"The Khan should be more likely to restrain all troops from harassing the people." Standing on the wall of the outer city of the capital, Yuan Zhang frowned and said to Arubu. After the army of each unit entered the outer city, he was quite uneasy.

"The men in Mobei have always been like this. Since the capital has been captured by them, the wealth of the children here belongs to them. This is the custom of the Mobei grassland since ancient times." Arubu disagreed. I don't know how many times such a thing happened on the grassland, and he had no reason and did not want to stop them.

"Are you satisfied just wanting to be a big khan on the grassland?" Yuan Zhang was disappointed with Arubu for the first time. He pointed to the beautiful Jiangshan in the distance and asked, "Don't you want to be the emperor of the Central Plains?"

"If I want to be an emperor, then what should I do?" Arubu woke up from his dream, and the joy of capturing the capital gradually dissipated, turning into a desire to include all this land under his Khan.

"Great Khan, please look over there." Yuan Zhang pointed his hand at an orchard on the edge of the city wall. From time to time, the cavalry of Mobei passed by here, and randomly slashed the branches of the fruit trees blocking the road. "I lived near this place when I was in the capital. At first, a neighbor would pick a few fruits whenever I passed by the orchard, and threw them aside if I couldn't finish it. But one day he made a fortune and bought the orchard, but never did such things again. Although he would pick fruits occasionally to enjoy it, he never wasted. Not only that, he also patiently weeds and insects, for fear that the fruit trees would not grow well and could not produce good fruits. I asked this person why the behavior of the front and back was so different. This person replied, "The orchard was owned by others before, but now it is his own property. Of course, he should take care of it."

"Now we occupy the capital, just like this man has obtained this orchard." Seeing Arubu gradually falling into thinking, Yuan Zhang explained, "Before this, the Central Plains were owned by the Great Wei. Even if the tribes in the northern Mobei occasionally could enter the pass, they could not occupy the city for a long time, so they had to plunder and retreat. But now it is very different. The Great Wei is already terminally ill and can no longer resist the strength of the northern army. The land from Xuanda to the capital can be said to be owned by our northern country. If it continues to plunder like before, it would be unpaid."

Arubu was silent when he heard this, and did not reply for a long time. Yuan Zhang did not urge him, but he stood there quietly waiting. After about a cup of tea, Arubu completely understood what Yuan Zhang meant, but he still had one thing he didn't understand, "The population of our northern country is only a few million, less than 10% of that of the Great Wei. Can we really swallow up this ten thousand miles of land?"

"It's up to people." Yuan Zhang understood that Arubu was already moved by his words just now. "If the Khan wanted to rule this land, it would not work with hundreds of thousands of cavalry alone. The Central Plains was not the northern desert, and farming was no longer as grazing. If the Khan wanted to become the emperor of the Central Plains, he had to change his previous customs and act according to the rules of the Central Plains."

"Fear may make them surrender for a while, but it cannot last long. If you want to completely regain these people and make them the people of the Khan, you must be kind and do your best." Yuan Zhang looked at the soldiers who spread fear again, "Like this, you can only obtain hatred from the people of the capital, but you cannot convince them. In the future, if a hero rises up, they will pick up the steel knife and kill us without hesitation. On the contrary, if we release some kindness a little, it doesn't need to be very good. As long as it is stronger than before, they will use it wholeheartedly for us."

"This matter is of great importance, and I have to think about it carefully." What Yuan Zhang said today made it difficult for Arubu to distinguish for a while. On the one hand, it was the long-standing tradition of Mobei and the temptation to dominate the Central Plains. If the army ordered to withdraw troops, it would violate the tradition of Mobei and arouse dissatisfaction among the soldiers. If they did not restrain them, it seemed unlikely that they would realize their desire to unify the world. This was really difficult to make a decision.

"Please make a decision as soon as possible," Yuan Zhang couldn't persuade him again, so he could only say this. Arubu waved his hand and walked to the side to think alone. Yuan Zhang frowned at the chaos under the city.

Until sunset, Arubu did not issue any orders, but Yuan Zhang waited for the envoy of the Great Wei. Chen Jing'an was hung from the city wall again and found Yuan Zhang to send him to the latest conditions.

"Now Yang Jiefu and his son have been taken to the Heavenly Prison, and Qin Juan is also under strict supervision. As long as the national teacher agrees, the subordinates will send them here for the National Master to deal with it. In addition, the court has raised 2.3 million ingots of gold, 9.86 million ingots of silver, and 1.78 million pieces of cloth. Please ask the National Master to re-open the peace for our dynasty, right?" Chen Jing'an did not dare to delay and sent the conditions to the Wei Dynasty straight to the point, because he confiscated Yang Jiefu's home, the money he took out this time was much more than last time.

As a court minister, seeing the people in the city suffer such a disaster but without saying anything, it would be unreasonable if the Wei Dynasty did not perish. Yuan Zhang was quite helpless and took the list and glanced at it a few times, "You go back and send Yang Jiefu and his son here. I will not attack the inner city within three days. I will give you three more days to raise money. If you meet the number you don't require, don't blame my national teacher for being ruthless."

Too lazy to pay attention to Chen Jing'an's plea, Yuan Zhang continued, "By the way, there is another thing. If you want to discuss peace and ask your emperor to come to the camp to personally deliver the surrender form to the Khan, and announce that the Great Wei will be completely surrendered to the northern country. If you can't do this, there is no need to talk about the rest! Come and see off the guests!"

Chen Jing'an was driven back and escorted Yang Jiefu and Yang Deming to Yuan Zhang's temporary residence that night. Seeing this big enemy, Yuan Zhang didn't have much joy in his heart. He stared at him for a long time and ordered people to untie the rope on his body, leaving Bai Ling three meters away and stood up and left. Soon, the sound of a stool falling to the ground came from the room.

Yang Jiefu was dead, but he had not thought about how to deal with Yang Deming and Yuan Zhang, but he had to be strictly guarded. As for the Wei court, under the threat of the northern army outside the city, the empress dowager confiscated the property of many high-ranking officials one after another, and even Lu Chengqing and Hu Songnian were not spared. Most of the important officials in the court were sent to the Heavenly Prison.

But even so, the money they found was still a certain difference from what Yuan Zhang had to do that day. In addition, the emperor still couldn't make up his mind to go out of the city to surrender. However, Yuan Zhang would not give them too much time to consider. Three days later, trenchers were transported to the front, and the war to attack the inner city was about to begin. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!