Valley Emperor

Although Cui Shenlin had a smile on his face when he spoke, he smiled and looked at the people of the Cen family opposite, and the smile didn't stop.

Seeing that everyone in the Cen family felt a little chill in their hearts, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, Nima's smile was not simple, just looking at it made people feel numb.

Could this be the reincarnation of the smiling tiger?

But since the words have already been said, and since the Cen family dares to find the rebel army of the Tang Dynasty, it is naturally after careful consideration, and it is a move after observing for a long time, and it is definitely not a whim.

After the pseudo-Tang thief army went south to Guangxi, the every move of its army was actually watched by many people, not only the officials of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to them, but also the chieftains, gentry and landlords in Guangxi, and even ordinary people. are watching them.

From the south to Guangxi, and then to the two divisions, in the same day, they successively captured Huaiyuan County and Rong County, and then stationed troops under Liuzhou City to surround the tens of thousands of Ming troops in the city. The whole process took less than half a month!

Although the attack on Liuzhou City for the first time failed, some well-informed people knew that the attack on the pseudo-Tang thief army did not use all their strength at all, the real thief army did not play at all, and it was the fake thieves who attacked the city.

As for how they judge the fake Tang Dynasty thieves and the fake thieves, it is very easy. Those who wear blue clothes and red trousers are the real fake Tang thieves, but they are still wearing Ming Dynasty military uniforms or ordinary people's clothes, and at the same time they are tied on their arms. Wearing white strips is the fake bandit army.

And those fake thieves who saw what they were wearing knew that it was the surrender of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the failure of the attack on Liuzhou is nothing in the eyes of many people. Otherwise, why do tens of thousands of officers and troops in Liuzhou still dare not come out? There were only a few thousand people left outside the city, but the Ming army in Liuzhou City still did not dare to come out.

At the same time, almost the entire Ming army in Guangdong and Guangxi is concentrating in the direction of Liuzhou!

All this shows that the pseudo-Tang bandit army is not simple, and this kind of difficulty has reached the point where it is necessary to concentrate the strength of the two provinces or even more to suppress.

However, this is just the southward division of a pseudo-Tang bandit army!

It is well known to the world that the pseudo-Tang thief army rose in Zhengtai County, Xingquan Prefecture in eastern Guizhou. Now the Guizhou official army has been defeated. It is said that only a few people are left to resist in the provincial capital Guiyang. However, the northern, eastern and central areas of Guizhou have already All fell into the hands of the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

It can be seen from this that the rise of the pseudo-Tang bandit army has actually become inevitable. If the court wants to exterminate the pseudo-Tang bandit army, it is bound to pay a great price and time.

At least in a short period of time, maybe half a year, maybe a year or two, this part of Guizhou and Guangxi will be under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

Many people can see this, some knowledgeable gentry landlords, some middle and senior officials of the Ming Dynasty, etc., can all see it.

This can be seen from the fact that the Ming army in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions did not hurriedly shout that they would completely destroy the Tang Dynasty immediately, but only tried to annihilate the pseudo-Tang thief army that went south in the Liuzhou region.

The senior officials in the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the southwestern region who knew the situation well, were already prepared for a long-term siege.

In this case, it is not difficult to guarantee that there will be some ambitious people who are speculating here!

Who can guarantee that the imperial court will be able to destroy the pseudo-Tang bandit army?

Who would dare to say that the Tang Dynasty could not gradually develop and grow, and then in turn overthrew the Ming Dynasty?

Although this possibility is small, there is still this possibility, things have not developed to the final stage, and no one knows what will happen.

And this is an opportunity!

High risk, but also high return opportunity!

Huaiyuan's Cen family just saw it, and was ready to seize this opportunity to try to regain the position of chieftain they lost a hundred years ago.

Cen Chunlin looked at a group of civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty on the opposite side, still secretly calculating in his heart.

The officials of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side were naturally calm. Although they said that they showed great interest and even urgency in the supply of military rations they proposed, it was only like this, and they did not promise anything to themselves. condition.

He didn't even doubt that if he made any excessive demands, the officials of the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the opposite side would leave immediately, then turn around and send troops to slaughter his family.

But are your demands too much?

No!

What their Huaiyuan Cen family wants is the position of a toast in a remote and small place, and there are countless such toasts in the huge southwest region, even in Liuzhou, there are dozens of large and small toasts!

And he didn't say that he wanted the Tang Dynasty to assign some mature Han land to himself.

For the Tang Dynasty, it was just a change of family by a chieftain under its rule, and it did not actually affect their actual rule in Guangxi.

It is important to mention here that whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the current Tang Dynasty, their strength is enough to completely suppress the local chieftain power, whether it is military, economic or otherwise.

However, for a long time, the Central Dynasty adopted a policy of winning over the local chieftains, and adopted a model of co-governance locally.

As long as the chieftains do not rebel and pay tribute every year to listen to the propaganda, then basically the central court will not find trouble to destroy these chieftains.

This was the case in the Ming Dynasty, and the same is true for the Tang Dynasty today. Basically, they all recognize the hereditary power of the existing chieftains. Well, the premise is that they do not rebel!

Therefore, Cen Chunlin believes that the Tang Dynasty is very likely to agree to his conditions and support his family to regain the position of chieftain that was taken away by the rebels.

In fact, after Cui Chunlin and the others heard about this condition of the Cen family, although Cui Chunlin said that he was conspiratorial, he was secretly relieved in his heart.

At the beginning, they were worried that the Cen family would open their mouths and ask for many benefits and privileges, especially some business privileges, such as the franchise of strategic materials such as salt and iron tea.

But no matter what their request is, as long as it does not significantly affect the interests of the Tang Dynasty in the short term, Li Xuan has already delegated power to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites and promised them, as long as the Cen family can provide a large amount of military rations in the short term, then What's wrong with a promise?

What, after the promise, it will greatly damage the interests of the Tang Dynasty, such as what franchises like cigarettes and tea? Just kidding, what do you think the Tang Dynasty is? You can't go back after signing the agreement. As long as the Tang Dynasty is willing, the treaty can be torn up in minutes!

Moreover, the treaty mentioned is still a treaty between countries. You, a grain merchant, dare to negotiate a treaty with the Tang Dynasty, you will die!

Therefore, in the short term, the Tang Dynasty will agree to them, and then obtain military rations. After the army takes Guangxi and even Guangdong and Guangxi, the so-called Guangxi grain merchants of the Cen family will basically be useless. , The rabbit died and the dog cooked, I couldn't help myself.

So, in fact, it doesn't matter what the conditions proposed by the Cen family are, because if it is an easy condition, the Datang Dynasty will give it, and if it is an excessive condition, then agree to it first, and go back on it later!

The point is, get the food first!

Well, if the Cen family had hoarded food in Liuzhou Mansion beforehand, what would the officials of the Tang Dynasty have to say to him, they would have sent an army to directly requisition it.

Under Putian, is it not the king's land; on the shore of the land, is it not the king's ministers!

The whole world belongs to His Majesty, and your Cen family's food is naturally His Majesty's, and it is reasonable for His Majesty's army to requisition it!

If anyone dares to say nothing, they will smash their family and serve them!

It is a pity that these Cen family members themselves said that their food needs to be transported from other places in Guangxi. If it requires several thousand stone, it even needs to be transported from other provinces such as Huguang and Guangdong.

Even if the Tang Dynasty wanted to **** food, they could **** it.

Now the condition put forward by the Cen family is just to help them restore their positions as chieftains. This kind of thing is something that can be done easily. When the army goes south to Wuxuan, just send hundreds of people to help the Cen family. It's enough to fight a battle, it's not worth such a big fight at all!

But even if this condition is not a big deal to the Tang Dynasty itself, it is very important to the Cen family. As Cui Chunlin, who has fought countless times with others, he naturally knows how to master the rhythm of negotiations and serve his own side. strive for more benefits.

However, since the basic conditions of both parties are that there is not much discrepancy and contradiction, although this negotiation has been repeated for more than an hour, an agreement was reached on the same day!

The two parties agreed that within three days, the Cen family would provide four hundred stone of military rations for free for the Tang Wangshi.

Within half a month, another 500 shi of grain will be provided to Liuzhou at one time, and this batch of grain is still free.

Subsequent monthly supplies of 2,000 shi of grain will be provided to the Tang Dynasty, and these subsequent grain supplies will require money, and the price is much higher than the market price.

It may sound like a lot of food, but it is actually not much, because at present it is only the troops going south, and the daily consumption of military rations is as high as more than 100 stone, which does not include war horses and livestock. rations!

Moreover, the troops going south in Guangxi are still expanding rapidly every day. At recruitment sites in Huaiyuan County, Rong County, Xiangzhou and other places, many local poor children sign up for the army every day.

So many people always need to eat, and they consume a lot of food every day, so no matter how much this food is, it is not too much!

If it weren't for the limited supply channels of the Cen family, the Tang Dynasty would wish they could supply 10,000 shi of grain every month! ()

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