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As soon as he thought of this, Pang Tong couldn't help but feel unhappy and quite annoyed, but looking at Cao Pi's honest smile and childish face, he couldn't help it and didn't attack on the spot.

After all, the other party is still a young man who has not yet reached the crown, and strictly speaking he is still a child; And he Pang Tong is now twenty-five years old, and he has long been an adult, how can an adult be as knowledgeable as a child?

What's more, the purpose of his trip was also to form an alliance with the Wei State, and to work together to send troops. At this point, there is a willingness to form an alliance with each other, and the goal is the same.

This is Pang Shiyuan's open-mindedness and bearing.

Although he is resourceful, thoughtful and eloquent, he is generous to others, and he usually looks at the strengths of others and never reveals their weaknesses. He likes to evaluate people and cultivate the reputation of others, so the people he evaluates often exceed the person's actual talent. People were very surprised by this, so they went to ask Pang Tong.

He said: "There is a great chaos today, the way of righteousness is gradually declining, there are few good people and many evil people, I want to raise such customs to achieve the purpose of promoting the right path, so I must preach good examples and improve the world, if we do not do this, there will be fewer and fewer good people." Wouldn't it be nice if five out of ten people could improve half of the matter, and then achieve the goal of educating the world, so that aspiring people could encourage themselves? This is Pang Tong's heart of worrying about the country and the people, and it is also his values. In the words of the moment. All he does is pass on positive energy.

It can be seen that Pang Tong is a real broad-minded person. Informal, elegant. Magnificent. On the other hand, if there is no tolerance for others, how can we see the strengths of others and be willing to achieve others' fame? Praising others is a virtue, and Pang Tong is undoubtedly the forerunner of this virtue, and it is not known whether he is the originator. Complimenting your own children is not one of them.

In this society where people are judged by their appearance, he stands in the forgotten corner, and is the most inconspicuous person in the crowd, not even as good as ordinary people. But he relied on his own efforts to create a pure and powerful inner world for himself. His heart is far brighter than his appearance, wise and powerful, better than the vast majority of good-looking people in the world.

But Pang Tong is by no means a bad person, he has his own standards of life and a maverick style. In the troubled times, all his talents were focused on military struggles, he was calm, long-term, and extremely perceptive and judgmental. He is good at seizing opportunities, killing decisively, and once he grabs the fighter, he will attack quickly as if he did not hesitate.

Soldiers, treacherous ways. Military struggle is a contest of life and death. There is no room for mercy and mercy, and it is what a soldier has to do to give full play to the limited forces and resources to the extreme, and to achieve twice the result with half the effort. Pang Tong is one of them.

This mission to Chang'an. His name is not in the roster of the Southern Han Mission, but he is hidden among his followers under a pseudonym. Infiltrate Chang'an City. This is not only true of Pang Tong, but also of Cao Pi, who is sitting opposite him. They did everything possible to come to Chang'an. Not only for the purpose of secretly forming an alliance, but also for the purpose of observing the situation in Xiliang and the strength of the defenders along the way, and preparing for the joint attack that will be launched soon.

Knowing oneself and knowing the other side can not be defeated in a hundred battles. The wise men of the Northern Wei and Southern Han dynasties were well aware of this, so they made the same move, taking advantage of the opportunity to observe the enthronement ceremony, and sent their most powerful people to Chang'an to spy on the defense of the pass and the strength of the Western Liang army. How can you miss something that kills two birds with one stone?

While thinking to himself, Pang Tong waved his hand lightly, and a big man standing behind him immediately stepped forward, took out a bright yellow edict from his arms and handed it to Cao Pi. Seeing this, Cao Pi also waved his hand to signal Hu Cong behind him to step forward and handed the letter of Wei to Pang Tong.

Pang Tong said in a low voice: "This is the letter of alliance from my lord to Emperor Wei, Ziheng might as well open it and take a look, if there is no objection, you and I can sign the covenant on behalf of the two lords." As he spoke, Pang Tong had already spread out the edict in his hand, and the font on the yellow letter was very large, which could be clearly seen by the moonlight.

However, Pang Tong and Cao Pi have never met, this is the first time they have met, in case there is fraud or one of them is fake, then the other party's mission will be in great trouble, and it will not be able to get out of Chang'an City alive. For the sake of prudence, the big man and Cao Pi's servant standing behind Pang Tong lit the wind lantern almost at the same time, holding the wind lantern for the two of them to carefully screen the edict in their hands.

"These 、、、 20,000 war horses are too many, right?" Cao Pi was full of promises before, but after seeing the numbers on the covenant at this moment, he was taken aback, so he looked at Pang Tong with a suspicious face, and needed him to make a reasonable explanation. Obviously, in Cao Pi's view, the covenant submitted by the Southern Han Dynasty is tantamount to a lion opening his mouth, asking for a price all over the sky, and asking for 20,000 war horses at every turn. You must know that although Wei captured tens of thousands of war horses in the Battle of Jizhou, the number is still limited after all, most of the war horses have been formed into an army, and there are no remaining war horses at present. The most important thing is that the Wei State itself has no pastures and cannot breed war horses, and the rest of the existing war horses, except for the seized proceeds, are all purchased at high prices from caravans that sell war horses privately.

For the two vassal states of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty, as early as five years ago, the war horse was the most scarce war resource, with a price but no market, often a high-quality war horse can be worth a thousand gold, and the number is very small, and the gold is hard to find. Nowadays, all the prefectures and grasslands rich in war horses are under the control of the Western Liang Army, and they are strictly controlled, and war horses are not allowed to flow into the territory of the Northern Wei or Southern Han Dynasty; Once it is found that someone is selling war horses without permission, they will be immediately killed, and it will even affect their wives and children, and even the three clans.

In terms of controlling war horses, Xiliang's laws are extremely cruel and have no human touch, and they will all severely punish caravans or military and political officials who dare to sell war horses. All the war horses in the territory of Yixi Liang are under military control, and all horse farms and pastoral areas are all subordinate to the Great General's Mansion, which is under the unified jurisdiction of Li Li's shogunate, and no one is allowed to interfere, even if the generals in the army cannot take away a war horse without permission.

It is precisely because of the strict control of the flow of war horses into other vassal states in Xiliang that the price of war horses has risen again and again, and even so, there is still a price without a market, and the supply exceeds demand. In addition to the war horse, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty are not short of horses and horses, and the price is low, the general scholar or the rich family has dozens of horses, but the war horse is extremely rare, limited to the army or the use of famous families, the general family simply can not afford thousands of gold of the best war horse.

Seeing that Cao Pi's face had changed greatly, Pang Tong was not surprised, and said unashamedly: "Ziheng doesn't have to be impatient, let me talk carefully." Along the way, Ziheng must have also seen that there are a lot of war horses in Xiliang, and war horses can be seen everywhere on the official roads along the way, among which there are many high-quality war horses. Even there are hundreds of war horses in the roadside post station, which can be rented at will, and the price is low, as long as you plan properly, it is not difficult to raise thousands or even tens of thousands of war horses. The most important thing is that Xiliang is adjacent to Wei, and as long as you are willing to pay, you will definitely be able to buy war horses.

What's more, as far as I know, Xiliang Li Li will exchange horses for grain from Wei every year, and it is often a trade of tens of thousands of war horses. So Ziheng don't want to hide it from me, your Wei country has no shortage of war horses, and my Southern Han Dynasty itself does not have high-quality war horses, so there is an urgent shortage of war horses. Soon after, in the Battle of the Northern Expedition, if there was no large number of cavalry charging into battle, it would not be the enemy of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Now that you and I have joined forces to fight against the Xiliang Army, with affection and reason, the Wei State should support some of the war horses. After all, my Southern Han army is strong, which is beneficial to both you and me; Vice versa. ”

Speaking of this, Pang Tong paused, and said with a smile: "What's more, this time my Southern Han Dynasty is not in vain to ask for war horses, Ziheng might as well continue to look down, my lord is willing to pay 40,000 gold, plus 100,000 stone grain and grass to buy these war horses." I heard that there was a great drought in Yanzhou and a flood of locusts in Qingzhou last year, and these grains and grasses were the materials that Wei urgently needed, and I, as an ally, Nanhan, naturally could not sit idly by, and should do my best to support some of Wei's grain and grass. After all, we are about to use troops against Xiliang, and the so-called soldiers and horses go first before they move grain and grass, and it is not reasonable to exchange grain and grass for war horses. In this way, you and I take what we need, the best of both worlds, does Ziheng still need to hesitate? "A true eloquent person always thinks about others and looks at the problem from the other person's point of view, so that it is convincing. Pang Tong's words were reasonable, and what was obviously unreasonable, after he said this, it became a relief for some grain and grass in Wei, as if Wei took advantage of the Southern Han Dynasty.

But he forgot that the covenant in Cao Pi's hand did record 100,000 stone grain and grass, but these grain and grass were not exchanged for war horses, but for 20,000 sets of cavalry equipment. That is to say, this time, Liu Biao of Jingzhou planned to buy 20,000 war horses from Wei with 40,000 gold, and then exchange 100,000 stones of grain and grass for 20,000 sets of cavalry armor and equipment. It's the real lion's big mouth, and it's not enough to use the fire to rob this covenant, it's just a robbery!

What can you do with 40,000 gold? At most, it was to buy 2,000 horses or ponies, and not even 200 war horses, but the Southern Han used this money to buy 20,000 war horses from Wei. What is this not robbery? As for 100,000 stone grain and grass in exchange for 20,000 sets of cavalry equipment, it is barely reasonable, after all, Wei has captured a lot of broken armor and cavalry equipment from the Battle of Jizhou, and it is not difficult to get together 20,000 sets with a little repair. What's more, Yuan Shao of Jizhou had a lot of armor and ordnance stored during his lifetime, and there were many iron mines in Jizhou, so there was no shortage of armor equipment.

Compared with the letter of alliance submitted by the Southern Han Dynasty, there were no excessive requirements in the covenant of the Wei State, and the only requirement was to urge the Southern Han to send troops as much as possible, taking advantage of the unstable foundation of the founding of the Western Liang state, the two joined forces to give Li Li a blow to the head, so as to disrupt the position of the Western Liang army, and then seek victory in the chaos, carve up Yuzhou, Xuzhou and Yangzhou under Li Li's rule, and completely drive the Western Liang army out of the Central Plains.

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