Chapter 3293 is the one who bullies

After listening to Zhao Xing's inquiry, Wang Shiru's tone was evasive: "I have to wait for the weather to thaw...... However, you and I can't hold each other's army, and it is always a tribulation for the common people, and the two sides strike the war, presumably the emperor of the Song State is also happy to see it. ”

Zhao Xing smiled, confident and proud: "How many troops have been dispatched just now, and how many days have the two sides held each other...... Don't worry, our people are not bitter, the gunpowder I brought has not been exhausted, and the large and small bags are brought back, and the civil labor force must be requisitioned, and the people will complain...... Otherwise, you're cooperating with me for a few days and let me consume some - I'll give you a kickback! ”

Wang Shiru's face was as bitter as Coptis chinensis, he looked at Zhao Xing in disbelief, and then at Jiang Zhiqi, which meant to ask: How did you let a scoundrel become a captain in the Great Song Dynasty, and he didn't have any Confucian demeanor at all.

Jiang Zhiqi smiled bitterly, and said in his heart: No way, I know that this guy will take advantage of it, but this guy has won a hundred battles against the diplomatic war, and even won the favor of two generations of little emperors, who is willing to replace.

Seeing that everyone was smiling bitterly, Zhao Xing nodded thoughtfully, he turned to Jiang Zhiqi and said, "Lord Jiang, in this negotiation, since the Nanjing Dao side has not been authorized by His Majesty the Liao State, I think the best way is to ask Lord Jiang to withdraw from the negotiation......"

Jiang Zhiqi's scalp was numb, and he cried bitterly in his stomach: This guy really can't be provoked, so I will mock a few words in my heart, and this guy's revenge will come.

But what Zhao Xing said is very reasonable. The Great Song Dynasty was an extremely face-conscious regime, and when he learned that the Liao side had not yet obtained the emperor's permission, in this case, Jiang Zhiqi still insisted on negotiating, and when he returned to the dynasty, he would be scolded to death by the imperial history, and he would be recorded in the annals of history, so that future generations would continue to scold......

Jiang Zhiqi was thinking of words, and Zhao Xing added: "Since the Nanjing Road of the Liao State has not been authorized, then the negotiation will be conducted between the Guangnan East Road and the Nanjing Road of the Liao State - the government of the Great Song Road and the Liao State 1st Road, and the status of each other is commensurate with each other." ”

Jiang Zhiqi immediately struck with a hot iron: "That's right!" In this way, the old man will be a negotiation supervisor. It's just that the supervisors sent by the Liao side should also have the same status. ”

Wang Shiru choked for a moment, and immediately replied: "I am left behind in Tokyo, Liao Kingdom, and Da Tiyin He Lu Sagu is in Xijin Mansion, and I should ask him to come out for verification." ”

"I agree". Zhao Xing replied without hesitation: "The envoy of the Liao State is Lord Wang Shiru Wang. It was verified that he was left behind in Tokyo, Liaoguo, and He Lu was overlooked; Our local envoy is the Guangnan East Road Military Case Supervision Division. Meizhou Shou, Shuai Fan Shuai Zi Lian. The verification is the right Zhengyan Jiang Zhiqi Jiang Daren. Plus below. ”

As a matter of fact. Zhao Xing played a trap here. Secretly belittled the officials of the Liao State. Wang Shiru fell into disadvantage at the moment. Song Junruo entangled with him to negotiate the legitimacy of the place. I can't talk about it. And the Southern Court of Liaoguo is now unpresiding. Wang Shiru wants to go further. Not wanted at this time. Border wars expanded. aroused the Liao's emperor's doubts about his ability. So I can only swallow this breath. I couldn't help but agree: "Okay!" So. It's also appropriate. ”

Wang Shiru deliberately ignored that he was the deputy privy envoy. And Shuai Fan is just a Zhizhou. As a Deputy Privy Councillor. Negotiate with a governor. It is invisibly equivalent to recognizing the status of the deputy privy envoy of the Liao State as equivalent to a governor of the Great Song Dynasty. And officialdom. I like to think about rankings, rankings and other subsections like this.

Don't wait for Wang Shiru to come up with new words. Zhao Xingdi asked one after another. It forced him to think with all his might. Forgot to fight back against Zhao Xing. Or bargaining.

"So. Liaoguo Nanjing Road and my Guangnan East Road to negotiate. How can I be sure that Nanjing Road will abide by the agreement afterwards? ”

"Hmm. After the alliance of the abyss. My Great Liao and the Song Kingdom have been at peace with each other for decades. This shows that our Daliao is in compliance with the agreement. We have the ability to comply with the protocol. ”

"But I was attacked on the river. At the same time, several county kings of Nanyang were attacked, which were tributary envoys of several countries, and they were attacked by the despicable Liao on the way to the tributary land, and the Great Liao must give an explanation. ”

Wang Shiru replied: "I, Da Liao, abide by the agreement—however, only a group of prodigal sons did not pay for it, and they went to the banks of the Yellow River to hunt happily, and they did not agree for a while. Conflicts arose. This is a complete misunderstanding. ”

Zhao Xing grimaced and asked again: "They—they attacked our tribute envoys." What I want to ask now is, are they from the Great Liao Kingdom, or are they from my Great Song Kingdom? ”

Wang Shiru's head was a little stuffy by Zhao Xing's words, and he asked suspiciously: "What do you mean?" ”

"The Liao State signed a land agreement, and the Song and Liao sides agreed to guard their borders and not harass each other, but my Song State encounters a group of them every year, I heard that this is called the Grass Valley in the Liao State, just now Lord Wang boasted that the Liao State abides by the agreement, I want to know, whether the Liao State has the ability to restrain its subjects and people, or whether the Liao State government still has the administrative ability to control its own territory?

If the Liao State does not have this ability, I think that an official government without administrative capacity is not worthy of making an agreement with others, because it has no ability to enforce it—of course, if the Liao State has lost the ability to control and rule its subjects, I am not afraid to personally help the Liao State...... Lord Wang, you're welcome, this matter is not troublesome at all, I hope Lord Wang will speak as soon as possible - as soon as you ask me, I will immediately agree. ”

Wang Shiru's face sank, and he changed the topic to entangle the details: "It is often said that the Great Song Kingdom is a country of gentlemen, you and I negotiate and agree on the state affairs of the two countries, do you want to stand in this snowy wilderness?" ”

Zhao Xing's question Wang Shiru couldn't answer, because robbery was a national tradition of the Khitan people. The Khitans have been robbing for a thousand years, and they claim that they go south every year to rob the Han people on the border as: the Han people plow with hoes, and they plow with swords; The Han people harvest the crops in the fields, and they reap the harvest of the Han people. In modern times, propaganda considers such acts to "promote national integration" and considers such "annual robberies" to represent the interests of the broadest masses of the people - that is, their robberies represent the interests of those who have been robbed.

Wang Shiru was a Han Confucian of the Liao Kingdom, and in his Confucian worldview, serving the alien race was also "learning to become a literary and martial artist, and selling it to the emperor's family", and the alien race destroyed the Han regime with their assistance, which was only one of the "five virtue cycles", which was in line with the Confucian righteousness...... However, no matter how firm his Confucian worldview is, he cannot not feel ashamed in the face of ordinary human morality. He believed that he did not have the ability to restrain the actions of the Khitan nobles. So he could only change the topic and blame Zhao Xing from Confucian etiquette in order to interrupt and change the negotiation process.

His duty is also reasonable, although Jiang Zhiqi feels that it is also a happy thing to witness Zhao Xing bullying the Liao people. But he was unwilling to let the Liao people grasp the slightest handle. Then he interjected: "Go back to the house to talk, too, the guests come on a cold night, how can you let the guests stand in the snow, please, Lord Wang, please enter the hall!" ”

Zhao Xing didn't interject, he grabbed the reins of the horse and looked at Wang Shiru condescendingly. Wang Shiru flicked his sleeves very Confucianly, snorted angrily and urged his ** Mongolian donkey, swaying towards the city...... It's a pity that his ** Mongolian donkey is not angry. When walking past Zhao Xing's majestic stallion, with a flattering smile, Zhao Xing's war horse snorted heavily, threw its hooves disdainfully, and the Mongolian donkey wilted its head, and crawled in front of Zhao Xing's horse under the urging of Wang Shiru step by step.

Fortunately, the loss of face was slightly compensated for in the renegotiations. After a few days of rest, when renegotiating. Zhao Xing seemed to have been reminded by Jiang Zhiqi and no longer dwelled on the question just now, but the first sentence he asked still made Wang Shiru break out in a cold sweat, only to hear Zhao Xing split his head and ask: "Your Majesty Daozong is already in the Spring and Autumn Period, how is your health recently?" ”

Wang Shiru was sweating, but only replied: "Your Majesty is still safe." ”

The negotiations were held at the Wuqing County Ya, and before Wang Shiru entered the county Ya, he had already been reminded by Han Zirang and noticed the asymmetry of the identities of the two sides to the negotiations. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to ask Song Guo to change negotiators, but he always asked Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing's grade was comparable to his, so he couldn't talk about it. But Zhao Xing's envoy's questions are really difficult to deal with, he likes to ask questions like lightning and lightning, every question makes Wang Shiru's heart and liver suffer, he really wants to ignore the principle of identity reciprocity and beg Zhao Xing to avoid it, and replace it with the handsome fan who has not spoken next to the nominal negotiation, but in this way. The issue of the identity of the two parties to the negotiation was again raised. Doesn't seem appropriate.

Wang Shiru was dripping with sweat, and his heart was full of thoughts of being able to get by. He cautiously waited for Zhao Xing's next question, Zhao Xing's next question: "The female straight man is very fierce, right?" ”

Wang Shiru breathed a sigh of relief, this question was easy to answer, he replied: "Those female straight people are not people, they are locusts, burning and looting where they walk, and there is no grass. We can continue to fight with the female straight people, but we can't withstand their locust-like destruction - fighting with them, every battle costs a lot, and the logistics and baggage all have to be transported up from the rear, but what is suffocating is that my Daliao has suffered a famine, the land is barren, there is a shortage of food, even the people can't eat enough, and it is really difficult to supply the front-line generals. ”

Zhao Xing chatted casually: "Isn't it true that the Liao people treat me as a Great Song?" Why did the Jin people treat the Liao people so much, and the Liao people felt that they had no morality and were a swarm of locusts? …… Hehe, I have a bit of a surplus of food on Guangnan East Road, and the price of grain has been as cheap as grass in recent years, which is also a headache. ”

Wang Shiru was attracted by Zhao Xing's later words, and sighed and said: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read!" ”

Zhao Xing asked again: "Song Liao mutual market, what is the situation?" ”

Wang Shiru shook his head: "What my Liao country lacks most now is grain, but the Song Kingdom is unwilling to sell grain to us, and what is exchanged in the market is tea, silk, and porcelain, but my people can't eat enough, how can they afford to buy those gorgeous silks?" Recently, however, merchants in Mizhou of the Song Kingdom began to buy wool, and these past wastes can also be exchanged for some food, so that the herdsmen can live a little better. ”

"It's the same", Zhao Xing smiled meaningfully: "My Great Song Dynasty restricts the sale of grain, and don't you Da Liao also restrict the sale of war horses, it's all the same." ”

Wang Shiru has been teased by Zhao Xing's thinking to the side, he is not like a negotiator, but like a worried old peasant, said sadly: "I heard that recently the Linhai Navy opened a maritime market, and there are many herdsmen on my Nanjing Road who go to the Linhai Navy to trade, wool This thing, in the past, the herdsmen were burned as waste, but I didn't expect His Majesty Song to be benevolent...... I heard that the sea market has a lot of goods, hmph, the money is earned by the group of thieves in the navy. Zhao Xing smiled slightly: "Lord Wang doesn't know, this maritime mutual market is still managed by me in Mizhou, originally to trade war horses with the Jurchens, but I didn't expect that the Lin Navy was also willing to make a business, and as a result, the military and civilian transactions between the two sides are getting bigger and bigger." Hehe, the Liao people are a treasure when they are war horses, but the female straight people are willing to open up and exchange food with my Great Song Dynasty......

I heard that this maritime mutual market is becoming more and more prosperous. When I entered the mouth of the Yellow River, I went to the sea market to take a look, it was really prosperous, treasure swords, war horses, silk, tea, porcelain, wool, pearls, bows and arrows. There is no missing cargo......"

Wang Shiru and Zhao Xing talked about the mutual market on the sea without any scruples, but in fact, this mutual market was illegal for both Song and Liao, and the modern version called it "smuggling". For the Liao people, they bought food and some luxury goods through sea smuggling, while the Song State bought the war horses of the Liao people through this sea market.

As a result of this maritime exchange of scarce materials that are most needed by both sides, as a result. This smuggling behavior was tacitly tolerated and connived at by the local leaders of both Song and Liao. Wang Shiru only envied the navy here to get a way to make a fortune, but he did not blame the navy, and Jiang Zhiqi, as an imperial historian, of course also knew that the mutual market on the sea was a taboo topic in the imperial court, and the imperial historians had been hinted at and were not allowed to ask about this matter. So Zhao Xing talked about the sea market in front of him, Jiang Zhiqi pretended not to hear, and he boredomically observed the ministers involved in the negotiation one by one.

On the Liao side, he came overnight and was bloated. He was served by several sturdy maidservants, constantly stuffing food into their mouths. In this negotiation, the Guangdong side is responsible for the task of hospitality. Shuai Fan brought some Cantonese fruits, pastries, and even some tropical fruits from the ship, and set the negotiation table with a dazzling array of dishes. At present, his nominal negotiator is also boring with a knife to peel a bright red apple, while He Lu Sangu, a Khitan nobleman, behaves like a tyrant, he rarely sees so much southern food, and it seems that he has never seen the scene of "snow outside, and fruit on the table", after chewing a few preserved fruits. He chose the battle targets of Cantonese bacon, wind chicken, roast fish, roasted eel, ...... as he gobbled it up, and Yi Yi whined with his nose while gobbling it up, and he didn't know if he was complimenting or simply panting.

At the negotiation table, Wang Shiru heard Zhao Xing's introduction, his eyes flashed, and he recounted in a deep voice: "Your grain in Guangdong is as cheap as grass - the maritime mutual market near the navy is controlled by adults, right?" ”

Zhao Xing avoided answering, and said slowly: "After the alliance of Song Liaoyuan." About brothers. Liao is the elder brother and Song is the younger brother. Now that the female straight is at war with the eldest brother, the younger brother is also very worried. It's just that business is business, and the female straight people are willing to sell war horses to us, but the Liao people are not allowed, if Nanjing Road opens the horse ban, then everything will be easy to talk about...... Talk, by the way, we are negotiating, let's get down to business first: how does Nanjing Dao plan to compensate us? ”

Wang Shiru's thoughts were led in circles by Zhao Xing. He couldn't help but say, "Talk." What to talk about? Lord Zhao said that everything is easy to talk about, is it really everything? ”

Zhao Xing's expression was as cute as a shaking carrot to tease a stupid donkey. He replied with a grin: "Of course! One

Wang Shiru replied: "Open the horse ban - I can't be the master of Nanjing Dao, at least not openly." ”

Shuai Fan interjected, parroting and saying: "Open the grain ban - I can't be the master of Guangnan East Road, at least not openly." ”

Zhao Xing then talked about the issue of compensation: "I don't insist anymore, it was a group of Khitan horses that attacked me, I no longer ask you to hand over the accident, but I ask the Liao side to at least make an apology gesture, in addition, the Liao side must promise to punish the accident, and promise not to have such an attack in the future." ”

Wang Shiru was attracted by Shuai Fan's left words, Zhao Xing's right words didn't know who to answer, he glanced at He Lu Saogu as if asking for help, but He Lu Sagu didn't seem to hear the conversation here, he was chewing a dried fig, and hummed in his mouth: "Sweet, sweet is tired, but it's delicious." ”

Wang Shiru turned his gaze to Han Zirang again, Han Zirang held his eyes, his face was abnormally flushed, he opened his mouth, coughed, He Lu Sangu glanced at him, and did not speak.

Wang Shiru decided to ignore the words of Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan, and went the negotiation according to his own line of thought, he said with a straight face: "The Song army went deep into the Liao border this time, violating the alliance of the Yuanyuan, I demand that the Song army immediately return to the south bank, and ask the Song State to explain this, and severely punish the ...... who provoke the border privately."

Shuai Fan interjected coldly: "You forgot who is the winner!" I only got two armies on the Guangnan East Road, but now, we still have the strength to fight, do we still have this strength on the Nanjing Road? ”

Wang Shiru coughed, He Lu Sugu still chewed heavily, and in desperation, Wang Shiru had no choice but to remind: "Da Tiyin, what do you mean?" ”

Zhao Xing turned his gaze to He Lu Suogu, a thought flashed in his mind, and he suddenly asked, "Lord He Lu." The Khitans who attacked me are your sons and nephews, right? ”

Shuai Fan glanced at Zhao Xing in shock, and immediately thought about it - the Wuqing County Order said that the land near the river was He Lusao Ancient Land Ranch, and it was not by chance that this Great Tiyin appeared in Xijin Mansion, he came too quickly. The only reasonable answer is that He Lu Sagu was the mastermind behind the robbery, so he was called by Wang Shiru. I am willing to be the testimony of this negotiation.

Shuai Fan figured it out, he glanced at Han Zirang, and immediately added: "Lord Helu, some of my soldiers have been killed, and their corpses are still asked to be returned by the adults, and in addition, I hope that the adults can return the weapons they have with them." ”

After a pause, Shuai Fan stared at Han Zirang and said word by word: "I'm afraid that Han Zi made the adults hurt me and it was not from our hands." I don't remember hitting a general or something. ”

Han Zirang couldn't support it anymore, he rolled his eyes and fainted at the negotiation table......

Han Zirang's guards hurriedly carried him down. He Lu snorted disdainfully, waved his hand at Zhao Xing, and said, "This Lord Zhao is a great official of the Song Kingdom, I see that you are tall and must be a brave person." The sons and daughters go out to hunt in the winter and do a little game, so why bother to make a big fuss, it is better for us to use the means of the grassland people to solve this dispute. What do adults think? ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "As far as I know, there is a 108,000-mile difference between the tradition of the grassland people and justice, I am here to seek justice, not to find unjust abuse, your tricks can't be eaten in front of me." ”

He Lu Sagu smacked his oily hand and muttered vaguely: "Don't you want to get back the corpse of the warrior, very good, my tribe also has a hundred and ten people in your hands, we will bet on them." Take a gamble, you win, I will return the corpses and weapons of the warriors, and if you lose, put my men back...... By the way, your war horses are good, and I ask you to pay ten more war horses. ”

In this era: there are three can'ts in the world: first, you can't talk about gambling with the Song people, second, you can't talk about credit with the Tangut people, and third, you can't talk about money with the Khitans. Because these three are the most unsightly of the three parties. Zhao Xing was dismissive of He Lu Sagu's proposal. Shuai Fan can't bear to gamble. Asked with great interest: "How to bet?" ”

He Lu Saogu licked the food residue from his hands and replied with two words: "Jiaoyu!" ”

Zhao Xing forgot to say. There is a fourth can't in this world, you can't talk about sumo with the Song people.

"Jiaodu" is a kind of grassland game, that is, the Song people often say "sumo". Hearing that He Lu Saogu actually wanted to use this way to resolve the fight, Shuai Fan laughed wildly, Zhao Xing sneered, and Jiang Zhiqi smiled slightly.

"Call Yuan Ye Ping", Zhao Xing patted the table and said to He Lu Sagu: "Don't say that I bullied you, talk about Jiao Yu in front of the Song people, we have a thousand more years of history than you!" ”

Shuai Fan Le slapped the table, couldn't straighten up with a smile, and said breathlessly: "My lord, tell Yuan Yeping that his subordinates have some mercy, and it's just a matter of crippling them one by one, don't kill people." ”

Zhao Xing is a powerful person, he took Shuai Fan's words as an instigation, and ordered with a smile: "Let the black Tyson also go, I want them to see what the real overlord power is." ”

Tyson, a black man, Jiang Zhiqi, has also seen it, this black attendant lives like Zhao Xing's eyes, wherever he goes, Jiang Zhiqi often sees this black tower in the camp, but because Tyson does not understand the language, he generally does not like to show his face, so he is often ignored.

Present, not only Jiang Zhiqi had seen Tyson, but the two officials of Wuqing County had also seen the black iron tower that often followed Zhao Xing with his arms in his arms, and they secretly shook their heads and glanced at He Lu Sangu with pity.

He Lu Sagu showed a clue from everyone's gaze at him, and he decided to use his big killing weapon as well, and shouted in a straight voice: "Call Polu to play, hurry up." ”

Zhao Xing smiled and said, "Lord He Lu, there is one more thing I want to remind: the bet you asked for is not fair!" My horses are very expensive and you can't afford them, so you ask me to add ten horses and you can't afford to pay the same bet? However, given that this fight itself is unfair, I won't bully you, you can not add bets, but I need you to show the bets that you should pay, and you can do that! ”

He Lu Sogu nodded: "After three days, the sons and daughters also need a little preparation time. ”

Zhao Xing replied: "Three days later, I will wait for you to be abused!" ”