Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

At the same time, Li Qianshun also prepared generous gifts and sent envoys to the Datong Mansion in Xijing in the Kingdom of Jin to apologize to Marshal Wanyan Zonghan of the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, and at the same time begged him to mediate the war between Xia and Chu as the suzerain.

In just a few months, Li Ganshun, the leader of the Western Xia Kingdom, changed from a war madman keen to expand the territory to a Confucian disciple who quoted scriptures and loved peace.

Just when Li Ganshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, was jumping up and down, trying his best to defuse the crisis and try to keep the Xixia Kingdom, Ximenqing, who was repairing the army in Pingxia City and subduing the various forces of the Western Army, was promoted again.

After the battle report of the great victory in Pingxia City and the battle report of the enemy chiefs Li Chage, Li Liangfu, and Weiming Ah Wu's head spread to Bianliang City in Tokyo, the ruling and opposition parties of Chu State celebrated with joy.

Unwilling to be lonely, the censor Chen Dong jumped out to speak out again.He wrote to the imperial court, requesting the imperial court to commend and reward the soldiers of Ximen Qing's army, and to make Ximen Qing the king for the privy envoy!

Among the ministers of the DPRK and China, many people looked at Chen Dong with admiration.

Chen Dong, aren't you a representative of righteousness among Tai students?How come Privy Envoy Ximenqing promoted you to serve as the imperial censor before he left Bianliang City in Tokyo, so why are you kneeling and licking Privy Envoy Ximenqing so shamelessly?

Didn't your teacher Qin Hui teach you that the duty of the censor is to spray people indiscriminately!It is to attack other officials by scratching their heads!

When Privy Envoy Ximen Qing promoted you to be the imperial censor, what he was looking for was your shameless demeanor of criticizing whomever he saw!

Why don't you scold people nicely, but rush to flatter Ximen Qing's secret envoy?

You, the little censor, took the lead in flattering, and let us ministers of the court and China perform!

Chen Dong'er, it's really hateful!

When all the ministers were slandering, Chen Dong's teacher, Qin Hui, Minister of the Household Department, was the first to appear to second Chen Dong's memorial.

Immediately afterwards, all the ministers scrambled to second the proposal.

Can the woodcarving emperor Zhang Bangchang disagree?Of course, he was willing to play and let the officials discuss the title for Ximen Qing.

After discussion by Cheng Wanli, Murong Yanda, Tong Guan, Zhao Mingcheng and other ministers, the imperial court appointed Privy Envoy Ximen Qing as the King of Dongping County with full authority to deal with the conquest of Xixia Kingdom.

The generals under Ximenqing's command who participated in the war also had their own promotions and rewards. Ximenqing's Jingyuan Road Jinglue envoy Qu Duan, Qinfeng Road Jinglue envoy Liu Kai, Xi'an Prefecture Zhizhou Ren Dejing and others were also officially followed up by the imperial court. .

All in all, with Ximenqing's army entering Shaanxi and defeating the main force of the Xixia army, the military and political power of Shaanxi Wulu has all fallen into Ximenqing's hands.

Now the generals of the Western Army will rise or fall, all decided by the Privy Councilor Ximen Qing.

Xue Yuanli, the envoy of the Xixia Kingdom, was also tricked by the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Ma Zhi, in Bianliang City, Tokyo. He begged the Emperor Zhang Bangchang of the Chu Kingdom for a long time before he realized that it was war or peace, and he had to negotiate with Dongping County King Ximenqing.

Regardless of Xue Yuanli's willingness or not, Ma Zhi directly sent troops to "escort" him out of Bianliang City, Tokyo, and let him go to the distant Pingxia City to negotiate with Ximen Qing, and he was not allowed to stay in Bianliang City, Tokyo to find out the truth.

Xue Yuanli had no choice but to embark on the journey back to the border between Chu and Xia under the surveillance and escort of the Chu army.

At this time, Mou Ning Keren, who was sent to Pingxia City by Li Ganshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, was even more depressed.

Mou Ning Keren endured the humiliation and bit the bullet to negotiate with Ximen Qingjun about the redemption of prisoners of war.

But Ximen Qing didn't see this guy at all, and just asked Ma Kuo and Lu Xihao to negotiate with him.

When Ma Kuo and Lu Xihao negotiated with the Jin army, they had a taste of a weak country without diplomacy.Now negotiating with Ning Keren, the envoy of Xixia with the posture of a victorious country, the feeling in my heart is really different, so happy!

For the Xixia Kingdom, it is natural for the lion to open its mouth!

Chapter 24 Bargaining

Under the instigation of Dongping County King Ximenqing, Ma Kuo and Lu Xihao took Mou Ning Keren to the Xixia Army prisoner-of-war camp outside Pingxia City for more than half a day, showing him the "humanitarianism" that Dongping County King Ximenqing said. ".

Mou Ning Keren saw that the Xixia Army prisoners were neatly dressed, in good spirits, and had basic food guarantees. Obviously, they were not tortured and abused by the Chu Army. Not only did he also admire the Chu Army's coach Ximen Qing.

Many prisoners of the Xixia Army recognized the minister Mou Ning Keren, and when they saw him appear in the prisoner camp, they immediately ignited the hope of returning to their hometown.

Some of the generals of the Xixia Army even asked Ning Keren directly, but the king asked him to bring money to redeem him?

How dare Mou Ning Keren disappoint these captives face to face?He had no choice but to nod frequently, vaguely saying that he came here for this purpose, please rest assured.

After receiving the verbal promise of Mu Ning Keren, the prisoners of the Xixia Army became more relaxed, so they went to listen to the storyteller in the army telling stories in groups.

Prisoners of war not only have food and drink, no worries about food and clothing, but they can also listen to plain talk for entertainment?These days are happier than they were in the Xixia Army!

Mou Ning Keren finally had some intuitive feelings about Ximen Qing's "humanitarianism".

Of course, Mou Ning Keren didn't know that these storytellers in the prison camp were not ordinary quack entertainers, but a group of propaganda talents trained by Ximenqing when he was in Yanggu County.

These storytellers first went around talking about some flat words of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Ximen Qing, which indirectly made Ximen Qing famous in the world.

After Ximen Qing entered Bianliang City in Tokyo to take power, these storytellers changed to tell the heroic story of Ximen Qing's adventures in the Jianghu when he was young, and he was a hero who fought for righteousness, and directly promoted Ximen Qing with great success.

When Ximen Qing led the Western Expedition, he also brought his own propaganda team.

These storytellers can not only provide entertainment for the soldiers of the army on weekdays, relieve them of the hardships of marching and fighting, but also promote the Western Army and help Ximenqing establish a glorious image.

To put it bluntly, these storytellers in the army are similar to the role of the military art troupe of later generations, which can boost morale and educate officers and soldiers.

After Ximen Qing captured so many prisoners, of course he would not let go of the opportunity to brainwash these Xixia Army prisoners.

Perhaps a small number of party members in the army will be stubborn and uneducated, but the larger number of Han troops will not be able to reach the storyteller's witty stories, and they will listen to them unconsciously and keep them in their hearts.

After a lot of hard work by the storyteller, most of these captives now have a consensus, that is, although Ximen Qing, the commander of the Chu army, is an enemy of Xia, he is indeed a great hero among the best in the world!

For Ximen Qing, such publicity is enough.

These captives have secretly respected themselves, even if they are released to the Xixia Kingdom, it will be difficult for most of them to stand firmly against Ximen Qing.

In addition, there are many stories of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the ordinary words that the storytellers told the captives.

In these stories, Liangzhou and the Hexi area are the territory of the Han people.

After hearing these stories too much, the Han people among the prisoners of the Xixia Army inevitably became confused, not knowing why they wanted to fight the great hero Ximen Qing who represented the Han people.

Unknowingly, the will of tens of thousands of Xixia Army prisoners has been disrupted by Ximen Qing.

Mou Ning Keren just had a quick glance accompanied by Ma Kuo and Lu Xihao, how could he get a glimpse of the mystery?

However, after seeing Ximen Qing's army treat the Xixia army's captives well, Mou Ningkeren knew in his heart that the Chu army's knives had been sharpened this time, and a large piece of Xia Guo's flesh would be cut off.

Sure enough, when the smiling Ma Kuo and Lu Xihao accompanied Mou Ning Keren out of the prisoner-of-war camp and returned to Pingxia City, they immediately proposed to Mou Ning Keren the conditions for exchanging prisoners of war.

Lu Xihao said that he had served as a transshipment envoy in Hebei, and he knew very well that it was not easy to transport grain, grass and luggage.This Wulu Road in Shaanxi has high mountains and dense forests, and the road is rugged. The loss on the road far exceeds that in Hebei.

This shows how much the Chu State paid to feed the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Xixia Army in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Therefore, if the Xixia Kingdom wanted to redeem these soldiers, each soldier had to pay 100 taels of silver, and each general and officer had to pay a ransom of 500 taels of silver.

Lu Xihao smiled and said to Mo Ning Keren that the prisoners of the Xixia Army spent more than this money in the prisoner-of-war camp, but the commander of our army, King Ximenqing, was compassionate and gave these prisoners to go home and reunite with their relatives. The Xixia Kingdom reduced and exempted many fees.

After saying this, Lu Xihao took out a piece of paper and handed it to Mou Ning Keren, and said to him: "Your envoy, please take a look, I have arranged for someone to do the math for your country. To redeem all the captives, it only takes 360 Eighty-five thousand two hundred taels of silver."

Lu Xihao said "that's it" lightly, but Mou Ning Keren, who took the paper, trembled and his chest heaved.