"Princess, don't you believe me Da Song?" Zhao Pu asked.

Princess Goryeo said, "I really don't believe it. The Great Song Dynasty has always been the most untrustworthy, first allied with the Khitan, but later betrayed the alliance and united the Jin army to destroy the Khitan; An alliance was signed with the Western Xia, but the war in the northwest continued. The reputation of the Song Dynasty is not very good! ”

Zhao Pu was a little speechless, the reputation of the Song Dynasty was indeed very poor.

And the most important thing is that the Song Dynasty's military strength is very poor, and it is simply unable to ensure the safety of the alliance, and once it forms an alliance with the Song Dynasty, it must be prepared to be trapped.

Sure enough, I am not afraid of insufficient capital, but I am afraid that my reputation is too poor; I'm not afraid that my reputation is too stinky, but I'm afraid that my reputation is too bad.

Zhao Pu was a little embarrassed, but he still stubbornly said: "That's the past, not the present." One Emperor, One Style! ”

"Great Song, it's hard to convince this palace!" Princess Goryeo shook her head and said, oil and salt do not enter.

"Then there's no need to talk about it!" Zhao Pu said with a smile.

"It's not that I can't talk about it?" Princess Goryeo said: "As long as the Great Song pays a sufficient price, even if I know that I will be caught, I am willing to give it a try!" ”

Zhao Pu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and sure enough, there was no inappropriate price to negotiate in the world, only the price he was unwilling to pay. As long as you pay enough, even if you know that you will be caught, you are willing to jump into the pit.

"Then I don't know Your Highness, what are the conditions?" Zhao Pu pondered, "If you want money, you still want property, as long as it's not too harsh, I agree!" ”

Princess Gaoli said: "Your Majesty, can you bring the letter of alliance?" ”

"This is the Book of Alliance!" As he spoke, Zhao Pu threw away the alliance book.

The princess of Goryeo looked at it, and the core of the covenant was to use the path of Goryeo. Attack Liaodong from land, and Goryeo will play the role of a logistics base. Provide the Song Dynasty with military supplies, grain and grass supplies, and so on. Looking at it, I frowned.

These treaties. It was mainly in favor of the Song Dynasty, but not in favor of Goryeo.

From the treaty, Goryeo did not get land, nor money, but only received an illusory reward from the kingdom, and the gains outweighed the losses.

"In the covenant, it seems to be unfavorable to me Goryeo!" Princess Goryeo said. "If the gold is destroyed, what can I get in Goryeo?"

"Isn't a hundred years of peace enough!" Zhao Pu said with a smile. The smile was a little embarrassed, "What does the princess want?" ”

Princess Goryeo said unceremoniously: "Land and money!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Pu nodded, "There is an alliance!" ”

Princess Goryeo nodded and threw the letter away.

Zhao Pu took it in his hand. Look closely. His expression gradually became depressed. The appetite of the Goryeo people is so great, once the Jin is successfully destroyed in the covenant, then the Liaodong part will be assigned to the territory of Goryeo; The Song Dynasty leased some land in Goryeo, and had to pay a certain rent, about 30,000 yuan per Chinese New Year's Eve; For the sake of peace between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, the Song Dynasty should make Goryeo a country that will never be conquered.

These are the three core clauses of the Goryeo Covenant, the important land. Money, security.

There is nothing wrong with that. It's just that Zhao Pu is difficult to accept.

lost Liaodong, the safety of Youyun was not guaranteed, and the lips were cold and the teeth were cold; And asking for money is also a disguised New Year's coin; And to be safe is the foundation to ensure the implementation of the first two items. Once this article was established, the Song Dynasty could not conquer Goryeo at all, otherwise it would lose its righteousness.

Clever!

Zhao Pu sighed in his heart.

Sure enough, in this era, if you want to mix in the world, no one is a fool, and the seemingly weak Goryeo is actually extremely shrewd.

But it's right to think about it.

After the Khitan destroyed the Bohai Kingdom in 926, Goryeo Taejo absorbed the remnants of the Bohai Sea and planned to go on a northern expedition. In 942, the Khitan gave Goryeo 50 camels, but Goryeo Taejo refused. The Khitan envoys were banished to an isolated island, and the camels they sent were starved to death (Wanfu Bridge Incident). Later Goryeo kings all adopted a hostile policy towards the Khitan and allied themselves with the Song dynasty. In order to prevent Goryeo and Song from uniting against the Khitan, the Khitan attacked Goryeo on a small scale in 983, 985, and 989. In 993, an army of 800,000 Khitans set out from Liao and crossed the Yalu River to invade northwestern Goryeo. The Goryeo army fought fiercely with the Khitan in Fengshan County. Eventually, the Khitan army was controlled on the Qingchuan River. Seeing the swiftness and resoluteness of Goryeo's counter-aggression, the Khitan realized that the cost of conquering the Korean Peninsula by force would be enormous.

So the Khitan began to negotiate with Goryeo. After Goryeo agreed to sever its alliance with the Song, the Khitan retreated and gave Goryeo land east of the Yalu River. The two sides have established friendly and good-neighborly relations. In 1009, there was a military mutiny in Goryeo. Kang Zhao, the general of the anti-Liao army, killed Mujong of Goryeo and proclaimed Hyunjong of Goryeo as king. The Khitan took the opportunity to take revenge on Mujong of Goryeo and launched an army of 400,000 to invade Goryeo again. Kang Zhao led his army to resist hard, but was finally defeated by the Khitan and died on the battlefield. Hyeonjong fled the imperial city.

After the Khitan occupied Kaesong, they began to retreat because the battle line was too long, fearing that they would be counterattacked by Goryeo. Goryeo took advantage of the situation to counterattack and dealt a heavy blow to the Khitan. In 1018, the Khitan sent an army of 100,000 to make a comeback. But it was defeated by the Goryeo army. The two sides later negotiated peace, and the Khitan never invaded Goryeo again.

In the era when the Liao State was the strongest and stronger, there was no choice but to go to Goryeo.

Some Jurchen tribes in the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula were vassals of Goryeo and paid tribute to Goryeo. The leaders of the Jurchen clan received military attache titles from Goryeo, including General, General Ningsai, General Guide, General Rouyuan, General Huaihua, etc.; Civil official positions include Da Xiang, Da Kuang, Yuan Fu, Zheng Fu, Da Cheng and so on. Because these Jurchen tribes are located in northeastern Goryeo, they are called "Eastern Jurchens" or "Northeast Jurchens".

After the Yanbu unified the Jurchens, the Jurchens became powerful and began to provoke Goryeo and eventually invaded Goryeo. Due to nearly a hundred years of peace, Goryeo did not have a strong army at that time. In the face of the Jurchen invasion, Goryeo Sujong ordered all the soldiers of Goryeo to go into battle to resist the invasion, but they were defeated by the invading Jurchens. However, under the persuasion of Yin Qiang, the Jurchens later retreated. After the Jurchens retreated, Yin Qian felt that Goryeo lacked a lean army, so he reorganized the Goryeo army and trained an elite force. In 1107, Yin led a reorganized army of 17,000 men to attack the Jurchens and eventually won. After the victory, Yoon built 9 castles (Nine Cities) in the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula. In 1108, the ministers of the Goryeo court fought. The new monarch of Goryeo, Ruizong, ordered Yoon to withdraw his troops. In 1115, the Jurchens established the Jin state, which soon destroyed the Liao state. The rise of the Jin state severed Goryeo's ties with China's Song dynasty and other neighboring states. As a result of its isolation, the power of the Goryeo state began to weaken.

Goryeo was weakened, but it was easy to defeat Goryeo, and it would take a heavy price to destroy Goryeo.

In front of the Khitan, the Song Dynasty lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun; In front of the Jurchens, the Song Dynasty lost half of the country. In contrast, Goryeo was only a few small defeats, and even forced the Liao army and the Jin army to retreat, and the record was brilliant.

To survive in the face of the powerful Khitan and the murderous Jurchen is not an ordinary character!

Sure enough, barbarians are not terrible, but they are afraid that barbarians are cultured; I'm not afraid that the country is small.,I'm afraid of the sinicization of the country.。

Getting the cultural supply of the Central Plains, coupled with the fierce folk customs, will forge a strong country that threatens the Central Plains, such as the Khitan, the Western Xia, the Jin, and the Goryeo.

"No! Land can not be given. Losing Liaodong, the clouds are dangerous, and no one wants to have the enemy's long sword against their necks! After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Pu flatly rejected the territorial claim.

Joke!

Goryeo's desire to expand its territory to Liaodong was categorically unfeasible.

Fighting a war is not for the sake of a struggle of will, and the destruction of gold is not just a struggle for righteousness, but more for profit.

The "three redundancies" of the Song Dynasty were almost fatal.

The best way to solve this problem is to expand the territory and obtain a large amount of arable land to relieve the pressure on the population. The Northeast has a large amount of black soil, most of which has not yet been developed, and the land fertility is large, unlike Guanzhong and Sichuan, which have experienced thousands of years of development and the land fertility has been exhausted.

The difficulty of developing the Northeast is far less than that of going overseas to open up territory.

Goryeo, if you want to get involved in the Northeast, it is impossible in a short time.

"Your Majesty, are you not agreeing?" Princess Goryeo's tone was a little cold.

"You don't joke, I won't deceive people, and I'm too lazy to deceive people, telling the truth now is better than regretting it in the future!" Zhao Pu's expression was indifferent, "Land, there is nothing to talk about, I don't want to just destroy the Jin Kingdom, and there will be another strong enemy in Goryeo, and there will be another war to destroy the country." I will not leave a curse on my descendants! ”

"Isn't there any room for it?" Princess Goryeo said, "If the negotiation is not appropriate, do you want to come to the Jin Kingdom to be interested?" ”

"Is this a threat?" Zhao Pu said coldly.

"Destroy gold, if there is not enough benefit, how can Goryeo take action?" Princess Goryeo said.

Zhao Pu said: "Without the alliance of Goryeo, the Great Song Dynasty would just fight for a few more years and die more than 100,000 people, and there is nothing remarkable." It is better than leaving a legacy to the Hereafter! The mistakes made by Taizong will not be made again! ”

Zhao Pu's rigid attitude and Princess Goryeo's aggressive momentum brought the negotiations to an impasse for a while. (To be continued......)

PS: The plot is stuck, there was no change yesterday, two changes today, and one more at night