Following Ye Chang's point, Wan Niang looked at the green plants and smiled slightly.

"Sugar cane?" She looked at Ye Chang, a little charming.

"Exactly, if I want to set up a sugar factory here, I need a lot of sugar cane." Ye Chang also smiled, showing his white teeth, looking very sincere: "I have a suggestion." ”

"Say."

"This time, the rest of your five edicts, the people captured by the Southern Zhao, can be allowed to grow sugar cane, I will buy them at a high price, or exchange them for salt, iron, grain, silk, cotton, glass, etc."

Hearing Ye Chang talk about the same things that Nanzhao urgently needed, Lou Niang's eyes began to shine, and when she heard the most "glass", she was even more moved, took out a small glass round mirror from her arms, and showed it in front of Ye Chang: "This? ”

At this time, the news was blocked, although the glass mirror also spread to Yunnan, but Wan Niang didn't know that this thing was actually made up by Ye Chang. Ye Chang saw the small round mirror, smiled, and then took out a square mirror slightly larger than a palm from his pocket and handed it to his mother.

"Yours."

Wan Niang was surprised, looked in the mirror, and then looked at Ye Chang, obviously knowing the preciousness of this thing. Li Bai looked at this scene from a distance, and said secretly in his heart: Sure enough, it is really different, Brother Ye Xian really has a leg with this barbarian girl

When the mirror arrived, she put it away, and then smiled: "Since it is a gift for me, it is not compatible with what is discussed today." ”

"That's nature." Ye Chang said: "Nanzhao is rebellious, it is the best time for you to restore the clan, if my army advances, no matter whether it wins or loses, this opportunity will be gone." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"If I win, then the entire Six Edicts will be changed and returned, only the counties directly under the Tang Dynasty, and there will be no Six Edict tribes. If I am defeated, the country of Nanzhao will be greatly revitalized, and the remaining five edicts can only be his servants, and there are no six edicts. Ye Chang said slowly: "In the meantime, you are smart and naturally know." ”

"Hehe, it seems that we have a request for Datang"

"Naturally, you have a request from Datang, if I, Datang, don't want to have some face, just ignore Yaozhou's affairs. Just Yaozhou, can it still shake the foundation of my Tang Dynasty? But you, if you want to restore the tribe, you must use the power of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"This"

When she came this time, she originally saw the right time and felt that she could bargain with Datang, at least to force Ye Chang to agree to some requirements. But Ye Chang's words turned the rain and clouds, and instead put them in a position where they wanted to be helped. Thinking of Ye Chang's previous methods, Wei Niang finally realized that it was not easy for her to take advantage of this guy.

"What exactly do you want?" She asked.

"I've already said it, Sugar." Ye Chang responded.

Ye Chang has long used a new sugar production method, but because of the lack of raw material sources, the output of the sugar produced is limited, which is not enough to really support an industry. Therefore, before coming to Jiannan this time, Ye Chang had planned that in the future economic map of Datang, Yunnan would become the base of the sugar industry.

Growing sugar cane will require a lot of labor, and this labor will undoubtedly go to the dog to loot.

"What do you want us to do?" The lady asked again.

Li Bai watched Ye Chang and Huanniang talk for a long time on the gentle slope, sometimes Ye Chang was talking, dancing with his hands, and sometimes Huanniang was talking, his eyebrows were dancing. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the relationship between these two people was extraordinary.

After talking for half an hour, the two finished talking and came back. The barbarian did not delay, saluted, and then left with her men.

Seeing that Wei Niang and his party disappeared, Ye Changxin put down half of it, this time he came to Nengzhou, seeing Wang Zhonghei and asking for advice was only one of the purposes, and the most important purpose was to see Wei Niang. If you can get the help of your mother, you can secretly contact the old department of the Five Edicts, and with them as the "leading party", the matter of this southern expedition can be much easier.

When he turned around, he saw Li Bai's sly face. Ye Chang was stunned: "Brother Taibai, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Brother Xian, don't worry, I will never tell my brother and sister about this"

"What?"

"Brother Xian, what are you pretending? Sure enough, it is worthy of being the son-in-law that the Son of Heaven and Li Xiang want to compete for, and even this barbarian girl in the south, you have hooked up with one...... It's strange to say, how did you hook up with the six barbarian girls? It is said that the barbarian girl is amorous, like Fang Cai's posture, is there any? ”

"Get out" Ye Chang finally understood what Li Bai was talking about: "I'm doing serious things"

"Yes, yes, serious business" Li Baiha smiled, but his eyes were ambiguous.

There was no way to communicate with this poet who could get drunk without drinking, Ye Chang didn't bother to pay attention to him, and ordered the camp to leave. They returned by boat and it took another three days to reach the barracks in Rongzhou.

Gao Shi is waiting for him here.

Everyone got together, and it was a lot of affection, even Ye Chang and Gao Shi had been separated for many years. He didn't stay long in Rongzhou, Ye Chang stayed in Gao Shi to deploy grain and grass here, and he led 30,000 troops to the south from Shimen Pass.

Although Shimen Pass belongs to the Tang Rongzhou to the south, it is actually mostly a state of restraint. After crossing Niutou Mountain, when he arrived at Maandu, Ye Chang got a report: Yunnan Wangge Luofeng envoy came here.

"Emissary?" Ye Chang smiled when he heard this: "Ge Luofeng is well-informed. ”

His army had only been on the march for three days, and the other party's envoy came to greet him on the way, and no one believed that Ge Luofeng had not done anything in Rongzhou.

"Let him come to me." Ye Changdao.

After a while, this messenger was brought to Ye Chang, this person had a black face and a messy beard, and his eyes kept turning, looking very cunning.

Seeing him like this, Ye Chang knew that he would not be polite this time.

"Yang Zifen, a general under the command of the King of Yunnan, meets Ambassador Ye." After he was led to Ye Chang, seeing that Ye Chang was so young, he was a little arrogant, and he arched his hand indiscriminately, even if it was a "visit".

He still muttered a little in his heart, didn't he say that Datang was full of talents, why Xian Yu Zhongtong suffered a defeat, Datang actually sent such a young man to clean up the mess, is it to bully Nanzhao and no one, or is Datang no longer able to take out decent manpower?

Seeing him like this, the Shanzhi next to him roared angrily, Yang Zifen trembled in shock, his knees fell weak, and he couldn't help but kneel on the ground.

Ye Chang disagreed: "What did Ge Luofeng send you to do?" ”

"The king of my family sent me here to report to the ambassador. The former two countries raised swords, but it was really a last resort. Zhang Qiantuo bullied my king too much, and he couldn't ...... Zhongtong."

"You and I know the merits." Ye Chang interrupted him.

On the surface, Nanzhao's defection was due to Zhang Qiantuo's bullying, but in fact, the problem was not here, but Ge Luofeng's personal ambition. Previously, Li Longji formulated a strategy to support Nanzhao to unify the remaining five edicts, and wanted to use this to contain the dogs, but after the strength of the Nanzhao increased, where was he willing to act as the lackey of the Tang Dynasty, Ge Luofeng, who stayed in Chang'an for a few years, and felt that instead of being the dogs and horses of the Tang Dynasty, how could he be a real king of Yunnan?

He had this heart, so he had some actions, such as fleeing back to Nanzhao from Chang'an, and refusing to obey the orders of the Tang Dynasty after returning to Nanzhao to succeed to the throne. These behaviors naturally aroused the vigilance of Xian Yu Zhongtong and Zhang Qiantuo, and at this time, Li Longji also realized that Nanzhao was very difficult to control, so he no longer supported Nanzhao as he did in the past. Ge Luofeng took the opportunity to attack, attacked Yaozhou, forced Zhang Qiantuo to death, and in order to deceive the people under his rule, he also made a lot of accusations of how the Tang Dynasty bullied Nanzhao.

Ye Chang was not interested in any of this, so he directly interrupted the other party.

"I don't know right from wrong, how can I do it if I don't judge right and wrong?" That Yang Zifen knelt on the ground, looking frightened, but in fact he was still quibbling: "I heard that the Central Plains Tang Dynasty, the country of benevolence and righteousness, and the country of etiquette, if there is no right and wrong, how can benevolence and righteousness and etiquette exist, it is not as good as me, a foreign place?" ”

"The Outer Lands? In the Han Dynasty, Yunnan was a place for me to educate and bathe the saints" Ye Chang stared at this guy, seeing that he was still unconvinced, he smiled and said: "Okay, I'll tell you the truth." I am poor in the Tang Dynasty, benevolence, righteousness and etiquette, and Da is since ancient times. This Yunnan Han Dynasty was under the rule of the Han Emperor, and since ancient times, it has been an inseparable part of my Chinese culture.

Li Bai, a Han nationalist next to "good", suddenly felt wonderful when he heard it, and his blood boiled: "If you are poor, you will be benevolent, righteous and etiquette, and if you are poor, you will be wonderful since ancient times, wonderful, wonderful."

"Following the education of my Han family is benevolence and righteousness, and obeying the imperial power of my Han family is etiquette - it is really passionate words, although those who commit strong men with Chen Tangming will be punished from afar, they can be simple and complementary" Cai Ming, who had already met Ye Chang, also nodded.

Ye Chang glanced at the two of them a little speechlessly, but when he saw the soldiers around him, they all looked excited, and they were all moved by those words. He squeezed his hand slightly, and it looked like he had said another great word.

Yang Zifen could only swallow back the reason in his mouth, because he found that the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses in front of him, who looked extremely young, seemed to be more difficult to deal with than Xian Yu Zhongtong and other high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty that he had seen before.

"That being the case...... The king of Yunnan sent me to apologize to the ambassador, and was willing to withdraw from the city of Yaozhou, rebuild the city wall, and return the captivity. Yang Zifen said again.

"That's all, anything else?" Ye Chang asked.

"This ...... That's it. ”

"Ge Luofeng knows that he is guilty? Didn't you just say that benevolence and righteousness are the first of righteousness, merit will be rewarded, guilt will be punished, and reward good and punish sin. Ye Chang said: "Since Ge Luofeng knows that he is guilty, why don't he bind himself to the front, and wait for the Son of Heaven to punish him according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, but send you a lobbyist here?" ”

Yang Zifen opened her mouth and looked at Ye Chang, she really didn't know if this Tang Dynasty's soldier and horse envoy was really confused. Guilty or innocent, it's just a lie on the lips of a big man, how can it be taken seriously, does he really want the king of Yunnan to bind himself and ask for guilt?

Judging from Ye Chang's words, he is definitely not confused, just arrogant, it seems that he wants to give this young Han a little bit of power.

"I, Yunnan, have always been loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and now the dog Rong Dabian is pressing, if the Tang Dynasty does this painful and hateful thing at this time, I am afraid that the Yunnan African Datang will have it." Yang Zifen said: "At that time, I Yunnan will have to join hands with the dog Rong, and since then the Tang Frontier has been troubled. ”

"Impossible." Ye Chang said casually: "If Ge Luofeng sent you just to say these few nonsense words, you can go back and tell him now." He will not have the opportunity to join hands with the dog Rong to defeat my frontier, because after I come, there will be no more Yunnan kings in Yunnan. ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Chang waved his hand, and his own warrior dragged Yang Zifen, who was still pondering his words, away.

"Why don't ambassadors be vain?" Cai Ming said on the side: "If you really order Nanzhao and Dog Rong to join hands, I am afraid that this southern expedition will be in vain." ”

"Nanzhao has joined hands with Dog Rong, as far as I know, Dog Rong Imperial History Theory Ruozan has gathered a large number of soldiers to the wave dome to wait and see whether it will succeed or fail." Ye Chang said with a smile: "The ambition of the wolf son of Nanzhao, how can they retreat because of a moment of appeasement, the more appeased, the more arrogant they will be, only by facing the head-on attack, can they understand the general trend"

Cai Ming was taken aback when he heard this: "The reinforcements of the dog Rong have arrived in the wave dome?" Is this news really true? ”

"Naturally, it's true."

This news was brought by Huan Niang, when Ye Changren was still preparing for the wedding in Chang'an, he secretly sent a messenger to enter Jiannan, found the contact person who had made an appointment with Lu Niang, and then made an appointment with the time and place of the meeting, and asked Wei Niang to reconnoiter the movements of Nanzhao and Dog Rong. In fact, when the last time Xian was in Zhongtong's southern expedition, Ge Luofeng had already sent an envoy to ask for help from the dog Rong and show his surrender.

"If this is the case, this battle must not be careless, ambassador, and please wait for the garrison to help" Cai Ming said worriedly.

"Naturally, we have to garrison and wait for reinforcements, but let's talk about fighting with Nanzhao first, if we don't fight, they won't take us to heart."

As Ye Chang expected, Nanzhao didn't care about the Tang army he led.

After Yang Zifen was driven away, he traveled day and night and rushed back to Taihe City. At this time, in Taihe City, the leaders of Nanzhao generals gathered.

"General Yang Jun is back, tell me, how is the reality of the Tang Army this time, and what kind of character is the Tang General?" Hearing that Yang Zifen was back, Ge Luofeng asked on the throne of his double dragon chair.

He stayed in Chang'an for a few years, imitating the Tang Dynasty rituals, establishing palaces, and appointing officials, so he was also rude. However, many of the customs of the barbarians were still preserved, for example, in his main hall, in addition to himself, his wife Bai, and his younger brother, who was also a monk, were all here.

"King Qiyu, the strength of the Tang army is only 30,000, which is not as good as the previous Zhongtong department. As for the rest of the generals, Ye Chang, the commander of the army, is very young, he looks like he is only in his twenties, he is arrogant, and it is not difficult to break it."

Ge Luofeng smiled dumbly when he heard this: "General, you are wrong, this Ye Chang is not that simple."

"The king knows about him?"

"Naturally, when I was in Chang'an, I heard his name a lot, and even when I returned to Yunnan, I could occasionally hear from him. This person is the first financial expert in Datang, and he also has a lot of insights on side matters. Ge Luofeng said: "If he behaves extremely arrogantly in front of you, it must be trying to make some kind of conspiracy, deliberately doing this, to lure me into being fooled."

"Brother Wang Mingjian," the pavilion next to him nodded.

"I'm afraid that I will have to bother you again." Ge Luofeng got up: "If the whole country of the Tang Dynasty comes to fight, it will indeed be difficult for our country to resist, and we must order the dog Rong Zampu to also send troops to attack, at least to contain the main force of the Tang Dynasty." If this can be done, the Tang army is only 30,000, but I am not afraid."