Wei Zheng's face suddenly swollen red, the other party's words made him speechless, and the three northern counties are Liu Wuzhou's territory, not the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Sui Dynasty occupied Liu Wuzhou's territory, what reason does the Tang Dynasty have to persuade the other party to give up the territory?

Wei Zheng bit his lip and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of my family has been sitting in Taiyuan since last year, and has fought more than a dozen battles with Liu Wuzhou, basically annihilating Liu Wuzhou's main force, and the Tang army has also paid a heavy price for it, this is like planting a peach tree, we loosen the soil, fertilize, catch insects, work hard to raise the trees, and see that the peaches are born, and finally when the peaches are ripe, you easily pick the peaches, does Master Fang think this is fair?" ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "This peach metaphor is more vivid, of course we understand Tang Jun's hard work, but as I just said, we talk about principles, and this principle is who does the peach tree belong to?" Does it belong to the Tang Dynasty, or does it belong to our Northern Sui Dynasty? ”

Wei Zheng was stunned, Fang Xuanling continued: "When Li Gong raised troops in Taiyuan, the army immediately went south, and Liu Wuzhou's rebellion was a month earlier than Li Gong's army, he took the lead in occupying Mayi County and Yanmen County, Li Gong's army has not yet entered Guanzhong, Liu Wuzhou's army occupied Loufan County, directly threatening the safety of Taiyuan County, Li Gong hurriedly sent Liu Wenjing to the Turks to ask the Turks to mediate, Liu Wuzhou did not continue to attack Taiyuan, so from the beginning and the three northern counties were not the land of the Tang Dynasty. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

To put it mildly, even Taiyuan County is not, Li Gong sits in Taiyuan because he is the first emperor appointed Taiyuan to stay, he is a Sui minister, Taiyuan is the territory of the Great Sui, of course, this is a confused account, so we also adhere to the principle, based on the time of Li Gong's accession to the throne, when he ascended the throne, how to divide the territory of Liu Wuzhou and the Tang Dynasty, that is our benchmark. ”

"But the Tang Dynasty has never divided any territory with Liu Wuzhou, so where will there be principles?"

"Mr. Wei's words are untenable, if there is no principle, then Liu Wuzhou's army attacked Linfen County the year before last, so do we think that Linfen County is also Liu Wuzhou's territory, of course, we also know that the Tang Army and Liu Wuzhou have experienced a lot of major battles, and both sides have casualties, but the Tang Army fought with Liu Wuzhou in order to defend Taiyuan, and it was out of defense, and the Tang Army never stepped into Mayi County, why do we think that Mayi County and Yanmen County are the territory of the Tang Dynasty?"

Fang Xuanling's words were loud, and he couldn't refute them in any reason, Wei Zheng sighed for a while and said: "It seems that we have our own reasons, and it is difficult for each other to convince each other, so I'll go back and report to His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Fang Xuanling glanced at him deeply, and said seriously: "His Royal Highness King Qi has a piece of advice to give to Prince Jiancheng, the prince is the prince after all, if the prince does the things of the Son of Heaven, then the society will be in chaos." ”

Wei Zheng stood up solemnly and bowed deeply, "Please thank His Royal Highness King Qi for his good words on my behalf, Wei Zheng took his leave first." ”

Fang Xuanling personally sent Wei Zheng out of the camp, looked at Wei Zheng's carriage and walked away, and then returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Xuan was standing in front of the sand table with his hands and looking at the Hetao area, and the three northern counties He was firmly in his hands, he actually didn't care about how Li Jiancheng tossed, relatively speaking, he was more concerned about Li Jing's expedition, and now Li Jing's army should enter the core area of Wuyuan County. ”

At this time, Fang Xuanling walked in and said with a smile: "Your Highness, Wei Zheng has already left." ”

"How?" Zhang Xuan asked with a slight smile.

"As His Highness expected, Wei Zheng didn't come for the spoils of war, but for the purpose of merging the three northern counties, and I told him a big reason."

"Can he accept the great truth of the military advisor?" Jang Hyun asked with a smile again.

"My great truth Wei Zheng may not be able to accept, but His Highness's advice Wei Zheng has accepted, he called it Jinyu Liangyan, and he asked me to convey his gratitude to His Highness."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "He didn't accept my advice, it should be that I coincided with his thoughts, but Li Jiancheng may not be willing to accept my advice, judging from all indications, the contradictions between the Li father and son in the concept of governing the country are very deep, and sooner or later the contradictions between their father and son will break out." ”

"Has His Highness decided to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty?"

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Of course, we are talking to their court, and we must also avoid suspicion at this time, lest Li Yuan think that we are provoking the relationship between their father and son." ”

After a pause, Zhang Xuan smiled again: "Actually, there is nothing to talk about the division of the spoils, I want to talk to the Tang Dynasty about Lingwu County or Yan'an County, this is not to be discussed with Li Jiancheng, I must find their son of heaven." ”

"So Your Highness is using the spoils of war as an excuse to bring in this topic, right?"

"Exactly!"

Zhang Xuan smiled, he took a few steps and said: "The military advisor can draw up a draft of the division of the spoils, and divide the spoils according to the number of troops, and we will give another thirty yuan of pension money to each family of the Tang Army soldiers who died in battle, and after the draft is prepared, I will ask Ling Jing to return to Zhongdu and talk to Ziwei Pavilion in detail." ”

"Why don't you let me go back to Zhongdu!"

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "I decided to lead 10,000 cavalry to Hetao and set off early tomorrow morning, the aftermath here needs to be dealt with by the military division, or let Ling Jing go back, I believe Ling Jing will understand what I mean." ”

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As Zhang Xuan said, Wei Zheng's idea did coincide with Zhang Xuan's advice, and he also thought that the crown prince Jiancheng had done a bit offside in some aspects, such as agreeing to the Tang army to send troops and the Sui army to fight against the Turks without authorization last time, which directly violated the order of the Son of Heaven, and even agreed that the Tang army would be stationed in the Sui army camp to realize the integration of the Sui and Tang coalition forces, although this was more conducive to fighting the Turkic army, but the political consequences were extremely serious and would seriously anger the Son of Heaven.

And this time, the prince let himself go to Sui Ying to discuss and return to the three northern counties, although the tough attitude of the Northern Sui made Wei Zheng run in vain, but Wei Zheng was worried that it was the matter of the envoy to negotiate the matter itself, which was obviously a matter for the imperial court, and it should be decided by the Son of Heaven, but the prince must be more and more violent, and go further and further on the wrong road.

Wei Zheng really didn't understand, why did the prince make mistakes again and again? Of course, the prince will not be confused for a while, let alone naïve, which makes Wei Zheng faintly feel a kind of dissatisfaction with the prince today, it should be for this reason, which makes Wei Zheng even more worried, if this matter is not handled properly, I am afraid that it will lead to a battle for imperial power in the high-level of the Tang Dynasty.

Two days later, Wei Zheng returned to Taiyuan City, he came directly to Jinyang Palace, found Li Jiancheng, walked into the study, but saw Li Jiancheng's personal soldiers packing up the bookcase, which made Wei Zheng stunned.

Li Jiancheng said lightly: "I received a holy decree from my father in the morning, asking me to return to Beijing immediately to report on my work, I'm afraid I won't come back again this time, so I packed up the books and took them away." ”

"If His Royal Highness returns to Chang'an, who will guard Taiyuan?" Wei Zheng asked anxiously.

"I have appointed General Wang Junkuo as the chief general of Taiyuan County, and General Wang Bodang as the chief general of Lishi County, and their 'two kings' will guard it, and the Taiyuan line should be foolproof."

Li Jiancheng glanced at Wei Zheng and asked, "How is the negotiation?" ”

Wei Zheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, then explained in detail about his envoy to the Sui army camp, and finally said: "Zhang Xuan refused to see me, the reason is self-evident, but he also knows the purpose of my visit, so he implicitly reminded us that this negotiation should be carried out by the imperial courts on both sides." ”

Wei Zheng thought that Li Jiancheng would be furious, but he didn't think that Li Jiancheng was silent, and after a while, Li Jiancheng said: "If Zhang Xuan thinks that this is a matter of the imperial court, I have no opinion, please ask Mr. to write a detailed report on this matter, and I will hand it over to my father at that time!" ”

"And what about the division of the spoils of war?" Wei Zheng asked again.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand a little impatiently, "Leave it to the imperial court to deal with." ”

Wei Zheng didn't expect Li Jiancheng to give up so easily, but he resolutely refused to listen to his own persuasion before, something must have happened here, Wei Zheng asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, what happened?" ”

Li Jiancheng snorted coldly and said: "Li Zhongwen secretly wrote to his father, impeaching me for trespassing, listing a bunch of so-called 'facts', my father's edict is very tough, and it is estimated that it was also affected by his letter, at this time, I will no longer let some people catch me." ”

Wei Zheng was very shocked, Li Zhongwen dared to impeach the crown prince, it was unheard of, was he not afraid of retaliation after the crown prince ascended the throne?

After a moment of thought, Wei Zheng suddenly realized that Li Zhongwen was probably deliberately arranged by the saint to monitor the prince in Taiyuan, Wei Zheng's back was chilled, and he also realized that the problem was a bit serious, this was no longer as simple as the saint's dissatisfaction with the prince, but it was about to ferment to the point of the struggle for imperial power. (To be continued.) )