Water Margin people

Chapter 683
"Cheng Zhifu may not know the national policy of the imperial court when he is in the place. Now that the Jurchens are rising in the north and establishing the Kingdom of Jin, the Jurchens and the Khitans are sworn enemies. The imperial court has set a national policy to unite Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun!"

Zhao Liangsi looked at Cheng Wanli with a smile and explained.

"This... what does this have to do with me?"

Cheng Wanli finally understood Tong Guan's purpose, no wonder he made a big mistake, Tong Guan not only did not blame him, but also wanted to promote him, which required him to trade his daughter for his future.

"Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of a country. As an official of the imperial court, how can you stay out of the matter and let your daughter go to the Kingdom of Jin to get married? You are the number one hero in destroying the Liao Dynasty!"

Tong Guan looked at Cheng Wanli and said.

"Tong Xiang, the lowly official position is small, how can the little girl take on this important task!"

Cheng Wanli hastily refused, since ancient times marriages have been a matter of the royal family, and princesses go to make marriages, and he is a junior official of the seventh rank, how can this be the same.

"Isn't this the goddaughter I recognized? Then his identity will be different."

Tong Guan said with a smile, according to the normal diplomatic marriage, it is true that the princess of the royal family needs to marry a foreign race, but the Song Dynasty has not been married for a hundred years, not even in the face of the Liao Kingdom. If you send a princess to Jurchen, doesn't that mean that Da Song is weaker than Jurchen Jin!
The Kingdom of Jin is just a small country newly established by the Jurchen tribe. This kind of barbarians are not considered a mature country at all, and they are not qualified to marry the princess of the Song Dynasty.

If you want to form an alliance, marriage is the easiest. The Jurchens have just established the Jin Kingdom and urgently need a status, and the marriage with Song can just give him this status.

"Children..."

Cheng Wanli still wanted to refuse, but Tong Guan didn't want to listen to it at all.

"It's getting late, you go back, the imperial decree will arrive in a few days, after the examination is over, you and Zhao Liangsi will serve as envoys and go to Jurchen to see off your relatives!"

With a flick of his sleeves, Tong Guan issued an order to evict the guests, and Lao Duguan took Cheng Wanli out with his guards without any explanation.

"Master Cheng, take good care of the great glory!"

Old Duguan smiled eccentrically and closed the door of Tong's Mansion.

"Cheng Wanli doesn't seem to be willing to do this, it's a good thing to reach the sky in one step!"

Zhao Liangsi looked at Tong Guan and asked.

"He has to be willing if he is willing, and he has to be willing if he is not willing!"

Tong Guan smiled indifferently and said, if he hadn't been around, he wouldn't have set his mind on Cheng Wan'er.

"If you send the princess there, those officials will definitely disagree, and the emperor will feel that his face is shameless, but any folk girl is not qualified enough, so is the Jurchen. It's not good for a group of barbarians to like anything. They don't like arty, they must be talented. woman!"

Zhao Liangsi shook his head helplessly and said, there are quite a few adopted daughters in Tong Guan's house, it's not that there are no women of the right age, but Tong Guan is a military officer, and most of the adopted daughters in the family are unrestrained, so sending them to Jurchen would not be satisfactory.

"After this is done, you can send troops to the Liao Kingdom and take back Yanyun!"

Tong Guan said in a cold voice, once the marriage is successful, Zhao Ji will decree to recognize the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Jin. With this Jurchen, it will be considered a real state. With such a great favor, the Jurchen barbarians will not desperately repay it?
"Tong Xiang has a way, but it's just that the Jurchens won't be satisfied if they just canonize the Kingdom of Jin as a courtier? The Jurchens want the emperor of the Liao Kingdom and Wanyan Aguda to be called brothers when they attack Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom. Brother, Liao is my brother!"

Zhao Liangsi looked at Tong Guan and said he was worried. Both civil and military courts and the emperor looked down on the barbarian Jurchens, and they were only willing to canonize a vassal state, which might not be able to satisfy the Jurchen's appetite.

"The Liao Kingdom did not agree. Besides, how can the little Jurchen be compared with my great country?"

Tong Guan looked at Zhao Liangsi and said, for a barbarian tribe, it would be a disaster to seal a feudal state.

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Cheng Wanli returned to the small courtyard in a daze. He never expected that just after he took his daughter out of the den of thieves, he brought her into the fire pit again.

"Father, what's wrong?"

Cheng Wan'er looked at her distraught father for a while, wondering why it had become like this after only going out for a while.

Looking at his well-behaved and sensible daughter, Cheng Wanli sighed again. The thought of sending his daughter to Liaodong to marry the Jurchen barbarian made him feel so much pain. If he had known this, it would be better to fulfill his daughter. No matter how bad Sun Lei was, he was better than the Jurchen barbarian ah.

"Father killed you!"

Cheng Wanli didn't want to hide it, sighed and shook his head.

"Father, what's the matter?"

Cheng Wan'er looked at her father like that and knew something serious had happened, so she asked eagerly.

Cheng Wanli told Cheng Wan'er about the matter, and Tong Guan will send someone here soon, and this matter cannot be hidden.

"why me!"

Cheng Wan'er was so frightened that Huarong turned pale, she never imagined that marriage and marriage would happen to her.

"I don't know either. If I had known this, it would be better to stay in Dongping Mansion!"

Cheng Wanli sighed.

"Father, I don't want to go to Liaodong, I don't want to marry a barbarian!"

Cheng Wan'er tugged at Cheng Wanli's sleeve and begged, thinking of those barbaric and terrifying alien races, Cheng Wan'er was so frightened that she burst into tears.

"Ugh!"

Cheng Wanli sighed again looking at Lihua's daughter in the rain. Although her daughter was a bit deviant, she was still a good and filial child. With only such little blood in his life, how could he bear to watch her fall into the fire pit.

"Daughter, you leave Tokyo tomorrow morning, go wherever you want!"

Cheng Wanli patted his daughter's head and said.

"Father, let's go together!"

Cheng Wan'er looked at Cheng Wanli and said.

"I can't leave because of my father!"

Cheng Wanli shook his head and said, against Tong Guan's wishes, he will never end well. If he walks with his daughter, he will be caught by Tong Guan after all. Only the daughter escapes and takes the blame, let alone the Cheng family members.

"If my father doesn't leave, I won't either!"

Cheng Wan'er knew very well how her father would be treated if she left.

"The imperial decree will come down in a few days, and you won't be able to leave even if you want to!"

Cheng Wanli looked at his daughter with heartache, and the imperial decree could no longer be changed.

"My lord, a team of soldiers came outside, saying that they were ordered by the Prime Minister to protect the lord!"

The butler ran in and said.

Cheng Wanli's heart skipped a beat. Tong Guan had already guessed that he would let his daughter go and put them under house arrest.

"Father, I don't want to go even if I die. They have nothing to do."

Cheng Wan'er looked at her father with a determined face.

"Daughter, the affairs of the court are not as simple as you think!"

Cheng Wanli was a little desperate. Since ancient times, women who married were unwilling, but in the end, who could resist?If the royal family is like this, how can his small family escape.

"It's late at night, you go to rest first, and think of a way for your father!"

Cheng Wanli looked at his daughter and comforted him, his mind was in a mess, where did he find a solution, but now he can only comfort his daughter and tell her not to think about it.

Looking at her haggard father, Cheng Wan'er felt sad. Her mother passed away early, and her father brought her up alone. Even if she was a bit self-willed, her father would still rely on her. She didn't want to bring troubles on her father, but she There is no way.

(End of this chapter)