Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Chapter 14: Boiled frog in warm water

Several eunuchs have left, Zhao Chen and Wang De are still standing there.

Both of them have incredible expressions on their faces, especially Zhao Chen. History clearly records that the golden soldiers surrounded Kaifeng, Kaifeng city broke, and the shame of Jingkang happened! Why has Jinbing sent someone to negotiate a peace now?

Wang De also felt a little unbelievable, the Jinbing was so powerful, the Song army was not an opponent at all! Although there were a lot of King Qin's troops all over the Song Dynasty, and there were banned troops in Kaifeng and the surrounding cities, none of these troops could defeat the Jin Army! For Jin Bing, they don't need to negotiate a peace at all! Was it because the Golden Soldiers lacked their backing power, or something major happened to the Golden State, that's why they stopped the pace of the war and asked for peace? These are the possibilities! Or is it because Jin Bing has no ambition to destroy Song at all?

"His Royal Highness, what's the matter with you?" Wang De turned and looked around, but saw Zhao Chen sweating profusely.

"Vicious, Jin Bing is really vicious!" Zhao Chen said fiercely.

"Vicious?" Wang De was a little unsure.

"I see, Jin Bing's plan to boil frogs in warm water! It's really a good plan, a good plan!" Zhao Chen murmured.

"Boil the frog in warm water, what is that?" Wang De asked in surprise.

Boiling frogs in warm water is a famous experiment of scientists in the 19th century. It is now in the Song Dynasty. There is no such thing as boiled frogs in warm water in the world.

"A frog, if it is thrown into the boiling water, it will do its best to jump towards the outside, maybe it can escape death! But if the frog is thrown into the warm water, it will be in the water Leisurely swimming! The people below slowly raise the temperature of the water, and the frog still can't feel the danger coming! When the water starts to boil, the frog knows it's wrong, but its body and spirit are numb, and it can't jump out anymore! This is boiled frogs in warm water!" Zhao Chen said.

"What does your highness mean?" Wang De asked suspiciously.

"If the Jurchen people's intention to destroy the country is fully revealed, I, Da Song, will naturally go all out to deal with them. This is like a frog in boiling water, and I can escape by doing my best! But now the Jurchen people say they want to Negotiating peace is not destroying the country! In fact, they negotiating peace is false, in order to give us a glimmer of hope, let us believe that they just want to occupy some territories or obtain some property to paralyze us! Is it?" Zhao Chen said.

Zhao Chen was a little horrified, he did not expect that Jurchen would be so vicious! These Jurchens are from barbarians. They don’t even have a word, and they don’t have any civilization or culture. They have only been up for ten years. Now they have learned the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water. It is really amazing! He didn't know that these were the strategies that Xiaoyaozi taught Wanyan Zonghan! They boiled frogs in warm water to let the Song Dynasty relax its vigilance and give hope to the Song Dynasty. When the final moment came, when the Song Dynasty wanted to resist, they had nothing to do! At that time, they will be able to easily conquer Kaifeng City and complete the great cause of destroying Song!

That Xiaoyaozi is actually a famous person in history. If history does not change, he will always play an important role! During the battle between Jin Wushu and Yue Fei, Jin Wushu was defeated and Wushu wanted to withdraw from the Central Plains. At this time, a scholar stopped Wushu and said, "The prince (Wushu) does not leave, the capital can be defended, and Yue Shaobao will retreat. That's it... Since ancient times, there have been no officials in charge, and generals can contribute to outsiders", that scholar is Xiaoyaozi! It's just that he is a member of the rivers and lakes, and there is no historical record of his name!

At the moment when Zhao Chen said these words, Wang De next to him was a little bit understandable!

"I'm going to see the emperor father, so that the emperor father must never agree to make peace with Jurchen! This is a scam at all!" Zhao Chen said.

Now Zhao Chen left here and strode towards Funing Hall! Only this time he was intercepted before he came to Funing Hall! Funing Hall was the place where the Emperor of Song Dynasty and his courtiers discussed politics. Even the prince had to inform before he could pass!

At the moment, someone went to inform Song Qinzong. In the afternoon, an **** came over and said that Song Qinzong was dealing with state affairs and had no time to see Zhao Chen, so Zhao Chen returned to Jujingyuan and continued to follow Wang De to practice martial arts!

Zhao Chen had no choice but to return to Jujing Garden.

At the moment in the Funing Hall, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan is discussing with the officials about peace with Jin Bing!

Zhao Huan's face is full of joy. For many days, his heart has been scared to the extreme, and now he is finally relaxed! It turns out that the Jinbing is not going to destroy the Song Dynasty, they just want to get some benefits, of course they want to get a lot of benefits! Ceding Hebei and Hedong, this is indeed too much! In the afternoon, he summoned the ministers to discuss this matter together.

"You all talk about it, do we have to agree to Jinbing's terms?" Zhao Huan said.

"Your Majesty, Hebei and Hedong are the roots of the country. They have thousands of people, countless cities, and taxation areas. We must never cede Hebei and Hedong to Jinbing!" It was a middle-aged man in his 40s who spoke. , It’s just that the middle-aged man’s hair turned out to be completely white! His body is slightly camel, this person is Li Gang! Later generations called this person the head of the "Famous Minister of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty". It was this person who, together with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, turned the tide, and made the Southern Song Dynasty a corner of the world! He had been demoted to Jiangxi, because of the Jinbing invasion, he had been urgently summoned to Kaifeng, and now he is serving as the Minister of War.

"If we don't cede Hebei and Hedong, how can we resist Jinbing?" Zhang Bangchang stood up and said coldly! The fat all over him was shaking, as if he was very angry!

"We can make the King of Qin in the world, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in various places. His Royal Highness King Kang is now also contacting the rebels in Hebei and Hedong to break the way for the golden soldiers! All the Kings in the world are Qin soldiers, and we will definitely be able to block the golden soldiers!" Li Gang said.

"Can the garrisons in various places block the Golden Soldiers? It's ridiculous! How powerful are the teachers, how powerful the army is, and they are vulnerable to the Golden Soldiers. We can still count on these garrisons? As for the rebels everywhere, then It's even more absurd. They are all made up of untouchables, without any training, or even weapons, how can they resist the golden soldiers?" Zhang Bangchang said "righteously indignation"!

"But the price of ceding Hebei and Hedong is too great! If Hebei and Hedong are ceded, the north of the Yellow River will no longer belong to my Dasong! My Dasong is almost halfless!" Li Gang argued.

"Now we cede Hebei and Hedong, and we can take it back in the future! If we don't cede Hebei and Hedong now, if the golden soldiers call, there will be no more grasses!" Zhang Bangchang said coldly.

"Well, there is no need to discuss this matter! Hebei and Hedong should be ceded to the Jurchens, that is nothing!" Song Qinzong said.

Hearing Song Qinzong's opening, all the ministers below were in compliance, only a few people such as Li Gang stood aside frowning and did not speak! It is a pity that these people are not the mainstream of the court, and they cannot influence Song Qinzong!

"Your Majesty, I am willing to serve as the envoy of the cession of land in Hebei, responsible for contacting the Jinren, and ceding Hebei to the Jurchens!" Zhang Bangchang stood up and said.

"Zhang Aiqing is still loyal and not afraid of danger, so he has to take the initiative to contact the Jinren! Okay, this matter is up to you! Who is the envoy of the cession of land in Hedong?" Song Qinzong said.

The ministers talked about it, and Fan Qiong, the official minister, served as the envoy of the cession of land in Hedong! However, Fan Qiong is different from Zhang Bangchang, but he is full of fear! Those Jurchen barbarians are like tigers and wolves. If they can't meet their needs, he will have no good end to the land cemetery! It's just that the emperor has already ordered, and he can't resist.

"In addition to ceding Hebei and Hedong, the Jinbing asked for 10 million ingots of gold, 20 million ingots of silver, and 10 million horses. Tell me about this. How do we get so many things together?" Song Qinzong said again.

The ministers below only knew that Jin Bing sent people to make peace, but they didn't know that Jin Bing's conditions for making peace included so many materials! Many ministers were secretly shocked, thinking that the Jurchens were too greedy, and the materials they asked for were too much, it was astronomical! One ingot of the Song Dynasty is ten taels. If the materials requested by the Jurchens are replaced by two, it will be one hundred million taels of gold, two hundred million taels of silver, plus ten million piets of silk! The income of the Song Dynasty’s national treasury was no more than sixty to seven million taels of silver a year, and one tael of gold was about fifteen taels of silver. The Song court could only save so much gold and silver without eating or drinking for decades! A few years ago, when Song Huizong was in power, Daxing Huashigang, the treasury had been unable to make ends meet. The gold and silver saved by the previous emperors of Song Huizong had all been spent, and now Song Qinzong has just taken the throne for a year. Where did he give the gold and silver to the throne? Jin Bing?

"This is too much!" Zhang Bangchang was also dumbfounded at the moment.

"Your Majesty, Jin Bing is just asking for prices!" Li Gang said.

"Oh? From your point of view, what should I do?" Song Qinzong said.

"They are asking for prices, and we will pay back! We should also send envoys to the Golden Army to bargain with them!" Li Gang said.

"Oh, I don't know who wants to go to the Golden Army?" Song Qinzong said.

Hearing Song Qinzong's questioning, the ministers below retreated one after another. Everyone knows that the Jin Bing is a barbarian, extremely brutal, and there must be many dangers among the Jin Jun, so no one is willing to go.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go!" Li Gang said!

"This... Aiqing can't go!" Song Qinzong frowned and said.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Weak ministers will die! Your Majesty don't have to worry about the safety of our ministers!" Li Gang only thought that Song Qinzong was worried about his safety, and tears burst into his eyes for a while!

"Aiqing has an upright character. If she goes to the Jin Army, I am afraid it will anger the Jin Army and affect the negotiation, then it will be very bad!" Song Qinzong said slowly, and Li Gang was stunned.

"Li Bangyan, why don't you go to the Golden Army and have a discussion with them!" Zhao Huan said.

"Weichen takes the order!" Li Bangyan was terrified, but he could only take the order.

"Your Majesty, Jin Bing finally agreed to the negotiation. Now we should not let the King Qin's troops go to Kaifeng again, so as not to anger Jin Bing! What do you think?" Zhang Bangchang said.

"Not bad!" Song Qinzong nodded.

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