Chapter 38 7. Money diplomacy spends money to buy peace

In 1004 AD, the Liao army marched south. Quickly hit Chanzhou on the bank of the Yellow River, Chanzhou is already close to Tokyo.Because the centralization of power in the Song Dynasty was strengthened and the local strength was too weak, the foreigners came over very quickly. When they hit Chanzhou, it was like eating a peach, biting the peach core in one bite.Song Zhenzong summoned hundreds of officials to ask what to do. Prime Minister Wang Qinruo was from Jinling and advocated moving the capital to Jinling.The prime minister, Chen Yaosou, was from Chengdu and advocated moving the capital to Chengdu.Anyway, these two prime ministers have the same idea, run!Chen Yaosou said that in the past, "the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was lucky to Shu during the Anshi Rebellion", and the country and the country were preserved, so we should run there.Wang Qinruo said, don't run there, let's run to Nanjing.Nanjing has the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the Khitan people can't get through it.Zhenzong fainted, and there is another prime minister, Kou Zhun, who is on sick leave today, okay, go ask him.As soon as he thought that this bandit must be from Shaanxi, he probably suggested that I move the capital to Chang'an.In the end, I didn't expect Kou Zhun to be impassioned when he came, and anyone who dared to move the capital would be executed! "The capital city is the foundation of the world, and it will completely shake people's hearts." Your emperor has run away, and you only recruit others to work for you. Are they all two hundred and five?Besides how we run, we can outrun the Khitan people.You have two legs, but others have four hooves.At this point, you must resist, and you will conquer it yourself.

Song Zhenzong really reluctantly forced the driver to conquer himself. When crossing the Yellow River, he was afraid of death. He didn't want to cross the river, so he groaned in this sedan chair.I haven't done anything yet, I lost my keys, and I didn't bring my MP4, so I can't leave.Coulant was angry, but there was nothing wrong with it.The Taiwei Gao Qiu whipped the people who carried the sedan chair with a whip, and hurriedly carried the emperor over blindly.He didn't dare to scold the emperor, so he whipped the sedan chair bearer and carried the emperor over. The emperor was at a loss, and after passing by, he arrived at Chanzhou City.As soon as he arrived in Chanzhou City, the emperor hid in the state government office and refused to come out.Then Kou Zhun told him, you go to the city for a walk, and you show the common people that you are here.The emperor said yes, the common people saw it, and so did the Liao people.Get me a sniper for a while, and I'm done.Kou Zhun said it was nothing, and hurriedly prepared the steel helmet and bulletproof vest for the emperor, with a golden helmet and armor and a brocade robe.Then the golden armored warriors will surround you with three layers inside and three layers outside, ensuring that there is no problem.Dressed like a future special policeman, the emperor reluctantly walked around the city. When the soldiers of the Song Army saw the pumpkins, axes, stools, and umbrellas, they shouted long live and their morale was greatly boosted.

The Song army defending the city was 300,000, and the Liao army besieging the city was 90,000.At this time, the division of King Sifangqin arrived, and the battle started the next day.The commander-in-chief of the Liao army was shot to death by the Song army with a bed crossbow. The bed crossbow was a bed with a bow on the bed. He was winched with a winch and shot five arrows, each of which was nearly 3 meters.The arrowhead was a spear, which was originally used to shoot horses and battlements, but this time it was used to shoot Liao army commander Xiao Dalai.It is equivalent to the fact that the coach of the Liao Kingdom died in battle as soon as the war started, and became a specimen of the earth.The commander-in-chief died, and the Liao Kingdom was afraid and asked for peace.The Liao Kingdom negotiated peace with the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as the Northern Song Dynasty gave Liao Sui coins every year, and then Liao withdrew its troops.This is called the Chanyuan Alliance.

Kou Zhun said to Song Zhenzong, "Recover the Youyun in one go, so as to comfort the spirit of Taizu Taizong in the sky." Zhenzong said you should pull it down, which scared me enough. As long as Liao doesn't let us cede the land, it doesn't matter if you give me some money. I can afford it .Isn't the Song Dynasty the richest, spending money to buy peace in the world. So Song Zhenzong sent an envoy named Cao Lili, you go to Liaoying to negotiate, as long as you don't cede the land, the land is sorry for the ancestors, and I can give you money.Promise to give 1 million a year, year-old coins, once a year.Cao Li went there, and Kou Zhun told him when he went out, the emperor asked you to give 1 million, if you dare to exceed 300,000, I will chop you up when you come back.So Cao used his words in Liaoying, and promised 300,000, 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 bolts of colored silk (that is, silk) every year.

Then Cao Li returned to the camp to return to his command.The emperor was eating, and it was inconvenient to receive him, so he sent an eunuch to ask how much he paid.When Cao Li thought about how to tell the eunuch such a confidential matter, he held out three fingers, and the eunuch said 3 million when he returned.The emperor was so frightened that his chopsticks fell to the ground. He gave so much money, 3 million!After thinking about it, hey, it’s okay to buy Tianxia Taiping for 3 million, I admit it.After a while, call Cao Lili and ask if it is 300,000 yuan. If the emperor is happy, he will award you the May 1st Labor Medal.You are too powerful, the world of 300,000 is peaceful, and there will be no wars from then on.

The New Year's money given to Liao was 300,000 yuan at first, and then increased to 500,000 yuan. After the Chanyuan Alliance, Song and Liao maintained peace, the border was stable and trade flourished, and envoys communicated.The money given is different from the concept of indemnity in the late Qing Dynasty, because the Khitan people belong to the Chinese nation.This ethnic group is gone today, but according to genetic identification, the genes of the Daur people in Northeast China today are the closest to the Khitan people. It is possible that the Daur people are the descendants of the Khitan people.The last queen Wanrong is a Daur ethnicity.So he is a Chinese nation, and this cannot be called humiliation, not to mention the loss of power and humiliation of the country.In addition, the yearly coins given to Liao are equivalent to the fiscal revenue of two counties in the Northern Song Dynasty. How many counties were there in the Northern Song Dynasty?If there is a war, and the wars will continue, and the wars will continue for years, it will not be able to solve the problem with the money of these two counties.

So I think the most appropriate policy for nomads is the Song Dynasty, which was established for more than 300 years.It is not advisable to deal with ethnic minorities like the Han and Tang Dynasties, because it is impossible to completely eliminate them.After you eliminate him, he will have new and powerful nomads rise up, and there will be endless wars. They come here to grab something.Don't grab it, my buddy will give it to you.After giving it to you, is the money I gave you free?I sold books, porcelain, and tea to you. Once I traded with you, I quickly earned the money back, and you still have to pay back.I have a way to get back the 300,000 old coins, so what can you give me?Why don't you just give some cows, horses, camels, and furs? What are they worth? I should exchange a few horses for this porcelain vase.You don't want to, if you don't want to, you can put a horse at home, I won't give you this porcelain vase.You say this thing is unequal, I don't care if it's equal or not, you can't make this porcelain vase, so you can only buy it from me.So soon the trade exchange made the money back, and the relationship between the two parties was reconciled, and there was no war for 119 years.After the signing of the Song-Liao-Chanyuan Alliance, on the border, "breeding proliferated, cattle and sheep were wild, and people wearing white did not know how to fight." It means that the old man with white hair has never seen a war in his life.This promotes national integration and friendship.Later, when the Northern Song Dynasty united with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty, it belonged to the Northern Song Dynasty's betrayal of the alliance and treachery.

The ruler of the Liao Dynasty said, "I cultivate cultural relics, and Binbin is no different from China." The cultural relics here do not refer to unearthed cultural relics, but the rules and regulations.My laws and regulations are the same as those of China, you can't treat me as a barbarian, I am also China.If he admits that he is China, the land he stays in will belong to China, and this land will be incorporated into our Chinese territory and become a big Chinese family.Therefore, the expansion of China's territory is different from that of the United States and Russia.They rely on military expansion, we rely on national integration, cultural identity, and expansion to border areas with advanced culture and advanced production methods.

Xixia was established by a Dangxiang tribe of the Qiang nationality. The Dangxiang people were nomadic in the northwest of Ningxia, Gansu, and Shaanxi.In 1038 AD, Yuan Hao, the leader of the Dangxiang clan, proclaimed himself emperor, and his capital was Xingqing, which was known as Xixia in history. The Xixia established by Yuan Hao is actually called the Daxia Kingdom, because he was in the west of the Song Dynasty, so this Daxia was called Xixia.Xingqing is Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region today.Yuan Hao was not the founding emperor. When his father Deming and his grandfather moved, the regime of the Xia Dynasty was basically formed.Therefore, after Yuan Hao's death, the temple name Jingzong was not Taizu or Taizong.His father was Taizong, and his grandfather was Taizu. They used to be called kings, but it was only now that he was officially called emperor, and then he went on to claim the title.

Xixia imitated the Tang and Song Dynasties to establish a political system, implement the imperial examination system, and create Xixia characters.Xixia characters are also modified on the basis of Chinese characters, and the strokes are much more complicated than Chinese characters.Xixia script is also a dead script, no one can read it.However, in 1908, Russian archaeologists discovered the Heicheng ruins in Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia, where there were cultural relics from Xixia, and they were all packaged and transported away, so this is the second place in Dunhuang, the sad history of our country’s culture.Today, if Chinese scholars want to study Xixia studies, they must go to Russia to study.Later, during the archeology, a dictionary of Xixia characters and Chinese characters compiled by Le Maocai, a human bone from Xixia, was found, "Pearls in the Palm of Fanhan Heshi", so the Xixia script can be understood now, but the pronunciation is still not readable, no People can speak Xixia.

Yuan Hao proclaimed himself emperor and fought with Song. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and Song suffered even more. It's just that Song is not afraid, we have plenty of people.It has a vast territory and a large population.In the Battle of Sanchuankou, the Song army had 100,000 troops, the entire army was wiped out, and the three commanders were all captured alive.In the battle of Haoshuichuan, the Song army also had 100,000 people, the entire army was wiped out, and the coach Ren Fuzhan died.But Xixia also suffered a lot. The population of Xixia is less than 3 million, unlike the tens of millions in the Song Dynasty, where 10,000 people died in Xixia.So Yuan Hao asked for a peace, the two sides negotiated a peace, Xia became a minister to Song, and Song made an image project anyway.Because although Xia is a minister to Song Dynasty, he is still closed behind closed doors. Nanfang said that Gu is the emperor. He is just trying to save face for the Song Dynasty. Then Song wants to give Xia Sui coins in turn, but Song is just taking advantage of this year's coins. I give it to you every year, and you are my servant, so I will give you 250,000 new year's money every year. Go play.So every year, 70,000 taels of silver, 30,000 catties of tea, and 150,000 pieces of silk are given every year. Who makes you so poor that you can't open your eyes.