The main purpose of Wang Hao's visit this time was to avoid a war on the southern front of the Great Song Dynasty and fully support the Northern Expedition of the Imperial Court. ”

Li Nan said coldly: "This king will pick up the things he likes, and he doesn't need to be sent by others, so he will leave!" ”

Seeing that the war elephant began to move, Wang Hao shouted, "Lord Wang, please stay!" ”

The recapture of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun from the Liao State has basically been engraved on the bones of every generation of emperors of the Great Song Dynasty Zhao family, and Huizong Zhao Ji has now been completely immersed in this matter that can glorify the ancestors, and it can be said that anyone who hinders this matter will not end well, no matter who it is.

Wang Hao could think that if his negotiations with Li Nan failed and the war on the Southern Front broke out again, then after returning to Tokyo City, his political enemies, enemies, and Huizong Zhao Ji would not let him go.

The Great Song Dynasty generally did not carry out the death penalty on scholars, but Wang Hao really shuddered when he thought of the tragic situation of those prisoners who were personally rectified by him, all the family property was stolen, all the men were exiled, and all the female dependents were sent to the Jiaofang Division to be humiliated.

Fear can demoralize, but it can also give people courage.

Wang Hao plucked up the courage to walk down the high post, stood in front of the tall war elephant that Li Nan was riding, and said humbly: "Lord Wang, if you are not satisfied with these conditions, we can discuss it carefully, what do you think?" ”

Li Nanxin recently occupied Yizhou, Zizhou, Lizhou, Kuizhou and Guangnan East Road, and in addition to stationing troops and horses in these state capitals to suppress the people, he also needed a large number of soldiers to defend the nearby Tufan Zhubu and the Zhenla Empire, which could really be said to be short of manpower.

To put it simply, Li Nan is now the same as Song Guo, he doesn't want to go to war at all, and he doesn't have the ability to go to war, he needs time to digest the new territory, but fortunately, the other party doesn't know this.

Li Nan looked down at Wang Huang, who was bent over and saluting, and said unhappily: "This king is from the Song Kingdom and has a deep affection for him, so he is not willing to start a war lightly. But Huizong Zhao Ji is really too deceitful, and he even uses the false name of a king of Zhennan to perfunctory? ”

"Then what else does the prince need?" Wang Hao said as if he were not Song Chen: "Even if you open your mouth, Weichen will definitely fight for it with all his might!" ”

"It's simple." Li Nan raised two fingers and said: "Since the Great Song Dynasty can give Western Xia and Liao coins, then the Zhennan Kingdom of the King of Ben also needs the same treatment; ”

"New Year's coins?" Wang Hao was taken aback at first, but he thought that since the imperial court was on the Northern Expedition, there was no need to give Liao New Year's coins, and he could use the saved money to buy peace.

Only after the end of the Northern Expedition, the sixteen states of Yanyun were recovered, and when the Great Song Dynasty regrouped its troops and horses, Li Nan and his Zhennan Kingdom in front of him would not be able to jump for a few days.

Thinking of this, Wang Hao said: "The New Year's coin is not a problem, but the prince also knows that Weichen is not the one who is in charge, and this matter still needs to be decided by the saint." ”

Wang Hao, Huizong Zhao Ji, and the thoughts of those civil and military ministers of the Song State, Li Nan knew it in his heart, but since it was certain that the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty would be defeated, then he didn't have to worry about the future, it was better to extort bamboo and bamboo now.

"Okay." Li Nan put away a finger and continued: "In addition to the New Year's coin, this king has long admired the emperor of the Zhao family, and knows that they are all knowledgeable and reasonable, and the daughters of the beautiful face and moon, it just so happens that this king lacks a princess, I don't know if the prince may be able to fulfill this matter?" ”

"This ......" Hearing this condition, Wang Hao's face immediately showed embarrassment.

In fact, there are really a lot of emperors in the Great Song Dynasty, and Huizong Zhao Ji has more than 30 daughters, but it is basically impossible for Li Nan to marry the emperor.

Harmony, that is, the policy of sending the princess in exchange for peace, is not uncommon in Chinese history, but the Song Dynasty has never made peace with the minority regime, basically rejecting the attitude of harmony, and putting forward the view of "harmony and humiliation of the country".

The Song Dynasty's strong ethnic prejudice, the influence of rational thought, its strong economic foundation, its military policy of "emphasizing the inside over the outside", and the widespread intermarriage between the royal family and the "Jiangmen" all became the main factors for the Song Dynasty's refusal to make peace.

And the most important point is that the Great Song Dynasty is rich, so it is generally used to solve the problem with the New Year's coin.

If Wang Hao is still a little sure about giving Zhennan the New Year's coin, then marrying a Great Song Emperor to Li Nan will have no bottom in his heart.

Seeing Wang Huang standing in place and not speaking, Li Nan flicked his sleeves unhappily and said, "What? No way? That's it. ”

"Wait!" Now, Wang Hao has no other way, but to respond: "The two conditions of the prince, Weichen has already known, I hope you will be calm for a while, and I will tell the Holy Lord to decide." ”

"There is the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and it takes about three months to go back and forth from Jinghu to Tokyo City, I hope you will make a decision quickly, otherwise don't blame the king for going to Dongting Lake to eat fish!"

Leaving down a threatening word, the fifty war elephants were divided into two sides, and the elephant king on which Li Nan rode entered the formation, and the war elephant herd rushed towards the south.

After Li Nan left, Wang Huang, who could still support him with courage just now, suddenly sat on the ground like a deflated ball.

Since Li Nan did not give much time, Wang Hao did not dare to delay, and hurriedly led his own soldiers to return north day and night to report the content of the peace talks to Zhao Ji of Huizong.

Just when Wang Hao was in a hurry to return to Tokyo City, under the repeated urging of Jin Guo, Song Huizong requisitioned 50,000 elite Western Army and 100,000 forbidden troops stationed in Tokyo City to start the Northern Expedition.

Tong Guan, who fought a big defeat in Jiangnan, may have a deep relationship with Huizong Zhao Ji, perhaps because he bribed other important ministers, or because he was a eunuch, so he still did not lose his holy favor.

Tong Guan became the ambassador of Hebei and Hedong Road; And Kaifuyi and the three divisions Cai You were the deputy envoys of Xuanfu, and these two led an army of 150,000 to attack the Liao State.

In the minds of Zhao Ji and Tong Guan of Song Huizong and others, the land of Wujing of the Liao Dynasty at this time has been laid down by the Jin State in four places, only Nanjing remains, the Liao Emperor Tianzuo Emperor has been chased by the Jin soldiers and the life and death do not know, the cousin of the Tianzuo Emperor Yeluchun ascended the throne in Nanjing, the entire Liao State can be said to be a group of dragons without a leader, as long as the 150,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty arrive, the entire Liao State will surrender without a fight.

When he set out on the expedition, Zhao Jizhi of Huizong proudly instructed Tong Guan and Cai You: "If the Yan people are pleasing to take it, because of the restoration of the old territory, Shangye; Yelu Chunna is called a vassal, and the second is also; The Yan people did not obey the patrol of the border according to the soldiers, and they also went down. ”

In the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom, the sixteen states of Yanyun were things that could be captured, but this was not the case.

In May, Dan Tong Guan and Cai You led a 150,000-strong Northern Expeditionary army to Gaoyang Pass on the front line and met the Heshuo garrison there.

In the records of the Ministry of War, there should be 301,000 troops on the Hebei Fourth Road, including 145,000 forbidden troops, 11,000 box troops, and 145,000 township soldiers, but in fact there are not even 150,000.

Tong Guan has also been in the Western Army for many years, and knows that it is common to eat empty salaries, but these Hebei garrisons are not only insufficient in number, but also the generals are arrogant and lazy, do not train the enemy, and the army must use all kinds of things, and the things that are guarded by the city are all unprepared, and they are so lax that they are not in shape.

On the entire border line of Song and Liao, there were no decent cities at all, and even the Tangbo defense line that the imperial court had spent a lot of money and energy to build had long since become a pile of dry rivers and dams.