Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 777 Overlord Treaty (please subscribe!)

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At the beginning of March in the second year of Datong.

After nearly half a year of fighting and talking, China and Gold finally reached an agreement to negotiate peace and stop the war.

Negotiation conditions are as follows:

[-]. The gold-limiting army will unconditionally withdraw from Yandi before April [-]st, including all Yandi passes such as Gubei and Songting, and the gold-limiting troops will unconditionally withdraw from the south of Enzhou-Weichang before June [-]st. Out, the two sides use Enzhou-Weichang as the national border. In other words, the Kingdom of Jin ceded all the land south of its Dadingfu (that is, Liaozhongjing) to Dazhong.

500. Indemnity from the Kingdom of Jin: 5000 million taels of gold, 50 million taels of silver, 500 catties of high-quality ginseng, [-] catties of deer antler, [-] mink furs, [-] horses, [-] cows and mules, and [-] camels—because The amount of compensation was too large for Jin Guo to take out at once. Jin Guo temporarily paid [-] taels of gold, [-] million taels of silver, [-] catties of high-quality ginseng, [-] catties of deer antler, and [-] mink furs before July [-]. [-] horses, [-] cows and [-] mules each, [-] camels, and the rest will be paid to Dazhong in ten years.

700. In the future, the Kingdom of Jin will pay tribute to Dazhong every year, and congratulate Dazhong every year, with [-] million taels of silver every year.

[-]. The Kingdom of Jin is a vassal state of Dazhong, and the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin respectfully calls the Emperor of China his uncle.

As soon as the terms of the peace negotiation came out, there was an uproar in the world!

Do you know why?

Just because this peace treaty is too unreasonable, it is simply a treaty of overlord.

Take the first one.

If this peace treaty is really implemented, then the Dajin Kingdom is not much bigger than the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be said that the Jurchens have worked hard for more than ten years, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, all in vain.

Let me talk about the second article.

This article is completely a replica of what the Jin people blackmailed the Northern Song Dynasty.

At the beginning, Zhao Huan gave all the treasures that Zhao Song had accumulated over the past two hundred years to the Jinren, but it was not enough. In the end, he insisted on pledging all the daughters of the Zhao Song royal family and clan to the Jinren, so that he could barely make up so much compensation. .

There are also tributes of 700 million taels of silver every year to the court, Jin Guo is called a vassal, and Wanyan Wu begs to buy and Guan Li Yan is called uncle.

These are all blackmails without discussion or sincerity.

Many people shook their heads and said: "This is not what a benevolent king did."

The key point is that such a treaty is absolutely unbearable for the Dajin Kingdom for a long time. The reason why the Dajin Kingdom agreed to such a treaty is a tactic to slow down the troops. Attack Dazhong.

How can such a treaty keep peace forever?
Of course, there are those who support this treaty.

Supporters argue that:

Ceded Enzhou - what happened to the land south of the paddock?These areas did not belong to the Jurchens in the first place, but belonged to the Han people at first. More than a decade ago, they belonged to the Liao Kingdom. These areas should belong to Dazhong, and there is nothing inappropriate to want here.

As for war indemnities, yearly coins, vassal status, and the emperors of the two countries as uncles and nephews, they were all mentioned by the Jin people to the Northern Song Dynasty. If Zhao Song went bankrupt and used his wife, daughter, and mother to pay off the debt, wouldn't I be allowed to repay him in the same way?
Dissatisfied, repeated?
Then fight well, I am big and middle-aged, with strong troops and advanced weapons, can I still be afraid of you, a small feudal country?

Facing all the discussions, Li Yan remained unwavering, and ordered to carry out the peace treaty immediately.

Why did Li Yan insist on this overlord treaty?

There is of course a reason for this.

Just as those who agreed with this treaty thought, Li Yan also felt that if you, the Jurchen, are allowed to be the first day of junior high school, then I, someone like Li, will be allowed to be the fifteenth day.

Of course, as the head of a country and the top decision-maker of a power, Li Yan could not be so superficial, nor could he be so impulsive.

The reason why Li Yan insisted on this treaty was mainly because:

First of all, Dazhong killed 10,000+ Jurchens back and forth, castrated tens of thousands of Jurchens and sent them to endless mining, and plundered a large number of Jurchens. , this kind of monstrous hatred, unless one side is wiped out, it is absolutely impossible to end, Li Yan knows this better than anyone else, so even Dazhong should not negotiate with Jin Guo for anything now, wait for Jin Guo to relax After that, he will definitely seek revenge from Dazhong.

That being the case, then Dazhong simply took advantage of the danger of the Jurchens to blackmail more from the Jurchens, because this would be a trade-off and delay the time for the Jurchens to seek revenge on him.

In fact, none of these were the real reasons why Li Yan signed the Overlord Treaty with the Kingdom of Jin.

To be honest, don’t look at 500 million taels of gold, 5000 million taels of silver, 700 catties of top-grade ginseng, [-] catties of deer antler, [-] mink furs, [-] horses, [-] mules, [-] camels, and [-] catties a year. There are a lot of old coins of ten thousand taels of silver, but Li Yan doesn't care about these properties at all.

After Yanjing was conquered by Yue Fei this time, what Li Yan got was not only Yanjing and some Jurchen women, but also a lot of wealth.

The Jin people want to return to the north, and what they want to take away is not only their family members, but also a large number of treasures and property they plundered from the Northern Song Dynasty, including from the Liao Kingdom.

Before those Jinren went to the battlefield, they put all their families and belongings in Yanjing.

As a result, Yue Fei and Wang De took over all of these in one pot.

Later, when presenting the captives, Wang De presented these treasures to Li Yan.

It can be said that when the Jin people went south, not only did they not get an inch of gold, but they also got a lot of money.

Of course, Li Yan looked down on these war reparations and old coins, more because Li Yan controlled the international trade at sea.

At the end of last year, Jiang Jing reported a bill to Li Yan.

In this account, two are the most dazzling.

First, throughout last year, Dazhong's customs revenue reached more than 2000 million yuan.

The second is that the big and middle official merchants, that is, the official merchants headed by Hu, made more than 8000 million yuan in the whole of last year.

For these two items alone, Dazhong earned 4 million yuan last year!

Li Yan, who is clinging to the cornucopia of international trade at sea, doesn't care about the war indemnities and old coins promised by the Jinren. What's more, it is not yet known how much war reparations and old coins the Jinren will give in the end. Perhaps, after the first payment of war reparations and yearly coins, the two countries went to war again, and all the rest became a bunch of numbers that would never be cashed.

So, what Li Yan really wants is not money at all.

what is that?

The answer is...territory.

To be precise, it is the part of the territory from the south of Enzhou-Padchang to the north of Yanyun.

In the eyes of many people in this era, the territory outside the Great Wall is useless to the Han people. As long as the Han people get Yanyun and lock the barbarians outside the Great Wall, they can live a happy life of their own.

But Li Yan, who has a vision beyond this era, clearly knows that it is a big mistake to think so.

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(End of this chapter)