While Chao Yong led his army to the northwest, an uninvited guest came to Tokyo.
In recent years, in order to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Zhao Ji frequently exchanged with the Jin Kingdom and discussed alliances. At first, Zhao Ji was undecided. When Zhao Ji made up his mind, the Jin Kingdom felt that the Liao Kingdom was still strong and hesitated.
The two countries' alliance has never been reached.
It was not until this year that the Liao royal family general Yelu Yuji was forced to rebel against the Jin Kingdom by Xiao Fengxian. The Jin Kingdom learned from Yelu Yuji that the Liao Kingdom was in fact and then he made up his mind to destroy the Jin Kingdom.
However, the Jin Kingdom did not know that the Song Dynasty was gone, so it sent Holu and others to come on a boat to discuss the attack on the Liao Kingdom.
After Hulu came ashore in Dengzhou, he realized that the Central Plains had changed its dynasty. However, Hulu was unwilling to go for nothing, so he sought to see Emperor Daliang as an envoy of the Jin Kingdom.
Although Emperor Chao Gai of Daliang knew why the envoy of the Jin Kingdom came, he was not good to directly refuse He Lu's request for advice, so he asked Dengzhou to send carriages and horses to send He Lu and others to Beijing.
When Chao Gai summoned Helu, he realized that he could not speak the language and there was no one in the court who could speak the Jurchens. Although there were Han people around Helu, Chao Gai could not trust the people around Helu, so he finally found Song Jin.
Zhao Liangsi, the initiator of the alliance, came here.
Zhao Liangsi's real name is Ma Zhi. He was originally a Han family in the Liao Kingdom and lived in the north for generations. When Tong Guan went to the Liao Kingdom, Ma Zhi took the initiative to find Tong Guan, saying that there was a way to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Although it was a hundred years old, the Liao and Song dynasties.
Peaceful and Tong Guan also visited Liao Kingdom friendly, but when he heard that he had the opportunity to restore the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, he didn't care about Xinyi and immediately took Ma Zhi back to China. Then he introduced him to Zhao Ji.
Ma Zhi arrived in front of Zhao Ji, and immediately spoke up and said the strategy of joining the Jurchens to attack the Liao Kingdom and seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Zhao Ji did not know the depth of the Jurchens, but based on Ma Zhi's words, he gave Ma Zhi Zhao.
The surname is. Zhao Ji had a son named Zhao Zhi. After Zhao Ji gave him the surname, he remembered this and changed Ma Zhi's name and called him Zhao Liangsi.
When Zhao Liangsi first came to the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens had not yet established the Jin Kingdom, but had formed a tribal alliance and became an important force in the northeast of the Liao Kingdom.
Although Zhao Ji thought Zhao Liangsi's plan was good, it was not easy for the great Song Dynasty to form an alliance with a savage tribe, so he put the matter aside and gave Zhao Liangsi a leisure official to support him. The Song Dynasty had tens of thousands of leisure officials.
Not more than Zhao Liangsi.
Later, the Jurchens established the Jin Kingdom and defeated the Liao Kingdom repeatedly. Zhao Ji felt that the time was coming, so he sent Ma Zheng and Zhao Liangsi to the Jin Kingdom to discuss the alliance.
Ma Zheng was a Han native born in the Central Plains. A military officer from the Song Dynasty, who had previously served as the commander of the military commander of Dengzhou, was the predecessor of the sick Yuchi Sun Li. After Zhao Ji decided to join the Jin Dynasty to attack Liao, he sent Ma Zheng as an envoy, in the name of buying horses and attacking the enemy.
The sea route. After finding out the road, Zhao Liangsi was sent to serve as an envoy.
The Song and Jin dynasties began to argue. During this period, the envoys continued to exchange contacts, but they had no results.
After Daliang destroyed the Song Dynasty, Ma Zheng heard that Sun Li became the commander of Daliang, so he came to visit him.
After Ma Zheng stepped down as the governor of Dengzhou, he traveled to and from both countries, from Dengzhou to sea. After a while, Sun Li and Ma Zheng also had some friendship.
Sun Li also knew Ma Zheng’s martial arts, so he recommended him to be a local military officer.
Zhao Liangsi was not recommended and had no past political achievements. So he was idle.
This was the first time Zhao Liangsi entered the palace after the change of dynasty.
When Helu saw his old acquaintance Zhao Liangsi, he immediately asked Zhao Liangsi to help promote the Liangjin alliance with Jurchen.
From Dengzhou to Tokyo, Helu and his group also learned that Daliang had fought a war with the Liao Kingdom, captured many Liao soldiers, and exchanged them for 20,000 war horses.
Therefore, He Lu felt that forming an alliance with Daliang could really help the Jin Kingdom.
Although Zhao Liangsi was idle at home, he also learned through the daily newspaper that Daliang's strong soldiers and horses were strong. He also had some ideas about promoting the Liangjin Alliance. He was thinking about finding a way to propose this matter again, but he didn't expect that he would immediately send an opportunity.
Seeing Zhao Liangsi coming, Chao Gai asked He Lu to express his intentions.
He Lu had already thought of a remark and said, "The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been the land of Han people since ancient times. They were stolen by the Khitans for many years. The aspiring Han people in the Central Plains all wanted to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Yelu Yanxi, the Liao Dynasty, was in a stupid and incompetent country.
It was chaotic, but did not cultivate moral politics, and he acted rashly to start a war with Dajin and Daliang. The Emperor of Dajin has decided to send troops to conquer the Liao Kingdom. It is the best time for Daliang to send troops to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun."
After hearing Hulu's words, Chao Gai smiled and said, "Short long after Daliang was established, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and Tong Guan still had separatist rule in the Central Plains, and the northwest of Xixia also invaded, but he had no time to go north."
He Lu heard Zhao Liangsi's translation and shook his head and said, "These days, I have also heard some of the situation in the Central Plains. Wang Qing and Tian Hu are just two bandits. Daliang has powerful firearms, and I believe that they will be able to unify the Central Plains soon. Yan Yun
The matter of the sixteen states cannot be delayed. The emperor of our country has decided to send troops to attack the Liao Kingdom. Now the Liao Kingdom has only three roads left in Xijing, Nanjing and Zhongjing. It is easy for our country to seize Zhongjing Road, but Nanjing Road and Xijing Road are you Han people.
If we capture all the sixteen states of Yanyun, if you want to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, you may have to go to war. The best way is to send troops at the same time, and you will conquer Xijing Road and Nanjing Road.
And our country conquered Zhongjing Road."
Chao Gai smiled and said, "When will your country launch troops?"
Helu said: "In a few months, the emperor of our country will lead the imperial army to fight in person."
Chao Gai shook his head and said, "Then we may not be able to send troops at the same time. Most of our troops went to the northwest to fight against Xixia. Even if we were to train, we had to wipe out Tian Hu and Wang Qing first, and then we could go north to attack Liao Kingdom."
At this time, Wanyan Aguda had already decided to destroy Liao, but he was not very confident, so he sent Helu.
Upon hearing this, He Lu couldn't help but use Jurchen to ask Zhao Liangsi to help persuade Chao Gai.
Zhao Liangsi also felt that his wealth and honor were all in this matter. If this matter was not achieved, he would have no effect anymore. He thought for a while and said, "I heard that the prince was victorious in the Northwest Banner, and it would not take long to attack.
Retreat to the Western Xia. Tianhu in Hedong also had a lot of chaos. Our dynasty could completely wipe out Tianhu and then follow the trend to capture the Xijing Road of Liao from Hedong Road north."
Zhang Shu, the deputy governor, said in the night: "The prince still doesn't know when he will pacify the northwest. Even if he pacified the northwest, the army will have to rest. How can he send troops to attack Liao in the short term?"
Chao Gai also nodded and said, "There are many issues in China, and I won't discuss the attack on Liao for the time being. Let's send the envoys of the Jin Kingdom out of the palace."
After seeing the order from Emperor Daliang, He Lu and others had to leave.
Seeing that Zhao Liangsi was born in the Liao Kingdom and was familiar with the Jin Kingdom, Chao Gai said to the prime minister beside him: "Do you think Zhao Liangsi can have any position?"
"Your Majesty, let me ask him a few questions."
Wu Yong stopped Chao Gai and turned to Zhao Liangsi and said, "I heard that when you went to the Jin Kingdom last year, you followed the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda to attack the Liao Kingdom Shangjing?"
Zhao Liangsi didn't know Wu Yong's intention and nodded, "When the villain arrived at the Jin Kingdom, the financial owner was on the front line, and the villain had to go to the front line to discuss the alliance with him."
"How powerful are the soldiers and horses in the Jin Kingdom?"
Zhao Liangsi said honestly: "The Jin people all looked like wolves and tigers, and they captured the Liao Kingdom in less than half a day."
Wu Yong smiled and said, "Since that's the case, why did you encourage the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom to form an alliance, so you are not afraid of attracting wolves into the house? You have been in Tokyo for a long time, so you won't know what Gao Qiu made the imperial guards like?"
Zhao Liangsi didn't expect Wu Yong to ask this question and immediately said nothing.
In fact, after he saw the Jin Kingdom attacking Liao Kingdom and going to Beijing, he was a little afraid. However, the Song Dynasty's alliance with Jin to attack Liao had become a national policy, so he did not dare to object anymore, and could only go with the flow.
Therefore, after the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, Zhao Liangsi wrote a letter to resign from his official position several times. Later, Zhang Jue rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Zhao Liangsi opposed the Song Dynasty's acceptance of Zhang Jue, for fear of angering the Jin Kingdom, so he was demoted by Zhao Ji.
Seeing that Zhao Liangsi was speechless, Wu Yong shook his head and said, "This person is just a person who is greedy for wealth and honor, and he is not available."