In October, the Great Song Dynasty protested against the Jurchens' restoration of the Marshal's Palace, saying that they had violated the rules of the peace talks and were not allowed to engage in hostile acts against the other side. At present, the construction of boundary trenches, fortresses and other military facilities on the border between the two countries, and the deployment of heavy troops, are completely provocative acts, and the Great Song Dynasty has the right to terminate the peace negotiations between the two sides and take countermeasures.

In the face of the accusations of the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Guo immediately sent Shangshu Zuocheng Xiao Zhonggong to Bianjing to deliver the Sui tribute while explaining the matter and clarifying the misunderstanding. They claimed that the construction of the boundary trenches was only to prevent the harassment of the border by the Tatars and the invasion of coastal cities by pirates, and they did not mean to use troops against the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, he tactfully proposed that the Great Song Dynasty mobilized heavy troops to the northwest and frequently conducted military exercises against Jin, so as to undermine the peace between the two countries and prepare to use force against Jin.

Of course, the Great Song would not admit that it wanted to carry out the Northern Expedition, saying that since the Jin State had launched a war against the Song Dynasty without warning twenty years earlier, it had to be vigilant against the construction of military facilities to prevent it from launching a surprise attack. As long as they demolish the boundary trenches, reduce the garrisons on the border, and abolish the Marshal's Mansion, the Great Song Dynasty agreed to cancel the military exercises against them this winter.

The boundary trench was built by the prime minister's vulture with the strength of the whole country, and you said that the Great Song Dynasty would demolish it, and of course Xiao Zhonggong categorically rejected the unreasonable request of the Great Song Dynasty. It is said that it was precisely because the Song Dynasty court continued to promote hatred for the Jin State to the people and supported the frequent harassment of the border areas of the Jin State by the Mughurs that the tension in the border shape of the Jin State was triggered, and the construction of boundary trenches by the Jin State was completely a defensive measure, and was never used to attack.

Naturally, the Great Song Dynasty would not agree with the absurd argument that the boundary trenches built by the Jin State were only used for defense, pointing out that its boundary trenches built fortresses and deployed heavy troops in military important places. A large amount of grain, grass and military supplies were hoarded, which could be used as an advance base for attacking the Great Song Dynasty. The Muguls did not launch an attack on the Jin Kingdom. They are only taking revenge on the Tatars, who have a blood feud with them.

But it was the Jin State that interfered in the affairs of the two tribes without authorization and executed the Mughal Baba Khan. He also brazenly dispatched troops to attack the Mengwu tribe to lead the deterioration of the border shape, so that the grassland, which had already seen the dawn of peace, fell into inter-tribal vendetta again, and spread to the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and the herdsmen along the border did not dare to graze, and the farmers did not dare to farm. This responsibility should be borne by Jin Guo, not on the consequences of his own sowing on the Great Song Dynasty.

Then the Great Song Dynasty brought up the old matter again, saying that the Jin military kidnapped two craftsmen from the northwest workshop of the Great Song Dynasty, and not only did they not return them after the Great Song Dynasty demanded them in many ways, but they were also killed by them. How could such a blatant act of aggression convince the Great Song to believe that it was building fortifications on the border. Hoarding heavy troops is only for defense, not in preparation for war. Xiao Zhonggong has a hard time discerning this, but in fact, he still knows a little about the whole story.

In order to obtain the manufacturing method of the Song Army's Lianzhu gun, the Jin State Espionage Department worked hard to collect information from all over the world, and the emperor paid off his painstaking efforts to let them buy two gun-making craftsmen from the northwest workshop of the Great Song Dynasty, and promised to abduct them to the Jin Kingdom with a lot of money. And the Great Song Dynasty quickly noticed it, and used various relationships to find it, but the group of stupid people in the spy department had no brains, and the two craftsmen were homesick. They actually took the two of them to the 'Song Pavilion' to relieve the pain of lovesickness, but their whereabouts were leaked, and the Great Song Dynasty got the evidence, so they demanded it in the name of the Jin State kidnapping people.

Siew Chung-gong, who was in charge of diplomacy at the time, was in charge of handling the matter. After asking, I realized that the two of them were indeed brought by their own people, but they were two useless wastes, and the things they brought were fake at all. It didn't have the slightest effect at all, and as a result, the people of the spy department killed the two 'liars' in a fit of anger. I can't send it back. He could only prevaricate the Great Song Dynasty on the grounds that the two of them could not bear to bully him and fled to the Jin Kingdom, and resolutely refused to admit that they were kidnapped.

Because according to the provisions of the peace conference between the two countries. It is not allowed to accept fugitives from the other country, and they should be sent back in time after being caught, so even if they are voluntarily transited, the Jin State has the obligation to catch and return them to the Great Song Dynasty. In fact, everyone usually turns a blind eye to this agreement, because the border line is so long, no one can see it, and as long as it is not a large-scale escape, no one will care, so just throw off the hat of kidnapping.

However, the Great Song Dynasty refused to stop there, and did not hesitate to use its own spy personnel to set a trap to arrest the Jin State spies who had lured the two craftsmen at the beginning. fell into the hands of others, and what kind of confession could not be done, so Jin Guo was convicted of 'kidnapping', and in order to appease the angry Da Song, he finally had to return the body and pay a lot of money. Unexpectedly, Da Song took it out again today as evidence to accuse them of invading Da Song.

Although he was at a disadvantage, Xiao Zhonggong could only stand up and refuse to admit it, so the two sides had a war of words, accusing the other party of wanting to start a war and destroy the hard-won peace between the two countries. In the face of the 'unreasonable' Jurchens, the Great Song Dynasty decided to take substantive measures against the provocation of the Jin State, and set up a-for-tat deployment of the northwest camp and the southeast camp, with Zhao Li, the Marquis of Duyu, and Gao Zhong, the privy envoy of Tongzhi, concurrently in charge of the five Zhenfu Divisions of Datong, Dading, Xi'an and Yanjing, Zhending and Dengzhou in the southeast, as well as the state armies.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was an important title of military commander, and it was the commander-in-chief of all front-line deployments, and in the unification war of the Song Dynasty, it was often the title of the supreme commander. This position is not a permanent title, only the commander of the heavy war military operations or important theaters is sometimes appointed, or temporarily granted, and the lowest position of the capital is also the regimental training envoy, and now the Song court with two important ministers of the state are deployed in this special period It is even more unusual, obviously raising the level of combat readiness by another level.

In the face of the aggressive Song army, the Jin country was very helpless and felt very embarrassed, this was really bullied to the doorstep, but they could only send more troops to wait for the battle, watching the Song army dancing with knives and guns under their noses. Just when they thought that war was inevitable, Xiao Zhonggong, who had gone to the Great Song Dynasty to negotiate in vain, said that the Song army would not launch a large-scale offensive in the near future, and that they were just bluffing, putting pressure on the Jin State to force the Jin army to tear down the border defenses.

And Xiao Zhonggong's confident judgment came from the news he heard during the Great Song Dynasty: Zhao Er, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, was preparing for the marriage of his two daughters and choosing a princess for his eldest son. In the Central Plains culture, military affairs have always been the fierce, thinking that war is a very unlucky thing, how could Zhao Er, as the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, launch a war on a happy day, adding blockage to himself and finding unhappiness, so he believed that although the Southern Dynasty was shouting joy, it would not take the initiative to start a war in the short term, and the Jin State could rest assured that it would be bold and actively respond, without being afraid of being humble and humble, so that the army's morale was discouraged and morale was lost.

Wushu felt that Xiao Zhonggong's analysis was very reasonable, and at the same time, there was news that the two countries were trading normally in the mutual market on the southern border. Since the Great Song Dynasty successively recovered the Yanyun region and occupied the Dading Mansion, the two countries were bounded by the Daling River in the west and the ancient Great Wall in the north, leaving a corridor about 300 miles wide in the middle, which became the main trade route between the Song and Jin countries. The Great Song Dynasty set up a field in Qianzhou on the Great Wall, allowing caravans from both sides to trade here, and with the completion of the Yingzhou port built in response to the drought the year before, it also attracted merchants from the southeastern Song Dynasty to trade by sea.

Compared with the tension between the two sides on the western border, there is a harmonious atmosphere here, and there is a lot of people coming and going on the field, and there is no tension between the two countries at all. Now, with the arrival of merchants from the southeast, the demand for furs, ginseng, deer antler velvet and timber from the Kingdom has increased dramatically, and the price has also risen. What was particularly satisfying to the merchants of the Jin Kingdom was that this year, the Great Song Dynasty not only allowed settlement in gold, silver, silk and other goods, but also allowed the use of copper coins common to both countries as currency and grain barter.

Copper and grain have always been strategic materials strictly controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, especially those that were absolutely not allowed to cross the border during wartime, let alone be used for trading, and now the Great Song Dynasty has opened up the grain trade to show that they have no intention of fighting the Jin State at all. Therefore, Wushu concluded that the Great Song Dynasty was showing off its strength in the west for blackmail, so he also ordered the Right Marshal's Office to launch military exercises against the Song army to show its strength to deter the enemy, but it was necessary to pay attention to the strategy not to cross the line and cause a major conflict, and at the same time ordered the Tatars to launch an attack on the Muguls to prevent them from constantly invading and plundering the winter pastures of the Jin Kingdom. For a time, the Song and Jin borders in the northwest were full of soldiers, iron hooves trampling on the ice and snow, and the clouds of war were thick, and there was a situation of imminent eruption......

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"How's that going for the Muguls now?" Although the western shape shì was nervous, the Jurchens still maintained restraint and did not cross the line, Zhao Ta urgently summoned the military intelligence department to Tong Shanghu, and he asked as soon as he entered.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates have already asked you to increase the attack on the Jin Kingdom, and now the right commander of the Jin army, Shan Zhongyi, has urged the Tatars to attack the Mughure several times to relieve their pressure." Shang Hu hurriedly said.

"Hmph, they are so calm that they still refuse to take action in person, and they still want to fake the Tatars to deal with the Mugul!" Zhao Ta snorted coldly and spun around the hall.

"What does His Majesty mean is to drag the Jurchens into the water and let them do something to the Mughals?" Shang Hu had been by the emperor's side for many years, and knew that the emperor was thinking about countermeasures, but he was dizzy when he saw it, thought about it and asked carefully.

"Nonsense, when you have so many troops playing with the Jurchens in the west, Lao Tzu is ready to beat them!" Zhao Ta stopped and glared at Shang Hu and said.

"Your Majesty is trying to find a reason to go to war?" Shang Hu asked with a smile.

"I know and ask, the teacher must be famous, otherwise as soon as Lao Tzu moves, those idle and uncomfortable scholars should give me a chapter again, and I am annoyed to death, but Zhao Li is a regular person, and he can't do anything to find trouble......" Zhao Ta nagged angrily, and suddenly looked at Shang Hu and smiled...... (To be continued......)