Kublai Khan admired Song Gongming because everything the Southern Song official said was simple and clear.

"Great Khan, peace can only be achieved when both sides have the heart to keep it. If Mongolia is unwilling to make peace, or the Great Song Dynasty is unwilling to make peace, peace cannot be achieved. We have a three-year term, because three years is just the right time for us to figure out whether we want to continue the war or not. ”

For many years, no one dared to threaten the Mongols militarily, and Song Gongming openly spoke of war and peace in front of Kublai Khan, and this attitude of not rejecting war made many Mongol courtiers look disdainful.

"What if we feel like we want to fight?" Kublai Khan asked, he was interested in topics related to war.

"I read the history books and saw that there was a trade between the Mongols and Khorezm, and Khorezm decided to go to war with the Mongols. At that time, Genghis Khan said, if you want to fight, I will fight. If Mongolia thinks that there will be a war after the peace period, our Great Song Dynasty will only say, if you want to fight, I will fight. Song Gongming replied very calmly. With the current strength of the Great Song Dynasty, there is still a big gap between the destruction of Mongolia, but he is not afraid to fight with Mongolia at all. Many of his friends in the army felt that if he could fight with Mongolia in Shandong and Henan, it would be a good thing for the Song army to ask for.

Marshal Ali Hague was defeated at the hands of the Song army, and couldn't help but say angrily: "What can I do if I fight with you?" ”

Song Gongming looked at Ali Hague and said seriously: "This gentleman, there is naturally a Mongolian Khan in the court. You can't do anything here. ”

Ali Hague didn't expect to be ridiculed in public, or in front of so many people, and he was furious. But what Song Gongming said is right, it is the Great Khan Kublai Khan who can be in charge of this court, and Ali Hague cannot be the master. Ali Hague's face was flushed, and he opened his mouth for a while before he said indignantly: "You Nanban, you know the benefits of your tongue." ”

Song Gongming wanted to fight back, but looking at Ali Hague's embarrassment, he also knew that if he said it again, it would be equivalent to extricating Ali Hague, so he turned his head to look at the Great Khan Kublai Khan.

Kublai Khan didn't care about Ali Hague's refutation, and if there was no one in the Mongol court to refute it, Kublai Khan would be disappointed. The Great Song envoy was able to control his own emotions and put the decision in the hands of Kublai Khan again. Kublai Khan was pleased with the realization that the Mongol Khan was the only person who could decide war and peace.

After that, Kublai Khan asked Song Gongming to return to the post house first, and he did not continue the discussion in the court. After the dispersal of the dynasty, Kublai Khan summoned several people he trusted to discuss the matter.

"I am going to unify the khanates first, and then destroy the Song state. When I was on an expedition to the various khanates, I wanted to call in the government soldiers. Kublai Khan decisively stated his strategic vision.

"Great Khan, I don't think the Song State will invade Shandong and Hebei until the Khanate is unified." Hao Ren said.

Kublai Khan nodded slightly. He discussed this matter with Boyan several times, and Song Guo had inexplicably eased up, and if he really started a big war with Song State, it was likely to end up losing both. Song Guo can even survive the surrender of President Lin'an, no matter how bad it is, how bad it can be.

"The Song army will definitely recapture the old land. I don't know if they will do anything to Dali in three years. Boyan recounted what he thought was the worst possible situation.

Hearing this, Zhang Hongfan couldn't help but say: "If the Song Kingdom really attacks Dali, it may not be a good thing. Our Mongols used nearly 100,000 soldiers to attack Dali, and even if the Song State also used 100,000 soldiers, they were infantry troops. It will certainly take more time than my Mongol cavalry. The war was protracted, but it did not allow the Song State to have the spare strength to harass Yandi and Shandong. ”

In Zhang Hongfan's eyes, Hebei is much more important than Dali, thousands of miles away. The registered number of registered people in the Mongol-controlled Han land was only 2 million. At full capacity, the population is more than 10 million. There are about 2 million of these people who are suitable for military service. Even if it is one out of ten, it is only more than 200,000 yuan. Since the Battle of Xiangyang, Mongolia has suffered more than 100,000 Han casualties in the past few years. The original Han army princes in the local area complained. In this southern expedition, the Han army more or less reaped some benefits, which can be regarded as nothing serious. If Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, had to fight a tough battle with the Song army, and if the battle between Ezhou and Hanyang, which wiped out tens of thousands of troops in one battle, had been fought five or six times, Zhang Hongfan would not have any special illusions about the morale of the Mongol army, which was dominated by the Han army in the north.

It was Kublai Khan who led his troops to capture Dali back then, so Kublai Khan was far less 'open-minded' than Zhang Hongfan. After listening to the opinions of Boyan and Zhang Hongfan, Kublai Khan said angrily: "If the Song State dares to use troops against Dali, it will not be spared." ”

Seeing that the Great Khan was angry, Boyan and Zhang Hongfan did not dare to speak. However, Hao Ren smiled and said: "If we can unify the various khanates, it means that the Song State will not use troops in Dali, and we will not spare the Song State." ”

This was right for Kublai Khan, he just snorted and didn't say any more. Hao Ren also stopped talking. Since he became a follower of Xunzi, he has read the books of Xunzi's apprentice Han Feizi. After reading Han Fei's book, Hao Ren did not have a sense of transparency after reading Xunzi's work, even so, a lot of practical content also benefited him a lot.

For example, Han Feizi? In the twelfth difficulty, it is said that the dragon is a worm, but he can ride it. But if there is a scale under his throat, and if he has a baby, he will kill. The human master also has reverse scales, and those who say it can have no infant human master's reverse scales, then there are few.

Kublai Khan's own attack on Dali, let him give up that is a thousand difficulties. No matter how correct what Boyan or Zhang Hongfan said, as long as they put forward this, it is already a big mistake. Therefore, Hao Ren said from another level, since a full-scale war between Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty was inevitable, then Dali was just a remote place far from the center of Mongol rule. When talking about the overall war from a strategic perspective, Kublai Khan will naturally have his judgment.

After that, Kublai Khan and others determined the core bottom line of the armistice agreement, and Mongolia and Song could not have a large-scale military conflict on the long front from Sichuan to Shandong. In this area, the two sides use the current Line of Actual Control as the armistice line. As for the more distant areas, the Mongols only wanted to be able to hold on to the big cities and not take the initiative to provoke the Song army.

With such a negotiation bottom line, Hao Ren negotiated with Song Gongming, the envoy of the Song State. The two sides hit it off. Mongolia had internal problems, and the Great Song Dynasty also had a large number of internal problems. Zhao Jiaren also hopes that there will be time to solve the problem first.

"Brother Song, Xiangyang is in our hands now." Hao Ren said jokingly.

"Xiangyang will be in your hands." Song Gongming replied with a grin.

Although both sides laughed happily and were relaxed during the conversation, the willpower contained in the dialogue was like a needle to wheat.

After Hao Ren identified this biggest problem, his heart was much more relaxed. Kublai Khan would never allow Xiangyang, which cost huge manpower and material resources, to be taken away by the Song State, but fortunately the Song State did not insist.

As for Song Gongming, Zhao Jiaren's opinion of Xiangyang made him feel very surprised. The Mongols are willing to hoard heavy troops in Xiangyang, so let them do it. The more troops they amass, the more Mongol troops we can kill in the future. It would be better if the Mongols were willing to travel thousands of miles to help in the future, and encircling the point to send reinforcements was a good tactic. ’

Since Zhao Taiwei is so confident, Song Gongming is also willing to believe Zhao Taiwei's judgment.

Since the peace talks did not involve the mutual relations between Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty, the question of where to sign the agreement became a question. Kublai Khan, of course, hoped that the agreement would be signed in Dadu at the end, and Song Gongming proposed that it be signed in Lin'an based on a reciprocal position. After some discussions, the two sides finally decided to sign an agreement in Bianliang, a 'border city'.

I didn't expect the Mongols to finally agree to put the signing place in Bianliang, and Song Gongming was also very emotional in his heart. Now the Great Song Dynasty's mapping based on the longitude and latitude of the earth has been accepted by the cadre class, the equator already exists, and the east-west latitude is well determined. However, there is no natural standard for the longitude of the north-south direction, so it has to be artificially defined. Therefore, Song Gongming, who has listened to patriotic education, heard a sentence from Zhao Taiwei, 'Only the meridian that passes through the Tiantai of Bianliang Guan is the prime meridian'.

If you want to accurately measure this meridian, the Great Song Dynasty must recapture the old capital. On this basis alone, Song Gongming determined that the peace negotiation in the eyes of Zhao Taiwei was only an armistice agreement, and there would definitely be another fierce war between the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia.

Is it only a pound? Hao Ren was very relieved to see that the peace agreement was finally signed. Although the results of this southern expedition are basically only one Xiangyang, the Mongolian culture does not particularly care about the land. The southern expedition to the Song State was extremely rich in spoils, and the Mongol nobles could fully accept such an achievement. Hao Ren couldn't help but think that if he hoped that Zhao Jiaren, the left prime minister of the Song State, would be able to fatten the Song State for a few more years, so that Mongolia could go to the Song State again to grab a handful.

Coincidentally, Zhao Jiaren, who returned to Lin'an, convened a meeting. The first was to announce the arrival of Empress Dowager Yang, and then to convene officials to discuss the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Yang sat in her position and listened to Zhao Jiaren talk about the terms of banknotes, copper coins, money villages, grain shops, and often closing positions. Although Empress Dowager Yang had also heard of these things, when Zhao Jiaren told her, Empress Dowager Yang couldn't understand them at all.

Zhao Jiaren didn't expect Empress Dowager Yang to understand this. In fact, he felt that even the officials did not fully understand the financial plan made by Zhao Jiaren.

“…… The big reason why my Song Dynasty banknotes have been depreciating is that when designing the banknotes, there was a desire to let the people hold the banknotes for a long time. Although I have this mind, I have no such reason. Therefore, the banknote law needs to be changed. Jiangnan 4th Road can only use money to buy grain, cloth, salt, and iron tools in the city! ”

As soon as Zhao Jiaren's voice fell, the civil officials were stunned, but the cadres' eyes lit up.