The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Chapter 166

The shock of Cao Aoyu and Wu Shu is self-evident. They were saying bad things about others, but the person being talked about suddenly appeared, embarrassment mixed with a trace of guilt.

Cao Aoyu's first reaction was to hide. If it was a house, there must be other rooms or screens to cover it, but there is no place to hide in the tent.

There are only a few boxes for miscellaneous items, but they must be packed to the brim.

When Cao Aoyu was looking around, he heard the Song envoy outside call again, "Is His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince there?"

Wu Shu signaled Cao Aoyu not to make a sound, maybe after calling a few times but no one said anything, the other party left.

At this time, Gao Ming stood outside the felt tent with his sleeves in his hands, shouted a few times but no one answered.

Just a feeling, there must be something tricky in it.

Wu Shu is a prince after all, so he can't just wander around recklessly like ordinary Jurchens. He is not in the tent, so people have to keep people watching inside.

Even if he wasn't there, the maid who looked after the tent had to come out and respond.

There was no movement after shouting for a long time, the most likely thing is that Wushu was meeting someone, Wushu was afraid of leaking the secret, so he asked the maidservants to go out, or the maidservants were also in the tent, but Wushu didn't ask them to make a sound.

At this time, Gao Ming saw several Jurchen children playing outside not far away, and walked towards them.

Gao Ming gave candy before, and when the children saw him, they all surrounded him, stretched out their little hands, and asked for candy.

Gao Ming took out a few pieces from his sleeve, and they were all snatched up in an instant.

Did you grab any, and surrounded Gao Ming unrelentingly.

"It's gone." Gao Ming spread his hands, but said with a smile at the same time, "Brother, can you teach me how to make a snowman?"

The child's Chinese is not very good, and he doesn't understand well, so he just stands there and stares at him.

Gao Ming thought to himself, forget it, let's show you with practical actions, what is ice and snow art.

He has long wanted to try the feeling of building a snowman. He had been rushing and had no time before, and now he finally had the opportunity to extend his hand to Bai Xue...

After a quarter of an hour.

He looked at the deformed snowball in front of him, and sighed, "I never thought that making a snowman is so difficult. How did those cute snowmen on TV come into existence?!"

My own snowman made a head, and I already despise it as ugly.

At this time, a Jurchen child rolled out a snowball the size of a watermelon. Gao Ming saw it, walked over happily, picked up the snowball and piled it on top of the big snowball he had just made.

"I almost picked some stones to make eyes and noses." Gao Ming looked around, and saw that the place where the eyes could see was white, and there was no exposed land at all. Where to look for stones.

Just when Gao Ming was trying to perfect the snowman, a Jurchen child picked up the snowball on top and threw it at another child for no apparent reason, causing the other child's head and face to be covered in snow.

The other was not to be outdone, and raised a handful of snow to fight back.

The "battle" between the two quickly spread to the surroundings and turned into a "snowball fight."

Gao Ming looked at them and shook his head, not going to school and not doing homework, that's how crazy they are.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a woman coming out of Zong Bi's felt tent, looking around with her head poking around.

Then I saw Gao Ming.

They were far away from each other, Gao Ming couldn't see her expression clearly, but it must not be very good-looking, because Gao Ming saw that her body was obviously frozen in place.

Perhaps it was unexpected that after Gao Ming left, he did not go far at all, but played with the Jurchen children nearby.

She froze for a moment, then turned around and walked towards the residence.

It was the direction Gao Ming came from, that is, the New Imperial City.

Gao Ming was almost certain that this was from Xixia.

Gao Ming quickly ran a few steps, chased after the figure of the woman, and shouted: "Hey - your purse has fallen -"

This voice alarmed many people. When Gao Ming was playing with the children just now, someone was secretly watching him from the felt tent next to him. Now he yelled loudly, and the felt tents around him opened one after another, revealing a pair of eyes. The ultimate eyes.

The crowd witnessed.

Cao Aoyu originally wanted to hide her identity, but was stopped by the other party from behind with the banner of returning the object in kind.

She didn't want to care about the other party and continued to stride.

As a result, the people behind shouted even louder, "Your purse fell—"

Some of the yurts even had people coming out, so Cao Aoyu had to turn around, look at the other party with a look of doubt, and did not speak, pretending that he could not speak Chinese.

Seeing her stop, Gao Ming quickly ran up. At this moment, Wu Shu also walked out of the felt tent, standing in the snow, looking at Gao Ming with a speechless expression.

It turned out that Wu Shu had just sent Cao Aoyu to consider the other party's suggestion, when he suddenly heard Gao Ming's shout from outside, his heart skipped a beat, did this kid not leave?Hastily stepped out to see, isn't it? Gao Ming is running in the snow.

When Gao Ming brushed past Wu Shu, he just smiled meaningfully, and then continued to come to Cao Aoyu in one breath, shaking the purse in his hand, "You lost your things."

Cao Aoyu shook his head at him, expressing that it was not his own.

Gao Ming opened the purse, "Ah, there are copper coins inside, and they may belong to our people."

In fact, it is his own purse.

Cao Aoyu smiled awkwardly, turned around and continued walking, her heart beating wildly.

This person from the Song Dynasty must have discovered something strange, otherwise there is no need to stop him.

What a hassle.

At this time, the children of Wanyan's family saw a bag in Gao Ming's hand and thought it contained candy, so they all surrounded him. When they dragged the money bag to the front, they found that it contained copper plates and broken silver. A look of disappointment was revealed.

What are these white things?Can't eat at all, okay? !

After all the children had run away, Gao Ming raised his eyes and met Shang Wushu's eyes.

Wu Shu frowned, beckoned to him, and signaled him to enter the felt tent, Gao Ming quickly walked over.

As soon as he entered the yurt, Gao Ming smiled and said: "I came to visit just now, but no one responded. It happened that those children asked me for candy, so I went to play with them for a while. It turns out that the fourth prince has been in the yurt all the time." ."

Wu Shu asked Gao Ming to sit opposite him, and the two looked at each other across the low table.

Seeing that Gao Ming had already witnessed Cao Aoyu, Wu Shu couldn't hide it any more, not to mention he didn't want to hide it at first, otherwise, he wouldn't have arranged for the Song envoy to live with the people from Xixia.

Furthermore, he felt that Xixia's proposal was not worthwhile.

Swallowing the Liao Kingdom and the Song Kingdom in one go, no matter how it sounds, it is too idiotic.

But this does not mean that Xia Guo has no value.

It just so happened that Gao Ming bumped into Cao Aoyu just now, so why not act accordingly, reveal the identity of this person, come to test out Song Guo, and see what price he can get from Song Guo.

Since the State of Song can sway between the State of Jin and the State of Liao to seek benefits.

Then, the Kingdom of Jin can also profit before Xixia and Song.

Moreover, this trick was taught to them by Song Guo.

Wu Shu said with a smile: "Something happened just now, so I didn't hear your shout outside the felt tent."

Gao Ming said "I know everything", "I know, that woman walked out of your tent just now. I came at a bad time."

"Then do you know who that woman is?"

Gao Ming saw that Wu Shu had taken the initiative to mention the identity of the other party, obviously wanting to expose it, so he hesitated, and guessed: "Anyway, he is not from the Song Dynasty, nor from the Liao Kingdom. If it is a Jurchen, you don't need to ask , the answer is ready to come."

Wu Shu asked, "Who is it?"

"Visitor from the west." Gao Ming said calmly: "Actually, I saw her as soon as I lived in the New Imperial City. Her temperament is not from the Central Plains at first glance, but she should not be a woman from the Liao Kingdom. Considering the big Song Zheng used troops against Xixia every year..."

"That's right, she came to me and said that she was willing to marry Princess Xixia to our Dajin Kingdom."

Cao Aoyu only said "if", but in Wu Shu's mouth, it has become a definite marriage to the princess of Xixia.

Gao Ming curled his lips into a smile, "Are you willing to marry? Just say that she is not a princess herself?"

"Well, although I'm just an envoy just like you, but I can also convey all my words back to Xia Kingdom, which is very important." Wu Shu said: "Oh, Xia Kingdom is very sincere. Although the friendship between Song and Jin is very strong, But Xia Guo promised that he can attack Liao with us and marry the princess, even if I want to refuse this condition, I am afraid that my father, uncle, and my elder brothers will not refuse."

Wu Shu sighed, looking like he really wanted to help Song, but he was powerless.

Gao Ming saw his performance in his eyes, and couldn't help sneering in his heart, Wushu, you are a very good student, you have learned a lot from my mannerisms, not bad.

"Xi Xia wants to trick you into attacking Liao together?" Gao Ming said lightly, "Do you believe this too? The current Empress of Xi Xia Emperor Li Qianshun is Yelu Nanxian, the daughter of the Liao clan. I am afraid that Yelu Nanxian will spread the news as soon as there is such a move. Back to Liao Kingdom."

"But Li Qianshun's mother was poisoned to death by the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom had a vengeance against the emperor of the Xia Kingdom for killing his mother. Such a deep hatred, we have a basis to unite with them."

"Li Qianshun's mother was poisoned to death by the Liao State. As a result, when he was beaten by the Song State until he was unable to fight back, he rushed to become the son-in-law of the Liao State. He proposed several times to marry him, and finally the Liao State gave him a clan. Female. Just like that, he is still very happy. In my opinion, he didn't take his mother's death seriously at all. How dare you form an alliance with such a dishonest person?"

Wu Shu thought, Xia Guo seems to be unreliable.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether it is an alliance with Xia Guo, what is important is to use such a relationship to threaten Song Guo.

He said: "No matter what kind of people they are, they are willing to attack the Liao Kingdom with us. This is really important to us." He glanced at Gao Ming, "After all, you Song Kingdom is not willing to do this."

Gao Ming secretly frowned, tsk, what kind of scumbag is this?You don't want to be like me like this, that's why I look for other people's virtues like this or that.

Gao Ming raised his eyebrows, "To marry a princess, do you want to marry from the sky? The westernmost and easternmost are married, and the Liao Kingdom is in the middle."

"If you want, you can always do it." Wu Shu didn't worry about such a trivial matter at all: "Otherwise, you can wait, wait for things to attack and destroy the Liao Kingdom, and when we meet, it will be the day to marry the princess. "

Gao Ming thought in his heart, your idea is quite romantic, east and west attack, and then when they meet in the middle, a grand wedding will be held, which is not only the victory of the war, but also the wedding ceremony.

Seeing that Gao Ming was silent, Wu Shu moved his body forward, "However, since Song and Jin are friendly, our Dajin will not abandon Song. Otherwise, call the envoy of Xia to come in, and our Three Kingdoms Alliance, we will attack Liao together, when the time comes, you will take Yunzhou and we will have the grassland."

This plan is the most beneficial to Jin. Anyway, as long as Song does not use force against Jin and asks Jin to destroy Liao first, then everything will be easy to talk about, so Song is brought into the game to share with Liao.

Gao Ming narrowed his eyes, "That's not right. If we want to attack Liao, Song and Jin can do it. Why ask Xixia to join in and give it some benefits?"

"Then what you mean is that you agree with Song Jin Faliao?"

Gao Ming shook his head slowly.

Wu Shu said in a cold voice: "If you are not willing to ask you to attack Liao together, then we can only join forces with Xia Guo. You Song Guo will stand by. But Yunzhou will not give it to you."

Gao Ming's eyes darkened, "After all, we and the Liao Kingdom have been brotherly countries for a hundred years, and I don't know if our monarch will stand by and watch."

Wushu wants to vomit blood, what does that mean?Do you still want to help the Liao Kingdom?

Didn't this become Jin fighting Liao, Song fighting Jin, and Jin fighting on two fronts?

But this time with Xi Xia entering the arena, Wu Shu decided to break the situation, "If you are like this, aren't you afraid of fighting on two fronts?"

Of course Gao Ming knew that this would lead to Song fighting Jin, Xixia fighting Song, and Song fighting on the east and west fronts.

The entire battle situation will become that all countries are fighting on two fronts.

In the four countries, both hands were used at the same time, beating left and right.

Rhythm of World War.

This is the real dead end.

Wu Shu slapped the table with a solemn expression, "Song Guo is going too far. How can you come and beat us again after we have repaired with Dajin?! Gao Ming, think about it, you are now in Jin Kingdom! I don't want to change my mind. , we will become an enemy country.”

Gao Ming didn't panic at all, "How can we stand idly by?! We have never been a country of brothers with Xixia, and we have never had the friendship of sending students to each other like Song and Jin. The hatred between each other is no less serious than that between Liao and Jin. You defeated Liao, we Song Guo is not worried, because our two countries are friendly. But what about Xixia, let him go mad, and we will still have a good life in Song Dynasty?! For the safety of our Song Dynasty, Xixia must not be allowed to become stronger! This is Bottom line."

Wu Shu also said: "You..."

But was interrupted by Gao Ming, "It's your fault. Since you want friendship between Song and Jin, you shouldn't find a new love! Otherwise, you are not benevolent, and we are not righteous! Then all countries will go to war on two fronts at the same time, it depends on who Energy consumption will kill anyone."

Wu Shu gritted his teeth, far water can't save near fire, if they really fight, on the east front, they are facing Liao and Song at the same time, I'm afraid it will be over.

It is still unknown how much Song State's troops Xixia can involve. Just like what Song State said, if Xixia hadn't been beaten by Song State, would they come to Jin State for help?

At this time, Gao Ming said again, "Why do you Jurchens make wedding dresses for Dangxiang? Xixia is a country established by Li Yuanhao of Dangxiang, but they first surrendered to Song Dynasty, then rebelled against Song Dynasty, surrendered to Liao Dynasty and then rebelled against Liao Dynasty, the next step will be no accident , is surrendering the gold and then betraying the gold. The most important thing is that they are very weak. If the Liao Kingdom did not always intervene, they would have been dealt with by us. Now they can't survive, so they come all the way to the Jin Kingdom. You are life-savers.

He stretched out a hand and moved his thumb, "This finger, let's regard it as the Liao Kingdom for the time being, then this little finger is Xixia. If our four kingdoms really fight, it must be the first to be wiped out by our country and the Liao Kingdom." , after that, we will concentrate our forces..."

Hit you.

Wu Shu frowned, what Gao Ming said was true, if Xixia was not strong enough, then Liao and Song would quickly end the battle in the west, and then come together to fight against the Kingdom of Jin.

Then only Jin Guo is fighting on two fronts.

Gao Ming continued to shake his hands, "So Xixia is not worthy to be placed with the Three Kingdoms of Liao, Song and Jin. Let's not play with it, shall we?"

When the three legs stand together, the four legs are unstable.

Wu Shu pressed Gao Ming's hand, pretending to be relaxed and said with a smile: "It's useless for us to say it here, and it's up to Father and Uncle to make up their minds, and it doesn't count if I say it."

Gao Ming also took advantage of the slope to get off the donkey, and laughed, "Yes, it doesn't count if I say it. But it doesn't matter, it's good to talk about it, so as not to be taken advantage of by others."

In short, Gao Ming's conclusion is: it is absolutely uneconomical for the Kingdom of Jin to unite with the Kingdom of Xia, and it is not recommended to play with fire.

At this moment, I heard Hua Rong's voice from outside the tent, "Is His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince there?"

Gao Ming got up and said: "It's Huarong. Just in time, it's getting late, I should go back to rest, and I have to celebrate my birthday tomorrow." Wu Shu also got up to send Gao Ming off, and came to the tent door, Wu Shu pretended to be Inadvertently said: "You and Daliao have indeed had a friendship of hundreds of years, which we Dajin really can't match. But we want to catch up with Liao in terms of friendship."

Gao Ming looked at Wu Shu with a smile, what do you want to say?don't tell me you want to...

"Why don't the Song and Jin countries form a marriage relationship?" Wu Shu said.

Because Wu Shu said that Xixia was going to marry the princess just now and was mentally prepared, so Gao Ming guessed it.

He thought to himself, what are you dreaming about? The Liao Kingdom and the Song Kingdom have not been married for so many years, and the Dajin Kingdom has only emerged for a few years, so it is even more impossible.

In fact, for the Liao Kingdom, there was a marriage negotiation in the Renzong Dynasty, but in the end it failed because of the mentality of both parties and other factors.

Because the two had already walked outside the tent, Hua Rong heard Wu Shu's words verbatim.

Huarong looked at Wushu, and three words popped out of his mind, impossible.

"Yi Xia Great Defense", it is absolutely impossible to marry the princess to such a primitive and backward place.

Gao Ming raised his eyebrows, "How to get married?"

Wu's tone was very polite, "Naturally, we are asking for Princess Song."

Later, the Jin Dynasty did have a family marriage system, which stipulated that concubines could only be born from the Jurchen surnames, but that was a strategy to consolidate the regime after conquering a piece of the world.

But now they are not so picky. If they can marry a princess from the Song Kingdom, they will definitely take advantage of it.

Needless to say, the materials for dowry, and the relationship between Song and Jin is also more stable.

Gao Ming told the truth, "We don't have the tradition of marrying princesses abroad. We haven't had one since the founding of the country. The ancestral system is hard to violate. I'm afraid even if the emperor allows it, the civil and military officials will not. It is almost impossible to achieve."

Wu Shu's face was ugly.

Gao Ming shrugged and said helplessly, "I'm also a real person, so I can't lie."

There is no hope for begging for the princess.

Other things can be fooled, but this is not enough.

Wu Shu said with a sullen face, "I thought you would at least think about it. Song Guo married a princess, and the relationship between Song and Jin would be more stable, so there would be no other people involved."

Gao Ming sighed bitterly, "Ministers and people will not agree, really. There is no such tradition."

"Forget it!" Wu Shu said seriously.

Gao Ming bid farewell and left. After walking a few steps, his feet slipped. Fortunately, Hua Rong helped him to be all right.

Wu Shu looked at the backs of the two, lowered the curtain and walked back.

After thinking for a while, he went to see his father and uncle, and conveyed all the words he had just said to Cao Aoyu and Gao Ming.

So, although there was no kang, all members of Wanyan's family got together again to discuss the next step.

Wanyan Zongwang took the lead and said: "If you have to choose between Xia and Song, of course you should choose Song. Xia is too far away from us, has no money, and the population is not large. As for the iron cavalry, they have it. Don't we Jurchens?" Don't you?!" Looking at Wushu, "Don't be thoughtless, you were deceived by them."

Wu Shu discovered that since he brought Zong Juan back, as Zong Juan's biological brother, Zong Wang has been targeting him from time to time.

Although he didn't make any big moves, the way and tone of his speech made people uncomfortable.

"I didn't promise anything, it's just a routine." Wu Shu said.

Zong Wang smiled lightly and said, "Marrying a princess is also a cliché? You want to marry a wife yourself, right?!"

The others didn't think Zongwang was being sarcastic, so they all laughed, "Wu Shu wants a woman."

"..." Wu Shu argued for himself: "It's not for myself, but to strengthen the Jin-Song alliance. But that Gao Ming didn't leave any room for it, and told me clearly that I couldn't do it. I really can't understand their thinking."

"Forget it, when our Kingdom of Jin becomes stronger, we are not afraid that the Kingdom of Song will not get married." Aguda said: "Zong Wang is right, between Song and Xia, you cannot choose the Kingdom of Xia. Let them go."

Wu Shu frowned, "I always feel that we shouldn't give up Xia Guo's pawn so easily. But if we attack Liao with Xia Guo, Song Guo won't sit idly by, it's difficult."

Wanyan Sheng said: "Is it possible to ask Song Guo to watch from the sidelines when Xia Guo and Jin Guo attacked Liao? They don't want to join, so it's okay to watch the battle from the sidelines, right?"

Wu Shu shook his head, "Gao Ming's tone is very firm, this person is very difficult, his opinion is very important, if he says no, I'm afraid this matter will not be done."

All the people present were silent, they believed that Song Jin's current situation was basically facilitated by Gao Ming, without him, the current situation would definitely be different.

A Guda sighed, "Unfortunately, he is not from our side."

Wu Shu hurriedly said: "I once expressed such a sigh to him, hoping to bring him back to the Kingdom of Jin, but he also flatly refused, saying that his integrity would not allow it."

Wanyan Sheng broke the silence, "Song Kingdom refuses to marry the princess to us, so how about we marry a princess to their county king? Didn't Wu Shu say that Gao Ming has no family members in Song Kingdom."

It's only natural for a man and a woman to marry.

If you can't be the son-in-law of the Song State, let the people of the Song State be the son-in-law of Da Jin.

He became the door-to-door son-in-law in the Kingdom of Jin, and the Kingdom of Song would not go to war against the Kingdom of Jin just because of the marriage of a courtier.

Furthermore, it would be even better if Song Guo didn't want to see Gao Ming because of this, he could only throw himself into Jin Guo's arms.

Since there is no way to give Gao Ming better treatment than in Song State, it can only make his treatment in Song State worse.

Princess Dajin has abundant reserves, besides Aguda's daughter, there are also quite a few Wanyan Sheng's daughters.

Ask Gao Ming to get married immediately.

There are only a few people in the Song Dynasty mission, only Hua Rong is powerful, but their Wanyan family has a group of generals, and I don't believe they can't subdue him.

The scene of Hua Rong shooting the vultures appeared in Aguda's mind, and he admired him very much, "Or let him have a family, just like Gao Ming, and he will be used by us."

In the early days of conquering the world, the more talents the better.