Poor Family Chapter 750

  Chapter 750 Negotiations

  Everyone retreated, but Zhao Huan gave Wu Min a wink and asked him to stay.

  At this time, only Zhao Huan and Wu Min were left in the imperial study room. Wu Min asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

  Zhao Huan snorted, "The news came from the Imperial College just now that thousands of Tai students are gathering overnight to prepare for a street parade tomorrow morning to oppose the peace talks."

  Wu Min was stunned for a moment, there was such a thing.

  Zhao Huan returned to his seat and sat down, and asked coldly: "Who will instigate this, have you thought about it?"

  Wu Min was silent for a moment and said, "I feel that Li Yanqing did not do it."

   "Why not him?"

"He really wants to stop us from negotiating. There is no need to use Tai students to start a war directly. There is no negotiation at all. Besides, although he was born in Tai Xue, he has little influence among civil servants. He has been away for a long time. Tai students I may not buy his account."

Wu Min's excuse for excluding Li Yanqing is not very sufficient. In fact, Wu Min is fully aware that Li Yanqing has the ability to mobilize Tai students, but Wu Min still downplays his influence, not because of the deep friendship between Wu Min and Li Yanqing. But he has his own selfishness, Li Yanqing is not his political enemy, he doesn't need to waste this opportunity on Li Yanqing, he wants to use this rare opportunity to put a knife on his political enemy.

   "Li Yanqing can't get away with this matter. I know him well. He is good at getting behind the scenes. Even if he didn't lead this matter, he was the one who planned it." Zhao Huan obviously didn't believe Wu Min's explanation.

  Wu Min was silent for a moment and said: "There is something that I dare not say clearly. In the past two days, I have sent people to monitor Li Xiangguo, and my subordinates saw with their own eyes that his carriage entered the Imperial College last night."

"What!"

  Zhao Huan's face suddenly became extremely ugly, he could no longer restrain his inner anger, and slammed his fist on the table, "Bastard!"

  Wu Min quickly persuaded: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Li Xiangguo's behavior may be a bit extreme, but I believe that he is not out of self-interest."

   "Huh! Do everything possible to obstruct me, I hate this kind of person who does whatever it takes to achieve his goal, I always think he is very upright, now it seems that I really misjudged the person!"

  Wu Min quickly lowered his head, hiding the joy in his eyes, and then said slowly: "Your Majesty, this matter should actually be easier to resolve."

   "Say, how to solve this matter?"

   "The solution is very simple. We can use two approaches. On the one hand, block the gates of the Taixue and prevent Taixue students from going to the streets. On the other hand, I suggest that Zhang Xiangguo and Ma Shaoqing should leave the city tonight, so as to avoid long nights and dreams!"

  Zhao Huan walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and resolutely turned his head and said: "Pass on my oral order, and immediately announce that Dong Ping and Yao Pingzhong will come to see me!"

At one o'clock, the gate of the New Song Dynasty creaked open, the suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and three hundred cavalrymen in bright armor and holding spears lined up beside the city gate. Zheng Zheng and more than a dozen civilian entourages were sent to the gate of the city. Dong Ping cupped his hands and said, "I wish the two Zhang Xianggongs a victory and a successful negotiation!"

   "Thank you, General Dong, farewell!" Zhang Bangchang cupped his hands, turned his horse's head and headed out of the city, followed by his followers.

  Dong Ping immediately ordered 300 bodyguard cavalry to secretly **** Zhang Bangchang and Ma Zheng out of New Song City, and the group quickly disappeared into the heavy night.

  The next day, just before dawn, there was an uproar in Taixue. Five thousand soldiers of the Xiang army who were responsible for maintaining order in the city held large shields and wooden sticks, and sealed off the two gates of Taixue.

More than 4,000 Taixue students were about to come out of the Taixue University holding banners opposing peace, but they were blocked by black soldiers lining up inside the gate, and a person-high sandbag was piled up in front of the gate, completely blocking the gate, causing countless Chitai students cannot leave the school gate.

The Tai students were angry, they pushed the sandbags, and the stones were thrown at the soldiers like raindrops, and the soldiers held up their shields to resist. There was a chaos in the team, but the soldiers finally forcibly stopped Zhuang Mu. The soldiers brandished thick wooden sticks and beat the Tai students on their heads and faces. Dozens of people were beaten to the ground and fell to the ground.

   "Shameless! If you have the guts to fight the golden soldiers!"

  Tai students shouted angrily: "You will only suppress the people who have no iron, go back!"

  The five thousand soldiers did not retreat at all, and piled up the sandbag wall again.

Angry Taixue students threw bricks and stones at the soldiers again. Hundreds of Taixue students jumped over the sandbags and rushed into the team, fighting with the soldiers. There was a mess outside the Taixue gate. In the southwest corner of Taixue, students Jia Guan, one of the leaders, climbed over the high wall with the help of a ladder and ran towards the north city.

   Half an hour later, Jia Guan found Li Yanqing on the head of Beicheng. Li Yanqing pondered for a long time, and said to Jia Guan: "I underestimated the court's determination to negotiate peace. For everyone's safety, cancel this operation!"

   "What does Li Dutong mean to say, has the peace envoy left the city?"

"I just got the news that they left the city last night. Xiangguo Zhang Bangchang is the envoy, and Honglu Shaoqing Ma Zheng is the deputy envoy. Now the two sides should negotiate a peace in the Jinying. This time the responsibility lies with me. I didn't expect the court to act. So swift and decisive."

  Li Yanqing sighed, looked at Jia Guan apologetically, "I'm sorry!"

  Jia Guan shook his head, "We underestimated the shamelessness of the Zhuhe faction, and it has nothing to do with Li Dutong."

  Li Yanqing thought for a while and said: "I guess the court will retaliate afterwards. After this incident is over, you and Chen Dong will come to me immediately. I will arrange for you to hide in the army. It is best to come this afternoon!"

   "Thank you Li Dutong for your help!"

   Jia Guan saluted Li Yanqing, turned around and hurried down the corridor to the city.

Li Yanqing walked to the female wall and watched Jia Guanyuan go. I don't know who gave Zhao Huan such a bad idea, but sent troops to suppress the imperial students. This immediately pushed the imperial students to the opposite side of the court. In fact, he sent a highly respected minister to persuade him. Persuading the Tai students with affection and lure them for profit will also have very good results, but the most stupid method is used.

   Li Yanqing shook his head, Zhao Huan was far behind his father Zhao Ji in terms of IQ and EQ, no wonder Zhao Ji wanted to change the crown prince, knowing a son is like a father, this sentence makes sense!

  More than 300 Taixue students have been injured, hundreds of people have been arrested, and more than 100 soldiers have been injured by bricks and stones. The violence in front of the Taixue gate is very high.

   At this time, Jia Guan returned to Taixue over the wall and found the leader Chen Dong. Chen Dong then called a dozen representatives of Taixue to discuss countermeasures.

   "Jia Guan has received the news that the Yihe envoy left the capital last night, and the Yihe envoy is inevitable. Everyone, our operation failed this time. Let's take a look. Do you want to stop temporarily?"

  Chen Dong is smarter. There are a lot of people here, and he didn't disclose the source of the news.

  An older Tai student resented: "It's not impossible to suspend, but the imperial court actually used the army to suppress us, it's too chilling."

  Everyone said something to me, and they were extremely angry at the court's actions, but in the end they agreed to temporarily cancel the parade against the peace talks.

At noon, a Tai student sent a letter to Yao Pei Pingzhong, the commander of the Xiang army, to stop the parade. Thousands of Tai students disbanded and returned to their dormitories, but Yao Pingzhong did not lead the soldiers to leave. The officials gave him an order in advance. The troops had to wait until the peace talks were over before the army could leave. At this time, Nie Shan led 300 Kaifeng police officers to arrive at the gate of Taixue. Their task was to enter Taixue to arrest and organize the parade after the Taixue students were disbanded. of Tai student leaders.

   At the same time, Chen Dong and Jia Guan escaped from Taixue by climbing over the wall from the southwest corner of Taixue, and ran towards Beicheng.

Zhang Bangchang returned to the capital at dusk. Dong Ping, who had been waiting at the Xinsong Gate, personally led his army to **** Zhang Bangchang into the palace. Zhao Huan then received a letter sent by Zhang Bangchang. The negotiation went very smoothly, and it is expected that an agreement will be reached today. This news made Zhao Huan and the ministers full of expectations.

  At this time, an **** reported at the door, "Master Zhang has returned from the barracks, see you outside the palace!"

   Zhao Huan hurriedly said: "Hurry up and announce Zhang Xiangguo's audience!"

   "Your Majesty has a decree to announce that Xiangguo Zhang will meet you!"

  Following the guards shouting, Zhang Bangchang hurried into the imperial study for a while, he could hardly conceal his inner excitement.

   "My minister sees Your Majesty!"

   "Zhang Xiangguo is exempt from courtesy, how is the negotiation going?" Zhao Huan asked eagerly.

  In the imperial study room, everyone's eyes were fixed on Zhang Bangchang, and Zhang Bangchang said in a trembling voice: "The negotiation is over. Fortunately, I am not disgraceful!"

   Zhao Huan was overjoyed and asked again; "Then when will the troops withdraw?"

   "The Jin soldiers promised to withdraw northward overnight and return to the north of the Yellow River. The war will officially end tonight."

   There was a burst of cheers in the Imperial Study Room, and the Prime Ministers hugged each other excitedly. The one and a half months of war was finally over.

  At this time, Bai Shizhong asked again: "Zhang Xiangguo, what are the conditions for the Jin soldiers to withdraw?"

  The imperial study room suddenly became quiet again. This is also an extremely important point of attention. If the Jin soldiers were forced to withdraw to the north after paying a heavy price, I am afraid they will be ridiculed by others, or even the loss outweighs the gain.

Zhang Bangchang bowed and said, "Report to Bai Xiangguo and Your Majesty, this is the focus of the negotiation this afternoon. After several rounds of bargaining between the two parties, Wan Yanxie also recognized our sincerity, gave up the high claim, and only asked us to pay 20 Wanshima feeds black beans and requires them to be delivered to the south bank of the Yellow River within three days."

"What!"

  Zhao Huan was taken aback, he couldn't believe his ears, "Only 200,000 stone horse materials?"

   "That's right, this is the official withdrawal document signed by both parties, please read it Your Majesty."

  Zhang Bangchang presented Zhao Huan with a copy of the negotiation text that had been signed and printed by both parties.

  Zhao Huan was overjoyed, who said that negotiations are useless, that there is no need for a tragic war, and that negotiations can solve the problem, and only pay a very small price, just 200,000 shima black beans.

   "Zhang Xiangguo is really the pillar of our Song Dynasty!" Zhao Huan praised sincerely.

  (end of this chapter)

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