Chapter 373: Who's Going to Envoy?
This trip to the Song camp must be a humiliating errand, only from the Song army back the envoy conditions, has already made many people indignant, would rather die in battle than resolutely oppose peace with the Song army, not to mention the life and death of a lone camp is unpredictable.
Kublai Khan pondered the issue of candidates again and again, and originally intended to send a Mongolian tribal elder to envoy, who could represent Kublai Khan in terms of status and work experience, but after probing in private, he was so frightened that he almost let the tribal elder commit suicide with a knife.
Would rather die than send an envoy to the Song camp, this is the attitude of some Mongolian officials and tribal elders, Kublai Khan was stumped, and several Han officials sent out one is not enough in rank, and he is not at ease, don't make a lot of terms that are difficult for him to accept.
For a whole day, even the candidate for the envoy to the Song camp was not decided, and the angry Kublai Khan's eyes were full of fire, so he couldn't let him be the envoy himself.
really couldn't find a suitable candidate, Kublai Khan gritted his teeth and called Guo Shoujing.
"Master Guo, what are you hiding in the corner, are you willing to share my worries and send Song Ying to negotiate peace on my behalf?"
"The minister is here, obey the holy order, Guo Shoujing is willing to send an envoy to Song Ying to negotiate peace."
Guo Shoujing was tired and reluctantly stood up from the courtiers, kowtowed in front of Kublai Khan to receive thanksgiving, and looked like a prisoner who had been driven to the execution ground and stabbed, and returned to his house to arrange the funeral with his head down.
Other high-ranking Mongolian officials and elders, as well as several Han officials and ministers, were all elated and secretly proclaimed in their hearts, you encouraged the Great Khan to send people out of the city to negotiate peace with the Song army, so the conditions proposed by the Song Dynasty were so harsh, can you come back alive? Everyone is not going, the Great Khan tells you to go, if you dare not go, I will behead you first, it is your ghost idea, and you should suffer a crime.
Dozens of people up and down in Guo's mansion, watching his master take off his crown belt, take off his leather boots and stand barefoot on the cold ground, wearing only a thin coat, his body shivering in the cold wind, but he still walked towards the city gate with steps, all gathered around and trembled to comfort him.
"Master, you're coming back, master!"
"Uncle Guo, it hurts, put on a pair of thick socks!"
"Master, put on a fur collar and don't freeze!"
Guo Shoujing smiled and waved his hand in refusal, gritted his teeth and walked all the way up to the city wall, and under the gaze of the archers on the Song army's earth city, he sat on a hanging basket and was put down from the city. The water of the moat is turbulent, although the Song army has invested a lot of sand, stone and bricks, but most of them have been washed downstream, the water of the moat is only shallow, and the flow has not been broken, and it is still not something that Guo Shoujing can walk through.
A small team rushed over from the camp of the Song army, and under the angry gaze of many Yuan troops, they carried a long bamboo ladder over, not caring at all about the murderous aura on the head of the city, as well as the bright swords, guns, bows and arrows.
"Come on, come over barefoot, fall down and drown you in vain, the city has to send someone to come again, so you should be careful!"
Guo Shoujing, a dignified genius of the first generation, when has he ever heard such words, that is, Kublai Khan turned his face in a hurry above the court, and he never despised or insulted Guo Shoujing, not to mention other officials, who could only eat farts from behind him.
But the two big-headed soldiers of the Song army, the words are so rushing, you really have to listen obediently, there is a little bit of detail, before the Song camp goes to negotiate peace, your Guo Shoujing's life will be lost on the road.
"Okay, okay, Brother Bing, you are steady, don't shake me so that I can't fall."
Guo Shoujing's whole body is cold, it is now the time of the handover of late East and early spring, the season when the ice and snow are not civilized, barefoot and wearing a thin coat, can say words without stammering, Guo Shoujing's concentration is already super good.
The bamboo pole of the long bamboo ladder is very strong, slender and tough, and it is erected on the moat that is more than one zhang wide on the water surface, and it begins to tremble and shake when one foot is stepped on, so that Guo Shoujing does not dare to be distracted to look at the water surface, and he insists on concentrating on the bamboo pole under his feet.
In this cold and windy weather, when Guo Shoujing walked from this end to the other side and stepped on the ground, fine beads of sweat appeared on his nose and forehead, and his whole body began to tremble, and he followed the Song soldiers and fell backwards with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Guo Shoujing couldn't keep up for a while, if it weren't for the two people from this team driving him, it is estimated that he would not be able to walk in front of Zhao Tianyou's camp, and he would have to die on this cold and biting road.
Eighteen thick standing crutches supported the large Chinese army treasure tent, and several red charcoal braziers exuded a strong warmth, and were helped into it by the soldiers of the Song Army, and a warmth immediately made Guo Shoujing tremble, and he was indescribably comfortable.
"Who is coming, and you haven't come forward to report your name to my general, so what's the matter?"
Don't look at Guo Shoujing who just came back to his senses, he was not trembling after getting rid of the cold, but his posture was still very regular, he stomped forward, bowed his head slightly, hugged his hands and said in a low voice: "The general of the Song Dynasty, under Guo Shoujing, as an envoy appointed by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, is here to discuss the armistice and peace with your army!" ”
"Haha, haha, don't you know that he sent you here to be humiliated? Armistice? Peace? Do you believe it yourself? At the beginning of the year, how many times did the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty send people to negotiate peace with you, cede the land and pay compensation to pay tribute to the jewelry and porcelain, and you agreed at the moment, but after receiving the things for only a month, you began to send troops to burn and loot on the border, do you know what a truce is? Do you know what a commitment is? ”
When Chen Longfu was a small school in the early days, he was stationed at the border in the war with the Jin State, and at that time, it was the Meng Song Dynasty who joined forces to destroy the Jin State. The Yuan Dynasty not only did not give the Song Dynasty the benefits it deserved, but also took advantage of the war to seize the territory that originally belonged to the Song Dynasty, which was simply a guy who specialized in pitting his teammates.
As soon as I heard that Kublai Khan sent someone to negotiate an armistice and peace, it was a big joke, when did their promise become kept, such a simple truth, no one in the Great Song camp was a fool, how could anyone believe you?
However, Guo Shoujing bowed his head and saluted Zhao Tianyou, who was sitting in the center, and Chen Longfu was only a general on the side, he knew that this person was here to beat him, and he had to destroy the envoy's frame and self-confidence first.
"Guo Shoujing, right, a famous powerful person in the world, as a Han bloodline, how can you be willing to work hard for Meng Yuan? Aren't you afraid that your ancestors and ancestors, the blood relatives of the Guo family will curse you for a lifetime? ”
After listening to this, Guo Shoujing raised his body, raised his head to look directly at Zhao Tianyou, who was sitting down, and said loudly: "This adult asked well, it just so happens that Guo also wants to justify a sentence or two, Guo has studied hard since he was a child, and has never thought about other things, because in Guo's eyes, astronomy and water conservancy have always had no national borders, and only the farmers and people have benefited, how can there be a distinction between Mongolia and Han." ”
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