The next day, before dawn, the three thousand troops outside the hotel were evacuated cleanly, and replaced with the previous guards, not only that, but the Tang Dynasty in order to show sincerity, but also handed over the west gate of the hotel to the Sui army guards to guard, that is to say, the Northern Sui envoys can enter and leave freely, and this farce that lasted for half a month finally came to an end. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Tang Dynasty did not treat the Northern Sui delegation materially, the grievances of being under house arrest could not be compensated with materials, so when Chen Shuda came to see Wen Yanbo in the morning, he was rejected by Wen Yanbo, "I am sick and will not be accepted."

In the inner hall, Ling Jing smiled and asked, "Why didn't the squire see him, and see what their new faces would look like?" ”

Wen Yanbo sneered and said: "You can guess without seeing me, it's nothing more than a sincere apology, misunderstandings and the like, it must be His Royal Highness who made them suffer a big loss, so they had to change their attitude, they didn't want to talk, just drive us back, and actually put us under house arrest for half a month, this is Li Yuan's sincerity." ”

Ling Jing said lightly: "But no matter what, we still have to see each other, and there are some things that are better to explain clearly in person than for us to speculate here." ”

Wen Yanbo nodded, "I also know that we still have to see them, but we must get clear instructions from His Highness, whether to continue to talk with Tang Dynasty, I think His Highness should have instructions, we had better send someone to the Intelligence Agency first." ”

Ling Jing said with a smile: "Since the Tang Dynasty is sincere and gives up Ximen to us, that is, it does not interfere with our actions, then I might as well give it a try and see if the other party really has this sincerity, and I will go out in person now." ”

Ling Jing went back to the room to change his clothes, then left the west gate with two entourages, and went out shopping with a swagger, your hotel is very close to the East Market, Ling Jing walked around the East Market, bought a little gadgets, and rented a carriage to tour Chang'an City.

At this time, one of his subordinates rode up to the carriage and whispered by the window: "Join the army, they have already returned." ”

As soon as Ling Jing went out, he found that someone was staring at them, so he deliberately circled a few times, and since the person who was spying on them had returned, Ling Jing immediately instructed the coachman: "Go to Qingyun Wine Shop!" ”

After a while, the carriage slowly stopped in front of Qingyun Liquor Store, and at this time, it was already lunch time, and Qingyun Liquor Restaurant was full of drinkers, and business was very hot.

Ling Jing smiled at the two subordinates: "I heard that the wine of this wine shop is no less than that of Luoyang Tiansi Pavilion Restaurant, let's have a good drink." ”

The two attendants smiled, "Thank you for your treat." ”

Although there was no one to follow, Ling Jing was still a little uneasy, he thought he was really admiring and came to drink.

At this time, a bartender greeted him, bowed down and said, "Welcome to the shop, I don't know how many people there are?" ”

"Just the three of us, can we have a private room?"

The bartender looked embarrassed, "If the guests didn't make a reservation in advance, I'm afraid there wouldn't be, and now is the time when there are the most customers." ”

Ling Jing smiled slightly, "I booked the Bai Ju room, there should be no guests now!" ”

The bartender was stunned, a trace of imperceptible surprise flashed in his eyes, 'Bai Jufang' was a code, indicating that the other party was his own person, and the bartender immediately smiled: "Since there is a reservation, there is no problem, please come with me!" ”

The bartender led them in, but the two attendants did not follow, and as they entered, they sat down at the small table near the door, drinking as they went, but their eyes watched everyone outside the door warily.

The bartender led Ling Jing into a small room on the third floor, and after a while, Gao Jin walked in quickly.

"I heard that your hotel was lifted today, and I was wondering if Ling would come to join the army, and I guessed it." Gao Jin smiled and sat down.

Ling Jing poured him a glass of wine and said with a slight smile: "Since you know that I am coming, is there anything I want?" ”

"Absolutely!"

Gao Jin took out a purple letterbox from his arms and handed it to Ling Jing, "It was only delivered last night, if we don't come to join the army, we have to find a way to send it in." ”

Ling Jing hurriedly opened the letterbox, took out a roll of fine silk, and slowly spread it on the table, with only one sentence on it, 'Change back to Xiao Miao's father and daughter, that is, return to Zhongdu!'" It's still the handwriting of King Qi.

Ling Jing nodded, put away the fine silk, and asked again, "What happened, the Tang Dynasty actually gave in." ”

Gao Jin smiled and said the battle that happened in Diaoyin County, and finally said: "This matter has spread, everyone said that the Sui army actually attacked Guannei, and the Tang Dynasty was about to run out, but there are also many people who say that Diaoyin, Shuofang and other counties are deserts, insignificant, and do not affect the overall situation, and many people say that the Tang Dynasty should move the capital to Bashu and get rid of the control of the Guanlong nobles. ”

Ling Jing suddenly realized, no wonder the Tang Dynasty wanted to release them, it turned out that they had suffered a big loss in Diaoyin County.

He drank a few more glasses of wine and got up to take his leave.

Back at your hotel, Ling Jing handed over the letter from His Royal Highness King Qi to Wen Yanbo, Wen Yanbo looked at it, pondered for a moment, and said to Ling Jing: "His Royal Highness seems to have avoided the fact that the five counties of Changsha broke the contract, and it seems that he doesn't mention the loot. ”

Ling Jing nodded, "I feel the same way, it seems that His Highness doesn't care about them tearing up the conditions, and even has a little expectation." ”

"This is leaving the foreshadowing for the next Southern campaign!"

The opinions of the two gradually unified, His Royal Highness the King of Qi did not care about the Tang Dynasty's breach of the contract, this kind of breach of the contract was not a bad thing to some extent, with this instruction, they knew how to deal with the Tang Dynasty.

Early the next morning, Chen Shuda came to your hotel again, and this time Ling Jing personally came to the gate to greet him.

Chen Shuda asked with concern, "How is Wen Shilang's health, do you want to let the imperial doctor take a look again?" ”

"Thank you Xiangguo for your concern, Wen Shilang just felt a little cold, he rested for a day, and he is much better today, so he doesn't have to bother the imperial doctor to come to the door."

Chen Shuda knew that Wen Yanbo was not sick, so he was just talking, the two exchanged a few words, and then walked into your hotel, when entering the hospital, Chen Shuda saw that there was no one left and right, so he whispered: "We apologize for what happened before, and hope that the two sides will not hurt the harmony because of this." ”

Ling Jing waved his hand, "Don't mention what happened before, Chen Xiangguo, we put state affairs first, and personal honor and disgrace can be put aside." ”

Chen Shuda smiled awkwardly, and followed Ling Jing into the courtyard, Wen Yanbo was already waiting at the door, with Ling Jing's prevention, the two met a lot easier, Chen Shuda never mentioned the matter of house arrest, Wen Yanbo also seemed to have a good hand with Chen Shuda yesterday, without any complaints, everyone walked into the lobby and sat down.

Chen Shuda said sincerely: "Some unpleasant things happened before, mainly because of some mistakes in the decision-making of His Royal Highness the Prince, our saint is also not in good health, recuperating in the palace, this time did not take care of the government, until the day before yesterday he returned to the government, he immediately corrected the decision-making mistakes made by His Royal Highness the Prince, today at the court meeting the prince also publicly admitted his mistakes, expressed his willingness to take responsibility, the Son of Heaven with the greatest sincerity, hoping to reopen the peace talks, so let me lead the peace talks, I wonder what Wen Shilang's attitude is? ”

Wen Yanbo smiled and asked: "Since it is a peace talk, there must be a scope for peace talks, I don't know if this time I will continue to talk about the division of spoils, or something else?" ”

"It's mainly about Hetao and Diaoyin County."

In fact, Chen Shuda is also very difficult to do, before he came, the Son of Heaven clearly instructed him not to talk about the ownership of the five counties of Changsha, only to talk about how the Sui army withdrew from Hetao and Diaoyin County, this is a typical self-inflicted, only to others, but let others do what they can't do, so that Chen Shuda has no confidence.

Wen Yanbo pondered for a while and said lightly: "Chen Xiangguo also knows that I am only a servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Ling Senjun is only a record of the Qi Palace, and they are only four-grade officials, and we have no decision-making power over major affairs in the imperial court, we can only talk about things within our authority."

Frankly speaking, although I know about the Hetao, but we have not been given any power to talk about it, before we talked about the Hetao has exceeded our authority, we can only talk about two things, one is the division of the spoils, and the other is to use Lou Fu County to return Xiao Milling father and daughter, this is also our mission to Chang'an this time, as for the Hetao and Diaoyin County mentioned by Chen Xiangguo, even if we promised anything, it is meaningless. ”

Chen Shuda was very disappointed in his heart, and said after a while: "I can understand Wen Shilang's difficulties. ”

Ling Jing next to him said with a smile: "I'm afraid Chen Xiangguo didn't understand what we meant, we didn't mean that the matter of Diaoyin County and Hetao couldn't be discussed, just that we didn't have the right to make any promises."

This is actually a new negotiation, since it is a new negotiation, we need to make a series of preparations, first we have to go back to report the results of the current negotiations to the imperial court, and then the two countries will be in contact, and if the high-level leaders of the two countries agree to negotiate, then we can return to continue the negotiations.

Before that, we can only talk about this mission, if Chen Xiangguo is willing to continue to talk about the division of the spoils of war and the exchange of Lou Fu County for Xiao Miao's father and daughter, we are very willing to cooperate. ”

Chen Shuda nodded, "Okay! I'll go back and ask the Holy One, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow, and then I'll take my leave!" (To be continued.) )