He came to Li Qiao specifically today, hoping that Li Qiao would come forward to persuade the seventh prince. Of course, he could not tell the real reason.
He used the excuse that the position of censor was too hated, and he had no background. If he was dismissed while patrolling outside, he would die.
Li Qiao never expected that the Seventh Prince would make such a decision. After being surprised, he agreed.
He is very concerned about the future of the two of them. Now that the seventh prince has to let Meng Yue leave the capital, is he tired of Meng Yue?
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu chose a time to go to the Seventh Prince's Mansion.
The seventh prince's reason for moving out was beyond their ability to refute. As a Jinshi, how could Meng Yue stay in the Ministry of Punishment and waste her time?
Looking at the fellows in the same class, Li Qiao needless to say, but Xu Ying has been a fifth-rank official for a long time. Although Zhuang Wen has not been promoted, Zhuang Wen is older, in his fifties and almost sixty years old.
Does Meng Yue want to compete with Zhuang Wen?
A man must be ambitious.
He looks down on unpromising subordinates.
As for the fear of being thrown away, this can be easily solved. Meng Yue can hire bodyguards from Royal Logistics.
The Seventh Prince was determined to make Meng Yue leave the capital. Li Qiao and Tao Zhu had no choice but to see the Seventh Prince's reaction, it was definitely not because they were tired of Meng Yue.
Does the Seventh Prince want to use a different place to calm down the two of them?
Tao Zhu felt that they had guessed it right, but they couldn't tell Meng Yue this openly. Li Qiao advised Meng Yue to be more open-minded.
First, you should upgrade your official position, get a higher salary, and let your family live a good life, and then talk about other things.
Anyway, I can't see a future with the Seventh Prince for a while, so I might as well compensate my family first.
Meng Yue has always refused to get married, and her salary is not high, which is really unfair to the Meng family.
Meng Yue felt even more miserable after being persuaded by Li Qiao. After struggling for many days, he finally agreed.
Forget it, since he can't carry on the Meng family's ancestry, he should first let his family live a good life.
At the same time, the Hu people replied.
The Hu people are willing to sit down and have peace talks with Dasheng, but only if Dasheng is willing to give up benefits.
The Hu people felt that the products in their territory were not as rich as those in Dasheng, and they had too few items to sell. In order to ensure their fairness, Dasheng should let them have some.
If Dasheng is willing to agree to this, then both parties can sit down and talk.
If Dasheng refuses to agree, then there is no need to talk.
This condition of the Hu people divided the court officials into two factions.
One group of people thinks that we should not tolerate barbarians, which is really a slap in the face!
One group thinks that profits can be given away, and what the Hu people say is true. If there is a business, Dasheng will definitely take advantage.
Compared with the peace at Dasheng Border, what is a little benefit?
Moreover, Sheng Hong had made it clear before that Dasheng did not expect to make money after resuming trade, but just wanted to use this method to maintain peace.
The sixth prince volunteered and wanted to go and negotiate with the barbarians.
He felt that Dasheng could make concessions, but not too much, lest it lose the majesty of a great country.
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Li Qiao was really impressed by the sixth prince's careerism.
I wanted to run to the border town with my arms still hanging in front of me. It was too hard.
But obviously, it was impossible for Sheng Hong to let the sixth prince go to the border town after losing one of his arms.
This negotiation is not about the Hu people coming to Dasheng's territory, nor is it the territory where Dasheng goes to the Hu people. The two sides use the Hulu River as the boundary and have peace talks by the Hulu River.
Under this situation, even if there was a large army pressing down on the territory, Sheng Hong would not trust the Sixth Prince to go forward. If another cold arrow were fired, Sheng Hong would really be frightened to death.
Li Qiao's guess was right. Sheng Hong was really unwilling to let the sixth prince go to the border town.
However, in order to compensate the sixth prince, he readily arranged for several members of the Xu family to go to the Grand Canal.
This time, for the Grand Canal, he created many new official positions, which was more than enough for a few Xu family members.
But the Sixth Prince was still unhappy. Compared with his own meritorious service, arranging a few petty officials for the Xu family was nothing. But no matter how much he cried and begged, Sheng Hong refused.
As a last resort, he had no choice but to give up.
In fact, Li Qiao really wanted to go to the border town again, but now that the ice in the Hulu River had melted, he couldn't do the same thing again.
Even if he went, he wouldn't be able to kill too many barbarians.
He thought for two days and made a suggestion to Sheng Hong.
Originally, according to Sheng Hong's plan, the Hu people would be frightened and disabled, and then they would sit down and talk. Otherwise, the Hu people would definitely open their mouths.
The facts were as Sheng Hong had guessed. The Hu people only lost more than 20,000 men this time, and the Hu people were basically unharmed. Dasheng took the initiative to propose peace talks, so the Hu people kicked their noses and shouted at Da Sheng to give up profits.
In this case, the only way Li Qiao could think of was for Dasheng to buy more luxury goods that only the Hu nobles could enjoy.
For example, tea, silk, fine wine, wonderful medicines, etc. will make the barbarians very hungry.
As the Hu people plundered the border towns, almost all smuggling routes among the people were cut off, and the daily luxuries enjoyed by the Hu people's nobles had long since come to an end.
It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. The nobles of the Hu people are used to enjoying these things, so they must miss these materials very much.
If you want to continue enjoying it, sit down and talk to Dasheng.
If you don’t want to talk, then fight.
But the current situation is that even if Donghu and Xihu join forces, they will not be Dasheng's opponent.
Violent robbery is impossible.
The only way to enjoy those treasures is to sit down and negotiate peace with Dasheng.
Life is difficult for the Hu people, but is it better in Dasheng?
Why do you want to make a big profit?
Previously, the Hu people attacked the border town and killed many people. Da Sheng was very generous by not asking the Hu people to pay compensation. He actually dared to ask Dasheng to give up the profits, which is shameless!
Dasheng must not give up this benefit, otherwise the barbarians will definitely take advantage of it, and Dasheng must hold on to this bottom line.
As for the products of the Hu people, they are indeed not as rich as those in Dasheng, but Dasheng does not need anything from the Hu people, only cattle and sheep.
Dasheng doesn’t want the barbarians’ horses, and the barbarians don’t want Dasheng’s ironware, fine steel, etc. We just exchange the most basic grain, cattle and sheep.
The purpose of the peace talks between the two sides is to tide over the difficulties and reduce casualties. Don't think too much about other things.
Sheng Hong had a headache because of the peace talks. He had wanted to talk for a long time, but the Hu people wanted to make a big profit.
The ministers in the court were divided into two groups and quarreled, each with their own reasons, but whether it was fighting or giving away benefits, it was not the result he wanted.
Now that Li Qiao had given such a small suggestion, his heart suddenly relaxed. After thinking about it carefully for a while, he looked at Li Qiao with extremely satisfied eyes.
This is indeed a feasible idea.
He knew that the barbarian nobles lived extravagantly. Instead of trying hard to fight to the death and still not getting the supplies they wanted, it would be better to sit down and have a good talk.
If he were a barbarian, he would definitely choose to sit down and talk.
"Li Aiqing, you came up with a great idea. You are worthy of being the number one scholar I selected. You have a lively mind!"
Sheng Hong praised Li Qiao hard.
"Your Majesty, this method may not necessarily work. Once the peace talks are over and it is confirmed that this method is effective, it will not be too late for you to praise me."
Li Qiao is very humble.
How embarrassing it would be if nothing happened in the end.
"No, no, no, I want to praise him now. Regardless of whether he succeeds in the end, at least it will make me feel bad and make the barbarians feel aggrieved."
Sheng Hong couldn't stop the smile on his face.
So the matter was settled.
Sheng Hong immediately sent an envoy to the border town. The leaders were the Minister of War and the Minister of Honglu Temple. Sheng Hong specifically told them not to entertain the other party with a large amount of fine wine and food during the negotiation. Both parties should eat their own food, so as not to prevent the other party from eating. Poisoning the tea, or poisoning by slandering Dasheng.
In short, although the two parties share a tent, they must not let the other party taste the sumptuous wine and food.
At that time, you must perform well and make sure the other party misses Dasheng's treasures.
Sheng Hong saw off the delegation and imagined that during the negotiation between the two parties, Da Sheng's table was filled with all kinds of items, while the other party's table only had meat and milk tea. He suddenly became happier and happier.
He is a majestic emperor, but he has never given such orders to his ministers.
As a member of the Celestial Empire, he values generosity and magnanimity, but this time he asked his ministers to be stingy.
Even if the peace talks failed, it would be enough to make him happy for several days.
It was enough to make Hu popular.
Li Aiqing came up with a clever plan.
While Sheng Hong was thinking about how to reward Li Qiao, the disabled wounded in the border town returned to Beijing.
There were more than 1,100 people in total.
In the past few years of war, many soldiers in border towns have become disabled, some with minor disabilities, such as missing fingers, blind eyes, walking with a limp, etc. These people can still cook and feed horses. , doing some light work, so Chang Wuchang did not let them leave the military camp.
Now that Li Qiao had set up a charity hall, Chang Wuchang immediately sent all these people to Li Qiao, totaling more than 300 people.
In addition, more than 100 people were seriously injured and unable to take care of themselves.
The remaining few hundred people have disabilities somewhere in between.
When the thousand people arrived in Shengjing, Sheng Hong sent the sixth and seventh princes to greet them at the city gate, and also called on the people to visit the Li Family Charity Hall.
Even though he is the king of a country, he must walk in front of Li Qiao. He can't decide the new emperor's thoughts. The alchemy book and the iron coupon are not omnipotent.
He wanted to improve Li Qiao's status in the hearts of the people.
The aspirations of the people are sometimes also a talisman.
Therefore, he specially sent two princes to greet the remaining soldiers. This was to tell the world that he did not mind Li Qiao winning the hearts of the people.
