"Are we friends?"

Yuan Mulan put down the teacup and asked suddenly.

Xu You smiled slightly and said, "I have always only drunk tea with friends. ”

Yuan Mulan's eyes were as bright as the morning star, and she said, "Then I call you Weizhi?" ”

"My pleasure!"

Yuan Mulan pursed her lips, and when she laughed, her beautiful face full of oppression would have a little bit of the feeling of a girl next door, which looked particularly good-looking, and said: "If you are so good on the battlefield, then it will be Amitabha!" ”

From other girls, this may be a bit coquettish and weak, but from Yuan Mulan's mouth, it only means literally - Xu You on the battlefield is very difficult to deal with, and Xu You on the battlefield is a very good friend.

Xu You smiled: "If you are a general of the defeated army, how can you have the opportunity to sit and drink tea with His Royal Highness......

This is not sarcasm, but to explain the facts, a girl like Yuan Mulan does not have enough status and intelligence, and reluctantly becoming friends only makes both parties feel embarrassed and uncomfortable.

Yuan Mulan said angrily: "Am I so snobbish? ”

Xu You didn't answer, poured another cup of tea, and said, "Taste, the second cup is different from the first." ”

After Yuan Mulan finished drinking, she closed her eyes as if she was savoring, and only opened her eyes with satisfaction after half a ring, and said, "Weizhi, are you ready to go north in a big way this time and destroy the Wei State?" ”

Xu You shook his head and said: "I don't have the ability, let alone such a big appetite, the western expedition is just to extinguish the cold, you don't send troops to the south, I should marry in Jinling now......"

"Huh?"

Yuan Mulan was stunned, she didn't expect Xu You to suddenly mention private matters, and said: "On the day you get married, although I can't congratulate you in person, I will send someone to send a generous gift." ”

Xu You refused: "Forget the gift, I'm afraid that someone will accuse me of collaborating with the enemy!" ”

Yuan Mulan laughed.

Drinking another cup of tea in laughter, she turned the teacup back on the stone plate, her smile gradually faded, and said: "Chu State is powerless to destroy Wei, but as long as you occupy the land along the Yellow River for one day, Great Wei will not be at ease, and will compete with you for the land of Yuluo at any cost." I don't know how many people and horses and money will be invested, and I don't know who will win and who will lose in the end, but it is foreseeable that the two countries will be completely contained by the Yuluo battlefield, just like a gambler who does not want to die, and he has to grit his teeth and hold on to it to see who can't support it first......"

Xu You agreed with Yuan Mulan's opinion that if the land of Yuluo became a veritable meat grinder, and it would be fought endlessly, it was likely that it would be the Chu State that would not be able to hold it first. After all, as far as imperial power is concerned, the power of the Emperor of Wei is far greater than that of the Emperor of Chu, and the restraint and resistance are relatively small, the internal intricacies of Chu are complicated, and the gate valve is almost on par with the imperial family, if the interests of the gate valve are too great because of the war, they will not mind changing the emperor again, changing an obedient emperor!

Not everyone thinks about the Northern Expedition and the restoration of the Han people, and most vested interests want to maintain the status quo, and it doesn't matter if they don't make progress, but once they go backwards, it will trigger a violent backlash.

A large part of the reason why Xu You wanted to fight a ten-year peace with Wei was this, he needed time to deal with the internal disputes in Chu and unify his thoughts, and then he could concentrate all the forces that could be concentrated and send troops north.

Yuan Mulan was very sincere and said: "This is meaningless, it is better to take a step back, and we will keep the land north of Luoyang, Xingyang, Zhongmu, and Junyi, and the south will belong to you." ”

This was the Wei State that took the initiative to cede most of the original Yuzhou, and Xu You could push the national boundary from the Huai River Valley to close to the Yellow River, which was a rare victory in more than 100 years.

"Thank you for the sincerity of the girl, but I can't say yes."

Yuan Mulan was not in a hurry, and asked for the price to pay back on the spot, and said, "Please make it clear." ”

"Luoyang and Tiger Prison Pass can be given to you, so as to retain the way for Wei to cross the Yellow River from Hedong County at any time, and you can use Luoyang as the foundation, in the east, it will coerce Yuzhou, and in the west, it will deter Guanzhong."

Negotiation is not to eat alone, you must give the other party benefits, since Luoyang is occupied by Yuanguang, the fool also knows whether to come back through negotiations, and Wei occupies Luoyang, which can connect both sides of the Yellow River through the Mengjin Ferry, just like an awl inserted into the North China Plain and the Guanzhong Plain, disgusting you when you are fine, and when you have something, you can instantly become a huge black and thick blade, and the hinterland blooms, breaking your belly.

Yuan Mulan knew that Xu You still had the following, and listened quietly.

Xu You gave benefits, so he naturally wanted to take advantage of it, and said: "From the slide platform to the south of Xingyang, everything belongs to me!" ”

Yuan Mulan said: "Weizhi, this is not a peace talk, you want me to sign an alliance under the city." Even if I agree, I will be vetoed by the court when I go back. ”

Xu You also smiled and said, "Then you make a price." ”

Yuan Mulan groaned, she was weighing, where is Xu You's bottom line, and where is the bottom line that the emperor's ministers in Pingcheng can accept?

The yellow leaves in the sky swayed with the wind, falling on her shoulders and hair in pieces, the crystal clear skin did not have the slightest flaw because of the wind and sand in the north, and the posture when contemplating and thinking was the most timeless scenery in the painting.

"Am I beautiful?"

She tilted her head, and Hu Ren's boldness and generosity were fully displayed.

Xu You was caught, and he was not embarrassed, and replied honestly: "It's beautiful!" ”

Yuan Mulan smiled and said to Xu You: "Keep it simple, Luozhou belongs to me, and Yuzhou belongs to you, but I want the slide and white horse in Yuzhou." ”

With the slide and the white horse, the chips for crossing the Yellow River are controlled, and after crossing the Yellow River, Yuzhou is like a beautiful woman lying on her bare stomach, and there is no safety at all.

Xu You doesn't care, anyway, Luoyang's Mengjin Ferry is in the hands of the other party, and he is not afraid of the two ferries of the slip platform and the white horse. If he had a choice, he would prefer Luozhou, with Luozhou, he could be connected to Guanzhong, but who had ever seen a hungry wolf spit out the meat swallowed in his stomach?

"Luozhou can only give you the places east and south of Luoyang, and Hongnong County east of Luoyang belongs to me. In addition, the slipway and the white horse maintain the status quo, it is not allowed to unilaterally strengthen the city defense, the garrison cannot exceed 500 people, and the transfer of troops and horses needs to be notified to the Yuzhou Thorn Shifu to avoid misjudgment on our side. ”

Yuan Mulan thought about it, Hongnong County can be used as a buffer zone between Luoyang and Tongguan, and this is Xu You's core interest, he can't make concessions, and said: "I agree, but not through open channels, that would damage the national system, I suggest that the two sides establish a secret communication channel......"

"Yes!" Xu You put forward his real idea of peace talks with Wei at the right time, and said: "The secret passage also needs to be covered, I suggest that Ji County and Suozao County should not garrison troops, only a small number of patrol forces, and then prepare to build a field and open the mutual market!" ”

Ji County belongs to the Wei State, Suozao County belongs to the Chu State, the two counties face each other across the Yellow River, the location is in the middle line of Luoyang and the slipway, the terrain is flat, the transportation is convenient, and there is no danger to defend.

"Mutual market?"

"Yes, mutual trading is beneficial to you and me, on the one hand, it can promote business and trade exchanges, exchange what you need, and on the other hand, deepen mutual trust and maintain the hard-won stability of the border."

Yuan Mulan hesitated, Yuan Yu gave her all the power to make decisions on the spot, and Yuan Guang would unconditionally support any decision she made, but in her prediction of Xu You, there was no option of mutual market.

Xu You said with a smile: "The white black merchants traveled back and forth between the north and the south, and I don't know how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials they had fattened, and because they were involved in the nobles, they could not be effectively supervised, which led to their boldness, and many prohibited things were also circulated. Open to the mutual market, at least there is a law to follow, on the surface you can collect huge taxes, and secretly you can prevent most of the contraband. ”

It is also said that Wei and Chu have been hostile for a hundred years, and there is no mutual market. However, people have needs, you want the refined salt of Wei, I want the silk of Chu, these needs are not transferred because of the hostile relationship between the two countries, and therefore the prevalence of white black merchants. They bribed border officials under various names and means, and then resold the goods of the two countries to make a profit.

"Okay, I agree......"

Two big people who can make the world shake by stomping their feet, but they are like market vendors bargaining for each other's conditions, sometimes sabre-rattling, sometimes laughing and cheering, sometimes silent like a storm coming, sometimes jumping like thunder, and so it lasted until the sky was getting dark, Yuan Mulan raised her head and listened attentively, and the Chu army camp outside Zhongmu City faintly heard a desolate and sad singing:

"Driving a horse to the west, nostalgia grows step by step. Raise the whip to cut off the river, and look back to see the mourning. If you want to ask the deceased, the moon is bright. ”

"Driving the horse to the west, the Yangtze River water is beginning to condense. After the cold and summer in a hurry, I saw the ice of the Yellow River again. A thousand mountains are different from ten thousand mountains, and mountains and mountains are different. ”

……

"What is this?"

Xu You replied: "The father and the elder in the family look forward to the return of their children, and the wives and children hope for their husbands to return. ”

Yuan Mulan was silent for a long time, and said: "I am Hu Jia'er, and I don't understand Han children's songs, but these days, similar songs can be heard in Junyi City...... In a hundred years of conquest, there are indeed too many people who have died...... Weizhi, I would like to urge the imperial court to stop the sword soldiers forever, and form a brotherly state with the Chu State, so that the people of the two countries can live in peace and have no worries about military disasters......"

"It would be great if it could be so!"

Yuan Mulan is a woman after all, and she will have a certain moment of emotional impulse, but she forgets an ironclad fact that the criterion that determines the relationship between the two countries is not the alliance, but the comparison of strength between the two sides.

The strength is always balanced, naturally it can always be brothers, Chu is slightly stronger and Wei is slightly weaker, or Chu is slightly weaker and Wei is slightly stronger, and they can be brothers temporarily, but as long as the strength of one side is obviously beyond that of the other, not to mention the state of brothers, even the state of father and son is just a joke on paper, without the slightest binding force at all.

However, Xu You understood that within ten years, the Chu State would not be able to go north, and the Wei State would not be able to go south, and no one could predict what would happen after ten years, so he followed Yuan Mulan's words and swore a high-five, about brothers.

As brothers, Yuan Mulan showed the atmospheric side of Xianbei people, she and Xu You took the general direction: divided into Luozhou and Yuzhou, Huatai garrison, established a secret communication channel, and sour Zaoji County and mutual market, and many other details are no longer investigated, just leave them to the people below to discuss and discuss.

The golden black fell, the jade rabbit hung high, the distant sky was wiped by the cold arc light, and the golden leaves under the ginkgo tree made a rustling sound, Yuan Mulan turned over the horse, rode on the horse, turned around and smiled at Xu Youyanran, kicked the horse's belly lightly, lifted the reins, and galloped away like a meteor.

Xu You stood silently for a long time, and his long figure gradually disappeared into the moonlight.

This is exactly what it is:

Flat sand and shallow grass grow one after another. The road is vast, and there are several ups and downs. Last night's waves, washing the shore bones like frost. The heroes of the ages have become the bottom of the matter, and they are emotional, and they are sad!

(End of Volume 6)

(And the last volume)