Chapter 453: Cession, Cession
Gao Shun and Wang Quan could only look at the river and sigh, the scouts searched the river for dozens of miles upstream and downstream, but there was no second bridge, the river was so fast and deep that it was impossible to cross the river on foot.
Anyway, Lu Bu had already confessed, and the pursuit of Bo Harmony and Sot was just pretending, so they led their men back to Peshawar directly, and they didn't think about crossing the river at all.
Lu Bu naturally didn't blame them, and let them attend the banquet together, he originally wanted such a result.
Maggs felt regretful, but he didn't dare to say anything.
After the banquet, the next day, Mags brought a few confidants to meet Lu Bu, and he didn't dare to really put himself in a position equal to Lu Bu.
Lu Bu seriously told Mags that since Bo Tiao was removed from the emperor's throne and he inherited the throne, everyone was their own people, which meant that the war between the Han and Guishan was over, and the rest was their Guishan's internal affairs, which had nothing to do with the Han.
What Mags wants most is also this result, the strength of the big man is too strong, it is better not to participate in the internal disputes in Guishan, it is easy to please God, it is difficult to send God!
However, Lu Bu emphasized that since the end of the war would involve the conclusion of the end-of-war treaty between the two countries, and since Mags was his own person, this treaty would have the nature of an alliance.
Mags, of course, wanted the Great Han to form an alliance with Kushan, both to lose a formidable enemy and to have an extra arm in his civil war with Bo Tuo.
Lu Bu nodded, since Mags could think so, it would be better, he announced that the specific armistice agreement and alliance treaty would be signed by Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi through consultation with Mags.
However, in any case, this war was provoked by Guishan, and the Han army spent a large amount of military expenses, a large number of casualties after the war, and reasonable war compensation, but it should be borne by Guishan.
Hearing this, Mags smiled bitterly, this war was provoked by the grandson of Bo Tuo, but who called himself the king of Kushan, his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and if he lost, he had to listen to Lu Bu.
LΓΌ Bu said solemnly to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi that the bottom line of this negotiation was that the Kushan ceded the land north and west of the Hindu Kush Mountains to the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty would establish the Sogdian Governor's Office to manage these areas.
At this moment, Mags couldn't sit still, "Your Majesty, Guishan hasn't ceded territory to others in the past few hundred years, and I, as soon as I became king, ceded the territory, I'm afraid the throne won't be stable." β
Lu Bu looked at him with a sneer, "Hmph, if I don't teach you a profound lesson, how will you know what to do?" I am also thinking about the future generations of our two countries. β
"What, not convinced? Do you want to keep fighting? Ha, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as ceding north of the Hindu Kush at that time. β
Of course, Mags was not convinced, but the bloody facts were there, and the arrogant wave was not convinced, and he also beat it, and the consequence was that the throne was lost.
Having seen the strength of the Han army and having a good understanding of the Han heritage, Mags doesn't think he has any chance of winning!
That's it, just cede it, anyway, these areas are not inhabited by the Kushan people, they are all forcibly occupied by their ancestors.
Now the top priority is to defeat the wave and dominate the Kushan, and these are inseparable from the military support and logistical supply of the Han Dynasty, how can Mags, who has been pretending to be a grandson for decades, not see through this?
Seeing Mags bow his head and give in, Lu Bu's reaction to him was also expected, and he said comfortingly: "Mags, I have decided to return to you all the Kushan prisoners of war captured in the previous battle, and be responsible for providing the firearms and equipment needed to rearm them, what do you think?" β
Mags was still calculating the amount of land to be ceded, and was of course excited to hear that Lu Bu was going to hand over all the previous prisoners of war to him and was willing to provide matching firearms and equipment.
This is 100,000 prisoners of war, most of them were captured by the Han army during the Battle of Khorasan, they are the elite of the Kushan legions, and the Han army also provides firearms and equipment, which is simply perfect.
With this 100,000-strong army, plus the army under his control, even if the Han army does not send troops to help, it is enough to deal with Bo Diao.
The wave of the wave fled to Rawalpindi, which is only one of the provincial legions of Soth, and the other provinces are mostly neutral and wait-and-see, and I am afraid that there will not be many who can send troops to support the wave of the tune.
On the contrary, he has worked hard for so many years, and many of those local provinces have been bought by himself, and now he is rightfully sitting on the throne, as long as he fulfills the promise he made to them, he is not afraid that they will not support him.
As for these fulfilled promises, when he becomes stronger, Mags is confident that he can settle them one by one, and he wants a high degree of autonomy, how can he be the emperor?
Things were properly arranged, and Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and others were worried about the negotiations, so Lu Bu took Dian Wei, Gao Shun, Ma Chao and others to tour around Peshawar.
Maggs also arranged for the new Imperial Prime Minister, the original Deputy Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for the Interior, and the new Minister of War, Osidmus, to negotiate with Zhuge Liang and them, and he himself took Hamas's Praetorian Guard to accompany Lu Bu to play.
They were hunting in the royal hunting grounds of Jalalabad, and Mags saw Lu Bu's amazing archery skills and unparalleled archery skills for the first time.
After a week of verbal debate and bargaining like market vendors, the two sides finally signed the "Peace Treaty of the Final War of the Han-Guizhou War" and the "Treaty of Non-Aggression, Friendship and Mutual Assistance between the Han and the Kushan".
It was in the form of an official peace treaty that more than a dozen provinces north and west of the Hindu Kush Mountains were ceded to the Han Dynasty, which was placed under the jurisdiction of the Western Protectorate of the Han Empire, and the Sogdian Governorate was established to directly administer these regions.
These dozen or so provinces include Sogdia, Herat, Farah, Fariab, Kunduz, Bamiyan, Juzjan, and Balkh, and are almost the size of Sistan and Khorasan combined.
The war was officially over, and the Han army was to be withdrawn from the Kushan Empire, but the Haotian Army was left behind, and they were invited by the Kushan Emperor Mags I to help him destroy the rebels.
The Han army officially handed over the 100,000 Kushan prisoners of war it had captured to Mags's army, and as for how to mobilize them to join Mags's army, LΓΌ Bu didn't care.
At the same time, the Han army also handed over 100,000 firearms and equipment to Mags, basically all flintlock muskets, half of which were captured by the Kushan army, and half were eliminated by the Han army.
Many of these flintlock pistols eliminated by the Han army were front-loading rifled guns, and their performance was much stronger than Guishuang's flintlock pistol.
At the same time, there is matching ammunition and a large number of grenades.
Mags has a lot of stiffness at this time, he already controls more than a dozen divisions, plus these 100,000 Guishan elites, he has the upper hand in the civil war with Bo Tuo.