In early September, at Qianbulang, Yanfu Palace, the prime minister King Fu and Gao Qiu walked quickly towards the deep palace under the guidance of a eunuch.

"Master Gao didn't know anything. We left Pingzhou from the beginning. We had negotiated with the Jin Kingdom three times before. We hoped that the Jin Kingdom could return Pingzhou to us as agreed between the two sides, but the Jin Kingdom never agreed. It was rare that Pingzhou would be returned to us in this Pingzhou change. The attitude of the government was to make appropriate concessions and give enough face to the Jin Kingdom, so that we could benefit."

The negotiations between the Jin and the Song Dynasty have been in progress for two days. The two two negotiators of the Song Dynasty were Wang Fu and Gao Qiu. However, in the negotiation position, Wang Fu and Gao Qiu had different views. Wang Fu advocated concessions, while Gao Qiu, as the military representative, advocated toughness. The two had no consensus. At the last moment of the negotiation, they could only report to the emperor and decided by the emperor.

Gao Qiu had received a letter from Li Yanqing before. In the letter, Li Yanqing pointed out that the Jin Dynasty was not ready for war. The so-called attack on the Song Dynasty was just a bluff. In the letter, Li Yanqing advocated to deal with the Jin Dynasty with a tough attitude and must not hand over Zhang Jue to the Jin Dynasty, otherwise the court would lose all the hearts of the people in Yan.

Gao Qiu basically agreed with Li Yanqing's attitude. He was a military boss. Of course, he was unwilling to hand over Zhang Jue, who had surrendered to the Song Dynasty, to the Jin Kingdom for disposal. This is a shame in any case. However, Gao Qiu's position is not firm. To a large extent, his position will change according to the emperor's attitude.

After all, Gao Qiu is just a politician, not a politician. His personal interests are far higher than national interests. It is not impossible to consider the interests of the Song Dynasty before not endangering personal interests. If his personal interests are affected by angering the emperor, he will change his position without hesitation. It would be useless for Li Yanqing to write a hundred letters to him.

The two of them came to the summer resort of Lianxin Pavilion in the palace, and waited at the door for a while. The eunuch came out and said, "Two ministers, please come in, the official family is already waiting in the room!"

The two walked into Lianxin Pavilion and a cool breath blew on their faces. Although Mid-Autumn Festival is over now, the end of the summer heat is still hot, but the summer heat is already at the end of its strength. Zhao Ji stayed in Lianxin Pavilion for a whole summer. After these days, he will move back to the Yangxin Palace where he always lives in autumn.

"I am going to see Your Majesty!" The two bowed and bowed.

Zhao Ji dressed up very simply, wearing a loose light yellow dark coat and a squid head. He was savoring a bowl of whirlwind seed soup. When the two prime ministers saw the gift, he put down the bowl and smiled and said, "No need to be polite, I'll give it to sit!"

Two eunuchs brought a chair, and they sat down. Zhao Ji asked with a smile: "How is the negotiation situation?"

Wang Fu bowed and said, "It's almost done. Pingzhou uses the method of redemption. We buy back Pingzhou with 100,000 taels of silver. Both sides agreed to avoid the rebellion and surrender."

Zhao Ji nodded, "This plan is OK, I agree, so what other difficulties are there?"

Wang Fu hesitated and said, "The other party said that many former Liao generals in the Jin Kingdom would be impunitive if Zhang Jue defected, the impact on the Jin Kingdom would be very serious. The Jin Kingdom insisted on handing over Zhang Jue to them, if not."

"How is it?" Zhao Ji asked coldly.

Wang Fu glanced at Gao Qiu, and Gao Qiu closed his lips tightly and said nothing. Wang Fu cursed in his heart, but had no choice but to continue: "The Jin Dynasty believed that our Song Dynasty had betrayed the maritime alliance. If the Song Dynasty insisted on tearing the alliance, they would dispatch 200,000 troops to attack Song. The war was about to break out, it depends on whether the Song Dynasty had sincerely avoided the war."

Zhao Ji didn't say anything for a long time. If the Jin Kingdom launched a large-scale attack on the Song Dynasty, wouldn't it mean that his national policy of joining the Jin Dynasty to destroy Liao was extremely stupid and wrong, and he could not afford this responsibility.

"What does Taiwei Gao think?" Zhao Ji glanced at Gao Qiu and asked.

Gao Qiu said carefully: "I'm afraid that handing over Zhang Jue to the Jin Kingdom will disappoint the soldiers and civilians of Yanshan Prefecture."

"Master Gao is too worried!"

Wang Fu smiled and said, "The Liao Kingdom has been destroyed for a year, and the soldiers and civilians of Yanshan Prefecture have long been accustomed to the identity of the people of the Song Dynasty. Guo Tongzhi's report has fully explained this point. Zhang Jue cannot make a big fuss. Besides, the other party has also expressed his opinion that if the Song Dynasty can satisfy the Jin Dynasty's face, the Pingzhou plan can be appropriately expanded."

Zhao Ji raised his eyebrows, "What does this mean?"

Pingzhou's plan was to redeem the city with money, and to expand it appropriately, it would be possible to sell other places to the Song Dynasty. How could Zhao Ji not hear such a clear hint?

Wang Fu nodded, "The other party means Juyongguan."

"Does Juyongguan also include?"

Zhao Ji was overjoyed. Juyongguan was the northern gate of Yanshan Prefecture and was firmly controlled by the Jin Kingdom, which became a piece of Zhao Ji's heart disease. If the Jin Kingdom was willing to return Juyongguan to the Song Dynasty, he would be willing to spend more money.

Gao Qiu next to him whispered: "The Jin Kingdom has lost Pingzhou, I'm afraid Juyongguan will not give it up easily anymore!"

Wang Fu curled his lips disdainfully. Gao Qiu was really confused. The official family had already cared about this level, and he even wanted to pour cold water on him. Isn’t that boring himself?

Sure enough, when Zhao Ji glared at Gao Qiu sharply, Gao Qiu shut up completely. Anyway, Wang Fu went to do this, what does it have to do with him?

Zhao Ji pondered for a moment and said, "I agree that if the Jin Kingdom is willing to give up Juyongguan, I will not only give generous conditions, but also give them to the Jin Kingdom."

Zhao Ji finally set the tone. After another day of negotiations between the Song and Jin sides finally reached an agreement. The Song Dynasty agreed to hand over Zhang Jue to the Jin Kingdom. In return, the Jin Kingdom agreed to sell Pingzhou and Juyongguan to the Song Dynasty for 200,000 taels of silver. The two sides completed the transaction under Juyongguan.

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On the north gate of Yanjing City, more than 300 fully armed soldiers were staring at the thousands of people under the city with spears. As soon as dawn, countless people in Yanjing City spontaneously organized themselves and rushed to the north gate, surrounding the city gate. Except for the north city, the other four city gates were also surrounded by tens of thousands of people in Yanjing. They were excited and shouted slogans.

I don’t know who leaked all the compromise plans between the imperial court and the Jin Kingdom, and handed over Zhang Jue, who was devoted to the Song Dynasty, to the Jin people for disposal. This immediately angered hundreds of thousands of people in Yanshan Prefecture. Zhang Jue had a lot of prestige in Yanshan Prefecture. The court’s weakness and discrimination against the people in the old land of the Liao Kingdom caused the people of Yanshan Prefecture to suffer great shame.

Today is the day to deliver Zhang Jue. Tens of thousands of people in Yanjing City could no longer bear it and rushed to the city gate to protest and rob people.

At this moment, someone shouted, "Here's here!"

Two teams of cavalry escorted a prison van slowly towards the city gate. Inside the prison van was a middle-aged man wearing a white prison robes, with indifferent eyes. It was Zhang Jue, the governor of the Jin Dynasty who surrendered and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Jue never dreamed that he would be betrayed by the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty actually believed that the Jin people would sell Juyongguan to them. There was such a stupid court in the world. I could only say that he was blind. Zhang Jue was not destroyed by the Song Dynasty, but by his stupid hands. The sorrow was greater than death, and Zhang Jue also admitted it.

When Zhang Jue's prison van approached the city gate, tens of thousands of people were boiling, shouting, forming a human wall to block the city gate. Countless people surrounded hundreds of cavalry and prison vans, and followed Guo Yaoshi who was escorting 200,000 taels of silver in the distance and shouting, "Come on three thousand troops quickly and beat the unruly people with sticks!"

Not long after, three thousand soldiers of the ever-savage army rushed towards the north city with murderous intent. Each of them held a big wooden stick in their hands. They rushed forward and swung the wooden stick to hit the tens of thousands of people. The city gate was in chaos, and the people fled in all directions, and the crying sounded shocking the sky.

At this time, the city gate slowly opened, and the team escorted the prison car and Bai Yin away from the city, heading towards Juyong Pass a hundred miles away.

Juyong Pass is located more than a hundred miles northwest of Yanshan City. The pass is in a dangerous situation. It is connected to Lulong and Jieshi in the east, and belongs to Taihang Mountain and Changshan in the west. It is a dangerous place in the world. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

Juyong Pass has two gates, north and south, called Nankou in the south and Juyong Pass in the north, but to the outside world, both gates are collectively called Juyong Pass.

At night, Juyong closed the lights, and Wanyan Zonghan stood on the pass with his hands behind his back, staring coldly at a gradually approaching Song army in the distance. There was a prison van among the Song army, and the person in the prison van was the sergeant Zhang Jue.

"How is the situation in Yanjing City?" Wanyan Zonghan turned around and asked Liang Fangping next to him.

Liang Fangping quickly smiled flatteringly and said, "Report to the Grand Marshal, our people have successfully aroused the anger of the people of Yanshan Prefecture, and the people of the Song Dynasty have lost all their hearts!"

"This is a bit exaggerated. It will not be possible to lose all the people's hearts. It can only be said that the people's hearts have lost their points."

"The great general, it is not an exaggeration to have a humble position. The Han people in Yanshan Prefecture have been a citizen of the Liao Kingdom for a hundred years. Although the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, they still miss their homeland and hate the Song Dynasty that destroyed the Liao Kingdom. The Zhang Jue incident greatly hurt their dignity and stimulated the hatred they hid in their hearts. This is not something that can be calmed down in a day or two. It requires several generations of efforts. The Song Dynasty did not see this and made an extremely stupid mistake. As long as our Jin Kingdom conquered Yanshan Prefecture and concentrated on worshiping the fallen soldiers of the Liao Kingdom, we can win the hearts of the people of Yanshan Prefecture and make Yanshan Prefecture a solid backing for the Jin Kingdom to go south to destroy Song."

Wanyan Zonghan nodded with satisfaction. Although Liang Fangping's character was not very good, he was indeed very insightful. Ordinary Jurchen officials were far inferior to those of him. This person was a good staff member.

"You are right. The Song Dynasty has short-sighted eyes, the monarch and ministers are incompetent, and the court is corrupt. This is a gift given to us by God. If we do not take it, we will be condemned by God!"

"The general is very good at seeing, but there are still a few powerful figures in the Song Dynasty, so you should not be underestimated!"

"Who?" Wanyan Zonghan glanced at him.

"For example, Master Zhong, and then Li Yanqing, the co-magistrate of Jingzhao Prefecture."

"Master Zhong is almost buried! It's not worth worrying. As for Li Yanqing, if I remember correctly, he should be your enemy!"

"Yes, the brother of Beiyi died at his hands." Liang Fangping gritted his teeth.

"He does have some skills and can succeed in sneak attacking Yanjing. It can also be said that the old wolf master is in his hands, but the Song Dynasty is like a decayed building, and one blow will collapse. It is difficult to save the overall situation by himself. Not to mention that he is one Li Yanqing, ten Li Yanqing are not worth worrying."

"The general is very clear, and the general trend cannot be stopped by Li Yanqing!"

Wanyan Zonghan nodded, "After destroying the Song Dynasty, I will leave it to you to deal with Li Yanqing."

Liang Fangping was overjoyed, "Thank you, Marshal!"

At this time, the silver cart and prison car escorted by the Song army had been slowly sent to the pass, and the leader Song general shouted: "Song general Zhao Rong was ordered to come to deliver the prisoner and the silver cart!"

At this time, the door was closed and a team of Jurchen cavalry ran out. The Song army lowered the silver cart and prison cart and retreated one after another. According to the prior agreement, after receiving 200,000 taels of silver and prisoner Zhang Jue, the Jin Kingdom would withdraw its troops within one hour and give up Juyong Pass.

The Jurchens began to count silver, five thousand taels of silver per car, a total of forty cars. After the inventory was completed, the Jin soldiers shouted upwards a few times, and the door was closed and opened again. The Jurchen cavalry escorted the silver cart and the prison cart into the pass. At this time, Zhang Jue suddenly laughed and said, "Silly Song Dynasty! Do you really think the Jin Dynasty would hand over Juyongguan to you?"

The Song army general who was in charge of the delivery was stunned. At this time, the door was closed and tens of thousands of golden soldiers suddenly appeared on the top of the city. They were tense and aimed at the Song army under the city. Wanyan Zonghan ordered coldly: "Shoot the arrow!"
Chapter completed!