Wang Shichong used Yang Gongqing's strategy to negotiate an alliance with Dou Jiande, and induced Li Tangxian Governor Shi Tianhao to kill his boss Xingtai Shangshu to order Yang Shilin to rebel, and Zhu Cang, who was defeated in Nanyang, captured Shangzhou and most of Xiongzhou, killed Li Tang Shangzhou Assassin Shi Quanyanzong, and ordered Zhu Cang to be the general of Long Xiang and the assassin of Shangzhou. Li Tang lost the results of a month ago almost in the blink of an eye, Nanyang and Xingyang were tight, if it were not for the support of Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, it was almost destined to be defeated by Wang Shichong.

In this case, Li Yuan is no longer reserved, but Rao is like this, Li Xiujing still feels difficult, but she can only negotiate with the Ministry of Rites; Kou Jiuhui didn't look at the list, and directly put forward a new suggestion, 300,000 Guanjia Hechi County's subordinate Liangquan, Hechi, Si'an, Liangdang, and Tonggu counties, except for Li Yuan's seven children, everyone else and Li Xiujing can leave Chang'an. Hechi County, under Zhuge Quan's troops, has not sent troops to attack, leaving only to maintain the passage with Duan Lun in Hanzhong.

Li Yuan and Duan Lun quickly replied and agreed to the deal; However, Li Yuan had one more ancillary condition, hoping that Yang Chong could provide weapons, armor, and war horses. Li Xiujing went to Yang Chong without any confidence at all, but she didn't expect to once again understand the bottomless demeanor of politicians, and Yang Chong agreed; agreed, Li Xiujing had the urge to grab the pen stand on the table and smash Yang Chong for a while, even this kind of thing can be negotiated, is it interesting to worry about a group of captives and women?

Yang Chong not only promised to provide 3,000 sets of armor and 500 war horses, but also offered to offer that if there were soldiers in Hechi County who were willing to continue to be loyal to the Tang army, they could be disarmed, escorted to Shangzhou, and handed over to the Tang army along with the armor and weapons. Hearing this news, Li Xiujing was completely messy, and for a moment she thought that Yang Chong and her father Li Yuan were hardcore allies, and in the end they didn't know how to leave the Yue Guo Mansion.

When Li Xiujing saw Gongsun Huilan for advice at night, Gongsun Huilan smiled bitterly: "Yang Chong and your father are both qualified politicians, and they will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, Yang Chong is fighting for peace in Guanzhong, Wang Shichong and your father fight more fiercely, the better, anyway, what he cares about the most is weapons and war." ”

Yang Chongbu got two counties in Hebei and Guanzhong and more than 10,000 horses, and he was really happy for a few days, and after discussing with the bigwigs in the left-behind division, he wrote a secret letter to Qu Tutong, asking Wang Bo and Wang Deren to come to Chang'an with Du Zhenglun, change Yanzhou to Lin Xi County, and Chen Ling to guard the county; After the handover of Hechi County, it was managed by Chang'an, with Ma Gongyou as the county guard.

Zhang Jieyu, Yin Defei and other more than 300 people were all let go, and Yang Chong also authorized some of their family members to follow, and when they left, there were more than 1,000 people, which looked a bit huge; More than 2,000 Tang troops in Hechi County wore civilian clothing, hurried all the way, and after leaving Wuguan in the east, they accepted weapons, armor, and war horses, and together with the 3,000 Tang troops who came to greet them, they protected the Li family and escorted supplies to Nanyang.

Li Xiujing didn't leave, she understood that Yang Chong valued Duan Wenzhen's kindness back then, as long as she left, these younger brothers and sisters who were under house arrest were afraid that their lives would be dark, with her own presence, Yang Chong would not restrict herself from visiting, at least he could give them some material help and comfort.

Although the gentry of the noble clan secretly scolded Yang Chong to the point of blood, sarcastically mocking this prince with the face of a profiteer, and his appearance was too ugly; But I have to admit that Yang Chong won grain and a county through the disposal of prisoners, which was definitely a deal. Yang Chong didn't care about the insinuations in secret, and discussed with the left-behind division to reward the more than 500 homeless palace maids who did not enter the workshop to the soldiers in the army according to their military merits.

As soon as Tianqi arrived in Chang'an, Yang Chong asked him to quickly repair the Feixian switch device in the Guanwen Palace, figure out the principle, imitate it, and use it in his own manor in the future. There are fourteen study rooms in front of the Guanwen Palace, the windows and mattresses are equipped with kitchen curtains, which are extremely gorgeous, every three study rooms are prescribed a household, and the brocade curtains are hung down, and there are two sets of flying immortal organs; As long as you step on the switch with your foot, the "Flying Immortal" will be lowered, the curtain will be rolled up, and the door of the library and the door of the bookcase will automatically open, and when the person leaves after reading the book, it will automatically resume as before.

What Tianwu lacked was not technology, but ideas, and after only two days of reading, he understood the principle and began to draw drawings with people, planning to build an imitation first, and then improve it for other places. After Yang Chong finished speaking, he was finished, unless Tian Wei came to him with the finished product on that day, he really didn't have much heart to put it on.

Jiangdong Zhang's clan was at this moment, secretly sent people to the north, Zhang Huaishan's branch in Dunhuang came from Jiangdong Zhang's clan, when the Sui destroyed Nanchen, burned Jinling, and exiled the Jiangnan Shi clan; Zhang Huaishan's grandfather withstood the family's thunder and migrated to Dunhuang with the crowd. When it came to Zhang Huaishan's generation, the Dunhuang Zhang family was originally a salted fish, but he didn't expect the salted fish to turn over, and he was able to gain Yang Chong's trust, not only followed Yang Chong to Chang'an, but also did business side by side with the Cui family and the Yuan family.

As soon as Zhang Huaishan settled down, he sent someone to Jiangdong to deliver a message and lobby important people in the family for Yang Chong; There was no squeak in the Zhang family's advocacy of returning to the east, but Zhang Deng, another important figure of the Zhang family, was transferred to Chang'an. Everything was silent, and Yang Chong took the time to meet Zhang Deng.

Zhang Deng is in his forties, personable, and a shrewd and capable person at a glance, Zhang Deng visited Yang Chong, presented an embroidery and said: "It is said that the Guogong is young and promising, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary." Now there are continuous battles along the way, and the heroes are divided, and this time I can only bring a small gift and show a little gratitude. ”

Yang Chong asked Zhang Deng to get up and let people open the embroidery to see, the tattoo is the auspicious pattern of the dragon and phoenix, a vivid golden dragon and a gorgeous and colorful phoenix, dancing on the white silk, at a glance is a treasure. It is estimated that it was originally a tribute to the palace, and now the Zhang family borrows flowers to offer Buddha; Yang Chong didn't care about these false meanings in his heart, but it was unrealistic to ask Zhang for what to do at present.

Yang Chong comforted me with a few words and said: "Huaishan has followed me for many years, just like his own family, and told me all about your situation, so I won't lie." You don't have to worry about the future, I don't need the Zhang family to take the risk, but there are two things to trouble you, one is to help me buy some shipyards in Jiangnan and prepare shipbuilders; The second is to contact all ethnic groups in Baiyue. As soon as our army reaches Jiangnan, these two things will soon be on the agenda. ”

When Zhang Deng heard this, he made up his mind, what the Zhang family and the Jiangnan Shi clan were most worried about was that Yang Chong, like Li Yuan and those people, proposed to ask the Zhang family to join and promise a lot of so-called glory and wealth. Now that the overall situation of the Central Plains has not been decided, in such a situation, it can be said that it is not to agree, and it is not to agree not to agree; Yang Chong's requirements are much lower, it is a matter of money and connections, the big deal is that the Hexi army will fight to the south of the Yangtze River and give the shipyard to Yang Chong.

(End of chapter)