Maritime Alliance

On March 20th, because the book drafted by Jin Guo had the word 'Great Sage' in it, and the honorific title of Yelu Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Great Liao, was 'Great Sage and Emperor of Tomorrow', and the people of Jin Guo made a mistake! So Yelu Yanxi sent Xi Nilie to negotiate with the Jin State again... This eventually made Jin Taizu angry. The Liaojin peace talks were terminated, and the war between the two countries resumed...

On April 14, Zhao Liangsi and his entourage crossed the Bohai Bay and went ashore in Suzhou (formerly part of the Great Liao Tokyo Road, now the territory of the Jin Kingdom). The Shouchen Gao Guobao warmly greeted him. But on the 25th, Wanyan Aguda has once again divided his troops into 3 routes, and he personally recruited, and the goal was Linhuang Mansion, the capital of Shangjing Province in Daliao! Zhao Liangsi and other people had to chase non-stop from the shore, and on May 13, the army came to Qingniu Mountain, 650 miles outside the city of Linhuangfu. On the 14th, Zhao Liangsi finally caught up. But there was no time to talk, Ah Guda was too busy, so he ordered to bring the Song envoy Zhao Liangsi and the Liao envoy Xi Nilie to march together! And said to Zhao, "I'm very busy, you watch me use troops first, and I'll talk to you when I capture Liaoshangjing"

So on the same day, the Jin army marched in a hurry and arrived at the city of Linhuangfu. Zhao Liangsi witnessed the devastating attack power of the Jurchens here. He was surprised and vaguely began to regret that this combat power was far beyond his imagination! Even if he had expected that the Liao Kingdom would perish at the hands of the Jurchens, he did not expect the Jurchens to be so strong... Liao is dead, what will happen to Song?

He was thinking about it, when an even more amazing scene appeared. Wanyan Aguda personally supervised the battle, and the Great Liao Shangjing stayed behind to defend the tart and surrendered, and the Jin army attacked Liao Shangjing on the same day... On May 14, 1120, after the Great Liao Shangjing Province followed the Tokyo Province, it also fell into the hands of the Jin Kingdom!

This should be an unforgettable day for Zhao Liangsi, the Liao State Shangjing Dao Linhuang Mansion, which is the first and most important and authentic capital established by the Khitans among the five capitals! The world-famous city and giant mansion didn't even last a day, and it was flooded by the Jin Army's iron horse. He couldn't tell the difference between it and a miracle. Still a nightmare!

But it occurred to him to calm down. Wanyan Aguta asked him to watch the battle, isn't this a kind of demonstration? He's about to go to the negotiating table. What is the price? Do you dare to talk about it? Maybe this is the original intention of the Jurchens!

Zhao Liangsi was a controversial person, and his name appeared in the History of the Song Dynasty. In "The Legend of the Traitorous Minister", he is tied with Cai Jing, Qin Hui, Jia Yidao and other super treacherous evils, can he be said to be a top bad guy? But there have always been people who have complained about him, saying that only the Song Dynasty is sorry for him. No matter what he does when and where, he is wholeheartedly thinking about Song Chao! He is a good man who is loyal and righteous and cherishes his homeland! Which one is true? Let the facts speak, look at his every word and line in history...

In August, when he came to the negotiation table, Zhao Liangsi's first sentence made Wanyan Agu hit the black line on his face again, "In fact." I didn't bring a credential... But it's still for the sake of friendship and respect." Why do Han people always play this game?

Zhao Liangsi brought the imperial pen, which is more moving than the national letter in the level, because this is not drafted by officials, but the Great Song Emperor Zhao Ji personally conceived and written, "According to Yanjing and the state city under the management of the city, it was originally the Han land, if it is allowed to restore the old, the Zilai and Khitan silver silk will be transferred, and it can be discussed." Although there is no national trust, forgive me for saying that "there are two main points here: 1. Yanjing and the state city under its jurisdiction." It's a scope, and it's about these lands. 2 money. Zhao Ji said: If the Jurchens agree, then hand over the money that used to be given to the Liao State every year to the Jin State.

This was Zhao Ji's order, but Zhao Liangsi didn't want to follow it. He felt that he should fight for more benefits for the Song Dynasty. It's best to pay as little as possible. But when Zhao Liangsi saw the royal pen, his heart was cold. The royal pen is not something that can be read when you get it. What was written in it was top secret, and by the time he found out, it was too late! The words "Yanjing and the state city under its jurisdiction" are a big misunderstanding! Literally. Of course, the 16 states of Yanyun are dominated by Yanjing. The state cities under its jurisdiction are, of course, all of Yanyun's 16 states? Wrong! Outrageously wrong, childish, and wrong!

As a native of Youzhou, a Liao Han Chinese, Zhao Liangsi "Majesty." I'm going to give you a good geography lesson, you have to listen to it, isn't "Zhao Ji" a calligraphy and painting class? Geography lessons? What's so good about it."

Zhao Liangsi didn't care about the emperor's little complaints, "Your Majesty, there is a mountain called Taihang Mountain between the 16 states of Yanyun, do you know" Zhao Ji "I know"

Zhao Liangsi: "The 16 states of Yanyun are bounded by Taihang Mountain. There are 7 states of Tan, Shun, Ji, You, Zhuo, Mo and Ying in the southeast of Taihang Mountain, and they are called 7 states in front of the mountain. There are 9 states in the northwest of Taihang Mountain, such as Confucianism, Concubine, Xin, Wu, Yun, Shuo, Huan, Ying, Huan, and they are called 9 states behind the mountain. Do you know" Zhao Ji "I don't know"

Zhao Liangsi was a little cold sweating, "Mo and Ying 2 Prefectures were requisitioned by our Zhou Shizong Chai Rongbei. The remaining 5 states, plus Yizhou, which was taken from Han by the Liao State, and Jingzhou, which they separated from Jizhou, these 7 states were called Nanjing Dao in the Liao State. And the 9 states behind the mountain are called Xijing Road. Do you know "Zhao Ji"? That's right."

Zhao Liangsi broke out in a cold sweat, "In addition to these 16 states, Liu Rengong, the last envoy of Youzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty, once ceded the three states of Ying, Ping, and Luan to Liao. Do you know that "Zhao Ji" knows this. It is recorded in the history of five dynasties"

Zhao Liangsi was angry: "Then you know that the three prefectures of Ying, Ping, and Luan are neither Nanjing Province nor Xijing Road in Liao State. They are another independent administrative division called Pingzhou Road. Do you know "Zhao Ji"? There's this."

Zhao Liangsi completely burned the so-called Great Wall defense line, specifically to Youzhou (now Beijing), which has Zijin Pass in the west, Juyong Pass in the north, Gubeikou, Songting Pass in the northeast, and Yuguan Pass in the east. It is for Youzhou 5 passes. Do you know "Zhao Ji"! I haven't been there, I don't know."

Zhao Liangsi basically fainted, "Then do you know where this Yuguan (that is, the most important first pass in the world during the future Ming and Qing dynasties: Shanhaiguan) is?" It is in Pingzhou, which Liu Rengong cut off, and now "Zhao Ji" in Pingzhou Road, Daliao? That means: Are we coming back? Is it?"

Zhao Liangsi completely fainted: "Yes! So the minister is tragic. Did you know that 陛xià? The minister must return all the Great Wall defenses for you! Please rest assured! The minister swears by his surname"

In fact, there are only 7 prefectures of Tan, Shun, Jing, Ji, Zhuo, Yi and Jing, and only five of the 16 prefectures, only a fraction of them, how to form the so-called Great Wall defense line? Even if all 16 states have to come down, what about Yuguan? What to do? Obviously, this is the emperor who did not want to be harassed by the anti-alliance ministers, and did not go through the review of the state functional departments, and came up with a text according to the old rules and patted his head. He's the emperor, and if he messes things up, no one dares to do anything to him! Just do what the messenger says? But Zhao Liangsi is not! If he is settled. He should stay quietly in Liao and live his aristocratic life. If he follows, he should quietly return to the Song Dynasty with his family's property, instead of knocking on Tong Guan's door in the middle of the night, wanting to bring all the 16 states of Yanyun back to his homeland in the Han Dynasty!

Now, he wants to do something to fight for the interests of the Han people as much as possible and reap peace. For this, he threw aside the emperor's imperial pen! Let's talk about Yanjing first, Zhao Liangsi directly merged the "Yanjing and the state city under its management" into Nanjing Dao, so that the 7 states of Yanjing were packaged together... Wanyan thought about it and thought "give"

Zhao Liangsi then showed the imperial pen. There are 4 words in it, "It was originally a Han land"! All right! Emperor Dajin is not only the old land of the Han people, but also the old Yellow Calendar, which also includes the Great Liaoxi Jingdao, right? How? Let's give it together, right? Wanyan thought for a while, "Give." But only after catching Ah Shi (Yelu Yanxi's nickname) will he give "

Hmm, is this a time barrier? Capturing the Liao Emperor is not the same as storming a city. The city stays there and does not move, but people can run wild in the vast empire, mountains, rivers, deep valleys and wild forests, it is difficult to find! It is said that it will be given after being caught, but what if it can't be caught? What if you catch it and drag it? What if it was a corpse when caught? It's hard to say... But it's better than not saying yes!

Zhao Liangsi struck while the iron was hot, "The three prefectures of Ping, Ying, and Luan are also the old land of the Han people..." Someone from the Jin Kingdom side stood up, and their faces were very wrong. This person's name is Gao Qingyi, a native of Bohai, who has been an official in the Liao State. He also knows the geography of Liao, "These three states are not in Yanjing Road, unless you turn over the old yellow calendar of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise you can't mix it together" Zhao Liangsi lowered his head, he knew: It's the bottom line! That's it. Yuguan was covered by the Jin people. In the future, they will go out of Yuguan, go to the Central Plains, and destroy the Northern Song Dynasty!

The next thing to talk about is money. The royal pen said that the money given to the Liao State every year could be transferred to the Jin State, so it was 500,000 taels per year? But Zhao Liangsi proposed the alliance of the Yuanyuan. We're 300,000 taels a year, right?

Ah Gu laughed at this, he didn't use his subordinates to support him, and said to himself, "When you give money to the Liao people every year, the 16 prefectures of Yanyun are all occupied by the Liao people." Now I'm giving it to you, why is there less money" Zhao Liangsi was speechless, he suspected that the person sitting opposite was really a savage who only knew how to dance knives and guns, kill people and set fires?

Since then, the Song and Jin sides have negotiated land and money to the end, and finally the problem condenses into sending troops. How to send troops is very particular, who moves first, who kills first, will cause which city will be captured in reality. In case it should not be occupied, such as the Zijin Pass in the northwest of Yizhou in the Song Dynasty, the Juyong Pass in the west of Changping County, the Gubeikou in the north of Shunzhou, the Songting Pass in the northeast of Jingzhou, and especially the Yuguan Pass in Pingzhou, that is, the future Shanhaiguan, all 5 passes are grabbed, then even if the Jin Army wants to turn his face and do it, there is no way to enter the pass!

But with Liao Guotong like Gao Qingyi on the scene, it is difficult for Zhao Liangsi to be sloppy. In the end, the two sides agreed: the Jin army approached Gubeikou from the flat pine forest. The Song army approached the Baigou River from Xiongzhou...

Finally, there was the time to send troops, which was originally agreed to be sent on the same day. After staying with Zhao Liangsi for a few days, entertaining him hoshly, and even singing and dancing with the captive princess of Daliao Wu, Wanyan Aguta sent Sala and Halu as envoys, carrying the letter of state, and went to Song Dingmeng with Zhao Lianghe. Then the Jin army marched out of the pine forest, but encountered the heat of the day, cattle and horses were plagued, so they had to ride quickly to catch up with Zhao Liangsi and his party, revise the national letter, and agreed that next year, the north and south will send troops at the same time to attack Daliao!

On September 4, Sala and Halu came to Kaifeng, and the etiquette of reception was on par with that of the Goryeo envoys. Three days later, they officially presented their credentials at the Chongzheng Palace. On the 18th, Ma Zheng was reappointed as the envoy of the Song Dynasty, and returned to the Jin Kingdom with Sala and Halu. This time, I brought an official credential. The national credentials indicate a few points: 1. The Taifu and the Privy Councillor Tong Guan have been put on standby and ready to go on the expedition at any time; 2Please return Nanjing Road, Xijing Road, Pingzhou Road, and most importantly, Youzhou 5 passes to us; 3-year-old coins are paid at 500,000 per year; 4. Still in the field; 5 If Liao and any of our countries ask for peace, they will not be able to agree.

Zhao Liangsi went on an envoy this time, and he was greatly stimulated. The first is that the combat effectiveness of the Jin Army is too strong. Seeing Liao Shangjing fall in one day made him really tremble in his heart. Second, I didn't expect the Jurchens to be very shrewd, he tried his best to fight for it, but he only included the Great Liaoxi Jingdao in the contract, and there were still conditional restrictions...

All these should be carefully reported to the emperor and the prime minister. Zhao Liangsi carefully reported the findings, and the emperor and prime ministers also listened very carefully. Zhao Ji, Cai Jing and others were really anxious, and they were annoyed and regretful, so they sent Ma Zheng to cross the sea again and discuss with the Jurchens - brother, I wrote it wrong! It's not Yanjing, it's the entire Yanyun 16 states, and Pingzhou Road!

Zhao Liangsi almost turned his back on it, these goods didn't take his warning to heart at all, they were only worried about the loss of benefits, and they didn't take advantage of it...

In the face of the Song Dynasty's rebellion, Wanyan was not polite, and replied hard, "No!" Xijing Dao is not given, why is your appetite getting bigger and bigger? If you do it again, the contract will be null and void."

At this point, Zhao Ji and others were discouraged. Alas! These savages don't understand anything, how can they be so rude to the Han emperor? Respond to requests and follow every obedience! It's really an elm lump that doesn't know etiquette and is not civilized, and is not even worthy of burning fire... Well, now I can only take one step at a time, and let's take Nanjing Road in my hands first!

After being greedy for a small price and suffering a big loss, and losing the Xijing Province that he had gotten, the contract between the two countries was finally signed.

The above is the first process of the Song Jin Sea Alliance, and Zhao Liangsi has also confirmed the name of 'super treacherous'. Both Song and Kim shook their heads at him. The Song people said that he deceived the king, and even dared to ignore the royal pen. The Jin people said he was greedy. The royal pen is obviously "Yanjing and the state city under its jurisdiction", then at most it is Nanjing, why do you ask for the ownership of Xijing Road and even Pingzhou Road? Speaking of the year's coins, the Jin people's understanding is, of course, the number of 500,000 set by Fu Bi after making Liao, how can you turn the old yellow calendar to the alliance of the Yuanyuan?

The alliance has finally been reached, Yan Yun is at his feet, and military feats are beckoning... At this time, I believe that the most excited people in the whole empire are Cai Jing and Tong Guan. But in October, a piece of news came from the south, which completely disrupted Tong Guan's wishful thinking, and also made Yanyun's recovery difficult... The most important thing: it brought the most elite Western army of the Great Song Dynasty to the catastrophe of collapse! (To be continued......)