Chapter 596: Rumors in the Restaurant
Maybe it's the effect of alcohol, Wu Min was very cheerful tonight, without the slightest official's shelf, and soon became familiar with Li Daqi.
But Wu Min has always firmly grasped the unique proportions of court officials, what to say and what not to say, he did not miss a bit, and his voice was just right, not so mysterious and secretive, but the guests next to him could not hear what he was talking about?
"Ten days ago was the day when the imperial court stipulated that the northern attack should be launched, and Yanqing made a great contribution on the first day and accepted the surrender of Guo Yaoshi......."
"Who is this Pharmacist Guo?" Li Daqi couldn't help but interject in a low voice and asked.
"He is not an ordinary person, he is the highest general of the Han people in the Liao army, commanding eight thousand Han troops, his surrender is a heavy blow to the court and the army of the Liao State, so the Son of Heaven personally summoned him in the Yanchun Palace, made him an official and knighted, and gave him a beautiful house in Beijing."
Gu Qian, a scholar from the middle school next to him, added a smile: "This Guo Yaoshi is very good at talking, he said that although he is a Han Chinese, he is loyal to the Liao State, and he is dedicated to fighting for the Liao State, and he has no two hearts, but the high-level of the Liao State must kill him because of the Li Chuwen case, and he is desperate, so he surrenders to the Great Song Dynasty, and even the Son of Heaven is moved by him." ”
Li Daqi sighed softly, "If this person is either a great loyalty or a traitor, I hope Yanqing will not have too much to do with him!" ”
Gu Qian picked up his wine glass and smiled slightly, "Even if Yanqing wants to have something to do with him, he still can't look down on it!" ”
Li Daqi was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean by this?" ”
Wu Min next to him was also a little curious, he knew that Gu Qian was often by the side of the Son of Heaven, and he was also on the side when Guo Yaoshi was sealed, Wu Min also smiled and said, "Brother Gu might as well talk about it." ”
Gu Qian drank it all in the cup, and then said unhurriedly: "Pharmacist Guo hopes that he can lead the old department to attack and destroy the Liao State for the Great Song Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven readily agreed, and was ready to make him the deputy capital commander and follow the Dao of the Seed Master, but Pharmacist Guo said that he wanted to follow Tong Guan......."
Speaking of this, Gu Qian deliberately paused, he looked at Li Daqi's stunned expression and said lightly: "What kind of temple is for what kind of god, how can the land temple of the Planter Dao be able to support Guo Yaoshi, a dragon crossing the river?" So he finally went to follow Tong Guan and had no chance with the Seed Master."
Li Daqi nodded silently, he understood it, and he responded to the old saying, if you are not a family, if you don't enter a family, your son can stay away from people like Guo Yaoshi.
At this time, Tang Zhengzong, who had not spoken beside him, couldn't help but ask: "Is it true that there are rumors in the market that the Empress Dowager of Liao has decided to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty?" ”
Wu Min smiled and nodded, "This is true, this morning the imperial court and the envoy of the Liao State have reached an agreement to accept the surrender of the Liao State, and the official position of the Song Dynasty will be crowned as the nobles of the Liao State, and the Liao State will hand over the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun." ”
"What about Jinguo?" Li Daqi felt that it was a little inappropriate, Song Liao reached such an agreement, how could Jin Guo stay out of the matter?
"This should have nothing to do with the Jin Kingdom, it is very clear in the Song-Jin Alliance that the Song-Jin Dynasty is bounded by the Great Wall, so the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun should belong to the Great Song Dynasty."
Li Daqi himself is a businessman, and he is deeply influenced by his son, so he was a little dissatisfied with Wu Min's words, he shook his head lightly and said: "The Jin State spent money and food to attack Youzhou, but in the end it didn't get anything, how could it agree?" ”
Wu Min said with a smile: "This is not a house and land that can be reversed at any time, this is an agreement between the two countries, with the signatures of the monarchs of the two countries, how can it be easily abolished, rest assured!" The Jin State will not get nothing, at least they can get the old endowment of the former Liao State, I don't think it should be a big problem. ”
Li Daqi didn't say anything anymore, he was just a businessman, the affairs of the court had nothing to do with him, he only cared about the safety of his son, since Song Liao had reached an agreement, then his son should go home soon.
Thinking of this, Li Daqi's heart completely let go, he raised his glass and smiled: "I'm a treat today, come!" I would like to toast the two officials again. ”
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The negotiations between the Song and Liao countries lasted for seven days, and the two countries finally reached an agreement, the Song Dynasty promised to retain the nobles and officials of the Liao State, and to reward them with the Duke of the Great Song Dynasty, and agreed to continue to honor the Empress Dowager Xiao as the princess of Liao, and support her in the Song Palace, while the Khitans were placed in Hexi, and the Liao State must cancel the national title and return the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Great Song Dynasty.
This result made Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, very happy, although the agreement still needs to be signed by the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liaoguo before it officially takes effect, but Zhao Ji can't wait, he immediately issued an order to officially change the name of Liao's Xijin Mansion to Yanjing Mansion, and the capital of Liaoguo to Yanjing.
At the same time, Zhao Ji sent two golden characters to Yizhou and Zhuozhou to inform Tong Guan and Zhuangshi Dao to take over Yanjing Mansion.
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Early in the morning, on the official road south of Yizhou, three cavalry riding two horses are galloping, today's autumn came very early, a gust of wind swept up the dead leaves all over the ground, like yellow butterflies in the air, the three cavalry did not stop at all, through the flying dead leaves, continue to gallop north.
An hour later, the three cavalrymen finally arrived at the Song army's West Road camp outside Yizhou.
There are a total of 120,000 horses in the West Road Army of the Song Army in the Yizhou camp, which is Tong Guan's combat style, concentrating all the troops on the whole line, although there are only a few box soldiers left on the front line of Baozhou and Zhendingfu, but Tong Guan does not care.
Tong Guan received an urgent order from the Son of Heaven six days ago, ordering him not to attack Yanjing Mansion for the time being, and to wait for the results of the negotiations between Song and Liao before acting.
Although Tong Guan was impatient and led the army to attack Yanjing Mansion with one heart, Tong Guan was a high-ranking official of the imperial court after all, and he did not dare to easily disobey the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, otherwise even if he captured Yanjing, he would have had no success.
In the past few days, Tong Guan has been anxious, waiting for the results of Song Liao's negotiations, although the Seed Master Dao seized the opportunity with Li Yanqing's raid on Zhuozhou, but with the start of the Song Liao negotiations, Tong Guan and the Seed Master Dao are on the same running line.
Whoever can take Yanjing first means who can get the edict of Shenzong to be crowned king, which makes Tong Guan not anxious? For several days, he had been restless, waiting for news from the capital.
At this moment, a pro-soldier reported outside the tent, "Captain Qiqi, there is an urgent letter from Baozhou!" ”
Tong Guan almost jumped up, "Hurry up..... Let the messenger in! ”
The pigeon letter in the capital could not be sent to Yizhou, and the northernmost could only be sent to Baozhou, and then Baozhou sent someone to send it to him, Tong Guan immediately realized that there must be news in the capital.
In a moment, the three leaders of the messenger cavalry walked into the big tent, knelt down on one knee and said, "I am ordered to deliver a letter to the captain!" ”
"Where is the faith?"
The cavalry immediately took out a sealing cylinder and handed it to Tong Guan, Tong Guan tore open the seal with trembling hands, poured out a small bamboo tube from it, and pulled out a small roll of white silk from the bamboo tube, which was the pigeon letter sent by his henchman from the capital, he carefully unfolded the pigeon letter, as he expected, the Song and Liao countries had reached an agreement, and Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, had issued an order, ordering him and the seed master to march to Yanjing Mansion immediately.
Tong Guan was so shrewd, he could see at once the anxiety of the Son of Heaven, this kind of negotiation could only take effect if the two monarchs printed and exchanged texts, and just after the negotiation was over, the Son of Heaven couldn't wait to order them to take over the Yanjing Mansion, how eager was this?
Of course, Yanjing City should also know the result of the negotiation at this time, and the Liao envoy will definitely use the eagle letter to inform Yanjing in time.
Tong Guan pondered for a moment and asked, "How much time did it take you to come from Baozhou?" ”
"Returning to the Tai Lieutenant, the three of us rode six horses, and it only took one night to arrive at the camp."
Tong Guan quickly estimated the time in his heart, the pigeon letter was sent out at noon yesterday, arrived in Baozhou in the evening, and then ran to his place overnight, and the capital sent the order generally in the afternoon, even if it was delivered in a hurry with gold characters, it would take two and a half days to arrive in Fanyang County, Zhuozhou at the earliest.
In fact, he has nearly two days more than the Seed Master Road, although Fanyang County is closer to Yanjing than himself, but he has two days to hurry, and he should be able to rush to Yanjing one step faster than the Seed Master Road.
Thinking of this, Tong Guan immediately walked out of the big tent and shouted: "Pass my order, the Chinese army and the front army are assembled and ready to go!" ”
Only half an hour later, Tong Guan personally commanded 50,000 troops out of the camp and went north, they did not carry baggage, each person only carried five days of dry food, and rushed to the northeast of Yanjing Mansion, Tong Guan believed that the Liao envoy in the capital had told the Empress Dowager Xiao the results of the negotiation with an eagle letter, as long as he rushed to Yanjing, the Empress Dowager Xiao would definitely go out of the city and surrender.
In fact, any general will see that such a light army to the north is not appropriate, there is a great hidden danger, as a 30-year captain Tong Guan should know that it is not appropriate to take risks, but unfortunately Tong Guan is a fan of the authorities, he has been looking forward to ten years of Wang Jue carried away, lest he be preempted by the seed master, so he desperately sent troops north.
As soon as Tong Guan's army left, several letter eagles rose from the nearby mountains and forests and flew in a circled direction to the northeast.
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