CHAPTER XLIV

"The Queen Mother has won the award, and the villain doesn't dare to be it!" Fan Shijin closed his hands and bent down to thank him.

Although this bead curtain can't see the appearance behind the scenes, you can guess that the queen mother is a wonderful woman by looking at her figure.

"Hahaha, this Shu envoy has some truth. If I, Nantang, let this Hou Shu fall, I'm afraid that the next one to perish will be my Nantang!" There was a silver bell-like laugh from behind the bead curtain.

"I, Southern Chu, can sign an agreement with Southern Tang, and after conquering Houshu, I will divide the country in equal shares, if this agreement is violated, the whole world will fight against it!" The envoy of Southern Chu [Zhou Feng] cut into the dialogue between the envoys of the two countries.

"Oh, Nan Chu gave the gift very sincerely. The Queen Mother replied after hearing the words.

Xiong Jingchong smiled disdainfully after hearing this, stepped forward and said: "Southern Chu and Northern Jin are the division of tigers and wolves, annex my Shu today, give some benefits to Southern Tang, and Ming'er will take Southern Tang in turn, this benefit still has to be recovered, but it is just temporarily stored in this Southern Tang!"

"This ...... What is said is reasonable, what is said is reasonable!"

"I think about my century-old foundation in the Southern Tang Dynasty, if I let Shu perish, I am afraid that the next one will not be us. ”

"Yes, yes, the lips are cold, the lips are cold!"

The Wenchen generals below talked about it one after another, saying everything, some wanted to take advantage of Nanchu, and some wanted to help Shu......

"The Queen Mother!" One person walked out of the civil and military officials, this person has gray hair, even his beard is as white as silk, but his face is not as old as that, this person can't help but think of a person, Xiong respects his father, Xiong Maozhen!

"[Wei Xuancheng] Aiqing has something to say, please speak. The Queen Mother seemed to respect this old minister very much.

Wei Xuancheng walked out of the civil officials and said: "The old minister thinks that we should help Shu! At this time, if Shu is destroyed, the stable situation of these five countries will be overturned, if the Northern Zhou also joins it, and then the three kingdoms are encircling and suppressing one of our countries, then how should it be? At this time, with Shu behind, the two countries can not go south, if Shu is not there, there will be no worries about going south!"

"Prime Minister Wei Cheng's words are wrong, why is it not my Southern Tang Dynasty that unites with Jin and Chu, but the Northern Zhou?" The Southern Tang Dynasty general [Li Jiaotai] stood in the first row of all the military generals, he was a relative of the emperor, and he was also a general with heavy troops, above 10,000 people under one person in the court.

Li Jiaotai stood in front of him holding the wat board, and he didn't see it come out, so he stood in place and looked at Wei Xuancheng, and saw that Wei Xuancheng didn't open his mouth to refute himself, so he said: "This world should have tilted a long time ago, and the countries that I thought of living in a corner since ancient times have all perished, understand?

"What the general said is extremely true, what we are discussing is not to live in a corner, but to control the situation in my Southern Tang Dynasty to the point, at this moment Jin and Chu are combined, we can't guess the idea of Jin Chu, staying in Shu in the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is a good thing in the world, not staying in Shu, there will be wars in the future, how long can my Southern Tang national strength resist?" Wei Xuancheng did not mean to save face for the general above the main hall.

"Okay! stop arguing!" The queen mother behind the bead curtain supported her head with one hand and slapped the chair with the other, and when she saw that no one was arguing, she said, "What else do the envoys have to say?"

Peng Bu saw that Wei Xuancheng and Li Jiaotai were no longer talking, so he slowly spoke: "Jin Chu and Shu, even if the Southern Tang Dynasty wants to help Shu, it will not be able to pass through my land of Jin Chu! If we miss the opportunity to share the land of Shu at this time, we will not say more, and go directly to the Northern Zhou, and then want to carve up the land of Shu, but it will not be so easy." ”

"Zhou Feng, the envoy of the Chu State, and the envoy Peng have the same opinion, if the Southern Tang Dynasty does not make friends with our country and insists on interfering with our plan to cut down Shu, even if this envoy dies here, this plan to cut down Shu will not be terminated!

Li Jiaotai put the wat board under his armpit, applauded and said with a smile: "Okay! Courageous! General Ben likes it!"

Then he turned his head and said to the Queen Mother behind the curtain: "Queen Mother, if this envoy lets them go, my Nantang will really become the target of everyone!

"What the general said is true. The Queen Mother took a breath and said.

"Think twice, please think twice!" Wei Xuancheng knelt on the ground.

"Old Prime Minister, follow the trend, I will do my best, just obey the destiny of heaven, why go against the sky?" The general took back the wat board under his armpit again, and looked at Wei Xuancheng with this wat board in his hand.

Seeing this, Fan Shijin laughed and said, "Hahahahaha! Nantang is in danger but doesn't know it!"

"Hugh is talking nonsense! Someone dragged this messenger down and beheaded him!" Li Jiaotai said viciously pointing at Fan Shijin.

When Bai Xiyue heard this, his toes tightened a little, and he was afraid that this person would drag him down.

"Let's listen to the words of the Shu envoy. King Xiao Tang finally spoke.

"What is the division of Shu land? Is Shu land fish and meat? Shu land and Shu people can't be separated, they will only enter the bag of this Jin Chu!" Fan Shijin said in a loud voice, and then turned to point to the two messengers, and then added: "At that time, Jin Chu will give you some silver taels at most, is that silver taels? That's a life talisman! Hahaha! You can sleep with the silver taels, and then get up and see Jin Chu's flag planted all over this Jianye!"

"Speak wildly! The Queen Mother, please give an order, behead this envoy of the Shu Kingdom, in order to show our willingness to make friends with Jin Chu!" Li Jiaotai held the wat board with both hands, and then bent down and said.

The bead curtain behind King Tang moved, as if it was blown by the wind, but soon there was no movement, and the Queen Mother paused and said: "It's okay, this palace wants to hear the reason from this Shu envoy." ”

"In the world of great contention, what are you fighting for? Is it national strength, where does national strength come from? That is the people's power! When the time comes, Jin and Chu divide our Shu land, and there will be Shu people in Shu land, and the national strength of the two countries will only become stronger day after day, year after year, will they still send envoys to negotiate peace? At that time, those who will come will be thousands of troops, and the envoys who will come will want to cede the land and pay compensation!" Fan Shijin said impassionedly what he thought in his heart.

Hearing Fan's words, the entire hall was in an uproar, and then the wind turned to Fan Shijin's side again. Wei Xuancheng stood aside and nodded, a pair of sharp eyes poked out under his deep eyes, looking at the young envoy of Shu in front of him, full of admiration, and praised in his heart, Shu is a capable person.

"Queen Mother! Tang Wang, don't listen to this Shu envoy's nonsense!" Li Jiaotai didn't want this Shu envoy to continue.

"The old minister thinks that what the Shu envoy said is reasonable, and the queen mother thinks twice!" Wei Xuancheng also took a step forward, walked in front of the hundred officials of the civil minister, and confronted this Li Jiaotai head-on.

The Queen Mother, who was sitting behind the beaded curtain, didn't know who to listen to for a while, leaned back in the chair, and pressed her temples with her hands.

"The envoys will be guests in the palace today, and tomorrow the Japanese palace will give an answer. The Queen Mother got up and left, and there was only an empty chair left behind the bead curtain.

When the two eunuchs on the left and right saw that the Queen Mother was gone, they hurriedly shouted: "Retreat!"

After shouting, he went over and helped King Tang off the chair, and walked away with King Tang at will, leaving only these hundred officials still standing in the court.

"It's... Why did you retreat?"

"yes, the results were not discussed. ”

"Alas, it's not easy to mess with both ends, it's really a dilemma, it's really a dilemma. ”

"I want to know what is the opinion of this Northern Zhou..."

"Don't talk about this Northern Week, this Northern Week is probably looking at what our opinions are..."

"One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, this wrong step is a wrong step..."

The group of ministers also dispersed, and as they walked out, they talked and talked about it, and no one could say why.

Wei Xuancheng was still looking at the direction above the main hall, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and when he turned around and walked past Fan Shijin, he took Fan Shijin's hand and shook it around, and walked out of the hall happily, without saying anything.

"Brother Fan, what does this mean?" asked Liu Cong, looking at the strange old man.

Fan Shijin looked at Wei Xuancheng's back and smiled, and said to himself: "Xiong Maozhen, the bright light in Shu, Wei Xuancheng of the Southern Tang Dragon Boat!"

Before he could finish speaking, a man came behind him, muttering: "What about returning the dragon boat? I think it's a sunken ship!"

This Li Jiaotai bumped Fan Shijin with his shoulder, squeezed around and left, walked to the envoy of the Southern Chu and Northern Jin Dynasty and stopped, pulled a few people out of the main hall, and talked eloquently while walking.

"This general is not friendly to us. Liu Cong muttered.

"Brother Cong is very smart and has a bright future! Is this situation very clear?" Xiong Jingchong pulled Liu Cong over and teased with his shoulder.

"Isn't it just that this general is working against us, and then this Wei is on our side?" Bai Xiyue also saw this clear situation.

"Okay, I'll go out later. Fan Shijin pulled a few people out of the hall.

There was no one on the dragon chair in this hall, so it was a little less majestic, as if it was just a larger room.

When they went out of this door, Liu Cong and the others didn't feel nervous, they were still fighting and killing in the main hall, and they felt that the air was extremely fresh when they went out like this.

"Ladies and gentlemen, move to the embassy to rest, someone will come over and invite you to dinner later!" said the eunuch, bending down.

After Fan Shijin thanked the eunuch, he walked down the steps with everyone, it was easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up the mountain, and it was very light and quick to go down like this.

"But Brother Fan, why doesn't the Queen Mother give us an answer now?" Liu Cong was still thinking about what was going on in the court.

"My younger brother is still young, and I don't understand what it means to sell at a price, what is a price to sit on the ground, we just expounded the importance of Shu Cun, but did not express anything, and Jin Chu came prepared, with a lot of rich gifts, but did not say the importance of my Shu land, only talked about gains and losses, not about survival!" Xiong Jingchong's words got to the point.

At this time, the Southern Tang Dynasty was thinking about two points, one was for the immediate interests, and the other was for the game of survival; if the immediate interests were wanted, it would endanger the survival, and if it was preserved, it might not be worth anything, and it would offend the two countries, how to maximize the interests and absorb their own interests in a safe direction, after all, there are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests.