The sixth year of Xingguo was destined to be the year of harvest in the Song Dynasty. The military victory, economic recovery and the development of foreign trade over the past few years have made its influence increasingly stronger. Although it has not reached its peak in the Han and Tang dynasties, it has clearly been

He became the overlord of East Asia.

The emperor's consort was like finding another wife, and there was no need to mobilize many people, but this time the marriage was the princess of Xixia. After discussion, the ministers thought that this was a symbol of the country's revival, and it also involved the old enemy Xixia, which was to the world.

It showed the major events of the rise of the Song Dynasty, so it was decided to handle the emperor's actions, send a wide message, and invite countries to watch the ceremony.

In the eyes of the foreign vassal, this marriage was not only the Song Dynasty showing off its strength, but also the changes in the world pattern after the Song and Xia alliance. Therefore, the congratulatory envoys sent were all important officials of the country, with a mission and took the opportunity to carry out the marriage.

A diplomatic battle without gunpowder. The most eye-catching thing now is the old Goryeo of the Song Dynasty...

Song and Goryeo established diplomatic relations as early as the beginning of the founding of the country, because the two countries formed a very deep sense of identity on the basis of cultural homogeneity. Song also believed that Goryeo was a country of gentlemen and was willing to interact with it.

They sent envoys to each other, and both official and trade exchanges were very frequent.

However, there were also many twists and turns. Song and Khitan lost in the war. Liao was in full swing. They strictly controlled the surrounding countries and forced Goryeo and Song to cut off relations and surrender to him. After the alliance between Chanyuan, the relations between Song and Liao eased and both sides recovered.

Exchanges. After the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao Dynasty, Song, Jin and Goryeo once again formed a triangular relationship of mutual restraint and mutual influence. Any change in the relationship between the two countries will affect the third country, thereby affecting the political structure of East Asia. Due to the factual strength of the Song military

The gap in the end formed a political pattern with Jin as the leader was established.

Soon, as the Jin army advanced southward, the Song army retreated step by step and had to cede land and seek peace. This pattern was broken again. When the prosperity and decline of the Jin Dynasty were a foregone conclusion, Goryeo naturally did not want to be enemies with the Jin Dynasty and sent envoys to

The Jin Dynasty decided to make an appointment with the Jin Dynasty and politely declined the invitation of the Song Dynasty to unite against the Jin Dynasty. The Jin Kingdom was the king of Goryeo, Wang Kaifu, the three corpses, the Shangzhu Kingdom, and the King of Goryeo. Goryeo officially pursued the reign of the Jin Emperor and established it

The vassal relationship with the Jin Dynasty.

After that, the relationship between Goryeo and Song reached a low point again, and their exchanges with Jin were more frequent. The official diplomatic relations with Song were cut off. However, with Zhao Jia succeeding to the throne and repelling the attack of the Jin Kingdom, the relationship between the Three Kingdoms once again took a subtle effect.

The relationship between Song and Goryeo eased, but it was mainly due to the recovery of economic and trade relations, and the official was still relatively cold. However, after the Song army recovered Yan Yun and the troops were out of Da Ding, the declining minister of the Jin Kingdom had already emerged, but Song rose again.

This forced Goryeo to reconsider the relationship between the two countries under the new situation!

"Your Majesty, Goryeo sent an envoy to pay tribute to our court. Please give me a title and resume contact. The envoy has arrived in Dengzhou, please tell your Majesty!" Today, the court's proposal was held, and all officials from all departments participated. Yang Shi, the Minister of Rites, finished the report.

The wedding preparations are played after the talk.

"Well, what do you think of me?" Zhao Qi nodded and asked everyone in the hall.

"Your Majesty, I think Goryeo and our dynasty are in harmony with each other and should be approved by his request. If he is a vassal state of Song, his troops can be restrained by the Jurchens, and he can also be led as a flank, and march together to form the arm of the Song Dynasty!" Li Gang said first.

"Your Majesty, I think what Li Xiang said is true. When attacking Jin, our army can enter Goryeo by sea, and then attack the Jin thieves. If you have a good relationship with him, you can enjoy the benefits!" Zong Ze also agreed with what Li Gang said.

"Your Majesty, I think it is impossible. Goryeo calls it a French to Jin. When it was tribute to our dynasty, it passed through many prefectures and counties, and the mountains, rivers, roads, and the situation was dangerous and easy, and all of them were seen. If it was between the Jurchens, it would harm our dynasty.

He sent him back to his country with a gift. After that, the Koreans bought all the historical books of history and begged not to buy them, so as to prevent them from being scattered in the Jurchens!" Zhang Xiaochun, the Minister of Works, disagreed with what the two ministers said and made a speech.

"Your Majesty, since the difficulties, it is difficult to trust the success or failure of Goryeo. If Goryeo is called Fan, most of the gifts obtained by Goryeo will be returned to the Jurchens, which is actually a move to steal food by borrowing troops from the enemy.

"Sima Pu, the Minister of Works, opposed more fiercely.

"Have Your Majesty ever recalled that day Your Majesty wanted to pretend to be the King of Liao that Goryeo that day, but he refused to agree, and he killed Your Majesty's plan!" Zhang Shuye, Minister of War, also replied, opposing the establishment of diplomatic relations with Goryeo.

Zhao Qi listened quietly, and could only smile bitterly at what Zhang Shuye said. He had just succeeded to the throne, and rumors about him usurping the throne were widely circulated, mainly because the Supreme Emperor and others all escaped safely, but the emperor was kidnapped by the Jurchens.

When traveling north, it is said that Zhao Qiong colluded with the Jurchens to do it intentionally. Therefore, Zhao Qiong wanted to rescue Zhao Huan to break the rumors, but it was impossible to launch a large-scale northern expedition at that time, so he could only use small troops to raid to rescue him.

Later, it was discovered that Zhao Huan and others were imprisoned in the Five Kingdoms City, the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom. Zhao Jia formulated a rescue plan and prepared to send special forces to rescue him. But soon encountered a problem, at that time, Yanjing and others

The land has not been recovered, and the two countries are far apart. There were no helicopters at that time, so how to bring them back after rescued became the biggest difficulty. He thought of two plans, one was to use A Shu as a supporter to enter the area they controlled, but

The Jurchens were very strict in their defenses, and there were heavy troops along the way, so the success rate was too small. Another option was to use the water route to Goryeo, then go to Wuguo City, rescue Zhao Huan and others, and then withdraw Goryeo's response to the navy.

Return to China next time.

Everyone was inclined to use Goryeo at that time. At that time, they established diplomatic relations with Jin, and they were not strictly prevented and had the greatest chance of success. Therefore, Zhao Qiong specially compiled books to King Goryeo and hoped that he could provide assistance. Zhao Qiong also offered a considerable price.

Reward. However, Goryeo was very cold to Zhao Qiong's proposal, and found various excuses to refuse the "travel" requirement: First, the road from Goryeo to Jurchen is dangerous and cannot move forward; second, if Goryeo uses the road to Song,

The Jin may also send troops to attack Song from this way; thirdly, if Goryeo uses the road to Song, it may anger the Jin and bring disaster.

In fact, Zhao Qiong knew very well that Goryeo's reasons were difficult to hold. Before the founding of the Jin Dynasty, they often depended on Goryeo's tribute to the Song Dynasty to pay tribute. It was feasible at that time, but it was impossible to leave now; there was no Jurchen people.

A large-scale naval army cannot fight water, and attacking Song has always been a land route. The third point is true. Compared with the national security with interest, the returns to Song seem insignificant. To be honest, they are actually for

The excuses to refuse to find by using the road, and the high-sounding diplomatic rhetoric!

Zhang Shuye’s old story is to remind the emperor Goryeo once again that he had been in danger of the Song Dynasty. Now that the Song Dynasty is as strong as before, the Jurchens are in decline, they want to take advantage of the situation and robbery. They are doing villains and should not be with them.

Make friends. Now that Song has strengthened the blockade of land and sea commercial roads in the Jin Dynasty, their foreign trade can only be faked to Goryeo. Song used this as an excuse to block the sea outlet of Goryeo, limiting their trade routes to a halt, and economically

Instead of making a profit, they followed suit and fell into the trap. At the same time, under the military attack of the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens had no time to look east, which made them brave again and wanted to renew the "friendship" between the two countries.

The court officials' attitude towards Goryeo is nothing more than two categories. One is to advocate Goryeo, and the other is to object to Goryeo. As for national defense strategic security, the people who advocate Goryeo are based on Goryeo's strength and the two countries.

The tradition of friendly relations starts from the ideal, and joins Goryeo to fight against the Jurchens; those who oppose Goryeo think Goryeo is free from the Liao or Jin, and has an ambiguous attitude towards Song, so from the perspective of reality, they are very distrustful of their attitudes, and their attitudes are naturally negative.

,cautious.

These two types of views seem to be tit-for-tat and have become like fire, but they are both reactions to the external world under real conditions, but they are just different angles and positions of consideration of problems and different forms of expression. However, Zhao Qiong understands that in the world

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, and morality is just a fig leaf that can be pulled off at any time. If we consider the changes in the situation in East Asia, it is actually understandable that Goryeo's attitude changes. In Zhao Qi's view, this is exactly the political situation.

Changes brought about by change.

In the past hundred years, Song and Tang have been different. Their strength has been unable to effectively control East Asia and impose China's world order on this region. Not only that, Song also suffered from the northern ethnic minority regimes from time to time

Attack. The emergence of Liao, Xixia and Jin all demanded and were able to develop diplomatic relations equally with the Song Dynasty. Even Liao and Jin also asked Song to pay tribute to them, which meant that they had an advantage in military power and Song could not fight against them.

Small countries like Goryeo that seek to survive among big countries naturally need to adjust their external strategies from time to time.

Faced with a strong foreign enemy and being at the risk of national security, the ruling class of the Song Dynasty had many doubts about Goryeo, which had successively been subordinate to Liao and Jin, and had many defenses. This was understandable and had its own rationality. But if you take this doubt and be wary of it,

Preventing the situation to the extreme, blindly adopting the policy of closing the door to the outside world and cutting off all contacts with Goryeo will be overcorrected and will be suspected of being choked and abandoning the food.

From a personal perspective, Zhao Jie was also very disgusted with Goryeo's capricious foreign policy, but he knew that it was the subtle node of East Asian hegemony being transferred from the Jin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, despite the two battles he launched

It laid the foundation for the rise of Song Dynasty, but Kung Fu is not only in military but also in diplomatic competition.

If we rely on military strength to conquer countries one by one, this process may be very long and dangerous, but geopolitics can make the impossible possible. Now it is through diplomacy that the Jurchens have been subjected to the imposition of the Song Dynasty and its allies on him.

The pressure of other allies felt that they would become insignificant and ineffective without the support of the Song Dynasty, thus curbing the rise of the Jurchens again. Goryeo is an important link in this chain of interests, and Zhao Qi decided not to let this go
Chapter completed!