"Send the order, I agree with Yelu Abaoji's suggestion!" Li Xiang subconsciously held the message sent back by Zhang Yi as soon as possible. After thinking for a while, Li Xiang slowly said.
"Lord, my subordinates go immediately and notify Mr. Zhang Yi!" A middle-aged man dressed as a civil servant immediately excused himself.
"Congratulations, lord, congratulations, lord!" Liu Bowen, Wei Qing, Guo Jia and others stood up and congratulated.
Although Wei Qing was promoted to deputy governor of Hezhou at this time, he did not take up the post for the time being. The war is over, and the marriage between Wei Qing and Yang Lihua should also be put on the agenda.
Although the situation in the north is complicated and Li Xiang is ready to get involved, he has no intention of taking action personally. Therefore, there is no need for Wei Qing to rush to take office.
What's more, even if Li Xiang wants to play in person, he doesn't have the ability now. If you want to use troops in the north, you must mobilize a large number of cavalry, and the cost of cavalry is several times that of infantry. It's very simple. Without food, Li Xiang can't do anything now.
Besides, Wei Qing is only a deputy governor. Even if he is away, there is still Meng Tian as the chief governor. There will be no problems in Hezhou. Wei Qing can just take advantage of this time to get married.
As for the congratulations Wei Qing and others said, they were referring to the content of the negotiation between Yelu Abaoji and Zhang Yi this time.
Originally, Yelu Abaoji wanted to test Zhang Yi first and find out the other party's real purpose and bottom line, and then talk about asking for help.
However, God did not fulfill his wish, and Yelu Abaoji wanted to wait, but the changes in the war situation did not let him wait, and the situation in Xianbei did not let him wait either. Facing Temujin, Xianbei in the west suffered another defeat, and general Yelu Dezhong died on the spot.
There was no way, the situation was like this, Yelu Abaoji could only take the initiative to talk to Zhang Yi. Even if the Jin army had any bad intentions, the crisis on Temujin's side was even greater.
In the conflict between the Central Plains princes, at least both sides were Han Chinese. But on the grassland, there was a conflict between the Xianbei, Mongols, and Manchus. Even though they are all grassland people, they are from different ethnic groups. In the eyes of each other, they are not much different from the hostile grassland people and the Han people in the Central Plains.
Therefore, if they can join hands with the Han people in the Central Plains to survive this genocide crisis, Xi Xianbei will only applaud and be happy without any psychological burden of dealing with fellow grassland people.
However, neither Yelu Abaoji nor Zhang Yi was a fuel-efficient person, and both wanted to gain more profits. The Jin army will not really send troops here, but will only press the army to reduce some pressure on Yelu Abaoji.
However, even so, it can even be said that it is a white wolf's behavior, but it still requires Yelu Abaoji to pay a lot of cattle and sheep. With such strict conditions, Yelu Abaoji would naturally not agree. In fact, if it were not the right time to provoke powerful enemies, Yelu Abao would have thought of killing Zhang Yi.
Yelu Abaoji's request was that the Jin army must send troops, so that Yelu Abaoji was willing to pay enough cattle and sheep.
However, Zhang Yi could not agree to Yelu Abaoji's request. The next stage of the Jin army was mainly to recuperate, and it was impossible to use weapons with great fanfare for a Western Xianbei.
In this way, the two sides actually had a tendency to collapse the talks. However, Yelu Abaoji and Zhang Yi are not ordinary people. Even if their talks are about to break down, they still have a smiling attitude.
In the end, the two parties struggled with each other for several days, and then Yelu Abaoji once again proposed a new plan, which was marriage. Yelu Abaoji was willing to marry his righteous daughter Xiao Yanyan to Jin King Li Xiang as his equal wife, while the Jin army and Xi Xianbei would always be friends with Qin and Jin.
Of course, the so-called marriage is just a cover, and the highlight is the content hidden behind the marriage. Since both parties are already married, the Jin army must give some swords, guns and armor to Xi Xianbei as betrothal gifts, and Yelu Abaoji must also give enough cattle and sheep as dowry!
The grassland is stronger than the Central Plains in terms of cavalry, but the Central Plains has more advantages than the grassland in all aspects, and this equipment is one of them. Moreover, all the people in the grassland are soldiers. When necessary, even the old, weak, women and children can be taken to the battlefield. As long as they have enough equipment, the battle can still be fought.
Moreover, Yelu Abaoji also roughly guessed that the Jin army might be well-defended after the war, and it might be very difficult to send out troops on a large scale again. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhang Yi to insist on this point and refuse to back down at all.
As for choosing the marriage between the two parties, Yelu Abaoji had other intentions. The same army is stationed on the border, but whether the two parties are married or not, Temujin's attitude towards this will be different.
If there was no marriage between the two parties, Temujin would guess that the Jin army had only a three-point chance of actually taking action, and the remaining seven points might just be a bluff.
But if the two sides get married, Temujin may think that the Jin army has a 50% chance of taking action. In this way, more of Temujin's energy will be diverted, and the pressure faced by Xi Xianbei will be truly reduced.
Of course, Li Xiang has a lot of senior advisers here, so it is natural that these things cannot be analyzed. But, will Li Xiang care?
He had only two goals this time. One was to delay Temujin's annexation of Western Xianbei and do his best to prevent the unification of the grasslands. The second is to obtain a large number of cattle and sheep for future recuperation, especially cattle that can be used for agricultural production.
After originally taking over the Hetao, Li Xiang got not only a large number of war horses, but also a large number of cattle and sheep. But at that time, to transform what was originally the Huns' pasture into Li Xiang's current granary, naturally a lot of cattle and sheep were needed. Moreover, those cattle and sheep were also a favorable means to attract the refugees to move to the Hetao.
After that, Bingzhou and Sizhou will also develop. Therefore, after capturing the Hetao land, the batch of cattle and sheep obtained had been almost consumed.
Now, we have gained the new land of Yongliang. Moreover, the land in Guanzhong is even more fertile. If it is developed well, it can be developed into another granary.
After all, the foundation of the Qin State was Guanzhong. However, it has only been ruined again since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Although Yang Jian made a great recovery after taking control of this territory, he returned it to its original shape after a great battle.
Therefore, the next restoration of production in Yongliang Prefecture will require Li Xiang to find a source of large quantities of cattle.
But with this marriage, since Li Xiang has achieved these two goals, he won't care too much about the others. Moreover, after hearing that Xiao Yanyan was known as the Pearl of the Grassland, and Yelu Abaoji was willing to give him a beautiful wife, Li Xiang would naturally not refuse to accept it.
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