Duan Ling led Baili Yan into the front hall of the atrium, put cakes and meat on the table, and then said to himself with a big grin:

"The Xianjun is invincible, destroying and sweeping the guards wherever they go, Duan admires it very much."

"Hehe, Duan Envoy is overrated. Our army can do what it is today, all thanks to the courage of the three armies, the unity of the monarch and the minister, and the rest is just embellishment. ”

"Haha, if everyone knows it today, the prosperity of Xianguo today is the power of Yongxing Hou alone, Yongxing Hou is too humble."

"The merits and demerits of their own descendants will judge, what Ben Hou said doesn't count, what Duan Envoy said doesn't count, it's really boring to talk about it today, spread it, it will inevitably be ridiculed by the world, Duan Envoy doesn't talk about it."

Bai Liyan deliberately stopped Duan Ling's sycophancy, intending to pave the way for the next negotiations. Seeing that Baili Yan was completely silent, Duan Ling's attitude became cautious, and he cautiously tested:

"Now that the general trend has been set, Yongxinghou can have long-term plans in the future."

"Hehe, there is no far, and the near one is about to talk to Duan Envoy."

When Duan Ling heard that the tone of his words was wrong, he immediately became vigilant:

"Yongxing Hou wants to talk to this envoy?"

"Exactly. Now that the defeat of the defense of the country has been decided, and our country has relieved the danger of breaking the country for your country, your country must not let our country send two million people in vain. ”

"You!" Duan Ling was emotional when he heard the news, but after thinking about it and suppressing his thoughts, he said: "As far as this envoy knows, Zhang Jie, our envoy in Chenling, has reached a final agreement with King Xian, and now that the defense of the country has been defeated, you and I should fulfill the agreement as originally agreed. Isn't it enough for China to cede the six and a half counties of Sangnam and Sangbei and recognize that your country occupies the three counties of Dekang, Yuanshan and Qiujun, and that your country should transfer the four counties of Ruijun, Jingyuan, Gongshen and Kang to our country? ”

"Is Duan Envoy playing this handsome, the agreement negotiated between my king and Zhang Jie is true, but the premise is that our country suddenly sends troops to attack the guards with 300,000 troops, and give the defenders a devastating blow. However, due to your country's negligence and leakage, our army's plans were exposed, and we were forced to conscript two million troops to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in money and food, ten times the original price.

Now that Wei Guo has ceded Dekang to Zhiguo, King Zhi has asked my king for Dekang several times, and Dekang is the only way to connect the two counties of Yuanshan and Qiujun. ”

"Dekang is now in the hands of the Xian army, and since the king of Xian has occupied the land of the country, how can he give it to Zhiguo."

"According to the meaning of the envoy, my country will not give it."

Bai Liyan asked, Duan Ling said very confidently:

"The combat strength of the Xian army is monstrous, are you still afraid of a showdown with the Zhi army."

As soon as the words came out, Bailiyan was furious, slapped his palm on the case and said abruptly:

"As early as the beginning of the war, Zhiguo cut off a channel for our country's southward pastures, blocked the upper reaches of the Sishui River, reduced the supply of materials, and now hundreds of thousands of war horses are stranded in the Central Plains, and countless grains and grass are consumed every day. Now that the war is not over, and then the war with Zhiguo, Duan Envoy wants my Xianguo to perish, well! ”

"Your country is invincible with divine weapons and sharp weapons, Du Ruixun's army of more than 600,000 troops was defeated by the Xian army overnight, and the Zhi army is not the opponent of the Xian country."

Duan Ling said it lightly, his attitude was extremely ignorant and arrogant, and he didn't intend to make any concessions at all. Bai Liyan said toughly:

"Duan has such a big tone, how can the war end be opened without permission, and human life is child's play. Our country sent troops for your country, and now the country wants to win Dekang, and your eldest grandson pushes it and wants me to attack it, which is simply unreasonable. If the envoy does not give an explanation today, all the consequences in the future will be borne by your country, don't say that you are unpredictable! ”

"You are a strong man's difficulty, it is clear that the defender of the country will give Dekang to Zhiguo, and now Dekang is in the hands of your army, what does this have to do with our country."

"It doesn't matter, if it weren't for the leakage of news from your country, why would our army have to wait for four more months, how could Wei Guo cede Dekang to Zhiguo, and all the cause and effect would have been caused by your country. Now Zhiguo asks me for Dekang, how can Yuanshan and Qiujun be placed under the jurisdiction of our country, and your country does not bear this responsibility, who is responsible! ”

"Hmph, more than a dozen counties of Weiguo are all in the hands of Yongxing Hou, so why should Zhiguo be obsessed with Dekang County, don't you know this law."

"Duan Envoy is really the world is a stupid pig, Dekang is the throat of the westward advance, and those who get Dekang get the land, if Zhiguo is only for the land, there is no need to forcibly ask for Dekang, its intention is to get this place to strangle my throat, and it is said that the promise of the country is first, and its request for Dekang is justified, how can you say that you will change the land."

The five counties of Dekang, Yuanshan, Qiujun, Mingtian, and Kangjun run from east to west, and are sandwiched between the three kingdoms of Zhiguo, Xuguo, and Changsun.

Therefore, no matter how the land is exchanged, it is within the three counties of Dekang, Yuanshan, and Qiujun agreed between King Xian and Zhang Jie. And Zhiguo has every reason to ask for Dekang, because it is the promise of the country that has been promised first.

Of course, the land is in the hands of the Xian army, and the Xianguo University can ignore it, but the economic countermeasures of the Zhiguo will affect the time for the Xian State to digest and occupy the land, and even drag down the economy, and the Gongliang Army is now confronting Zhao Xun in the south of Dekang's territory, and the fundamental reason for its ironclad claim to Dekang County is that as long as Dekang County is sealed, the passage for the Xian army to expand westward will be blocked.

Zhiguo supplies a large number of primary raw materials to Xianguo, Xianguo has patronized the expansion of production capacity and market over the years, has no spare money for strategic reserves, and cannot withstand the stagnation of production caused by the interruption of raw materials, so it is impossible for Xianguo to start a war with Zhiguo in a short time.

Taking a step back, Xianguo and Zhiguo went to war, and the Jin State was falling into the well, cutting off the supply of raw materials, and using this as a threat, Xianguo could only die even worse.

Cotton, wool, soybeans, copper, oil, ore, and so on are heavily dependent on imports, while gunpowder needs cotton, feed, food, and fertilizer need soybean meal, fuel, oil and oil need soybean oil and oil, and metallurgy needs copper.

Of course, if the three countries stop exporting, the loss of trade will be two-way, but the social form of the three countries determines that their social pressure capacity is much higher than that of the salty country, and the social impact of unemployment is very limited, but the impact on the salty country.

At the same time, the eldest grandson and the Jin state still maintained a superficial alliance, and the Jin state was the upper state of the Xian state, and the political suppression, the Xian state could not develop westward through the annexation of the eldest son, so it actually blocked the pace of the expansion of the Xian state.

One of the biggest advantages of the Xian army's attack and defense is that the width of the battlefield is short. Xianguo only borders Weiguo in Dekang, and is also separated by a river, so the width of the northern and southern battlefields is limited. Moreover, the counties of Weiguo in the Central Plains are basically east-west, and the north and south are short, and they will only change when they reach Kangjun. Therefore, the density of troops of the Xian army landing from Dekang is extremely high, and the elite forces can be concentrated on the frontal push.

However, Zhiguo is completely different, the southern border of Xianguo borders the entire line of Zhiguo, and the dog-tooth interweaving is quite complicated, and the public border is more than 2,000 kilometers. The Salon army simply could not spread all over the 2,000-kilometer border.

Furthermore, the main force for the landing of the country was firearms, and as of the end of last year, the Xian army was now only equipped with more than eight or nine people, and it had to be used intensively to ensure combat effectiveness, so the 80,000 or 90,000 troops were at most divided into two town armies.

On the other hand, the Zhi Army, with its large population, has huge potential for soldiers, and has an absolute situational advantage by attacking separately on a 2,000-kilometer front, and although the Xian Army has artillery to offset the numerical superiority of the Zhi Army, the long border will not be able to prevent the Zhi Army from interspersing, and it has not made the necessary strategic preparations for rash war. Therefore, even if the Zhijun achieved a breakthrough at any point, the losses of the Xian State would be great, especially economically.

At the same time, the Zhijun has a mature cavalry system, and the number of armed troops is far above the Xian army, and the strategic depth of the north and south of the Xianguo is relatively shallow, and the strategic depth of the Zhiguo is large, so it is difficult for the Xian army to quickly attack the capital of the Zhiguo, on the contrary, if the Zhiguo concentrates the cavalry assault, it is easier to form a substantial threat to the capital of the hinterland of the Xianguo.

In addition, the economic density of the Xianguo is high, and a series of industrial impacts caused by the cutting off of the southern passage and the supply of materials will quickly affect the upstream manufacturing industry of the Xianguo, once the manufacturing industry is cut off from raw materials, it is equivalent to losing the ability to supply goods, and without the supply of goods, the money cannot be returned, even if the Xian army can eventually win, the resulting economic and military losses are also astronomical.

Of course, if we stand from Duan Ling's point of view, the Xian army can occupy the counties of Zhiguo as compensation, which is obviously a common practice and idea at the moment, but the result can only be that the stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and the limited economic resources are used to pacify the people and stabilize law and order, and the economic internal injuries caused by the war will seriously drag down the economy of Xianguo and delay the development of education and industry.

In the short term, it is passable on the face, but in the long run, it will waste Bailiyan's precious time and life for problems that can be solved in the future. Therefore, even if a war with Zhiguo can achieve an overwhelming victory, the economic and time losses will be unbearable, and the political cost will be even more serious.

The princes will not sit idly by and watch the Xianguo go berserk and become bigger, and at the same time as the Xianguo will be ruined, the economy of the Xianguo will also go bankrupt, and when the princes will attack it, the situation will be completely out of control.

The conversation has developed to this point, and the conversation has basically collapsed, and Bai Liyan has no intention of talking about success. Finally, he got up and said sharply:

"Duan Envoy, this marshal advises your country to say, 'If you want people to know, unless you don't do it', what your country has done before, Duan Envoy knows it in his heart. Calculating others, after all, you have to lift a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, Dekang's matter is not over, let's see, hum! ”

The words fell, Bai Liyan turned around and left, things changed too fast, Duan Ling hadn't reacted yet:

"Eh, you, what's ......?"

Baili Yan walked away without looking back, leaving Duan Ling still recalling every word that Bai Liyan had said just now.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, before Duan Ling came to "sue the emperor", his conversation with Bailiyan had already reached the Son of Heaven.

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