The envoy sent to Chang'an by the Southern Dynasty was named Xu Ling, and he was also one of the few remaining faces of the Jiangdong regime after the Battle of Jiangling. But even this Xu Ling was actually stranded in Northern Qi and returned to Jiangnan with Xiao Yuanming.

Xu Ling is nearly fifty years old, and his appearance and bearing are typical of the style of a scholar and doctor of the Southern Dynasty, although he is a weak country and a strong neighbor, but there is no grovel.

After being introduced into the hall, he first glanced at the Tang Gong in the hall, and like other people who met for the first time, his face couldn't help but flash a trace of surprise, but he quickly returned to normal, and said in front of him: "Xu Ling, the envoy of the Liang State, entered Wei Tonghao on the mission of His Majesty and Prime Minister Chen Cheng, and congratulated Tang Gong and the Great Prime Minister on their participation in the national government."

"Xu Hou doesn't need to be polite, please take a seat."

Li Tai looked at Xu Ling with interest, raised his hand to signal him to take a seat, and said with a smile: "The former battle of Jiangling, although he won the grace of the Southern Dynasty, but Xu Hou still left the pearl outside, which is really regrettable. Now Xu Hou came to see the country, and his style really lived up to his reputation. Losing this person is not a complete achievement!"

Xu Ling's expression was a little unnatural after hearing this, although the other party's words were praising himself, but they were quite demeaning to their entire Southern Liang court, and it was naturally very uncomfortable for an envoy who was ordered to go to other countries. Especially what the other party said made him unable to refute, and now the weakened national fortunes of Southern Liang also made him have no confidence to teach people about the cold and heat like he did when he sent the Northern Qi envoy before.

Li Tai didn't mean to humiliate Xu Ling, but he didn't treat Xu Ling as an official envoy at all.

At least from the perspective of their Western Wei Dynasty, the Southern Liang Guozuo ended after the capture of Jiangling, and in history, the Western Liang was established by Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, to continue its national ancestry, but in this time and space of Li Tai's words, both Emperor Liang and King Liang were packed and sent to Chang'an, and Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was also cut down last year. After King Liang entered the court, he was demoted to the Duke of Liang County, in order to comfort the favor of the Southern Liang scholars.

As for Xiao Fangzhi, the little emperor who Chen Baxian supported in Jiankang, he didn't recognize it at all here in the Western Wei Dynasty. After all, one of Li Tai's great achievements is to destroy Liang, and if Xu Ling is treated as an envoy from another country, it will be tantamount to slapping himself in the mouth.

That's why he introduced Xu Ling to meet him in the afternoon after dealing with military affairs, as if he was summoning his subordinates, and as for the series of titles he said, it didn't mean anything to him.

Of course, this non-recognition is not a deliberate belittling of Chen Baxian, at least it also means that the Western Wei Dynasty will no longer use the Southern Liang legal system to do anything to interfere in the current situation in Jiangdong, for example, even if Chen Baxian abolishes Liang and stands on his own in the coming year, there will be no protest and opposition here in the Western Wei Dynasty. Jiangdong was originally a place beyond the reach of soldiers during the Battle of Jiangling, and he could scold Chen Ba for stealing the fruits first, but he would not attack him as a rebellious minister and thief.

Although he did not receive the treatment of an envoy, the personnel communication that should be done still had to be done, so Xu Ling cleaned up his mood for a while, and then said again: "Before leaving, Prime Minister Chen specially instructed Xu that he must congratulate him after he enters the meeting!" Prime Minister Chen Cheng said that when Tang Gong was guarding Jingxiang in the past, he had the honor to work with each other and plan for thieves, and they had something to gain from each other.

Although Prime Minister Chen Cheng is outside the country, he also deeply feels that Tang Gong is ambitious, and now he can overcome the strong enemy again and enter the ruling court, which is also the will of heaven, although the foreign masses are also happy and convinced! Although the old Wei State had the heart to please the thief, he really had no power to destroy the enemy, and the strong ministers of the shogunate had no intention of deceiving the world, and they were also suspected of stealing their reputation. Tang Gong's entry into the dynasty is not only expected by everyone, but also in name! If you can reconstruct the previous plan, then the thief is fierce, and there is nothing to fear!"

Hearing Xu Ling's words of praising himself and belittling his predecessor Yu Wentai, Li Tai couldn't help but be happy. When these words were said in front of him, in addition to patting him on the back, it is estimated that Chen Baxian used this to boast and said that he was better than Wang Sheng's argument.

Chen Baxian hoped to replicate the kind of cooperation he had had in Huainan before and then continue to cooperate against the Northern Qi, and Li Tai was not surprised.

Although it is said that the Western Wei attacked Jiangling and cut down their boss, the hatred between them is far greater than that between them and the Northern Qi, but the aggressive and surging malice shown by the Northern Qi at the moment poses a greater threat to Jiangdong. Chen Baxian didn't really do anything to restore the rise and fall of Liang, what he did was nothing more than to protect Jiangdong and fulfill himself, of course he wouldn't accept it

Trapped in this old grudge.

However, today's Li Tai is no longer a small square uncle living in Shannan, and the strategic trade-offs and focus must of course be based on a higher vision, Chen Baxian wants to cooperate with him, and he has to weigh whether the other party has this strength.

So after a short silence, he spoke again, "The news from the former Koto also surprised me deeply. Wang Taiwei and Chen Situ are Jiangdong ministers who defended the chaos and defended the road, but they were not compatible after the success of the thieves and the destruction of the thieves, what was the disturbance and vendetta? Although I have no intention of asking the cause and distinguishing between right and wrong, I also have pity for the people of Jiangdong, and I am afraid that I will be caught in the war and will not be able to extricate myself."

"Tang Gong is kind and sympathetic to my father, and his feelings are touching. The story of Wang Taiwei, a certain old drift outside, is not well known. After returning to China, Prime Minister Chen Cheng also tried his best for the country, and although there were troubles in Sanwu, they were all restrained. Even if Lingnan is disrespectful, it is not a major disaster. The local tyrants in Nanchuan's rebellious hometown are all greedy rats, and the rumors can be determined."

Xu Ling was also favored by Wang Shengbi, and although he was ordered by Chen Baxian now, he did not discuss the rights and wrongs of Wang Sheng's debate, but only vaguely said about it, and turned to a little about the situation in the country: "Only the so-called stubborn thieves today are the stubborn thieves in Jiangbei, who are strong and powerful outside, and cause trouble in the country, which is very hateful!"

Since the Western Wei Dynasty's Eastern Expedition last year, the focus of the world's disputes has shifted to the pair of old enemies of the Western Wei and the Northern Qi. Including Li Tai, he also turned his attention to the war situation in Heluo, and his attention to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River changed to a conservative wait-and-see, and he no longer invested more manpower and material resources to interfere.

In particular, the Northern Qi Dynasty showed a strong intention to interfere as early as after Chen Ba first attacked Wang Sengbi. Moreover, tracing back to the source, this civil strife was originally triggered by the forcible intervention of the Northern Qi Dynasty to let Xiao Yuanming ascend the throne as the emperor.

Therefore, the Northern Qi first sent troops with Duan Shao and directly captured Guangling City, which became empty after Chen Baxian's main force left, and then sent a large army south to continue to interfere.

It's just that due to the power struggle within the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Yue, the king of Qinghe who was the first commander, was recalled and killed, which originally cast a shadow on this expedition. And then the Western Wei Yuwentai took advantage of the Northern Qi to launch an eastward expedition when the army was in Huainan, and the Northern Qi was busy dealing with the Heluo war, and this battle was fought to the end of the year.

Therefore, the army sent from the south before suddenly became awkward and stopped in Pengcheng, Huaibei to wait for follow-up orders. After the end of the Heluo War, the Northern Qi did not increase investment in the south, but transferred the commander of this force, Shangdang Wang Gao Lian, back to the Beishan Great Wall to attack the Turks.

It is precisely because the East and the West are fighting each other that the Jiangdong side has a chance to breathe, at least the situation is much better than in the same period in history. And Chen Baxian also fully grasped this opportunity, took the lead in concentrating on pacifying the Sanwu region, the most core of Jiangdong, and even returned to Jingkou for a time, wanting to recover Guangling, which was taken by the Northern Qi, but had to give up this plan because of the Lingnan rebellion.

Up to now, there are still two forces opposing Chen Baxian in the entire Jiangnan region, one is Wang Lin, who is entrenched in the Yuzhang area of Jiangzhou, and the so-called Nanchuan heroes in Jiangzhou, and the other is Xiao Bo, the Guangzhou assassin of the Southern Liang clan who has been entrenched in Lingnan for a long time.

However, as Xu Ling said, these two forces are also difficult to call a big disaster. Wang Lin is the most ferocious among them, but when he was entrenched in Xiangzhou before, he was driven away by Li Tai's army, and almost all of his pants were stripped off before he was able to go east, and his power has not yet fully grown.

Previously, his people accepted part of the baggage armament provided by Li Tai and were able to gain a foothold in Yuzhang, but at present, the main energy is to unite the local tyrants who are not obedient in Yuzhang, and they have no ability to attack Chen Baxian at all.

As for Xiao Bo in Lingnan, it belongs to the atmosphere group at all, Lingnan itself is located in a remote area, and it is difficult to affect the core area of Jiangdong, and Xiao Bo does not have enough ability to confront Chen Baxian at all.

was able to basically pacify the Jiangnan region in less than a year, even if it was because of a window period left by the Western Wei and Northern Qi dynasties beating each other, Chen Baxian was worthy of being a masterpiece for a while.

But some things should come after all, and the Northern Qi, which had been unable to devote itself to the Huainan battle before, finally withdrew from everything this time and gathered a large army to increase its troops to the south.

Now Jiangnan land

Although the region has stabilized, the situation of river defense is more severe than before. Not to mention the Guangling that was lost and lost, there is also a Qin County occupied by Xu Sihui, the former king and monk's defense department, and now Xu Sihui has also taken refuge in the Northern Qi, so that the Northern Qi army can launch a river-crossing operation at any point in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, this time, Chen Ba first sent Xu Ling north to envoy to the Western Wei Dynasty, mainly hoping that the two sides would restore the tacit understanding of the previous cooperation in Huainan, so that the Western Wei forces in Huainan could properly contain the army of the Northern Qi, so as to slightly alleviate the pressure on the river defense faced by Jiangnan.

After listening to Xu Ling's story, Li Tai first groaned slightly, and then said, "Besides, does Chen Situ have other demands? I remember that his sons and nephews are still in Chang'an."

After hearing this, Xu Ling lowered his head and said: "Prime Minister Chen also explained this matter, and asked the alliance to be strong with the weak, and he should have offered the pledge to show honesty, but the blood heirs of the sect are thin, and there are no more sons to offer, so please continue to keep the second son in Chang'an." If this time wins, both countries will rejoice. If he does not win, then Prime Minister Chen Cheng will repay the country with death, and what is the heir!"

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