"What? Zhu Quanzhong sent an envoy to ask for peace talks? It can't be a fraud, right? ”

In Suzhou City, Yang Wu asked with a surprised face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Who is Zhu Quanzhong? It was notoriously cunning, and honesty and faithfulness were things that he could discard at any time.

In the past 20 years or so, he has done many treacherous things, all for the sake of how to expand his power.

But at this time, Zhu Quanzhong actually sent an envoy to ask Huainan for peace.

But then he reacted again, now the north is in chaos, Wei Bo's five states have all betrayed overnight, and even Luzhou has been attacked by Li Keyong, plus the main force of the Huainan Army in the south is still living in Suzhou at this time, and it is possible to attack Songzhou and other places in the north again at any time.

It is normal for Zhu Quanzhong to choose to negotiate peace with one of them first in order to avoid a two-sided war.

For Huainan, withdrawing troops has long been an established choice, and eliminating Zhu Quanzhong at this time is actually not beneficial to Huainan.

Yang Wu knew that according to the development of history, even if there was no loss to the Liang army caused by Huainan's northward march this time, the Liang army would gradually fall into the upper hand in the struggle for hegemony with Li Cunqiao in the future, until it finally perished.

So in the long run, Huainan's biggest enemy is actually not Zhu Quanzhong, but Li Cunxuan, who is still in alliance with him!

If he tries his best to go north now, maybe he can eliminate Zhu Quanzhong by joining forces with Li Keyong, but in that case, Huainan will have to face a more powerful Li Cunqiao force.

After Li Cunmiao lost Zhu Quanzhong's containment, it would bring more pressure to Huainan, and at that time, Huainan's strategy of unifying the south first would be difficult to realize.

On the other hand, if Huainan stops going north, with Li Cunmiao's containment, it will be difficult for Zhu Quanzhong to interfere with Huainan's pace of unifying the south.

After the unification of the south, Huainan will accumulate strength, and when the time is ripe, it will go all out to go on a northern expedition, which is the best choice.

Therefore, at this time, Huainan should not only not continue to weaken the Liang army, but should give some help at the appropriate time, so that the Liang army has enough strength to fight against Li Cunmiao, so that the chaos and division in the north can be maintained for a longer time.

This kind of help does not necessarily require direct military help, but provides indirect help, such as withdrawing troops back now, to reduce the pressure on Zhu Quanzhong, so that Zhu Quanzhong can free up his hands to deal with the challenge from the north, and not collapse now.

Of course, this kind of help must be grasped to a certain extent, and it cannot be too light, otherwise it will contain too many Liang troops, making Zhu Quanzhong unable to resist the challenge from the north; At the same time, it can't be too heavy, otherwise Zhu Quanzhong will draw enough troops to solve the challenge in the north in one fell swoop, and then turn around and prepare to take revenge on Huainan, at that time Yang Wu is lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

However, although it is the consensus of the Huainan generals to withdraw their troops and go back, first unify the south, and sit back and watch the chaos in the north, there are differences among the generals on when to withdraw the troops.

Yang Wu advocated withdrawing his troops now so that Zhu Quanzhong could free up his hands to stabilize the situation in the north, but as soon as he expressed his views, he was opposed by the generals, and even Guo Chongtao did not agree with his decision.

It's no wonder that Li Cunmiao's sudden rise is something that no one could have predicted.

At this time, Zhu Quanzhong was still the strongest feudal town in the world, and the power of the Jin army was much weaker than that.

Whether it was Liu Shouwen, the envoy of Yichang Jiedu, or Li Keyong, the king of Jin, or the rebels of the five states of Weibo, if there was no Huainan to contain the main force of the Liang army, the generals felt that these forces were still not the opponents of the Liang army.

Therefore, all the generals felt that at this time, they should take advantage of the great chaos in the north to go north again and continue to weaken Zhu Quanzhong, so as to ensure the balance of the situation in the north and prevent Zhu Quanzhong from quickly defeating Li Keyong and pacifying Wei Bo.

Although Guo Chongtao did not advocate continuing to go north, he believed that he should continue to stay in Suzhou in order to maintain pressure on the Liang army, so that Zhu Quanzhong could not concentrate all his forces against Li Keyong, Wei Bo's rebels and other forces that opposed him.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Yang Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Whether it is the strong rise of Li Cunxuan, or the variables that Ding Hui is about to surrender to the Jin army due to the Zhaoyi Festival in Luzhou, or Zhu Quanzhong's own mistakes after this, which led to many problems within Houliang, these things have not happened yet.

Therefore, in the eyes of people in this era, they will feel that Liang Jun is still very strong and needs to be weakened as much as possible; But after Yang Wu knew about what happened later, he naturally didn't think that the Liang army was still powerful, and how to avoid the huge losses caused to Zhu Quanzhong by his Northern Expedition, which caused Later Liang to be defeated by Li Cunqiao earlier than in history is what he has to do now.

At this time, in the face of the arguing generals, Yang Wu smiled bitterly, not knowing how to persuade them.

Fortunately, a new piece of news soon after, led him to find a suitable reason to withdraw his troops: his father, Yang Xingmi, had recently suffered a cold and fell ill again.

It has been more than five months since Yang Wu led the army north in October last year, and although most of the military and political affairs are handed over to Gao Miao, who has returned to Guangling, Yang Xingmi inevitably still needs to work a lot of things.

This time it was just a small wind chill, but he was not in good health, and because of overwork, he fell ill.

More than a year ago, Yang Xingmi suddenly suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, although Li Xun, a famous doctor in Shuzhong, woke him up, but at the same time left a diagnosis that it would inevitably recur within two to three years.

So from then on, Yang Wu officially took charge of Huainan, hoping to let Yang Xingmi recuperate; But this time in the Northern Expedition, Yang Wu had to personally lead the troops, and the task of guarding the rear inevitably fell to Yang Xingmi.

At this time, Yang Xingmi fell ill again, and Yang Wu used this as a reason to withdraw his troops, and everyone naturally had no reason to refute it, so far, it was a foregone conclusion to withdraw his troops and go back.

Soon. Zhu Quanzhong's envoy officially arrived in Suzhou, but it startled Zhang Xun and other Huainan veterans.

"Tang Linghui? How are you? How are you still alive? Zhang Xun asked with a surprised face.

The messenger in front of him turned out to be a Huainan general many years ago, and he knew Zhang Xun and others from each other!

It turned out that Yang Xingmi and Zhu Quanzhong maintained a good relationship in the early years because they jointly dealt with Sun Ru, and the two sides often had trade contacts.

However, because Sun Ru was eliminated by Yang Xingmi, the two sides lost their common enemy, and Zhu Quanzhong wanted to prevent Yang Xingmi from unifying Jianghuai, so the contradictions between the two sides became increasingly intense.

What directly led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two sides was eleven years ago, when Yang Xingmi sent Tang Linghui, who was then the Ya Guard, to transport tens of thousands of catties of tea to trade, but was detained by Zhu Quanzhong.

In that era, tens of thousands of catties of tea were still worth a lot of money, especially for Yang Xingmi, who had just pacified Huainan, it was undoubtedly a major blow.

Since then, relations between the two sides have completely broken down, and the war between the two sides has begun for more than a decade.

And after this Tang Linghui was detained by Zhu Quanzhong, everyone thought that he had been killed by Zhu Quanzhong, after all, he was Yang Xingmi's person, and the relationship between the two families was so tense, with Zhu Quanzhong's character, everyone didn't think that Tang Linghui still had a chance to live.

But then, Zhang Xun and the others frowned, their faces were a little bad, and they obviously thought of something.

Seeing this, Tang Linghui couldn't help but smile bitterly, but he turned around and saluted Yang Wu and said: "Before the next Huainan Jiedu, all the subordinates of King Wu will pay a visit to His Royal Highness King Wu!" ”

Yang Wu was stunned, although he hadn't seen Tang Linghui's identity and things, he had heard of it before, and when he heard Zhang Xun mention it, he understood.

But listening to this person's meaning, could it be said that he was detained by Zhu Quanzhong for eleven years and did not surrender? And Zhu Quanzhong didn't kill him just yet? It's somewhat hard to believe.

However, Tang Linghui then explained his life in Bianzhou in the past, it turned out that although he was detained by Zhu Quanzhong at the beginning, he was only a small person at that time, and he was a trade envoy on behalf of Yang Xingmi after all, so Zhu Quanzhong did not kill him, but only detained him in Bianzhou.

Over time, Liang Jun did not care about him, but only restricted him from leaving Bianzhou. So he simply settled in Bianzhou, and married a wife and had children.

After a long time, he got used to the local life, and he was reluctant to return to Guangling, until this time he was suddenly found and asked to come to Suzhou as an envoy.

After listening to this process, Yang Wu and others understood.

Tang Linghui's behavior is equivalent to breaking away from Huainan, but he did not join Zhu Quanzhong's side, which can be regarded as a practice that everyone can accept.

It's just that since he is now coming as Zhu Quanzhong's envoy, Zhang Xun and the others will naturally not talk to him about any friendship.

"Let's say, what conditions did Zhu Quanzhong give? It's not so easy to want peace, and he killed the first emperor and slaughtered hundreds of officials, so perverse, it is really heinous, and it is impossible for Lone to negotiate peace with him! However, if the conditions he gave were suitable, Lone would be able to withdraw his troops back temporarily! Yang Wu said in a deep voice.

Although it has been decided to withdraw the troops, it is indispensable to take the opportunity to blackmail Zhu Quanzhong, at least to satisfy the generals.

King Liang said that he had a bad relationship with King Wu and detained the trade envoys of Huainan, which was the direct reason for the two families to fight. Now that it has been decided to reconcile the two families, an explanation needs to be given about what happened back then. So King Liang was willing to buy that batch of tea at ten times the original price! When it came to business, Tang Linghui was also serious.

"Ten times the price?" Zhang Xun and the others heard this, and their faces flashed with joy.

At the beginning, there were more than 10,000 catties of tea, all of which were the best tea produced in Changzhou, and according to the current price, it was worth at least 10,000 yuan, and if it was ten times the price, it was 100,000 yuan.

Although 100,000 yuan is not much, this is only the first condition given by Zhu Quanzhong, and more importantly, it is of great significance, it can be regarded as Zhu Quanzhong indirectly apologizing for the things that led to the two families in the first place.

(The same two shifts today, and the five watches will be made up tomorrow.) ）