Under the guidance of Gao Yaoshi, a native of Liao, Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing sailed on the sea for five days and five nights. Finally, at dawn on the sixth day, they arrived at the northeastern coast of Liaoning and tried to dock.
The Jurchen soldiers on duty on the shore saw the boats coming from the north circling around with strange movements. They thought they were spy ships from Korea or Liao, so they surrounded them with boats and forced Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing to stop. Big ship. Jurchen soldiers boarded the big ship, tied up Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, Gao Yaoshi and more than ten soldiers with ropes, and took them to see their superiors.
Gao Yaoshi is from Jizhou and knows a little about Jurchen language. After Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, and Gao Yaoshi met with the Jurchen soldiers' superiors, Gao Yaoshi explained the identities of their group in Jurchen language that was not very fluent. Gao Yaoshi told the superiors of the Jurchen soldiers that they were not from Liao or Goryeo, but from the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties. In addition to buying horses, they came to Liaodong this time to find the Emperor of Jin and deliver a message from the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The boss of the Jurchen soldiers was born as a fisherman. How much education could he have? After listening to Yaoshi Gao's semi-intelligible Jurchen words, he became very suspicious and thought to himself that if just a few people wanted to meet the great emperor of our country, wouldn't they be overestimating their abilities? The superior of the Jurchen soldiers was unhappy and wanted to kill Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, Gao Yaoshi and more than ten other soldiers.
Fortunately, there was a knowledgeable Jurchen soldier nearby who told his superiors that judging from their appearance, these people were indeed from the Southern Dynasties, not Khitan or Goryeo. These people from the Southern Dynasties have no enmity or enmity with me, Dajin, so why should we kill them? Maybe they are really here to find our great emperor. Let’s not miss out on important events by killing them. At present, the Emperor is in Liaodong, so it would be better to escort them to the Emperor and let him deal with them.
After hearing this, the superiors of the Jurchen soldiers felt that it was justified, so they sent troops to escort Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing and his party to the place where Emperor Wanyan Agu was attacked.
After many twists and turns and spending most of a day, Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing and his party were escorted to Wanyan Aguda's large tent. Wanyan Agu attacked the Chinese army's tent and the soldiers from the camp, and pinned Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing and his party to the ground.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin sat high, and next to him was Wanyan Wu, a beggar and other ministers. Behind Wanyan Aguda stood a Han citizen from the Central Plains.
Ma Zheng, who was pinned to the ground, had already guessed that the person sitting on the tiger leather chair was Wanyan Aguda, the Great Emperor of the Jin Kingdom.
However, Ma Zhi pretended to be confused and looked at Wanyan Aguda and said: "Big boss, we are not Khitan people, we are horse traders from the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. Big boss, we often travel between the Song Dynasty and the Jurchen During the period, he was engaged in the business of selling horses."
Standing behind Wanyan Aguda was a Han from Central Plains named Li Shanqing. While Ma Zheng was speaking, he translated Ma Zheng's original words for Wanyan Aguda.
Wanyan Aguda nodded while listening to Li Shanqing's translation.
While observing Wanyan Aguda's expression, Ma Zheng continued: "For a long time, we have bought horses from the Jurchens to provide them with the iron tools and food they urgently need. We have a deep friendship with the Jurchens."
Wanyan Agu nodded.
Ma Zheng continued to say: "Big boss, we have respect for the Jurchens. This time we came to buy horses. Unexpectedly, your soldiers took us away and regarded us as traitors of the Liao Kingdom. Big boss, I am here. We have a bitter feud with the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom occupies our sixteen states of Yanyun. Our court wishes to ally with your country and jointly conquer the Liao Kingdom. How can we be traitors of the Liao Kingdom?"
Li Shanqing translated Ma Zheng's words to Wanyan Aguda. After Wanyan Agu inquired about Li Shanqing's translation, he then took a closer look at Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, Gao Yaoshi and others. He saw that except for Gao Yaoshi, the others did not look like Liao people and were obviously Han people from the Southern Dynasties.
Wanyan Aguda then pointed at Yaoshi Gao with his finger and asked, "Who is he?"
When Gao Yaoshi saw Wanyan Agu pointing at him and asked, "Who is he?" he was so frightened that he trembled all over.
Gao Yaoshi is different from Ma Zheng and others. Ma Zheng and others were from the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, and he was from the Khitan. The Song people in the Southern Dynasties had no enmity against the Jurchens, but as a Khitan, it was different. The Jurchens were mortal enemies. If the Jurchen emperor pursued him, his life would be at risk.
Upon seeing this, Gao Yaoshi hurriedly said to Ma Zheng, who was kneeling next to him: "Doctor Ma, you invited me to be your guide. My life depends on you. I hope you will be safe."
Hearing this, Ma Zheng turned to Yaoshi Gao and said, "Don't be afraid, I have an official here."
Wanyan Aguda's question was translated by Li Shanqing to Ma Zheng and others.
Ma Zhengsui reported: "The big leader is above. This is Gao Yaoshi, a Khitan nationality of the Song Dynasty. We come to Liaodong this time for a special mission. Since we are not familiar with the road, I am guided by Gao Yaoshi."
Li Shanqing translated Ma Zheng's words to Wanyan Aguda.
Wanyan Aguda heard this and nodded.
Li Shanqing was a Han nationality in the Central Plains, and Li Shanqing translated all the conversations between Ma Zheng and Wanyan Aguda.
At this time, Wanyan Aguda took a closer look at Ma Zheng and saw that he looked talented, with majestic equipment and noble temperament. He was not an ordinary commoner, but rather an official of the imperial court. In addition, Ma Zheng mentioned the friendship between the two countries in the past when they bought horses. , Wanyan Aguda had a good impression of Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, and Gao Yaoshi. He felt much more comfortable and the expression on his face became much happier.
In the past, when Wanyan Aguda unified the Jurchen tribes, he did use the Jurchen's abundant horses to conduct folk transactions with the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, and obtained a large amount of grain and iron tools. For this, Wanyan Aguda felt deep in his heart about People in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties still had a favorable impression.
In addition, the Jurchens had been oppressed by the Liao people for a long time, but had never had any problems with the Song people. This made Wanyan Aguda more willing to accept Ma Zheng and others from the Song Dynasty.
Especially when I heard Ma Zheng say that the Song Dynasty court wished to form an alliance with your country to fight against the Liao Dynasty, my eyes lit up and I felt that this was really a good idea.
However, Wanyan Aguda didn't know if this statement was Ma Zheng's personal meaning? Or the emperor of Song Dynasty meant it. If this is just Ma Zheng's personal intention, he is just a commoner. If he has this intention, what is the use of it?
Therefore, Wanyan Aguda's mood calmed down, and he was no longer as excited as before. He ordered the soldiers accompanying him to let go of Ma Zheng and others, and asked Ma Zheng and others to stand up.
Ma Zheng and others got up and stood on the ground.
Ma Zheng stood up, rolled his eyes, and secretly watched the expression on Wanyan Agu's face. After seeing Wanyan Agu's smile after hearing about the alliance, he calmed down again, guessing that Wanyan Agu was facing Song. The Golden Alliance was interested, but was depressed because they could not determine the specific situation.
Therefore, Ma Zheng said to Wanyan Aguda: "The big leader is here. When I look at the appearance of the big leader, I see that the sun has come. He is so precious that he will definitely be the lord of the north in the future."
Wanyan Wu Qimai, who was sitting next to him, interjected: "What a look in your eyes?! This is the Emperor of Jin Dynasty! Can't you tell?"
After Ma Zheng heard this, he pretended to be waking up from a dream, fisted Wanyan Aguda with both hands, made the big bow that Han people do when meeting each other, and said: "The king in the strange way has the spirit of an emperor. It turns out he is The emperor of your country. In this case, I can only pay an ordinary courtesy."
Wanyan Nianhan, who was sitting on the other side, was furious when he saw this.
This Wanyan Nianhan had recently succeeded his father Wanyan Sakai as the Prime Minister of the State, and held a high position in the Jin Kingdom.
In Wanyan Nianhan's opinion, just now Ma Zheng did not know that Wanyan Aguda was the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, but he still knelt down and bowed down. Although he was forcibly held down, he did not resist, which shows that he was willing; but now , after knowing that Wanyan Aguda was the Emperor of Jin Dynasty, he gave a normal greeting ceremony. This clearly meant that he did not regard Emperor Jin Dynasty as the emperor!
Therefore, Wanyan Nianhan was furious. He stood up from his seat, drew his sword, and shouted loudly: "How dare you be a southern barbarian! How dare you despise my emperor? I'll kill you first!"
Wanyan Nianhan roared and rushed over to stab Ma Zheng.
Wanyan Aguda and others were all shocked. Wanyan Aguda shouted anxiously: "Nianhan, stop it! Let's listen to what he says."
Wanyan Nianhan stopped when he heard this and glared at Ma Zheng angrily.
Ma Zheng's face did not change, his heart did not beat, and he said calmly: "To tell you the truth, the emperor, I am not an ordinary Song Dynasty person. I am an official of the Song Dynasty court, and I am worshiped by Dr. Wuyi. I am appointed by the imperial court to be an envoy to your country and represent you." This is the country of the Song Dynasty. Since I meet the emperor of your country, I naturally have to perform a normal greeting ceremony instead of a kneeling ceremony. The reason why I performed a kneeling ceremony just now was firstly to survive, and secondly because I was forced by your soldiers. .Now that I have met the emperor of your country, as an official of the Song Dynasty, I should observe the normal etiquette between countries."
Wanyan Aguda and the ministers were all greatly surprised when they heard this. They didn't expect that the person in front of them was actually an envoy sent by the Song Dynasty? ! Unexpectedly, the mighty Song Dynasty also sent envoys to discuss alliance with us Jurchens and jointly conquer Liao.
While the Jurchen monarchs and ministers were greatly surprised, Ma Zheng continued: "Great Emperor, we came across the sea this time to discuss an alliance with your country so that we can jointly conquer Liao. You can avenge the grievances of your past life. We can take advantage of the situation to get back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that our ancestors lost during the Later Jin Dynasty. Why not do such a thing that has the best of both worlds?!"
After Wanyan Aguda found out what was going on, he was overjoyed and hurriedly called to Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing and Gao Yaoshi: "Since you are the envoys sent by the Song Dynasty, please sit down quickly." Wanyan Aguda immediately ordered to follow the camp. Soldiers, quickly set up seats for Ma Zheng and others.
Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, and Gao Yaoshi took their seats, and the other soldiers were politely let out of the tent, and other arrangements were made.
Wanyan Aguda stood up rarely and came to Ma Zheng.
Ma Zheng stood up quickly.
Wanyan Aguda said to Ma Zheng enthusiastically: "Sir, I didn't know the identity of the envoy just now. I offended you so much. I hope you will forgive me."
Ma Zheng replied: "Great Emperor, don't be too polite. Please take a seat."
Wanyan Aguda turned back, sat on the tiger leather chair, looked at Ma Zheng and said, "Your Majesty, you have had a hard journey. How did you get here?"
Ma Zheng saw the question and answered truthfully: "To be honest, the emperor said that when we go to your country, the land route is impassable due to Khitan control, so we detour from the sea and come close to the Koryo Kingdom."
Wanyan Aguda said repeatedly: "Thank you for your hard work. Does your country really want to form an alliance with our country? If Jin and Song are to form an alliance, the envoy might as well tell you the specific content."
Ma Zhengfu took his seat and then explained the purpose of his trip in detail.
Wanyan Aguda listened, nodded, and said yes repeatedly.
After Ma Zheng explained the situation, Wanyan Agu called someone to bring Ma Zheng, Hu Yanqing, and Gao Yaoshi out of the tent and arranged for them to stay.
Wanyan Aguda immediately discussed with Wanyan Wu Qimai, Wanyan Nianhan, Wanyan Xieye, Wanyan Chamu, Wanyan Talan and others about forming an alliance with the Song Dynasty.
The Northern Song Dynasty wanted to make good friends with the Jin people and unite with the Liao Dynasty. This situation was completely beyond the expectations of Wanyan Aguda and other ministers of the Jin Kingdom. Therefore, Wanyan Aguda and the ministers were very surprised. After Ma Zheng and others were brought out, Before he could calm down, his big eyes looked at his little eyes, with surprise on their faces.
The Song Dynasty was a country in the Southern Dynasties with a long history, prosperous culture, developed economy, and civilized society. It has always been worshiped and respected by the Jin people.
What the Jin people didn't expect was that such a powerful Southern Dynasty had such high regard for the Jurchens, and even took the initiative to send people to unite with the Jurchens who had just founded the country to jointly conquer Liao. How could Wanyan Agu not be beaten? Waiting for a bunch of Jurchens to be flattered? !
Therefore, the general people of Wanyan Aguda were delighted, spoke excitedly, and the atmosphere was lively. When discussing Ma Zheng's proposal, they all advocated an alliance with the Song Dynasty to jointly fight against the Liao Dynasty.
