"Your Majesty, since the people of Wu are asking for a price, let's sit on the ground and pay back. There is no need to stop the peace talks because of this. Jing Xiang hurriedly persuaded.

On the side, Zhang Hanjie and Zhao Yan, the two henchmen, also said: "Your Majesty also said just now that the reason why the people of Wu dared to put forward such harsh conditions was nothing more than to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army going south. Now that the Jin army has retreated, presumably their conditions will also be lowered. ”

In fact, in this peace talks, the conditions proposed by Wu Guoren are indeed very strict, and many of the conditions are even known at a glance that Liang Guo is impossible to accept, which is no wonder Zhu Youzhen is so annoyed.

For example, one of them stipulates that Zhu Youzhen must remove the emperor title and restore the title of King of Liang, and at the same time search for the Tang dynasty from the people and support him to ascend the throne in order to restore the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty.

This article looks pretty good, if Zhu Youzhen really does it, he will have great achievements in rebuilding the Tang Dynasty; Second, the Jin army and the Wu army lost an excellent excuse to crusade against the Liang State, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that if Zhu Youzhen really does this, it will be dizzy.

Reinventing the Tang Dynasty? Not to mention that the foundation of the establishment of the Liang State was Zhu Wen's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty, even if Zhu Youzhen re-embraced the Tang Dynasty, it would be difficult to get the recognition of the people in the world, but it would make the people who originally supported the Liang State feel angry.

And even if it is "rebuilt by the Tang Dynasty", people in the world will only put the credit on Yang Wu, the king of Wu, instead of thanking Zhu Youzhen.

As for the excuse of cutting off the Jin army and the Wu army to crusade against the Liang State, this is even more ridiculous.

Before Zhu Wen usurped the throne, he coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but the armies of Wu and Jin still wanted to crusade against Liang?

In short, this condition is not only not beneficial to Liang Guo at all, but may plunge Liang Guo into chaos, so Zhu Youzhen is impossible to accept.

In addition to this article, there is another article that says that in order to ensure that the peace treaty between the two countries can be implemented, the Liang State can only garrison a small number of troops on the territory close to the Wu State such as Songzhou, Bozhou, and Yingzhou.

This article is even more strict, if Liang Guo really accepts it, when the time comes, the territory close to Wu will be empty, once Wu Guo turns his face, won't there be no resistance at all? It's no wonder that Zhu Youzhen can accept this condition.

In addition, there are many conditions, such as sending protons to Jinling, how many years of coins are paid to Wu every year, what is ceded to Yizhou and other places, and so on.

After seeing all kinds of conditions, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be angry and wanted to scold.

It's a pity that the situation is not as good as people, under the persuasion of the ministers, Zhu Youzhen finally held back his anger and didn't say anything to stop the negotiations, but just ordered the negotiation envoy of Liang Guo to argue on the basis of reason, and could not accept too harsh conditions.

After talking about the peace talks, Zhu Youzhen was angry, but the ministers didn't take the matter too seriously.

At this time, Jing Xiang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, it was originally agreed that the capital would be moved to Luoyang after the end of the war in Xuzhou, but a few days ago, Your Majesty refused on the grounds that the Jin army was going south and the war in Hebei was tight; Now that the war in Hebei has also ended, is it time to discuss the relocation of the capital? ”

"Moving the capital? Why is it a proposal to move the capital again? Zhu Youzhen had a headache.

Although after the persuasion of Zhang Hanjie and Zhao Yan, he was no longer so disgusted with moving the capital, but he still did not make up his mind to move the capital; Therefore, after the last battle of Xuzhou, when Jing Xiang and others proposed to move the capital, he refused on the grounds of the war in Hebei.

But now that Jing Xiang and others have proposed to move the capital again, Zhu Youzhen has no suitable reason.

Although he is the Son of Heaven, it is impossible for him to decide everything in one word, and many things need to have enough reasons to do it.

At this time, in the face of the proposal of moving the capital proposed by the ministers, he felt helpless and could not find any suitable reason to refuse again.

At this time, Li Zhen also spoke: "Your Majesty, in fact, compared to the Jin army, the minister is more worried about the Wu army. ”

"Huh? How so? Do you think that the threat of the Wu army is greater than that of the Jin army? Zhu Youzhen frowned.

"Your Majesty, although the Jin army will go south in the future, even if the Jin army goes south, we still have the land of Hebei to resist; Even if we lose Hebei, we still have the natural danger of the Yellow River, and we can confront the enemy across the river. It is not enough to expose Kaifeng to the enemy's soldiers. ”

"But if the Wu army is on a northern expedition, the situation will not be so good. You must know that from Xuzhou to Kaifeng, there is only one place in Songzhou. If the Wu army conquers Songzhou, it doesn't even need to conquer it, it only needs to surround it, and then the army bypasses Songzhou and can raid Kaifeng. ”

"This ......" Zhu Youzhen was shocked, he really hadn't thought about this, because he subconsciously still regarded the Jin State as the primary enemy, and ignored the threat of the Wu State, and now after being reminded, he realized that Kaifeng was indeed not very safe as the capital.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the Wu army's northern expedition can defeat the Liang defenders on the front line of Songzhou, it can quickly go north to attack the capital; And once the capital Kaifeng was breached, the Liang State was officially declared extinct.

At that time, after the other states in other places saw that the general trend had gone, Wu did not need to send troops to crusade at all, and only needed an edict to make the forces in those areas surrender obediently.

Thinking of this consequence, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but sweat on his forehead, coupled with the persuasion of the ministers, he finally had to agree to move the capital to Luoyang.

However, there are still doubts in his heart, "If the capital is moved to Luoyang, this problem can be avoided, but can this solve the problem fundamentally?" ”

As long as this problem is not resolved, whether it is moving the capital to Luoyang or holding peace talks with Wu, it can only temporarily stabilize the situation, and as for what to do in the future, it is not something that can be discussed now.

Thinking that the situation she was facing was so grim, Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness in her heart.

……

Liang Guoqian was in the fourth year, Jin Tianyou was in the eleventh year, and Wu Wuyi was in the seventh year.

In July, the Liang State officially moved its capital to Luoyang.

At the same time, peace between Liang and Wu was quickly reached.

As Jing Xiang expected, Wu initially put forward so many harsh conditions at the beginning of the sky-high price, and after the Jin army retreated, although Wu sent troops to try to attack Yizhou to show off his military might and put pressure on Liang, but in the end Wu's "attempt" still did not succeed.

In early August, the two sides successfully negotiated peace, but this time the peace talks did not result in a formal document on paper, but only a verbal agreement.

Of course, in the agreed conditions, Wu also made major concessions accordingly, and the final conditions reached were only a slight price for Liang to pay every year.

Liang was naturally pleased with this result, but was surprised that it had not been able to obtain an official document on paper.

In the end, in order to appease the Liang state, the Wu side put forward a compromise proposal, with Jing Xiang on the Liang side and Gao Xuan, a meritorious veteran on the Wu side, coming forward to endorse the peace treaty in their private names.

Although this result is still not satisfactory, it is still better than the previous verbal peace with white teeth.

It was impossible for Zhu Youzhen to accept peace talks as the king of Liang, and in the end he could only accept Wu Guo's proposal and let Jing Xiang and Gao Miao come forward.

The Liang side did not want to be attacked from both the north and the south, while the Wu side was unwilling to go on a northern expedition now, hoping to weaken the strength of the Jin state by using the hand of the Liang state.

In such a situation where both sides had common expectations, the matter of peace was quickly implemented.

In Jinling City, after the war with Liang was officially ended, the war against Lingnan also began rapidly.

After several months of preparation, Lü Shizhou, who was stationed in Hunan, took the lead in leading his troops into Lingnan and launched an attack; However, Li Chengding, who was originally stationed in Liangzhejiang, did not move his troops for the time being, and only transferred the army to the front line of Shaozhou, Tingzhou, and Zhangzhou to exert pressure on Liu Yan.

When Liu Yan inherited his brother's position, although he promised to surrender to Wu if he could not do anything in the future, in order to protect the family; But now that the matter was approaching, he hesitated.

For more than 30 years since his father's generation established himself in Fengzhou and now became a feudal town, the Liu family has always been the most prominent family in Lingnan and the de facto owner of Lingnan.

Even if there were still separatist forces such as Ye Guangluo who refused to obey the order, Liu Yan believed that if there was no interference from the forces of the Wu State, he would only need three years at most to eliminate those forces.

At that time, the Liu family will be able to become the real masters of Lingnan, and it is even possible to open a national name and ascend the throne as emperor.

It's a pity that all this has come to naught now, with the rise of the behemoth of Wu in the south, Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jingnan, etc., a series of local separatist forces have been eliminated by it.

Compared with those forces that have died out or have surrendered to the Wu State, the power of Lingnan is really nothing, and it cannot compete with the Wu State.

The only thing Liu Yan could count on was that the Central Plains Liang State would be able to hold back the pace of the Wu State, but now it seems that it is just an extravagant hope.

In April this year, Yang Wu, the king of Wu, sent an edict asking Liu Yan to enter the Hajj, and the meaning of this was already extremely obvious.

Although Liu Yan has been procrastinating for various reasons, he can't continue to drag it out now.

Beat? Can't beat it; Drag? Wu Guo is obviously impatient.

Although Liu Yan is ambitious, he is not a person who can't see the situation clearly, the 20,000 Wu troops stationed in Shaozhou, Tingzhou and other places have begun to move, obviously if Liu Yan does not agree to enter the court, the Wu army will really have to move.

Not only that, it is said that there are also troops being mobilized in Jinling, and it is obvious that if the Wu army really makes a move, it will inevitably use more troops and will not give Liu Yan any chance.

At the end of July, under the military pressure of the Wu army, Liu Yan finally decided to enter the Hajj to meet the king of Wu and completely hand over Lingnan to the Wu court; At the same time, he ordered his army to cooperate with the Wu army to exterminate other small forces in Lingnan.