Fenghou

Chapter 1521
At noon, Wang Chongshan found Brother Li Ba with a newspaper, "Leader, look, Harabalu has arrived in Jingzhao!"

Brother Li Ba was startled, "When did you come?"

"This is today's newspaper. He should have arrived in Jingzhao yesterday."

Brother Li Ba pondered for a moment and said: "This must be Huihe from Xizhou asking for help from Yongguo!"

Wang Chongshan said with a smile: "But Xizhou Huihe's attitude is not sincere!"

"why would you say so?"

"I read the newspaper about King Yong's ascension to the throne. It said that Nanzhao, Li Dynasty and Tubo all sent envoys to congratulate them, but they did not see Goryeo and Xizhou Huihe. This time, it was not the king or prince who came to ask for help, but the sent country. The teacher came over, so only Honglu Siqing came to greet him in Yong Dynasty, not Xiangguo came out to greet him, so we can see the dissatisfaction of Yong Dynasty."

"You mean, the Yong Dynasty will not send troops to help Xizhou Huihe?"

"I don't dare to say that, it's just that the price of sending troops to the Yong Kingdom will be very high, and Huihe in Xizhou may not be able to accept it."

Brother Li Ba nodded, "Then we will wait and see!"

After a pause, he continued: "The dispatch of information is suspended, and when the results come out, they will be sent to Xiliao together!"

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There is a grocery store diagonally across from Hu's store. It was originally opened by a woman, and then an old couple came in. They were hard of hearing, and the business was not very good.

The old couple didn't seem to care about business, they sat in front of the store and basked in the sun all day long, but their eyes were fixed on the Hu goods store diagonally opposite.

Whenever a clerk or shopkeeper leaves the store, the old lady will enter the house immediately, and after a while, a middle-aged man riding a donkey will follow.

Needless to say, the grocery store is the eyeliner used by the internal guards to monitor the store. Although the old couple in the grocery store are not from the internal guards, their son is Nie Ping, the commander of the internal guards.

After more than ten days of monitoring, Nie Ping finally discovered the clue, and immediately returned to the inner guard to report his discovery to Zhong Huan.

"Reporting to the general, I found that they basically didn't go out much, and didn't have contact with other people. I was also wondering how they collected information. Today, I finally understood."

Zhong Huan asked with interest: "How do they collect information?"

"Use the "Beijing News" to collect information!"

Nie Ping said with a smile: "One of them, a Han, collected a batch of old newspapers ten days ago, and I went to ask the businessman who sold the newspapers to him. The businessman sold the newspapers to him at a high price for three years, and then I bought them today. Found this in the scrap they threw away."

Nie Ping took out a stack of newspapers and put them on the table. A lot of the content inside was cut out by scissors, leaving only a frame, "The previous newspapers may have been burned, but these dozen or so copies are too lazy to burn, just throw them away, humble job Know their source of information."

Zhong Huan picked up a newspaper, looked at it and said, "This one only has the headlines on the front page, and it is today's "Beijing News."

He hurriedly took a copy of today's Beijing newspaper from the side, and compared it, it turned out that it was the news that the Xizhou Huihe envoys had entered Beijing.

"They are really concerned about this matter, I know, continue to monitor!"

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Nie Pingping saluted and left, and Zhong Huan read through a pile of cut newspapers for a long time before getting up and entering the palace. He had to report this matter to the emperor in time.

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At this time, Chen Qing was also listening to reports from Jiang Yanxian and Zhang Jun. This morning, the two of them, on behalf of the imperial court, made the first contact with Harabalu, the Huihe envoy from Xizhou, to understand each other's intentions.

Jiang Yanxian bowed and said, "Your Majesty, their intention is very clear, that is, they want us to send troops to help them resist the invasion of the Xiliao army."

"Didn't our Shazhou Army help them resist the Xiliao Army? What else do they want?"

Zhang Jun quickly said: "What the other party means is that we have sent too few troops. They hope that we will send at least [-] troops, and they will pay for the rations."

Chen Qing nodded, and said to Yang Tai, "Go and invite the other five prime ministers, let's go to the meeting hall next door!"

Not long after, Zhou Kuan and other five ministers rushed to the meeting hall, and all seven ministers arrived.

Only then did Chen Qing say to everyone: "Today we will mainly discuss in depth the matter of Huihe in Xizhou. Jiang Xiangguo and Zhang Xiangguo, please introduce to everyone the situation of your contact with the Huihe envoy this morning!"

Jiang Yanxian briefly explained to everyone the situation of his contact with the Huihe envoy Harabalu this morning, and finally said: "Halabalu is the Huihe national teacher with a high status. He can sign any agreement with us on behalf of the king. Speaking of it, it’s just a little lack of etiquette, but the other party is very pragmatic!”

Chen Qing said indifferently: "Pragmatic is pragmatic, but sincerity is still a little insufficient. If the prince and the national teacher come together, I think it will be more sincere."

Everyone could hear that the emperor was quite dissatisfied with the contempt and disrespect of Huihe in Xizhou.

Chen Qing slowly said to everyone: "To gather everyone together, I actually want to clarify some principles and matters. Although Xizhou Huihe is rude, I still agree to negotiate with them and contact them. The most important thing is to get in touch with them." The reason is that I want to rebuild the Anxi Protectorate."

This sentence shocked everyone, and everyone understood the great talent of the emperor, and he was not willing to be a conservative monarch, but continued to open up territories in the far west.

"What kind of Anxi Protectorate does Your Majesty want to build?" Zhou Kuan asked.

"That's a good question!"

Chen Qing said slowly: "The Anxi Protectorate I want is the same as the Central Plains, with prefectures and counties, just like Xihai County, Yiwu County, Qiemo County, and Shanshan County established in the Sui Dynasty, but I still want more As far away as Luntai County, Yili County, Yanqi County, Gaochang County, Qiuci County, Shule County, Suiye County and even further away, like the Central Plains, there are states and counties, which really become the territory of our Yong Dynasty."

Lu Qingshan said bluntly: "But does your Majesty know why the plan of the Sui Dynasty failed in the end and became the plan of the Tang Dynasty, only building military cities without occupying land?"

Chen Qing nodded, "I know that the distance and time make it difficult for the court to control, and it has to coexist with the countries in the Western Regions. The prefecture system of the Sui Dynasty has changed to the military town system and fetter system of the Tang Dynasty. At this stage, I also plan to adopt the military township system of the Tang Dynasty. This is why I want to negotiate with Xizhou Huihe. My condition is to establish Tingzhou in Luntai, rebuild Beiting Duhufu, and coexist with Xizhou Huihe.

More than ten years later, with the emergence of new means of transportation, it is no longer a dream to arrive at Beiting in a few days. At that time, the system of prefectures and counties will be re-introduced, and the Western Regions will be completely included in the territory of the Yong Dynasty. "

Everyone looked at each other, and Zhou Kuan asked: "What does your majesty mean by the new means of transportation? Is there any clue?"

Chen Qing nodded, "The new means of transportation I'm talking about refers to the steam train. Taixue has been studying it for several years, and finally has some clues."

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Chen Qing's idea was unanimously agreed by the Prime Ministers, and everyone supported the reconstruction of the Anxi Protectorate.

The negotiating policy has been determined, and the next step is to continue negotiating with Huihe in Xizhou. The Yong Dynasty can send [-] troops to help Huihe in Xizhou fight against the expansion of Western Liao and East, but the condition is that the Yong Dynasty will rebuild Tingzhou, Yizhou and Xizhou, and rebuild Beiting. Protectorate.

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The Prime Ministers dispersed, Yang Tai said to Zhong Huan who was waiting outside: "Your Majesty summoned the general!"

Zhong Huan quickly got up and followed Yang Tai into the imperial study.

"Wei Chen sees His Majesty!"

Chen Qingxiao asked: "General Zhong wants to see me urgently, but have you found anything important?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, we discovered that the intelligence spies from Xiliao found another way to find information from the "Beijing News". They collected the "Beijing News" for three years."

Chen Qing nodded, "This is a smart approach. In fact, the "Beijing News" contains a lot of important information, such as our national strength, our army, our population, prices, finances, etc., can all be included in the "Beijing News". " found that as long as it is not confidential military information, there is normal information, which is enough for Xiliao."

"But today they learned about the arrival of the special envoy from Huihe in Xizhou!"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "They must be very concerned!"

"The humble job means that they can only use manpower to ride horses to Xiliao to send information, and the humble job can intercept the person who sent the information!"

Chen Qing took a few steps with his hands behind his back and said, "Don't intercept it. Since they are collecting information from the "Beijing News", they can release some information that we want Xiliao to know at critical moments."

(End of this chapter)