LRAB Chapter 972 War Threat
Chapter 972 War Threat
Chapter 972 War Threat
Liao envoy Yelvpo came again with the credential of the Liao emperor.
In the few months without negotiations, Xiao Ying, a direct bachelor of the Liao State's deputy privy council, Yang Yijie, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and Yelvshou, the governor of the Shiping Army, successively came to Zhending Mansion to pay homage to Zhang Yue, and gave him many gifts.
Zhang Yue also asked his subordinates Cai Bian, Cai Jing, Chen Mu, Xu Xi, Tong Guan and others to go to Yuzhou and Xijing in turn. Chen Mu even met the Lord of Liao, Yelu Hongji himself.
Yelu Hongji personally asked Chen Mu about the boundary demarcation and conveyed his greetings to his nephew Emperor Song Dynasty officials.
This also corroborates the previously obtained information that Yelu Hongji, the Lord of the Liao Dynasty, was indeed in Xijing and did not even go to the Spring Nabo Conference.
As for whether Lord Yelu Hongji of the Liao Dynasty was in Xijing planning the southern expedition, no one knew.
No one dares to guess.
This is completely different from the analysis that Zhang Yue had communicated to the emperor in advance, and the Liao Kingdom's path was uncertain, leading to internal instability.
Yelu Hongji stayed in Xijing for half a year, showing an attitude of being determined to win.
Anyway, this matter was reported to Bianjing, which worried the officials so much that they stayed up all night, and then issued a decree to Zhang Yue, asking him to seek peace with the Khitan.
News came that the Xuanfu Division in Zhending Mansion was in chaos.
Just at this moment, the Liao negotiating delegation arrived. Yelu Hongji, Yelu Po's representative, handed over the credentials of the Emperor of Liao and put forward more stringent conditions.
That is to add the ownership of Tianchi to the original disputed ownership of the boundaries of the four places.
This strategy of the Liao Kingdom is very common in the negotiation field.
The other side continued to exert pressure and put forward more stringent conditions than before, which shook the confidence of the negotiators and was criticized by opponents.
Zhang Yue could imagine that once the new conditions of the Liao Kingdom came out, he would definitely be criticized by the opposition in the court.
In fact, there is no need to think about it, this is a certain thing.
This is also a side effect of the confusion of different opinions, and the country's major political affairs are prone to swings.
Zhang Yue felt a chill in his heart after reading the official's instructions.
The previous memorial to the officials had thoroughly analyzed the pros and cons of the situation, and he had talked about it for several times, but now he really didn't want to explain any more.
At this moment, Zhang Yue sincerely lamented that those who achieve great things must have strategic determination. These words are not empty talk.
This is true for a person, and so is the country. We must keep walking on the path we have chosen.
At this time, the officials also knew about this, and Li Ping said to Zhang Yue: "May I ask Xianggong Zhang, how should I talk to the Liao envoy tomorrow?"
Li Ping was the first to propose Zhang Yue's conditions for accepting the Liao envoy, but he also knew that Zhuge Liang was useless after the fact. This was not the time to proudly accuse Zhang Yue, but to face the problem.
Zhang Yue didn't say anything, but Cai Jing already spoke up: "I think this is just a matter of words! Slow down and things will go smoothly!"
"Let's go back to Shangshu and fight with the officials on this matter."
"How to slow down?" Li Ping asked.
Zhang Yue said: "There is no need to argue. Tomorrow you and Yu Ru (Han Zhen) will negotiate with the Liao envoy! I will not come forward."
After finishing Zhang Yue stood up and left.
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Zhang Yue returned to the study, and Cai Jing and Cai Bian came with a worried look on his face.
Seeing Zhang Yue reading, Cai Jing asked worriedly: "Prime Minister Xuan, how will the officials deal with it?"
They knew they couldn't change things with words this time, and the officials wanted them to show their attitude.
Zhang Yue said: "This matter is not difficult. You can ask the officials to give you a letter of credence as a formal reply to the Liao people's demarcation of the border!"
Cai Jing and Cai Bian were surprised when they heard this and said, "This plan is great!"
This time, the Liao State brought a formal request with a letter of credence. The Song Dynasty ceded these five lands by demarcating boundaries, so it was reasonable for Zhang Yue to ask officials to respond with a letter of credence.
But the problem is that once the certificate of credence is issued, it will be written down in history in the future.Zhang Yue expected that because of his official temperament, he must have paid special attention to the emperor's appearance. It would be a very shameful thing to write it down in the history books.He must have hesitated again and felt that it would be better to be tougher on the Khitan in the negotiations, so he would postpone urging Zhang Yue to negotiate peace.
There is no problem in delaying this for some time.
Cai Jing and Cai Bian were both impressed with their admiration, but they were worried that the delay would not last too long.
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The next day, when Song and Liao were negotiating, Yelupo was very unhappy when he saw that Zhang Yue was not present.
However, the negotiation still had to continue, and the necessary procedures had to be completed. The Liao State immediately produced three pieces of evidence that Tianchi belonged to the Liao State.
Because there was no ownership of Tianchi before, this time the Liao Kingdom suddenly brought it up for negotiation, it must be paved the way, otherwise it would look very shameless.
Responsible for the specific negotiations is Xiao Ying, deputy privy councilor.
Xiao Ying gave three reasons for proposing the ownership of Tianchi this time. One was that the Shunyi Army of the Liao Kingdom had requested the Song Dynasty to repair the Tianchi Shrine. If Tianchi did not belong to the Liao Kingdom, why did the Liao Kingdom send this note?
Secondly, King Yi of Khitan led more than 100 tribes to graze here for more than half a year, and no Song people had any objections.
During the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, Hengling was roughly defined as the boundary, and Tianchi was to the north of Hengling.
Cai Bian smiled at Xiao Yingsu and said: "Your envoy has said so much, all of which are verbal evidence, but there is no written evidence."
"On the contrary, we have written evidence that Tianchi belongs to the Song Dynasty."
After speaking, Cai Bian took out a document from the Liao Kingdom to the Song Ning Dynasty. It said, "In the northwest of Tianchizi, there is a Zhuzimu plant across Henglingzi, and the Zhuzimu tree is about three miles south to the southern boundary."
Seeing Cai Bian produce written evidence, the Khitan envoys present all made a mistake.
Xiao Yingqiang defended himself: "The Hengling mentioned at that time is not the Hengling mentioned today."
What is shameless?Everyone present saw it.
Yelupo said: "Okay, there's no need to say anything more, and you don't need to argue with me. This is our last sincerity!"
This time even Li Ping was angry and said: "Your words are unconvincing, how can you explain it like this?"
Yelupo said: "You Song people have forcibly occupied my territory of Daliao. My emperor has wanted to have diplomatic relations between the two countries for many years, so he asked me to separate. If the separation cannot be achieved, then we will have to fight all the way."
"We just want to give it a try. Your soldiers and horses on Xihe Road, are your horses fast and your swords weak?"
Yelupo thought it was time to send an envoy, and Zhang Yue felt ashamed that the Xihe Road cavalry showed off his troops to him. When he said this today, he also had a long-standing grudge.
He dared to say this now because he did not pay attention to the soldiers and horses transferred from Xihe Road in the Song Dynasty.
Li commented: "You Khitan may not be able to win. Even if you win, your Emperor Taizong once came to the Central Plains and went back in the end."
After hearing what Li Ping said, everyone had no confidence at all and started to consider themselves losers.
Historically, Yelv Deguang, the leader of the Liao Dynasty, destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty and even took over Bianjing, but failed before he could secure the world.
Even before the war started, Li Ping planned to defeat Bianjing.
Yelupo laughed when he heard this but thought to himself, if the emperor of the Song Dynasty only used people like you, it would be easy to defeat Bianjing.
Yelupo sneered and said: "It's up to us Khitans to fight or not, not you Song people. Just think about it for a while and beg for peace in a few days. That won't be the case."
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At this time, Xixia Prime Minister Liang Yimi led an army of [-] to Tiandu Mountain.
This place was attacked by Zhang Yue and Wang Shao in the third year of Xining, and even the Tiandu Mountain Palace was burned down.
Now Liang Yimi is coming with his troops to take revenge!
(End of this chapter)