Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 682: Zhongjin negotiates a peace? (Please subscribe!)

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Tomorrow is the day of Li Yan's ascension to the throne, that is, January [-]st of the first year of Datong.

Today is the last day of the first year of Jingkang, that is, the New Year's Eve of the first year of Jingkang.

At this moment, the golden envoy came to see him.

In fact, before this, the Jinren had already sent several waves of envoys to visit Li Yan.

Without exception, Li Yan killed all the envoys of the Jurchen tribe and put all the envoys of other tribes under house arrest, including Gao Qingyi who had been very active before.

I don't know if the Jinren knew that sending the Jurchens would mean sending them to death.

This time, the Jin simply sent only one Khitan (Xiao Qing) and one Han (Mo Chou) to Dazhong.

Xiao Qing, the Zong family of the Liao Kingdom, did a lot of hard work in the process of oppressing the Song Kingdom——At the beginning, Zhao Huan wanted to lure Yelu Yujian to surrender, and it was through Xiao Qing that he did this. As a result, Xiao Qing directly sent Zhao Huan The letter Huan wrote to Yelu Yujian was sent to Wanyan Zongwang, which contributed to the second southward trip of the Jin people.Later, the Jin people blackmailed Zhao Song, and Xiao Qing went to Zhao Song many times to intimidate Zhao Huan and his ministers.

Mo Choi, he and Wu Kai were driven by the Jin people, like servants, constantly conveying Jin people's orders back and forth, and were called "Jie Jigui" by the people in the capital.

Some time ago, Mo Yu and Wu Kai went to Yingtian Mansion to negotiate peace under the order of the Jinren. As a result, halfway there, they encountered the officials sent by the Jinren for the first two waves of peace envoys and fled back. Unexpectedly, the first two waves of envoys were all dealt with by Huang Qianshan, and Zhao Gou also acquiesced in this matter, scaring Mo Yu and Wu Kai and immediately fled back to Jinying.

It was precisely because the Song people had no intention of negotiating peace that Wanyan Zonghan and others sent envoys to negotiate peace with Dazhong.

When the Jin envoy came, he was just catching up with Li Yan watching the court.

Li Yan then asked people to bring Xiao Qing and Mo Yu directly to the Chui Gong Hall.

As soon as Xiao Qing came in, the original Song officials glared at him, wishing to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Seeing this, Xiao Qing's scalp became numb, and then hurriedly walked two steps to the front of the hall, saluted Li Yanshen, and said: "Foreign Minister Xiao Qing, pay homage to Your Majesty."

Li Yan hated Xiao Qing, and hated what he called him even more, so he didn't talk to Xiao Qing and let him just pouted like that.

Xiao Qing pouted for a while, seeing that things were not good, he hurriedly said: "Speaking of which, the foreign minister and the king have some relatives."

Li Yan still didn't speak, just watched Xiao Qing perform.

Xiao Qing bit the bullet and continued: "The foreign minister is brother Xiao Gui's cousin, the blood uncle of Yelu Guyu, Yelu Oriyan, and Yelu Daoye, according to your brother and the others, the foreign minister is the king's brother-in-law. "

Hearing Xiao Qing mention Brother Xiao Gui, Yelu Guyu, Yelu Oriyan, and Yelu Daoye, Li Yancai said indifferently: "Why did you come here?"

Xiao Qing hurriedly straightened his body and said: "The foreign minister is ordered by the Marshal Guoxiang to negotiate peace with Liaodong on behalf of Dajin."

"Reconciliation?"

Li Yan smiled "haha", as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

Xiao Qing bit the bullet and asked: "I don't know why Your Majesty is laughing?"

Li Yan stopped smiling, and then his face slowly sank, and he said, "Have you ever met with the robbers who came to your house to rob and kill your family members? The enmity between my Dazhong and you Jin people will never end!"

Xiao Qing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said in words: "The Marshal and Prime Minister also know that this trip to the south has gone too far, so he is willing to make some compensation."

Li Yan said with a half-smile, "Compensation? Interesting, let's hear it."

Xiao Qing hurriedly said: "The Marshal and Prime Minister are willing to return your country's emperor..."

Without waiting for Li Yan to speak, Xu Guanzhong shouted: "Zhuzi is courting death!"

Zhao Ding then came out and reported: "Your Majesty, this thief calls you the Great King instead of Your Majesty, calls Liaodong instead of Dazhong, and insists that the deposed Emperor Zhao is the emperor of my Dazhong. He is clearly insulting my Dazhong. , I am disrespectful to His Majesty, please behead Xiao Qing, and immediately order the three armies to wipe out those [-] gold thieves who dare to come and rob us!"

Zhu Wu winked at Ruan Xiaoqi.

When Ruan Xiaoqi saw it, he immediately gestured to the guard in his hand.

The guards tapped their weapons together and shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Xiao Qing took a look at the vicious guards who wanted to cut him into pieces immediately, and broke out in a cold sweat!
Xiao Qing has been sent to Song State several times, but has never encountered such a murderous scene.

Compared with the Song State, China undoubtedly appeared extremely barbaric, and it was completely comparable to the Jin State.

Combined, Li Yan had already killed several waves of envoys from the Kingdom of Jin.

Xiao Qing, who was not very courageous at all, softened all of a sudden, and then said tremblingly: "The two countries will not fight each other!", "What Xiao Qing said is what the country's prime minister ordered!", "I beg Your Majesty to spare my life for the sake of Brother Gui, Gu Yu, Oriyan, and Okuno!"...

Li Yan just looked at Xiao Qing quietly for a long time, until Xiao Qing was about to collapse, and then said coldly: "This is the last time, if you dare to disrespect me again, I will never look at you again , Oriyan, and Okuno's face will definitely make people beat you up!"

Xiao Qing hurriedly kowtowed to express his gratitude: "Thank... Thank you Your Majesty for not killing! Xiao Qing will never dare again! Never dare again!"

Li Yan said impatiently: "I don't like nonsense, especially for you Jin people, I don't have any patience at all. I only ask once, how are you going to talk about peace?"

Jinren's current situation is very bad.

First of all, the Yellow River was cut off by Yue Fei, especially the eastern section of the Yellow River, which was patrolled by Chinese cavalry every day, so they couldn't go back from Hebei at all.

Secondly, in the Hedong region, Fan Zhixu, the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi Province, led the [-] Songxi Army. He has already left Wuguan (later Shangluo Danfeng, Shaanxi Province), and is now operating in the area around Mianchi (later Mianchi, Henan Province), blocking the Jin army. The way back from the east of the river.

Again, the Jin people robbed too many things in the Song Dynasty this time, and robbed a large number of people. The difficulty of bringing these characters back has increased several times.

Secondly, and most importantly, the armies of Han Shizhong, Liu Kai, and Zhang Xian have already approached the Jin army from the north, south, and east. Together with the Yue Fei troops guarding the Yellow River, the Chinese army has an absolute advantage in terms of strength. It is capable of wiping out their hundreds of thousands of horses, not to mention the 10,000 Western troops of Fan Zhixu and the [-]+ troops of Generalissimo Song's mansion, whose attitudes are unclear.

All in all, the Jin people were afraid, so they first negotiated peace with the Song people, and then with Dazhong.

Xiao Qing could see that Li Yan, who currently had a great advantage, really didn't want to talk to Jin Ren, so he really might only have one chance to speak.

Therefore, Xiao Qing organized the language and said: "If Your Majesty is willing to have peaceful coexistence between the two countries, the Prime Minister and Marshal are willing to represent Dajin, recognize Dazhong, and admit that all the land south of Dahe is Dazhong's territory. As a country of brothers, my Emperor Dajin is willing to become brothers of different surnames with His Majesty. The two countries will never commit crimes against each other, and the world will be a good friend. In addition, the Marshal of the State is willing to give His Majesty a thousand horses and a hundred thousand silks in his personal capacity. , fifty chariots of treasures, and a hundred beauties, congratulations to Your Majesty on becoming emperor, and if Your Majesty is willing, the Prime Minister and Marshal are willing to return Zhao Song’s royal family members, clan members and Zhao Song’s ministers.”

Leaving everyone's feelings aside, it was really hard for Li Yan to refuse the terms of peace proposed by the Jinren this time.

As long as Li Yan is willing to nod his head, the north can temporarily settle down, and then Li Yan can wholeheartedly annex the territory of the former Song State south of the Yellow River.

Without the restraint of the Jin army, Li Yan is confident that with the scumbag combat power of the Southern Song Dynasty, within three years, he will take over all the territory south of the Yellow River.

From a strategic point of view, this is also very beneficial to Dazhong.

You know, fighting on two fronts has always been a taboo for military strategists.

Throughout the ages, kings who aim to unify the world have always stabilized one side (mostly the strong side), concentrated on destroying one side first (mostly the weaker side), and then fought a decisive battle with the other side, and finally unified the world. The most prominent example is , Qin Shihuang unified the six countries used by far and near attack.

Presumably, it was precisely this point that the Jinren dared to send envoys to negotiate peace.

In other words, the Jinren used Yangmou this time, and they expected that as long as Li Yanzhi was in the world, they would definitely agree to the peace terms they proposed!

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(End of this chapter)