The Liao envoy left unhappy, and there was still no progress between the two sides in the negotiations that day.
The officials of the Song Dynasty were also upset. Li Ping couldn't help but said: "Now that the army of the Lord of Liao is pressing on the border, the officials are very anxious. However, it is easy for the Liao envoy to propose the idea of two emperors in the north and south. Even if we don't agree, we should comply with it."
If we continue to talk and refuse now, the Liao envoy may doubt the sincerity of our negotiations."
Zhang Yue looked at Li Ping and did not answer directly. Chen Mu on the side said: "The two emperors of the north and south absolutely cannot agree. This is the plan of the Khitan to let me compete with the Western Xia snipe and clam."
"Not only that," Cai Bian, who had always been silent, suddenly said, "the orthodoxy of China lies in China, and the orthodoxy of China lies in the Song Dynasty. This is the only thing we can maintain. But the Liao Kingdom was originally a barbarian, but it only had strong soldiers and horses.
If we are better than us, if we respect the two emperors of the north and the south, wouldn't it mean that we will be divided into the Liao Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom will not be willing to give us some troops and horses."
"Therefore, I thought that my husband rejected this proposal, which was really foresight! But I just thought about it now."
As soon as Cai Bian spoke out, all the officials felt that it was justified, and at the same time they were glad that Zhang Yue decisively rejected the Liao envoy's decision.
Chen Mu said happily: "Mrs. Yuandu Zhen doesn't say anything, and her words must be accurate."
Han Zhen took a sip of wine and said, "I think I would like to ask Prime Minister Zhang to make an announcement here!"
Zhang Yue said: "Yuandu had a good conversation just now. Everyone, what are we talking about with the Khitan here?"
"It is to prevent the Khitan and Song countries from fighting each other." Li commented.
Zhang Yue said: "Of course, can we really make the Liao Lord stop his plan to invade the Song Dynasty with just one word?"
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Zhang Yue said: "When it comes to using military force, the whole country is at the top, and destroying the country is at the bottom. Therefore, winning a hundred battles is not a good thing. An army that subdues others without fighting is a good thing."
Everyone didn't know why Zhang Yue remembered Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Zhang Yue said: "We know this sentence from Sun Tzu's Art of War. The Khitan prides itself on knowing the general principles of etiquette, so we must also know it."
"The Imperial Preface was correct. I once told Your Majesty that if the Lord of Liao had a general strategy, moral principles would be useless. If the Lord of Liao had no general strategy, moral principles would be useful. But recently, when the theory of the two emperors of the North and South came out, it can be seen that the Lord of Liao did not have a general strategy.
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"That's right!" Han Zhen said, slapping his legs.
The most important thing in negotiation is to judge the other party’s intentions based on the negotiation.
What exactly are the demands of the Liao Kingdom?
In another time and space history, Song Dynasty negotiated with the Jurchens, and the operation was really poor. Song Dynasty always wanted to reason with the Jurchens, but the Jurchens repeatedly found fault with Song Dynasty, which eventually turned into the disgrace of Jingkang.
If the Song Dynasty could have known Jurchen's intentions in advance, this would not be the case.
But when Zhang Yue heard the opinions of the Northern and Southern Emperors, he knew that the Lord of Liao had no long-term plan!
This is like the trump card of both sides. Zhang Yue has already seen the trump card of your Liao Kingdom first.
Yelupo cunningly stopped the negotiations again, saying that he wanted to relax and let Song and Liao officials have a shooting practice!
Shooting and hunting are both innate abilities of Khitan people.
Like safari, shooting practice is both a first-class entertainment method and a first-class show-off negotiation method.
This is exactly the same as the people in the Song Dynasty who all negotiated and drank at banquets.
People in the Song Dynasty competed for the amount of alcohol they could drink. Treating guests to a meal was based on worldliness. Who was superior and who was inferior was determined by who toasted and who was punished with a drink.
The Khitans are also more capable of drinking than each other, but their courage and wisdom are even greater.
Zhang Yue's strategy is to make peace with things as they come, and let us talk whatever the Khitan people want to talk about.
The Khitan people's habit is to stick a row of arrows on the ground, hit the target, and then drink a cup of wine.
There are people playing drums on the left and right.
Yelupo was using a stiff bow today. Zhang Yue thought he couldn't draw it, and the arrow stack was placed two hundred steps away.
Yelvpo shot five arrows, but two of them were on the pile.
After Yelu Po finished ejaculation, he said with regret: "I'm old, it wasn't like this in the past."
Zhang Yue had no desire to try, so he asked Tang Jiu to step forward and shoot the arrow for him.
Tang Jiu drank a glass of wine and immediately stepped forward and picked up five arrows. They were all on the pile.
Yelupo drank appreciatively and poured a bowl of wine for Tang Jiu himself.
Yelupo had long seen Tang Jiu following Zhang Yue, and now that he saw such an extraordinary follower next to him, he believed that he was a first-class hero of the Song Dynasty.
Yelupo was also a wise man among the Khitan people. He had his own way of judging people. Those who were simple Confucian scholars or simple generals were not to be feared. Only those who were both civil and military were the most worrying.
Li commented on the side: "The Northern Ambassador is really good at archery. I wonder if what he said yesterday about demarcating the boundary is valid?"
Yelupo smiled. Song people were concerned about demarcation, but he chose not to talk about it.
He was also a master of negotiation, but he asked: "What does it mean that the Song Dynasty rebuilt Xiongzhou Guancheng now?"
Han Zhen heard this and asked tit for tat: "Then what is the meaning of Liao's cutting down the elm along the border?"
Yelupo said arrogantly: "Why did we cut down Yusai? Then why did you ban Beizhu and tax tea?"
Zhang Yue said: "We in the Song Dynasty also eat tea. Last year, our tea profit in the Song Dynasty was only one-tenth, and now the tax is only 10%. You see, our tea is at least 30% more expensive than last year. I suspect that these teas are
Didn't they all flow into the Liao Kingdom? There is nothing wrong with a little taxation."
Of course, Yelupo didn't know that Cai Jing purchased tea tea through the Exchange in Daming Prefecture and drove up the price of tea.
But Yelupo was not a fool. He felt what tricks the Song people used and said: "I see that your Song Dynasty has no sincerity in peace talks. Instead, you want to use military force to spy on our country, Liao Dynasty."
"Where do you start talking about this?"
Yelvpo said: "Don't think that our Khitan people don't know anything. Previously, your king Xianggong implemented the Huma Law in Hebei."
"Now Zhang Xianggong advocates buying horses from the northwest to be used on the roads in Hebei? May I ask what this means?"
Zhang Yue was secretly surprised. Yelupo knew the information about the Song Dynasty in detail. He knew that the Huma Law and his idea of buying horses from the northwest were all aimed at the Liao Kingdom.
Han Zhen said: "Do we, the Hebei Song Army, have to ask the Lord Liao about his intentions when buying horses?"
Yelu Po said: "If you Song people are not willing to use swords and soldiers, what's the point of buying horses?"
Han Zhen said: "How many horses can we buy in a year? And you Liao country has 500,000 cavalry, so why do you care about our horses?"
Yelvpo shook his head and said: "That's not what you say. You Song people have a saying that if a country has thousands of vehicles, whoever kills its king will have a family of thousands of vehicles."
"Although we in the Liao Kingdom have hundreds of thousands of cavalry, the only thing that can threaten me in the future is your tens of thousands of cavalry. So when I went south, my lord told me that I must intervene in this matter."
To put it bluntly, although our Liao Kingdom has hundreds of thousands of cavalry, we are very interested in your cavalry construction in the Song Dynasty to the extent that we must intervene.
Zhang Yue felt a little funny when he heard this. There is a saying that when the other party suspects that you have weapons of mass destruction, the best way is not to bother to explain that I don't have weapons of mass destruction. The best way is to really have them.
At this time, the Xihe Road cavalry led by Zhong Shidao, You Shixiong, and Mu Zheng had arrived at the border of Song and Liao.
