Tibet

The cavalry brought by Li Ye were arranged by the imperial court to the north of Shendu Garden, where the 30,000 Longwu Army was stationed. The Longwu Army gave up part of the station in the southwest corner.

The important minister who personally greeted Li Ye was Right Prime Minister Pei Zunqing. Although Pei Zunqing was the grandfather of Princess Li Ye, Dugu Xinyue, this relationship has not been confirmed due to various reasons.

"Does King Qi go to the city to rest? The emperor has arranged a large mansion for His Highness, and he can bring five hundred people into the city."

Li Ye shook his head and smiled: "Thank you for the emperor's love. I still live in the military camp. I can enter the city during the day, but it is more practical to sleep in the military camp at night."

Li Ye turned around and smiled at Liu Yan: "Why don't Ambassador Liu live in the city?"

Because people would come to visit at night, it would be more convenient for Liu Yan to live in the city.

Liu Yan smiled happily and said, "I'll just live in Guanyi!"

Pei Zunqing understood King Qi's concerns, so he no longer forced himself. He pondered for a moment and asked, "Will His Highness King Qi have an audience with the Emperor tomorrow?"

Li Ye shook his head and smiled: "Tomorrow I will go to Ruzhou to comfort the soldiers. I will not be in Luoyang for the whole day. After both parties reach an agreement, I am very willing to drink a celebration wine with the emperor!"

This time Li Ye came with murderous intent. If the negotiation breaks down, the two sides will turn over the table and fall out. He will not even be able to meet his parents for the time being, let alone the emperor.

Of course, it can also be said to be a kind of extreme pressure, using a complete fallout to force Li Heng to make concessions. Li Ye needs to create an atmosphere of extreme pressure, and not meeting is one of them.

Pei Zunqing sighed and said: "Your Highness, you must be considerate of the emperor's feelings! Chang'an is the capital after all, and it is not suitable to be the official seat of the Jiedushi."

Li Ye smiled lightly and said: "Henan Dao Jiedu Mansion is also in Luoyang, the eastern capital, isn't it? Besides, I can also serve as the guard of Chang'an. To take a step back, Tiance Mansion was also in Chang'an back then, why can't my Qi Prince's Mansion be in Chang'an? Where is Chang'an?"

Pei Zunqing was speechless for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "I thought His Highness was planning to move the Helong Jiedu Mansion to Chang'an!"

Li Ye shook his head, "Longyou Jiedu Mansion moved from Shanzhou to Lanzhou, and Hexi Jiedu Mansion also moved from Liangzhou to Lanzhou. The two Jiedu Mansion merged into one. In any case, it will not move to Chang'an. As the Tang Dynasty Clan, I have the obligation and responsibility to safeguard the safety of Chang'an, guard the Chang'an ancestral temple, the imperial palace and the tombs of past emperors. I also hope that Pei Xiangguo will tell the emperor that Chang'an needs the Tang Clan to guard it, and this person can only be me!"

Seeing the other party's resolute attitude, Pei Zunqing could only smile bitterly and said: "Okay! I will convey His Highness's attitude to the emperor, and hope that both parties can find a happy balance point."

Pei Zunqing said goodbye and left. Liu Yan was a little worried and asked: "Should we find a way to move His Highness's family out of Chang'an first?"

Li Ye sneered and said: "Don't worry! If you give them a hundred courages, they won't dare to threaten my parents, unless they don't care at all about my family being killed by me."

Pei Zunqing returned to Luoyang and immediately rushed to the palace to report the situation to the emperor. Emperor Li Heng looked very haggard. He had not slept well for several days and was low on energy. He sat feebly on the dragon couch, with his left hand propped on the table, while gently He pressed his temples and listened to Pei Zunqing's report.

Pei Zunqing did not dare to hide anything and told the emperor in detail what he had seen Li Ye today.

"What does he mean? Don't want to be the governor of Helong?" Li Heng asked in a hoarse voice.

"Weichen estimates that he has too many military governors. He may want to gather all the military governors under Prince Qi's Mansion to imitate the Tiance Mansion back then."

Li Heng sneered, "Then he would follow the example of the Xuanwumen Incident and drive me out. He wanted to say this, but he didn't dare to say it!"

Pei Zunqing did not dare to take up the topic and fell silent.

Li Heng sighed: "Li Fuguo is right, all borders are determined by strength. He wants to seize Guanzhong, and I can't stop him, but I don't dare to fall out with him, so I can only find a decent way to let him go." I swallow this bitter pill."

"Your Majesty, we can actually talk. After all, Li Ye also wants to get Guanzhong in a legal way. For example, we can let him send troops to kill Li Xilie for us, and on this condition, we can give Guanzhong to him."

Li Heng nodded, "Tomorrow, Xiangguo Pei and Xiangguo Cui will negotiate with each other as my representatives! The negotiation location will be in the Political Affairs Hall, and they will tell me the news at all times. I will also sit behind the scenes of the Political Affairs Hall tomorrow. "

"Weichen understands!"

At night, Dugu Ming hurried to Li Dai's house. Li Dai asked the housekeeper to invite Dugu Ming to his outer study.

"I heard that Ye'er came to Luoyang today?" Li Dai asked.

Dugu Ming handed a letter to Li Dai, "This is Aye's letter to you. He also wrote a letter to me and my eldest brother, saying that he will not enter the city for the time being."

Li Dai quickly opened the letter written by his son to himself and read it. It was all about common things. He had a third son named Li Hua, but he didn't mention anything about the purpose of coming to Luoyang just now.

Of course, Li Dai knew that this letter would also be read to his wife, so his son did not want to worry his mother too much, so he did not discuss official matters in the letter.

"The letter doesn't say why he won't enter the city for the time being?"

"This time he came to Luoyang in person to negotiate with the imperial court. It is very important. He is determined to win Guanzhong. If the imperial court firmly disagrees and the negotiations break down, he will not hesitate to completely fall out with the imperial court!"

Li Dai was startled, "What does it mean to completely fall out?"

Dugu Ming was silent for a moment and said: "He deployed 100,000 troops in Liang County, Ruzhou, which is only more than 100 miles away from Luoyang. This time he brought 20,000 cavalry. I heard that tens of thousands of troops were also stationed in Chencang. Once they completely fall out, , he would directly send troops to forcibly seize Guanzhong, and even the Guanner Road, and Jingxiang would not return it to the court. He would even march eastward along the Yangtze River to seize Jiangnan West Road and Jiangnan East Road. If the court declared him a rebel, he would send troops It’s Luoyang.”

Li Dai was really frightened, "Will it come to this?"

Dugu Ming shook his head, "With the emperor's weak character, he did not dare to fall out with A Ye. The emperor invited A Ye to Luoyang for negotiations, probably because he wanted to use a decent method to give up Guanzhong to A Ye."

Li Dai smiled bitterly and said: "In this case, wouldn't the emperor be setting himself up in a cocoon by moving the capital to Luoyang?"

Dugu Ming laughed, "I argued with my eldest brother about this issue today. My eldest brother thinks that the emperor is not in a cocoon. He thinks that the emperor also has his own ideas. He probably wants to completely clean up the Dongfang vassal town, strengthen the power of the court, and then turn around and come back to deal with it. If Aye had been staying in Chang'an, the two sides would be squeezed, the imperial court would be declining day by day, and the emperor would simply step out. After arriving in Luoyang, the sea and sky would become vast.

Of course, this is my elder brother's idea, and I don't agree with it. The emperor does not have such courage and talent. As far as I know, he moved the capital to Luoyang because of long-term insomnia, being encouraged by alchemists, and wanting to get rid of the threat of Longyou. Completely It's selfishness. "

Li Dai nodded and said: "I agree with your idea. I heard that the first thing he did when he came to Luoyang was to order a draft. Is there such a thing?"

Dugu Ming sneered, "It was Empress Zhang who instigated the emperor's draft, saying that the emperor had too few concubines around him and needed to expand the harem. I really don't know what this woman's true intention is?"

Dugu Ming quickly said goodbye and left. Pei Sanniang hurriedly found her husband and asked quickly: "Is this news from A Ye?"

Li Dai handed her the letter and gave her a counter ticket and said with a smile: "My son is afraid that you will have no money when you come to Luoyang. This is the counter ticket from Baoji Cabinet Shop, thirty thousand taels of silver!"

Pei Sanniang had too many things to buy, and her family was really short of money. She took the counter ticket and immediately smiled. Although her son did not come to see her, for the sake of thirty thousand taels of silver, the trace of unhappiness in Pei Sanniang's heart immediately disappeared. Without a trace.

Before dawn the next day, Li Ye led five thousand cavalry and set off for Liang County in Ruzhou.

At the same time, Liu Yan and his negotiating deputies Yan Quanming and Li Chenzhou also set off from the VIP Hotel and took the carriage prepared by the court to the Imperial City Political Hall.

Negotiations officially kicked off.