Chapter 39: Weird

The peace agreement was full of gunpowder from the beginning, Liu Yanzong has always maintained a strong and aggressive attitude, insisting on signing the peace agreement with Wang Wei and the court as the bottom line, but Zhao Tan has always been smiling, tepid, just not agreeing. However, Nie Shan and Wang Yun were very firm, and they would not agree to this condition no matter what, and they quarreled with Liu Yanzong and cited scriptures to argue.

"Two adults, you still have to take Yanyun as the boundary and sixteen states as the boundary, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, your emperor has signed a contract with my king in Bianjing City in February of this year to cede the three towns, and compensate 20 million taels of silver, do you want to regret it before the ink is dry?" Liu Yanzong pursed his lips and said very disdainfully.

"Hmph, in order to destroy Liao, the Song and Jin countries signed the "Maritime Alliance" and agreed to assign the sixteen states of Yanyun to our dynasty, this proposal is first, and this proposal should prevail, and the previous proposal has not yet been fulfilled, and your dynasty will brazenly send troops to attack my Great Song Dynasty, of course, the latter discussion cannot be counted!" Wang Yun said.

"The failure to fulfill the last agreement is all due to your court's unauthorized reception of the rebel general Zhang Jue, with your emperor's handwritten edict as evidence, our dynasty sent troops to punish you for breaking the contract!" Liu Yanzong said with a glare.

"Not really, I took in Zhang Jue because you didn't keep the agreement and return it to the Shanhou Prefectures, so I had to use it as a last resort!" Nie Shan said.

"You can ask Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo about this matter, and it was they who signed the peace agreement at that time!" Liu Yanzong said.

"Hmph, Lord Liu has a good idea, Zhao Liangsi has been subdued because of this matter, Ma Kuo is trapped in your army in Hebei, who are we going to ask, I think you should ask your Emperor Taizu!" Zhao Ta interjected with a sneer.

"You... Is King Yan threatening his own officials? Liu Yanzong was so choked that he almost couldn't catch his breath, and asked him to ask a dead man, wouldn't he want him to die too.

"This king thinks it's Lord Liu who has been intimidating us. What kind of bullshit peace agreement did you have when your soldiers came to the city to coerce my emperor and coerce the minister to sign a peace agreement? Back then, your ancestor didn't lick his boots for the ministers of the Great Liao Kingdom. Should you also abide by what was discussed at that time, and should you still put Yelu Yanxi back on the throne? What about you, Lord Liu, going to be the Shunmin of Daliao again? Zhao Ta took the case and started to reprimand Liu Yanzong as if he were a child.

"Back then, the Jurchen tribes were oppressed by the Khitans, and my Emperor Taizu was angry and raised troops, and the tribes were in fire and water, how could things be counted at that time!" Liu Yanzong is irrefutable, but he can't admit to breach of contract if he says anything.

"Since Lord Liu also knows that he was forced to sign the contract against his will by the situation back then, why can't I not count when it comes?" Zhao Ta asked, he also understood that he couldn't figure out these things about Chen Sesame and rotten grains for ten or eight years, but this is the way the negotiation is, and the eggs are eager to pick out the bones. Not to mention the agreement like waste paper, in the end, it is still a fist that has the final say, and morality is put aside.

"King Yan means that the above is not counted, let's discuss it again?" Liu Yanzong said.

"Yes, if this king doesn't have time to talk to you here, if you want to talk, you can talk quickly, if you don't want to talk, let's continue to fight!" Zhao Ta took a sip of tea and said a few times.

"Okay, then what are the conditions of King Yan?" Liu Yanzong originally wanted to transfer the Song people to the original peace negotiation with his own twists and turns, and he reached a peace agreement with a little sweetness. I didn't expect this Yan Wang to be a thief, and he messed up his plan in three or two sentences.

"There are no conditions, the situation of the two countries after the resumption of the war against Liao, you can withdraw from Yanjing Mansion. Return the hostage of King Su and Dazai, the plundered people and property, and cancel the tax money in Yanjing. That's all! Zhao said.

"King Yan's condition is a bit high, it seems that there is no sincerity!" Liu Yanzong said.

"Huh. Lord Liu can also say your conditions, and we will discuss it again! Nie Shan smiled secretly. The prince's price is high, and the meaning of the saint is to cede the three towns, and the New Year's coins can be put down, so the prince is defrauding them? Or is there another plan.

"We can also take a step back and not demarcate the Yellow River, as long as you cede the three towns and pay the currency to be a vassal, but King Yan still inevitably has to go to my Dajin in exchange for King Su and Dazai!" Liu Yanzong said.

"Okay, this is also an attitude, but you and I are both people who do things, and we are not in charge, after this king asks the saint, we will discuss it in three days!" Zhao Ta saw that Wang Yun opened his mouth to say something, this Liu Yanzong basically said that it was basically in line with what was discussed in the court, he was afraid that Wang Yun would say that he was bald, so he hurriedly grabbed the words and said.

"Then we'll see you in three days!" Liu Yanzong said that he was anxious, but he didn't dare to be too eager, so he could only agree...

Talk about it three days later, Zhao Ta still asked to take Yanshan as the boundary, Jin Fang made a concession again, no longer insisted on ceding the three towns, as long as the tax money, but still insisted on taking the prince as a hostage, it seems that they hated Zhao Ta to the core, and they didn't want to take out the territory, but also to control him, of course, they were unhappy and broke up, and they talked about it on the agreed day.

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, the two sides sat together again, looking at King Yan's tepid appearance, Liu Yanzong was angry. These days, the Song army has gone north several times, and it has reached a true decision, and the two sides have suffered casualties in the battle, but in the past, the Song army never dared to penetrate into the rear of the Jin army.

But these are still small things, now the situation in Shangjing is becoming more and more crisis, this slave revolt has become more and more serious, there are more than a dozen bandits in Shangjing, most 20,000 or 30,000 people, some 3 or 4,000 people, they even combined their troops to reach the outside of Shangjing several times. The financier Wu Qimai sent a letter to strictly order them to return to Beijing to quell the rebellion, and the rhetoric was already very fierce.

This made Han Li not fall into a dilemma, and now he is not only worried about returning empty-handed, which involves the problem of face, but the question of whether he can retreat with the whole army. The Song army not only gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, but also was eager to try, and repeatedly approached the city, he had to abandon those small towns, and concentrate his forces in a few large cities to ensure that the back road was not cut off.

The other thing that Han Li didn't worry about was that the peace agreement could not be reached, even if he retreated, if the Song army followed and pursued like last time, once he launched an attack, he might have to stay here. There is also a worry that King Yan will not eat this soft and hard goods, he is worried that even if he gives in again, and this kid does not abide by the agreement, he still sends troops to chase and kill. But now the emperor is urging him tightly, if he drags it out, annoys the emperor, and his military power is taken away, there will be no more future, so the third meeting is very important.

"King Yan, regarding the return of King Su and Dazai, the king of my family has agreed, in order to show our sincerity, we can send Zhang Dazai back first, and then return to King Su after the peace agreement is reached!" As soon as the talks began, Liu Yanzong said.

"Oh, that's a good thing, I don't know when I'll send Zhang Dazai back!" Zhao Ta was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he understood, the Jurchens were still playing tricks, and King Su was obviously secretly robbed by someone he sent by himself, so what did he give, but this will also be an excuse in the future, so he readily agreed.

"Zhang Dazai is on the road now, and he will be sent to the army tomorrow!" Liu Yanzong said, "Can you also make some concessions!" ”

"Lord Wang, the emperor has repeatedly urged me to reach a peace agreement with the Jin people as soon as possible, and the Holy One means that the old realm can be restored, and the matter of money and silk should not be taken care of!" Wang Yun said in his ear.

"Don't retreat too much at once, otherwise there will be no way to talk about it later!" Zhao Ta thought for a while and said, if he blindly insisted, the emperor's brother would definitely have to think more, although the other two were temporarily on the same front with him, but the results of each negotiation were reported to the emperor's case word for word, and the emperor had a secret decree issued to them every time, and he said that he was just a deputy envoy, so it was not good to be too strong.

"The matter of Yanjing Mansion can be put on hold for the time being, and after the peace agreement is reached, the two countries will still take the old border between Song and Liao as the border, and the Jin army will not be allowed to cross the boundary river!" Wang Yun said.

"Well, this official will immediately inform the queen and we will discuss it again, and tomorrow we will send an envoy back to Zhang Dazai, please make it convenient, don't disturb Dazai!" Liu Yanzong said.

"It's okay, I hope you don't lose your word!" Wang Yun nodded and said, it is also a victory to return to Dazai...

The next day, Zhang Bangchang returned to Song Ying accompanied by Wang Wei, but he only stayed for one day before returning to Beijing, and Zhao Ta could only ask Nie Shan to accompany him to Beijing. Sending them away, Zhao Ta felt uneasy, thinking that Zhang Bangchang always had a strange feeling when he looked at him, at first he thought that he was still timid about himself because of the events of the year, but when he thought about it, he felt that he looked at himself as if he was looking at a dead man.

Speaking of which, it also makes people wonder, since Jin Ren returned Zhang Bangchang, he is no longer in a hurry about the peace discussion, and the meeting between the two is no longer tense, and if he doesn't agree with a word, Liu Yanzong smiled and left, saying that he wanted to go back and ask for instructions, and discuss it in the future. After going back and forth several times, Zhao Ta couldn't help but be vigilant, suspecting that it had something to do with Zhang Bangchang's return, could it be that he had reached some agreement with the Jin people, or that there was a conspiracy of the Jurchens!

In the blink of an eye, the New Year is approaching, and Zhao Ta suddenly received a holy decree on the twentieth day of the lunar month, saying that the emperor remembered that he had worked hard and had not returned for many years, and that the emperor and the queen mother missed him very much and invited him to return to Beijing to spend the New Year together. The envoy who came with the order brought a large number of gold and silk property to reward the three armies, and the meritorious people were rewarded, and everyone was really happy and grateful.

Thinking that the New Year was coming in a blink of an eye, the herald also urged him to go on the road. Everything is normal and reasonable, and Zhao Ta can't see anything wrong, but there is an ominous premonition that always hovers in his heart, especially Nie Shan, who accompanied Zhang Bangchang and Jin Jun, did not come back, and when he asked, he only said that the emperor was discussing peace with him, and he would return after a while.

Zhao Ta thought that maybe he was suspicious, if something happened, Jingzhong should send an alarm, but there was no news unfavorable to him, only that he was now a talking point in the streets and alleys of the capital, and his reputation was growing. But Zhao Ta still felt weird, but he couldn't guess it, so he had to explain the military affairs, told Zhao Zhong, Gao Zhong and others, and hurried on the road... (To be continued......)