Chapter 851 I hope you will take a good look at who you are negotiating with based on your strength and status!
"Chief Coach, King Lanling of Liao Kingdom has arrived!"
As an envoy, Xiao Wuna was brought in. Li Yan stood up to greet him, and the two sides met.
Xiao Wuna looked carefully at this person who had been famous for a long time, but it was his first close contact with him. According to the etiquette of the Han people, he held his hands and said: "The chief coach is very righteous and brave. I have long admired his reputation!"
Li Yan returned the greeting: "King Lanling is a minister of the Liao Kingdom. He is dedicated and loyal. Even if we are divided between ourselves and the enemy, I respect you very much... Please!"
As a "commander", Li Yan once had some exchanges with the King of Lanling. This prime minister-level Khitan veteran was indeed rare, and he had some respect for him.
After all, the headstrong Emperor Tian Zuo has long had murderous intentions towards this highly accomplished tutor, and this man is still alive today. This is his ability. It is too difficult to smooth over the hair of such an emperor.
Already.
Of course, if Li Yan wanted the Liao Kingdom to perish quickly, the first person he would kill would be Xiao Wuna, whose priority would be higher than that of Yelv Dezhong.
Now, I hope that the other party can live longer and make his final contribution to the Liao Kingdom.
Xiao Wuna didn't know how long this person was worried about how long the Liao Kingdom could survive. After sitting down, he took advantage of the situation and continued the topic: "Actually, we are not enemies. I came here to negotiate peace with the township army, stop fighting, and reopen mutual trade.
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Everyone in the hall was a little surprised, and some people secretly thought wisely.
In this situation, instead of being secretive, it is better to expose your weaknesses and let the other party see them deliberately to show your magnanimity and make your next words more powerful.
Sure enough, Xiao Wuna started: "We, the Liao Dynasty, inherited the Tang system and have long admired Hanization. Since Taizong, we have established the national policy of 'dividing Tibetan and Han Dynasties and ruling according to customs' to rule Khitan under the national system and Han Dynasty."
Treating the Han people and maintaining peace with Zhao and Song Dynasty for a hundred years after the Chanyuan Alliance shows its credibility..."
Li Yan smiled slightly and agreed: "Yes, compared to the barbarism of other nomadic, fishing and hunting civilizations, the Liao Kingdom is indeed a special ruling regime, and there will always be a ruling regime on the grasslands, rather than fighting with those barbarians who have no credibility.
It is better to deal with your country than to deal with it. Is this what King Lanling means?"
Xiao Wuna paused for a moment, stroked his pale beard and said with a smile: "The head coach understands the righteousness, that's exactly it!"
Li Yandao: "King Lanling is a capable minister and a man of lofty ideals. He should have negotiated with his envoys here, but he came forward in person, which shows his sincerity. We Han people have always been very particular about 'give me a peach and repay a plum'. I am also sincere."
, met with Prince Lanling."
The mutual trade between the two countries is actually reciprocating favors and trading with each other. Xiao Wuna carefully pondered every sentence and word of this person, and immediately said: "The two countries are in war and disputes, and everyone is in ruins. The commander-in-chief loves the people like his own children, and he must not be able to bear it.
?”
Li Yandao: "In the land of Yanyun, the people live in peace and the merchants are happy. The so-called loss of life cannot be seen. But today's peaceful days are indeed achieved by the hard work of the soldiers, so they are particularly cherished. If your country is willing to stop the war, we will no longer
I am naturally happy to see you trying to invade Yanyun!"
Xiao Wuna's face was not red and his heart was not beating: "Of course, my lord has the intention to calm down the war, otherwise in the Baoyou Alliance, the Fourteenth Prefecture of Yanyun would not be directly assigned to the Central Plains..."
When the Liao Kingdom thought that it had a strong army and strong horses, no matter what alliance you made, even if you were called a brother in name, you could use the ridiculous reason of revenge for your mother as an excuse to invade south.
Once he found that he couldn't defeat him, he immediately remembered the agreement signed in the Baoyou Alliance to return the land of Yanyun to the Central Plains Dynasty.
However, Li Yan rejected it with one sentence: "The Baoyou Alliance signed by the coward Zhao Ji does not count. We have never recognized it from the beginning!"
Xiao Wuna felt a tightness in his chest, but the other party was right. The Liao army was refused entry from Yanmen Pass. The local army had always been tit-for-tat, and now they were directly revolting.
But when he mentioned the Baoyou Alliance, he didn't mean to be disgusting, it was mainly to pave the way for the subsequent division of territory. After all, during this period, the rural army has been advancing outwards, encroaching on the land of the Liao Kingdom.
As early as a year ago, the township army had recovered more than the fourteen Yanyun prefectures that Shi Jingtang had ceded back then.
For example, Yingzhou, Pingzhou, and Luanzhou, which were the first places where Liangshan landed by water, were also related to the barrier defense line of the Central Plains, and it was naturally impossible to return them.
Even Lu Junyi led his troops to fight again and again, in order to continue to expand northward and include the boundary of the "400 mm equal precipitation line". In order to build the Great Wall without interference, naturally the higher the better.
In such chaotic war years, national borders are often like this: the strong are aggressive and the weak are retreating.
Now the Liao Kingdom sadly discovered that they were actually weak.
That's why Xiao Wuna was prepared to recognize the fourteen states of Yanyun, and other unspecified territories had to be fought over. Anyway, the rural army could not be allowed to build the Great Wall so happily.
If the Great Wall is really repaired, the strategic initiative will completely change hands. Instead, the rural army will be able to leave the fortress at any time to seek a big battle. It will be difficult for the Liao Kingdom outside the fortress to advance. Whether they can trade with each other depends on the other party's face.
Confirming this point, Xiao Wuna said in a deep voice: "The words of the chief coach are wrong. We, Daliao, recognize the strength of the rural army. However, the orthodoxy of the Central Plains is still the Zhao and Song dynasties. The Baoyou Alliance of Song and Liao is an alliance signed by the two countries. How can it be true?"
Can you say that you don’t recognize it if you don’t recognize it? This is inconsistent with etiquette, and it is also difficult to convince the public!”
The implication is that you have not yet claimed the title of king, so you have to replace Zhao Song and give orders. Isn't it too early?
However, Li Yan had no intention of arguing, and turned directly to Jiang Jing: "Bring the household registration that was delivered yesterday."
Jiang Jing took the order and went down, and soon came up with a group of scribes. Each of them held a tall stack of household registration books and placed them neatly on the table.
Li Yan picked up the top four books and handed them to Xiao Wuna: "These are part of the household registration registers compiled from Hebei and Shandong. It is impossible to bring them all over, but the summary is complete. King Lanling can
Take a look."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When Xiao Wuna heard the household registration, he was shocked and quickly took it and looked through it.
The more he looked at her, the more solemn his eyes became. Even if he was extremely deep and tried to hold back his mood swings, he could not stop the changes in his face.
Because these general records are really amazing, they record the population and area of the Fourth Road in detail——
Hebei East Road (population 3.34 million): Damingfu is the administrative center, and it has jurisdiction over Ying, Cang, Ji, Bo, Di, Mo, Xiong, Ba, De, Bin, En, Qing and other prefectures. The road covers an area of acres and has several households.
, with a population of 3.34 million, each household occupies an average of 134 acres of farmland (non-cultivated land), and the population density is dense.
Hebei West Road (population 2.63 million), the administrative seat of Zhending Prefecture, governs Xiang, Jun, Huai, Wei, Ming, Shen, Ci, Qi, Bao and other prefectures. The area of this road is acres, the number of households, and the population of 2.63 million.
Each household occupies an average of 180 acres of land, and the population density is medium.
Jingdong East Road (population 4.08 million), Jinan Prefecture where it is governed, governs Qing, Mi, Yi, Deng, Lai, Wei, Zi and other prefectures. The area of this road is acres, the number of households is 4.08 million, and each household occupies an average of 176
acres of farmland, and the population density is medium.
Jingxi East Road (population 2.63 million), the administrative seat is Yingtianfu, and it governs Ji, Xu, Dan, Pu, Gong and other prefectures. The area of this road is acres, the number of households, the population is 2.63 million, each household occupies an average of 163 acres of land, and the population
The density is medium.
"Is this a bluff? Or did the rural army really occupy Hebei and Shandong so quickly?"
Xiao Wuna thought that the recruiting places for the rural army were originally in these two places. The appearance of this army helped the two places drive away the Liao army and maintained peace to this day. In fact, he already knew that the latter possibility was probably greater.
Of course, no matter how solid the foundation of the rural army is, it will definitely take a long time to truly digest these places and make them completely belong to the new political power.
But this kind of statistics is enough to make people's hearts throb. I don't even know how the areas of these four roads are calculated.
In fact, the area is based on historical data from the late Northern Song Dynasty and then converted into acres used in this era. It is definitely different from the real one, but the difference is not too big.
In terms of household registration, preparations were made early. Cai Jing made statistics when he was in Hebei, and Liang Shanbo also made these statistics in Shandong. Jin Dajian and Xiao Rang, who were born in Jeju, were mainly in charge. The abilities of these two people also impressed Jiang Jingdu.
Once you have a good impression, prepare for promotion.
All in all, this household registration summary is not completely correct, there are definitely some omissions, but the overall accuracy is still considerable.
As a result, Hebei and Shandong alone have a population of 12 million, and the Yanyun land originally had a population of nearly 2 million, so this will be 14 million.
At its peak, the Liao Kingdom had a total population of only 12 million...
Of course, due to the special characteristics of nomadic peoples, all the people are often soldiers. The Liao Kingdom's tens of millions of people can pull out a million-level army, which is not considered militancy. After all, they basically cannot survive without fighting and plundering.
On the other hand, in the Central Plains Dynasty, the Song Dynasty nearly destroyed itself with millions of soldiers. Now Li Yan has a population of 14 million, but he is preparing to support only 100,000 rural troops. He only wants to have elite soldiers and strong generals to live with the people.
So Li Yan asked Jiang Jing to take out this household registration book, and the purpose was simple and clear:
I hope you will take a good look at who you are negotiating with based on your strength and status!
Xiao Wuna put down his book, his momentum weakened unconsciously, and the smile he tried to maintain became a little more modest: "Actually, there are indeed many falsehoods in the Baoyou Alliance, but I, Daliao, have made a decision with you.
The alliance must have a name..."
Everyone in the hall held their breath slightly, because this may be the country's title in the future.
Li Yan had already considered: "The one who has made an alliance with Liao this time is 'Yan'!"
He started an uprising in Yanyun, and his capital was Yanjing. It dates back to the Yan State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and established its capital in "Ji". However, nowadays, Jizhou has moved eastward to create the equally important Jizhou and Yanzhou.
Then it became Yanjing, which corresponds to the position of Beijing in later generations.
Anyway, it is most appropriate to use the name "Yan". Now it can also be regarded as a covenant signed with Yan Yun, so as not to disturb the follow-up rhythm.
"well!"
Xiao Wuna's plan failed, and he sighed secretly in his heart, but he also knew that it was inevitable for the other party to become a king and establish a country, so he immediately started negotiations with the most solemn attitude.
To call it negotiation is just to argue with each other.
This is true for any covenant. It cannot be concluded in a few words. It must be determined through constant bargaining to determine the other party's bottom line and maximize one's own interests.
However, whether it was the Song-Liao Chanyuan Alliance in history, where the two sides fought during the day and negotiated at night, or the previous Song-Liao Baoyou Alliance, where the two sides flirted and got what they wanted, this time Li Yan was too tough and directly decided on two
point:
"I don't like the idea of abolishing the title of brother. I believe Emperor Liao will not accept being my nephew."
"I don't want too many annual coins. One hundred thousand taels per year is enough. But I want good horses and horses. I will deliver them once and for all. I won't ask for them every year."
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Seven days later, envoys from both sides signed an alliance in Wuzhou City on the border.
First, the Baoyou Alliance of Song and Liao was abolished. The Central Plains Dynasty no longer called each other brothers and was only an alliance with the Liao Kingdom. Yan and Liao stopped fighting and made peace. They could not afford to fight. If their allies were killed, they would raise troops to support them;
Second, the Yanyun boundary line was redrawn, and the cities along the border on both sides were not allowed to interfere with the construction of the city god;
Third, the Liao State presented to Yan 5,000 good horses and 10,000 sheep, and 100,000 taels of silver as annual coins;
Fourth, the two countries set up forays at the border to carry out mutual trade;
Fifth, any thieves or fugitives who cross the border shall not stay with each other;
This alliance was historically known as the Yan-Liao-Wuzhou Alliance.
When this news reached Henan, the capital of the Song Dynasty was boiling!