Li Xingchen smiled and waved his hand. Of course, he knew that Yang Su could not be fake, because even if other things could be fake, Yang Su's eyes and that transcendent temperament could not be imitated by ordinary people.
Moreover, the current Yang Su has not yet gone through the battle to destroy Chen, and he is not a really important person in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so even if he is pretending, he will not impersonate him.
Li Xingchen's eyes fell on Yang Su, and he said with a smile: "I know this, but I didn't expect that your country would send Brother Chu Dao here."
In addition to expressing his surprise and amazement, Li Xingchen was naturally also mocking Yang Su's talent. Of course, Yang Su could not understand the meaning of this pun, and immediately nodded slightly: "I have always had no talent or virtue.
, the imperial court sent me here to sort out some of the minor issues with General Li. It should be almost done."
At this time, Li Xingchen was holding the tea cup, and his hand suddenly stopped in the air. He did not expect that Yang Su would retaliate so directly. This guy is really as straight-tempered as ever in history. Maybe this is why he comes back again and again.
The ups and downs due to being unable to control one's mouth may be one of the reasons why he was kicked to Li Xingchen to take charge of such a thankless task.
After all, it is not a glorious thing to come to contact Li Xinchen. What he did was only the secret order of the Northern Zhou emperor. He was not even allowed to wear official uniforms. Moreover, once there was a deviation in conveying the message and conveying the meaning, the relationship between Li Xinchen and the Northern Zhou Dynasty would be fragile.
If the balance is completely broken, then this responsibility must be borne.
Therefore, Li Xingchen felt that the Northern Zhou Dynasty had a somewhat ostracizing effect by allowing Yang Su, a man with a vicious tongue, to come to his place.
After Yang Su finished speaking, he looked at Li Xinchen with a smile. In fact, what he just said was somewhat intentional. He also wanted to test Li Xinchen's depth. If Li Xinchen became angry because of this, Yang Su would feel much more relaxed, because his
This new friend and opponent are not as powerful as imagined, and they are easy to deal with if they have weaknesses.
Li Xingchen obviously did not let Yang Su get what he wanted. He just nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: "Brother Chu Dao is true. Brother Chu Dao is a careful person. The supervision and implementation of some small things are left to Brother Chu Dao."
It’s okay.”
Yang Su was slowly sipping tea at this time, and when he heard this sentence, he almost spit out the tea in his mouth. I don't know if Li Xinchen understood what he meant, but Yang Su knew very well that Li Xinchen was clearly mocking him.
He, and got worse.
Li Xingchen seemed not to give Yang Su a chance to breathe and counterattack this time, and then said: "According to the previous agreement, our army will guard Jiameng Pass and Jiange and other places, but it will not strengthen the defense of Jiameng Pass.
Brother Taoist should have seen it on the way here. Logically speaking, your army should retreat to Hanzhong and head to Fangling instead, but why is Li Xun's department still at the entrance of Shu Road?"
These oral agreements between Wei Xiaokuan and Li Xingchen are called "verbal", and they are actually in another secret agreement. This is the biggest secret between the two parties. On Li Xingchen's side, only Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie know about it, while on the Northern Zhou side it should be known
It was only limited to the high-level officials of the Northern Zhou Dynasty above Wei Xiaokuan and Yuchi Jiong, and of course also included the envoy Yang Su.
According to these "verbal" agreements, Li Xingchen could only repair and strengthen the defense of Jiange, while the entrance fortresses in Langzhong such as Jiameng Pass and Zitong could only be guarded by troops, but they could not continue to repair and strengthen, thereby weakening their role as a powerful pass.
In exchange, the Northern Zhou army should retreat to Hanzhong and Xinzheng and other places, and gradually move to Xiangyang. But now Yuchi's troops have arrived north of Fancheng, and Wei Xiaokuan has also moved his central army to Fangling on the upper reaches of the Mian River, but
Wei Xiaokuan's general Li Xun still led seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses to garrison at the entrance of Shu Road.
Of course this didn't happen as promised.
Yang Su had obviously expected that Li Xinchen would have this problem, and his address to Li Xinchen became serious: "General Li, there is no need to worry. Since the agreement is so, we, the Zhou Dynasty, will not violate the agreement. It's just that Li Xun's subordinates
During the retreat, we were in the rear all the way, and there was a lot of food, grass and baggage that needed to be transferred, so the retreat will take some time."
Li Xunchen sneered. Of course he didn't believe such a poor excuse. And Li Xunchen also knew that even if Li Xun slowly led his troops to retreat to Hanzhong, he would definitely leave a certain amount of troops at the entrance of Shu Road, otherwise Li Xunchen would directly lead the army.
After breaking out of the Shu Road, there really aren't many barriers in Hanzhong.
The weaknesses of places like Mianshui and Dingjun Mountain are really obvious.
Of course, Li Xingchen will not abide by the agreement. The reason why he mentioned this matter now is because Li Xingchen has not mobilized enough manpower and material resources to repair the somewhat damaged places such as Zitong and Jiamengguan, so now he takes advantage of the opportunity.
This is an opportunity to force the Northern Zhou Dynasty first. It would be good if Li Xun could retreat quickly, but Li Xunchen didn't care even if Li Xun really refused to leave.
After all, once he starts repairing these northern fortresses and barriers, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhou Dynasty will also take action, which is not much different from the current situation.
The so-called contract is meant to give everyone a chance to breathe and then tear it up. Li Xingchen knows this very well.
And Yang Su obviously knew what Li Xingchen wanted to express. These were all expected by Wei Xiaokuan and others, so Yang Su didn't find it strange. He said on this topic: "The imperial court has agreed to the exchange of merchants previously agreed, but
Confined to Hanzhong, the caravan can only reach Yangping Pass and Fangling."
Li Xingchen responded immediately: "We have also chosen Zitong and Langzhong, and the caravan cannot reach Jiange and Tiangongyuan."
Yang Su nodded, and the scope drawn by Li Xingchen was also expected.
Everyone knows that the main purpose of the exchange of merchants between the two sides is of course not to facilitate communication between the two places, but to make it easier to dispatch spies and spies. Therefore, it is necessary to exchange merchants, but it is impossible to cover the entire territory.
Just relax and be able to define a range is enough.
Something is better than nothing, don’t push too far.
The withdrawal of troops and the exchange of merchants are two important contents of the secret agreement. Now, regardless of whether both parties want to fulfill it, at least the face-saving project has been completed, which also made Yang Su breathe a sigh of relief. He had to admit that Li Xingchen was indeed a difficult person to deal with.
In this role, this young man showed a very strong desire to attack, which made Yang Su even more vigilant.
Of course, for Yang Su, the purpose of coming this time was not just for the implementation of the secret agreement between Northern Zhou Dynasty and Li Xingchen.
He had other matters to discuss with Li Xinchen, not as a Northern Zhou official, but as the head of the Hongnong Yang family.
This was one of the reasons why Yang Su had no objections to the court's arrangements.