Late Tang

"No, no, no!" Li Jing shook his head with a chuckle, and threw back the latest negotiation conditions handed over by Yang Fuguang, "Mr. Yang hasn't shown the greatest sincerity yet."

"King Qin, our family feels that the imperial court has already made a big concession." Yang Fuguang said with some confidence in his heart.But he still insisted, mainly because of Qin Fan's continuous concessions during this period, which made him feel that Li Jing should also really want to reach this negotiation, so he kept pressing down.But this time, the smile on Li Jing's face slowly turned into a sneer, "Mr. Yang, don't take our retreat as weakness. Everything has a limit. Today is Laba, and it's only less than one day away from New Year's Day." It's been a month, Mr. Yang won't forget it? Could it be that Mr. Yang didn't really want to reach this negotiation? If so, then there is no need to waste the time of both parties."

Yang Fuguang was startled, Li Jing's sudden change made him uneasy.He watched Li Jing's expression carefully. This was by no means a negotiating skill, not playing hard to get. Li Jing's attitude showed that this had indeed reached Li Jing's bottom line.

"What does King Qin mean?"

As soon as Li Jing beckoned, Luo Yin, the chief assistant of the cabinet, handed Yang Fuguang a booklet, which was Qin Fan's final condition.

After a full day of final negotiations, the negotiations finally came to an end and the two sides reached an agreement.

In the end, both sides made a concession. In this agreement, the two sides divided the territory according to the actual control area. The four states of Cai, Hao, Ying, and Chen in western Henan have since been assigned to Qin Fan. In addition, the areas controlled by Zhu Wen The only remaining states in Xuanwu Town, Bian and Zheng, were divided into two, with Bianzhou assigned to the Qin clan, and Zhengzhou assigned to the Chang'an court.In addition, regarding the compensation of each town, each of the 250 towns compensated Qin Fan with 500 million guan coins, which is equivalent to a total of 450 million guan copper coins.However, this money will not really be handed over to Qin Fan, because there is another clause in the agreement, Qin Fan pays 500 million yuan to the Chang'an court every year as Qin Fan's taxes, including various salt tea mines Taxes, etc., Qin Fan transferred the [-] million indemnities from the eighteen towns to the imperial court, which is equivalent to paying all taxes for ten years at a time.

This is actually just a word game. It is impossible for the towns to really be willing to pay Li Jing. If they are asked to pay Li Jing, it is better to go to war directly.And it is impossible for Li Jing to pay tribute to the court. In this case, the two sides played a game of words. Literally, the towns paid Qin Fan 500 million yuan, and similarly, literally, Qin Fan also Once, the surname paid 500 million yuan in taxes to the court for ten years.But in fact, this is just a set of numbers on the books, without any actual money flow.Li Jing could not receive the indemnity from the feudal towns, nor could the imperial court receive Li Jing's tribute, and of course the feudal towns would not turn to the imperial court to hand over the money.But on the surface, this kind of wordplay makes sense, which makes this negotiation more fruitful.

Of course, the core is still a few other items. For the Qin Fan, the most important result achieved this time is to finally let the Chang'an court give up the betrayal of Weibo and Chengde, two towns in Hebei. They have agreed to sell Weibo and Chengde. De designated as a rebel town, and authorized Li Jing to send troops to attack the second town. After the second town was captured, it was also completely under the control of the Qin Fan.

For the Chang'an court, they also achieved their most desired result, Li Jing agreed to abandon the plan to support the new emperor and establish a new dynasty in Hebei.Qin Fan and Li Jing are only loyal to Emperor Chang'an, and they are still the feudal towns under the Tang court in name.For this reason, the imperial court also granted Li Jing Tiance General, Shangshuling, Fake Huangyue, Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and Shangshuling of Daxingtai in Eastern Shaanxi Province.

In addition, as compensation for Li Jing's abandonment of supporting the new emperor, the Chang'an court agreed to register as a supervisor immediately, and the candidate was finally selected by the candidate proposed by Li Jing, a candidate that no one had expected in advance.It was neither Li Rui, king of Zhao, nor Li Bao, king of auspiciousness, but Li Yi, king of Mu.Li Yi, Li Xuan and Li Ye, Li Bao's younger brother, Li Rui's nephew, and Yizong's eighth son, are the daughters of ordinary palace people, without any matriarchal influence, and are only ten years old now.

After Li Jing proposed this list that was beyond everyone's expectations, it made everyone feel so normal.After all, King Zhao is very old and has certain influence, and Li Bao is known as a virtuous king. Whether it is Li Rui or Li Bao, they are not as easy to control as a ten-year-old prince who has no matriarchal influence.

For this candidate, Yang Fuguang has no objection. Anyway, they have already compromised on this point. As for who becomes the supervisor, they can't interfere anyway, so they don't bother to care.

On New Year's Day, Li Yi will officially receive the canonization of Chang'an Emperor in Yanjing, and become a state affairs supervisor.Originally, Li Jing planned to let Li Yi become the crown prince's younger brother directly, but Yang Fuguang refused to compromise on this one. In the end, Li Jing accepted it as soon as he saw it. He controls a prison country by himself, and he can still stand up to Chang'an justifiably, no matter in name or in fact, he really controls the Qin Fan, and greatly strengthens the control of his allies, especially with a prison country in the Hands have a great effect on those wealthy families in Qin Fan, especially those former civil and military officials from Chang'an, Luoyang and other places.

When Li Yi became the superintendent of state affairs and will build a mansion in Yanjing, according to the agreement, there will also be three Pingzhang military and state important affairs to assist the superintendent of state affairs.The three important military affairs of Pingzhang were undertaken by the three "shizong vassals" respectively, the emperor's uncle Qin Wang Li Jing, the emperor's uncle Zhao Wang Li Rui, and the emperor's younger brother Ji Wang Li Bao.Pingzhang's military and state affairs are important, even above the prime minister of Pingzhang's affairs.The three Pingzhang military affairs are important, and Li Jing is the head.

In addition to these most important items, in the end Yang Fuguang had to give up his intention to make Li Jing's daughter the queen under Li Jing's refusal.The final candidate for queen was the niece of Li Jing's clan. Although Li Jing's direct daughter could not be chosen as queen, it was possible to get Li's clan daughter as queen. From Yang Fuguang's point of view, it was a good result.

Of course, there is a secret clause at the end, the court of Chang'an needs to hand over Zhu Quanzhong's head to Qin Fan.

"Duke Yang!"

"King Qin!"

The negotiation was finally concluded. Li Jing and Yang Fuguang signed their respective names on the agreement, stamped their seals, and extended their hands to shake hands.Li Jing held Yang Fuguang's hand tightly and shook it a few times, Yang Fuguang felt a little painful with those powerful big hands, but there was still a smile on his face.He doesn't like this new etiquette quietly emerging in Qin Fan now.I always feel that it is too nonsensical, just like the clothes in Qin Fan's territory today, it is full of too much Hu Feng, and Hu Feng is too prevalent.Even walking on the street, you can see all kinds of Hu people everywhere, especially the hair-shaving order issued by Qin Fan not long ago: All Hu people, no matter where they come from, the southeast, the north, and the west, as long as they are not Han people, they must not be kept. The original hair style, no matter whether it was bald or braided before, all Hu men now have their hair cut short, just like the monk.Looking around, half of the street is covered with short hair, which is extremely uncomfortable for people.

Today's Qin Fan is indeed strong and prosperous, and even has the ethos of the early and prosperous Tang Dynasty, open, tolerant, and subject to hundreds of clans, all serving Qin Fan.But under this open atmosphere, it also made Hu Hua serious.Too many Hu people poured into Qin Fan, and while Qin Fan assimilated and changed the Hu people, the Hu people also influenced and changed the Han people.In particular, Li Jing's order that Hu people are not allowed to intermarry of the same race seems absurd, but the consequences are extremely strong. After decades, where can we find a pure Khitan, Xi, Mohe, Tatar, Goguryeo? Wait for all kinds of tribes?At that time, there will only be Han people and Hu people. Even according to Li Jing's current practice, maybe a hundred years later, even pure-bred Han people will not be found.Just as the Hu people now start to shave their hair and wear Han and Tang costumes, it may not be long before the Han people in Qin Fan will also shave their long hair that has been left for thousands of years. Even Han and Tang costumes may eventually become It will be blended with Hu clothes, and finally become a brand-new new clothing full of Hu and Han qualifications.

Is this change okay?Yang Fuguang was momentarily absent-minded.The early Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty had the heart of inclusiveness and tolerance. As a result, all ethnic groups were accommodated, creating an unprecedentedly prosperous and powerful Tang Dynasty.But in the end, it was these barbarians who gave Datang the most fatal blow, making Datang weak after that.From then on, Datang no longer trusted Hu people, and always maintained a deep vigilance.Today's Li Jing seems to be walking the old road of Tang Dynasty, but it is a little different.

Think about the generals like Li Keyong, Li Sigong, Helianduo, etc. under the imperial court, and look at the generals and soldiers under Li Jing, the two sides are going in completely different directions.Maybe the court has gone astray!

"Duke Yang really won't stay and celebrate the New Year in Yanjing?"

"No, our family has to implement the agreement between us immediately." The agreement has been agreed, but Yang Fuguang will not relax his vigilance. This agreement is just a delaying measure to buy breathing time for the court.It's not true that the world is peaceful. He knows very well that Li Jing's compromise at this time is just retracting the heavy punch he just punched in the Northeast. It won't be long before that fist will be punched again .There is not much time, they have to prepare early, without delay.

"Since that's the case, I won't keep Duke Yang any longer. I'm waiting for good news from Duke Yang in Yanjing!"

Knowing that this was about Zhu Wen's leader, Yang Fuguang nodded.In order to really deal with Li Jing, the first thing the Chang'an court needs is to reunify the separate towns.Taking advantage of Li Jing's aim at the second town of Hebei, he happened to take Zhu Wen down, and took back the three towns of Xuanwu and Xuanwu, which were controlled by Zhu Wen, in the hands of the imperial court.Only when the territory directly controlled by the imperial court is large and the soldiers and horses are strong, can other feudal towns be commanded to finally twist together and fight against Li Jing together.If not, in the end, the imperial court could not even control other feudal towns, so how would they deal with Li Jing?

Seeing that Yang Fuguang didn't want to stay for a moment, and left Beijing in a hurry, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Jing's mouth.

This negotiation was an unexpected success!

Li Jing is in a good mood. Although the Qin army is very strong, no matter how strong it is, it can't fight like a wave.Being able to successfully force the Chang'an court to abandon the Second Hebei Town was a great achievement for Li Jing.After being abandoned by the Chang'an court, the second town of Hebei has completely become a fish on the chopping board of the Qin army, and was slaughtered by the Qin army.

In terms of tactics, the more you face a weak enemy, sometimes you have to leave a ray of hope for the opponent, let them have illusions, and it is difficult for them to really break out.Just give them a hope that will never be touched, and let them take this fluke and keep retreating, retreating, retreating.

After all, one day, when they realized that there was no way to retreat, and tried to resist desperately, at that time, he was no longer able to hurt others.

This is both a tactic and a human weakness.

"Notify the Shandong garrison that they are ready to take over Bianzhou at any time, and then notify the camp in the west of Henan, so that they do not initiate wars and stick to the four states in western Henan. But if anyone dares to provoke, they will fight back without hesitation!" Li Jing issued an order, "The Council of Staff, the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are ready to annihilate the Second Township of Weibo Chengde next year."

Gai Yu said: "The plan of the Staff Council is to be more secure. Now that the negotiations are completed, it is enough to have soldiers who have returned from outside the pass to occupy various places, and there are border guards and road guards on the border. It is completely possible to send all the auxiliary soldiers Disband and go home, let them recuperate, and prepare for next year's spring plowing. After the spring begins, send a small group of troops to attack the long borders of the states in Weibo and Chengde two towns, destroying their spring plowing work and delaying their progress. Farming time. Then wait until the summer harvest, and then launch a large-scale raid, the main purpose is to snatch the crops and food in the second town, and seal the Yellow River tightly. In this way, they will fall into famine, and the food will be cooked in autumn At that time, our soldiers and horses had already rested, there was food in the granary, sufficient equipment in the arsenal, and the horses in the racecourse were fattened up. Siege, no harvest for a year, the second town will be difficult to fight, we will be able to end the war this autumn, and we will be able to take the second town by winter at the latest."

This is a very sound strategic plan and a traditional tactic.It is especially suitable for the offensive side, and especially suitable for the side with the upper hand.

"Will the time be too long, one year, I'm afraid there will be long nights and many dreams?" Lin Wei was a little worried.According to this plan, we have to wait for more than half a year.Who knows if the Chang'an court will repent after such a long time, and if they intervene in the Hebei war again, then the compromise that Chang'an made so hard now would be in vain.

"It's not long. If it takes one year to win the second town, it's still very short." Although the second town of Hebei has weakened, it is an old-fashioned town. still there.It's really a desperate time, especially when they are defending the soil and completely occupying the home field advantage. It is not easy to fight one city after another.Moreover, the Qin army is still very tired now, and it is impossible to fight another big battle without stopping.It's the middle of winter now, although it's not as cold as outside the pass, fighting inside the pass is also very different from outside the pass.The war inside the pass is more about the offensive and defensive battle of the city, which is actually more difficult than the war outside the pass.

Moreover, the Qin army had just finished fighting the Northeast War and wasted a lot of money, but the war dividends in the Northeast occupied area could not be immediately reaped too substantial.Qin Jun himself also needs a transitional time!

"Well, isolate them, besiege them, consume them, defeat them with fear and hunger, and let the Supervision Office and the Propaganda Department also invest in combat preparations. In the next year, our main focus will be around this war " Li Jing has his own schedule, no matter what the situation outside, he is steadily moving towards the goal.

Li Rang said with a smile: "Don't worry, gentlemen. In fact, Chang'an is far worse than we imagined. Let alone one year, it is estimated that they will be given three years, and they may not recover. The Ministry of Households estimates that the famine in the Guanlong area will continue next year, or even spread, and large-scale famines will break out in the entire Guanlong, Henan, Hedong, Shannan, Jingnan and other places next year. In the past year, more and more bad results are breaking out, and the good show is yet to come."

"There are more than that!" Li Jing added silently in his heart.Yang Fuguang promised to hand over Zhu Wen's head to him, but he didn't believe that Zhu Wen was so easy to deal with.Now he is very interested to know how Yang Fuguang wants to deal with Zhu Wen. Maybe he can add fire to make this matter more lively.If Zhu Wen and the Yang brothers get involved, it will be a real excitement. At that time, even if the Chang'an court wants to intervene in the situation in Hebei, it will probably be powerless.

Thinking of this, Li Jing turned to Gongsun Lan and said, "Auntie, immediately arrange for the Supervision Office to closely monitor the movements of the Yang brothers and the Zhu Wen brothers, and report back immediately if there is any disturbance."

Gongsun Lan guessed what Li Jing was thinking, "Why don't you just secretly disclose the agreement with the Yang brothers to Zhu Wen?"

A distance meter?

Li Jing shook his head, it was too simple.Tell Zhu Wen too early, maybe Zhu Wen will compromise with Yang Fuguang in the end, and a new agreement is also possible.This matter can't be revealed too early, it has to let the matter have already started, and then intervene when both sides have no way out, that will be interesting.

"What method will Yang Fuguang use to deal with Zhu Wen? Assassinate, or bribe Xuanwu generals to mutiny?" Interesting, interesting, Li Jing chuckled a little smugly.Many people don't pay much attention to Zhu Wen right now, and most of them underestimate Zhu Wen.The Yang Fuguang brothers did not hesitate to protect Li Keyong and abandon Zhu Wen, which seemed perfectly normal.But Li Jing is clear that in terms of the late Tang Dynasty in history, Li Ke's tactical ability may be the first, but in terms of strategic ability, it is at most fifth, or even tenth.But Zhu Wen, a very ordinary guy in the early stage, is actually not weak in tactical ability. At least he can be ranked in the top three in the late Tang Dynasty. In terms of strategic level, he surpassed Li Ke by ten streets. The tallest one.

Yang Fuguang, a eunuch who can fight well, and Shangpopi Zhu, a guy who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, and hides his secrets, really make people look forward to what kind of sparks they will encounter. (To be continued.)