Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 683 Conditions for peace negotiation (please subscribe!)

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Not only Li Yan was tempted by the conditions offered by the Jinren, but also many of Li Yan's ministers were tempted.

Sun Jingzuo reported: "Your Majesty, Da Jin seems to be a little sincere this time, but the conditions are yet to be discussed."

Bao Kang then echoed: "That's right, if we can turn our fight with Da Jin into friendship, it will be a blessing to all living beings in the world."

There are those who are in favor, and there are naturally those who are against.

Tang Ke said: "The Jin people are untrustworthy, greedy, and despicable. The Great Song formed an alliance with them. They took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Great Song Dynasty, sent troops to the south, burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil. They even destroyed Zhao Song and captured Zhao Huang. Your Majesty How can you form an alliance with such treacherous people?"

Zhao Dingdao: "The foundation of my great neutrality is to protect the environment and the people. I am not as weak and deceitful as Zhao Song, who sits and watches the good people in the territory be abused by the barbarians. How can your majesty negotiate peace with the robbers who bully and kill your people? Your majesty's people are cold." heart of?"

Wang Shiyong said: "There are priorities in everything. Song Kang Wang Chen has 20 soldiers in the south of us, threatening our capital, and has no good intentions. We must let them go."

Wen Huanzhang, who had just arrived in Bianliang City, bowed to Li Yan and said, "Your Majesty, this matter should not be discussed in front of the Jinshi. Please send the Jinshi to the posthouse to rest first."

Xiao Qing then said: "Your Majesty can discuss it with your ministers. However, before the foreign ministers go down, there are still two things to say. Before the foreign ministers came, the Prime Minister and Marshal said to the foreign ministers that if your majesty thinks the conditions are not suitable, We can discuss it slowly, as long as His Majesty is willing to negotiate a peace, our Dajin will send the eldest son of Emperor Dajin (Wanyan Zongpan) to attend His Majesty's enthronement ceremony, to show that China and Jin will always be friends."

In the eyes of the ancients, the most important thing for a new regime is to be recognized by a big country.

Just like when the Kingdom of Jin was established, it did everything possible to seek recognition from Song Liao, and even Xixia and Goryeo.

And big countries, such as the Song State, will not easily recognize a country, just like the Jin State at the beginning-first did not recognize the Jin State as a country, and then recognized the Jin State as a country for the joint expedition against Liao, and then saw the Jin State. His strength was beaten to the door by Jin Guo, so he changed his name to Jin Guo Da Jin.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Jin people, sending Wanyan Zongpan, the eldest son of the Great Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu, who begged to buy, to attend Li Yan's enthronement ceremony is to praise the new regime of China.

Li Yan looked at Xiao Qing for a while, who seemed to be determined by Li Yan. It can also be said that through Xiao Qing, Li Yan saw Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongpan and other golden men behind Xiao Qing for a while, and then said : "Don't be so troublesome, if you want to negotiate a peace, just promise me a few conditions."

Zhao Ding, Tang Ke, Xu Guanzhong, Chen Kangbo, Li Guang and others heard the words and wanted to stand up and persuade them!

Li Yan stopped Zhao Ding and the others with a look.

Xiao Qing hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Majesty, please tell me that the foreign minister will definitely bring the words to the Marshal of our country."

Li Yandao: "The first condition is to unconditionally release all the Han people you took away, including the emperors of the old Song Dynasty, the Zong family, and all the ministers of the old Song Dynasty, as well as Yanyun Han'er. There will be no one less."

Just listening to this one condition, Xiao Qing felt chills in his heart!
The Han people looted by the Jin people were a lot of spoils for the Jin people.

Furthermore, without these Han people as civilian husbands, the Jin people would not be able to transport the huge materials they plundered and blackmailed back to Yanyun and back to Shangjing.

More importantly, a part of the Jin army is composed of Yanyun's Han'er. If all the Han'er are handed over, then the strength of the Jin army will immediately evaporate nearly one-third.

Li Yandao: "The second condition is that non-Jurchens who don't want to go with you are not allowed to take them away."

Xiao Qing thought about himself: "This is easy to say, probably not too many Khitan, Bohai, and Xi people are willing to stay."

Li Yandao: "The third condition is to keep all the things that were robbed from our Han land, and not even a single needle is allowed to be taken away."

Xiao Qing's face turned pale, and he thought to himself: "It's over, we can't talk about appointments."

It took more than half a year for the Jin people to go south this time, and they fought dozens of battles, large and small, in order to get these trophies.

Now, these trophies have been snatched and blackmailed by the Jin people. If they are not allowed to take these trophies away, how can they let it go?

Just as Xiao Qing wanted to tell Li Yan about this situation, Li Yan said again: "The fourth condition, all the Jin troops in our Han area must unconditionally hand over all their armor and horses, and not an inch of iron is allowed."

Xiao Qing was dumbfounded, "This isn't a peace talk, it's clearly asking me to surrender unconditionally!"

Li Yan didn't seem to see the change in Xiao Qing's face, nor did he seem to see the urgency of Sun Jing, Bao Kang and other ministers, and continued: "The fifth condition is to kill for your life. You have caused countless murders in our Han land. Leave [-] Jurchen heads to pay for their lives."

Xiao Qing didn't need to listen to the latter anymore. Among their [-] gold army, the total number of Jurchens was less than [-]. Li Yan wanted [-] Jurchen heads to pay for his life. What is there to talk about?As long as the Jurchens listened to this condition, they would have to draw their swords and fight the Chinese army on the spot.

But Li Yan didn't finish yet, and continued: "The sixth condition is to hand over the war criminals who started this war, Wanyan Xieye, Wanyan Zonghan, and Wanyan Zongwang."

Hearing this, Xiao Qing wanted to laugh, "Hand over Ban Bo Jilie (Crown Prince), Prime Minister, and Marshal? Could it be that the Chinese emperor has lost his mind and surrendered himself to die?"

Li Yan didn't think he was funny, and continued on his own: "The seventh condition is to hand over Yanyun, the three prefectures of Pingluanying and all the surrounding checkpoints, and all the Jin people will withdraw to the north of Yanyun."

Xiao Qing completely understood that Li Yan was not talking about peace talks at all, but was treating Jin Guo as a defeated country.

The development of the matter was similar to Xiao Qing's guess. Li Yan continued: "The eighth condition, Wanyan Wuqi bought the Edict of Guilt, abdicated, and handed over the throne to a virtuous emperor, and gave it to the people who died in the Central Plains. An explanation."

Xiao Qing couldn't bear it anymore, and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have the sincerity of peace talks at all."

Not only Xiao Qing, but even Li Yan's ministers felt that Li Yan had no sincerity in the peace talks and was just teasing the envoy.

But they don't know that Li Yan is sincerely proposing the conditions for the peace talks, and he also told the golden man all his bottom line. As long as the golden man can do these eight points, Li Yan will really let the golden man go. .

After raising his own conditions, Li Yan waved his hand at Xiao Qing like a fly, and said at the same time: "Tell your master the eight conditions I mentioned, and then tell your master for me, these eight conditions, one less , all the Jurchens have washed their necks, and in a few days, our army will go and chop off their heads!"

"His!"

Not only Xiao Qing and other Jin envoys, but even Li Yan's courtiers gasped—their officials wanted to fight the Jurchens forever!

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(End of this chapter)