Compared with corruption and bribery, taking money and not doing things is undoubtedly more hated, and Xiao Yan's favored minister Zhu Yi is undoubtedly one of the representatives.

Hou Jing of the original time and space had the most say in this, and Zhu Yi's behavior of accepting money and not doing things made him so angry that he denounced Zhu Yi for being greedy for money and accepting bribes in his article against Liang Wei, and regarded indulging Zhu Yi's corruption as one of Xiao Yan's crimes.

But if you really want to say that Zhu Yi didn't do anything at all, he really wronged him, at least Xiao Fan, the assassin of Hezhou, sued Hou Jing for his intention to rebel, but Zhu Yi was still detained.

Before Zhu Yi entered the palace this time, he had privately met a person from the north, who hoped that Zhu Yi could promote Qi Liang to negotiate peace, and promised that he would be paid heavily afterwards.

Zhu Yi, who has always adhered to the principle of taking the money first, and whether things can be done or not depends on his mood, actually agreed to come down for the first time, do things first, and then take the money.

Everyone in the world knows that the Lord of Qi has made a promise, but the more important reason is that advocating peace with Northern Qi is the mainstream voice of the Southern Liang Dynasty today, and the princes of Jiankang are unwilling to fight anymore, for fear that the Qi people who are showing off their might in Hefei will really cross the river, regardless of whether they have the ability to cross the river.

Persuading Xiao Yan to negotiate peace, he can not only get a credit for quelling the war, but also receive a bribe from Northern Qi, why not.

In fact, Gao Cheng can also choose to bribe Zhu Yi first, he is different from Hou Jing, a down-and-out general, Zhu Yi can trick Hou Jing, do you dare to be greedy for his money and not do things, but anyone with a little brain knows that he wants to form a good relationship with the Son of Heaven of Northern Qi in private, not for some money.

As for Hou Jing, he was in Shouyang at that time, and there were only 800 remnants of soldiers in his hands, how could Zhu Yi look down on him.

However, King Xiao Gao still stabilized a wave, after all, he really wanted to become a victim of Zhu Yi taking money and not doing anything, and it would be a shame to pass it on to future generations, of course, in order to realize his own intentions, the son of heaven of a country took money to bribe the ministers of other countries, and it was not very good to spread it.

But Gao Cheng really didn't want to continue to spend in Hefei and took his life to fill it.

Zhu Yi was suspicious of Xiao Yan's influence, otherwise Gao Cheng would not have sent someone to find him.

In the first year of Zhaode, on August 27, Xiao Yan, the emperor of Southern Liang, ordered the general Yang Kan to strictly guard the Yangtze River, and sent Liu Xiaoyi, a regular attendant, to cross the river, contact with the Northern Qi, and put forward a request for peace.

Gao Cheng naturally couldn't ask for it in his heart, but he still cooperated with his generals to play a play, and in the face of Liang Envoy's request for peace, the generals objected one after another, and asked Gao Cheng to take advantage of the situation to cross the river and unify the north and south on the grounds of high morale of the generals in the army.

In the crowd of invitations to fight, the well-known writer Liu Xiaoyi, the envoy of the Southern Liang, was frightened to the point that his face was colorless, and the most important thing in the Northern Qi was the majestic generals, such as Gao Aocao, Peng Le and others, which were not trained blocks, so they almost trained their brains into muscles, and were stared at viciously by a group of big men, as if they wanted to eat him alive.

However, Gao Cheng still stood up and said to Liu Xiaoyi:

"Since my southern expedition, after the great victory in Bagong Mountain, all the winds have fallen, and there are few obstacles, the reason why I am willing to negotiate peace with you is not because the soldiers are tired, and the envoys have also seen it, and all the generals are looking forward to me crossing the river and making them meritorious again.

"I just heard from the Marquis of Zhenyang (Xiao Yuanming) that the lord of your country refused to marry, and there may be a misunderstanding, so I deliberately stopped the war."

Liu Xiaoyi put down the stone in her heart and thanked her repeatedly.

He is not Zhu Yi, of course he doesn't know the true intentions of the Northern Qi, and if the Southern Liang monarchs and ministers knew that the Northern Qi did have the intention of negotiating peace, it would not be Liu Xiaoyi's turn to cross the river as an envoy.

Gao Cheng did not rush to throw out his conditions, but asked Liu Xiaoyi to inform Xiao Yan that he was willing to send an envoy with full powers to negotiate with the Liang envoy in Liyang on his behalf.

With Liu Xiaoyi's identity and official position, how can he be the master of the negotiation on the Nanliang side, and now that he says his own conditions, it seems that his little King Gao is very anxious to negotiate, of course, he really wants to understand this matter as soon as possible, and the expenses of nearly one million people are not a small amount every day.

After Liu Xiaoyi returned to Jiankang, he relayed Gao Cheng's words, and the Southern Liang monarchs and ministers breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the Northern Qi was willing to negotiate peace.

Knowing that Gao Cheng sent Gao Yue of the clan as the main envoy, Xiao Yan also ordered his nephew Xiao Yuanzao to talk with Gao Yue in Liyang.

After some big opening and bargaining, the two sides soon reached a consensus on many issues.

Southern Liang recognized the sovereignty of the Northern Qi over the land of Huainan, and was willing to rule the river with the Northern Qi, cede Hefei, send the family scrolls of the generals of Shouyang Xiancheng, and at the same time make peace with Xiao Miaochun, the princess of Liyang, and the ostensible inducement of the Liang-Qi war was Xiao Yan's refusal of Gao Cheng's marriage proposal.

The Northern Qi Dynasty released the Liang soldiers captured in the First World War of Bagongshan at a reasonable price, except for Xiao Yuanming, who was counted separately.

At the same time, the passage was cleared and the defenders of Hefei were allowed to return south.

King Xiao Gao is also interesting enough, and he didn't even ask for war reparations and ransom! How can a ransom be considered a war reparation! That's human trade!

For Xiao Yan, this condition is indeed acceptable, Jiangbei is now only a lonely city in Hefei, and he is powerless, or he no longer dares to send troops to cross the river to fight with the Northern Qi land and recover Huainan.

As the loser of the war, he can't let the Northern Qi return to the land of Huainan and spit out all the cities that he actually occupied, he Xiao Yan thought to himself that he didn't have that face.

This peace negotiation is equivalent to exchanging Hefei City for the right of redemption of the captured soldiers of Nanliang, and opening the road, allowing the 30,000 defenders of Hefei to return to the south, and the two families ceasing to stop the war.

As for the most beloved granddaughter Xiao Miaochun, it seems insignificant in front of state affairs, Gao Cheng wants to ask for marriage, and he agrees.

The reason why he refused to marry before was because Gao Cheng was unwilling to make an alliance, but now that he has negotiated peace, Gao Cheng will fight again, it is that he suffers morally, at least Xiao Yan did not think about tearing up the peace agreement and crossing the river to the north.

Over the years, he has endured enough of the hardships of the Northern Expedition, which time is not a loss of soldiers, but although Chen Qingzhi has lost 7,000 soldiers, his political and military success is far from being comparable to 7,000 white-robed soldiers.

So when Xiao Yuanzao brought back the final conditions of Northern Qi, although Xiao Yan was coy and pretended not to cede Jiangbei, he still agreed to avoid embarrassment under the persuasion of the ministers.

At the price of one piece of cloth per soldier, more than 30,000 captives of Shouyang were ransomed to the Northern Qi, and the generals ranged from 100 to 5,000 pieces of cloth and silk in terms of status and status.

As for Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang, Gao Cheng saw that he had made so many contributions for himself, and he did not temporarily increase the price, and still sold for 30,000 pieces of cloth.

Just to ransom the prisoners, the Southern Liang had to pay more than 100,000 pieces of cloth to the Northern Qi, and of course, the ransom of the generals was funded by their families.

Even Xiao Yuanming, under Xiao Yan's years of indulgence, has a lot of savings, and he can bear the next part, and the rest is paid for him by his good uncle Xiao Yan.

Gao Cheng didn't get these more than 100,000 pieces of cloth for himself, but as a reward for the soldiers, and he even added a lot of it himself.

However, this time all Huainan was taken, and many of them were seized from the treasury of various cities, which could still make up for most of the southern levies.

Just when the two sides reached a consensus, the Southern Liang was preparing to withdraw from Hefei, and the Northern Qi was about to trade prisoners, in Jiankang City, a twelve-year-old girl said angrily:

"My daughter doesn't marry!"