At this time, Pei Lin said: "Or we can recruit people in Taiyuan City and reorganize these people into an army, what does Your Majesty think?" ”

"No!"

Liu Wenjing immediately objected: "It is not reliable to use people to defend the city, it is better not to use it!" ”

Pei Lin has been relatively silent in the past two years, and he rarely raises the bar with Liu Wenjing again, but a sentence like Liu Wenjing pushed him back, cold and hard, like a slap in the face, which really made Pei Lian's face unbearable, he sneered: "I know that Liu Xiangguo has been the Jinyang Commander, and he does know Taiyuan better than others, but when did that happen?" The water is moving, the boat is also moving, Liu Xiangguo is going to do the thing of carving a boat and seeking a sword, isn't it ridiculous? ”

Liu Wenjing also said coldly: "Pei Xiangguo is nothing more than using Liu Wuzhou's siege of the city to prove that he is right.......

"Not bad!"

Without waiting for Liu Wenjing to finish speaking, Pei Lin interrupted him, "At the beginning, Liu Wuzhou's 150,000 army attacked Taiyuan, and the defenders of Taiyuan City were only 20,000, I mobilized 100,000 Taiyuan people, men, women and children all went to the city, hated the same enemy, defeated Liu Wuzhou's army again and again, fought fiercely for a month, Liu Wuzhou suffered heavy losses, and finally had to withdraw to Mayi County, Taiyuan City is still standing majestically, this is a fact that has happened, Liu Xiangguo actually said that the people are unusable, isn't it open his eyes and speak in vain?" ”

Liu Wenjing retorted without showing weakness: "That's because the army besieging the city is Liu Wuzhou's bandits, and after breaking the city, they will slaughter and loot, kill people and set fires, *** female, but now it is Zhang Xuan's army, Zhang Xuan led the army to annihilate the Turkic army, what is the prestige in Taiyuan City, have you investigated?" Do you think Minfu will fight to the death for us against Jang Hyun's army? Pei Xiangguo, you take it for granted! ”

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Li Yuan interrupted the argument between the two impatiently, "I have already decided, the people will be used, but the army must also be reinforced, and it will not take 80,000 troops to encircle and suppress Song Jingang, 60,000 troops will be enough, and 20,000 troops will be drawn to support Taiyuan." ”

Li Yuan glanced at Pei Lian again, and said slowly: "Pei Xiangguo, the people of Taiyuan, have experience in mobilizing Taiyuan, so this time I will ask Pei Xiangguo to lead 20,000 troops to support the defense of Taiyuan and assist the Xinxing King to defend Taiyuan City." ”

"Wechen obeys!" Since the Son of Heaven had already spoken, Pei Lin had no choice but to agree.

At this time, Chen Shuda asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, what about Wei Yunqi?" Do we still need to talk to him? ”

Li Yuan snorted coldly, "Continue to talk to him, and in the end, if you can't get along, just let him go, didn't he propose another plan?" Let's exchange Lishi County for Diaoyin County to see if he agrees. ”

Chen Shuda was about to mention the matter of the Guanlong nobles visiting Wei Yunqi again, but he suddenly realized that Dou Jin and Dou Lukuan were both present, and this topic was too sensitive, so he immediately restrained himself.

But Li Yuan saw that Chen Shuda wanted to speak and stopped, so he asked strangely, "What else does Chen Xiangguo want to say?" ”

Chen Shuda had to say vaguely: "Wei Chen wants to talk to Your Majesty about the details of the negotiation with Wei Yunqi. ”

Li Yuan immediately understood what Chen Shuda meant, so he smiled and said, "Okay, that's all for today, let's go back first!" ”

The Xiangguo retreated, and only Li Yuan and Chen Shuda were left in the imperial study, and Li Yuan said coldly: "Say it!" What's going on? ”

Chen Shuda told him in detail about the incident he met last night when the six Guanlong nobles collectively went to visit Wei Yunqi, and sure enough, Li Yuan's face immediately turned cold, and he said coldly for a while: "The six families went to visit collectively, thinking that the law does not blame the public, and I have no way to take them?" ”

"Wechen felt that they were not doing this to betray His Majesty, but just.... Just ......"

"Just what?" Li Yuan stared at Chen Shuda coldly.

Chen Shuda was already sweating on his forehead, lowered his head and said, "I'm just expressing my dissatisfaction with Your Majesty." ”

"Dissatisfied? Hum! ”

Li Yuan snorted angrily, "Aren't I good enough for them?" The places of the two Xiangguo were given to them, Dou Lukuan obviously lacked Xiangguo's qualifications, and I was also promoted exceptionally, what are they dissatisfied with! ”

"Maybe it's because ..... Yu Yun's case. Chen Shuda said in a low voice.

Li Yuan's eyes slowly narrowed, and he didn't say a word for a long time, the atmosphere in the imperial study was very depressing, Chen Shuda was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, and his back was also soaked.

After a while, Li Yuan said coldly: "I know that they are warning me, if they don't apologize to them and severely punish the King of Chu, they will turn to support Zhang Xuan, thinking that I don't understand their minds?" ”

"Your Majesty, proper pacification will help to calm the conflict."

Li Yuan shook his head, "This Xiangguo is wrong, I was also a member of the Guanlong aristocracy, I know very well what they think, Yu Yun's case is just their excuse, the key is that they saw Zhang Xuan win several battles, and we lost Luoyang and Jingzhou, they were scared, and wanted to leave a way back for themselves, so they desperately went to Zhang Xuan, in the final analysis, they were still for their own interests." ”

Chen Shuda still mustered up the courage to persuade: "Your Majesty, it is their instinct for the family to pursue interests, throughout the ages, there is no exception, Wechen has always advised Your Majesty, Enwei and Shi Fang is the long-term way, Your Majesty has used the Yu Yun case to hit the Guanlong nobles, so appropriate appeasement can stabilize their emotions, and now they are just expressing dissatisfaction, but if they are forced too much, Wechen is worried that they will substantially support Zhang Xuan, Your Majesty, it is not okay to blindly use a big stick!" ”

"Then Chen Xiangguo said, how should I appease them?"

"Your Majesty, there are many ways, such as expanding the five phases to the seven phases, so that the Dugu family can also obtain the phase, then they will stabilize."

Chen Shuda has good intentions, he knows where the root of the Dugu family's dissatisfaction is, the root cause is the last phase dispute, Dugu Shun lost to Dou Wei, and Dou Wei recommended Dou Lukuan to serve as the prime minister, Dugu Shun was angry about this, and did not hesitate to give a large amount of high slave fire oil to the Northern Sui army at that time, and also caused Dugu Shun to be killed.

If the Dugu family is given a phase, the Dugu family will be appeased, without the leadership of the Dugu family, the rest of the small families will not be able to make trouble, Chen Shuda sees the problem very accurately, and hits the key point with one sentence.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "But I can't think of anyone in the Dugu family who can be the prime minister, originally Dugu Huaien was okay, but he had already died in Luoyang." ”

"Your Majesty can also ask Dugu to recommend the minister as the minister, and the effect is the same."

"Alright! This matter makes me think about it again, the expansion of the phase is a big deal, and it needs to be done when the time is ripe, and we are not in a hurry at this time, when the people of the world have exterminated Song Jingang, and under the encouragement of victory, the expansion of the phase will be logical. ”

"Then Your Majesty at least give them a little sweetness first, such as being promoted to Taishou, etc., first stabilize them, let them understand that Your Majesty is not hostile to them."

"This is okay, so who does Chen Xiangguo think is better to promote?"

Chen Shuda was waiting for this opportunity, and he hurriedly said: "Yu Yun's second son, Yu Weiliang, is currently the commander of Guzang County, and it has been five years, Your Majesty can promote him to the Taishou of Wuwei County, and Weichen believes that this is the best gesture of reconciliation." ”

Li Yuan's original intention was not to overturn the case for the Yu family, but he couldn't withstand Chen Shuda's repeated persuasion, so he finally gave in, "Okay! Only this time, but Chen Xiangguo must understand that this is a difficult thing for me. ”

"Your Majesty is a merciful one!"

..........

Wei Yunqi's intention to envoy Chang'an was actually not complicated, first of all, to visit Chang'an on behalf of the Great Zhou Empire, to overwhelm the Chang'an Imperial Court in terms of momentum, so that the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty personally felt that it was the general trend for the Great Zhou Empire to unify the world.

The second is to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty to exchange the three counties for Taiyuan City, which has been seen through by Liu Wenjing, not only did not agree to the exchange, but decided to increase troops to Taiyuan, from this point of view, Wei Yunqi's envoy was not successful.

The third purpose is to strengthen trade between the two sides, which is also the simplest and easiest to reach a consensus on the topic, on the second day, Chen Shuda on behalf of the Tang Dynasty and Wei Yunqi reached an agreement, open up the caravan exchanges between the two sides, the two sides of the imperial court exempt the caravan from taxes, promote material exchanges, the Tang army will allow the Yangtze River fleet to enter Bashu, both sides agreed, even if the two sides break out war, it will not affect the trade between the two sides.

As a sign of sincerity, the Zhou dynasty agreed that all supplies except pig iron and weapons would be allowed to flow into the Tang Dynasty, including grain and salt, which had previously been strictly forbidden to be exported to the Tang Dynasty.

After a trade agreement was reached, Zhang Xuan ordered the cessation of all military provocations against the Tang Dynasty, the army moved to the stage of rest and training, and the Great Zhou Empire began preparations for war for half a year.

At the same time, the two sides also reached an agreement to send envoys to each side, the Zhou Dynasty sent Wen Yanbo, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to be stationed in Chang'an, as a principle of reciprocity, and the Tang Dynasty also sent Feng Deyi, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to be stationed in Zhongdu for a long time, so as to facilitate timely communication between the two sides.

(To be continued.) )