Chapter 581: Treaty Signed

For the terms of this land cession, Princess Dening and his wife are also very interested, the current sea trade is offshore trade, sea ships are along the coastline, and Jiaozhi is located between the Great Song Dynasty and the South Seas, many of the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty have to pass through the port of Jiaozhi, but the seaports of the Jiaozhi people are subject to taxes, and they are also heavily taxed, after all, the Jiaozhi people even dare to attack the Great Song Dynasty, and the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty will naturally not be polite, it can be said that almost all the maritime merchants who docked in Jiaozhi will be stripped of a layer of skin.

But now, if the Great Song Dynasty can have a port in Jiaozhi, then the ships of the Great Song Dynasty can dock in Dali in the future, so as not to be exploited by Jiaozhi again, and the Great Song Dynasty can also garrison troops here, which can not only deter Jiaozhi, but also can make the power of the Great Song Dynasty go further to the South Seas, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

It is precisely because of this that after receiving the appointment from the imperial court, Princess Dening and his wife immediately began to study the terrain of Jiaozhi, and also found some businessmen who were more familiar with Jiaozhi to understand the situation. Finally, after their careful consideration and research, they finally decided to choose the ceded land in an area northeast of the mouth of the Fuliang River, which was originally a port of the Jiaozhi people, called the deep-water port, because it is a natural excellent port, the water depth of the port is nearly two zhang, so it is named after it, the sea ships of the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty are relatively tall, and the draft is also deeper, so they also like to dock in this port.

However, although the deep-water port was favored by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, the scale was not very large, mainly because the Jiaozhi people did not pay much attention to the lack of maritime trade, they only knew that they squeezed money from the passing maritime merchants, and the money squeezed was greedy by officials at all levels, where would they take it out to expand the port? Therefore, this also leads to the fact that although the deep-water port brings a large amount of tax revenue to Cochin every year, it is very dilapidated and outdated, and the attitude of port officials towards maritime merchants is also very bad. If there is a second option, I am afraid that all maritime merchants will not want to stop here.

Of course, the above is the bad situation of the deep-water port under the rule of Jiaozhi, if the Great Song Dynasty can take here, it will naturally not waste such a good natural port in vain, and even this place occupies the geographical advantage of being close to the South Sea, and it is likely to become a very prosperous port in the south of the Great Song Dynasty. At least it's much better than in the hands of the Cochins.

After the port was ceased definitively, Princess Dening marked the deep-water port on the map of Cochin, and then sent it to the capital in a flying pigeon to make a decision, but Zhao Shu quickly replied to them, in which he was very satisfied with their choice to cede the deep-water port, and he also pointed out that after consulting with the ministers, Tongguò found that the deep-water port was not far from Thang Long, the capital of Cochin. At that time, you can station heavy troops in the deep-water port to maintain a deterrent to Thang Long Mansion at all times, so that in the future, if you are not honest in the future, you can directly send troops from the deep-water port to destroy the other party.

Just when Princess Dening and his wife were preparing for the negotiation, the envoy who was forced to be sent by Li Rizun finally arrived in Guangzhou, and the envoy probably accepted his fate, and he didn't have the heart to bargain with Wang Shiyue during the negotiation, but after hearing the conditions proposed by the Great Song Dynasty. After a few days of symbolic consideration, the treaty was signed. Anyway, he has already seen that no matter what conditions Da Song proposes this time, he has no room for bargaining, and as long as he signs, no matter what the conditions are, he will not be able to escape when he goes back. In that case, it might as well be happy.

Of course, like this kind of treaty, it is still useless to rely on the signature of the envoys alone, and it must be signed by Zhao Shu and Li Rizun, so after the content of the treaty is agreed. Princess Dening immediately asked people to send the treaty back to the capital, and then asked Zhao Shu to sign it, and the same envoy also sent the treaty back for Li Rizun to sign.

Because the content of the treaty proposed by the Great Song Dynasty was almost unchanged, Zhao Shu naturally agreed with a stroke of the pen, as for Li Rizun's clause of compensating the Great Song Dynasty for 50 million guan, and when he ceded the deep-water port, the blood vessels on his forehead were beating wildly, and the deep-water port was just that, it was nothing more than to let Da Yue lose a port and financial resources, but the sky-high compensation of 50 million guan was too bullying, although the treaty said very clearly, they didn't need to take out 50 million guan immediately, But when he thought that they would have to spend a huge amount of money on Da Song every year, his heart felt like he was dripping blood.

However, even if there was all the reluctance, Li Rizun had no way to refuse, firstly, the envoys he sent out had already signed this treaty, and in addition, they were now on the weak side, and there was no room for bargaining at all, so no matter how excessive the conditions, they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

It is precisely because of this, so in the end, Li Rizun had to choose to sign the treaty, but he did not intend to honestly abide by the treaty, in his opinion, as long as he regained his strength in the future, he could snatch the deep-water port again, as for the indemnity, it would definitely stop, and even snatch it back from the Great Song Dynasty, anyway, this world was originally based on strength, he didn't believe that the Great Song Dynasty would always maintain a heavy army in the south, as long as the Great Song Dynasty's army withdrew, then there were too many things he could do.

It's a pity that although Li Rizun made a good calculation, but the Great Song Dynasty had already seen his temperament clearly, just after the treaty was signed, Li Rizun immediately asked the Great Song Dynasty army to withdraw from Thang Long Mansion, and the Great Song Dynasty asked Li Rizun to honor the content of the treaty first, first of all, to compensate the first batch of 500,000 guan, and also to hand over the deep-water port to the Great Song Dynasty, and within a radius of thirty miles of the deep-water port, it is forbidden to appear in the army and officials of Jiaozhi, as for the ordinary people can come and go freely, but within the scope of the deep-water port, But they will be governed by the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Rizun was anxious to return to Shenglong Mansion to prove that he had reached a peace with the Great Song Dynasty, so as to re-establish the prestige of his king, you must know that Jiaozhi was originally a subject country of the Great Song Dynasty, and he, the king, must also be recognized by the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise he will be lacking in righteousness, plus he has been defeated by the Great Song Dynasty one after another, so if he takes the Huilong Mansion one day earlier, he will have one more point to regain the strength of Jiaozhi, which is why Li Rizun can't afford to wait.

The Great Song Dynasty is a sword, and Jiaozhi is the fish and meat on the board, and Li Rizun cannot be allowed to have any resistance, so in the end, he can only let people hand over the deep-water port to the Great Song Dynasty, and Princess Dening and his wife have long been prepared for this, with the withdrawal of the Jiaozhi officials and the army, the officials and sailors of the Great Song Dynasty immediately entered the deep-water port, which also marked the official change of ownership of the deep-water port.

However, although the deep-water port was cut out, but the 500,000 yuan indemnity made Li Rizun very difficult, if the Shenglong Mansion had not been lost, with his Dayue treasury and his own inner treasury could afford to pay compensation, but now he fled to Hualu, all the money was lost to the Song army, and even some of his concubines and children were captured by the Song army when they fled, fortunately the Song army did not abuse them, but they also became one of the bargaining chips for the Great Song Dynasty to negotiate with him.

It can be said that now Li Rizun is poor jingling, let alone 500,000 guan, I'm afraid he can't even get 10,000 guan, but Da Song doesn't care about this, just urges Li Rizun to pay compensation, otherwise he won't withdraw his troops from Shenglong Mansion, which makes Li Rizun angry and helpless, and finally has to search for money everywhere, and even sometimes has to use some special means.

So in this case, Hualu and the nearby rich people can fall into blood mold, as the so-called "is sitting at home behind closed doors, disaster comes from the sky", one day suddenly by a group of soldiers broke into the house, and then looted the family's money, if you dare to resist, it will immediately attract a violent beating, and you may even lose your life when you are strict.

For Li Rizun's approach, although Li Changjie and other ministers also know that it is very improper, but now they are facing the moment of life and death, so they can't take care of these at this time, even if the people around Hualu hate Li Rizun and them very much, and even some people have begun to resist with arms, but in Li Rizun's opinion, as long as they can take the Huilong Mansion and re-establish the prestige of King Jiaozhi, then it is worth it.

After nearly a month of brutal looting, countless rich people in Jiaozhi were ruined because of this, and finally Li Rizun gathered 500,000 pieces of property, and then sent them to the Song army in the Thang Long Mansion as quickly as possible.

Speaking of Guo Kui, they don't want to stay in a ghost place like Jiaozhi anymore, not only is the weather extremely hot, but it also rains a lot, and the surroundings are wet, sometimes there is no dry place on the whole body for a whole day, either sweat or rain, they are worried that if they stay like this again, I am afraid that their whole body will be moldy.

After a few days of preparation, Guo Kui's army finally began to slowly evacuate Thang Long Mansion, but although they were all in a hurry to leave, Guo Kui was very careful, and always paid attention to the situation of the Jiaozhi people when retreating, so as not to be attacked by the enemy at this last moment, you must know that there are not a few such things in history, so he would rather make more preparations than lead the name of his life to be wasted because he is too careless.

In fact, Guo Kui's caution is also very necessary, because Li Changjie is built to observe the retreat of the Song army at all times, if the Song army retreats without any preparation, maybe Li Changjie will really bite back, as long as he can successfully eliminate Guo Kui's army, then all the previous losses can be won back, but unfortunately when Li Changjie saw the Song army retreating busy and not chaotic, he sighed, it seems that God did not even give the last chance to turn defeat into victory. (To be continued......)