However, although Zhong Hao knew the meaning of the official family, he was still a little uninterested in this errand, he was originally the kind of lazy person who was at ease with what happened, and he really didn't think about how big an official he was, or if he had any big ideals or ambitions, he was naturally lazy if he could. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although I think about it privately, I also want to avoid the catastrophe after 70 years for the Great Song Dynasty, make some efforts and make a little effort! But when he thought that it was not easy to change the fate of a huge dynasty, Zhong Hao couldn't help but feel a little powerless, so he had to get by.

In addition, this so-called diplomacy is no trivial matter, although this Korean envoy came, although I don't know what level of envoy he came, and what he wanted, but it was obviously a little difficult for himself to let a person with no diplomatic experience contact and negotiate.

At that moment, Zhong Hao said to Wang gradually with a bitter face: "The main reason for the lower officials is that they are afraid that they will not be able to do this errand!" ”

Wang gradually smiled and said: "When our family explains this errand, you will know that this matter is not difficult to do!" ”

At that moment, Wang gradually explained to Zhong Hao.

Speaking of this errand of receiving the envoys of Goryeo, it is natural to start with the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo. To understand the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, it is necessary to start with the establishment of the Goryeo Dynasty.

At that moment, the king gradually brought this Goryeo affair to the story.

In the fourth year of Later Liang Zhenming (918), Wang Jian, the general of Goguryeo, launched a mutiny, established himself as the king, and set the capital in Kaijing, changed the name of the country to Goryeo, and established the Goryeo Dynasty.

As soon as the Goryeo Dynasty was established, it was convenient for the Liao God Book to pay tribute in the third year of the Liao Dynasty (918). At that time, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji was also willing to make friends with Goryeo, and sent an envoy to Goryeo in the seventh year of the Divine Book (922), and Goryeo also sent an envoy to apply for employment. At one time, the relationship between Liao and Goryeo was very close. However, this diplomatic relationship between Liao and Goryeo did not last long, and was soon broken by the territorial struggle between the two sides.

After the Liao State destroyed the Bohai Sea in the third year of Liao Tianxian (926), the Bohai homeland was included in the direct jurisdiction of the Liao regime. Wang's Goryeo was very dissatisfied with this, believing that his chances of expanding his territory were even smaller.

Five years after Liao Tianxian, Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang moved a large number of Bohai remnants (Dongdan nationals) to Liaodong, and for a time the vast Bohai homeland became vast and sparsely populated. The Liao's control over the former Bohai region, especially the Jurchen region in the northern part of the present-day Korean Peninsula, weakened, and Goryeo began to send troops to fight the Jurchens under the control of the Liao Dynasty to compete for the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

In order to expand its power, Goryeo desperately absorbed the remnants of the Bohai Kingdom, and the Bohai people continued to pour into the territory of Goryeo, and even "the prince of the Bohai Kingdom, Da Guangxian, led tens of thousands of people to vote, and the general of the Bohai Kingdom, Pu Sheng, voted with more than 3,000 households."

After the destruction of Silla in the second year of the Later Tang Dynasty (935) and then the destruction of Later Baekje in the third year of the Later Tang Dynasty (936), and the unification of the Korean Peninsula, there was no need to worry about the future, and the territory expanded more fiercely to the north, which aroused the disgust and vigilance of the Khitans. The Khitan began to actively support the mature Jurchen and Goryeo to confront each other, so the relationship between Goryeo and Khitan deteriorated rapidly.

In the fifth year of the Liao Dynasty (942), the Liao State sent an envoy to Goryeo again to make a final effort to restore diplomatic relations. More than 30 Khitan envoys from Goryeo and the island were given 50 camels under the Wanfu Bridge and died without livestock. Goryeo declared: "If the Khitan is neighboring to me, it is advisable to repair it first, and he will send an envoy to sue for peace." I am the one who will not be employed, and the other country will be in harmony with the Bohai Sea, and they will be suspicious of each other, regardless of the old alliance, and they will be annihilated in one day, so Taizu thinks that there is no way to make friends. All the camels that were sacrificed were discarded, and no animals were raised. It is also true of those who prevent it from happening. Since the Bohai Sea was broken by the Khitan, its sons were full of appearance, etc., leading the rest of the tens of thousands of households, running day and night. Taizu is particularly sympathetic, and he gives his name to worship his ancestors. Its civil and military counsellors are all excellent."

So far, the relationship between Liao and Goryeo has completely broken.

King Taejo of Goryeo sent an envoy to the Later Jin Dynasty in an attempt to unite with the Later Jin Dynasty to flank the Khitan, so as to smoothly expand the territory northward and occupy the old land of the Bohai Sea. However, soon Wang Jianzhu died, and Goryeo gave up his plan. When Wang Jian was dying, he personally sold the training, saying: "Only I am in the East, the old Mu Tang style, cultural relics and music, all respect its system; Different places and different human natures, there is no need to agree. Khitan is a country of birds and beasts, with different customs and different languages; The system of clothing and crown should be careful not to follow suit".

In the face of Goryeo's open severance of diplomatic relations, the exile of Khitan envoys, the luring of a large number of Bohai remnants, and the continuous expansion of territory to the north, the Khitan was once very angry, but at that time, because Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang was busy passing through the Central Plains, the successors Sejong, Muzong and Jingzong eras, not only civil strife continued, but also had to deal with the Northern Expedition of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and had no time to look eastward, so they had to adopt a tolerant attitude towards the northern expansion of Goryeo and failed to immediately use troops against Goryeo.

As soon as the Great Song Dynasty was established, Goryeo sent tribute to the courtiers, and the ministers were called ministers, and they were regarded as a countermeasure.

In return, the Great Song Dynasty once supported Goryeo to inherit the land of the original Goguryeo.

Speaking of which, this incident later became a public case, that is, both the Goryeo Kingdom and its successor Korea State had always claimed that the land of the former Goguryeo, that is, the Northeast Liaodong region, was the territory of the Goryeo Kingdom and its successor Korea State.

In fact, today's Wang's Goryeo is inherited from Later Goguryeo, but this Later Goguryeo is not directly related to Goguryeo, but is only a country established on the Korean Peninsula by the Gong descendants of the Silla nobles, and has nothing to do with Goguryeo.

Goguryeo is an ancient state that was established in the northeastern region and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula during the Han Dynasty! During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, it was this country that sent large armies to conquer three times. The fall of the Sui Dynasty was also very related to the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo. However, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty united with Silla to destroy Goguryeo, and the land north of the Yalu River was also brought under the rule of the newly established Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty. Although Silla had objections to only possessing Goguryeo land south of the Yalu River, it finally agreed to this partition agreement after several battles with the Tang Dynasty, and never made any claims to the land in the northeast where the former Goguryeo was located.

When Wang's Goryeo was established, it actually had a territorial attempt to conquer Goguryeo, which was why it gave the name of Goryeo. However, in fact, Goryeo came from Later Goguryeo, and Later Goguryeo had no direct connection with Goguryeo, and in fact Goryeo was only the successor of Silla, not the successor of Goguryeo at all, and there was no reasonable basis for inheriting Goguryeo's northeastern territory at all.

Although Goryeo arose in the land of Silla, it was not satisfied with inheriting the land of Silla, but also wanted to inherit the land of the former Goguryeo, and always advocated that the land of the former Goguryeo in the area north of the Yalu River should also belong to Goryeo. Goryeo has repeatedly put forward territorial claims to the land of Liaodong against Liao!

This land of Goguryeo had already been clearly belonged to in the Silla period, and it was naturally impossible for the Liao State to give it to Goryeo, so it insisted that Goryeo could only occupy the land of Silla, and the land of the original Goguryeo had long been inherited by the Balhae State in the Tang Dynasty! And the Liao State destroyed the Bohai State, naturally, it should take over the original Goguryeo land from the Bohai State.

When the Great Song Dynasty was established, Goryeo declared itself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty, and the relationship between the two countries was good, and the Khitan was in the struggle for the sixteen states of Yanyun and other places, and the Song Dynasty and the Khitan could be described as a country of enemies. The Song people knew that they could not insist that Goguryeo was "close to Tifeng" like the Tang Dynasty, because most of the land of the original Goguryeo had long been owned by the Khitan, and not only could they not occupy the land of the original Goguryeo, but they could not even recover the sixteen states of Yanyun in the north, so they would no longer be bored and claim that the land of the original Goguryeo should be inherited by the Song Dynasty.

Since it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to inherit the land of the original Goguryeo, who should the Song people support to inherit Goguryeo? There is no doubt that if the Song people admit that the Khitan inherited the land of Goguryeo, it will only strengthen the power of the Khitan, and there is no benefit to the Song Dynasty that is fighting against the Khitan, it is better to admit that Goryeo inherited the land of Goguryeo, in that case, it can not only deepen the "friendly" relations with Goryeo, further gain the support of Goryeo, but also weaken the power of the Khitan through the war that Goryeo may launch for this, why not!

Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, when the relationship with Goryeo was good, he did actively support the view that Goryeo was the successor of Goguryeo.

This also became one of the theoretical bases for Goryeo and its successor Joseon to claim Goguryeo territory as their later theory.

Later, when it came to the Ming Dynasty, Joseon, the successor of Goryeo, had made territorial claims to the Ming Dynasty in accordance with the view that the Great Song had recognized and supported Goryeo as the successor of Goguryeo!

The Great Song did support the view that Goryeo was the successor of Goguryeo out of strategic considerations, but with the rupture of relations between the Great Song and Goryeo, the matter became ambiguous again, and became an important bargaining weight for its relationship with Goryeo. This also became a public case.

Subsequently, in the interaction with Goryeo, this matter was also repeatedly discussed by the Great Song and Goryeo.

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It doesn't matter whether Goryeo is the successor of Goguryeo or not, but the country of Goryeo is also fickle and short-sighted! Because it didn't take long for the relationship between the Great Song and Goryeo to break down.

During the Northern Expedition of Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty sent an envoy to request Goryeo to send troops to jointly attack the Khitan, thinking that it would be a countermeasure to jointly deal with the Liao State.

However, Liao Shengzong took the initiative to send an envoy to Goryeo to ask for peace, and promised some of Goryeo's territorial claims, so that the king of Goryeo rejected the demands of the Great Song Dynasty.

After the Liao State repelled the Northern Expedition of Yongxi of the Great Song Dynasty, it began to deal with Goryeo.

In the tenth year of the unification of peace (992), the Liao Shengzong sent Xiao Hengde, who stayed in Tokyo in the Great Liao, to lead an army of 800,000 to the east to conquer Goryeo, and defeated the Goryeo army in the following year, Kepengsan County, and captured the Goryeo vanguard army envoy Yin Shuyan.

Because the Khitan was running the Central Plains at this time, the struggle with the Song Dynasty for the sixteen states of Yanyun had not yet ended, and he was eager to break up the alliance between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, so Xiao Hengde promised to give Goryeo "hundreds of miles east of the Yalu River" to Goryeo under the premise that Goryeo was willing to pay tribute to the Liao State and sever diplomatic relations with the Song Dynasty, and reached a peace agreement with Goryeo to withdraw his troops and return north.

Subsequently, Goryeo Chengzong "sent Pu Liangrou to plead guilty", and Liao Shengzong "edicted to give her hundreds of miles east of the Yalu River in accordance with the provisions of the covenant". Subsequently, Liao Shengzong sent an envoy to officially canonize King Chengzong of Goryeo as the "King of Goryeo", and Goryeo began to use the Khitan unification and era name, officially calling the Khitan a tribute, and at the same time severing the relationship with the Northern Song Dynasty, and Goryeo changed from "Shi Song" to "Shi Liao".

From then on, the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo was completely severed.

However, after Goryeo became a vassal of the Great Liao, it did not reduce its ambitions, and the Liao State did not give up its plan to clean up Goryeo.

After Song Liao concluded the "Alliance of the Yuanyuan", Da Liao had no worries, and so, the nightmare of Goryeo began.

In the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Seongjong of Liao (1010), the Liao State launched the second war against Goryeo under the pretext that the Goryeo minister Kang Zhao had killed the king and recited another king's inquiry, and that Goryeo had "the structure in the Jurchen in the east and the Song state in the west" as an excuse. This was followed by the third war against Goryeo in the third year of Kaetae (1014).

Although Goryeo eventually surrendered to the Liao State and kept the territory south of the Yalu River, the Liao State drove the nail of Baoju in the territory of Goryeo, posing a great threat to Goryeo.

Around this nail, the Goryeo people used both soft and hard, and in the end, they could not make the Liao State destroy Baozhou and other cities.

Although Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty severed their relationship with the clans, they did not completely sever their contacts. Once relations with the Liao State deteriorated, they would strengthen their contacts with the Great Song Dynasty. When faced with the questioning of the Khitans, Goryeo claimed to admire the culture of the Great Song Dynasty, but it was only economic and cultural exchanges. Of course, there are some other things that are indispensable in private.

However, although the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State is not good, it is generally still friendly and diplomatic relations, at least on the surface, the relationship is still good.

The relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State has been stable for many years, and it is difficult for the scholars and doctors of the Great Song Dynasty to agree to easily start a war with the Liao State. Because of the good or bad relationship with Goryeo, it does not mean much to the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty had a good relationship with Goryeo, in fact, it was nothing more than to let Goryeo help contain the Liao State, and now since it is easy to start a war with the Liao State, this relationship with Goryeo will not have much effect. Besides, the country of Goryeo has no faith, even if it has a good relationship with them now, maybe when the war with the Liao State starts, this Goryeo is like the Yongxi Northern Expedition, and it has temporarily changed its hexagram again!

Therefore, for the envoys of Goryeo, the Great Song Dynasty actually did not have much interest. After all, the two countries do not share a border, and they only rely on ocean-wide exchanges, and in this year when the navigation technology is not very advanced, their relationship cannot be close, because the relationship with Goryeo is good or bad, in fact, it does not have much significance.

When Wang gradually said this, Zhong Hao understood, that is to say, in fact, his errand was an inconsequential matter, so the official family dared to send such an official as himself with little diplomatic experience.

This errand to deal with the Goryeo envoy is nothing more than to perfunctory the Goryeo envoy, listen to what he wants, and report it to the official family at that time, there is no difficulty! Of course, it is estimated that this Goryeo envoy will inevitably ask the Great Song Dynasty to support them, and their Goryeo State's claim to the territory of the former Goguryeo.

Although this errand is not difficult, for Zhong Hao, it is an errand that brushes up on the experience of officialdom promotion, as long as it is not done wrong, it is naturally a political achievement.

Since it didn't affect his ability to go home to save his relatives, but just went to Dengzhou to meet the envoy from Goryeo, then Zhong Hao had nothing to resist, and he was naturally happy to take on this errand.