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Li Wan and he often come and go in and out of the mansion these days, Duan Ningze accepts that he has come out to mediate out of righteousness, and is willing to associate with him, the two of them can be considered to have some friendship, and they seem to have become friends.But Liu Jingyu is a well-known dandy in Beijing, he is only a nodding acquaintance with the other two, and they don't usually hang out together, so it's a bit strange to come with the two of them.

Zhou Jirong failed to clean up Liu Jingyu enough last time due to various changes, and he has been brooding about it till now.Turning a blind eye to the other two at the moment, he said to Liu Jingyu eagerly, "What are you doing here? Itchy skin? Want to die? Or is it itchy and wants to die?"

Liu Jingyu shrank behind Li Wanhe, poked his head out, and said resentfully: "Brother Dabaoer, I heard that you are going to Jiangling, brother, can't I come and see you?"

It was fine if he didn't say anything, but as soon as Zhou Jirong said something, he thought of something: "Yes, I remember that you still have several IOUs in my hand. It just so happened that the travel expenses have not yet been paid, and you came just in time, so pay off the debts first!"

Since Liu Jingyu was frightened by him last time, he was able to hide and hide from Zhou Jirong for nearly a month.If he had no other choice, he would not want to come to see him. However, his father has been strict with him recently, and he is very urgent. He knows that Dabao will be easier to talk to when he has money, but at this time, he must give in to him. Can't do it either.

Zhou Jirong didn't care about this, he went up to search his arms, he didn't think of taking it by force, he didn't expect to find a few bank notes.He didn't see how much it was, he hesitated for a while, and then thought that Liu Jingyu was taking the money to spend time and money, and it was better to use it himself.So he stuffed it all into his pocket without any guilt, and then he let go of the one surnamed Liu.Although there was no smile on his face, he was indeed kinder.

Liu Jingyu straightened the crooked skirt of his clothes. Although he was not angry, he didn't dare to do anything. He just said in a low voice: "You took the money, at least you have to return my IOU. There are dozens of taels of silver..."

Zhou Jirong pursed his lips and said: "This little money should be regarded as interest, I still think it's too little." He glared at Liu Jingyu, and Liu Jingyu shrank behind Li Wan.

Li Wanhe Juzhong rounded the field, and said to Liu Jingyu: "The little prince doesn't treat you as an outsider. Brother Liu, please take the responsibility. Let's talk about business."

Liu Jingyu said in his heart that if he didn't become an outsider, he would be bullied every time, so I would rather be an outsider.But when Li Wanhe mentioned the business, he resentfully stopped talking.

Zhou Jirong had long thought that there must be something for them to come together.Seeing that there was no oil on Liu's body, he didn't bother to tangle with him anymore, turned his head to look at Li Wan and Duan Ningze, frowned and said: "Speak up if you have something to say, let go if you have something to say! What are you doing! "

It looked like he didn't know anything about it, and he was going to Jiangling again recently.After all, Duan and Li were quite familiar with human affairs, so it was inevitable that the emperor wanted to hide this from Zhou Jirong, so they could not help but hesitate a little.

Liu Jingyu didn't have as many worries as the two of them, and couldn't help shouting: "Brother Dabaoer, those barbarian dogs are really rampant and hateful, so you just sit back and ignore them?"

"Xiongnu?" Zhou Jirong thought that the letter he asked Zhuo Wen to forge might still be on the way, so he immediately became cautious, recalling whether there were any abnormalities in the recent military newspapers, and asked, "What happened to them?"

Qi Jingyu said angrily: "It's true that a foreign country cannot be educated. How dare you be so arrogant when you come to negotiate a peace? It doesn't count if we beat our people, and even threatened..."

Hearing that the wind was wrong, Zhou Jirong interrupted him impatiently: "What kind of peace talks! How come I don't know!" His mind was moving very fast, and he changed his mind to other aspects. "Did the Huns send envoys to negotiate a peace? When did they come? Where did they come from? Hanzhou's barriers are so strict that it is difficult for them to pass through, so they have to take a detour to Ganshan and Shanxi? There are still people in the court who are collaborating with the enemy, and it is convenient for them? These bastards, He really dares to take any money!"

He asked all the questions in one breath, but Liu Jingyu couldn't answer a single one with his mouth open.

Obviously, Zhou Jirong didn't expect him to be able to answer, he turned around angrily, and said angrily, "Let's make peace! I will never live with them! They should all be slaughtered when they come to your door! Fuck me, my brother!" He still wants to get Lao Tzu out of Beijing, what is he secretly thinking about! Negotiating peace? The blood of his own people has been shed in vain all these years! Lao Tzu's father died in vain!"

Liu Jingyu took the opportunity and said: "Exactly. How dare you be so presumptuous on our territory! I don't care about you, Da Baoer, go beat them up!"

Zhou Jirong has a bad temper, but he is not the easy-going type who can be manipulated by others. If he can be easily used by Liu Jingyu as a weapon, his nickname should be called Erbaoda instead.He was annoyed, but he knew roughly in his heart that in the past two years, the Xiongnu's old Shan Yu was not as good as before, and his sons were fighting for the position. The peace negotiation was nothing but a plan to delay the army, or one of them wanted to fight for power. With the support of the Central Plains, his elder brother may have taken the opportunity to provoke them to fight among themselves to the death.Indeed, it would be more useful to do so than to kill them all as he wished.

It's just that he's not good at politics, and there's only so much he can think of. As for the operation and trade-offs, he can't figure it out for a while and doesn't bother to think so much.In other words, it is normal for his brother to be afraid that he will interfere with bad things.

At this time, he was still too lazy to talk to that idiot Liu Jingyu.He directly asked Li Duan and the two of them: "When did they arrive in the capital? Who is the leader? How many messengers and guards? Where are they staying? What are you doing in the capital?"

Li Duan and Li Duan only knew that the Xiongnu envoy arrived in the capital on the [-]th and temporarily stayed in an embassy.I can't talk about other things.

Zhou Jirong was more familiar with the situation of the Huns than anyone else, he bowed his head and pondered for a while, and he had a rough idea in his mind.Seeing that the two of them didn't know much, they didn't ask further questions.Just asked: "What's the matter with beating people?"

The three of them came here for this matter, this can be explained clearly.

The emperor did not formally reply to the other party in the name of negotiating carefully in the name of negotiating peace, and he did not know why he ordered the courtiers not to discuss this matter indiscriminately.But there are still many people who know about it.

The Taizu of this dynasty established the country with martial arts, but the descendants of later generations will inevitably follow the old path of emphasizing civility and despising martial arts.Facing the harassment and invasion of foreign races, they are increasingly unable to resist.The frontier has been plagued by the Xiongnu for decades. In the weakest years, there were things like ceding the land and accepting the year and even marrying the princess.This is the first time in a hundred years that the Xiongnu bowed their heads so well.It is bound to be exciting.

Even under such a high-spirited mood, even the petty officials in the embassy felt elated, and they were quite negligent to the envoys of the Huns.That's all, today there are even some idle dudes who, on a whim, went to the embassy together to ridicule each other for fun.Most of these things are embroidered pillows with a pack of grass in their stomachs, but their mouths are smoother and smoother than the other.But I don't want those people to be savage, and they have been suffocated these days after being left out in the cold, and then they are humiliated like this, and they move their fists when they can't say anything.

Immediately, the young master, who usually only knows how to sing the wind and the moon, was beaten to the point of crying for his father and mother.

Zhou Jirong's mouth is also mean, but he knows in his heart that he has strong strength as a solid backing.Even if you can say flowers from your mouth, it is not as good as being able to beat the opponent's face to flowers.So even though the one who was beaten was one of his own, Zhou Jirong really couldn't feel much sympathy, but he couldn't applaud the enemy and said, "Good fight, his face changed for a while, it's really inconvenient to express his opinion, and finally spit out two words slowly." : "Stupid poke!"

"If it's just for this matter, you can deal with the disaster yourself. If you can't deal with the aftermath, go to my brother and see how my brother will deal with them. They think it's just a few of them who lost face? They lost all the face of the dynasty. It is!" He was annoyed but said indifferently. "Don't you think it's embarrassing and conspicuous? I don't want to stand up for such a group of idiots." Although he was dissatisfied with his brother for hiding this matter from him and even wanted to send him out of Beijing, now he How much can understand the idea of ​​brother.The affairs in the court are no more than his two armies fighting on the battlefield, there is only a matter of life and death.Regardless of whether the peace negotiation can go according to his brother's wishes, at least he can't kill the matter as he wants,

What he thought in his heart was not just as simple as losing face, but the consequences were obscure and far-reaching.The Huns were capricious like wolves and tigers. Even if there was a precedent for peace negotiations, it was only a stopgap measure. Once they regained their vitality, they tore up the agreement and made a comeback.Now that they have seen with their own eyes the prosperity and richness of the capital, and at the same time the cowardice and weakness of the Central Plains people, they will naturally covet it, but at this time they have to be soft, and it will be a great hidden danger in the future.

Although he doesn't know his brother's specific thoughts, he also understands that such a change may completely destroy the situation his brother has painstakingly managed.The more he thought about this matter, the more he wanted to beat up those meddlesome idiots again, and his face darkened uncontrollably.

"Dabao, what you said is wrong." Liu Jingyu said. "It's not just for a few of them. You don't know how abominable those barbarians are. After they finished beating people, they laughed at us and no one in the Central Plains, and proposed to compete with us. If we can't win, it's not worth fighting with them." Negotiate peace. Listen, this is right..."