Chapter 1176 The Redeemer
Hearing his serious words, Li Jia couldn't help laughing, then looked at Han Kuangsi and said bluntly: "What Shi Jin talked to you has to do with my Tang Dynasty?"
"Do you see if Guo Rong admits it? Do the generals under my command recognize it?"
When Han Kuangsi heard this, although he was silent, he was particularly dissatisfied with his face. He just couldn't lose his demeanor when he was holding on.
Li Jia did not emphasize the difference between Han and Hu, saying that Han people could not serve the Khitans. According to today's thinking, the difference between king and subject is greater than that between ethnic groups.
The way of thinking is different, and talking nonsense can only make jokes.
After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Jia said calmly: "I don't hide it from you. My Tang Dynasty, the legal system came from the former Tang Dynasty, and the Han, Zhou, Song and others during the period did not recognize it. Therefore, I do not recognize the agreement they signed."
"In other words, in this way, the Khitan is still a minister of the former Tang Dynasty. You are still a rebellion!"
Han Kuangsi was so quizzed that he didn't know how to say it, so he could only repeat it: "The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are the territory of the Great Liao Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was an invasion..."
For a moment, burst into laughter and everyone laughed happily.
"Okay!" Li Jia waved her hand, stopped laughing, looked at Han Kuangsi and said, "Since it's a peace talk, let's be more sincere!"
"I also say frankly that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are now in your arms. Some of the places that the soldiers have worked hard to capture will not be left out. If you want to negotiate, then use Yingzhou and Yuguan as the basic base!"
"Your Majesty!" Han Kuangsi said in surprise: "There are absolutely no conditions for Khitan cavalry to gather outside Yu Pass."
"Then you attack in!"
Li Jia chuckled and said, "I'm talking to you. This Northern Expedition, in Cangzhou, I hoarded two million stones of grain. Come from the sea. If you have the ability, you will rob the grain."
"It's okay to stay for half a year, but I don't know that your country can last for half a year, no, two months, or even one month."
"By the way, I'm consuming it, but the people under my command are clamoring to go north. You Khitan should hurry up!"
Han Kuangsi's face turned red. He never thought that Tang State was so tough. He held back his anger and said, "Foreign ministers really can't make the decision with such a request!"
"Of course I know you can't make the decision, so go back and speak!"
Li Jia waved her hand and said without hesitation.
Han Kuangsi had no choice but to bow and left without hesitation.
"Your Majesty, the Khitans must be unwilling to accept it!"
Li Huai watched him leave, smiled in his heart, his eyes were quite meaningful, and he couldn't help but speak, "How can one hundred thousand cavalry disperse easily!"
"Easy?" Li Jia smiled, and he looked outside and said, "Are you wasted so many days of death and injury?"
"Of course I know that the Khitan king cannot truly control the tribes such as the Xi people, so I have been constantly consuming their troops these days. Now, except for the Khitan headquarters, I am afraid I am exhausted!"
"I guess this kind of retreat is a move that conforms to the will of the people. After seeing that for many days, the Khitan nobles were reluctant to waste their troops. Once the losses could be reduced, they would definitely be very happy to retreat safely!"
"This will help the prestige of the Khitan king."
From the perspective of the ruler, Li Jia, who attacked the city in these days, suffered minor losses from the Khitan headquarters. In a sense, it actually increased the advantages of the headquarters.
Combined with Yu Pass, it became a whetstone to strengthen the Khitan power.
If a city or something like a Han people, the Khitans would never be able to break through Youzhou and other cities unless they had a large number of servants and Han'er's army. Even Yuguan, which was two feet tall, could only look up to it.
"Yelu Xian, I'm afraid he has realized that he has gained nothing this time."
Li Jia sighed, politics is really a matter of self-learning. The Khitans have not made many Chinese translations, but they have unique insights into it.
"We can't expect them to act as they think, continue to build military camps, and completely let the Khitans give up!"
The emperor shouted and continued to command.
When the generals heard this, they couldn't help feeling a little lonely. Yang Shifan, the admiral of Youzhou Camp who made many contributions, couldn't help but leave and said: "Your Majesty, although the Khitans have 100,000 cavalry, we are on the back of the Xiongguan, and we have the power to fight. It's really true that we can't move our troops like this, and it's really aggrieved!"
Other generals also agreed, saying that the Khitans were not as terrible as they thought, and they still had the ability to fight back.
"Hmph!" Li Jia snorted coldly, looking at everyone, and couldn't help but sneer: "Fifty thousand cavalry fight against 100,000, so what if you win? The Khitans can still raise another 100,000 without any effort. Can you still take over the huge grassland? "
"At the end of the strong crossbow, the power cannot penetrate Lu silk, it is enough to take down Youyun."
The emperor shook his head, calmed his tone and said, "It's fine this time. When you wait until the next time, you will use cavalry to ride. Let the Khitans be free for a few days!"
Only these words suppressed the generals' desire to compete for merit and the atmosphere became calm.
After Han Kuangsi returned, his words made the Khitan nobles yell. Yelu Xian could not do anything, and could only be suppressed under the constraints of Yelu's house quality.
"Even though I am a Khitan Khan, I can't bear it!"
Yelu Xian breathed heavily and said in a deep voice.
If this peace agreement is reached, he, the Khan, will lose all his prestige, so he would rather withdraw his troops than sign.
Besides, for them, the Khitans, the covenant is to be torn up and cannot be beaten, so I will come back next year.
But it's a pity that Yanyan...
The nobles agreed to withdraw their troops, but they did not agree with the alliance. However, if the Tang people were willing to give up some gold, silver and treasures, and return the Khitan nobles' troops, they thought it would be okay to sign a alliance.
So, Han Kuangsi had no choice but to run away again and explain the conditions.
"I just want people to ask for money by empty words. I think so beautifully!"
Li Jia directly rejected the proposal, and said: "It's okay to want people. If you want a war horse, you can exchange it for ten war horses. One soldier will have another price for the nobles. The bigger the official, the different prices will naturally be."
Now, there are about 20,000 soldiers and horses captured, including other tribes. At the bottom, 200,000 to 300,000 war horses are bankrupt for the Khitan.
Han Kuangsi couldn't, so he had to come back to report.
Ordinary soldiers naturally cannot produce ten war horses, but it is possible that ordinary horses are inferior. This naturally requires the Khitan nobles to make up for it, and the greedy nobles are naturally unwilling to do so.
In order to win people's hearts, Yelu Xian did not want to strengthen the Tang people, so he could only take out three thousand war horses from the Khitan Khan tribe, extorted two thousand from each tribe, and redeemed five hundred soldiers.
Become his true trusted personal guard.
As for the nobles, they had their own family and tribe to talk to, but it was a pity that Xiao Siwen was not allowed to leave.
Yelu Xian did not give up and continued to send Han Kuangsi to inquire, even willing to sell a thousand or even five thousand war horses, but was still rejected.
After Li Jia's identification, as long as he is a high-ranking nobleman and is more capable, he will not be allowed to redeem it to prevent the growth of the Khitans.
Finally, more than 100 nobles were redeemed one after another while struggling to strengthen the Tang people and their relatives, and Li Jia earned nearly 20,000 war horses in tears.
It seems that another 10,000 cavalry can be formed.
Chapter completed!