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The sky is getting colder and colder, but the situation in Qinzhou is becoming more and more stable. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

The victory in the Khitan War made all strata in Qinxi once again see the undefeated power of Tiance, and at the same time, the coming cold winter would also mean that all military activities would be suspended.

Zhang Mai's heart has settled a lot, now the situation in the Ganlong area is under his control, everything that should be done has been completed, as for Yang Yi's side, ......,

"Ah Yi, it's up to you........."

A young general walked in, it was Cao Yangong, the third generation of the Cao family.

The Shazhou system was once closely guarded by Zhang Mai, but that has become a thing of the past, as the territory becomes larger and larger, it is no longer possible to control the overall situation by relying on the people of Lingxi and Anxi alone, so Zhang Mai needs to introduce new groups to expand the ruling group, and now even the people of Qinxi have been introduced, not to mention the old department of the Guiyi Army.

Under this general trend, the two major factions of Shazhou have gradually merged from the original split, Zhang Yi and Cao Yuanshen used to be opposites, even now, they still have contradictions in Shazhou, but on the bigger stage of Lianglan, they have begun to consciously bridge the broken relationship with each other. If you think about the further future, considering that Tiance Datang will be in charge of the whole world, then the little interests of Cao and Zhang in Shazhou are simply not worth mentioning. In politics, Ben has no permanent enemies.

Zhang Mai's attitude towards the Cao family is also changing, before the westward expedition, from Zhang Mai to Zheng Wei were very worried that the Cao family, a relative with huge influence in Hexi, would take advantage of the opportunity to dictate power, so there was a decision to send the Cao family to envoy to the eastern countries, but now the shape has changed, while the Cao family has become mild, Zhang Mai has gradually deepened his trust in them and given some benefits.

For example, this time Cao Yangong received a very good errand.

"The marshal asked me to send an envoy to Meng Shu?" Cao Yan stood respectfully on the side. If it is said that when Zhang Mai just entered the sandbank, the Cao family still had the ambition to replace Zhang Mai, and the hatred of the Tiance Army to annex the Guiyi Army, then now this ambition is not even a shadow, just as the plate of the Tang Dynasty is too big today, so big that the Cao family can't control it at all, for the Cao family, the best choice is to use the relationship of indirect relatives to stick to the big tree.

Zhang Mai nodded, and Cao Yangong asked about the envoy strategy again, Zhang Mai said lightly: "You cross the river and let Meng Chang go back to Chengdu." The chess game on Ganlong's side is not something he can afford. ”

The young Cao Yangong could only hear the blood boiling in Xiōng, and he already knew his attitude from Zhang Mai's mouth.

Zhang Mai didn't say anything more, Fan Zhen added a few more words next to him, and clicked on some substantive xìng content.

After Cao Yangong received the order, another person came in~ It turned out to be Li Yiyin, the leader of the party people!

This northwest hero took off his armor and put on his fur, and after seeing Zhang Mai, he knelt on one knee and called out to the marshal, Zhang Mai smiled and said: "Why do you have to do this." ”

Li Yiyin looked at Zhang Mai and smiled heartily and happily, secretly saying in his heart that he had come to the right place. This time he came to Qinzhou, not Zhang Mai's call, Zhang Mai just ordered to settle the difficulty to come to someone to tell the situation of fighting against the Khitan, according to the convention, in fact, Li Yiyin only needs to send his younger brother or a Li elder is enough, but even Zhang Mai didn't expect Li Yiyin to come over by himself.

During this period of time, the relationship between the party and Tiance was a semi-alliance and a semi-subordinate relationship, although it was a subordination, but this subordination was not completely formalized.

"The soldiers of the Dingyan Army, you have done a good job during this time, very good!" Zhang Maizheng deliberately or unintentionally wanted to dilute the title of the party, and in the Longyou region, the official no longer advocated strict ethnic division in official documents, and the concept of Hu and Han was as vague as possible. Only in terms of culture and system, the civilized are regarded as China, and the barbarians are regarded as Yidi, and the bloodline is not discussed.

This kind of thinking has been reached by the top ruling class of Tiance and the leaders of all ethnic groups and religions, as well as the newly joined senior scholars of the Central Plains.

"Before the Great War, there was even instability within us." Zhang Mai said: "But the soldiers of the Dingyan Army can eliminate dissenting opinions, stick to the city, this loyalty, this credit, not only I will remember it, Datang will remember, Huaxia will remember, even the people of the world will remember." ”

"The marshal has won the prize. We were able to follow the marshal, which is the blessing of the three lives. Li Yiyin said: "God guides us to serve the Tang Dynasty, how dare we live up to the grace of heaven." ”

Zhang Mai smiled slightly, then invited Li Yiyin to take a seat, talked about some public affairs, sighed about Li Yichao's early death, and heard that he had children, so he built a nephew to send his son and nephew to Liangzhou for education, and Li Yiyin agreed without hesitation. Zhang Mai also heard that there was a shortage of medicine and that the number of injured people who could not receive timely treatment was not small, so he immediately ordered Fan Zhen to urgently transfer medicine from Hehuang and doctors from Liangzhou, and Li Yiyin thanked him again.

The two talked for more than an hour, and seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Mai left Li Yiyin to dine together, and Fan Qian accompanied him.

Li Yiyin tasted the soup and said, "This is not Shaanxi salt, nor is it Jin salt." ”

Zhang Mai smiled: "Your tongue is a spirit. I can't eat it. ”

Ma Xiaochun said beside him: "This is Hehuang salt." ，…

Li Yiyin said: "In the Guanzhong area, there were two ways to use salt in the past, one came from Hedong, called Jin salt, most of them were official salt, the road was far away, and the officials had to deduct it, the price was very high, and the people could not afford it, and the other came from northern Qin, that is, the salt pond under the jurisdiction of the Dingnan Army, which was mostly sī salt. The end will go to the salt pond to play since he was a child, the difference between Shaanxi salt and Jin salt, others can't taste it, but the end will know it in his heart. Although Zhang Mai could not taste the difference between the two types of salt, he knew very well that in this era, salt was one of the most important profiteering commodities, and the salt tax was even one of the pillar revenues of a government.

Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan do not produce salt, and the salt-producing area is only in Qinbei ~

That is, the area occupied by the Martyrdom Army. In recent years, the reason why the Dangxiang people have been able to divide one side is that politically they have moved and are unable to flatten the feudal towns, and militarily they have relied on the courage and good fighting of the Dangxiang clan, and they have relied on the production and use of sīsī salt to supply the entire Guanzhong region for profit, which is the economic pillar on which the Dingyan army relies to stand on its own.

However, since Zhang Mai's Eastern Expedition, the sī salt passage between the Dingyan Army and the Guanzhong Plain has been cut off by the war, and the Shijin Dynasty in the eastern Qin area has its own salt from the Guandong to the western Qinxi side, but it is the Tiance Army that transports salt from the Lianglan area, and part of the salt in Lianglan comes from Hehuang.

Therefore, during the war, the economic income of the Dingyan Army was actually cut off, and the interest groups related to Yanchi within the party were restored in order to continue to maintain their income, and the only thing that could give them hope at this point was Shi Jin and Tiance, and between Tiance and Shi Jin, they chose Tiance. As for the Khitan, it is expected that it is difficult to guarantee the benefits of the Yanchi interest group in terms of salt politics, so the reason why Li Yiyin chose to hold on to it this time instead of surrendering to the Khitan is not entirely because of "loyalty".

However, the salt administration under the auspices of Zheng Wei is more reasonable than the salt administration formulated by the Central Plains Political Zhì Group since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty. Either Hehuang salt will replace Qinbei salt, or Qinbei salt will be turned into official salt to operate, either of which will inevitably affect the golden caves, which are extremely important to the party's ruling group.

This is something that the Dingyan interest group does not want to see.

Fan Zhen heard the song and knew the meaning of elegance, and immediately understood what Li Yiyin meant, that is, he hoped that Zhang Mai would open his mouth to ensure the interests of his party clan in Yanchi, northern Qinbei, at this time, as long as Zhang Mai said a word, for the party Li family, it was a rich inheritance that could be passed on to the descendants.

In terms of the current situation, the party members took a firm stand on the matter of fighting against the Khitan, and Li Yiyin also expressed his loyalty, and it was not too much to have this merit and loyalty to ensure his interests in the salt pond of northern Shaanxi as a reward.

However, Fan Zhen immediately thought: "The reason why the party can divide one side is because it has the benefit of the salt pond in northern Qin, and if this benefit is not cut, it will be difficult to eliminate the trend of the party and the clan." If the difficulty is in the border domain, it will be fine, but Xiazhou Yinzhou is close to Chang'an, how can the party and the clan continue to divide here? "It's only the party that has made great contributions, and it doesn't matter if they don't give them a reward, if they still take away their interests, it will leave a bad example for the various forces that may belong to them in the future.

Therefore, Fan Zhen is not easy to speak, and he is not even good at making Zhang Mai make Li Yiyin feel that he has the intention of obstruction, and if he spreads it, he is afraid that it will hit the hearts of the various feudal towns.

Fan Zhen just thought in his heart: "Now we still need to stabilize the party item, and it is not appropriate to go too far in this matter, otherwise the party item will be pushed to the Khitan and Shi Jin." However, it is not clear that the authority to produce and sell salt is officially given to them, and it is easy to put it now, but it will be difficult to collect it in the future. It would be better to maintain the status quo and acquiesce to them to continue to maintain their salt routes, and then slowly remove this privilege in accordance with the law of the land when the situation is settled down in the future. ”

But he heard Zhang Mai laugh and said, "It's just Qinbei Salt Pond, what is it." Fan Qian's heart tightened, and he was very afraid that Zhang Mai would reward Qinbei Salt Pond as soon as he blurted out, and it would be difficult to reply in the future. And Li Yiyin felt that this sentence had not been said to death, and was about to open his mouth to urge Zhang Mai to make a decision, but he heard Zhang Mai laugh and said: "The eldest husband should look farther." At present, although the soldiers of the Dingyan Army have the merit of defending the city, but they still lack the great victory of breaking the enemy, I want to give them a credit and boost their prestige, but I don't know if the soldiers of the Dingyan Army have the courage to think that you have not been rewarded, but you want us to fight hard? He groaned slightly, and said, "But I don't know where the credit is, and I ask the marshal to make it clear." Zhang Mai said: "In the battle of Huanma Heights, the Modao Battle Axe Array was seriously damaged, so it is needless to say." Speaking of this, Zhang Mai couldn't help but look gloomy, and said: "It is the sweat and blood cavalry regiment, which also needs to recuperate, and the other departments have other arrangements, so at present, the soldiers and horses under my command who can still brave the cold and attack are the only brothers of the Dingyan Army." ”

Brave the cold? Li Yiyin's heart is tight, the current military situation, anyone thinks that the Tiance army should rest and hold on, in order to digest the results of the victory over the Khitan, and at the same time damage to the main force of the two arrows will definitely make the Ganlong army lù flawed, so it is better to be conservative and not aggressive But listening to Zhang Mai's current statement, could it be that he even ignored the cold winter and the military situation, and even attacked?

It's too risky.

Thinking of this, Li Yiyin couldn't bear a burst of resistance in his heart. Although the Khitan was defeated, but the vitality was not injured, the party people could hold the Khitan attack with the city, but if they wanted to go out of the city to attack the Khitan, in the face of the leather room army, they had to send one to death, which had nothing to do with courage, but was determined by strength! Even if it is not a leather room army, but only a unit under the command of Yelu Shuogu, once the offensive and defensive forces change positions, the party members will definitely lose more and win less.

Zhang Mai seemed to see through Li Yiyin's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't let the meritorious soldiers go to death, although it will be more uncomfortable to go out of the city in the cold winter, but the soldiers of a hundred battles should also be able to bear it." And you don't necessarily have to fight against the Khitan, even if the battle is not a jīlie battle, just a chase battle after a chase. Generally speaking, that is, if the Khitan runs away, you will chase after them, and if they lose a piece of land, you will receive a piece of land. It's an easy and beautiful achievement.

Hmmm..."He paused and said: "Shuofang is going to take it back, and when the Khitan escapes the Yellow River, you can stop on the horse, of course, if you are ambitious, you can chase it over and sweep the Elechuan." ”

Li Yiyin was stunned when he heard this, and now he said that Yelu Deguang would return to the north Li Yiyin believed, but when it came to the Khitan would give up Shuofang and Hetao, Li Yiyin said that he couldn't believe anything.

If the Khitan gave up the Hetao and Shuofang, it would be to give up the threat to the Lianglan region, and to give up the threat to the Lianglan region, that is, to give up the reinforcements given to Shi Jin to "encircle Wei and save Zhao", and at that time Zhang Mai would be able to calmly advance east and besiege Chang'an.

As long as he wasn't crazy and stupid, Li Yiyin couldn't see any reason why the Khitan would allow the situation to develop like this!

But looking at Zhang Mai's meaning, it doesn't seem to be a joke, could it be that Marshal Zhang has hidden a killer feature?

For a while, Li Yiyin felt that Zhang Mai in front of him seemed to be in the clouds, and he couldn't see through him at all, because he couldn't see through, the fear in his heart was deeper, and he couldn't say anything about the reward of Qinbei Salt Pond, and for a while he just talked about what Zhang Mai wanted to "give" to himself about what this "credit" meant.

Here Li Yiyin was pondering Zhang Mai's intentions, and after Cao Yangong said goodbye to Zhang Mai, he was about to cross the river to the south, and before the ship left the dock, he heard a heavy military news from the west!

Yajie! Another big win!

This time, it was good news from the west.

It turned out that Meng Shu sent troops, the soldiers were divided into two routes, the main force was personally recruited by Meng Chang, and led 50,000 troops to gather on the south bank of the Wei River, and at the same time, there was a strange army from the northwest of Sichuan to force Lanzhou.

The state city of Lanzhou is Jincheng, there is a subsidiary city in the south of Jincheng, Yincheng Xincheng is a comprehensive xìng city, Yincheng is a military stronghold, when the Shu army attacked by surprise, Yincheng has a river Huangtu Domain, the main body should open the city gate to the Shu army, and the Shu army occupied the silver city almost bloodlessly. What surprised them even more was that there was a large amount of grain, grass, and charcoal in Yincheng City, which was enough for them to eat for a long time.

It's a pity that after the loss of Yincheng, Xue Suding, the general who stayed behind in Lanzhou, was not in a hurry, but only tightly guarded Jincheng, and the Shu army could not expand the results.

As the weather became colder and the attack did not go well, the actions of the Shu army on the western route became conservative, anyway, Yincheng had a city wall to shelter from the cold wind, and there was enough food and grass, as well as firewood, enough for them to warm up for the winter.

And when the Shu army captured Yincheng, although it did not find much siege equipment in it, it was found that although this military stronghold was a little smaller, the city defense was very complete, and the Shu army could not attack Jincheng in the face of Jincheng, and Xue Suding of Jincheng could not attack Yincheng, so the Shu army was more at ease.

Unexpectedly, when the results of the battle of the Ring Horse Heights came, Xue Suding, who had been sleeping for a long time, suddenly launched a counterattack, he selected two thousand cavalry, and attacked overnight without a siege battle.

During the day, the generals of the Shu army were worried about the news from the Huanma Heights, and at night they suddenly encountered a surprise attack, and all the soldiers and generals in the entire Silver City were stunned for a while! Some of them were still asleep, and they didn't even have time to put on their armor, and some of them ran out of the house to find that they were in a mess and couldn't find the organization.

Although there were not many soldiers and horses under Xue Suding's command, but the breath that had been held for a long time suddenly broke out, two thousand cavalry rampaged in the city, and soon disintegrated the organization of the unprepared Meng Shu army, in just half an hour, the Shu army lord was beheaded, the deputy general was captured, and then the Jincheng reinforcements arrived, besieging the four gates.

More than 20,000 Shu troops in Yincheng disarmed more than 15,000 people, 2,300 dead and wounded, 2,300 people who fled and disappeared, only one of them saw that the situation was not good, and estimated that a 900-person establishment retreated to Fengzhou.

When the news reached Fengzhou, it seemed that a major earthquake had occurred in the entire Mengshu Ya camp! Meng Chang was directly stunned by the ensuing bad news!

When Tiance not only stood firm under the siege of the three families, but also defeated the strongest Khitan in one fell swoop, Meng Shu's morale actually fell overnight.

Zhang Mai...... It's horrible! How much strength does he have!

If it is said that the officers and soldiers at the lower level are still only a little cold-hearted, then Meng Chang, as the highest level, is a kind of fear that penetrates into the bones.

"Tiance actually defeated the Khitan in the next step, will he wave his army south and attack us?" Just when he was worried about this, the news of the loss of Yincheng came to this moment, and half of the high-level generals of the Fengzhou Shu Army were so frightened that their heads went blank!

The emperor who has never experienced the battlefield is like this, before the war, he was so arrogant that he was a little paranoid, and when he was a little frustrated, he immediately turned to the other extreme, and he was so afraid that he didn't even have a normal mentality.

When the news of the defeat of Yincheng reached that night, Meng Chang was so frightened that he had a nightmare, and that night he grabbed the hand of the concubine and shouted: "The Tang army is here!" The Tang Army is coming! Go, go! ”

The concubines were so frightened that they trembled on the chuáng, and the palace maids and eunuchs actually had to flee on the spot, but fortunately, it was Wang Chuhui who arrived in time to prevent this chaos from continuing to spread.

After this night, Meng Chang couldn't wait to fly back to Chengdu immediately, after all, if there are mountains to block it, it can always bring him a sense of security, as for the cavalry Meng Chang who went to meet Tiance now he didn't even dare to think about it, it was an army that even the Khitan had defeated!

Now what is the Central Plains besieging Lianglan, Meng Chang is not willing to think about it at all, he just hopes that the Tiance army will hurry up to fight Shi Jingjiao next, but don't go south!

At this moment, a report came from outside: "Weibei has sent an envoy here!" ”

Weibei? Zhang Mai?

Meng Chang was shocked: "Wang Xiang, how is this good!" "I think that a month ago he was so high-spirited, and he regarded an old minister like Wang Zhihui as a stumbling block that prevented him from playing the genius of pacifying the world, but at this time, he suddenly became like a child méng student, and asked Mr. for advice.

Wang Chuhui kept his composure and said, "After their victory, the envoy must have intended to intimidate. Meng Chang said: "That" He was very ashamed when he thought of last night's appearance, but he was really frightened by Tiance in his heart, and at this time, he knew that there would be no personal danger when he saw the other party's envoy, but he was still a little embarrassed, and said: "Then do we see or don't see?" 、，

Wang Chu replied: "The other party is here on behalf of Marshal Zhang, the general of Tiance, and my lord will naturally see it, otherwise he will only show weakness." Meng Changzhi couldn't help it, so he reluctantly agreed. He also said: "If Tiance is a teacher who asks for sin, how should we deal with it?" ”

Wang Chu raised his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty, although the Khitan was defeated, Tiance heard that the loss was not small, although the loss of Yincheng was unexpected, but my Fengzhou soldiers and horses are still intact, even if the Tiance army swarms, we can resist it, so why are we afraid of him Xingshi?" As for asking about sin, what sin do we have? Meng Chang frowned, Wang Chu's answer was obviously not in line with his expectations, and said: "I can resist it, I heard that they only dispatched 2,000 people from the Yincheng side, and they defeated 20,000 of us...... Now inside and outside Qinzhou, there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of military horses, if we really flock to the south, we can really resist it? ”

Regarding Meng Chang's question, Wang Chuhui couldn't answer it.

Zhang Mai's victory did come fast and fierce enough. A man who can even defeat the Khitan, is that something that a remote regime like Meng Shu can afford to provoke?

Not long after, Cao Yangong entered the Shu army camp under the guidance of the Shu army. The Shu army is still the Shu army when Liu Zhiyuan saw it half a month ago, but the weather of the entire military camp has changed, even if Cao Yangong only enters the camp alone, he can still feel the atmosphere of the entire camp cowering in the cold wind.

"The legacy of the Shu people Zhuge Wuhou is gone." Even if Tiance's generals never took Meng Shu very seriously in their hearts, Cao Yangong still felt a little contempt when he saw this.

A year ago, Meng Chang was Zhang Mai's nominal younger brother: three or five years ago, Meng Shu was still an ally that Tiance needed to focus on, but now it is no longer so. After entering the big tent, Cao Yanxue, who was not ranked at all in the Tiance regime, almost didn't look at Meng Chang squarely.

And Meng Chang faced this young man who was about his age with some trepidation.

"Lord Meng, it's polite." Cao Yangong said loudly, he said politely, but his actual actions were extremely rude.

Wang Chu was angry, but under the military might of Tiance, he didn't dare to be tough, he knew that this negotiation was a serious matter, and if he didn't deal with it well, he would invite Tiance troops to go south at any time!

Meng Chang coughed lightly, returned the salute, and was speechless for a while, although Wang Chuhui was a civil servant, after all, he was calm and said: "General Cao is not far away, crossing the river here, I don't know what happened." ”

Cao Yangong said: "Come and pass on a word from our marshal to Lord Meng." ”

Meng Chang looked at Wang Chuhui, and Wang Chuhui asked on his behalf, "What does Marshal Zhang want to say?" ”

Cao Yangong faced Meng Chang and took a step, Meng Chang was so frightened that he avoided it and shouted, "What are you doing!" ”

The two generals in the tent stepped forward at the same time to stop in front of Cao Yangong, Cao Yangong squinted at them, and suddenly laughed: "What are you afraid of!" Afraid that I won't be able to stab? Even if I am Jing Ke, is your master like Qin Shi Huang? ”

Wang Chuhui also knew that in his current form, Tiance would not send someone to assassinate him, so he retreated the second general and said, "General Cao, please take two steps back to keep the courtesy of the foreign ministers." ”

Cao Yangong said coldly: "What to retreat!" I will not stand a little forward, how to make it clear what the marshal wants to say.

Wang Chuhui had to argue, but Meng Chang was afraid of causing a conflict between the two sides, so he said, "That's what General Cao said." ”

At this time, Meng Chang was sitting, Cao Yangong was standing, he glanced at Meng Chang with a little condescending, and said: "The marshal asked me to tell Lord Meng that you can't afford to play this game of chess in Ganlong, and if you don't want to leave your life in Guanzhong, go back to Chengdu as soon as possible!" ”

As soon as this statement came out, it was like a thunderstorm that exploded, and the Shu generals in the tent were all angry, thinking that the lord would humiliate the ministers to death, although the Tiance army was powerful, but in the 50,000 army, within the walls of Fengzhou, a messenger from the other party actually insulted his own emperor, which was really unbearable!

Wang Chuhui roared even more angrily: "The surname Cao, although your Tiance has won a few victories temporarily, don't deceive people too much!" ”

Cao Yangong glanced around the tent, seeing that the generals were angry, and the king refuted it, but Meng Chang lowered his head, and his heart was even more disdainful, thinking that he really didn't need to be polite to this coward, he laughed and said, "We just want to bully you too much, so what?" Do you dare to make an appointment with our army in a time and place? ”

Although the generals in the tent were furious, when they heard Cao Yangong's invitation to fight, they all calmed down for a while, and Cao Yangong sneered: "If you can't stand the humiliation, then come to fight!" If you dare not fight, I will deceive you to your face, so what? ”

At this sentence, the two generals with the most blood jumped like thunder, but Wang Chuhui calmed down instead, and said in his heart: "Tiance is not a barbarian, why did he suddenly send a yellow-mouthed son this time, and he kept inviting us to fight, could it be that he wanted us to fight?" ”

He groaned because he was worried, but Meng Chang's nose was speechless because of fear.

For a while, there was silence in the tent, Cao Yangong was not in a hurry, but there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

After a while, Wang Chu looked back at Meng Chang and said in his heart: "The heavenly strategy is strong, the front cannot be controlled, and our army has suffered a new defeat, so it is not appropriate to take risks." As for the allies, even the Khitan was defeated, so why did Shi Jingjiao rely on it? I had the idea of making peace in my heart, and said loudly: "General Cao, Marshal Zhang invited my Shu army back to the division, but are you ready to negotiate peace with our army?" ”

He is also really self-contained, no longer mentioning humiliating things, and bringing it over with an understatement. Zhang Mai asked Meng Chang to "get out" and go back, and when he got to the king, it became a "please"

Word.

Cao Yangong seemed to be a little disappointed, and said, "Aren't you going to fight?" ”

Seeing him like this, Wang Chu was more sure of his thoughts in his heart, and said lightly: "At the beginning, Marshal Zhang and my lord were brothers, and you and I were brothers, but we were helplessly provoked by the Jiān people, so that there was a war, and now the misunderstanding is clarified, and it is okay to get back together." ”

Cao Yangong snorted and said, "Who is with your brotherly state?" I think it's better to fight a battle, the winner is king, and the loser is the villain. ”

Wang Chu replied: "The affairs of the world are valued by peace, and if you can turn war into jade silk, it will also be a blessing for the people of the two countries." ”

"Turn hostility into friendship?" Cao Yangong sneered: "What you said is light! At the beginning, you ignored the alliance between the two countries, colluded with the Khitan Hulu and the Shijin thieves, annoyed me with the Lianglan border, and invaded my Lanzhou Yincheng. There is no such cheap thing in the world! ”

Wang Chu replied: "The destruction of the covenant at the beginning was not the unilateral responsibility of our Shu State, and the marshal was rude to the front, which was the main reason for this matter. ”

Cao Yangong said: "I'm not here to debate with you, I'm just here to ask you, do you plan to fight, or do you plan to make peace?" ”

If it comes to sharp words and rhetoric, it was not Cao Yangong's turn to come as an envoy, but he was young and vigorous, although he was a little less sleek, but Zhang Mai wanted to use his grandeur.

Wang Chuhui frowned and asked, "What about the war?" And what? ”

In fact, his sentence is deeply miraculous in ancient Chinese, asking about the two aspects of war and peace, and will not be accused of cowardice afterwards, but the actual focus is on the later word and the word.

Cao Yangong said: "If you want to fight, it's still the same sentence, let's make an appointment to start fighting." If you want to talk to—" He said this, took out a list from his bosom, and read: "First, in order to compensate for the losses of our army's labor expedition, you must pay one million taels of silver and one million horses of silk, which will be paid in ten years: second, leave 200,000 stones of grain and grass as funds to help the army: third, cede Fengzhou to eliminate the evil spirit of encroaching on our Lanzhou Silver City: fourth, from now on, the two countries must be a vassal to our Tiance General's Mansion, and at the same time, Chengdu must set up an embassy to welcome the envoy I sent."

Before he finished speaking, there was already an uproar in the account, although Wang Chuhui also expected that Zhang Mai was not good at stubble, don't think that he could give up on this matter, but he didn't expect the other party to be so open.!

Meng Chang was also stabbed by that sentence of title, and the anger in his eyes burned violently, and when Wang Chu saw this, he said angrily to Cao Yangong: "General Cao, are you still a messenger?" These words are rude! Unreasonable! ”

Cao Yangong still finished reading the list of 16 items, and then he put away the paper and smiled: "Don't you want to agree?" Then I'm even happier, sir, I can't wait for you to fight! Besides, I'm not here to negotiate today, I'm here to make an ultimatum. I will stay here and wait for you for three days, and if you are not ready to make peace within three days, then you are ready to fight. Let's hunt in Fengzhou first, and then hunt in Chengdu! ”

After saying that, he actually brushed his sleeves and left!

Cao Yangong's envoy this time made Meng Shu feel very embarrassed, if Zhang Mai sent an important minister this time, such as Cao Yuanzhong, Wang Chuhui would also try to meet with him to see if he could use means to make Cao Yuanzhong change his words, or instigate Cao Yuanzhong to influence Zhang Mai's diplomacy with Shu.

But now it is Cao Yangong who comes, whether it is a relative or a meritorious service, Cao Yangong has not yet reached the level that can affect Zhang Mai, Zhang Mai sent him, obviously to let him "pass the word", so this is simply a one-way external traffic. From this level, Tiance's contempt for Meng Shu is really conceivable.

However, it is precisely because of this that Zhang Mai's confidence is more and more visible. Wang Chuhui was even wondering: Zhang Mai sent Cao Yangong this time, was it to negotiate peace, or did he deliberately want to anger his own side?

In the final analysis, Wang Chuhui, as a civil servant, was unwilling to go to war.

And Meng Chang didn't have the courage.

Although the content of the contract Meng Chang also felt that it was excessive, if the alliance under the city that had lost power and humiliated the country was agreed, how could Meng Shu hold his head up in front of Tiance in the future?

But seeing that Zhang Mai was even defeated by the Khitan, and Yincheng was even more defeated, in the face of such military might, how could Meng Chang stand up straight?

They discussed for two days and two nights, half of the main generals asked for war, half of them asked for peace, Meng Chang himself was unwilling to start a war, but he couldn't open that mouth, and finally asked Wang Chuhui, Wang Chu replied: "Now the situation is critical, the minister has been pondering all night, and I feel that there are three options." Meng Chang hurriedly asked which three strategies.

Wang Chu replied: "The most risk-free strategy is to follow Zhang Mai." ”

As soon as these words came out, several generals couldn't help but roar, Meng Chang was also silent, he didn't know that Zhang Mai's request sounded excessive, but it was something that the Meng Shu regime could afford at the moment, millions of silver and millions of silk, it sounds like a huge amount, but it is divided into ten years, and it is 100,000 silver and 100,000 silk a year, after the opening of the Silk Road, the economy of the Bashu region has risen rapidly, and now it is not difficult to raise this amount. As for the 200,000 stone grain and grass, the grain stock in Fengzhou can already pay a considerable part, if it is insufficient, it is not a big problem to negotiate. As for Fengzhou, this place is located in the north of the Qinling Mountains, the difficulty of Weishui, if the Shu army plans to retreat, can this Fengzhou still hold on? Whether it was lost to the Tiance Tang Army, or directly ceded to the Tiance Tang Army, the difference was only in the way of losing face.

In fact, the most unacceptable thing is to be a minister.

Even though Meng Chang was afraid, after all, he still wanted to save the last bit of face.

Meng Chang asked about other strategies, and Wang replied: "There is another thrilling strategy, which is to join the Khitan in the north and Shijin in the east, annex and hold on, and continue to contain the heavenly policy." When the generals heard this, half of them were opposed, and they all thought that with the current situation, it might not be useful to continue to unite with the Khitan Shi Jin, in case Jī was angry with Zhang Maidao's troops to the south, then it would be a disaster to destroy the country.

Meng Chang was silent, and asked the third policy, Wang Chu replied: "The third strategy is the golden mean, that is, on the grounds of the cold winter, temporarily stop the army, after the strike, I will go back to Chengdu, lock the pass, close the mountain pass, and no longer pay attention to the Central Plains hegemony, we Bashu have the danger of mountains and rivers, only to protect ourselves, it is expected that Tiance will not be able to help us." ”

His statement is actually equivalent to giving up Fengzhou. It's just that he didn't officially pay tribute to Zhang Mai.

If Lu Jialing was here, he would have sneered when he heard this idea, what kind of golden mean is this, it is clearly a turtle's strategy!

But Meng Chang and the others were interested in hearing this, even the generals also felt that this plan was feasible, and discussed some details that night, so they planned to ignore Cao Yangong. Unexpectedly, at this moment, news suddenly came from the south, saying that there was a Tibetan army under the banner of Tiance, climbing the snowy mountains and taking small roads, and had driven to the vicinity of Chengdu! At the same time, another Tubo man threatens the Sword Pavilion!

When the news came out, Hanzhong and Chengdu were greatly shaken! At this time, Meng Chang was outside the army, if Zhang Mai sent a strange army, even if the number was small, once he entered the western Sichuan Plain, people's hearts would float, and the consequences would be unpredictable!

Between Longxi and western Sichuan, there is an ancient road that can be passed, and it is not easy for large troops to pass, but it is possible for small troops to approach. A general exclaimed: "Zhang Mai is so cunning!" He sent Cao Yangong here to have a plan, obviously to hold us back! At this time, he actually sent cavalry to attack the Sword Pavilion! Where does he want Fengzhou! It is clearly to Hanzhong and Chengdu! He's going to destroy my Shu Kingdom! ”

The defeat of Yincheng is only a corner, but there is something wrong in Chengdu, Hanzhong is in danger, and there are police in Jiange, so Chengdu will move, even if the generals in the account feel that the army of Tiance is now threatening Chengdu, it is not very likely, but even if it is only one percent of the possibility, Meng Chang can't stand it, he was so frightened when he heard it, and said hurriedly: "Go back!" Get back! Wang replied: "Then Cao Yangong ...... there."

"Give it to him, give it to him!" Meng Chang said: "I am rich in Shu and can afford to pay 100,000 silk silver!" Go back, go back! ”

He avoided the important and light, but Wang Chuhui's face rose to the face of lard, knowing that the young emperor had acquiesced to Zhang Mai's vassal.

Since the secession regime of Cuban Shu, there are more than one example of claiming to be a vassal to the strong, and Meng Chang's choice is not unprecedented.

It's just that I think that once I am defeated this time, even if the soldiers sent out by Zhang Mai to threaten the Chengzhou Sword Pavilion are only false soldiers, how will the subjects of Bashu treat the Meng regime in the future? What will the army of Bashu think of this emperor?

If he loses the hearts of the army and the people, when Tiance sends a large army to Hanzhong in the future, can Meng Shu still have the determination to defend it?

Wang Chuhui sighed secretly in his heart, and suddenly his mind turned, and a thought faintly came to him: "The world, not the world of one person, Bashu belongs to a corner of China, if the Meng family can't defend the land ..............." The seeds of the idea of unification of the Chinese National University are scattered in the depths of the hearts of all the scholars and doctors of the Chinese country, and in troubled times, they may also support their respective masters for their own interests, but once there are characters who hope to dominate the world, everyone's loyalty will be like iron and magnetic, pointing to the central government!

After all, they are not only Shu people, but also Tang people!

The "general trend" Wang looked back to the northwest, thinking about the direction of the world, and also thinking about the descendants of the Wang family... ...... future

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