Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Several eunuchs had already left, but Zhao Chen and Wang De were still standing there.

Both of them had expressions of disbelief on their faces, especially Zhao Chen. It is clearly recorded in history that the Jin soldiers surrounded Kaifeng, the city of Kaifeng was broken, and the shame of Jingkang happened! Why did Jin Bing send people to negotiate a peace now?

Wang De also felt a little unbelievable that the Jin army was so powerful that the Song army was no match at all! Although there are many King Qin troops in various parts of the Song Dynasty, and there are still forbidden troops in Kaifeng City and the surrounding cities, it is impossible for these troops to defeat the Jin Army! For Jin Bing, they don't need to negotiate a peace at all! Could it be that the Jin soldiers lacked stamina, or that something major happened to the Jin country, so they stopped fighting and demanded a peace? There are these possibilities! Or did Jin Bing have no ambition to destroy Song at all?

"Your Highness, what's the matter with you?" Wang De turned around and saw Zhao Chen's head was covered in sweat.

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

"Malicious?" Wang De was a little confused.

"I know, Jin Bing is using warm water to boil frogs! What a good plan, what a good plan!" Zhao Chen murmured.

"Boiled frogs in warm water, what is that?" Wang De asked in surprise.

Boiling frogs in warm water was a famous experiment of scientists in the 19th century. Now it is the Song Dynasty, and there is no such thing as boiling frogs in warm water in the world.

"A frog, if you throw it into boiling water, it will try its best to jump out, maybe you can escape death! But if you throw a frog into warm water, it will die in the water. Swimming leisurely! The people below slowly raised the temperature of the water, and the frog still didn’t feel the danger coming! When the water started to boil, the frog knew something was wrong, but its body and spirit were already numb, and it couldn’t jump out anymore! This is boiling frogs in warm water!" Zhao Chen said.

"What does Your Highness mean?" Wang De asked doubtfully.

"If the Jurchen's intention of destroying 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. Do everything you can to escape! But now the Jurchens say that Negotiating peace is not about destroying the country! In fact, their peace negotiation is fake, in order to give us a glimmer of hope in Song Dynasty, and make us believe that they just want to occupy some territory or obtain some property all the way south to paralyze us! This is not just boiling frogs in warm water Is it?" Zhao Chen said.

Zhao Chen was a little horrified, he didn't expect the Jurchens to be so vicious! These Jurchens are of barbarian origin. They don't even have writing, and they don't have much civilization or culture. They have only risen for ten years, and now they have learned the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water. It is really amazing! But he didn't know that these were the strategies that Xiaoyaozi taught Wanyan Zonghan! They used the method of boiling frogs in warm water to let the Great Song Dynasty relax its vigilance and give the Great Song Dynasty hope. When the last moment came, when the Great Song Dynasty wanted to resist, it was powerless! At that time, they will be able to easily conquer Kaifeng City and complete the great cause of destroying the Song Dynasty!

That Xiaoyaozi is actually a famous figure in history, if history remains unchanged, 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, "Prince (Wushu) don't leave, the capital can be defended, and Yue Shao protects the soldiers and retreats." Well...Since ancient times, there have been no powerful ministers inside, but generals who can make contributions outside." That scholar is Xiaoyaozi! It's just that he is from the rivers and lakes, and his name is not recorded in historical materials!

At this moment Zhao Chen said these words, but Wang De who was next to him seemed to understand a little bit!

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

At that moment, Zhao Chen left here and strode towards Funing Hall! It's just that this time he was stopped before he came to Funing Hall! Funing Hall is the place where the Emperor of Song Dynasty and his courtiers discuss politics, even the crown prince needs to be notified before he can go there!

Someone went to inform Song Qinzong. In the afternoon, an eunuch came and said that Song Qinzong was dealing with state affairs and had no time to see Zhao Chen. He asked Zhao Chen to return to Jujing Garden and continue to practice martial arts with Wang De!

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

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At this moment in the Funing Palace, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan was discussing peace with Jin Bing with his ministers!

Zhao Huan's face was full of joy. For many days, he had been terrified to the extreme, and now he finally relaxed! It turns out that Jin Bing didn't want to destroy the Song Dynasty, they just wanted to gain some benefits, of course they wanted to gain a lot of benefits! Ceding Hebei and Hedong is indeed too much! In the afternoon, he summoned his ministers to discuss the matter together.

"You all talk about it, do we want to agree to Jin Bing's conditions?" Zhao Huan said.

"Your Majesty, Hebei and Hedong are the foundation of the country. They have tens of millions of people, countless cities, and heavy taxes. We must not cede Hebei and Hedong to the Jinbing!" The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his 40s. , It's just that the hair of this middle-aged man is all white! His body is slightly hunched, this person is Li Gang! Later generations called this person the head of the "Southern Song Zhongxing Famous Officials". It was this person who, together with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, turned the tide and made the Southern Song Dynasty safe! He had already been demoted to Jiangxi, but because of the invasion of the Jin soldiers, he was urgently called to Kaifeng, and now he has served as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

"If we don't cede Hebei and Hedong, how can we resist the Jin soldiers?" Zhang Bangchang stood up and said coldly! The fat all over his body was trembling, as if he was very angry!

"We can make the world serve the king, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in various places. His Royal Highness King Kang is also contacting the rebels in Hebei and Hedong to break the back of the golden soldiers! The whole world is loyal to the king, and we will definitely be able to stop the golden soldiers!" Li Gang said.

"The garrisons in various places, can they stop the golden soldiers? It's ridiculous! How powerful is the kind of teacher, how powerful is the kind of family army, they are vulnerable to the golden soldiers, can we 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 "full of righteous indignation"!

"But the price of ceding Hebei and Hedong is really too high! If Hebei and Hedong are ceded, the north of the Yellow River will no longer belong to our Great Song Dynasty! The country of our Great Song Dynasty has almost been reduced by half!" Li Gang argued.

"Cede Hebei and Hedong now, and we can take them back in the future! If we don't cede Hebei and Hedong now, the Jin soldiers will come and the country will be gone!" Zhang Bangchang said coldly.

"Okay, there's no need to discuss this matter again! Let Hebei and Hedong be ceded to the Jurchens, that's nothing!" Song Qinzong said.

Hearing Song Qinzong's words, a group of ministers below were all agreeing, only Li Gang and a few others stood aside, frowning and not speaking! It's a pity that these people are not the mainstream of the court, they can't influence Song Qinzong!

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

"It's still Zhang Aiqing who is loyal, not afraid of danger, and wants to contact the Jin people! Well, this matter is up to you! Who will be the envoy to cede the land in Hedong?" Song Qinzong said.

All the ministers discussed it, and Fan Qiong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was appointed as the envoy to cede the land in Hedong! But Fan Qiong is different from Zhang Bangchang, he is full of fear! Those Jurchen barbarians are like tigers and wolves. If they can't meet their needs, he, the envoy of land cedement, will have no good end! It's just that the emperor has ordered, and he must not disobey.

"In addition to ceding Hebei and Hedong, the Jin soldiers asked for 10 million ingots of gold, 20 million ingots of silver, and 10 million bolts of silk. 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 terms of peace included so many materials! Many ministers were secretly horrified, thinking that the Jurchens were too greedy, and the supplies they asked for were too many, it was an astronomical figure! In the Song Dynasty, one ingot was ten taels. If the materials requested by the Jurchens were exchanged for taels, it would be 100 million taels of gold, 200 million taels of silver, plus 10 million pieces of silk! The treasury revenue of the Song Dynasty was only 60 to 70 million taels of silver a year, and one tael of gold was equivalent to 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 on the throne, the treasury was always struggling to make ends meet when Song Huizong was in power. All the gold and silver saved by the previous emperors of Song Huizong had been spent. Now that Song Qinzong has only been on the throne for one year, where did he get the gold and silver? Golden soldiers?

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

"Your Majesty, Jinbing is just asking for a price!" Li Gang said.

"Oh? In your opinion, what should I do?" Song Qinzong said.

"They are asking for a lot of money, and we will pay back the money! We should also send envoys to the Jin army to bargain with them!" Li Gang said.

"Oh, who would like to join the Jin army?" Song Qinzong said.

Hearing Song Qinzong's question, the ministers below retreated to the back one after another. Everyone knew that the Jin soldiers were barbarians, and they were extremely cruel. Going to the Jin army must be dangerous, so no one was willing to go.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to go!" Li Gang said!

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

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... I will never hesitate to die! Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about the safety of my minister!" Li Gang only thought that Song Qinzong was worried about his safety, and tears filled his eyes for a moment!

"Aiqing has a straightforward personality. If she goes to the Jin army, I'm afraid it will anger the Jin army and affect the peace negotiation, which will be very bad!" Song Qinzong said slowly, and Li Gang froze there.

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

"My minister takes orders!" Li Bangyan was afraid, but he could only take orders.

"Your Majesty, Jin Bing finally agreed to negotiate a peace. Now we should not let Qin Wangjun from all over the country go to Kaifeng, so as not to anger Jin Bing! What do you think?" Zhang Bangchang said.

"Not bad!" Song Qinzong nodded.