After the coalition army attacked the ironclad fortress from the three gates, the defenders of the city were sharply reduced from more than 20,000 people at the beginning to less than 8,000 in the end, and the women, children, old and weak in the city were not affected. 《

This is also because the coalition forces think they are the righteous army, and Duan Ruqi also surrendered quickly enough.

Of course, surrender is not just lip service, in fact, Duan Ruqi had already thought about what price he would pay when he decided to surrender, but his imagination still seemed too bad in front of Jian Guozhao.

The ceremony of joining the alliance did not last long, and by the time the coalition forces left the Ironclad Fort, most of the food stored in the Ironclad Fort had been lost, and there were few weapons and horses left.

If it weren't for Su You's feeling that Duan Ruqi should be allowed to recuperate to defend against the possible invasion of the Southern Pu Tribe, the residents of the Iron Armor Fort would definitely not survive this winter.

Su You's suggestion attracted Duan Rujue's little favor, but now he has no choice but to pretend to be a grandson and hope to send away Su You, the great god, as soon as possible. Moreover, even if Su You is gone, what can he do?

Duan Ruqi's current tragic situation cannot be recovered without ten years.

But Fu Guoming and Ji Guozhao went home with the materials they snatched from themselves to develop, and in ten years, they didn't know how to get rid of their own streets. And when he learned that Su You would be stationed in Nanzhong for a period of time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Duan Ruqi didn't even know what kind of attitude to treat Su You himself, if he hadn't had Su You when he was in the Myanmar Ning Pass, this war would have at least captured Kunchuan by now, as for who the deer in Nanzhong would die at, I'm afraid it was more likely to be himself.

But now, Su You's stay can at least ensure that he will not be eaten by Dong Yao and Xi Fu in a short period of time

The coalition troops entered the ironclad fort for three days, carrying what they should have carried and taking what they should have, and it was not until October 20 that they finally withdrew and returned triumphantly to the north.

Since then, the Duan Ruqi brothers have been hiding their courage and repairing the city wall

When they arrived at the city of Defunin, the coalition forces rested in this empty city.

He knew that now was the time to fulfill his promise, and when he invited Su You to come, he asked straight to the point, "This time to suppress Duan Ruqi's rebellion, thanks to the great contribution of the envoy, Xiao Wang doesn't know how to repay the envoy, I don't know if you have any wishes?" ”

At that time, the father and son of the prince of the country, and the princess of Biyun, Wang Bodang, were all present, and of course Su You knew that it was time for the prince to make the agreement he had made with him public that day.

After all, if Fu Guoming rewarded him with a piece of land for some reason, how is it different from selling the country?

Su You nodded, and immediately said with a respectful face, "I have three small requests, and I ask the king to give them consideration."

"Oh?" Jian Guoming immediately nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"The king may have heard of it, in fact, I set up a large view garden in Yangzhou, which is planted with all kinds of rare flowers and trees, and also raises rare birds and beasts collected from all over the place, but unfortunately there are no elephants in the Central Plains, so I hope the king can give me some of the elephants obtained from the Iron Castle, and I want a hundred."

Elephants are not uncommon in Yunnan, and when Su You first saw these elephants, he suddenly wanted to establish an elephant army of his own. This elephant army doesn't need much, one or two hundred is about the same.

If this elephant army can really be established, let alone facing these small Dian horses in Nanzhong, even if they reach the Central Plains, they will be properly crushed in the face of those iron horses that are only one ton at most. Therefore, Su You had this idea in his heart since he saw Duan Ruqi raising many elephants in the Iron Armor Fort but not making good use of them.

"No problem, I'll give you all of my more than 100 elephants." Jian Guoming didn't expect Su You's first request to be so simple, so he immediately waved his hand and said indifferently.

In fact, whether it is Dali or Kunchuan, whether it is the palace or the people, it is not uncommon for people to raise elephants, but they raise elephants are nothing more than hauling goods.

Ji Guozhao immediately joked, "I didn't expect the envoy to want to raise elephants, I also have more than a hundred of them, and if the envoy needs it, I will also give it up!" ”

For the pretense of being generous, the brothers and sisters of Jian Guoming are a little embarrassed, and at this time, of course, they regard Su You as a forbidden; Jian Guozhao now took the initiative to throw an olive branch to Su You, isn't this a competition for favor?

The generosity of Jian Guozhao was naturally expected by Su You, after all, this is also the attitude that their father and son have always had towards him, plus the case of Yun Fan's assassination in the Zhenxi General's Mansion has not been solved so far, and the last time Jian Ziheng escaped from the battle, Su You took the initiative to forgive him

Jian Guozhao is now taking the initiative to show goodwill, not only with the intention of repaying the favor, but also with the meaning of showing him his thoughts, that is-what Ji Guoming can give you, I can too!

As the saying goes, if you are cheap, you don't need anything else at this time except to show gratitude to Ji Guozhao.

However, he didn't want to see how close they were, so he immediately interrupted their mutual humility and asked with a smile, "Then what is the second request of the envoy?" ”

Su You nodded and said solemnly, "The second request is to hope that the king can give me my prisoners in Lincang City." ”

"This" Jian Guoming didn't know how to answer for a while, and immediately turned to Jian Guozhao and asked him for his opinion with his eyes.

The prisoners in Lincang City that Su You mentioned were actually the three thousand vanguard troops sent by Duan Ruqi, who were about to enter from the east gate of Lincang City that day to open the door at the Mianning Pass, but they were exposed because of Peng Sheng's sixth sense.

Under the ambush and encirclement and interception of the tripartite army sent by Su You, more than half of these rebel gentlemen were killed and wounded, and only about 100 people fled back, and the remaining 1,500 or so people were captured.

For these captives, Duan Ruqi knocked on the side several times, but did not get a specific number, and Jian Guoming and Jian Guozhao had already made up their minds to divide them after returning to Lincang

They never expected that Su You would mainly ask to participate in the division of these prisoners at this moment, and it was 100% shared.

"I don't have any opinion, I don't want these captives" Jian Guozhao nodded immediately and said.

The reason why Jian Guozhao gave up these captives lightly was because he had his own calculations; As early as when he signed the alliance with Duan Ruqi, the reason why he did everything possible to hide these prisoners was that he thought that he could at least divide half of them.

But as soon as Su You put this question on the table, he realized that he could only get a third at most, from more than 700 in his expectation to more than 400, and the gap was not small.

Jian Guozhao first thought about currying favor with Su You, and secondly, he also felt that if he returned with these less than 500 captives, he would inevitably be worried about the Duan clan in the future, and if Xi Yao became their enemy for generations because of this, it would be too unworthy.

"It's best if General Zhenxi doesn't have an opinion, then these prisoners will all be returned to the envoy." Jian Guoming nodded immediately, as if the reason why he didn't agree just now was all because of Jian Guozhao; As for himself, there is no problem at all.

Ji Guozhao knew his careful thoughts, but he didn't debunk it at this time.

Su You thanked him again, and without waiting for Ji Guoming to ask, he continued, "Thank you for being so cheerful, my third request is that I hope that the king can give me a piece of land to live in, and I promise that I will only stay on this land for a maximum of ten years, and then I will return this land to Nanzhong unconditionally." ”

"Ah" Su You said, several people in the audience showed unbelievable eyes, Su You obviously knew who was pretending to be stupid, and who was really incredible.

Su You looked at them one by one as if they didn't believe it, and immediately said with a bitter face, "In the end, we can be regarded as fighting side by side, and now I have nothing to hide." Just as General Zhenxi and Daxiangguo thought at the beginning, another purpose of my envoy was to incorporate Nanzhong into the territory of my Great Sui."

Su You said this, and everyone in the hall suddenly fell silent, and a needle drop could be heard for a while.

After Su You glanced at everyone, he said eloquently, "But after arriving at Nanzhong, I realized that the relationship here is so complicated, and the task given to me by His Majesty the Emperor at the beginning is obviously not so realistic, so I retreat to the next best thing, I just hope that Nanzhong will not threaten my Great Sui." As you know, the Great Sui is now fighting for many years, first conquering the Khitan, and then the Ryukyus, Yiwu, Tuyuhun, etc., and so on in the past two years, the Great Sui will also fight the Goryeo Turkic war. ”

Listening to Su You talk about the current international situation, the truth of Guozhao strangled Su You, he didn't say that in Dali that day.

However, if he hadn't believed his bluff at the beginning, Duan Ruqi wouldn't have been in such a hurry to rebel, right? The final result is probably that Duan Ruqi and himself destroyed Jian Guoming first, and then fought for the victory.

If history can be assumed, maybe he will still be a failure

Isn't Guoming's mind fluctuating at the moment? It turns out that Su You deceived himself at the beginning? If he really wanted to take refuge in the Great Sui at the beginning, if Duan Ruqi was not so eager to rebel, most of them would not have been able to unite with Xijiao

What is the end result? - It's nothing more than being isolated by Duan Ruqi and Ji Guozhao.

After thinking about it, a cold sweat broke out behind Jian Guoming, and he heard Su You say with a smile, "I just thought, this envoy has not completed the task, if he goes back rashly, maybe he will be scolded by His Majesty the Emperor, and then demote the official to Lingnan, Saibei and other frontier places, how can those places be as good as the scenery of Nanzhong?" ”

Su You's words can be regarded as a good reason for him to stay in Nanzhong.

Fu Guoming and Fu Guozhao said with some disapproval in their hearts, "You are bent on staying in Nanzhong, but you are already a phoenix in the eyes of the Great Sui Emperor, why should we value you?" ”

Su You said for a while, "If I insist on going back, my majesty is afraid that he will send another person to come."

Su You's words suddenly made Jian Guoming and Jian Guozhao tighten,—— if the Great Sui Imperial Court was replaced, wouldn't his good situation be in vain?

Thinking like this, the two asked Su You in unison, "Where does the envoy want to borrow it?" ”