Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe were shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that they would shoot themselves in the foot.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. I, your daughter, am still unmarried. My wife, my wife, is very virtuous. I, I can't bear to leave her." Wang Shiyong stuttered while wiping the sweat off his face.
Xu Bingzhe even knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I have two daughters who are well-behaved and sensible. I love them very much. My wife and I are deeply in love."
"What a loving couple!" Zhao Huan shouted, pointing angrily at Xu Bingzhe, and hurried down the hall. Cao Dongsheng hurried over to help him, but Zhao Huan pushed him away. Even Zhan Yunpeng, who was standing by, was startled.
Zhao Huan walked over and pointed angrily at Xu Bingzhe's head: "You know the deep love you and your first wife have for each other. Don't the people of the Great Song know this? You love your children dearly, and every citizen of the Great Song doesn't love their children dearly. They were all born by their mothers and raised by their parents. You wouldn't give your daughters to the Jin people to be ravaged, but would those people be willing to do so?"
Xu Bingzhe knelt on the ground, trembling, while Wang Shiyong lay there trembling. Zhao Huan, still furious, kicked Wang Shiyong in the back. Wang Shiyong fell flat on his face, his tablet flying out.
Zhao Huan kicked them again and again: "You really only care about food and not beatings! I have said that if anyone mentions ceding land, paying compensation or giving women away again, I will kill him! You still dare to go against me, I will kick you to death!"
The emperor went crazy when he mentioned women. Bai Shizhong and the others saw that things were not going well and knelt down to confess their crimes.
Zhao Huan was still kicking Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe: "Take him and beat him up, hard!"
Guards had already come and carried the two men out of the hall, and started beating them with sticks.
Zhao Huan threw the winged crown on his head to the ground, still not satisfied. Suddenly he rushed out of the hall, and a group of ministers tried to stop him.
"Your Majesty, calm down."
"Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."
Zhao Huan refused to intervene. He pushed a guard aside, picked up the guard's stick, and began to lash out at Wang Shiyong's buttocks. The ministers hurried over to try to separate them. For a moment, the scene was as lively as a market or a tavern.
Tired of all this fuss, Zhao Huan sat down, and the civil and military officials looked at each other. Zhao Huan had made the solemn and majestic Purple Palace seem like a child's play.
Zhao Huan waved to a minister beside him and said, "Help me up."
At this time, a steward eunuch came running in in a panic: "Your Majesty, the envoy from the Great Jin Dynasty requests an audience."
Zhao Huan smiled slightly, feeling worried about having no place to vent his anger: "You came just in time." He didn't even wait for the ministers to help him, he patted his butt and stood up by himself.
Bai Shizhong hurriedly ordered the guards: "Quick, quickly remove the board. Help these two people get out of the way."
"What are you doing!" Zhao Huan shouted, "Don't move. Just let them lie there. I'll show the Jin people who dares to move!"
The emperor has spoken, who dares to disobey?
Cao Dongsheng hurriedly picked up the crown and put it on Zhao Huan. The long-winged hat was too awkward to wear. Zhao Huan had long since grown tired of it. He snatched the hat away and threw it away. He strode towards the dragon throne in the main hall and plopped down.
The palace maids on either side had already come over to adjust his dragon robe and comb his slightly messy hair. Zhao Huan's anger subsided a little: "Announce."
"Announce, the Jin Dynasty envoys are here to see you!"
Two young eunuchs led Wanyan Ang and others to the main hall.
Wanyan Ang was swaggering, his arrogance disregarding everyone. He was startled to see Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe sprawled on the ground outside the palace gates, then smiled and said, "What kind of hobby is this for the Emperor of the Great Song? Where's the Emperor of the Great Song? Let him come see me!"
Li Gang stood at the palace gate and said coldly: "Who are you? I, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, can see you just like you say?"
Wanyan Ang laughed instead of getting angry: "Hahaha, my Great Jin has already invaded your home, and you still dare to be stubborn. I am here to make your emperor pay compensation."
"The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty commands the whole world's power. A frog in a well does not know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. How dare a firefly compete with the sun and the moon for brilliance? My lord does not argue with Xiao Xiao. It is the Great Song Dynasty that is giving alms to you, not compensation. You are just a jumping clown, adding to the laughter." Even Bai Shizhong, who always advocated peace, could not stand it.
Everyone praised Li Gang and Bai Shizhong for their appropriate words. Wanyan Ang blushed and walked into the hall with his three followers without a word.
When Wanyan Ang arrived at the main hall, he looked up and was shocked. It was the same group of people who beat him up in Zuixinglou. This, this scholar-like guy was actually the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Huan looked at him with a smile, Cao Dongsheng stood below him on the right with disdain, Zhan Yunpeng had become the imperial guard, he stood below Zhao Huan on the left.
It was over, it was over. Wanyan Ang knew that Zhao Huan had an extraordinary background. At most, he was a prince or a royal son, but he had never expected that he would be the current emperor.
He came to ask for money, and thought that the Emperor of Song would be scared to death when he saw him. But now it was so unexpected that he didn't know how to start for a moment.
"Wanyan Ang, you are Wanyan Sheng's younger brother, Prince Yun of the Jin Dynasty. Why don't you kneel when you come to see me as an envoy?" Zhao Huan said coldly.
The ministers were greatly surprised, wondering how the emperor knew the envoy's origin.
All I heard was Wanyan Ang saying, "I am the Prince of Yun of the Great Jin Dynasty. I kneel before our Emperor."
"This is the Song Dynasty. You must kneel before me if you are on the territory of the Song Dynasty!" Zhao Huan said angrily.
"I am here on the orders of my emperor to conquer Zhang Jue of the Song Dynasty. The military expenses are huge. If we want to withdraw our troops, you, the Song Dynasty, will have to pay for it." Wanyan Ang ignored him.
Zhang Jue, a Liao general, surrendered to the Song and repelled the Jin army, but was defeated in a subsequent battle and fled into Song territory. The Song and Jin states had a previous agreement not to accept surrendered generals, so the Song general, out of fear of the Jin and to fulfill the agreement, killed Zhang Jue as a gesture of goodwill to the Jin. However, the Jin still used the Song's acceptance of a Liao surrendered general as a pretext for invading the Song, simply finding a pretext to accuse them.
"Come here! Drag these Jin people out and beat them!" Zhao Huan pointed at Wanyan Ang.
Several guards rushed in from outside the hall and were about to take action.
Today I must kill your fighting spirit and make you, the golden thief, suffer a bitter defeat.
"Send someone to Jincheng to tell the Gold Lord that Wanyan Ang has no respect for the law and no manners. If you want to negotiate, send someone else. Today, I will teach this ignorant lunatic a lesson on behalf of the Gold Lord!"
It's possible that Wanyan Ang is even a few years older than Zhao Huan. Zhao Huan calls him "madman", which means he is a generation younger than himself.
Wanyan Ang was secretly afraid: he came here to negotiate and ask for money, and he didn't want to be driven out by the Song emperor because of his arrogance, and he would not be able to explain to his brother when he returned.
Wanyan Ang knelt down reluctantly and said, "I am Wanyan Ang, the envoy of the Great Jin Dynasty. I have been ordered by our emperor to negotiate with the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty."
Zhao Huan smiled and said, "Stand up."
Wanyan Ang then stood up in disbelief. He glanced at the ministers in the hall and said, "The Emperor of the Great Jin has said that if we want to withdraw our troops, you, the Great Song, must agree to some conditions!"
Bai Shizhong hurriedly stepped forward, holding his tablet and bowing to Wanyan Ang. He said, "I wonder what your Excellency's request is. Please tell me."
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