A group of heads walked out of the gate, and then they found that Chen Shuda was outside the gate. However, they were not panicked, but instead got on the carriage with a cold expression. The servants guarded the carriage and left, and no one greeted Chen Shuda.

At this time, Wei Yunqi also saw Chen Shuda, walked forward with a smile and said, "It turns out that the Prime Minister Chen is here. It's so rude. Why don't you send someone to say something? It's better to welcome him at the door."

Chen Shuda smiled bitterly and said, "Wei Xiangguo is too busy, so I'm sorry to send someone to disturb me."

Of course, Wei Yunqi understood what he said. He looked at the carriages that were away and laughed: "This is just an accident. I will explain it to the Prime Minister. Please come in!"

"Please ask the Prime Minister Wei!"

The two walked into the inner hall. At this time, several entourages had packed the teacups of six guests and returned to their seats to lay them back. Wei Yunqi asked Chen Shuda to sit down and asked the entourage to serve tea again.

Chen Shuda was not polite and asked openly: "The Yu Yun incident occurred a few days ago in Chang'an, which caused a small misunderstanding between my emperor and the Guanlong nobles. Could it be that the emperor of Guichao wanted to seize this opportunity to win over the Guanlong nobles, so he specially sent Prime Minister Wei to be a lobbyist?"

Chen Shuda expressed his dissatisfaction with the scene just now very frankly, and questioned Wei Yunqi's intentions incisively.

Wei Yunqi took a sip of tea and said lightly: "I set out from it ten days ago, and the Yu Yun incident happened four days ago. To be honest, I just learned about this. I feel regretful for this. I believe that my emperor will be equally sad. Yu Yun is a very diligent and upright official. His death is a huge loss to the Tang Dynasty and the Great Zhou Empire."

Uncle Chen quickly apologized: "I was so angry just now that I didn't think about it carefully, so I said nonsense. Please forgive me for the Prime Minister Wei!"

Wei Yunqi shook his head and said solemnly: "I am not angry, I just feel sad, because it is not the first time that the Yu Yun incident is similar. I am bluntly saying that if the emperor of the dynasty does not strictly restrain the King of Chu and allows him to act recklessly and kill innocent ministers like this, he will completely destroy the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. Today, the Prime Minister Chen also saw with his own eyes that these Guanlong families are usually silent, but what is the manifestation today? Just like what I said during the day, justice is in the hearts of the people."

Chen Shuda sighed, "The golden and jade words of Prime Minister Wei can be said to be stones from other mountains. In fact, I also understand in my heart that these Guanlong noble heads came to visit Prime Minister Wei today to publicly express their dissatisfaction with the Yun incident. The Yu Yun incident is just a medicine introduction. There are deeper reasons for their dissatisfaction, but it is difficult to tell outsiders. As for whether His Highness of the King of Chu did too much, I think this is like a person who knows how to drink water and how to warm himself."

"Okay! We won't mention this matter. I think Chen Xiangguo came to visit tonight, and must be wondering what I want to come this time, right?" Wei Yunqi said bluntly.

Chen Shuda nodded quickly, "It is precisely because of this. If I don't even know the purpose of Prime Minister Wei's mission to the Tang Dynasty, we don't know how to negotiate with Prime Minister Wei. Please make sure to make it clear!"

Wei Yunqi smiled and asked several people to get a map and hang it on a wooden rack. Wei Yunqi stood up and walked to the map and smiled: "This time I came to Chang'an, actually I want to make a deal with your country."

"Oh? What kind of transaction is specific? Can you tell me in detail?" Chen Shuda also walked to the map.

Wei Yunqi pointed to the Taiyuan County Road on the map with a wooden pole: "We want to exchange three counties for your country's Taiyuan County."

Chen Shuda's face changed drastically, but he didn't say anything. After Wei Yunqi continued to speak, Wei Yunqi continued: "Specifically, it is Shangdang County, Changping County and Diaoyin County. This is my true purpose of going to Chang'an. If your country has other ideas, I can also fully represent the Great Zhou Empire and discuss with you on behalf of the Great Zhou Empire."

"Apart from that, is there any other purpose for Wei Xiangguo's trip?"

"There is also the desire to discuss the issue of opening up trade with your country, and to send long-term envoys in the capitals of both sides to facilitate timely communication."

“Bad talk!”

Li Yuan was furious. He was so angry that he slapped the table and cursed: "Taiyuan is my place of dragon prosperity. Does he want to cut off my dragon veins? I dreamed that I would not exchange it with him. I asked Wei Yunqi to leave today. I don't welcome such an envoy!"

Several ministers in the imperial study looked at each other. They did not expect the emperor to be so impulsive, and they denied the other party's plan almost without thinking. In fact, they were a little moved when Chen Shuda told him. In fact, the so-called Taiyuan County could only defend a city in Taiyuan, and the other counties were basically controlled by the other party. Zhang Xuan's army came down from Loufan County, crossed Taiyuan County to Shangdang County, and the Hebei army also came directly from Jingxing, crossed Taiyuan County to Loufan County.

These are all open secrets. Even Li Shenfu, who guarded Taiyuan, complained that he could no longer control the counties. Now Zhang Xuan is willing to exchange three counties for one city in Taiyuan, not to mention that there is Diaoyin County inside, which has a large iron ore of Chitie Mountain!

Since the loss of Jiangxia County, the source of pig iron in the Tang Dynasty has basically been cut off. The army can only rely on tens of millions of pig iron transported from Jiangxia at that time to build equipment. It can be less if it is used. In just a few months, half of the inventory has been used up. If the source of pig iron cannot be found, what should they do when the pig iron in stock is exhausted?

Several prime ministers winked Chen Shuda and asked him to persuade the emperor again, but Chen Shuda's expression was very awkward. He didn't know whether he should have said that the heads of the Guanlong nobles of the six families visited Wei Yunqi together. After saying that, the emperor might be even more angry and caused a lot of anger. But if he didn't say it, it would be his dereliction of duty, and the emperor would know sooner or later, so Chen Shuda was confused and did not notice the eyes of everyone.

At this time, Dou Feng coughed gently and asked Chen Shuda: "I heard from Chen Xiangguo that we can also propose a plan ourselves, and we don't have to exchange it with Taiyuan, is that right?"

All eyes looked at Chen Shuda, including Emperor Li Yuan, as if he was concerned about this sentence. Chen Shuda had no choice but to swallow the words on his lips and bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, he really said that. If we do not accept his plan, we can also propose our own plan. He has the right to decide and do not need to report to Zhongdu."

With Chen Shuda's words, Dou Feng immediately said: "Your Majesty, since Wei Yunqi has made such a statement, we don't have to consider Taiyuan City. We use other parts of Bingzhou for exchanges, and then we will talk to him."

Liu Wenjing next to him shook her head, "I think there is something wrong with it!"

Everyone looked at Liu Wenjing again, and Liu Wenjing said calmly: "If we don't agree with each other's plan, then let's just mention one, for example, use Lishi County and Longquan County in the western part of Bingzhou to exchange Shangdang, Changping County, or Diaoyin County, or exchange them for Diaoyin County. Are they willing? Zhang Xuan is not a fool, would he hand over the iron ore to us? Moreover, there are no garrisons in Lishi and Longquan County. Now we are still in a state of war. If he wants, just send troops to occupy it. Is it necessary to bleed by himself?"

"What does Liu Xiangguo think the other party means?" Dou Feng asked with some dissatisfaction.

"I think the other party just wants Taiyuan City. Because Taiyuan City has 30,000 troops, and Taiyuan City is tall and strong, and it is extremely difficult to attack, so they proposed to use a replacement method. Once we hand over Taiyuan County and the army retreats to Shangdang and Changping County, Zhang Xuan's army will launch a large-scale attack. Which city in these two counties can withstand the enemy's attack?"

Liu Wenjing's analysis was very thorough. Everyone finally understood Zhang Xuan's methods and used negotiations to let Tang Jun take the initiative to defend himself. Li Yuan sneered, "He wants my Taiyuan, unless I give him Chang'an together, he will not have this beautiful dream!"

Liu Wenjing said again: "Your Majesty, in fact, this incident has also exposed Zhang Xuan's next direction of war. It must be Taiyuan. If 200,000 troops attack, 30,000 troops alone may not be able to defend Taiyuan. We must increase our troops, at least 50,000 troops to defend."

Liu Wenjing had been the Jinyang Order. He knew very well about the city defense situation of Taiyuan City. Although there was a precedent for Liu Wuzhou to be unable to conquer Taiyuan City, which was only 20,000 people, those were just mobs and could not even do the simplest siege ladder.

But Zhang Xuan's army was completely different. Eighty thousand troops could capture the Taiyuan City, which was guarded by 30,000 people. Moreover, Li Deliang, the emerging prince who is guarding Taiyuan, is not a famous general, which is also the reason why Liu Wenjing is very worried.

Li Yuan walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. This year they were preparing to fight against Song Jingang, who was entrenched in Yan'an County. Eighty thousand troops gathered in Shangjun in the name of training. Even his second son Li Shimin went in person. If they recruited troops from Taiyuan City, how could they draw out their troops? Could they transfer the army from Longyou or the army from Bashu?
Chapter completed!