we put forward must be higher, and the harsher the conditions, the better! Think about it, what are the main aspects to start with? ”

Dongfang Chen thought for a while and stood up and said: "King, the minister has thought about it for a while, and thinks that it can be mentioned from several aspects, such as subordination, land cutting, compensation, annual tribute, protons, etc.!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "You talk about it first!" ”

"Yes!" Dongfang Chen agreed and said: "The subordinate relationship is proposed by us, I am a brother in the country, and the Southern Dynasty is a brother, and the two sides are brothers from now on; Let the Southern Dynasties cede the area north of the Yangtze River to our country; The Song State compensated our country for the loss of 100,000 catties of gold and 30 million copper coins; Every year, we pay 5,000 catties of gold, 10 million coins, 5,000 catties of fine tea, 5,000 horses of silk, and 30,000 horses of cloth to our country! ”

The ministers listened to Dongfang Chen's conditions, and everyone couldn't help but drool, this is simply a lion's mouth!