The leader of the Jin envoy asked tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, when will you send troops to invade the Liao Kingdom and join us, the Jin Kingdom, in attacking the Liao Kingdom?"
Zhao Ji's expression was serious and serious, and he said deceitfully: "Jin envoy, don't be anxious! You and the Jin Kingdom should allow me to prepare some time, right?"
I hereby promise you that it won’t be too long!
You and other Jin envoys are thinking: After I have mobilized the 300,000 elite troops of the Song Dynasty and prepared military supplies and food, it will take several months at the earliest?!
Therefore, I promise you and others that I will assemble 300,000 elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty and march northward to "break through the Helan Mountain gap", and the Song army will invade the Liao territory in a short period of three months and a long period of no more than nine months.
The maritime alliance between Song and Jin."
(These Jin envoys naturally know that there are two Helan Mountains in the world, one is in the northwest of the Xia Kingdom, and the other is in the north of the Song Dynasty and in the south of the Liao Kingdom.
The Jin envoy analyzed the context and concluded that the "Helan Mountain gap" mentioned by Zhao Guanjia must be to attack the second "Helan Mountain gap" that the Liao Kingdom was passing through...)
When all the Jin envoys present heard the impassioned words of the Song Emperor, their eyes suddenly lit up. Their purpose of coming to intercept the emperor today was not to risk their lives to urge the Song Emperor to make up his mind as soon as possible and send troops to fight with the Jin Kingdom as soon as possible.
Liao?
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"thump!"
Twenty Jin envoys knelt down one after another and shouted:
"His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty is a saint! Long live, long live!"
The original idea of these Jin envoys was that if they came to stop Yu Jia this time, they might not be able to persuade the Song Emperor successfully; then, they would definitely find another opportunity in the future to urge the Song Emperor to send troops to attack the Liao Dynasty.
However, what they heard now was that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty had long regarded the Liao Kingdom as a thorn in his side!
‘Since the Emperor of the Song Dynasty gave us these golden envoys the promise to send troops to Liao to attack Liao together, he also promised a specific time limit for sending troops to attack Liao;
So, how can His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, who speaks so eloquently, go back on his words?’
Although these Jin envoys really wanted the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to immediately issue an order to send troops to conquer the Liao Dynasty,
However, they were able to be beaten first by Wanyan Agu, the founding emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and sent as envoys to the Song Dynasty. They were also highly intelligent diplomatic talents of the Jin Kingdom.
They naturally knew that assembling the army and raising and transporting grain and grass as mentioned by Zhao Guanjia were very time-consuming and laborious.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Jin envoy, it would be illogical for the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to say in public that he would send troops immediately;
Now, after careful consideration, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty gave a well-reasoned time to send troops, which made them, the Golden Envoys, believe it.
In order to prevent the Emperor of the Song Dynasty from going back on his word, the envoy from the Jin Dynasty headed by him spoke loudly in Chinese, which was not very fluent in the audience:
"I was originally born as a true girl, and I have only studied Chinese culture for three to five years, but I know that 'a gentleman's words are hard to catch up with,' let alone His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty?
Now, His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, in front of us, the envoys of the Jin Kingdom, and all the ministers of the Song Dynasty, has promised that the Song and Jin Dynasty will jointly send troops to attack the Liao Dynasty. I hope that His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty will never go back on it!"
Zhao Ji smiled and said: "As the emperor, I keep my word!"
Twenty Jin envoys knelt down again and shouted happily:
"His Majesty, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, is wise and mighty, and can conquer thousands of miles. Long live, long live."
Zhao Ji found it funny. Don't these barbarians know the principle of "a war never tires of deceit"?
I will definitely mobilize the elite troops of the Song Dynasty within three to nine months, select a number of famous generals to lead the elite troops, and enter the Liao border to fight.
And the target of this battle is not the Liao Kingdom, which has lost half of its country, but the Jurchen soldiers of your Jin Kingdom who are as powerful as tigers and wolves!
The time traveler Zhao Ji never dares to forget the ‘Jingkang Shame’ in history.
In history, after the Song and Jin Dynasties signed the Maritime Alliance, the two sides still had conflicts over issues such as the post-war ownership of the Sixteen States of Yanyun...
Therefore, the Song and Jin Dynasties sent envoys to each other and negotiated for two years. Finally, in 1122 AD, the fourth year of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty, the Song and Jin Dynasties reached an agreement. Song Huizong sent Tong Guan, Zhong Shidao, and Liu
Yanqing led an army to jointly attack Nanjing of the Liao State, but encountered strong resistance from the Liao generals. The Song Dynasty's attack on the Liao Dynasty failed...
Zhao Ji knew that the historical military failure of the Song Dynasty's conquest of the Liao Dynasty had two serious consequences.
First, the Jin army saw that the huge Song army was just a paper tiger with little combat effectiveness.
With so many soldiers and generals, the Song army could not defeat the capital of the Liao Kingdom, which was beaten to only half of the country by their Jin men?!
In the eyes of the Jin people: In the Song Dynasty, Ling Tong Guan, a famous general of the Western Army, Zhong Shidao, and Yang Keshi, the former army commander, recruited 100,000 troops to capture Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom; but he was temporarily appointed as the commander of the Southwest Road by the Liao Kingdom.
The big stone in Yelu was beaten to pieces, it was so miserable...
In Landian Valley, Yelu Dashi only led two thousand mixed cavalry from the Khitan and Xi tribes, and sent thousands of light cavalry from Yang Keshi, who was sent by the Song Dynasty to attack Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom, and was defeated and fled...
After that, the Northern Liao court sent another 30,000 reinforcements to Yelu Dashi. Zhong Shidao, the commander of the eastern route of the Song Dynasty's expedition to Liao, led his army to Baigou and faced off against the Liao army across the Baigou River. The next day, Yelu Dashi commanded
The cavalry crossed the river from the shallow water in the west, outflanked the soldiers guarding the bridge of the Song Army Division Road Station, and defeated the Song army...
Zhongshidao saw that his tribes were not fighting successfully, so he withdrew his troops. Yelu Dashi dispatched light cavalry to follow them, and fought fiercely with the Song army in the ancient city. Zhongshidao and others fled to the foot of Xiongzhou City. They wanted to enter the city, but were refused by Tong Guan, so they could not
Entering the city, the Liao army took advantage of the situation and attacked Zhongshi Dao, who was rejected outside the city. The army was defeated. The Song army was defeated miserably, with dead bodies everywhere...
After the Song army prematurely exposed its weak military strength, this inevitably made the Jin people covet the prosperous and prosperous Song Dynasty, and began to want to go south to attack the Song Dynasty.
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Zhao Ji knew that after the historical maritime alliance between Song and Jin, the second serious consequence of Song's conquest of Liao was:
The Song Dynasty sent troops to attack the Liao Dynasty. The Liao army, which had been defeated by the Jin army, needed to divide its troops to protect it in case the Song army attacked.
Historically, after the Jin State destroyed the Liao State, the borders between the Jin and Song Dynasties began to officially connect.
This also made it possible that after the Jin destroyed the Liao, the Song Dynasty lost the Liao Kingdom in disguise as a barrier that could stop the Jin soldiers from going south.
In the end, the main content discussed by the Jin Kingdom was: shortly after the fall of the Liao Dynasty, they invaded the Song Dynasty from the south, leading to the Jingkang Incident, and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty in 167 years after the founding of the country...
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Zhao Ji looked at the backs of the group of Jin envoys who left happily after saying goodbye. He stood there, thought for a few breaths, and then bitterly called his Imperial City Supervisor Yang Zhi, saying:
"How did these Jin envoys know about my itinerary?
They most likely betrayed the group of Imperial Guards I sent to 'protect' them.
I order Yang Aiqing to mobilize his capable soldiers to work with the Detective Department to investigate this matter strictly!"
"I obey the order!" Yang Zhi happily accepted the order and said.
This Yang Zhi is not Yang Zhi among the Liangshan bandits. He was originally a horse breeder and horse trainer in Moutuogang. When Zhao Guan's family inspected Moutuogang last year, they found that he was quite a talent.
When Zhao Ji was in charge of the Imperial Guard, Yang Zhi went out with the army and made great achievements in battle. Therefore, Zhao Ji appointed Yang Zhi, who he had promoted by himself, as the sixth grade official in charge of a team of thousands of imperial city officials.
Guard class.
Zhao Ji said to Yang Zhi again:
"In order to prevent the envoys of the Jin Kingdom from finding out the secrets of the Song Dynasty, and asking someone to pass them back to the Jin Kingdom, it would be detrimental to the Song Dynasty!
I order Yang Aiqing to select trusted personal guards from your Imperial City Division to be responsible for 'protecting' the Golden Envoy."
"What I call 'protection' is not only to keep the envoys of the Jin Kingdom alive and well, but also to restrict them from going out and from contact with outsiders. Even the soldiers of the Imperial City Division who are 'protecting' him can't interact with them.
They were in too close contact."
"Replace all the imperial troops who originally 'protected' the Golden Envoy."
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"I obey the decree and will definitely live up to the holy hope!" Yang Zhi accepted the decree and led a group of people to leave.
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Zhao Jiqi drove back to the palace and summoned his loyal ministers Zheng Juzhong, Cao Fu, Zongze, Li Gang and Zhang Jun in the Chui Gong Hall;
There is another person who returned to Beijing from afar, a military general who became famous in the war against Xixia - Guo Cheng.
The main hall with vertical arches is majestic and solemn.
Zhao Ji looked serious and said leisurely to the ministers and generals:
"I once read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, and in his "Strategic Attack Chapter" he wrote:
‘Therefore, winning every battle is not a good thing;
He who subdues the enemy's troops without fighting is a good person.
Therefore, the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the third is to attack the enemy, and the third is to attack the city.’
In this hall, all you dear friends are my confidants and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty!
Therefore, I speak truthfully to all of you who love me.
The Song Dynasty ‘aided the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty’, the strategic plan had been decided, and the time to send troops was also decided!
Nowadays, when sending troops to the Song Dynasty to ‘aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty’, the only one that can produce changes is the Xia Kingdom in the northwest!”
Zheng Juzhong's close civil servants and military general Guo Cheng nodded one after another, thinking that Zhao Guanjia's words were reasonable.
Zhao Ji said again: "I have summoned you all to discuss matters, just to hear what you have to say about how to deal with the variable Xixia?"