Eight hundred and thirtieth chapters completely admit counseling
It was already evening when Zhang Yu returned to Chengdu. He did not go back to his own house, but went directly to his uncle Zhang Yanshang's house.
Zhang Yanshang was scalding his feet with hot water. When he heard that his nephew had returned from Chang'an, he immediately asked the housekeeper to arrange for his nephew to wait outside in the study.
Zhang Yanshang hurried to the outer study room and saw his nephew leaning on the chair exhausted and about to fall asleep.
"Cough! Cough!" Zhang Yanshang coughed twice, and Zhang Yu immediately woke up from his fatigue, steeled himself and stood up and said, "My nephew, I'm rude!"
"Just talk briefly! Then you go to rest."
Zhang Yanshang was also anxious, but he tried his best to remain calm in front of the juniors.
Zhang Yu took out the memorandum of negotiation from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Yanshang. Zhang Yanshang took it, looked at it and asked, "Is this a record of the interview with Guo Song, or is it just a record of the interview with Pan Liao and others?"
"It's the record of an interview with Jin King Guo Song. He proposed three withdrawal plans. Second uncle, let's take a look first!"
Zhang Yanshang immediately sat under the lamp and looked at it carefully.
After reading the memo, he took a breath. None of these three conditions were possible. It wasn't that he couldn't achieve it, but Beiya would never agree to it. If they were asked to give up all unreasonable taxes and vested interests, it would be worse.
Kill them.
Zhang Yanshang understood that the eunuchs of Beiya had a negative attitude towards the negotiations before. I am afraid that they had known this result for a long time, so they neither wanted to negotiate nor sent troops, and planned to let Guo Song occupy Hanzhong.
"Second uncle, will the court accept Guo Song's plan?" Zhang Yu asked cautiously.
Zhang Yanshang sighed, "It's hard to say, it's unlikely. First of all, a referendum is unrealistic. Even if you vote, it will be biased towards Chang'an, which is meaningless. The second plan will not be agreed to by Beiya. They will have a thousand reasons to oppose it, and Beiya
If you don't agree, the political affairs hall will also be rejected, and the Queen Mother's side will be meaningless. The third option is to separate the military and political affairs. In fact, it has nothing to do with Beiya. It depends on whether the imperial court can accept it. If the imperial court wants this face, it may accept it and pretend
Hanzhong is still in our hands."
"But Guo Song asked us to fully restore his reputation. Whether we accept it or not, it must be restored. He said that if his reputation is ruined, he will no longer recognize the significance of the Southern Tang Dynasty."
"I saw it, he wrote it on the memo."
Zhang Yanshang's elongated face was simply a blatant threat, it was too much.
"Second uncle, there is something I don't know my nephew should say or not?"
"What did you say?"
Zhang Yu hesitated for a moment and said: "Now the imperial court is basically controlled by the eunuchs, making the world shameless. Can't we bring order to the chaos? There is no chance at all?"
Zhang Yanshang shook his head, "These old eunuchs are all cunning and cunning. They hold on to the military power and don't give outsiders any chance. I was expecting them to have internal strife before. However, Song Chaofeng retreated in order to advance and brought the situation under control again. Now we can only
Just wait patiently with a 'Wait!' and there is no other way."
"But...can we please invite the local military Qin Wang, Liu Qia, Ma Sui, Hun Yao, Han Huang..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Yanshang waved his hand and interrupted impatiently, "By the time they reach Chengdu, our bones will have been frozen to the bone!"
"Then...what about Guo Song?"
Zhang Yanshang remained silent for a while, and then said calmly: "He is Cao Cao's second best. If we invite him here, it is better to let the Eunuch Party take power. At least the Eunuch Party will not allow the Tang Dynasty to change its dynasty."
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The news brought back by Zhang Yu was not made public, but was secretly spread among the senior officials of Nanya Zhengshi Hall and Beiya Privy Council.
In the Beiya Privy Council, several old eunuchs gathered together urgently to discuss countermeasures.
Song Chaofeng passed a copy of the memo Zhang Yu brought back to everyone, "Let's take a look! These are Guo Song's three conditions, or four conditions. The first condition is for us to restore his reputation. What should we do, everyone?
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After everyone read the memo, Huo Xianming sneered and said: "This Guo Song is very cunning! He is making a fuss about the tax system and makes it clear that he does not want to return Hanzhong to us."
Dou Wenchang also said: "I suggest that we just accept the second clause. When our army regains control of Hanzhong, can he still decide what we want to do?"
"What Dou Weng said is absolutely true!" Wu Shouliang immediately expressed his support for Dou Wenchang's suggestion.
After Wu Shouliang, Zhang Shang and Jiao Hope lost the power struggle within Beiya, in order to bring down Song Chaofeng, the three of them changed their strategies and began to try their best to win over Huo Xianming and Dou Wenchang.
As they hold the real power of the army, as long as the five of them form an alliance, Song Chaofeng will definitely be defeated.
How could Song Chaofeng not understand these people's little tricks? He sneered in his heart and tried to win over them, but to no avail.
Song Chaofeng said coldly: "You underestimate Guo Song too much. Do you think his army will really withdraw from Hanzhong? How many internal agents he has deployed in Nanzheng City? How many troops are hidden on dangerous passes? As long as ours
The army rushed to take over. Believe it or not, they just found any excuse and wiped them all out. No one could come back. The 15,000 Han Chinese troops we had already obtained have already been completely compensated. How much wealth do we still have to squander? "
"Wenzhen, tell me!" Song Chaofeng's eyes turned to Ju Wenzhen again.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Ju Wenzhen said calmly: "Actually, the third plan has nothing to do with us. Let Nanya decide on its own. They want that fig leaf. They appoint officials, and we don't need to send troops.
, Don’t worry about Hanzhong. As for the tax loss in Hanzhong, it is actually very small, accounting for less than half of the entire tax revenue, and it is not worth sending troops to fight for it."
Huo Xianming said slowly: "Having said that, I am afraid that the low tax burden in Hanzhong will arouse dissatisfaction in Bashu and lead to anti-tax riots."
"What about Yi Xianweng's intention?" Song Chaofeng asked.
Huo Xianming raised his long white eyebrows and said: "My attitude is very clear. If Hanzhong is captured, it will be restored to its original state. If it cannot be recaptured, it will be completely given up. Don't let there be two tax districts under the same imperial court. That will
There will be big trouble."
Huo Xianming's suggestion obviously went further. The eunuchs in Beiya realized that the two tax systems were the real threat to their interests.
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In the afternoon, the Queen Mother once again summoned the important ministers of Beiya and Nanya to discuss Guo Song's three plans.
On the issue of sending troops, the Northern and Southern Yamen reached a consensus. The other side had already occupied a dangerous position. It would be difficult to recapture Hanzhong by sending troops at this time, and it would also result in the loss of troops and generals, causing greater losses. They unanimously stated that they could no longer use force to solve the Hanzhong problem.
When the Queen Mother saw that everyone was completely unanimous, she had no choice but to ask: "Which of Guo Song's three plans can you accept?"
There were differences between the Northern and Southern Yamen on the three plans. Prime Minister Zhang Yanshang advocated accepting the second plan. On the basis that the army could not retake Hanzhong, he accepted the separation of military and political affairs and ceded the right to station the army to Guo Song. The court still maintained its opposition.
Hanzhong's government affairs jurisdiction was actually under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Zhang Yanshang's suggestion was fully criticized by the eunuchs of Beiya. Song Chaofeng sneered: "This is just self-deception. Zhang Xiangguo really thinks that Hanzhong is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court? The imperial court has the power to appoint officials, but Guo Song has the power to remove officials. You
Who do you think the officials who take office in Hanzhong will actually be loyal to? Let me tell you, they will be loyal to both ends."
Huo Xianming also said decisively: "Guo Song deliberately implemented low taxes in Hanzhong to stimulate the people of Chengdu and Bashu. This will definitely cause civil strife. For a little face, it will eventually lead to civil strife. This is what Zhang Xiangguo wants.
result?"
Ju Wenzhen also said: "I think this is just Zhang Xiangguo's personal idea, not the consensus of the Political Affairs Hall. When it comes to such important decisions, I suggest that we should reach a consensus in the Political Affairs Hall first to avoid misjudgment."
Zhang Yanshang felt a deep sense of powerlessness. He knew that as long as it was voted on by the political hall, his proposal would be vetoed. Three people vetoed it, Cui Zao abstained, and in the end his vote was powerless.
The Queen Mother was silent for a long time and asked: "That's it, do nothing?"
Song Chaofeng said calmly: "We are not saying that we should abandon Hanzhong, but we are just saying that we should wait for opportunities. For example, if Zhu Si launches a large-scale attack on Guanzhong and Guanzhong is in a tight situation, Guo Song will definitely send Hanzhong troops to rescue Guanzhong, or ask us to send troops to help.
Then Guanzhong is back. This is the opportunity. So holding our troops temporarily does not mean we give up Hanzhong. The veteran feels that talking about Hanzhong now is meaningless. The key is Guo Song's fourth condition. Do we have to watch him helplessly?
Rebuild the imperial court and establish the Northern Tang Dynasty? Or continue to allow him to be nominally loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty?"
"What about Yi Chaoweng?" the Queen Mother asked.
"The veteran believes that since the King of Jin is a minister of the Queen Mother, it cannot be said that Hanzhong was lost. At least the flags of the Tang Dynasty are still hanging on the city walls of Hanzhong. This is just an internal power struggle and should not be treated like this.
The King of Jin should restore his reputation, unless the Queen Mother hopes to see Northern Tang appear again, then the veteran will have nothing to say."
"Does Prime Minister Zhang have any objections?" the Queen Mother asked Zhang Yanshang again.
Zhang Yanshang saw that a group of old eunuchs were looking at him coldly. He looked back and saw that the other four prime ministers, including Cui Zao, were silent. Zhang Yanshang knew that he was no longer able to fight against Beiya, so he had to bow and say: "Your Majesty.
No objections!”
Although it was difficult for the Queen Mother to accept it, she had no choice but to issue an order to appoint Guo Song as the military envoy of Hanzhong to control the five states of Hanzhong. She also ordered the court to restore the reputation of King Jin and strictly prohibited the government and the public from insulting King Jin again. Anyone who disobeyed the order.