Just when Yang Jian was hesitant and undecided because of the disagreement between the crown prince Yang Yong, Changsun Sheng and Xue Daoheng, and strongly advocated that he should suspend the war on Chen and stabilize the situation in the west and north first, as Gao Ying expected before leaving Beijing, Chen Shubao, the emperor of Southern Chen, after seeing Yang Jian's edict on the war against Chen, hurriedly sent Xu Shanxin, a regular attendant of Southern Chen's scattered cavalry, to Chang'an to ask Yang Jian to make peace.

Yang Jian heard for a long time that Xu Shanxin was a Gao Shi Shuoru in Jiangzuo who was as famous as Kong Fan, the official Shangshu of Southern Chen, and he had also heard Gao Ying's analysis before, Chen Shubao would first send envoys to Chang'an to cut land and sue for peace after hearing the news that the Great Sui had fallen across the country and the three roads to cut Chen. At the same time, because he had just received the recital from Yang Liang and Yu Qingze, he was hesitant about whether to postpone the war against Chen, and when he heard the news that Nan Chen sent Xu Shanxin to Chang'an as an envoy, he moved to take this opportunity to force Chen Shubao to cede the land north of the river to the Sui Dynasty, and then suspend the idea of cutting down Chen, so he ordered the prince Yang Yong to accompany him to summon Xu Shanxin in the Linde Palace, wanting to see how much land and cities Chen Shubao planned to cede to the Sui Dynasty.

Who knows, Xu Shanxin was summoned to Linde Hall to see Yang Jian, Yang Yong father and son, although he said that he would strike the war and ask for peace, but he never mentioned the matter of cutting the land, but talked eloquently about the old past when Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen had helped Northern Zhou to resist Northern Qi more than ten years ago, and his words seemed to warn Yang Jian that Nanchen would never be afraid that Yang Sui would come to attack the army of the whole country.

Yang Jian patiently listened to Xu Shanxin's nagging for a long time, but he never saw him take out the map of the territory to be ceded to the Sui Dynasty from his arms, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and glanced at the prince Yang Yong, who was accompanying him, and leaned over to look down at the chapter.

Yang Yong was summoned to the Linde Hall yesterday to give advice to his father, and today he was allowed to accompany Yang Jian to meet with the envoys of Nan Chen, secretly guessing that the day when he would come back to participate in the government was not far away, so he exerted all his spirit and strength to show the majesty and wisdom of the prince of the Great Sui in front of Xu Shanxin, and forced Xu Shanxin to agree to cede more land and cities.

"Xu Changzhi must have also read the edict issued by my Great Sui Emperor. At present, millions of troops of our Great Sui Third Route Army have gathered on the north bank of the river, and only after my father's order, we can set foot in the six counties and 54 states on the left side of the river. In such a situation, my father is willing to meet Xu Changshou, in order to give your family a chance to take the initiative to sacrifice the six counties and 54 states of Jiangzuo, turn hostility into jade silk, and save millions of lives on both sides of the river from being destroyed, but Xu Changshou ignores my army of Chen millions, and here is talking about the old past of the reign of the first emperor of the Chen Dynasty, is it too ignorant of current affairs. Yang Yong took two steps forward, stopped in front of Xu Shanxin, interrupted him unceremoniously, and said.

"According to His Royal Highness the Prince, my Chen Dynasty will definitely die this time, and the Sui army will definitely win?" Xu Shanxin sneered and retorted to Yang Yong, "Former Qin Fujian took a million armor, and he wanted to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the intention of destroying the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but what was the result? Compared with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, now that the military strength of my Chen Dynasty is ten times more, how can I be afraid of your fraudulent army of one million? ”

Yang Yong didn't expect Xu Shanxin to be a scholar, and his tone was so tough when he spoke, his face turned blue with anger, and he shouted: "The former Qin Fu clan bullied the weak with the strong and bullied the small with the big, so there was a defeat in the water, and you Nan Chen treacherously surrendered and rebelled, and my father and emperor raised a righteous soldier and cut down no way, and wanted to restore the Han Dynasty, how can the two be compared?" I don't expect that Chen Shubao didn't send you to Chang'an to take advantage of your tongue in vain, so I advise you to take out the land cutting map in your arms as soon as possible, so as to save time and waste! ”

Yang Jian, who had been looking down and flipping through the recitals, raised his head steeply, and looked directly at Xu Shanxin with his eyes, wanting to see how he would respond to Yang Yong's outspoken questioning.

To the surprise of the Yang father and son, Xu Shanxin heard that Yang Yong wanted him to take out the map of cutting the land from his arms and present it to Yang Jian to ask for peace, so he laughed on his back and stretched out his hand to take off the robe he was wearing.

Under Yang Jian's gaze, in the blink of an eye, Xu Shanxin had already taken off his body and only had the underwear he was wearing, and asked Yang Yong with a smile on his face: "His Royal Highness the Prince, take a closer look, what kind of picture do I have in my arms?" ”

Yang Jian's face immediately fell.

"You, you want to persuade my father to call off the army and make peace just out of thin air?!" Yang Yong opened a pair of eyes and stared at Xu Shanxin with an unbelievable gaze, and then called out to the outside of the hall, "Come on, beat Xu Shanxin out of Chang'an!" ”

"Wait!" Xu Shanxin was not afraid of the more than a dozen forbidden soldiers who broke into the palace like wolves, and calmly turned to face Yang Jian and said, "Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, my emperor really wants to hand over a map of land cession to the foreign minister before he comes to Chang'an, and bring it to His Majesty." However, he was sternly rejected by the foreign minister. Because the ministers expected that even if our emperor ceded the imperial capital Jiankang to His Majesty, he would not be able to make His Majesty stop the war. The reason why the foreign minister did not hesitate to die at this time to send an envoy to Chang'an, really wanted to make a bet with His Majesty, if His Majesty won the foreign minister, the foreign minister was ten thousand arrows, and the five horses were divided into corpses. But if the foreign minister is lucky enough to win against His Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to immediately withdraw the soldiers and horses of Chen, and stop the war, how about it? ”

"What kind of daydream are you rotten, what kind of daydream!" Yang Yong waved his hand at the forbidden soldiers, and wanted to take Xu Shanxin out of the palace, but was stopped by Yang Jian waving his hand.

"I'd like to hear what pact you want to make with me? Do you know that whoever bets with me has never won against me? Yang Jian squinted his eyes, leaned forward, as if playing tricks on a prey, and said to Xu Shanxin leisurely.

"The foreign minister is willing to make a bet with Your Majesty today, if the Sui Dynasty army can defeat our Chen Dynasty within half a year, your Majesty will win, and then the foreign minister will be at the disposal of Your Majesty, and there will be no complaints." Xu Shanxin replied sonorously.

"Half a year?" Yang Jian looked at Xu Shanxin and smiled, "I now kind of understand why Chen Shubao sent you to Chang'an. He wanted to make me kill Jiang Zuo and arouse the resentment of the people of Nanchen. But I don't want to kill you, but I want to detain you in the mansion of Chang'an, and on the day when Nan Chen destroys the country, please go out of the mountain to assist me in bowing, are you willing to gamble and lose? ”

"Since the gambling contract was proposed by the foreign minister and made with His Majesty, but His Majesty has an order, how can the foreign minister not obey it?" Xu Shanxin smiled coldly and asked Yang Jiandao, "But Your Majesty doesn't want to ask, why is it not long or short, but why do you want to make this gambling contract with Your Majesty for a limit of half a year?" In less than half a year, the Turks in the north and Tuyuhun in the west will send troops to attack Sui, making it difficult for Your Majesty to take care of both the beginning and the end, right? ”

As soon as Xu Shanxin said this, Yang Jian, Yang Yong, father and son were all stunned by him.