The grand ceremony, which was originally scheduled to be held the next day to receive the Goryeo envoys, was postponed for half a month. It's not that the monarchs and ministers of the Song State intend to dry the Koreans, but the news brought by the other party's trip is too unexpected, and the Song State needs time to fully evaluate the pros and cons implied in this discussion.

In political affairs, especially military affairs, it is necessary to listen to the opinions of Tong Guan, the prime minister who is far away on the Hedong front, but business matters are much easier.

The Goryeo had just offered a deposit of one million guan (100,000 taels of gold), and Zhao Ji couldn't wait to order dozens of relevant military states in the southeast, and each of them transported the grain and grass in the treasury to Mingzhou according to their share to be loaded onto the ship. Judging from this matter alone, Song Ting's efficiency can be described as amazingly high.

The most striking price issue was finally negotiated after some bargaining: the old grain was sold for three stones of japonica rice according to the year, ranging from four taels of silver to four taels of silver. And the new grain is a fixed price, one stone and two taels of silver.

Regarding this price, it is higher than the psychological expectations of both sides.

As far as the imperial court is concerned, this price is lower than the steadily rising market price, but the southeast region is a grain-producing area, and the price cannot be sold at the current price in the north. Even later, Cai Jing tried to explore Jin Fushi, wondering if this business was a one-time deal, or would it be a long-term deal?

As for Liangshan, it must have taken advantage. This price is not only cheaper than buying it by oneself in the private sector, but also the receipt period is much shorter, which is very important for stabilizing the emerging territory of Liangshanbo. Moreover, because of Qianliang Shanbo's big move to purchase 4 million stone of grain in the market, the current price of grain in the market has risen too outrageously. At this time, the meaning of several military advisors in the cottage invariably had the idea of killing this rising price.

A deal, since both parties are satisfied. Then everything is easy to talk about.

After that, Jin Fushi proposed to buy 50 large sea ships worth 5,000 materials to receive this batch of grain, which was quickly approved by the Great Song Dynasty, and finally sold at a friendly price of 10,000 yuan. Even Zhao Ji waved his hand, showing the loser spirit of the great power of the emperor, and presented fifty large ships of the same size and Goryeo as ordered to commend his deference.

It is said that this news also caused an episode, and the excited Le and Xianbao also reported the news to Wang Lun, but it attracted an understatement of "complaining" from the other party:

"The cost of shipbuilding is only 350,000 yuan, and in the face of 20 million business, even half of the rebate is less. Who said this faint gentleman was a fool? ”

Interlude is interlude, just when Jin Fushi was busy bargaining with Cai Jing, who made an exception to participate in the negotiations, the other members of the Goryeo mission were not idle.

In fact, if you want to say that Song Huizong, a faint king, has no advantages. Although he promised to send students to Goryeo, he did not impose any forced apportionment, but asked the students to sign up voluntarily.

So, accompanied by the relevant officials of the Privy Council of the Song State and Taixue, the "Goryeo envoys" were in front of thousands of students. vigorously publicized the importance that the lords of Goryeo attached to them, and the most talked about was naturally the legendary history of the Song people Liu Zai, Ouyang Zheng and Xiao Mingzong in the Goryeo Kingdom.

If you want to say Ouyang Zheng and Xiao Zongming, these two are already ancient figures. The officials who served in the Goryeo Dynasty were not very big, the first one was mixed up left and right, and the latter one was finally named the Marquis of Quanzhi's Gate.

The key is that this Liu Zai can't be beaten. This man is not only alive, but also alive and well. And under Wang Yu, he became a great official of Shangshu's right servant. If it is placed in the Song Dynasty, it is a member of the ruling group. Moreover, he was not the first Song State to become a vassal. A few decades ago. The people of Song Kaifeng Prefecture carefully cultivated with the ship to Goryeo, "knowledgeable, and refined medical skills", ascended to the first official to Situ, the left servant shot, and participated in political affairs. His son An's affairs are Rui, Ren two dynasties, know Shuizhou, for the government to clean up, the officials are afraid of the people, tired of the military department of Shangshu, the three envoys judge one thing.

With these glorious examples in front of them, the Taihak officials who had received the emperor's will were willing to "endorse" the Goryeo people diligently, promising that when these students returned to China in five or ten years, the Great Song recognized their official qualifications in the Goryeo Kingdom and would definitely make proper arrangements in the future.

Of course, the disadvantages of Goryeo itself are not small, after all, the barbarian land, far away from the Central Plains, a good Tokyo student, crossing the sea for thousands of miles is like a distribution.

You must know that in this Taixue, there is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and many powerful children are waiting for their parents to carry them out, so that they can become a great official in the Great Song Dynasty and show their ambitions. Don't look at the current Taixue officials, one by one, they are eager to pat their chests as a guarantee, but you see that they themselves are all marginalized, why should they promise a future? (Taixue is unattainable in the eyes of the people, but if it is placed in the real Great Song Dynasty officialdom system, it is still too far away from the core of power)

The children of the family will not be fooled by this, they should just watch the monkey play and laugh at the hard work of the Goryeo envoys. However, this opportunity did make many people quite tempted by the poor scholars.

After all, it is a fact that the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty is bloated, that is, in this pure place of Taixue, there are also three classes: outer students, inner students, and upper students, and these visible gaps alone are enough to cast a shadow on the road to the advancement of poor students to realize their life ambitions, not to mention that there are countless invisible hands hidden in the depths of the Huan Sea, which will fall from the sky at a critical time, wantonly fiddling with their already fragile and ethereal future. In fact, there are not a few people who have dropped out of Taixue over the years, and the vast majority of them are poor scholars who have broken through their fate and are disheartened.

As a result, those who choose to stay have the confidence to stay, and those who choose to go have reasons to go, gradually formed the current polarization situation of "cold cold, hot hot". After a few days, 146 students finally made up their minds to try their luck in the small country of Haidong and try to change their life path.

Their future leader, or rather leader, took the final list and compared it with the recommendation letter of the former Taixue student Lu Jiang, and found that five of the thirty-seven people recommended by the latter had not signed up, and Wang Lun, who was eager for talent, finally asked the Goryeo mission to contact these five people again, and finally saved three more people, so that the list was finally fixed at the number of 149 people.

After the list was confirmed, not only did Zhao Ji have no objections, but even the civil and military forces of the Song State and the Manchu Dynasty were not entangled with whether the extra forty-nine people should be returned. So, this "little thing" that made Wang Lun anxious, but Zhao Ji didn't take it seriously, was decided.

In the government-run Taixue, the selection of people is so relaxed, and then the Goryeo mission recruited healers in the city of Tokyo, and the apprentices had no resistance, from the three grades of 3,000, 2,000, and 1,000 for a total of five years, to dozens of times, hundreds of apprenticeship prices, which attracted the favor of many Chinese medicine practitioners. In particular, I heard that in the future, if you are skilled in medicine, you can join the Hanlin Medical Bureau in Goryeo, and you will have official titles and even knighthoods, which makes this recruitment even more attractive. After all, although the good doctor is not bad for money, when he returned to China five years later, he had the title of the chief imperial doctor of the Goryeo Kingdom on his head, whether it was in the Great Song Dynasty Xinglin or the people, it was definitely a very popular existence.

The time of waiting passed slowly in the Goryeo mission throwing money around in search of "supplies", and the "Goryeo" envoy Jin Fushi, who had mixed tastes, was summoned by the emperor of the Song State again.

This time it was no longer a private banquet such as a deer banquet, but a formal link of submitting credentials and signing the covenant, judging from the politeness shown by the reception officials of the Privy Council, it should be that Song Guo was already planning to eat this piece of cooking cake that fell from the sky.

The pomp of a great country represents the majesty of the Son of Heaven, but Jin Fushi, who is in order, did not experience any solemn atmosphere, and in this puppet show for more than an hour, he felt a little pity for the high Emperor of the Song Kingdom.

I am a pawn, and you are also a pawn. We were all manipulated by the chess player.

"I am the benefactor of Haotian and the king of Goryeo: the Son of Heaven will build a country, and he must choose the virtuous and capable; If the princes have merit, they will add the land and enter the law. I am the great handle of civil and military, the supreme of China, the selfless name, and the loyalty is the ......"

"Appointed Wang Kai as the three divisions of the Kaifu Council, the Taishi of the inspection school, the governor of Xuansu Prefecture, the envoy of the righteous army, and the king of Goryeo, and canonized Wang Kai as the prince of Goryeo......"

Zhao Ji's holy edict was read out in the solemn voice of Huang Zhong Da Lu, followed by the Goryeo envoys saluting and thanking, and then the signing of the covenant between the two countries, everything was carried out according to the established routine. Although the lengthy etiquette made most people a little exhausted, Zhao Ji was still in good spirits, and even at the end of the ceremony, there was still some unfinished meaning.

Looking at the obedient Goryeo envoys under the imperial steps, the emperor of the Song Kingdom, who had been bullied by the Khitan, finally let out a breath of air.

Who knows, just when Zhao Ji was distracted, there was an unexpected scene at the ceremony:

"Jin Fushi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of Goryeo, has something to play the son of heaven!"

Seeing this, the two classes of Song courtiers couldn't help frowning slightly, and they all ridiculed the Goryeo envoys for not knowing etiquette. Only Cai Jing, who had dealt with Jin Fushi, moved slightly in his heart. You must know that although today's etiquette is solemn, it is just a formality, and the matters that really need to be negotiated have been negotiated before. Unexpectedly, when the ceremony was about to end, this person put on a sinister appearance, according to Cai Jing's previous impression and senses of Jin Fushi, an intuition came out from the bottom of his heart: Could it be that this guy is going to make trouble!?

Zhao Ji still looked interested, and he was very magnanimous and gave Jin Fushi the opportunity to overturn the Daqing Palace, in fact, according to his thinking of not four or six, I am afraid that he is still waiting for the envoy to present poems to help the fun?

I saw that at this time, Jin Fushi took a deep breath, looked at the Emperor of Song without squinting, and then a loud voice filled the inside and outside of the hall: "My subordinates follow the will of our country, and I implore Emperor Shenxiao, the eldest son of Haotian God, to marry my lord King Goryeo!" (To be continued......)