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Chapter 67: People will go to Bicao and Xinqing (3)

Zhang Rou and Shi Tianze knew that the purpose of bonding Chongshan was not this. They heard that bonding Chongshan had secretly contacted some surrendered generals and Jurchen generals from the Jin Dynasty. This was naturally not for rebellion. The Jurchen tribe, which had suffered from the great pain of destroying the country, had lost the courage and strength to restore the country. But Mongolia is a society that emphasizes real power. Who doesn't want to have more troops? Among the generals and soldiers in the southern expedition today, the Jurchen tribe led by Jiagu Liuqi is only responsible for the tasks of the periphery. The backbone of the backbone was either Mongolian headquarters or Han people from the north. They captured Xiangyang Prefecture and had no benefit to bonding Chongshan except for routine rewards. Instead, they strengthened the power of 80,000 households in the Han area. This was known to him, bonding Chongshan, Jiagu Liuqi and the Jurchen ten thousand households in Jiagu Zhalong, who was in the west expedition of Kuoduan, had all understood it clearly enough. Returning north when he was ineffective was a choice to maximize the benefits for bonding Chongshan.

Shi Tianze shook his robe and shouted loudly: "You can collect grain and grass from Henan and transport it here. I will go and supervise it myself. I will collect a batch of grain and send it to you within twenty days!"

As soon as he said this, it was a conflict between the front and Jiahe Chongshan. Jiagu Liuqi sneered: "I wonder how many days can General Shi's troops take to capture Xiangyang? If you can't capture it for a year, what's the use of collecting more than 30 or 50 days of food?"

Shi Tianze was furious and was about to have an attack, but he saw Ta Si's face as deep as water and his eyes were sharp as two iron cone guns, which made him suddenly feel frightened. Ta Si asked in a deep voice: "Yan Shi, what do you say?"

Yan Shi narrowed his eyes, held his hands in front of his stomach, and looked at everyone indifferently arguing. Suddenly, he heard the king ask him, and stood up quickly and said slowly: "Xiangyang cannot be captured in one day. Now, it is better to retreat early than to retreat late. Just stay here and make no achievements. What is the point? But what Zhang Degang said is also somewhat reasonable. If you go back in shame, you will definitely be ridiculed by Zheng Yunming. There is no advantage. For the current plan, it is better to try to blow up the little fox Zheng Yunming, and let him spit out a few pieces of fat meat. How about it?"

Tasi's eyes quickly turned, turned his anger into joy, and said, "It is precisely this principle that the Mongols' achievements are not necessarily achieved through bows and arrows and war horses. Go and call me Taituo Buhua and Yueli Humalai!"

The quiver outside the tent heard Tasi's order and immediately ran to call Taituo and Buhua and Yuelihuma.

Yuelihuma, a Turkic official, was not as fierce and brave as the usual fierceness and bravery as the Turks in Kangli, but was somewhat like a Confucian scholar from the Han area or a cunning merchant like Uygur. Yuelihuma's greatest contribution to Mongolia was not to capture the city or capture many cattle and horses. Instead, when the Mongolian army attacked the city of Lai, as a former official in front of Khwarezm, he went to persuade the surrender, and asked the 50,000 Khwarezm officers and soldiers who were guarding the city to put down their weapons and open the city to surrender to Ogedei. Naturally, in the end, the people and surrendered officers and soldiers in the city were massacred by the treacherous Mongolian army without exception, but Yuelihuma's ability as a lobbyist was recognized by Ogedei since then.

"You two went into the city and told Zheng Yunming that he would not make peace. I had prepared a 500,000 army and would stop me. At that time, no one would be spared in Xiangyang City. But if there was peace, as long as the people of Sinan Si were willing to show enough sincerity, I would be willing to withdraw my troops."

He walked a few steps in the tent with his hands behind his back, explained the conditions for peace clearly and clearly, and ordered: "Don't hesitate, prepare to go to Xiangyang to call the city immediately!"

When Huma and Taituo came to the north gate of Xiangyang to call the city in the north gate, Zheng Yunming was sitting in the back garden of the government office to play chess with Zhao Kui. They used neither black and white pieces nor chess, but a kind of backgammon that was very popular at that time. Zhao Kui took the black first as the elders, and he had to kill all fifteen black pieces on one side of the side into the sixth line on the side of Zheng Yunming's side to win. The number of steps of the chess piece action was determined by the points of the two people's dice.

Although Zhao Kui is an elder, she has always been busy leading troops to govern the country and is not proficient in tricks like the literati like Shuanglu. Zheng Yunming's backgammon chess skills were not good at Lin'an. Once, he even lost to six classmates for fifteen games in a row. However, this crude chess skills were more than enough to deal with Zhao Jianzhi. Seeing that his chess pieces were pressing up, he was about to drive all Zhao Kui's black pieces to the chessboard. Suddenly, Zhao Kui shook his hand and threw a nine-point dice in his hand. The last black piece hit Zheng Yunming's bottom line. The situation suddenly reversed, and instead forced Zheng Yunming into a desperate situation.

Zheng Yunming stared at the dice for a while and said, "Good omen! Maybe the messenger of the Tartars to make peace will be in these few days."

Before Zhao Kui could answer, a servant rushed to report: "There was a Tartar envoy calling the gate in the north of the city, claiming to have a peace talk." The two looked at each other and smiled. Zhao Kui stood up and said to Zheng Yunming: "You have to prepare to stop before the show. Who are you going to let the Mongolian envoy?" Zheng Yunming also stood up and said confidently: "This matter must be done by Wu Qian."

Yuelihuma and Taituo waited outside the city for a while before they heard the loud response from the city: "Let me listen, the commander of the commander has agreed to meet the two. Now please ask the commander of the commander of the commander, Mr. Wu Qian, to come and greet him!"

The city gate suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and the city gate was wide open. Hundreds of soldiers wearing iron armor and holding spears surrounded a white and fat young civil servant and opened the city gate and formed a neat team outside the city. The young civil servant walked up with a smile on his face.

"Two people have worked hard. I only think that the Mongols can only send soldiers, but I don't expect to send people to negotiate peace. Well, when the soldiers and horses come, we will receive them with cannons, and when the messengers come, we will treat each other with courtesy." He said as he asked for help at the city gate: "Please, please, the commander and Deputy General Zheng are waiting for you in the government office."

Taituo snorted and walked towards the city gate. Yuelihuma did greet Wu Qian with a spring breeze on his face.

"Today's peace talks will only benefit you Sinansi people, and will never harm you. Believe me, I was originally a minor official in Khwarezm, but because of my erotic flexibility, I saved dozens of times more officials, the people and the people I saved were dozens of times more than those princes and grandchildren."

Yue Lima said proudly: "Accepting the conditions of the Mongolians, you will never suffer any loss. There is a proverb in our hometown that you would rather trade with smart people for ten years than trade with fools. Master Ye Hu in the city and all the adults are smart people, and you must understand this ideal."

Wu Qian smiled and said, "That's true. I think the King of Qu'er and you all must be smart people outside the city. Otherwise, why would you not be able to attack and send your subordinates to quarrel?"

The snatching of bamboo is a saying in Jiangnan. It originally meant that the sedan chair owner first recruits customers at a low price. After the guests get on the sedan chair, the sedan chair owner put down the sedan chair and said, "Master, your legs are weak and your waist is sore. Please help me increase the money, otherwise you can't walk." At that time, when the customer was halfway through the journey, the customer was moving forward and returning, so he had to pay extra money. If he was a sedan chair owner, he would send the customer to his destination smoothly. But there was an unscrupulous sedan chair owner who always had to quarrel five or six times on a trip. Everyone in Jiangnan talked about quarreling, and they gritted their teeth.

Of course, Yuelihuma couldn't understand this. He just said to himself: "Everyone who obeys the Mongolian Khan will prosper and develop, with prosperous descendants, and those who resist will be crushed to pieces. The fate of the sixty countries has proved that no one can disobey."

Wu Qian just smiled and listened. The stories of Khwarezm and Western Liao were too far away from the Song Dynasty. Perhaps these Hu people who did not know the etiquette of the saints regarded life as more important than dignity, but it may not be the case in the eyes of the saints' disciples.

Taituoyinbuhua's face was not good-looking. After entering the city gate, the soldiers on the tall city gate tower, with brightly-clad soldiers staring at the Mongolian envoys on the stone path with their uniform eyes. Behind the thick city gate was originally a small square city, and there was another city gate on the inside of the small city. This structure was Taituoyinbuhua was not unfamiliar with it. He knew that this was a common structure in the Han area. The main cities of the Jin Kingdom in the north also had this city gate structure. Taituoyinbuhua also knew that this structure was called the urn. The soldiers who entered the urn seemed to have been put into a large urn, and bows and arrows and stones were thrown from all directions. This was a death situation with no way to live. Taituoyinbuhua could guess that there should be hidden mechanisms and hidden soldiers in the urn. Even if three or four thousand people attacked the urn, they would only end up completely destroyed.

The inner gate of the urn city had opened at this time, and there were neatly armored soldiers standing on both sides. The man in Jiangnan was short and thin, but this time the soldiers standing on both sides of the avenue were tall and mighty, half a head taller than Taituo's body because he was not in a flower. The armor leaves were shining, and the spear tips in his hand shone in the winter sunlight. The brocade robe on his body was bright in color. It was obviously taken out of the warehouse and distributed temporarily. The horn bow in the archer's hand was strong, the bow strings were tight, and the steel knife sheath in the arms of the axe was spotless. Obviously, this was deliberately made for the Mongolian envoy to see.

Wu Qian was watching Taituoyinbuhua's face while walking. Taituoyinbuhua knew this. He said coldly: "These warriors are very powerful, and about five can be my Mongolian warriors."

He asked Wu Qian again: "Why are there no firearms among these people? With these people alone, the Sinan Si people are not the opponent of my Mongolian army. You can invite those warriors who use firearms to let me see."

Wu Qian's beard moved on his fat face and said cunningly: "Milt guns and cannons are important weapons of the country. As you said, the Song Dynasty is not enough to compete with the northerners in the wild. Because of this, our army is even more unlikely to show us such weapons."
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