The sky was bright, and the dawn light shone into the room from the window. Liu Rumei opened her eyes and found that Yang Ji sleeping next to her was gone. She lifted the quilt, revealing her naked body, looking at the traces of madness. , memories just flooded into my mind like a tide.
Just yesterday evening, Qimin Khan's envoy arrived and said that Qimin Khan would come to meet with Yang Ji today to discuss ending the war. Yang Ji was so happy that he drank too much. Then without paying attention, he tortured her severely for most of the night.
Recalling the madness last night, Liu Rumei showed a charming expression on her face.
Happiness ripples in my heart!
She thought about it silently, then got up, washed up, walked out of the room, and asked the Suzaku guards outside the door, "Where is the young master?"
"Report to the commander, the young master has gone to practice martial arts."
"Okay, I understand." Liu Rumei quickly came to the martial arts arena, and heard the fierce sound of metal interlacing in the distance.
When she got closer, she saw Yang Ji and Xue Ju fighting fiercely. The astonishing power made the onlookers stunned.
Suddenly, two horse spears collided with each other, making a loud "clang" sound. Yang Ji's armor-piercing black gold spear flew out of his hand, and he fell off the horse.
Xue Ju quickly reined in his horse and exclaimed: "Young master has made amazing progress. He already has the strength of a first-class warrior. I believe it won't be long before he can catch up with Jingde. Should we continue?"
"Not coming! Not coming!" Yang Ji got up from the ground. Although he made rapid progress, there was still a big gap between him and Xue Ju. If he continued to fight regardless of life and death, he would be looking for abuse. .
"Sir, what kind of technique did you use just now to swing Brother Xue's horse away?" Li Daliang picked up Yang Ji's black golden horse and ran over. He just saw Yang Ji using a seemingly slow and steady hand. With quick skills, Xue Ju's horse was deflected away, although he was beaten badly in the end.
The flying man fell, but Xue Ju's "kill" skill also failed. You must know that this is Xue Ju's unique skill. If he were to take the place, and it was a life and death fight, he would be a corpse at this time.
"Tai Chi Jin!" What Yang Ji just used was the skill of "softening the rigidity", but Xue Ju's move just now was so powerful that he immediately used a "one force to reduce ten levels", which not only destroyed Yang Ji's The weapon flew away, and even people were knocked off their horses by the remaining force.
"What is Tai Chi Jin?" Li Daliang thought for a while and said sarcastically: "I couldn't see clearly just now. How about you try again?"
Yang Ji almost made him angry to death, and said angrily: "You can do it, come on."
"I can't do it! I can't do it." Li Daliang shook his head like a rattle and said plausibly: "I'm not good at martial arts. I just want to get slapped when I go up there."
Yang Ji glared at him fiercely: "I'm not good at martial arts, so you encourage me to do it?"
Everyone laughed after listening to their conversation.
Xue Ju ran off the horse and said with a smile: "Sir, your martial arts talent is amazing. If you train well, you will definitely surpass me in the future."
"That's enough!" Yang Ji shook his head: "If I, Yang Ji, are needed to challenge powerful generals from all over the world in the future, I'm afraid I'll be at the end of my rope, so I'll just make do with it."
"Mr. Ling, what do you mean by this?" Zhu Can couldn't understand Yang Ji's words and asked Ling Jing next to him in confusion.
"As the king of Wei and the shepherd of Liangzhou, the young master's own safety is related to the interests of thousands of people, and there is no room for any accidents. Everything must be prudent, steady and cautious. If the young master thinks that he can do it with force alone, Being able to dominate the world is definitely not a blessing for the people of Liangzhou and us." Ling Jing smiled and said: "The mission of the young master should be to coordinate and plan major events. As for the 'little things' like killing, it is best to leave them to The warrior will complete it.”
"Oh!" Zhu Can seemed to understand.
"You must practice martial arts diligently in the future!" Ling Jing patted Zhu Can on the shoulder and said with a smile: "The future safety of the young master depends on personal guards like you. Don't let the young master and everyone down."
"That's for sure!" Zhu Can nodded heavily.
"Your courage is commendable!" Ling Jing nodded in appreciation, pointed at Xue Ju and said, "Then you go challenge General Xue now."
"..." Zhu Can's eyes almost popped out.
When Ling Jing saw this, he looked at Zhu Can playfully: "What, are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid." Zhu Can said with some sternness.
Ling Jing said with a smile: "Since you are not afraid, then go ahead!"
"Just go up, who is afraid of whom!" Zhu Can took a deep breath and asked as if seeking comfort: "He won't kill me anyway, right?"
"That's definitely not the case." Ling Jing added silently in his heart: Although I won't kill you, I should be able to beat you up.
This is not because Ling Jing deliberately harassed Zhu Can, but because Li Daliang, the commander of the Xuanwu Guards, has slowly entered the army. It is very likely that the future commander of the Xuanwu Guards will fall on Zhu Can, so everyone hopes that Zhu Can will have the qualifications to be the commander. Force; as for his poor intelligence, that's it.
Yang Ji ignored the group of subordinates, took the Toujia Wujinyan from Li Daliang, and then walked back to the back house of the city lord's mansion with Liu Rumei, took a bath, and then sat down to have breakfast together.
But not long after they started eating, they heard Zhang Chuchen, Murong Xianyue and others singing in their ears, chirping like a lark singing.
The back house of the city lord's mansion was only so big, and the sound was so penetrating that Yang Ji and Liu Rumei couldn't even try not to listen. If it was just like this, Yang Jiren would have passed. But after a while, the sound of drums, pipa, and bells came over, and they actually started playing and singing on the spot.
Soon, Zhang Chuchen actually sang "Daughters Should Be Strong": "Looking at you, I am already drunk; looking at you, leading you to dance with the spear; stabbing, inserting, pushing, and picking, help me Enlightenment..."
"Pfft" Yang Ji couldn't hold it back and sprayed a mouthful of beef bone soup on Liu Rumei's face, looking at her with a strange expression: "Why did you even teach them this kind of song?"
Liu Rumei picked up the spare wet towel and wiped her face, and whispered with an embarrassed look: "Xuanwuwei sings "Men Should Be Strong" every day, and they can't stop singing it, so they are angry and want to have a song for Zhuquewei. song. But they didn’t dare to come to you, so they came to bother me every day. I don’t know how to sing this kind of melody, so I simply taught them the song "Daughters Should Be Strong" that you taught me. The lyrics of the two are different. But the melody is exactly the same, I think they will have nothing to say now!"
"Haha!" Yang Ji almost died laughing after hearing this. He never expected that when he was teasing Liu Rumei Ge in the boudoir, she would do it in public, and Zhang Chuchen would sing so enthusiastically.
It's so funny.
"Stand up and show your strength; show me your strengths, your bigness and strength. We love good men and know your strengths best; a hot-blooded man is so hot that he has no clothes!"
The person who sang this line was Murong Xianyue. Her singing voice was not very good, at least not as beautiful as Zhang Chuchen's. However, Yang Ji could tell that she had already put in her own feelings. Her singing voice was very high-pitched, but not alluring. Instead of being tactful, the song sang with a dashing and heroic spirit.
It's just that the lyrics are a bit different.
He smiled and said to Liu Rumei: "The singing is very good, but the lyrics are a bit off..."
"You know that too?" Liu Rumei glared at Yang Ji angrily.
"I didn't know you were teaching them!" Yang Ji smiled bitterly and said, "The lyrics are too wrong. I'll teach them to sing "Clang Rose" another time."
"'Sounding Rose'? But I don't know how to do it."
"I can. I'll teach you another day."
"Okay!" Liu Rumei smiled and nodded. Although Yang Ji's songs were completely different from Sui's songs, with a bit of a weird style and tune, they were really nice to listen to.
The couple finished breakfast and were sitting and chatting. Zhang Chuchen ran in from the outside sweating profusely. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and said in a hoarse voice: "Sir, please report from the front. The Turkic envoy has arrived. .”
"Oh!" Yang Ji stood up and said to Liu Rumei, "I'll go take a look."
"Okay!" Liu Rumei stood up, straightened Yang Ji's crooked purple gold crown, and said with a sweet smile, "That's it."
Yang Ji nodded, then picked up the Qilin Sword on the sword stand and strode out the door.
"Chuchen!" Seeing Yang Ji's back disappear, Liu Rumei turned to Zhang Chuchen: "Your voice is hoarse, don't sing that song again."
"Why don't you sing?" Zhang Chuchen said dissatisfiedly: "I think it sounds good!"
Liu Rumei blushed and said awkwardly: "The lyrics are really, really unpleasant."
Zhang Chuchen asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Why is it so unpleasant?"
Liu Rumei suppressed her laughter and said meaningfully: "We learned some skills in serving men when we were in the Yue Kingdom Palace. Have you forgotten it? Think about the lyrics again."
Zhang Chuchen thought carefully about Liu Rumei's words and found that there was something wrong with the lyrics, and he immediately blushed. Especially when I think about how enthusiastically I sang "Poke, insert, push, pick, help me get started" just now, I can't wait to find a crack in the ground to drill down.
"Understood?" Liu Rumei laughed.
Zhang Chuchen stamped his feet angrily: "You did it on purpose. It's a shame I trust you so much."
"I didn't know you could sing so enthusiastically!" As she spoke, Liu Rumei laughed happily again, and said furtively, "But it seems like you really should find a man to 'enlighten' your singing."
"Well, Liu Rumei, I trust you so much in vain. You deliberately tried to hurt me... You, you are shameless..." Zhang Chuchen almost went crazy with shame, but she was a young girl after all, so she had no nerve to argue with Liu Rumei on such an issue. I had no choice but to run away angrily.
"Haha!" Liu Rumei laughed heartily.
. . . . . . .
The former meeting hall of the city lord's palace is now where Yang Ji handles government affairs. When Yang Ji walked in, he saw Chang Sun Sheng and a young Turk talking in Chinese.
This young man is gorgeously dressed, has thick eyebrows, blue eyes, and a tall figure, especially his extremely slender arms. If nothing else, he should be a master of archery.
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When the two saw Yang Ji coming in, they stood up. Changsun Sheng saluted Yang Ji and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this warrior is a descendant of the Huns. His name is Liu Qian. He learned archery from me before. Now he is Qimin. The Khan’s son-in-law is also the official envoy of this trip.”
After the introduction, he turned back to Liu Gan and said, "This is King Wei. If you have anything, you can talk to him."
Liu Qian heard Chang Sun Sheng's intention to stay out of the matter. He thought he had an acquaintance whom he could talk to, but now Chang Sun Sheng's attitude had been revealed, and the next step was for him to confront Yang Ji.
Although he thought so in his heart, Liu Gan's movements were not slow. After Chang Sun Sheng introduced him, he put his hand on his chest, bowed and bowed deeply to Yang Ji: "Liu Qian comes down to see King Wei!"
Liu Gan spoke pure and fluent Luoyang Yayan, which shocked Yang Ji; this language was quite the Mandarin of the Sui Dynasty, and many of his subordinates could not speak it well, but this foreigner actually spoke it fluently. rare.
He waved his hand: "No courtesy, please sit down!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Gan stood up straight and did not sit down again until Yang Ji sat down.
Yang Ji casually took a look at the gift list on the table, then threw it on the table and said with a smile: "Qimin Khan is so polite, he even gave me a generous gift. Alas, it's a pity that I think this gift is heavy, but Some people think it’s too little.”
"Who? Who thinks it's missing?" Liu Qian asked smoothly.
"Who else could it be? Of course General Changsun!" Yang Ji pointed at the confused Changsun Sheng and said sadly: "I said General Changsun, Qimin Khan also sent ten stones of Beizhu and a thousand catties of Jinshan agate and jade. , a thousand catties of gold and silver each, this is generous enough. You think it is too little, and you want to double it several times, you are really going too far!"
"I..." Changsun Sheng looked shocked, his mind was in a mess, and he thought to himself: I don't even know what is written on it, and I have never seen you before. When did I feel that it was too little, and when did I have to double it? You have wronged me, this is what you call excessive.
"What are you!" Yang Ji said with a look of disgust: "Although you want some wealth to go to Beijing to help Qimin Khan manage everything and let everyone know that this is a misunderstanding, you must know how to be satisfied as a person. How can you Are you so greedy? I’m embarrassed to blame you.”
"..." Changsun Sheng was an old swindler after all. Under Yang Ji's advice, he immediately understood that he was using himself as a tool to solicit bribes. He said shamefully: "Your Majesty, it's not that I am greedy, but that the ministers in the capital are greedy. If their appetite cannot be satisfied, they will definitely encourage the saints to launch a war to destroy the country. By then, the Eastern Turks will have broken mountains and rivers, ruined industries, scorched earth, and desolate lives! I, I really can't bear it!"
Changsun Sheng was really ashamed! But not like he said, but to help Yang Ji ask for bribes.
He is indeed very mean to foreigners, but he cherishes his feathers very much and is very honest. Otherwise, he would have used his status as a Turkic envoy to become rich and wealthy.
He didn't expect that when he was old, he would still ask for bribes for Yang Ji. How could he not be ashamed?
However, he had to help with this task.
"General Changsun, but I don't know how many times it will be doubled?" Liu Gan believed in Changsun Sheng and really thought that Changsun Sheng was going to help them manage the Eastern Turks.
"My lord! What do you think?"
"Yang Su is a staunch militant. His favorite thing to do is to build houses in the morning and demolish them at night. He is a complete prodigal, so he appears to be rich, but in fact he is a poor man. There is also Prime Minister Su Wei , Pei Ju, and Yang Xiong, they are all corrupt officials, and they look down on ordinary wealth. From my perspective, just for the nine ministers in the council chamber, each of them has to ask for half." Yang Ji said: "I am as incorruptible as General Changsun. So I don’t want what Khan Qimin gave me, so I’ll add three and a half times more, and that’s enough.”
Changsun Sheng's mouth trembled for a long time, and finally he said to Liu Qian, "Did you hear that?"
"I heard it." Liu Gan pondered for a long time and then said to Changsun Sheng in a very embarrassed tone: "I may be offensive when I say this. But what you want is too much."
"..." Changsun Sheng looked at the sky and was too lazy to speak.
Yang Ji suppressed his laughter and pretended to be indifferent and said to Liu Gan: "The envoy you sent yesterday has already said that this war is a misunderstanding. Qimin Khan also intends to resolve this conflict. Naturally, I can't be stingy. You go back and tell He: As long as the three and a half times are delivered, I will treat it as if it never happened. However, this kind of thing cannot be avoided. If it happens again, I won't be so easy to talk to next time."
"Well, Your Majesty, I'm here this time, actually..." After hearing this, Liu Gan quickly wanted to discuss the redemption of Bulishe's body, but was interrupted by Yang Jishengsheng.
"On behalf of the Nine Prime Ministers, I would like to thank Qimin Khan for coming to see the guests off." Yang Ji waved his hand.
"Your Majesty, wait a minute." Liu Gan quickly stopped the soldiers who were coming up, and said to Yang Ji with a wry smile: "I came here this time to apologize to the King and clear up the misunderstanding on behalf of the Great Khan, and secondly, I hope to redeem Bu Lishe. The corpse of the prince.”
Yang Ji said: "I know your grassland customs. Although Bu Lishe was beheaded, we stitched it up in advance and it is well preserved now. As long as you want it, I will return his body according to your customs."
Changsun Sheng shook his head secretly. Only the head of Bu Lishe was real. Ashina had embalmed it before Li Fushe. As for the lower half, he didn't know who the unlucky person was.
"Your Majesty, please make a price!"
"My staff will discuss this matter with you." Yang Ji said, "But I have another business to discuss with you."
"But I don't know what kind of business it is?"
"I have more than 23,000 captives here. These people are all elite soldiers of Ashina Qilifushe and Ashina Simo. As long as your price is right, I will sell them to you as well."
"Seriously?" Liu Gan was moved. If Yang Ji is willing to return more than 23,000 prisoners, he will become a powerful army. By then, with another 20,000 to 30,000 people, he will be able to destroy the Khitan or ridicule the Khitans. The clan, the Xi clan.
"That's true." Yang Ji nodded seriously: "It's just that they suffered some minor injuries during the battle."
Liu Gan said nonchalantly: "In our grassland, if a man does not have a few scars on his body, then he is not worthy of the name of a warrior."
Yang Ji looked at Liu Liuqian and said with a smile: "Actually, I think so too, but don't worry, although they have suffered minor injuries and some may have lost a pound or two of flesh, their hands and feet are all sound."
Liu Gan glanced at Yang Ji and said uneasily, "Your Majesty, can I go see the prisoners?"
"When I do business, I always clearly mark the price. If you think there is no problem, buy it. If you think there is a problem, don't buy it." Yang Ji summoned Ling Jing and ordered: "Take him to watch from a distance, and then follow the agreement we made before." Bid the price.”
Ling Jing bowed his hand to Liu Qian: "Envoy, please come!"
Liu Gan followed Ling Jing to the prisoner camp and listened to the prisoners from a distance. Although the prisoners were all humming and chirping, he had preconceived ideas. Seeing that these people's hands and feet were intact, he thought they were being captured during the battle. The Sui army beat and chopped him severely, but because he could not get any treatment, he groaned in pain and did not care about it in his heart. Then he left Madam Fan's city and returned to the Turkic camp with the "body" of Ashina Bulishe.
When Qimin Khan heard that his son's body had returned, he quickly walked out of the tent and saw four people carrying a stretcher. One body was covered with a layer of white cloth.
He walked to the stretcher in despair, slowly opened the white cloth, and saw his son's pale face, and his neck had been re-sutured. His son had obviously been decapitated before. He held his son's face in front of the stretcher, tears couldn't help but burst out, and he cried uncontrollably.
After a long time, Qimin Khan suddenly turned around, stared at Liu Gan with beast-like eyes, and said sternly: "Yang Ji returned Bulishe's body before the ransom was negotiated?"
"Sweat!" Under the cold gaze of Qimin Khan, Liu Gan said in a low voice with sweat on his forehead: "There are still more than 23,000 warriors in the city. As long as we pay the ransom, Yang Ji is also willing Sell it. He knew that the Great Khan would definitely ransom the warriors, so he returned Bulishe’s body."
"Pretentious!" Qimin Khan said bitterly. Although the death of his son made him heartbroken, he was the Great Khan of the Turks after all, and he could not let personal emotions affect major events. He tried hard to calm down the grief and hatred in his heart. Wiping away his tears, he asked coldly: "What price did he offer?"
"He set the price according to the rules of our grassland." Liu Gan glanced at Qimin Khan anxiously and said in a low voice: "The rules of our grassland are that the big khan is worth one million sheep, the little khan is worth 400,000, and the prince, big The number of chiefs, Yehu, Mohe Dushe, and special forces is two hundred thousand... Ordinary warriors are one hundred sheep, or four horses, and five oxen. And Bulishe is the prince, the central government, and the chief of Bulishe. Chief, so Yang Ji wants 600,000 sheep."
Qimin Khan asked again: "Where are those prisoners? And what's the price?"
"In addition to soldiers, there are also officers such as captains of thousands and centurions among the warriors. The price is three million sheep. Including Bu Lishe, the total is 3.6 million sheep. If we don't have enough sheep, we can also use them. 150,000 war horses or 180,000 cattle instead." Liu Gan said, "Of course, gold, silver, jewelry, and jade are also acceptable."
"We can't give him horses or sheep." Qimin Khan shook his head categorically. The war horses suffered great losses during the war. As long as this side stabilizes, he will start the Eastern War. Of course, he cannot give the war horses to Yang Ji. Although there is also farming on the grassland, their farmland is very sparse, so the unruly and difficult-to-manage cattle are not of much use in the grassland.
As for sheep, they can give birth to babies, wool, and milk, and are docile and easy to manage, so sheep play a greater role here than cattle.
When Liu Gan heard this, he quickly asked: "Great Khan, shall we give him 180,000 cattle?"
"We also need cattle for farming, and we definitely can't give him so many cattle!" Although Qimin Khan knew that the value of gold, silver, jewelry and jade would be extremely low by Yang Ji, but as a defeated party eager to seek peace, We can only let the other party blackmail us. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said bitterly: "Give him 80,000 cattle, and replace the other 100,000 with gold, silver, jewelry and jade."
"Yes!" Liu Gan thought for a while and then said: "Great Khan, General Changsun is also in Madam Fan's city."
"Oh? Really?" Qimin Khan's eyes lit up. He could have the power and status he has today only because of Changsun Sheng's support and support. He was very grateful to Changsun Sheng in his heart, and the relationship between the two was also very good. If Changsun If Sheng is here, the problem will be easier to solve; he is definitely easier to talk to than Yang Ji.
"Yes!" Liu Gan smiled bitterly and said to Qimin Khan: "But he needs to double the gift you gave Yang Ji three and a half times."
"General Changsun is asking for a bribe? Are you sure?" Qimin Khan and Changsun Sheng were very familiar with each other. They knew that he was very honest and admired his character. When he heard that he was asking for money, he became suspicious.
"It is indeed him." Liu Gan pondered for a while and said: "I heard what they mean. There were many courtiers in the Sui Dynasty who opposed the war. Yang Ji was affected by this and seemed to have a truce. However, those in the court advocated continuing the war. It's quite a lot, so General Changsun plans to help the Great Khan enter the court. Although he said so, I don't know if he is asking for a bribe himself or if he really wants to help us with it."
"I believe in the character of General Changsun. If he said this, it must be true." After Qimin Khan said this, he glanced at the generals again and slowly explained: "And at this moment, we don't have any There are other options.”
The generals in the tent did not speak. They all nodded and acknowledged Qimin Khan's point of view.
Livestock and wealth are secondary. If they are gone, you can rob them again. The key is the attitude of the Sui Dynasty and Yang Ji. If Yang Ji continues to fight and kill, it will be an irreparable robbery for the Eastern Turks.
…
Another day later, Liu Gan brought back a reply from Qimin Khan, saying that he was willing to ransom all the captives, but he did not have so much wealth and needed to bring them back from Baicheng. In addition, Qimin Khan also made a request, asking Yang Ji to summon back Yuchi Gong, who was slaughtering herdsmen to his heart's content.
Yang Ji readily agreed to this.
In fact, a request to withdraw troops is no different from no request at all. Just because with Qimin Khan's westward advance, it was time for Yuchi Gong and Zong Luohu to come back, otherwise, they would most likely be surrounded and suppressed by Qimin Khan. After all, before Qimin Khan's ransom and compensation arrived, both sides were at war. If Qimin Khan did this, he would not be able to say anything.
In the same way, Yang Ji couldn't start another war because the war here had turned into a stalemate, but the Po Chaoqi was still cruising in the distance. If he did something near Beihanting, Yang Ji couldn't say anything. ".
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(The Turks had a lot of livestock, and Qimin Khan was also very "rich". When Yang Guang made his first patrol to the north, he brought a large number of elite troops. Judging from the situation at the time, he seemed to be preparing to launch a war against the Eastern Turks. . But Qimin Khan was very worried about Yang Guang beating him, so under the instigation of Chang Sun Sheng, he mobilized the whole country to help the Sui Dynasty open an imperial road from Yulin in the west to Yuji County in the east. It was three thousand miles long and a hundred paces wide. When Yang Guang arrived in the north, he sacrificed tens of millions of sheep in one breath, and Yang Guang also rewarded a lot of silk. Although Qimin Khan's move consumed a lot of the national power of the Eastern Turks, it also Eliminating Yang Guang’s wariness.)
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