Chapter 594 Asking the Emperor for Instructions

"Governor, do you think Xie Zhan will agree to give Zhuozhou to our Pingzhou?" Xue Xu asked with some reluctance.

"No." Lu Songli's answer was clear and neat.

Xie Zhan should be able to detect the real intention of their Pingzhou to attack Donghai. With this in mind, how could he be willing to make additional concessions?

Moreover, after Xie Zhan returned to the court, he had a mother-in-law on his head and could not make all the decisions.

Xie Zhan wanted to use the suppression of the rebellion in the south as his political capital to return to the court. They, Pingzhou, could use this to put forward conditions and let him mediate in front of the emperor.

"Once the conditions we put forward exceed the bottom line they can bear, the Emperor of Dali will definitely not agree."

Ceding Zhuozhou would touch Song Mo's bottom line.

Song Mo is a crazy person.

Even if Zhuozhou was exchanged for the land of Donghai, for Song Mo, ceding it is ceding it. Ceding Zhuozhou means that he admits that the court is not as good as Pingzhou, which is more painful than killing him.

Therefore, the conditions for ceding Zhuozhou were smokescreens from the beginning, used to confuse Song Mo and Xie Zhan.

Xue Xu also understood.

Let's go back to the East China Sea.

This negotiation was witnessed by more than 200,000 soldiers.

Pingzhou was willing to use the two counties obtained in the East China Sea in exchange for people from all walks of life detained by the Dali court.

Among all the people, the most deeply touched were the Sun Family Army led by Sun Congyi.

Since their Sun Family Army secretly surrendered to Pingzhou, Sun Congyi and others were most worried about their families far away in Chang'an.

The other day, he received a letter from his father saying that most of the family members had left Chang'an under the arrangement of Pingzhou, but his grandmother and other older generations chose to stay in Chang'an in order to let the younger generations stay.

Sun Congyi knew that his grandmother and others were the most difficult to rescue.

He did not expect that in order to rescue his grandmother and others, the governor was willing to give up two counties in exchange with the Dali court.

Sun Congyi thought secretly that Pingzhou sacrificed two counties for them today, and they would expand the territory for Pingzhou and conquer more cities for Pingzhou in the future!

After the negotiation results came out, Xie Zhan said that he would write a letter to ask the emperor for instructions. This process would take a few days.

Qin Zhao and others understood.

So, the three parties at the negotiation site dispersed and returned to their own tents.

But the army did not disperse, and still maintained the appearance of fighting at any time.

King Jin could not understand why Pingzhou was willing to exchange the two counties for those uncertain people.

Bai Xingzhi did not speak out to answer King Jin's doubts.

It should be said that he has been silent since Qin Zhao said the conditions of Pingzhou.

For talents, they have always learned civil and martial arts and sold them to the emperor's family. He never thought that the emperor would make concessions for them, or even pay a big price.

When personal interests conflict with collective interests, someone will come to persuade you to put the overall situation first, and those who give in and feel wronged are always weak individuals.

For example, this time, even if Pingzhou didn't save these people, no one would say anything.

But Pingzhou did save them, and even gave up the two counties that they had obtained.

A man dies for his friend.

He felt that Pingzhou and Lu Songli really deserved a future with counselors like rain and generals like clouds.

On Xie Zhan's side, he had already prepared a draft in his mind and was ready to write a memorial.

"Grand Governor, do you really want to agree to Pingzhou's conditions?" Jiang Boya asked hesitantly.

Before, he went to Pingzhou for an alliance and found that Pingzhou was really full of talents. Next, if they let go of the talents that they had retained by various means before, Pingzhou would really be even more powerful.

Xie Zhan: "This is the minimum price we need to pay to take over Donghai."

Doesn't Xie Zhan know the importance of talents? He knows it, even if he didn't understand it before, he understands it now.

Jiang Boya was discouraged. Pingzhou was not easy to deal with. If he didn't agree to their conditions, it would be difficult to get the two counties from them.

Xie Zhan added, "Pingzhou's move is equivalent to defeating me and the emperor."

The war to suppress the rebellion has been going on for so long that the soldiers are very tired and their hearts are at ease. Pingzhou is willing to exchange talents for the two counties instead of choosing to start a war, which is a good thing for the soldiers.

If he and the emperor insist on taking back the two counties by force, and if there are too many casualties, if someone instigates it, it will surely make the soldiers resentful.

After comprehensive consideration, Xie Zhan decided to agree to Pingzhou's conditions.

The achievements he made in the East China Sea campaign are enough to make him look down on the court.

"Will the emperor agree?"

"The emperor will."

Xie Zhan is still confident that he can persuade Song Mo to release the people and facilitate this negotiation.

Song Mo does not value talents. He has always felt that Dali is a vast land with many talented people. Talents are like leeks, one after another, and there is no shortage.

Secondly, he could not resist the temptation to quell the rebellion in the south of the Central Plains without paying any price.

In addition, once the battle in the East China Sea is over, the troops deployed in the East China Sea can also be transferred to the north to defend against the Xianbei.

There are many benefits.

After the memorial was written, Xie Zhan ordered someone to send it to Chang'an at an urgent speed of 800 miles.

So in the next few days, Xie Zhan, King Jin, Qin Zhao and others did not leave, nor did they withdraw their troops. Everyone defended on the spot and guarded against each other.

Before Song Mo received his memorial, he was very angry.

He was angry that the Sun family army had secretly surrendered to Pingzhou! He was preparing to punish the old immortals like Sun Taijun!

Xie Zhan's memorial arrived.

Song Mo only read Xie Zhan's memorial after Liang An's repeated consolation.

Xie Zhan advised him in the memorial that these people were in Cao's camp but their hearts were with Han. It was always a hidden danger to detain them in Dali. Because it was impossible to restrict their actions for a lifetime.

If Pingzhou had not exchanged land for people, the court could have slowly made them change their minds.

Old Lady Sun and others were indeed hateful, but they were all old and dying.

The emperor could certainly kill them, but killing them would not only vent his anger, but also lose the land of two counties, and it would be easy to get a reputation for tyranny, which was not worthwhile.

Xie Zhan advised people from these aspects.

If the emperor felt that he could not swallow this breath, I have a plan...

Xie Zhan suggested that the emperor pardon the world in the name of quelling the rebellion in the south, and even reduce some taxes appropriately in order to stabilize the south.

Xie Zhan believed that there must be some wavering people among these people, and the court could win over these people.

Therefore, in order to win over these talents, it was also to cause trouble for Pingzhou and destroy Pingzhou's plan to win over people.

Song Mo read the memorial three times and reluctantly agreed.