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If your country is unwilling, let this matter go. In the future, we will use Yanjing as the border between the two countries, and ask your Song Dynasty troops to retreat outside our country's borders. "
Zhao Liangsi said to Wanyan Zonghan: "Since ancient times, taxes have been tied to the land. Whoever rules that place will collect the local taxes. How can there be no reason for only occupying the land but not getting taxes?"
Wanyan Zonghan said with a sneer: "But Yanjing was brought down by our Dajin Kingdom. The land and taxes should be owned by our Dajin Kingdom. Our country is willing to give the land to your country and only keep the taxes. It is already for your country to occupy Cheap. How can your country be so greedy?"
This is the point of difference between Song and Jin.
Everyone in the court of the Song Dynasty believed that the "Alliance on the Sea" agreed that after the two countries destroyed the Liao Dynasty, the Yanjing area would be handed over to the Song Dynasty.Therefore, it is unreasonable for Jin Guo to propose to levy taxes in the Yanjing area.
However, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that Song State did not fulfill the contract to attack Liao State.
However, from Jin Guo's point of view, signing the "Original Alliance on the Sea" with Song Guo and agreeing to give up the land of Yanyun to Song Guo is not free, but has clear conditions.
The condition is that the Song Army and the Jin Army will attack the Liao Kingdom at the same time, share the pressure on the battlefield for the Jin Army, and reduce the casualties of the Jin Army.Moreover, the Song army should also be responsible for conquering the Yanjing area.
However, when the Jin army aggressively attacked the Liao State, the Song army stood still and did not play a role in containing the Liao army.
The Jin army fought bloody battles, defeated the main force of the Liao army, and successively conquered the Zhongjing Dading Mansion and the Western Army Datong Mansion in the Liao Kingdom. After destroying the rule of the Liao Kingdom, the Song Army came belatedly to pick up the leak.
But even under such circumstances, the Song Army was still defeated twice by the Yanjing Army of the Cangliao, and finally had to rely on the Jin Army to enter the pass to clean up the mess.
It can be said that in the eyes of Wanyan Aguda and his ministers, Song State did not contribute at all to the demise of Liao State.
Under such circumstances, what face does the State of Song have to ask to take back Yanyun and share the spoils of the Jin army?
In order to defeat Liao, Wanyan Zonghan's younger brother and Wanyan Yinshuke's younger brother both died in battle.Wanyan Zongxiong was also injured when he conquered Xijing City, which made him ill and died on the way to the expedition at a young age.
The Jin army conquered the land of Yanyun in the Liao Kingdom with blood and sweat, and the emperor Wanyan Aguda was willing to cede Yanjing to the Song Dynasty, which was already extremely benevolent and extraordinarily merciful.
Song Guo didn't do anything, just begged for so much land with nothing, what's there to be dissatisfied with?
Wanyan Zonghan believed that if the State of Song made more demands, it would only show that the monarchs and ministers of the State of Song were all shameless people who did not know good from bad.
Zhao Liangsi and Wanyan Zonghan had great disagreements and did not dare to make a claim, so they had to tell the king and ministers of Jin that they had to report back to His Majesty the Emperor.
Therefore, Wanyan Agu wrote a letter of credence, ordering Li Jing and others to go to the Song Dynasty again.
Jin Guo's letter of credence mainly clarifies the two requirements of Jin Guo:
First, the three prefectures of Ping, Ying, and Luan cannot be given to the Song Dynasty.
Second, the six prefectures and 24 counties of Yanjing can be given to the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty will not only transfer some of the old coins originally given to the Liao Kingdom to the Jin Dynasty, but also the taxes and miscellaneous items in Yanjing and other places will be collected by the Jin Dynasty.
Jin Guo envoy Li Jing and others took the letter of credence, and Zhao Liangsi and others immediately rushed to Bianliang City, Tokyo in the Song Dynasty.
When passing by Xiongzhou, Zhao Liangsi reported the situation of negotiations with Jin Guo in Yanjing City to Taiwei Tong Guan who was eager to take back Yandi.
After hearing this, Tong Guan recruited Ma Kuo and said to him: "Zhao Liangsi just returned from Yanjing, and the situation he said is different from what you reported. When the Jin army attacked Juyongguan and Yanjing, you were in the Jin army. In the middle, understand the true and false status of the Jin army. I order you to return to Bianjing with Zhao Liangsi and others, and report to the imperial court."
After Ma Kuo took the order, he immediately packed up and traveled southward with the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin.
The Jin envoy Li Jing, Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and others rushed to Bianliang City, Tokyo day and night, and were summoned by the Taoist Emperor Zhao Ji in the Chongzheng Hall.
After receiving the letter of credence from the Kingdom of Jin, the Emperor Daojun informed Li Jing, the envoy of the Jin Dynasty, that the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Wang Fu, was fully in charge of the negotiations, and the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin could discuss the details with Wang Fu. "
Therefore, Li Jing and other envoys from the Kingdom of Jin, accompanied by Ma Kuo, came to the Prime Minister Wang Fu's mansion to discuss.
Wang Fu pointed out that it was extremely inconvenient for the Kingdom of Jin to collect taxes in Yanjing, and the Song Dynasty was willing to replace Yanjing taxes by increasing the old coins.
Li Jing, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, agreed to Wang Fu's plan to increase the annual coins instead of taxes, so the next step was to decide how many old coins should be used to replace Yanjing taxes.
The matter of approving the amount of old coins cannot be completed in one day, and Wang Fu entrusted this task to Zhao Liangsi.
Upon seeing this, Li Jing, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, bid farewell to Wang Fu, and returned to the post to wait for the calculation result of the Kingdom of Song.
After Li Jing waited, Wang Fu asked Ma Kuo, "When you were in the Jin Army, you represented our court of the Great Song Dynasty, and you should fight with reason in everything. But all the ministers said that you blindly gave in to the Jin Army, which led to our country's conflict with the Jin State. Negotiations are very passive. Ma Kuo, is this right or not?"
Ma Kuo replied calmly: "Prime Minister Wang, how dare the subordinates neglect their duties? Naturally, they want to argue with reason. But Liu Yanqing collapsed without fighting, and our Song army let the Jin army occupy Yanjing City first. It is really unreasonable to argue!"
Didn't Wang Fu know that Ma Kuo was telling the truth, a weak country has no diplomacy, and the army of the Song Dynasty is not up to date, so how can Ma Kuo, a small envoy, turn things around by himself?
Wang Fu said kindly: "You're right. These rumors are because the officials in the court don't know your difficulties. Now that the Kingdom of Jin has become so tough, what do you think about it?"
After hearing this, Ma Kuo offered advice and advice to Wang Fu, expressing his views:
Due to the defeat of Liu Yanqing's army, the Kingdom of Jin despised the military power of the Song Dynasty very much, and became extremely tough in negotiations.
Faced with such a situation, Ma Kuo believed that regaining the land was not the most important thing for the imperial court, but how to avoid the future troubles of the Jin army's invasion.
Therefore, Ma Kuo suggested that the imperial court should not blindly submit to softness, but only seek to take back the land of Yan, so that the Kingdom of Jin would look down on Song Dynasty even more.
On the contrary, the imperial court should be tougher. It is a good thing to be able to take back Yanjing City, but if it cannot be taken back, it can also use Zhuozhou and Yizhou as the border and deploy heavy troops to prevent the Jin army from going south easily.
Ma Kuo's suggestion can be summarized as that although the Song Dynasty is weak militarily, it must bluff and show a tough attitude towards the Jin State, lest the Jin State see through the weakness of the Song Dynasty and send troops to invade the south.
However, Wang Fu believed that Ma Kuo's proposal was not feasible.He told Ma Kuo that the Holy Majesty was determined to recover Yanjing and would send Ma Kuo out to the Kingdom of Jin again.
Wang Fu asked Ma Kuo to do whatever it takes in the negotiations, as long as the Kingdom of Jin ceded Yanjing, it would be considered a success.
Only then did Ma Kuo understand that in order to be able to return to Yanjing, the imperial court was prepared to accept all the conditions of the Kingdom of Jin.
8 Chapter Forty
After the Song court determined the policy of taking back Yan land at all costs, Song Huizong ordered Zhao Liangsi, Zhou Wuzhong, Ma Kuo, etc. to go with the Jin envoy Li Jing, and then went to Yanjing to discuss with Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda to replace taxes with old coins The problem.
After Zhao Liangsi, Ma Kuo and others arrived in Yanjing City, they started negotiations with the King of Jin again in the camp of the Jin Army outside the city.
During the negotiations, Zhao Liangsi proposed to increase the annual tax of 10 taels of silver to replace the taxes in the Yanjing area, but was questioned and refuted by the people of Jin.
At this time, the ministers and officials of the Liao Kingdom headed by Zuo Qigong all defected to the Kingdom of Jin. The Kingdom of Jin had already grasped the taxes and taxes in the Yandi area clearly, so they would not be fooled by the envoys of the Song Dynasty.
The people of the Kingdom of Jin took out the documents of the Liao Kingdom and showed them to Zhao Liangsi, which recorded that the total annual tax revenue of Yandi was about 600 million guan.
That is to say, after the Kingdom of Jin ceded the land of Yan to Song Dynasty, Song Dynasty not only got the land, but also earned 600 million yuan in taxes every year.
Jin Guo therefore proposed to demand 100 million Guansui coins to replace the taxes in the Yanjing area.
In the view of Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin, even if the Kingdom of Jin collects 100 million coins per year, Song Dynasty can still earn 500 million coins per year.
Da Song didn't do anything, but he was able to get the Yanjing area and the annual tax of 500 million yuan for nothing. It can be said that there is no better thing in the world.
In fact, Zuo Qigong and other Liao ministers strongly opposed handing over the Yanjing area to Song.
Yanjing was brought down by the Kingdom of Jin, so it should be ruled by the Kingdom of Jin.In this way, Jin Guo can increase its tax revenue by 600 million per year.
When the Yanjing area was handed over to the Song State, the Jin State could only get 100 million coins and lost a lot of land and population. It can be said that the Jin State actually suffered a big loss.
As for Song Guo's proposal to only pay one hundred thousand guansui coins per year, the tax revenue of a county town is more than that, which is simply nonsense.