A few days later, Chang'an.

A column of scouts, which were clearly different from the past, spread into an endless queue, galloping into the palace one by one.

And each scout held aloft a black flag symbolizing the triumph of victory, the flag fluttered in the wind, and the heroic cheers of the people were heard endlessly.

In the afternoon, the officials who were the first to learn of the truce left the palace with a face full of pity.

"Hey, with the Yellow River as the boundary, it's just a truce......"

"It is reported that the affairs of the Central Council have been killed in Zhaozhou, and three hundred miles to the south can even be killed into Yecheng, but the army has also been withdrawn, what the hell!"

"Why don't you just do it!"

The officials who were not angry about this walked out of the palace after work and drank and talked in the restaurant on Fang Street.

"Huh? Master Guan, Your Majesty is driving in person, and the war is over? The people with sharp ears heard the officials in official robes talking about the war, and they couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Well, it's over, hey," anyway, the news of the war will soon spread among the people, and there is no need for the officials to hide it:

"Your Majesty has no choice but to save the more than 1,000 families of those who surrendered to the country...... Accepted the peace talks. ”

"The peace talks are bounded by the Yellow River, and there will be no more expeditions to the north."

"Wow!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole restaurant was in an uproar!

"This battle has been fought for more than half a year! There are so many soldiers who died on the battlefield! How can there be immortals in war? ”

"To save the hostages? Or the family members of the Qi people? And then there was a truce?! ”

"What does Your Majesty think!"

The people who learned the inside story couldn't believe it at all!

"There must be some other reason, right? If the truce is just because of this, then what can be said about the tens of thousands of soldiers who were killed and wounded on the battlefield? ”

"In the past?"

The officials thought that there were other reasons, but they had just come out of the palace, and although the edict of peace talks had not yet been announced to the world, it had already been hung out in the palace.

The details of this battle from beginning to end are detailed in the proclamation.

And the end of the proclamation definitely ends with peace talks—

The two countries were bounded by the Yellow River, and the state of Qi returned the families of the officials and generals of the Zhou dynasty, while the state of Zhou stopped marching north.

And the Yellow River happens to be in the north of Luoyang, turning north, to put it mildly, the Yellow River still can't be crossed.

Even if most of the front can pass through the shallows, the difficulty of the follow-up reinforcements to cross the river is not low, and they can swim through it in summer, but the speed of swimming there is no comparable to that of the Qi army by land or by ship.

At this point, the state of Qi had almost lost more than half of its territory, and only twenty-three states remained.

"Hey, Qi Guoming has run out of energy, it's a pity!"

"Maybe Your Majesty has other ideas? I don't quite believe that Your Majesty accepted peace talks for the sake of more than a thousand hostages. ”

"That's it, what are hostages, it's too normal to die in battle."

"Even if you don't fight, I heard that the State of Qi sent troops to help the Turks in order to find it, hey, all the border cities in the north of the State of Qi have been slaughtered!"

"It's miserable!"

"Speaking of which, the war still pities the people."

……

Yuwen Shihong ordered Liang Dong and Changsun Hong to lead 50,000 forbidden troops to stay in Yanzhou to pacify the Jiaodong Peninsula that was won without a fight, and then took a group of wounded people along the way and returned to Beijing.

When more than 10,000 wounded followed the royal car into Chang'an, the people more or less knew about the armistice and peace talks.

The cries of "long live" have weakened a lot because of unwillingness.

"It is estimated that the first division returned to Beijing after that, and they should all be wounded soldiers, right? Several waves of wounded soldiers have returned these days. ”

"Maybe."

The people looked at these wounded, their heads were broken and the blood flowed lightly, and the severed limbs couldn't bear to look at them.

But it's just that they can't bear to look at it, and they can't think of anything else in their heads, and it's normal for them to be injured in battle.

In the morning of the next day, in the voice of the courtiers, Yuwen Shihong stood in the center of the hall after a long absence.

"Long live my emperor!"

After Baiguanshan called, a group of courtiers routinely reported their daily housekeeping affairs.

"I would like to inform Your Majesty that since the implementation of the encouragement decree issued at the beginning of March, more than 20 million acres of newly opened fields have been opened up in the territory, and the number of acres of fields replanted with rice has reached 16 million mu, and after the harvest in October, Sinong Temple is estimated to be able to harvest at least 10,000 stone of polished rice! At that time, the ration of marching grain and grass will be able to resume the previous ration of rice polishing, and millet will no longer be rationed as military ration. ”

"Tell Your Majesty, Dianke Temple has recently entertained more than ten guests from the west, which is said to be west of Tuyuhun, there are more than ten exotic small countries, all of which have the intention of friendship with our Zhou country, and they hope that our Zhou country can restore the Silk Road and restart the west-east trade route."

After courtiers such as Ma Changchang and Dugu Jialuo reported on internal affairs one after another, the military attaches who had already returned to Beijing took a step out of the ranks.

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, as soon as the announcement of peace talks with Qi came out, the people were in an uproar, and the vast majority of the people said that they should not withdraw their troops so hastily, and they should work hard to save the people of Qi from the dire situation!"

Hearing this, Yuwen Shihong raised his head and saw who was speaking.

As soon as they saw that it was the Central Council that was speaking, the military attachés among the ministers took the lead in opening their mouths and echoed their words:

"Facts have proved that even if my Zhou country has no ships, it can still enter the territory of Qi country! The front-line newspaper said that in order to attract foreign aid from the Turks, the State of Qi actually promised that the Turks had no taboos, so that at least five border states of the State of Qi were slaughtered and ransacked! ”

"Such a regime! It's really indignant! ”

Yuwen Shihong chuckled and nodded, he didn't understand the truth, but:

"The peace talks have ended, what, do you want me to be a person who doesn't believe in my word?"

"Your Majesty! When you speak with strength! It's time to speak with strength! What about agreeing to the peace talks of Qi State?! ”

"Destroy him Qi country! This peace talk will never exist! How can you say without faith! ”

"Yu Yu Qi defeated Kou and believed in it! Why don't you see the remnants of Qi treating the people as well as he promised to the people when the country was founded?! ”

"Remnants are for their own selfish interests! He even did the evil act of colluding with the Turks to go south! With this kind of person! What is there to talk about! ”

Seeing this early dynasty, the more the courtiers spoke, the more excited they became, and their words were all hoping that he could abolish the peace talks and fight until the destruction of the Qi State.

Yuwen Shihong knew that the practice of Qi asking for help from the Turks had indeed aroused the indignation of heaven and man, and everyone in human nature wanted Qi to pay the price of destroying the country immediately.

"I was forced into peace talks by more than 1,000 hostages! Wait for the grievances! ”

“…… Okay, it's just a matter of being aggrieved for the time being," Yuwen Shihong smiled bitterly, it seemed that the courtiers didn't have anything important to discuss, so they prepared to retreat from the court:

"I understand what Aiqing thinks, but I've already decided."

"It's hard to recover the water, and it's aggrieved, so it's just a temporary aggrieved."

"Who told me that the Zhou State really has no ships, even if it can fight north of the Yellow River, the reinforcements will still be weak."

"Not in a hurry."

"If you have nothing to do, let's retreat!"