Chapter 625 Zhou Guo Surrenders
When Zhou Yuan came to Sanlong County, Mi Yuansheng did not directly meet him, but asked someone to entertain him and temporarily arranged to wait at the inn.
This made him a little uneasy. After all, he was not very familiar with Mi Yuansheng and did not understand the other party's nature, so it was difficult to predict.
There is nothing we can do, we can only wait honestly at this time.
After a long time, someone finally passed a message and asked Zhou Yuan to go to the Sanlong County Office to discuss in detail.
Zhou Yuan took a deep breath, tried her best to calm herself down, and followed the other party to the official office.
When he entered the official office, he saw Mi Yuansheng, Feng Qiao, Wei Yi, Bai Jingtang, Bai Tingwan, Zu Hong and Liu Pan sitting upright on both sides, with the main seat in the middle empty.
This puzzled him. Mi Yuansheng is the head coach of this team. Since he met him, why didn’t he sit in the main seat?
No matter how confused you are, you should come forward and salute respectfully.
"General Zhou came here in person as an envoy, and he was welcomed by mistake!" Mi Yuansheng returned the ceremony, "Don't be surprised if you don't entertain you well!"
"I dare not!" Zhou Yuan replied, "General Mi took the time to meet him in his busy schedule and was very grateful. Zhou was ordered to come and discuss a major national event. He didn't know that the general might make the decision!"
"General Zhou does not need to be anxious," Mi Yuansheng said, "We know all your intentions. When the Danyang King heard the news, he came from thousands of miles away and wanted to talk to the general in person!"
"He wants to come here in person?" Zhou Yuan was startled first, then relaxed a little.
It seems that the main position is reserved specifically for Ning Ze. No wonder Mi Yuansheng is next to the head coach, which makes sense!
Although we already know that Ning Ze can use magic to fly thousands of miles in an instant, it is very magical. He had caused great trouble to the Zhou army on the battlefield before. However, he did not witness it with his own eyes.
Now Ning Ze is in Huajun, Jinzhou, and is preparing to come directly from such a distance. If he can see it with his own eyes, it would be worth the trip.
Thinking of this, he focused on looking at the main seat, afraid that a detail would be revealed.
After waiting for a while, a white light suddenly flashed in the main position, and Ning Ze indeed appeared out of thin air.
Even Mi Yuansheng and others who knew in advance and were mentally prepared were shocked, let alone Zhou Yuan.
When everyone reacted, they stood up and saluted Ning Ze.
Ning Ze returned the gift one by one, asked everyone to sit down and look at Zhou Yuan with a smile.
Zhou Yuan hurried forward and bowed to her, "Foreign minister Zhou Yuan, come to negotiate on the order of His Majesty Zhou!"
"I know your purpose!" Ning Ze said, "If you have anything to say, you don't need to worry!"
Zhou Yuan took a deep breath to adjust her mentality, stepped forward and said loudly: "Ant thief is in troubled times, great success is coming. My father called on all the heroes in the world to turn the tide..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Ning Ze quickly interrupted and said with a smile: "Relax! Gu Gang said, and said something directly. There is no need to pull out all the past. It has nothing to do with the present. Let's put aside those meaningless standard remarks, how about it just a little bit?"
Zhou Yuan hesitated for a moment and nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's talk openly. The forces have been fighting for years and the people in the world complain. My Great Zhou still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and it may not be impossible to fight again. It's just that Your Majesty is sympathetic to the people and does not want the people to live in poverty, so he ordered me to come and exchange the land of the six counties for peace! My Great Zhou can surrender, Your Majesty can give up the throne, but he will guard the two states of Bian and Pu for generations and protect the people here! If you can respond, Your Majesty will go out of the city to surrender; if you can't respond, the soldiers and civilians of Zhou would rather fight to one soldier and one soldier!"
"If the Zhou State has the power to fight, why should we send General Zhou to envoy? I also want to Yongzhen Bian and Puzhou, and you only have six counties, but you make such a request. Don't you think it's too much?" Mi Yuansheng frowned and said.
Seeing that Zhou Yuan and Mi Yuansheng might have confronted each other, Ning Ze interrupted directly: "The negotiation is like this, asking for the price all over the place, paying back the money! Of course, General Zhou's asking price has been slightly over."
Zhou Yuan was originally going to argue with Mi Yuansheng, but was suddenly interrupted by Ning Ze. Seeing him say this, he replied: "My Great Zhou originally owned Bian and Puzhou, with a million troops. As long as the prince accepts it, His Majesty will be eliminated from the throne and become the northwest of the Yongzhen town of Huaguo. For the prince, it will be a killing number of people!"
Ning Ze smiled after hearing this: "Brother Zhou, you are not familiar with your diplomatic remarks, but you can see that you have used your heart. There is no need for us to make up those stupid diplomatic vocabulary! Let's put it this way, if it were someone else, Gu would definitely not agree to the expulsion of power. Because it was Brother Zhou, you have this exception. As long as Tang Niu officially surrendered to China, Gu would write to His Majesty and grant him the title of King of Dongcheng, and he could always maintain the six counties of Bianzhou. Bianzhou enjoys a certain degree of autonomy, but it must be based on the premise of abiding by the national policies of China. At the same time, the Bianzhou army will be assigned by Queen Yuanxi in person!"
Mi Yuansheng and others were worried about Ning Ze's agreement with Zhou Yuan's request at first, and they felt that it was extremely inappropriate to do so. Later, they realized that Ning Ze had prepared for it and nominally agreed to the other party that when the Bianzhou army was personally assigned by Queen Yuanxi, it was impossible for Tang Niu to rebel. The military power was in the hands of China and he could not cause any storm.
Although Zhou Yuan was young, she instantly understood what Ning Ze meant: "Lu Wei still had the power of military and horses in Yanzhou. Does the prince think that my Great Zhou Majesty is not as good as Lu Wei?"
"On the contrary," Ning Ze replied, "Gu looked down on Lu Wei. Even if he gave him the power of military power, he would not think that he could make a trace of waves. Tang Niu is different. He is a real hero. Even if he is Gu, he dare not underestimate him! Furthermore, if there is no Yixin Gu's conditions, it is not harsh, or even no effect. Unless Tang Niu just admits defeat for a moment, he still wants to compete with Gu in the future!"
"Is Your Majesty the repeater?" Zhou Yuan frowned.
"Even if you surrender sincerely, why bother with these?" Ning Ze said, "To be honest, if Gu does not leave any room for anything and continues to send troops to attack, it will be difficult to keep a county. The initiative lies with Gu, not with Tang Niu. If you want to fight, Gu will naturally accompany him. Or accept Gu's kindness, at least save face. With the relationship between Zhou brothers and Gu, the forces of both sides will become a family. Will they still treat you badly?"
Zhou Yuan didn't know how to answer, and when she came, she had already thought about how to negotiate with Chinese officials. As a result, Ning Ze came here in person, and there was no atmosphere of negotiation at all. She directly drew the bottom line, making it impossible for him to continue.
After thinking about it carefully, he bowed to Ning Ze and said, "I dare not draw a conclusion in this major matter. I must ask Your Majesty for instructions!"
"It's okay!" Ning Ze smiled, "It's better to do this. Gu wrote a letter in person and Brother Zhou sent someone to send him back. Let's stay there for the next few days, and it's time to chat with Gu about military tactics."
"Okay!" In fact, Zhou Yuan knew that she didn't have many bargaining chips on her side. Her brother would agree to Ning Ze's conditions. If she continued to fight, she would not be able to stop the Chinese army. By then, everything would be empty. If you accept Ning Ze's price, at least Bianzhou would still be in hand.
Ning Ze wrote a letter and handed it to Zhou Yuan directly.
The content of Zhou Yuan’s confirmation letter was what the two of them had just talked about, and they almost did not delete it, and then signed Ning Ze’s name and stamped it with a seal. So they sealed it and ordered their followers to take it with them, leaving Sanlong County and whipping it to Wushui.
The letter was delivered to Wushui County and reached Tang Niu's hands.
After looking carefully several times, Tang Niu was not satisfied, but knew that the other party could ignore it and marched to capture Bianzhou in one fell swoop. By then, there would be nothing, and the outcome would be even worse.
So he wrote a reply in person, asking Zhou Yuan to fight for more rights on this basis.
When Zhou Yuan received the letter, she saw that Tang Niu agreed to use this as a basis, she started a few days of negotiations with Ning Ze, discussing and discussing some details, and fighting in the slightest. Finally, she reached a contract that both parties could satisfy.
The two sides reached a consensus that Zhou Yuan would first return to Wushui with the content of the contract and report to Tang Niu. After Tang Niu confirmed the conditions, she would then ask Ning Ze to go outside Wushui County to officially accept Zhou's surrender.
Tang Niu summoned civil and military officials to discuss the content of the contract publicly, and confirmed that there was no problem, and decided on the surrender on the spot, and sent someone to notify Ning Ze to set the time.
A few days later, Ning Ze personally led the team, Mi Yuansheng, Feng Qiao, Wei Yi, Bai Jingtang, Bai Tingwan, Zu Hong and Liu Pan accompanied him, and the Chinese army left Sanlong County in a mighty manner and drove all the way to Wushui.
Along the way, the county towns avoided each other.
Come outside Wushui County and line up to wait.
The gate of Wushui County was wide open, and Tang Niu and Zhou civil and military officials went out to welcome him and held a surrender ceremony in person.
First, he offered sacrifices to the late emperor (Zhou Hyun), and the brothers of Tang Niu and Zhou Yuan took turns to apologize. Then, the Zhou State Taichang held a sacrifice.
Anyway, I have been working on it for most of the day and finally completed it according to the "Zhou Li" before I got to the point.
Tang Niu, wearing a Qilin Emperor's robe, slowly walked to Ningze under the escort of all officials, took off his imperial crown, took off his Qilin robe, and presented the Qilin Jade Seal and the Succession Book of Zhou Kingdom.
During this period, all officials cried and called the Zhou State a mourning.
Ning Ze took over the imperial crown and robe, and finally received the letter of surrender, officially read out the decree of the Queen Yuanxi, accepted the surrender of Zhou, and named Tang Niu the King of Dongcheng of Hua Kingdom, and the six counties of Bianzhou. Zhou Yuan was named King of Guiyang. The rest of the officials were rewarded!
At the same time, Wei Yi was appointed as the governor of Bianzhou, leading troops to Bianzhou, and taking over local military affairs.
He also ordered the disbandment of the Zhou militia, and all the conscripted soldiers could receive enough food and salary and be sent back to their hometowns.
The territory of Zhou was filled with joy and the people were excited.
Ning Ze ordered people to announce the national policy of China, and the people of Bian and Puzhou were even more happy.
After Tang Niu surrendered, the Zhou power was destroyed.
Bianzhou and Puzhou are included in China.
Ningze held a banquet in Wushui County to reward the three armies.
During the meal, he had frequent exchanges with Dongcheng King Tang Niu and Guiyang King Zhou Yuan, and talked about the past incident of following Zhou Hyo to suppress the thieves. All three of them were in a trance.
Who would have thought that in a few years, it would develop to the present momentum?
Tang Niu is newly descended and is quite frustrated.
Ning Ze constantly urged him to drink, using the banquet to improve friendship. On the one hand, he deepened his bond with Zhou Yuan and used him to consolidate his connection with Tang Niu.
Compared with Tang Niu, the civil and military officials of Zhou quickly accepted the new camp and drank and chatted with Chinese officials and generals, which was very lively.
In the next few days, Ningze invited Tang Niu, Zhou Yuan brothers, including the former Zhou civil and military officials, to reward them from time to time, and soon increased their loyalty.
The most important thing is Tang Niu. In addition to banquets and rewards, he was finally won over through Zhou Yuan's bond.
Chapter completed!