Chapter 135: The Momentum of the Prairie Fire
"Your Highness, you can't wait!" The head of the Liang family slammed his cane and said: "The Cang army has broken through Dongyang City, and the troops will come to the city in a few days, if Your Highness is so stubborn, the old man will enter the palace to face the saint and let His Majesty decide!" ”
"Isn't it that His Highness doesn't feel distressed if he doesn't lose his property? My Song family has always supported His Royal Highness to inherit the unification, and Your Highness should not chill our hearts. The head of the Song family said coldly.
"The Gu family, the Gu family, and the Yang family are very leisurely now, if His Highness insists on going his own way, we will have to find another way out."
The nobles were forced to speak with mockery, and they were not at all polite to the future prince.
Zheng Han's face was gloomy as water, and the meaning that the nobles wanted to express could not be more obvious, which meant that if he did not negotiate peace according to the nobles' proposals, then he would turn to support Zheng Kang just like the Gu family, the Gu family, and the Yang family.
even, fell to the kingdom of Cang.
There are certain reasons why it is said that it is these three.
As we all know, Gu Fengnan, Gu Yi, and Yang Hong have taken refuge in Cangguo and become the three commanders of the righteous army.
That's right, Cannes......
After such a reminder, Zheng Han was also a little puzzled, according to reason, even if these three families have an ambiguous attitude towards Cangguo, they should not fall to Zheng Kang, who is the most unpowerful, the only thing that can be explained is that Zheng Kang also has something to do with Cangguo.
Just as Zheng Han hesitated, the head of the Liang family rolled his eyes, took out a letter from his sleeve, and handed it to Zheng Han: "Your Highness, please see, this is a secret that a branch of my Liang family accidentally discovered when it withdrew from Kangcheng. ”
"Secret?"
Zheng Han was puzzled, took the letter and looked at it, his hand shook, and he almost didn't hold it steady.
This is...... Zheng Kang's letter to the Emperor of Cangguo?
"Is this letter really written by Zheng Kang?" Zheng Han asked in shock.
The head of the Liang family nodded, and said solemnly: "This letter was originally brought back to the Emperor Cangguo by Kong Shangxian, and it was obtained by one of my Liang family branches halfway. ”
When Zheng Han heard this, he opened the letter and spread it out to take a look.
The handwriting is indeed Zheng Kang's handwriting.
And the content ......
He, he has already returned to the Cangguo?!
Zheng Han's eyes widened, as if he had seen something incredible.
In the letter, Zheng Kang not only explained how to join forces to lay out, but also stated that as long as Cangguo could help him win the throne, he was willing to cede a large part of Zhengguo's city to Cangguo, and at the same time pay tribute to Cangguo......
Zheng Han's face turned blue and white for a while, raised his head, glanced at the nobles in front of him, and asked, "You have all read this letter?" ”
"That's right."
"We already know the twists and turns."
"In this war, the two Highnesses are to blame, especially Your Highness, what you have done has pushed the Third Highness to the Cangguo."
"Alas, after all, they are siblings, why bother to force each other so much?"
The nobles said lightly, and their eyes were full of coldness when they looked at Zheng Han.
In an instant, Zheng Han understood something: "In this way, if this prince does not agree to negotiate peace, you will go to Zheng Kang and let him make peace with Cangguo?" ”
The nobles were silent, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.
Really......
A deep look of disappointment appeared on Zheng Han's face, and a sense of loneliness rose from his bones.
It's all a bunch of short-sighted guys......
However, there was no way, Zheng Han didn't dare to say this.
Because, the power of the family is too great, especially at this special time, even if he is a prince, he has to carefully consider their opinions, and he can't even use strong means to coerce.
"Since all of you are in favor of peace, let's do so." Zheng Han waved his hand and said helplessly: "This prince immediately sent envoys to contact the emperor of Cangguo, and he is willing to cede part of the southern part of the country, compensate for the losses of Cangguo with the treasury and silver, and wish the two countries to suspend their troops and rebuild the old good." ”
"Good."
"Great goodness! Your Highness can take care of the overall situation, which is the blessing of my Zheng Guo. ”
"It's not too late to find out."
The heads of the family got the results they wanted, and one by one they showed joy, and then retired together.
A bunch of sake bags and rice bags!
Zheng Han looked at their backs as they left one by one, scolded in his heart, and then glanced at the letter on the table.
"Someone, send an order to the West Daying, and come to the imperial city immediately!"
……
On the eighth day of October, the sun is shining and the autumn breeze is cool.
Yang Mu stood on the watchtower on the camp and looked at a flat clearing in the distance.
There, there's a group of people who are practicing.
They are rebels.
However, it was not the original rebel army that was reorganized from prisoners, but the ordinary people who came to defect one after another in the villages of Cannes these days.
Their common goal is to overthrow Zheng Guo and become a Cangguo person!
In this regard, the soldiers and soldiers of Cang are no longer surprised, there are nearly 20,000 civilians who have come to defect these days, but after selection, 8,000 of them have been left.
The reason why it is necessary to select is not because there are any requirements for the quality of personnel, but because there are too many people, and in just a few days, there are peasant uprisings in every city of Zheng State, and even on the outskirts of the Imperial City of Zheng State, there are many peasants wandering outside the city in groups, holding hoes, knives and forks in their hands, encouraging the people passing by to rebel.
Zheng Guo has a total of nineteen cities, and according to the calculation of 10,000 people in each city, there are nearly 200,000!
The 200,000 peasants who revolted have become a prairie fire!
Of course, Yang Mu didn't want to rely on these 200,000 rebels to destroy Zheng Guo, to put it mildly, once they went to the battlefield, these 200,000 people would not be able to capture a city together.
Because they lack generals, they are not organized at all, and once the number of people increases, it is even more difficult to command, which is similar to street fighting, once they reach the real battlefield, as long as the regular elite army is in formation, a charge can crush it.
In a sense, the original intention of recruiting these 8,000 people was not to let them go to the battlefield, but to buy horse bones, so that the entire Zheng State's rebel army could see that they still had support behind them, and all the promises were true and effective, not a joke with empty teeth and white teeth.
"Your Majesty, the front line is urgent." A personal guard sent a bamboo tube and handed it to Yang Mu.
Yang Mu took the bamboo tube and looked outside, there was a line of words on the outside of the bamboo tube, with five words written - the face is His Majesty the Emperor.
Then he took out the letter and counted the last line, which was exactly five words.
Seeing this, Yang Mu nodded.
This is a real military newspaper.
Because, in order to prevent the battle line from being lengthened, the military newspaper was intercepted and forged by the enemy on the way, so before Wei Zhongquan led the army to set off, the monarch and the ministers privately agreed on a code, how many words were written on the outside of the bamboo tube, and how many words were written at the end of the letter, otherwise it would be forgery.
"The three major legions, not attacking the imperial city?" Yang Mu looked at it, his brows furrowed slightly. ()