Chapter 844
"No!" Boyan picked up the wine glass and took a sip. Today is the day when the Song envoy came to discuss peace. He had sent a letter to the Yangzhou General Administration Office to wait for the Song envoy to come to the door, but only the clerk came, and he gave him a letter and said goodbye.
"This Southern Dynasty is too rude. A little clerk refused to show his respect. What did the right prime minister say..." Liu Mengyan came to the hall and looked at the empty lobby and muttered angrily. He raised his eyes and saw Bo Yan talking to himself and answering.
"Shu Liu, what do you think this is the meaning?" Boyan asked Liu Mengyan to sit down and handed the letter in his hand to him.
"No!?" Liu Mengyan looked up and saw two words flying and phoenixes on the paper. He turned over and checked them carefully. There was no ink except the two words that were stupid. He looked at Bo Yan and frowned, "Right Prime Minister, the lower official... I don't know what it means!"
"This time, there are only two words, which is extremely puzzling!" Boyan drank all the wine in the cup and said to the top of the table.
"Right Prime Minister, why not the subordinate officials will recover the messenger of the Southern Dynasty and ask again?" Liu Mengyan said.
"No need, I asked me to send him a copy of the Southern Dynasties' surrender document, and they replied with two words, which really makes people unable to understand!" Boyan touched his beard and frowned.
"For the first time, the right prime minister gave the envoy of the Southern Dynasty a surrender to the previous dynasty?" Liu Mengyan was stunned and suddenly realized that the little emperor was sharp and cruel. He was furious when he saw the surrender. The meaning of these two words was to let them get out. It was ridiculous that Boyan claimed to be a talented man and was proficient in Mongolian and Chinese characters, but he did not know the profoundness of Chinese characters. The meaning of it was beyond his understanding.
"Yes, didn't the fake kings of the Southern Dynasty always claim to be kind and filial to govern the country? I want to see how they faced the surrender of the past, and first killed them before talking about it!" Boyan smiled as if he was thinking, and did not realize what the two words represented.
"Right Prime Minister, there is no chance to talk again!" Liu Mengyan looked at the complacent Boyan and said with a bitter face.
"Oh, what's the point of leaving Shangshu? Could it be that a letter made the fake king urinate his pants!" Boyan stroked his beard and laughed.
"At that time, the right prime minister led tens of thousands of troops to capture Huainan, descended to Jiankang, and attacked the cities and villages, and headed straight to Lin'an. The Empress Dowager and the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty surrendered. To this day, the right prime minister's reputation can still stop the children from crying at night!" Su Hetai, the commander of Yangzhou, heard the words.
"Just as soon as you left Jiangnan for a while, the people of Jiangnan built temples to worship, and the incense continued to be popular, so as to thank the right prime minister. How could the fake king be compared with a child who was not as tall as a horse? I am afraid that when he heard that the right prime minister was coming, the people of Jiangnan had prepared a good wine!" A minister beside him hurriedly praised.
"Hey, I just followed the will of the Khan. How dare I take credit for the soldiers' bloody battles!" Boyan waved his hand with a smile.
"Right Prime Minister, the meaning of these two words is to refuse to discuss peace with our court again, so that we can let ourselves be content, rather than surrender!" Liu Mengyan sighed in his heart that today's Southern Dynasty is no longer the same as before, but his feelings are still in the old days, and he doesn't understand the strength of the little emperor, so he bowed helplessly.
"What? These two words are written in this way. It's no joke to stay in Shangshu!" Boyan, who was beautiful in the clouds, was suddenly lifted down. Naturally, he was not very happy and said with a stern face.
"How dare the officials talk nonsense about such major issues?" Liu Mengyan said with a polite word, "The word "not giving away" is both a scent of sending guests and anger to reject guests, indicating that the Southern Dynasties have refused to negotiate with us again."
"Haha, this fake king is indeed a little brave. Can these two words be regarded as a war book?" After hearing this, Boyan said with a slow smile.
"You can also give this explanation!" Liu Mengyan nodded and said. At this moment, any Song people knew that the other party was already annoyed, and the friendship between the two parties had been broken, so there was nothing to say. Get out of here and talk with your fists next time they met. But he didn't dare to explain it too directly, and was afraid that Boyan would not understand the meaning expressed in it, so he responded vaguely when he saw his question.
"You southerners are just talking nonsense, and it's better than this child. If you have something to say, I didn't expect that he would have the spirit of Emperor Taizu!" Boyan glared at Liu Mengyan and said dissatisfiedly.
"What does this have to do with Taizu?" Liu Mengyan was confused. Of course, he knew that the Taizu in Boyan's mouth would definitely not be Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, but he must refer to Genghis Khan Temujin. What is the purpose of comparing the two!
"Hmph, when Taizu had just claimed to be the Khan throne, Haier Khan in Khwarezm Edala City killed hundreds of merchants in our dynasty, and his king Mahamo killed the righteous envoy sent by the Khan to negotiate..." Boyan snorted coldly and explained.
The incident happened during Genghis Khan's Western Expedition. After Genghis Khan established the Great Mongolian Kingdom, he sent a caravan composed of 450 merchants to the west. When he passed through Khwarezm, Central Asia, the greedy Khwarezm monarch and ministers killed 449 merchants for spying. Only one person fled back to Mongolia and confiscated all the goods loaded with 500 camels. Genghis Khan sent three envoys to question him, but the envoy was killed by Khwarezm. The two subordinates were humiliated by the beard cutting and were dismissed back to Mongolia.
After hearing this, Genghis Khan held a meeting and gathered 200,000 Mongolian troops to fight west to avenge their hatred and let them write a letter of war. The letter of war was written by Yelu Chucai. After reading it, Genghis Khan felt that it was very literary, so he changed it to a sentence with only a few numbers - if you want to fight, you will fight and send someone to King Khwarezm. Then he sent troops to fight in four ways, Chagatai, Ogedei, Shuchi, Subutai, and Genghis Khan himself and Tolei.
Finally, the Ho Haier Khan in Edala City was captured alive by Chagatai, Ogedei and handed over to Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan said, "Aren't you greedy for money? Do you want money?" Then he melted silver and poured it into Ho Haier Khan's nose, mouth and ears, burning the kid to death. If you want to fight, I will fight! It became the shortest, most domineering and most famous war book in Mongolia's history. Today, the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty only replied two words, which made Boyan think of this!
"Oh, there are such allusions in it, but the fake king is too late. But what should I do now!" Although Liu Mengyan praised him, he was disgusted in his heart. How could the little emperor be smart? The word "not giving away" responds without any politeness, and expresses his anger, and his artistic conception is many times higher than that.
"Does the Secretary of State think there is still room for maneuver?" Boyan asked back for a moment. In fact, he sent the Southern Dynasties' surrender to him, and the signal that he did not recognize that he was a country at all. The real Southern Dynasties had long been destroyed by him and was not worthy of being on an equal footing with him, and wanted to suppress them psychologically. With his experience back then, the Southern people must not dare to refuse peace talks under their cowardly personality, so they could increase their efforts layer by layer to achieve their goal. What surprised him was that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasties was too crazy and directly withdrew from peace talks. He wanted to start a new war, but it was contrary to the new emperor's will first inside and then outside.
"Right Prime Minister is not a subordinate to refuse. It is too difficult to restart the peace talks!" Liu Mengyan said with a wry smile. Since he was ordered to travel south to Lin'an to pray for peace talks a few months ago, the experience has been full of twists and turns. He can only be considered a matter of death. He has convinced the young emperor to agree to the peace talks. He thought about the difficulties in it and wanted to cry. But at the beginning, he was ruined by a letter from Bo Yan.
"Oh, he is not willing to argue with this?" Boyan said unexpectedly.
"Of course, at that time, the army in Jiangnan was defeated and failed and was defeated. The Southern Dynasties took only a few months to capture the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and Fujian, and the military power was in full swing. The Southern Dynasties and the country's governments and the country's calls for the capture of Jiangbei were very high. Even if someone wanted to negotiate, who would dare to take the blame for the world in this situation?" Liu Mengyan sighed and said, "When the right was far away in the northwest, I don't know the details. At that time, the Southern Dynasties had 500,000 troops stationed in Jiangnan. If they wanted to cross the river, the Empress Dowager Nandao did not understand military affairs, and Brother Sang could not command the army. The situation was extremely dangerous. The Empress Dowager had no choice but to send his official position across the river to beg for peace."
"Why did the Southern Dynasty agree again?" Boyan nodded. He could imagine the people in the court panic after the fall of Jiangnan. And they did not hold military power, so they had to go on a peace journey.
"It is also God who protects our dynasty. The pseudo-king of the Southern Dynasty suddenly suffered a serious illness on his way back to the west and was recuperating in Wuhu for more than a month. At this time, the rainy season had already reached the point where the river began to rise, and he had missed the best opportunity to cross the river. After returning to the capital, he happened to be the former prime minister of the Southern Dynasty, Chen Yizhong, conspiring to assassinate and establishing a new king, and the empress dowager also returned to Lin'an to re-in charge. Finally, there was a turning point. The subordinate took the opportunity to lobby for the monarch and ministers of the Southern Dynasty, and was able to agree to the peace agreement." Liu Mengyan explained.
"In this way, the Empress Dowager of the Southern Dynasty refused to discuss the dispute. Aren't he afraid that our army will once again siege Jiangnan?" Boyan said in surprise.
"Ah, the right prime minister does not know the inside story. The pseudo-king of the Southern Dynasty is not an ordinary person. When he was in Qiongzhou, he was ordered to supervise the country at the age of six. The court is all following his horse's head, but because he was too young and had not taken charge of the government, in fact, the government and military affairs in the court are determined by his hands. The empress dowager's re-in charge of the government is just a concealment. The peace talks are determined by him, and he is strong in his youth, how can he be so agitated by the right prime minister!" Liu Mengyan was also drunk, and Boyan did not understand the current situation at all, so he acted rashly, so he complained.
"If I had known this, I would not have let the remnants of the Southern Dynasty go to great lengths and let them grow bigger and wipe them out early, so how could I have today's troubles!" Boyan said regretfully after hearing this.
"What the right prime minister said is right. At that time, the commander Zhang Hongfan was ordered to be pursued, but he was defeated in Yashan. Both brothers died at his hands. The commander of the Huguang Xuanwei Ali Hague also mobilized the Jianghuai naval army to attack Qiongzhou. However, he was killed and defeated without taking a step towards Qiongzhou. He fled back to Huguang alone. Since then, he has been unable to recover and has no power to attack Qiong. At that time, they were only tens of thousands of soldiers who could fight, but now..." Liu Mengyan shook his head and sighed, as if he was unbearable to look back on the past.
"Hiss..." Boyan couldn't help but take a breath after hearing this, and felt that this was a great trouble for the Yuan Dynasty. He turned his face and asked Su Hetai beside him, "Can you lead your army across the river to teach the Southern Dynasty a lesson!"
"Right Prime Minister, all the warships in the army are destroyed, and it is difficult for the subordinates to cross the river if they are willing!" Su Hetai was shocked and slowed down again, "In addition, the firearms in the Southern Dynasty were sharp, and cities and forts were built along the river. Moreover, their navy continued to cruise day and night in the river, making it difficult to build a floating bridge..."
"I've talked for a long time but I just didn't dare. Have you been blown away by the fragrant wind of the Southern Dynasty and didn't have the courage to tilt the bow?" Boyan angrily scolded when he saw him retreating.
"Right up, don't rush to send troops across the river, be careful that the Southern Army will attack!" Liu Mengyan hurriedly persuaded him when he saw this.
"How dare they cross the river to attack?" Boyan said in surprise.
"The right prime minister didn't know. At the beginning, the Southern Dynasties refused to discuss peace. Brother Sang had mobilized heavy troops to threaten Taixing. Unexpectedly, the Southern Army crossed the river at night to siege the city. In one day, Taixing City was broken, and all the troops gathered here were wiped out. Without waiting for reinforcements from other places to arrive, they transported all the people and property of the city to Jiangnan before they could retreat safely!" Liu Mengyan said. Of course, he would not say that his idea was his own when he was beaten to death at this moment, and Brother Sang had lost his power, so he didn't have to worry about his revenge after stepping on it.
"What Liu Shangshu said is true. The officials of the Xiaguan also led the troops to provide assistance that day. When the three armies arrived, Taixing had become an empty city except for the bodies everywhere. The city of tens of thousands of people and their property was plundered. Now it has become a abandoned city. It is said that the Southern Army only used thousands of troops in front of them." Su Hetai said with a look of surprise.
"I have never heard of such a big thing!" Boyan frowned. As a commander-in-chief, he knew that he could quietly cross the river and launch a raid and quickly end the battle under heavy troops. Then the combat effectiveness of this army would be absolutely terrifying. This can also explain why the pseudo king of the Southern Dynasty refused peace talks and dared to end the just-started peace talks because of a letter.
"I don't know now. After the incident, Brother Sang returned to the capital. The official thought he had reported to the court!" Liu Mengyan of course pushed the 625th, and the responsibility was not covered with dust. He thought about it and said, "But what the following officials knew about the fake king of the Southern Dynasty was vindictive. The right prime minister gave him a message, and he was afraid that he would not give up, so he would prepare early!"
"Does the enemy's troops regard this thousand-mile river defense as if nothing is coming from?" Obviously, Boyan's focus is no longer on Brother Sang, but on the river defense.
"Reported to the Right Prime Minister, our naval army in the sea and Longwan navies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were both severely damaged and almost lost all, and were unable to compete with the enemy on the river!" Su Hetai reported.
Chapter completed!