Chapter Seventy-Five: Smoke Bombs
Ma Kuo got the order of the prince, and when they met again, there was no longer a grovel and flattering look on his face, and he felt that his waist was straightened. He is also a veteran in dealing with the Jurchens, and he has come and gone dozens of times, but he has never been as beautiful and confident as in Xijing, but he also knows that it is precisely because of the support of the prince and the strong Zhongxing Army as the backing.
When it came to the second meeting, Ma Kuo put up the shelf, and Yinshu understood what was going on. He really didn't mention the matter of letting Xijing be a minister, and changed his words to ask to see Zhao Er, the king of Jin, who presided over the government, but was rejected by Ma Kuo, and directly issued an expulsion order.
Yinshu can touch a nose and want to slap his ass and leave, but this time he knows that he has a great responsibility to go to Xijing, and he is about to attack Song in the south, but Xijing is like a nail nailed to their seven inches. Fengshengzhou has lost their advance base to capture Hedong, but Xijing can attack the Yanjing area, not only can take advantage of the lack of their own forces to attack Yanjing, but also cut off their own retreat, not to mention attacking Song, their own territory may be lost.
Therefore, Yinshu can only swallow this evil breath for the sake of the overall situation, but it is inevitable to get on fire, when there was no Dajin Kingdom, he had sent an envoy to the Liao State to ask them for Ashu, in front of the Liao Emperor has never been like this, a word did not agree and strode out of the palace, back to the hand to send troops to attack, occupied the entire Liaodong. He also went to the Great Song Dynasty, taught the Great Song Emperor a lesson, and had to set up a banquet to entertain him in the main hall, but he rode out of the imperial city on horseback, but now he was forced by a child to not even dare to say a hard word, can you not be heartwarming?
"Master Ma. We can let go of the past, and our two armies will jointly attack the Song Dynasty. Then share the Central Plains Flower World Realm! Yinshuke said with a smile, and threw out the bait again.
"Lord Wanyan. The Great Song Dynasty and my Xijing have no grievances or enmity, so we can't rashly send troops to attack! Ma Kuo said with a smile.
"Master Ma, I know that you are originally from the Song Dynasty, but the Song Court is not only rotten, but also intolerant, and a talented person like Master Ma can't tolerate it, so why should you protect them!" Yinshu can say that when he attacked Hedong, Ma Kuan traveled back and forth between the two places. They had been in contact with each other and knew each other well.
"Lord Wanyan's words are wrong, as the saying goes, the food of the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, now I am a courtier of Xijing, everything I want to consider for Xijing, but I am not willing to go to the matter!" Ma Kuo said with a solemn face, he is also a veteran on the diplomatic front, so he can naturally hear Yinshuke's provocative meaning. He didn't say much, but he killed two birds with one stone, putting himself in the position of being attacked on both sides, and he immediately pushed back.
"Master Ma is too careful. I don't mean anything else! Yinshu Kegan laughed and said, "Then let's talk about things, Xijing is the land of Khitan." Song once betrayed his promise to attack Liao, and now he can take revenge by sending troops! ”
"Huh. Lord Wanyan may have forgotten that it was you Jin who occupied the land of the four capitals of the Liao Kingdom. The first emperor of the Northern Hunt, but the Great Song Dynasty did not get an inch of land, and if you want to take revenge, you will find your Jin Kingdom, not the Great Song Dynasty! Ma Kuo said with a smile, it seems that the Jurchens have really become immortals for the prince, and they still think that it is the Liao people who preside over Xijing, if they know that Lu Dao is the king here, I don't know what kind of face Lu Dao is.
"This..."Yinshu was speechless for a while, this was really a stone to shoot himself in the foot, but he deserved to be one of the few smart people among the Jurchens, and said with a slight hean, "Isn't it always the wish of the Khitan to go south to the Central Plains?" Now Song is already a high-rise building that is about to collapse, as long as we push lightly, we will collapse, there are countless beauties, gold and silver, all of which will belong to us! ”
"That is, as Lord Wanyan said, why don't you take it alone, but want our enemy to get a piece of the pie, we can't believe your words, I'm afraid that if we send troops in front, you will attack Xijing in the back, and then dominate the world!" Ma Kuo said coldly, not buying it.
"Why did Lord Ma say this, as long as Xijing promised to send troops and sign an oath, we can return King Yu and reunite with our families!" Silversmith can be said.
"Lord Wanyan, I'm afraid that your lord's conditions are more than these, right? Some words are better to talk about the front? Ma Kuo thought about it and said, the Jurchens wasted their strength to catch Yelu Yanxi, although he is now the abolished emperor, but after all, he is still a banner of Da Liao, and has a certain appeal, and the Jurchens are not stupid, and they will never let people go easily.
"Master Ma is quick to talk, as long as Xijing returns Fengshengzhou, I Dajin will return King Yu, and of course Tiande and other states will be ceded to Xijing!" Silversmith can be said.
Who would want a dead king, he didn't make the Khitan miserable, let him make trouble, besides, Tiande and other states have long been attacked, and Yinshu can take your things and give them to you, the abacus is clanging, but you can't take everyone for a fool, of course Ma Kuo will not agree, and immediately refused.
And in the next negotiations, Yinshu can continue to increase, anyway, he is bent on returning to Fengshengzhou. said that as long as they were willing to return it later, they were willing to exchange the land of Shangjing and the two states, Yelu Yanxi became a partner at this time, but Zhao Ta was unmoved and resolutely refused. There is no way to do the most post-silver art, so he actually proposed to borrow the road, and in the future, he will take the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and he can also give a piece to Xijing.
Speaking of which, Zhao Tan already understood that the reason why the Jin State wanted to redeem Fengshengzhou at any cost was that it still formed a two-way attack when attacking the Song Dynasty, and the loss of Fengshengzhou meant that its Western Route Army had to grab it from Xijing after thinking about it, but now it was not easy to win Xijing, and they were more worried about being cut off by Xijing when they went south.
Now that he has figured it out, of course Zhao Ta will not agree, but Yinshuke still stays in Xijing to 'soak mushrooms' and refuses to leave, and it seems that he has the determination to not give up until he reaches his goal...
At the same time as the Jin State sent envoys to negotiate with Xijing, they returned the previously occupied Goryeo Baoju to them in the east, so that Goryeo, which had always been subordinate to the Song Dynasty, turned to the Jin State as a vassal, and then demanded that Goryeo expel the slaves who had fled to the country, clear the bases of the Ministries, and arrest Ah Shu, and cut off the supply to them.
In the west, the Western Xia had already surrendered to the Jin State, although they were now in harmony, but they did not forget them, and at the same time they raised troops to launch an offensive against the Song Dynasty, pinning down the remaining Western troops in Shaanxi, Hedong and Hezhong of the Song Dynasty, and preventing them from returning to Kaifeng. Because of the unpleasant trouble last time, he ceded a piece of land at the northern foot of Yinshan to them, and promised that as long as he did a good job, he would give them Shaanxi.
The Jurchens were good at fishing and hunting, and they knew the allure of bait for their prey, and they also knew the thoughts of the Song court's monarchs and ministers, so they did not forget to shake the olive branch at the bottom of the table while using harsh words and intimidation, so that the Song people relaxed their vigilance in the dawn of anticipation of peace talks, so as to facilitate the smooth development of military operations.
The Jin State sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for guilt, but they were snubbed, so they mobilized heavy troops near the border river between the two countries to make a gesture of attacking the Song, and at the same time sent an envoy to Bianjing again to negotiate with the Song. Now that the tense is escalating, Geng Nanzhong doesn't dare to hide it anymore, so he can only play, Zhao Huan was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to receive him and restart the negotiations.
The attitude of the Jin envoy was very tough, on the grounds that the quality of the tribute sent was too poor, he wanted to abolish the previous peace agreement, let the Song cede the three towns, go to collect taxes himself, and the province would be fooled by it again. Of course, the Great Song Dynasty didn't do it, but only promised the two sides to re-check the tribute, if it was really a fake and shoddy product, it could be exchanged for compensation, and the three towns could not be cut.
The Jurchens, however, scoffed at the Great Song Dynasty's solution, believing that the Great Song Dynasty's breach of the contract had become the norm and was not trustworthy, and that it must be done according to their requirements. At the same time, the Jurchens sent scouts across the Jiehe River into Hebei, harassing them everywhere, and had the potential to fight if they did not agree, and once again increased their troops to Yanjing Prefecture.
The Jurchens' dispatch of troops did not attract the attention of the Great Song monarchs, but they thought that the Jurchens were greedy and only wanted to blackmail more gold and silver for their frequent activities on the border. Therefore, he only let the border generals monitor his movements, but he absolutely did not do anything to the Jin army in transit, lest the Jin State find an excuse to use force, and did not do anything to prepare for war, such as repairing the city, recruiting soldiers, and training volunteers, but only entangled in the amount of money.
Seeing November, the Jurchens suddenly relented, saying that as long as they compensated another 500,000 stone of grain and added 500,000 pieces of silver, they would no longer cede the three towns, but in order to prevent the Song people from making trouble in the future, they needed to send the prince as a hostage, and they would also send the wife and children of the prime minister of the dynasty to the Jin State as hostages at the same time.
Hearing the new conditions proposed by the Jurchens, all the ministers in the court breathed a sigh of relief, Zhao Huan also smiled, money and food are not a problem, and the prince can say that his father's sowing kung fu is first-class, he has thirty younger brothers, one is missing, one has become an immortal, and there are many more! The Jurchens are also very reasonable, since King Qin is going to be an immortal, then it is still King Kang! As for the wives and children of the prime ministers, Zhao Huan made a decision with a glare, and he sent his brothers out of Lu, do you still care about your wives and children?
Just when everyone thought that another crisis had passed, Zhao Ji, who was in the Nine-Fold Dragon De Palace, had trouble sleeping, after all, he had been the Son of Heaven for more than 20 years, and he had a hunch that the Jurchens would not give up attacking the Song Dynasty so easily. So he took the initiative to propose to his son that the Jurchen soldiers would make a comeback and take precautions, and it was best for Zhao Huan to deal with military affairs in Beijing, and go to Xijing to reorganize the army and practice martial arts, in order to prepare for the Jin people to attack.
At this time, although Zhao Huan still had the mind of being afraid that the Jin people would "serve their father and son", it was also different from the last time he ran away, probably because after his side was quiet, his brain could also think about things. However, Geng Nanzhong thought that it was impossible, Zhao Ji intercepted the division of the Qinwang of the Southeast Zhulu in the southeast before, and this time he still wanted to steal An Jiangzuo and set up another central government. Now that I am fortunate to have returned to Beijing, wouldn't it be unwise to let the tiger return to the mountains again... (To be continued......)