[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

The moonlight is quite cool.

Zhao Yuan nestled in the tent, carefully drawing the topography of Shangjing on the paper with a charcoal pen.She stayed in Shangjing for three or four months last year. Although she couldn't move around at will, she could still outline the outline of the entire city.Most of the "places where concubines and ministers are detained" that Wang Guifei mentioned earlier are in the most remote and dilapidated corners of Shangjing, and it is extremely difficult to find them.She traced it carefully for a long time, resting her chin, staring at the stick figure map in a daze.

It is really difficult to bring back all these scattered detainees in just half a day...

"I wonder if Diji slept peacefully?" A man's voice faintly sounded from outside the tent.

Immediately afterwards, another delicate female voice replied: "Back to Lord Qin, Di Ji has already fallen asleep. If there is something important, please report it tomorrow."

The sound of rustling footsteps went away.

Zhao Yuan continued to lower his head, tracing her map, with a troubled look on his face.

This time, Zhao Gou's monitoring of her has gone crazy.

First, the Western Army was not allowed to go north with her, and then a small half of the imperial camp was transferred to "escort", and then four personal maids were sent to wait on her.Zhao Yuan argued hard for half a day before reducing the four maids to two.But even if there were only two grand ladies, they would stay by her side day and night in turn, never leaving her, even going to the toilet.

As for every line of words she wrote and every picture she drew, they were all copied by the maid and sent to Liao Palace in Yanjing overnight.

The most terrible thing is that the "peace envoys" sent to her, except for the Wanqi Xie she personally ordered, are all old fritters with false titles in Yushitai.They are not good at marching and fighting, and they make a mess of fuss. What they like most in their daily life is to catch wind and shadow, and insist that three-point mistakes are seven points.It is their greatest pleasure to hear about things every day, and to hold on to the faults of the royal family and nobles.

In just three days since he set off from Yanjing City, Zhao Yuan has already been impeached seventeen times.

The first time was "Emperor Ji faced the envoys directly, which violated the 'men and women don't give and receive kisses'", the second time was "Emperor Ji went north with the envoys, and she was really a rooster in the morning", and the third time was "Emperor Ji has short-sightedness, How can I take on such a big responsibility... It is said that the last memorial directly refuted her self-sufficiency to such a degree that it almost broke her foot bones and entangled them again.

——Depend on it.

Although she never liked being rough, this time she couldn't bear it after all.

Even her fiancé didn't say much about the matter of letting go, so it's your turn to speak up as a foreign minister!

She not only wants to let go, but also instigates all the women in the world to let go.What, not convinced?Then I will piss you off!

Zhao Yuan groaned silently for a while, threw the charcoal pencil and sticky map back into the space, curled up under the blanket and had a good sleep.

When I woke up the next day, the sky was just right.

She washed up and had breakfast under the service of the maids, and was searched when she was dressing as usual.It's a pity that apart from the shallow mark on her wrist, she doesn't even have a piece of paper on her body.The maids looked at each other suspiciously, and one of them blessed the body, and said softly: "Last night, Qin Hui and Master Qin came to visit and said they wanted to meet the Emperor Concubine."

"Well." She nodded, imitating Wang Guifei's appearance, and put on a dignified and indifferent expression, "Let him come to see me."

Gong'e said yes softly.

Qin Hui arrived soon.

Along with him came a dozen or so accompanying civil servants.

The purpose of their coming is firstly to discuss the matter of peace negotiation, and secondly...to try to send Zhao Yuan back to Yanjing, and then another envoy will come over.

Zhao Yuanji patiently listened to what they said, it was nothing more than commonplace.For example, only when the Song and Jin countries have a good relationship can there be no disaster of swordsman forever.For example, Dajin doesn't really want to fight. As long as the Yellow River is used as the boundary to divide the north and the south, they can still get along well.For example, I heard that when Di Ji went back to Beijing, she would not only bring back the officials and concubines of the Song Dynasty, but also the Emperor Liao. That was absolutely impossible.for example……

It seemed that they had already done their homework before arriving.

"This Emperor Ji naturally knows that once she hastily brought back the Liao Emperor, it will inevitably cause disputes among Song, Liao, and Jin." Zhao Yuan said leisurely, "It's just that this Emperor Ji already has a countermeasure, so you don't have to worry about it."

"I don't know what this 'countermeasure' refers to?"

"No comment."

"Emperor Ji!" A speech officer rushed two steps forward, blushing and said thickly, "If Di Ji acted cleanly and frankly, how could there be a 'no comment'! Yes, now I am waiting to go north to negotiate a peace, in order to be honest with each other. Since Di Ji has a plan, she should clearly inform us and deal with it after refuting the arguments one by one..."

Therefore, at certain times, the speech officer has more success than failure.

How could the plan, which lasted for more than a month, be "handed over to you for refutation" for no reason?She is not a fool!In case the secret was leaked (the possibility is quite high), who would she cry to?He also argued... According to the nitpicking nature of these officials, there is a high probability that they will get a bloody approval, reject it, and then negotiate a peace according to their original ideas.

Well, that's right.

Zhao Yuan scanned around slowly from left to right, and asked aloud: "Which lord is the one who first proposed to 'negotiate peace'?"

The speaker who was still eloquent just now was suddenly interrupted, and his face turned red with anger.It's a pity that Zhao Yuan didn't take him seriously at all, glanced around again, and finally fixed his eyes on Qin Hui: "Master Qin?"

"The matter of the peace negotiation was actually proposed by Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai first, and then conveyed to the officials through the mouth of the ministers. The officials are sages and agreed to the matter of the peace negotiation." Qin Hui did not pretend to be dead at the moment, rather He bowed respectfully.

Speaking of which, in this group of missions, Master Qin Hui is the one who respects her the most.If I had to use four words to describe it, it would be "slippery", even slippery enough to scrape off a layer of oil on my body.

She gave a soft "huh": "Then, what about the terms of the peace?"

"Excuse me, I have nothing to say."

Well, I learned pretty quickly.

Zhao Yuan laughed lightly, fiddled with his fingertips boredly, and said in the most bitter and mean tone in his life: "Huh?——No comment? Heh, I'm afraid they will use the Yellow River as the boundary and then cede Yanyun Ten For the six states, 30 or 300 silver will be used as annual coins, and silk tea leaves will be added in exchange for Wu Qibu's promise of 'never invading'?"

She raised her head slightly, sneered and swept around the civil servants in front of her.Unsurprisingly, everyone's complexion changed.

"And the price, of course, is to 'send back the prisoner Song'. Or more viciously, send only half of it back, and continue to bargain." Her smile became colder, "So when you hear that there is no need to fight, you will be overjoyed Go to the government to speak up, and negotiate a peace at any cost, right!"

The last "Is that right?" she said quite harshly.

"Emperor Ji's words are wrong."

Another civil servant—Wan Qixi, according to Zhao Yuan’s memory—bowed at her, and began to refute by citing scriptures.From the way of a gentleman all the way to the style of a king, from the people in the world who hate war to the fact that only by avoiding wars can we enjoy the prosperity of the prosperous age forever.It's really eloquent and full of flowers.

Zhao Yuan sneered again.

She felt that ever since she faced this group of civil servants who were thinking of negotiating peace every day, her temper had become extremely irritable.

Obviously Li Gang is also a civil servant, Lu You is also a civil servant, and Xin Qiji was also a civil servant at the earliest, so why doesn't he have such a sour smell!

"You, come out." She casually nodded to a young speaker.

The young speaker was a little confused, but he stood up obediently.In any case, Zhao Yuan is the Empress Concubine of the Great Song Dynasty. Given her status, she still needs to give her enough face.

"Dare to ask your lord's name?"

"A certain surname is Wang."

"Okay, Lord Wang." Zhao Yuan pointed to Wan Qixi and said, "Assume that you are Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai, and you just talked about the peace negotiation with this Lord Wanqi and Lord Qin Hui."

"Someone isn't—"

"Lord Wang." Zhao Yuan smiled coldly, "If you can't guess what Wu Qimai is thinking, how can you argue with him then?"

Wang Yanguan fell silent, cupped his hands at Wan Qi Xie, and said he was offended.

"Repeat these words in front of Lord Qin and Lord Wancheng." Zhao Yuan paused for a while, and then slowly said, "We, Dajin, have always hated war. Going south rashly is also to overthrow the Daliao. As long as the Song people return the homeland of the Liao Kingdom and provide annual coins, grain, and cloth every year, Dajin will return the Song captives."

Wang Yanguan repeated them one by one.

Seeing that what Zhao Yuan said seemed to make sense, Wan Qixi did not refute, but listened with his hands down.

Zhao Yuan continued: "Our Dajin has a vast territory and millions of elite soldiers, but we lack some food and cannot survive the winter. If it wasn't for rations, how could we go south? Haha... the previous general of your Great Song Dynasty, General Zong Zezong, was really It’s too vicious. Not only took half of the homeland of the Liao Kingdom, but also strangled Shanhaiguan and Gubeikou, haha..."

Wang Yanguan's complexion changed slightly, but he still gritted his teeth and repeated one by one, but the cold sweat had already come down.

Zhao Yuan said word by word: "The Great Song Dynasty is so rich and prosperous, why would you mind 'giving' some food to the Great King for the winter? In this world, the strong are always king. Daliao, Xixia, Tubo , Dali... You are the mainstay of the Song Dynasty, the nobles who supported the entire Song Dynasty. Compared with those soldiers who can only shout and kill, you are much stronger..."

She changed the subject and asked in a loud voice: "If Zong Ze can't win the Sixteen States of Yanyun, will Emperor Jin take the initiative to propose 'peace'!"

Boom!

Wang Yanguan suddenly fell to the ground, his body was sifted like chaff, and he repeated in a trance: "The Great Song Dynasty is so rich..."

"Emperor Concubine." Qin Hui finally spoke out, "Emperor Concubine also thinks too badly about Jin Guo..."

"Too bad?" Zhao Yuan sneered, "Then please tell me, Lord Qin, why Da Jin, who 'wanted to coexist peacefully', looted Bianliang and exposed the bones on the north bank of the Yellow River to the capital. The lieutenant generals, concubines, concubines, and concubines are being tortured to death, and you will be tortured in every possible way?"

"Master Qin Hui, until now, do you still want to speak for the Jin people?"

"...But now, Jindi wants to negotiate a peace after all."

"Okay." Zhao Yuan shook his hand, not only did he pull out a complete picture of Yanyun from somewhere, "Then please take a good look, Mr. Qin, what's in this picture! The only way for the Jin people to go south is already It is firmly in the hands of the Song people; the soldiers and horses left by the Jin people in the south of Shanhaiguan have been strangled by the Song army; the Happy Valley of the Jin people has also been planted with poisonous weeds... Please tell me, Lord Qin, and everyone My lord, besides 'negotiating peace', Wanyan Wu begged to buy him, is there a second way to go!"

"The confidence to make an offer with the Jinren was not obtained by you begging on your knees in Shangjing, but by the soldiers fighting with swords and guns!"

"Yanyun Da. How many soldiers' blood was soaked in the ground to bring about today's 'Golden Emperor's Peace' situation. You——ah, you still want to give up the entire Yanyun sixteen prefectures and open the gates of the Great Song Dynasty , exposed to the golden man's iron ride?"

She said each word quite sharply, and many civil servants were already scared back two steps.But there were still three or two civil servants scratching their heads and discussing in a low voice:

"Can't stop?..."

"What Diji said is true, Yan Yunda. The ground is soaked in blood everywhere, and the killing spirit is too strong..."

"It should be governed in the way of a gentleman..."

"It is contrary to the style of the sage of Confucius..."

Zhao Yuan heard it one by one, and really laughed out of anger.

She originally thought that the guy who broke the Yellow River dam was stupid enough, but she didn't expect to meet a group of even stupider ones.

In addition to the way of Confucius and Mencius and the style of a gentleman in these guys' minds, do they still have the slightest bit of thinking of normal people!

Once Shanhaiguan is lost, Yanyun sixteen prefectures are lost, the old coins are given, the Yellow River border is drawn, and then the two emperor concubines are happily sent to marry each other, "forever a hundred years of friendship"...

"Yanyun Sixteen States, I can't give it away anymore." Finally a guy got up from the ground and said with tears streaming down his face.

Zhao Yuan's expression softened a little.

"If the Sixteen States of Yanyun are ceded again, I will be like Shi Jingtang and become a sinner through the ages!" The man clenched his fists with a look of righteous indignation.

Zhao Yuan held a mouthful of old blood in his chest, barely suffocating her to death.

She spent so much time talking about feelings just now, analyzing the truth carefully, but it was of no use at all!

Apart from the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucius and Mencius, do these guys from Eguanbo have any concept of "military fortress" in their minds?