In theory, this peace talks were much more sincere than the last peace talks hosted by Brother Sang. The real gold agreed to demarcate the boundary under the actual control of the two countries, that is, the Yangtze River is used to call it a brotherly country, which is equivalent to agreeing to the conditions proposed by the Song Dynasty before. Therefore, Ma Shao was full of confidence and felt that he could complete the task on this trip, but the reality was cruel. He met a completely unreasonable opponent, Zheng Sixiao.

The two of them met for the first time. Ma Shao thought that everyone was a scholar of Confucianism and was considered famous scholars of the world. They should have many common languages. Everyone could recite poems and essays, talk about the past and the present, and maybe they could leave a lie. But after meeting, the deputy envoy of the Southern Dynasty had a good face, and even spoke with a gun and a stick.

If it were just like this, Ma Shao would have tolerated it. He didn't say anything, so he thought he would talk about the romance and ease the atmosphere. However, he didn't expect that he would even abandon it, thinking that what he learned was "pseudo-learning". Now Ma Shao couldn't bear it anymore. This involved the character and righteousness of scholars. He debated who is true and who is false in two attempts. Ma Shao thought that the origin, development and rise of Confucianism were all in Jiangbei, so it was naturally authentic.

Zheng Sixiao believed that after the Song Dynasty moved south, there was no Confucianism in the Central Plains. First of all, after the Central Plains fell into the hands of barbarians, all the righteous men had already followed the king to cross south. The people who left behind were also living in seclusion in the mountains and fields without serving in barbarians, and there were no Confucian scholars in Jiangbei. In addition, how could barbarians understand the profoundness of Confucian culture? In order to cater to the unscrupulous scholars of Jiangbei, the unscrupulous scholars in Jiangbei deleted and transformed Confucian classics, which was not the same as before.

Zheng Sixiao's words meant pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man, ridiculing Ma Shao as an unkind and unrighteous person, helping the evildoers, and counting the crimes of these barbarians. Ma Shao was in a rage and was unable to argue. Since the Khitan, Jurchens and the current Mongols have always been regarded as barbarians who do not understand the king. Now that he has lost the name of righteousness and has become a "lack dog" of barbarians, he has naturally lost the opportunity in the debate.

Ma Shao lost his points in the righteousness and naturally wanted to save face from academics, but he swallowed it himself as soon as he opened his mouth. People didn't want to talk to him, a pseudo-scholar, which made him feel like he was hitting his fist on cotton, and his chest was about to explode with a breath. He thought that since he was not prone to his words, everyone would talk about business, but Zheng Sixiao opened his mouth at this time, and it was difficult for him to satisfy the appetite of the Southern Dynasty.

Zheng Sixiao was summoned by His Majesty several times before leaving, asking him to negotiate on the principle of being reasonable, profitable, and not giving up in a single inch of land. However, he also implied that he was proposed by the Mongolian Yuan this time, and he was asking us for our sake. We must not show weakness, nor should we be humble. We must be tough in our attitude and not give up in an instant. Even if the negotiations collapse, we should not be afraid.

After hearing these words, Zheng Sixiao was naturally excited and burst into tears. Thinking about the establishment of the Song Dynasty, from the "Chanyuan Alliance" reached with the Khitan, the Jurchen "The Alliance on the Sea", "Longxing Peace Agreement" to the peace talks with the Mongols and Yuan dynasties, they were basically all deprived of power and humiliation, cede land and pay compensation, and even surrendered their own status and bowed down to beg for peace. How could they be so tough?

As an angry young man and a radical nationalist of the times, Zheng Sixiao accepted the peace talks task with his determination to not be humiliated even if he died, and wanted to use his own blood to wash away the shame suffered by the Song Dynasty and awaken future generations. But with the support of the little emperor, he naturally felt more confident. A sixth-rank official actually showed the momentum of the first-rank in the dynasty. However, Zheng Sixiao still underestimated the spirit of the little emperor, and the bottom line he set was based on the "union of the Jin Dynasty" that year.

There are many controversies about the right and wrong of this discussion, but Zheng Sixiao thought that in fact, the Song court had been constantly adjusting its strategy against Mongolia and Jin according to changes in the current situation. The issuance of the resolution on "Union of Monarch and Destroyed Jin" was a turnaround. In the end, with the contributor of many unexpected events, under the joint action of multiple factors, he had to embark on the road of union of Jin under the joint efforts of various factors. Moreover, from the process, the court did not know the principle of losing his lips and cold teeth. Finally, he embarked on the road of "Union of Monarch and Destroyed Jin" with more of a helplessness of "the two harms were lesser than the lighter".

In the spring of the sixth year of Shaoding, the Mongolian army attacked Kaifeng. Jin Aizong fled to Guide, 300 miles away from Kaifeng. Cui Li, the leader of Kaifeng, surrendered to Mongolia. When Wanyan Shouxu continued to flee south to Caizhou, the Mongolian sent people to Xiangyang of the Southern Song Dynasty and demanded a joint destruction of the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, the two countries signed a military alliance, and Mongolia promised that the Southern Song Dynasty could take back several areas occupied by the Jin River south of the Huai River, and the Southern Song Dynasty agreed to supply food and fodder; the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia still used the Huai River as the boundary.

In the process of destroying the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty recovered the four states of Shou, Si, Su, and Hao and Lianshui. In addition, the Haizhou obtained by Li Quan, a total of five states, one army, and twenty counties were eliminated, and the entire territory of the two Huai Rivers was recovered. The west of the Jingjing was also Tang, Deng, and Xi, and the eleven counties of three prefectures and eleven counties, and the east of Jingdong was obtained. However, the prime minister Zheng Qingzhi and general Zhao Fan, who did not distinguish the overall situation, hurriedly decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the Mongols' unpreparedness to lightning recovery of the three capitals: Tokyo Kaifeng, Xijing Luoyang, and Nanjing Yingtian, dreaming of regaining the entire area south of the Yellow River overnight.

Half a year later, the Flying Mongolian Corps had already withdrawn from Guanzhong. The Song army attacked three times and recovered Kaifeng, Shangqiu, Luoyang, and the Southern Song Dynasty without resistance. A month later, the Mongolian Corps launched a counterattack before the national celebration was over. The result is speculative. The three capitals fell again, and the hot-headed Song army lost more than 100,000 elite troops, and the battle between Mongolia and Song began.

So when Ma Shao heard Zheng Sixiao's request to take the agreement set by the two countries when they jointly destroyed the Jin Dynasty and demanded that the Yellow River be demarcated, his first feeling was that this child was crazy. But Ma Shao still explained patiently that according to the practice of previous dynasties, the agreement signed between the two countries should be based on the latest agreement, so there was no limit to the agreement signed at that time. But he was quickly slapped in the face. Zheng Sixiao helped him review the past peace talks between Mongolia and Song countries, but in the end they were rejected by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty and were not reached, so this should be based on it.

Ma Shao thought about it, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and even regretted that he had nothing to do to tell him about these things. But he absolutely did not dare to admit that if he agreed to demarcate the Yellow River, he would have to chop him up and make dumplings. Therefore, he argued that the areas north of the Huai River were all Jin lands, not owned by the Song Dynasty, and the Mongols and Yuan dynasties naturally belonged to them. Even if there was any dispute, he would have to ask the Jurchens to talk about it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Sixiao spoke. He said that since the Jin Dynasty had fallen and the area north of the Huai River belonged to them, he should recognize it. However, the Huainan area is indeed the hometown of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty still exists. In this way, the area south of the Huai River, Sichuan, Sichuan, and Tang, Deng, Xi and the eleven counties in the west of Jingdong should be returned to the Song Dynasty in accordance with the agreement.

Unexpectedly, he shot himself in the foot with a stone. Ma Shao was speechless when asked. Naturally, he did not dare to agree to this condition. He only said that the Lianghuai region had been actually occupied by the dynasty, so he could only talk about it based on this. Zheng Sixiao heard it more simply. Since whoever occupied it belonged to whom, there was something to discuss, and then he just fought.

When Ma Shao heard this, he looked dark and didn't want to talk, but who made this dynasty lose, and he had to talk to you! But at this point he learned to be smart. When he met again, he was very cautious about his words, fearing that he would make mistakes, and he was caught by the stinky and hard boy. So the peace talks became a big eye and no one spoke, and so the peace talks became empty talk again.

The incident happened until the Song army crossed the river and attacked the Taizhou horse farm, looting tens of thousands of war horses, and then turned around again. Ma Shao felt that the incident was very serious, especially during the peace talks, and he thought that the Song army was provoking the matter first and could not escape anyway. Since the peace talks, he has been defeated and must regain his face.

So Ma Shao immediately crossed the river to meet and solemnly protested to the Song Dynasty, demanding that the robbed horses be exchanged, handed over the perpetrators to severely punish them, and compensate for the losses. However, when the two sides met, Zheng Sixiao protested to him, claiming that the cause of the incident was that the Mongolian army in Jiangbei coveted the war horses on Chongming Island of the Song Dynasty and repeatedly smuggled and stolen horses. After the island garrison warned him many times that he was forced to fight back when the horse theft incident occurred again, he accidentally entered Jiangbei during the pursuit, but absolutely no incident of robbing war horses.

Isn’t this lies with open eyes? Of course, Ma Shao was furious. Hundreds of people on the ranch were killed, tens of thousands of war horses were missing, and thousands of troops were blocked outside Haizhou City. With such a large-scale military operation, the other party said that it was just the garrison on the island who pursued the horse thieves and mistakenly entered Jiangbei, and he did not see so many horses at all. It was really outrageous.

The next answer was even more irritating. Zheng Sixiao not only denied it firmly, but also said that the ranch was so big and was close to the sea. Maybe it was washed away by the river, swept away by the waves, or died of a plague, or even sold privately by the herdering army. In order to shirk responsibility and escape punishment, they lied that they were robbed by the Song army. This was clearly a false accusation and an unreasonable provocation.

Ma Shao did not expect that a scholar who was born in Tanhua and deeply possessed the teachings of Confucius and Mencius could deny it in the face of facts, with red mouths and white teeth, and his face was not changed, and he also claimed that he had to apologize for the false accusation. Otherwise, it would make them angry and they would have to pay the price. He wanted to go up and bite him to relieve his hatred, but reason still told him that he could not do it. If he could beat the Southern Dynasty, would he still have to suffer here?
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