The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 788
Zhao Defang, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, put forward two demands on behalf of the Song Dynasty. The first is to hand over Meng Huo, Meng Jie, and Meng You, and the second is to return the people who were plundered by Panyue and Ugo, otherwise the war will continue.

These two requirements are no longer within the scope of Guan Sheng's authority, and he can only ask for instructions from Li Jun!

However, Guan Sheng still did not allow Zhao Defang's mission to enter Siam on the grounds that the tension between the two countries was the security of the mission.

Zhao Defang keenly felt that Guan Sheng wanted to hide something by not letting the mission see Li Jun, and analyzed in her heart that it was nothing more than the relationship between the Dali Kingdom, and it is very likely that the two countries are already at war.

Zhao Defang immediately sent spies back to the border to deliver the news, and at the same time sneered in her heart: "It is indeed true that His Majesty sent an envoy to Dali."

In this way, Guan Sheng's letter was quickly delivered to Li Jun on the front line. Seeing Guan Sheng send the letter to Li Jun felt quite tricky!

It's very simple, only with absolute strength can we fight on multiple fronts, and now Siam is not enough to reach the Song Dynasty in the north and Dali in the south.

This is not the most important thing, and the Song Dynasty borders Dali, as long as you go south from Jiaozhi, you can rescue Dali!
Li Jun learned from Meng Jie that Lu Heng was born in a few years, and his ability was definitely not inferior to his own. Since he already knew about Dali, the envoys of the Song Dynasty might have been sent there.

If Li Jun judges others by himself, if he is an opponent on the same level as himself, no matter whether he agrees to these two conditions or not, the other party will definitely help Dali.

"My Lord, the situation is not good for us now. If we don't agree to the request, I believe the Song Dynasty will probably force us from the north and help Dali become an ally from the south!
What's more, this time our country is going to war without declaring it, and Yu Li is not waiting for me. It is better to agree to the conditions and rebuild Yu Hao so that the Song Dynasty has no excuse to send troops to help Dali! "Huang Wei, the censor Zhongcheng, came out to give advice.

Zhu Wu thought for a while and agreed with Huang Wei's opinion: "What Huang Yushi said is absolutely true. Directly rejecting the Song envoy's request will only make the situation worse. At the same time, it will be unfavorable for us to go to war with the two countries."

Le He thought for a while and said, "But now that we have turned against Da Song, such a powerful emperor obviously won't just sit idly by, we still have to fight back..."

"How to fight back?" Li Jun became interested!
"The Song Dynasty is not monolithic. I want to personally contact Cao Cao!" Lehe's eyes were full of confidence.

"This..." Li Jun didn't want to take risks with his right-hand man, but for Le He, this trip in person was obviously not only to contact Cao Cao, but also to inquire about Song's information in detail.
Now all the information about the Song Dynasty is obtained from Meng Jie. Originally, they were in the frontier. Obviously, the lag of the news is very large. Regarding the specific situation of the entire Song Dynasty, they are more provocative and revengeful from the perspective of hostility. How reliable the information is is unknown!

Of course, some counselors proposed that Guan Sheng send troops to bluff, but it was dismissed. The reason is very simple. Unless the troops are withdrawn now, as long as the spies enter Dali territory, they will know that Li Jun is going south to Dali. Such a bluffing strategy will only have the opposite effect.

"In this way, the population of Ugo and Panyue countries can be returned when Su Xiancheng goes to the border once, but the captured Siamese soldiers must also be returned." Li Jun set out his own conditions, but did not mention Meng Huo, Meng Jie, The three of Meng You obviously wanted to keep the three of them to make a fuss in the future.

"The next official takes the order, may I ask the king's final bottom line...?" Su Xiancheng came out to take the order, but this person has always been straightforward and asked the scale of the final diplomatic game.

Since the military action could not be fought, after Su Xiancheng came to the border, the game between the envoys began. Zhao Defang also met a real opponent. At first, Siam was willing to release the population of Ugo and Panyue, but the conditions were Back to Siamese prisoners of war.

Zhao Defang said that it was okay to release the prisoners of war, but it was okay to see Meng Huo, Meng Jie, and Meng You or their heads. The king of the Song Dynasty was willing to give in, and the two sides reached a deadlock for a while.

In the end, Zhu Wu persuaded a large number of Siamese prisoners of war to return to win people's hearts. Most of these prisoners were originally under the rule of Nong Quanfu and Nong Zhigao.

In this way, the heads of Meng Huo, Meng Jie, and Meng You were sent directly. Obviously Li Jun was also a ruthless person. The three died in diplomacy, and the Meng Department was completely destroyed.

Then there were more games. After all, Ugo and Panyue were small countries with a small population. In addition, when they invaded, most of the population ran away to the deep mountains and old forests without a trace. In fact, Siam captured them. The population is not large, which is one reason Li Jun is willing to return.

Another reason is that these populations are not easy to control, especially the living habits of the 'giants' in the Ugo country are very different, and these giants are all over one foot in size, it is very difficult to control the frequent conflicts, it is better to exchange for prisoners of war.

However, it is obvious that the captured population is not as large as the number of captives. After exchanging some of the captives, Li Jun wants to exchange all captives, so that Su Xiancheng can continue to negotiate for more captives.

Although "returning" cannot be unconditional, of course, Zhao Defang's difficulty made Su Xiancheng deeply understand that he gave up the trial and directly bought back the captives. Su Xiancheng took out the Burmese specialty "gem" of later generations.

Rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other jewels and jade were used to exchange prisoners of war. Because the number of prisoners of war was large and Su Xiancheng specially increased the value of gems, the exchange price was once so high that one ruby ​​​​could be exchanged for a thousand prisoners.

In this way, only [-] gems were exchanged for [-] prisoners of war. For these rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, the big men were very rare and did not know the value. Now Zhao Defang was not sure about the price, and finally reported to Lu Heng.

As the saying goes, Taoism is vaguely precious. When there is only one ruby ​​in the whole Song Dynasty, maybe only Lu Heng can use it. Similarly, if Lu Heng is a person of this era, he may be fooled, but Lu Heng is obviously not!

When Lu Heng learned that he wanted to exchange [-] prisoners of war for a mere [-] stones, he was furious. He had a feeling that he thought I was a fool. Who would not know the common sense that gems are produced in Myanmar?
Rubies, sapphires, and emeralds are all valued by commercial bragging, and there is such a stone in China that is jade!
The stone itself has no value, but it is valued because it conforms to human aesthetics. Lu Heng first refused to use rubies, sapphires, and emeralds as the basis for exchange, and changed to copper and silver to buy prisoners of war at the price of the Song Dynasty.

With the current price of [-] yuan for a horse, and [-] to [-] yuan for war horses, Lu Heng used this price of [-] yuan for ordinary prisoners of war and [-] yuan for elites. Siam, like the Song Dynasty, has just passed through troubled times. In fact, human life is the least valuable, not worth a war horse at all.

(End of this chapter)