Early in the morning, Xiao Yu, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and Yu Wenshi, the deputy envoy, came to the Jinyang Palace, waiting for the reception of Yang Yuanqing, the king of Chu, both of whom seemed a little preoccupied.

Xiao Yu had just received a secret warrant from Emperor Li Yuan, agreeing to transfer the mines in the northern part of Huining County to the Sui Dynasty, but on the condition that Nanyang County and Xiyang County be returned to the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yu's concern lies in Yang Yuanqing's willingness to give in, in fact, both the two counties of the Central Plains and Huining County were originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which was taken away by the Sui Dynasty and used to bargain and do business.

Although the Sui Dynasty was very arrogant and domineering, this is an unavoidable fact, and the Tang Dynasty had just experienced the defeat of the Central Plains and had to endure humiliation.

But even so, the Tang Dynasty still had to bear the sky-high price of the Sui Dynasty, Xiao Yu felt that he was the most humiliated person in the Tang Dynasty, a dignified country, an envoy of a country, and he had to stand at the gate of the palace waiting to be summoned.

Yu Wen Shi and came as a deputy envoy in the capacity of Yu Shi, this opportunity was won by Li Shimin, the king of Qin, but Yu Wen Shi and not for business, he was for his wife and children, he hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to take his wife and children back to Chang'an.

He knew that his wife and children lived in Jinyang Palace, which was only a stone's throw away from him, but for him, this distance seemed to be the end of the world, which made him sad.

"Yuwen Yushi!"

Xiao Yu glanced at him, and stretched out his voice with some dissatisfaction, "It should be a matter of national affairs." ”

Yu Wenshi nodded silently, "Yes!" Humble duty understands. ”

At this time, a guard walked out of the palace gate quickly, stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, is it Tang envoy Xiao Xiangguo?" ”

Xiao Yu said with his hand: "Exactly!" ”

The guard was still neither humble nor arrogant: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has invited Xiao Xiangguo, please come with me." ”

Xiao Xiangguo was very bitter in his heart, according to normal etiquette, an envoy of his level should have a special guest inn to entertain them, but they paid for the inn themselves.

Before the meeting, they should enter the palace and rest and wait in the welcome room, but they stood outside the palace gate to dry the wind. I waited for almost half an hour.

When welcoming guests, it should be the equivalent Xiangguo to welcome them into the palace, but it turned out to be just a guard to guide the way, which made Xiao Yu unbearable.

His face was gloomy, and he was about to be angry, but Yu Wenshi reminded him lightly: "Xiao Xiangguo, you should focus on state affairs!" ”

Xiao Yu glared at Yu Wenshi fiercely, and had to hold back his breath. I followed the guards into the palace......

At this time, Yang Yuanqing was standing in front of the window with his hands and looking at the gate from afar, he had already seen the guards walking towards the Jinyang Palace with two Tang Dynasty envoys, the person at the head should be Xiao Yu, Yang Yuanqing showed a knowing smile at the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Yu didn't leave angrily and endured the humiliation. This shows the urgency of Tang Ting to solve the problem of the two counties of Nanyang and the prisoners of war.

Very good, you can talk to them about the conditions, Yang Yuanqing turned around, and his eyes fell on a calligraphy on the wall, handwritten by Yu Shinan, with a famous sentence written on it: 'Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement; The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue. ’

This is his Yang Yuanqing's motto, to be ambitious. To have vision, to have courage, to dare to act, this is called a gentleman self-improvement.

But it is not enough to have ambition and courage, but also to have strong strength, without strong strength, ambition and courage are only on paper, in order to add to people's laughter after dinner, this is called virtue to carry things.

The two go hand in hand. He Yang Yuanqing wants to take the world. The mind is enough, but the strength is still lacking. The army is insufficient, the financial resources are not enough, and the strength of the entire Great Sui is still slightly inferior, and he still needs to accumulate and accumulate strength.

Yang Yuanqing stared at the words on the wall, and at this time, there was a report from the soldiers outside the door: "Chief Qiqi, the Tang envoy brought it, waiting outside the Ziwei Pavilion." ”

Yang Yuanqing woke up from his contemplation and ordered: "Take them to my council hall, and by the way, call Yang Xiangguo and Han Yushi." ”

Although he deliberately made Xiao Yu feel humiliated in a cold way, when it came to the formal negotiation, Yang Yuanqing still used reciprocal etiquette, and he walked to the door of the council hall downstairs, and happened to meet Xiangguo Yang Shidao who came in a hurry.

Yang Shidao served as the administrator and was in charge of the province, and this time Yang Yuanqing was ready to let him come forward to interview Xiao Yu.

"Your Highness!" Yang Shidao smiled and arched his hand to him.

"Tang Xiang Xiao Yu wants to come to negotiate, you can talk to him on my behalf first!"

Yang Shidao was stunned, his face showed embarrassment, he didn't know about this matter from beginning to end, how could he talk about it?

"Your Highness, there is no problem in negotiating between the subordinates and the Tang envoy, but what is our bottom line? What can and can't be promised by subordinates, can you tell your subordinates first. ”

"I know, come in and talk about it!" Yang Yuanqing and Yang Shidao walked into the meeting hall......

After a while, the guards led the envoy Xiao Yu and the deputy envoy Yu Wenshi into the meeting hall, and Han Shouzhong, the secretary of the imperial court, also hurried over.

"Xiao Xiangguo, have you rested well these days?" Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile.

Xiao Yu said coldly: "Thank you His Royal Highness the King of Chu for your concern, the inn in Taiyuan is quite clean, but it is a little too expensive." ”

His tone was full of dissatisfaction and ridicule, but Yang Yuanqing laughed at it, and introduced Yang Shidao and Han Shouzhong to him, in fact, there is no need to introduce, Xiao Yu and Yang Shidao have known each other for a long time, Xiao Yu is the brother of Empress Xiao and a relative of the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Shidao is Yang Guang's nephew and a clan, and they often have contacts.

However, Xiao Yu didn't expect Yang Shidao to be the Nayan, which made him think of his brother Yang Gongren, who served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in the Tang Dynasty, both of whom were high-ranking officials in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and they didn't know how to deal with each other in the future, Xiao Yu actually had a sense of absurdity.

In fact, he himself forgot that he was the Xiangguo of the Tang Dynasty, but his sister Empress Dowager Xiao was in the Sui Dynasty.

Seeing that the other party also had Xiangguo and Yushi to correspond, Xiao Yu's dissatisfaction suddenly disappeared, and it didn't hurt to be almost a little bit in life and etiquette, the key was the sincerity of the negotiation, if the matter could be negotiated, even if Yang Yuanqing drove him out of Taiyuan City, he didn't care.

Xiao Yu's face became serious, and the four of them sat down, while Yang Yuanqing sat in the back, drinking a cup of tea unhurriedly.

He had already told Yang Shidao that he would not say a word in the second negotiation.

Yang Shidao smiled slightly: "In order to show our Great Sui's sincerity to the negotiations, we will release Shi Danai first, and later, someone will send him to the inn where you live, and he can leave Taiyuan at any time." ”

The kindness released by the Sui Dynasty first lifted Xiao Yu's spirit at once, and made him see hope, so he was afraid that Yang Yuanqing would ask for a price and put forward some conditions that could not be done at all.

Xiao Yu also owed: "Thank you for releasing people, I hope that an agreement can be reached today." ”

"We hope it too!"

Yang Shidao smiled and led the topic to Huining County first, "Regarding Huining County, we propose to recognize the Sui Army's control over Huining County as a prerequisite for this negotiation, I wonder if Xiao Xiangguo has asked the imperial court?" ”

Xiao Yu's heart burned brightly, thinking that the Sui Dynasty's release of Shi Danai was in good faith for negotiation, but the other party did not give in at all, and still took Huining County as the premise of negotiation.

He said in a deep voice: "Please forgive me, Huining County was originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, rich in minerals, but it was forcibly occupied by the Sui army, we can accept the reality that the Sui army seized the minerals, but you must also make concessions, otherwise, a war to maintain dignity will definitely be avoidable." ”

Yang Yuanqing didn't seem to hear Xiao Yu's toughness, his eyes fell on Yu Wenshi, who sat behind Xiao Yu, kept his head down, and looked worried.

Yang Yuanqing knew what was on his mind, this poor man wanted to ask for his wife's forgiveness, but for the revenge of killing his father, could Princess Nanyang forgive him?

In history, Princess Nanyang would rather Dou Jiande kill her son Yuwen Zen Master, just because he is the son of Yuwen Shiji, which shows that Princess Nanyang hates the Yuwen family deeply.

At this time, Yang Shidao coughed lightly and reminded Yang Yuanqing that Xiao Yu's request was a little difficult for him to answer.

Yang Yuanqing got up and walked outside, Yang Shidao also followed, and soon, Yang Shidao walked back again, Xiao Yu was a little nervous in his heart, he knew that the critical time had come.

Yang Shidao sat down and said lightly: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu said that we can make a step, if the Tang Dynasty is willing to completely cede Huining County to the Great Sui, we can return Nanyang County and Xiyang County to the Tang Dynasty, as before, as a buffer county, the Tang Dynasty is not allowed to garrison troops in these two counties." ”

After a pause, Yang Shidao said again: "There are also all the surrendered troops and captured officials, including Dugu Huaien and Wen Daya, we can put them all back, but the release condition is 500,000 stone of grain." ”

"Five hundred thousand!"

Xiao Yu shouted out in a lost voice, and the upper limit given to him by Emperor Li Yuan was 200,000 stone of grain, which was too far away......

Yuntian Fort, Huining County, after Pei Xingyan killed Qiu Xinggong, he moved west to the camp for ten miles and set up a large camp on a low hill, he did not evacuate, but monitored the Tang army from a distance.

The Yuntian Fort where the Tang army was stationed was in a dangerous terrain and difficult to attack, and only 10,000 Sui troops could not capture this strong fortress, so Pei Xingyan changed his plan and besieged the fort to help.

After thwarting the night attack of the Tang army, Pei Xingyan also knew that the main general on the top of the mountain turned out to be Chai Shao, a concubine, this was a big fish, and he didn't want to give up this big fish easily.

At this time, the Sui army in Liangchuan County also sent thousands of stones of grain and a large amount of horse feed, which was enough for Pei Xingyan to last more than ten days.

On this morning, Pei Xingyan was watching the movement of Yuntian Fort in front of the camp as usual, when suddenly, several Sui army scouts rushed in from a distance.

"General Pei!"

The scout shouted excitedly, "The enemy has been discovered." ”

Pei Xingyan was in high spirits, and hurriedly asked, "But the reinforcements of the Tang Army have arrived?" ”

"Exactly! In Pingliang County, eighty miles away, a cavalry of about 3,000 people was rushing to this side, and it seemed that it was a very elite Tang Army cavalry, led by a female general. ”

"Female general?"

Pei Xingyan was stunned, who could this be? Could it be Chai Shao's wife Li Xiuning......

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