- The Khitans have been infected with the Song people's stinky habit of talking about pomp and circumstance. Back then, the Queen Mother and her concubine sat on a cart to meet the Song envoys, the emperor and the ministers sat together, and the scene of negotiations always being carried out in the same dirty, messy, and noisy environment as the vegetable market is gone forever.

The current Liao Dynasty not only has a well-regulated imperial city in Wujing. Even when making bowls, the felt tent is set in strict accordance with the regulations. The princes and officials were scattered on the periphery, and the inner circle was separated by a circle of small black felt tents, with five people in each tent, and each army was forbidden to encircle.

In the forbidden enclosure, the most central place is the royal road tent, there is the provincial hall on the south side, the hall is called Shouning Hall in the north two miles, there is the deerskin tent in the north of the provincial hall, and there is the public hall of the eight directions in the north of the account. There is a Changchun tent in the north of Shouning Palace, which is the place where the Khitan Imperial Court executed major military affairs.

The negotiations between the two countries were held in the Changchun tent, which was the first negotiation after a few days of hiatus, and the negotiators sent by the two sides were Zhao Bian and Chen Ke on the Song Dynasty's side, and Xiao Feng, the Privy Councillor of the Tongzhi Southern Yuan, and Li Yan, a scholar of the Hanlin Dynasty, on the Liao side...... Originally, the person who was responsible for dropping the book bag with the Han people should have been Zhang Zhuangyuan, but unfortunately his internal injuries have not healed and he is in retreat.

What is a two-state negotiation? That's! How to rip off, that is to put books and be reasonable!

You have to recite so many original words from the book anytime and anywhere, and they are word for word. If you accidentally make a mistake and are caught by the other party, you will lose first in momentum, and you will definitely fall into passivity.

Don't underestimate the skin, only with patience and wisdom can you get a good hand. This can often make one's own side ...... when the strength is at a disadvantage Losing is not so ugly. Of course. If the negotiation object is a strange thing like the Qing government, you can even win at the negotiation table in a way that the army can't achieve.

But the Liao government is obviously not the Qing government, they are very shrewd. Moreover, in terms of the most critical military strength, it is the Liao State that has the advantage. And, they just mediated an international war. I also pulled the side that used to mix with the Southern Dynasty into my camp, and I feel good.

They just thought. I'm the strongest, you're weaker than me, so I should take advantage.

Not bad. In terms of strength and situation, it is indeed the great advantage of the Liao Dynasty, but Chen Ke and they have already decided that the nobles of the Liao Kingdom are very satisfied with the status quo of life, and they don't want to be rough anymore! Although in order to exert pressure, the Liao Dynasty has already deployed tens of thousands of troops on the border, but with such a small number of troops, it is too faceless to attack the Song Dynasty, right?

Who wouldn't be pretentious. The Song Dynasty took this opportunity to repair the fortifications of the border defense, dug up the pond for hundreds of miles, and increased the number of troops by 100,000 on the border, which was much more dynamic than that of the Liao State...... One has to wonder. Is this just a show, or is it really scared?

If the Liao State really did not hesitate to fight, seeing that the Song Dynasty reacted strongly, they should continue to increase their troops, but they did not, and instead restarted the negotiations.

So far. The last doubt in the hearts of the Song Dynasty mission was gone, it seemed that it was right to insist, and the Liao people really did not want to fight.

In fact, Yelu Chongyuan's father and son didn't expect this to be the case. They also thought that their people would be as happy and scramble to be the first to hear the war. Who knows that the world has changed, people's hearts are not ancient, this generation of Liao people are only willing to show their might on women's bellies and polo fields, they have no interest in war, and even have inexplicable fears...... They even began to complain about the emperor's uncle and father, what did they do to provoke the Song Dynasty? Can't you live in peace?

To tell the truth that I don't like to hear, Song and Liao ...... Plus Western Xia can also be ...... The Three Kingdoms have officially entered the stage of comparison with the bad from dozens of times. They all lost the vigor and sharpness of the founding of the country, and began to decay, during which they were strong and weak to each other, and it was just who was rotten slower and who was rotten faster.

So it is also the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the one from the end of the Han Dynasty has been passed down through the ages, but this section has become an old woman's footcloth, smelly and long...... Until a small tribe with less than 100,000 men rose, it was destroyed in just a few years, destroying the two major empires in the world and making the junior subjugated. …,

Of course, that's an afterthought...... Back at the negotiating table, although the Song Dynasty knew that there was no possibility of war, this did not mean that everything was fine. Because the Liao State is rotten, the Song Dynasty is even worse, at least the Khitan people ride horses and hunt all day long, and their riding and archery skills have not degraded at all, once they regain their will to fight, their combat effectiveness is still considerable.

On the other hand, in the Song Dynasty, for several decades, the officers were busy eating empty salaries and the soldiers were busy doing business. Coupled with the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty, the army became a nursing home and a shelter. Think about Nong Zhigao in Lingnan, think about the defeat of Qu Yehe, alas, let's wash and sleep......

So I still have to give face to Liao. Otherwise, from the beginning of the year to the present, it has been a few months, and if you can't get any benefits, you will definitely go crazy.

What are the benefits? Of course, it was ruined......

In fact, before leaving, the imperial court had already given the bottom line for negotiations - the annual currency would be increased to a maximum of one million taels.

For the wealthy Song Dynasty, this amount of money is said to be not much. But Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji knew that if they really talked according to this standard, then the conversation would be finished for them...... A large number of people on Zhao Zongshi's side were staring at them. At that time, it will be said that the annual coin set by the Lanyuan Alliance is 300,000 taels, and it will only increase to 500,000 taels after decades of Liao State bargaining. Okay, the two of them will lose the equivalent of the New Year's coins added up to the Yuanyuan Alliance and the Qingli Coin, and the sinners can't talk about it, but it is certain that they will be scolded to death by the masses who don't know the truth.

Therefore, every effort must be made to minimize the increase in coins. Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji combined, and they must not exceed the amount of Qingli coins, that is, 200,000 taels.

But at this point, Zhao Bian is not on the same page with them. When Chen Ke revealed his thoughts to him through small talk, the old gentleman was quite unimpressed. He said that since the imperial court had given 500,000 taels of space, as long as it could be completed within this limit, the task would be completed.

That's why Zhao Zongji put on a posture of an iron rooster that doesn't pull out a hair, and stalked his neck to shout at the Liao people...... This is not only for the Liao people, but also for their own people.

In fact, the two of them are just gritting their teeth, in case they go too far and annoy the Liao people, they have to fight. That's a lot of fun......

So the technology of the is really important.

When the request for an increase in currency was also refused, the Liao people were furious, and it was Xiao Feng, the Privy Council of the Southern Yuan, who was red-faced, and he slapped the table murderously and said: "It's too unusual, we have been talking about it for more than a month, we have made great concessions, but you Song people are still dead, isn't it too faceless!" ”

Chen Ke looked at the historical prototype of this Xiao Daxia, and then looked at the table that he had patted, and after making sure that the other party would not descend the dragon and eighteen palms, he said angrily: "Our Song Dynasty has always maintained the covenant, but you have nothing to do, you should apologize to us, how can it be justified to blackmail?" ”

"Then we can't talk about it." Xiao Feng said angrily: "We won't talk to you anymore, let the Southern Dynasty change people to talk!" ”

This hand is a killer move, but Chen Ke didn't bird him, and sneered: "It's the same with a different person, before coming, the emperor of our country gave a death order, whoever dares to lose power and humiliate the country, he will copy his nine clans!" As he spoke, his voice sank, he said, "I came with the determination to die." You Liao are not afraid of regrets, you must be greedy to the end, then kill me, and then our two countries will go to war! ”

Xiao Feng was simply dizzy, what kind of world, the people of the Song Dynasty actually threatened the Liao people with war? Do you really think we're scared?

But he really didn't dare to go all the way with Chen Ke, if the talks really broke down, and the Khitan would not send troops, where would they put their face?

"Mr. Zhao, what do you say? Do you really want to meet each other? So he turned his face to Zhao Bian, knowing that this old man was still relatively soft: "Don't take the tolerance of our Northern Dynasty as connivance!" "In fact, the situation is ridiculous, just like two weak giants, obviously they don't have the confidence to fight, but the boiled duck has a hard mouth, one is more horizontal than the other. …,

"Hehe......" Zhao Bian really coaxed: "If you have something to say, it's not a matter to be so stiff all the time." "What's the matter, there have to be those who sing red faces and those who sing white faces, otherwise we really have to talk about it.

"That's the right thing to do." Xiao Feng eased his tone and said to the scribe who recorded the content of the meeting: "Don't remember the following paragraph, you go out first." ”

Zhao Bian and Chen Ke glanced at each other, and also asked their own stickers to retreat, this is the other party is going to confess...... The reason for the registrar's resignation was to leave room for reprieval change. Because if the other party still doesn't agree, and it is written down in black and white, the country will really lose face.

"It's got to this point." After the scribe retreated, Xiao Feng sighed lightly and said, "It no longer makes sense to say who was right and who was wrong at the beginning. ”

"From beginning to end, it's you who find fault, whose fault do you say?" Chen Ke said indignantly.

"Zhong Fang ......" Zhao Bian said angrily: "Listen to Lord Xiao." ”

"......" Chen Ke shut up at this time.

"No matter whose ......fault it is," Xiao Feng continued, "But this is already the case, and now the whole world knows that our Northern Dynasty is asking for Guannan land from the Southern Dynasty, and the two sides have sent envoys to talk to each other for several months, but there is no result so far." After a pause, he said with a gloomy face: "This has already had a bad impact on my reputation as Da Liao. ”

"It also has a bad impact on our Great Song!" Chen Ke said.

"Zhong Fang ......" Zhao Bian hurriedly drank him.

"What His Majesty the Emperor means," Xiao Feng looked at the outside of the tent and said, "Luan will return to the camp in three days, whether it is war or peace, there must be a result!" ”

Chen Ke didn't speak this time, because when it came to the emperor of the other party, if he was not inferior, he would definitely anger the Liao people...... Partition...... I knew, I knew, you wouldn't abandon me, and the happy fourth watch began...... Keep asking for a monthly pass, and you have to do it all in one go! (To be continued) RQ