"The Great Khan had better restrain his tribes from harassing the people. Standing on the wall of the outer city of the capital, Yuan Zhang frowned and said to Arubu that after the various armies entered the outer city, they plundered everywhere, which made him quite uneasy.www.biquge.info

"The men of Mobei have always been like this, since the capital has been captured by them, then the wealth of the children here belongs to them, which is the practice of the Mobei grassland since ancient times." Arub didn't think so, he didn't know how many times this kind of thing had happened in the steppe, and he had no reason or want to stop them.

"Are you satisfied just to be the Great Khan of the steppe?" Yuan Zhang felt disappointed in Arubu for the first time, and he pointed to the great rivers and mountains in the distance and asked, "Don't you want to be the emperor of the Central Plains?" ”

"If I want to be emperor, what should I do?" Arub awoke from his dream, and the joy of taking the capital faded into a desire to encompass all the land under his khan's banner.

"Great Khan, look over there." Yuan Zhang stretched out his hand and pointed to an orchard on the outer edge of the city wall, from time to time there were Mobei cavalry passing by, wielding knives at will to chop the branches of fruit trees blocking the road, "When I was in the capital, I lived near here, and at the beginning, a neighbor had to pick a few fruits every time he passed by the orchard, and if he couldn't finish eating, he would throw them aside; But then one day he got rich and bought the orchard, but he never did such a thing again, although he occasionally picked the fruit to enjoy, but never wasted it, and not only that, but also patiently weeded and pests, for fear that the fruit trees would not grow well and would not bear good fruit. When I asked him why there was such a big difference in his behavior, he replied, 'The orchard was owned by someone else, but now it is his own property, so of course it needs to be taken care of.' ”

"Now we occupy the capital, just like this person got this orchard." Seeing that Arubu gradually fell into thought, Yuan Zhang explained, "Before that, the Central Plains was owned by the Great Wei, and even if the Mobei tribes were able to enter the customs occasionally, they could not occupy the city for a long time, so they could only plunder and retreat; But now it is very different, the Great Wei is terminally ill, and there is no longer the strength to resist the northern army, from Xuanda to the capital, the thousands of miles of land can be said to belong to my northern country, at this time, if you continue to loot like before, I am afraid it will not be cost-effective. ”

Arubu was silent when he heard this, he didn't reply for a long time, Yuan Zhang didn't urge, just stood there and waited quietly, about a cup of tea passed, Arubu completely understood what Yuan Zhang meant, but he still didn't understand one thing, "The population of my northern country is only millions, less than one percent of the Great Wei, can you really swallow these thousands of miles?" ”

"It's man-made." Yuan Zhang understood that Arubu had already been moved by his words, "If the Great Khan wants to rule this land, it is not enough to rely on hundreds of thousands of cavalry, the Central Plains is not a desert north, and farming is no better than grazing, if the Great Khan wants to become the emperor of the Central Plains, he must change his previous customs and act according to the rules of the Central Plains." ”

"Fear may bring them to their knees for a while, but it will not last long, and if you want to completely recover these people and turn them into the people of the Great Khan, you must use both grace and might." Yuan Zhang looked at the soldiers who were spreading fear again, "Like this, you can only win the hatred of the people of the capital, but you can't convince them, but in the future, if a hero rises up, they will not hesitate to pick up the steel knife and kill us." On the contrary, if we release some kindness a little, it doesn't need to be good, just a little stronger than the previous Great Wei, so that they will be desperate for us. ”

"It's a big deal, and I'll have to think about it." What Yuan Zhang said today made Arubu difficult to distinguish for a while, on the one hand, it is the long-standing tradition of Mobei, and on the other hand, it is the temptation to dominate the Central Plains, if the army is ordered to collect troops, it will violate the tradition of Mobei and cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers, and if they are not restrained, it seems unlikely to realize the desire to unify the world, which is really a difficult choice.

"Please also ask the Great Khan to make a decision as soon as possible," Yuan Zhang couldn't persuade again, so he could only say so, Arubu waved his hand and walked to the side to think alone, Yuan Zhang looked at the chaos under the city and frowned.

Until sunset, Arubu did not issue any orders, but Yuan Zhang waited for the messenger of Great Wei, and Chen Jing'an was hung from the city wall again, and found the latest conditions for Yuan Zhang to send Great Wei.

"Now that Yang Jiefu's father and son have been taken into prison, and Qin Juan at home is also strictly guarded, as long as the national teacher agrees, the lower officials will send them over to be disposed of by the national teacher, in addition, the imperial court has made up 2.3 million ingots of gold, 9.86 million ingots of silver, and 1.78 million horses of cloth, and I also ask the national teacher to reopen the peace for the sake of my court's extra deference, right?" Chen Jing'an didn't dare to procrastinate, and sent the conditions of Dawei straight to the point, because he copied Yang Jiefu's house, and took out a lot more money this time than last time.

As a minister of the imperial court, seeing that the people in the city suffered such a catastrophe but did not say a word, if this Great Wei did not die, it would be unreasonable, Yuan Zhang was quite helpless, took the list and glanced at it a few times, "You go back and send Yang Jiefu and his son over, I will not attack the inner city within three days, and give you three days to raise money, if you do not reach the required number, do not blame the national division for being ruthless." ”

Not bothering to pay attention to Chen Jing'an's pleas, Yuan Zhang continued, "By the way, there is one more thing, if you want to negotiate peace and let your emperor personally come to the camp to deliver the surrender table to the Great Khan, and announce that the Great Wei will be completely subordinated to the northern kingdom, if you can't do this, you don't need to talk about the rest!" Someone, send off! ”

Chen Jing'an was driven back, and escorted Yang Jiefu and Yang Deming to Yuan Zhang's temporary mansion that night. A few moments later, the sound of a stool falling to the floor was heard in the room.

Yang Jiefu is dead, but he hasn't thought about how to deal with Yang Deming and Yuan Zhang, but he can't make mistakes by letting people take strict care of him; As for the Great Wei court, due to the threat of the northern army outside the city, the queen mother confiscated the family property of many big officials one after another, and even Lu Chengqing and Hu Songnian did not let go, and half of the important ministers in the court went to the prison.

But even so, the money they found was still far from what Yuan Zhang wanted that day, and the emperor still couldn't make up his mind about going out of the city to surrender in person, but Yuan Zhang didn't give them much time to think about it, and three days later, the trebuchets were transported to the front, and the war to attack the inner city was about to begin. (To be continued.) )