Chapter 23 Section 3 Jingde Peace Treaty

As the saying goes "there is no free lunch in the world", of course the Song Dynasty would not give Li Deming so many extra benefits for no reason.In exchange, what harsh conditions did the Song Dynasty put forward?Will Li Deming accept it? The Song Dynasty raised seven conditions in one breath: First, return Lingzhou.Your father Li Jiqian snatched this place, which you renamed Xipingfu as the capital, and you must return it. Second, your place of residence is limited to Pingxia, which is the land of your five states. Third, if you want to send your disciples to stay in the capital, you are actually being hostages.

Fourth, you will return the captured Song Dynasty officials. Fifth, you will disband the army. Sixth, you will return the captured Song soldiers. Seventh, in the future, if there are disputes between the two parties, they will be handled by the court. After reading these seven conditions, Li Deming agreed to five of them, but firmly disagreed with two of them.The first one is to return the territory of Lingzhou, which is impossible.Lingzhou was taken back by my father leading our party athletes with one knife and one gun, and sacrificed so many heroes. I will return it to you as soon as you touch your lips with your lips?Why?What cannot be obtained on the battlefield can never be obtained at the negotiating table. There has been no such thing since ancient times.The third article is to send the children to stay in the capital of Wei.Don't come here, I still don't understand what this means?Don't you just let my children be hostages?This won't work, our family is small.

Seeing that Li Deming firmly disagreed with these two matters, Song Chao had no choice but to ignore trivial matters as long as he did not fight with us.However, since you do not agree with these two conditions of the imperial court, well, the two additional preferential conditions given to you by the imperial court are also cancelled, party members are not allowed to come to the mainland of the Central Plains to trade, and you are not allowed to sell salt.But on the surface, the imperial court said that it is not allowed, can you control the entry of illegal salt sellers?Can you still come in and kill the other?The Song Dynasty signed a peace treaty with Li Deming, because at that time Dang Xiang was still a subject of Song Dynasty in name, so this was not like a peace treaty signed between the two countries.The peace treaty was signed during the Jingde period of Song Zhenzong, known as the "Jingde Peace Treaty" in history.After the signing of the Jingde Peace Treaty, there was no major war between Song and Dangxiang for more than 20 years.

Li Deming took advantage of the more than 20 years of peace to manage his own tribe and carry out various constructions.In addition, Li Deming has one servant and two masters, Song and Liao are both his masters, so every time he went to pay tribute to the two countries, his tribute envoys would bring a lot of local products, traffic them along the way, and engage in smuggling trade.Both Song and Liao turned a blind eye, as long as he belongs to us, doesn’t make trouble for us, and is my subject (Both Song and Liao regard him as their subject, and they don’t know who it is), he can sell some things to make money. A little money doesn't matter, it depends on the overall situation!Li Deming sold private salt in the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty also set up a market on the border to trade with Li Deming.Where Li Deming lives, he controls the Silk Road and imposes heavy taxes on traveling merchants.After you paid the tax, do you think the goods can be shipped out of the territory of the party?That's impossible, because the party soldiers will become heroes of the green forest in a sudden change, and then they will snatch you clean.If you want to pass by here, leave money to buy roads.Therefore, Li Deming's influence is growing.

Li Deming had lived peacefully with the Song Dynasty for more than twenty years without much war, but he always wanted to blackmail the Song Dynasty.One year, there was a disaster in his land and the grain harvest failed.He told the Song Dynasty that the frontier areas were hit by disasters, and the central government should provide assistance.The lion opened its mouth wide, and it would cost a million shi of grain for one mouth, otherwise it would do whatever it wanted.The incident happened suddenly, and Song Chao didn't know what to do for a while.