The news that the Wala Khan Court was breached and that all the relatives including Khan and Ke Dun were kidnapped to Liangzhou reached Prince Teng and Aluotai almost at the same time.
Wang Ziteng was surprised and happy, and wished he could pick up his eldest nephew Xue Pan, whom he had never looked down upon before, and lift him high.
Then they tried their best to mobilize 30,000 elites from various places to attack Zhuanglangwei, which was blocking the road between Lanzhou and Liangzhou, in order to open up the passage to Liangzhouwei as soon as possible and support Liangzhou against the possible outbreak of the Oara army.
Compared to Wang Ziteng's surprise, Aluotai, who was stationed in Xining City, seemed to have heard a big joke after seeing the messenger from Chang Wei, the commander of the Ningxia Central Guard.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"My uncle knew that the Grand Master might not believe it, so he specially asked me to give him a gift."
The messenger was neither humble nor overbearing, and handed over the exquisite wooden box with great grace.
Aluotai's eyes shrank after seeing the wooden box.
The previous dynasty was destroyed, and the Golden family fled back to the grasslands to establish the Northern Dynasty. The imperial seal was collected by Daxia. The Northern Dynasty lost its jade seal, so they found a piece of sapphire to carve the imperial seal of the Northern Dynasty and made do with it.
Later, the Northern Dynasty was divided into two, and Oala became more powerful, so they took this seal as their own, and it has been passed down for three generations now.
Yilan escaped and was captured, and this seal became Daxia's trophy. After seeing the seal and the letter under the seal, Aluotai had no choice but to believe that the Wara Khan Court might have really been breached.
That letter was not written by Yilan, but by the daughter of Aluotai, Valakodun Churos Lanqiduo herself.
Aluota finished reading the letter and remained silent for a long time.
The messenger saw Aluotai staring at the seal with a gloomy face, so he stood aside and observed the changes in the expression of Grand Master Wala with great interest.
As for the Ora warriors in the hall, whose eyes were burning with anger, the messenger didn't even look at them. With the chieftain in hand, he had nothing to fear.
"What do you want, Jia Cong?"
A Luotai had the idea of ignoring the matter, but looking at the long list of prisoners, he finally resisted the impulse and asked in a cold voice: "Tell me, Jia Cong sent you here specifically, what are your requirements?" ?”
The messenger smiled slightly: "I admire the Grand Master's quick words. My uncle asked the Grand Master to go to Liangzhou. Of course, the Oara warriors under the Grand Master's command do not have to go. It is better to ask the Grand Master to let the 60,000 troops return to the grassland as soon as possible. Good. After all, the Tatars should have gotten the message."
snort!
The Tatars would have received the news so quickly. If there were no Han people causing trouble, they would not believe it.
A Luotai snorted coldly: "Go back and tell the Jia family's children that the Grand Master has agreed to this..."
"Grand Master, the southerners are cunning and cunning, you can't do that!"
"Yes, Grand Master, who knows if there is a fraud in this..."
"Quiet!"
Aluotai stopped the exclamation of the general in the hall and said to the generals: "The two countries are fighting without killing the envoys. The southerners claim to be the superior country of heaven. Since the son of the Jia family wants me to go to Liangzhou for negotiations, then I The Grand Master agreed to this. He thought that even if he came to be a county magistrate of a country, he would not be able to do such a dirty thing as killing an envoy of a country."
After appeasing the general, Aluotai looked at Chang Wei's messenger.
"I will ask the sons of Wala to return to the north of the Great Wall, but you must also show your due sincerity. It is possible, but the location must be changed. Let the children of the Jia family come to Changning Fort!"
News of Xining Mansion quickly spread back to Liangzhou. The two sides clashed back and forth and tested each other. In the end, both parties took a step back and set the location for negotiations at the junction of Yongchangwei and Oala, on the north side of the Ningyuanbao Great Wall.
According to the tentative agreement, Wala's 60,000-strong army withdrew from Xining Prefecture, passed through the Qilian Mountain Pass, and withdrew from Daxia under the supervision of the Liangzhou army.
Of course, when the Oara army evacuated Xining Mansion, they packed up and took away all the property in the city, leaving not even a grain of rice for the Xining army.
Qi Wenliang's people watched helplessly as the Wala Tatars robbed the treasury, but there was nothing they could do. The main force of Xining's army was confronting the imperial troops by the Yellow River. There were only crooked melons and cracked dates left in the city, and they couldn't even hold their swords firmly against the Tatars.
Fortunately, Aluo was too sensible and knew not to do anything outrageous at this time. The Tatars mainly targeted the Xining army and did not do anything to the people.
Jia Cong was happy to see Qi Wenliang's joke and just asked the Liangzhou army to "gift" the Wala people to leave the country. At the same time, Liangzhou Yiying's military and political affairs were arranged, and he set off for Ningyuan Fort with Yongchang Guard Commander Luo Zhijie and Prince Liu Hong's special envoy Qianhu Qiu Shi, the Fu Si of Longjin Guard Town.
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Even before the negotiations began, the Lanzhou front line had already felt a reversal in the offensive and defensive momentum.
Qi Wenliang did not expect that the Wala people would suddenly turn against each other, turn Xining Mansion upside down, plunder the treasury and then leave.
The hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line consume countless amounts of food and grass every day by eating horse chews. Once they fall out, it will directly lead to a shortage of food and grass on the front line, and there is no need to replenish it.
I can endure it for two days a day, but who can endure it without food for three to five days? Moreover, you still have to fight with the enemy every day. How can you have strength if you don't eat?
As the imperial army's offensive became more and more fierce, one night in early June, the Xining army finally couldn't stand it anymore.
Camp roar, a sudden camp roar ignited the first fire that burned towards the Qi family.
Then it intensified, and camp roaring incidents occurred in almost all the city and fortresses occupied by the Xining Army on the hundreds-mile-long front line.
Although the generals of the Xining Army responded quickly and sent their cronies to suppress it. But the consequences of the iron-blooded suppression were more serious than imagined.
The soldiers in Xining were panic-stricken, and large-scale desertions began to occur. Some even hacked their leaders to death on the battlefield and ran to the direction of the imperial army to abandon their weapons and surrender.
Wang Ziteng had received a detailed report from Jia Cong and understood that Wala's backstab directly emptied the Xining army's food and grass reserves.
Immediately send orders to various places to start a large-scale strategic counterattack.
Seven cities were captured in seven days, and 30,000 people were beheaded. More than 50,000 Xining soldiers surrendered. The Xining army, which had suppressed the imperial army a month ago, fell like a mountain and retreated three hundred miles.
Wang Ziteng's commander's tent moved almost every day, and soon he set up camp thirty miles east of Xining City.
Prince Liu Hong had already rushed to Ningyuan Fort to join Jia Cong as quickly as possible after regaining Zhuanglang Town.
The negotiation at this time had actually come to an end. Aluotai was in a hurry to rush back to Walakhan Court to take charge of the overall situation, and he didn't have much time to bargain with Jia Cong.
Because the Tatars broke the contract signed with Oara two years ago, the army invaded Oara and plundered, almost half of Oara was captured.
He knew the information about the Tatars, most likely from Jia Cong. But he was powerless because this was a struggle between countries and there was no morality at all.
If he were in Jia Cong's shoes, he would do the same thing.
The arrival of the prince Liu Hong relieved a lot of pressure on Jia Cong. Although he used the king's golden mace to forcefully promote the negotiations with Wala, there were some things that the emperor could do and the prince could do, but there was always something unjust and unreasonable about what he did.
The negotiations were suspended. After Liu Hong and A Luotai met, the two sides temporarily returned to camp.
Jia Cong presented the negotiated treaty to the prince, and Liu Hong carefully read the thirteen-article treaty that had been drawn up.
Four of the most important ones are:
First, Wala paid tribute to Daxia and declared himself a vassal. Wala Khan Yilan called Emperor Yuanyou of Daxia as his uncle as his nephew. The Emperor of the Xia Dynasty conferred upon Wala Khan the title of Prince of Shunyi, and bestowed upon him a gold seal, a crown, and other ceremonial honors.
Second, Oara sent his prince to study in the Imperial Academy of Daxia, and the emperor of Daxia would personally raise the future khan of Oara. At the same time, he has the obligation to protect the safety of the Prince of Wala and send him back to Wala when he comes of age. If the Khan king dies early, Daxia has the obligation to help the prince inherit the Khan throne.
Third, Wala compensated Daxia for all losses in this war, a total of three million taels of silver, and returned the Han people who had been plundered by the southern invasion in the early years.
Fourth, Oara used cattle and sheep to redeem the Oara relatives and nobles captured by Daxia. Except for the Khan's family, the total value was five million taels.
The money, cattle, sheep, and tiles paid for the previous compensation was difficult to raise for a while, but the benevolence of the Celestial Dynasty allowed the tiles to be returned in installments within five years at the interest rate of the money borrowed by the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Celestial Dynasty.
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"Eight million taels? Brother Cong, you are really... Mr. Wen Ge will definitely treat you as his own son!"
Liu Hong no longer knew how to describe his surprise. Counting the remaining cattle and sheep in Wala, if Wala could make up half of it, they wouldn't have to go south to thresh the grass every year.
Jia Cong smiled shyly: "Actually, I originally proposed eighteen million taels, but unfortunately A Luo Tai disagreed and almost fought with me."
hiss!
"It's me and I will fight with you. We are not ready for the Northern Expedition yet and we cannot push the Tatars too hard."
Liu Hong took up his pen and made deletions and changes on the drafted treaty. The general direction remained unchanged, but it was refined a lot.
For example, a mutual trade was added, and one tribute every three years was changed to one tribute every year. The item about Oara setting up an embassy in the capital was deleted, and Oara was directly included in the reception scope of the Ministry of Rites Huitong Pavilion, so that its envoys could be stationed in the Sifang Pavilion like other vassal states.
At the same time, another item was added. After the negotiation, Oala Khan Yilan must go to the capital to meet the emperor to accept the canonization.
"There are also Changning Fort and other Daxia territories occupied by Wala in the past, which must be returned. As for the trade of salt, iron and other items with the imperial court mentioned by A Luotai, it can be allowed. Ask him again if he wants to buy Daxia Xia's ordnance and firearms can be sold to him. If you don't have enough money, you can exchange it for cattle and sheep. If you don't have enough cattle and sheep, you can also lease some land near Xingdusi, Shaanxi to the court."
Jia Cong looked at the prince dumbfounded and said in a daze: "Fourth brother, have you turned black?"
Liu Hong imitated Jia Cong's appearance and smiled shyly: "Sometimes it's good to be shameless. We can't let the Tatars monopolize the grassland. If the Tatars overwhelm Oara, we will help Oara. If Oara overpowers the Tatars, we will Help the Tatars, as long as we can keep the grassland in chaos."
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A Luotai wanted to throw this nineteen-article treaty in Jia Cong's face and walk away, but he could only bear to sign his name unwillingly.
Fortunately, there are many clauses in it that, in Arotai's view, are beneficial to Wala.
For example, Daxia lifted the decades-long salt and iron embargo against Oara, and relaxed the ban on the purchase of ordnance for Oara.
This was like a timely rain for the current Oara. After signing the treaty, Aluotai used the land north of Shaanxi Xingdusi with a total area of 200,000 square kilometers in exchange for salt iron tea and large amounts of up to 5 million taels of silver. Xia's firearms.
Five million taels sounds like a lot, but the corrupted prince Liu Hong and the "profiteer" Jia Cong exaggerated the cost of firearms. Even though Aluotai knew that the other party was a lion, he still signed the contract.
Because in his opinion, it was worth it to exchange those 200,000 square kilometers of desert land for thousands of muskets, dozens of cannons, and carts of salt and iron ore tea.
Of course, he understood that Daxia supported Wala in lifting the embargo and opening up mutual markets. To put it bluntly, he wanted prairie dogs to bite dogs.
But Aluota didn't think about refusing, and he couldn't refuse. Even if it was to drink poison to quench his thirst, he admitted it.
As for whether Yilan recognized it or not, Aluotai had not considered it at all. Wala is nominally from the Borjijin family, but in fact his surname has long been Choros.
Even if he doesn’t recognize Yilan, he has to recognize it!
After Wang Ziteng received Liu Hong's letter, he was completely confused. For the first time, he began to look squarely at the young prince of Daxia.
The treaty with Oara was signed by Liu Hong with Aluotai as the prince of Great Xia. There were too many unforeseen changes in the future, and this treaty was full of various disputes.
If the treaty reaches the capital, it will inevitably be criticized and impeached.
Wang Ziteng knew about the peace talks with Wala, but he had always thought that Jia Cong would take the blame for the court.
He didn't expect Liu Hong to rush there despite his own persuasion after opening the passage to Liangzhou, and also snatched the pot and carried it on his back...
"Your Highness does not want Jia Cong to be criticized. He is truly a benevolent and righteous king!"
It's a pity that Wang Ziteng is destined to have no chance with such a king. After this battle is over and the Western Region is pacified, it will be the best outcome for him to be able to disarm and return to his fields and survive.
Aluotai rushed back to Wala to take charge of the overall situation. Liu Hong and Jia Cong were not too embarrassed. Except for the Yilan family and several of the Khan's cronies, all the captured Wala relatives were returned to Aluotai, allowing them to He brought back the Walakhan court to stabilize the domestic situation.
The crisis in Liangzhou was completely resolved. After Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief, he was about to prepare his admonition to attack Shandan, Gaotai and other guard posts that were still resisting, as well as Xining Mansion, which was besieged by Wang Ziteng.
Unexpectedly, Liu Hong tied Jia Cong to a horse on the third day after the signing of the treaty, and arranged for two thousand elites to escort him, Yi Lan and others back to the capital.
He was really afraid of Jia Cong. If he allowed him to stay in Hexi, he didn't know how many unprepared big things would happen. A single tile would be enough to overwhelm the court.
It's better to be safe, I really can't bear it!
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After leaving Liangzhou, Jia Cong, who was unwilling to do so, became more willing.
This was the first time he had been away from home for so long. It was snowing heavily when he came, and it was already hot summer when he returned.
After passing Dashan Pass, the peace and tranquility in the pass dissipated everyone's tense emotions. During this year's spring plowing, the imperial court arranged for important officials to go to Guanzhong to promote the planting of potatoes. It was now the harvest season.
The group of people traveled from Guanzhong to Henan and then to the capital. The people who had harvested warehouses full of grain were all happy and joyful. Waves after waves of people kowtowed to the capital and shouted long live.
At first, Yilan thought that Daxia was deliberately showing it to him, but as the real situation in each state and county was revealed before his eyes, he finally realized with horror that Daxia was different. There were no Han people restricted by famine. , that will be Wala... No, that will be a disaster for the whole world!
On July 29th, Jia Cong and his party, who had been on their way with all their strength, finally returned to the capital of Daxia.
Arriving outside Yongning Gate at almost the same time, there was also good news from Xining and Hexi.
Pingxi General Wang Ziteng recaptured Xining on July 21, killing more than 40,000 people and capturing more than 80,000 prisoners.
Qi Wenliang committed suicide, and the remaining rebel generals were either captured or died. The rebellion in Xining was officially put down.
At this point, all the four major vassal towns in the once semi-separated state of east, west, south, north, and south were abolished. Except for the Jizhou Prefecture on the border, the central and local government orders in Daxia were unified, and there were no more constraints.
Originally, according to the usual practice, Jia Cong would wash up and change clothes in the official post to remove the dust before entering the palace for an audience.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped into Yongning Gate, he saw Xia Shouzhong, the eunuch beside the emperor.
"Oh, my uncle, you are finally back. Come into the palace with me quickly. The emperor has been waiting for several days."
ah?
Jia Cong was confused and stuffed Xia Shouzhong's carriage into the carriage. He didn't even stop when he entered the Daxia Gate, and drove all the way to the front of Qinzheng Hall.
"Your Majesty Jia Cong pays homage to Zan..."
"Stop bowing and come with me. Father, when I see you these days, I will ask you where your kid is..."
The emperor took Jia Cong's wrist and walked out. As soon as Jia Cong slowed down a little, he would hit him on the head.
Just like that, the emperor banged the melon, and Jia Cong begged for mercy all the way.
The palace servants I met on the road all stepped aside, sighing in their hearts that Uncle Yongfeng was really favored more than the prince's son or grandson.
The young palace people sighed repeatedly, but some old people were already used to it.
An older chamberlain chuckled and whispered to his godson: "What is this? The first Rongguo... no, now he is Prince Rong. When Prince Rong was alive, the concubines and concubines in the palace, No descendant of a saint can compare with the status of Prince Rong in the hearts of saints. Do you know what Empress Dowager Xiaoduan said to Prince Yizhong back then? It is enough for a saint to have Prince Rong, and he does not need any concubines at all."
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After not seeing each other for several months, the Emperor seemed to have aged a lot.
The Supreme Emperor, who had some black hair before, now has a head full of silver strands.
Fortunately, the old man seemed to be in good spirits. After seeing Jia Cong, he smiled and waved to him to come forward. When he raised his hand, his brain collapsed.
"You stupid boy, why do you dare to do anything? Aren't you afraid of self-defeating and trapping those thousands of elites in Wala without being able to come back?"
"There is also the matter of negotiating with Wala. Is this what you can do? Why are you anxious? At worst, we can afford to fight him for a few more months!"
"Have you never thought that when Wala overturns the table in the future, the government will use your today's ideas as an argument? What will you do then? Will the fourth child deal with you?"
"It's all because I and the fourth child pampered you too much. You are so bold! If Hong'er hadn't cleaned up your mess, the Qinzheng Hall would have been filled with all the accusations against you!"
The old man learned a lesson, but his eyes when he looked at Jia Cong were filled with relief and pride.
This is the good grandson of his half-brother Daishan, who is roughly equal to the good grandson of his Liu Ji.
At only eleven years old, he was able to stand on his own, defeating the powerful and weak against an army of 100,000 people. Not only did he save Liangzhou, but he was also able to assess the situation and send a surprise attack on the court of Wala Khan, capturing King Wala Khan and other relatives and nobles.
In ancient times there was Huo Qiaoqi, now there is Jia Xiaosan!
This boy is worthy of being a young talent personally trained by me, the Great Emperor of Great Xia. He is so proud of me!
The emperor who was sitting with him also had a similar expression, looking at the young man in front of him with increasing relief.
I, the Emperor of Great Xia, Liu Heng, have personally trained a young prodigy. How proud of me!
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