Xianxia version of Water Margin

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When it comes to negotiations, the younger members of the two families have always negotiated it first. After the elders of the two families have seen it and feel that there is no problem, the elder will come out to go through the motions, make a deal, and finalize the matter.

This was the case in Shuibo Liangshan before. Jiang Hongfei just had a meal with Cai You, and the person who actually negotiated with Cai You was Chai Jin.

This time, Cai You thought it would be the same.

Cai You even wondered if he could discuss it with Jiang Hongfei and negotiate with him with someone else? He really couldn't stand Chai Jin, and he even felt that Chai Jin was suspected of avenging public revenge.

Now that Jiang Hongfei wanted to talk to him in person, Cai You couldn't help but be overjoyed!

——In Cai You's view, anyone who is a boss like Jiang Hongfei will never care about anything. In this way, the peace talks will be much easier to negotiate.

Moreover, although Zhao Ji once said in panic that "If it doesn't work out, I will appoint Jiang Yan as the military envoy of Liangshan Army, grant him the title of King of Qi, cede Shandong and Hebei to Jiang Yan, and let Jiang Yan guard it for generations." But such conditions are obviously inappropriate.

First of all, the word "appointment" is very problematic. Appointment represents the superior and inferior relationship between the monarch and his ministers. Will Jiang Hongfei, a rebellious traitor who dares to rebel, recognize this relationship?

Also, what Chai Jin said was that Jiang Hongfei was preparing to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. In other words, Jiang Hongfei's ambition was not just to be crowned king, but to proclaim himself emperor. This was the focus of Cai You's negotiation. Let's put it this way, no matter what , Cai You cannot let Jiang Hongfei ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, otherwise, the relationship between the two parties will not ease.

In addition, each of the 50 million yuan and the three emperor concubines that Jiang Hongfei asked for seemed to be inserted into the lungs of Zhao Ji and his ministers, making it difficult for them to agree. These are the directions Cai You wants to strive for.

In short, from Cai You's point of view, he had a lot to discuss with Jiang Hongfei, and it would be best if he could discuss it directly with Jiang Hongfei.

Therefore, seeing that Jiang Hongfei seemed to want to talk to him in person, Cai You quickly tried and said: "What my Majesty and the other ministers want to say is that if the land occupied by the village owner is used as the boundary, the village owner can guard it for generations. The imperial court appointed the leader of the village as the military envoy of Liangshan Army and granted him the title of Duke of Qi... Of course, these conditions are negotiable."

After saying that, Cai You's heart immediately rose to his throat, fearing that Jiang Hongfei would be unhappy and have him dragged out and chopped.

Before Jiang Hongfei could speak to the Liangshan heroes, Cai You, who really couldn't withstand such huge pressure, quickly complained:

"This is the idea Wang Fu and Zheng Juzhong gave my Majesty!

Of course, my family does have difficulties. My family really cannot agree to the idea of ​​the village leader proclaiming himself emperor. If the leader of the village forcibly proclaims himself emperor, no matter how unwilling my family is, we will have no choice but to continue fighting with the leader. Otherwise, His Majesty will really not be able to explain to his subjects.

Also, my family really can’t afford the 50 million yuan. Let’s see if I can reduce it a little. I also know that my family is currently fighting wars everywhere, which costs a lot of money. As a result, we are unable to collect finances, and the national treasury is empty. .

In addition, there are too many three imperial concubines. In all the marriages throughout the ages, how could a marriage involving three princesses be replaced by one imperial concubine, two clan concubines, and a hundred beauties? Would that work? "

Now that everything has been said here, Cai You can only bite the bullet and continue: "I really dare not hide it from the leader of the village. At present, there are people in China and Africa who advocate peace, and there are also people who are not angry about the loss of their territory and advocate a bloody battle to the end. If the leader of the village wants to fight, In a moment of anger, you can ask for a price, or you don't have to sign a peace treaty. If your majesty cannot explain to your subjects, my family will have no choice but to fight to the death with your family with all the strength of the country. I am afraid that by then, the Dangxiang, Khitan, Jurchen, and Tatar Tartar and other barbarians went south to herd horses in large numbers, re-enacting the tragedy of the Wuhu Chaos in China. When they died, the leader of the village became a national sinner."

Chai Jin, who was on the side, heard this and said angrily: "Why, your family doesn't want to give anything, but you still want to negotiate? You also want to threaten my brother with Hulu invasion. Do you think my family will be afraid of such a thing?"

Cai You hurriedly explained: "I didn't say anything, I won't give you anything. We're discussing. I'm not threatening your family. I'm just stating an objective fact. Well...this is actually the case with Wang Fu and Zheng Juzhong." Taught me what to say.”

Chai Jin said sharply: "Discussion, does your family have such a discussion? Facts? What facts?!"

Then, Chai Jin turned to Jiang Hongfei and said: "Brother, I don't think his family is sincere in negotiating peace! He doesn't want to be emperor, and he doesn't even want to be a king, so he is bullying my family with the power of a corrupt king. Tian Hu, Wang Qingdu has become the king, but Fang La is still a Holy Duke. If my brother can only be a Duke, how can he make friends in the world laugh at him? My family wants 50 million coins, but his family doesn’t want to give 10,000 coins! Also, what about the dozens of Zhao Ji? Daughters, none of the three are willing to give to my brother! Just send troops! As for the Hulu invasion of the Central Plains, even if that day comes, Zhao and Song will be incompetent, so what does it have to do with my water in Liangshan?"

Li Kui yelled from the side: "My brother can just ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. No peace can be negotiated with them. When the emperor died, all the military advisers were prime ministers, and Taoist Gongsun and Taoist Chen were the national advisers. We all became generals. Kill Tokyo and seize it." I'm happy there, but it's not good! It's not as good as this bird's nest!"

With Chai Jin and Li Kui taking the lead, all the leaders were howling and clamoring to follow the Song army, attack Bianliang City in Tokyo, and seize Zhao Ji's throne.

Seeing this scene, Cai You was so scared that he was sweating profusely. He felt like he had stabbed a hornet's nest: "This is bad. After I go back, even if the officials love me, I'm afraid I will be doomed!"

At this time, Li Kui suggested: "In my opinion, Tieniu, why not cut down the sacrificial flags of these Song envoys and send troops directly!"

When Cai You heard that he was going to kill him, he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants.

Fortunately, Jiang Hongfei shouted: "Nonsense, Cai Shaobao is my uncle, who dares to touch him?"

As soon as Jiang Hongfei said this, Li Kui immediately retracted his big head.

Then, Jiang Hongfei said calmly: "Let's all go down. I have my own thoughts on this matter."

After hearing this, everyone went down. Only Jiang Hongfei, Chai Jin and Li Ying were left in the Juyi Hall.

At this time, Jiang Hongfei said something that Cai You never expected and made Cai You overjoyed.

"It was not me, Shuibo Liangshan, who proposed the peace negotiation, nor was it me who begged Zhao Ji. It was your family who took the initiative. But Zhao Ji sent someone to slight me, which made me very angry, so I acquiesced to Li Kui's execution. The two envoys are preparing to send troops to Tokyo."

"To be fair to Shaobao, Zhao Ji sent Shaobao here this time. If he sends someone else to negotiate peace, I will kill him directly."

"Since we established the stronghold in Shuibo Liangshan, we have been invincible in every attack. Today's territory was conquered by me and my brothers with both hands, so we are not afraid of anyone. Your family wants to restrict Shuibo Liangshan through negotiation. No way."

"Even if Wu Huan's chaos in China happens again, it is still the result of Zhao Ji's stupidity and the corruption and incompetence of Zhao Song officials. What does it have to do with me, Shuibo Liangshan? You don't need to kidnap me morally about this matter, it is useless to me."

At this point, Jiang Hongfei changed his tone and said: "But there are some people in the Qin family that I want. Well... In this way, I don't need to ascend the throne and call myself emperor, or even king, but Zhao Ding, Li Guang, Chen Kangbo, Zhan Du, Wang Zhen, Liu Qi, Wen Huanzhang, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, Li Xiaozhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong. Your family wants to give me five of them, including them. Also, didn't you say that your family has no money? Give me one of the fourteen of them and his family, and I will give your family 10 million. By the way, you don't mind the three emperors. At most, if you give me one of the fourteen of them and his family, I can become an emperor."

Although it is a bit hypocritical to mention "build the wall high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly" now, and it has little meaning, but then again, Jiang Hongfei definitely doesn't want to be the first to fight for Fang La, Tian Hu and Wang Qing. thunder.

Besides, now that Jiang Hongfei has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the Zhao and Song Dynasty will definitely focus on Jiang Hongfei, which will definitely do more harm than good.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei doesn't want to be the emperor at all. Jiang Hongfei is not even in a hurry to be the king now.

As for the fifty million coins and the three emperor concubines, when Jiang Hongfei and others designed them, they were designed to bargain for the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

To be honest, Jiang Hongfei knew that the Zhao Song Dynasty had no money now.

Hmm... That's actually not right. It should be said that the Zhao and Song Dynasties had no money, but the Zhao and Song Dynasty still had money.

Not to mention anything else, just building a Tokyo Bianliang City and producing several billion coins is definitely not a problem.

This is based on facts.

During the Jingkang Disgrace, the Jin people captured the outer city of Bianliang City in Tokyo, and Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan became the turtles in the urn.

The timid and cowardly Zhao Huan could only go to the Jin camp to beg for peace in person according to the Jin people's request.

The golden man took advantage of the opportunity and the lion opened his mouth to extort war compensation, 10 million gold ingots, 20 million silver ingots, 10 million pieces of silk, and 1,500 maidens.

One ingot is fifty taels.

Rough calculation: one tael of gold is equal to ten min, and one tael of silver is equal to one min.

This means that Qian Jinren and the Zhao and Song dynasties alone extorted 6 billion yuan, not counting the 10 million pieces of silk and 1,500 girls.

After Zhao Huan returned to the city, he immediately ordered the entire city to search for young women and offer them to them. He also searched the entire Tokyo Bianliang City, even his own ancestral temple, to raise gold and silver for the Jin people.

But even though the Zhao and Song government headed by Zhao Huan had frantically dedicated all the wealth accumulated by the Zhao and Song dynasty for countless generations over the past two hundred years to the Jin people, it still could not meet the Jin people's blackmail.

The Zhao and Song dynasties could only continue to use women to pay their debts, and they used women from the royal family and clan to pay their debts.

The emperor's concubine and the princess are worth one thousand gold ingots each. Zong Ji is worth 500 gold coins per person. Clan Ji is worth two hundred gold coins per person. The wife of the clan paid five hundred ingots of silver each. The women of the tribe paid two hundred ingots of silver each. A noble relative's daughter is worth one hundred silver coins each.

In the end, the Zhao and Song Dynasties handed over:

There are eighty-three concubines, twenty-four princesses, and twenty-two emperors and princesses. Among them, the emperor's concubine has doubled the money, totaling 134,000 gold ingots;

There are ninety-eight concubines, twenty-eight concubines, fifty-two concubines, seventy-eight concubines, and one hundred and ninety-five close concubines, totaling 225,500 gold. ingot;

There are one thousand, two hundred and forty-one clan girls, a total of two hundred and forty-eight thousand, two hundred gold ingots;

There were 479 maids, 604 maids, and 2,091 wives, equivalent to 1,587,000 ingots of silver;

There are 2,007 clan wives and 1,314 singing girls, equivalent to 664,200 ingots of silver;

There were 3,319 noble relatives, official and civilian women, equivalent to 331,900 ingots of silver.

The above-mentioned women totaled 11,635, which is equivalent to 607,700 gold ingots and 2,583,100 silver ingots.

In addition to the amount of gold and silver paid and the payment of more than 10,000 women and other things, the Zhao and Song Dynasty still owed the Jin people 342,780 gold and 871,300 silver. Ding, the Zhao and Song dynasties promised to pay tribute every year and come to the court every year to make up for the war indemnity.

However, even if the Zhao and Song dynasties fully accepted all the extortion of the Jin people and paid such a disgraceful heavy price, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Empress Dowager Zheng, Empress Zhu, Zhao Ji's concubines and children, Zhao Huan's concubines and children, and Zhao Most of the clansmen were still kidnapped by the Jin people and taken to the far north, unable to set foot on their hometown again until their death.

This is the shame of Jingkang.

Putting aside the shame involved, the Jinren's sky-high price extortion, although a Tokyo-Bianliang city did not collect all the money, it still managed to collect it.

This shows how rich the capital of the Zhao and Song Dynasties was.

But then again, the Zhao and Song dynasties were rich, Tokyo Bianliang City was rich, the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry families of the Zhao and Song dynasties were rich, and even Zhao Ji was rich personally, but the Zhao and Song court really had no money. .

As far as Jiang Hongfei knew, the free money Wang Fu had earned from setting up Jingfufang had now been spent to the tune of seventy-seven or eighty percent.

In this case, if Jiang Hongfei forced Zhao Ji and his ministers to pay him war compensation, Zhao Ji would definitely not take the money out of his own pocket, and the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry of the Zhao and Song Dynasties would definitely not This money will not be spent outside, and most of this money will have to be distributed on the heads of ordinary people in the end.

At that time, Zhao Ji and his ministers will most likely turn the tables and put all the blame on Jiang Hongfei, making the people of the Zhao and Song Dynasties hate Jiang Hongfei.

Jiang Hongfei is not short of money now, so there is no need to do such a thing to ruin his reputation.

The key is, in Jiang Hongfei's view, nothing is as important as talent.

Jiang Hongfei poached the chief officers of the five major defense wars during the Song Dynasty, the four ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, the four generals of Zhongxing, the seven kings of the Southern Song Dynasty, and other major officials and generals who helped the Zhao and Song dynasties come back to life, to reserve talents for himself, and to bring Zhao to the throne. The foundations of the Song Dynasty were completely destroyed. As one goes and the other goes up, the country and country of the Zhao and Song Dynasties will be their own sooner or later.

As for the three empresses?

Good is good.

Jiang Hongfei wanted it too.

However, Jiang Hongfei would not be in a hurry, let alone give up the entire forest because of three trees.

In fact, to be honest, what Jiang Hongfei really cares about is that the snipe and the clam fight so that the fisherman can benefit.

In other words, Jiang Hongfei didn't want to be like Li Zicheng. He managed to overthrow the Ming Dynasty with great difficulty, but in the end, he was able to establish slaves at an advantage, allowing Han Chinese to grow braids for two hundred years, making the whole world laugh.

Let's put it this way, although Jiang Hongfei has no bottom line and is selfish, there is one thing Jiang Hongfei will never do, and that is to be a traitor.

good.

Jiang Hongfei hated the Zhao and Song Dynasty, to the point where he wanted to overthrow it with his own hands.

But compared with the Zhao and Song Dynasties, Jiang Hongfei could not accept being ruled by foreigners.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei will never take Shi Jingtang's position and allow foreigners to take advantage. Jiang Hongfei will still stick to the basic principle of rotten meat in the pot.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Hongfei thought of recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun first, keeping the fierce and greedy Jin people out of the pass, and then slowly competed with the Zhao and Song Dynasties in the Central Plains.

Hearing the conditions proposed by Jiang Hongfei, Cai You couldn't believe his own ears: "Did I hear correctly? I'm going to make a great contribution?!!!"

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