In the thirty-third round, Ah Gu reprimanded the book and refused to make peace

Speaking of loose trials, Li Shanqing went ashore in Dengzhou by sea, and traveled all the way to Bianjing. Shortly thereafter, he was led to meet with Song Huizong, presented gifts, and presented his credentials. When Song Huizong opened the book and read it, he saw that the national book wrote: "The land invited should be attacked together today, and there will be winners." The original intention of Song Huizong's letter is very ambiguous, and he does not explicitly return the land of Youyan to the Song Dynasty, but agrees to attack Liao, which seems to have something in common in this regard. Then he placed Sanyu and Li Shanqing in Baoxiangyuan, so that Cai Jing and others could get along with them every day. Cai Jing told the Jin envoy with the intention of attacking Liao, and made it clear that the Song Dynasty wanted to get the land of Youyan. The two of them were only resigned, neither refusing nor giving an affirmative reply. After staying in Bianjing for more than ten days, the two insisted on returning to Jinguo. Song Huizong also sent Ma Zheng and Zhao Youkai to carry edicts and gifts, and hired posters with Sanyu and Li Shanqingdu. When he arrived in Dengzhou, Zhao Youkai fell ill and died. At this time, there happened to be a spy who said that the Liao lord had made Aguda the emperor of Donghuaiguo. Song Huizong didn't know the true attitude of Ah Guta, and passed the urgent edict to Ma Zheng not to go, and only sent the Ping Naval Colonel Huqing to send the two back to Jin. As in the past, Ah Guda treated the people of the Song Kingdom with kindness and stayed for a few days. When Huqing left Jin, Aguta said to him: "We have defeated the Liao army many times, and have captured several lands in the Liao country. After returning to China, tell your emperor that if you sincerely want to form an alliance, please show your credentials as soon as possible. If you still use edicts to proclaim, it is really difficult to obey. On the way back to China, Huqing met two Song Dynasty doctors and traveled together. It turned out that earlier, the king of Goryeo was sick and asked the Song Dynasty for a famous doctor, and Song Huizong selected two imperial doctors to go. Now, they have cured the king of Goryeo and returned home along the coast. Song Huizong asked the two doctors what they had seen and heard in Goryeo, and they replied: "The Goryeo people treat us very warmly and sincerely, and let us watch their drills in the morning and evening to use their troops, set up formations, and defend against the enemy." He also said to us: 'I heard that the emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to share the Liao kingdom with the Jurchens, which is a very dangerous practice. If the Liao State is left, it will be like leaving a side wall for the Song Dynasty. Because of this border wall, it was difficult for the Jurchens to directly invade the Song Dynasty. You don't know, the Jurchens are like tigers and wolves, and they can't be friends, so they should be prepared early.'" At that time, Song Huizong was only thinking about recovering Youyan to avenge the revenge of the previous emperor, and did not listen to the words of the two imperial doctors in his heart.

After that, Song Huizong listened to Tong Guan's words and sent Zhao Liangsi to envoy to the Jin State. On the surface, it is still in the name of buying horses, but in fact, it is an appointment with the Jin people to attack Liao in order to take the land of Yan and Yun.

Zhao Liangsi saw Aguta and said to him: "Your Majesty, the Liao State will perish, and the Jin State will prosper, this is the general trend between the two countries in the future." However, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff. Judging from the current strength and national strength of the Jin State, it is impossible to destroy the Liao State in one day and one night. However, if the Jin State and the Song State to the south of the Liao State were opposed, it would have an extremely significant impact on the relationship between the Jin State and the Liao State, and even make the Jin State's plan to destroy the Liao State come to naught. ”

Akuta said: "What your envoy said, I will not theorize for the time being. But as far as I know, Qing is a Liao person, why did he leave Liao and go south to join the Song Dynasty? ”

Zhao Liangsi said: "Your Majesty's question is extremely true. Yes, the minister should be said to be an authentic Liao person. However, the ancestors of the ministers cannot be regarded as Liao. Only because of the living in Yandi, it was ceded to the Liao State by Shi Jin in the fifth generation. The ministers went south to vote for the Song Dynasty, and there was no suspicion of betraying the master! ”

Ah Gu inquired and said with a smile: "This is also reluctantly said in the past." Actually, I don't mean to blame Qingqing, it's just Qingqing's heart. From my point of view, there is no conflict of interest between me and the Emperor of Song, and presumably the Emperor of Song will not treat me as an enemy. There was a land-grabbing feud between the Song Emperor and the Liao Emperor, and there was a hatred between us Jurchens and the Liao people. In terms of attitude towards the Liao people, I think there should be many of the same languages between us. ”

Zhao Liangsi said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, since the two countries have hatred and hatred for the Liao State, this makes it possible for the two countries to send troops to attack the Liao State. However, Your Majesty, there is a metaphor that I don't know if it's appropriate or not. There is a prey that is favored by two hunters at the same time. So, will these two hunters fight at the same time for this one prey? ”

Akuta said, "What a wonderful parable! In fact, another way to put this metaphor is that the Liao State is like a prey, and among the two hunters, one is me, and the other is Emperor Huizong of your Song Dynasty. I can tell your envoy that if the Emperor of Song only takes a fancy to this prey and does not do anything, then I will not give away the prey in my possession. I will not hesitate to take all this prey for myself. Furthermore, if two hunters have their eye on one prey at the same time, and they want to get it, then it would be strange for them to fight each other. ”

Zhao Liangsi heard this and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if you want to prevent the two hunters from fighting for prey, it is not impossible to think about it. The two should be clear about the part of the prey and keep their word, so that there will be no fighting. ”

Aguta said: "What your envoy said is also what I think. So, what part of the Song Emperor wanted to get this prey? ”

Zhao Liangsi said: "Yanshan was originally a Han land, and if Jin and Song wanted to attack Liao, they should have their own gains. The Jin State took the Zhongjing Dading Mansion, and the Song State took the Yanjing Xijin Mansion, I don't know what His Majesty wants? ”

Ah Guda said: "Since the Emperor of Song has this intention, I don't have to be reluctant. For the rest of the coins, Qing Ke can be agreed with a group of ministers such as Sticky Han and Xianye. ”

When Zhao Liangsi left, Ah Guda paid with a handwritten pen. According to the letter, the offensive route of the two armies was roughly delineated, the Jin soldiers started from the flat pine forest and approached Gubeikou, and the Song army took Baigou as the boundary. Aguta also made it clear in the letter that if he did not follow this line, he would never follow. He also sent Cilie and Holu as envoys to accompany Zhao Liangsi to the Song Dynasty to express his intentions. It turned out that the last time he sent an envoy to the Song State, Song Huizong appointed him as a regimental training envoy, but he did not refuse, but agreed. After Ah Guda learned of this, he was furious, thinking that he had accepted Song Zhi's official position in private, although it was nominal, it was still a humiliation to his mission, so he took it with his staff. At this point, another person was sent as an envoy.

Song Huizong read Ah Guta's handwriting and saw that his attitude was extremely clear, so he summoned Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others to discuss. Everyone thinks that this is basically close to the requirements of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Kingdom, and there is no big contradiction, and it should be said that it is still acceptable. The route of the march proposed by Aguta was supplemented and further clarified. According to this meaning, Song Huizong personally wrote a reply letter and sent Ma Zheng to go by sea.

After Ah Guda received Song Huizong's handwritten letter, he was very happy to see that he was no longer using an edict. When the letter was opened, the letter read: "The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty sent a letter to the Emperor Dajin, and sent a letter from afar, and a special letter was written. To the Khitan, when the appointment is made, Tong Guan has been sent to the soldiers accordingly. Each other's soldiers are not allowed to pass the customs, and the number of coins is the same as that of Liao. After reading the letter, Aguda felt that the conditions he proposed had been fully accepted by Song Huizong, and he was extremely satisfied. Told Ma Zheng at the moment, and asked him to tell Song Huizong that the two countries would abide by the covenant and never make peace with the Liao.

Song Huizong and his most favored ministers Cai Jing and Tong Guan and others exchanged the coins of the Liao State to the Jin State in exchange for the empty promise to recover Yanshan with soldiers, which is really absurd, and it should be regarded as a joke that happened in the long river of history. The faintness of the monarchs and ministers of Song Huizong can be seen from this. History calls Song Jin's meeting to attack Liao as a maritime alliance. In the alliance on the sea, Song Huizong paid an extremely high price, but what he got was only an illusory and ethereal vision, no wonder he later wanted to destroy the country and break his family, which was also self-inflicted.

Just when the Song-Jin maritime alliance was already clear, another peace talks that were close to a marathon came to an impasse, that is, the peace talks between the Liao and Jin states. Because of its successive victories in the war, the Jin State has raised the tone at the negotiating table more and more, and it has not backed down. On the contrary, the Liao State did not lower its tone at the negotiating table because of its successive defeats on the battlefield. In order to save the face of its so-called great power, and also to show the difference between the Liao State and the Jin State, it showed the stubbornness of not giving an inch and the tragic mood of preferring to die rather than bend. On the scale of negotiations between the Liao State and the Jin State, the Song State fell on the side of the Jin State as a huge bargaining chip, which made the already unbalanced scale even more inclined now. By the time the Liao monarchs and ministers felt that they should make concessions at the negotiating table, it was already too late. Since then, there has been no chance of peace talks.

The talk is cumbersome, and the peace talks between Liao and Jin have to start after Yeluchun's defeat at Tribulus Mountain.

In February of the second year of Tianfu, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao sent Yelu Nuge as an envoy to Jin to negotiate peace. Akuda said: "It is not difficult to negotiate peace, but you have to agree to my conditions." Jerunugo asked about the conditions, and Akuta listed them like this. When Brother Yelunu heard it, everything was hard and hard, and it was a real thing, where did he dare to make the decision and agree? He replied immediately: "What Your Majesty said, it is really difficult for the minister to answer. I have to go back to my emperor to see how he decides, and then tell your majesty. Ah Guda smiled and said, "That's fine, I'll wait for your emperor's answer." ”

Yelu Nuge took Aguta's handwritten book and returned to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing. I met with Emperor Tianzuo and presented the letter. Emperor Tianzuo opened the letter, only to see that the letter read: "I can take my brother's affairs, pay tribute to the party, and return it to my Zhongjing, Shangjing, and Xingzhong Prefecture Sanlu Prefecture, with the prince, princess, and minister's descendants as hostages, and return my pedestrians and the original letter symbols, and Song, Xia, and Goryeo to and from the book, edict, table, and Mu can be." After Emperor Tianzuo saw this, he was furious and said: "Ah Guda is really an ugly person, how can he be so arrogant, it is really too deceitful!" Shangjing Linhuang Mansion is the imperial capital chosen by the first emperor, where does he want to go, where does he want to put me? The Jurchens are just a remote tribe living in poor mountains and wild waters, but now they want to be reckless, and dare to ask for the children of my ministers, horses, and princes as hostages, and they are too daring. I'll treat him as a treat, and see what he can do to get me! Jerunog said, "Your Majesty is angry! Ah Guda is really a rough man, and he does not know the height of the sky, and His Majesty should not be like him. If you don't agree, you can write back. Do not be angry because of it, lest you hurt your body. At that moment, Emperor Tianzuo discussed with his ministers, and sent Yelu Nuge to envoy to the Jin Kingdom again to discuss the matter of peace with Aguta.

When Aguda heard that the Liao envoy had arrived again, he summoned Yelunuge and asked, "What did your emperor say?" Yelu Nuge said: "Our emperor said that Shangjing Linhuang Mansion was the imperial capital set by the first emperor, and now if it is given to His Majesty, he will not even have a place to eat and sleep." Try to think about it for Your Majesty, isn't this too forceful? Ah Gu inquired and said with a smile: "I see, I never thought about it. I don't want to take away people's love, and I don't want to leave no place for people to eat and sleep. In the land of Beijing, I will stay with your emperor for the time being, how about it? Jerunog said, "If that's the case, thank you." The second thing is that His Majesty must ask for the prince, the horses, and the descendants of the ministers as hostages, and this condition is inevitably too harsh. Even if our emperor wants to agree, the princes, ministers, and concubines can't pull off their faces, please think about it. Ah Gu inquired and said: "I don't want to take away people's relatives, this matter can also be discussed, but other things don't have to be discounted." When Brother Jerunu heard this, he quickly thanked him.

When Yelunuge returned to Liao, Aguda sent Hu Tugon as an envoy and followed. Hu Tugon conveyed to Emperor Tianzuo that Aguta would be exempted from the proton and no longer ask for the prefectures and counties belonging to Shangjing and Xingzhong Prefecture, and that the number of annual coins should be reduced as appropriate, and conveyed: "I must be treated as a brother and Hanyi must be used." If not, do not send them again. Emperor Tianzuo saw that Ah Guta had made concessions, so he agreed to the other conditions he proposed.

However, on the matter of canonization, they did not give in to each other and remained in a stalemate. For the sake of the canonization, the Liao State sent envoys to the Jin State seven times. During this period, negotiations between the Jin and Song states by sea were in full swing, while the Liao people knew nothing about the secret negotiations between them.

In June, Aguta sent Ulin Dazanmo as an envoy to the Liao State to welcome the book. Liao also sent Xi Nilie to hold the book to Jin, and established Aguda as the emperor of Donghuaiguo. Ah Guda is not called Dajin, but Donghuaiguo, which is "the righteousness of a small state with its virtues", and the language involves insults. Therefore, Aguta sent Wulin Dazanmo to envoy Liao again, and reported to Liao with a copy of the book.

Wu Lin Dazan went to Liao and met Emperor Tianzuo, with an extremely clear attitude and extremely resolute. The accusation of the Khitan is not qualified, it should be determined by the copy provided by the Jin State in the previous tense, and the copy he holds should be submitted to the Tianzuo Emperor of the Liao State again. I thought it would be hard to accept unless it was like that.

Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State carefully reviewed the text of the sub-book provided by Wulin Dazanmo, and expressed great dissatisfaction with the first article of it. It turns out that the first article is that Aguda asked Emperor Tianzuo to canonize him as the Emperor of the Great Golden Sage, which is difficult to agree with the word "Great Sage". So he sent Xi Nilie to the Jin Kingdom to see Aguta again, which was already in November of the third year of Tianfu. At this time, the Jin State had reached a maritime alliance with the Song State, and the Jin State also agreed to the Song State's request not to "negotiate peace" with the Khitan.

Xi Nilie saw Ah Guta and conveyed to him the opinion of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State, thinking that the word "Great Sage" was similar to the title of the ancestors of the Liao State and could not be used. After Ah Gu inquired, he was furious and said to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs: "The Liao people have been defeated repeatedly, and they have sent envoys to sue for peace. But the words are false, thinking that it is a plan to delay the teacher. When the discussion is made, it cannot be postponed any longer. Then he ordered the Xianzhou Road Military Division to rectify the army, build equipment, and report it accordingly.

In February of the fourth year of Tianfu, he resigned and returned from the Song Dynasty. Along with this, there were also envoys of the Song State, Zhao Liangsi and Wang Hui. Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.