Although Cui Shenlin was smiling when he spoke, he looked at the people of the Cen family opposite while laughing, and this smile did not stop.

Looking at the Cen family, everyone was a little chilled in their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, Nima's smile was not simple, just looking at it made people feel numb.

Could this be the reincarnation of the smiling tiger?

However, since the words have already been spoken, and since the people of the Cen family dare to find the rebel army of the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally deliberate, and it is a move after observing for a long time, and it is definitely not a whim.

After the puppet Tang thief army went south to Guangxi, every move of its army was actually watched by many people, not only the officials of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to them, but even the toasts, squires and landlords in Guangxi, and even ordinary people were paying attention to them.

Starting from going south to Guangxi, and then dividing the troops into two routes, they successively conquered Huaiyuan County and Rong County on the same day, and then stationed troops under the city of Liuzhou, surrounded tens of thousands of Ming troops in the city, and the whole process was less than half a month!

Although the first attack on Liuzhou City failed, some well-informed people knew that the attack on the pseudo-Tang thief army did not use all their strength at all, and the real thief army did not play at all, and it was the fake thieves who attacked the city.

As for how they judge the real thieves of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty and the fake thieves, it is very easy, those who wear blue clothes and red pants are the real pseudo-Tang thieves, and those who are still wearing Ming Dynasty military uniforms or ordinary people's clothing, and at the same time wearing white cloth strips on their arms are fake thieves.

And those fake thieves knew as soon as they were dressed that they were surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the failure of the attack on Liuzhou is nothing in the eyes of many people, otherwise, why did the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Liuzhou City still dare not come out, and even after the main force of the puppet Tang thief army went south to Xiangzhou, only thousands of people were left outside Liuzhou City, but the Ming army in Liuzhou City still did not dare to come out.

At the same time, almost the entire Ming army in the Liangguang region was concentrating in the direction of Liuzhou!

All this shows that the puppet Tang thief army is not simple, and this kind of unsimplicity has reached the point where it is necessary to concentrate the forces of the two provinces or even more to suppress it.

However, this is just a southward division of a pseudo-Tang thief army!

As everyone knows, the puppet Tang thief army rose in Zhengtai County, Xingquan Prefecture in eastern Guizhou, and now the Guizhou official army has been defeated, and it is rumored that only a few people are left to resist stubbornly in the provincial capital Guiyang, but the northern, eastern and central regions of Guizhou have all fallen into the hands of the puppet Tang thief army.

It can be seen that the rise of the puppet Tang thief army has actually become inevitable, and the imperial court is bound to pay a great price and time if it wants to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army.

At least in a short period of time, maybe half a year, maybe a year or two, this part of Guizhou and Guangxi will be the world of the Tang Dynasty.

Many people can see this, some knowledgeable gentry and landlords, some middle and high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, etc., can see it.

This can be seen from the fact that the Ming army in the Liangguang region did not hurriedly shout that it was going to completely destroy the Tang Dynasty immediately, but only tried to annihilate the southbound pseudo-Tang thief army in the Liuzhou area.

The high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the southwest region, who were more familiar with the situation, were ready for a long-term encirclement and suppression.

In this case, it is not difficult to guarantee that some careerists will speculate here!

Who dares to guarantee that the imperial court will be able to destroy the puppet Tang thief army?

Who dares to say that the Tang Dynasty could not gradually develop and grow, and then overthrow the Ming Dynasty in turn?

It's a small possibility, but it's still a possibility, and no one knows what will happen until it gets to the final stage.

And this represents an opportunity!

High risk, but also high return opportunity!

The Huaiyuan Cen family saw it, and was ready to seize this opportunity to try to regain the position of Tusi they lost a hundred years ago.

Cen Chunlin looked at the group of civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty opposite, and he was still secretly thinking about it in his heart.

The officials of the puppet Tang Thief Army on the opposite side looked naturally calm, although they showed great interest and even urgency in the supply of military rations they proposed, but that was all, and they did not arbitrarily agree to any conditions for this.

Even he had no doubt that if he made any excessive demands, the officials of the pseudo-Tang Thief Army on the opposite side would leave immediately, and then turn around and send troops to slaughter their own families.

But is it too much to ask for yourself?

Not!

What they want from Huaiyuan Cen is just a position of toast in a remote and small place, and there are countless such toasts in the huge southwest region, even in Liuzhou, there are dozens of large and small toasts!

And he didn't mean that he wanted the Tang Dynasty to give some mature Han land to himself, he just wanted to give him the position of Tusi that belonged to his family a hundred years ago and was now seized by others.

For the Tang Dynasty, it was just a change of family under the rule of a Tusi, and it would not actually affect their actual rule in Guangxi.

It is important to mention here that whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the current Tang Dynasty, their strength is enough to completely suppress the local Tusi power, whether it is military, economic, or otherwise.

However, for a long time, the Central Dynasty adopted a policy of co-opting the local Tusi and adopted a model of co-governance between the two sides in the local area.

As long as the Tusi do not rebel and pay tribute every year to listen to the Xuan, then basically the central court will not find something to destroy these Tusi.

This is the case in the Ming Dynasty, and the same is true in the current Tang Dynasty, which basically recognizes the hereditary power of the existing Tusi, well, provided that they do not rebel!

Therefore, Cen Chunlin believes that the Tang Dynasty is very likely to agree to its own conditions and support its family to regain the position of Tusi that was taken away by the rebels.

In fact, after Cui Chunlin and the others heard this condition of the Cen family, although Cui Chunlin said that they had great plans, they were secretly relieved in their hearts.

At the beginning, they were worried that the Cen family would open their mouths and ask for many privileges, especially some commercial privileges, such as the franchise of strategic materials such as salt, iron and tea.

But no matter what their request is, as long as it will not significantly affect the interests of the Tang Dynasty in the short term, then Li Xuan has already delegated power to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and promised them, as long as the Cen family can provide a large amount of military food in the short term, then what's the harm in agreeing?

What, after agreeing, it will greatly damage the interests of the Tang Dynasty in the future, such as what franchises such as cigarettes and tea? Just kidding, what do you think the Tang Dynasty is, you can't go back on signing the agreement, as long as the Tang Dynasty is willing, you can tear up the treaty in minutes!

And the treaty this is still a treaty between countries, you are a grain merchant, you dare to talk about a treaty with the Tang Dynasty, don't die!

Therefore, in the short term, the Tang Dynasty will promise them, and then get military rations, and after the army takes Guangxi and even Liangguang, the Cen family, the so-called Guangxi grain merchants, will basically be useless.

Therefore, in fact, it doesn't matter what the conditions proposed by the Cen family are, because if it is an easy condition, the Tang Dynasty will give it, and if it is an excessively heavy condition, then it is okay to agree to it first, and then it is okay to regret it afterwards!

The point is, get the food in hand first!

Well, if the Cen family had hoarded grain in Liuzhou Mansion in advance, what did these officials of the Tang Dynasty have to say to him, they would have sent a large army to requisition it directly.

Under the world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister!

The whole world belongs to His Majesty, and the food of your Cen family is naturally Your Majesty's, and it is reasonable for Your Majesty's army to requisition it!

If anyone dares to say a word, they will be wiped out!

It is a pity that these Cen family members themselves have said that their grain needs to be transported from other places in Guangxi, and if the quantity is several thousand stones, it even needs to be transported from other provinces such as Huguang and Guangdong.

Even if the Tang Dynasty wants to grab food, it can rob it, otherwise what else can we talk about, just grab it.

Now the conditions proposed by the Cen family are just to help them restore the position of Tusi, this kind of thing can be done easily, when the army goes south to Wuxuan, just send a few hundred people to help the Cen family fight, it is not worth such a big fight!

However, even if this condition is nothing in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty itself, it is very important to the Cen family, and as Cui Chunlin, who has fought countless battles with others, he naturally knows how to master the rhythm of negotiations and strive for more benefits for his side.

However, since the basic conditions of the two sides are that there are no big discrepancies and contradictions, although this negotiation has been repeatedly tugging for more than an hour, an agreement was still reached on the same day!

The two sides agreed that within three days, the Cen family would provide 400 stone of military rations for the Tang Dynasty division for free, and this batch of military food would be transported to Xiangzhou by the Cen family through Liujiang, and the Tang Dynasty would take over after arriving in Xiangzhou.

Within half a month, 500 stone of grain will be provided to Liuzhou at one time, and this batch of grain is still free.

In the future, two thousand stones of grain will be provided to supply the Tang Dynasty every month, and these subsequent food supplies will need money, and the price is much higher than the market price.

Hundreds of thousands of stone of food sounds like a lot, but in fact it is not much, because at present, just the troops going south consume more than 100 stone of military food every day, not including the rations of war horses and service livestock!

Moreover, the southbound troops in Guangxi are still expanding rapidly every day, and the recruitment points in Huaiyuan County, Rong County, Xiangzhou and other places will have many local poor children sign up to join the army every day.

There are so many people who always need to eat, and the food consumed every day is massive, so no matter how much food there is, it is not too much!

If it weren't for the limited supply channel capacity of the Cen family, the Tang Dynasty would have been eager for them to supply 10,000 stone of grain every month!