When the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan arrived in Ganzhou, there is still no shadow, and the Hu people don't know if they will come again, but the whereabouts of the Jiangyang thieves, Haijiao feels that he can already pay attention to it.

He began to wander around the city every day, especially staying at the city gate for a while, deliberately talking with the soldiers and generals stationed at the city gate, getting to know them as well as possible, and intending to find out as much information as possible about strangers entering the city.

The soldiers guarding the city gate didn't know his true intentions, and thought that he was worried about his grandfather Haixi Cliff, who had gone out of tolerance, so he would run to the city gate every day to wait for people!

Within a few days, even the people in the guard house heard the news. When General Gu met the reef, he said to him with a smile: "Your grandfather has encountered something good in Gaotai, and he will stay for a while." You don't have to worry, you can comfort your grandmother when you go home. ”

Seeing that General Gu had misunderstood, Haijiao could only admit it with a dry smile, but he still had to stick to it every day on the city gate. Regardless of whether others misunderstood him or not, he had to seize the opportunity to talk to the city gate guards.

In addition to the soldiers guarding the city gate, Haijiao also visited all the inns, cart shops, and places willing to provide rental houses for passing merchants or outsiders in Suzhou City, and even a few families who quietly rented houses in private but did not pay taxes did not escape his eyes. He had seen all the tenants from outside, and made sure that none of them matched the appearance of the group of Jiangyang thieves or Hu people in his previous life, so he refused to give up.

But even if no one was found, the reef didn't give up. He began to talk with the owners, shopkeepers, and associates of several inns, cart shops, and restaurants that often did business with outsiders, and within a few days he made friends with them.

Haijiao has been a secret agent of Jinyi Wei for many years in his previous life, and he is well versed in various techniques of inquiring about intelligence in the market, and it didn't take long to find out the identity and origin of most of the outsiders who entered the city, and also found two spies of horse bandits and sand thieves, and quietly reported to Suzhou Wei. When the two spies were arrested, they were still confused, and they didn't understand how they were exposed.

Although it is a pity that I couldn't find the real big fish on the reef, I caught two spies, which can be regarded as a bit of a reward. He doesn't mind that these two credits are a bit small, he just feels that in addition to practicing and studying hard every day, he can also go out to chat with someone, catch a spy or something by the way, and his mood is much more relaxed, such days are really fulfilling and pleasant.

It was not until more than half of May that Haixi Cliff returned to Suzhou City.

At this time, the peace talks between Chu and Hu finally came to an end.

Tao Yue changed his previous low-key and quiet, and killed all sides at the negotiation table, cutting the Hu envoy with nothing to say, and no one in the Great Chu Mission could overshadow him.

Chu and Hu agreed to an armistice, and Hu, as one of the parties to the war, needed to pay indemnities, gold, silver, jewelry, grain, horses, livestock, etc., all of which could be worth gold, and Da Chu just used this gold and silver materials to fill the army and people's livelihood expenses in the northwest border region. The amount of this wealth was so rich that even the envoys from the capital were blushing, and it was Tao Yue who had no choice but to call the shots, and they couldn't stretch out their hands.

In addition, Da Chu will also set up large-scale mutual markets in Gua and Sha Prefectures, and set up thousands of households next to the mutual markets to protect the merchants or people of Da Chu in the mutual markets. The Hu people needed to reduce or exempt the tax accounts of the merchants who came to the market, and provide protection to prevent the merchants from being harassed by sand thieves and horse bandits along the way.

The Great Chu Imperial Court had previously adopted a policy of abandoning the border under the advice of Sun Ge Lao, and after the current situation changed, this policy seemed a little out of place. It's just that the cabinet is not so easy to change direction, and they are still waiting and seeing, once the Hu people make any changes and invade the territory of Dachu again, Sun Ge Lao and others will be able to prove their wisdom and decisiveness.

The Northwest Frontier Army was unwilling to abandon its territory, and under the pretext that the mutual market needed protection, it re-set up a thousand households there, and on the way from the mutual market to Jiayuguan, there were also other thousand households, hundreds of households and outposts, and the border army finally retained a certain military strength in Gua and Shazhou, just in case. Even if the Hu people really started fighting again, the border army was confident that they could protect the evacuation of the people of Dachu.

There is no need to go into detail about the military arrangements for the time being, and there is another point that the Hu people are most concerned about in the peace talks between the two countries - that is, the return of the third prince.

The officials of Dachu advocated that the cost of ransom the captives should be charged separately. From the third prince of Hu Ren to the generals and officers who attacked Suzhou City and Jiayuguan with him, to the cavalry squad leader who was captured after the failure to save people, one is counted as one, and each is a separate price. As long as the Hu people can get the money, Da Chu is willing to release them, even if it is a small soldier or a spy or the like, as long as they do not die in prison for a year, they can all be redeemed.

The Hu delegation was dumbfounded.

Except for the third prince, who had to be rescued, the other officers and generals all tacitly had been killed, but they didn't expect to be alive and well. If only one third prince is redeemed, and the news spreads in the Hu people in the future, the families of those officers and generals will not hate them to death as messengers? But if you want to ransom all the officers and generals, they don't have that much money!

The people of the mission were already closer to Uncle Hu Ren, but they could not be the lord of the Queen Mother Khan and the new Khan. They did not dare to make arbitrary claims, so they found an excuse to suspend the peace talks and quickly sent people back to China to report the news. Soon after, the news that the queen mother of the Hu people came back was that the queen mother Khan did not plan to spend money to ransom people at all, and wished that there would be no more generals to return to fight for power with herself.

In this way, although Uncle Wang of the Hu people had bottomed out his financial resources and was unable to invade the east, he also gained many new allies and regained greater prestige in the army. The Queen Mother Khan and the new Khan, who already had the upper hand, became more and more unpopular because of the anger they had caused, and even if they still had superior forces in their hands, there were not enough loyal generals willing to fight for their mother and son. The two major forces within the Hu people have returned to balance, and it is obvious to the naked eye that a new conflict is about to be set off.

If the Hu people honestly abide by the armistice agreement, concentrate on internal fighting, and ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, the Great Chu side will acquiesce to the status quo and will not take action lightly. But once the Hu people reborn the idea of invading the land of Great Chu, the spy intelligence network rearranged by Great Chu in the Western Regions will play a role. Even if they fight to cut off the trade route, they will not let the Hu people have a good time. Without the lucrative income brought by the trade routes, how could the Hu people continue to be rich and strong?

How the Great Chu side will act is not something that Haixi Cliff can know. Even General Wednesday had only heard a few words from his brother, and knew very little about the detailed plan. Anyway, the Zhou family and Tao Yue have a consensus, and they must not let Hu Guo unite again. The Hu people fought endlessly, draining their energy and ambition, which was the most beneficial to Da Chu.

After the peace talks, the Hu people quickly paid the ransom, and the supplies were to be delivered later in front of Jiayu Pass, along with the prisoners.

Uncle Hu was afraid that if he went in person, he would fall into the hands of Da Chu and become a prisoner with his son, so he sent his henchmen to pick up his son.

When Uncle Wang's henchmen saw that the young master was safe and sound, tears were about to fall: "Go back quickly, the prince, Uncle Wang has been worried about you!" ”

The third prince was much thinner and paler, his eyes were gloomy, and his whole body exuded resentment. I don't know if it's because he's been in prison for a long time, his joints all over his body hurt, and his actions are far less agile than a year ago. Knowing that his father was in the future, his face was even more ugly, but he didn't say anything, and his eyes only looked gloomily in the direction of Wang Du: "How is the new king?" I was able to return home thanks to his grace. I have to thank him! ”

(End of chapter)