Li Yanqing summoned Zheng Rongtai, the king of ships, the next morning, and asked him to borrow a caravan to send troops, and Zheng Rongtai immediately generously agreed, lending 400 sea-going ships to the Song army, plus the Song army's own 300 sea-going ships, a total of 700 sea-going ships of more than 3,000 stones, and more than 10,000 sailors alone.

At the same time, Gao Shen and Xiao Zhonggong held a second armistice negotiation, Gao Shen put forward the Song Dynasty's armistice conditions, that is, the release of all the exiled Song people, Xiao Zhonggong also put forward the corresponding conditions, that is, to ask the Song Dynasty to open up trade, the two sides agreed on a rough framework, and continued to discuss the details.

In the afternoon, under the chairmanship of Li Yanqing, the Zhizheng Hall convened a militaristic meeting to discuss the signing of an armistice agreement between Song and Jin, which was attended not only by five ministers, but also by the Privy Council and six high-ranking officials.

Gao Shen first recounted the results of the two negotiations with the envoy of the Jin State, and he said to the people: "We proposed that the Jin State release all the people of the Song Dynasty, whether they were taken captive or voluntarily went north, and they all asked to be sent back to the Great Song Dynasty, and the other party agreed to this, but they believed that the Han people of the Liao State did not belong to the Song people and should no longer be repatriated. ”

There was a lot of discussion in the council hall, and Fan Zhixu asked: "There is a problem here, so how can we check whether the other party has fully fulfilled the contract, many Song slaves are hidden in the tribe, we can't verify it at all, and the effect of this repatriation is debatable." ”

Gao Shen said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Regent also talked about this issue, first of all, this is not a long-term alliance treaty, but a one-year armistice agreement, and this armistice agreement itself is not important, so we don't have to take it too seriously whether Jin Bing fulfills the contract, the key is that we have to use this time to prepare for war, which is the point." ”

Li Yanqing said slowly on the side: "Let me add, the reason why the Jin State agreed very happily is actually another reason, after the Jin State captured the Central Plains, in order to make Hebei a logistics foundation for the Jin soldiers to go south, a large number of captured Song people have been released back, so that they can concentrate on growing grain and increase the army's food reserves, of course, there are still Song slaves in the Jin State, but there are really not many of them, more Han people in the Liao State, so I don't think we have to dwell too much on this matter." ”

Li Gang asked again: "Then what does Your Highness think about the conditions for liberalizing trade?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "This condition can be agreed, but we need to strictly control ourselves, pig iron, grain, nitrate, oil, armor raw materials and other strategic materials are strictly controlled, and they are never allowed to flow into the country, on the contrary, silk, porcelain, colored silk, rouge and other luxury things should be encouraged to be exported to the country, as long as we control it well, what about free trade?" ”

Everyone nodded, and at this time, the new secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhang Shuye, said: "But as far as I know, there are two sources of pig iron in Jinguo, one is Liaoyang Mansion, and the second is from Goryeo, especially Goryeo, directly sell pig iron to Jinguo, if these two sources do not stop, it is actually meaningless for us to implement the pig iron embargo." ”

Wang Kuan, the deputy privy envoy, also said: "The area around Liaoyang was the main battlefield of the Liaojin War, and the mines in Liaoyang were very seriously damaged, almost all the blast furnaces and mine mouths were destroyed, and many miners and smelters also died in the war, resulting in a sharp decline in the production of pig iron in Liaoyang, which recovered for nearly ten years, and the current output is only two percent of the peak. ”

"Why is the recovery so slow?" Fan Zhixu asked.

"The main reason is that Jin Guo can obtain a large amount of pig iron from Goryeo at a very low price to meet their war readiness needs, and the restoration of Liaoyang pig iron production not only requires a huge investment, but also the cost of mining and smelting is very large, which is very uneconomical, so Jin Guo is not enthusiastic about restoring Liaoyang pig iron production."

There was a lot of discussion in the lobby again, and Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Everyone, please be quiet!" ”

Everyone quieted down, Li Yanqing said: "Next I want to talk to you about the problem of Goryeo, there is currently a civil strife in Goryeo, the power of the ministers is in charge, the king of Goryeo hopes that the Song Dynasty will send troops to help Goryeo return to normal, I think this is a good opportunity, if we control Goryeo, not only cut off the important source of troops and materials of the Jin State, but also open the eastern passage to attack the Jin State in the future." ”

Everyone was in an uproar, Goryeo actually asked the Song Dynasty to send troops, Fan Zhixuan asked anxiously: "Your Highness, do you have any credentials to request troops?" ”

Li Yanqing took out the secret edict and circulated it to everyone, Fan Zhixu slapped the table and said: "With this secret edict, we are famous!" ”

Gao Shen also asked: "Since His Highness has decided to send troops, when is it more appropriate to send troops?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "Just now, Deputy Envoy Wang has announced the answer, in order to cut off the source of pig iron in the Jin Kingdom, I decided to send troops in early September. ”

Everyone was a little stunned, it was already late August, and the regent had decided to send troops in early September, and the slowest was only half a month, was it too late?

Gao Shen hurriedly said: "Your Highness, I'm afraid there are not enough ships in the sea." ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "I have summoned Zheng Rongtai, the king of ships, this morning, and he promised to lend all the sea ships in Mingzhou Port and Quanzhou Port to the imperial court, a total of four hundred and twenty ships, plus our own three hundred sea ships, a total of more than seven hundred, I think it is enough!" ”

Only then did everyone understand that the regent had already made all the preparations for this war, and was waiting for the decision of the prefect.

The prefect immediately unanimously approved the proposal to send troops to Goryeo, and at the same time passed the draft of the armistice agreement with the Jin State, and the arrow to attack Goryeo was wound and there was no turning back.

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On the eighth day of the ninth month, Li Yanqing appointed Zhang Shun, the commander of the capital, as the commander of the Eastern Expedition, including dozens of generals including the Ruan brothers, and led an army of 50,000 from Dengzhou to the sea and killed the not far Goryeo.

In fact, Li Yanqing had learned about the situation in Goryeo through various channels.

Goryeo originally had an army of more than 200,000, but twenty years ago, they sent an army of 100,000 to assist the Liao army, and fought fiercely with the rising Jurchens, as a result, the 100,000 army was almost wiped out, and Goryeo was forced to sue for peace with the Jurchens, and in turn sent troops to help the Jurchens attack the Liao State.

In particular, nearly 100,000 Goryeo troops successively joined the Jin soldiers to invade the Great Song Dynasty, but after countless tragic defeats, all the 100,000 Goryeo soldiers died in the Great Song Dynasty, and none of them returned, which brought a heavy blow to Goryeo, so that Goryeo and the Bohai Department had no troops to come out.

At this time, Goryeo's army was only more than 60,000 people, in the hands of Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing, and the annual conquest made Goryeo's national strength extremely weak, and it was the weakest time for Goryeo at this time, Li Yanqing also considered sending troops to Goryeo to open a channel to attack Jin from the eastern front.

At this time, Wang Kai, the emperor of Goryeo, asked the Song Dynasty for help and eliminated the ministers, so that Li Yanqing found an excellent excuse to send troops.

Since 600 years ago, the Sui Dynasty came to attack Goguryeo by sea, the Korean Peninsula has never been attacked by sea, for more than 100 years, the threat of the Goryeo Dynasty is from the north, so the Goryeo army is also mainly stationed on the north of the Yalu River, but the Goryeo capital city of Kaegyong is also garrisoned by more than 20,000 people, and there are only some local militia groups stationed in other places.

After just a few days of sailing, the Great Song Dynasty fleet arrived in Goryeo, this evening, more than 700 Great Song Dynasty ships appeared on the sea at the mouth of the Chengjiang River, from the Chengjiang River upstream, about 50 miles is the capital of Goryeo Kaijing, but the Song army fleet did not directly kill Kaijing, but patiently waited for the night to fall.

At this time, some fishermen on the sea had been controlled by the Song army, and the Song army fleet blocked the mouth of the Chengjiang River.

As night fell, the Song army began to land east of the estuary of the river, and until the first watch, all 50,000 troops landed and began to march towards Kaijing.

Kaijing is today's Kaesong, after Wang Jian founded Goryeo, he set this place as the capital, the circumference of Kaijing is more than 40 li, there are more than 200,000 people, and 20,000 garrisons.

The Song army arrived in Kaijing at the time of the two watches, some people outside the city were so frightened that they closed their homes, they did not know where this army came from, but they all knew that it must be a new coup d'état, last year's coup d'état is still fresh in many people's memory, the fire in the city burned for three days, the entire palace was burned to the ground, and I don't know how many people died that night.

Will the tragedy happen again tonight?

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