In the golden tent of Ah Guda, Zhao Liangsi heard this, and cold sweat broke out, knowing that it was going to be bad. Ah Gu smiled, looked at Zhao Liangsi and said: "You see that I am willing to abide by the covenant, but the soldiers under my command will not agree, if you can convince the soldiers under my command, I will naturally abide by the covenant." ”

Zhao Liangsi's heart trembled, but when he saw the generals of the Jin Army who were looking around in the tent, he still gritted his teeth and asked: "The generals have great martial arts, and we and the people of the Central Plains are all admired, I don't know how to agree to return the sixteen states of Yanyun?" ”

Ah Guda raised his hand and said with a smile: "It is inconvenient for me to discuss this matter with you, you can just go to the side account to discuss." "Ah Guta is the emperor, and the discussion of returning the sixteen states of Yanyun must be asking for wealth, so he naturally will not surrender his identity to discuss these with the Song envoys, and then Wanyan Lou is the first, and Sticky Han, Jin Wushu and others will lead Zhao Liangsi and others to the side hall to discuss.

After sitting down, Wan Yan Lou said: "I heard that in the past, the Liao State and your country formed an alliance, and there were 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk, which is the price of the alliance. In this way, how about returning the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Song Kingdom and my big golden coins are one million silver dollars a year, one million horses of silk, and another one million dollars? ”

Zhao Liangsi gasped when he heard this, and said with a bitter face: "Your country's asking price is too fierce, once this year's coin is set, it will be given every year, and the sixteen states of Yanyun don't have so much tax a year." It doesn't hurt if you can pay it all at once, even if it's more. ”

Sticky Han sneered: "Back then, when you formed an alliance with the Liao State, it was paid in the annual currency, in exchange for the Liao army not going south to invade the Song Dynasty. And now that my Dajin Kingdom has gone to Liao Country to replace it, shouldn't I give it New Year's coins? ”

Zhao Liangsi begged bitterly, and said with a smile: "If you feel that all the sixteen states are redeemed, and the Song State can't afford to give it, then you can only redeem half of it." The seven states south of Yanjing, together with the eight states of Yanjing, will be returned to your Song Kingdom, and the annual currency can be reduced by half. ”

Zhao Liangsi calculated, less than half of it still costs 500,000 taels of silver, 500,000 horses of silk, and 500,000 yuan of money every year. At that moment, Zhao Liangsi secretly complained, and hurriedly said: "It's okay to only redeem eight states, but the annual coin is still too high, if you give 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk according to the old coin of Liao, but you can give 1 million yuan, and 1 million more yuan can be used as tax money to redeem and buy eight states." ”

Before Yan Lou could answer, Mu Han sneered: "Then when the soldiers of our army have been waiting outside Yanjing City for a long time, how will these military expenses be calculated?" Zhao Liangsi broke out in a cold sweat, and said after a moment: "Can you give 200,000 gold silk at one time as a reward?" Wan Yan Lou said: "200,000 is too little, 600,000 is enough." ”

The two sides bargained back and forth for a long time, and finally set 400,000 gold silk as a reward. Then Zhao Liangsi replied that he wanted to go back to Tongguan, and the Ming court could sign the contract, and Wanyan Lou and others also had to give Ming a bone to fight, so the two sides dispersed, and Zhao Liangsi returned to Xiongzhou to report.

After Zhao Liangsi left, Mu Han looked at Wanyan Lou Room and said with a smile: "Wanhu Hou is calculating, only return him to the south of the eight states, the north of the eight states are still in my hands, the Song people do not have the north of the eight states, there is no Yanshan barrier, in the future our army to the south, it is also a horse Pingchuan." ”

Wanyan Lou Room touched his nose and smiled: "Even if the Song people are ruthless and willing to redeem the eight states in the north at a high price, with the Song army being weak, our army is not afraid of him, and now the Xia Kingdom is my fence, even if Yan Yun returns him, if we want to invade the south in the future, we can also unite with the Xia State and look to the northwest and south." Now he only wants to redeem Yannan Bazhou, saving a lot of effort, I will wait for this to report to Your Majesty. "At the moment, Yan Lou and the others went to report to Ah Guda, but they didn't mention it.

However, he said that Zhao Liangsi returned to Xiongzhou and told him about the negotiation. Tong Guan was shocked when he heard this: "I thought that the Liao State was destroyed, so there was no need to issue New Year's coins, but I didn't expect that the Jin Kingdom would come to ask for New Year's coins again, and they would also threaten Yanyun and other prefectures and counties." ”

Zhao Liangsi said: "In the past, the Liao State was given for nearly a hundred years, and it was not exchanged for a city and a place, but now it is only a little more, and it can be exchanged for Yannan Bazhou, which is very worthwhile." ”

Tong Guan thought about it for a while, but hesitated: "It's just that the city is redeemed like this, the country is humiliated, and I don't know how to play the official family." Zhao Liangsi said: "The Jin State has now destroyed the Liao State, and the military strength is even higher than the Liao State, if you can form an alliance with it as soon as possible, think that it is a brotherly state, and spend some coins, not only can you ensure the safety of the north in the future, but also can exchange it back to Yanjing Bazhou, only to eliminate the pain of the Chen Jin State's military situation, and then Cai Xiangye will maneuver around, presumably the official family will agree." ”

Tong Guan bowed his head slowly, but still frowned: "But this time the Northern Expedition was a big one, and it was defeated by the Liao army, but I don't know how to cover it." Zhao Liangsi said with a smile: "The defeat of the army, the commander in front of the army is the way of the master, and the blame can be put on him." The privy council has an alliance with the Jin State to make the Jin state agree to return the eight states of Yannan, and the official family will naturally cover it up for the privy. Moreover, if you can really recover Yannan Bazhou, this will be a big victory, where will there be any big defeat? ”

Tong Guan suddenly realized, and immediately ordered someone to draft a recital, and sent it to Tokyo in the starry night. Wen Huanzhang He just wanted to collect the defeated army, and traveled to and from all over Zhending Mansion, when he heard the news, it was already too late, and after rushing back to Xiongzhou, he hurriedly met Tong Guan and said: "Privy, even if you want to redeem the sixteen states of Yanyun, you should grit your teeth and give up some more coins, and take back the eight states of Yanbei together, only the eight states of Yannan, and the location of Yanshan in the north is still not in me, and I am only afraid of leaving future troubles in the future." ”

Tong Guan said with a smile: "Once the alliance is made, the Jin country will not be repeated, this Jin country is like the Liao country, only seeking wealth, if he betrays the alliance to attack me, the old currency will be gone, I see that the gold lord is also a generation of male masters, how can he do this thing of killing chickens and taking eggs?" Wen Huanzhang sighed and was speechless when he heard this, just because Tong Guan's performance table had been released, it was impossible to recover it.

Tong Guan was right, the Liao State continued to invade the south back then, but also because he liked the wealth of the Song State and wanted wealth, and after the Tanyuan Alliance, the Liao State had a year of coins every year, so there was no need to move the people south to rob it, which was also the Song State's strategy of exchanging money for peace. It can be said that the strategy of exchanging money for peace was successful for the Liao State, and the Song State had a developed economy, but due to the heavy culture and suppression of military force in the country, the army could not defeat the Liao army, but it could be exchanged for peace with money.

It was Song Liao who maintained peace for a hundred years since the alliance of Tanyuan. According to the assumptions of Tong Guan and others, after Jin destroyed Liao, it was only the Liao State that was replaced by the Jin State, and as long as he continued to pay money, he could maintain peace in the north. In fact, this kind of thinking is not only shared by Tong Guan and others, but also in the imperial court in Tokyo, because the century-old stability brought about by the peace of the year has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is difficult to reverse. It's a pity that the Song court ignored a problem, the Jurchens were not Khitans, and their desire for land and wealth and their ambition to build a powerful Dajin State far exceeded expectations.

Tong Guan's recital reached the imperial court, but it still caused a controversy, but the strength of the argument was not large. The civil officials did not have much opinion on the redemption of the city, and since they could not fight it, they could only use money to redeem it, but the core of their argument was that someone should be responsible for the defeat. There were Cai Jing, Gao Yu and others in the court, and Tong Guan's seed master dao met the requirements of the civil officials, so the seed master dao became a scapegoat and was dismissed from office.

Most people did not argue whether the sixteen states of Yanyun should be redeemed, and many famous ministers and generals in the Song court acquiesced to the redemption of the eight states of Yannan with the year coin, only Li Gang and Huang Shang wrote a letter to oppose the matter, but they were soon drowned out by the voices of a group of people who only wanted stability.

Li Gang and Huang Sheng were also very helpless, the defeat of the Song army was beyond their expectations, they thought that the elite of the Western Army could fight with the Liao army, but they didn't expect to be defeated so inertia, even the Liao army couldn't beat it, how could they defeat the Jin army of the Liao State? The book of the two is only the last bit of backbone of the Song people, at least the last bit of backbone of the Northern Song Dynasty. Although both of them also saw that the Song army did not redeem the eight states of Yanbei, the two of them were unwilling to write to the imperial court to grit their teeth and redeem the eight states of Yanbei together, because the ransom of the city for the year coins was originally opposed by their main battle faction.

As for discussing the amount of money and how to pay it, there was not much debate in the Song court, since Cai Jing implemented Wang Anshi's reforms, although most of the changes became a way for officials to collect money, they still had a real effect on the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, and there was not much pressure to pay an extra 1 million yuan a year, and as for the 400,000 gold silks, Hebei Zhulu Junzhou apportioned it, and it was solved.

It's not the first time to buy peace with the year, there is no pressure when Emperor Daojun issued an edict to agree to an alliance to redeem the city, compared to Emperor Zhenzong's great martial arts can only win a Tanyuan Alliance, he himself feels that this trip to recover Yanjing, including the eight states, is also a great martial arts. In the face of the strength of the Jin State, there may be the helplessness of the Northern Song Dynasty and the weakness of the Song people, but Emperor Daojun forgot that the alliance of Tanyuan was made by Song Zhenzong's royal conquest, and his alliance was sent to beg and begged, and only God knows how much protection power it can have.

On August 20, the sixth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court decreed to Xiongzhou, agreed to Tong Guan's performance, and ordered Tong Guan to preside over the signing of an alliance with the Jin State, and paid the Jin State 200,000 taels of silver, 200,000 horses of silk, plus one million dollars for the tax money of the eight states of Yannan, and another time to pay 400,000 gold silk to the Jin army as a reward for money and grain.

Two days later, the envoys of the Song and Jin countries formally signed an alliance in Yanjing, ten months later, the Song State paid 400,000 gold silks, and the Jin army moved all the valuable things in Yanjing, and withdrew from Yanjing City, and then the Song State gave a year-old coin, and the Jin army completely withdrew from the eight states of Yannan, so far the Song army recovered the eight states of Yanjing.

And what makes people laugh is that Tong Guan and others entered Yanjing, but what they saw was an empty city, most of the people in the city were picked up by Shandong Road, and the money and grain in the city were moved away by the Jin army, and even in the palace of Yanjing Liaoguo, the gold leaf inlaid on the gold pillar was scraped clean by the Jin military knife, and what the Song army got was just a clean and empty city. (To be continued.) )