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The Liao envoy entered the city.

Regarding the content of the secret report from Han Deshu, it is still in the stage of extreme secrecy for the time being, but as for why the Liao envoy entered the city, Zhang Mai has already allowed the news to be transmitted.

"Have you heard, have you heard, the Khitans have come to sue for peace."

"Really?"

"Of course, the messengers are outside the city! I heard that he is still a general who is very close to the emperor of the Khitan. What is it called, Jerod House! ”

"The house? Return the house too. ”

"That's it, and I heard that this time the Khitan came to sue for peace, and they still brought a big gift!"

"A great gift, what a great gift, gold or silver? Pearl or coral? ”

"Look at your vision, it's like calling Hanako. We fought such a big war last year, and so many people died, forcing the Khitan to sue for peace, so we exchanged it for a little gold, silver and pearls? No ambition! ”

"What else can the Khitan give us?"

"Give what? The most precious thing! Land! ”

"Ah, the land? How many acres? ”

"What how many acres! It's the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures! ”

"Ahh

Where are the sixteen states of Yanyun, many small people in the market are almost unclear, but everyone knows that it is a large piece of land, which was ceded to the Khitan by Shi Jingjiao before - this is also the most direct fuse of Zhang Maidong's war against the Khitan, and it is also one of the reasons for the war of Tiance Datang against Liao.

Hearing that the Khitan came to sue for peace, the people of western Qin were happy and proud, but also many people were complacent because the Liao envoy came to sue for peace.

"If you can take Yan Yun back without fighting, how can you say in the art of war? Yes, a soldier who surrenders without a fight! A good thing, a good thing. ”

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The remarks of the people of Qinzhou reached Zhang Mai's ears through various channels, and at the same time, Cao Yuanzhong also received the task of entertaining the Liao envoys.

Since the Tiance regime entered Liangzhou, he has repeatedly become a diplomat of the Tiance Datang, so it is not surprising that Cao Yuanzhong received this appointment.

If Lu Jialing is more engaged in tasks in the dark in the foreign affairs of the Tiance regime, then Cao Yuanzhong is striving for diplomatic points for the Tiance regime in the open, and from the results of the past several tasks, he is obviously very competent. Especially for the weaker Meng Shu and other countries, Cao Yuanzhong's ability to pretend to be forced came in handy.

However, Cao Yuanzhong himself was not very satisfied with this. He always felt that he always seemed to be unable to get the trust of Zheng Wei and Lu Jialing. If it is said that because Zheng, Lu and others are old people in Anxi, it is the reason why they are more trusted from first to first, then what about Guo Wei? What about the quality? Cao Yuanzhong felt that these latecomers from the Central Plains seemed to have a tendency to override themselves in the discourse power of the Tiance high-level meeting. Or rather, he felt that Zhang Mai trusted Guo Wei and Fan Zhen more.

Zhang Mai's trust is a sign of power within the Tiance regime! Regardless of whether the government led by Zheng Wei or the correction platform led by Yang Dingguo, if Zhang Mai ordered it to be dissolved, no one would doubt that this order would not be carried out. Maybe Zhang Mai himself is not yet conscious, but he now has the supreme power to speak his mind on the ground in the entire northwest. Those gentry who participated in the evaluation platform never thought about and did not dare to want to share the power of the Heavenly Khan, they were more interested in how to use this platform to get close to the marshal in order to gain favor.

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Yelu Wu looked at Cao Yuanzhong in front of him, this important minister of heavenly policy, he had heard of it.

This person is from Shazhou, and with the migration of Shazhou's population, he has a lot of influence within the Tiance regime. Of course, not all Shazhou people will listen to his command, and with Zhang Mai's social reform and the establishment of a new political system, the national consciousness (or Tang consciousness) of many people in Hexi has far outweighed the local consciousness. However, there are still some people who stick to the concept of the countryside and reunite with the countryside as a link.

One of the representatives of the group was Zhang Yi, a faction that had been suppressed during the era of the Guiyi Army; The representative of the other faction is Cao Yuanzhong at present.

In the course of the Anxi Tang Army's eastward crusade, the Cao family actually lost the supreme power to dominate the life of the Shagua government, but with the expansion of the power of the Tiance Tang Dynasty, their overall rights and interests were expanding. Therefore, the Cao family loves, hates and fears Zhang Mai, hates because Zhang Mai actually seized their dominance, love because they have other benefits in the process, and fear is that as Zhang Mai's position becomes more and more consolidated, even the die-hard faction within the Cao family no longer dares to have the idea of betrayal. They are not fools, and naturally know how to gain Zhang Mai's trust and obtain the greatest benefit of their own family in the expansion of the new empire in the current situation.

According to the information in Yelu Wuzhen's hands, he vaguely sensed that Cao Yuanzhong's interests were not very consistent with the interests of the Tiance regime, of course, it had not gone so deep into such detail.

But in conversation, the two got along very happily. Yelu Wuzhi is a Hu person and loves Han culture, Cao Yuanzhong is a Han person and has been in Hu for a long time, and there are many intersections between the two sides, so the communication is very smooth.

Under the leadership of Cao Yuanzhong, Yelu Wuzhi visited the reconstruction of Qinzhou, and even attended the latest national meeting of Qinzhou Correction and Evaluation Stage.

On the evaluation platform, an old farmer was chattering about the recent events in his village, he seemed to want to complain, but the words did not reach the meaning, and in the public, he was frightened, in the face of so many big officials, he was a little scared, originally a stomach of bitter water to sue, but when it was really his turn to say, he couldn't say it.

At this time, a critic of the imperial history came forward, slowly encouraged, guided, and encouraged him -- this is the current stage of the National Conference of the Correction and Appraisal Taiwan, which is not very mature, and is still in the initial stage. The people of Qinzhou actually don't know much about the correction platform, or they are very misunderstood.

However, things are finally on track, and because of the experience of Hexi, Yang Dingguo still knows how to deal with the current situation, and he is not anxious because the situation in the National Assembly has not reached the ideal situation for a while.

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In the process of Qinzhou's reconstruction, Yelu Wuzhi saw many new tools, from the Hexi side, many duplex pulleys were transported, so that an ordinary laborer could carry things that could be moved by a few people or even dozens of people in the past, some windmills and waterwheels seemed to be being built, and in the farmland, the new earth-turning tools made the efficiency of the work several times improved, coupled with the extensive use of animal power, it also made Qinzhou's vitality recover quickly. Yelu wanted to see the various devices nearby, but Cao Yuanzhong skillfully "accompanied" him, so that he was always in a state of light drooling that could be viewed from a distance but not up close.

Even though it is still in the shadow of less than half a year after the war, the reconstruction of Qinzhou has been done vigorously.

These things, if it weren't for Cao Yuanzhong's leadership, Yelu Wuzhi would not have been able to see them. It's just that Yelu Wuzhi doesn't understand why Zhang Mai wants to let himself see this.

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After visiting the National Conference of the Correction and Appraisal Terrace and visiting several construction sites that were being rebuilt, Cao Yuanzhong took him to the West Market in Qinzhou, which was the largest distribution center for goods in Qinzhou, and asked the people of Yelu and the Liao Mission to buy the goods they liked at will.

Qinzhou itself is located in the east and west, not to mention that now Zhang Mai is here, the garrison of the army, the entourage of many officials, its periphery will naturally have several times the entourage of officials, as well as some of the military families who are allowed to come to visit relatives, in the near future for a short time to make Qinzhou extremely lively, here has also temporarily become no less than Lanzhou's important commercial base, goods from the Far West and silk porcelain from the Central Plains, can be bought here.

The people of the Liao envoy have already regretted spending the gold and silver they carried in Weizhou, and they knew that they would be able to go out after arriving in Qinzhou, so they should keep the gold and silver, there are better things here.

Seeing this, Cao Yuanzhong smiled and said: "If General Yelu intends to purchase and there is a shortage of money, the marshal said, we can pay in advance, make an IOU, and send someone to send it back." ”

At this time, the two of them were in a restaurant in Xishi, drinking grape wine from Dawan, eating roast mutton, the restaurant was just a very simple two-story building, and the decoration was placed in Luoyang, which could not be used to entertain people, but it was very rare to have a two-story building in Qinzhou.

But that wine is a very authentic Dawan product, very valuable, and the barbecue is completely Mobei flavor, not that the veterans of Mobei can't roast this taste, the more delicious the barbecue, the worse the mood of Yelu Wu - obviously this is one of the tables that Tiance got Mobei, not only got the land of Mobei, the cattle and sheep of Mobei, but also got the people of Mobei! This is the same as Xiang Yu's mood when he heard Chu Ge in the siege.

However, as an excellent diplomat, this qiē Yelu quality did not come out, he smiled, waved his hand to let the servants go away, and then said: "General Cao, Marshal Zhang met this time, let me go out, and let me visit the meeting of the Correction Desk, act freely, just like I am in China, since I have been in the Central Plains, there has never been such a thing, why is Marshal Zhang treated like this, I don't know if General Cao can tell me?" ”

He asked directly, but even Cao Yuanzhong himself didn't know this question, how to answer? However, Cao Yuanzhong was naturally not stupid enough to say it directly to Yeluwu, and said with a smile: "I have always been like this in the Tang Dynasty. What General Yelu said has never been like this, it was since the rise of the Khitan, and it was all after the death of the former Tang Dynasty, so I don't know the rules of my previous Tang Dynasty. ”

"Is that so?" Yeluya smiled and said, "Thank you for seeing me." ”

At this moment, a fast horse galloped closer, and whispered a few words next to Cao Yuanzhong's ear, Cao Yuanzhong listened, his eyelids drooped, followed by a sudden change of color, and sneered at Yelu's house: "General Yelu, you Khitan are so honest, you actually sell two goods, what do you think of my Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures!" What do you think of my Datang! What do you think of our Marshal Longxiang! ”

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It turned out that Shi Jingjiao was above the court and announced the news that the Liao State was about to return to the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the government and the opposition were shaken, and the whole country was in an uproar.

The reason why Shi Jingjiao was scolded as a traitor and couldn't fight back at the beginning, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures was his biggest stain, and at this time, he was able to get back Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures through various means (Shi Jingjiao's own claim), and this matter naturally had to be publicized in a big way!

After hearing this, the people of the Central Plains were excited and surprised, but most of them were still happy in their hearts, after all, everyone was happy when the land was recovered. Among them, some of them are more naïve and simple, and they really believe Shi Jingjiao's words, thinking that his previous cession of Yanyun was just a temporary compromise, anyway, he just let that land go around in the hands of the Khitan, and now there is no loss if he can get it back, on the contrary, he also let the Khitan labor force mobilize the people, which is taking advantage!

Many small citizens in the market are even complacent about this, thinking that the emperor is really powerful, and even the Khitans have calculated, and as if they have calculated the Khitans.

This news is like a bird with wings, it didn't take long for it to spread all over the world, and the gossip was especially fast, and another department under Lu Jialing also got the news through guò public channels and spread it to Qinzhou.

When the Liao envoy entered Qinzhou, many people had already heard that the Liao envoy entered the city with the intention of ceding Yanyun to seek peace, and many people were still very happy in their hearts, regardless of whether the matter could be done or not.

Suddenly, I heard that the Liao people not only sent people to Qinzhou, but also sent people to Luoyang, saying that they would hand over the sixteen states of Yanyun to Tiance, and that side suddenly said that they would hand over the sixteen states of Yanyun to Shi Jingjiao!

What is this! At this time "ciluo" naked fraud!

The people of Qinzhou exploded all of a sudden, and the correction and evaluation platform was originally talking about civil affairs, but at this time, they suddenly changed their words, and they were all indignant about the Khitan matter.

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On the side of the restaurant, Cao Yuanzhong was one of the people who knew the truth very early, which is why he has not been very enthusiastic since receiving the Yelu House - knowing that peace negotiations are difficult to achieve, why should he be enthusiastic? That's a waste of expressions.

But when he heard the news at this time, he pretended not to hear it, changed color suddenly, slapped the table, and said sharply: "You Khitan are so expensive to speak!" This side said that he wanted to cede the land and ask for peace, and that side told Shi Jingjiao that he wanted the sixteen states of Yanyun to cede to them! ”

He smiled coldly and said, "You Khitan, how many Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are there!" ”

Yeluwu saw Cao Yuanzhong's anger, but he was not nervous, he didn't know why, he faintly felt that Cao Yuanzhong's anger seemed to be fake anger, although the performance was in place, but the subtle details still made Yeluwu instinctively feel that the other party was acting!

"What does General Cao mean by this?"

Cao Yuanzhong sneered: "There has been news from Luoyang, saying that your Khitan wants to 'return' the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to Shi Jin!" Shi Jingjiao has already announced to the world, I don't know if Shi Jingjiao is making himself amorous, or if you Khitan are making wind and rain! ”

Han Deshu was sent to Luoyang by him, and the time was earlier than him, the road from Yunzhou to Luoyang was easier than the road from Yunzhou to Qinzhou, and there was no springboard like Xue Fu in the middle, and the news from Luoyang would come out first, which Yelu had long expected.

But he wasn't in a hurry, he just smiled lightly and said, "General Cao, my intention to come south this time, General Xue Fu is only afraid that before I arrive in Qinzhou, he will notify this side in advance, right?" So for my Da Liao to sell the sixteen states of Yanyun to make peace with your country, I'm afraid it has already been decided, right? After I entered the city, I was accompanied by General Cao, but I looked at General Cao's expression, and I didn't seem to be interested in my Daliao's willingness to sell the sixteen states of Yanyun. ”

He asked three questions in a row, like a series of cannons, which made Cao Yuanzhong speechless for a while.

Yeluwu asked: "Since your country has a plan, then I will return to my home after presenting the emperor's letter tomorrow, whether the news from Luoyang is true or false, General Cao doesn't have to be angry with me anymore." ”

If he continued to attract Cao Yuanzhong with a seductive tone, Cao Yuanzhong was afraid that he would ignore him, and at this time, he would retreat into advance, but Cao Yuanzhong groaned and said, "You traveled thousands of miles just to submit your credentials?" ”

Yelu Wuzhi smiled bitterly: "Of course not, but now that the matter has not been discussed, your country has already made a decision, what else can I do?" I can only thank General Cao for his company today. ”

Cao Yuanzhong said: "General Yelu just goes back like this, won't the lord of your country be held responsible?" ”

Yeluwu said: "Most of the blame will be reduced, but I can't grovel in Qinzhou for this." Although the current situation in Daliao is at a disadvantage, the country of ten thousand times has the dignity of the country of ten thousand times! And the military is dangerous, and before the last moment, it is difficult to say whether the victory or defeat will be said. Maybe this peace talk didn't work out, but it was a good thing for me Daliao. ”

"A good thing?"

Yeluwu said with a smile: "If my Da Liao can resist the attack of General Yingyang of your country, and the sixteen states of Yanyun are still in the hands of our country, then your country's military horses will be divided into two halves in the north and south by our country. At that time, although your country has the advantage of being flanked by the north and the south, our country will also have the advantage of having a whole army in one place and calmly defending against the enemy. Our defense line from Linhuangfu to Yanyun is connected, but the layout of your Eilechuan and Mobei is divided and cut, and the news is difficult to communicate, even if your army is stronger than our country, once it falls into a protracted war, it will be difficult to say whether the victory or defeat will be said. Besides, if Mobei has been hanging alone for a long time, and the generals are supporting the troops, won't Marshal Zhang of your country be afraid of changes? ”

Although Cao Yuanzhong has occasionally led troops in recent years, he himself is also a general, so he naturally knows that what Yelu Wu said is true, but he didn't show anything for a while. But when Yelu Wuzhi said "The general is outside the army and is not afraid of changes", Cao Yuanzhong still couldn't help but change color slightly.

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The friendship between Zhang Mai and Yang Yi is well known throughout the country, but in this chaotic era of warlord separation, what kind of friendship is made of gold? Can it withstand the corruption of the supreme power?

Mobei is a vast territory! Those who occupy Mobei will retreat to the Khan and threaten the Central Plains, not to mention that in order to defeat the Khitan this time, in fact, the main force of the Tiance Tang Army is no longer in Lianglan, but in Mobei! Giving the main force of the army to outsiders is a taboo in imperial power! Especially after the Anshi Rebellion, which warlord didn't want to be emperor as soon as he had military power? Now this has become the habitual thinking of almost everyone in the world.

Do you want to be an emperor with troops? Unless it's a fool!

Think about it back then, when Wang Jian wanted to destroy the Chu State, after Qin Shi Huang handed over 600,000 troops to Wang Qian, the most urgent thing for Wang Jian was not how to plan to destroy Chu, but to buy land and buy land, why buy land and buy land? It is to defile himself, to make Qin Shi Huang feel that he Wang Jian is working for the benefit of his descendants! Why did Wang Jian do this? Because he wanted to make Qin Shi Huang feel that he would not rebel.

No matter what Qin Shi Huang himself thought, just from Wang Qian's actions, it can be completely inferred how jealous Xianyang was of handing over 600,000 troops to Wang Jian at that time!

When the Ying Yang Army appeared in Mobei, Cao Yuanshen, the think tank of the Cao family, sighed deeply, taking Wang Jian as an example to illustrate, and felt that Zhang Mai's action was very risky, and the most risky thing was not the external enemy, but the internal change! In Cao Yuanshen's view, Yang Yi's jealousy is even higher than Wang Jian back then!

Cao Yuanzhong remembered Cao Yuanshen's analysis: "First, Wang Jian is old, and General Yang is in the prime of life, so the ambition of young people will naturally be greater than that of older people, which is one of the big taboos; Second, within the Anxi Tang Army, Marshal Zhang is an outsider, and General Yang is the descendant of the four towns of Anxi. The third is the logistics of Mobei. ”

The logistical situation after Yang Yi entered Mobei was completely different from the logistical situation when Wang Jian invaded Chu!

Wang Jian invaded Chu, and the logistics all relied on the supply of Qin in the rear, there was really a change, Qin Shi Huang could cut off Wang Qian's lifeline at any time, but what about Yang Yi? After he entered Mobei, especially after the victory in Mobei, his dependence on logistics from the rear had actually been reduced to an extremely low state. In other words, the current Yang Yi is fully equipped with the conditions for reading.

As for Yang Yi's father, Yang Dingguo, his wife and children, who were still on Lianglan's side, Cao Yuanshen and the others didn't think about it at all. For the sake of supreme power, what are the old fathers, wives and children! can really be an emperor, as Liu Bang said to Xiang Yu, "If you want to cook my father, please share my piece of the pie!" "As for wives and children, men in their thirties, one is an emperor, why have no wife and no children!

However, Cao Yuanzhong did not dare to say these opinions of Cao Yuanshen -- no one dared to say them! In the current situation, whoever dares to mention to Zhang Mai a word of distrust of Yang Yi will be attacked by Zhang Mai immediately - he will not wait until the next day!

But just because no one dares to say it doesn't mean that no one doesn't think so!

Although, the friendship between Zhang Mai and Yang Yi, as well as the current shape of the Tiance Tang Army, should be able to prevent this situation, but can this situation really last? It's that Yang Yi really doesn't mean to rebel, but here in Hexi, there are still a lot of people who are afraid that he will have such a meaning! Cao Yuanshen is not the first person or the only one, he is just a representative of this type of opinion!

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The change in Cao Yuanzhong's expression was only for a moment, but it had been captured by Yelu Wuqian.

This is not necessarily Cao Yuanzhong's fault, it is really Yeluwu's sword that is too sharp, and it stabs straight to the point without making a sound, so that Cao Yuanzhong is unable to deal with it for a while, and it is commendable that he can maintain his current composure.

But it's just this momentary change that has already made Yelu Wu know that he has caught the most vulnerable tail of the Tiance Tang Army!

"Han Zangming is really powerful!"

Being thousands of miles away, just based on the speculation of the situation, you can feel the deeply hidden internal troubles inside the Tiance Tang Army, which is something that Yelu Wu cannot do, only Han Yanhui, who knows the Han culture to the bone marrow, can have such a deep understanding!

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Almost when Yelu Wuzhen was playing with Cao Yuanzhong Restaurant, Zhang Mai was also deducing the sand table in the Qinzhou camp, and Fan Zhen was watching from the side.

Very subtle, what Fan Zhen is passing through in his mind at this moment is also about Yang Yi.

Yes, what Han Yanhui can surmise in the Khitan, being in the core of the Tiance Tang Army, although Fan is younger and immature than Han Yanhui, and not old enough, he is also more sensitive because he is in the core. Yang Yi has been out for a year, and his power is too great, and he needs to be checked and balanced, but it is not yet time to speak, Fan Zhen only hopes that this time Tian You Datang will not let the relatives and enemies be happy in a safe situation.

Zhang Mai deduced the sand table, and suddenly said: "Judging from the news that Ah Yi came back at the end of last year, Yelu Chacha has retreated into the northeast. In the case of the loss of Mobei and Yanyun's instability, the Northeast will become the biggest support of the Khitan. However, in the eastern Liaodong region, the Khitan people have a big internal trouble. ”

While others were thinking about the "internal troubles" of the Tiance Tang Army, Zhang Mai was thinking about the "internal troubles" of the enemy!

Fan Zhen is more sensitive to politics, but he is not very good at military affairs, but although what Zhang Mai said at this time is the affairs of the enemy country, he is keenly aware that it is a political problem - and it is the political problem of the enemy country!

"Danton! The Emperor of Man! Jerube! ”

Three concise words, all at once, pointed out what Zhang Mai wanted to say, which made Zhang Mai happy for a while, it is convenient to talk to smart people, which is also one of the reasons why he trusts Fan Zhen Guo Wei more and more.

That's right, even within the Khitan, there are divisions. The northeast has never been Yelu Deguang's inherent territory, Shu Luping's traditional sphere of influence is in Mobei, and now it has been destroyed, Yelu Deguang, who inherited Shu Luping's will and ascended to the throne, has no influence in the northeast region as much as his brother Yelu Bei, that is, Zanhua who is now held up to the throne of the Living Buddha by Zhang Mai!

"Wei Renpu is right, the country of ten thousand times to the country of ten thousand times, there will be many times repeated, the battle of the national war, often not the front line, but the rear! It's not the enemy who fights, it's yourself! ”

Rear?

Fan Zhen remembered Yang Yi again.

Zhang Mai said: "There is a very earthy but very reasonable saying, I don't know if you have heard it: if you are not afraid of god-like enemies, you are afraid of pig-like teammates!" Sometimes, we don't need to be strong, as long as the opponent is worse than us; Sometimes, we don't need to be smart, we just need our opponents to be smarter than us. Of course, in order to deal with the mentally handicapped enemy, we must first ensure that we ourselves are not mentally retarded, and in order to lead the enemy to split, we must first unite ourselves! The most difficult thing in fighting a war is not to deal with the strength of the enemy, but to make mutual trust within the country! As long as the inside is ironclad, no one can bring us down! This is the most difficult, but if we do it, we can be invincible! ”

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Brothers are amazing!

actually pushed the monthly ticket of "Tang Cavalry" to the top six in the historical classification! I never dreamed of it!

This really makes me feel embarrassed!

Well, it happened to be a holiday, so I added more.

That one...... Anyway, the monthly pass is begging, so let's keep asking. Don't ask how the end of the month is, let's have a good time on the monthly pass list at the beginning of the month.

Is there an update tomorrow?

Because it's a holiday, there are quite a lot of things at home, but I'll try my best!

Thank you, brothers!

Thank you!

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