In addition, Gao Zhisheng was granted the title of Duke of Guizhou and the governor of eight prefectures in eastern Yunnan. Yang Yizhen was granted the title of Marquis of Zhongshun and the governor of six prefectures in western Yunnan... Dali plus the capital made a total of sixteen prefectures, which were originally fourteen prefectures.
Return to the Gao and Yang families, and the remaining Dali City and Jianchan Mansion will return to the Duan family. It seems that the Celestial Empire is very aware of the situation in Dali and has no interest in changing anything.
All the princes below him have also been canonized, so everyone is happy...
In addition, in order to commend Princess Mingyue for her outstanding contributions, she was still canonized as a princess and titled "Miao Xiang".
In addition, the imperial court did not mention anything about dispatching officials, taxation, etc. This made the Dali princes, who had been worried, finally let go of their worries... In fact, what they were most worried about all along was that they were returning home.
After the Song Dynasty, their own interests will be harmed. But now the results have come out. Except for the Emperor of Dali who was demoted to the King of Dian and their emperor became an official of the Song Dynasty, the rest are still playing drums and buying sugar, each doing their own thing, and the court has not intervened.
It means that it is quite a reward.
They don't care who becomes the emperor, as long as they can still be the local emperor. What's more, Dali and Bianjing are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. They are truly as high as the sky and the emperor is far away, so the future life will be more carefree.
After thinking through this section, the resistance of the Dali princes melted away. At the subsequent banquet, they in turn expressed their loyalty to the Shangguan of the Celestial Dynasty, and expressed their willingness to follow Wang Gui to the capital to meet the official to show their loyalty to the Song Dynasty.
determination.
Princess Mingyue... Oh no, Princess Miaoxiang looked at these people's performance coldly, but her heart was full of sneers. A bunch of idiots, haven't they realized the true face of the Song Dynasty? They are waiting to be stewed slowly.
But she has no interest in reminding these ungrateful snobs because she is more worried about the fate of the Duan family itself:
This battle seemed to be won by the Duan family, but in fact, the only winner was the Song Dynasty. They became the nominal masters of this land almost without spending a single soldier, and stationed troops to protect them.
Results.
The three Dali families all paid a heavy price under the manipulation of the Song Dynasty, but none of them lost their qualifications to stand as a tripartite.
For the Duan family, losing the title of Emperor of Dali would make their influence in Dali even more disastrous. However, Duan Silian became the Dian King of the Song Dynasty and placed himself and his family under the protection of the Song Dynasty. At least he no longer had to worry about the precarious situation.
He was usurped by powerful ministers at any time.
For the Yang family, although they had to surrender conditionally under the intimidation of the Song Dynasty people, due to the favoritism of the Song Dynasty people, the strength of the Yang family was not weakened too much. It only takes a few years to recuperate and recover... After many inquiries, Duan
Only then did Mingyue find out that Yang Shiduo, the military advisor of the Yang family, secretly went to Dongchuan before the armistice to meet with senior officials of the Song Army. He must have received a promise to protect the Yang family before he announced his surrender.
As for the Gao family, they should be the most depressing family, because the Duan and Yang families are fighting against each other. This is a drama of "snipe and clam fighting, fisherman wins" carefully designed by Gao Zhisheng. In order to greatly weaken the power of the Bai people,
Completely control the political situation of Dali Kingdom.
However, because the Song Dynasty intervened, the Duan and Yang families did not fight to the death, at least the losses were acceptable.
Later, the Gao family retreated to the next best thing, hoping to keep the Song army away from the battlefield and return Dali to the state before the war. To this end, they shouldered the heavy burden of providing military supplies for the "60,000 Song army", but the Yang family unexpectedly
Surrendering to the Song Dynasty made the Gao family's wishful thinking come to nothing again. It can be said that 'the government was too clever in calculating, losing both his wife and the army'.
But this still cannot change the fact that the Gao family is the strongest among the three parties.
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All in all, the situation has returned to before the war. The only difference is that now the attitude and interests of the Song Dynasty must be considered in the three-party game...
How to defend their own interests in the new situation, and even revive themselves, is a question that all three families must seriously consider.
But after thinking about it, it seems that there is no other way except to please the Song Dynasty, make it stand on its side, and help it obtain the maximum benefits.
Among them, the Gao family is already at the forefront... As the saying goes, eating people is short-handed and taking people is short-handed. The Gao family provided food, drink and shit to the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. If they made any small moves in the future, as long as they were not too excessive, the people of the Song Dynasty would definitely turn a blind eye.
Close one eye.
Thinking of the three families trying their best to please the Song Dynasty, Duan Mingyue thought of that hateful handsome face. She bet that this must be the situation that the people of the Song Dynasty wanted to see the most, and their previous ups and downs were just for this result.
It's really the most unacceptable thing to still be so conciliatory even though you clearly hate him.
'How did I become a social butterfly? But what can I do? Who asked me to be born into the Duan family that I couldn't live up to?' Duan Mingyue took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions, and prepared to go over and continue to be sweet with Chen Kexiu.
But the competition has begun, and she finds that Gao Zhisheng is ahead of her, drinking and chatting with Chen Ke there... After such a long time, the upper echelons of Dali have understood that although Wang Gui is an envoy, he never makes up his mind and really has the final say.
, it’s still Chen Zhuangyuan who was ‘resurrected from the dead’.
After expressing his guilt for his assassination, Gao Zhisheng asked a sharp question to Chen Ke in a roundabout way: 'Our Gao family has paid so much, how can we receive the same treatment as the Yang family who rebelled and surrendered?
?'
The original words are much more tactful, but that’s the meaning.
"How can we say they have the same treatment? One is a duke and the other is a marquis..." Chen Ke said with a smile: "The difference is huge."
"Sir..." Gao Zhisheng's expression was not very good: "The Han family is responsible for the food and fodder for the 60,000-strong army of the Song Dynasty!"
"Old Prime Minister, don't tell me, the court also knows that the Gao family's hard work is great." Chen Ke straightened his face, nodded and said: "Don't worry, the Great Song Dynasty will not let the heroes feel cold. Tell me, what kind of reward the Gao family wants to get, I will definitely do it.
, if you can’t do it, you will try your best to ask for instructions.”
"With your words, the Han family's troubles are worth it." Gao Zhisheng smiled and said, "I only want one thing, and that is to ask the court to send officials to serve as civil affairs officials in the Gao family's territory.
, and at an appropriate time in the future, just like the mainland states and counties, they will pay taxes to the imperial court."
"Oh?" Chen Ke smiled in surprise: "Why is this something that people avoid?"
"That's their short-sightedness." Gao Zhisheng said with a smile: "Since you have attached yourself to the Song Dynasty, you must live up to your name. If you only want to benefit from the imperial court, but don't want to contribute to the imperial court, who are you from the Song Dynasty?"
Gao Zhisheng's skills were really powerful, and Chen Ke could clearly feel that the officials around him had a sudden increase in their favorable impression of him. Even he had to admit that he was indeed the wisest man in Dali, and his reputation was well-deserved.
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In fact, Gao Zhisheng had already sensed the Song Dynasty's intention to take root in eastern Yunnan through a series of actions by the Song Army. At this time, the attitudes that the Gao family could have were undoubtedly divided into three types. One was to confront the Song Dynasty and let the
The Song people cannot stand; secondly, they ignore it and let it develop; thirdly, they actively cooperate and benefit from it.
Under the current situation, those who choose the first option are idiots, and those who choose the second option are mediocre. But not everyone dares to choose the third option, because if one of them fails, they will make a wedding dress for Song Dynasty.
.
But Gao Zhisheng has no such worries, because the thirty-seven Wuman tribes under his jurisdiction still maintain their fierce and untamed characteristics, unlike the Bai people, who have basically been Hanized. Therefore, he is sure that no matter when the time comes, the people of the Song Dynasty will
They won't kick the Gao family away.
He asked the Song Dynasty to send civil affairs officials and expressed their willingness to pay taxes, which was actually a clever move to stop the bleeding. People who are well versed in the ways of power and conspiracy can see the essence from the appearance. Gao Zhisheng has discovered that in fact, a series of subsequent actions of the Song Dynasty people
, it seems that they tricked the Duan family. But in fact, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Pei Gong. What they really wanted to weaken was the Gao family.
It is not difficult to understand that maintaining the balance of power among the three families is nothing more than "making up for the excess losses." Naturally, the Gao family cannot allow the Song Dynasty to continue to suffer losses, but confronting the Song Dynasty can only make people profit from it, so Gao Zhisheng simply let Dian
Dong truly became a part of the Song Dynasty...at least in the eyes of the Song people...the Song people naturally had no reason to plot against the Gao family.
Moreover, Song Dynasty officials became civil affairs officials in eastern Yunnan. For the sake of their own political achievements, they would naturally spare no effort to ask for resources from the court and use their intelligence and talents to build eastern Yunnan. In the future, when officials will be promoted, the new look of eastern Yunnan will not leave!
"The Gao family is worthy of being a century-old shop. They are good at borrowing chickens to lay eggs." Chen Ke secretly admired and thought to himself: "This Gao Zhisheng is really a great man of his generation, but Yang Shiduo is not bad either. If Yang Yizhen can trust him personally, in the future,
The fight between the two families is very lively.'
"No problem. The Prime Minister is commendable for his loyalty. I will try my best to help you fight for it!" After coming back to his senses, he raised his glass to Gao Zhisheng and smiled.
"Thank you, sir!" Gao Zhisheng looked happy, raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp: "I heard that your Excellency plans to build a waterway from Dali to Guangxi?"
"Sixty thousand mouths have to eat, so we can't always rely on the Prime Minister to support us." Chen Ke smiled and nodded: "It's better to repair the access road quickly."
"Alas, my lord is out again." Gao Zhisheng said with a displeased look on his face: "As long as I, the Gao family, can do it all, the army will not be left to eat."
"I know that the Gao family is loyal and generous." Chen Ke said with gratitude on his face: "But Dali Mountain has a lot of land but little land. It's usually okay. But once there is a disaster, the people will not have enough to eat. How can they still have the strength to support the army? After repairing this
This waterway can not only supply the army, but also transport food from the interior and Dali's specialties, which is of great significance to eastern Yunnan."
"Let me put it this way, sir, this canal must be repaired!" Gao Zhisheng nodded heavily and said: "Big projects need civilian men. There are too many in eastern Yunnan. One hundred and eighty thousand strong men can still be found! If necessary, sir,
Just say it, we’ll bring our own dry food!”
"Thank you, Prime Minister!" Chen Ke suddenly realized that the head of the Gao family was like a chameleon, always able to adjust the best survival strategy according to changes in the environment.
With such a person leading the Gao family, no one can bring it down.