It was already evening when Zhang Yu returned to Chengdu, and he did not go back to his house, but went directly to his uncle Zhang Yansheng's house.

Zhang Yansheng was scalding his feet with hot water, and when he heard that his nephew had returned from Chang'an, he immediately asked the housekeeper to arrange for his nephew to wait in the outer study.

Zhang Yansheng hurried to the outer study, only to see his nephew leaning on the chair exhausted, about to fall asleep.

"Ahem! Cough! Zhang Yansheng coughed twice, Zhang Yu immediately woke up from exhaustion, got up and said, "The little nephew is rude!" ”

"Let's talk about it briefly! Then you go to rest. ”

Zhang Yanxian was also anxious in his heart, but in front of his juniors, he tried his best to remain calm.

Zhang Yu took out the memorandum of discussion from his leather bag and handed it to Zhang Yansheng, Zhang Yansheng took it and looked at it and asked, "Is this a record of the interview with Guo Song, or only a record of the interview with Pan Liao and others?" ”

"It is a record of the interview with Guo Song, the king of Jin, and he proposed three withdrawal plans, the second uncle will take a look first!"

Zhang Yansheng immediately sat under the lamp and took a closer look.

After reading the memo, he gasped, none of these three conditions was possible, it was not that he couldn't do it, but Beiya would never agree, and if they wanted to give up all unreasonable taxes and vested interests, it would be better to kill them.

Zhang Yansheng understood that the eunuchs of the Northern Ya had a negative attitude towards the negotiations before, and I am afraid that they had long known that this would be the result, so they neither wanted to negotiate nor send troops, and planned to let Guo Song occupy Hanzhong.

"Second uncle, will the imperial court accept Guo Song's plan?" Zhang Yu asked cautiously.

Zhang Yanxiang sighed, "It's hard to say, it's not very likely, first of all, the referendum is unrealistic, even if the vote is biased towards Chang'an, it makes no sense, the second plan Beiya will not agree, they will have a thousand reasons to oppose it, and if the Beiya does not agree, the political hall will also be vetoed, and the Queen Mother has no meaning, the third plan is to separate the military and the government, in fact, it has nothing to do with the Beiya, it depends on whether the imperial court can accept it, if the imperial court wants this face, maybe it will accept it, pretending that Hanzhong is still in our hands." ”

"But Guo Song demanded that we fully restore his reputation, whether we accept it or not, it must be restored, and he said that if his reputation is bad, he will no longer recognize the significance of the Southern Tang Dynasty."

"I saw it, he wrote it in the memo."

Zhang Yansheng's elongated face, this is simply a blatant threat, too much.

"Second uncle, there is a sentence that I don't know if the little nephew should say or not?"

"Say, what?"

Zhang Yu hesitated for a moment and said: "Now that the imperial court is basically controlled by the eunuchs, so that the people of the world are ashamed, can't we set things right?" Not a chance at all? ”

Zhang Yansheng shook his head, "These old eunuchs are cunning and cunning, holding the military power to the death, not giving the outside a chance, I was counting on them to have internal strife before, but as a result, Song Chaofeng took retreat as advance and controlled the situation again, and now he can only use one 'wait!'" 'Wait patiently, there is nothing else to do. ”

"But..... Can we invite the local military kings, Liu Qia, Ma Sui, Hun Ying, and Han Rong to .......?"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yansheng waved his hand impatiently and interrupted, "Before they reach Chengdu, we will already be cold!" ”

"That.... What about Guo Song? ”

Zhang Yanxiang didn't say anything for a long time, and said lightly for a long time: "He is Cao Cao's second, invite him to come, it is better to let the eunuch party take power, at least the eunuch party will not let the Tang Dynasty change the dynasty." ”

..........

The news brought back by Zhang Yu was not made public, but secretly spread among the high-level officials of the Southern Ya Political Hall and the Northern Ya Privy Council.

In the Privy Council of the Northern Ya, several old eunuchs urgently gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Song Chaofeng passed the copy of the memo that Zhang Yu brought back to everyone, "Let's take a look!" These are Guo Song's three conditions, it should be said that there are four conditions, the first condition is for us to restore his reputation, what do you say? ”

After everyone finished reading the memo, Huo Xianming sneered: "This Guo Song is very cunning!" Make a fuss about the tax system, and if you make it clear, you don't want to return Hanzhong to us. ”

Dou Wenchang also said: "I suggest that we accept the second article, and when our army regains control of Hanzhong, what do we want to do, can he still decide?" ”

"What Dou Weng said is extremely true!" Fifth, Shouliang immediately expressed his support for Dou Wenchang's proposal.

After the fifth Shouliang, Zhang Shang and Jiao Hope lost in the power struggle within the Beiya, in order to bring down Song Chaofeng, the three of them changed their strategy and began to try their best to win over Huo Xianming and Dou Wenchang, these two people held the real power of the army, as long as the five of them formed an alliance, Song Chaofeng would definitely be defeated.

How could Song Chaofeng not understand these people's little tricks, he sneered in his heart, and it was useless for Ren Er to win over him again and again.

Song Chaofeng said coldly: "You guys underestimate Guo Song too much, thinking that his army will really withdraw from Hanzhong?" He doesn't know how many internal responses he has installed in Nanzheng City? I don't know how many troops are hidden on the dangerous passes? As long as our army runs to take over, believe it or not, just find an excuse to annihilate them all, and never think of coming back, the 15,000 Han Chinese army that we have already obtained has been compensated, how much money do we have to squander? ”

"Wenzhen, talk about it!" Song Chaofeng's gaze turned to Ju Wenzhen again.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Ju Wenzhen said unhurriedly: "Actually, the third plan has nothing to do with us, let Nanya decide for himself, they want that fig leaf, they go to appoint officials, we don't have to send troops, we don't have to take care of Hanzhong, as for the tax loss in Hanzhong, it is actually very small, accounting for less than half of the entire tax, and it is not worth our troops to fight for." ”

Huo Xianming said slowly: "That being said, I am afraid that the low tax burden in Hanzhong will cause dissatisfaction in all parts of Bashu and will produce anti-tax riots." ”

"What does it mean?" Song Chaofeng asked.

Huo Xianming's long white eyebrows raised and said: "My attitude is very clear, if Hanzhong is taken back, it will be restored to its original state, and if it cannot be taken back, it will be completely abandoned, don't make it happen that there are two tax districts under the rule of the same court, it will be a big mess." ”

Huo Xianming's suggestion obviously looked a little further, and the eunuchs of the Northern Ya realized that the two tax systems were the fundamental threat to their interests.

.......

In the afternoon, the Queen Mother once again convened the important ministers of the Northern and Southern Governments to discuss the three plans of Guo Song.

On the issue of sending troops, the north and south reached a consensus, the other side has occupied a dangerous position, at this time it is difficult to send troops to recapture Hanzhong, and it will also lose troops and generals, causing greater losses, they unanimously stated that they can no longer use force to solve the Hanzhong problem.

Seeing that everyone was completely unanimous, the Queen Mother had no choice but to ask: "Which of Guo Song's three plans can you accept?" ”

On the three plans, there were differences between the north and the south, and Zhang Yansheng advocated accepting the second plan, on the basis of the inability of the army to recapture Hanzhong, he accepted the separation of military and government, and ceded the right to garrison the army to Guo Song, and the imperial court still maintained the administrative jurisdiction of Hanzhong, and Hanzhong was actually under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Zhang Yansheng's suggestion was fully criticized by the eunuchs of the Northern Yaya, and Song Chaofeng sneered: "This is just self-deception, Zhang Xiangguo really thinks that Hanzhong belongs to the jurisdiction of the imperial court?" The imperial court has the right to appoint officials, but Guo Song has the right to recall officials, who do you think the officials who went to Hanzhong would actually be loyal to? I'm telling you, they'll be loyal at both ends. ”

Huo Xianming also said decisively: "Guo Song deliberately implemented a low tax burden in Hanzhong to stimulate the people of Chengdu and Bashu, which will definitely cause civil strife, for a little face, but in the end it led to civil strife, this is the result that Zhang Xiangguo wants?" ”

Ju Wenzhen also said: "I think this is just Zhang Xiangguo's personal idea, not the consensus of the political hall, when it comes to this kind of major decision, I suggest that we should reach a consensus in the political hall first, so as not to cause miscalculation." ”

Zhang Yansheng had a deep sense of powerlessness, he knew that as long as he got a vote in the political hall, he would definitely veto his proposal, the three of them vetoed, Cui Zao abstained, and in the end, his own vote was powerless.

The Queen Mother was silent for a long time and asked, "Then that's it, do nothing?" ”

Song Chaofeng said unhurriedly: "We don't mean to give up Hanzhong, just to wait for the opportunity, for example, Zhu Zhu attacked Guanzhong, Guanzhong is tight, Guo Song will definitely transfer the Hanzhong army to save Guanzhong, or ask us to send troops to help the war, then Guanzhong will come back, this is the timing, so now for the time being, it does not mean that we give up Hanzhong, the old minister feels that there is no point in talking about Hanzhong now, the key is the fourth condition of Guo Song, do we want to watch him rebuild the imperial court and establish another Northern Tang Dynasty?" Or continue to make him nominally loyal to the Southern Tang? ”

"What about Yi Chao Weng?" The Queen Mother asked.

"The old minister thinks that since the king of Jin is the minister of the queen mother, it is not to talk about the loss of Hanzhong, at least the banners of the Tang Dynasty are still hung on the heads of the cities in Hanzhong, this is just an internal power struggle, the king of Jin should not be treated like this, and he should be restored to his reputation, unless the queen mother wants to see the Northern Tang Dynasty appear again, then the old minister has nothing to say."

"Does Zhang Xiangguo have any objections?" The Queen Mother asked Zhang Yansheng again.

Zhang Yansheng saw that a group of old eunuchs were looking at him coldly, he looked back again, the other four ministers, including Cui Zao, were silent, Zhang Yansheng knew that he was no longer able to confront Beiya, so he had to bow down and say: "The minister has no objection!" ”

Although the queen mother was difficult to accept in her heart, she was also forced to be helpless, so she had to issue an edict to crown Guo Song as the envoy of Hanzhong, control the five states of Hanzhong, and order the court to restore the reputation of the king of Jin, and strictly prohibit the government and the opposition from insulting the king of Jin again.