Han Shizu

Chapter 506 Reconciliation reached
Following Liu Chengyou's edict, the Han army stopped its attack on the Tang army as promised, and the Tang army was struggling to support the defense along the Yangtze River. Finally, it took a breath. After more than a month of spring, Jiangbei beacon fire, the first resignation.

On the Jinling side, Li Deming hurriedly brought back the letter of peace, probably knowing the weight of the letter of peace, Li Deming immediately entered the palace and presented himself to the Tang Lord.Li Jing didn't seem too excited about the three articles of mourning the country.

After all, all the fourteen prefectures in Jiangbei can contribute, and the others are nothing.However, on Li Jing's side, feeling extremely uncomfortable, she said with some sentimentality: "Is it possible that the emperor's career will be the foundation of the emperor's career?"

"Your Majesty!" Li Deming couldn't help but comforted: "There is no second day in the sky. If you want to be a vassal of the Han, how can you be called a vassal with the Han? It is a last resort. This is an extraordinary move. When the peace agreement between the two countries is reached, the Han army will withdraw to the north. With the elimination of foreign troubles, Your Majesty can still use the Emperor Luan Yi."

"So, aren't you deceiving yourself and others?" Li Jing laughed at himself.

Li Deming was a little embarrassed, and continued to fool around: "In ancient times, there was Goujian, the king of Yue, who endured humiliation for twenty years, and was able to avenge and destroy Wu. Chen Guan, the emperor of Han, was young and energetic, and he was really happy. This victory must be arrogant and uncontrollable. Sooner or later, you will bring disaster upon yourself and bring chaos to your country. Your Majesty only needs to swallow the shame and work hard, and there will be a day when the rivers and mountains will be restored in the future!"

"That's the only way to go. I hope that the late emperor will forgive me, an unfilial minister!" Li Jing sighed.

Staring at the content of the book again, Li Jing said again: "Is the annual tribute too much? Can you reduce it?"

Hearing this, Li Deming thought to himself, if there is less, how can the Northern Han Dynasty account for it.Without thinking about it, Li Deming replied carefully: "Your Majesty, the greed of the Northern Han Dynasty was far beyond imagination. This is already a subject. I will fight hard according to the reason, and the amount just discussed!"

"Hey" Li Jing sighed silently: "Let me think again!"

Seeing this, Li Deming just reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, when this proposal was first drafted, the Han army has already suspended its offensive. If it is delayed for too long, it will be even more difficult to stop the Han army's reorganization. When I was returning to the south, I heard by chance that the Emperor of Han had ordered that all the Han navy divisions in the north of the Huai River be diverted to the south, and they wanted to enter the great river."

Hearing what Li Deming said, Li Jing's expression really changed.

After resigning from the palace, Li Deming began to connect with the ruling and opposition parties in Jinling non-stop, visiting his relatives, friends, colleagues, disciples, and various peace negotiating factions, hoping to unite and promote the conclusion of the peace agreement.

Li Deming is not stupid, knowing that this discussion will inevitably cause another disturbance in the Southern Tang Dynasty, relying on him alone, it can be said that he is weak and weak, and it is easy to be humiliated by Li Zhengguna and others.

Unsurprisingly, when the specific content of the peace treaty spread, there was another fierce disturbance.The Jinling government and the public were basically divided into two factions regarding this peace agreement, refusing, swearing, and attacking each other, making the Southern Tang court a miasma.

However, compared to before, the objection this time is the specific content of the peace treaty. Most people feel that the Northern Han Dynasty was too greedy.Even if Huainan fell and ruled by the river, it was inevitable, and being a minister would only lose face, but the benefit of the yearly tribute was too heavy.

Given the current situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty, after Sun Bing lost his generals and lost half of Huainan, it would be an extremely heavy financial burden for the Southern Tang Dynasty to bear such a large amount of annual tribute every year.

However, amidst this turmoil, Li Jing completely strengthened his heart for peace talks.Just about some details, Li Deming was sent across the river to meet Emperor Han and made some supplements.

In this regard, Liu Chengyou has nothing to do here, just discuss it carefully.

Southern Tang proposed that the captured Tang army soldiers and civilians hoped that the Han army could release them.How could Liu Chengyou easily agree to this? Before and after, there were nearly [-] soldiers and civilians captured by the Han army in the Huainan prefectures, which is [-] young and strong.How could Liu Chengyou not know the importance of population, especially the young and strong who can go to the battlefield, that is a precious asset.

After comprehensive consideration, Liu Chengyou agreed to return the captives who were originally from the south of the Yangtze River, but among the captives, there were thousands of Tang army generals who had surrendered to the Han army and had been included in the Han army's combat sequence. To Huainan.

Li Jing learned that there was no need to stop him, so he agreed.He also proposed to Liu Chengyou to ask Yihuai salt for 200,000 shi every year. You must know that the supply of salt in the Southern Tang Dynasty basically came from Huainan.In this regard, Liu Chengyou didn't mean to set up obstacles, as long as he could exchange money and goods of equivalent value.

Later, the two parties agreed that after the strike, the number of troops stationed along the river could be discussed.

In this way, after nearly five days of exchanges between the two parties, a peace agreement was finally reached.

On the twelfth day of February in the fifth year of Qianyou in the Northern Han Dynasty, Li Jing, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, led the harem, clan and ministers, to accuse the ancestral temple of the crime, and weeping to sue the "Han-Tang Peace Treaty".

Afterwards, the chancellor Feng Yansi and others went north to present the final peace treaty to Emperor Han. With Liu Chengyou's approval, the treaty between the two parties was officially concluded.That night, Liu Chengyou held a royal banquet for Feng Yansi and Tang officials.

During the dinner, Liu Chengyou looked at Feng Yansi differently and had a kind attitude.Generally speaking, Feng Yansi played a significant role in the Northern Han Dynasty's expedition to the Huaihe River, and he is a "hero".

However, under the weird and playful gaze of Emperor Han, Feng Yansi was quite uncomfortable and responded embarrassingly.Eating good wine is like drinking bitter water, and his complexion is heavy and sad.

In the court of Southern Tang Dynasty, Feng Yansi was more like a treacherous official who exercised power, but he was not like Li Deming, who had the heart of traitor.Although they also agreed to the peace talks, when Southern Tang really signed such a peace treaty, which was extremely humiliating and disastrous to the country and the people, it still couldn't help feeling mournful.

After the news reached Jinling, there was a lot of mourning between the government and the opposition.No matter what the attitude was before, when the peace agreement was reached, there was more or less grief and humiliation in my heart.

As for the Tang Lord Li Jing, he fell ill immediately and was barely able to manage the affairs of state. Once again, the emperor's younger brother Li Jingsui supervised the country, and asked civil and military assistant ministers to carry out peace negotiations with the Northern Han Dynasty to deal with the aftermath.

In the territory of Hezhou, on the other side of Dangtu, Liangshan Junzhai, in a cold spring breeze, the flags with the characters "Tang" and "Lin" fluttered.Around the military village, there are still many traces of offensive and defensive battles.

In the village, more than [-] Tang soldiers packed up their food and armor, boarded a boat in a solemn atmosphere, and prepared to retreat to Dangtu on the south bank.

Outside the village, more than [-] Han troops entered the village and took over the defense in an orderly manner.Zhang Yongde came in person, just because this stronghold was the enemy of Tang general Lin Renzhao.Zhang Yongde is still very interested in this Southern Tang general who has added a defeat to his resume.

Climbing up to the village tower, looking at the Tang army heading south, Zhang Yongde couldn't help sighing: "That Lin Renzhao can be regarded as a general. This Liangshan village was built so firmly by him that our army attacked for three days in a row. It's a pity that if you have a talent, you can't get it at the right time, and if you don't meet your master, how can you not be defeated!"

Lin Renzhao stood on the rear side of the warship of the Tang army that was gradually going away, and also looked at Liangshanzhai in the distance. There were many figures among them, looking at the Han flag that was raised high and fluttering in the wind, Lin Renzhao laughed a few times .

In the laughter, there was an obvious mockery: "The soldiers defended with blood, the enemy cannot be defeated, and the imperial court surrendered Jiang Fang with an edict."

The situation similar to Liangshanzhai has been staged a lot in the area along the river. On the north bank of the Yangtze River, dozens of large and small cities and fortresses, the Tang army all withdrew and retreated to the south bank, completely abandoning Jiangbei and handing it over to the Han army.Then, except for a small part of the city, most of the northern defense barriers were destroyed.

Of course, the attitude of most of Tang Jun is quite fortunate.Among the Tang troops defending the coast, during this period of time, they were basically frightened by the Han army. It is not bad to end the war in such a "decent" way and return to the south of the Yangtze River.

It's not that there are people who are as indignant as Lin Renzhao, but among the Tang army, they are a minority after all.It can be said that in less than half a year of offense and defense, the army of the Northern Han Dynasty had broken the backbone of the army of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)