"You said that Prime Minister Li Cheng had an affair with the Khitan? No way, although I don't like Li Mi's old-fashioned personality, and I am very strict with me. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but I know that as a veteran of the Three Dynasties and an emperor, he is just begging for kindness and acting a little more radically. Zhongxian, do you have any misunderstanding about the prime minister, he is not the kind of person you imagined. "Although Emperor Xuanhe is mediocre and doesn't know who is the villain who is telling right and wrong, he can still tell the difference between loyalty and goodness. A minister like Li Mi, who has always taught him bitterly, he can't talk about him as a thorn in his side.

Tong Zhongxian had long known that Emperor Xuanhe still respected Li Mi very much, and he was afraid that he would not believe in him. took out a letter prepared by Yelu Hongye in advance, "Your Majesty, you see, this is a confidential letter that the minister secretly sneaked into the camp of the Khitan Emperor in the midst of the chaos at that time, and you can see it at a glance." ”

Xiong Jie didn't know if he didn't see it, and he was startled when he saw it, the content of this letter was that Li Mi and King Wu Yue wanted to join forces with the Khitan to fight the army of Southern Chu and the north. However, the request mentioned in the letter was politely rejected by the Khitan Emperor and severely condemned, illustrating the friendly relations between the Khitan and Southern Chu. The letter was stamped with the seals of Prime Minister Li Cheng and King Wu Yue at the same time, and the handwriting was indeed Li Mi's.

After reading the letter, Xiong Jie was angry, "I'm angry, I have respected Prime Minister Li so much since I was a child, but I didn't expect this old man to think about seeking a dynasty to usurp the throne, and even my brother Wang has a share of this." The Khitan Emperor is worthy of being a righteous gentleman, a good big brother of Southern Chu, and he did not agree to their request, otherwise his life would have been suspended. Zhongxian, you were able to steal such an important letter this time, and revealed to me the true face of that old man and brother Wang in advance, and I will reward you heavily when I go back. ”

Tong Zhongxian saw that Xiong Jie was furious after reading the letter, and knew that he completely believed the content of the letter, so he fanned the flames on the side and said: "Your Majesty, this matter of peace must not be handed over to Prime Minister Li Cheng to discuss, how can a person with wolf ambitions like him not be able to do the matter of cutting land and paying compensation to sell the lord for glory, and Nanchu will be in the wind and rain in the future." ”

"Well, what Zhongxian said is extremely true, and this old man cannot be allowed to succeed. Tell me my will, and I will leave all matters of peace to you. Li Mi, this old horseman, I will sentence him to a decisive sentence now. ”

He continued to slander and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to fight for Nanchu in the matter of peace, but regarding the punishment of Li Mi and King Wu Yue, the minister thinks that it is appropriate to wait for us to meet Jingzhou City safely and then send it together, and the minister is worried that they will know that the emperor wants to punish their crimes, so they will rebel directly." When the time comes, together with King Wu Yue, summon them to the palace and catch turtles in an urn, what does the emperor think? ”

"It's still Zhongxian's thoughtfulness. I'm not wrong, you're really my right-hand man, so I'll do as you say. ”

Li Mi was already preparing to argue with the Khitan ministers in the peace hall and resolutely defend the rights of Southern Chu. Unexpectedly, Emperor Xuanhe directly issued a verbal decree to remove him from the post of minister and transfer it to Tong Zhongxian.

Li Mi was very sad and angry, and ran to Emperor Xuanhe's camp to ask to see him. Tong Zhongxian had already changed into the robe of the Minister of Peace at this time, wore a beam crown on his head, squinted at Li Mi and said, "Master Li, now I know that I have come to see the driver." Don't you know that the emperor mutinied in Jinshui Fort, was trapped in the Khitan, and almost lost his life? What about you? Greedy for life and afraid of death, hiding in Jingzhou City, there is no loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, where did you go to sacrifice your life and kill yourself? ”

Li Mi wanted to accompany Emperor Xuanhe to the front line with him, but Xiong Jie was afraid that he would get in the way of going to the front line and take care of the east and west, so he didn't let him accompany him and let him temporarily take charge of the affairs of the DPRK and China, and he was already very annoyed about this matter. Now Emperor Xuanhe did not listen to his advice, insisted on driving the imperial conquest and became a prisoner of the Khitan, but now Tong Zhongxian wants to reverse black and white, saying that he is not loyal to the monarch and unpatriotic. This is something that a veteran of the Three Dynasties like Li Mi, a somewhat brainless minister, would never be able to listen to.

He knelt on the ground, facing Emperor Xuanhe's tent and wailing, "Your Majesty, the minister was ready to go to Nanyang ten years ago to farm and farm, and he would rather die in the troubled times, and his success and fame have long been left behind. It was the first emperor who did not lower his status because of my short-sightedness, and personally came to ask me to continue to enter the court as an official assistant to you, and visited me three times in my thatched house to ask for my opinion on the current situation, so I was very moved, so I agreed to continue to serve the first emperor to return to the court. He has stood up many times when Southern Chu was in trouble, and solved problems for the emperor, and it has been fifteen years since the emperor grew up when he was a child. Now the emperor listens to the slander, thinking that the old minister is old and can't do big things, so the minister begs the emperor to let me tell the old man to return to his hometown. ”

In the tent, Emperor Xuanhe heard Li Mi say so sincerely, and remembered that when he was a child, Li Mi taught him to read and hyphenate, and he took good care of him, and his heart suddenly softened. He thought that Li Mi might have been bewitched by someone for a while before he had the heart of rebellion, and thought of leniency in dealing with the matter.

Tong Zhongxian saw that Emperor Xuanhe was moved by Li Mi's words, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Your Majesty, this Li Mi dared to be so arrogant because of the support of the first emperor, and he didn't take the emperor in his eyes at all." If he doesn't punish him this time, he will ride to the emperor in the future. ”

After hearing this, Emperor Xuanhe said loudly in the tent with a ruthless heart: "Prime Minister Li, you should get up first, there is something to be discussed when you return to Jingzhou City." ”

Li Mi was comforted and dissuaded by the ministers, and only then did he reluctantly retreat.

On the other side, Tong Zhongxian soon signed a peace treaty with the Khitan: Southern Chu and the Khitan were brothers' countries, and Emperor Xuanhe was young and called the Khitan Emperor a brother; The two countries were bounded by the Baigou River (the Khitan gave up Suicheng and the three prefectures of Zhuo, Ying, and Mo), but the sixteen states of Yanyun were forever owned by the Khitan; Thereafter, if there are thieves who have crossed the border, they shall not hide from each other; The border cities of the two dynasties, everything is as usual, and no city gods are allowed to be built. Nanchu provided Liao with 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk every year for the "expenses of helping the army", which were delivered to Xiongzhou. The two sides set up a field at the border to carry out mutual trade.

Tong Zhongxian had already received the favor of Yelu Hongye, and the two had already negotiated the content of the peace before, but this time it was just a formality, so that Tong Zhongxian's status would be even higher in front of the Emperor of Southern Chu. He consciously completed the task with great honor, and went back to hand in the decree in high spirits. When I was invited, Xiong Jie was eating, and the waiter asked Tong Zhongxian how many taels of silver he would give to the Khitan. Tong Zhongxian didn't speak, just stretched out three fingers and put them on his forehead, meaning 300,000 taels.

Emperor Xuanhe was shocked when he saw the three fingers: "Too much, too much." ”

Tong Zhongxian thought that Emperor Xuanhe was not satisfied with this amount, and defended tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the minister has worked very hard to negotiate an indemnity of 300,000 taels, please forgive the minister for being incompetent." ”

Xiong Jie muttered after hearing this: "It's only 300,000, so little." Well done! Sure enough, he is more reliable than Prime Minister Li. Then he rewarded Tong Zhongxian heavily, and in his eyes, there was no longer the status of Li Mi, the patriarch of the Three Dynasties.