It may be that the conditions mentioned by the Jurchens are a bit harsh, they promised to return Zhu Jin, and they also promised to be a vassal state of the Great Zhou, and they also promised to give the Great Zhou a certain annual tribute every year, on the condition that the Great Zhou side must hand over Lu You, saying that it was the third prince of Lu You's assassination, and the emperor of the Jin State could not help but seek justice for his younger brother.

However, the Jurchens also put forward an alternative condition, if they did not want to hand over Lu You, they would replace it with 200 artillery pieces and 200 muskets.

Li Cong did not agree to any of these two conditions.

In fact, although Lu You also participated in the assassination, Lu You did not shoot himself, he was the organizer and the planner and leader, and he was not an actor, without him, he didn't even learn how to shoot.

Therefore, Li Cong did not admit that Lu You was the murderer, but he also thought about handing over the soldier who shot him, but not to mention that Lu You did not agree, he would not be able to pass his own level, let alone face those soldiers on the battlefield.

Because this will chill the hearts of those soldiers, who will die for him on the battlefield in the future?

As for Lu You, not to mention, Wen can govern the country and martial arts, and he can improve various weapons in his spare time, such talents are hard to find, not to mention, behind Lu You there is Yan Yan, a strange woman who is rare in a hundred years.

Therefore, the first condition is definitely not good.

Li Cong was reluctant to send 200 artillery pieces and 200 guns, and the reason why he agreed to sell 200 artillery pieces to the Liao State was because the Liao State and the Jurchens started a war in order to let the Liao State stop the Jurchens from moving south.

But the situation of the Jurchens and the Liao State is obviously different, the Jurchens have such great ambitions, these two hundred artillery pieces and two hundred muskets are in their hands, who dares to guarantee that they will not be used against the Great Zhou?

The negotiation was frozen, and Lu You didn't dare to move the place easily, he couldn't fight and couldn't withdraw, so when he was idle, he took Yan Zhang and Yan Bin to hunt and dig wild ginseng.

When the first snow fell in winter, Yan Yan received a box of animal fur and a few mountain ginseng Ganoderma lucidum brought by Lu You, some for decades and some for hundreds of years, the best one was about five hundred years old, in addition, there were half a cart of various air-dried meat.

Yan Yan saw that he probably couldn't come back for the New Year, so he sent a letter to Lu You, she didn't approve of him going deep into the mountains and forests, after all, he had already fought with the Jurchen several times, and he had also sat together to negotiate and deliberate, and the other party would definitely recognize him. Besides, since the Jurchen side said that the third prince died in his hands, maybe there will be someone who will treat him in the same way.

In fact, at the same time that Yan Yan received Lu You's letter, Lu You happened to be ambushed by the Jurchens and was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but fortunately they brought grenades and escaped the other party's sneak attack with the power of the grenade.

But because it was the snow season at this time, as long as people walked on the ground, there were footprints, so Lu You and they couldn't easily get rid of each other, but fortunately, there were not many people from the other party, Lu You's side in addition to bows and arrows, grenades and muskets, so after three or four days of maneuvering, they finally killed the other party's men and horses.

However, this move also angered Lu You, and after returning to the station, he sent a letter of challenge to the Jurchens, saying that because the Jurchens unilaterally broke the armistice agreement, therefore, he refused to negotiate and would go straight to the other party's capital.

Lu You said that he would fight, but in fact, after learning about the negotiation conditions proposed by the Jurchens, he was preparing for the next war, because he was like a mirror, and the Jurchens were not sincere in negotiating peace, and most of them were delaying time.

At first, he didn't quite understand what the Jurchen was trying to do when he delayed time, until one day when he reread the letter Yan Yan gave him, he suddenly figured out that the Jurchen probably wanted to do something behind his back, and the target might be him, or Yan Yan or other weighty people.

After thinking of this, he deliberately took people around the mountains, and deliberately ordered people to "hide" the news, so it was already a month later when the Jurchens finally "went to great lengths" to find out the news.

When I found out about this news, I had to send someone to follow up and verify it, and after the verification, I had to arrange an assassination plan, and after this set of operations, another half a month passed.

On the other side, Lu You had already sent someone to secretly redeploy his troops, so when he came back from his injury, he directly provoked the other party to start a war, and caught the other party off guard.

And this time Lu You also changed his tactics, no longer fighting jungle warfare and guerrilla warfare, and went straight to the opponent's city, first hit the city guards outside the city, and directly aimed the artillery at the opponent's tent.

For this reason, when the New Year was approaching, the artillery of the Great Zhou had advanced to the capital of the other party, and this time, the Jurchen Emperor was really frightened and proposed peace talks again, but this time the conditions could not be mentioned by them.

When Yan Yan received the news, it was already the first month later, and it was Li Cong who sent someone to take her to the south study, and he also directly handed Lu You's recital to her.

This time, there were more people in the court to fight, and in three months, Lu You aimed the artillery of the Great Zhou at the Jurchen capital, isn't this a victory in sight? What are you hesitating about, you can take down the Jurchen in one fell swoop.

More importantly, Mongolia also made its position clear this time, taking the initiative to withdraw its troops and take the initiative to return the lands of Liao and Western Xia.

Therefore, most of the ministers thought that they could take the Jurchens in one fell swoop and incorporate the Jurchen territory into the Great Zhou.

But there are also objections, because the Jurchens do not have a border with the Great Zhou, and there is a Liao State in the middle, how can this territory be merged?

As the old saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, how do these Jurchens manage?

So Li Cong wanted to hear Yan Yan's thoughts.

Yan Yan didn't expect Lu You to be able to come to the Jurchen capital so quickly, but the more critical the time, the more she didn't dare to say anything, because there was no reference at all, and the Great Zhou with artillery, muskets and gunpowder was not comparable to the Northern Song Dynasty in the previous life, and under Yan Yan's intrusion, the Great Zhou did not form an alliance with the Jurchens to destroy Liao, but joined forces with Liao to destroy Jin, so she couldn't judge the direction of the situation.

But one thing she is sure of is that through this extermination of gold, Da Zhou will definitely become a powerful country that will make neighboring countries look sideways, and they will not dare to provoke easily for at least fifty or even a hundred years.

As for how this territory should be merged, Yan Yan put forward a suggestion that he could exchange some land with the Liao State, and exchange the Nanjing Road of the Liao State, that is, the areas around Luanzhou, Pingzhou, and Yuguan, and the Jurchen lands annexed outside the customs could be given to the Liao State.