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Chen Yuan's attitude in the court was on the side of the Dongying people, and he strongly advocated that the Great Song Dynasty immediately establish diplomatic relations with Dongying, and it was the kind of diplomatic relations with the alliance surname that were deeper than the diplomatic relations with Goryeo. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

His reasoning was simple, the Great Song needed a helper to contain the Liao in a future war, and the Dongying people had already proved with their actions that they were more suitable than Goryeo.

Many ministers in the court did not agree with Chen Yuan's view, because in their opinion, the Great Song Dynasty was a state of gentlemen, and it was the first to establish diplomatic relations with Goryeo. Now Goryeo is facing a dilemma, they don't want to start a war for Goryeo, but they are also unwilling to admit Dongying's occupation of Goryeo at this time, and the gentleman can't fall into the ground.

This kind of thinking is the mainstream thought in the Great Song Dynasty, and if most people agree with it, Wang Hui can get the support of the Song Dynasty, but now he has found out how much power this concubine who was offended by himself has in the Great Song Dynasty.

Wang Hui wanted people to publicize the atrocities of the Dongying people, so as to arouse the sympathy of the Song people for him and win the voice of the people. However, in this issue, Chen Yuan's newspaper published a large number of Dongying people's compensation for the losses of the Song people after the war.

At the same time, Chen Yuan's chamber of commerce has also begun to officially start trading with Dongying people, and many project cooperation is being discussed. This made Wang Hui very frightened, and he was very dissatisfied with this for a while, not only in the court, but also in front of many ministers of the court, hoping that someone would come forward to prevent these merchants from trading with the Dongying people.

What Wang Hui didn't expect was that although the scholars and doctors made this practice of the merchants for mercenary, they did not really stand up to stop it.

In these years, Chen Yuan did not touch the policy of the Houyang Doctor, the reason is that although the policy of the Song Dynasty is somewhat unreasonable, after all, he has ensured the integrity of officials to a large extent.

For example, Bao Zheng, why does he never want gifts from others? Because he is not short of money, Bao Zheng's annual income Chen Yuan calculated for him, money and kind, plus the rent collected from the public land, it was about 20,000 yuan three years ago.

This number is equivalent to an average businessman making several transactions.

And Bao Zheng's money is guaranteed to be profitable, unless he is a fool at this time, he will never do that kind of thing to smash his job. In recent years, the income of officials in the Great Song Dynasty has also increased, and Bao Zheng can now get 40,000 or 50,000 yuan a year.

The scholars and doctors also knew that their money could be increased because the current year of the Great Song Dynasty was better, not only that one acre and two cents of land could produce more grain, but the most important thing was that the merchants could provide them with a large amount of money for the imperial court to increase their income and use it for local construction.

So far, don't say that Ouyang Xiu's enlightened scholars, even conservatives like Sima Guang, don't touch on the issue of businessmen, they seem to have formed a tacit understanding between them and Chen Yuan without a contract, and try to escort those businessmen, on the condition that businessmen cannot threaten their status.

The Chamber of Commerce also adheres to its own duties, in the past three years, Chen Yuan, as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, has never expressed any opinions in the debate of the imperial court, even if the new policy that Chen Yuan wants to implement, after the implementation of the first few articles, he quietly withdrew.

The scholars did not want to stop the merchants. In a sense, their support for Goryeo was only due to a promise that was not too formal.

Wang Hui knew that once the people-to-people exchanges were close, the possible surnames of the Great Song Dynasty to start a war against Dongying almost did not exist.

It wasn't until now that Wang Hui felt that he had to pay a visit to this concubine of the Great Song Dynasty. Face? Face doesn't matter anymore. If he really let the Dongying people quell the rebellion of the entire Goryeo, then his prince was worthless in the Song Dynasty, and he was still very clear about this.

When Wang Hui's name card was placed on Chen Yuan's table, Chen Yuan smiled and threw it into the stove on the side: "I don't see it." ”

Pang Xi persuaded: "It's better to see him, if you don't see him at this time, you will let others say that you have done things too well." ”

Chen Yuan thought for a moment, and raised his eyes to look at Fujiwara Kunzaburo who was sitting next to him. Fujiwara Kunzaburo smiled: "My lord, your butler seems to be able to manage many things for you?" In our Dongying, no one has ever dared to speak to the master like this. ”

Pang Xi glanced at him and didn't say anything. Chen Yuan smiled and said: "He is not my housekeeper, he is my brother, a brother of life and death." ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo's face immediately changed, and he bowed to Pang Xiyi very respectfully: "It's rude." ”

Chen Yuan waved his hand: "Brother Pang, since you think I should meet him, arrange a time for me, I don't think it will take half an hour, because I have nothing to say to him." ”

The pot of wine in the stove on the table was already hot, and Fujiwara Kunzaburo picked it up: "Master Horse, you can taste our sake from Toei." ”

Chen Yuan took a sip, far from the deliciousness he had drunk in the restaurant before, thinking that these Dongying people did not have the kind of cooking skills that he had in the future.

But he nodded: "Yes, it's very soft, and it has a different taste." ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo saw that Chen Yuan finished drinking, and poured him another glass, and Chen Yuan said: "When can you put down all the war in Goryeo?" ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo didn't have the problem of talking big words like the Koreans, and thought for a while: "If you want to completely quell the resistance of the Koreans, you can't do it in two years, and it may be longer." But don't worry, in less than half a year, we will definitely be able to exterminate the main force of the Koreans. ”

Chen Yuan nodded: "It's not that I'm in a hurry, you have also seen our Great Song Dynasty, and now there are many people who oppose the establishment of diplomatic relations with Dongying." ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo said, "Those people don't know about us Toei people at all. In fact, we admire the Great Song Dynasty very much, and these people will one day know that the choice of the master of the horse today is extremely correct. ”

Chen Yuan secretly thought in his heart, if others admired the Great Song Dynasty, it would be a good thing, but it would not be fun to be admired by you people.

Xiao Yuben has always liked to do the kind of thing that bows respectfully, and then suddenly pulls out a knife.

Chen Yuan glanced at Fujiwara Kunzaburo: "This can't be blamed on them, our Great Song Dynasty is a state of gentlemen, and we have always been tolerant of allies and vassal states, alas, this time you came too late, if you had established diplomatic relations with the Great Song Dynasty three years earlier, the trade between us would not have been interrupted for three years at all." ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo bowed: "Don't worry, don't worry, our future cooperation will definitely make us forget these unpleasant things." ”

Chen Yuan seemed to be pondering, didn't speak for a long time, and finally shook his head: "No, I'm not sure to convince our emperor now, what I can promise you is that I will never let the Great Song Dynasty send troops, even if we want to show some appearance to the Goryeo, we will not fight with real swords." ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo said that he could understand Chen Yuan's distress: "I am already grateful that Master Ma can do this." On behalf of our Emperor and our generals, I would like to express my gratitude to the Princess, and when we settle Goryeo, the things that stand in our way will naturally disappear. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, we will inevitably invite the master of the horse to Dongying to express our gratitude. ”

Chen Yuan nodded: "Don't say any of this, I just hope that you can keep your promise, if we have a war with Liao in the future, I hope your country will send troops to help." Although the conditions I give you do not represent the opinion of our emperor, please believe me, we only need the thirteen prefectures of Yanyun, and the rest of the Liaodong region, we can discuss. ”

This condition is obviously very tempting, and it seems reasonable to Fujiwara Kunzaburo. The Song Dynasty and the Liao State were feuds, and it was in order to contain the Liao State that they established diplomatic relations with hundreds of thousands of years old coins and Goryeo people a year. Now that they have defeated Goryeo, there is nothing doubtful that the Song dynasty chose them as their new allies to discuss future wars.

"I've written back to our general, and I think he'll agree with him too."

The two of them were talking while drinking sake, and before they knew it, the two pots of sake went down.

Chen Yuan felt hot all over, so he stopped drinking: "Okay, since that's the case, the envoy should go back." In this situation, it's not good that you've been with me for too long. Our army will soon be mobilized to the border of Liao, the people of Liao will be nervous, they will no longer have the leisure to care about you and Goryeo's affairs, you can let it go, remember to move faster. ”

Fujiwara Kunzaburo got up and said goodbye: "Hayi! ”

As soon as this kid left, Pang Xi flashed in from the outside again: "Master Horse, General Di Qing and Liu Ping have been treating you for a long time. ”

Chen Yuan stared at the direction where Fujiwara Kunzaburo disappeared, a smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, Dongying people are the kind of people who pull knives behind their backs, and so is Chen Yuan.

That's how this game is played, more shameless than whom, more lewd than whom. If you're a little more shameless, you'll be able to get a little quicker than your opponent. Only by being more obscene can the other party not be able to react when the knife is released.

Chen Yuan can play this game, Fan Zhongyan can't, and Renzong can't. They are all too gentlemanly, especially Renzong, when Chen Yuan told him about this plan, he actually asked Chen Yuan, what excuse is suitable for starting a war with the Dongying people?

There is no need for excuses, at least not until the fight begins. It is necessary to convince the people of Dongying that the Great Song Dynasty really wants to form an alliance with them, intending to carve up the Liao Kingdom together. Let Liao Xingzong also know that the Dongying people have formed an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty.

Although Renzong had some opinions on such an act, he finally chose to continue to believe in Chen Yuan. The matter between Goryeo and Dongying has always been done by Chen Yuan, and now it is a little derailed, but Renzong still believes that Chen Yuan has this ability, because Chen Yuan has never let him down.

Di Qing walked up to Chen Yuan: "Master Concubine, the emperor has issued a secret decree to let me obey your dispatch, what is there to do, is it to intervene in the war in Goryeo?" ”

Chen Yuan didn't hide it from him: "Yes, Brother Di, you come in with me." ”

Di Qing and Liu Ping followed him into the room, and Pang Xi immediately opened a map, which was Dongying's map. Chen Yuan's hand lit on the four islands: "The total population of Dongying now is nearly 10 million, and according to the proportion of men of appropriate age, they should be able to use a maximum of 800,000 troops. This is a large number, a normal army should be in the form of three or four hundred thousand, and according to the information I have obtained, it should not be far from this number. ”

Di Qing didn't speak, he came this time because Renzong asked him to come, and his task was to listen to what Chen Yuan had to say, and then what he did.

Chen Yuan's hand moved to Goryeo's position again: "Over the years, the Goryeo and Dongying people have been stumbling, and many people have been killed and injured on both sides, and now there are 100,000 Dongying troops who have set foot on Goryeo, and there are troops on the way to transport, during this time I am negotiating with them about the purchase of some materials, judging from the materials they are ready to buy, the troops in Goryeo will definitely not be less than 200,000." ”

Di Qing's brows furrowed: "It's hard to fight." ”

200,000 troops, even if most of the Dongying people only have one sword, it is enough for the Song army to fight. What's more, the Song army was fighting across the sea, which was a method of warfare that they had never tried, and Di Qing was not very sure in his heart.

Chen Yuan nodded: "Goryeo is not easy to fight, if it can't be solved quickly, once the Liao State intervenes, things will become very bad, so I want to fight Dongying, directly kill their emperor, and force the Dongying people to come back for a naval battle." ”

(To be continued)