Late Tang

Another day of arduous negotiations ended, and it was already dark. Yang Fuguang left the Forbidden Palace and went to the Diaoyutai Hotel built in the inner city of Yanjing. The negotiation with Li Jing is going on without haste. Although it is slow, there is progress. With his efforts every day, Qin Fan will make some concessions. It seems small, but it is real Concession, although this should be regarded as an exchange and compromise of mutual interests, but progress has indeed been made.

This made Yang Fuguang, who had already given up hope for the negotiation, a little bit of hope again. As long as Li Jing can cancel his plan to support the new emperor, everything will be worth it.These days he has been in contact with Yang Fugong in Chang'an, and with the help of the road built by Qin Fan, he can travel from Yanjing to Chang'an in four days.And the flying pigeon route secretly established by the Ministry of War can be reached in two days.Every day after the negotiations were over, Yang Fuguang would immediately write a letter and send it back to Chang'an to discuss with his brother and decide how to advance or retreat in the next negotiations.

As soon as he entered the courtyard of Tianzi No. [-] Building of the hotel, he saw Yang Shouliang, the adoptive son in charge of communication, standing there waiting for him.

During the negotiations the day before yesterday, Li Jing insisted that the imperial court transfer Hedong Town and Xuanwu Town to Qin Fan, and hand over Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong to Qin Fan for disposal.Even, for the first time, Li Jing made a rare big concession, saying that if the court agrees to his condition, then he is willing to reduce the compensation of 500 million guan from the other 400 towns to 400 million guan for each town. At least [-] million yuan in compensation is required.

Yang Fuguang fought hard, and even proposed that the Ying and Hao prefectures in western Henan should be assigned to Qin Fan as an exchange condition, but Li Jing refused to agree.Just for this condition, the negotiations between the two sides may fall into a stalemate again.This made Yang Fuguang very sad, but he was helpless.He knew that they had to make another concession, otherwise, Li Jing would not take the initiative to give in.

"Has the lieutenant's letter arrived?" Yang Fuguang asked.

Yang Shouliang hurried forward, took out a secret letter that was still sealed with wax, "I just sent it to Fei Ge Chuan Shu." After finishing speaking, he looked at Yang Fuguang's face and saw that he looked very bad, so he knew that today's negotiation might be another matter. It was very unfavorable, so he took the initiative to ask: "Is Qin Fan still unwilling to give in?"

Yang Fuguang waved his hand and sighed, "Qin Fan's attitude is very tough. He must insist on Hedong and Xuanwu. None."

"It's better to give up Xuanwu!" Yang Shouliang tentatively said, "Xuanwu Town originally had four prefectures in Bian, Song, and Haoying. Jing, in fact Xuanwu has been controlled by Li Jing for three-quarters, it is better to simply give Li Jing the Bianzhou. Barrier. But the east of the river cannot draw Li Jing, Hezhong Town is extremely important, it is a barrier between Luoyang and Guanzhong, if Taiyuan is lost, Li Jing will really cross the Yellow River westward and enter Guanlong."

"Li Jing won't agree easily, this time he insisted on the matter." Yang Fuguang sighed, now this negotiation is really holding back everywhere, but there is nothing he can do about it, who told Li Jing to take the initiative everywhere.

Yang Shouliang rolled his eyes and said in a low voice, "Perhaps, we can hand over Li Keyong to keep Hedong Township."

Yang Fuguang was surprised, and just wanted to reprimand his son for a few words, but he couldn't help but stop when the words came to his lips.This may indeed be a plan. Li Keyong is the vanguard general against Qin, but on the other hand, Li Keyong is almost completely controlled by Li Jing, and he is not Li Jing's opponent at all.Moreover, Li Ke used this person to be a bit domineering. Although he also worshiped under his sect and was his godson, he had established a small circle with Wang Chongrong and the second party Xianger Tuyuhun town, and there was a hidden danger of being out of control.It seems to be a good idea to throw Li Keyong to Li Jing to keep Hedong Township, and then he will take over the Hedong Army in Hedong Township.

But there are advantages and disadvantages. Will this cause Li Keyong's opposition from the small league?Besides, how to hand over Li Keyong is also a big problem. Li Keyong is not an ordinary person, this Li Yaer is a barbarian king.In case something goes wrong, let Li Keyong know about it. If something goes wrong, Li Keyong will be wrong again.This guy has two previous convictions.

Yang Fuguang rubbed his forehead with some headaches, things were really in a dilemma.

He simply stopped thinking about it and opened the letter to read it.

The meaning of Yang Fugong's letter is very clear, that is to try his best to reach a negotiation with Li Jing.As for the troubles encountered in the current negotiation, Yang Fugong's reply is somewhat similar to Yang Shouliang's.However, the plan he proposed was that the Chang'an court would not interfere with Li Jing's attack on Weibo and Chengde, and at the same time transfer the four prefectures in western Henan occupied by the Qin army to Qin Fan, and the court would return the people of Qin Fan who had been looted from the towns. .

After these three items, the Chang'an court is still willing to assign Bianzhou to the Qin Fan, and at the same time is willing to hand over the head of Zhu Wen to the Qin Fan. Moreover, the Chang'an court also establishes a supervisory country. The candidate for the supervisory country is nominated by Li Jing and can be considered in Yanjing supervises the country.

Of course, with such a big concession from the Chang'an court, they also have several conditions.First, the 7000 million compensation proposed by Li Jing was cancelled.Second, Hedong Town and Henan Mansion are still owned by the Chang'an court.Third, Qin Fan must open the canal to the imperial court.Fourth, Li Jing's eldest daughter is the queen.Fifth, Qin Fan does not need to implement a three-point tax system, but must pay 1000 million yuan to the Chang'an court every year.

Yang Fugong's new condition was after careful consideration.The above did not let the Qin army disarm, and did not let Li Jing pay one-third of the tax every year.He was even willing to hand over Zhu Quanzhong's head to Li Jing, and to transfer the five states including Bianzhou and Caizhou to Li Jing. This is very sincere.

In the choice between Li Keyong and Zhu Wen, Yang Fugong chose to betray Zhu Wen.This is because Li Keyong is very good at fighting, at least he has not been beaten to death after fighting with Li Jing for so many years.Second, Li Keyong is very powerful now. Not only is Hedong Town a strong town, but he also has many allies.They are all rich towns like Wang Chongrong, allies of Huren feudal towns like Baoda, Dingnan, Tiande, and Zhenwu, so they are not easy to offend.Furthermore, Hedong Township is too important to be easily disrupted. Otherwise, if there is any chaos in Hedong, Luoyang Chang'an may be unstable.

As for Zhu Wen, although he was once under Li Jing's command, he was just a soldier before, and later he was just a general under Huang Chao.It was only by relying on the seller's pursuit of glory that he was able to occupy several towns in western Henan at once.For the remnants of a grass thief, Yang Fugong didn't look down on this former landlord who fed the swineherd.The reason why the surrender was so favorable at the beginning was because the situation was different at that time. Now that Huang Chao is gone, Zhu Wen is worthless. How can he tolerate him occupying such a large territory?

He just took this opportunity to kill Zhu Wen and take back his territory.

It's ridiculous for a damned swineherd to want to be called a widow and widow, and to be the king of Liang.

Of course, the most important thing is that although Zhu Quanzhong is powerful now, in Yang Fugong's eyes, he really has not fought any famous big battles, which makes people think that he is nothing more than that, a fat pig who can be killed.

Yang Fuguang carefully read his brother's letter, this is indeed a big concession.

But in detail, the imperial court did not make much concessions.

The four prefectures in western Henan were originally captured and controlled by Li Jing, but they did not regain their control after a long confrontation.What really paid was only Bianzhou, which was still outside Wulao Pass. Anyway, the east bank of Bianhe River was controlled by Li Jing, and the remaining Bianzhou was also difficult to defend.As for the two towns of Chengde and Weibo in Hebei, although these two towns were lost, they had a great impact on the court.But now at this time, a dead Taoist friend is worse than a dead poor Taoist. The Second Town of Hebei is difficult to control. Fighting, two tigers fighting, there will be injuries, they are watching the fire from the other side, just in time to rest and recuperate.

Yang Fugong doesn't want to destroy Qin Fan anymore, he just thinks that it is best to maintain the status quo.Just like when the Tang Dynasty recruited and surrendered the remnants of Anshi, it comforted Li Jing.They are still the center of the imperial court, Li Jing is nothing more than a northern vassal.After more than ten or twenty years like this, after he dies, there will be a lot of floods behind him.

As for the matter of supervising the country, as long as Li Jing does not support the new emperor, supporting him with a supervising country can be considered as a comfort to him.Anyway, what they care about is the orthodoxy of the court, and the rest doesn't matter.Regardless of whether he supervises the country or is the crown prince, anyway, it is just to give Li Jing a formal name so that he can control Qin Fan more conveniently, which is justified.This matter cannot be stopped, and Li Jing will not agree to it in Luoyang, so it is better to be more generous and put it in Yanjing, and let Li Jing toss about it.

The Supreme Emperor of Chengdu, the Supervisor of Yanjing, let him go, in short, there is only one emperor in Chang'an.

Yang Fuguang handed the letter to Yang Shouliang and Yang Shouyi, "What do you think?"

"It's possible!" Yang Shouyi said.

"That's right." Yang Shouliang also said, "However, Zhu Wen is now the commander-in-chief of the imperial court with the largest territory besides Li Jing. But he has kept his strength, the loss is not big, he is considered strong now, how can he give his head to Li Jing?"

"I don't think it's difficult." Yang Shouyi smiled on the side, "The adoptive father can tell Li Keyong that Li Jing wants his head, but the adoptive father spared no efforts to protect him, so now he needs Zhu Asan's head to meet his needs." Li Jing, let him find a way to chop off Zhu Asan's head and present it, I believe he will be very willing to use Zhu Wen's head instead of his to appear in Li Jing's case."

"It's a good plan to drive tigers and wolves away!" Yang Fuguang sighed and nodded. (To be continued.)