At this time, there was already a falling out in the palace, and as expected by King Pingnan, the Hu people defeated the Dahua army. The emperor was furious.

"Bastard, why? Why is that? Why was our Great Chinese Army defeated? Who can tell me? Why did our mighty Dahua army fail? Ma Wentao, you say. ”

The emperor pointed at Ma Wentao and shouted angrily. As the secretary of the Ministry of War, Ma Wentao can't hide if he wants to.

But Ma Wentao couldn't say why, they were the defenders, although the number was less, but they were guarding the city, but the city was broken by the Hu people.

There are many reasons for this, even if he is the secretary of the military department, he can't say the main reason. In fact, he knew it in his heart, but he couldn't say anything.

At this time, the king of Pingnan came out of the ranks, bowed down and said loudly: "Emperor Qibing, the reason for the defeat of our army is very simple, our army has not experienced the war for too long, and the soldiers on the front line have forgotten the cruelty of the war, and they have long been decayed. ”

Ma Wentao was immediately angry, and he reprimanded loudly: "King Pingnan, you don't bewitch the people here, the soldiers on the front line train diligently every day and have never slackened, how can it be rotten, are you trying to make our soldiers on the front line shed blood and tears?" ”

Pingnan Wang Hao said fearlessly: "Then may I ask Lord Shangshu, what is the reason for our failure?" Please tell me about the reason for the defeat of our army! ”

Ma Wentao was speechless. In fact, he knew better than anyone that what King Pingnan said was right, but he didn't want to admit it if he was killed.

When the emperor saw that he was about to quarrel again, he immediately said angrily: "Okay, don't quarrel, who can tell me now, what should I do next?" ”

There was a sudden silence in the courtroom.

The emperor was completely angry: "Why don't you speak, are you all dumb?" Are you just waiting for the Hu army to come to the imperial city? It is the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, such a critical moment! Why didn't you all say anything? ”

At this time, a minister stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the way to solve this matter is to use Gao Taiwei." Gao Taiwei may not have done very well in other things, but we have to admit that during the period when Gao Taiwei was in charge of military power, our Dahua Dynasty was still relatively stable. ”

This one.

The emperor hesitated when he heard this, he had just removed Gao Taiwei from his position, and now he suddenly activated it, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor?

King Pingnan hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help it, stood up and bowed down and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead the troops into battle." ”

The emperor was speechless again, he knew that if King Pingnan went to war, the odds of winning this battle were very high. But what if this King of Pingnan kills him back with a rifle?

This King Pingnan's ability is too big, so big that he, the emperor, feels afraid, and if he is not careful, the inheritance passed down from his ancestors will be destroyed in his hands.

Therefore, he had already sworn that whoever led the troops would not lead the troops to the king of Pingnan, so let him live this life honestly and peacefully!

But the reality seemed to be joking with him, and at this time he found that except for King Pingnan, there was no one available.

As King Pingnan said, this person has been comfortable for too long, and the original ruthlessness has been worn away. Not even a war anymore.

Of course, except for King Pingnan, other people can also lead troops to battle, but whoever is sent out with troops is not as safe as King Pingnan!

Not only the emperor, but even Ma Wentao was unwilling to lead the troops of King Pingnan, and now that Gao Yu has abdicated, this position of captain is basically in his Ma Wentao's pocket.

At this critical time, he didn't want to make a fuss.

In a flash of thought, Ma Wentao also saw the emperor's embarrassment, and he hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, we still have another way to solve this matter. ”

The emperor's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked, "What's the way?" ”

Ma Wentao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Negotiate peace." ”

Peace?

That is, negotiation, and the final result of any war will be to negotiate, otherwise it will be surrender. Unless you have the ability to kill the other person to death.

King Pingnan was shocked: "Your Majesty, don't wow. Now in the negotiation, the other side will definitely open his mouth, and this negotiation will become a shame for our Dahua Dynasty. ”

However, the emperor said: "Ma Aiqing, you can send someone to contact the other party and probe their tone." Ask them if they are willing to negotiate? If the matter can be resolved peacefully, why should we fight a war and waste money and money, right? ”

This one.

Who would dare to say that the emperor's words are wrong? If it's wrong, isn't it not a lack of love for the people?

Ma Wentao was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "The emperor is sage, then Weichen will do what the emperor wants." ”

King Pingnan sighed, stood to the side, and honestly stopped talking.

Ten days later, Hu negotiators arrived in the capital. It is said that fighting a war is only a political means, and if it is not for profit, who wants to fight?

In fact, the Hu people were also reluctant to fight, this time they sent troops angrily, but they still wanted Dahua to bow their heads, can they pay them a little silver?

Our second prince has let you kill them, if you don't have a temper, then they won't be laughed to death? But after fighting them, they realized that this battle was not so easy to fight, and fighting was throwing money at play.

They had long thought that the Dahua Dynasty could bow its head earlier, so that they could take a little money to quell this war.

It can be said that life and death are all for this negotiation in the end.

The negotiator of the Hu people is called Mo Zazhe, this is on a tall horse, look at the tall Chang'an city gate.

Mozazhe sighed: I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and I have finally realized my dream after being busy for a long time. It's not easy, it's not easy.

At the negotiation table, Ma Wentao came to the negotiation site on time with someone, but he waited here for a long time, but the Mo Zazhe did not appear for a long time.

There's no way, it's him begging people to negotiate, and if people want to put up a shelf, let people put it up!

Ma Wentao didn't know how long he had been waiting, and finally this Mo Zazhe finally appeared, the score of this product was very sufficient, and as soon as he entered the door, he first paused, his eyes scanned the room, and then he snorted coldly and walked over.

Ma Wentao hurriedly greeted him, and said groveling as if he had seen his emperor: "Ma Wentao has seen the envoy ......."

Mo Zazhe didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he interrupted him with a cold snort, then took out a document from his bag, slammed it directly on the table, and said coldly: "I don't have time to waste with you here, this is my condition, just agree to sign it or not." ”

Ma Wentao opened the document and saw that the other party was really not an ordinary lion with a big mouth, and he asked for 50 million taels of silver when he opened his mouth, plus handed over Jiang Xiaobai, and they wanted to use Jiang Xiaobai to commemorate their second prince.