"Prefect Cheng may not know the national policy of the imperial court because he is in his local area. Now that the Jurchens have risen in the north and established the Kingdom of Jin, the Jurchens and the Khitans are incompatible enemies. The imperial court has already made a national policy to unite the Jin to destroy the Liao Dynasty and regain Yanyun!"
Zhao Liangsi looked at Cheng Wanli with a smile and explained.
"What...what does this have to do with me?"
Cheng Wanli finally understood Tong Guan's purpose. No wonder he made a big mistake. Tong Guan not only did not blame him, but also promoted him. This required him to trade his daughter for his future.
"Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country. As an official of the imperial court, how can you stay out of the matter and let your daughter go to the Kingdom of Jin to get married? You are the number one contributor to the destruction of the Liao Dynasty!"
Tong Guan looked at Cheng Wanli and said.
"Tong Xiang, I have a humble official position, how can my little girl take on such a heavy responsibility!"
Cheng Wanli quickly refused. Since ancient times, marriages have been a matter for the royal family. It is always the princess who goes to get married. How can this be equal to a seventh-grade official like himself?
"Isn't this the goddaughter I recognize? Then his identity is different."
Tong Guan said with a smile, according to normal diplomatic marriage, it is indeed necessary for the princess of the royal family to marry to a foreign race, but the Song Dynasty has not had a marriage in a hundred years, not even with the Liao Kingdom. The most is to give a few more coins. At this time If you send a princess to the Jurchens, doesn't it mean that the Song Dynasty is weaker than the Jurchens and the Jin Kingdom?
The Kingdom of Jin was just a small country just established by the Jurchen tribe. These barbarians were not considered a mature country at all, and they were not qualified to marry the princess of the Song Dynasty.
But if you want to form an alliance, marriage is the easiest. The Jurchens have just established the Jin Kingdom and are in urgent need of a status, and marrying the Song Dynasty can give him this status.
"Childlike appearance..."
Cheng Wanli still wanted to refuse, but Tong Guan didn't want to hear it anymore.
"It's getting late. Go back. The imperial decree will arrive in a few days. After the examination, you and Zhao Liangsi will serve as envoys and go to Jurchen to see off your bride!"
Tong Guan waved his sleeves and ordered Cheng Wanli to be kicked out. The old governor and his guards took Cheng Wanli out without any explanation.
"Master Cheng, take advantage of this great glory!"
The old man smiled angrily and closed the door of Tong Mansion.
"Cheng Wanli seems reluctant to do so. This is a good thing to achieve success in one step!"
Zhao Liangsi looked at Tong Guan and asked.
"He has to be willing if he wants to, and he has to be willing if he doesn't!"
Tong Guan smiled nonchalantly and said, if he hadn't been there, he wouldn't have set his sights on Cheng Wan'er.
"If we send the princess there, those officials will definitely not agree. The emperor will also feel that his face is disgraceful, but just any folk girl is not qualified, and so are the Jurchens. What a group of barbarians like is not good. They have to like to be arty. They need to be talented and learned. woman!"
Zhao Liangsi shook his head helplessly and said, Tong Guan's house has many adopted daughters. It's not that there are no girls of the right age. It's just that Tong Guan is a military officer and most of the adopted daughters in the family have unrestrained personalities. Jurchens would not be satisfied if they were sent there.
"When this is done, we can send troops to the Liao Kingdom and take back Yanyun!"
Tong Guan said in a cold voice, once the marriage is successful, Zhao Ji will issue an edict to recognize the legitimacy of the Jin Kingdom. With this Jurchen, it will be a real country. With such a big favor, why don't the Jurchen barbarians fight to the death to repay each other?
"Tong Xiang still has a way, but I'm afraid the Jurchens won't be satisfied just by ennobling the Kingdom of Jin as a minister? Then the Jurchens attacked the Liao Kingdom and went to Beijing. What they wanted was that the Emperor of Liao and Wanyan Aguda should treat each other as brothers, and return the favor of the Kingdom of Jin. Brother, I am my brother from Liao!"
Zhao Liangsi looked at Tong Guan and said worriedly. The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty and the emperor looked down on the barbarian Jurchens, and were only willing to ennoble a vassal state. This might not satisfy the Jurchens' appetite.
"The Liao Kingdom didn't agree. Besides, how can a little Jurchen be compared with my huge country?"
Tong Guan looked at Zhao Liangsi and said, it would be too big for a barbarian tribe to be granted a vassal state.
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Cheng Wanli returned to the courtyard in a daze. He never expected that he had just brought his daughter out of the den of thieves, but that he would lead her into a pit of fire.
"Father, what's wrong?"
Cheng Wan'er looked at her lost father and wondered for a while, how could he have ended up like this after being out for only a short time.
Looking at his well-behaved and sensible daughter, Cheng Wanli sighed again. The thought of sending his daughter to Liaodong to marry the Jurchen Barbarian made him miserable. If he had known this, it would be better to marry his daughter. Even if Sun Lei is not a good person, he is still better than the Jurchen Barbarian. ah.
"Father hurt you!"
Cheng Wanli didn't want to hide it, sighed and shook his head.
"Father, what happened?"
Cheng Wan'er looked at her father and knew something serious was going on, so she asked eagerly.
Cheng Wanli told Cheng Wan'er the matter, and Tong Guan would send someone soon. This matter could not be hidden.
"why me!"
Cheng Wan'er was so frightened that her face turned pale. She never thought that such a thing as marriage would happen to her.
"I don't know either. If I had known this, I might as well have stayed in Dongping Mansion!"
Cheng Wanli sighed.
"Father, I don't want to go to Liaodong, and I don't want to marry a barbarian!"
Cheng Waner pulled Cheng Wanli's sleeves and begged. When she thought of those savage and terrifying alien races, Cheng Waner was so frightened that she started crying.
"well!"
Cheng Wanli sighed again when he looked at Lihua Daiyu's daughter. Although her daughter was a little rebellious, she was still a good and filial child. He had only had so little blood in his life, so how could he bear to watch her fall into the pit of fire.
"Daughter, you leave Tokyo early tomorrow morning and go wherever you want!"
Cheng Wanli touched his daughter's head and said.
"Father, let's go together!"
Cheng Waner looked at Cheng Wanli and said.
"I can't leave as a father!"
Cheng Wanli shook his head and said, against Tong Guan's wishes, he would never end up well. If he left with his daughter, he would eventually be caught by Tong Guan. Only if his daughter escapes and takes the blame can the matter be settled, not to mention the Cheng family members.
"If my father doesn't leave, I won't leave either!"
Cheng Wan'er knew very well how her father would be treated if she left.
"The imperial edict will come down in a few days, and then you won't be able to leave even if you want to!"
Cheng Wanli looked at his daughter heartbrokenly. The imperial decree could no longer be changed.
"Master, a group of sergeants came outside, saying they were ordered by the Child Prime Minister to protect the master!"
The butler ran in and said.
Cheng Wanli's heart skipped a beat. Tong Guan had already guessed that he would let his daughter go and put them under house arrest.
"Father, I won't go even if I die. There is nothing they can do."
Cheng Wan'er looked at her father with a determined expression.
"Daughter, matters in the court are not as simple as you think!"
Cheng Wanli was a little desperate. Since ancient times, women have been unwilling to get married, but in the end, who can resist? If the royal family is like this, how can a small family like him escape?
"It's late at night, you go to rest first and think of something for your father!"
Cheng Wanli looked at his daughter and comforted him. He was in a mess. Where could he find a solution? But now he could only comfort his daughter and tell her not to think nonsense.
Looking at her haggard father, Cheng Wan'er felt sad in her heart. Her mother died young, and it was her father who raised her. Even if she was more willful on weekdays, her father always supported her, but she didn't want to cause trouble and hurt her father now, but she Nothing can be done.
(End of chapter)
