Cao Jiao's behavior was very abrupt in the main hall, but Zhao Junsheng did not stop and reprimand, he believed that the military generals should also have the right to speak in the court, especially when it comes to the military level, after all, the civil officials have not brought soldiers, have not experienced the dangers of the battlefield, only the generals who have led the soldiers and commanded the war have the absolute right to speak in this regard.

Dongfang Chen stood up and expressed solidarity with Cao Jiao's opinion: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that General Cao's words are not unreasonable, our Qianguo should make preparations in advance, no matter whether the Southern Dynasties withdraw their troops from Qiuchi, our Dynasties must respond by sending troops to Qiuchi, whether it is to deter the Southern Dynasties, or to attack the Song army in Qiuchi, that is, to let the Southern Dynasties see that we are definitely not just fighting a verbal war, but to move seriously!" ”

In addition, the minister also suggested that before sending troops, an order should be issued to Yang Nandang, so that he could come to Qianjing to face the saint. For the defeat of the thousands of remnants of the army brought out by Yang Nandang from Qiu Chi, the imperial court can't help but send people to keep an eye on them, lest they do anything wrong in the territory of our Qianguo! ”

Dongfang Chen's opinion is very pertinent, this is paving the way for the follow-up actions of the imperial court.

Zhao Junsheng knew that Dongfang Chen had already understood his thoughts, and asked, "By the way, how many remnants of the defeated army did Yang Nandang bring from Qiu Chi to Shangqi?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, about two thousand, all of them are cavalry!" Cui Hao stood up and replied.

Zhao Junsheng touched his chin, "How does Cui Qing think to settle Yang Nandang and his remnants of the defeated generals?" ”

Cui Hao is also a shrewd person, since Yang Nandang has come out of Qiuchi, he will definitely not let him go back with those remnants of the defeated army. Kill and can't kill, after all, Qianguo is a big country, and he can't do the matter of unloading and killing donkeys, so he can only make another arrangement for Yang Nandang and the thousands of remnants of his soldiers.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a strategy, but I don't know if Your Majesty dares to use it!"

Zhao Junsheng heard it, "Yo, Cui Qing also used the radical method against me, let's listen to it!" ”

"Yes!" Cui Hao arched his hand, "The minister's idea is to put Yang Nandang and his remnants of the defeated generals in the Qiangliang area, and give Yang Nandang a promise, provide them with half a year's grain and grass and 5,000 people's armor and equipment, if they can snatch the territory, population, grain, livestock, and money from Tuyuhun or Beiliang, all of which belong to them, the imperial court will not want it, and when the time comes, the imperial court will also support Yang Nandang to re-establish the country!" ”

After Cui Hao finished speaking, the hall became silent, but soon the courtiers were talking.

Hua Mulan frowned and said: "Cui Qing's plan sounds feasible, put them in Qiangliang to cause chaos and trouble for Tuyuhun and Beiliang, but it is a bit risky, Yang Nandang and his generals are all Di people, these people are unruly, once they really open up the situation in the Qiangliang area, I am afraid that they will form a big tail in the future!" Also, if they are placed in the Qiangliang area, if they choose to take refuge in Tuyuhun or Beiliang, they will lose control, and they will turn against us with the support of Tuyuhun or Beiliang, which is to shoot themselves in the foot! ”

Cui Hao smiled and said: "What the queen said is very true, this plan is very risky, so the minister asked His Majesty if he dared!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and said to the ministers: "How to settle Yang Nandang and his 2,000 cavalry is postponed for the time being, and first issue an order to send someone to Shangqi, and Xuan Yang Nandang will enter Beijing to see me and retreat from the dynasty!" ”

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he left the hall hand in hand with Mulan, and the ministers bowed: "Congratulations to Your Majesty!" ”

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Jiankang, post house.

The attendant Da Kui tidied up Wang De's clothes and said, "Master, do you want to leave you a meal at noon?" ”

"Of course!" Wang De stretched out his arms and let Da Kui sort out his clothes and belt, and he remembered something and explained: "When I am not there, you stay in the post house and don't go out!" ”

"Yes!" Da Kui agreed, and tied the sword to Wang De's waist, "Okay, master!" ”

"Hmm!" Wang De walked outside with the hilt of the sword, and five Qianjun soldiers at the door followed him, one of them was Xue Andu's nephew Xue Daoqian, Xue Daoqian's martial arts have been passed on by the Xue family, and there are few opponents among the younger generation, this time he was appointed by Xue Andu as Wang De's escort captain.

Wang De is the long history of Xue Andu, Xue Andu received Zhao Junsheng's secret decree through the black-clothed guard and discussed with Wang De, and finally Wang De himself asked for an envoy to Jiankang, he came to Jiankang for two days, and only received a notice from the Song court last night that he went to meet today.

After walking for two moments in the carriage, he arrived outside the palace gate, the carriage stopped outside the palace gate, Wang De stepped out of the carriage, and a eunuch greeted him and asked: "Is it the envoy of the Qianguo Dynasty, Wang De, Lord Wang?" ”

Wang De arched his hand: "It's the lower official!" ”

The eunuch bowed down with the dust and said, "Your Majesty and the ministers of the court are already waiting for Lord Wang, please follow me into the palace quickly!" ”

"Okay, there is Father-in-law Lao to lead the way!"

Under the leadership of the eunuch, Wang De was escorted by Xue Daoqian and other five armor soldiers to the outside of the Xuande Palace.

The eunuch stopped and turned around and said, "Please wait a while, Lord Wang, our family will go and report to Your Majesty!" ”

Wang De bowed: "There is labor!" ”

After the eunuch left, Xue Daoqian stepped forward and hugged his fists and asked, "Changshi, if the guards don't let me wait to enter the palace later, how will I deal with it?" ”

Wang De said: "General Xue doesn't have to worry, this official is an envoy, and the Southern Dynasty will not dare to do anything to this official even if he is angry!" This is people's territory, we still abide by their rules, if they don't let you into the temple, you will stay outside the temple and wait, you must not conflict with them, they dare not do anything to the officials, but they will not care about your life and death, understand? ”

Xue Daoqian clenched his fists and said, "The last general understands!" ”

The role of Xue Daoqian's guards is mainly to protect Wang De from the conspiracy attacks of the juniors, but if the Southern Dynasty court wants to deal with Wang De, their role will be limited, especially in this palace, even if they have high martial arts, they will be given in vain.

Soon the screams of the eunuchs came from inside the hall: "The envoys of the Xuanqian State have come to see you!" ”

Wang De straightened his clothes, and then walked up the steps with his big sleeves flicked, and Xue Daoqian and the other five armor soldiers followed him with a grip on the hilt of the knife.

To Xue Daoqian's surprise, the forbidden army armor soldiers outside the main hall did not stop their guards, and let them escort Wang De into the Xuande Palace, but when they entered the hall, they found that there were many armor soldiers standing on the walls around the wall of the main hall, all of them were fully armed and majestic, and they were not worried about them committing murder here.

Wang De walked to the middle of the hall and stopped: "The envoy Wang De came to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Song State on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"Your envoy is exempt!" Liu Jun raised his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Although Liu Jun was only a teenager, he seemed very mature and calm, and asked, "Dare to ask your envoy, I don't know why the Emperor of Qianguo sent you to see me?" ”

"Not long ago, the lord of Qiuchi sent an envoy to Qianjing to pay tribute to the minister, respecting my Daqian as the suzerain, my lord learned that your country sent troops to attack Qiuchi and captured the entire territory of Qiuchi, and was very angry, your country's attack on Qiuchi is tantamount to violating our Daqian, this is a blatant violation of the peace treaty, your subordinates hereby lodge a solemn protest to Your Majesty and the Song court, hoping that Your Majesty will immediately order the soldiers and horses who captured Qiuchi to withdraw from Qiuchi and hand them over to our Qianguo to send troops to take over!"

Liu Jun and the ministers of the Song State were very surprised, Liu Zhendao and Pei Fangming led the army to defeat Yang Nandang and capture the entire territory of Qiuchi The news was only sent to Jiankang by the fast horse yesterday, and they only got the news yesterday, why did the envoys of the Qianguo State come earlier than the fast horse messengers of the Song State?

However, at this time, the monarchs and ministers of the Song State had no intention of paying attention to this detail, and the problem now was that the envoys of the Qianguo State had come to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and they wanted to take away the Qiu Chi State from the Song State, and wanted the Song State to spit out the fat in his mouth.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty were all shrewd people, and they immediately understood the intentions of the Qianguo side.

Liu Yiqing, the king of Linchuan, stood up and reprimanded Wang De with righteous words: "When the peace treaty was signed, Qiu Chi was attacking Liangzhou, my country, why didn't you see Qianguo restraining Qiu Chi's soldiers and horses at that time?" Now that our country has defeated Qiu Chi State, you just want to pick peaches with such a trick, how can it be unreasonable! ”

Liu Yiqing is the nephew of Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, and his most talked about achievement is to gather a group of literati to jointly compile the book "The World Speaks New Language".

Dr. Pei Songzhi stood up and accused: "Your country is too unparticular about doing this, until now we still haven't received the news that Yang Nandang sent an envoy to your country to claim the courtier, this matter came out of the mouth of your envoy and made me suspect that this is just a side of your country, and your country's purpose is to seek revenge from our country!" ”

Starting from Liu Yiqing and Pei Songzhi, the courtiers of the Song State stood up one after another to bombard Wang De, and some even pointed at Wang De's nose and scolded the Qianguo monarchs and ministers for being shameless.

No matter how the courtiers of the Song State accused, abused, and laughed, Wang De always stood firm and looked indifferent.

Knowing that no one would stand up and speak again, Wang Decai spoke: "Have you all finished speaking?" If you don't finish speaking, then continue, if you do, then it's the envoy's turn to speak! ”

After a pause of two seconds, Wang De's gaze swept over the faces of the monarchs and ministers of the Song State, "Qiu Chi is now a vassal state of my Great Qian, and Yang Nan, the king of Di, should be a vassal to my Great Qiandi, this is an ironclad fact, your monarchs and ministers do not know that this news does not mean that it is fake, this envoy is an envoy appointed by the Great Qiandi, and every word and sentence he says represents the attitude of the Daqian Emperor!" ”

"The problem now is that your country sent troops to capture our Daqian's Qiuchi vassal state, and openly broke the peace treaty, and the envoy on behalf of my Daqian Emperor is to inform your monarchs and ministers, and it is also an ultimatum, a month later, our Daqian's army arrives at the border of Qiuchi, and the soldiers and horses of your country who capture Qiuchi must hand over Qiuchi to our Daqian army and complete the handover of garrison, otherwise our Daqian will definitely send troops to counterattack and vow to recapture Qiuchi. In addition to recapturing Qiuchi, I do not rule out sending troops to attack other parts of the Song Kingdom! ”

"The envoy will not stay in Jiankang for too long this time, and will leave for China tomorrow. Regarding this matter, your country will take care of it yourself, and I will not inform your country separately when I send troops! Your Majesty, Your Majesty has taken your leave! ”

After that, Wang Deyang walked away.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty were so angry that their faces turned pale, and Emperor Liu Jun clenched his fists, and his fists turned white.