Yeluqi's documents were sent to Yongdu City in the fastest time, causing an uproar in the imperial court, and they were naturally divided into one faction, one faction was to advocate peace talks, because Daxia is now more threatening than Da Liao, Daxia has already hit Jiangzhou, and then south is Jiangnan, once Jiangnan is broken, what will Wei use to support the army.

Therefore, the peace talks faction wants to negotiate peace with the Liao army, even if they know that this is a conspiracy, they have to eat it, Jiangnan is more important than Tongzhou.

There are peace talks, naturally there is opposition, the reason for the opposition is also very simple, the Liao army brazenly invaded the Wei State, burned and looted in Tongzhou, so that the western part of Tongzhou was ten rooms and nine empty, and now the Liao army feels that it can't defeat the Wei army and wants to negotiate peace, how can there be such a good thing, how can the Wei State come when they want to, and fight if they want to?

"Yao Xiang, what do you think?"

There was a lot of noise outside, and the emperor summoned the prime minister, the six ministers and other ministers to discuss, which was the highest level of the Wei state.

"Holy Lord, such military affairs should be judged by the Holy One"

Yao Ce is not stupid, no matter what he says, he will offend people, and maybe he will become a sinner through the ages.

"The minister thinks that Yao Xiang is right"

"Seconded"

The six Shangshu are all old foxes, and none of them are willing to say their position.

This made the emperor very embarrassed, and after asking several times to no avail, he had to let everyone leave, and then he went to the harem and went to find Li Changqing, the elder of the imperial family.

Li Changqing came back a few days ago, he was too brave on the battlefield, not to mention the innate martial artist, he killed three of the great grandmasters alone, and also severely injured an immortal in the Xuan Miao Realm, which made him also suffer from the key attack of Great Xia, and he was seriously injured and came back to recuperate.

"Grandpa Huang, how are you?"

"I can't die, what is the emperor looking for me"

Li Changqing said that his injuries were very serious, and now he was almost a waste, relying on the secret medicine of the imperial family to hang his life, and he was not confident in whether he could recover himself, and now he could only ask the Immortal Pavilion if he could practice a clever elixir to save him.

"Tongzhou came to report that Yeluqi of Liao State wants peace talks"

"Wolf ambition only"

"Yes, everyone understands this, but no one can stop it on the side of Great Xia, and they urgently need the eldest princess to come back to help, otherwise the hinterland of Jiangnan will be destroyed, and the Wei State will really suffer."

The emperor said that the state capital in the north was too poor, and in this war it was manpower that came out, and the soldiers were mainly from the north, while the south was to mobilize grain and grass, especially taxes, and the three states in the south of the Yangtze River bore a very large share, and once the three states in the south of the Yangtze River were broken, the imperial court could only raise taxes on a large scale.

And once the tax is raised, there must be smoke everywhere, in fact, this year is already like this, even in Jiangnan, this year's thieves are several times more than in previous years, which he has to be cautious.

"Does the emperor want to make peace?"

"Yes, the threat of Great Xia is now greater than that of Great Liao"

"Wei actually still has strength"

Li Changqing said, are there any masters in the Wei State, there are, and there are many, but these masters are all in the hands of the nobles and ministers, and some of them are folk sects.

Although the imperial court tried to get a group of people from it, but in fact, there were not many, like Xungui, there would always be some masters to protect themselves, take care of the family, one or two families, dozens of Xungui added up to more, and it was even more difficult for Wenchen to get it, and the sect's idea of joining the army to serve the country was also very low, and there were not a few dispatched at all.

For example, in the Heavenly Sword Sect in Taizhou, Li Changqing knew that they had at least two or three great masters and more than a dozen innate martial artists, but none of them had reached the battlefield, but the imperial court had no way to take them.

"Grandpa Huang, the power is there, but it's not ours, we can't adjust it."

"Hey"

Li Changqing also sighed, he also felt very embarrassed, there was a sense of powerlessness, the control of the imperial court was too weak, not only the Wenchen couldn't handle it, but the Jianghu sect didn't like them.

"Grandpa Huang, you say, what should I do"

The emperor asked again, his intelligence is average, although the emperor has matured a lot in a few years, but when it comes to such a major matter as the rise and fall of the country, he still can't handle it, and he doesn't dare to make up his mind.

"Let's talk about peace, but before the negotiation, ask Li Yuanxiang and Li Hongsleeve more opinions, and the matter of peace talks must not be mentioned by the imperial court, and a minister must come."

"Yes, Grandpa"

"Emperor, it's extraordinary now, your burden is heavier, and you've grown up"

"Grandpa Huang..."

"Changsheng has died in battle, Chimelong is also abolished, the elders of the Li family are about to die, if you don't grow up, what will the Li family do?"

Li Changqing said worriedly, the elder of the imperial family suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Yongzhou, and more than a dozen people of the elder generation were almost killed and injured, and he himself was about the same, and there were not many outstanding talents in the next generation, and the Li family was slowly withering, but the emperor was a mediocre person, and he felt at a loss about the future of the Li family.

"Yes, Grandpa"

The emperor was indifferent, he knew what his talents were, so he rarely made his own decisions, but consulted in many ways, this practice is very effective in peacetime, this is called good at admonishment, but it is not good in wartime, and the court needs a male lord.

"Maybe Red Sleeves, no, it shouldn't be Red Sleeves, there's one more..."

Li Changqing looked at the emperor's distant back, and suddenly thought of Li Hongsleeve, but the next moment, he still shook his head, Li Hongsleeve was not only a woman, but still playing with fire and self-immolation, thinking about dragging the immortal gate into the water, this was too risky.

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After the Liao army proposed peace talks, the two sides did not fight again, they were recovering their strength, accumulating strength, and in the previous many major battles, both sides suffered more than 100,000 casualties, and the casualties were so miserable that both sides had to rest.

Soldiers arrived one after another in the rear of the Wei army, but Li Yuanxiang arranged them in Tongzhou City, and at the same time began to settle fields to relieve the people, especially the people displaced by the war.

At this time, Li Hongsleeve also took action, although she was in Tongzhou, but Liu Qing's sugar industry in Jiangnan did not suffer any losses, this year is better than last year, earning millions of taels of silver, these silver Li Hongsleeve took out most of the money in Yongzhou to continue her poverty alleviation program, this time donated 500,000 taels of silver for disaster relief, Li Hongsleeve's reputation in Tongzhou has surpassed anyone.

When resting and recuperating, it was also the time when the imperial court rewarded them, and a large number of materials from the rear were transported, including some pills needed by warriors, which were used to reward some soldiers and officers with military merits to improve their strength.

"This is Chunhua Dan, a more advanced pill than the Dragon and Tiger Pill, it was originally used by the Immortal Gate for the immortals of the Xuan Miao Realm, and later after improvement, it can allow the innate martial artists and the great master to improve their strength, it is very expensive, this one is worth 30,000 taels of silver, and it can't be bought with money, and the imperial court will have less than twenty pills a year."

Li Hongsleeve took out a bottle of pills, poured out three of them, and explained to Jiang Cheng.

"What about the real Chunhuadan?"

"That's even less, it takes two or three years to refine a furnace, and the alchemy of the Immortal Pavilion is too bad, and the Xianmen side is unwilling to teach more advanced alchemy"

"It's a pity, did the imperial court secretly send someone across the East China Sea to Xianmen?"

"No, it can't be done at all, there is an extremely violent wind in the East China Sea, even if the big ship goes out, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, only the Xianmen magic weapon can cross the East China Sea"

"In the future, I have to find a chance to give it a try, once I pass, it is possible to obtain the exercises of the Divine Soul Realm"

Jiang Cheng said that if it was him, he would definitely have to try a few more times, even if he failed, he could increase his experience, and someone would always be able to pass.

"If you can cross the East China Sea, you can definitely get the exercises of the Divine Soul Realm, when I went to Xianmen, I was forbidden to leave Xianmen, there are small Xianmen outside Xianmen, and there are also scattered cultivation"

"You can spread the means of the immortal gate magic weapon, there are so many skilled craftsmen in the world, maybe you can also build a sea ship across the East China Sea"

"This will have to be talked about later, the attitude of the imperial court has not come down yet, but I expect that it is very likely to agree to peace talks, Great Xia is already attacking Jiangling County, Jiangling County is the key point of water and land leading from Jiangzhou to Yongzhou, the food in Yongdu City has not been enough to eat, and it needs to be supplied by Jiangnan, and it must not be lost."

Li Hongsleeve replied that there are many ways to go to Yongdu City from Jiangnan, but Jiangling County is the best way to go, and the official road in Jiangling County has always been maintained, if you lose Jiangling County, you will have to take a detour to Yongdu City, which will cause a lot of trouble, and the imperial court will not allow Jiangling County to fall.

"Are the Great Xia soldiers and horses strong?"

"It's not very strong, but it's very fierce, Great Xia is very poor, but the poor mountains and bad waters will also come out of the people, their people will become very fierce, for wealth, food, they don't cherish their lives at all, the nobles of Great Xia can let them give up their lives as long as they have a bite to eat."

"This kind of army is more than fierce, and the willfulness should not be enough."

"Yes, but they have a lot of masters, Daxia is more martial than Da Liao, especially the nobles, so a large number of masters have appeared, I heard..."

Li Hongsleeve gave Jiang Cheng a science popularization of the situation in Great Xia, the ordinary people over there in Great Xia were not treated as human beings at all, and were brutally exploited by the nobles of Great Xia, but those nobles were extremely powerful, very martial, and each nobleman was a large number of martial artists who had emerged from elementary school martial arts.

Li Hongsleeve said a lot, Jiang Cheng understood it, in fact, the three kingdoms of Liao, Xia, and Wei are all similar, all of them are nobles exploiting the people at the bottom, but the Liao State and Daxia are more blatantly exploited, and Daxia is using millions of ordinary people to support hundreds of thousands of nobles, these nobles have no worries about food and clothing, and can concentrate on learning literature and martial arts, and naturally a large number of talents will emerge.

The two of them can't call the shots now, and they can't deal with anything else, so after chatting for a while, Jiang Cheng went back, and then took out Chunhua Dan to take it.

A Chunhua Pill swallowed it, and soon Jiang Cheng felt the surging energy, and immediately he was overjoyed, the medicinal properties of this Chunhua Pill were indeed much stronger than the Dragon and Tiger Pill, if it could be continuously supplied, Jiang Cheng felt that he was sure that his strength would double in a few months, and Sun Yi might not be his opponent at that time.

Jiang Cheng is actually a little vague about his martial arts progress, this is because his martial arts theory is too poor, it stands to reason that he is only an innate martial artist now, but his strength is much more than that of the great grandmaster, it is very strange, Jiang Cheng feels that he has time to study the martial arts theory and sort out his own situation.