In the side hall of the Wude Palace, a negotiation agreement that had just been reached was being passed in the hands of the ministers, and everyone hurriedly read it, and finally, Chen Shuda presented this agreement to Li Yuan, the Son of Heaven. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There are four points in the agreement, the main contents of which are as follows:

1. The Sui army's naval division will withdraw from Nanjun after the agreement between the two sides is reached, and the Northern Sui army will remain neutral for the future war between Tang and Liang.

2. Once the Western Liang is destroyed, the Tang army will occupy the six counties of Qingjiang, Nanjun, Liling, Wuling, Baling and Jiaozhi, and the rest of the land will not be set foot in by the Tang army.

3. The two armies will join hands to resist the Turkic invasion, and before that, it will be necessary to evacuate the people of the north-central part of the annexed state, and the evacuation will be decided by the people.

4. The two sides shall not infringe upon the existing territory of control of the other side for one year after the agreement is reached.

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Li Yuan read the agreement and said to everyone: "Let's talk about it!" There are still shortcomings and inadequacies. ”

At this time, Liu Wenjing came out and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to say something." ”

"Liu Xiangguo, please speak."

"Weichen looks at the second article, except for the six counties such as Nanjun, the Tang army of the rest of the counties will no longer be involved, this Weichen understands, that is, to give up the other counties to the Northern Sui, so that the Northern Sui will inevitably send troops to Changsha and other counties, which is a bit contradictory to the first article, the Northern Sui did not actually remain neutral."

Chen Shuda said: "Maintaining neutrality is just a rhetoric, in fact, it is asking the Northern Sui army not to help Xiao Miao. ”

Li Yuan also smiled and said: "Chen Xiangguo is right, as long as the Northern Sui does not send troops, it is not a big problem to defeat Xiao Miao, if he must send troops, then he can only enter the boundary negotiated by the two sides, there are many barbarians in the southern counties, and the strength of our Datang is not enough to control it, let the Northern Sui worry about it!" ”

"Wechen understood."

Liu Wenjing retreated, and Li Yuan asked the crown prince Li Jiancheng again: "What about the opinion of the completion?" ”

"Erchen has no opinion."

"What about the people?" Li Yuan looked at Li Shimin, who had been silent.

Li Shimin stepped forward and bowed down and said, "Father Qiqi, the sons are a little puzzled, why didn't Luoyang be mentioned?" ”

Li Yuan said lightly: "We also have to fight against the Turks, and there is also Xiao Milling in the south, it is impossible to send troops on the third line, so Luoyang will be put aside for the time being, and the Nanxiang Road that the emperor cares about will also be suspended." ”

It can be said that he knows his son Mo Ruo's father, Li Yuan knows his son too well, and he has always been obsessed with Nanxiang Dao, Li Shimin is helpless, and said: "Erchen still has an idea. ”

"The emperor said it was okay!"

"Father, brother, ministers, I think Zhang Xuan did not expect the Turks to invade, he had been making deployments before, as far as I know, he has gradually released the pig iron trade with the Tiele tribes since last autumn, it is obvious that he wants to use Tiele to balance the Turks, and at the same time, the Northern Sui army can also obtain a large number of war horses and meat, I have to admit that this is a very clever strategy, since there is a layout, then Zhang Xuan decided to send troops and the three northern counties, it is not that he did not expect the Turks to invade, I always felt that he was using this Turkic invasion to make a new strategic deployment. ”

Li Shimin's words caused all the whispers in the court, and Li Yuan also became interested, and asked: "What does the emperor think Zhang Xuan's true intentions are?" ”

"Erchen can't see it now, when the Turkic war subsides, we will understand Zhang Xuan's next move."

Li Jiancheng said: "In any case, within a year, the Northern Sui army will not attack the land under our control, including Bingzhou, I think we can use this opportunity to strengthen the strategic defense of Taiyuan and other places, not only to fight against the Turks, but also to resist the invasion of the Northern Sui army in the future." ”

This suggestion made Li Yuan very satisfied, he nodded and said: "This time, I will hand over the defense construction of the state to Jiancheng and Pei Xiangguo, regardless of the needs of people, property and property, the imperial court must give full support." ”

Li Jiancheng and Pei Lin bowed together and said, "Obey!" ”

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After the court discussion of Wude Palace, Li Yuan finally approved the compromise reached by the two sides, although he was angry about not recovering Shangdang and Changping County, but Li Yuan also had to face the reality, the invasion of the Turkic army was not only a matter of the Northern Sui, but also a crisis of the Tang Dynasty, in this case he could not ask for too high a price, not to mention that the Northern Sui's loosening of the southern county made him see the hope of success in the southern eastward crusade.

Just three days after the Tang Dynasty ratified the agreement, in the Zhongdu Ziwei Pavilion Council, the seven Xiangguo and Zhang Xuan also discussed the agreement at the end, and only when Li Yuan and Zhang Xuan signed the agreement could the armistice agreement be established.

The Xiangguo who was responsible for contacting the Northern Sui of Chang'an was Wei Yunqi, and he stood up and said to everyone: "The core of this agreement is to carve up Xiao Miao's territory, from the agreement, the Tang Dynasty got a few more important counties, and the counties we got Although there are not many Han people and complex nationalities, the territory is vast, and Lingnan and Guangnan can be connected as one, but more importantly, the Tang army came forward to attack Xiao Miao, which avoids us from being morally untenable. ”

At this time, Zhang Xuan said slowly: "Considering ceding Jingzhou to the Tang Dynasty is also a decision I made after repeated consideration, Jingzhou has a dense water network, and there are two big rivers of the Yangtze River and the Han River, it is impossible to control here without a strong naval army, and the naval army is precisely the weakness of the Tang army, and the strength of the Tang army is to fight in the north, so we need to gradually tilt the strategic focus of the Tang army to the south and weaken his power in the north, which will be of great benefit to us to completely defeat the Tang army in the future." ”

Everyone nodded slowly, and they all said that King Qi was far-sighted and knowledgeable.

At this time, Chen Ling got up and said: "This agreement is generally acceptable, but some details need to be discussed again, such as allowing the people of Bingzhou to choose a place of refuge, Wechen feels that since the people of Bingzhou have fled to Hebei, they will eventually return to their homes, which will increase our financial pressure, which is a bit more than worth the loss, and Wechen feels that it is not necessary." ”

Next to Su Wei smiled slightly: "Chen Xiangguo is really right, the Jin people miss their homeland, it has been like this since ancient times, if you want them to stay in Hebei after the war, it is almost impossible, the Tang Dynasty also knew this, so they pretended to be generous, and agreed to let the people choose to take refuge freely, but what we want is not to let the Jin people stay in Hebei, but to use this war to win the hearts of the people and lay a good foundation for us to seize the state in the future." ”

Zhang Xuan came out and said: "Speaking of people's hearts, I want to say a few more words, when the Central Plains was in drought, millions of refugees fled to Qingzhou with their families, consuming nearly half of our food, at that time many officials thought that the gains outweighed the losses, but we still persevered to the end, consumed food, harvested people's hearts, to this day, the counties of the Central Plains are very stable, every household lives and works in peace and contentment, in the past, bandits were rampant, bandits were rampant, and today there are almost none, this is the power of people's hearts, the people recognize the imperial court, even if someone wants to participate in the rebellion, will also be dissuaded by his family, the bandits have no soil for survival, today's Central Plains is unprecedentedly stable, the same is true of Xuzhou, and the same is true of Jianghuai, this is a very cost-effective deal, we should not be reluctant to give up a little grain, the greater the capital invested, the greater the harvest in the future. ”

Jaang Xuan's words won a round of applause from everyone.

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In the official room, Zhang Xuan signed his name on the agreement with a pen and stamped it, he handed the agreement to Wei Yunqi and said with a smile: "Has the Tang Army made any moves?" ”

"I heard that the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Xiangguo Pei Lin rushed to Taiyuan, and Taiyuan began to build a city, but there is no Nanjun yet, but the Tang army itself has gathered 30,000 troops in Yiling County, Jiangxia and Xiangyang each have 20,000 troops, as long as our naval army withdraws, it is very easy to attack Nanjun, it depends on Xiao Miao's will to resist, but I am not optimistic about him."

"Why?" Jaung Hyun asked puzzled.

"Xiao Milling is too jealous, his generals are all kings, but they don't trust them, since he killed the big Sima Dong Jingzhen at the beginning of the year, everyone in Xiliang is in danger, two months ago he summoned everyone to come to Jiangling to worship the sky, the result is only Song King Yang Daosheng came alone, no one else dared to come, as a result, Xiao Milling killed Yang Daosheng in anger, this person is too heavy to kill, sooner or later the congregation will betray and leave."

Zhang Xuan asked Fang Xuanling next to him: "Who is the general guarding Changsha, does the military advisor know?" ”

Fang Xuanling saluted and said: "Back to His Royal Highness, it's Lei Shimeng, the king of Qin!" ”

"Is his family here?"

"It seems that there is only one old mother, this person is filial piety, infinitely powerful, and nicknamed Xiao Zhuzhu."

Zhang Xuan nodded, and instructed Fang Xuanling: "Inquire about his mother's hobbies, and then send someone to send an expensive gift, without explaining anything, just say that it is my heart." ”

Fang Xuanling nodded and smiled: "Weichen understands. ”

(To be continued.) )