For the important ministers of the imperial court, the negotiation with the Xianbei royal court, the rough bottom line was determined.

The next step is to decide who is in charge of the matter.

Now that there is a lot of war, who wants to go?

What if we can't talk about it, and the little life is there?

The ministers of the court look at the sky and the earth, you look at me, I look at you, but they don't look at the emperor.

Even if their eyes occasionally met their rivals, everyone looked away silently, and did not say anything to harm each other, otherwise they would trap each other, and the other party would definitely bring their own. For specific examples, we can refer to how the Nanyang disaster relief incident fell on the chief official Zhang Xian and his deputy Zuo Anmin.

At first, someone recommended Lu Desheng, but Song Mo rejected it, and he now doesn't trust Lu Desheng. The negotiation is a big deal, and he must be entrusted with the responsibility of someone he trusts to be reassured.

In the end, the ministers elected Prince Gong, and Song Mo agreed.

That's pretty much how it was decided.

After the next dynasty, Song Mo received a secret letter, which revealed the secret of the robbery of Pingzhou's tax grain.

After reading it, Song Mo directly dropped another set of his favorite teacups.

"Rebellious ministers and thieves, cheating, bullying the king, should be killed!"

With such a thunderous rage, Liang An, the great eunuch guarding the palace gate, couldn't help but shrink back.

Subsequently, Song Mo first summoned Prince Gong.

The monarch and the minister talked secretly for half an hour.

It is said that when Prince Gong left the palace, his whole face was expressionless, and people could not see their joy and anger.

Song Mo later summoned Lin Ran and gave him a secret decree.

Coming out of the palace, Lin Ran only felt that the sky under the setting sun seemed to be stained with blood. As soon as he holds Jinwu, why does he always receive such a task?

In the end, a holy decree appointing Lu Desheng to be in charge of the negotiation was issued from the palace and sent to the Pingzhou Assassin's Mansion at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

After the ministers learned that the emperor had suddenly changed the person in charge of the negotiation, they all looked at each other and couldn't understand why, but this result was also acceptable, so the ministers had no objection.

After Zhang Xian learned about it, he asked to become his deputy in this negotiation to assist Lu Desheng.

Thinking that this time, he would join forces with Lord Lu to fight against Xianbei, and he was in a mood.

But Zhang Xianzhi's invitation was rejected by Song Mo, and Song Mo ordered Zuo Anmin as his deputy.

Zhang Xian was puzzled, Zuo Anmin and Master Lu obviously disagreed, Da Li and Xianbei Wang Court negotiated such a big matter, let the two cooperate, can this be a good talk?

After Zuo Anmin received the order, he said proudly to Zhang Xian, "Lord Zhang, don't worry, I will assist Lord Lu well this time." ”

"You'd better be!" Zhang Xian replied with such a sentence, and then threw up his sleeves and left.

Southland

For Xie Zhan, everything is developing as expected.

The opportunity to negotiate with Xianbei is actually something he can fight for.

After seizing this opportunity, and then forcing the two families to oppose Qin and Lu, he can fight for power in the name of suppressing rebellion, take the road of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and then control the government.

This road is a little bad, Song Mo is too old, and he is not as easy to control as a child. But he can wait two years......

But this also means that he has to give up the Southland, which he has been running for two years, at least he will not be able to control the Southland openly.

But Nandi occupies a favorable location, and he is reluctant.

Another way, that is, after Qin Lu raised the anti-flag, they also responded.

Moreover, he and Jiang Boya deduced that if Pingzhou is reversed, they will follow, and King Cheng, who is located in the southwest, will also follow.

At that time, the world will enter a situation of competing for hegemony.

These are two different paths. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to choose the latter path. As a result, many of the previous plans had to be adjusted accordingly.

However, since he has made such a choice, he will naturally not join in the excitement of the negotiation, as the so-called gentleman does not erect a dangerous wall.

But he will keep an eye on the direction of this negotiation in the coming period.

Pingzhou, Thorn History

After Lu Desheng received the decree, Lin Ran told him that he would stay in Pingzhou until the end of the negotiations.

Lu Desheng was ready to have someone arrange accommodation for him, but he refused. Lin Ran came out of the Thorn Mansion and went straight to the post station to rest.

Under Lu Songli's arrangement, their father and daughter of the Lu family and the four brothers of the Qin family, plus a Xue Xu, gathered together.

When everyone saw each other, although they were a little surprised, they all thought that they had come to discuss the negotiation with the Xianbei Royal Court.

And it was, at first.

Lu Desheng became the person in charge of this negotiation, and he was proud in his heart, Emperor Xian, this court is really not good without me.

But when he saw the bottom line of the imperial court, he used Tuoba Lian to let the Xianbei army withdraw from Dali unconditionally, and signed a ten-year peace treaty, during which Tuoba Lian needed to be held hostage in Chang'an.

Lu Desheng couldn't help frowning, did the court's request look like it was going to negotiate well?

Can the Xianbei royal court agree to this request? What did the imperial court think? I can't help but overestimate the role of Tuoba Lian!

Negotiations are difficult.

Lu Desheng was thinking about how to talk about it in order to meet the requirements of the imperial court, and by the way, when he made some benefits for himself, Lu Songli spoke.

"Dad, Song Mo may not be able to tolerate you this time." She calmly pointed it out, and what she didn't say was that she was behind the scenes.

Hearing this, Lu Desheng's eyes widened: What is it? What does it mean to not be able to tolerate him?

The others were also taken aback by her words, it was too sudden.

And they have made meritorious contributions in Pingzhou recently, why can't the emperor tolerate Lord Lu?

Lu Songli said, "Dad, Song Mo knows about the salt lake in our Dragon City, and there is also the inside story of the robbery of the tax grain. ”

Xue Xu looked at his nose and nose, these two things, Mrs. Qin Liu did not hide them from him, and he still helped sweep some tails clean.

These two things are indeed a bit of a big rebellion for the emperor.

Qin Heng and the other brothers didn't speak, after realizing that Song Mo had been harsh on the Qin family and pressed the Qin family, what the six brothers and sisters did, they could turn a blind eye, and sometimes silently added fuel to the fire.

As soon as Lu Desheng heard these two things, he understood, Song Mo's heart was not big. Originally, Song Mo didn't like him, Longcheng Salt Lake didn't report the information, and the tax and grain bullying was reckless, so Song Mo might indeed not be able to tolerate him.

"No, what kind of brain is he?" Lu Desheng muttered.

In the matter of taxes and grain, even if they know that they are cheating, will the benefits be obtained by the common people? Song Mo is so angry, does he have to be burned or robbed by Xianbei for he to be happy?

Wait, since Song Mo can't tolerate him, why did he still order him to be in charge of this negotiation? Lu Desheng reacted, he looked at the court's request again, and always felt that there was a smell of conspiracy.

"Girl, Song Moyin me?"