Chapter 751 The power of negotiation
Everyone retreated, but Zhao Huan winked at Wu Min and asked him to stay.
At this time, only Zhao Huan and Wu Min were left in the imperial study. Wu Min asked carefully: "Your Majesty, what happened?"
Zhao Huan snorted, "Just just now, news came from the Imperial College where thousands of students were gathering overnight, preparing to march on the streets tomorrow morning to oppose peace talks."
Wu Min was stunned. There was such a thing.
Zhao Huan returned to his seat and sat down, and asked coldly: "Who was instructing him from behind? Have you thought of it?"
Wu Min was silent for a moment and said, "I think it shouldn't be what Li Yanqing did."
"Why not him?"
"He really wanted to stop us from negotiating. There was no need to use Taishen students to directly provoke war. No negotiations were left. Moreover, although he was from Taishen, he had little influence among civil servants. If he was away for a long time, Taishen students might not buy his account."
Wu Min's excuse to rule out Li Yanqing was not very sufficient. In fact, Wu Min knew completely that Li Yanqing had the ability to mobilize the students, but Wu Min still underestimated his influence. It was not because of how deep Wu Min and Li Yanqing had, but because he had his own selfish intentions. Li Yanqing was not his political enemy, and he did not need to waste this opportunity on Li Yanqing. He wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to stab his political enemy.
"Li Yanqing can't escape this matter. I know him. He is good at taking action behind the scenes. Even if he is not the one who leads this matter, he will give advice." Zhao Huan obviously didn't believe Wu Min's explanation very much.
Wu Min was silent for a moment and said, "There is something that I dare not say explicitly. In the past two days, Weichen sent someone to monitor Li Xiangguo. Weichen's subordinates saw his carriage entering the Imperial College with their own eyes."
"What!"
Zhao Huan's face suddenly became extremely ugly. He could no longer control his anger and punched him hard on the table, "Bastard!"
Wu Min hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Li's behavior may be a bit extreme, but I believe he is not for his own benefit."
"Hmph! I try every means to stop me. I hate such a person who uses any means to achieve his goal the most. I always think he is very upright. Now it seems that I really misjudged the person!"
Wu Min quickly lowered her head, concealing a joyful look in her eyes, and he slowly said: "Your Majesty, this matter should actually be easier to solve."
"You said, how to solve this problem?"
"The solution is very simple. We can do a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we block the gate of the Imperial College and prevent Tai students from taking to the streets. In addition, the Wei Minister suggested that Zhang Xiangguo and Ma Shaoqing leave the city tonight, so as not to have too many dreams!"
Zhao Huan walked a few steps behind his hands, and resolutely turned around and ordered: "Transfer my oral orders, and immediately announce that Dongping and Yao Pingzhong will come to see me!"
At the first update, the Xinsong Gate creaked open, the suspension bridge slowly lowered, and the three hundred cavalrymen were armed with spears in their hands, lined up next to the city gate. At this time, Deputy Chief Dong Ping personally sent the peacekeeping envoy Zhang Bangchang, Deputy Envoy Ma Zheng and more than a dozen civil servants to the city gate. Dong Ping bowed and said, "I wish the two Zhang Xianggongs a victory in the flag and the negotiations are successful!"
"Thank you, General Dong, for farewell!" Zhang Bangchang bowed his hand, turned his horse's head and headed out of the city, and the followers followed him one after another.
Dong Ping immediately ordered three hundred personal guards to secretly guard Zhang Bangchang and Ma Zheng to leave Xinsong City, and the group quickly disappeared into the dark night.
The next day, just as dawn, the Taixue had a turmoil. Five thousand soldiers in the wings were responsible for maintaining order in the city, holding large shields and wooden sticks, blocking the two gates of the Taixue east and west gates.
More than 4,000 Tai students were holding banners against peace talks and about to come out of Taixue, but unexpectedly they were blocked by black soldiers in line. A sandbag of people tall was piled up in front of the gate, completely blocking the gate, preventing thousands of Taixue students from leaving the school gate.
The students were angry. They pushed the mud and sandbags, and the stones were thrown at the soldiers like raindrops. The soldiers raised their shields to resist. At this time, hundreds of students were holding a big piece of wood and shouting to rush towards the soldiers. The team was in chaos, but the attack was finally stopped by the soldiers. The soldiers waved thick wooden sticks and beat the students to the front. Dozens of people were beaten to the point of blood, fell to the ground, and were rescued by other students.
"Shameless! I have the will to fight the Jin soldiers!"
The students of the Taishou yelled angrily: "You can only suppress the people who have no iron hand and get back!"
The five thousand soldiers did not retreat at all and piled up sandbag walls again.
The angry Tai students smashed the soldiers with bricks and stones again. Hundreds of Tai students flipped over the sandbags, rushed into the team, and started fighting with the soldiers. The gate of the Taixue School was in chaos. In the southwest corner of the Taixue School, Jia Guan, one of the student leaders, used a ladder to climb over the high wall and ran towards the north city.
Half an hour later, Jia Guan found Li Yanqing on the north city. Li Yanqing pondered for a long time and said to Jia Guan: "I underestimated the court's determination to negotiate peace. For everyone's safety, this operation will be cancelled!"
"What Li Dutong means is that the peace consortium has left the city?"
"I just got the news that they had already left the city last night. Prime Minister Zhang Bangchang was the main envoy, and Honglu Shaoqing Ma Zheng was the deputy envoy. Now both sides should discuss peace in the Jin camp. The responsibility lies with me this time. I didn't expect the court to act so quickly and decisively."
Li Yanqing sighed and looked at Jia Guan apologetically, "I'm sorry!"
Jia Guan shook his head, "We underestimated the shamelessness of the lord and the faction has nothing to do with Tong Li."
Li Yanqing thought for a while and said, "I guess the court will take revenge later. After this matter is over, you and Chen Dong will come to me immediately. I will arrange for you to hide in the army. It is best to come this afternoon!"
"Thank you for your help!"
Jia Guan bowed to Li Yanqing, turned around and hurried down the city along the corridor.
Li Yanqing walked to the female wall and watched Jia Guan walk away. He didn't know who gave Zhao Huan a bad idea, but actually sent troops to suppress the Tai students. This way, he pushed the Tai students to the opposite side of the court. In fact, sending a respected minister to persuade the Tai students to persuade the Tai students, to understand the feelings and lure them for profit, will have a good effect, but he used the stupidest method.
Li Yanqing shook his head. Zhao Huan was far inferior to his father, Zhao Ji, in terms of IQ and EQ. No wonder Zhao Ji was determined to change the prince. No matter how good his son is, his father is, this sentence makes sense!
More than 300 students of the Tai School were injured, hundreds of arrested, and more than 100 soldiers were injured by bricks and stones. The violence in front of the gate of the Tai School was very high.
At this time, Jia Guan climbed over the wall and returned to the Imperial Academy and found the leader Chen Dong. Chen Dong immediately summoned more than a dozen representatives of the Imperial student to discuss countermeasures.
"Jia Guan has received the news that the peace talksman left the capital last night. It is inevitable that peace talks are open. Everyone, our operation has failed. Let's take a look. Should we stop temporarily?"
Chen Dong is smarter and there are so many people here that he doesn't disclose the source of the news.
An elderly student said angrily: "It's not impossible to suspend it, but the imperial court actually used the army to suppress us, which is so heartbreaking."
Everyone was extremely angry at the court's actions, but in the end they agreed to temporarily cancel the march against peace talks.
At noon, a Tai student sent a letter to Yao Peipingzhong, the chief magistrate of the Xiang army, to stop the march. Thousands of Tai students were disbanded and returned to their dormitory, but Yao Pingzhong did not lead the soldiers to leave. The official issued an order to him in advance. The army must wait until the peace talks are over before the army can evacuate. At this time, Nie Shan led 300 Kaifeng Constables to the gate of the Taixue School. Their task was to enter the Taixue School to arrest the Taixue School leader who organized the march after the Taixue School was disbanded.
At the same time, Chen Dong and Jia Guan fled from the southwest corner of the Imperial Academy and rushed to the north city.
Zhang Bangchang returned to the capital at dusk. Dong Ping, who had been waiting at Xinsong Gate, personally led his army to escort Zhang Bangchang into the Da Nei. At this time, Zhao Huan and several prime ministers were waiting for news from Zhang Bangchang in the imperial study. As early as noon, Zhao Huan received a express sent by Zhang Bangchang. The negotiations were extremely smooth and an agreement was expected to be reached today. This news made Zhao Huan and the ministers full of expectations.
At this time, a eunuch reported at the door, "Gong-gong Zhang has returned from the military camp and is waiting to see him outside the palace!"
Zhao Huan hurriedly said: "Hurry up and announce the visit of Zhang Xiangguo!"
"Your Majesty has an order to announce the visit of Prime Minister Zhang!"
As the guard shouted, for a moment, Zhang Bangchang hurriedly walked into the imperial study room, and he could hardly hide his excitement.
"I'm going to see your Majesty!"
"Zhang Xiangguo is exempted from courtesy, how is the negotiation situation?" Zhao Huan asked anxiously.
In the imperial study room, everyone's eyes were staring at Zhang Bangchang. Zhang Bangchang said in a trembling voice: "The negotiation has ended, I am lucky to be willing to be humiliated!"
Zhao Huan was overjoyed and asked again, "When will the troops be withdrawn?"
"The Jin soldiers promised to retreat north to the north of the Yellow River overnight tonight, and the war will officially end tonight."
The imperial study room was filled with cheers, and the prime ministers hugged each other with excitement. The war for a month and a half was finally over.
At this time, Bai Shizhong asked again: "Zhang Xiangguo, what are the conditions for the Jin soldiers to withdraw their troops?"
The imperial study room suddenly became quiet again, which was also an extremely important focus. If the Jin soldiers retreated north at a heavy price, they might be ridiculed, and even the gain would be more than worth the loss.
Zhang Bangchang bowed and said, "Report to Prime Minister Bai, Your Majesty, this is the focus of the negotiation this afternoon. After several rounds of bargaining, Wanyan Xie also recognized our sincerity and gave up the high-value claim. He only asked us to pay 200,000 stones of horse-made black beans, and asked to deliver it to the south bank of the Yellow River within three days."
"What!"
Zhao Huan was shocked. He couldn't believe his ears, "It's only 200,000 stones of horse material?"
"That's right. This is the official withdrawal text signed by both sides. Please read it."
Zhang Bangchang presented a negotiation text signed and printed by both parties to Zhao Huan. Zhao Huan read it several times, and the other party really only had 200,000 stones of horse material.
Zhao Huan was overjoyed. Who said that negotiations were useless and there was no need for a fierce war. It could solve the problem just like negotiations, and it only cost an extremely slight price, just 200,000 stones of horse-made black beans.
Chapter completed!