After receiving Bei Zhan's reply, Xinpi immediately asked for an order and prepared to go to Zhang He's camp to have an interview with Zhang He.
As for the pardon edict that Zhang He wanted, he didn't even mention it.
On the contrary, Liu Xie asked Xinpi about the safety of Xinpi, and Xinpi said confidently: "Please rest assured that Zhang He's tribe is in my hands, and I am in danger. He dare not do anything to me."
Liu Xie didn't ask much and agreed to Xinpi's action plan.
Xinpi brought a follower and crossed the Zhang River alone, and came to Zhang He's camp.
Zhang He sent his son Zhang Xiong to greet him at the ferry and asked as soon as he met.
"Have you brought the pardon edict?"
Xinpi glanced at Zhang Xiong. "You can read the edict?"
Zhang Xiong was furious and reached out to draw his sword. Xinpi looked at him motionlessly, his face still not changing, but instead a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Zhang Xiong was guilty of being seen by him, and cursed hatefully, and then he returned the knife. Sheathed.
"Walk!"
When he arrived at the camp and entered the central army's tent, Zhang He leaned on the table, put one hand on the eucalyptus, tapped the eucalyptus face with his fingers, held the scabbard in the other hand, and looked at Xinpi who was walking in.
Xinpi came to Zhang He and stood firm and said word by word: "Zhang Junyi, I captured your tribe. If you dare to kill me, you will take action now. If you don't dare, put away your face. When I came, I praised you as a martial artist, and you were a Confucian general. You are really not worthy of your name."
Zhang He looked slightly embarrassed and looked at Zhang Xiong.
Zhang Xiong nodded, saying that Xin Pi had brought the edict. When Zhang He saw it, he did not dare to be too presumptuous. He stood up and tidied up his clothes.
"Please take out the emperor's edict."
"What edict?" Xinpi asked back.
Zhang He was stunned, stared at Xinpi and looked at Zhang Xiong again. Zhang Xiong was also stunned and shouted sternly: "Didn't you just say you brought it?"
"When did I say I came with the edict?" Xinpi sneered: "I just said, you are not worthy of reading the edict."
Zhang Xiong was furious and pulled his sword out of the sheath and put it on Xinpi's neck. "Hu Ru, how dare you tease me?"
Xinpi's smile remained unchanged, and he looked at Zhang He quietly, with the provocative meaning in his eyes.
Zhang He's eyes flashed with cold light and he sneered: "Xin Zuozhi, if you can't give me a satisfactory explanation, you won't be able to get out of the tent today. I took such a big risk to contact you, not letting you tease my father and son. of."
Xinpi nodded. "You guys teased me first."
“How to say it?”
"What are your contributions to the court? How dare you ask for a pardon? "Xinpi sneered: "You think I, Ruying people, have such a great face, can the emperor forgive you? It's ridiculous. I won't hide it from you, I'm not going to hide it from you. Kill my family and I will kill your tribe again. This may be more in line with the emperor's will. If the people of Ruying and Jizhou die together, it would be the best."
Zhang He was shocked. "What... what do you mean?"
Xin Bi sighed. "General, why don't you understand yet? Why did Yuan Benchu bring me Ruying people to Jizhou? Isn't he just want to use Jizhou's strong manpower, material resources, elite soldiers and generals, plus I Ruying people Will the wisdom and intelligence, use both civil and military affairs to annex the world? The people of Ruying were incompatible with the people of Jizhou and had constant internal strife, which gave the emperor the opportunity to clean up the mess again. Now Yuan Benchu died not halfway through his business, and the people of Ruying and Jizhou are still there. The emperor How could he not be afraid of it? The fight between you and me is the situation where the emperor is happy to see it. At this moment, how could he give you a pardon edict?"
Zhang He twitched his eyes, pondered for a moment, shook his head at Zhang Xiong, reached out to ask Xin Pi to sit down, and asked Zhang Xiong to go out and watch, so that he would not disturb him.
"Since that's the case, how should we deal with it?"
"The emperor is afraid of you and me, and someone will always bear the losses. The people of Ruying regard Yuan as their respect, so Yuan Benchu must die. The people of Jizhou have Shen Pei and Tian Feng as their leader, so they must die too."
Zhang He quietly breathed a sigh of relief. "That's all?"
"Of course it's not only. It is imperative to save land in Jizhou. Only in this way can the manpower and material resources of Jizhou become taxes for the court, rather than relying on the large clans to support troops and cause chaos, and the threats of the people of Jizhou to the court can be truly lifted."
"What about you Ruying?"
Xinpi smiled bitterly. "The general should have been to Ruying, right?"
Zhang He nodded. When Yuan Shao first went south to the Central Plains, he accompanied him and knew a little about Ruying's geography.
"There are many people in Ruying and the land are small, especially Yingchuan. In fact, the difference is not big. The key to controlling Ruying is the career of the officialdom. As long as the career of the people of Ruying is intentionally restricted, the people of Ruying will not be a problem."
Zhang He thought for a moment and responded: "Party and Foul?"
"Although it's not that serious, it's almost the same. Of course, if the Seung-Master succeeds and kills hundreds of Ruying people in the city, it won't be so troublesome. 30% of my Ruying Junjie are here, and their vitality is severely damaged, at least twenty
It will be difficult to recover within the year."
Xinpi frowned and sighed repeatedly.
Zhang He saw it and was also a little frightened.
Although he didn't think that the Ruqing people in the city were of such great value, he knew that those people were very important to Xinpi and Xun You. If Shen Pei really killed these people, Xinpi and Xun You would definitely take revenge wildly.
There is no reason why one's own tribe members are spared.
As for the emperor, he would definitely not stop him, and maybe he would even add fuel to the fire, allowing the Ruying people and Jizhou people to kill each other.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Xinpi said was reasonable. The people of Ruying and Jizhou were sympathetic. Not only should they not become enemies, but they should join forces to cope with the suppression of the court.
If it weren't for the internal strife between the Ruying people and the Jizhou people, Yuan Shao might not have been defeated, and the situation would not have fallen to this situation today.
The big mistake has been made, and now we should stop and make immediate remedies to avoid a greater tragedy.
"I can make a suggestion to Shen Zhengnan, but..."
Xinbi responded and said, "But he won't listen to you."
“Why?”
"First, Shen Zhengnan is more willing to betray people than to bend, and will not easily listen to others' persuasion, otherwise he would not have come to this point today. Second, Yin'an Shen's land and house have been confiscated by the emperor. Even if he is willing to surrender, he will not come back.
At most, he would just live a life. It would be impossible to make contributions like a general. For him, it would be better to burn his hands and make him lose his life, rather than living alone, he might force the emperor to give in."
Xinpi sighed. "It's a pity that he didn't know the emperor's intentions at all. It was inevitable that he would burn his jade and stones. It was a delusion to make the emperor give in."
After hearing this, Zhang He expressed his deep agreement and was a little helpless.
Xinpi is right. The possibility of Shen Pei surrendering is not high, and the possibility of trying to force the emperor to make concessions is very small. If nothing unexpected happens, Shen Pei will definitely die.
But he didn't want to die with Shen Pei, and there was no need for this.
If you want to survive, there is only one way. To cooperate with Xinpi, oppose Shen Pei and do not become Shen Pei's burial object.
If Shen Pei can prevent him from killing and venting his anger and saving Xinpi and others' families, he may be able to form an alliance with Ru Ying people and support each other.
Xinpi saw Zhang He’s intention and said inadvertently, “Does the general know Cui Jigui?”
Zhang He thought for a while. "I know, he was ordered by Zhengnan to go to Chang'an to pay homage, but he never came back."
"He won't come back." Xinpi said: "He was admitted to the martial arts lecture hall and is currently studying the geography of the Western Regions. When the Central Plains are pacified and the emperor goes west, he will have great use of his skills."
"Is that right?" Zhang He stroked his beard under his jaw, thinking.