From the time Chu Tianya arrived in Tokyo to live in the Taishi Mansion, he never handed over two important figures to the imperial court. One is Wanyan Zongwang, and the other is Shi Liai.

Since Xiao Linglong performed that play in public that day, Shi Liai seemed to be a different person. Since then, he has been silent and ignores no one, asking for wine and meat whenever he meets people, and he is drunk and dreams every day without asking anything.

Maybe Xiao Linglong's words and actions really stimulated the bottom line in his heart, or maybe he was using this move to escape the current crisis, or maybe he was confusing everyone with other plans. In short, the former mastermind of the Western Imperial Court of the Jin Kingdom has now become an out-and-out drunkard, and the wine is extremely poor. When he gets drunk, he gets drunk, he goes sexually when he is drunk, he rolls on the ground with things, and he has repeatedly provoked the tiger guards who guard him. If it weren't for Chu Tianya's repeated orders, it is estimated that he would have been dismantled into parts by those tiger and wolf people by now.

Wanyan Zongwang's expression is much calmer. He eats and sleeps when he has food, regardless of big or small things, and quietly waits for his emperor brother and Zong Han to send someone to redeem him.

Calculating the time, the two Jin State pawn captives released by Chu Tianya at that time should have arrived at their destination and delivered Wanyan Zongwang's handwritten letter. However, there has been no news from the envoys of the Jin Kingdom and Zong Han, and it is possible that they are also urgently discussing this matter.

Chu Tianya was not in a hurry at all, there were too many things he had to deal with at the moment, but he hoped that the envoy of the Jin Kingdom would come a few days later.

In the afternoon of this day, Wanyan Zongwang was really bored, and perhaps he finally lost his breath and took the initiative to ask to see Chu Tianya.

Chu Tianya happened to be in the Taishi Mansion and was about to rest after dealing with some public cases, so he allowed him to go back and asked someone to bring him over.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, the second prince looks good!" Chu Tianya didn't forget to tease him as before, and said with a smile, "After entering Tokyo City, are you still used to eating and drinking?" ”

"One qiē is very good, and there is the hospitality of King Lao Luoyang." Wanyan Zongwang was also polite, not only gave Chu Tianya a salute, but also said calmly with a smile on his face, "I came today because I want to discuss some things with the King of Luoyang. ”

"Okay, please take a seat, serve tea!"

Wanyan Zongwang has never been a person who drags water around the bush, and when he sat down for tea, he said straightforwardly: "I want to know, does the King of Luoyang really have the sincerity to negotiate peace with Dajin?" In other words, when does the king of Luoyang plan to let me return to China? ”

Chu Tianya smiled, "What's the matter, the second prince can't get used to living and is in a hurry to leave?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang frowned, "King Luoyang, please don't be sneering, who wants to be a prisoner for a long time?" In fact, after a mutiny in Wutong Plain, I was already a damned person. I've never been afraid of death, but - I can't die now, especially not in the South! ”

"I know what you mean. You want to go back to the country and do what you have to do, right? Chu Tianya smiled meaningfully and said, "Wutong Yuan was defeated, and the vitality of the Jin Kingdom was greatly damaged. It can be said that one of the most elite pieces of the Jin country has been lost. The impact of this defeat was much more than a loss of military power. It is very likely that it will affect the stability of your Jin Kingdom court. Although you have run out of soldiers, your prestige and influence in the army are still unmatched. As long as you can return to the Kingdom of Jin, with a wave of your arms, there will be hundreds of thousands of horses under your command in an instant, which is enough to stabilize the current turbulent situation in the Kingdom of Jin. In short, if your second prince makes a mistake, the emperor of Jin will lose an arm. The vacancy you leave behind will trigger countless people to scramble; In your absence, many in the army will be disobedient or deceived into doing all sorts of disobedient acts. Therefore, for the current Jin country, the importance of you, the general of the defeated army and the marshal of the light rod, is still irreplaceable. ”

Wanyan Zongwang was not surprised that Chu Tianya said such a thing, he said expressionlessly: "I am not surprised that the King of Luoyang can figure out this layer. If you don't even have this wisdom and vision, you don't deserve to defeat me on the battlefield. That's right, the imperial brother needs me very much now, and the Dajin Kingdom also needs me very much. I know that you have been holding me all the time, and you have also used all kinds of blackmail and blackmail in the name of a clever purpose, an important purpose, that is, to plunge my Dajin Kingdom into chaos, and it is better to break out into some kind of civil war. ”

"Hey, I've seen through all of my carving insect skills!" Chu Tianya smiled, "That's right, I hope that the Jin Kingdom will be in a mess." Holding you on, and then using this to blackmail the Jin Imperial Court, and at the same time putting pressure on Zong Han, is what I want to do the most at the moment. ”

"But you have to let me go." Wanyan Zongwang's tone suddenly became a little hard.

Chu Tianya couldn't help but smile, "Sue me for a reason." ”

"If you don't let me go back, it is true that you can blackmail my Dajin Kingdom for a while. But if it drags on too long, I'll be abandoned. Don't think that it is important that I am the second brother of His Majesty or the marshal of the Eastern Route Army. King Luoyang, you should understand that above the court and in the army, there is actually no one who is irreplaceable. Wanyan Zongwang said, "What's more, there are many people who can replace me in the Dajin Kingdom. If I am alone and Yan zhòng affects the national interests of Dajin Kingdom, I will definitely be abandoned. And even if Dajin Guo doesn't give up on me, I will decisively cut myself. Because I don't want to become a sinner in the Golden Kingdom one day! ”

"I hear it, you're threatening me." Chu Tianya smiled indifferently, "But your words are not unreasonable, keep talking." ”

"It's not a threat, it's a fact. In front of a person like the King of Luoyang, threats and intimidation are completely useless, aren't they? Wanyan Zongwang seemed to have a lot of confidence today, and he thought about it quite clearly, and said in an orderly manner, "If the King of Luoyang detains me for too long, then I am actually a wasted person, and I have no value at all." At that time, the king of Luoyang not only could not receive the city, soldiers, horses, money and food he expected, but could only harvest a corpse, and aroused the boundless resentment of the Jin state, and even brewed a larger and full-scale war between the two countries. ”

"War?" Chu Tianya couldn't help but smile.

"Yes, the army of the King of Luoyang is very capable of fighting, and Zong Han and I have both broken halberds in your hands and sunk in the sand, I have to admit this, you are very powerful, a genius born for war!" Zong Wang said, "But if the war between the two countries really breaks out in the whole country again, King Luoyang, I want to ask you - with the situation and family background of the Great Song Dynasty today, can you afford to fight?" ”

Chu Tianya frowned, "It seems that you haven't been idle recently, and you have heard a lot of movements." ”

"It's so big that I don't think it's going to be true." Zong Wang said unhurriedly, "Your Emperor Taishang fled with a large number of courtiers, troops, and wealth, and maybe he will have to create a small court in the south of the Yangtze River to fight against Tokyo. Nanguo is rich, but it definitely can't withstand such internal friction. I dare to assert that it will not be long before Gangnam will be pitted against Tokyo, triggering a civil war in the south. At that time, King Luoyang, even if you have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, how can you resist the foreign enemy of the Dajin Kingdom while also going to clean up the thieves in the country? ”

"You're right, go ahead." Chu Tianya did not move like a bell.

"Also, in the past two or three years, there have been frequent wars in the south, Tokyo has been besieged twice, the treasury has long been empty, the people's livelihood has withered, and the soldiers are tired, and they are no longer able to fight." Zong Wang said, "Not to mention, just this time in the Battle of Wutongyuan, you dug up the Yellow River and flooded my 400,000 troops, and at the same time, you also flooded Tokyo and flooded the Central Plains for hundreds of miles. Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself, this is a crushing victory for you. After this war, the Central Plains was full of holes, starvation was everywhere, the wilderness was plagued, the farmland was destroyed, the mulberry weaving was ruined, and there were many floods and plagues, and the warehouses were empty—in short, you were going to be hungry, you were going to face famine and disaster. I lost this war, but the battlefield was in the hinterland of the Central Plains in the south, and the disasters left by the war could not be healed in just a few years. These are all heavy burdens that are pressed on you - so many disasters and internal worries, King Luoyang, you will not deceive yourself and say, you still want to go on the Northern Expedition and fight to the death with my Dajin Kingdom, right? ”

"It is worthy of being the second prince, although he didn't see it with his own eyes, but what he said was reasonable, meticulous, and not much different from the reality." Chu Tianya said, "You said so much, just to sue me that it's time for the Great Song and Jin Kingdom to reconcile, right?" ”

"Yes."

Chu Tianya smiled slightly, "You don't still want to say, put you back, you will try your best to promote the peace alliance between the two countries, right?" ”

"Absolutely." Zong Wang said without hesitation, "The Great Song Dynasty has won the battle, and the situation is so unbearable; After this defeat, the situation will definitely be even worse. In this situation, the two countries can no longer fight, and it is time for Yanwu to cultivate literature and raise the people's savings. If I return to China, I will definitely make peace and alliance. And I firmly believe that my royal brother will be the same as I think. ”

"But what if someone disagrees with the peace alliance?" Chu Tianya said, "For example, Zong Han. You ran out of troops, but he didn't. If you fall, he will be the most powerful and prestigious person in the Jin Kingdom. He will completely overshadow you, replace you, and become the first minister of the Kingdom of Jin. He is the one who leads the army, how can he accumulate wealth and prestige without fighting? If we don't fight, how can we solve internal and external troubles? ――I also firmly believe that Zong Han will definitely not be willing to make an alliance. Even if he agrees for a while, within a year, he must make a comeback and launch a war of revenge against the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"So, you're going to let me go back." Zong Wang took a deep breath and said, "If someone can stop Zong Han from doing this, that person must be me." Although I had just lost all my qiē, Zong Han still didn't dare to leap above me. The reason is very simple, I am the second brother of His Majesty, the Emperor of the Dajin Kingdom; And he, no! ”

In Chu Tianya's heart, a thought popped up inexplicably: How do you feel that this sect in front of you is like Qin Hui in history? He took the initiative to ask me to let him go back, and then he made a peace alliance between the two countries!

But thinking about it, Chu Tianya was not naïve enough to listen to Zong Wang's nonsense, so he accepted it all. No matter how he said that Zongwang was also an enemy, it was impossible for him to consider the problem from a completely public perspective. In the end, he is selfish. It's just that his selfishness won't really say it to Chu Tianya.

"Actually, there is one thing, you may have misunderstood." Chu Tianya stood up and paced.

"What?" Zong Wang asked.

"I didn't hold you back." Chu Tianya said, "Calculating the schedule, the two messengers sent should have arrived at their destination long ago, and the envoys of the Jin Kingdom should have arrived a long time ago." But they didn't send anyone. Perhaps because of the recent turmoil in Tokyo, they are waiting for the situation to become clear before deciding how to negotiate with me. In fact, my idea is very simple, as soon as the envoys of the Jin Kingdom come, as long as they agree to my conditions, they will immediately sign a peace treaty and let the second prince return to China. ”

"......" Zong Wang frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded, "I believe in King Luoyang." ”

Chu Tianya smiled, "Actually, you have no choice but to believe that I have me, right?" ”

"......" Zong Wang was speechless and let out a long sigh.

"Why is the second prince sighing?"

"The winner is the king, the loser is Kou, and that's true!" Zong Wang said, "Since the day the Dajin Kingdom started its army, there has been no battle today. Counting the defeat of Huanglong Valley last year, there were only two defeats in total, all of which were given by the king of Luoyang. I think that in the next few decades, the only enemy of the Dajin Kingdom will be His Royal Highness the King of Luoyang. ”

"Lifted." Chu Tianya smiled slightly, "Why don't you ask the second prince to practice another book, and I will send someone to send it to the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom?" ”

“…… It's good. ”

Chu Tianya asked someone to take the four treasures of the study, and Zong Wang repaired a book again, and wrote it directly to Wanyan Wu, the emperor of the Jin State. The letter was shown to Chu Tianya first, and roughly as he had just talked to Chu Tianya, he analyzed the situation between the two countries, and tried his best to persuade Wu Qimai not to start another war, and to make peace with the Great Song Dynasty.

"Okay, I'll send someone to send the letter out immediately, and it will definitely go directly to the Emperor of Jin." Chu Tianya said.

"Thank you." After Zong Wang thanked him, he took his leave and left.

Chu Tianya took the letter and sneered alone.

"Come on, invite Jiao Wentong and Yue Fei!"

"Yes!"

After a short time, Chu Tianya secretly met with Jiao Wentong and Yue Fei in the secret room of the study, and showed the letter written by Zong Wang to the two of them.

"This sect is not simple." Jiao Wentong said, "He is in a cage, but he can clearly calculate the current situation of my Great Song Dynasty and see the pros and cons of the two countries." ”

"Not surprising at all." Chu Tianya said, "I deliberately arranged for someone to leak it to Shi Liai; Then he deliberately let the two of them meet from time to time. How could Zong Wang not know? ”

Jiao Wentong and Yue Fei were both stunned, "What does the lord mean by this?" ”

Chu Tianya stretched out his finger and made a gesture of poking his eyes, "Blind eyes!" ”

Yue Fei had an idea, "Does the lord want to use the hand of Zong Wang and Shi Liai to paralyze the Jurchens and make them negligent, and then suddenly attack them?" ”

"Clever!" Chu Tianya praised.

Jiao Wentong took a deep breath, "In this way, the lord has been persuading the official family to move west to Luoyang, which is also a trick, partly?" ”

"The second brother is wise." Chu Tianya smiled slightly and said, "I want to convince the Jurchens that my Great Song Dynasty is really caught in endless internal troubles, and I have no power to fight again; Let them think that we have no other way but to negotiate and strike the army. At the same time, I also want to let Hangzhou get a signal that the imperial court is really going to negotiate peace with the Jin State, and I have the time and energy to keep an eye on them. In that case, Hangzhou will be much more honest. In a short period of time, they didn't make a mess, at least they didn't dare to set fire to our backyard. ”

"Lord, good strategy!" Jiao Wentong and Yue Fei praised in unison, "It's really a plan to kill two birds with one stone!" ”

"It's not a good plan, it's just a 'trick' that I am used to. Just like when I deceived Tong Guan and Yelu Yujian, in the end, I even believed myself. Chu Tianya said with a smile, "It's very interesting today, Zong Wang finally couldn't help but come to see me and told me about this chase." I could see that he was really eager to return to the kingdom of gold. In addition to the reasons mentioned in his letter, I suspect that the deepest thought in his heart is to take advantage of my great Song internal worries to raise troops to take revenge and blood hatred! ”

"That's right, this is the habit of the Jurchens, and this is the style of iron-blooded heroes like Wanyan Zongwang!" Jiao Wentong said, "After losing the battle but begging for mercy, only the Great Song Dynasty court in the past specialized in this kind of thing, and the Jurchens will not give up even if they fight until the fish are broken." Wanyan Zongwang seems to be too underestimated by the lord, he thinks that his few words can deceive us into throwing ourselves to the ground, hum! Do his big spring and autumn dreams! ”

"That's right, that's why I called you here today." Chu Tianya's face straightened, "Zong Wang gave us a 'plan within a plan', he was very enthusiastic in analyzing the situation between our two countries, and bitterly persuaded the peace alliance to be supreme, the purpose of which is nothing more than to paralyze us, and then take advantage of my illness to take my life; This letter is to use the mouth of Zong Wang to deceive the court of the Jin State. Let them think that our Great Song really can't afford to fight, and they are anxious to wait for the alliance. Then, I will negotiate a peace alliance with them very formally, and while handing over the city and the prisoners, I will ask for soldiers, horses, and money and food. This can take a lot of time. During this period, Zongwang will definitely not return to the Jin Kingdom - if Zongwang does not return to China, the Jin Kingdom will not take it lightly. First, Zong Wang's life is important, and second, he is the only one who knows the inside affairs of the Great Song Dynasty well, and if the Jin Kingdom wants to invade again, the commander is still Zong Wang's must - then we will take advantage of this time to stab him with a cold knife! ”

Jiao Wentong and Yue Fei suddenly became enthusiastic, "What the lord means is that we will take advantage of the opportunity of the peace talks to start first-where to fight?" ”

"Luoyang Jiyuan, north of the Yellow River!" Chu Tianya said, "I dare to assert that Zong Han will not withdraw his troops during the peace talks. He would stay there under the pretext that I had asked him for money and food for the horses; Then wait for time, and when we are careless, we will launch a surprise attack again, and take out my lair in one fell swoop - I want the official family to move west to Luo, which is also a bait for Zong Han. If Luoyang can be defeated, then Zong Han will be able to directly take our court of the Great Song Dynasty and destroy the Great Song Dynasty! ”

"It's a big gamble!" Jiao Wentong sighed.

Yue Fei's eyes lit up, "The intention of the lord is to let our army outflank Zong Han's back, and together with the military division and deputy military division on the Luoyang side, we will flank him back and forth, first eradicate the last living force of the Jin Kingdom, and then go on the Northern Expedition to recover the whole land?" ”

"Clever." Chu Tianya raised his hand and said, "Zong Han has more than 300,000 troops stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River, and this force should not be underestimated. If he can be eradicated, then the Kingdom of Jin will really be half destroyed. If this battle can be won, the Jin Kingdom will be defeated in the wind and collapse in a moment. At that time, even if we don't do it, there will be chaos within the Jin Kingdom. Don't forget that they have only been established for ten years, and they have swallowed the Liao State and many surrounding tribes. In such a short period of time, they have not completely recovered the hearts of the people, and the remnants of the Liao State and the people of those tribes who have been destroyed and enslaved have been thinking about their homeland all the time and trying to restore the country. The eastern and western courts of the Jin Kingdom are their two pillars, and Zongwang has been defeated by my hands; Now, as long as we cut off another pillar of the Jin country, that is, Zong Han and his more than 300,000 troops, then the Jin country will inevitably crumble. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and if the Jin Kingdom did not perish, it would be really unreasonable. I estimate that even if the time comes, even if Xiliao is thousands of miles away, it will desperately send troops to beg for a piece of the pie - of course, there is no doubt that only the Great Song Dynasty will be the final big winner. These little minions who are waving flags and shouting to rob while the fire is burning can at most pick up some of our leftovers. We are not happy, and we don't have any leftovers! ”

"Yes, my lord! This trick in the trick is really brilliant! Jiao Wentong punched excitedly, "Please let Jiao lead the army to attack and fight this battle!" ”

"No, I can't. You have not recovered from your serious injuries, how can you be up to this great task? Chu Tianya said, "You have more important things to do, that is, to lead the soldiers and horses on behalf of the imperial court to receive the prefectures and counties of Hebei when the peace is negotiated." At the same time, the most important thing is that you have to take this opportunity to cover the tiger and the roaring cavalry of Yue Fei's department, and make a detour to Huanglong Valley in Hebei - straight behind Zong Han!! ”

"Subordinates - take orders!" Yue Fei, who was boiling with blood, didn't wait for Chu Tianya to give an official order, and his voice was like a roar of thunder.