The Khitan people had already contracted the Song people's bad habit of talking about ostentation. Back then, the Queen Mother and her concubine were sitting on a cart to receive the Song envoys. The emperor and ministers were sitting together below, and the negotiations were always in a messy and noisy environment like a vegetable market.
The scene of progress is gone forever.
The current Liao Dynasty not only has well-regulated imperial cities in the five capitals. Even during the Nabo period, the felt tents were set up in strict accordance with the regulations. The princes and officials were scattered around the outside, and the inner circle was separated by a circle of small black felt tents.
, there are five people in each tent, each holding an army to form a closed siege.
Within the forbidden area, in the center is the emperor's tent, and on the south side is the provincial hall. Two miles north of the hall is the Shouning hall. To the north of the provincial hall is the deerskin tent. To the north of the tent is the Bafang public hall. To the north of the Shouning hall is
The Changchun tent is where the Khitan imperial court executed military and state affairs.
The negotiations between the two countries were held in the Changchun tent. This was the first negotiation after several days of interruption. The negotiators sent by the two sides were Zhao Bian and Chen Ke on the Song Dynasty side, and Xiao Feng, the Privy Council member of Tongzhi Nanyuan on the Liao side.
And Hanlin bachelor Li Yan... The person who was originally responsible for dropping the book bag with the Han people should be Zhang Zhuangyuan. Unfortunately, he has not recovered from his internal injuries and is in retreat.
What is negotiation between the two countries? That is wrangling! How to argue, it is just to put books and reason!
You have to recite so many original words from books anytime and anywhere, and they are word for word. This is called quoting from other sources. If you accidentally make a mistake and are caught by the other party, you will lose first in terms of momentum and you will definitely fall into a passive position.
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Don't underestimate wrangling. Only with patience and wisdom can you get a good wrangling. This often makes your side's defeat less ugly when you are at a disadvantage. Of course, if the negotiating partner is as weird as the Qing government
, you can even achieve victory at the negotiation table that even the army cannot achieve.
But the Liao government is obviously not the Qing government. They are very smart. Moreover, in terms of the most critical military strength, the Liao country has the upper hand. Moreover, they have just mediated an international war. They also brought together the party that was originally mixed with the Southern Dynasty.
, pulled into one's own camp, feeling good.
They just think: I am the strongest and you are weaker than me, so I should take advantage.
Yes. In terms of strength and situation, the Liao Dynasty is indeed the superior one. However, Chen Ke and the others have determined that the Liao nobles are very satisfied with their living conditions and they do not want to use violence anymore! Although in order to exert pressure, the Liao Dynasty has deployed troops on the border.
Wan, but with such a small number of troops, it is too disrespectful to want to attack the Song Dynasty, right?
Who wouldn't do it just to show off? The Song Dynasty took this opportunity to repair the border fortifications, dug out ponds for hundreds of miles, and added 100,000 troops to the border. The movement was much greater than that of the Liao Kingdom...
I have to wonder. Is this just for show, or are you really scared?
If the Liao Kingdom really wanted to fight a war and saw the Song Dynasty's strong reaction, they should have continued to increase their troops, but they did not, and instead restarted negotiations.
At this point, the last doubt in the minds of the Song Dynasty envoys was gone. It seemed that persistence was the right thing. The Liao people really did not want to fight.
In fact, Yelu Chongyuan and his son did not expect this situation. They thought that their people would be happy to hear the war and rush to be the first as they did in the past. Who knew that the world had changed and people's hearts were not as old as before. This generation of Liao people only wanted to
Showing their power on women's bellies and on the polo field, they had no interest in war, and even had inexplicable fear... They even began to complain about the emperor's uncle and his son, why did they provoke the Song Dynasty for nothing? Can't they live in peace?
To be honest, the two countries of Song and Liao... plus Xixia can also... The Three Kingdoms have officially entered the stage of competition since the beginning of the 10s. They all lost the vigor and vigor when they founded the country, and began to become decadent.
Each has its own strength and weakness, it's just a matter of who dies slower and who dies faster.
Therefore, it is also the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The one in the late Han Dynasty has been immortalized forever, but this section has become the old woman's foot wrap, smelly and long... Until a small tribe with less than 100,000 men rose up and destroyed everything in just a few years.
Destroyed the two great empires of the world and made Xiao San surrender.
Of course, this is something……
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Back at the negotiating table, although the Song Dynasty people knew that there was no possibility of war, it did not mean that everything was fine. Because the Liao Kingdom was in ruins, the Song Dynasty was even worse. At least the Khitans rode horses and hunted all day long, and their riding and shooting skills had not deteriorated at all.
Once they regain their will to fight, their combat effectiveness is still considerable.
On the other hand, in the Song Dynasty, during the decades of peace, officers were busy eating their pay and soldiers were busy doing business. Coupled with the Song Dynasty's deceptive recruitment system, the army turned into a nursing home and a shelter. Think of Nong Zhigao in Lingnan, think of Qu
Yehe's defeat, alas, let's just go to bed...
So we still have to give face to the Liao Kingdom. Otherwise, from the beginning of the new year to now, we have been wrangling for several months. If we can't get any benefits, we will definitely get angry.
What’s the benefit? Of course it’s to save money and eliminate disaster...
In fact, before departure, the imperial court had already given the bottom line for the negotiations - the annual coin would be increased to one million taels at most.
For the wealthy Song Dynasty, this amount of money was not much. But Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji knew that if they really negotiated according to this standard, they would be finished after the negotiation... A large number of people on Zhao Zongshi's side were glaring.
Look for them with your eyes open. When the time comes, you will say that the annual currency set by the Chanyuan Alliance is 300,000 taels. Later, after decades of wrangling by the Liao Kingdom, it was increased to 500,000 taels. Okay, the two of them can do it at once.
The compensation is equivalent to the combined annual coins of the Chanyuan Alliance and the Qingli coins. It is impossible to say that he is a sinner, but he will definitely be scolded to death by the people who do not know the truth.
Therefore, every effort must be made to minimize the increase in coins. Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji combined, must not exceed the amount of the increase in coins in Qingli, which is two hundred thousand taels.
But on this point, Zhao Bian and them were not of the same mind. When Chen Ke revealed his thoughts to him through chatting, the old man disagreed. He said that since the imperial court had given five hundred thousand taels of space, as long as he could work in this
If you complete it within the limit, the task is completed.
That's why Zhao Zongji put on the posture of an iron rooster that has nothing to lose, and challenged the people of Liao with a stiff neck... This was not only for the people of Liao, but also for his own people.
In fact, they are just biting the bullet and gritting their teeth. If they go too far and annoy the Liao people, they will have to fight. It will be a lot of fun...
So the technique of wrangling is really important.
When the request for additional coins was also rejected, the people of Liao were angry. The one who put on a red face was Xiao Feng, a fellow minister of the Privy Council of the South Academy. He slapped the table with murderous intent and said: "This is too outrageous. We have been talking about it for more than a month. We have been talking about it for more than a month.
We have already made huge concessions, but you Song people still refuse to let go. Isn’t it too disrespectful!”
Chen Ke looked at the historical prototype of the hero Xiao, and then looked at the table that he had patted. After confirming that the other party could not master the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, he said angrily: "We in the Song Dynasty have always maintained the covenant, but you are looking for trouble.
Son, you should apologize to us, why is it justified to blackmail us?"
"Then we can't talk anymore." Xiao Feng said angrily: "We won't talk to you anymore, let someone else from Nanchao do the talking!"
This move was a killing move, but Chen Ke ignored him and sneered: "It will be the same if we change people. Before coming, the emperor of our country issued a death order. Anyone who dares to lose power and humiliate the country will have his nine clans copied!" He said with a deep voice.
: "I came with the determination to die. You, the Liao Kingdom, are not afraid of regrets and must be greedy to the end. Then kill me, and then let's start a war between the two countries!"
Xiao Feng was so angry that the Song Dynasty people actually threatened the Liao people with war. Do you really think we are scared?
But he really didn't dare to go all the way with Chen Ke. If the talks really broke down and the Khitan didn't send troops, where would they lose their face?
"Mr. Zhao, what do you say? Do you really want to fight with each other?" So he turned his face to Zhao Bian, knowing that this old man was still relatively soft: "Don't mistake our Northern Dynasty's tolerance for connivance!" In fact, the situation is very ridiculous.
, like two weak giants, neither of them has the confidence to fight, but the cooked duck has a tougher mouth, one is more horizontal than the other.
"Haha..." Zhao Bian was really scared and said: "If you have something to say, talk it over. It's not a problem to be so stiff all the time." No matter what, there have to be some good ones and some bad ones, otherwise the conversation will really break down.
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"This is the right thing." Xiao Feng then softened his tone and said to the scribe who was recording the meeting: "Don't write down the following paragraph. You can go out first."
Zhao Bian and Chen Ke looked at each other and asked their clerks to step down. This was because the other party was going to give the truth... The reason why they asked the clerk to step down was to leave room for slow transfer. Because in case of the secret,
The other party still refused to agree, and it was written down in black and white. The country was really going to be disgraced.
"Things have come to this point." After the scribe stepped back, Xiao Feng sighed softly and said, "It's meaningless to talk about who was right and who was wrong at the beginning."
"From the beginning to the end, it's you who are looking for trouble. Whose fault do you think it is?" Chen Ke said angrily.
"Zhong Fang..." Zhao Bian said angrily, "Listen to Mr. Xiao."
"..." Chen Ke then closed his mouth.
"No matter whose fault it is..." Xiao Feng continued: "But it is already like this. Now the whole world knows that our Northern Dynasty is asking the Southern Dynasty to ask for the land in Guannan. The two sides have sent envoys to each other to talk for several months, but there is no result yet.
"After a pause, he said with a sullen face: "This has already had a negative impact on our reputation in Daliao."
"It also had a negative impact on our Song Dynasty!" Chen Ke responded.
"Zhong Fang..." Zhao Bian quickly stopped him.
"What our Emperor means is," Xiao Feng looked outside the tent and said, "Luan Jia will return to the camp in three days. Whether it is war or peace, there must be a result!"
Chen Ke didn't say anything this time, because it involved the other party's emperor, and if he didn't behave inferiorly, he would definitely anger the Liao people.
