Chapter 123: Envoy to the North
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At the end of the summer of the first year of Chonghe, more than 40 people from the Great Song Dynasty finally arrived at Dengzhou Mansion with more than 40 envoys to Jin, Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing. \. ().\
For the reception of the two chief and deputy envoys, a group of government officials led by Sun Zhifu entertained, but Ximenqing hid in his own back house to avoid purity, and he was familiar with the history of later generations for the so-called "Lianjin to destroy Liao" policy of the imperial court, which was completely the way to self-destruction.
The Song and Liao countries have maintained a stable situation for more than 100 years, although in the border areas, the Liao people have fought grass valleys from time to time, but compared with the northwest border and the Western Xia war that has been maintained for nearly thirty or forty years, the Song-Liao border is still in a relatively peaceful state.
When it comes to the Liao State Guozuo, it is longer than the current Great Song Dynasty, the Khitan aristocracy of the Liao State, under the influence of the Yandi Han people for more than two hundred years, although it is still a large northern country that controls millions of strings, but in fact it has been deeply influenced by the culture of the Han people in the Southern Dynasties.
And the Jin State established by the current Jurchens, just as the rising sun, the Jurchen heroes led by Aguta and Sagai can be described as fierce as tigers.
The so-called "joint destruction of Liao and recovery of Yanyun" is undoubtedly a conspiracy with the tiger, not to mention, compared with the tribal army of Liao, which still has some combat power, the military equipment of the Great Song Dynasty is even more unbearable. The only Western army that could fight in the field, when the Western Xia was tied, became the object of suspicion of the court's civil servants, and they were willing to dismantle and divide it.
Historically, the Western Army followed Tong Guan to conquer Fangla in the south and Yanyun in the north, during which there were chaotic fates, and the last field military force of the Great Song Dynasty was tossed clean. When they left the northwest that day, more than 100,000 Ganshan children were finally defeated in Yandi, and only more than 50,000 people were able to return home.
The most shameful page of the Han nation, the "Shame of Jingkang", began in the "Maritime Alliance" in the first year of Chonghe.
Ximen Qing didn't want to see the envoy who went to Jin, but he couldn't stop people from visiting, it turned out that the envoy group needed to cross the sea to go to Jin, and he couldn't say that he had to use the boat of the Dengzhou Navy to escort him. After inquiring, I realized that the real person of the Dengzhou Navy Division was the lucky minister of the Son of Heaven in the Logistics Institute, and Ximen Qing, who was also the deputy regimental training of the Water Division.
Although Ma Zheng was born in the Western Army, he can also be regarded as both civil and military, not only proficient in Khitan Jurchen writing, but also proficient in martial arts, daring to float to the north, only one, is a hundred times stronger than many self-proclaimed scholars and doctors in the court.
It's a pity that although this person has the ambition of Ban Dingyuan, the Song Ting at this time is not a big man who spans thousands of miles like a tiger, and it is destined that his cross-sea feat will not achieve the glory of his ancestors.
Since Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing came together, if they refused to see each other, they would inevitably fall into the mouth, and Ximenqing had to meet the two in the side hall of the logistics office.
"In the past few days, I have been unwell and have not entertained two angels, which is really a shame!"
Ximenqing's face was ruddy at this time, how could he be half sickly, but the clichés on such a scene need to be explained, otherwise he will really offend his colleagues.
"Ximen Xianggong works hard for the country, he is really a model for my generation, feasting and drinking small things, not enough to worry about!"
Although he is an envoy of the Son of Heaven, Ma Zheng and Ma Zheng are both martial arts, and in front of Wenchen, who is famous in Ximenqing and has won the emperor's heart, he does not dare to make the slightest mistake, and he does not dare to do anything.
After some talking, Ximen Qing also understood the intention of the two, it turned out that he heard that Hua Rong led the sailors to go to sea to inspect, and he was afraid that there would be no ships to send the mission north. Ximen Qing had already arranged such things, and immediately smiled: "Two angels, please be relieved, the mission has already prepared for the North Sea ship, but it has never gone to sea with the flower group training, the big ship of 2,000 materials, accompanied by 200 guards, and the support of skilled boatmen, there is no problem!" ”
Originally, Ma Zheng and the others thought that they would have to spend a lot of words, and they were even ready to bribe, but they never thought that this fortunate minister of heaven was so easy to speak, and everything had been arranged.
Although Ma Zheng's trip is a heavy responsibility, in the eyes of the important ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, it really does not have much weight, and it is just a very casual arrangement. Whether they can contact the high-level of the Jin State, and whether the Jin State has the strength to destroy Liao, the monarchs and ministers of the court can be said to have a black eye, and completely listen to the words of Zhao Lianghe, who came from the betrayal of Liao.
It is so easy to decide the country's offensive and defensive policies, which shows that the court is really in a very dim state, Wen Tian and Wu Huan, how can there be half the prudence and caution that half of the government should have.
sighed in his heart that Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing secretly cast their pearls, but their faces did not show half a point, and they were personally sent to the gate of the logistics office after some entertainment. Just as Ma Zheng and the two were getting on the horse and preparing to leave, a wooden prisoner cart turned out at the end of the long street in front of the door, in which sat cross-legged a fat monk with a shackle and lock, and there were twenty or thirty elite native soldiers around him to support them in front and back, all of whom crossed the sword and carried the bow, and the entire escort team was extremely meticulous.
Such a battle, inevitably attracted a group of people outside the logistics office to stop and watch, because the distance is still far away, can not see clearly, only as the official to catch the big thief giant, everyone is an official, such things do not take it to heart.
"Xiaguan Song Jiang, meet the benefactor!"
The escort team stood out and went straight to the door of the logistics office, and the person on the horse rolled down from the saddle, ignoring the dust on the ground, kneeling on both knees, and bowing to the ground, the black face was only almost pasted to the ground, and he looked extremely respectful, so that Ma Zhenghu Yanqing next to him felt a trace of flattery.
This Great Song Dynasty is not as good as the so-called Huanghuang Qing Dynasty in later generations, and there is still a little bit of literati style, and officials from top to bottom meet each other, and there are few who bow down and bow down like this.
"Song Zhizhai, how did you come to Dengzhou?"
Ximenqing didn't expect that Song Jiang, a military minister from Qingzhou, would run to the boundary of Dengzhou, and if such a thing was discovered by the supervision officials, he was afraid that he would be hanged. But I don't know that Song Jiang is very good at camping, and all the bureaucrats in Qingzhou have some friendship with him.
"Xiaguan worked hard a few days ago to capture Lu Zhishen, the thief leader of Erlong Mountain, knowing that this person was bold enough to try to rob and kill the benefactor, and specially escorted him to Dengzhou, but he wanted to give the benefactor a breath!"
This Song Jiang opened his mouth as "benefactor" and closed his mouth as "benefactor", obviously he was a person who claimed to be under Ximen Qing, but he caused Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing next to him to frequently look sideways. Just now, I still had a good impression of this fortunate minister, but this time it was all gone.
There is such a flattering villain under his subordinates, and his character can be imagined. But thinking that the officialdom atmosphere is like this now, I feel sorry for myself.
"Did you arrest Lu Zhishen?"
Ximenqing was startled, he didn't care about anything else, he rushed to the prisoner car in three steps and two steps, and took a look inside, but it was not the "flower monk" who wanted to "eliminate harm for the people" at the junction of Qingzi!
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