One Piece of Song Dynasty

Wang Lun and his deputy had been under house arrest in the Jin State Post House for almost four years. They still had enough to eat and drink, but they drank together every day, which was really boring. Wang Lun sighed every time: "It's a pity that the Jin man doesn't see me. If he wants to see me, I promise to talk to the gods and let him let me go back to the country."

The deputy envoy said: "Your Excellency, you really have a good tongue."

Wang Lun threw away a gnawed bone: "I, Wang Lun, have been eating this for three and a half years, let alone calling me a woman. Why don't I just run away?"

The deputy envoy said disdainfully: "My lord, I was ordered to inquire about the Kingdom of Jin. How dare you return to the country without permission?"

Wang Lun said: "Why don't you go to Tokyo and ask? I, Wang Lun, am afraid that as long as someone can return to China, there is nothing I can't do."

While the two were chatting, the Jin Guo Post official ran in nervously and asked them to pick them up quickly. After saying that His Highness Yan Chang had arrived. Wang Lun and the deputy envoy were busy adjusting their clothes. Wang Lun instinctively felt that the opportunity had come, so he told the deputy envoy not to speak and to obey him in everything.

"I would like to ask Wang Lun, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, to have an audience with the king." Wang Lun saluted hurriedly when he saw Wan Yanchang striding in. Wan Yanchang looked at him with a frown and asked him what he came to Jin Guotong to ask for. Wang Lun's expression did not change: "First, I came to inquire about the two saints' daily life, and secondly, I was ordered to negotiate peace."

"The people of the Song Dynasty are courting Qin Muchu. They talk what they mean and have repeatedly defeated alliances. Why are they negotiating for peace?" Wanyanchang was stunned, and the deputy was stunned. Just as he was about to speak, Wang Lun pinched him hard from behind, and the deputy grinned in pain.

Wang Lun replied: "That's not what you said. In the Sea Alliance, the Song and Jin Dynasties agreed to destroy the Liao Kingdom together as brothers. Our army was defeated. It was definitely not an intentional defeat of the alliance. When the Jin Kingdom wanted to declare war on me, it was your eldest brother who was the last one. Yan Aguda stopped it. He put the good alliance between the two countries first and did not allow southward invasion. But as soon as your eldest brother died, they raised their troops to go south. Isn't this a blatant violation of your eldest brother's last wish? Your eldest brother's body is still cold."

Wan Yanchang was so angry with him that he sat down and looked at Wang Lun again, watching him continue his performance. Wang Lun continued: "Now that I, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, am so heroic and powerful, I need to go to the north to avenge my humiliation. I would like to advise you, don't make the lives of the two countries suffer anymore because of this matter. The good things for our two countries don't just need to be returned to our two emperors." , Queen Mother, Queen, restore the territory of our country, if you think you are worthy of your brother's spirit in heaven, we will forget about it."

"Are you still forgetting the shame of the Song people? Are they as thick-skinned as you?" Wan Yanchang laughed angrily.

Wang Lun also laughed: "As the saying goes, if you are thick-skinned, you can eat enough. Regardless of whether you are thin-skinned or not, your Majesty, just tell me whether this is true."

"Although he is thick-skinned, he is also very articulate. Unlike those messengers who are either stubborn or unable to speak clearly." Wan Yanchang was quite sure of Wang Lun.

Wang Lun answered: "That is, who am I, Wang Lun, go to Tokyo and ask me?"

"It's up to you to negotiate peace," Wan Yanchang said with sharp eyes. Wang Lun blinked and stuttered: "I made my own decision. I was full and full. It was me who made the decision. But having said that, in the affairs of the world, what is decided by man will prevail over Heaven, and what is decided by Heaven will prevail over man. Whether peace can be negotiated or not is up to the King himself. Make up your mind."

Wan Yanchang said: "Go back and tell the emperor of your country, if you don't want to destroy the country, don't be too stingy."

Wang Lun was so surprised that he couldn't believe his ears: "Your Majesty, your Majesty has returned to China. Didn't you just ask us to spend money to buy peace? Understand, understand. I will sneak back and report to the Emperor."

Wan Yanchang nodded and went out. The deputy envoy of Song State looked at Wang Lun dumbfounded, then tilted his head to look at his mouth in admiration.

Wang Lun held the mirror, stuck out his tongue and looked around narcissistically: "What does a perfect tongue mean? Why do you think my tongue is so long and so stupid? Hurry up and pack it up and go home."

On the Lantern Festival of the fifth year of Jianyan, Li Xin led his ministers to face the north in the square outside the north gate of Lin'an Mansion and held a grand ceremony to pay homage to the two emperors. He congratulated the emperor and the empress dowager on the New Year and prayed for their early return to the south. .

After bowing to the north, Qin Hui and his ministers wanted to bow to Li Xin, but Li Xin refused: "The national crisis has not been eliminated, and I will not accept the congratulations from the court."

"It is unreasonable for the prince to not be worshiped by the ministers on Yuanjie." Qin Hui rushed to say. Why does Lu Yihao dislike Qin Hui? The newly appointed minister of the Ministry of Rites was busy with his duties, scrambling to deal with the situation. He couldn't see these old ministers. He interrupted Qin Hui's words rudely: "Your Majesty, I have to repay you. The Kingdom of Jin sold the people of the Central Plains to Xixia, In Mongolia and Goryeo, it can be seen that the Jin Kingdom regards the Puppet Qi as a puppet and takes precautions at every step. If the prince personally conquers Liu Yu this year, the Puppet Qi will be destroyed."

Qin Hui raised his head and stared at Lu Yihao sensitively, his eyelids twitching wildly. Li Xin disagreed with Lu Yihao's opinion: "I wish I could go on the Northern Expedition immediately, but in order to fight against foreign aggression, we must first make peace at home. We should take advantage of this opportunity for the Jin army to annihilate Li Cheng and other domestic rebels."

Lu Yihao said: "However, Li Cheng dared to support the crowd to cross the river and jump across the beam, and he was relying on the puppet Qi to go south. The two enemies are in a stalemate, and it is chance that determines the outcome. Now that the Jin army has retreated, the country must be in good health; all is in good health. We have to conquer Huainan. Liu Yu only left tens of thousands of soldiers in Huainan, and they can be driven away."

"The overall situation between the north and the south cannot be won by one or two dangerous moves." Li Xin shook his head. Zhao Ding also disagreed: "Huainan has experienced repeated wars and wars. Ten houses and nine empty houses are uncultivated. They are thousands of miles away from each other. People who have been exiled and moved cannot be returned day and night. I am worried that even if our army takes Huainan, it will be short of food." How to defend it?”

"Guarding Huainan is not difficult. Your Majesty can choose a general to cross the river to farm the fields and establish a vassal town in Huainan. He can do it cheaply. He can not only stay on the fence stably, but also clear out the bandits in the east and west. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Lu Yihao still insisted on his opinion. Qin Hui secretly thought that it turned out that the two prime ministers had political disagreements, so this would be easy to handle.

Li Xin said: "I have a basic judgment on the current situation. Although last year's Battle of the Yangtze River, the Battle of Chuzhou, and the Battle of Fuping were all defeated, it was still an honor to lose. It allowed the Kingdom of Jin to see that we, the Song Dynasty Someone made the Jin Kingdom dare not underestimate the Song Dynasty, so it supported the puppet Qi Liu Yu and ruled the Central Plains on behalf of the Jin Kingdom. This formed a buffer zone in the Central Plains, allowing the Song and Jin armies to avoid head-on conflicts. I believe that the confrontation between the north and the south has become inevitable in the future."

"What the prince said is absolutely true, and I also believe that the north-south pattern has been established, and we should take this opportunity to suppress the internal rebellion." Qin Hui immediately agreed. Li Xin nodded: "Since we have the same vision, the future strategy of the imperial court will be clear. To deal with foreign affairs, we must first settle the domestic affairs. In the next five years, I will only do one thing: pacify the domestic affairs."

"As the Holy Prophet said, within the next five years, the imperial court should be on the defensive in order to go all out to pacify Jiangnan." Zhao Ding nodded, and everyone agreed, except Lu Yihao who shook his head. Li Xin continued: "An Nei put it bluntly, there are only two things: one is military, and the other is economics. Military, just two words: counterinsurgency."