Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 379 Peace Talk
Compared with corruption and bribery, taking money and not doing things is undoubtedly more hated. Xiao Yan's favorite minister Zhu Yi is undoubtedly one of the representatives.

Hou Jing from the original time and space has the most say in this matter. Zhu Yi's behavior of collecting money and not doing anything made him so angry that he denounced Zhu Yi's greed for money and bribery in his essay on Liang Liang, and made indulgence of Zhu Yi's corruption one of Xiao Yan's crimes.

But if you really want to say that Zhu Yi didn't do anything, you really wronged him. At least Xiao Fan, the governor of Hezhou, made a memorial to sue Hou Jing for treason, but Zhu Yi still withheld the memorial.

Before Zhu Yi entered the palace this time, he had met a person from the north in private. The person hoped that Zhu Yi could push Qi and Liang to negotiate peace, and promised that there would be a big reward afterwards.

Zhu Yi, who has always insisted on taking the money first, as to whether or not things can be done depends on his mood, unexpectedly agreed to do things first, and then get the money.

Everyone in the world knows that Lord Qi has made great promises, but the more important reason is that he advocates negotiating peace with Northern Qi, which is the mainstream voice in the Southern Liang Dynasty. The princes in Jiankang are unwilling to continue the fight, for fear that the Qi people who are showing off their might in Hefei will really cross the river. , regardless of whether they have the ability to cross the river.

Persuading Xiao Yan to negotiate a peace can not only get a piece of credit for quelling the war, but also collect a bribe from Northern Qi, so why not do it.

In fact, Gao Cheng can also choose to bribe Zhu Yi first. He is different from Hou Jing, a down-and-out general. Zhu Yi can play tricks on Hou Jing. How could he dare to covet his money and not do anything? Anyone with a brain knows that he wants to have a private relationship with the Northern Qi emperor. Make a good relationship, not make a bad relationship for some money.

As for Hou Jing, at that time in Shouyang, there were only [-] remnants of soldiers in his hands, how could Zhu Yi think highly of him.

However, Xiao Gao Wang was still stable. After all, if he really wanted to become a victim of Zhu Yi taking money and doing nothing, it would be shameful to pass it on to future generations. Not very nice.

But Gao Cheng really didn't want to spend his life in Hefei any longer.

There is no doubt about Zhu Yi's influence on Xiao Yan, otherwise Gao Cheng would not have sent someone to find him.

In the first year of Zhaode, on August 27, Xiao Yan, the emperor of Nanliang, ordered General Yang Kan to guard the Yangtze River strictly, and sent Liu Xiaoyi, a regular servant on scattered horses, to cross the river to contact the Northern Qi Dynasty and propose a peace agreement.

Gao Cheng naturally couldn't wish for it in his heart, but he still had the generals under his command cooperate with him to act out a scene. Faced with Liang Shi's request for peace, all the generals objected one after another. They asked Gao Cheng to go all out and take advantage of the situation to cross the river on the grounds that the morale of the lieutenant generals was high. Unify the north and the south.

Amidst all the calls for battle, Liu Xiaoyi, a well-known writer and envoy from the Southern Liang Dynasty, was so frightened that his face turned pale. The most indispensable thing in the Northern Qi Dynasty was majestic heroes, such as Gao Aocao, Peng Le and others. After training his muscles, he was stared at viciously by a group of burly men, as if they wanted to swallow him alive.

However, Gao Cheng still stood up to everyone's opinions and said to Liu Xiaoyi:

"Since my southern expedition, after the great victory at Bagong Mountain, the wind has fallen and there have been few obstacles. The reason why I am willing to negotiate peace with you is not because the soldiers are tired. The envoy has also seen it. All the generals are looking forward to me crossing the river. Let them build their meritorious deeds again.

"I just heard from Marquis Zhenyang (Xiao Yuanming) that there may be a misunderstanding in the matter of your country's lord's refusal to marry, so I intend to stop fighting."

Liu Xiaoyi let go of the stone in her heart and thanked her repeatedly.

He was not Zhu Yi, of course he didn't understand Northern Qi's true intentions, if the Southern Liang rulers and ministers knew that Northern Qi did intend to negotiate peace, it would not be Liu Xiaoyi's turn to cross the river as an envoy.

Gao Cheng was not in a hurry to throw out his own conditions, but asked Liu Xiaoyi to tell Xiao Yan that he was willing to send an envoy with full authority to negotiate with Liang envoy on his behalf in Yu Liyang.

With Liu Xiaoyi's status and official position, how can he be the leader of the negotiation between the Nanliang side, and now that he has stated his own conditions, it seems that he, Little Gao Wang, is in a hurry to negotiate. Of course, he really wants to understand this matter earlier. Yes, the cost of nearly a million people is not a small amount every day.

After Liu Xiaoyi returned to Jiankang, he relayed Gao Cheng's words, and the rulers and ministers of Southern Liang breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Northern Qi was willing to negotiate peace.

Knowing that Gao Cheng sent his clan Gao Yue as his envoy, Xiao Yan also ordered his nephew Xiao Yuanzao to have a meeting with Gao Yue in Liyang.

After a lot of talking and bargaining, the two sides quickly reached a consensus on many issues.

Nanliang recognized Northern Qi's sovereignty over Huainan, and was willing to draw rivers to rule with Northern Qi, give up Hefei, and send away the family members of the generals who offered Shouyang to Xiancheng. At the same time, they married Liyang Princess Xiao Miaoyu. Yan rejects Gao Cheng's marriage proposal.

The Northern Qi Dynasty released the soldiers of the Liang army who were captured in Bagong Mountain at a reasonable price, except for Xiao Yuanming, who was calculated separately.

At the same time, the passage was opened and the Hefei defenders were allowed to return south.

Xiao Gao Wang is also quite interesting, he didn't even ask for war reparations, ransom!How can the ransom be regarded as war reparations!That is human trade!

For Xiao Yan, this condition is indeed acceptable. Now there is only one isolated city in Hefei in Jiangbei, and he is powerless, or he no longer dares to send troops across the river to fight against the Northern Qi land and regain Huainan.

As a loser in the war, he couldn't let Northern Qi return the land of Huainan, let's spit out all the cities that were actually occupied, Xiao Yan thought to himself that he didn't have that face.

This peace negotiation is equivalent to exchanging the city of Hefei for the redemption rights of the captured soldiers of Nanliang, and letting go of the road, letting Hefei's [-] defenders return to the south, and the two families ceased fighting.

As for the most beloved granddaughter, Xiao Miaochun, she also seemed insignificant in front of state affairs, Gao Cheng wanted to propose marriage, and he agreed.

The reason why he refused the marriage before was because Gao Cheng was unwilling to make a covenant. Now that the peace was negotiated, if Gao Cheng came to fight again, he would be at a moral disadvantage. At least Xiao Yan never thought of tearing up the peace agreement and crossing the river to conquer the north.

He suffered enough from the Northern Expedition in these years, and he never lost soldiers or generals. Although Chen Qingzhi lost [-] soldiers, his political and military success was far beyond the comparison of [-] white-robed soldiers.

So when Xiao Yuanzao brought back the final conditions of the Northern Qi Dynasty, although Xiao Yan pretended to be unwilling to cede Jiangbei, under the persuasion of the officials, he still agreed without difficulty.

At the price of one piece of cloth for each soldier, more than 100 captives in Shouyang were redeemed from the Northern Qi Dynasty, while generals and officers received 5000-[-] pieces of cloth and silk depending on their status and status.

As for Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang, Gao Cheng saw that he had done so much for him, and there was no temporary price increase, so he still sold for [-] bolts of cloth.

Just to buy the captives, Nanliang had to pay more than [-] bolts of cloth to Northern Qi. Of course, the ransom of the generals was funded by their families.

Even Xiao Yuanming, under Xiao Yan's indulgence for many years, has a lot of savings, and he can bear the next part, and his good uncle Xiao Yan will pay for the rest.

Gao Cheng did not take the more than [-] bolts of cloth for himself, but as a reward for the soldiers, and he even added a lot more himself.

However, this time all Huainan was taken, and many were seized from the treasuries of various cities, which could still make up for most of the consumption of the Southern Expedition.

Just as the two sides reached a consensus that Nanliang was about to withdraw from Hefei and Northern Qi was about to trade prisoners, a 12-year-old girl in Jiankang City said angrily:
"My daughter won't marry!"

　And at night

　　
　
(End of this chapter)