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Eight hundred and five, etiquette and respect

The sixth day of the September 19th is definitely a meaningful day for the entire Jin Kingdom.

Just as the Great Jin Kingdom was panicked, the imperial guards led by Puchayi were defeated, the Jing army was at the city, and the Tatars also arrived in the north of the capital. When the Liaodong Wanyan Zongbi army was defeated and fled north, the Jing army sent envoys.

At this time, the entire Great Jin Kingdom was in danger, and everything happened too quickly. In just half a year, the Great Jin Kingdom reached its current level.

Many powerful and wealthy families in Shangjing have begun to flee north, but escaping in this situation is also a dangerous thing. There is a chance of hitting the Tatars or Jing Jun, and no matter which one will end up.

Therefore, the emperor must be more cautious when he wants to flee north. If he is found out when he leaves the city, it is not a joke. If the emperor is captured, it is very likely that the Jin Kingdom will finish playing with it.

Liu Xu, Pu Chayi and other important officials have been worried about this matter recently. They are thinking about who they need to bring and what they need to bring. They also have to quietly understand the movement rules of Jing Jun who often walks openly outside the city, and also have to resist the emperor's anger.

Wanyan Li has been furious endlessly since late August, and has scolded Pu Chayi for being incompetent, and also scolded Wanyan Zongbi for being a traitor who did not come to save him.

People become thinner and angry, with deep eyes, and no one dares to say anything about the emperor, so they stay away from him.

The only thing Liu Xu and other loyal ministers can think about now is to keep the emperor and the Jin Dynasty's destiny, not to make them love the emperor, but to their respect for the former emperor.

If it weren't for the favor of the previous emperor, if it weren't for the kindness of the previous emperor, how many people would like to stay in Shangjing to live and die together with the emperor... It is unknown.

Just when everyone was cautious and frightened and prepared to flee north at the important moment, Jing Jun sent an envoy to ask for a meeting with the Emperor Dajin.

......

The Jin Kingdom attached great importance to it, met in the court, and summoned all civil and military officials.

The envoy of Jingjun was not old and was dressed in military uniform. After seeing the Emperor of Jin and his ministers, he was arrogant and even said that he would only kneel on the Emperor of Jing, not on the Emperor of Jin, and refused to kneel on the kneeling ceremony. He bowed and bowed.

At that time, a irritable general came out to clamor to kill people, but the young messenger was not afraid at all, and even showed disdain in his eyes.

Because he was able to be an envoy mainly because he was from Yanshan Prefecture. Before joining the army, he went to the Jin Kingdom to do business and understood Chinese, Khitan and Jurchen.

Before his departure, His Highness told him that the Jurchens would not dare to touch him. If they dared to touch him, after his death, the Jingguo army would set foot on Shangjing and avenge him.

He was extremely confident and proud, not only him, but his brothers in the army always believed in His Highness's words, because His Highness never broke his promise, and His Highness led them to be invincible and unrivaled.

Just like what is the once arrogant Jin Kingdom now? Even if the other party is the supreme Jin Emperor, in his eyes, he is just a defeated general!

Sure enough, many civil and military ministers of the Jin Dynasty quickly came out to stop them, and they vaguely heard someone whispering "killing him is equivalent to committing suicide."

The Emperor of Jin looked very bad, but he didn't say anything. Maybe he wanted to survive too.

The envoy conveyed the message that Jing Jun was willing to negotiate with the Emperor of Jin. Three days later, on the ninth day of the ninth month, he was at the post station twenty miles south of Shangjing City, and it was outdated.

Moreover, the commander of Jingjun, the crown prince of the Jingguo, and the Privy Councilor Li Xingzhou also reminded him that he hoped that the Jin Kingdom would show the etiquette and respect he should have, otherwise the negotiations would be difficult to proceed.

He said it very arrogantly, even the attitude of the messenger was very arrogant. No one in the court looked good, but no one dared to refute it again. This was the last life-saving straw for the Jin Dynasty...

After seeing off the envoy, everyone was silent. Should they negotiate or run away?

There are two roads ahead, but it seems that there is no need to think about it. If you have to consider the risk of being caught by the Jing army and the Tatars, and Shangjing and surrounding towns will be out of stock. The Dajin will truly lose half of the country, and it may even be even worse.

Although the peace talks are humiliating, they may be protected in Beijing and are not in danger of life.

Compared with the two, there is almost no controversy. The only thing to consider is how many people in Jingguo would want...

And... how to appease the emperor's self-esteem, so it was time for the great writers of all officials to play their roles, and they were all reasonable, quoted classics, and talked freely. The main purpose was to comfort the emperor, and peace talks were not embarrassing. Peace talks were not surrender, nor surrender. Your Majesty should not think too much about it...

If the emperor objected, they were afraid that they would jump up and angrily scold "Why did Your Majesty rebel?" After all, everyone wanted to survive.

.........

"The envoy said arrogantly that their commander asked our country to show corresponding etiquette and respect, otherwise there would be no peace talks." The young eunuch whispered.

In the queen's bedroom, the little palace maids around her poked the charcoal fire. The firelight made Pu Chaling's fair and beautiful oval face red, adding a little more charming. The little eunuch is reporting on the affairs in the court.

The palace is warm and warms people's hearts. When you feel at ease, you will naturally feel warm.

No matter how humiliating the Jin Kingdom or how unbearable it is to the emperor, and how much infamy it will leave behind, there is only one thing that can be sure of, that is, life will be saved.

As for the country and the face of the emperor, they would consider it when the Jin Dynasty was strong in the past and would be proud of the Dajin. Now they are unable to protect themselves, so they can only give priority to themselves.

"I may have to go there too..." Pu Chaling thought silently in his heart. The other party made it very clear that the corresponding etiquette and respect were to let them treat each other with the etiquette of the sect leader of the country.

This is an insult, and it is also equivalent to telling the world that the Jin Kingdom has since taken Jing Kingdom as its sect leader.

But they had no choice but to have no choice. When the troops were at the city, they would wait for the country to be destroyed and the people would be killed. Only then would they have a glimmer of life if they agreed.

Since she wanted to meet Li Xingzhou with the etiquette of seeing the sect leader, then as the lord of the harem and the Queen of the Great Jin, she must accompany the emperor to the scene.

She was actually very nervous and scared when she thought of meeting the legendary character.

Not to mention whether the rumors that Li Xingzhou was cruel and violent and could eat children were true or false. This person defeated the Great Jin Kingdom in half a year, and the army of more than 100,000 was defeated. He was invincible in every battle. Even the Liao King, who was invincible in her heart, was beaten away.

All these things are chilling just thinking about them.

How many blood does he have on his hands? Pu Chaling couldn't imagine it. It is said that the people of the Jin Dynasty were rumored that he had been bloodthirsty since he was a child. He killed a rebel of 100,000 people in Jingguo at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

Later, he fought a war in the east of Taihang Mountain, killed the army left by the Northern Han Dynasty, destroyed the Liao Kingdom, captured the Liao Emperor, slaughtered all the male members of the Liao Kingdom royal family, and ruined all the female family!

And their Jin Kingdom's more than 100,000 troops have been killed in half a year...

Nowadays, whenever the Jin people mention the name Li Xingzhou, they will involuntarily feel trembling and fear, angry and powerless, and fear spreads in their hearts.

How can you maintain your dignity in front of such a villain? Otherwise, you will show your fear and annoy the murderous demon king. After all, all the lives and deaths of all the people in Shangjing depend on his expression.

The more I thought about Pu Chaling, the more I felt my hands and feet were cold. The originally warm palace became colder again, so I quickly asked the little palace maid to add some charcoal.

.........

In early September, a wave of rebellion broke out in Zhongxing Prefecture, which was inspired by the Jin Dynasty.

Li Xingzhou, Zhongxing Prefecture, did not intend to return it to the Jin Kingdom, so he cleaned up the mess himself. In front of the new army, the rebellion was quickly quelled, and the new army captured more than 600 people.

Most of these people were Jurchens, as well as Khitans, Xi people, and Han people. When they saw Li Xingzhou, most of them knelt down and begged for mercy, saying that they were just obsessed with ghosts and were exploited.

Li Xingzhou picked out 112 people under the age of 18 to serve as auxiliary soldiers, and all the remaining ones were beheaded and displayed in public. The chopped heads piled up into a hill taller than him.

Li Xingzhou became numb to this. He had even executed thousands of defenders in the two states who had resisted tenaciously, and blood flowed into a river, causing the moat to rise to the water level.

Compared to the time he first came to this world and would think a lot of things every time he killed someone, he now felt it was natural and became more numb and cold-blooded.

Sometimes he even thinks of the killing behavior of Bai Qi, Temujin and others, and thinks that if it were him, it might be the case.

His current situation is actually somewhat similar to Temujin's Western Expedition, but Temujin's situation is even more cruel. It takes a year or two to travel thousands of miles to ordinary people and enter a strange area with a population of more than 20 million.

If he didn't want to die, and if his soldiers and soldiers were killed, killing was almost inevitable, because he could not divide his troops to defend various cities.

So there are two choices. One is to trust local strangers and think that if they surrender, they will surrender. They will not be able to rebel again and will not give themselves a knife from behind.

Most people who have such innocent thoughts about people's hearts are three meters high in grave grass, and countless people die without corpses.

One is to kill, kill until blood flows into a river, kill to the point of being frightened. Since you don’t trust it, kill it!

It is true that Temujin bears many infamous, butchers, genocides, inhumanism, and has also been subject to many moral condemnations from later generations.

But it is undoubtedly very lucky to have such a monarch under his command. He never considers being responsible for his opponents, he only considers being responsible for his soldiers who have lived and died with him.

It doesn’t matter how many enemies die, but no matter how many enemies die, my brothers are allowed to move. This is his morality in dealing with the world.

Perhaps this is why he was furious for hundreds of Mongolian merchants and three envoys. In a rage, he traveled across mountains and rivers and traveled thousands of miles across the country to expedition. More than 100,000 people, and on the enemy territory of tens of millions of people, he savvyly destroyed the overlord of Central Asia Khwarezm.

This kind of ruthlessness, no tolerance, and no concerns about interests is the ruthlessness that you touch my people today, and tomorrow I will kill your whole family at all costs, which will impress many people on the grassland.

Perhaps because of this, he was supported by countless soldiers, with many powerful generals under him, and his four sons were all good at fighting. This may be another kind of personality charm.

With such an opponent, Li Xingzhou always feels that he is under great pressure.

However, there are some things that Temujin is worth learning from, such as the unreasonable and ruthless spirit of protecting one's own people.

While sending envoys, Li Xingzhou also dispersed the troops of various states before assembling. If the Jin people dared to touch his envoys, he would directly lead his army to attack Shangjing.

Even if this is not in his best interest, he will definitely fight. Being too smart is not always a good thing, and sometimes you can't care too much about gains and losses.

.........

However, Li Xingzhou overestimated the courage of the Jin Dynasty emperor. On September 7, on the way to Beijing, the envoy came back safely, and even brought the precious gifts from the Jin people to give him.

The envoy excitedly told him that the Jin people agreed to all his requests and was willing to go to the 20-mile station south of the capital to negotiate on September 9th.

Then he explained who gave the gift he gave and handed it to Li Xingzhou. Li Xingzhou asked the young messenger to stay. He had the courage to go to the Jin emperor alone, and these were the rewards he deserved.

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