Chapter 995: We're Just Maintaining Law and Order
Until Qian Ping left Qian Ping didn't say what he was doing, just now the little eunuch had already come to report, and the letter in the palace had already gone to Chang'an, so Qian Ping had nothing to worry about, it was estimated that the king of Zhennan would soon be able to receive a report from the inside of the palace, and then the king of Zhennan would come to the door.
Sure enough, it was similar to Qian Ping's expectation, and in the afternoon of the next day, the little eunuch came to report to Qian Ping, and the king of Zhennan had entered the city from the military camp outside the city, and he was going to talk to Qian Ping outside the palace at this moment.
"Where is the messenger now? Can't be stopped by this guy outside, right? ”
After hearing the report of his subordinates, Qian Ping frowned and said, King Zhennan still has a lot of eyeliner along the way, if the letter can't be delivered, then I'm afraid the two sides will turn their faces.
"Please rest assured, father-in-law, we have a total of four groups of people going out to deliver letters, and the king of Zhennan should have stopped a group of them, and the rest of them are already far away from the royal city at this moment."
Hearing this answer from his subordinates, Qian Ping's face put on his trademark smile again, originally thinking that he would not go out to meet, weren't you very awesome last night? Thinking that you have everything under control, Lao Tzu has guided the topic again and again, but the result is to ignore Lao Tzu.
However, Qian Ping is a person who takes care of the overall situation, and now he should also go out to see what King Zhennan thinks, if he doesn't go out like this, maybe it may make the other party change, and it is difficult to predict the direction of things at that time.
"Lord Steward is really calculating, he and I had a lot of trouble last night, and today I have already taken down that idiot, this practice is really too disgraceful, right? It will damage the prestige of your Datang. ”
King Zhennan was indeed very angry, his subordinates intercepted one of the letters, and at this moment he threw the letter on the table, as if he was asking for guilt, Qian Ping was stunned, he didn't expect that the people of Nanzhao were still so bloody, originally thought that they were all a bunch of gentle little sheep, but now it seems that when the real interests are violated, these people will still stand up and resist.
"The old slave didn't hear what the prince said just now, did the prince make it clearer?"
Qian Ping snorted coldly, do you think your voice is loud, are we afraid of you? Don't look at what state it is now, although you still have tens of thousands of fighting troops under your hands, but how much combat effectiveness these people have compared to our Datang army, I'm afraid you know better than us.
After listening to Qian Ping's words, although King Zhennan was even more angry in his heart, he also regained a trace of his senses, now this situation can't be too much, if it is too much, those Tang troops outside are not here to enjoy the scenery, and they may ...... you at any time
"I was a little reckless just now, and I ask the Lord Steward to forgive me, but this thing is really not very good, Lord Steward made it very clear yesterday, it is to let our dawn people live a peaceful life, but what does this mean? The Tang army just came to preside, but it didn't want to occupy my Nanzhao, right? ”
King Zhennan wants to control his emotions very much, but sometimes this emotion is uncontrollable, such as at this moment, King Zhennan has seen clearly, Datang's ambition is very big, so big that he wants to occupy the entire Nanzhao, and he is by no means trying to get some benefits on Nanzhao.
"What is the prince talking about, our Tang Dynasty is rich all over the world, to say something you don't want to hear, can the land of your Nanzhao be more fertile than the Central Plains? Can the taxes of your Nanzhao be worth the counties of my Datang? said that we want to occupy you here, the prince really thinks too highly of you Nanzhao. ”
Qian Ping's speculation on human nature is very clear, if we are kind to persuade at this moment, maybe it will really make the other party feel that we are weak-hearted, but at this moment, Qian Ping's contemptuous eyes are consistent with the eyes of many people in Datang now, so King Zhennan's heart is a little calmer.
What people said is right, your entire Nanzhao adds up to 100,000 people, although your land is still fertile, but if you compare it with the Central Plains, it is simply a world of difference.
Besides, this tax, Nanzhao's side is even more incomparable, so what reason does the Tang Dynasty have to occupy you here, after figuring this out, the heart of the King of Zhennan relaxed a little, but the vigilance still exists, and the four major Tusi in the north are even poorer, but they are still occupied by the Tang Dynasty?
Think about Xue Yantuo further north, and you Tang Dynasty are also ......
"What my father-in-law said is reasonable, I was wrong just now, but the existing army has been able to maintain law and order, and my army is also very cooperative, I am ready to evacuate the royal city in the near future, and hand over the garrison of the entire royal city to the Tang army......"
King Zhennan has also made a bloody investment, in order to prevent the conflict between his army and the Datang army, so he is ready to withdraw his own people, don't you Datang want to gain benefits? Then I will give you the entire royal city, anyway, it has been destroyed like this now, according to the calculations of his subordinates, if you want to restore Wang Cheng's former prosperity, it will cost at least millions of yuan, which is nothing to the Tang Dynasty, but it is a huge amount of money for Nanzhaoguo, and they can't afford it at all.
"What is the prince talking about, we can't control your garrison here, we are only temporarily maintaining law and order, as for your army to withdraw from the royal city, I don't think there is any need for this, you still station according to the current situation, and the edge of the two sides is stationed, just isolate it."
Although Qian Ping is not a person in the army, he also knows what Qin Huaiyu said before, the army of the King of Zhennan is divided into inside and outside the city, which is more beneficial to us, if they all withdraw, then they will become an iron fist, in case it really comes to the last step, it will not be good for us.
Now that the soldiers are divided into two ways, then the combat strength will be divided into two, which is okay for the Tang army, not to mention that the king of Zhennan is not really thinking about giving up the royal city, it was just a temptation just now.
"My father-in-law is right, those things are all trivial, let's ask my father-in-law to tell the court, we are still calm here, there is no need to continue to increase troops......"
While expressing his loyalty, the king of Zhennan hoped that the Tang Dynasty's army would delay its entry into Nanzhao, so that he would have some time to prepare, and if he came like this, he would not have enough people in his hands.