Chapter 198? Negotiation II(1/2)
"Besides, after attacking Nanzhao, Your Highness Ying took over the Huichuan Governor's Office and subdued the people of Nanzhao. He even set up several capital temples in various parts of Huichuan. I wonder if Your Highness Ying is the way of the Shang Kingdom or the Shang Kingdom is trying to destroy Nanzhao? Is it possible to want all the countries in the world to obey the Tang Kingdom?"
Zheng You's words made Meng Sheng, who was standing next to him, suddenly change his face.
He didn't expect that Zheng You had just seen the Dudu King Ying of Xichuan, and he was so aggressive, and even started to attack Li Yan in a questioning tone.
Meng Sheng's face changed drastically.
The other mission officials changed their faces even more.
Everyone was frightened by Zheng You's words.
They were crying in their hearts, and they didn't want Zheng You to die in Huichuan City because of his remarks.
Meng Sheng was very frightened. Seeing that Zheng You was already in an attacking posture, he had to save him, he quickly clasped his fists to Li Yan and others and defended him: "Your Highness Ying, I am Meng Sheng, the deputy envoy of Tang State, this time. Zheng You's remarks only represent him, but they cannot represent me. This time, we came to Huichuan with our Nanzhao, and only wanted to ask for peace from Your Highness Ying. As for what your Highness asks, please tell me as much as possible. As long as I can do what I, Nanzhao, will not reject it."
Li Yan sat in the first place and quietly watched the performance of the two.
As for the loud and verbs of Nanzhao envoy Zheng You, Li Yan really thinks that Zheng You is really a talented person.
He dared to challenge himself in the current situation of four hundred Chu Ge in Nanzhao.
From what Meng Sheng said, it can be seen that this deputy envoy of Nanzhao may be the core figure in the Nanzhao mission this time.
Li Yan smiled.
Zuo Yan and others also laughed.
A Nanzhao envoy cannot represent Nanzhao. This is so unpopular.
but.
When Li Yan remembered that Zheng You had relied on Wang Chadian, Li Yan understood what was going on.
Wang Chadian was captured, and the Qingping official Zheng You lost his reliance. He probably had no position in Nanzhao Kingdom.
and.
This time, Zheng You sent Zheng You to serve as an envoy, which is enough to show that Zheng You lost favor in Nanzhao Kingdom, and even his life may be abandoned.
As for Li Yan's dare to kill the envoys of Nanzhao, the king of Nanzhao still sent an envoys out. It can be seen that Zheng You was the king of Nanzhao Sheng Fengyou, who was testing Li Yan's pawn.
"Hahahaha, pitiful! Ridiculous! It's really ridiculous! Zheng You, you were originally an official of my Tang State, but you didn't expect that after you deviated from my Tang State, you got to this point after you arrived in Nanzhao. I think you were once a minister in my Tang State. If nothing unexpected happens, you will definitely not be missing from the position of the Six Ministers. Although you have been doing well in Nanzhao for nearly twenty years, in this blink of an eye, you have become the abandoned son of Nanzhao. It's pitiful, ridiculous!" Li Yan laughed loudly.
Li Yan's laughter made Zheng You laugh so hard.
As Li Yan said, he didn't know.
However, he knew in his heart that his wife, children, and family were all in Sheng Fengyou's hands.
He was even ready to die, so that he could have a chance to have a chance for his wife, children, and children.
Once his wife, children and young people are in the hands of Sheng Fengyou, he believes that he will never have a good life.
Even if he could exchange it for Wang Chadian from Li Yan, he believed that the regime in the court would inevitably return to Sheng Fengyou's hands again.
Although he and Wang Chadian can survive, they will definitely not be able to end up well.
to this end.
Only then did Zheng You dare to strive for a unique peace talk with Li Yan with an equal attitude.
Even if the result is not satisfactory, he just wants to have a chance.
As for his blog, it seemed a bit radical, even radical, and even excessive, everyone in the Nanzhao delegation was very scared.
Now, the Tang Dynasty is the largest and Nanzhao is the small.
Zheng You dared to talk to Li Yan in this tone, which was enough to make everyone frightened.
but.
At this time, Li Yan filtered out the deputy envoy Meng Sheng.
Although Meng Sheng was the core figure of the Nanzhao mission, Li Yan did not take him Meng Sheng seriously.
Nanzhao is already the rice in his pot. Whenever he starts the fire, it depends on him, Li Yan. No matter when, it is not Nanzhao's turn to be the one who takes charge.
In the past, Nanzhao was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the vassal state of Nanzhao suddenly wanted to become a big shot and climb to the head of the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, this climb has indeed reached an equal footing with Tang Guo.
Even later, he occupied a lot of territory in the Tang Kingdom.
Huichuan is one of the territory occupied by Nanzhao.
If it weren't for An, after the Shi Rebellion, the Tang Kingdom would not have been so poor and weak. Anyone could come forward to eat it.
Li Yan laughed loudly, which immediately made everyone in Nanzhao even more frightened.
Meng Sheng listened to Li Yan's laughter, and was nervous and scared. He wanted to speak again, but he didn't know how to say it.
On the other hand, Zheng You, at this moment, his head was lowered to his chest, and the miserable look on his face made him feel ashamed.
Li Yan looked at the Nanzhao delegation and looked at Meng Sheng with a sneer and shouted: "I think your king Sheng Fengyou should be like an ant on a hot pan at this moment. Back then, Sheng Fengyou must have never thought that Nanzhao would have reached this point. It has been decades since Nanzhao used troops to our Tang State. And in these decades, Nanzhao killed the people of our Tang State and harmed countless people of our Tang State. Did Sheng Fengyou think about today? Sheng Fengyou thinks that he is wrong! I guess your king Sheng Fengyou must have never thought about these things. He even kept thinking about taking my Xichuan State for himself."
"Also, Nanzhao once occupied the southern part of Rongzhou in Xichuan, but is still in the hands of Nanzhao. There is a large amount of land in the Lingnan area of our Tang Kingdom, and it is still in the hands of Nanzhao. I wonder, your king Sheng Fengyou has thought of returning these territories to our Tang Kingdom. I think, your king Sheng Fengyou has never thought of returning these territories to our Tang Kingdom."
"Now, you are here to discuss with me on behalf of Nanzhao. I really want to know that your king Sheng Fengyou has thought about these things, but have you thought about returning these territories to my Tang State during this peace talk?"
Li Chongyuan's series of questions immediately made Meng Sheng confused.
He really didn't expect that this peace talks were only related to his life and death in Nanzhao. Even if it involved land, it was only about Huichuan area.
He even did not expect that Li Yan's questioning would start to calculate his large amount of territory in Nanzhao.
It's also as Li Yan said.
The territories mentioned by Li Yan did belong to the Tang Dynasty before.
Of course, this happened decades ago. At that time, the territory of Nanzhao Kingdom only reached Xinfeng (Yiliang, Yunnan) in the east.
Now, Li Yan suddenly came to the territory decades ago, which surprised Meng Sheng and other mission personnel.
None of them expected that Li Yan would suddenly come up with these territories, which made them suddenly at a loss and didn't know how to deal with Li Yan.
When Li Yan saw that all the Nanzhao missionaries were shocked, he immediately spoke again: "Two years ago, Nanzhao raised an army to attack our Xichuan territory, and captured tens of thousands of people in Xichuan, which forced thousands of people in Xichuan to jump into the river to commit suicide. I dare to ask, you are here to have a reasonable explanation for this matter. And when you come to the peace talks, I want to ask even more about it, do you have plans to return the people who took the blame to me and compensate the people in Xichuan for the losses."
When Meng Sheng heard what Li Yan said, he immediately looked at Li Yan.
Li Yan was right this time, and before he was sent to Tang State, their king Sheng Fengyou had told him that if Li Yan had discussed the matter about the captive of the people of Xichuan in Nanzhao the previous year, he could make a decision.
Now, as soon as Li Yan was right, Meng Sheng immediately bowed to Li Yan.
"Your Highness Ying, the matter of the previous year has passed a long time ago, and now it is no longer appropriate to discuss the matter of the past. No matter who is right or wrong, it has been many years. Your Highness wants a reasonable explanation, but I cannot give you an explanation. However, I can agree to what Your Highness asks. Back then, the number of people from Xichuan to Nanzhao was 21,000, and for these 21,000 people, as long as your Highness agrees, I will not launch a war against me, Nanzhao, these people will be sent back to Xichuan within two months. I wonder if your Highness agrees?" Meng Sheng looked at Li Yan, thinking about what Sheng Fengyou once said.
When Li Yan heard Meng Sheng’s words, his eyes bulged and his face was full of unhappiness.
Twenty-one thousand people.
This is completely inconsistent with the figures counted by him, Li Yan.
According to the number of people counted by Li Yan, at least 42,000 people.
This is just the number of people who committed suicide by jumping into the river.
Now, Meng Sheng gave a half, which made Li Yan suddenly want to end the peace talks when he heard this number.
But.
Although Li Yan wanted to end the peace talks, once the peace talks were concluded, the people who had been captured in Nanzhao would not be able to return. Maybe a large number of people would die in Nanzhao by then.
However, these half of the people made Li Yan very angry, "That was the people who were captured by you in Xichuan by you. According to the investigation by this king, after your Nanzhao launched a war against me in Xichuan, the number of people captured was as high as 40,000, and the wealth in various places reached an astronomical number. You now tell me that there are only 21,000 people. Do you think I am easy to deceive, or do you think I am easy to talk to? You are the deputy envoy. I think you should know the specific number of people who were captured by the people in Xichuan to Nanzhao back then. I don't want to hear your words again. If you want to deceive me again, I will send troops to Nanzhao in the near future to pacify your Nanzhao. At that time, if you want to seek peace with me again, you will not be qualified!"
Li Yan was furious.
In addition to Li Yan being angry, Zuo Yan and the others were also angry when they heard Meng Sheng's words.
When the Nanzhao envoys saw Li Yan suddenly became angry, they were even more frightened.
On the contrary, it was Zheng You who kept bowing his head, as if the negotiation had nothing to do with him.
When Meng Sheng saw Li Yan put down his words and said that he would send troops to Nanzhao soon, which made him feel scared. "Your Highness, don't be angry. Maybe I remember it wrong. Envoy Zheng, you are the Qingping official of Nanzhao. I think you should know the specific numbers. Please ask Zheng Qingping official, you will explain to Your Highness," he said.
Meng Sheng threw this hot potato directly on Zheng You's head.
When Li Yan heard Meng Sheng's words, he kept sneering in his heart.
Throwing this topic on Zheng You's head shows that Meng Sheng, the royal family of Nanzhao, was afraid that Zheng You would be allowed to bear the result of this negotiation.
Li Yan can even guess that Meng Sheng probably had already received the command of the king of Nanzhao Sheng Fengyou.
Otherwise, he represented the core figure of this peace talks, how could he not know the number of people in Xichuan captured by Nanzhao?
Li Yan sat and watched Meng Sheng act, wanting to see when he could act.
Of course, Li Yan wanted to see what kind of play Zheng You had to act.
Zheng You, who had been lowering his head, slowly raised his head, cast an angry look at Meng Sheng, then looked at Li Yan, and bowed and said, "Your Highness Ying, although I am a Qingping official in Nanzhao, my Nanzhao affairs were all under the control of Wang Chadian. I don't know how many people in Xichuan went to Nanzhao back then. Moreover, although I am an envoy this time, I think Your Highness Ying also saw that I have no right to take charge of the peace talks. Therefore, when the two countries have peace talks, please ask Your Highness to ask the Pinggong of Meng Qing."
Wow.
Li Yan thought he had heard it wrong.
Not long after the negotiations began, why did Zheng You, who was originally quite radical, suddenly change his mind and become so ignorant of the overall situation? He even started an internal fight with Meng Sheng.
To be continued...