Chapter 2047 War Reparations
All kinds of things that happened in the center of Xianyang's power, Chen Sheng had his own channels to learn about this information. However, at this time, Chen Sheng did not have the ability to blend into this whirlpool, and he was not in the mood to participate. After nearly two months of patient waiting, Meng Heilong also gathered his old ministry and openly showed his fangs to his son Meng Qingshan, demanding that Meng Qingshan abdicate and return the throne.
Meng Qingshan, who still holds great power, has already experienced the taste of being above 10,000 people, how can he be willing to give up this transcendent status? Besides, after handing over the power back to Meng Heilong, Meng Heilong will definitely not let him go. He will inevitably be put to death by finding a reason. In this regard, Meng Qingshan also concentrated the forces he could mobilize and treated Meng Heilong's warning with a tough attitude.
And the Qin army was very tacitly at this time, and stopped the attack. After getting Chen Sheng's report and understanding Chen Sheng's layout, Ren Huan expressed his approval of Chen Sheng's plan, so he asked the Qin troops from all walks of life to suspend the attack, so that South Vietnam had the energy and time to cause infighting. In order to appease the South Vietnamese side, the Qin army even retreated dozens of miles, away from the pass, and then authorized Chen Sheng to "negotiate" with the South Vietnamese.
Chen Sheng understood Ren Huan's strategic intentions and sent two teams of envoys to negotiate with Meng Heilong and Meng Qingshan respectively.
Meng Heilong and Meng Qingshan both knew that Qin Jun was the real confidant. Forced by the Qin army's watchful eye on the side, the two sides did not dare to start a war, but they were eager to eliminate each other as soon as possible and consolidate their rule. The envoy sent by Chen Sheng gave hope to both sides.
Chen Sheng said that as long as Nanyue and the Xi'ou region can all submit to the Qin State, recognize the status of the suzerainty of the Qin State, accept the canonization of the Qin State and the annual tribute, the Qin State can withdraw from Nanyue and Xi'ou and stop the conquest. Among the proposed conditions for paying tribute, Chen Sheng was indispensable for the lion to open his mouth. But the amount of Lingnan material resources is more than enough to satisfy Chen Sheng's appetite. Moreover, Chen Sheng also vaguely mentioned that if he agreed to these requests, Chen Sheng could send part of the Qin army to assist them in quelling the civil strife. Of course, these Qin troops were not the original Qin army, but the newly formed Southern Yong Army, which was originally an army woven by prisoners of war from South Vietnam, and they were also relieved to use it......
Faced with Chen Sheng's conditions, after reading it, Meng Heilong said that he still needed to think about it for a while. Qin people, tigers and wolves, how could they really help him regain the country? It's just that he wants to encourage him to raise troops to fight, so that the Qin army can benefit from the side.
But with the same conditions, Meng Qingshan couldn't wait to accept them. Meng Qingshan also knew the traps of the Qin people and the covenant. It's just that compared to his father, he doesn't have many choices. Compared with Meng Heilong, the gap between his prestige and Meng Heilong is not ordinarily large, so he can only take advantage of the fact that he can still stabilize his subordinates now, launch an attack on Meng Heilong, as long as he defeats Meng Heilong once, he can stabilize the morale of the army, and he can also stabilize those forces that are swaying between him and Meng Heilong. As long as he was given time to breathe, he was not afraid of Qin Jun.
Meng Qingshan said that he had sufficient military strength and did not need the help of the Qin army. But if the Qin army really had the sincerity to negotiate peace, he was willing to offer the agreed goods, and the Qin army withdrew from Triumph City, returned to Fujian, and handed over Triumph City to South Vietnam.
After Chen Sheng learned of this condition, he didn't think about it, so he sent a message to Meng Qingshan: first deliver half, the Qin army will retreat, and after the delivery of the goods, the Qin army will return to Fujian, and the armies of Hengpu Pass and Yangshan Pass will also be completely evacuated. However, after Meng Qingshan's victory, he had to send envoys and protons to Qin to accept the canonization of the vassal state.
Seeing Chen Sheng's caution. Meng Qingshan really believed that the Qin army had really retreated. Come to think of it, Lingnan is barren and poor, and the Qin army is crusading on a large scale, which is unprofitable, and what can be made is only a false name, making the land of Lingnan the nominal land of Qin. Such a canonization did not damage his own interests, but he could still get a lot of benefits from the Qin State, why not? As for the tribute every year, they are all local specialties of Lingnan, which are not worth a few dollars at all, and they are purely face-saving projects. It was Chen Sheng who demanded a more ruthless war reparation, which was 200,000 gold and 300,000 catties of grain. This is enough to toss half of the wealth that the Meng family has looted in Lingnan for many years.
Because there was not much grain produced in Lingnan, and the grain had to be allocated for the soldiers who were fighting, the 300,000 catties of grain that Meng Qingshan Chen Sheng asked for were exchanged for 50,000 gold, which was nearly ten times more expensive than the normal price of grain. Chen Sheng has no objection to this.
Chen Sheng did not break his promise, and after receiving the first war indemnity, he immediately ordered the army to retreat slowly, and then Meng Qingshan's army crossed the Meijiang River and entered the Triumphant City.
Regarding Chen Sheng's approach, the generals in the army said that it was difficult to understand. Chen Sheng explained: "Since we want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, we can't put on the posture of a hunter and let these two tigers look forward and backward and refuse to do their best. When they fight to the death, we will sharpen our knives and kill them again, these two tigers are not in our bag? ”
After appeasing the lieutenant generals and soldiers, Chen Sheng said to Li Zuodao: "Keep in touch with Meng Heilong and Meng Qingshan at any time, and tell them that the 20,000 Southern Yong troops can enter the battlefield at any time to help them fight, as long as they bear the military expenses." In addition, send 100,000 gold to General Ren, and send 50,000 gold to Zhao Tuo for military expenses. "A total of 250,000 gold was extorted from Meng Qingshan, and Chen Sheng didn't dare to swallow it alone. If it weren't for Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo leading the main force of the Qin army to knock on the pass, he would not have been able to enter Lingnan so smoothly and achieve such feats.
As for the 100,000 gold intercepted, Chen Sheng would not put it in his personal pocket, the army was triumphant all the way, and the military exploits of countless soldiers needed to be exchanged for golden coins, and the 100,000 gold only blocked the financial gap in Fujian and supplemented the soldiers with weapons and military rations.
Although the Qin army retreated, it did not completely withdraw to Minzhong County as agreed, but pushed back two hundred miles and stationed at a place close to the coastline. Meng Qingshan protested, but Chen Sheng replied that the protest was invalid. There had never been a fixed boundary between Minzhong County and Lingnan, and Chen Sheng replied that the place where the Qin army was stationed was the land of the Qin people, and if Meng Qingshan was not satisfied, he could send a large army to attack him.
When Meng Qingshan heard the messenger's reply, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. The Qin people really didn't believe their words, and after asking for a huge amount of wealth, they still refused to leave, which was really the ambition of the wolf. Fortunately, the Qin army had no further plans to go south, so Meng Qingshan's heart was a little at ease, and on the one hand, he strengthened the Triumph City left behind by the Qin army, in case one day the Qin army went south and there was a place for resistance, on the other hand, he mobilized a large army and prepared to launch an attack on Meng Heilong.