Chapter 552: Peace and War

In the palace of Bianliang Palace.

Although Zhao Kuangyin had many complaints about the Southern Song Dynasty and despised Zhao Gou and Qinzong, he could not help but feel uneasy when he saw that the Southern Song Dynasty finally did not have to escape and successfully raised the banner of the Northern Expedition.

Whether it was Han Shizhong's skillful use of troops, Wu Jie's steady defense, or Yue Fei's careful training of troops to the north, Zhao Kuangyin nodded repeatedly.

Although Zhang Jun's defeat was ugly, from his ability to fight against the elite soldiers of the Jin captives, it can be seen that the captives are also ordinary people and are not invincible.

This is also why Zhao Kuangyin became more and more angry with Zhao Gou:

All the generals and soldiers can fight, and the army and the people have blood feuds. Under such circumstances, appointing people based on their merits and accumulating strength, just waiting for the Northern Expedition to avenge the shame, it may not be impossible to create something like Guangwu.

But what can I do... How did I meet such a shameless person?

Especially after seeing the rift between Yue Fei and Zhao Gou, he sighed helplessly:

"Yue Fei is dead."

The words were simple, but they also added a bit of sighing in the hall, causing Liu Han to raise his voice slightly and ask:

"This Yue Fei knows military affairs and is good at fighting and can govern the local area. He has a sense of advance and retreat and can be called a famous general. How could he be defeated?"

Zhao Kuangyin did not answer, but just shook his head slightly and still sighed.

Seeing that Liu Han, the Shangyao Fengyu, was full of dissatisfaction, Zhao Pu had to stand up and explain:

"What the official said was not that Yue Fei would be defeated by the Jin captives, but that Zhao Gou intended to attack Yue Fei."

So Liu Han's face suddenly became horrified, but thinking about it carefully, it seemed not impossible.

This light curtain said that the unofficial history heard that Zhao Gou was frightened to impotence by the Jin soldiers when searching the mountains and seas. This kind of rumor may be false, but it should be true that Zhao Gou had no offspring afterwards.

Being the Son of Heaven but having no offspring is no different from being a useless person. It can be inferred that the successor must be a collateral line, which Zhao Gou certainly does not like.

Liu Han is a doctor, and he has seen many people with disabilities or serious illnesses behave erratically. Zhao Gou may be the same.

Liu Han sorted out his complicated thoughts in an instant, and then fell silent.

"My opinion... is difficult to accept."

Zhao Kuangyin sighed, and vaguely understood why future generations hated Wanyan Gou.

To be honest, he wanted to get into the light curtain and give Zhao Gou two big slaps to wake him up... but he could only stop at this step.

[When attacking the Song Dynasty, the power center of the Jin Dynasty had three horses: Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongbing, and Wanyan Chang.

Among them, Wanyan Zonghan led the destruction of Liao and the attack on Song, and he was in power, and Wanyan Zongbing (Jin Wushu) was also his vanguard.

Wanyan Chang's identity was even more special. He was considered a famous Pokémon master in the upper echelons of the Jin Dynasty at that time.

Whether it was the use of a large number of Khitans and Han people as grassroots officials to maintain the stability of the rule, or the establishment of the pseudo-Qi regime to let the Han people fight the Han people, it was all done by Wanyan Chang.

This is actually the difference in the routes of the two sides.

Wanyan Zongbing believed that it was all done, and believed that as long as Zhao Gou's head was twisted off, the Song Dynasty would naturally disintegrate and collapse. He belonged to the iron-blooded war faction.

Wanyan Chang was worried about the endless Han uprisings in Hebei Province, hoping to use peace talks to dissipate the Han people's resistance and consolidate the existing basic base, and therefore became the peace faction of the Jin Dynasty.

Wanyan Zongbing's failure to search the mountains and seas frustrated the war faction, so Wanyan Chang quickly exerted his strength and released Qin Hui, a good dog, to the Southern Song Dynasty to convey the intention of peace talks to Zhao Gou.

This kind of news was exactly what Zhao Gou wanted, and it was also one of the main reasons why Qin Hui was able to quickly rise to a high position.

The peace talks were finally able to be implemented mainly because of the power reshuffle of the Jin Dynasty's high-level officials.

Not long after Yue Fei's third northern expedition, Jin Taizong died of illness. In the following two years, Wanyan Zongfu, Wanyan Zonghan and other pro-war leaders died of illness one after another. Wanyan Chang was in power and quickly finalized the peace talks with the Southern Song Dynasty, which was known as the Tianfan Peace Talks in history.

The content of the peace talks was also simple. The Southern Song Dynasty became a vassal of the Jin Dynasty and paid 250,000 silver and silk tributes each year. In addition, the Jin Dynasty ceded Henan, Shaanxi and other places to the Song Dynasty, and also returned the coffin of Huizong Wei Hou.

Such conditions were naturally generous to Zhao Gou. The recovery of Henan, Shaanxi and other places through peace talks was enough for him to brag about.

Therefore, even if the Jin Dynasty despised the Northern Song Dynasty as "Jiangnan", called the peace talks an imperial edict, and explicitly required that Song officials and Zhao Gou should kneel and greet the Jin envoys wherever they went, Zhao Gou was still very happy.

It can only be said that fortunately some ministers at that time still had some face. However, Zhao Gou used the excuse of mourning for the death of Huizong to avoid meeting him, and asked Qin Hui to kneel down and worship the Jin envoy on his behalf, and the Tianzhuan Peace Agreement was reached.

In comparison, this peace agreement was not very famous, because both the Jin Kingdom and the Song Kingdom were dissatisfied with this peace agreement.

Yue Fei said, "The land is returned to me in name, but it is entrusted to me in reality."

From this point of view, Yue Fei's cognition was quite clear, just like the modern war "what can't be obtained on the battlefield, can't be obtained at the negotiation table", and his cognition of war was quite accurate.

And Wanyan Zongbi (Jin Wushu) was even more straightforward. Half a year later, he launched a violent coup and directly destroyed Wanyan Chang's faction physically. A year later (1139), he tore up the peace agreement and went south again after preparations were completed.

At this time, it was exactly ten years since Yue Fei and Han Shizhong worked together to fight the Huangtian Dang siege and the Niutou Mountain victory.

For Jin Wushu, a famous general of the Jin Dynasty, this was undoubtedly an opportunity to avenge his previous humiliation.

For Yue Pengju, who was determined to recover the lost territory, this was also an opportunity that could not be missed.

The invasion from the south was fierce, and the attack on the Jin Dynasty from the north was determined to succeed.

The two famous generals of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty during this period finally had to face off on the battlefield. 】

Li Shimin nodded in appreciation of later Napin's words on battlefields and negotiations:

"Don't say that this is how it is between countries and people on the battlefield."

"Just like the Song and Jin Dynasties, without the merits of generals Yue, Han, and Wu, why would the Jin people have peace talks?"

"But there are already such brave generals, why do the people of Song Dynasty need to negotiate for peace?"

Li Jing nodded heavily and said:

"This principle is quite simple. The Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed because it couldn't figure out such a simple principle."

So Pei Xingjian simply raised his head and asked:

"Master, in this country of Jin, is it wiser to fight for war, or to fight for peace?"

"I am the master of peace." Li Jing said without hesitation:

"The Jin people still need Khitan and Han people to serve as officials, which shows that the manpower is scarce. Therefore, in terms of national strength alone, Jin is weak and Song is strong. If you want to conquer it, you can only win quickly."

"If you want to win quickly, the right time, right place, right people, and the right people are indispensable. Let's talk about these three in keeping the promise."

Pei Xingjian didn't refuse, or he wanted to discuss military and political history like this, so he looked up at the map and thought while saying:

"When marching from north to south, the flat land is approaching. The south is mountainous and has many rivers, making it difficult for fine cavalry to be used, so it is said that the time has been lost."

"The greatest convenience in going south is grain and grass. It can be transported by land instead of water, and the loss of land transportation is only 10% of the land transportation. However, the Yellow River is cut off to seize the Si River and the Huaihe River, and it is difficult to use water transportation for thousands of miles, so it is said to be a loss of land."

"As for the peace agreement, although it is despicable, the golden man signed it first and then violated it. He has lost peace."