Chapter 488: Comeback?

After all, the detailed discussion department that the remaining ministers of the main war faction in the DPRK and China had hoped for had not yet been opened, and it was replaced by the court council. (Niu Wen ~ Net) And what surprised Qin Hui and Xu Han and other ministers the most was that since they wanted to engage in court discussions and prelude to the king, why were the officials absent? Let Geng Nanzhong preside? In fact, the reason is very easy to understand, and in the past few years, the detailed discussion department has faintly become the highest decision-making body of the imperial court. All major military affairs are presided over by the emperor to convene a detailed discussion department, and after consultation with a small number of important ministers, a decision is formed, and sent to the department for implementation.

Now, Geng Nanzhong has come to power, although he has vigorously attacked political opponents and purged the ministers of the main war faction. But because the officials who are qualified to attend the detailed discussion department are not important ministers, he has only knocked down Zhao Ding and He Guan so far. In the detailed discussion division, his power does not have an absolute advantage, and his ideas are likely to be incomprehensible in the detailed discussion division. In view of this, he instigated the emperor to bypass the detailed discussion and directly change it to the Manchu civil and military discussion. That way, his odds are much higher.

As it turned out, he succeeded. As soon as the four peace conditions of "claiming the status of ministers, paying tribute, ceding land, and recognizing the puppet dynasty" were thrown, despite the uproar of the Manchu dynasty, quite a number of ministers suddenly became "pragmatic". thinks that since you can't beat others, this is also a helpless thing, I think at the beginning, Yue Wang Goujian was ashamed of lying on his salary, let's learn from it.

The ministers represented by Xu Han strongly opposed it, believing that the Jin army put forward such harsh conditions, leaving no room at all, and once agreed, the Great Song Dynasty would never turn over. Although the Jin army had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jiangbei, judging from the several battle reports of Zheyan, it was not easy for the Jurchens to cross the river. And now it's spring, not far from the height of summer. Everyone knows the climate in the south, and when it gets hot, it kills, and when the time comes, the Jin army will naturally retreat. In the peace talks, let's drag on with him and grind with him, there is no need to agree immediately.

It's just that although the remnants of the ministers of the main war faction have risen up to fight, in today's court, they have become weak, high and low, and it is difficult to speak alone. Moreover, because Zhao Ding was demoted to Lingnan and Zhe Yanzhi was far away in Zhenjiang, the ministers of the main war faction lost their leaders and were unable to confront the main peace faction at all.

In the end, the council ended with an overwhelming majority of the main peace faction. Huang Qianshan, who had dealt with Jin Jun many times and had rich negotiation experience, officially started peace talks with the two Jin deliberators as a representative of the Great Song Dynasty. In order to make Huang Qianshan's words more weighty, Geng Nanzhong asked the emperor to give Huang the title of "Major Master of the Inspection School".

The reason why Huang Qianshan is rich in negotiation experience is because he came forward in the last Song-Jin peace talks. Not only did they cut off all the land occupied by the Shaanxi Jin Army, but even Chang'an City, which Xu Wei was still holding on to at that time, was not spared. It's just that I later learned that the Jin people used their means to deceive them, so they acquiesced to Xu Wei and other generals who refused to carry out the order to cut the land.

Huang Qianshan talked with the two envoys of Dajin in Fuzhou City, and his negotiation strategy was to avoid the important and trivial, and talk about it first. Within a few days of the talks, the money was settled. The Great Song Dynasty gave 500,000 taels of gold and silver and 500,000 horses of silk "every year". This amount is not too large, and even the ministers of the main war faction find it acceptable. However, it can be seen that the Jurchens are shrewd, in the past, they asked for money and food, and they always asked for millions at one time, but this time they asked for it every year.

Then they talked about land cutting, and Huang Qianshan and the ministers of the DPRK and China generally believed that this should be easy to talk about. The area occupied by the Jurchens probably doesn't want to come back, there is really no way, just cut it. But when it came time to negotiate, Han Fang proposed that in addition to the areas occupied by the Jin army, it was still necessary to cede the entire territory of Shaanxi. This makes it difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to accept, Shaanxi is where the imperial court is strong, in addition to the Guanzhong Plain, the Qingjing Yuanxi River and Qinfeng, which place is not a dangerous place, which place is not a place for heroes? Now the Jurchens want the Central Plains of Shandong, and they want the whole territory of Shaanxi, isn't it difficult for a strong man, who wants to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle and completely cut off the idea of recovering the Great Song Dynasty?

The negotiations are stuck here, and Huang Qian is good at avoiding the truth and talking about "recognizing the puppet Han". The Jin side demanded that the Great Song Dynasty recognize the puppet Han in the form of a "national letter", and that Gao Shiyu must be called "the emperor of Korea" in the national letter. Huang Qianyang reported the other party's request to the court, discussed it for a while, went up to the official's house, went down to the ministers, gritted his teeth, and admitted it

In this way, two of the four major conditions put forward by Jin Guo have been met. The most difficult to bite is "claiming ministers" and "cutting land", and both sides do not give in to each other. Na Dajin deliberated to torture Huang Qianzhan and even threatened Huang Qianshan in person, if he did not agree, the two points agreed before would not be counted, and the two countries would return to a state of war

Zhao Huan is very embarrassed, since he ascended the throne, he is barely a little ambitious, intending to restore the old frontier. It's just that this son of heaven is not resolute enough, and his attitude is always wavering, and he is still changing faster than Sister Yao, so he can't succeed after all. Now to make him bow down to Beiyi and accept the canonization of Emperor Dajin, this face is really unbearable.

He instructed Geng Nanzhong to accept the imitation of the story of Yuanyuan, and respected Emperor Dajin as his "uncle" and Song as Jin's "nephew", but he couldn't accept it. Geng Nanzhong instructed Huang Qianshan to discuss with the Jin envoy accordingly, and even hinted to him that as long as Dajin did not force the Great Song Dynasty to be a minister, we could give more benefits on other conditions. Who is Han Fang? How can you not understand the meaning of Song Fang? He made "concessions" at the right time, saying that it was okay not to be a vassal, but the entire territory of Shaanxi had to be ceded

At this time, the people with lofty ideals in the court who heard the news rebounded violently, and Qin Hui instructed a number of officials in the Yushitai to violently attack Geng Nanzhong and Huang Qianshan, and asked the Son of Heaven to resolutely refuse to cede Shaanxi. He also said that Shaanxi is the last hope, and if it is cut to the Jin, the Western Army can only defend Sichuan, and there will never be a day of progress

Not only the ministers of the main war faction were heartbroken, but even the people of the main peace felt that this proposal was not feasible. Although we are the main peace, there is a bottom line, what is the bottom line? To ensure the viability of the Great Song Dynasty, it was also born in Shaanxi, which was the cradle of cultivating the Western Army, and ceded to the Jurchens, the Western Army was a rootless duckweed, how could this work?

The fierce reaction of the Fuzhou Imperial Court was also heard by Han Fang, the envoy of Jin. Looking at this situation, if Shaanxi is forced, the Song side is quite resistant, and I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed. Since it is impossible to directly obtain Shaanxi, it is necessary to weaken the strength of the Western Army in Shaanxi in order to create conditions for the future seizure by force. At this point, he very wisely made another "concession".

The whole territory of Shaanxi is not sought, but within Shaanxi, the area occupied by the Jin army must be ceded. In addition, since the two countries negotiated peace, in order to show the sincerity of the Great Song Dynasty, in view of Shaanxi, which was heavily armed, first of all, the supreme military and political chief of Shaanxi, who had instructed Xu Wei and other generals of the Western Army to take the initiative to attack, should come out and take overall responsibility, and he must step down. Secondly, since the Great Song Dynasty recognized Gao Shiyou, the three "insulting" divisions in Shaanxi must also be revoked.

What does a solicitor do? Recruiting and rebelling against Gao Shi was made by Li Zhi and others as traitors to the Great Song Dynasty, and three recruitment divisions were set up in Shaanxi, which also had the meaning of deterring the rebellion of the two rivers. The Jurchens thought this was an "insult" to Gao Shiyou Li Zhi and others, so they asked to revoke it.

Sure enough, this trick worked, and seeing that the Jin State did not force the entire territory of Shaanxi, Zhao Huan instructed and accepted the plan of the Jin envoy in its entirety, which shows the "pragmatism" of the Jin people and the "retreat" of the Nanren.

At this point, Song and Jin agreed that the two countries were "the country of uncles and nephews", and the Song Emperor respected Emperor Jin as "uncle"; Song cut Shandong, Henan, and Jianghuai one, Shaanxi one to Jin; 500,000 taels of silver and 500,000 horses of silk are given to Dajin every year, and they are sent to Suzhou for delivery in the spring of each year; The Great Song Dynasty recognized that Gao Shiyou was a puppet dynasty and was not allowed to invade.

These are four outlines, and below each of them, there are many detailed clauses. For example, in the land cession, it includes the resignation of the Shaanxi Xuanfu disposal envoy and the revocation of the three recruitment divisions; Among the "uncles" of the Jin Emperor, it includes the Great Song Emperor, as the "nephew" of the Jin people, who met the major festivals of the Jin people, and must send an embassy to the capital of the Jin State to congratulate; In the event of the death of the noble clan of Dajin, the Great Song Dynasty must also send envoys to mourn and so on.

This peace treaty, of course, was an unequal treaty, and through this peace agreement, Dajin not only achieved many substantial benefits, but also completely overwhelmed the Southern Dynasty in terms of momentum

The peace agreement has been reached initially, but there are still quite a few procedures to go before it can officially take effect. Immediately afterwards, the Song court sent envoys, together with the Jin envoys, to meet Wushu in the north of the Jiangbei, and then to the Jin Dynasty to meet the Jin Emperor, and only after the approval of the Jin Emperor was the official conclusion of the peace treaty.

Before Han Fang left Fuzhou, he proposed one thing. According to diplomatic etiquette, he and Xing Guzhan, as envoys of the Dajin Kingdom, represent the Dajin Emperor, and as soon as they arrive in Fuzhou, the Young Emperor should personally receive them to show respect. When we came, the young emperor didn't even show his face, so let's not talk about it. Now that we're leaving, what's the matter, you should also come out to see off the guests, right?

This time it was a big deal for Geng Nanzhong and other important ministers. It is now March, and the climate in the south has warmed up sharply, hot and humid, and the wind and illness of the official family have recurred, and they have fallen back down. We can't let the Son of Heaven lie down to receive foreign envoys, right?

In order to solve this problem, Geng Nanzhong had to open a detailed discussion department, convening Huang Qianshan, the right Cheng of Shangshu, Zhu Shengfei, the left Cheng of Shangshu, Qin Hui, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and other important ministers to discuss countermeasures.

In the past, the detailed discussion department was held in Zhongshu Province, and now fled to Fuzhou, the conditions are naturally difficult, the emperor still lives in the garden offered by the local gentry, and they have no office space, so they can only temporarily use the Fuzhou Zhizhou Office as the Zhongshu Political Affairs Hall.

Although Qin Hui is an official who worships the royal Zhongcheng and is the chief of the supervision department's "Taiwan admonition", but now the conditions are limited, and he has no decent official bridge to sit on, so the soft bridge carried by the two of them was sent to the front of the Zhizhou Yamen. ”

He looked back and saw that it was Shangshu Zuocheng Zhu Shengfei, in his forties, in the prime of life, he was a native of Suzhou, with the characteristics of a southern man, although the figure was not tall, but the facial features were handsome, the demeanor was calm, and when walking, the long beard was fluttering, and he had an elegant demeanor.

Shangshu Zuocheng, known as the "Deputy Prime Minister", should have been the same as the Deputy Prime Minister Shangshu Youcheng Huang Qianshan, a prime minister, and a deputy prime minister, but now the prime minister's surname Geng is shoulder-to-shoulder, so both of them are Geng Nanzhong's deputy. Unlike Huang Qianshan's attachment to Geng Nanzhong, this newly promoted vice minister rarely expresses his stance on political affairs and belongs to a figure who follows the crowd.

"Zhu Xiang." Qin Hui has some dealings with him in official business, and he is not a stranger.

Zhu Shengfei stepped forward, looked directly at the other party with starry eyes, and said, "Today's detailed discussion must be to discuss the matter of meeting with the golden envoy." With me, the official family is sick, and I am afraid it is inconvenient to go out. But what else can we do? ”

Qin Hui sighed when he heard this, shook his head and said, "I'm also anxious about this matter, the official family is sick repeatedly, and I will definitely not be able to meet the golden envoy." The prince is still young, and it is difficult to take this responsibility, difficult, difficult, difficult. ”

Zhu Shengfei listened, and sighed: "That's it, you and I can't think of a way, wait for my colleagues to gather later, and then make plans." Please. ”

"Don't dare, Zhu Xiangplease." Qin Hui dodged to the side and said.

"Hey, you are the chief of Taiwan, and you have always spoken outright, I respect you, please." Zhu Shengfei insisted.

Qin Hui didn't shirk it, and walked towards the yamen first. Zhu Feisheng looked behind him for a moment, snorted in his mouth, shook his head, and followed.

At that time, above the second hall of the Yamen of Nazhizhou, Geng Nanzhong was already sitting on the main seat, and Huang Qianshan was next to him, and Xu Han, the privy deputy envoy representing the Western Mansion, was face to face with him, always maintaining a "angry gaze" look, which made Huang Qianshan very uncomfortable.

Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei came in, and they were embarrassed for a while. In the past, the Detailed Deliberation Department was composed of the Prime Minister's Deputy Minister, two Deputy Ministers, the Privy Councillor and Deputy Envoy, the Chief Counselor, and a military minister above the rank of Lieutenant. and increase the number of staff as appropriate according to the needs of the topic. Now, Zhao Ding has been removed from the phase, Geng Nanzhong is both in one and two phases, the privy envoy Zhi Yan is far away in Zhenjiang, and He Guan has been demoted, which makes the detailed discussion of Si Dun cold.

After the perfunctory salute to each other, the officials sat down, and Geng Nanzhong, who was the presiding officer, naturally spoke first: "Now that the peace talks have been held, the two sides have reached a preliminary consensus on the terms. Now that the official family is sick, it is inconvenient to see things, and the golden envoy is very urgent, so what can he do? ”

Huang Qianshan immediately took over the conversation: "Since the Son of Heaven can't look at things, according to the practice of the prince supervising the country, is it the prince who comes forward to meet the golden envoy?" ”

When Zhao Huan's eldest son, the crown prince Zhao Chen was more than ten years old, he was studying and studying, and he was still far from adulthood. Therefore, as soon as he heard his words, Qin Hui retorted: "The prince is young, and he has never been in the world, and now the two countries are talking about peace, which is a delicate moment, if the prince comes forward, I am afraid that there will be trouble." ”

"Yes, the golden envoy insists on meeting the official family in person, if the prince comes forward, one will arouse the suspicion of the other party, and the other will cause misunderstanding, which is inappropriate." Xu Han also made it clear that he was against it.

Geng Nanzhong said: "The prince is smart, the young man is serious, he is calm and methodical, and it is feasible to look at it according to his appearance." ”

"Geng Xiang." Zhu Shengfei called, he rarely spoke to express his position, so when everyone saw him speak, they all turned their eyes. "Those two Jin envoys, Han Fang has the style of an elder, but it is easy to say. But what kind of person is Xing Guzhan, Huang Xiang knows best that this person is arrogant and arrogant, although the prince is smart and serious, but after all, he is not deeply involved in the world, if the prince comes forward, I am afraid it will ......"

What he said was reasonable, and Geng Nanzhong and Huang Qianshan couldn't refute it. In the process of peace talks, Huang Qianshan was insulted and intimidated by Xing Guzhan more than once, and even people like him who have been up and down for decades feel afraid, let alone the young prince?

Huang Qianshan spread his hands: "Even so, besides the prince, is there still a choice?" ”

The hall was silent for a while, yes, except for the crown prince, there is no choice at all, you can't send one of the princes of the clan to meet the golden envoy, right? There is no such rule

Zhu Shengfei said tentatively at this time: "Geng Xiang, the lower officials are not very clear about the condition of the official family, this meeting with the envoys is just a formality, it won't take long, can it be ......?"

Geng Nanzhong shook his head decisively: "No way. "God, I can't even sit up now, and if you carry him up to the temple, he can only lie down and talk, and if this gets out, it may be a disaster or a joke.

"Since the peace talks have reached a consensus, why not insist on this form? Send them away. Xu Han said.

"Alas, the privy minister, I tried my best to speak, but Han Fang and Xing Guzhan insisted on meeting the king before leaving. And if we refuse their request, it will make us secretive and arouse suspicion. Huang Qianshan said.

"Han Fang has seen the official family, and letting someone else meet him on behalf of the official family doesn't still arouse suspicion?" Xu Han asked angrily.

"Even so, it's better to be gone. At that time, it will be said that the Son of Heaven will change his illness, and the Jin people will not have too many associations. Huang Qianshan said.

Xu Han was silent when he heard this, and after a while, he suddenly said: "There is really no way, so I will ask the Emperor Taishang to come forward to support." ”

Suddenly a needle drop could be heard in the hall

This is a solution, although the Son of Heaven cannot meet him, but the status of the Emperor is respected, and he has been in the government for a long time, and he will definitely be able to deal with it easily. It's just that there is no precedent for this. According to the rules, the emperor has not interfered in the government since he abdicated. At that time, the official family also made it very clear in the edict that the Emperor Taishang would not participate in anything other than religious affairs. Now let the Emperor Taishang come out to meet the golden envoy, I am afraid that it will cause people to discuss.

And there is a deeper meaning in this, if you have a good memory, you should not forget. After the abdication of the emperor, he fled all the way to Jianghuai, what did he do at that time? The first is the interception corner, which does not allow official documents from the south to be reported to Tokyo; The second is the king of Qin, who intercepted the soldiers of the king of Qin in the two Zhejiang provinces as guards. At that time, it was rumored in the city of Tokyo that the emperor would restore the southeast, which caused panic. It took a lot of effort for the officials to persuade him to return to Tokyo, and he has been under house arrest ever since.

Although the emperor has lived in a simple place for these years, but asked about the government, but the past is vivid, and now let him come forward to meet the golden envoy, although it is not a ruling on any military affairs, but it is inevitable that there will be suspicion of melon fields and plums.

Geng Nanzhong was Zhao Huan's confidant, and he would never allow anything unfavorable to the emperor to happen, so he immediately objected: "How can there be such a reason in this matter?" How can the Emperor move lightly? No, no, never."

He was resolutely opposed, and Qin Hui, Zhu Shengfei and others also had reservations, so this proposal was naturally abandoned. However, Xu Tali's suggestion gave a head start to a trend of thought.