Dou Yi smiled and said: "I heard that the Son of Heaven thinks that Qiao Xiangguo is old, dazzled, and not suitable for Xiangguo, I don't know who the Dugu family is going to recommend to replace Qiao Xiangguo?" ”

"One is Zhang She, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the other is Du Xiquan, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, who Brother Dou decides is more suitable?"

"Zhang Shi is good, steady, humble and self-disciplined, while Du Xiquan has a close relationship with Yang Yan."

Although Zhang Shi had a close relationship with the Dugu family, he also received the favor of the Dou family in his early years, and he had a good relationship with the Dou family.

Du Guqiu nodded, "You can consider Zhang She!" ”

.........

On the morning of the next day, the political affairs hall voted whether to approve Guo Song as the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu, Li Mi abstained, Han Rong, Qiao Lin, and Zhang Yi voted in favor, Yang Yan and Cui Youfu voted against, and finally passed by a score of 3 to two, and the political affairs hall agreed that Guo Song was promoted to the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Shi issued a decree to promote Guo Song to the envoy of Hexi Jiedu with his meritorious service in recovering Suzhou, and at the same time concurrently served as the governor of Liang, Gansu and Suzhou.

.........

Guo Song did not know that he had been promoted, and he had just received two consecutive flying pigeon letters from the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, vetoing his proposal to withdraw the military and civilians of Beiting.

It can be said that this result was expected by Guo Song, and Li Shi, the son of heaven, still lacked courage and responsibility, and pushed the matter to the political affairs hall, how could the corrupt Confucians in the political affairs hall agree to give up the North Court.

In the Governor's Mansion, Guo Song handed over two pigeon letters to Pan Liao and Zhang Qianyi, and Pan Liao smiled bitterly and said: "This is still troublesome, Shatuo Khan agreed to this plan, but we were denied, which will make them dissatisfied!" ”

Guo Song walked a few steps and said: "It doesn't matter, as long as Zhu Xie's victory law is in our hands, no matter how dissatisfied they are, there is no way, so we will tell them that our emperor opposes this plan and can only change to another plan." ”

"I don't know what plan the governor wants to change?" Zhang Qianyi asked.

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "I can promise to cut 100,000 sheep, and they only need to compensate 200,000 sheep in the end, but these 200,000 sheep are not given to me, but handed over to Tingzhou, which is the condition for cutting 100,000 sheep." ”

Guo Song had already guessed that Li Shi, the Son of Heaven, would not agree to give up Tingzhou, so he had to take a backup strategy, so he would do everything possible to find a way to support Tingzhou, let them persevere, and wait for the time to be ripe.

Pan Liao and Zhang Qianyi looked at each other, "Directly hand it over to Tingzhou?" I'm afraid the other party won't agree! ”

Guo Song said lightly: "You guys prepare today, and then talk about it tomorrow, I will find a way to get them to agree." ”

Pan Liao and Zhang Qianyi didn't know what else the governor had to do, so they had to get up and leave, and Guo Song instructed Pan Liao again: "The imperial court requires us to report the negotiation in a timely manner, so you can write a report to them every day, so that those bureaucrats don't worry about us all day long." ”

"Obedience!"

The two went down to prepare, and Guo Song said to the tea boy next to him: "Go and inform the preparation of the carriage, I want to go out!" ”

Tea was about seven or eight years old, not only responsible for making tea, but also responsible for running errands and passing on messages, and after a while, the carriage was ready, and twenty personal soldiers rode horses to guard both sides, Guo Song walked out of the governor's mansion and ordered: "Go to the Sogdian merchant Shijia!" ”

He got into the carriage, and the carriage started slowly and drove towards the Shifu in the west of the city.

The carriage is very wide and comfortable, and there is a small table in it to handle official business, and this carriage is also a trophy, it is the carriage of Zhu Xie Shenglu, which was favored by Guo Song and used as his own special carriage.

The curtain of the carriage was lowered, the light in the carriage was a little dim, Guo Song looked solemn, he was still thinking about Li Shi, and the attitude of the political hall was not strange at all, but Li Shi made him a little disappointed.

Li Shi in history was full of ambition at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, and he wanted to do something great and realize the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, but after encountering the Jingyuan Change, he completely died down and began to favor the eunuchs, and was full of suspicion about the generals and officials, which showed that he was weak-willed and not a strong monarch.

In fact, it can be seen from these few things that Li Shi lacks courage and wants to recover the Hexi Corridor, but he looks forward and backwards, blindly compromises with civil officials, is ambitious but cherishes his life, lacks courage and responsibility, such a person can't do great things, and he will be betrayed by him sooner or later.

This incident has already reflected his nature of betraying his teammates, and he told him in a private message that he just didn't want the political hall to participate in this matter, and he didn't agree to veto it directly, but he betrayed himself to the political hall, which made Guo Song extremely disappointed and sounded the alarm in Guo Song's heart.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of Shifu, and Shi Donglai hurriedly greeted him, "Welcome to Guo Dudu!" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "There is something temporary, come uninvited, please don't blame the master of the Shi family!" ”

"Where! In fact, the governor sent someone to say, it should be me to go to the governor to listen to the instructions. ”

"If you ask someone to do something, you naturally have to lower your stature a little."

"Governor Danfan just speaks."

Shi Donglai didn't know what Guo Song was looking for him, so he was suspicious in his heart, and hurriedly invited him into the mansion.

The two sat down in the guest hall, Shi Dong came to let the maid serve tea, Guo Song picked up the tea bowl and asked with a smile: "When is the master of the Shi family going to the capital?" ”

"I'm going to go in a few days, and I'm almost done here."

Guo Song nodded, and then turned the topic to the meaning, "Does the Shi family master have any business dealings with Ge Lulu?" ”

"Qarluk?"

Shi Donglai was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, and said: "There are indeed business contacts, the medicinal materials produced by Gelulu are very famous, and the sheepskin is also good. ”

"The Hui and the Tibetans fought for Tochar and the Hezhong region, and the Qarluqs did not participate in the war?"

Only then did Shi Donglai understand what Guo Song meant, and hurriedly said: "Ge Lulu's territory is the Chu River valley, which is the territory of the former Western Breakthrough, and the capital is the Broken Leaf City.

The second thing the governor should know is to support Xue Yantuo to seize the south of Jinshan, after the end of the Huitu War, Tubo retreated to the plateau, and the Hui were also greatly weakened, unable to control the river and Tocharo, plus Ge Lulu marched south of Jinshan, Hui had to retreat to the north of Jinshan, but in the end it was cheaper.

Now Qarluq's power is very large, as far south as Tocharo, west as Talas City, and east as south of Jinshan, I heard that Qarluq has formally formed an alliance with Tibet, and is ready to divide Anxi and Beiting. ”

Guo Song nodded, he only now understood why Tubo was suddenly interested in Anxi again, it should have something to do with Ge Lulu.

"That's the case, I want to ask the master of the Shi family to tell Zhu Xie Jinman tonight, and say that Ge Lulu has also sent someone to Ganzhou."

Shi Donglai's eyes narrowed, this Guo Song is really powerful, he created a negotiating advantage out of thin air, if Tang Jun and Ge Lulu join forces, Sha Tuo will be in danger.

Shi Donglai nodded, "I can send my eldest son to tell Zhu Xie Jinman, but does the governor want to find a few people to pretend to be Qarlu envoys?" ”

"This is also what I want to ask the head of the family to help, I have no dealings with Qarluq, it is better for the head of the family to arrange a few people to pretend to be Qarluq, show up in the city, and then I will accompany them to Jiedan County."

Shi Donglai gave a thumbs up, "Du Du has such a powerful eye, I'm afraid that there is no second person in Datang who can see through, I can help Du Du." ”

Guo Song was overjoyed and said a little apologetically. "There's a third request!"

Now Shi Donglai hopes that Guo Song will make more requests, he is more and more important to Guo Song, Guo Song is definitely a person who can do great things.

"The governor said that as long as I can do it, I will do my best to help."

"The third request is about Tingzhou, I hope that the soldiers and civilians of Tingzhou will withdraw eastward, Shatuo agreed, but the court did not agree, I have no choice but to think of supporting Tingzhou, I hope you can provide cattle, sheep and food to Tingzhou, and the money will be settled by Ganzhou."

The color of appreciation in Shi Donglai's eyes was even stronger, "I can give it a try." ”

Guo Song thanked and said with a smile: "I have prepared a few hundred catties of winter melon seeds, and they will be delivered in two days. ”

Winter melon is also a way to solve the shortage of food in Tingzhou, winter melon can be planted in front of the house and behind the house, the yield is large, and then dried into dried winter melon as supplementary food.

This is a trivial matter, Shi Donglai agreed, and Guo Song discussed with him the details of pretending to be a Qarlu envoy, and then he said goodbye and left.

Shi Donglai saw off Guo Song, he sighed in his heart, and said to his eldest son: "This Guo Song is a person with affection and righteousness, the Tang Dynasty has little affection for the military and civilians of Anxi and Beiting, but he always cares about Tingzhou, in contrast, this is the person who is worthy of our deep friendship, and it is also worthy of our help, you find a dozen guys, put on the Chinese clothes of the Qarluqs, and go to the governor's mansion to visit, and then you go to tell Zhu Xie Jinman secretly at night, and say that the envoy of Qarlu has arrived." ”

Shi Yan was a little worried: "Ge Lulu's envoy is in the city, will the Shatuo people find a flaw?" ”

Shi Donglai smiled slightly, "You don't have to worry, Guo Song has already thought about it for you, he will personally escort the Ge Lulu envoy to Jidan County, so that the Shatuo people will not be able to see them and will not be able to expose this situation." ”

"Got it!"

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