Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 279: A certain Zhang Qi!

Ghost Rider nodded and said, "It's me."

Li Binglin was delighted, finally meeting someone, and quickly said, "Su Jinglie, I am here on the orders of the Lord of Great Xia to negotiate peace with your Song Dynasty. You are the negotiating ambassador of the Song Dynasty, why are you avoiding me?"

Su Yun said: "You came at an inopportune time. I have been leading the army on a training exercise these days. Let's start the discussion tomorrow."

Li Binglin breathed a sigh of relief. He could finally enter the negotiation process. He wanted to agree immediately, but Yelu Ziming suddenly said, "Su Jinglie, can you take off your mask so that I can see your face?"

Su Yun chuckled and then took off the mask.

Li Binglin and Yelu Ziming both exclaimed in surprise.

"It's you!"

"It's really you!"

Su Yun could do what he wanted, but he would never admit it to their faces. He smiled and said, "Oh, have you two met me before?"

Li Binglin narrowed his eyes, then shook his head and said, "It seems like an old friend, but I was mistaken."

Yelu Ziming glanced at Li Binglin, snorted and said nothing.

Su Yun smiled, then turned his horse around and led dozens of riders down the mountain.

Before leaving, the horse under Su Yun's crotch actually neighed at him, as if greeting an acquaintance. Li Binglin was stunned: Wasn't that his beloved horse?

Suddenly, a feeling similar to the hatred of having your wife taken away surged into my heart.

The next day, Li Binglin and his entourage were taken to the provincial government office. When they arrived, they found that Yelu Ziming was not there, so they hurriedly asked, "Where is the Liao ambassador?"

Yu Qianpan turned around and looked at him and said, "It is you Xixia who are fighting with us. What does it have to do with the Liao Kingdom?"

Li Binglin immediately became anxious and said, "How can that be possible? We must negotiate together. If the Liao ambassador is not here, then I will not negotiate!"

Yu Qianpan nodded and said, "Okay, you know the way, so go back by yourself. I'll go tell Su Jinglie. I think he will be very happy because he is anxious to continue training the troops."

Li Binglin became even more anxious upon hearing this. He grabbed Yu Qianpan's arm and said, "What on earth do you want?"

When Yu Qianpan's arm was grabbed, he suddenly turned around, stared at Li Binglin and said, "This is Yanzhou, not Bianjing. You gentlemen in Bianjing need to consider the overall situation. Here in Yanzhou, we are fighting to the death with you!
We, the sons of Yanzhou, have been fighting with you Xia people for 120 years. If not millions, hundreds of thousands of our sons have died at your hands. The hatred is as deep as the sea. You come here to act arrogantly. Do you want to die?"

Li Binglin withdrew his arm as if he was burned. He felt something was wrong and hated himself again for not seizing the opportunity in Bian Jing. Now that he came to Yanzhou, he was really at a loss as to what to do!
Yu Qianpan saw Li Binglin's expression and sneered, "I don't know what the officials in the court are thinking. We Yanzhou people only know how to fight. How can we talk about peace?"

Pushing you over here obviously means they don’t want to negotiate peace. Forget it, let’s just go through the motions.

Ambassador Li, please just pretend and raise the terms so that you can have an easier time explaining when you return.

Of course, we also have to talk about it in a higher level, naturally in order to give an explanation to the court!

Now that everyone has their own explanation, this matter is over. We will see each other on the battlefield later."

When Li Binglin heard this, his heart immediately sank. Even a judge dared to speak like this. It seemed that not wanting to negotiate was already a consensus in Fuyan Road. But, why are you so confident? Do you think you can defeat our Daxia?

Li Binglin suppressed his anger and said, "Are you sure you can win?"

Judge Yu smiled and said, "Before Young General Su came, we were not afraid of fighting. Fighting is the livelihood of those of us in the military states. How can we get promoted without fighting? Do we rely on farming or urging women to have children?
In order for an official of a military state to be promoted, all he needed to do was to fight a war. If he won the war, he would be promoted, and if he lost the war, he would get rich. If he did not fight a war, he would neither be promoted nor get rich.

You are also an official in the government, do you still need me, an official from the enemy country, to teach you this truth?" Li Binglin was speechless.

Entering the lobby of the provincial government, which was temporarily set up as a negotiation site, Li Binglin entered with Zhang Erbai and several accompanying officials, but Su Yun was nowhere to be seen. Only a few civil servants were already sitting at the east seat.

When they saw Li Binglin and others coming in, several civil servants were quite polite and stood up to greet them.

Li Binglin was not surprised. He knew that the people of Song Dynasty always claimed to be a country of etiquette. Even in such occasions, they would adhere to the practice of "negotiations between major countries should be magnanimous". He had also witnessed this in Bian Jing.

Especially the Vice-Chancellor Zhang Dun, who looked like he wanted to attack someone, but he just endured it.

Well, now that I think about it, that Politician Zhang was actually a pretty good guy.

The two sides sat down, and then the Song Dynasty official began to speak, announcing the start of the peace talks. Li Binglin was surprised and asked, "Why is Su Jinglie not here?"

The official of the Song Dynasty laughed and said, "Let's talk first. When the conditions are almost agreed upon, we can invite Su Jinglie to come. Su Jinglie is too busy to come and waste time discussing one thing after another.

In fact, Ambassador Li is the same. He can ask his subordinates to talk to us, and when the talks are almost over, he will invite you to come together."

Li Binglin immediately frowned and said, "If we keep talking like this, won't it take forever?"

The official laughed and said, "Hasn't peace talks always been like this? Talk slowly, wrangling slowly, so that everyone can rest and recuperate. If we continue to fight, it will depend on how everyone fights on the battlefield. Whoever fights better will have more confidence. Using war to promote peace is the truth.

So Ambassador Li, don't be anxious. Let's talk slowly. It's normal to talk for a year or two. Ambassador Li can have fun in Yanzhou, see the scenery, and there's no need to be anxious at all."

Li Binglin immediately smelled the smell of gunpowder and asked, "You still want to fight?"

The official laughed and said, "The fighting hasn't stopped yet, has it? Oh, yesterday a small group of your Xixia appeared near Luowu City. The day before yesterday, a scout secretly approached Qingbian Village for reconnaissance. The day before yesterday, you and I had an encounter battle near Yongle City, and dozens of people were killed and injured."

Li Binglin frowned and said, "From what you said, do you still want to continue fighting?"

The official frowned and said, "What do you mean we want to continue fighting? After the Battle of Yongle City, we, the Song Dynasty, have already planned to stop fighting. This time you are leading hundreds of thousands of troops to attack our Song Dynasty. Is there anything wrong with us fighting back?"

Li Binglin said angrily: "It was you who first sent five armies to attack Daxia. Whether it was the Battle of Yongle City or the Battle of Mizhi this time, it was all a continuation of your Great Song's attack on Daxia!"

Upon hearing this, the official's face suddenly turned serious and he said, "Then we need to rethink this matter. Our Song Dynasty is a country of etiquette. How can we start a war without a reason? The reason why Song and Xia had a war can be traced back more than a hundred years. Back then, your Tuoba family defended the five states of Dingnan for our China..."

This official cited a wide range of examples and recounted the many wars that had occurred between the two countries over the past hundred years. Li Binglin, Zhang Erbai and others were stunned. When he talked about something interesting, some people in the Western Xia delegation even couldn't help clapping.

After finishing discussing the history of the two countries, Li Binglin turned around and found that candles had been lit in the lobby.

Ok?
it's dark?
Li Binglin immediately thought that this was not good. This guy was so talkative that a whole day was delayed without him noticing. Would the negotiations really be protracted from now on?
Yes, Xixia also needs to recuperate now, and delaying for some time is a good thing for Xixia, but he doesn't want to delay here!
It would be fine if he was in a prosperous place like Bian Jing, but he felt uncomfortable staying in Yanzhou City, which had been through many wars and seemed a little dilapidated and with all businesses in decline, for a moment longer!
However, it took a whole day just to determine who started the war. The key point is that even after a whole day, the matter was not settled, and instead the Song Dynasty had all the upper hand!
Li Binglin looked at the official deeply and said, "You are not an ordinary person. May I know your name?"

The official laughed and said, "Ambassador Li talked with me all day today, and he just remembered to ask my name now. Haha, it is really an honor for me. My surname is Zhang, my given name is Qie, and I am the new chief steward of Fuyan Road."

The surname is Zhang... Li Binglin suddenly remembered the Minister Zhang, so he asked casually, "Are Chief Steward Zhang and Minister Zhang of your dynasty from the same clan?"

Zhang Qie laughed and said, "That's my cousin."

Li Binglin was suddenly shocked. When he was in Bian Jing, he heard that Zhang Canzheng's son-in-law was Su Yun, the governor of Fuyan Road. Now the governor of Fuyan Road is also Zhang Canzheng's cousin. Doesn't that mean that Fuyan Road is basically controlled by Zhang Canzheng's faction?

what does this mean?
This means that the Song court values ​​and trusts Su Yun, which means that Su Yun may have great autonomy in matters concerning Western Xia!
Things are getting worse!
Judging from Su Yun's style of doing things, he is very arrogant and domineering, and even has the intention to provoke a big war between Song and Xia. Now that he has such a large degree of autonomy in this matter, it means that he is likely to start a big war again!
The more Li Binglin thought about it, the more scared he became.

After he returned to his residence, he immediately wrote a secret letter and asked someone to send it back to Xixia as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)