Su Ziji entered the stronghold again and was not led to the hall, but was transferred to the main tent.
There was a circle of armored soldiers outside the tent. When they saw him coming, the soldiers who opened the tent reminded in a low voice: "My lord has been waiting for you, Mr. Su."
Su Ziji nodded and walked in.
Cui Zhaoquan was standing with his hands behind his back, facing inward. He didn't know what he was thinking about, but he turned around when he heard the sound.
"You're here, sit down."
The soldiers who came in quickly moved a round stool over. Su Ziji thanked him and sat down.
Cui Zhaoquan also sat down at this time, looked at Su Ziji, and asked directly: "Actually, there is one thing that I have always wanted to ask you. Are you an old acquaintance with Inspector Zhao, Eunuch Zhao?"
Unexpectedly, Cui Zhaoquan suddenly asked about this matter. Su Ziji sighed in his heart, knowing that Cui Zhaoquan was still suspicious. With this person's power, he really wanted to find out some information. He could find out when he went back. There was no need for him to do this.
To hide and lie.
"Yes, the student had met Eunuch Zhao before when he was in the Provincial Academy."
As he said that, he skipped the details related to his identity and explained everything that could be found out through a quick investigation.
"Guangling Province...yes, I went to Guangling Province at that time..." Cui Zhaoquan thought about it and nodded suddenly.
Looking at this, it seems that he believed what Su Ziji said, and briefly talked about the suppression of the cavalry, and he also agreed with it.
"It's rare that Eunuch Zhao trusts you, so he actually left a hundred households in the imperial city, together with county soldiers, to listen to you. I've heard about the cavalry. You did the right thing. Several cavalry acted boldly and failed to do so in time.
If we eradicate it, I'm afraid it will become a hidden danger now."
"The students only received information from hundreds of households." Su Ziji said.
"What do you think of the current situation?" Cui Zhaoquan asked without saying whether he believed it or not.
Su Ziji answered without hesitation: "After reading the information about the 170 Villages in the Southwest, students found it strange that although they are the same clan, this clan has a lot of differences and conflicts with each other. There are conflicts and fights every year.
."
"Why did they unite and become one just in the past few years?"
"You mean, someone supports it?" Cui Zhaoquan frowned and stared at Su Ziji: "Can you tell me in more detail, who supports it?"
Su Ziji shook his head: "The student is just a trainee, so he doesn't know the inside story, and the files are limited and cannot be detailed. I just think about it based on common sense. I know that this is a bit unusual."
Cui Zhaoquan raised his face slightly and thought about it. It seemed that this was indeed the case, and he added: "Perhaps these mountain villages in the southwest just happened to be lucky, and a leader of the clan came out."
Su Ziji smiled and said, "What you are saying is that even ordinary people can become prosperous if they are lucky, let alone a clan?"
"It's just that even if you have the energy, you still have to do your best."
Cui Zhaoquan agreed with this statement. Confucianism is just like this: obey the destiny and do your best.
Su Ziji's words gradually became grim: "In history, there are people who have lost the world in two generations. How can they win the world without destiny? The death of two generations is certainly a bad blessing, not to mention the lack of human resources."
"Even if the enemy chief responded to his wishes, after two and a half years of defeating him, the villagers gained no benefit, only dead people. Recently, the villagers have lost more than 20 people, opening up a gap."
"If we had succeeded in this attack, we could still have saved a little or two. But now we retreated midway and lost the battle. We have suffered a lot of losses. I am afraid that our prestige has dropped greatly again and it will be difficult to control it."
"In my opinion, this enemy chieftain doesn't have many options. The student thinks that he may beg to surrender."
After all, the war had been going on for two years before coming to the southwest, and the southwest had already expressed its intention to negotiate for peace. The purpose of capturing the imperial envoy alive this time may not be to increase the bargaining chips for peace negotiations.
With the strength of the enemy chief, it is impossible to enter the capital, right?
Not only was he unable to defeat Dazheng, but he returned with enough benefits, the two years of fighting were not in vain, and he also had an internal explanation.
Cui Zhaoquan actually thought the same thing. Looking at the young man in front of him, he couldn't help but ask: "How do you think we should handle it if we beg to surrender?"
"The students are just attachés and have no experience in this field, so I dare not speak nonsense." Although Su Ziji had ideas, he still said modestly.
Cui Zhaoquan waved his hand: "Hey, why do you have to be humble? I ask you, you answer."
Su Ziji said: "We can accept the rebel army's begging to surrender. After all, we have been fighting for more than two years. The court also hopes to end the war as soon as possible, and the emperor is looking forward to good news."
"But you can't accept them all."
Cui Zhaoquan stood up and took a few steps. After a while, he said, "Oh? Tell me, you can't accept everything. How can you not accept the Fa and accept begging for surrender? How can you accept the Fa?"
Su Ziji replied: "First of all, even if the enemy army begs for surrender, we cannot let the enemy chief take the initiative. Our army can accept peace talks and argue with them. This reason is very natural. We cannot do it on our own. Do we have to ask the imperial court for instructions? It is tantamount to righteously condoning
Enemy chieftain."
"At the same time, we will continue to send envoys to contact the villages that have sincerely surrendered and accept their surrender."
"When all the strongholds that are willing to surrender have surrendered, and the remaining ones are those that refuse to surrender, then we can send a letter to the enemy chief saying that we heard that a certain stronghold is a determined rebel and has been stained with the blood of officers and soldiers. We have to
Give an explanation to the imperial court and the officers and soldiers."
"Peace talks are possible. As long as the enemy chief kills the owner of the village, our army will accept it."
"On the other hand, if you are unwilling to kill the rebels, it means that you are not sincere in surrendering and have no sincerity. How can we explain to the court?"
"I believe that by then, the situation will be over and the enemy chiefs will definitely compromise."
Cui Zhaoquan was surprised when he heard this. He sighed after thinking about it and said, "I will consider the specific strategies. You can go back first."
Then Su Ziji was asked to step down.
Su Ziji walked away, walked a few steps, looked back at the big tent, couldn't help but sigh, and kept saying: "It's a pity, it's really a pity."
In the past, Cui Zhaoquan treated him as his nephew, but the so-called close relationship has now become more important and thicker. Although the importance has increased, there is an invisible gap.
Although Su Ziji didn't know, there was someone he knew only a few hundred steps away, who had the same emotion as him, but he also shook his head, and after walking a few steps, he heard a noise in the distance.
It looked like teams of horses were coming in carrying things.
"Hey, what happened before?" I asked someone randomly.
The man said: "I heard that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there are many horse teams in the southwest, and they spontaneously transport goods to our army. The goods are very cheap, and everyone is very happy."
"Oh, I didn't expect to kill four caravans, and the result was that the other caravans were so frightened that they hurriedly fawned over them." Su Ziji turned his eyes and saw a familiar person in the cavalry, who was a wild Taoist, and couldn't help but smile.
After walking for a while, I heard shouting, and then someone asked: "Sir, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, have you ever wanted to buy some new year's goods?"
"Of course I want it. Come to my tent and tell me what you have." Su Ziji said, feeling relieved, and finally they met again.