Chapter 66: Grapevine

Haijiao didn't know who the imperial court would send to preside over the peace talks, but he heard some gossip from Ganzhou.

Sun Ge Lao tried his best to fight for this position, and seemed to feel that as long as he made a contribution to the peace talks, his prestige in the court would be further enhanced, and even the border army would bow his head in front of him, and no one would mention the scandal of his nephew Sun Yonglu. It will be much easier for him to win over the generals in the army.

After Haijiao said this, he couldn't help but spit out: "This person is really thick-skinned." He easily gave up the land of the two states with a touch of his mouth, and he was embarrassed to think that he could make a contribution to the peace talks? What kind of legislation? Do you want to send two more states to the Hu people? That's really a meritorious service for the Hu people! ”

Haitang echoed his brother's two sentences, and then stepped up to ask: "Then will Elder Sun Ge come?" He is not only an elder of the cabinet, but also favored by the emperor, if he has the heart to come, can others stop him? ”

"This ......," Hai Jiao paused, "the Zhou family shouldn't want him to come." The Zhenguo Mansion is trying to stop this. Even if he really wants to negotiate with Hu Ren, it should be Marshal Zhou who will have enough deterrent power for Hu Cai. ”

However, this kind of thing is not something that the Zhou family can do if they want to. The emperor has been idle for many years, and he would rather use his sons and nephews than let him leave Chang'an City, how could he appoint him as the chief official of the peace talks? The Zhou family also knows about it, and is now trying their best to let the commander of the Shaanxi Xingdu command envoy Zhou Dalang participate, if the imperial court values the strength of the civil officials more, the Zhou family also has good friends. Scholars from the northwest can still distinguish the importance in the relationship between Da Chu and the Hu people. The Zhou family has stood for decades without falling, of course, not only because his family has a queen mother.

Haijiao whispered to his sister: "At this time in his last life, the emperor Lao Er still had a lot of trust in Sun Ge Lao, even if he didn't send Sun Ge Lao in the end, he might send Sun Ge Lao's preferred candidate. The people of their faction don't take the people of our northwest in their eyes at all, and for the sake of the so-called overall situation, they can give up the two states of Gua and Sha, God knows what they will give up this time? We in Suzhou have worked hard to protect the land and defend the people, and we can easily ask them to sell it when we turn our heads, and they still feel that they have made a great contribution! ”

Haitang listened and couldn't help but have a headache. But this kind of thing really can't be changed by a few of their little people in the border city. Would the emperor really be so confused?

Probably the people in the northwest were also worried that the emperor would be confused at this time, except for the Zhou family, everyone was doing their best to move around, trying to find high-ranking officials in Beijing who could help the northwest speak. Haijiao has heard some gossip, but he is not sure, only that even Haixiya is now writing to Chang'an - he has worked in Chang'an and Ganzhou for many years, and he still has some connections there. It's just that the reef doesn't know what is written in the letter. Those letters were only sent to the Yamen, and they were all handled by Xie Wenzai, so he wouldn't let a junior look at them at all.

Haijiao sighed, and Haitang said: "We still have the third prince of the Hu people in our hands, if Uncle Hu Wang still wants to save his son, he shouldn't ask too much, right?" As long as they don't open their mouths, can the high-ranking officials from the imperial court still take the initiative to abandon the territory of Great Chu? Aren't they afraid of going back and being infamous? ”

Haijiao thought for a while: "Then it depends on who is from Hu Ren's side." If it was Uncle Wang's people, he would naturally not dare to open his mouth. But if it was the people of the Little Khan and the Queen Mother...... I'm afraid that the peace talks between the two countries will break down, and the third prince will die in our Dachu, right? ”

Haitang blinked: "Is there any news from the Hu people recently?" What new changes have occurred in the battle between the Queen Mother Khan and Uncle Wang? ”

Haijiao has really heard some of this news. This year, there were caravans returning to Dachu from the Western Regions through Hu, and a Chang'an caravan that came back in late autumn had rested in Suzhou City for two days, and there were people from the Zhou family who sent a message to General Wednesday, and then General Wednesday heard more news from his parents and brothers.

The battle between the Queen Mother Khan and the Uncle Wang is close to white-hot. When the former first gained power, it was when he was full of ambition and wanted to beat the water dogs. The latter was hit by the double blow of his son's capture and the robbery of power and property, and at first he was a little scrambled, but after all, he was old and treacherous, and it didn't take long for him to calm down.

He took advantage of the fact that the Queen Mother Khan used the name of the Little Khan to rob his property and the command of the army, provoking other princes and ministers, making them feel a sense of crisis, and felt that they might also become the next target of robbery by the Queen Mother. It was also the Queen Mother Khan who got carried away and acted a little excessively, which aroused the vigilance of many Hu princes. She seems to have the upper hand, but in fact there is a rift in the alliance behind her.

However, this does not mean that Uncle Wang is starting to gain the upper hand. Because something went wrong in the big rear on his side.

After the third prince was captured by the Great Chu Border Army, his concubine lost his support, how could the third prince and concubine not take the opportunity to retaliate? If she hadn't thought that the third prince might return to China safely, and the third princess didn't want to fall out with her husband, she might have killed this slut who dared to compete with herself. Just taking away the concubine's jewelry and clothes, driving her out of the big tent, and ordering her to do rough work every day is already a very slight revenge.

But the third princess thinks that she is kind enough, but the other party doesn't think so.

This little concubine has been pampered for many years, where can she suffer? It's just that there is no one to protect her, her husband and her father are captured together, and the housekeepers and servants of her mother's family can't help her, so she can only turn her eyes to other more powerful people.

She asked someone to send a letter to Uncle Wang, the biological father of the third prince, claiming that she was pregnant.

When this happened, it was not yet summer, and the concubine was emaciated, and she claimed that she was three months pregnant, which sounded quite credible. I don't know what means she used, anyway, when Uncle Wang sent a doctor to diagnose her, he didn't find out that she was a fraud.

But the henchmen and maids she brought from her mother's house knew very well that she was not pregnant at all.

The maids were in a hurry to death. In case Uncle Wang knew that his son concubine was lying, he would throw her and everyone around her to feed the dogs! They were anxious to get in touch with the hostess's mother's family. Her father's horse farm owner is not there, but he still has a few henchmen guarding the horse farm.

They tried to find someone to deliver the letter in Huren Wangdu, and "just happened" to find an "unknowing" passing caravan, and there were people in the caravan who were good at forging documents, and on the way they cleverly peeked at the contents of the letter, restored the letter as it was, and continued to send it to the horse farm.

On the side of the horse farm, there are really stewards who are loyal to the owner of the horse farm who have come to the royal capital to help. When they met the maid, the caravan was in the next room, as if they had just happened to meet him......

In short, the people of the Chang'an caravan knew the secret of the concubine and were thinking about how to use it, when something went wrong with the concubine.

Uncle Wang attaches great importance to the "child" in the womb of his son's concubine. At that time, the matter of peace talks had not yet been decided, and Uncle Wang did not know if he could save his son. If the third prince can't come back, the flesh and blood in the concubine's womb are likely to be his only grandchildren. This is Uncle Wang's hope, how can he take the risk of leaving the child's mother in the care of his daughter-in-law who hates her? For this reason, he did not hesitate to quarrel with his daughter-in-law and in-laws, but also to keep the child.

The concubine thought she had a backer, and she went to show off her strength in front of the main mother with her stomach up. The people around her were about to die of fright, for fear that the third princess would be so angry that they would kill people. Since their own people from the horse farm are here, they should quickly escape with the little master!

So, just when Uncle Wang was arguing with his in-laws, the concubine was escorted by the people around her and fled quietly, but halfway through, the Queen Mother Khan's people came out and blocked their way......