The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

As the culture with the strongest assimilation power, Gao Ming believes that as long as the Jurchens come, it will be difficult to avoid falling.

However, after Jurchen moved to the Central Plains, he would have this fate sooner or later, he just advanced the process.

The Kingdom of Jin fought against the Southern Song Dynasty from the north to the south. After there was no war, the men of the Kingdom of Jin lived a life of drunkenness, pleasure and drunkenness.

So after a few hundred years, Huang Taiji of Houjin learned the lessons of his predecessors and resolutely resisted the Chinese language. Among them, Kangxi and Qianlong were particularly radical, and the guards could not even speak Chinese. home boy.

To put it bluntly, Han culture is still more competitive than Jurchen, can express more content, and live a more refined life. Who doesn't like it?

Even the Jews who have no homeland and have been displaced for thousands of years have been to China. They have stayed in Europe for the past year and still retain their national characteristics. Can they still be seen from the land of China today?

Gao Ming looked at Wushu with a vague smile on the corner of his mouth, "What do you think? Is it okay?"

Wu Shu really felt that he had taken advantage of it, "If this is the case, aren't you at a disadvantage?"

"In order to correct your views on us, there is no way to suffer a little bit. Why did Ma Zhi send you a lot of wrong information." Gao Ming sighed, "Of course, if you don't want to, then forget it."

"Hey, that's what I said. It would be great if we can ask our people to live in Song State for a while." Let's say that there are 150 million people in the capital, and let's see what it looks like, especially some of the ways of doing things in Song State. There's no harm in finding out.

"I just like to work with smart people." Gao Ming pretended to be embarrassed, "It's just that we talked so well, can the master agree?"

"Yes. The host is also a smart person. What reciprocity are you talking about? He will definitely support it."

Gao Ming also thinks this is the case, Wushu is the one with more minds among them, and he agrees with it, and the others will not find any mistakes.

The point is that this is the first time in history that the Jurchens have no experience in facing an invisible and intangible monster called Sinicization.Of course, even if he fell into a ditch once and stayed in the Central Plains for the second time, the Qing Dynasty, which was all guarded against, still fell into the pit.

There are various ways to resist the invasion of weapons, but there is no good way to resist the invasion of culture, even in later generations, let alone now.

Gao Ming said happily: "If the Lord Lang supports it, that would be great. As for the country of Song, it's up to me, and I will definitely be able to convince our emperor His Majesty."

As far as Zhao Ji's soft ears are concerned, listening to the wind is the wind, listening to the rain is the rain, and he will not refuse to buy a horse from the Jurchens. As for the Jurchens coming to Tokyo, it is not a big hindrance to him, after all The Liao Kingdom also had ambassadors in the Song Dynasty, and the capital city of 150 million people still couldn't make room for a few Jurchens to live.

Wu Shu believes in Gao Ming's ability, and believes that he can accomplish this matter, "Come, drink this glass of wine to celebrate!"

Gao Ming didn't raise his glass, but suddenly remembered something, and said worriedly: "Don't mind if I say something harsh. Just in case, after a hundred years of the Lord, will the exchanges between our two countries be interrupted?"

"A hundred years later? You think very far."

"No, no, it's after the Lord has lived to be a hundred years old."

Wu Shu looked at Gao Ming in bewilderment, his father would definitely not live to be a hundred years old, wouldn't he be dead if he lived a hundred years old? Thinking of this, he suddenly figured it out, Gao Ming was indeed talking about his father's death.

Really, so beating around the bush, wouldn't it be fine to just say no?

"Ah, my father is dead, and there is my uncle Wu Qimai, who is just like my father, a very wise man."

Wu Qimai is Wanyan Sheng, and the Jurchens are brothers and sisters. The elder brother Aguda passed away, and Wanyan Sheng, who was in his prime, took the throne.

Gao Ming pretended to be surprised and said: "Will he inherit the position of Lord Lang?"

Wu Shu nodded, "Yes." In his opinion, uncle is the most suitable candidate no matter in terms of prestige or ability.

Gao Ming looked at Wu Shu and grinned, his eyes showed worry, "Really? If this is the case, it seems familiar. This scene is a bit familiar."

Wu Shu looked at him, "Familiar?"

"I said before that you can learn from history to know the ups and downs, that is to say, there is nothing new under the sun, and what is happening now can find its corresponding in history."

Wushu is not very understandable, because Jurchen has no written language, and it is passed on by word of mouth. It is not clear what happened a few generations ago, leaving only a bunch of very mysterious legends, and it is impossible to find the corresponding events from history.

"Fourth prince, you have been kind to me for saving my life, so I will make an exception and tell you something. Don't blame me, I am really kind." Gao Ming said: "Since ancient times, the Central Plains has been followed by father after death, so there are often young The emperor ascended the throne, which led to the instability of the country. The so-called lack of confidence in the country. Since the beginning of our country, it was because the emperor of the Zhou Kingdom was really young. As a general, the founding emperor of our dynasty was elected by the soldiers below to become the emperor. .We call it Taizu."

Chen Qiao's mutiny, the addition of the yellow robe, the drama of being forced to be the emperor, sounds like Zhao Kuangyin is quite the white lotus, whoever believes it, Gao Ming doesn't believe it anyway.

This kind of drama of bullying the country's orphans and widowed mothers and the emperor's young age has always been criticized by others. Even the Song Dynasty thought this was a dark history of the ancestors, but Wu Shu heard it, but said: "The emperor is too young to rule. One's own country should be ruled by those who can rule."

Gao Ming looked at Wu Shu with a smile, your idea is really in line with your later idea of ​​"property and women that Song people can't protect should be kept by Jin people".

"Yeah, it's nothing at all, and then our founding emperor's mother saw this shortcoming, and was afraid that our Song Kingdom would also fall into the predicament of the young emperor's rule in the future, so she changed the previous father and son, and established a brother-in-law and brother-in-law. The rule. That is, if Taizu dies, his younger brother will take over the throne, and we call him Taizong. One day, strangely, after Taizong met Taizu, our Kai Taizu died. Then , according to the previous rules, Taizong ascended the throne, and he is the ancestor of our current emperor."

Wu Shu couldn't help frowning.

"Your Highness is as smart as the fourth prince, you have already discovered, why is the current emperor a descendant of Taizong, so what about Taizu's son?" Gao Ming said slowly: "After Taizong ascended the throne, Taizu's two sons, one Forced to commit suicide, a year later, he died inexplicably, and the cause of death is unknown. In fact, Taizu and Taizong had a younger brother. It stands to reason that when Taizong died, it was the prince who came to the throne, but he didn't, because he was also very He died strangely. So when Taizong died, he passed the throne to his own son. What kind of brother died and never happened again, it was the father who died and the son succeeded. However, there are exceptions, and the elder brother died , if there is no child, then the younger brother can inherit, and the rest will be inherited by the father's death."

As for what happened to Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi, and how Zhao Kuangyi's two sons died, Gao Ming is not a detective, he just wants to tell Wushu about this situation, and he can use his own imagination to make the most of the rest. .

Wu Shu is not a fool, on the contrary, he has a lot of thoughts, so it is difficult for him not to take the right position and put it on himself. The situation of the founding of the Song Kingdom is exactly the same as that of their Jin Kingdom. The elder brother is the emperor, and the younger brother ascends the throne, but what about after that?

Of course Wu Shu couldn't admit it, and said lightly: "Are you trying to say that we will also have such a situation? Haha, no, we Jurchens have always been of one mind."

Gao Ming laughed in his heart. Later, your power struggle in the Kingdom of Jin was more ferocious than that of the Central Plains, so people's heads flew around, but he said: "I hope, after all, I don't want your Highness, Fourth Prince, to have something to do with you. Our Taizu's The Fourth Prince, Zhao Defang, has a virtuous name, after his inexplicable death, many people miss him, but what's the use of that. Sigh."

"Then, do your great ancestors still have descendants?"

Gao Ming said: "Yes, the crown prince's sons had sons when they died. It's a pity that they have long since become civilians. After all, every generation of emperors since Taizong has been Taizong's descendants." Speaking of this, he looked at Wu with a bitter face. "You won't blame me for suspecting you and get angry, right? I really kindly remind you."

Wu Shu heard it in his ears and remembered it in his heart. He didn't believe that his uncle would do something like Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, but as Gao Ming said, there is nothing new under the sun, "I know your intentions are good, why would you be angry? Don't worry, I will live for a long time, and will always contribute to the friendship between Song and Jin."

Gao Ming smiled and nodded, "You and I are really the ministers of the Song and Jin Dynasties. Ah, no, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is not a minister, but a prince. Unlike me, my surname is Gao, and I will always work for the old Zhao family. You can't contaminate the throne, but you are different."

Jurchen is now marching abroad, focusing on resisting and attacking the Liao Kingdom, and focusing on foreign affairs, and the internal conflicts have not yet reached the point of intensification.

However, after Wushu raised some points from Gao Ming, the seeds of wariness and suspicion had already been planted in his heart.

Wu Shu is also not polite, "All of us brothers can inherit the position of Lord Lang, it depends on who is older. Our ancestors have come here for generations."

"That's really great. The Kingdom of Jin is stable, and our friendship between Song and Jin has a long history." Gao Ming laughed.

Wu Shu said: "We're almost done with the discussion, I'll talk to the landlord as soon as I have time."

"En!" Gao Ming smiled and nodded heavily, "waiting for good news from His Highness."

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Gao Ming returned to the residence with a smile, and was hugged by Hua Rong when he entered the door, "If you don't come back, I'm going to court Wanyan Zongbi to ask for someone."

Gao Ming put his arms around Hua Rong's neck, "Guess what I was talking about with Wu Shu?"

How could Huarong guess that he put Gao Ming on the kang, hugged him, and pretended to listen attentively, "You can talk now."

Gao Ming said all the conditions that he had agreed with Wu Shu, Hua Rong said: "But we are doing business with the Kingdom of Jin, because we are afraid that the Kingdom of Liao will not be satisfied."

"Can you blame us? The Liao Kingdom didn't sell us horses. When they saw Yelu Dashi, they directly proposed that if the Liao Kingdom sold us horses, we would not do business with the Kingdom of Jin."

The Liao Kingdom did not allow horses to be exported. It was okay before, with one eye open and one eye closed, but since the start of the war against Jin, both eyes have been opened.

Hua Rong pinched Gao Ming's cheek, "You're not just interested in Jurchen's horses, are you?"

This point is right, to trade with each other and promote exchanges, stylish goods must be brought in, and invisible ideology must also be brought in. Even if the people of Song State are not asked to go deep into the Jurchens, the merchants of Song State will be enough for them to drink a pot.

"Well, they are good at war, but we must be good at culture." Gao Ming said with a smile: "In short, the more contacts between the two countries, the better for us. And now it's tea and wine. After a while, The pots and pans are all sold to them."

"Would it be a little dangerous for you to ask Jurchen to send people to the Song Dynasty? There must be princes among them, and I don't think they are as good as the Central Plains people, but they have a strong learning ability."

The bad thing is the strong learning ability, "That's not good, give them the etiquette of the Song Dynasty, and let them become a state of etiquette."

One of the etiquette is the order of dignity and inferiority. The concept of superiority and inferiority is introduced. The master is high above, and if he says a wrong sentence below, he will be punished. Can they still be of one heart and one mind like this?

Hua Rong thought for a while, "I hope. After all, they are really scary now. If the Jurchens defeat the Liao Kingdom, they will go south..."

Gao Ming said, "That day won't happen."

Hua Rong also had firm eyes, "Well, no."

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Wu Shu was very efficient. On the day he finished talking with Gao Ming, he went to see his father Aguda and told Gao Ming's proposal.

He didn't dare to drink all the wine Gao Ming gave him, and left a few sips for his father. Aguda took a sip and was also very satisfied, "If you have this kind of wine, you can go further in hunting in winter. It's a good idea. thing."

He also agreed to exchange horses for wine and tea.

It's just that he didn't win Song Guo to destroy Liao together. However, although Aguda's idea of ​​attacking Liao with Song and Jin was a bit short, Gao Ming promised that he would not join Liao to destroy Jin. He was somewhat comforted.

And when he heard that the children of the Kingdom of Jin could be sent to study in the Kingdom of Song, Aguda suddenly became interested.

He himself admired Sinology very much, otherwise he would not have given his sons Chinese names.

He knows that the Jurchen language has flaws and is not as expressive as the Chinese language, so he has been actively learning. However, what he wants most is to create Jurchen's own characters. For example, the Khitan language borrows Chinese characters. Aguda thinks that following Khitan, By referring to Chinese characters, you can also create your own characters. Wanyan Xiyin's Chinese is considered the best. If you send him to the Chinese region, after returning, he will most likely be able to create the characters they want.

At this time, Aguda had already begun to think about the list of personnel sent to the Central Plains in his mind.

Wanyan Xiyin will definitely go, and his sons will definitely be included in the rest of the list.

Wu Shu said: "I think Alu should be added here." Alu is Zong Qiang, his younger brother of the same father and mother. Although other people have very good relationships, there is no brother who is reliable.

A Guda's older sons had to stay to fight, and Alu was only a teenager, so it was a suitable arrangement to go to the Song Kingdom to learn how the people of the Song Kingdom managed the capital, "Well, yes."

However, Aguda was a little worried about whether things would go smoothly. After all, Gao Ming was just a minister and not a prince, so he called him and Hua Rong in the evening, and sat down on the kang with the Wanyan family to discuss military affairs.

Aguda said worriedly: "These conditions you agreed to, go back to your capital and tell the emperor, won't something go wrong?"

Gao Ming said confidently: "My Lord, please believe me. Our Gao family father and son are important ministers of the emperor. The emperor will carefully consider our words. Besides, such a move can deepen the understanding between the two countries and promote exchanges. Our wise and mighty Emperor His Majesty will definitely adopt it."

Wu Shu said: "You have to go to Liao first, and then go back to Song, this torment will take a lot of time."

Why do you sound like you can't wait to send someone to the Song Dynasty? Gao Ming immediately promised, "Soon, I will be able to return to the Song Dynasty within two months, and I will immediately persuade our emperor to send people across the sea to the Jin Dynasty. country. Of course, during this period, it would be convenient if you set up a government office dedicated to trade. It doesn’t matter if you don’t set it up, just take your time.”

Wanyan Sheng said: "Then it all depends on Gao Zhengshi."

Gao Ming straightened his back, "Don't worry, it's all on me."

At this time, the tiger skin was ready, and Aguda handed it to Gao Ming himself. Gao Ming stroked the fur of the tiger skin.

If you don’t know how to express it, then stop talking and sing it instead, so everyone sang "The Brave Jurchen" in unison. In the cheerful singing and the lyrics in Liao Jinyou's mind, it ended satisfactorily This meeting.

Gao Ming put away the tiger skin, and went back to the residence with Hua Rong. After entering the door, he spread the tiger skin on the kang. It fits better."

"Now is also very suitable." Hua Rong sat aside and looked at him with a smile.

"You sit up too."

Hua Rong was not interested, just smiled and shook his head, but at this moment Gao Ming said: "You are my Majesty's Mrs. Yazhai, come here quickly!"

Hua Rong frowned upon hearing this, and said with a snort, "Who do you think is Mrs. Yazhai, huh?" He got up and rushed towards Gao Ming.

Gao Ming dodged, but he was held down by Hua Rong condescendingly just as he climbed out of his position, "Say, who am I?"

Gao Ming kept laughing, but if he didn't say anything, Hua Rong scratched his armpit, "Say it quickly."

Gao Ming pushed Hua Rong's hand, hiding with a smile, "Stop it, don't mess around." Seeing that it was of no avail, he could only surrender, and said with a smile, "Sir, stop!"

Hua Rong was startled, then kissed Gao Ming hard, and said with a smile, "You've already called me that, it's really messed up."

The two of them were as happy as ever.

In the Kingdom of Jin, everything that should be discussed has been discussed. Although they were kidnapped, the two sides have negotiated in good faith and achieved gratifying results. When Gao Ming left, Wanyan Aguda led a group of relatives and rode out of the city gate. Sending off, the courtesy is quite high.

Gao Ming came empty-handed, not to mention wrapping a piece of tiger skin when he left, Aguda gave them mink fur, deer antler, pearls and raw gold.

"Let's all go back, we're leaving with the Eighth Prince." Gao Ming and Hua Rong waved goodbye to them. In this situation, they wished they could sing a farewell song together.

The Eighth Prince Wanyan Zongqiang brought Gao Ming back, so naturally he sent him to the Jinliao border.

Still the same crew, Gao Ming, Hua Rong, Wanyan Zongqiang, Han Zhuer.

One was worried that Gao Ming and Hua Rong would be snatched away by wolves, and the other was to prevent them from wandering around the territory of Jin without returning to Liao.

When I came, my heart was heavy, and when I went back, I was relaxed.

Wanyan Zongqiang has already been blown away by his brother, and will be sent to Song State, and he said to Gao Ming in short Chinese: "I will go to Song State."

"That's right, that's great. We're old friends. When you arrive in the Song Dynasty, I will cover all your food, clothing, housing and transportation." Gao Ming said with a smile, "Who else is there?"

"Sixth brother Zongjun, cousin Xiyin. Others..." Wanyan Zongqiang shook his head, expressing that he didn't know.

Gao Ming remembered that the sixth prince, Wanyan Zongjun, was killed on the charge of Tong Song during the court struggle of the Kingdom of Jin.

Gao Ming asked Han Zhuer beside him, "Will you come?"

Han Zhu'er smiled wryly and said, "How is that possible? I'm a Korean, and I'm still a woman. It's my turn. When summer comes, I have to go back to my country."

Gao Ming nodded, "Yes, it's better to be at home." You can go back to Korea quickly, don't make any more trouble.

After traveling for a few days and successfully reaching the border, Wanyan Zongqiang could not go any further and waved goodbye to Gao Ming and the others.

Gao Ming watched the group of Jurchens turn their horses and gradually disappear into the horizon, and then turned with Hua Rong and headed towards Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom.

The further north they went, the fewer Han people. As soon as they arrived at the next state capital, they attracted the attention of the local government. Immediately, Khitan people interrogated them. I heard that the envoys of the Song Dynasty reported non-stop.

Soon Khitan officials who could speak Chinese came forward and led them all the way north to Shangjing to join other members of the mission.

Gao Ming and Hua Rong successfully arrived at Linhuang Mansion in the upper capital of the Liao Kingdom. He looked up and saw that the city walls of the capital were three feet high and very strong. Moreover, as soon as they walked, there were many counties around Linhuang Mansion with a large population. I really can't think of how it will be easily broken by Aguda and the Jurchens in the future.

Of course, who would have thought that the Kingdom of Jin would come from afar to break through Bianliang, the capital of the State of Song?

Gao Ming and Hua Rong were taken directly to the embassy of the State of Song in the capital of the Liao State. The news that they were coming back had already been sent in advance. The people of the State of Song in the embassy had to bathe and change their clothes, and waited for the embassy of Gao Zheng. He Hua Deputy Envoy.

Everyone was surprised to find that even Deputy Envoy Wang, who had been bedridden for many days, stood up strong and got out of bed to welcome them back.

Gao Ming and Hua Rong saw from a distance in front of the embassy, ​​a group of people from the Song Dynasty whose painting style was different from that of the Kunfa people of the Liao Kingdom, looking up at the direction they came from on tiptoe.

Seeing them both, they ran over as if seeing a savior, "Is it really Master Gao and General Hua? You have returned safely—"

Gao Ming has seen Jurchens and Khitan people for many days. When he saw the Han people with their hair up and their heads up again, Gao Ming also felt very friendly. He hurriedly got off his horse and walked towards everyone, "I'm back, you are all right How is Shi Jin?"

"I've been rescued, and I'm all right now." An official said happily, "Fortunately, Dr. An has the art of returning to heaven. Everyone else is fine, except..."

Gao Ming said: "Why, Mr. Wang is sick again?"

Everyone else nodded silently, Gao Ming raised the corners of his mouth and Hua Rong smiled at each other tacitly, knowing that this old boy would cheat, just as they had expected before.

"Gao, Mr. Gao... Are you back?"

Hearing a hoarse voice full of illness, everyone consciously made way for Wang Fu's figure.

With a forehead band tied around his head, he looked like he was seriously ill, and tremblingly stretched out his hand to Gao Ming, and called out with tears in his eyes, "Master Gao, is it really you?"

He was happier seeing Gao Ming than seeing his own father, because Gao Ming disappeared, and the pressure of the entire mission to Liao was transferred to him, especially when he arrived in Shangjing, the emperor of Liao had already sent people to urge him to meet him several times. He really didn't dare to see Yelu Yanxi talk about reducing or exempting the old coins, so he pretended not to be sick.

Just yesterday Liao Kingdom sent someone to urge him again, the tone of the boss was not happy, he was worried about what to do, Gao Ming came back.

Wang Fu's timid appearance was seen by the entire mission. In the capital, he could speak well before, but he couldn't tell anything. But when he went outside the Great Wall, he could tell whether it was a mule or a horse.

So when Wang Fu, who had been lying in bed all this time, appeared, there was a slight smell of disdain in the air.

Gao Ming saw Wang Fu's virtue, he couldn't help laughing and said: "It turns out that Mr. Wang is sick, so longing for my return, are you waiting for me to prescribe you some medicine?"

One sentence brought out Wang Fu's psychological shadow, and he quickly shook his head, "Seeing that Lord Gao and General Hua have returned safely, I don't worry about you, half of this heart disease is gone, and I will recover soon."

From Gao Ming's perspective, he could see several members of the entourage rolling their eyes when they heard Wang Fu's words.

There was a Wuyi doctor named Ma Zheng who was particularly obvious. He didn't want to waste time on Wang Fu, so he hurriedly informed Gao Ming, "Master Gao, since Emperor Liao returned to Beijing ten days ago, he has sent people over every day. I am getting more and more impatient, we can't delay the interview, otherwise we are all in danger."

The so-called Nabo means that the emperor went out to camp and hunt all year round. It was close to the suburbs of Beijing and hundreds of miles away. There were hunting activities in spring, summer, autumn and winter, which was the ancestral system of Khitan.

Although a capital city had been captured by the Jurchens, Yelu Yanxi still refused to give up this ancestral system, so the people below were quite critical, thinking that the emperor was still playing for fun at this juncture.

Yelu Yanxi, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, got angry and even killed the Khitan people. Even if he couldn't kill the Song people, but when he got angry, he left them behind and followed the bowl several times, and the Song people couldn't find a tune.

So watching Yelu Yanxi lose patience day by day, the mission of the Song Dynasty prayed every day, looking forward to the abducted Gao Ming falling from the sky.

Gao Ming said: "Wait a while, the people from the palace will come, tell them that we can see you tomorrow."

Ma Zheng said worriedly: "My lord, you have come from a long way, so let's talk about it after a day of rest."

Gao Ming smiled and said: "No need, Mr. Wang has finished resting for me." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of horse beating, Gao Ming turned his head, and saw Yelu Dashi hurrying over on horseback.

Before the horse stopped completely, he jumped off the horse, "Envoy Gao Zheng, General Hua, you are back?! I haven't heard from you all this time, I'm so worried! It's great that you are all right!"

Gao Ming thought to himself, are you worried about me, or are you worried about my "secret collusion" with Jin Guo?

You must be skeptical, so be skeptical.

Gao Ming pretended to see Yelu Dashi's surprise, stretched his hand on the horse's back on purpose, pushed the exposed mink and tiger furs into the sheet, and said with a dry smile, "I'm fine, Brother Yelu is worried about it. "

Yelu Dashi saw the tiger skin and mink skin at a glance. Gao Ming was empty-handed when he was taken away. Needless to say, the things must have been given by Jurchen.

Sure enough, they had some kind of negotiation, and it went smoothly, otherwise Jurchen would not have given Gao Ming something.

Seeing that Yelu Dashi was staring at the tiger skin and mink skin closely, Gao Ming said with a false smile, "Hua Rong and I exchanged these two skins with hand cream, wine, and Jurchens."

Yelu Dashi said in his heart, go lie to the ghosts, the wine is delicious, but Gao Ming and Hua Rong only have two bags of wine on them, how can they change back to mink and tiger skins, are they really stupid Jurchens? !

There must be tricks in it, or a lot of tricks.

Gao Ming pretended to be guilty, and looked away from Yelu Dashi.

He thought in his heart, Yelu Dashi, look, your good brother Song Guo from the Liao Kingdom is going to run away with the Jin Kingdom, so what bargaining chip will the Liao Dynasty offer to bring the Song Kingdom back?