The method adopted by Xiao Ming was very simple, that is, to send an envoy to the Dajin State to issue an ultimatum, asking them to hand over the Emperor Tianzuo of the Great Liao State within a time limit, otherwise they would send troops to capture the Huanglong Mansion! Annihilate the Jurchens!

This kind of tone was unbearable for the generals of the Dajin Kingdom, and they asked to lead the troops to attack Nanjing Mansion and capture Xiao Ming, but Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu Qimai didn't think so, Xiao Ming dared to speak like this, and he must rely on it in particular, he summoned his ministers and told everyone what he thought.

"On the day my Jurchen Emperor Taizu raised his army, he defeated tens of thousands of Liao army strong enemies with 2,500 warriors, that was by Taizu's bravery, and my Jurchen warriors served their lives, but since the first battle of Ningjiangzhou, my Dajin and the Liao army have rarely been defeated? Why did he lose his troops in Xiao Ming's hands? ”

Wan Yan Di Gu said: "I think Xiao Ming likes to use tricks with his soldiers, and our army has always outperformed the Liao army, and they have made mistakes to underestimate the enemy!" That's why we lost to Xiao Ming! ”

Jin Taizong shook his head and said: "When my Dajin is fighting with the Liao army, they always defeat after a little resistance, and a large number of generals are defeated, have we really done a decent battle with the Liao army?" - Actually, there were, Yelu Yujian, the king of the Northern Court of the Great Liao Kingdom, once defeated our army, why is this? ”

The crowd was silent, not knowing how to answer the emperor's question.

Jin Taizong continued: "In this land, the Khitans were the bravest warriors, and the Khitans in the Liao Daozong period had a large-scale eastward expedition to slaughter thousands of miles, killing tens of thousands of Jurchens, so there is a distinction between raw and mature Jurchens, but why now, the Khitans can't beat my Jurchen warriors?" ”

Jin Taizong stood up and shook his head and said: "The Liao State has been passed into the hands of Emperor Yelu Yanxi of Tianzuo, the army is in a hurry, the officials are corrupt, and the emperor is unscrupulous, but as long as the Khitans are willing to die, they can still defeat our army, Yelu Yujian is an example." And now that Xiao Ming retains the Liaodong and Yanyun regions, which is the last place of the Liao Kingdom, this person has a strange method to lead troops, and it may not be so easy for us to fight with him! ”

Wanyan Zong, the son of Taizong, said: "Are we afraid that he will not succeed, and won't we complete the great cause of Emperor Taizu's destruction of Liao?" ”

Wanyan Wu begged to buy his head and said: "Of course not, but we must have a strategy to fight against Xiao Ming, we can't just rely on bravery, we need to be fully prepared, now you do it according to my will......"

The Jin side began a series of preparatory activities, and the military activities against Xiao Ming were suspended, but a series of diplomatic activities began, first of all, the Dajin State sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty to make friends with the Great Song Dynasty, and re-put out the plan of the Song envoy Zhao Lianghei, that is, Ma Zhi, to attack Liao in the Song Dynasty, and sent an envoy to the Kingdom of Goryeo to persuade the King of Goryeo to join the Great Jin Kingdom.

Jin State's move is to encircle Xiao Ming from the east, west and north, and now the six states in the east of Youyun have belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, and the ten western states have fallen into the hands of the Jin State, and the two places in the northwest are the sphere of influence of the Jin State, whether Goryeo sends troops depends on the benefits promised by the Jin State, and the most difficult thing is the negotiation with the Great Song Dynasty, which is related to whether Xiao Ming can be put pressure from the south.

The envoy of the Jin State of the Great Song Dynasty is the right class of the Jin State to move to the Zhongshu Order, the Yinshu brother is also called Wanyan Yinshuke, and the son-in-law of the prime minister of the right class, Wanyan Zongxiong, both of whom are scholars among the Jurchens of the Jin State, Wanyan Zongxiong is proficient in Liao, sometimes there are Khitan and large and small texts, and Wanyan Zongxiong is proficient in all, and every time he occupies the towns of Liao, the list of Anmin written by him is from his handwriting.

The plan of the Liao and Song Dynasty to attack Liao proposed by the Jin State is not new, and it is still the set proposed by Zhao Liangsi a few years ago, and when Xiao Ming is captured, the sixteen states will be returned to the Song Dynasty with Youzhou as the boundary, and the two are commensurate with brothers, but this time there is no mention of the matter of the annual tribute, and when the real talk is made, Wanyan Yinshu can change the plan, because the land of the eight states in the west of Youyun was captured by the Jin State itself, then the return of the Liao State can only be the East Eight States.

If the Great Song Dynasty wanted the land of the Western Eight Prefectures, it could be purchased for 300,000 taels of silver per state, that is, 2.4 million taels of silver, and after the Song and Jin cooperated to capture Youzhou and Liaodong, the Eastern Eight Prefectures would be returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty launched a fierce debate on this, and Liu Zhengfu came out of the class and said: "We have just signed the "Regulations on Leasing Land and Commerce" with the Great Liao, and now the rent has just been sent to Liunan Mansion, although there are still five years of rent in the future, but now the six eastern states have belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, although the Liao Emperor was arrested, the orthodoxy of the Great Liao State is still there, and it is extremely inappropriate for us to break the contract!" ”

Tong Guan said: "Originally with sixteen states as the price of our attack on Liao, now the eight states in the west have been occupied by the Jin people, and my Great Song Dynasty has lost the opportunity to negotiate with the Jin State. ”

Wang Hao said: "If we discuss with the Jin State about the purchase of the Western Eight Prefectures, but do not send troops with them to attack Liao, if it can be done, my Great Song Dynasty can not only recover the Western Eight Prefectures, but also not spend a single soldier, the Liao Emperor was arrested, the Great Liao is dead, and we don't need to abide by the agreement to pay rent to the Great Liao, it is better to save this money than to buy back the Western Eight Prefectures!" ”

Li Gang, the new Taichang Shaoqing's waiter of the Ministry of Rites, stood up against it: "The northern barbarians, the Jurchens are even worse, even if my Great Song Dynasty has money and grain, if I always use money to buy back my homeland, it will damage the prestige of my Great Song Dynasty, and it will also encourage the Jurchens to covet the wealth of my Great Song Dynasty, the Jurchen barbarians and the Khitan barbarians belong to the same family, and they cannot be negotiated with them!" ”

Huizong said: "I and Da Liao are also brothers' alliances, and now that Da Liao is dead, don't we have the risk of dying and having cold teeth?" Military preparations are still required, but is this a matter of purchasing the Western Eight Prefectures......"

Wang Hao hurriedly said: "Doesn't Your Majesty want to take back the ancestral inheritance again?" ”

At this time, Cai Jing sneered on the side and said noncommittally, but he did not express his opinion, but it was the scholar Chen Dong who flashed out and said: "The Liao State Nanjing stayed behind to be Xiao Ming, the king of the Southern Courtyard, this person can fight well, has defeated the Jin people many times, and has an old relationship with my Great Song Dynasty, the last time he came out was in Western Xia, he suggested that we accumulate strength to slowly recover the Hetao and Hexi and other places in my Central Plains homeland, this time it is best to listen to his opinion"

Of course, Huizong knew that this Xiao Ming was actually the envoy of the Zong Zhengqing who was appointed by himself, and this person had made great benefits for himself in the Liao State, and the military preparations were of course aimed at the Jin State, and of course they could not be directed at Xiao Ming.

Liu Zhengfu said: "We used to contact him completely by business travel envoys, can we use the official identity of the imperial court this time?" ”

Huizong asked, "Who wants to go?" ”

The crown prince Zhao Huan said: "The son of the minister is the ninth brother Kang King Zhao Gou, he also has an old relationship with the king of the Southern Courtyard, and he can complete the mission."

Huizong Zhun played, announced the dispersion of the dynasty, he has recently been obsessed with Taoism, the palace is now supporting an immortal master named Guo Jing, is refining pills for him, Guo Jing once said to him: "The Holy Emperor has a thousand merits, that is my Han Savior, his subordinates can produce many people, and will be able to assist my emperor as an emperor through the ages, and the immortal years will be enjoyed forever, and ten thousand years will be one!" ”

This year, the twenty-year-old Kang King Zhao Gou secretly came to Nanjing to meet Xiao Ming with his subordinates and secret decrees, and he brought Xiao Ming the secret decree and letter of Emperor Huizong, and gave Xiao Ming jade to bring three treasures, the official Youzhou Mu, and the Liaodong Jiedu envoy, which is the second grade of the Jiedu side, but he was still scolded by Xiao Ming: "Stingy!" ”

Scolding and scolding, but Xiao Ming still warmly received Zhao Gou, he read Huizong's letter, explained to him in detail about the envoy sent by Jin Guo, and asked Xiao Ming's opinion, in a sense, Huizong became Xiao Ming's intelligence officer, which also made Xiao Ming's intentions of Jin Guo more clear, so he made some targeted deployments.

Xiao Ming wrote the letter and let Zhao Gou bring it back to Bianjing, Huizong Zhan read the letter, and couldn't help but be amazed, this plan is very good, immediately convened all the ministers to discuss, it turned out that Xiao Ming told Huizong that the Jin State is now powerful, and has just destroyed the Liao State, morale is flourishing, and now it is said to have 800,000 soldiers, although most of them are still the soldiers of the Liao army, but the combat effectiveness is still terrifying!

Now they occupy Nanjing and Liaodong, which is equivalent to a knife in the heart of the Jin State, the Jin people must be removed quickly, and now they are looking for the Great Song Dynasty to cooperate, and jointly deal with themselves is nothing more than afraid of their own combat power, but they are alone in the outside, there is no rear, it is better for the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to occupy Youyun Nanjing, as the frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, they retreat to Liaodong to respond, and at the same time they can negotiate with the Jin people to buy back the Western Eight Prefectures, so that the sixteen states of Youyun can all return to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty!

This plan must be kept strictly secret, and more conditions should be mentioned when negotiating in the Jin State, now people have to ask for you, of course, the lion opened his mouth, and the situation of the lack of troops in the Great Song Dynasty can be adjusted to the east of the Western Army, and now the Western Xia has become its own puppet country, there is no threat at all, and the soldiers and horses and the forbidden army around the country have strengthened training at any time to prevent the Jin people from breaking the contract and sneaking attack.

After that, there were all kinds of matters agreed, and finally Xiao Ming did not forget to mention that because he was alone in Liaodong and struggling to operate, he hoped that Huizong could give him a few million taels of silver to spend, anyway, now Huizong is not bad for money.

In fact, what he didn't mention was that when the Great Song Dynasty leased the six eastern states, 1.2 million taels of leased silver had been sent to Liunanfu to catch up with the Jinliao War.

Huizong greatly appreciated this plan, issued an order to do so, notified the envoys of the Jin State to negotiate quickly, discussed the detailed terms of the joint attack on Liao, and also purchased the specific silver taels of the Western Eight Prefectures, and instructed the privy deputy envoy Tong Guan to prepare troops and horses to attack Nanjing at any time, and promoted Li Gang, the squire of the Ministry of Rites, Taichang Shaoqing, to serve as the squire of the Ministry of War, Shangshu Youcheng, and dismissed the Yongxing Road transfer envoy. Together with the military department Shangshu Bai Shizhong, Shangshu left servant shot Zhao Tingyi and drafted the terms of the Song-Jin-Bianjing agreement.

Li Gang had no choice but to go up to the "Harmony with the Jurchens" after discussion, and said that the Jurchens would take the attack on Liao first, and if the Jurchens did not move, the Song Dynasty should not move. Second, before attacking Liao, the terms of the eight states in the west of Youyun were first determined, and the delivery matters were not settled, and if the land was not returned, Song would not move. The three said that the Jin State must swear by the national letter, and the sixteen states of Youyun will forever be the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Jurchen will not make this oath, and the Song will not move...... And so on and so forth.

Huizong couldn't bear to dismiss it, and he would obey, among which the details of the terms of the Song and Jin Attack on Liao agreement, Huizong asked the officials Li Bangyan, the member of the Ministry of Foreign Lang, Liu Hongwei, the chief lecturer of the East Palace, and other major bachelors, all of which were seconded, and the Son of Heaven asked the Taishi again, Cai Jing said: "This is a great goodness, and it can be followed!" ”

So Huizong issued an edict, Zhao Liangsi was dedicated to the country, loyal and decisive, and made an exception to add Guanglu doctor, and awarded the bachelor of Wenge and the secretary of the province. Ordered him to be the envoy again, holding the letter of state, Bai Gui, and the envoy of Jin Guolai negotiated a contract, stamped with the national seal of the jade seal, and the two of them got the contract, and they were elated, that is, they completed the mission and immediately went back to the house to want Jin Taizong to report the good news.

But don't think about when they returned to Huanglong Mansion, Emperor Jin Taizong had another letter in his hand, which was sent by Xiao Ming, the letter said, "I have heard for a long time that the Jurchen warriors of the Great Jin Kingdom are invincible, and there are rumors that the Jurchens are not ten thousand, and there are more than ten thousand invincible rumors, this king has never believed this, and over the years Yu Jin has not tasted defeat in the war, and the Jin Kingdom wants the entire Liaodong and Youyun region, and must pass my pass, why don't you have a gambling game?" ”

This gambling game Xiao Ming declared, just northwest of Tokyo, where is the original Chunfu Ranch of the Liao State, located on the Liao River Plain, the Jin State can send 10,000 of the most capable Jurchen warriors, and Xiao Ming only uses 3,000 soldiers and horses, the two sides face off, if the Jin State is defeated, then hand over the Tianzuo Emperor, and retreat to the Huanglong Mansion to return all the land west of the Great Liao State, if Xiao Ming is defeated, Xiao Ming to the Jin State of the courtiers, since the Liaodong, change the flag!

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