Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 853 I hope you will start from your strength and status, and take a good look at who you are negotiating with!

"Chief coach, King Lanling of Liao Kingdom has arrived!"

Xiao Wuna, who was an envoy, was brought in, and Li Yan got up to greet him, and the two sides met.

Xiao Wuna carefully looked at this person who had been famous for a long time, but it was the first time he had come into close contact with him. According to the etiquette of the Han people, he cupped his hands and said: "The chief coach is righteous and brave, the old man has been famous for a long time!"

Li Yan replied: "The king of Lanling is the minister of the humerus of the Liao Kingdom. He is dedicated and loyal. Even if he is divided between himself and the enemy, I still respect him very much... Please!"

As "Zuo Ming", Li Yan once communicated with this Lanling King. This prime minister-level Khitan veteran is indeed rare, and he respects him somewhat.

After all, the self-willed Emperor Tianzuo had long been murderous towards this highly accomplished Tai Tuo, and this person is still alive until now. up.

Of course, if Li Yan wanted the Liao Kingdom to perish quickly, Xiao Wuna would be the first to kill, and his priority was still higher than Yelu Dezhong.

Now, I hope that the other party will live longer and make the final contribution to the Liao Kingdom.

Xiao Wuna didn't know how long this worried Liao Kingdom could live, and after sitting down, he took advantage of the situation to continue the topic just now: "Actually, we are not enemies, the old man came here to discuss peace with the township army, to stop fighting, and to reopen the exchange market .”

Everyone in the hall was a little surprised, and some secretly thought wisely.

In this situation, instead of covering it up, it is better to show your weakness and let the other party see it deliberately, so as to show your magnanimity and make your next words more powerful.

Sure enough, Xiao Wuna started: "I inherited the Tang system in Daliao, and I have long admired Sinicization. Since Emperor Taizong, I have established the national policy of 'separate rule from Han to Han, rule according to customs', govern Khitan with the national system, and govern the Khitan with the national system. The Han system treats the Han people, and after the Chanyuan alliance, it has maintained peace with Zhao Song for a hundred years, which shows its credibility..."

Li Yan smiled and agreed: "Yes, compared to the barbarism of other nomadic, fishing and hunting civilizations, the Liao Kingdom is indeed a special ruling regime, and there will always be a ruling regime on the grassland. In dealing with you, it is better to communicate with your country, is that what King Lanling means?"

Xiao Wuna paused insignificantly, stroked his pale beard and smiled: "The chief coach understands righteousness, that's exactly it!"

Li Yandao: "The King of Lanling is a capable minister. This time, the envoys under his command should be negotiating, but he has come forward in person, which shows sincerity. We Han people always pay attention to 'throw me a peach, and return it with a plum'. I also have sincerity. , to meet King Lanling."

The mutual market between the two countries is actually reciprocating, trading with each other. Xiao Wuna carefully considered every sentence and every word of this man, and immediately said: "The two countries are in conflict with each other, and the people are dying. The leader always loves the people like his own son. I must not be able to bear it." ?”

Li Yandao: "In the land of Yanyun, the people live in peace and the merchants work happily. The so-called loss of life is invisible. It's just that today's peaceful days are indeed made by the soldiers who worked hard. Therefore, I cherish it very much. If your country is willing to stop the war, you will never stop Trying to invade Yanyun in vain, I am naturally happy to see it!"

Xiao Wuna's face was not blushing and his heart was not beating: "Of course, my lord originally intended to quell the fighting, otherwise in the Baoyou Alliance, the fourteen prefectures of Yanyun would not be directly assigned to the Central Plains..."

When the Liao Kingdom thought it had a strong army and horses, no one cared about your covenant, even a brother in name, could use it as an absurd reason to avenge their mother and use it as an excuse to invade south.

Once he found that he couldn't beat him, he immediately remembered the agreement signed in the Blessed Blessing Alliance that the Land of Yanyun was returned to the Central Plains Dynasty.

However, Li Yan rejected it with just one sentence: "The alliance signed by the faint king Zhao Ji is insignificant, and we have never recognized it from the beginning!"

Xiao Wuna felt a tightness in his chest, but the other party was right. He refused the Liao army to enter from the front of Yanmen Pass. The township army has always been tit for tat, and now they directly rebelled.

But he didn't mean to be disgusting when he mentioned the League of Blessings. It was mainly to pave the way for the subsequent division of the territory. After all, during this period of time, the township army has been advancing outwards, encroaching on the land of the Liao Kingdom.

As early as a year ago, the township army recovered not only the Yanyun Fourteen Prefectures that Shi Jingtang had cut away.

For example, Yingzhou, Pingzhou, and Luanzhou, where Liangshan first landed by water, are also related to the barrier defense line of the Central Plains, so it is naturally impossible to return them.

Even Lu Junyi led his troops to battle again and again, for the same purpose of continuing to expand northward, including the boundary of the "400 mm isoprecipitation line", not to mention, so that the construction of the Great Wall will not be disturbed, naturally the higher the better.

In this chaotic era of war, national borders are often like this, the strong are aggressive, and the weak are retreating steadily.

Now the Liao Kingdom is sadly discovering that they are actually weak.

That's why Xiao Wuna is ready to recognize the fourteen prefectures of Yanyun, and other unspecified territories have to be contested. Anyway, the township army can't be allowed to build the Great Wall so happily.

If the Great Wall is really to be repaired, the strategic initiative will completely change hands. Instead, the rural army can go out to seek a big battle at any time, while the Liao Kingdom outside the Great Wall will find it difficult to push forward.

Confirming this point, Xiao Wuna said in a deep voice: "The chief coach's words are wrong. I, Daliao, recognize the strength of the township army, but the orthodoxy of the Central Plains is still the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and the Song and Liao Baoyou alliance is an alliance signed by the two countries. If you say you don't recognize it, you don't recognize it? This is not in line with etiquette, and it is difficult to convince the public!"

The implication is that it is too early for you to replace Zhao Song and issue orders before you become king and establish a system?

Li Yan didn't intend to argue, and turned directly to Jiang Jing: "Bring the household registration that was delivered yesterday."

Jiang Jing went down with the order, and soon came up with a group of clerks, each holding a tall stack of household registration documents, which were neatly placed on the table.

Li Yan picked up the top four books and handed them to Xiao Wuna: "These are part of the household registration supplementary books collected from Hebei and Shandong, and there is no way to carry them all over, but the general book is complete. King Lanling can Take a look."

Hearing the household registration, Xiao Wuna was startled, hurriedly took it, and looked through it.

The more he looked, the more dignified his eyes became, even though he was extremely deep in the city, he couldn't restrain the changes in his face when he suppressed the emotional fluctuations.

Because these total books are really astonishing, and the population area of ​​Silu is recorded in detail on it——

Hebei East Road (population 334 million): Daming Mansion, the governing place, under the jurisdiction of Ying, Cang, Ji, Bo, Di, Mo, Xiong, Ba, De, Bin, En, Qing and other states. The area of ​​the road is 90274665 mu, the number of households There are 668757 households with a population of 334 million. Each household occupies an average of 134 mu of land (non-cultivated land), and the population density is dense.

Hebei West Road (population 263 million), governed by Zhending Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Xiang, Jun, Huai, Wei, Ming, Shen, Ci, Qi, Bao and other prefectures, the area of ​​the road is 95105145 mu, the number of households is 526704, and the population is 263 180, each household occupies an average of [-] mu of land, and the population density is medium.

Jingdong East Road (population 408 million), governed by Jinan Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Qing, Mi, Yi, Deng, Lai, Wei, Zi and other prefectures. Occupying 143991135 mu of land, the population density is medium.

Beijing East-West Road (population 263 million), governed by Yingtianfu, has jurisdiction over Ji, Xu, Shan, Pu, Gong and other prefectures. The area of ​​the road is 85667925 mu, with 526107 households and a population of 263 million. Each household occupies an average of 163 mu of land , with a medium population density.

"Is it a bluff? Or did the township army really occupy Hebei and Shandong so quickly?"

Xiao Wuna thought that these two places were originally the places where the township army recruited soldiers. The appearance of this army helped drive away the Liao army in the two places, and then maintained peace until now. In fact, he already knew that the latter possibility was more likely.

Of course, no matter how solid the foundation of the township army is, it will definitely take a long time to truly digest these places and make them completely belong to the new regime.

But this kind of statistics is enough to make people's hearts throbbing, and they don't even know how the areas of these four Taos are calculated.

In fact, the area is based on the historical data of the late Northern Song Dynasty, and then converted into mu used in this era. There must be some discrepancies with the real one, but the gap will not be too big.

In terms of household registration, preparations have been made early. Cai Jing made statistics when he was in Hebei, and Liang Shanbo also made these summaries in Shandong. It was mainly in charge of Jin Dajian and Xiao Rang who were born in Jeju. The abilities of these two also made Jiang Jingdu With a good impression, ready to be promoted.

All in all, this household registration summary is not completely correct, there must be some omissions, but the general accuracy is still considerable.

In this way, Hebei and Shandong alone have a population of [-] million, and the land of Yanyun originally had a population of nearly [-] million, which is [-] million.

At the peak of the Liao Kingdom, the total population was only [-] million...

Of course, due to the particularity of nomads, all the people are often soldiers. The Liao Kingdom has a population of tens of millions and can pull out millions of troops.

On the other hand, the Central Plains Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had millions of soldiers, and almost broke itself. Now Li Yan has [-] million people under his command, but he is planning to raise only [-] township troops, and he only wants elite soldiers and strong generals to live with the people.

So Li Yan asked Jiang Jing to take out the master copy of the household registration, the purpose is simply clear:
I hope you will start from your strength and status, and take a good look at who you are negotiating with!

Xiao Wuna put down the booklet, his momentum weakened unconsciously, and the smile he tried to maintain became a little more modest: "Actually, there are quite a lot of falsehoods in the alliance of treasures, but my alliance with you in Daliao , but you have to have a name..."

Everyone in the hall breathed lightly, because this might be the country's title in the future.

Li Yan had thought about it a long time ago: "The one who made an alliance with Liao this time is 'Yan'!"

He started an incident in Yanyun, the capital of Yanjing, which dates back to the Yan State in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and its capital was "Ji". But now, Jizhou has shifted eastward for the equally important Jizhou, Yanzhou Then it becomes Yanjing, which corresponds to the location of Beijing in later generations.

Anyway, "Yan" is the most suitable name, and now it can also be regarded as a covenant signed with Yan Yun, so as not to disturb my follow-up rhythm.

"Ugh!"

Xiao Wuna's calculations came to nothing, and he sighed secretly in his heart, but he also knew that the other party's claiming to be a king, establishing a system, and even establishing a country was inevitable, so he immediately started negotiations with the most solemn attitude.

Calling it negotiation is talking about each other.

This is true of any covenant, it is impossible to make it in a few words, it is to determine the other party's bottom line between constant bargaining, and to maximize one's own interests.

However, whether it is the Song-Liao-Chanyuan alliance in history, where the two sides fought during the day and negotiated at night, or the previous Song-Liao Baoyou alliance, where both sides flirt with each other and take what they need, this time Li Yan has to be too tough, and directly set two points :

"Abolishing the name of brother, I don't like this, and I believe that Emperor Liao would not accept being my nephew."

"I don't want more old coins, one hundred thousand taels per year is enough, but I want good horses, one-time delivery, and I won't ask for it every year."

……

Seven days later, the envoys of the two sides signed a covenant in the border city of Wuzhou.

First, the Baoyou alliance between Song and Liao was abolished, and the Central Plains Dynasty no longer referred to each other as brothers with Liao, but only as an alliance. Yan and Liao would stop fighting and make peace, and would not engage in war. If allies were killed, they would raise troops to support them;
Second, the boundary line between Yan and Yun was redefined, and the two sides along the border city pools must not interfere with the construction of the City God;

Thirdly, the Liao Kingdom offered five thousand good horses and ten thousand sheep to Yan Jin, and offered one hundred thousand taels of silver every year as annual coins;
Fourth, the two countries set up a forum on the border to carry out mutual trade;
Fifth, where there are thieves and fugitives who cross the border, they must not stay with each other;
This covenant was known in history as the Covenant of Yan, Liao and Wuzhou.

When this news spread to Henan, the land of Gyeonggi in the Song Dynasty, it was boiling!
　Thanks to the book friends "Holmium" and "Peak v Fetter" for their rewards.

　　
　
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