It was early summer and the heat was unbearable, but there was only a hint of coolness in the office hall of Jinling Lecture Hall.
Jinling is the capital of Jiangnan East Road, and the emperor's "palace" is located in the Lecture Hall. Therefore, the "Bingjing Service" has an ice cellar in the city, specially used by the emperor and ministers to relieve the heat in summer. The emperor himself, unless he was a special guest, would usually receive foreign envoys here.
"The envoy from the Great Mongol Kingdom met with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
The official's voice sounded, and all the ministers in the hall of the martial arts hall became energetic.
When the Mongolian envoy arrives, he won't be asking for help, right?
Zhao Hong looked toward the door and saw two Mongolian envoys, one in bun and one with bald hair, both in their forties. Under the guidance of the eunuch, they entered the hall and stepped forward to salute Zhao Hong.
"Wang Jian, the envoy of the Mongolian Kingdom, is very skillful and pays homage to the Lord of the Song Dynasty!"
The leader of the Song Dynasty?
Xuan Zeng, who was beside Zhao Hong, was furious and was about to scold him, but Zhao Hong shook his head and stopped him.
"Two distinguished envoys, do you have any important business coming to see me?"
Zhao Hong smiled slightly and asked.
The Mongolian army is invincible, but these envoys are also rebellious and accustomed to it, and they do not take the so-called Emperor of Song seriously.
"What the hell is this place? It's too hot!"
Shuerche, the Mongolian envoy, was sweating profusely, frowning, and shouting dissatisfied.
Li Tang was suddenly angry and was about to step forward with a dark face, but Zhao Hong frowned and stopped him.
"Emperor Song, I heard that Tang Wuti's envoys are here, please hand them over to me quickly!"
Shuerche shouted loudly while wiping his sweat.
"Be bold!"
Xuan Zhen was so frightened and angry that he couldn't help but burst out.
This technique is really too presumptuous.
"You don't know the heights of heaven and earth..."
Li Tang's face turned red with anger, but Zhao Hong stopped him again.
"Your Majesty, please tell me, why should I hand them over to you?"
Zhao Hong picked up the tea cup with a calm expression, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry.
"Emperor Song, I, the Mongolian Kingdom, want to kill all the Tang Wu Ti people. You must hand them over to me quickly. I will cut off their heads and take them back to be used as wine bowls!"
Shuerche was rude and demanded to be very confident.
"Then what if I'm not allowed? What do you want?"
Zhao Hong stopped the angry ministers, put down the tea cup, and said lightly, the word "I" is useless.
Anger hurts the body! With his current level of cultivation and age, he thought he would rarely get angry, but he realized on the spot that the situation is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change, and he still has the same donkey temper.
"Emperor Song, Tang Wu Ti and I, Dameng, are enemies of the world. The late Great Khan left his last words and said that he must destroy Tang Wu Ti and the Jin Kingdom. Why did Emperor Song make an enemy of Dameng because of a few Tang Wu Ti envoys?"
The Mongolian envoy Wang Jian took over the conversation, but he was not too polite.
Wokuotai ascended the throne as the Great Mongolian Khan and went south to attack the Xia and Jin Dynasties. It was almost over. I believe it will be inevitable to use troops against the Song people at that time.
To him, it no longer matters whether or not we should break our skin.
"Your envoy, when the envoys of the Xia Kingdom arrive in our Song Dynasty, they will be our guests in the Song Dynasty. Your envoy, please don't force others to do anything."
Seeing Zhao Hong's face darken, Xue Ji quickly spoke first.
The emperor was fierce, and once he angered Zhao Hong, the consequences would be serious.
"Your Majesty, why are you here this time? Please come quickly. Otherwise, we will have to see you off!"
Xuan Zhen frowned, and then Xue Ji asked, also without politeness.
Let them kill the Xixia envoys. Do these Tatar envoys know what they are talking about? He also didn’t take Da Song seriously.
Do they really think this is the Song Dynasty in the past?
Zhao Hong looked at the fiery Xuan Zhen and smiled slightly.
This minister of the Ministry of War of the Song Dynasty was full of blood, which made him take a high look.
Wang Jian glanced at Xuan Zhen contemptuously and bowed to Zhao Hong.
"Emperor Song, our country, Mongolia, and the Jin people are feuding and sworn enemies. Our army wants to pass through the Song Dynasty. When the time comes, we will ask Emperor Song for permission and to send troops to help and provide food and grass. I, Mongolia, can't thank you enough."
Sure enough, just like in history, the Mongolian army wanted to use the Southern Song Dynasty to solve the problem by force.
Zhao Hong smiled coldly and said nothing, and Xuan Zhen immediately took over the topic.
"Your envoy, your country's army is passing through. Once this matter is known to the Jin Kingdom, Song and Jin Dynasties will have another side issue. Let's discuss this matter later."
"Discuss later?"
Wang Jian looked at Xuan Zhen and said coldly:
"Mr.
Xuan Zeng's face turned red and he wanted to speak, but Wang Jian had already turned his head and looked at Zhao Hong, his eyes burning and menacing.
"Emperor Song, this is a matter of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Please consider it carefully and give Mongolia a satisfactory answer!"
"Your Majesty, this arrogant person is extremely rude. Ignore this person!"
Xuan Zeng's face was red and his ears were red, and he shouted angrily at Wang Jian.
"Your Majesty, we will discuss this matter later. If there is nothing else, please come back!"
Li Tang and others also looked at each other angrily. If Zhao Hong hadn't been there, they would have drawn their swords against each other.
"Your Majesty, Xuan Xianggong is the Minister of the Ministry of War of the Song Dynasty. What he said is what I mean. The matter of borrowing the road is not a trivial matter, and I need to consider it carefully. I will give you a reply after discussing with the ministers."
Zhao Hong said it calmly, but the anger in his heart gradually increased.
The guest deceived the host, I really thought it was still the old cowardly court!
Reply to a bird, never follow up.
"Emperor Song, how long do you need to do a sentence? Is one hour enough? Or will it take several years?"
Shuerche was rude and aggressive.
He could see that Emperor Song's visit was unkind and was purely perfunctory.
However, this Emperor Song was also quite cowardly and did not even dare to say harsh words. Is such a coward worthy of being the Emperor of the Song Dynasty?
"You are like a dog, but you dare to be rude to me, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
Zhao Hongneng was a Ninja Turtle, but Li Tang next to him couldn't help it anymore, he poked his fingers and cursed angrily.
"Your Majesty, you are so bold and rude to intimidate me in front of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty! Please come back, please don't send me far away!"
Xuan Zhen also looked livid and yelled angrily.
This Mongolian deputy envoy Shu Erche was arrogant and domineering, had no dignity or inferiority, and was extremely vulgar. He repeatedly challenged the bottom line of the Song people, which was intolerable.
No wonder the emperor regarded Mongolia as a serious enemy and did not work together if he had different views. Just look at the faces of these people.
"Your Majesty, let me kill this thief!"
Li Tang's face turned pale, and he was about to draw his sword and step forward, but was held back by the white-haired Xue Ji.
Killing a country's envoys in court is equivalent to declaring war on them, which is completely unnecessary.
"Emperor Song, I am just informing you of the will of the Great Khan of the Great Mongol Kingdom. Our army is going south to attack the Jin Dynasty and destroy the Xia Dynasty. I also ask the Emperor of Song Dynasty to follow the old deeds of the Ning Zong Dynasty and form a good relationship with the Great Mongolian Kingdom to jointly attack the Jin Dynasty and destroy the Xia Dynasty. There is a feud between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty. Please allow the Emperor of Song Dynasty to allow my army to take advantage of the passage. Song and Meng will work together to destroy the Jin Kingdom."
Seeing that things seemed to be reaching a deadlock, Wang Jie had to change the topic.
It seems that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty will not be easily frightened. They have a mission on this trip.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there are other matters."
Zhao Hong smiled slightly and said it.
These two Tatar envoys would not leave out a single word of Genghis Khan's last words.
He waved his hand gently, and Li Tang sheathed the sword, taking a few steps back with an ugly expression.
The Mongolian deputy envoy Shuerche also sneered and took his hand off the knife handle.
"Emperor Song, the Tang Wu Ti Kingdom and our Mongolian Kingdom are world enemies. We, the Mongolian warriors, want to kill all the Tang Wu Ti people to appease the spirit of the great Khan. Please also ask the Emperor Song not to send troops to save Xia, so as not to arouse suspicion between the two countries. court disaster."
Sure enough, Wang Jian said it loudly, his attitude was still arrogant, and his saliva flew everywhere.
"Besides, those cities in the west of Hexi belong to our great Mongolian kingdom. You Song troops should withdraw quickly, lest there be a clash of swords and a river of blood!"
The Mongolian deputy envoy Shuerche shouted loudly.
The Song Dynasty captured Hexi. If they could speak politely, it was already a very low profile.
The two Mongolian envoys shouted one after another. Zhao Hong smiled slightly and said nothing, just coughing a few times.
"The envoy from the Kingdom of Jin met with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
The voices of Song officials sounded outside the hall, and the two Mongolian envoys in the hall were stunned.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty announced the arrival of envoys from Jin and Mongolia at the same time. What did he mean?
"Emperor Song, we have come to see you to discuss state affairs. Please ask Emperor Song to dismiss the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin immediately!"
Wang Jie was stunned and said decisively with a dark face.
At this time, he finally realized that he had been busy here for a long time, and the other party had already responded.
"Emperor Song, you really don't know the heights of heaven and earth. You summoned envoys from both countries at the same time. Do you still have Mongolia in your eyes?"
Another Mongolian envoy, Shuerche, had his eyes wide open and was about to burst into violence.
At the same time, the envoys of Jin and Meng were announced. Isn’t this making fun of people?
Amidst the angry sounds of the two men, several golden envoys walked in with smiles on their faces and saluted Zhao Hong one after another.
"The envoys of the Kingdom of Jin, Zhang Tiangang and Wanyan Hezhou, pay homage to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
After Zhang Tiangang and the two paid homage, they glanced at the two Mongolian envoys in surprise.
Perhaps they did not expect to meet two Mongolian envoys here.
He knew Wang Jian well and knew that he was an envoy from Mongolia. But I don’t understand what Zhao Hong means by summoning envoys from both countries at the same time?
"Mr. Zhang, Deputy Envoy Wanyan, you are well. Please take a seat."
Zhao Hong smiled slightly and asked the two of them to sit down.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhang Tiangang and Wanyan Hezhou looked at each other and sat down opposite Wang Jie and Shuerche. They smiled broadly at Wang Jie and Shuerche opposite them and bowed their hands.
Ogedei ascended the throne as Great Khan of Mongolia, but relations between the two countries did not improve at all. Although the Jin army once repelled the Mongolian attack in the northwest, it was a small battle. Once the Ogedei Torres lead the Mongolian army, the future will be worrying.
The purpose of their mission to the Song Dynasty this time was to get the Song Dynasty to fight against the Mongolian army, at least not to add insult to injury.
"Emperor Song, we are here to discuss important matters. Please send away the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin immediately!"
Wang Jie was angry and spoke out loudly.
"You two, get out of here!"
Shuerche waved his hand impatiently and directly ordered Zhang Tiangang and Wanyan Hezhou to be kicked out.
Zhang Tiangang and Wanyan Hezhou smiled, stood up together, and saluted Zhao Hong.
"Your Majesty, I will take my leave first."
"I will leave first!"
Weak countries have no diplomacy. The Tatar army is attacking the border of the Kingdom of Jin. At this time, they dare not offend the Mongolian envoys to avoid causing further trouble.
"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Wanyan, sit down! Don't you want to hear what I have to say?"
Zhao Hong raised his head, his tone was calm, but his eyes were cold and stern, leaving no room for argument.
The Mongolian envoy was so domineering that he was so angry that he was about to go berserk.
Whose home ground and territory is this in Niang?
Zhao Hong's words shocked Xue Ji and other Song ministers.
Today, the emperor summoned envoys from both countries to discuss matters at the same time. The emperor did this intentionally and took it too far.
"Emperor Song, what on earth are you going to do?"
Wang Jian spoke out angrily.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Zhao Hong was too lazy to deal with them and directly brought out the Jin envoy to reject their proposal.
At this time, he felt a little regretful. He regretted that he should not have been so impulsive and that he was too forceful towards the fierce and coquettish Emperor Song, which seemed to offend him.
"Emperor Song, are you going to go against our Mongolian kingdom? Aren't you afraid that as soon as our Mongol army arrives, your Song Dynasty's blood will flow like a river, leaving no chickens or dogs behind?"
Shuerche slapped the table and stood up, pointing his finger at Zhao Hong and roaring.
He could also see that this Emperor Song was obviously disgusting with him, and it was really unbearable.
"You're like a dog, and you dare to spit shit in front of me, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty?"
Li Tang blushed and cursed angrily.
"Your Majesty, don't talk dirty words, threaten and intimidate me, and if you want to use troops against me, the Song Dynasty, you should give it a try!"
Xuan Zhen said angrily, his face full of anger.
"Respected...respected envoy, please don't be presumptuous in front of me, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
Xue Ji trembled and scolded with a straight face.
The two ministers who were over sixty years old and participated in the political affairs shouted together, both of them were angry.
The Lord humiliates his ministers to death. Obviously, the two Tatar envoys were too presumptuous, which made these two cowardly civil servants really angry.
"Two distinguished envoys, please go back. Don't embarrass yourself here. This is not the Kingdom of Jin, nor Xixia, nor your Mongolian Kingdom. If you lose your life here, I'm afraid it won't be worth the loss. There won't even be anyone to go back and recover." .”
Wei Liaowen said lightly.
He has no diplomacy or negotiation skills at all, he only knows how to scare people. In particular, the dignified envoys of one country didn't even know anything about the character of the other emperor, and they were just intimidating. They didn't know why Mongolia sent these two idiots.
"Emperor Song, our Mongolian Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom are enemies of each other and are incompatible with each other. If your country is unwilling to surrender, it will be the enemy of our Mongolian Kingdom. Our Mongolian army will never give up!"
A group of Song ministers were impassioned and tit-for-tat, which made Wang Jian angry and continued to butt heads with everyone.
"Emperor Song, listen carefully and expel the Jin envoy immediately, or you will bear the consequences!"
Shuerche's roar was louder than Wang Jie's. He faced Zhang Tiangang and the two of them and pointed out of the hall without politeness.
"What are you two waiting for? Why don't you get out of here?"
A group of sour scholars with wide robes and big sleeves who only know how to dance and write, and "officials" who are better than the hands of women in the palace, what kind of blood can they say?
"Your Majesty, the old ministers and others will take their leave first. Please take your leave first."
Zhang Tiangang and Wanyan Hezhou looked at each other in confusion. They stood up, saluted Zhao Hong, and left the messy hall in a hurry.
The Mongolian iron cavalry is in full swing and may move south to invade the Jin Dynasty at any time, but they must not be offended, lest the war expands and they will regret it later.
