In early September, in the thousand-step corridor of Yanfu Palace in the capital, the prime minister Wang Huang and Gao Yu walked quickly to the deep palace under the guidance of a eunuch.

"Gao Taiwei didn't know, we were aiming at Pingzhou from the beginning, and had negotiated with Jin Guo three times before this, hoping that Jin Guo could return Pingzhou to us in accordance with the agreement between the two sides, but Jin Guo always refused to agree, it is rare that this Pingzhou change will return Pingzhou to us, and the attitude of the official family is to make appropriate concessions, give full Jin Guo face, and we will take benefits."

The negotiations between the Jin State and the Song Dynasty have been going on for two days, and the two negotiators of the Song Dynasty are Wang Hao and Gao Yu, but in the negotiation position, Wang Hao and Gao Yu have different views, Wang Hao advocates concessions, and Gao Yu, as a military representative, advocates toughness, the two do not agree with each other, and at the last moment of the negotiations, they can only report to the Son of Heaven and make a decision by the Son of Heaven.

Gao Yu received a letter from Li Yanqing before, in which Li Yanqing pointed out that the Jin State was not ready for war, and the so-called attack on the Song Dynasty was just a bluff.

Gao Yu basically agrees with Li Yanqing's attitude, he is a military boss, of course he is unwilling to hand over Zhang Jue, who has descended to the Song Dynasty, to Jin Guo for disposal, which is a shame anyway, but Gao Yu's position is not firm, to a large extent, his position will change with the attitude of the Son of Heaven.

After all, Gao Yu is only a politician, not a politician, his personal interests are far higher than the interests of the country, before not endangering his personal interests, it is not impossible to consider the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, if his personal interests are affected because of angering the Son of Heaven, he will not hesitate to change his position, Li Yanqing is useless to write a hundred letters to him.

The two came to the Lotus Heart Pavilion, the summer resort in the palace, and waited at the door for a while, and the eunuch came out and said: "The two prime ministers, please come in, the official family is already waiting in the room!" ”

The two walked into the Lotus Heart Pavilion, a cool breath hit the face, although it has now passed the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the summer heat is still relatively hot, but the summer summer is already the end of the strong crossbow, Zhao Ji stayed in the Lotus Heart Pavilion for a summer, and in the next few days he will move back to the autumn permanent residence of the Heart Palace.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" The two bowed.

Zhao Ji was dressed very simply, wearing a loose light yellow dark coat, wearing a hood, he was savoring a bowl of extremely stewed white fungus lotus seed soup, the two Xiangguo saw the ceremony, he put down the bowl and smiled: "No need to be polite, sit down!" ”

The two eunuchs moved chairs, the two sat down, and Zhao Ji asked with a smile, "How is the negotiation?" ”

Wang Hao bowed and said: "It's almost over, Pingzhou uses the method of redemption, we buy back Pingzhou with 100,000 taels of silver, and the two sides unanimously agree to avoid the rebellion." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, "This plan is okay, I agree, so what are the other difficulties?" ”

Wang Hao hesitated and said: "The other party said that many former Liao generals in the Jin Kingdom, if Zhang Jue defects unpunished, the impact on the Jin State will be very serious, and the Jin State insists on handing over Zhang Jue to them, if you don't give ......"

"How?" Zhao Ji asked coldly.

Wang Hao glanced at Gao Yu, Gao Yu closed his lips tightly, and did not say a word, Wang Hao cursed secretly in his heart, and had no choice but to continue: "The Jin State thinks that my Song Dynasty has betrayed the maritime covenant by containing Zhang Jue, if the Great Song Dynasty insists on tearing up the covenant, they will send 200,000 troops to attack the Song Dynasty, and the war is about to break out, it depends on whether the Song Dynasty has the sincerity to avoid the war." ”

Zhao Ji didn't say a word for a while, if the Jin State attacked the Song Dynasty on a large scale, wouldn't it mean that his original national policy of uniting Jin to destroy Liao was extremely stupid and wrong, and he couldn't afford this responsibility.

"What does Captain Gao think?" Zhao Ji glanced at Gao Yu and asked.

Gao Yu said cautiously: "I'm afraid that handing over Zhang Jue to Jin Guo will disappoint the soldiers and civilians of Yanshan Mansion." ”

"Captain Gao is too worried!"

Wang Hao said with a smile on the side: "The Liao State has been destroyed for a year, and the soldiers and civilians of Yanshan Mansion have long been accustomed to the identity of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Guo Tongzhi's report has fully illustrated this point, a Zhang Jue can't make big waves, besides, the other party has also expressed his position, if the Song Dynasty can meet the face of the Jin State, the Pingzhou plan can be appropriately expanded." ”

Zhao Ji raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean by this?" ”

The Pingzhou plan is to redeem the city with money, and if it is properly expanded, it can sell other places to the Song Dynasty, how could Zhao Ji not hear such an obvious hint.

Wang Hao nodded, "The other party means Juyongguan. ”

"Does it also include Juyongguan?"

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, Juyong Pass is the north gate of Yanshan Mansion, and it is firmly controlled by Jin Guo, which has become a piece of Zhao Ji's heart, if Jin Guo is willing to return Juyong Pass to the Song Dynasty, even if he spends a little more money, he is willing.

Gao Yu next to him said in a low voice: "The Jin Kingdom has lost Pingzhou, I'm afraid Juyongguan won't let it out easily!" ”

Wang Hao pouted disdainfully, this Gao Yu really couldn't figure it out, the official family was already concerned to this extent, and he actually had to pour cold water, isn't that boring?

Sure enough, when Zhao Ji glared at Gao Yu sharply, Gao Yu completely shut up, anyway, Wang Huang went to operate this matter, what does it have to do with him?

Zhao Ji groaned and said: "One hundred thousand taels of silver to ransom Pingzhou, I agree, if Jin Guo is willing to give up Juyong Pass, I will not only give generous conditions, Zhang Jue will also hand over to Jin Guo." ”

Zhao Ji finally set the tone, and after another day of negotiations between the Song and Jin sides, they finally reached an agreement, and the Song Dynasty agreed to hand over Zhang Jue to the Jin State, and in return, the Jin State agreed to sell Pingzhou and Juyong Pass to the Song Dynasty for 200,000 taels of silver, and the two sides completed the transaction under Juyong Pass.

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On the north gate of Yanjing City, more than 300 heavily armed soldiers with spears in their hands looked at the thousands of people under the city, as soon as the day dawned, there were countless people of Yanjing City spontaneously organized, rushed to the north city gate, surrounded the city gate, in addition to the north city, the other four city gates were also surrounded by tens of thousands of Yanjing people, they were passionate, chanting slogans.

I don't know who leaked all the compromise plans between the imperial court and the Jin State, and handed over Zhang Jue, who was dedicated to Pingzhou to the Song Dynasty, to the Jin people, which immediately angered hundreds of thousands of people in Yanshan Mansion, Zhang Jue was already quite prestigious in Yanshan Mansion, and the weakness of the imperial court and the discrimination against the people in the hometown of Liao State caused the people of Yanshan Mansion to suffer great humiliation.

Today is the day of handing over Zhang Jue, and tens of thousands of people in Yanjing City can no longer bear it, and they rush to the city gate to protest and rob people.

At this time, someone shouted, "Here it is!" ”

I saw two teams of cavalry escorting a prisoner cart slowly towards the city gate, and in the prisoner cart sat a middle-aged man in white prison clothes, his eyes were indifferent, it was Zhang Jue, the governor of Pingzhou in Jin State, who surrendered and brought Pingzhou to the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Jue never dreamed that he would be betrayed by the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty still believed that the Jin people would sell Juyongguan to them, there is such a stupid court in the world, he can only say that his eyes are blind, he Zhang Jue is not destroyed in the hands of the Song Dynasty, but in his own stupid hands, mourning is greater than heart death, Zhang Jue also admitted.

When Zhang Jue's prisoner car approached the city gate, tens of thousands of people boiled, shouted, and formed a wall to block the city gate, countless people surrounded hundreds of cavalry and prisoner cars, followed by Guo Yaoshi, who was escorting 200,000 taels of silver in the distance, was furious, and shouted: "Quickly transfer 3,000 troops, and give me a stick to disperse the Diao people!" ”

In a short time, 3,000 soldiers of the victorious army rushed to the north of the city with murderous vigour, each holding a big wooden stick in their hands, and they rushed forward and picked up the wooden stick and struck the heads and faces of the ten thousand people, and the city gate was suddenly in chaos, and the people fled in all directions, and the cry shook the sky.

At this moment, the city gate slowly opened, and the procession escorted the prisoner cart and silver out of the city and headed for Juyong Pass, a hundred miles away.

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Juyong Pass is located in the northwest of Yanshan City more than 100 miles away, the pass situation is dangerous, the east is connected with Lulong, Jieshi, the west belongs to Taihang Mountain, Changshan, the danger of the world, since ancient times it is the place where soldiers must fight.

Juyong Pass has two passes in the north and south, the south is called Nankou, and the north is called Juyong Pass, but externally, the two passes are collectively called Juyong Pass.

At night, Ju Yong turned off the lights and turned on the brilliant, Wanyan Zonghan stood on the pass with his hands in his hands, and looked coldly at a gradually approaching Song army in the distance.

"What's the situation in Yanjing City?" Wanyan Zonghan turned his head and asked Liang Fangping next to him.

Liang Fangping hurriedly sneered: "Returning to the Great Shuai, our people have successfully provoked the anger of the people of Yanshan Mansion, and the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty have been lost!" ”

"This is a bit exaggerated, it is not enough to lose the people's hearts, it can only be said that they have lost points in the hearts of the people."

"Dashuai, the humble position is not an exaggeration, the Han people of Yanshan Mansion have been the people of Liao for a hundred years, although the Liao State is destroyed, but they still miss their homeland, and they hate the Song Dynasty that destroyed the Liao State in their hearts, the Zhang Jue incident greatly hurt their dignity, and the hatred they hid in their hearts was stimulated, this is not a day or two to calm down, it takes the efforts of several generations, but the Song Dynasty did not see this, and made an extremely stupid mistake, as long as our Jin State captured Yanshan Mansion and concentrated on sacrificing the fallen soldiers of the Liao State, we can win the hearts of the people of Yanshan Mansion, Make Yanshan Mansion a solid backing for the Jin State to go south to destroy the Song Dynasty. ”

Wanyan Zonghan nodded with satisfaction, although this Liang Fangping's character is not very good, but he is indeed very insightful, and ordinary Jurchen officials are far inferior, but this person is a good staff.

"You are right, the Song Dynasty is short-sighted, the monarchs and ministers are incompetent, and the court is rotten, this is a gift from God, if we don't take it, we will be condemned by God!"

"The handsome man is high-minded, but there are still a few powerful people in the Song Dynasty, which should not be underestimated!"

"Who?" Wanyan Zonghan glanced at him.

"For example, the Dao of the Planter, and then for example, Li Yanqing, the Tongzhi of Jingzhao Mansion."

"The Planter Dao is almost in the ground! Don't worry, as for Li Yanqing, if I'm not mistaken, he should be your enemy! ”

"Yes, the lowly brother died at his hand." Liang Fangping gritted his teeth.

"He does have some ability, he can sneak attack Yanjing successfully, it can also be said that the old wolf master is bad in his hands, but the Great Song Dynasty is like a decaying building, it will collapse with one blow, it is difficult for him to save the overall situation alone, don't say that he has one Li Yanqing, ten Li Yanqing is not a worry."

"The handsome man is high-minded, the trend of the times is not something that Li Yanqing can stop!"

Wanyan Zonghan nodded, "After destroying the Song Dynasty, I will hand over Li Yanqing to you to deal with." ”

Liang Fangping was overjoyed, "Thank you, Dashuai!" ”

At this time, the silver cart and prisoner cart escorted by the Song army had been slowly sent to the pass, and the Song general led by him shouted: "Song general Zhao Rong has been ordered to come and deliver the prisoners and the silver cart!" ”

At this time, the gate opened, a group of Jurchen cavalry rushed out, the Song army put down the silver cart and the prisoner cart, and retreated, according to the prior agreement, after receiving 200,000 taels of silver and the prisoner Zhang Jue, the Jin State would withdraw within an hour and let out of Juyong Pass.

The Jurchens began to count the silver, five thousand taels of silver for a car, a total of forty cars, after the counting, the Jin soldiers shouted a few times, the gate opened again, and the Jurchen cavalry escorted the silver car and the prisoner car to the pass, at this time, Zhang Jue suddenly laughed and said: "Stupid Song Dynasty! Do you really think that the Jin Congress will hand over Juyong Pass to you? ”

The general of the Song army who was in charge of the delivery was stunned, and at this time, the gate was slammed shut, and tens of thousands of golden soldiers appeared on the city, swords and swords, aiming at the Song army under the city, Wanyan Zonghan coldly ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

Thousands of arrows were fired at the head of the city, hundreds of Song soldiers could not dodge and fell to the ground one after another, all of them were shot under Juyong Pass, and in the distance, Lu Yihao, the imperial envoy who came to deliver Juyong Pass, was suddenly stunned.