"This Zhang Zicheng is really a disaster to the loyal people of the court."
Muchuan couldn't help but complain. After all, he had some issues with Zhang Zicheng. At that time, he thought that maybe Zhang Zicheng simply disliked Muchuan. But now it seems that this is not the case, but that Zhang Zicheng is a heartless villain.
But now that Muchuan was chatting with Gongsun Taishan, he actually felt that he and Gongsun Taishan were very compatible, so the two of them left the palace while chatting and went to drink and eat meat in a wine shop outside Chang'an City!
Time passed by, and three days passed before I knew it.
The "Sifang Pavilion" in the Imperial Palace was a place specially used for officials of the Tang Dynasty to receive foreign envoys to discuss important matters. At this time, a large number of people gathered in the pavilion, which was very lively.
On the left side of Sifang Pavilion, there are envoys from Goguryeo lined up, eight of them in total, headed by Mochizuki Dagong.
On the right side are officials from the Tang Dynasty, a total of fourteen people, headed by Prime Minister Wei Zheng.
Compared with the calmness of Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty was a bit uneasy and nervous.
"What the hell is going on?
It’s obviously time for peace talks, why hasn’t the Minister of Household Affairs shown up yet?”
"This Minister of the Ministry of Finance really succeeds more than fails! I don't know why the emperor would appoint him to come to negotiate peace! Don't you know that today's matter is of great importance?"
"Master Wei, let's not wait any longer for the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue! We don't know when he will arrive. If we delay the peace negotiation, I'm afraid the people of Goguryeo will look down on us!"
The ministers who negotiated the peace talked a lot, and their voices were full of dissatisfaction.
However, Changsun Wuji spoke for Muchuan and praised: "The peace negotiation is of great importance. The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is entrusted by the emperor. I am afraid that something happened to me for being late today."
Fang Xuanling nodded: "Yes, the Minister of Revenue is acting strangely and unfathomably. Maybe he is late because he has something important to do. We might as well wait a little longer."
The two adults have said this, and although the other ministers are full of opinions, they can only continue to wait.
As a result, another half an hour passed. The officials of the Tang Dynasty were not anxious, but the Goguryeo side was anxious.
On the pear wood chair on the left, a thin middle-aged man stood up. He was the local governor of Goguryeo. At this time, he asked dissatisfiedly: "Is this the way you treat guests in the Tang Dynasty?
The peace talks have been going on for many days, but you finally delayed the meeting again, but you kept delaying it?"
Speaking together with the thin man, there was also a short man.
The short man was a civil servant of the Goguryeo Kingdom. He also said angrily: "Either you look down on us, or you Tang people are naturally rude, arrogant and arrogant!"
Hearing that the envoys of Goguryeo actually spoke like this naturally made the officials of the Tang Dynasty angry.
The public sentiment was raging, and the officials refuted the words of the Goguryeo envoys one by one. The whole atmosphere was filled with tension and anxiety.
As a member of the peace envoys, Shangguan Jin seemed very calm at this time and did not speak much. When the atmosphere became more heated, he finally spoke.
"Master Wei..." Shangguan Jin came to Wei Zheng's side and whispered, "Why don't we wait for the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs? Muchuan is a perverse and unruly person. How can the peace negotiation be delayed because of him?
If this continues, I'm afraid the Goguryeo Congress will laugh at us."
Wei Zheng saw that the order on the field was chaotic and the crowd was raging. He knew that there was no way to delay the peace negotiation any longer, so he nodded and waved his hand to announce the start of the peace negotiation.
The two sides negotiated a peace. They first worshiped the heaven and earth and appealed to the gods. Then they returned to their seats and asked the ministers of each country to list the paperwork and the terms of the peace.
After all the twists and turns, a stick of incense has passed.
However, the peace negotiation conditions between the two countries were still unequal, so Mochizuki Dagong quietly said: "It seems that after the last peace negotiation, Datang's peace negotiation conditions are still unwilling to change?"
Could it be that you, relying on your great power, want to force our country, Goguryeo, to a dead end?"
Fang Xuanling: "Messenger Wangyue, this is wrong. We also have the intention to negotiate peace, but the terms of the peace negotiation must be tilted towards our side."
Cheng Yaojin: "Haha... As a defeated country, when did your small country of Goguryeo become so arrogant?
You have no conditions for negotiation at all! Otherwise, we will have no choice but to continue fighting!"
Changsun Wuji: "We also know the thoughts of the Moonwatching Envoy. Is he contacting Silla and Baekje in order to compete with our Tang Dynasty?
I'm afraid it won't go so smoothly, right?
As long as we make good friends with Silla and Baekje, they may not necessarily help you."
Before negotiating peace, Wei Zheng had summoned Changsun Wuji, Cheng Yaojin and other major civil servants and generals to discuss.
How can we take advantage of this peace negotiation and take advantage of it?
Later, after discussion, the strategy adopted by Qin Shi Huang was adopted.
Attack at close range and make friends at a distance, destroy them one by one.
After all, it is not just Goguryeo that can find allies. Tang Dynasty can also find allies. Silla and Baekje will probably not help Goguryeo out of interests.
However, after listening to the words of Changsun Wuji, Cheng Yaojin and others, Wangyue Dagong showed a mysterious and transcendent expression, as if he had already expected that the Tang Dynasty would use this "combination vertical and horizontal" method.
Such a strategy.
"I see...don't you think Silla Baekje won't help us?
That’s not necessarily the case.”
After Wang Yue Dagong finished speaking, he raised his palms, and then two burly guards walked out.
The guard held two parchment letters in his hands. After opening the letters, Wangyue Dagong looked at Wei Zheng: "Master Wei, why don't you come forward and take a look?"
For a while, the officials of the Tang Dynasty looked at each other in confusion, not understanding what kind of medicine Wangyue Dagong was selling in his gourd.
Cheng Yaojin stretched out his hand to stop Wei Zheng. He felt that Wangyue Dagong might be deceitful.
Wei Zheng was not worried about this. This was the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty, surrounded by heavy guards and imperial guards. If the ambassadors of Goguryeo had used any insidious means, they might all be killed.
Wei Zheng was very bold, so he stepped forward to look at the letter paper spread out by the guards, and found that the letter paper was written in Goguryeo language, which was very unfamiliar and not something he could understand.
Mochizuki Dagong slapped his head and then remembered that people in the Tang Dynasty could not understand the writing of Goguryeo, so he laughed and explained: "This is the correspondence between Goguryeo and Silla Baekje half a month ago. The letter
The content already states the support of the monarchs of the two countries for us."
Didn’t the Tang Dynasty question whether Silla and Baekje would help Goguryeo?
Now the answer is out, and these two countries will definitely help.
