Li Jing did not deliberately show Yang Fuguang the military might of the Qin army, but just a Yanjing city already made Yang Fuguang understand that this negotiation may be more difficult. Sure enough, in the splendid and dazzling palace city, Li Jing did not detour with him at all, but put forward his own conditions straight to the point.

"The purpose of Yang Gong's visit this time, I won't go around in circles here, I'll just get straight to the point, if Yang Gong wants to give up the canonization of the new emperor, it's not impossible, but if you want to give up this plan, it depends on what kind of sincerity Yang Gong is ready to show." Li Jing picked up a glass teacup, took the lid of the cup and gently skimmed the tea foam, and said with a relaxed face.

The meeting place was in Fengtian Temple, and Yang Fuguang was accompanied by Yang Shouliang and Yang Shouyi's two righteous sons. On Li Jing's side, they are the important ministers of the provincial cabinet and the court of the government affairs hall meeting.

Yang Fuguang originally thought a lot of loyal ministers and righteousness along the way, and was ready to persuade Li Jing to give up the canonization of the new emperor today, but he didn't expect that Li Jing was so direct, he didn't even do the slightest bit of façade work, and directly talked about the goals of both sides this time.

The words that were ready to be Lu completely useless, Yang Fuguang was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood. Li Jing does have the strength to say such things now.

"I don't know what conditions King Qin wants?"

Since his plan was completely disrupted, Yang Fuguang quickly adjusted, planning to give up the plan he made with his brother Yang Fugong in Chang'an. Everything he saw along the way gave him a new understanding of Qin Fan, and today Li Jing's direct attitude. It made him understand. The original chips were completely insufficient. Li Jing is direct. Although Li Jing is now willing to give up supporting the new emperor, this is after they can come up with the conditions that make Li Jing's heart move. If they can't give Li Jing what he wants, then with Li Jing's strength, he can support a new emperor at any time.

He planned to probe Li Jing's tone first to see what kind of conditions Li Jing had.

"Ha Lu Ha!" Li Jing laughed for a while and glanced at Yang Fuguang.

Later history books evaluated Yang Fuguang and called him one of the two most loyal eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty. The other is Zhang Chengye, the head of Li Jing's internal chamberlain. And compared with Zhang Chengye, Yang Fuguang not only called him loyal in the history books, but also praised his military talents. It is said that he has military talent, strategy, can not be afraid of danger, and also loves to nurse soldiers, and does not use power for profit, and has a very high prestige in the army of the late Tang Dynasty. Especially when he was born in a family of eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty, and at the same time he was tired of the towns and towns, and when he was in rebellion in various places. made great contributions to the suppression of the rebels, and made great contributions to the decadent Tang Dynasty. is even more loyal and dedicated.

For these evaluations, Li Jing believes that they are fair. Of course, in Li Jing's view, this is actually also a choice of interests. Yang Fuguang was just a poor boy in Fujian in his early years, and his family was forced to be sent to the palace, and then he worshiped under the palace as a righteous son. Since then, he has been linked and tied to Li Tang's interests.

Maintaining the Li Tang Dynasty is equivalent to safeguarding the interests of the eunuchs who depend on Li Tang. Eunuchs are different from others, neither have the same family background as the ministers, nor the strength of the marshals and generals, a eunuch, even if he accepts eight marshals as godsons, he himself can only live in the background, and will never be able to go to the front of the stage and sit on the throne. In this era, eunuchs have great limitations. This is exactly the same as when Tian Lingzi was so powerful, he had to rely on the Son of Heaven. Although the Yang brothers also supported Li Ye to establish a new dynasty, he was too restricted compared to Li Jing. Li Jing can set up a new emperor at any time, and may even simply build a pole and ascend the throne at any time, but a eunuch cannot. Without the banner of Li Tang, there would not really be any soldiers from the feudal towns who would continue to follow a eunuch.

In this respect, the negotiations were unfair from the start.

Li Jing can either support the new emperor immediately, or postpone the support, or even establish himself as the emperor. He is the seller who owns rare goods and sells them at a price, and he is bent on maintaining the Chang'an Imperial Court, even if he knows that even if Li Jing agrees not to support the new emperor now, it is just a temporary emergency, and he has no choice. The Li Tang Dynasty was crumbling and could fall at any time. Just like in the later period of the Anshi Rebellion, although it seems that Li Tang has recovered the old mountains and rivers, in fact, the strength of the rebels is still strong. The Li Tang Dynasty did not dare to continue fighting, so it could only "surrender" the rebels, but in fact, it was tantamount to acknowledging the actual secession of the Hebei domain.

The same is true of today's Yang Fuguang and the Chang'an Imperial Court, the Eighteen Domains took advantage of Li Jing's absence to raid the Qin Domain, but the result was that they didn't even take a city, but Li Jing only recruited a few rebels and beat Western Henan into a pot of porridge. It is really impossible to subdue Li Jing by force, at least not now. In this case, they not only failed to convince Li Jing, but also had to prevent Li Jing from trying to convince them. Therefore, negotiation, pacification, became the only means.

As long as Li Jing can be made to surrender to Chang'an even superficially, this is also of great significance to the new dynasty. First stabilize Li Jing, and then go to stabilize the towns and re-establish the prestige of the new dynasty.

"There are only two conditions for Lonely, first, this time the vassals invaded the borders of our Qin domain for no reason, destroyed my crops, robbed me of my grain, and robbed my population, this kind of provocative behavior is really unforgivable. Therefore, as the two conspirators Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong who invaded the border domain town this time, the imperial court must hand them over to our Qin domain to deal with. In addition, as compensation for the raids on the border of our Qin domain, the imperial court must assign Hedong Town and Xuanwu Town to the Qin Domain, and in addition, Chengde and Wei Bo rebelled against the imperial court several times and attacked our Qin Domain, therefore, the imperial court must allow the Qin Domain to crusade against Chengde and Weibo, in addition, in addition to Hedong and Xuanwu and the four towns of Wei Bo and Chengde, in fact, the fourteen towns that invaded the Qin Domain, each town must compensate the Qin Domain for the loss of 5 million guan, and return all the people of the Qin Domain who plundered. ”

Li Jing slowly raised a finger and slowly put out his first request.

His words were not in a hurry, but they had already made Yang Fuguang's white face darker and greener. He knew that Li Jing's conditions would never be simple, but he couldn't think of it. Li Jing made such a request from the beginning.

This is no longer a condition. These are a number of conditions. And one is more excessive than the other. First of all, Li Jing asked Chang'an to hand over Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong to Qin Fan for disposal, which is equivalent to asking for the lives of these two people. This is not to say that Yang Fuguang accepted the two as his godsons, so he was reluctant to give them up. If he really sent the two of them in exchange for the two sides to stop fighting, he wouldn't mind. But the key is that this possibility is extremely small, and Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong are not ordinary people, Li Keyong is now the envoy of the Hedong Festival, and Zhu Quanzhong is the envoy of the Xuanwu Festival. And Zhu Quanzhong also controls Jinshang Town through his brother Zhu Cun, and even controls Shaanxi Town, Zhu Quanzhong, Li Jing's former pawn, Huangchao's anti-army general, now holds most of the territory west of the Bianhe River in Henan, and his strength can also rank in the top three among the towns of the New Dynasty in Chang'an. Li Keyong has been fighting with Li Jing for many years, even if he has been broken by Li Jing, he has never won, but how can such a fierce general be sent away at will. How will you fight Li Jing in the future?

These two conditions alone have already made Yang Fuguang extremely sad, not to mention that this is only the first of Li Jing's first conditions. Li Jing's appetite doesn't stop there. He actually asked the imperial court to take the two towns of Hedong and Xuanwu, and also asked the imperial court to agree to him to swallow Wei Bo and Chengde two towns openly. As for the last one, he didn't care about making each of the remaining fourteen towns pay five million in compensation and return to the plundered people of the Qin Domain. It is not difficult to return the people, but as for losing money, and he has to pay so much, he thinks that this is just Li Jing's sky-high asking price, so that he can repay the money on the spot.

But whether it was to hand over Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong, or to assign Hedong and Xuanwu to the Qin Domain, it was difficult for them to accept. Even the two towns of Weibo and Chengde in Hebei Province are now the two brothers who have finally won over to the ship of Chang'an Xinchao. Their position happened to be on Li Jing's southward position, which was very important, and it was a block for Li Jing to attack western Henan. If Li Jing swallowed Wei Bo and Chengde in one gulp, would Luoyang still be able to hold on?

"King Qin, you are too lion to open your mouth, is this your sincerity?" Yang Shouliang asked angrily.

Li Jing just smiled slightly, and Li didn't pay attention to Yang Shouliang, but looked directly at Yang Fuguang, "Could it be that Yang Gong has the same attitude?" If this is the case, then there is nothing to talk about, Yang Gong came to negotiate with me, and asked me to put forward conditions, I put forward my own requirements according to Yang Gong's request, but how can you refuse, is this your sincerity? ”

Saying that, Li Jing picked up the teacup, and Luo Yin, the new head of the cabinet, immediately got up and stepped forward, stretched out his right hand and stretched out: "Yang Gong, please come with him, His Royal Highness has arranged for Yang Gong to stay at the Diaoyutai Hotel!" ”

This meaning is already obvious, serving tea to the guests, making it clear that Li Jing doesn't want to talk about it. Regardless of whether this is true or not, at least Li Jing has put this attitude out. Yang Fuguang secretly suffered in his heart, Li Jing was too strong, and he didn't give any leeway. Today, I can only knock out my teeth and swallow it in my stomach, otherwise, this matter may really fall apart.

"King Qin, slow down!" Yang Fuguang got up and saluted Li Jing first, and then said: "The dog doesn't know how to be polite, please forgive me for colliding with King Qin." After speaking, he glared at Yang Shouliang and asked him to make amends to Li Jing. Yang Shouliang reluctantly got up and made a compensatory to Li Jing, Li Jing's face immediately changed again, and he actually said with a smile, "So, this little request of this king, Yang Gong agreed?" ”

Yang Fuguang smiled bitterly, "The requirements put forward by King Qin are indeed difficult for some strong people. But since our family is here, we are here with wholehearted sincerity, why don't you put forward another request from King Qin first, and let our family listen to it together? ”

Li Jing didn't care about the old fox's methods, anyway, in this negotiation, Qin Fan completely took the initiative.

"Yes, there is a small condition, the Qin clan can recognize the Chang'an court as orthodox, and can also express allegiance to the Chang'an emperor. But "

Hearing a but, the muscles on Yang Fuguang's face twitched a few times, this but it was too helpless.

"However, I thought that the Son of Heaven in Chang'an was still young, but the world was not peaceful at the moment. Lao Cheng thought that it was best to set up another prison country, thinking that the temporary prince, once there was a change, there would be no trouble, what did Yang Gong think? ”

Prison country, temporary prince! Yang Fuguang's heart was pounding, Li Jing's request became more and more excessive, although he didn't say who would be appointed as the prison country, but it was obvious that this prison country must be the person supported by Li Jing, otherwise there would be no need to put it forward separately.

There is an emperor in Chengdu, and there is a new son of heaven in Chang'an. Now Li Jing is going to set up a prince in Yanjing? There's nothing the fuck about it. Li Jing set up a prince. How different is it from him setting up a son of heaven? At this moment, Yang Fuguang almost couldn't help but jump to his feet and scold, but in the end he still suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Then who does King Qin think is suitable for the prince?"

Li Jing smiled, smiling like an unscrupulous profiteer, more like a hunter smiling at his prey.

"Well, the prince, the deputy master! This person is very important, so I think we can sit down and discuss it together. There are indeed a few candidates here, one is the eighth son of Emperor Xuanzong, the younger brother of Emperor Yizong, Emperor Taishang and the current imperial uncle, Zhao Wang Wei. There are also two candidates, one is the sixth prince of Yizong, the brother of the current Emperor Taishang, Jiwang Li Bao, and the other is the same Emperor Taishang and the current brother, the eighth prince of Yizong, King Li Yi. Of course, the prince is such an important candidate. It's better to discuss it carefully. However, the choice of the crown prince is negotiable. However, Gu believes that after the election of candidates for prison in the future, it is best to supervise the country in Luoyang and set up a left-behind imperial court in Luoyang. ”

Yang Fuguang didn't answer, he knew that Li Jing couldn't really propose to support someone who was not controlled by him. He believes that Li Jing will definitely have some other foreshadowing behind him.

Sure enough, Li Jing paused, and then continued to himself: "I thought that the Son of Heaven was in Chang'an, and the prince was in Luoyang, one east and one west, in this chaotic time, it would be of great help to restore the glory of Li Tang and restore the prestige of the imperial court." ”

Now Luoyang is personally in charge of Luoyang, so he will not believe that Li Jing really sent the prince to him. He was waiting for Li Jing's fuqi to darken, and Li Jing's last sentence proved that his idea was not wrong.

"Of course, as a testimony of the sincerity of both sides, I feel that Luoyang should be guarded by the army led by this king, and the soldiers of the Qin clan are all loyal, brave and good at fighting.

No wonder Li Jing said before that everyone could discuss who to appoint as the prince, it turned out that he was arranging an ambush here. If Li Jing controls Luoyang, then no matter who they discuss to appoint as the prince, what is the point. Anyway, after the person is in the hands of Li Jing, what he sets up is still what others set up, not all of them are the same.

Yang Fuguang let out a long sigh, he really wanted to throw his sleeves and leave. Li Jing's so-called two small conditions are simply unreasonable, and the lion opens his mouth.

If he really agreed to him as Li Jing said, it would be equivalent to Li Jing completely swallowing Hebei at once, and then swallowing the small half that was already half spilled, and then swallowing the small half of the western part of Henan, which was only half left.

Although on the surface, Li Jing just took a bite of each. But in fact, if Li Jing occupies Daibei and then occupies Taiyuan, then the entire Hedong will not be able to hold it at all. And Henan is the same, if the remaining half of Henan, even Luoyang is lost to Li Jing, then the whole of Henan will become Li Jing's bag.

And this damn prince's plan, if the most reckless prince is established according to Li Jing's ideas and controlled by him, it will not be much different from Li Jing supporting a new son of heaven.

In any case, it is impossible for Yang Fuguang to agree to such conditions.

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but be a little angry and directly put his conditions in front of Li Jing.

First, the feudal towns returned the people they had taken from the Qin domain to the Qin domain.

Second, each feudal town could appropriately come up with a sum of money as compensation for the Qin domain.

Third, Li Jing pledged allegiance to the Chang'an court, which in turn designated the area under Li Jing's current de facto control as Li Jing's Qin domain.

Fourth, Li Jing immediately ordered the four generals Qin Zongquan, Shang Rang, Ge Congzhou, and Zhang Guimu and the Qin army in western Henan to withdraw from western Henan, and the Qin army must hand over the four prefectures west of the Bianhe River that had already been occupied to the Chang'an court.

Fifth, the eldest daughter of Li Jingyan was canonized as the queen.

Sixth, Li Jing had to open the canal to the imperial court.

Seventh, all taxes of the Qin domain were paid to the feudal government according to the three-point tax system, one was handed over to the feudal government, one was kept by the states, and one was given to the imperial court.

Eighth, the Qin army had a quota of 100,000, and the surplus was abolished.

Li Jing put forward two conditions, and Yang Fuguang put forward eight in one go. In fact, when he mentioned these eight points, he was on fire, and even a few of them were very insincere. For example, Li Jing was asked to give one-third of the wealth to the imperial court, for example, let the Qin clan only keep 100,000 troops, and the surplus was removed.

Yang Fuguang also felt that this negotiation was completely difficult to reach, so he was ready to give up. In his mind, the conditions offered by Li Jing were too difficult, and the conditions he proposed here were simply the conditions proposed when he was in Chang'an, and the original eight articles could not be the real bottom limit, most of them were used for bargaining. But now, he directly proposed that he also intends to abandon this negotiation.

Just as Yang Fuguang was about to get up and leave, he was surprised to see Li Jing sitting there and smiled, and said very gently: "This condition mentioned by Yang Gong is the real strongman's difficulty, but there must be a negotiation process." What everyone pursues is to seek common ground and seek differences, and the purpose is to turn hostility into friendship. In this way, why don't we get here today, everyone go back and think about it first, and then let's talk about it tomorrow, how about it? ”

This sudden peak loop transfer Yang Fuguang was basically a little hard to believe, but he still nodded immediately, no matter what, there was still a chance in this matter. And as long as there is a little opportunity, he will not let it go easily. (To be continued......)