Chapter 30 Tribute is not a vassal
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Zhang Mai opened the tent curtain the next day, only to see hundreds of river grass piled up in front of the door, he was overjoyed, and was squatting down to count, when a person next to him said: "Brother Mai, don't look at it, there are more than 200 on your side than on my old man's side!" ”
It was Yang Yi who spoke, and he said indignantly: "Yesterday we tried our best to speak, but I didn't expect there to be so many bad seeds!" Because he got closer, he encouraged Zhang Mai again: "Brother Mai, it's not too late to admit this account now!" Let's ......"
Before he finished speaking, Guo Bian came and said, "Brother Mai, my father invited you over." ”
Zhang Mai asked, "Do you know what your father asked me to do?" ”
Guo Bian said: "I don't know. ”
Yang Yi pulled him and said: "Brother Mai, if Uncle Guo asks you to admit the result of throwing river grass this time, don't agree, just perfunctory first, and we will discuss it slowly." As he spoke, he winked, obviously he still wanted to overturn the referendum result by force.
Zhang Mai did not refuse him, nor did he agree to him, so he followed Guo Bian to find Guo Shidao, but Guo Shidao was not in the tent, Zhang Mai followed Guo Bian to a hill, Guo Bian went down, Guo Shidao looked at the camp below, his hair fluttered in the wind, and he didn't seem to notice that Zhang Mai had arrived behind him, Zhang Mai shouted: "Guo Lao." ”
Guo Shidao turned around, bowed his head, pointed to the camp tent under the mountain, and said, "Special envoy, what do you think of last night's incident?" ”
"Last night? Guo always said about throwing river grass? ”
"Yes."
Zhang Mai thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid the situation is not very good." ”
"What's the bad? Because the choice of the crowd does not conform to the claims of the envoy? ”
"No, it's not." Zhang Mai said: "I'm worried that the Anxi Tang Army will split. ”
Guo Shidao twisted his beard and said: "After all, the envoy still understands people." On the same day, the Hui soldiers pressed the border, and the whole city was able to rise up and resist, and thousands of people were united. And now Hui Hui only sent more than ten people, and said a few words lightly, and when the clansmen heard Zhao Anzhi's words, they cowered at Hui Hui. Envoy, why do you think this is? ”
If he had asked this question earlier, Zhang Mai might not have been able to answer it, but he had already thought very clearly last night, so he said: "We didn't choose that day, we would die if we fought or died if we didn't fight, so we were all united." Today, the Hui people gave us a choice, war is nine deaths, and peace may be stealing, so everyone is cringe. ”
"Not bad, not bad!" Guo Shidao nodded again and again: "When we win, it seems that there is room for advance and retreat - in fact, this is a bigger trap!" If everyone feels that they have fallen to the ground, they can leap hard, or there is still a glimmer of life, but if they have the heart of what happens, it is a great danger! Special envoy, I heard that when Hu envoy arrived at the front line that day, Yang Yi seemed to have an unforeseen plan, and then he didn't make any moves, it was the envoy who stopped him, right? ”
Zhang Mai was shocked when he heard this: "Yang Yi wanted to kill Hu Envoy, but he just told me that there was no third person on the left and right at that time, how did he know?" ”
Guo Shidao didn't wait for him to admit or deny it, so he asked, "Special envoy, why did you stop him?" ”
Zhang Mai said: "Why did I stop him, well, at that time, I intuitively thought that Yang Yi was inappropriate to do that. ”
"Intuition?" Guo Shidao seems to be unfamiliar with this word, but he seems to be able to understand the meaning of this word.
Zhang Mai continued: "Yes, intuition. But when I think back to my decision, I feel like I made the right decision. Even if everyone denied my idea today, I felt that I had made the right decision. ”
"Why?" Guo Shidao asked.
Zhang Mai said: "If Yang Yi kills the Hui envoy that day, then the Hui Hui can justifiably raise troops to crusade against us." And although our side can use this to coerce the whole clan to have to confront the Hu people, those who already disagree with Yang Yi will still not be convinced, because Yang Yi deprives them of the opportunity to choose, and they will resent Yang Yi and the hardliners that Yang Yi represents. In that case, our Tang army will be divided internally, and when the Hui army comes back and the battle is white-hot, I am afraid that there will be terrible changes. In fact, it doesn't matter if there is war or peace, but we must not be divided! ”
Guo Shidao was overjoyed, and a happy look jumped on his face: "Okay, good, after listening to the envoy's words, I can rest assured." ”
His words came from beginning to end, which made Zhang Mai scratch his head, and at this time, another horse galloped up the mountain and reported to Guo Shidao: "Dadu Protector, Yang Team is already in charge." ”
Zhang Mai was taken aback, but Guo Shidao just said: "Okay." There was no other expression, Zhang Mai was about to ask what happened, and saw a ride up the mountain, but Yang Dingguo sent someone to ask Guo Shidao to go down the mountain to discuss peace, Guo Shidao said: "Okay, I'll come." ”
He turned back to Zhang Mai and said: "It has always been suspicious of the public, it is difficult to travel far, back then, because of differences of opinion in the four towns of Anxi, the four families of Guo Yanglu and Zheng parted ways, so that their strength has been greatly reduced, and they have not been able to recover so far." In terms of the future, the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions has been intercepted and lost, and we have to bear a lot of responsibility! If we had been able to endure each other for the country, the Western Regions might not be in this situation today......"
Speaking of this, Guo Shidao's eyebrows frowned, as if he remembered a heart-wrenching past, Zhang Mai wanted to ask him what happened back then, and was afraid of interrupting him, Guo Shidao had already continued: "Yesterday I saw that the clansmen had different opinions, so I threw the river grass to test everyone's hearts, but this result was also expected." However, how to reconcile the two factions and let everyone's strength go to one place will take a lot of trouble. Special envoy, you should not get involved in the matter of negotiating peace, I expect that this time, whether you sincerely negotiate peace or fake peace negotiations, you will definitely have some humiliation for us when negotiating conditions, and if you are present, you will be sharpened. You stay on the mountain for the next two days and don't go down for a while. ”
Zhang Mai was shocked: "Old Guo, what are you going to do?" ”
Guo Shidao didn't answer, but said: "If the Hu people really want to negotiate peace with us, the old man will come to bear the burden of humiliation, and the special envoy will come to you. As he spoke, he took out a scroll of maps, stuffed them in Zhang Mai's hands and went down the mountain, leaving Tang Renxiao and Wen Yanhai to watch Zhang Mai. Zhang Mai wanted to go down the mountain, but was always stopped by Tang Renxiao and Wen Yanhai.
Zhang Mai shouted: "What are you doing! ”
Tang Wen and the others didn't answer a word, but just obeyed Guo Shidao's order and didn't let him go.
Zhang Mai couldn't help it, he took out the map to see, but he couldn't understand it, so he asked Tang Renxiao to come over to participate in the meeting, Tang Renxiao glanced at it and said, "This seems to be a map to Talas." ”
"Talas? Isn't it across the desert from here to there? ”
After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't figure out what Guo Shidao was going to do.
On the second day, Yang Yi was escorted up, his hands and feet were tied tightly, and his mouth was also gagged. You see! I'm right! Brother Mai, if you are a gentleman, others will not be a gentleman! You're going to let me go! Let's go down and fuck the fuck together! ”
Zhang Mai didn't act at this time, and reached out to untie Yang Yi, but his hand retracted when he touched the rope, and just asked Ding Hanshan Qiu Ziqian, who was escorting Yang Yi up: "What's going on down there?" ”
"What else could there be!" Yang Yi shouted: "Peace, peace!" Those old guys, they really went to talk to Hui Hui! ”
Zhang Mai inquired about the details, but Yang Yi couldn't say clearly, Qiu Ziqian said: "Yesterday, Daduhu negotiated with the envoys of Hui according to everyone's resolution to throw into the river grass, and they promised that as long as we no longer send people to harass in the future, they will admit that one hundred and fifty miles east of Xinshaoye City, five hundred miles to the west, and one thousand li to the north belong to our Anxi Tang Army. ”
"Ahh Tang Renxiao couldn't help but say: "The conditions given by Hui Hui are really generous." ”
Although this area is either under the actual control of the Tang army, or it is an ownerless wasteland at all, if the Anxi Tang army has to be officially recognized by the Hui as legally occupying this place, it will be able to operate in the open and bright in the future, and there is no need to hide and dodge as before for fear of being discovered by the Hui people, which will greatly benefit the survival and development of the Anxi Tang army.
Zhang Mai asked, "What harsh conditions can the Hui people put forward then?" ”
"Nope." Ding Hanshan said: "Not only that, Deputy Yang Daduhu said that we are the people of the Tang Dynasty, and it is okay to pay tribute, but we are not ministers, and they also agreed." ”
Wen Yanhai was overjoyed: "If this is the case, then we will not only take advantage of this peace, but also not lose face at all, we are not seeking peace, we are forcing the other party to make peace!" It seems that Hui Hui is sincere in negotiating peace this time. Well, yes, it's probably because there's some chaos in their country, so they don't have the time to attack us, so it's okay, we can take advantage of this spare time to recuperate. Envoy, are you right? ”
Tang Wen, Ding Qiu and others originally supported Zhang Mai, but when they heard the results of the peace negotiation, they also felt that the terms of the peace negotiation were greatly beneficial to Tang Jun.
"Oh!" Yang Yi yelled: "Will the Hui people be so good to us? They must have a treacherous plot! There must be a conspiracy! Hey, I said, let me go! I'm going to go down the mountain and expose their schemes!" ”
Tang Renxiao asked Zhang Mai: "Special envoy, let him go?" ”
Zhang Mai didn't agree, nor did he agree, he just took the map that Guo Shidao handed him before leaving, and just thought in his heart: "What is Guo Lao going to do?" ”
On the third day, another person galloped up the mountain, but it was Liu An, the protector of the capital, who was in favor of peace from the beginning, Yang Yi saw that he was not angry, and scolded him fiercely, Liu An did not reply, but came to Zhang Mai's side and said to him: "Special envoy, I haven't seen you for a few days, everyone can miss you very much." ”
"Guys?"
"Hmm. An Shoujing, Zhang Wenzhi, Murong Chunhua, we all miss you a lot. In the past few days, we have been talking about peace, and we have been mentioning you constantly, and we are very eager to hear your opinion, and to find out that the envoy is here, so I will come to see you. ”
"The matter of peace? So what's there to talk about! Yang Yi sneered: "Didn't you want to lick back the stinky feet of the Su people from the beginning!" ”
"Not really." Although Yang Yi's words were ugly, Liu An's cultivation was very good, but he was not angry with him: "At the beginning, I also advocated that I could try to talk to the Hui people, but seeing that they opened the conditions so loosely, I naturally became suspicious." Not only that, but in the past few days, because the peace talks have progressed smoothly, the supervision has been somewhat relaxed, and a few members of the Hui mission have become ghostly. At one point I even caught a glimpse of what they seemed to be drawing, and I suspected that they were spying into the reality of the area and drawing a map for the unexpected. ”
"Spies! Spies! Yang Yi shouted: "These people are spies!" Liu An, why don't you catch him red-handed! That would expose their treacherous schemes! ”
Liu An just smiled, just paying attention to Zhang Mai's reaction.
Zhang Mai listened to Liu An's position after the discussion and progress went smoothly, but they all changed, and said in his heart: "Could it be that this qiē is Guo Lao's plan?" He groaned for a while, pulled Liu An to the side, took out the map that Guo Shidao handed over to him, and asked him if he had it.
Liu An only glanced at the map, and said, "This seems to be our route to the east." ”
"The route to the east?"
"It's the route we secretly moved from Talas back then."
"From Talas? Didn't we move directly from the east? We moved from the south? Wouldn't that have to go through the whole desert? ”
"Yes." ―――――― a little bit of a cold, and it just so happens that I didn't save this paragraph, which is really troublesome. Hopefully I'll get some sleep and wake up tomorrow and be fine. ^_^ But I will stick to it no matter what, and I ask for your continued support.
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