Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 2270 Treaty of Luoyang between Qin and Tang Dynasties (Part 2)

Chapter 2266: Treaty of Luoyang between Qin and Tang Dynasties (Part 2)

"Mr. Zhang Yi, my king has already promised to surrender and has resigned from the throne, but you still want to cede the entire left Fenling and the three counties of Fufeng on the right. This appetite is too much." Li Shangyin said angrily.

 There are three counties and 38 counties in Guanzhong, and 14 counties are currently occupied by the Qin army.

Zuo Fenling had 13 counties, 7 of which had surrendered to the Qin Dynasty, and only 5 counties were still under the control of the Tang army.

 There are 15 counties in Fufeng on the right, and 4 of them are in the hands of Qin.

 Once these eight counties requested by the Qin State fall into the hands of the Qin Army, the Qin Army's originally scattered territories will be connected into a whole, and they will completely gain a foothold in Guanzhong.

 At that time, Guanzhong will be divided into two, showing the tendency of splitting between the north and the south.

 The northern and eastern parts of Guanzhong were owned by the Qin army, while the southern and western parts were owned by Li Tang.

In this case, it will be difficult to expel the Qin army from Guanzhong. This is something Li Shangyin does not want to see anyway.

"It is absolutely impossible to cede the eight counties of Feng Ling on the left and Fufeng on the right." Li Shangyin decisively refused.

Zhang Yi seemed not surprised at all by Li Shangyin's reaction, and said with a smile: "Dare I ask the Tang envoy, can the defense power of these eight counties be comparable to that of Xiaoguan and Wuguan?"

Li Shangyin was silent for a moment and then replied: "Of course I can't."

"Even Xiaoguan and Wuguan have been conquered by our army, and now Chang'an is in danger. Does your envoy think that our army does not have the ability to conquer these five counties?"

Hearing this, Li Shangyi did not dare to speak.

Zhang Yi's attitude is already very obvious. If he does not take the five counties of Zuo Feng Ling and connect the obtained lands into a whole, the Qin army's foundation in Guanzhong will be unstable after all. Therefore, regardless of whether Li Tang agrees with it or not, these five counties of Zuo Feng Ling will The counties and states of Qin are all decided.

Li Shangyin only felt weak in his heart. Only now did he truly realize how correct and cruel Ying Hao's words were: A weak country has no diplomacy.

Li Shangyin finally understood that the choice given by the Qin State was to either abandon Chang'an or leave the five counties of Fenling.

 Abandoning Chang'an is equivalent to giving up the entire Guanzhong.

  Giving up 5 Fenling counties on the left and 3 Fufeng counties on the right, we can still own half of Guanzhong.

 So, he had no choice but to choose the latter.

"The Tang Dynasty can cede territory, but 8 counties are too many, and the Qin Dynasty must also ensure that after the Tang Dynasty surrenders, the Qin army will not be the first to use troops against the Tang Dynasty." Li Shangyin said seriously.

"Of course, but the premise is that the Tang State cannot betray the Qin Dynasty." Zhang Yi said with a smile.

Li Shangyin nodded, began to discuss the number of counties to be ceded, and proposed that only 3 counties could be ceded at most.

Zhang Yi naturally couldn't agree, but after talking for a long time, and even talking about 4 counties, we could no longer talk.

 In response, both Zhang Yi and Li Shangyin chose to keep their differences while reserving their common ground and began to continue discussing the subsequent regulations.

"Mr. Zhang Yi, you called Qin Hai, Sima Yi, and Kong Peng traitors of the Qin State. But as far as I know, neither Sima Yi nor Kong Peng served in the Qin State."

 The implication is that if you want to hand it over, you can only hand it over to Hu Hai, and it is impossible at the other two times.

For a useless waste like Hu Hai, who is morally corrupt, Li and Tang might have been able to protect him when he was strong, but now the Tang state itself can't protect it, so it's naturally impossible to protect him.

 As for Sima Yi and Kong Peng, they are both top civil and military talents, so naturally they cannot give up.

“But Sima Yi betrayed the Sima family, planned a coup, and participated in the rebellion, causing considerable losses to the Qin Dynasty..."

Zhang Yi put pressure on Li Shangyin from all aspects. Li Shangyin was sweating on his forehead, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

The two sides talked for an entire afternoon, but there were still many differences. No one could say anything about whom, so we could only continue the discussion tomorrow.

Before leaving, Zhang Yi threatened: "Mr. Li, let me remind you that negotiations are negotiations and wars are wars. If Chang'an City is captured by our army during our negotiations, you will have to pay far more than this." about you…"

Li Shangyin was so angry that he couldn't speak, but he had no choice. He couldn't make the decision on some things. He could only fly pigeons to send messages back, waiting for the orders of the king of Tang. At the same time, he contacted envoys from various countries to put pressure on Qin.

The next day, Li Shangyin brought envoys from Shu, Chu, Song, Wu, Ming, and Sui to negotiate with Zhang Yi, using the force of seven to jointly exert pressure, hoping to force Zhang Yi to give in.

Seeing this, Zhang Yi summoned envoys from Wei State and the Southern Barbarians to bolster his momentum and asked them to watch on the sidelines.

Facing the pressure from the seven countries, Zhang Yi still sticks to the bottom line, fights with the group of envoys on her own, and brings the art of negotiation to the extreme.

 The two sides debated continuously for a whole day, making advances and retreats, but there were still a lot of differences.

 The seven countries were all shocked by Zhang Yi's toughness, especially the attitudes of Song and Wu became more ambiguous.

At this point, the Qin-Tang negotiations initially reached a deadlock. It was not until the arrival of Sun Jian and Zhao Kuangyin and the return of the flying pigeon message from Chang'an that the deadlock was broken again.

Sun Jian and Zhao Kuangyin did not directly express their opinions on the Qin-Tang negotiations after they arrived, but during their meeting with the King of Qin, they said a few words of favor to the Tang state. This attitude also made Ying Hao wary.

Qin does not care about the opinions of these hostile countries, Shu and Chu, but the three allies of Wei, Song and Wu cannot care.

 Once they all fall out with Qin, then Qin will really be the enemy of the whole world, and Qin still needs the existence of these allies before it can completely digest the land of Hebei and restore its national strength.

In order to save face for the Song and Wu countries, Ying Hao gave Zhang Yi an order to take a step back on the issue of ceding land. In the end, it was discussed that only 5 counties in Zuofengling would be ceded.

 With 5 counties in hand, Qin's territory in Guanzhong can still be connected into one whole area.

As for Li Shimin’s flying pigeon message, it gave Li Shangyin greater authority to negotiate and also told Li Shangyin to end the negotiations as soon as possible.

 In the end, Zhang Yi proposed to halve the war allocation, and Li Shangyin accepted all Qin's conditions.

 Witnessed by many countries such as Chu, Shu, Sui, Wei, Song, and Wu, Li Shangyin represented the Tang State and Zhang Yi represented the Qin State and jointly signed the famous "Qin-Tang Luoyang Treaty" in later generations.

 The "Treaty of Luoyang between the Qin and Tang Dynasties" has a total of 18 major and minor regulations:

 Article 1: From now on, the Tang State breaks away from the puppet Han Dynasty, becomes a vassal state of the Qin Dynasty, and voluntarily becomes a vassal state of the Qin Dynasty.

 Article 2: Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, resigned from the throne and was demoted to the title of Duke.

 Article 3: The Qin and Tang Dynasties used the current land area as the dividing line, and the Tang State ceded the land of 5 counties in Zuofengling to the Qin State.

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 Article 6: The prince Li Zhi is sent to Luoyang to serve as a hostage. If there are no major changes in the Tang Dynasty, the prince is not allowed to return to the country...

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Article 9: The two countries entered into a marriage alliance and formed a permanent alliance. Princess Li Xiuning of the Tang Dynasty married the King of Qin Ying Hao...

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 Article 11, Li Shimin wanted to accept the mistake of besieging Luoyang and personally apologized to the soldiers of Qin who died in the battle...

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 Article 15: Tang State returns Qin State’s traitorous minister Qin Hai…

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Article 18: After the armistice, both Qin and Tang Dynasties will jointly disarm, and the total number of troops in Guanzhong of both countries shall not exceed one hundred thousand.

 (End of this chapter)