Chapter 1186 Many Countermeasures
Just after Li Tai issued an ultimatum to the Qi envoy regarding the Heluo region, the Southern Chen envoys also came to Hongnong again.
Li Tai did not summon the Southern Chen envoys immediately, but asked someone to receive Chen Baxian's handwritten letter and opened it for a brief glance.
In the letter, Chen Baxian bluntly stated that the Northern Qi sent people to contact the Southern Chen. He had no intention of concealing this. He had already notified the Liyang side before. In the letter to Li Tai this time, he sincerely admitted this mistake. He did not quibble about Hou Andu's violation of the agreement and sending troops without authorization, and expressed that he was reluctant to punish Hou Andu because of his old friendship, and only demoted him as a punishment, hoping that the King of Tang could understand.
In general, this letter is upright and frank, and the tone is sincere. Even Li Tai couldn't help feeling touched after reading it. Fortunately, he is now the strong party and doesn't need to be so compromising to ask for others' understanding. If he really does this, wouldn't he feel uncomfortable?
But the feeling is one thing. As for the content of this letter, he didn't even use punctuation marks... There are no punctuation marks. In short, when a politician like Chen Baxian communicates with him, any emotion will not be wasted and there are clear intentions. Just read it and don't take it too seriously.
For example, Chen Baxian said that the Southern Chen only received the message from the Qi people, but there was no secret conspiracy. This is of course a piece of bullshit. If there was no conspiracy or tacit understanding between them, would the Qi army be attacked by them almost defenselessly?
But now, whether they have any schemes or not, Li Tai does not intend to continue to investigate. There is no great significance in investigating. The truth cannot change his next series of actions against the Southern Chen. Since Chen Baxian wanted to keep Hou Andu, he had to bear the cost of making this choice!
He did not summon the Qi envoy again, but sent Chen Tanlang, the hostage sent by Chen Baxian, to Chang'an, accompanied by Gao Xiaowan, the hostage of Northern Qi. Li Tai has been planning to set aside a community in Chang'an City in the future to accommodate these hostages sent by various forces.
There is also a small southern Turkic Khan in Chang'an City. In the future, Tuyuhun, Goguryeo and other countries will inevitably need to arrange hostages to go to Chang'an before they are completely dealt with.
In general, compared with the ultimatum issued directly to the Heluo region of Northern Qi, Li Tai is more or less gentle to the ally of Southern Chen. Although his attitude towards the Chen envoy was a little cold, he did not retaliate directly.
Next, Li Tai made some personnel adjustments in the areas surrounding the territory of Southern Chen.
First, he no longer allowed the Southern Chen army to participate in the acceptance of the Huainan territory, and the subsequent territories that were originally scheduled to be handed over to the Southern Chen were no longer directly carried out in Huainan, but had to wait until the end of the war before the Southern Chen sent an envoy to Chang'an for negotiations.
Before that, he established the Yangzhou General Administration Office in Shouyang, appointed Yu Feng as the Yangzhou General Administration, went to Shouyang to temporarily manage the Huainan territory handed over by the Northern Qi, and appointed Yuwen Xin, who had fought bravely and made great contributions in the Tongdi River, as the prefect of Zhongli, and the rest of the counties were also appointed.
Before Chen Baxian passed away, Li Tai no longer planned to hand over Huainan to the Southern Chen.
Chen Baxian was too shrewd, calm and wise. Since he had been suspected and jealous of the Western Wei in the issue of interaction with the Northern Qi, he might continue to explore other possibilities of mutual relationship.
As for the fact that he repeatedly stated in his letters that he would definitely change his ways and stop at the brink of disaster, Li Tai naturally refused to believe it. It should be noted that this guy had also been in Jiaozhou, and Li Tai did not want to become a victim of telecommunications fraud. Once Huainan was handed over to Southern Chen, who knew whether Southern Chen would cooperate with Northern Qi in defense. Now that Western Wei was in the middle, even if they wanted to make a small move, they had to get on the ship and go to sea.
However, Southern Chen did not need to wait too long, after all, the time of Chen Baxian was coming soon. Qi Lord Gao Yang had been sent away more than a year in advance, and in history, Chen Baxian died earlier than Gao Yang, which was only in the past one or two years.
When the new king of Southern Chen ascended the throne, Li Tai would consider handing Huainan over to Southern Chen. On the one hand, Chen Chang was always his son-in-law, and he should support the new king of Southern Chen and give him practical support so that he could suppress the founding generals of Southern Chen.
Secondly, after Southern Chen took over Huainan, it always needed to send personnel to attract some of Jiangdong's troops to Huainan. At that time, whether it was resolved by military means or peacefully incorporated, it would be more convenient, and it could also weaken the military strength of Southern Chen.
At the same time, this handover turmoil could further disintegrate the local armed forces and powerful forces in Huainan. Since the Hou Jing Rebellion, this place has been in a chaotic zone of fighting between the north and the south. The local armed forces have also developed rapidly. Although it still does not reach the level of provoking a regime, it is also a major obstacle to re-establishing a new order and rule in Huainan.
Through continuous handover and transfer of management rights to carry out waves of cleansing, even if there are still some left in the end, it is estimated that there is only a breath left to survive, and they dare not get angry and destroy regional stability.
Of course, Li Tai did not completely deprive Southern Chen of the right to share the fruits of victory. After all, their military operations in Huainan did attract a lot of forces from Henan and Shandong of Northern Qi to Western Wei, making Western Wei less pressured on the front battlefield.
Although what they did later was a bit unethical, their contribution and help must be recognized.
So after some thought, Li Tai decided to give Nanchen two thousand horses as a gift to help Nanchen establish a cavalry force. As for the South being unsuitable for large-scale horse breeding, Nan Chen has to overcome this problem himself. Anyway, the Western Wei Dynasty did not deliberately suppress the development of Nanchen cavalry. The consumption of war horses and medicines to prevent epidemic horse plague will also be added to the official market of Liyang as special commodities.
As for the gold and silver gifts that Chen Ba first collected by melting the jewelry of his wives and concubines, Li Tai accepted them with a smile, but gave him a double gift in return. Nowadays, these gold and silver gift coins don't mean much to him, and he doesn't like magnificent architectural decoration and daily necessities.
Donating a large sum of money to the court of Nanchen will also help open up the market and sales of various luxury goods produced in the Western Wei Dynasty and obtained from the Silk Road trade in the upper class of Nanchen, and at the same time increase the popularity of your little niece. , so these gift coins are all sent to Crown Princess Nanchen, who will give them as rewards.
Although Li Tai did not know that the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in Nanchen Palace was serious, as a wealthy family member, he used a large amount of wealth to give his niece a stronger position in the competitive relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
In addition, Li Tai also ordered Li Qianzhe, the governor of Xiangzhou, to continue to expand southward and bring Hengyang, Xiangdong and other counties in the south of Xiangzhou under actual control.
These places are now nominally owned by Nanchen, but in fact they are all controlled by the local barbarian chiefs and powerful people. Previously, when Li Tai wanted to take over Guanzhong, he withdrew many of Shannan's personnel forces, and all aspects of development were temporarily suspended. The Shannan states were mainly focused on maintaining and digesting the current results.
Originally, Li Tai did not plan to start advancing to the Lingnan area so soon, and his preparation was still to focus on the confrontation with the Northern Qi Dynasty.
But this time Nan Chen's temptation made him feel dissatisfied, and the planning and governance of Lingnan was bound to be a long-term process. At that time, there happened to be chaos in the Lingnan area that was not conducive to Nan Chen's rule, so continue from Xiangzhou to the south. Advancing and then crossing the Dayuling Mountains, contacting Hengzhou, Guangzhou and other local forces in the Lingnan region, providing a certain degree of support, can also distract Nan Chen's attention.
Since everyone is half-hearted, let's see who has more fun!
Although Li Tai's various countermeasures are not directly aimed at Nanchen, they will inevitably impose great restrictions on Nanchen's development. It will be difficult for the Western Wei Dynasty to break through the Western Wei Dynasty for a long time in the future. blockade. As for the future, there is no need to consider breaking through the blockade. Integration is the most fundamental way out!
Not to mention Li Tai's revenge on the two countries for not taking him to play, Hongnong's Northern Qi mission was already in chaos.
After returning to the annex, Prince Gao Rui of Zhao County glared at Lu Yao and asked angrily: "People from Lu She, former Feng Zihui was attacked in the south and Guangling's brigade was attacked and killed. Is it true that there is a secret behind the scenes as the King of Tang said?" Is there any plan in the world that has not been revealed to us, the apostles?”
Hearing Prince Zhao's question, everyone else came forward to warn Lu Yao. There was a lot of dissatisfaction in their eyes, which showed that they also had doubts in their hearts.
Seeing the crowd surrounding him, Lu Yao just smiled bitterly and said: "I would like to inform you, your Majesty, and all the princes, that I only reached an agreement with the Wei people on all matters in Huainan after I arrived in Hongnong. Even if there are plans in the country, they must be in After the contract was concluded, I didn't know much more than you did.
But even if there was a plan, looking at this situation, it must have been a miscalculation. The Chen people were timid and did not dare to disobey the Wei people's wishes. However, this has nothing to do with us and other apostles. The most important thing is to convey the order given by King Tang back to the country as soon as possible. It is already late at the end of the month. If the message transmission is delayed, Heluo may start fighting again. Got it! "
After everyone heard this, they were all a little flustered. They no longer pursued the situation where key information was withheld by the Central Committee. While arranging personnel to convey the situation to the Central Committee, they were also discussing whether there was a way to delay and ease the peace talks. Atmosphere.