Chapter 674: Truck Card 1

"Thank you for your hard work!" Xu Dexun felt disgusting as if he had been swallowed into a fly, but the burden on his shoulders was too heavy this time, and he had already thrown his personal honor and disgrace aside before coming. He coughed and asked, "I will go back and discuss with the king first. It should be no big problem. Please tell me the third request!"

"Okay! My third request is to ask Mr. Batu (Ma Yin’s name is Batu) to move to Jianye, to give advice for Mr. Lu and work together to do major events!"

"No!"

A sudden shout broke the seemingly harmonious atmosphere in the tent. Xu Dexun's face turned pale and his beard was angry. The anger and humiliation that had finally suppressed finally erupted out in an instant. Several guards next to Lu Fang thought he wanted to be unfavorable to the master, so they immediately stood in front of Lu Fang and drew their swords to glar. Seeing this, Xu Dexun snorted angrily, bowed to Lu Fang and returned the courtesy, and walked out of the tent.

Lu Fang then realized that he gave Chen Yun beside him a wink. Chen Yun knew how to go forward, grabbed Xu Dexun's sleeve, and smiled and said, "Why should Mr. Xu do this? If you have any questions, you can discuss it. Why should you be erect?"

Xu Dexun said in a deep voice: "Mr. Lu is greedy and has nothing to talk about. After returning to the city, he will be a consolidating his troops and a decisive battle!" After that, he pulled out his sleeves from Chen Yun's hand and turned around and left.

"Honor Xu, stay, Mr. Xu!" Although Chen Yun shouted repeatedly from behind, Xu Dexun still ignored him and did not even look back. Seeing this, Chen Yun had to walk back to Lu Fang helplessly and bow and said, "My subject is incompetent and cannot save him. Please punish him!"

Lu Fang smiled and said, "It's okay. Although Xu Dexun was agitated this time, he knew the other party's bottom line. That is, Ma Yin must stay, and it is not entirely unrealized. There is no hurry to do this. Anyway, our army is backed by Xiangjiang River, which is convenient for transportation. The surrounding area is densely populated and has a lot of storage. Don't worry about lack of food, so stop the army and raise the soldiers and wait for the opportunity to fight!"

In Tanzhou City, Chu Palace. The walls covered with cinnabar appear in a terrifying dark red under the dim candlelight, as if frozen blood was frozen. Several palace maids passing by looked sad and walked silently through the aisle. Even if they occasionally met someone they knew, they just bowed their heads and didn't even dare to hit a wink.

In the inner room, the doors and windows around were closed tightly, and the gaps in the doors and windows that might have leaked air were also covered with brocade blankets to prevent cold wind from leaking in. Ma Yin lay on the couch, motionless, and if his chest was slightly undulating, it was no different from a corpse. Ma Xuanhua sat on the brocade mat beside the couch, with a pale face and a sleepy expression, taking care of his sleepy father.

At this time, the curtain was opened, and a maid tiptoed to Ma Xuanhua and whispered a few words. Ma Xuanhua hesitated for a while, then looked at his old father who was sleeping on the couch, and then gave a few words to the maid. When the maid walked out of the door, she gritted her teeth, reached out and pushed Ma Yin's shoulder, and shouted softly.

Ma Yin did not sleep deeply. In fact, due to the torment of illness, he was in a half-sleeping and half-awake most of the time every day, which made his body worse. Therefore, Ma Xuanhua just pushed a few times and then woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw his daughter's beautiful and haggard face.

"Aye, Mr. Xu came back from outside the city and was the prime minister outside!"

"Oh! Please come in!" Ma Yin's eyes, which were already a little cloudy, immediately became sharp, as if the resolute and agile shadow returned to this already declining body. His eyes swept through the room and suddenly asked, "Where is Erlang?"

"My second brother is tired and resting in the next house. Aye, do you want to see him? Go and call him over immediately!" Ma Xuanhua replied immediately. Because Ma Yin has many descendants, in addition to becoming the eldest son of Ma Xizhen, who became a monk and became a Taoist priest, he also grew up with Ma Xi's birth, which is the heir of Ma Yin. At the critical moment of his father's illness, he simply lived in the palace. In name, he was serving his father, but in fact, he was to ensure that he could get the first news of Ma Yin's death among his brothers, and then isolate his inside and outside, so as to climb to the throne of the King of Chu.

"Forget it!" What a person Ma Yin is? Don't you know what his son is thinking and stop your daughter from getting up to inform Ma Xisheng. At this time, the curtain was opened, Xu Dexun walked in, bowed to Ma Yin on the couch and said, "I am incompetent and failed to achieve my mission. Please punish the king!"

"Hurry up and help Mr. Xu!" Ma Yin hurried to Ma Xuanhua beside him: "This peace talk is a matter of success or not. What is the fault of Mr. Xu? Let me tell you about this and I will also benefit if I discuss it together!"

Xu Dexun stood up, accused him of guilt, and then waited in front of the camp gate, and after entering the tent, he met Lu Fang and the three conditions proposed by Lu Fang, and explained in detail with Ma Yin from beginning to end. Ma Xuanhua listened on the side, and was already angry and pale in his face, saying, "Lu Fang is too bullying, and he has given such conditions. Even if the city is broken, it will be like this. Mr. Xu is right. We may not lose to him if we fight to the death!" After Ma Xuanhua finished speaking, he turned his eyes to Ma Yin lying on the couch, hoping to hear the same voice, but Ma Yin was speechless for a while, just lying there with a thoughtful look.

After about a while, Ma Yin suddenly said, "It seems that Lu Fang attaches great importance to my old bone!"

Ma Xuanhua, who was standing beside him, heard it and said anxiously: "Aye, you can't believe the evil thief Lu Fang. If you go to the Wu army camp, you will definitely be dead."

Ma Yin ignored his daughter and turned his inquiring eyes to Xu Dexun. At this time, Ma Xisheng rushed in from outside the door. It turned out that he had a confidant outside the door. When he saw Xu Dexun coming back, he immediately notified him. However, Ma Xisheng was disheveled at this time, his face was drunk, which was a little inconsistent with the environment at this time.

"I've seen Mr. Xu, what's the matter with the peace talks?" Ma Xisheng didn't care about seeing his father, so he asked Xu Dexun directly. Xu Dexun looked unhappy on his face, but he still replied in a deep voice: "Lu Fang's conditions are very harsh. Not only do he have to ask for a large sum of money and ced the land of the eight states, but he also asked the king to go to Jianye to be a hostage. The ministers thought it was absolutely impossible, so he refused sternly at that time!"

"Mr. Xu Gong said very much. The Lu bandits are so arrogant. They should attack their heads and slapped their spirits. When the general Lu army returns to the rescue, and then open the city to attack on both sides, they will definitely win!" Ma Xisheng said loudly. After he led his troops to defeat Lu Fang in Yuezhou and fled back to Tanzhou. He was already brave enough, but after these days, under the praise of the slandered ministers around him, his confidence gradually recovered. He felt that losing to Lu Fang was just a little bit worse than Lu Fang that day. If he could get reinforcements from Lu Shizhou, he might not have had another chance.

"Yane, my subordinates were told in Lu Fang's camp that the army of Governor Lu had been gone, I'm afraid there will be no reinforcements in Tanzhou!"

"What?" Ma Xisheng's face suddenly turned pale. His courage was like waves. He came and went quickly. The tragic situation of his escape in Yuezhou suddenly came back to his mind. He looked at Xu Dexun helplessly and said, "This, this is not something Lu Fang pretended to deceive us!"

"This? It's possible, but if this kind of thing can't be hidden for too long, at most, in seven or eight days, there will be real news, and then you will know the authenticity!" Xu Dexun replied. When he heard what he meant, he thought that it was unlikely that Lu Fang would forge the news. Ma Xisheng suddenly became weak and sat down aside without saying a word.

"Xuanhua, Xisheng, you two go out first. For my father, you must stay alone with Xu Gong for a while!" Ma Yin suddenly said in a deep voice. Ma Xisheng and Ma Xuanhua looked at each other, then tamely bowed to Ma Yin, and only Xu Dexun and Ma Yin were left in the room, and the atmosphere suddenly became depressed.

"Mr. Xu, who do you think Lu Fang is?" Ma Yin suddenly spoke and broke the silence in the room.

Xu Dexun did not answer Ma Yin's question immediately. He thought for a moment and sighed: "This person is extremely cunning, good at governing military weapons and insight into people's hearts. In just twenty years, he changed from a son-in-law to a southern overlord. It's really true that he would be the same as Bu. He had to be governed by Emperor Gaozu!"

"Yes, this person is so talented, but it's been twenty years since he started to rebel. He is over 50 years old, right?"

"That's right! I saw that he was gray-haired and had an old face today. He was at least nearly 60 years old. But he was still full of the power of the lord, which was amazing!" Xu Dexun said this, and suddenly heard Ma Yin's meaning and said in surprise: "Is it because the lord's meaning that that guy has not been around for a long time?"

"Not bad!" Ma Yin smiled twice, his face full of self-deprecating self-deprecating expressions, and said, "The heroes in the world, no matter how great you are, you can't escape this day in the end. Then Lu Fang has defeated Lu Shizhou and surrounded Tanzhou. The situation is unparalleled. Why do you still have to agree to the peace talks? It's just that he wants to end the Hunan war as soon as possible, turn north and find trouble for "Gao Laizi". Even though Lu Fang is extremely talented, his son may not have such skills. He, a father, wants to take advantage of his life to eliminate more enemy enemies for his son, so as not to be tired of his descendants?"

Xu Dexun's face showed a look of disbelief and asked, "Does Lu Fang really want to negotiate? Why did he still put forward such harsh conditions?"

"Of course he wanted to negotiate, otherwise even if he took down Tanzhou, there would be more than a dozen prefectures and counties in the southwest, and those prefectures and counties relying on the Yangtze River would surrender to Jingnan. The war continued and could not be solved for five or six years. Lu Fang is afraid that he would go north to Jingxiang and prepare to compete for the Central Plains. He would not have the intention to spend five or six years in the dense forests of the mountains and valleys. As for those conditions, he was afraid that after retreating, I, an immortal man, would raise an army to cause trouble behind him, so he brought me to Jianye. As for my incompetent sons, he didn't take them seriously."

"This!" After hearing Ma Yin's words, Xu Dexun confirmed them one by one with the facts he saw in Lu Fang's tent. He felt that it was becoming more and more consistent. He also knew that Chen Yun was the Privy Councilor of Lu Fang and was almost the first person to trust. Chen Yun's final behavior could only be explained as Lu Fang had great expectations for peace talks. But he remembered his initial harsh treatment and asked, "Since that is the case, why did he ask for so much money and treat the enemy envoys so slowly?"
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