West Shattered Leaf City, the city is lined with palaces, and the residents dressed in tiger skin and leopard clothes are constantly walking around the city, showing the prosperity of this capital.

It is not comparable to the Central Plains, it is located in the west, connecting foreign countries such as Cumenistan. The folk customs are far different from Daxia, but they have a different charm.

At this time, the car of Wang Qinglong, the envoy of Great Xia, was slowly passing through the street, and the residents on both sides gave way.

In the palace of Xijon, the lord of Xijon was sitting on a high seat, and the gloomy look on his face showed that he was in an extremely bad mood at this time. He had just received the news that the county seat of Beihai County had been destroyed, and the initiator was Mu Nanfeng, the inconspicuous scholar general. As for whether there is anyone else behind it, he does not know.

However, this is not the real reason why he is angry, but it is clear that Ouyang Yuan's army on the front line is like a bamboo, and it has entered Liangzhou for hundreds of miles, but it is not as smooth as imagined. I don't know which one of the Great Xia people thought of the method, the strong wall cleared the wilderness, which put the entire Xirong army in a dilemma.

This dilemma made Ou Yangming, the lord of Xirong, feel very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, the Great Xia envoy Wang Qinglong is waiting for the decree outside the palace."

The palace officer came in to report.

"Xuan!"

Wang Qinglong was dressed in a gorgeous costume at this time, walked slowly into the palace, and bowed his hands: "Emperor Xia Jianwu's envoys were ordered to visit the lord of Xirong. ”

"Why don't you kneel!"

Some officials in the hall saw that Wang Qinglong just gave up his hands and did not make any other movements, and the expressions on their faces became gloomy. The dignified Lord of Xijon, there are still people who do not kneel down to see him, it is simply unreasonable.

When Wang Qinglong heard this, a look of disdain immediately appeared on his face: "Angel of the kingdom, don't worship the lord of a small state!" ”

"Huh? The soldiers are approaching the city, and your Great Xia was defeated and retreated by my Xirong, and even the general of the incorruptible government who unified the army died in Beihai. Many things, how dare you say it/"

An official walked out of the queue and pointed at Wang Qinglong, his face was even more arrogant than his colleagues around him, as if they were the only ones in this world.

"What kind of face does a weak country have to send envoys to negotiate peace with us?"

The purpose of Wang Qinglong's visit has long been known to many ministers, and it is precisely to seek peace. However, then again, the few months of the war between Xirong and Great Xia have indeed reached the final stage.

Fundamentally speaking, Xijon is victorious, so to speak, the posture of the victors, then they have the capital to be arrogant, so as to act recklessly in this scene of peace negotiations.

Wang Qinglong knew the fundamentals, although in this war, it seemed that Great Xia had the upper hand in that battle against Beihai County, but it was reasonable that Great Xia no longer had any ability to continue fighting. The problem of grain and grass has already put the army of Great Xia into hardship.

But no matter what, as the pride of an envoy of a country, it represents the monarch, and Wang Qinglong will definitely not kneel easily: "As far as I know, the canonization of the lord of Xirong was decided during the Hongguang period. According to this example, you Xirong is just a vassal of my Great Xia, so how can you be a country? ”

"Moreover, my Great Xia is thousands of miles long, the sea territory is vast, and the land territory is huge, which has never been seen in ancient times, and there are 100,000 people, which cannot be compared with your Xirong. With all this, I don't know why I, as an envoy of Great Xia, kneel down to your barren country? ”

Wang Qinglong said a lot of words, and for a while, many officials in Xirong in the palace were speechless.

"Lord Wang, you don't know why you came?"

Ou Yangming's face looked a little better, and his eyes were staring at Wang Qinglong, wanting to get some information from his resolute look.

"There is a war between you and me. Logically speaking, there should be no interaction until the war is over. ”

A few plain words had already expressed the meaning in Ou Yangming's heart. However, these words were even more harsh in Wang Qinglong's ears, which was clearly bullying, or the breath of the superior was asking the inferior.

Despite this, Wang Qinglong had a relaxed face on his face, without the slightest expression: "For the sake of Xirong, I am here to negotiate peace." ”

"Your Great Xia army is so weak, I, the lord of Xirong, want to continue fighting, do you think you can negotiate peace?"

"By your heart, no? But I don't know if the tens of thousands of troops on the Xiliang Pass, the thousands of acres of fertile land around Beihai County, and the land of the Northwest Prairie are still needed?"

"Moreover, the king of Bei Xiong died, and the new king of North Hu really wants to unify the northwest region, I don't know what benefits you can get in Liangzhou?"

After Wang Qinglong said these words, everyone in the palace, including Ou Yangming, changed color. The situation of Northern Hungary, they naturally knew very well that this attack on Great Xia was to unite Northern Hungary.

However, there was an accident in Northern Hungary, that is, the internal instability of Northern Hungary and the turbulent situation, so that the army was beaten back by Great Xia before it reached the Great Wall. The final result was naturally a one-on-one heads-up between Daxia and Xirong.

Even though the Great Xia army was weak, Xirong still understood the truth that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. Even if the entire army of Xirong is exhausted, it may not be able to compete with Great Xia.

Although Great Xia was extremely weak at this time, with the growth of time, it would inevitably survive natural disasters in the future, and at that time, Xirong could only get along with Great Xia amicably.

However, before this peace negotiation, it is possible to take advantage of the weakness of Great Xia and ask for more favorable conditions for Xirong. To put it bluntly, the core of all of this is the interest at work.

This is indeed what the king said. However, you also know that it is easy to send troops, but it is difficult to retreat. Therefore, if peace is negotiated, the king only wants to get something back. ”

"This matter, when Lord Ben came from Jizhou, the emperor and General Wei Entropy had already told him. What Xirong wants is nothing more than the land around Liangzhou, after all, it is your ancestral home. If you want it, my Emperor of Great Xia said that I can give you half of it, but the premise is that you have to exchange Beihai County. ”

"Beihai County is the land of my Great Xia, I believe you should understand this."

Half of Liangzhou has five county towns, and one county town is exchanged for five county towns, and the lord of Xirong can't help but show joy on his face. But Wang Qinglong on the other side is the same, it seems that Daxia has suffered a loss, but in fact it is not. From a military point of view, Beihai County was assigned to Great Xia, which was equivalent to a nail nailed to the territory of Xirong.

Moreover, Liangzhou is desert and mountainous, and at least eighty percent of the county towns are located between the mountains and mountains, and the transportation is inconvenient, although it is very dangerous, but it is not suitable for human survival. Although the ancestors of Great Xia had worked hard to get such a piece of land, it was a hot potato.

The native inhabitants of the mountains and forests did not obey the Great Xia government, even though the county town grew up with the people of Great Xia, but the foreign people in the mountains and forests were innumerable.

All of these things put forward by Wang Qinglong have some basis. This is also the result of the deliberation of many ministers in the imperial city of Jizhou, and it has been recognized by Xia Chun, the king of the eight sages.

The process of negotiating peace is very fast, the land that should be ceded is ceded, the territory that should be demarcated is demarcated, and as for the compensation, it is naturally Daxia. After all, from a practical point of view, Xirong's troops are approaching the city, and Daxia does not have many bargaining chips.

gave enough benefits to Xirong, and was able to exchange for thirty years of peace in Great Xia, which was the practice chosen by many emperors in Great Xia. It's not that they don't dare to send troops, but they can't send troops. Almost every unequal treaty was signed at the time of Bactria itself.

But in any case, just like the last war between Xirong and Great Xia, the land lost by Great Xia will be recaptured in the end.

With the signing of this time, no one can say for sure in the future, whether half of Liangzhou will be recaptured by Great Xia again?