Chapter 253: Li Gang's suspicions
After receiving this letter of state, which was obviously a request for peace, Yan Zonghan immediately gave a reply, agreeing to the peace talks, and demanding that during the peace talks, the two sides should not take any military action against the other side.
Sun Hui knew that this one was obviously aimed at him, with the current strength of the Song army, he could not take any large-scale attack on the Jin army, at most there would be a sneak attack or something, and what really posed a threat was the "divine fire" that could burn tens of thousands of people.
For the Jin people's request, Zhao Huan completely agreed, so the Jin people sent a delegation headed by Xiao Zhonggong to come to Tokyo to negotiate, although Zhao Huan took strict confidentiality measures for this peace talks, and the Tokyo military and civilians did not even know that the Jin delegation had arrived in Tokyo, but Sun Hui still learned about the content of the negotiations from Sun Fu.
The Jin envoy was still bluffing at first, demanding 10 million ingots of gold, 20 million ingots of silver, 20 million horses of silk, and 1,000 maidens, and ceding three towns to the Jin State, and the two countries were bounded by the Yellow River. The Jin envoy claimed that the Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai had led an army of 100,000 royal drivers to conquer in person, and wanted to destroy the Song State in one fell swoop, and the eldest prince Wanyan Zonghan was merciful and wanted to reach a peace agreement before the arrival of the Jin Emperor's army, so as to allow peace, and the Jin envoy also said that the defeat of Kaifeng City and the burning of the camp were "small setbacks", and the Jin army "did not suffer a big loss", if the peace talks failed, the Jin army would soon attack Kaifeng again, and would slaughter the city. In the face of the false intimidation of the Jin people, although the prime minister He Li was timid, but because the Great Song Dynasty was now protected by "immortals", he was full of confidence, and he refused the Jin people's request with a strong voice, saying that if this is the case, there is no need to talk about it, because the conditions of the Jin people cannot be met by the Song Dynasty, and the "children of the golden silk" and the cession of land are not considered. Seeing that he was angry, the Jin envoy immediately relented, saying that he was willing to listen to the conditions of the Song Dynasty, and He Li set out the conditions of the Song side, that is, the Jin army withdrew from the three towns in the north and returned the Su King Zhao Shu as a hostage.
Although the conditions offered by the Song side were based on realistic considerations, they were actually very humiliating and very beneficial to the Jin State, but the Jin people did not agree immediately, but said that they would ask the eldest prince to decide, so on the same day, the Jin State delegation left Tokyo and returned north with the Song Fang's peace documents.
As soon as the Jin State Mission left Tokyo, Li Gang and Zong Ze's Qin Wang Army arrived, and they entered the city and stationed themselves on the same day, and joined forces with Uncle Zhang's night office to defend the city. When Li Gang entered the city, he was warmly welcomed by the people of Tokyo City, and the emperor Zhao Huan received Li Gang and Zong Ze in the Funing Palace, and after some encouragement, Li Gang was appointed as a scholar of the Imperial Palace, leading the affairs of Kaifeng, and Zong Ze was the defense envoy of the four walls of the capital.
Li Gang heard about Sun Hui's deeds on the way back to Beijing, and was always suspicious, and soon his men caught the fugitive Guo Jing, Yang Shi and Liu Wuji and other tricksters while patrolling, Li Gang learned that Guo Jing and others escaped from the capital, so he asked them about the battle situation in the capital, Guo Jing and others took the opportunity to slander Sun Hui as a demon, claiming that the capital had fallen into the hands of the Jin people, and persuaded Li Gang to withdraw from the army. Li Gang was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately ordered the whole army to advance quickly, wanting to take advantage of the Jin army's unstable foothold to recapture the capital, but Zong Ze found that Guo Jing's words were flickering, and said that the key places were not true, and comforted Li Gang not to be impatient, he first set up a large camp in a dangerous place to prevent the Jin army from attacking, and then sent a small team of elite cavalry to Tokyo to investigate, and the result was reported a few days later, the Jin army had withdrawn, and the capital had not fallen, Li Gang knew that he had been deceived by Guo Jing and others, and was furious, and ordered Guo Jing, Yang Shi, and Liu Wuji to be beheaded for public display. Then the camp set out and headed for Tokyo.
After entering the city, Li Gang and Zong Ze inquired about the situation from Zhang Shuye, Zhang Shuye said that Sun Hui broke the enemy with "Samadhi True Fire" was indeed the truth, forcing the Jin army to retreat 20 miles, Sun Hui then went to the Jin army camp to investigate, during which the Jin camp was burned, the Jin army camp was burned, and the dead were not counted, so the Jin army retreated, crossed the Yellow River and fled to Taiyuan.
After listening to Zhang Shuye's narration, Li Gang was still skeptical, and he said to Zhang Shuye, even if Sun Hui was really an immortal who came down from heaven to bless the Great Song Dynasty, and it was true that he broke the enemy with divine fire, it was not worth rejoicing, "Since ancient times, I have never heard of anyone who rejuvenates the country with this", and pointed out that during the Huizong period, the whole country worshiped Taoism, and the harm brought by Taoist rampant to the country, Zhang Shuye thought it was true and worshipped, but after all, he had seen Sun Hui fight with his own eyes, and he still tried his best to argue for Sun Hui, saying that Sun Hui was different from those Taoist priests favored by the "Daojun Emperor". suggested that Li Gang go to meet Sun Hui, and it is said that Li Gang had agreed.
For the famous Li Gang in history, Sun Hui still knows a lot of information from the history books, and he also understands his doubts.
Li Gangzi Boji, born in 1083 A.D., is a native of Shaowu, Fujian. In 1112 A.D., he was admitted to the Jinshi, and after working for five years, he became the superintendent of the imperial history and the imperial history of the palace of power. This official was already very small at that time, because he was able to stand on the Golden Palace and find fault with the country.
Since then, Li Gang's life has begun to take the elevator.
Li Gang is a person with a strong temperament, evil as hatred, and there are too many things that he is not used to, and at that time, the "six thieves" were in power, except for the things that they couldn't see, there was nothing else at all. So Li Gang chose to declare war on the evil forces, but the result was that he was sent down by the evil forces and became an idle petty official-Julang.
Li Gang, who was hit hard, did not sink, and he also had something to say as a living man. In 1119 A.D., when there was a big flood in the capital, he took the opportunity to write that it was because there were too many sinister villains in the capital, and drew the attention of the relevant authorities.
The relevant authorities took note that he was kicked out of the capital and sent to Shaxian County in Nanjian Prefecture to take charge of taxes.
In just seven years, he was promoted from a candidate to a major cadre of the State Commission for Discipline Inspection, and then rapidly declined, to a remote area to be responsible for the gross level of taxation, this gap is much larger than that of the elevator Wang Kouzhun that year. But he didn't care at all, and lived in the county smoothly and calmly.
Six years later, fate recalled him back to Kaifeng. The elevator went up again, bringing him to Tai Changqing's position. This is still an idle official, responsible for the country's ceremonial music and suburban temple affairs, to put it bluntly, it is a scene work, adding luster to the country's large-scale outdoor performances.
It was August 1125, about 100 days before the Jin army invaded the Song Dynasty.
A hundred days later, the Jin army approached, the whole country panicked, the crown covered the capital, all of them became shrinking turtles, and none of them could come up with the least countermeasures. The superstructure of the entire Han nation can be said to be rotten as a whole.