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At the beginning of the founding of the Republic of Goryeo, the Jurchen tribes had not yet formed a country and were scattered outside the northwest of Goryeo. They paid tribute to Goryeo, and the two sides generally maintained a peaceful relationship.

This relationship lasted until the rise of the Jurchens in the twelfth century.

Before and after the establishment of the Jurchens, the Jurchen tribes alliance and Goryeo gradually became more and more wars. Goryeo could also be said to be a foreign policy towards the Jin Dynasty, and it was repeatedly adjusted. In just over ten years, Goryeo judged the situation and completed a major reversal against the Jurchens from treating him as a tribute to him to pay tribute to him.

With the success of the Jin Dynasty's destruction of Liao and defeating Song Dynasty, Goryeo had to reconsider its policies towards the Jin Dynasty.

As a small country, Goryeo has actually become accustomed to using surrender to exchange for peace.

Of course, "the big thing" is by no means a glorious or proud thing, and it is even more a shame to the Jurchens who were originally vassal.

However, Jin destroyed Liao and defeated Song again, completing the transformation of snake swallowing elephant, and becoming the most powerful dynasty of this era.

This is not something that Goryeo doesn't want to face if he doesn't want to face.

It was delayed until the first year of Jingkang. With the continuous force of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Kai, the Renzong of Goryeo, finally summoned all officials to ask if it was a matter of Jin?

All civil and military officials disagreed, and some people were clamoring to join forces with the Song Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty.

But it soon came that Wanyan Zong hoped his troops surrounded Bianliang City and blackmailed a large amount of gold and silver from Bianliang City.

Seeing this, Goryeo Minister Li Ziqian tried his best to persuade Wang Kai to conquer the Jin Kingdom, and wrote to Wang Kai that the Jin Kingdom had the momentum to conquer the Jin Kingdom.

Li Ziqian said: "The Jin Kingdom was a small country in the previous period. It was in power and was defeated by Liao Kingdom and our country. Now it was strong and destroyed Liao, and it also wanted to destroy Song. The country was prosperous and powerful, with strong troops and becoming stronger and stronger. It bordered our country. If you do not obey, you will be destroyed."

Li Ziqian also said: "Because small countries serve as big countries, they have been like this since ancient times, so it is best to send envoys to inquire first."

Li Ziqian was the father-in-law of Wang Kai and his father Wang Ya (that is, Li Ziqian first married his eldest daughter and second daughter to Wang Kai's father Wang Ya, and the second daughter gave birth to Wang Kai. Li Ziqian married his third and fourth daughters to Wang Kai. In other words, Wang Kai married his own third and fourth aunts, Wang Ya, and Wang Kai and his son were veritable brother-in-law). He was also the Grand Tutor of the dynasty, with power in the court and the country. He insisted on paying tribute to the Jin Kingdom, and Wang Kai could only accept Li Ziqian's proposal.

However, Goryeo finally decided to offer an oath to the Jin Kingdom, which was mainly due to the effective diplomatic efforts of the envoys of the Jin Kingdom, Han Fang and others, and the promotion of Jin Fuyi, Jin Fushi and others who advocated "major" diplomacy in the Goryeo court. Jin Fuyi bluntly proposed the "major" diplomatic ideas and strategies characterized by attaching importance to utilitarianism. Their efforts paved the way for Goryeo to successfully obtain Baozhou, and finally obtained the Baozhou land they dreamed of through Jin.

In short, Goryeo's current national policy is to submit to the Jin Dynasty.

Under such political propositions, Wang Kai naturally rejected Han Qing's request to buy grain with Goryeo.

Not only that, Wang Kai also ordered the expulsion of the caravan sent by Han Qing.

And in Japan.

For nearly three hundred years since the Tang Dynasty, Japan has been sending Tang envoys to China to study. The number of times, the scale, the time, and the rich content are unprecedented, and it has made great contributions to promoting the development of Japanese society and promoting Sino-Japanese exchanges.

But as the prosperous Tang Dynasty ceased, Japan's foreign policy towards China changed.

I won't talk about the process in the middle.

It is only said that in the Song Dynasty, Japan established diplomatic relations with the Liao Kingdom, and it cut off its ties with the Central Plains regime.

In theory, it will be cut off if it is broken. If it doesn’t come and go, it just won’t work.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the center of China's foreign trade was in the northwest inland, which was the famous "Silk Road".

But the Arab Empire, which rose after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, interrupted this trade route, and private business groups that were eager to make money were forced to turn their attention to the ocean.

Due to the fact that the navigation technology of this era was not so advanced, the regime was not unified, and the monopoly of merchants from all over the country, these neighbors nearby became the main overseas markets of the Song Dynasty's maritime businessmen.

The rulers of the Song Dynasty were keenly aware that the huge benefits brought by commercial activities could effectively alleviate financial difficulties, so they adopted an attitude of encouragement and support.

As a result, the trend of doing business and profit-seeking in the southeast coastal areas of the Song Dynasty became increasingly popular.

Gradually, in this era, all rich people, except for high-ranking officials, were mostly merchants who mainly traded in the ocean, and some huge merchants and wealthy businessmen were even able to enter the history books.

This shows how powerful its influence is.

This is definitely an anomaly in an agricultural society where merchants have low political status.

Such huge overseas business activities are some of them doing business with Goryeo, some of them go to Southeast Asia to enjoy tropical scenery, but more of them trade with Japan.

The frequent economic exchanges between Song and Japan have caused many people to live in Japan for a long time and even become Japanese nationality.

In this way, the merchants of the Song Dynasty took on the burden of Sino-Japanese communication.

At the same time, some Japanese people used Chinese merchant ships to visit the Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, monks from Todaji Temple in Japan followed Song Shang to China and were received by the emperor.

During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, the Japanese Teng Jimu followed the Song Shang Dynasty to pay homage.

Maritime merchants continued to lead the Japanese to arouse the interest in the Song Dynasty's interactions with Japan.

So in 1013 AD, the Song Dynasty took the initiative to send envoys to Japan with diplomatic documents and gifts.

Japan's reply in the same specifications broke the deadlock between the two countries' official non-existence.

In theory, this is an excellent opportunity for the two countries to establish diplomatic relations.

Unfortunately, the Emperor of the Zhao family could not let go of his figure and believed that he was the successor of the "Tang" dynasty and should continue to maintain his status as the master of Japan, so he used the word "given" in his exchange documents.

This made Japan very dissatisfied because the other side believed that the two countries had an equal relationship.

In this way, the Japanese adopted a negative attitude, and a reply to a letter of state could be delayed for several years, and all documents were relied on merchants of the Song Dynasty and did not send government envoys. Obviously, they did not intend to date the Song Dynasty.

Han Qing fully understood this situation from Wang Ji.

Therefore, Han Qing put down his figure this time and said on behalf of the "Great Song Dynasty" that the "Great Song Dynasty" is willing to establish a brotherly state with the "Great Japanese Dynasty", and hopes that the "Great Japanese Dynasty" can help the brotherly state and sell 10 million stones of grain to the "Great Song Dynasty".

It can be said that in order to get food from Japan, Han Qing gave enough face to the Japanese this time.

Japan has good land resources, around Lake Biwa, the Noo Plain, and Ise are all areas with large grain production.

The key is that Japan has long been peaceful and has a large amount of food reserves.

This is also the reason why Wang Ji dared to promise to buy Han Qing 10 million stones of food.

But although Japan does not establish diplomatic relations with China, it frequently has exchanges with Goryeo.

From Goryeo, Japan learned that the Song State was defeated by the newly rising Jin State and was almost destroyed by the Jin State. Currently, the Jin State is the largest country in the world.

Goryeo also vowed that the Jin Kingdom would sooner or later destroy the Song Kingdom and become a new China.

In this case, Japan flatly rejected Han Qing's request to establish diplomatic relations. As for buying grain from Japan, there was no need to think about it, even if Wang Ji went through all the channels he could find to tell Japanese politicians: "Your news is outdated, and our regent has wiped out the Jin army that invaded the south."

However, all Wang Ji's efforts were in vain. The Japanese rulers made up their minds to make friends with the Jin Kingdom, and at least they had to watch it on the wall for a while.

From Wang Ji, Han Qing was furious: "You little Goryeo and little Japanese, when I solve the problem of Jin Xia and Zhao Gou, I will attack you!"

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