The first condition put forward by Zhu Quanzhong was to compensate for the Huainan tea seized at the beginning with ten times the price, and from this point of view, Zhu Quanzhong's sincerity in seeking peace was still sufficient. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, this is also normal, to avoid being attacked on both sides, which is something that every force needs to pay attention to.

In fact, Zhu Quanzhong was very weak at the beginning, but he did a good job in diplomacy, and he always used the means of winning over one side and suppressing the other, which enabled him to miraculously rise in Bianzhou, a land of four wars.

However, as his power grew stronger, he gradually abandoned this past diplomatic method.

Because of the lack of a stable and effective strategic policy, Zhu Quanzhong has been fighting in the east and west in the past few years, Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Yang Xingmi, Wang Shifan, Zhao Kuangning, and so on.

It seems that Zhu Quanzhong has won a brilliant victory and seized a large area of territory, but at the same time, he has offended many forces, and he is still in a state of being attacked on all sides.

Now, except for the distant feudal towns such as Ma Yin and Wang Shenzhi in the south, as well as the two wall-headed grasses of Wang Rong and Wang Chuzhi, other feudal towns are basically enemies of him.

In this case, Zhu Quanzhong was able to rely on a series of victories to deter many feudal towns before, so that they did not dare to act rashly; However, the successive defeats of this war against Huainan eventually led to the current predicament.

However, Zhu Quanzhong is not a fool after all, since the strategy of fighting enemies on all sides like before cannot be maintained, let's pick up the methods of the year again!

Therefore, there was this move to send an envoy to contact Huainan.

After proposing the first peace condition to Huainan, Tang Linghui put forward the second condition on behalf of Zhu Quanzhong: he was willing to purchase 3 million catties of salt from Huainan at a price of 300,000 guan per year.

Strictly speaking, this condition is more like a transaction, but the price given by Zhu Quanzhong is relatively high.

At the beginning, the salt-producing areas of the Tang Dynasty were completely occupied by Huainan from Haizhou to Hailing's Jianghuai Salt Works, but Zhu Quanzhong's territory also had many salt-producing areas, and the war caused a large decrease in population, so Zhu Quanzhong's salt was almost self-sufficient, and even if there was a gap, it could be made up for through private salt.

So after the war with Huainan, Zhu Quanzhong never bought salt from Huainan.

This time, Zhu Quanzhong offered to buy salt from Huainan at a price much higher than the market price, which was obviously a gesture of goodwill to Huainan.

Of course, there is no lack of purpose in delaying time: if Zhu Quanzhong dissolves the threat from the north before the salt transport from Huainan arrives, then he will naturally be able to refuse to carry out this condition.

As for buying it at this price every year, it is even more of a cake on paper, which makes Huainan greedy.

With Zhu Quanzhong's cunning character, how could such a loss-suffering condition be complied with all the time? If Yang Wu believes that he is sick in the brain.

Of course, even if it is impossible to implement it for a long time, if it can be implemented for a year, it can make a lot of money, so as soon as this article is said, Zhang Xun and others are even more interested in peace talks.

Then Tang Linghui put forward the third and fourth articles, but compared with the first two conditions, these two articles did not bring much benefit to Huainan.

The third of them is to seal Yang Wu's mother, wife, son and others in the name of the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, and many generals in Huainan have also been sealed.

It can be said that this article is completely verbal, and now that the Tang Dynasty is declining like this, and it is completely controlled by Zhu Quanzhong, and even the emperor he set up has not yet been recognized by Huainan and other feudal towns, so naturally this article is not attractive.

What's more, today's Huainan has already begun to crown himself as an official, if he really wants to seal everyone, why bother the puppet emperor under Zhu Quanzhong's control?

As for Article 4, the two sides should use the territory they now occupy as the boundary to withdraw their troops and maintain peace. This can be regarded as Zhu Quanzhong's recognition of Huainan's occupation of Suzhou.

There are four in total, except for the first two, which can bring certain benefits to Huainan, the other two are basically not beneficial.

Of course, judging from Zhu Quanzhong's character and the status of Liang Jun as the strongest feudal town in the world, it is also very good that Zhu Quanzhong can put forward these four conditions, after all, if the peace talks can be reached, the direct profit alone can reach 400,000 yuan, which is already a lot of income for Huainan, and the same is true for Zhu Quanzhong.

Zhang Xun and others did not have any opinions on the conditions proposed by Zhu Quanzhong, and Yang Wu also did not object, after all, the current Huainan Army was already ready to withdraw its troops and go back, and Zhu Quanzhong was far from the point of exhaustion.

In addition, if the conditions are increased, not to mention whether Zhu Quanzhong will agree, even if he agrees, I am afraid that it will be difficult to actually guarantee the implementation of the conditions.

After all, Zhu Quanzhong's purpose is definitely just to get through the current difficulties, and once the situation he faces eases, tearing up the contract is inevitable.

In other words, the contract won't last long, and the conditions for long-term profit are not very meaningful.

As for the conditions for short-term profits, judging from Zhu Quanzhong's strength, it would be good to be able to come up with 400,000 yuan for the time being to ensure the implementation of the first two conditions, and it would be meaningless to mention the conditions again.

After all, now that Zhu Quanzhong's war is fierce, he needs to spend a lot of money and grain, and there are not many people who can be used to "buy" Huainan.

Therefore, Yang Wu decided to accept it as soon as he saw it, and directly agreed to Zhu Quanzhong's peace conditions, but rejected the third clause - because Huainan has not yet recognized the puppet emperor set up by Zhu Quanzhong.

After the contract was reached, the two sides agreed to pay the 100,000 yuan of tea money to compensate Huainan first, and then the main force of the Huainan Army would begin to withdraw from Suzhou.

The salt trade with Huainan was carried out in three times, each transaction of one million catties.

Obviously, this kind of transaction of bulk goods cannot be completed in a day, and the preparation of three million catties of salt in Huainan alone cannot be completed in a short period of time.

Fortunately, according to Yang Wu's estimate, it will take at least four or five months for Zhu Quanzhong to settle the chaos in the north, especially the rebellion in the five states of Weibo.

And four or five months is enough time to complete this year's salt transaction.

As for the coming year, that's not something that needs to be taken care of now.

After the terms of the peace talks were reached, Tang Linghui said that Zhu Quanzhong offered to redeem a batch of captured Liang troops from Huainan at the price of ten yuan per soldier, and that the price of the officers would be given according to their official positions.

As soon as this condition was proposed, it was vetoed by everyone, including Yang Wu.

Although these prisoners of war were difficult to be absorbed and used by Huainan because their families were in Zhu Quanzhong's territory, and they needed to spend a lot of food to raise them when they arrived in Huainan, they were now serving as free labor for the construction of the Shengzhou city wall and the construction of the Hanhai Weir, and without them, the progress of these two projects would definitely be greatly slowed down.

In addition, if Zhu Quanzhong was allowed to ransom these captured soldiers, wouldn't his strength be restored in an instant? So what is the significance of these wars in Huainan?

Therefore, not only Zhang Xun and others oppose it, but also Yang Wu.

Of course, although Yang Wu did not agree to let Zhu Quanzhong ransom the captives at this time, he agreed to meet this condition at some point in the future.

In Yang Wu's view, when Zhu Quanzhong was defeated by Li Cunqiao's army, the Liang army that was captured by the Huainan army could be returned to Zhu Quanzhong, not only could the strength of the Liang army be quickly restored, but at the same time, by that time, the two major projects of Shengzhou City Wall and Hanhaiyan were estimated to be almost completed, and it was not much point to continue to keep these prisoners.

After confirming the peace treaty between the two sides, Yang Wu ordered someone to go directly to Bianzhou to meet Zhu Quanzhong, and confirmed the details and conditions of the peace agreement with him on the spot.

By the time all this was completed, it was already mid-March, and Yang Wu ordered Zhang Xun to be the main general and continue to lead the army to confront the Liang army, while he quickly returned to Guangling under the escort of the Crane Army.

At this time, in the palace of King Wu, Yang Xingmi's condition was already very serious, but it was a pity that Li Xun, a famous doctor in Shuzhong who treated him at the beginning, went back after completing the mission.

Nowadays, these doctors in Huainan are also very clever in medical skills, and one of them even served as the imperial doctor of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with a famous doctor like Li Xun, his medical skills are still inferior.

Mr. Cui and the others all looked ugly after seeing Yang Xingmi's illness, and there was obviously no good way.

As soon as they got out of Yang Xingmi's bedroom, several doctors were surrounded by Huainan officials led by Gao Miao and Li Shenfu.

"How is the king's condition now? Is it better than before? ”

Mr. Cui and the others glanced at each other and shook their heads with worries on their faces.

Seeing this, Gao Miao and the others all turned pale and had a bad premonition.

Since Yang Xingmi became seriously ill again, Gao Miao and others have come to inquire every day, but unfortunately the answer they get is the same every time.

Now that more than ten days have passed, Yang Xingmi's condition has not improved in the slightest, and everyone is naturally worried.

Fortunately, Yang Wu is now fully able to support Huainan alone, even if Yang Xingmi is gone, there will be no civil strife in Huainan.

What's more, the news of victory from the north during this period of time made every Huainan official and people look excited.

Victory is the best way to unite people's hearts, there is no doubt about this, and the continuous victories have greatly increased Yang Wu's prestige, even compared to Yang Xingmi.

However, no matter how good Yang Wu's performance is, it can't change the fact that Yang Wu is still far inferior to Yang Xingmi in terms of personal charm and feelings with Huainan officials.

Whether it is veterans such as Gao Miao and Li Shenfu, or new generals such as Wang Maozhang and Qin Pei, these people all have deep feelings for Yang Xingmi, which are two completely different levels from their loyalty to Yang Wu.

Yang Xingmi has neither extraordinary courage nor outstanding resourcefulness, and his ability to command battles is only average, but he can get the sincere loyalty of such a large number of capable ministers and fierce generals, and Yang Wu is inferior to him in this alone.