12-68 Jiang Gan steals books

Hou Sui and Mao Pi stiff landed on the north bank, and the accompanying guards were immediately disarmed, and only the two of them were allowed to walk to the general of the Western Xia army, along the way, the traces of the battle the day before were still shocking, the soil was soaked in blood, showing a strange black, and the smell of blood in the air was extremely strong.

Groups of pale Ming captives were digging pits in the distance to bury their bodies, while the Mongols were indifferent to the pungent smell of dry food, drinking mare's milk wine, pointing at the two chasers, and laughing sarcastically.

Hou Sui held the hand of the Son of Heaven Fu Jie slightly white, although he had seen a lot of the world, but it was the first time to deal with the Tartar who was barbaric to the extreme, people would be afraid of death when they were old, Hou Sui had just become a cabinet member, and achieved the top of his life, and the good life had not passed for a few days, so he couldn't bear to die, so he looked humble and greeted every Mongolian soldier with a smile.

On the contrary, he was still unruly, his eyes did not squint, his waist was as straight as a javelin, he turned a blind eye to the military might of the Mongols, and walked extremely calmly step by step.

Before arriving at the front of the camp, a Jingguan with a pile of heads was impressively displayed in front of him, all of them were newly cut heads, and their faces were still lifelike, and a large swarm of flies were buzzing and flying on it. ”

Hou Sui calmed his mind and reluctantly nodded: "I understand for the teacher." But the trembling body had betrayed his fearful heart, and Hou Sui said: "You must not fight for the righteousness of the moment, the Tartars are barbaric, and you have to be careful without the cultivation of the two countries to fight each other." ”

Mao Bi stiff nodded, and the two of them walked to the handsome account, only to see the hideous Mongolian general shouting: "Come and kneel yet!" ”

Hou Sui shuddered and almost knelt down, but was held up by Mao Bi, and he responded in a deep voice: "We are the Qincha of the Ming Dynasty, coming on behalf of our emperor, and you are the generals of Western Xia, why do you want to kneel you." ”

The general was furious on the spot, and drew his sword to cut people, when suddenly a voice came from the tent: "Tubu Tachibana, let them in." ”

Tachibana Tubu immediately became submissive, agreed in Mongolian, opened the account, and made a gesture to the two of them to invite in.

Hou Sui and Mao Bijian walked into the handsome account, a smell almost smoked them, the Mongols marched for a long time, and they were not particular about personal hygiene, plus they ate meat and dairy products, of course the smell was not good, but the boss sitting in the tent was eye-catching.

The general of the Western Xia army turned out to be a woman, although she was not as soft and charming as the women of Jiangnan, but she was heroic and sassy, and her body was vigorous, and she had another kind of grace, at this time she was sitting cross-legged on the blanket, looking at the two Ming envoys with great interest.

"The descendants of the Southern Dynasty are indeed Peugeot, and they are bold, yes, I like it." The first sentence of the female general turned out to be to evaluate Mao Bizhuang's appearance, which surprised everyone, but also reassured Mao Bizhuang, for women, his self-confidence is still very strong, this mission, I am afraid that it is expected to succeed.

"Tell me, what are you doing here?" The female general cut the roast mutton in front of her with a knife and asked very casually, as if she did not regard this as a major matter for the two countries to negotiate peace.

"I am the Ming Cabinet scholar and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Hou Sui, this time, is in the service of my emperor's holy decree, the Ming Dynasty and Western Xia, is a friendly neighbor, since the previous dynasty Wanli years ......,......" Hou Sui said a long paragraph, before entering the topic, the female general had finished eating, wiped her hands and said: "Less nonsense, serious." ”

Hou Sui was stunned, the old man blushed, he stiffened his sleeve, stood up and said: "What my emperor means is that you will come to the Yangtze River to drink horses from thousands of miles away, and the Ming Dynasty naturally has no reason to treat guests badly, one million taels of silver, 500,000 pieces of silk and cloth, and immediately serve them, and please return to the west, otherwise ......"

The female general looked at Mao Bi stiff with a pair of big eyes: "Otherwise, what? ”

"Otherwise, as soon as the division of King Qin, who is in Shandong, Hebei, Huguang, Sichuan, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang arrives, Your Excellency will not be able to leave even if you want to."

"Hahaha" The Mongolians in the tent all laughed wildly, laughing so much that tears flowed, and the female general also laughed so much that the flowers trembled, and suddenly the laughter stopped abruptly, and the female general changed her cold face and said: "You are threatening us?" ”

"It's not a threat, it's a fact. The Ming Dynasty is so big, can you eat it? It's one thing to raid thousands of miles of strange soldiers, it's another thing to occupy and operate, I guess your army doesn't have much food and grass, if I clear the wilderness towards the strong wall and train the people to be brave, how long can you hold out? Mao Bi's stiff face should not be, talking eloquently, sometimes throwing up a black smear that fell in front of his forehead, indescribably cold and chic, the Mongolian female general looked a little stupid.

"Okay, let's agree to withdraw the army, but your country's reward should be more, one million taels, you should beg for food!" One price, 100,000 taels of gold, 10 million taels of silver, and 1 million horses of silk, in addition, I want you, a handsome guy, to follow me to Xixia to enjoy happiness, (*^__^*)

Hee-hee......"

The lion opened his mouth, the Xixia people really dared to make a bid, but it was good to be able to make a bid, it was better than not being willing to negotiate peace and have to fight, and the price was all over the place to sit on the ground and pay back, the Ming Dynasty didn't have much else, the money was, anyway, don't pay a dime yourself, Hou Sui suddenly had a plan in his heart, he said in a deep voice: "It's good to say, since the general has made a bid, let our court discuss it for a few days, and give you an answer." ”

"No, I have to reply now, give it or not!"

"Although the old man is a Qincha, he does not have full authority to deal with this matter, besides, with so much gold and silver, it will take a few days just to raise it."

"No, I have to get it today, even if I don't have ingots, gold and silver utensils, antiques, calligraphy and paintings can be deducted, anyway, I have to get it quickly."

After such a conversation, Hou Xun's confidence was even stronger, and he wanted to quickly take the money and run away, the more he was like this, the calmer he became: "General, you still have to kill the old man, you can't get it today anyway." ”

"Okay, you hurry up and go back and discuss with your emperor Lao Tzu, the price I offered, I will give you a maximum of seven percent off, no less, well, this future life will stay here as a hostage, you go back by yourself."

Mao Bi stiff was just about to speak, but was held down by Hou Sui, looking at him with firm eyes, and his eyes conveyed the meaning that Daming Sheji's health depends on you, Mao Bi stiff didn't say anything more, just nodded resolutely.

Hou Sui left, Mao Bi stiff stayed, the female general invited him to the upper seat, put out mutton and mare's milk wine for him to taste, the distance is close to Mao Bi stiff, the age of this female general is not young, there are faint crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, but the maintenance is really good, the waist, chest and buttocks are like a girl, the female general introduces herself as Anu, is the deputy marshal of Western Xia, the identity is very respected, and Mao Bi stiff is still a cold and arrogant appearance, because he has a good grasp of female psychology, the more he ignores them, the more they like it, Especially this kind of woman who is like a star holding the moon in the army, she can't give a good face, a woman is born cheap.

Sure enough, as Mao Bi Stiff expected, the more he had a handsome face, the more Anu was obedient to him, and even promised to let the price go by two percent, five percent off, and no matter how low it was, it would not work, because he couldn't explain it to his brothers.

Mao Bijian pretended to be grateful, and promised to follow Anu back to Western Xia from now on, Anu suddenly became excited, asked someone to arrange a banquet, and gave Mao Bijian a gold medal, with this gold medal, you can walk around the barracks at will, no one can take care of it.

During the period of waiting for the reply from the capital, Mao Bi Zhuang and Anu had been drinking and having fun, from noon to evening, Mao Bi Jian finally got drunk due to his strength, Anu put him on the blanket, shouted softly twice, confirmed that he was asleep, and then returned to the front account.

The front account is the back account only separated by a layer of sheepskin, the voice can be heard clearly, what kind of person is the stiffness, the famous big wine basket on both sides of the Qinhuai River, known as a thousand cups are not drunk, how can a little low-degree mare's milk wine pour him down, he closed his eyes tightly and pretended to be asleep, in fact, his ears were pricked up, and he listened carefully to the meeting of the front account.

The Tangut people were not all Mongols, and their official dialect was Chinese with a Western Regions accent, so they could basically understand it.

At the beginning, several generals protested against Anu's lowering of prices, saying that their 20,000 horses had traveled thousands of miles from Hanzhong, and they didn't know how much hardship they had endured all the way before they rushed to the city of Nanjing.

Anu retorted: "We only fought through the loopholes of the Ming army, Nanjing City is so tall, how can we attack it across a big river?" Although the Ming army suffered heavy losses, but Jiangnan manpower is sufficient, productivity is more terrifying, in case the Jiangbei Jiangnan Qinwang soldiers and horses arrive, our advantage will be gone, the so-called see good is this truth. ”

Another humanitarian: "The Han people are cowardly, even if the teachers of the kings from all walks of life come, we will still kill him and turn over alone." ”

Anu said: "Others are okay, I'm afraid that the first fierce general of the Western Army, Liu Zongmin, is coming, this person is wise and brave, has the power of ten thousand invincibles, he is a hundred battles under his command, if he is not based on Tianshui, we don't have to detour, directly from Tongguan into Henan, now we are in Tianshui The suspicious plan has probably been seen through by him, it is reported that Liu Zongmin has led his headquarters to rush to the capital in the starry night, they are marching on their own territory, logistics and transportation are guaranteed, if they use the waterway along the Yangtze River to go south, It will arrive in Nanjing in a few days, not to mention the five-fold gold and silver, even if it is not a discount, it is not easy to say, I am afraid that the lives of 20,000 Xia soldiers will have to be explained. ”

As soon as Liu Zongmin was mentioned, everyone was silent, and only after a while did someone say quietly: "Liu Zongmin...... That's a more powerful character than Liu Ziguang, we really can't afford to mess with it. ”

After the discussion, it was decided that according to Anu's wishes, five folds will be five folds, everyone dispersed, Anu returned to the back account, saw that the blanket was empty, and Mao Bi stiff disappeared, her face showed a sly smile, and after a while, it made the whole camp stiff.

At this time, Mao Bi Zhuang was already standing on the small boat returning to the south shore, he looked at the chaotic Mongolian barracks on the north bank, shook his head, and smiled coldly.