Yuan Tongzhi looked at Nu Qiong in a daze, a little scared in his heart, he knew that this woman was half a madman, and it was Wu Tingchang of Yanzhou City who kindly took her in and married her, and the grace of the marriage was not less than ten years, but who would have thought that she was actually Ma Chongying's spy, and he personally killed Wu Tingchang in front of the two children, opened the gate of Yanzhou City, and made thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city who insisted on resisting being killed and captured.

But Nuqiong didn't expect that with the fall of Yanzhou City, the majesty of Dafan was magically gone, first Anlechuan was defeated, then Huating was defeated, then Taideng City, and then Pingrong City.

She was almost crazy, he didn't regret killing her husband, nor did she regret abandoning her two sons, what she couldn't figure out was that she gave everything for the benefit of the country of Dafan, but now that group of noble monks, festivals, and all kinds of dignitaries and nobles, no one really thinks about Dafan, everyone is trying to protect themselves, but the country is divided and defeated - even Prince Mu Di, whom she now respects the most, has to stand up as Zampu.

Nu Qiong burst into tears, crying bitterly, covering her face with her hands, kneeling in front of Yuan Tongzhi.

Yuan Tongzhi is such a shrewd person, of course he understands what kind of situation it is now, but he will not explain anything to Nu Qiong, a woman, and naturally has a set of other explanations for dealing with her. So the walker Yuan Tongzhi helped Nuqiong up very kindly, and then whispered to her:

"When you opened the gate of Yanzhou back then, you came by killing your husband and throwing your child back, which is a sin you did anyway. Your dead ghost husband went to the hell of Abi very miserable, and your two children are afraid that most of them will also die, and their souls go east, to the Manjushri Bodhisattva of Wutai Mountain to complain about their grievances, Manjushri Bodhisattva is angry and angry, and then all kinds of disasters come to the head of Dafan, you see that this time the Tang army came to conquer, and it was the banner of Manjushri Bodhisattva. ”

Nu Qiong was so frightened that she was scared to death, and all kinds of cruel scenes of her going to hell appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but tremble, and kowtowed in front of Yuan Tongzhi's knee like pounding garlic, asking the walker to help her solve it.

Where does Yuan Tongzhi know how to get rid of it, he can only prevaricate Nuqiong, saying that you serve Prince Mu Di well on weekdays, and go to the Zen temple when you have free time, so as to slowly eliminate your sins.

Hearing his words, Nuqiong knelt on the spot and muttered to herself.

And Yuan Tongzhi immediately slipped away.

A few days later, Yuan Tongzhi arrived at Wuquan, Lanzhou, and Gao Yue personally came out of the tent and warmly greeted him with a group of officials.

"Yuan Xianda ......"

As soon as this salutation came out, Yuan Tongzhi suddenly burst into tears, and the sound of cooing was lying on the land in front of the tent, and the trombone sounded, and shouted to me Yuan Qikong was burdened with this body, I thought that I would sink in the land of Tibet for a lifetime, and finally die in a foreign land.

The people next to him were also embarrassed, and Liu Demu, the judge of the Xingyuan Shogunate who also came at this time, also wiped his tears with his sleeve.

Although Yuan Tongzhi was a year earlier than Gao Yue, when the two were opposite, he actually seemed to be more than ten years older than Gao Yue, wearing half-worn monk's robes, the top of his head had not yet been ordained, and his messy hair was stained with wind and dust—while Gao Yue had a fair face, a beard like ink, and a purple goldfish, majestic and majestic, like a person from two worlds.

Fortunately, Li Feng is not here, otherwise the scene will be even more peculiar.

Gao Yue hurriedly helped Yuan Tongzhi up, and directly promised him that Yuan Xianda did not forget to work hard for me Tang in Fanzhong, how could he not know this way? Immediately asked Yuan Xianda to play a certain head of the Southern Province, Shi Langzhong, then took off his clothes and put on a scarlet robe, and now what is the situation in Helongdi, please Xianda to teach me.

"Ji Gong, how much grain is stored in my Tang military camp now?" Then in the tabernacle, Yuan Tongzhi discussed with Gao Yue alone and asked.

Gao Yue is not as treacherous as Cao Cao, he directly confessed to Yuan Tong - I used to lie to Shang Qi'er and say that there is no shortage of food, but in fact, the food originally brought from Fengxiang Mansion has been consumed seventy and a half percent during this time, before Feng'an Military City urgently transported 100,000 stone from Lingwu and Ran, and Wan Qi raised 780,000 stone in the northwest towns, and then it was about to be transported, and now it is the season when the green and yellow are not connected, and the two taxes are uneven, and there is no surplus grain in the imperial court and the local government - in short, the whole team, the grain can last about two months.

That's why I'm so generous, and I'm willing to pack 20,000 captives directly and send them to Mu Di in Liangzhou, because the captives are also consuming food.

At this time, Yuan Tongzhi really gave very important information: "Don't hide it from Ji Gong, Liangzhou originally had a camp in Xifan there, and he had a lot of savings, and the remaining 15,000 captives Ji Gong should not give Mu Di Fang for free, but one prisoner can exchange five stones of corn for corn, and he can support the military expenses for one month." ”

"Good." Gao Yue did not doubt the employment of people and expressed his full agreement.

Then Yuan Tongzhi said again, after the captives are handed over to the monk Mu Di and Jie Zan, he can first instruct them to go south to attack Hehuang, anyway, it is all his blood and bones who are killed and killed, what do I have to do with it? And Ji Gong is not to be ado, but together with Wei Lianshuai and Lieutenant Ximen, gather the cavalry of the Shence army and the border army, and take advantage of the time when Shang Jiezan and Shang Qi's heart is in flames, take advantage of the situation to go out of Fenglin Pass in Hezhou, and attack Shanzhou directly, as long as Shancheng is obtained, and then in accordance with the promise of Mu Di, take the three prefectures of Gan, Su and Gua, and open up the road between Dunhuang in Shazhou, it is a great success.

"I heard that Zamp's envoy is coming here soon."

"Ji Gong is Fang Yue who commands the army, and the matter of peace talks can be left to the people from Chang'an, and the two are not wrong."

"Good, just do what Yuan Qi says!" At this time, Gao Yue had a bottom in his heart.

This time, if you don't take the river and don't get through Anxi, you will never give up.

Then Gao Yue began to secretly gather cavalry, and began to send captives to the southern border of Liangzhou, but this time he asked Prince Mu Di to pay five stones of corn to the Tang army for each prisoner returned.

In Liangzhou City, Ma Chongying quietly found Shang Jiezan, "Did you hear that the Tang Army is going to exchange food for prisoners?" ”

Shang Jiezan said yes.

Ma Chongying said that the Tang army's move shows that Gao Yue and Wei Gao are bound to be short of food, so it is better for us to stand by and watch, first let the Tang army go to Shanzhou and Shang Qixin'er to fight, and wait until the two sides are tired, our army will take the opportunity to attack, one kills Tang soldiers, two kills Shang Qixin'er, if we can win, we can occupy Hexi, Hehuang, in that case, we can not only retreat from external troubles, but also calm internal strife.

Shang Jiezan, who said this, was moved, so he made an agreement with Ma Chongying and acted like this.

At the same time, the Tang army's flying cavalry in Helong galloped to Chang'an City like lightning, and conveyed the news of Prince Mu Di's request to be canonized as Zampu, and his marriage proposal and Liangzhou's request to the emperor.

"The grain over there in Gao Yue is about to bottom out, and I am struggling about this, and any canonization and marriage contract are trivial matters." The emperor walked around in the Daming Palace and said this to the ministers who came to discuss the matter.

Lu Zhen said: For the sake of Shanjiu, we must not fall short, please take out the last 400,000 yuan of the Hubu Division's Yanzi Treasury as the capital of peace, and then advance 300,000 stones of water and dry rice from the Changping Warehouse in Shannan Dongdao and Jingnan, and transport them to Lanzhou together.

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