Wen Chenghuan said: "Your Majesty Shengming, Dayong really wants to provoke the contradiction between His Majesty and Hu Xiaotian's monarchs and ministers, it is best to let Dakang fall into infighting before they are happy, but Hu Xiaotian's development is very rapid now, he is a tiger out of the cage, not only endangering Your Majesty, but also endangering Dayong's defense line." ” Long Xuanen said: "If Dayong wants to destroy him, I will not object.
He had a thought in his heart, although Hu Xiaotian was hateful, after all, he could play a role in containing Dayong in the north, which was a good thing for him, not a bad thing.
Wen Chenghuan said: "Dayong's current situation is not optimistic, the black Hu people are fierce in their northern Xinjiang, and there is a great tendency to invade the south, maybe a big war will happen in the spring of next year, otherwise Dayong will not swallow his anger and talk about any truce agreement between Hu Xiaotian." ” Long Xuan'en said: "Does the agreement between them have anything to do with me?"
Wen Chenghuan said: "Your Majesty, Hu Xiaotian's proposal to return Dongluocang after five years is simply a delaying strategy, he wants to exchange for time to recuperate, and Dayong can't take care of the affairs in the south for a while, otherwise they won't take the initiative to send envoys to negotiate peace separately, and the ministers think that the real intention of them sending two envoys is to squeeze the benefits from us to the maximum." ” Long Xuanen nodded and said, "They are worried that when there is a war with Black Hu, let's attack them in the back." ” Wen Chenghuan said: "No matter what their starting point is, Dakang can get real benefits this time, these days the old minister has negotiated with the envoy Li Shenzhou of Dayong at the behest of His Majesty, and after the unremitting efforts of the old minister, some gratifying progress has finally been made." ” Long Xuanen said: "What progress" Wen Chenghuan said: "Your Majesty rejected their initial proposal, and the Dayong envoys have repeatedly made concessions, and now they have agreed to resume normal trade between the two countries instead of talking about claiming the city. ” Long Xuanen blinked.
He didn't understand what Wen Chenghuan's so-called normal trade contacts were for a while.
Moon Seunghuan said: "It is to lift the grain embargo on us, and from now on the merchants of the two countries can resume the free trade and commerce of the past." ” Long Xuan'en was surprised when he heard this, this news was even more surprising than Dayong lending them 500,000 stone of grain for free, what Dakang lacked now was not money but food, if they could buy food with money, it would mean that their food shortage could be fundamentally alleviated.
He immediately thought of Dayong's purpose.
There is no free lunch in the world, and Dayong will not give them this benefit for no reason, on the one hand, it should be the pressure of the black people in the north, and the other reason is the sudden rise of Hu Xiaotian, and the real motive for resuming commerce and trade is to hope that he will contain Hu Xiaotian.
An even more important reason is that the merchants of Dayong will make a lot of money when trade resumes, and it is predictable that they will never get a fair price for grain.
Thinking of this, the smile on Long Xuanen's face disappeared again, and he said in a low voice: "Lifting the food ban now is actually tantamount to plundering us in disguise.
Dayong's new monarch is ruthless enough. ” Wen Chenghuan sighed and said: "The lesser of two evils, although we have to spend a high price to buy food from Dayong, but after all, it can alleviate the famine, for the current Dakang, there is nothing more precious than food, as long as Dakang overcomes the current difficulties, the emperor will definitely be able to lead his subjects out of the trough and usher in Zhongxing is just around the corner." ” A bitter smile appeared at the corner of Long Xuanen's lips.
There was no other choice in front of him, he nodded and said, "You go and negotiate with them."
Strive to negotiate a reasonable price, knowing that they want to take advantage of the fire, but this knife can't be cut too hard. ” Wen Chenghuan was secretly happy in his heart: "Yes" The lifting of the grain embargo on Dakang was the proposal of his son Li Shenzhou, who had already won the approval of the new monarch before coming to Dakang, and initially proposed to exchange grain for land just to get greater benefits from Dakang, but he didn't expect this old emperor to be so stubborn.
So I had to choose to back down, although Dakang was in decline, but after all, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the empire that had been operating for hundreds of years had a lot of wealth, and Dayong had a bumper grain harvest this autumn.
The treasury is abundant, and the food that cannot be eaten is exchanged for wealth from Dakang, and then this wealth is used to buy military horses and weapons and equipment, first, to prepare for the invasion of the northern black-bearded people, and second, to prepare for the future attack on Dakang.
Long Xuanen was not confused, he saw Dayong's purpose very clearly, and knew that Dayong was going to take advantage of the fire to rob and plunder his wealth in this way, but he had nothing to do, just asking for the price of grain would not be too outrageous.
Wen Chenghuan said again: "Your Majesty, although Jiang Zhengyang lost 100,000 stone of grain, Hu Xiaotian promised that there are still 200,000 stones, and Your Majesty plans to let someone go to escort these grains this time."
Long Xuanen said coldly: "Let him send it himself, I want to see if he dares to disobey the order." ” Wen Chenghuan said: "Jiang Zhengyang's whereabouts are unknown now, Yunyang has become an ownerless city, who is Your Majesty going to send to Yunyang to garrison?"
Long Xuanen said: "I'm also thinking about it, Wen Qing's family, do you have a suitable candidate in mind?"
Wen Chenghuan said: "There is a recommendation from the minister, what does Your Majesty think of Su Yuchi?"
Long Xuanen said: "Su Yuchi, he didn't lose to Guo Guangbi's gang of thieves in Xingzhou before" Wen Chenghuan said: "Although General Su was defeated, it was all because of insufficient supplies, but the soldiers under him are all warriors who can fight well, Your Majesty can send him to Yunyang, on the one hand, he can cut off the road to the east of Xingzhou's anti-thieves, and on the other hand, he can also contain Hu Xiaotian's development." ” Long Xuanen nodded.
Wen Chenghuan said again: "As for the 200,000 stone grain, the minister also has an idea, Your Majesty can give 100,000 stone to Su Yuchi, with these military rations, Su Yuchi can gain a firm foothold in Yunyang."
After Dayong agreed to lift the grain embargo, the grain in Hu Xiaotian's hands became less precious.
Long Xuanen said: "Su Yuchi is loyal to me, so he can play accurately."
Wen Chenghuan gave Long Xuanen a deep sigh and said, "Your Majesty Shengming" Long Xuanen said: "You are solely responsible for the purchase of grain from Dayong, and you must remember to keep the price to the minimum." ” Dayong agreed to lift the grain embargo on Dakang, like a spring thunder resounding in the land of Dakang, for a time inside and outside the court were pleasantly surprised by this news, everyone rushed to tell each other, compared with the 300,000 stone grain that Hu Xiaotian promised to support, this is the way to fundamentally alleviate the food shortage in Dakang.
In the Yongyang Palace, Princess Qiqi of Yongyang also learned the news for the first time, and she summoned Yang Lingqi and Huo Shengnan to discuss the matter.
Since Hu Xiaotian left the capital, the estrangement between Qiqi and the old emperor has become deeper and deeper, but Long Xuanen has not withdrawn the power once given to her because of this, and most of the affairs of the court are still handed over to Qiqi to deal with, but he needs to make decisions on some major matters personally, and Qiqi has also lost her former enthusiasm, because she understands that no matter how hard she tries, the person who makes the decision in the end will not be her.
The development of the Shence Mansion has also become stagnant, and during this time, Qiqi has finally begun to learn to be obscure, if the thing that can make her happy is the good news that keeps coming from Hu Xiaotian's side.
At the beginning, Qiqi was also puzzled by Hu Xiaotian's sending 300,000 stone of grain to the capital, but Yang Lingqi saw Hu Xiaotian's true intentions early on, but now Dayong suddenly chose to give in and lift the food ban, which seems to be a great thing for Dakang on the surface, but after careful consideration, this matter contains a big conspiracy.
Qiqi said: "The emperor has decided to send Su Yuchi to Yunyang to garrison, let Hu Xiaotian allocate 100,000 stone of grain for Su Yuchi to use, and another 100,000 stone of grain for Hu Xiaotian to send someone to the capital." ” Huo Shengnan said: "Su Yuchi is a famous general, whether the emperor sent him to Yunyang to defend against the rebels in Xingzhou or has other intentions?"
Yang Lingqi said: "Probably both sides of the mind, the emperor is obviously guarding against Lord Hu." ” Qiqi nodded, Hu Xiaotian developed too fast after going to Dongliang County, defeated the Yongjun army twice, and captured Dongluocang even more sharply, and it was inevitable that the emperor would be wary of him.
Huo Shengnan said: "Dayong's lifting of the food ban is a good thing for Dakang, at least it can alleviate the food shortage and save a lot of people." ” Qiqi snorted coldly and said: "Dayong will be so kind, I think they can't make a plan and make another mistake, they want to take advantage of the fire to rob and take the opportunity to raise the price of food." ” Yang Lingqi said: "It should be like this, although Dayong unilaterally lifted the grain ban on Dakang, but he did not fully liberalize, and did not allow other countries to trade grain with Dakang, I estimate that private trade between Dayong and Dakang merchants will not be allowed, that is to say, Dakang has no other choice." ” Qiqi said: "What price they say, Dakang has to admit it" Yang Lingqi nodded, the expression on his face was quite helpless: "I know that they are going to make Dakang's national disaster, but they still have to admit it, otherwise where will Dakang find food now?"
Huo Shengnan said: "No matter what, after all, it can alleviate the current food shortage. ” Qiqi said: "This is the case in a short period of time, but in the long run, Dakang will inevitably face the result of an empty treasury, Dayong's practice is no different from plunder, they sell grain to us at a high price, and then use our money to buy weapons to deal with us" Her mind is extremely sober, and she sees all this clearly.
Yang Lingqi and Huo Shengnan actually understand this truth, Huo Shengnan has all kinds of flavors in his heart, she is a general of Dayong, if she stands in Dayong's position, although Dayong's behavior is no different from a robber, but there is no need to pay attention to any means in the fight for the world, in fact, deep down in her heart, she only hopes that the world is the best peace, fighting and fighting, and in the end it is the common people who are unlucky, no matter who wins Dayong and Dakang, it has nothing to do with her, she only cares about Hu Xiaotian's interests.
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